bakerstreet | you say "goodbye", & i say "hello, hello, hello".

GOODBYE MY FRIEND.

Goodbyes are inevitable. Maybe someone is moving away, maybe it's that final battle, maybe you can't stand to see this person any longer. They're leaving and this is your final chance to see them, final opportunity to say all those words you've been hiding away.

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GOODBYE

1. FALLING OUT: You've had a fight. You can't stand to see one and other any more. Let it all out, all that hurt is finally coming to the surface.

2. FORCED SEPARATION: You don't have much time left. Whether you like it or not, this person is being taken away from you - and you won't be seeing them again.

3. DEATH: Whether immediate or impending, this person is going to die. Maybe it's the final battle, maybe it's a terminal illness. They're dying and this is your last chance.

4. MOVING ON: You're graduating. Finished training. Got contracted somewhere far away. Whatever the reason may be, it's time to move on - and it's time to say goodbye.

5. WILDCARD: Make up your own or combine a few! The choice is yours.

I'LL SEE YOU AGAIN

...But goodbyes aren't always forever. Be it fate or some stroke of luck, you're about to be reunited. Maybe it's just a short time later, maybe it's years later - somehow, someway, they're back.

REUNION

1. IN PASSING: Who was that you just passed on the street? Didn't they look awfully familiar?

2. SURPRISE: Someone has just shown up on your doorstep. How long has it been since you've seen that face?

3. IT'S A MIRACLE: They lived. By some stroke of fate, they've lived. Or maybe you're meeting in the afterlife? Whatever the case may be here they are, waiting for you with open arms.

4. LOST & FOUND: Everyone else thought it was impossible; they were dead, lost, gone. But you've never given up hope. Now that you see that face again, it's all worth it.

5. WILDCARD: Make up your own or combine a few! The choice is yours.

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"I knew it wasn't true," he responded readily, noting the small step the other took back and tipping his head downward to meet the younger's gaze. For a moment, he kept it, as if he'd be able to tell the other's thoughts from their locked eyes. It was only when the other shook his head and moved away that Derek moved his hand, turned to let his eyes sweep the room.

"The sooner we get put distance between us and this place, the sooner you'll be out of danger." He turned back to the other, took a moment to let his eyes sweep his form. They'd been away for a long time and even being a werewolf, he wasn't entirely sure how well Isaac's body would be able to overcome the lasting conditions of his confinement. "Let's go." He spared one last glance and then he was moving, peering easily around the corner before continuing forward.

Isaac watches him with wide eyes. "How?" Because even though his scent was real, and he hadn't vanished under Isaac's contact, the Beta was still having a hard time believing that this was real.

He didn't hesitate to follow, sticking as close to Derek as possible, claws sliding out, ready in the case of an attack. His ears pricked at every little sound, but all he could hear was Derek's breathing, his heartbeat and their mutual footsteps. "How'd you find me?"

Derek had done his part when he'd arrived here - worked his way through the few hunters he'd encountered as best he could. He hadn't killed them, he'd made sure of that, but if Isaac watched, he could see the slight turn of Derek's head every so often, towards dark corners where the distinctly human smells lingered the strongest around unconscious bodies.

"I looked, listened," he explained as he slipped easily around a few more corners before pausing at the small cellar door he'd eased his way through. He crouched beside it, tipped his head towards it to listen for anything on the other side. Anything that wasn't the soft brush of wind. After a moment, he finally moved to tug it open, glancing towards Isaac, "I never stopped." His gaze lingered on the other for a moment longer before he motioned towards the door expectantly.

"Go."

Isaac stuck close, all but walking on the Alpha's heels in his attempt. He couldn't hear anyone, could't detect an approach, but there wasn't a chance in hell that he was taking the risk that all of Derek's efforts were in vain because he got himself killed slipping up.

He lets that information sink in, watching Derek and taking him in; the scent on his skin, the sound of his heart beat, everything. But the feel of home, of pack, it was enough that he could feel an exhaustion setting in.

"Thank you."

And he nods and ducks out the doorway.

Derek ducked after him quickly, snapping the door shut behind him. He stood easily, straightened himself as he let his eyes sweep the thick woodline only a few meters ahead of them. He didn't know all the routes to and from this place, just how many hunters there really were, and he didn't want to risk crossing paths with them while he was only a few miles shy of getting Isaac back to what he'd been taken away from so forcefully.

Drawing in a deep breath to let his mind catch an idea of where the scent of the hunters was the strongest, he reached out, caught Isaac loosely at his elbow to urge him in the right direction. "We're not far from Beacon Hills," he promised, his pace quickening easily, more than prepared to take off, to quickly close the distance that separated him and his Beta from the rest of the pack.

Isaac pauses the second he's outside, eyes raking over the sight. He breathes in deep, the fresh air feeling foreign after so long stuck inside a concrete bunker. The sounds, the smells, the sights; its all a little overwhelming and Isaac has to fight down a moment of panic.

It's broken when Derek grasps his elbow and he stumbles for a moment before finding his feet and turning to follow. "I almost forgot what it was like out here." Now more than ever he was desperate to get back to the others.

"Almost," Derek echoed, tightening his hold slightly as if to be sure the other regained his proper footing. Once he was sure he had, he slid his hand away, quickening his pace forward. "You might think you forgot, but your senses will always be there to help you remember," he reminded, sparing a quick glance over his shoulder to catch sight of the other again.

"The closer we get, the more things should start coming back to you. The smell of the air during certain times of the day, the usual sounds - you'll never forget, not as long as you know how to let your mind and body work together to put together what either can't on it's own."

"I feel like I can't focus on anything. My mind's going at a hundred miles an hour. I just... I didn't think I'd ever get out of there. But I did. And I just... I need to be around you and the pack." He frowns, stepping closer to brush his own arm against Derek's.

"I'd given up."

Derek couldn't say he blamed Isaac for the things he had said, everything he was feeling. And he wasn't sure how to respond in a way that would make it clear to Isaac that he understood, in his own way.

"Isaac," he started, halting in his steps at the brush of the other's arm against his own. "None of that matters now," he reminded, shaking his head slightly as if hoping that would be enough to ease that feeling away from the other, to draw him back into the emotional state he had been in before all of this had happened. "I came for you. That's what matters," he continued, motioning in the direction they'd come from.

"I'll always come for you, Isaac." Because they were a pack - a family. Isaac, Erica, and Boyd were what he drew his power from and he knew that if he was half the Alpha he thought he could be, he would use that power for them. For all of them now matter how hard it would be.

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