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Peter wished them all well, really he did. But that didn’t mean that he didn’t want to lash out at them, and in truth probably already had. Pushing his family away, whether blood or chosen, wasn’t exactly a new thing for him.
After all, he’d almost managed to get them all killed at one point. If Derek hadn't had his head screwed on as tightly as it had been, it might have been a totally different story. Even struggling with Paige’s death, Derek had still managed to get the sheriff to listen to him. Even if his mother hadn’t.
And that was a situation that you didn’t want to get yourself in the middle of. But of course he had, listening to Talia instead of looking into things himself. And hadn’t that given him a scare and then some, enough that he’d put work into becoming the left hand his parents had wanted rather than the one Talia thought she needed.
Which had cost Laura her place as Talia’s choice of heir due to the fact that Laura had been getting cosy with known hunters, which according to Talia had just been a simple mistake.
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So with college and university on the horizon for Derek and Derek's junior pack he’d done all the research, all the visits, investigations, and introductions he could, so the kids were as safe as he could get them
Coming to the conclusion, while he was at it, that Talia Hale really didn’t give a fuck about Derek and his pack. That all Talia really cared about was Laura, and screw everyone else.
So new beginnings for Derek’s pack and grey hairs for him.
Though both Noah and Chris had suggested that he and they move somewhere a bit more central to everyone and forget Talia Hale. It wasn’t as if most of the Hale pack wouldn’t follow him, he’d been asking around on the quiet.
Stiles had even made what had seemed like a throw away comment at the time, that the Nemeton might be willing to work with them. And recently he was sure he’d seen, Stiles cuddling and talking to a potted plant of some kind.
So really it was his choice to make, attempt to protect a pack where he wasn’t really welcome or start somewhere new and hope that the Gods were looking down on them.
‘Cause a pack without an Alpha was potentially asking for trouble.