[ He's getting in his head, stumbling over all the shit he's kept quiet the past decade of his life. This isn't where he wanted this conversation to go, and Derek's a little pale when he holds up his hand like he's silently telling Tate to just-- to not, to just give him a second.
But Tate doesn't dig because that's just the kind of person Tate is; caring and kind and unobtrusive, the kind of person that Derek needs to spill his heart out to in order to keep this going, in order to prove that he's sorry, and that he wants this to work, and that everything will be okay if he just tries to be better from here on out. Better for Tate. For Erica, for Boyd. For everyone. He just needs to be better, more open, more trusting. If he'd trusted Stiles sooner back home, maybe everyone would still be okay. If he trusts Tate now, then... ]
Hunters kill werewolves. They call us rabid dogs. Vermin. Kate wanted to eradicate us. I was the idiot who didn't see her for who she was.
[ a sharp breath, and then - ]
I haven't ever... I don't talk about this. About Kate, about-- [ about how it's his fault, about how he should have known better. ]
Just - sometimes people make mistakes that are irrevocably, dangerously permanent, and no matter how hard they try to get away from them, they - can't. I have a lot of those, and - I don't know what happened between you and Violet, but I'm sure you feel as if you've made a mistake like that, too. Kate was my worst.
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[ He's getting in his head, stumbling over all the shit he's kept quiet the past decade of his life. This isn't where he wanted this conversation to go, and Derek's a little pale when he holds up his hand like he's silently telling Tate to just-- to not, to just give him a second.
But Tate doesn't dig because that's just the kind of person Tate is; caring and kind and unobtrusive, the kind of person that Derek needs to spill his heart out to in order to keep this going, in order to prove that he's sorry, and that he wants this to work, and that everything will be okay if he just tries to be better from here on out. Better for Tate. For Erica, for Boyd. For everyone. He just needs to be better, more open, more trusting. If he'd trusted Stiles sooner back home, maybe everyone would still be okay. If he trusts Tate now, then... ]
Hunters kill werewolves. They call us rabid dogs. Vermin. Kate wanted to eradicate us. I was the idiot who didn't see her for who she was.
[ a sharp breath, and then - ]
I haven't ever... I don't talk about this. About Kate, about-- [ about how it's his fault, about how he should have known better. ]
Just - sometimes people make mistakes that are irrevocably, dangerously permanent, and no matter how hard they try to get away from them, they - can't. I have a lot of those, and - I don't know what happened between you and Violet, but I'm sure you feel as if you've made a mistake like that, too. Kate was my worst.