[ but first: derek never trains him right, simply gives him the ten minute briefing of how to be a werewolf before sending him off to london. somehow, she gets in contact with jackson purely by accident — and that's how it starts, them communicating, him asking her wolf questions that would otherwise be deemed awkward to be asking anyone. at first, she doesn't tell derek; she doesn't tell derek at all. he's not jackson's alpha, he's not even an alpha — and that's something she doesn't give much thought to, if only the moments in the emails and texts she exchanges with jackson, the guilt she feels over derek losing the only thing that he has ever truly earned in his life. ]
[ it's a few years later, when they've all graduated, and cora's actually in college (from derek's insistence that she be a person rather than a ghost) that jackson returns home, but rather than go to his home and be the rich jerk that everyone used to know, he comes to her as a friend. he sleeps in her dorm, in the bed of a roommate that's never really there, and is a normal type of guy that it irritates her. she spars with him, tries to tell him his weak-spots, while he spits back hers, pushes and shoves him the only way she knows how because she learned this from derek, on how to survive with others, and she learned how to survive with herself in the six years she spent away. he's always there, patient, which is odd, and lingering, which is even odder. ]
[ it irritates her so much, his determination to be normal, to stick around like a leech, is the reason why she tells him to come for a walk in the nearby woods and wolfs out — literally, knowing he can, too — and jumps him, pushing him into a fight that she ends up relenting when he tosses her into a bush. she shifts back into herself, cora hale, skinny girl with too many invisible scars, in her underwear, pulling her long shirt out of the bushes. ]
You're too slow. If I wasn't going easy on you, you'd be dead.
future adventures between lizard boy and wolf girl!!!!
[ but first: derek never trains him right, simply gives him the ten minute briefing of how to be a werewolf before sending him off to london. somehow, she gets in contact with jackson purely by accident — and that's how it starts, them communicating, him asking her wolf questions that would otherwise be deemed awkward to be asking anyone. at first, she doesn't tell derek; she doesn't tell derek at all. he's not jackson's alpha, he's not even an alpha — and that's something she doesn't give much thought to, if only the moments in the emails and texts she exchanges with jackson, the guilt she feels over derek losing the only thing that he has ever truly earned in his life. ]
[ it's a few years later, when they've all graduated, and cora's actually in college (from derek's insistence that she be a person rather than a ghost) that jackson returns home, but rather than go to his home and be the rich jerk that everyone used to know, he comes to her as a friend. he sleeps in her dorm, in the bed of a roommate that's never really there, and is a normal type of guy that it irritates her. she spars with him, tries to tell him his weak-spots, while he spits back hers, pushes and shoves him the only way she knows how because she learned this from derek, on how to survive with others, and she learned how to survive with herself in the six years she spent away. he's always there, patient, which is odd, and lingering, which is even odder. ]
[ it irritates her so much, his determination to be normal, to stick around like a leech, is the reason why she tells him to come for a walk in the nearby woods and wolfs out — literally, knowing he can, too — and jumps him, pushing him into a fight that she ends up relenting when he tosses her into a bush. she shifts back into herself, cora hale, skinny girl with too many invisible scars, in her underwear, pulling her long shirt out of the bushes. ]
You're too slow. If I wasn't going easy on you, you'd be dead.