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Independent canon divergent roleplay blog for Derek Hale.

Mun 25. NSFW & triggering content can be found here. Tags will be used but read mores will not. Read the rules.

Tracking: triskelion
Written by Satan.
Skype: aequitas.murph
Previously: caringxnature

Other blogs:
Stiles Stilinski-Teller
Peter Hale

Artwork found HERE & HERE.

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An afternoon of trying to catch up on old, forgotten comic books that’d been gathered from supply runs and left behind in the Alexandria houses, had been interrupted by the gentle clinking that came from dry cereal being poured into a bowl. Carl had re-learned the sound only too quickly once they managed to get access to dishes and silverware again. Blue eyes lifted from the heavily inked and worn out pages in search of the source, until he’d spotted Derek.

One quick glance at what had been settled back on the counter and the boy moved; eyes wide with excitement and curiosity. “Are those cocoa puffs?” A nearly foreign sight, but definitely a welcomed one. He highly doubted they would have retained their crunch after so much time had passed, and the chocolate had been faded from each of the pieces, but the least he could do was have hope that there would have been even the smallest flecks of flavor in there somewhere.

The teen picked up the bag and dumped a small layer into the bottom of a bowl - just enough to cover the indentation that separated stability from the height of the dish - and rolled up the plastic bag once again. His first bite tasted like squishy pebbles; flavorless and only too familiar. The second, however, gathering more pieces than before… Even the tiny hint of lingering flavor had been enough to make the wait worth it. “Where’d you find these? All I’ve been able to snoop out are corn pops and rice krispies…”

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                God – what Derek would give to have his teeth sinking into the meat of a deer right about now. Hunting is more sparse these days and the wolf is confined to eating from a box of stale and grotesque artificial…whatever this could be considered. Cereal was not something Hale would have consumed in a normal life outside of the end of the world – but here? It’s better than nothing and even some days, he prefers the nothing. Clinking resounds in the small kitchen, causes a grumble of sorts to echo from his throat before ears perk as the box is set back down. New group rolled into Alexandria and while they don’t seem horrible, Derek would have rather avoided them altogether (much like he does with the people already inhabiting the area). They aren’t his pack – they don’t matter. Always a small twinge of hope in his gut when the gate opens that McCall’s stupid face would emerge or even Lydia’s strawberry blond locks. But they never come and he never leaves, not for long at least.

“If that’s what you’d call these monstrosities.” Let out lowly as he stares down at the bowl in his hands, lower back leaning against the countertop. Brain racks through names, scents – the kid (if one could call him that at this point), is easier company than the rest. Derek can’t be sure as to why but he lets shoulders slump a touch, shifts his weight to the side to allow smaller hands to grab for the cereal. Shrug is light – the wolf aware… Carl (?) more than likely missed it while busy eating what he could. When you live outside the walls of Alexandria and survive among the wreckage of the world, it’s bound to show in the most simplest of gestures – like eating stale cereal. “Most places outside of here had a good stock still. Guess a lot of raiders go more for canned food than cereal boxes.” Food was food but Derek wasn’t feeling very interested in his own, arm extending and bowl dumping into Carl’s own.

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