Violet was here for a while. You saw her again, when you thought you were never going to. I was gone - I came back. You might never see him again, no - but you might see him tomorrow. A week from now. A year. That's how this place works.

[ It's not like Derek doesn't have any sympathy for Tate, here - but he's been running the same answers over and over again in his head since he realized Stiles was gone, so maybe he sounds kind of tired and disconnected when he says all of this out loud.

Besides - there's someone new in Tate's life, right? Derek's still not sure how he feels about that, but tentatively, he's going to try and bring her up. ]

I... kind of assumed you were moving on from him. Right?