Her question is fair enough and Derek gives a little shrug of his shoulders. "Because I've been where you are and nobody thought I was worth it. The only person who gave a shit about me was murdered so I had to do it alone. I don't want someone else to have to do it alone if I can help," he says with stark honesty. Nobody ever threw Derek a bone. Nobody ever reached out to Derek after Laura's murder. He'd found his sister in pieces in the woods and rather than seeking counsel for the man, they'd decided he was the culprit.

Rather than trying to find out why Derek wanted so badly to inject himself into Scott's life after the bite — because being an Omega in Beacon Hills was dangerous and he ached for some semblance of a pack again — Scott and Stiles desecrated his sister's grave and dragged his name through the mud. Instead of trying to understand why Derek was being so rough on them, Erica and Boyd chose to walk away. Peter was a story Derek never wanted to revisit again long enough to tell it. Cora turned her back and headed back down to South America because it was safer to be in a completely different country than at her older brother's side.

No one cared about Derek Hale and no one does. Derek's made his peace with that, but Katniss doesn't have to. She's not alone, not as long as he's stuck here, anyway. "Mind if I sit?" he asks, gesturing to the bed beside her without actually making any move to take up the space.