Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24.187.28.16-20140814051503/@comment-6383956-20141117043928

I wouldn't say we're necessarily assuming Derek and Laura stuck around -- I've certainly never thought so (long enough to not raise suspicion from the police and then getting the hell out of dodge has always been my headcanon) -- however, there's really three options for what happened and all of them leave us with, at best, an entire storyline that was never so much as vaguly hinted at and, at worst, a gaping plot hole. We've got these options:

1) Cora was at school. So, why didn't Derek or Laura know that (and why didn't Cora know that Derek and Laura were at school?) and/or why did they skip town without their sister and abandon her for dead?

2) Cora was not at school, and was at home and escaped the fire. So, why didn't she know that Derek and Laura were at school and/or why (and *how*) did she skip town without them at eleven (human) years old, abandoning them for dead?

3) Cora was neither at home nor at school at the time of the fire -- meaning she was where, why, and how? Why weren't Derek and Laura aware of this at all? Why didn't they try to look for her? Why did they think she had died? If she was so disconnected from the pack, at eleven (human) years old, why would the news of a new Hale Alpha (the second/third one since the fire, depending on if she heard about Peter) make her come back to Beacon Hills? How did she hear about Derek being an Alpha like five minutes after it happened and not hear about Laura being an Alpha when she presumably was one for six years? I'm pretty sure I'm scratching the surface in terms of questions they absolutely brushed over -- and I'm not saying that we couldn't come up with answers to them either, we could but they would be pure fan fiction and speculation. And you could make the case that if Cora had continued past her half of a season, some of this might have been dealt with but I feel like the questions should have been raised during her introduction, even if they weren't answered, if the writers had planned to deal with them at all.

And, of course, then there's the "where did she go after and why?" questions too... :P