[The Hales manage to fall through the Rift together. How they got that lucky? The world may never know, but if anything it's probably the best thing to ever happen to Peter. A world he doesn't understand is something that he can dissect, take a part and turn into something that makes sense, and with a common enemy in the various anti-Wanderer sentiments that seemed to proliferate Chicago, the Hales are dangerously close to being considered a family again.
(As much as the narration wants to be "And none for Peter Hale," Derek doesn't quite share those sentiments, so he gets to be part of this particular starter too.)
As a result, Derek doesn't meet Abigail of his own volition, but rather, through Peter. He and Derek are looking for Cora (something went wrong last night during the full moon, possibly as a result of the rift, they can't really be sure) and Peter suddenly goes veering through the city in the complete opposite direction of his niece's scent, almost as though drawn by a magnet. Derek is appropriately baffled, but Peter waves him off, telling him to find Cora and that he'd meet up with them later.
When he does manage to track Peter down, after getting Cora back to apartment they'd managed to charm their way into, he's sitting on a bench in Grant Park, chatting with a bright eyed teenage girl that looks startlingly similar to Cora (or Malia), and looking like he's made a new best friend. Derek, as a result, is starting to wonder about Peter's taste in friends.
(At least he didn't worm his way into her life by brain-raping her into resurrecting him. That's ... progress, right?)
Regardless, when noticed Derek is informed that they're keeping her. Derek is extremely dubious of this, but she's a Wanderer like them, freshly fallen through the rift, and when they get back to the apartment and she and Cora become fast friends, he realizes he's been overruled.
Spoiler: He doesn't actually mind.
Peter isn't much of a serial killer. Mass murderer is probably the more accurate term, but it's enough of a serial killer to get caught in the snare of Abigail's rift power. They don't actually figure that out, however, until real serial killers are being drawn to their door and Peter ... well, he finds an outlet for that too. Some of them are Wanderers gone wrong, some of them are from groups like the CLF and the Society, demons, vampires, the list goes on. It goes from Abigail temporarily staying with them until they can find her a place at the Kashtta to living with them so that they can better protect her.
She's got no one else. Derek knows what that kind of isolation feels like, and he wouldn't wish that on anyone.
She and Derek fall into a relationship of meaningful silences, only really speaking to each other when prompted, but not really needing to otherwise. Sometimes Abigail will ask him questions, about being a werewolf, about Peter, and he always answers them honestly, but that never seems to dissuade her. There's something about Peter that's comforting in it's own way, and he's not one to question it. Peter has an actual meaningful connection with someone that isn't family for the first time in a long time, and he's not going to take that away from him.
There are moments, however, when Abigail is still a teenage girl.
He's in the apartment, drinking a cup of coffee and reading through a text he grabbed from the Kashtta library, trying to catch himself up on the differences between this world's history and his own when Abigail shoots through the apartment like a shot, heading right to the bedroom she shared with Cora and slamming the door. Usually she's a bit more careful, sensitive to the enhanced werewolf hearing, but when the door closes with a bang!, almost similar to a gun going off, he can't help the concern that furrows in his brow. He closes the book, pushing up to head over, before knocking lightly on the door.]
riftverse awaaaaaaaaay
(As much as the narration wants to be "And none for Peter Hale," Derek doesn't quite share those sentiments, so he gets to be part of this particular starter too.)
As a result, Derek doesn't meet Abigail of his own volition, but rather, through Peter. He and Derek are looking for Cora (something went wrong last night during the full moon, possibly as a result of the rift, they can't really be sure) and Peter suddenly goes veering through the city in the complete opposite direction of his niece's scent, almost as though drawn by a magnet. Derek is appropriately baffled, but Peter waves him off, telling him to find Cora and that he'd meet up with them later.
When he does manage to track Peter down, after getting Cora back to apartment they'd managed to charm their way into, he's sitting on a bench in Grant Park, chatting with a bright eyed teenage girl that looks startlingly similar to Cora (or Malia), and looking like he's made a new best friend. Derek, as a result, is starting to wonder about Peter's taste in friends.
(At least he didn't worm his way into her life by brain-raping her into resurrecting him. That's ... progress, right?)
Regardless, when noticed Derek is informed that they're keeping her. Derek is extremely dubious of this, but she's a Wanderer like them, freshly fallen through the rift, and when they get back to the apartment and she and Cora become fast friends, he realizes he's been overruled.
Spoiler: He doesn't actually mind.
Peter isn't much of a serial killer. Mass murderer is probably the more accurate term, but it's enough of a serial killer to get caught in the snare of Abigail's rift power. They don't actually figure that out, however, until real serial killers are being drawn to their door and Peter ... well, he finds an outlet for that too. Some of them are Wanderers gone wrong, some of them are from groups like the CLF and the Society, demons, vampires, the list goes on. It goes from Abigail temporarily staying with them until they can find her a place at the Kashtta to living with them so that they can better protect her.
She's got no one else. Derek knows what that kind of isolation feels like, and he wouldn't wish that on anyone.
She and Derek fall into a relationship of meaningful silences, only really speaking to each other when prompted, but not really needing to otherwise. Sometimes Abigail will ask him questions, about being a werewolf, about Peter, and he always answers them honestly, but that never seems to dissuade her. There's something about Peter that's comforting in it's own way, and he's not one to question it. Peter has an actual meaningful connection with someone that isn't family for the first time in a long time, and he's not going to take that away from him.
There are moments, however, when Abigail is still a teenage girl.
He's in the apartment, drinking a cup of coffee and reading through a text he grabbed from the Kashtta library, trying to catch himself up on the differences between this world's history and his own when Abigail shoots through the apartment like a shot, heading right to the bedroom she shared with Cora and slamming the door. Usually she's a bit more careful, sensitive to the enhanced werewolf hearing, but when the door closes with a bang!, almost similar to a gun going off, he can't help the concern that furrows in his brow. He closes the book, pushing up to head over, before knocking lightly on the door.]
Abigail?