[indent][indent]Derek was astounded by her defensiveness. It didn't seem like she was angry with Derek himself, but she was just protecting herself from the blunt question that had prodded her privacy. He couldn't think of what to say when she was jumping onto him, but knew it was not a good idea to do what he did. As she turned, he did in-fact notice the scar on her throat. That was when it clicked to him. He knew her. He had seen her as a young child on national news. She was the one who escaped the clutches of the serial killer, and lived to tell the tale. He tried to recollect on the memories of himself as a young cub. The werewolf tribes all over the world was searching for this serial killer because he was very close to revealing to the world about the existence of the supernatural. He was close to having the supernatural beings in the world hunted and thrown onto autopsy tables with their insides pulled out and examined. 

This girl was lucky. She had survived the signature of her attacker. He would never had known who she was if the serial killer had been just a regular mundane human. He only knew of her because of the fact that the person who took her as a young child, was a vampire. He could finally make sense of it all. The looming darkness that is surrounding her aura is the experience she had. Her life had changed that night and it would never had been the same. 

Did she know he was a vampire? Did she actually see what he was? Would she forever hate the supernatural? He didn't know any answer, but he wanted to find out. But why would she share this story with him? If she dared to breathe a word about her real name or anything about the truth of her life, the U.S Marshals would snatch them up and place them somewhere else. 

If there was one thing he knew about tracker vampires, it was that they don't give up on their prey. They would scourge the Earth to find them. 

Derek ran after her. "Krista! Wait!" he called out for her. 

She needed his tribe more than she knew. She needed him. [/indent][/indent]