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ANNIE CLARE SAWYER

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[ it takes derek a little longer, but he gets there. look annie, derek doesn't know how ghosts work. maybe you guys get hungry, how should he know? ]

I can make sandwiches.

[ in lieu of actual greeting, though food isn't really why derek asked her to meet him here. ]

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[She's already making tea, because it's calming and sometimes things like this have her worry. She's pouring him a mug and herself a mug of hot water she can hold and pretend is tea.]

If you like. I made you cup.

[She pushes it towards him, very gently.]

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[ derek's tastes run more towards black coffee, no sweeteners or creams. but he always drinks the tea annie makes. he takes it, links his fingers through the handle but doesn't sip from it. ]

Does Mitchell have a problem with werewolves?

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[She looks at him for a long moment, and then down, and then away. This is Mitchell's business, she shouldn't be talking about it.]

Well, he's flatmates with George, isn't he?

[She knows how stupid that sounds. She might not have been victim to much racism, not the angry bitter kind, but she's heard that I can't be racist, you're my friend, aren't you and she knows exactly what that sounds like.]

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[ derek's expression tightens. he didn't come here to argue with annie, but he'd like to argue the point, that one werewolf doesn't-- ]

I need to know if he's dangerous. If he's going to be a threat to people I know.

[ this isn't really a problem for scott or isaac or cora, but arya's another story entirely. if mitchell had reacted badly to her just smelling of wolves, then that was a problem. ]

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What?

Dangerous? To who? He's not dangerous!

[She says it with a little hysteria in her voice, like maybe she's trying to convince herself more than Derek.]

He doesn't even drink blood!

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Annie.

[ derek's grip tightens on the cup, and he lifts his hands away. ]

He's not safe.

[ maybe not dangerous, but mitchell isn't safe. it's a careful distinction derek's making. ]

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Are you?

Safe?

[She asks that with the utmost confidence that, no, he isn't.]

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I'm not out there scaring little girls because they smell like wolves.

[ answering around the question like a champ. though arya would guy him several times over if she ever knew derek had phrased it like that. ]

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Mitchell loves children!

[He does!

But she runs her hands through her hair, and maybe it's stress, or maybe this has been building.]

Everyone thinks he's so bad, it makes it so hard for him when no one believes he's good.

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Not if they smell like wolves, apparently.

[ bluntly, because derek doesn't know how to soften that. derek's never been all that good at mincing words in certain situations. ]

I don't think anything. [ filthy lies. ] But if he's not dangerous, then it shouldn't be difficult for him.

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That hardly makes any sense at all!

[Her mug shakes and it's not because she's touching it. But it stops after a second.]

He's a vampire off blood! Do you know how hard that is?

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[ that's something new. derek's eyebrows shoot up, before he composes his expression. he has to ask someone else about that, because he doesn't think asking annie herself is a good move at the moment. ]

I don't.

[ beacon hills has a lot of weird shit, but no vampires. ]

But I can't let him hurt anyone. There's hunters aboard, Annie.

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He won't, he won't hurt anyone, he wouldn't do that.

[To her. He wouldn't do that to her.]

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Are you sure?

[ because derek isn't, but he's willing to admit his perception of mitchell is skewed. ]

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Yes-

I'll watch him, I will.

[Annie really is the strongest of the three of them, in more ways than one.]

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Closely.

[ because he gets it. he's annie's friend, and derek can understand the impulse to defend a friend stubbornly. ]

If I find him in person, how would that go?

[ what he's really asking is how strong mitchell is, but trying to at least be subtle about it. ]

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What do you mean?

[Because Mitchell is strong, sure, but not when he's not on blood, but then werewolves aren't strong more than anyone else except on full moons.]

Do you mean on a full moon, or just...every day?

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The full moon doesn't make a difference to me.

[ derek meaning he isn't any more or less out of control, that he won't fly off the handle and rip mitchell's head off in a more literal fashion than usual. ]

I mean if I have to go talk to him. At some point.

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Once...they put a vampire in a cage with a werewolf, and he turned, and...he ripped the vampire apart.

Is that what you mean?

[Because Annie is very anti-that. She is very anti-anyone ripping anyone apart.]

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I'm not going to hurt him.

[ derek sounds frustrated. he nudges at his tea, doesn't lift it to his mouth. ]

If it happens again, I'm going to need to talk to him.

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He won't like you. Is that what you need to know?

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He already doesn't like me.

[ derek sounds amused about it, though he sobers after a moment, growing serious. ]

I need to know if he'd try to start something.

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I don't know what you mean by something, Derek.

[She looks down at her mug.]

This is all very vague and mysterious, can you be more clear?

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I'm asking if he'd attack me.

[ because derek doesn't have the patience to talk around that statement any longer. ]