Derek Hale

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> **Scott:** You came back for Beacon Hills?
> **Derek:** No. I came back for you.
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—Derek Hale to Scott McCall

**Derek Hale** is a character in the fanon universe of ABC's *Once Upon a Time* and MTV's *Teen Wolf*. He is portrayed by Tyler Hoechlin and first appears in "Wolves vs. Fairy Tales."

Derek Hale is based on the character of the same name from the MTV drama *Teen Wolf* and partially an allusion to Scott Howard from the comedy film *Teen Wolf*.

## History

Derek is the son of Talia Hale, the mentor and older brother figure of Scott McCall, and the older cousin of Malia Tate who was born into the Hale family, an ancient line of Werewolves who were the protectors of Beacon Hills, in 1988. He grew up in a house with two sisters, Laura and Cora, and his uncle, Peter, who was a few years older than him. It was heavily implied that he was the closest with Laura. They also have many family members who were born human. His mother, Talia, was an evolved Alpha werewolf, meaning she could transform into a wolf and the Identity of his father has been shrouded in mystery.

While he met Alphas like Ennis, Kali, and Deucalion, Derek never really got to know them all that well because his sister Laura went to all the meetings with their mother and was the only one who knew the identity of the Hale pack's emissary, Alan Deaton.

When Derek was fifteen, he fell in love with the human girl named Paige, who was given the bite by Ennis, sparking their rivalry. However, Paige's body immediately rejected the wolf bite and Derek took her to a storm cellar below the Nemeton. Paige, knowing that she was going to die, she asked Derek to mercy-kill her. Before her death, Paige told Derek that she knew there was something different about him due to a possible but unexplained experience with the Supernatural. Derek complied with his love's wishes, but the events caused his eyes to turn steel-cold blue. Unknown to him at the time, Derek had made a virgin sacrifice, which gave the Nemeton its power.

A few years later, a seventeen-year-old Derek fell in love with named Kate but wasn't aware that she was a supernatural hunter trying to get information on the werewolf family. It was likely Gerard Argent Gerard manipulated her into going through with it. Getting advice from Adrian Harris, Kate, and her co-conspirators started the fire at the Hale household while Derek and Laura were at school. The fire killed many Hales, including Talia and unnamed human relatives. However, their younger sister, Cora, survived but she fled to South America after presuming her family to be dead. Derek and Laura found their uncle Peter, who had been severely scarred. The siblings found him in a catatonic state and sent him to Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital for intensive care. Eventually, Derek figured out that Kate was the one responsible for the fire and figured out she was an Argent. Even though Laura inherited her mother's alpha powers upon Talia's demise, she refused to use them. The two Hales moved to New York City and lived peacefully there for 6 years. *(Codebreaker)*

He left New York with Laura and lived there for six years until 2011 when Derek and Laura heard about recent and horrendous animal attacks in Beacon Hills. One of the incidents involved a deer with a spiral burned on its carcass and the sign symbolizes the werewolves' revenge. Laura never returned so Derek followed her. Upon his return, he found Cora dead, having been killed by an unnamed werewolf, and dismembered by the Argent hunters to prevent her from being revived.

When Derek found two teenagers, Scott McCall, and Stiles Stilinski in the woods near the ruins of his former home, he wanted to know what they were doing there. Derek senses that Scott is a recently bitten werewolf and begins stalking him. That Friday night, Derek spied on Scott from a distance. On January 15, the night of the wolf Moon, Scott notices him from afar during the night of Lydia's party. x When the younger werewolf begins having side effects of his first full moon, Scott flees as Derek approaches Allison. Claiming to be a friend of Scott's, Derek drives Allison home. However, he stole her jacket and lured Scott into the woods by leaving it there. However, werewolf hunters led by Argent interrupt them when he shoots Scott. Derek saves the younger werewolf by removing the arrow from his shoulder and tells Scott that he should embrace himself as a Werewolf. Derek promises that Scott will come to him for help because their shared lycanthropy made them brothers. However, Hale took off, leaving Scott alone in the woods.

After seeing Scott shift during a lacrosse game, Derek went into Scott's house in fear of him getting caught and alerting the Argents of his presence. He threatened to kill him if he went out to play. Later, Derek returned Allison's jacket to her. (Anonymously) as a warning. Derek also took his sister's body and buried her under a Wolfsbane vendetta spiral. Later, Scott went to Derek's house to confront him, taking the older werewolf to leave Allison alone. Derek warns him again that everything will fall apart when the people Scott loves if he transformed into a werewolf. The next day, Derek was arrested under suspicion of murder by the Beacon County Sheriff's Station when Stiles and Scott found the grave and Laura's body. When Stiles went to question Derek about his sister, Derek told Stiles that he could convince Scott to not play. Derek was released on a technicality when the medical examiner identified the hair found on Laura to be a wolf. Derek, who watched the game from afar, saw Jackson inspecting Scott's lacrosse glove, and finding his claws.

Afraid of his attack on a bus driver last night and what could happen if he was near Allison, Scott goes to Derek's house and apologizes for getting him arrested. Derek tells Scott to revisit the sight for him to regain his memories of the incident in exchange for something in return. Scott, despite thinking Derek was the one who bit him, follows the older werewolf's advice, and realizes he was trying to defend the bus driver. Derek goes to visit Meyers in the hospital, where the man continually apologizes to Derek, much to his confusion. After Myers dies of his injuries, Scott goes to confront Derek, and they fight, which Derek wins. Scott begins to accuse him of being the one who bit him. However, Derek denies this. With this, Scott regains his memories of the previous night. The first time he saw it was the night he was bit, and the second time was the morning he woke up in the woods. Derek informs him that he is part of the Alpha's pack and the one that Alpha wants.

## Trivia

### Character Notes

* Since the Hale family was rich, it is apparent that Derek has a small fortune / inheritance with him. As such, he can afford a loft, expensive leather jackets, and owns a black Camaro sports car.
* Even though they aren't biologically related, dark would protect Scott as if he were his own brother as he did for cora.
* Derek has had the most amount of changes to his supernatural eye color.
	+ As a teenager, his eyes turned blue after killing Paige (with her consent), then they turned red after he killed Peter before changing back to blue.
	+ As his Evolved Alpha Werewolf genes kicked in, his eyes converted back to gold. However, after he finally transformed back into a werewolf, Derek's reverted back to blue.
	+ After becoming the second true alpha, Derek's eyes turned red yet again.