"Her phone's disconnected. They always--" He swallows hard and squeezes his eyes shut, doing his best to focus on the way Barry's arms feel around him, comforting and real. "I went by on the way here and I couldn't hear her heart. Her scent was stale."

He appreciates Barry's offer to search, but Derek can feel that she's gone. All morning, he felt off-kilter and he didn't know why. He didn't pay attention to it until he had to. It's different with humans, but an alpha feels it all the same. "She was pack. It hurts, Barry. It hurts so bad when they're ripped away."

Derek still remembers how it felt when his family died, how he and Laura just knew they were dying before they even got close enough to see the flames. It was like being ran through with a knife, over and over until they were all gone.