Derek and Jennifer

Derek and Jennifer met when Derek protected her from the rabid Boyd and Cora during the full moon
The two quickly became attracted to each other
Jennifer helped heal Derek after he nearly died fighting the Alpha Pack
The two had sex and then developed a romantic relationship
They unofficially broke up when Derek learned that Jennifer was the Darach who was sacrificing humans
Jennifer manipulated Derek into continuing to help her by poisoning Cora and refusing to cure her without his partnership
Derek tricked Jennifer into wasting her magical energy by healing Deucalion's blinded eyes, which contributed to her death
The Anuk-ite appeared to Derek as Jennifer after her death, implying that his relationship with her is something he feared most
Jennifer was fascinated by Derek from the moment she learned that his mercy-killing of Paige gave the Nemeton the spark of power she needed to survive Kali's attack in the early 2000s
Derek eventually perished along with the Nogitsune to save the lives of his loved ones

### Ship Name

Dennifer, Jerek

**The relationship between Evolved Beta Werewolf Derek Hale and Darach Jennifer Blake, also known as Julia Baccari.**

Though Derek and Jennifer didn't officially meet until Season 3, they became connected through a shared event that occurred in the early 2000s. Derek, then fifteen years old, arranged to have his girlfriend Paige Krasikeva bitten and turned into a Werewolf so they could always be together after he was manipulated into doing so by his uncle Peter Hale.

However, Paige's body rejected the bite, and she was in so much pain that Derek ultimately mercy-killed her, not realizing that he was doing so while hiding in a root cellar that happened to be built around the base of the Nemeton, a sacred tree to the Druids. As a result, he inadvertently committed a virgin sacrifice on the roots of the Nemeton, giving it a spark of power it had not had in a long time, and it was this power that saved Jennifer's life after she was brutally mauled by her friend and Alpha Kali (as Jennifer was her pack's Emissary and needed to be killed as part of Kali's initiation into the Alpha Pack led by Deucalion); Jennifer crawled toward the tree stump and absorbed some of its power, allowing her to hold onto her life long enough to be found and taken to the Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital.

Once Jennifer learned that Derek's actions were behind her survival, she became somewhat obsessed with him, believing that they were connected. The two eventually met officially in late August 2011, after Derek and his ally and friend Scott McCall had inadvertently locked her into the high school boiler room with the feral Vernon Boyd and Cora Hale during the full moon, causing Derek to risk his life to jump in and prevent them from hurting her. Days later, Derek went to check on Jennifer to make sure she was okay, sparking a true relationship between them that culminated in the two having sex a week or so later, after Jennifer brought Derek back to his loft to heal from the aftermath of the Hale Pack's battle against the Alpha Pack.

Unfortunately, their romance came to an end after Jennifer was revealed to be the Darach, a dark Druid who was committing human sacrifices to gain the power necessary to defeat the Alpha Pack as a whole, though she was most intent on killing Deucalion once and for all. She had also already captured Noah Stilinski in preparation for her "guardian" trio of sacrifices due to his role as a parent and his son Stiles' involvement in stopping her. Despite Derek's disgust at being lied to and taken advantage of, Jennifer, still obsessed with him, coerced him into continuing to work with her by poisoning his sister Cora Hale and using her ability to heal her to manipulate Derek into helping her fight the Alphas. Derek reluctantly did as she asked, especially once he learned that he would also be helping to protect his protégée and ally Scott McCall from Deucalion's influence.

During the final battle, Jennifer was gravely injured by Deucalion and then finished off by Peter Hale before she could use the power of the Nemeton to heal herself, but Derek's relationship with her continued to haunt him throughout the rest of the series, though he eventually entered a healthy relationship with the mercenary Braeden. In the series finale, the Anuk-ite, a Shapeshifter who feeds on and is empowered by fear, took the form of Jennifer to try to get Derek to look it in the eyes, as its gaze would petrify him; though Derek resisted for as long as he could, he eventually opened his eyes and was turned to stone until Stiles Stilinski killed the creature.

In 2026, Derek's life had become much better by fathering a son, Eli, and acquiring a job as a supernatural consultant to the Sheriff's department. However, he ultimately sacrificed his life and was immolated to death along with the Nogitsune at the hands of Jordan Parrish to ensure the safety of his son and packmates.

**Derek and Jennifer are known as Dennifer or Jerek by fans.**

## Throughout *Teen Wolf*

* Season 3A
* Season 6B

In *Fireflies*, Derek was out in the Beacon Hills Preserve during the full moon, where he eventually teamed up with Scott McCall, Isaac Lahey, and Chris Argent in order to find and contain Vernon Boyd and Cora Hale, two of Derek's Beta wolves (the latter of whom being Derek's long-lost younger sister) who had been held captive by the Alpha Pack for four months and starved of the light of the moon, preventing them from changing and making them incredibly feral when they finally did get to feel the moonlight once again. Meanwhile, Jennifer was working late at Beacon Hills High School, seemingly grading papers at her desk.

At a loss for options and not wanting Boyd and Cora to hurt anyone while running wild throughout Beacon Hills, the group decided the best course of action was to lock hem up in the school's boiler room, as it was a well-built room with a solid steel door that would prevent them from breaking free until the sun rose, and they were operating under the mistaken belief that the school had to be empty given that it was in the very, very early hours of the morning by this point. Unbeknownst to them, Jennifer was still working late at the school and had walked into the boiler room to grab some school supplies for her classroom that were arranged on some of the shelves.

After Derek and Scott were able to successfully trap Boyd and Cora in the boiler room, Scott, using his superhuman hearing to make sure that the two wolves hadn't accidentally killed each other, heard three separate heartbeats in the room and was immediately horrified that they had accidentally trapped a civilian in a locked room. Derek wasted no time rushing into the boiler room, instructing Scott to lock the door behind him and keep it shut while he was rescuing Jennifer from his feral Betas. Derek's presence acted as a distraction from Jennifer, allowing the English teacher to Though Derek initially had the upper hand in the scuffle with Boyd and Cora, he eventually decided to just allow himself to be a scratching post for the young wolves so that they could wear themselves out right before the sun began to rise, returning Boyd and Cora to their human forms before passing out on the floor.

When Isaac and Scott came in to make sure that everyone survived the fight, Derek instructed them to take Boyd and Cora back to the loft while he did damage control with the teacher, who was still hiding in a chain-link-fence-surrounded area in the large school basement. He quietly walked over to where she was crouched down, his shirt in shreds from the wolves' claws and covered in blood and healing scratches, and silently extended his hand to help her stand to her feet; Jennifer was clearly nervous at first, but she took his hand, appreciating the gesture as she got up off the floor. They both stared at each other without speaking as shy smiles developed on their face, insinuating that this was just the start of a developing romantic attraction.

In *Unleashed*, Jennifer arrived at Beacon Hills High School for work and couldn't shake the feeling that she was being followed. This ultimately proved to be accurate when she rushed into her classroom and quickly slammed the door shut, taking a moment to sigh before turning to find Derek standing in the middle of the classroom, waiting for her. Terrified, she immediately grabbed the closest makeshift weapon in her vicinity, a wooden chalkboard pointer, and held it between them in case she needed to defend herself.

Jennifer quickly assumed that Derek was there to either intimidate her or kill her in order to prevent her from exposing his secret as a Werewolf, but he was really just there to make sure that she was okay, which he explained as he gently pulled the pointer out of her hands. She mentioned that she had previously been in therapy and that she hadn't been emotionally okay in some time, but Derek assured her that he believed she would be okay. She went on to joke that it was easy for him to say, because he wasn't about to teach a lecture on Arthur Miller's famous play, *The Crucible*, leading Derek to smile and retort that she should just tell them that it's an allegory for McCarthyism. Jennifer once again assumed that this was a not-so-subtle hint that she needed to keep her mouth shut and promised him that she had no intention of sharing his secret with anyone.

This seemed to satisfy Derek, who smiled and handed her back the pointer before turning to leave; before he could make it out the door, Jennifer asked him what his name was, as he hadn't identified himself despite Jennifer's own introduction. Derek paused in the doorway for a moment before introducing himself as Derek, and both he and Jennifer smiled to themselves.

In *Frayed*, Derek managed to pick himself up off the broken escalators at the Abandoned Mall after a battle against the Alpha Pack that resulted in him falling more than two stories and landing on the stairs. He then stumbled to the Beacon Hills High School late in the afternoon, where he was unable to find any of the Beacon Hills packs members, but did find Jennifer getting into her car and getting ready to return home after a day of work. He staggered over to her and managed to catch up just as she was shutting the driver's side door, with Jennifer not realizing he was there until he slammed a bloody hand against the window.

Startled, she turned to face Derek just as the Werewolf became weak and collapsed on the pavement, causing Jennifer to rush out of her car and kneel next to his now-unconscious body on the floor to see if he was okay, concerned by the large bloodstains all over his clothing.

In *Motel California*, Jennifer managed to bring the seriously injured and weakened Derek back to his loft, where she struggled to open the sliding door to the apartment due to the fact that she was supporting most of Derek's weight on her shoulders. She remarked under her breath that this was a terrible idea and that she should be taking him to a hospital, but he weakly responded, "No... no hospital." As soon as they got inside of the loft, Jennifer began to lose the strength needed to keep them body upright and accidentally drops him onto the floor, causing her to frantically kneel next to him and try to rouse him.

She somehow managed to get him moved across the room to the bed, where his upper body was spread out in the middle, leaving his legs dangling off the edge. She removed his shirt so she could try to assess his wounds, and she gasped, "Oh, my God..." when she saw the damage the battle with Ennis and the other Alpha Pack members inflicted upon him. When he weakly asked her how bad it was, Jennifer awkwardly babbled that her remark would have been in response to his "incredible physique" if she wasn't so concerned by the fact that he was bleeding black blood. When Derek doesn't respond and was laying slack on the bed with no visible signs of breathing, Jennifer once again began to worry that he was dying and flung herself over to him, laying her head down on his chest and quietly remarking that this was not how she imagined their first date. After a moment, Derek began breathing once again.

Several hours later, Jennifer was looking distractedly out the window when suddenly, Derek began to stir on his bed, catching her attention. When Derek tried to sit up and made moves to indicate he planned on getting up, she asked him if he really thought that was a good idea, leading him to remind her that he didn't have much of a choice, as the rest of his pack and allies currently believed he was dead. Jennifer, drawing upon her teaching knowledge, referenced examples in literature in which false deaths could be used to an advantage (specifically citing *Romeo and Juliet* as one of them), but Derek was adamant that they needed to know. This led Jennifer to point out just how terrible he looked, claiming that he was "like one giant open wound" and that she wasn't entirely sure he *wasn't* dead, causing Derek to glare at her in exasperation.

After some time, Jennifer knelt in front of Derek, still sitting on the edge of the bed, and brought up the fact that he didn't have any kind of first-aid materials in the loft, but Derek just smiled wryly and pointed out that he normally didn't need them, implying that his Werewolf healing factor made it unnecessary. When Jennifer asked how they were supposed to fix him up, Derek replied that he just needed time.

She watched Derek for a beat before she began to move closer to him and stared at him with an intense expression, which eventually led Derek to sigh and state that she shouldn't be there. When she asked him why, he reminded her that she didn't know him, or anything about him, for that matter, but Jennifer insisted she had a feeling about him. "It shouldn't be a good one," Derek replied bitterly. "Everyone around me... Everyone around me gets hurt." Jennifer continued to move closer to him until their faces were almost touching as she stated that she had been hurt before, but Derek argued that she had never been hurt like the people who got close to him were. Despite his protests, Jennifer leaned forward and gently kissed him before pulling away; when Derek didn't immediately respond, she became worried that she overstepped, but Derek eventually leaned forward and began kissing Jennifer passionately.

While the younger members of the Beacon Hills packs were at the Glen Capri Motel, with Scott close to committing suicide due to the guilt he felt about Derek's dead and the role he felt he played it in (feelings that were amplified by the Darach's manipulation), Derek and Jennifer were having sex in Derek's bed. Once their lovemaking had ended, Derek was sitting at the edge of the bed again, thinking with an intense expression on his face, when Jennifer came up behind him and kissed him, causing all of the wounds on his chest and torso to mysteriously heal.

In *Currents*,

In *Visionary*,

In *The Girl Who Knew Too Much*,

In *The Overlooked*,

In *Alpha Pact*,

In *Lunar Ellipse*,

In *The Wolves of War*,
## Trivia

* Jennifer was Derek's third of four relationships (chronologically speaking) that were explored in the series. It is also the second relationship of Derek's explored in the series in which the woman was not honest with him about who she really was. Conversely, Derek was the only love interest Jennifer was shown to have on the series.
* When Derek came face-to-face with the Anuk-ite, it took the form of Jennifer, implying that his relationship with her (or, rather, the context of the relationship—being duped and manipulated into inadvertently helping someone who was killing innocent people) was his biggest fear.