Derek chuckles a little and shrugs as he sits down on the sofa, watching her carefully. "Downsides of being friends with a werewolf, I guess."

Anyone else, he wouldn't have said anything. He would have politely pretended to not notice. But Kate isn't someone else, and he wants to make sure that she's okay.

What she says next definitely isn't what he was expecting, and he swallows hard, blinking a few times before his expression settles into something of a confused frown. "Oh."

He isn't quite sure how to feel. It's not like he'd had that much invested, but he was looking forward to it. He thought Kate might have been right in saying that it would be good for him. "Uh, okay. So, I guess it's off."