Burn Amongst Humanity [D. Hale ]

|LXVII|

"117 (II)"
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Casey jumped out of the car and swiftly, she unlocked the doors and Scott was carrying teen Derek, swiftly now into the Animal Clinic.

"Wow." Doctor Deaton remarked as Casey shut the door, locked it, as then she shut the gate quickly.

"Wow? Wow as in, "I've seen this before and I know exactly what to do," kind of wow? Cause that is exactly the kind of "wow" that we are looking and hoping for." Stiles stated and Casey smacked him over the head. "Ow!" He said.

"I think that you might be very slightly overestimating my abilities here." Doctor Deaton said to Stiles, as Casey looked down at the now-teen Derek and Deaton looked at her. "Are you, all right?" He asked, speaking in words and signing as well, as she was nodding.

"It has just been a real long time, since I have seen him like this." Casey signed back, as she very carefully took one of Derek's hands in hers, all the while, it was Lydia, who was taking the other.

"He's cold. Like really cold." Lydia stated and Casey nodded, as now she was looking between Deaton and the Banshee, thankfully, the doctor understood that she was trying to point out the very same thing and Lydia had said it.

"Do you think that this is permanent?" Scott asked and then Deaton, at the words, was looking at Casey, who shrugged rather helplessly at the question.

"I'm not even sure that a medical diagnosis will be even adequate. I mean, this is well beyond my experience." Deaton explained.

"Mine too." Casey signed swiftly with her free hand and Derek, he was now holding her other one.

"So what do we do with him?" Stiles questioned and Casey looked over at him, confusion written in her facial expression.

"Until he wakes up? Probably not much. It might be best, just to leave him with me. He will be safe here. I would have once said, take him to Casey's house, but-"

"I don't have a house." Casey bluntly mouthed and signed the words and he looked at her. "The Nogitsune, it made sure of that." She signed.

"You mean from Kate?" Stiles asked.

"If she's alive and she is what you say she is, she won't be able to walk past that gate." Deaton explained to Stiles.

"Why would she even want to do this to him?" Lydia asked and Casey sighed quietly.

"Knowing Kate, it's probably for a reason that, won't exactly be good for anyone else but her." Deaton stated and Casey looked at them.

"With Derek once again, just as a teenager again, Scott, we have lost both a valuable, crucial member of your pack and a fighter besides. This it... This does give Kate Argent a rather distinct advantage and she knows it, as it were and that is the most dangerous part of all this." Casey explained to the group, with Lydia and Deaton acting a bit like translators for her.

Casey had slept in the car and she woke up, when she heard the doors to the Animal Clinic come crashing open and Casey's eyes widened and Derek was racing off. Casey turned the keys in the ignition as it started the engine and she drove off after him.