Denny's On the Mainland, Saturday Night

[justlurkinghere]

Laura was once again gone. And Derek was totally fine about that. Yeah, totally fine. He was just glaring down at his coffee cup like it offended him on every level possible and would set it on fire with the power of his hatred.

And he was apparently talking to Stiles again.

Well, it had really been more of a kidnapping because the kid had his jeep available to drive them to Denny's while the Camaro was still in Beacon Hills. But, you know, whatever got him a Grand Slam of sadness.

[[NFB, and for the kidnappee!]]

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[justlurkinghere]

Yes. Yes it was very wrong, Stiles.

Derek was just going to continue to stare at him. Because seriously, this was the worst idea since ever. And he clearly could never explain why.

[robinonadderall]

"Dude, I know it was a mistake. I didn't even know it was her at the time, there was a 50/50 chance it was some other creepy lady that looked like her," Stiles said, throwing up his hands. "I would have been a little more prepared if you learned to communicate with people."

[justlurkinghere]

"I didn't exactly have time to grab my phone." That worked well enough as a response.

[robinonadderall]

"Like you don't know exactly where to find me if you want to." He didn't have a social life, Derek, there was only so many places he could be! "Anyway, I'm sorry, really, I am. I had no idea it'd make her like...that."

[justlurkinghere]

And possibly lead her to more people he---did not care about in the slightest? No thank you!

"She'll go after the other version of you."

[robinonadderall]

Yeah he hadn't really thought about that at the time. "Well she'll be up against the alpha for kidnapping privileges so I'm not too worried about it."

[justlurkinghere]

Stiles, stop saying thing that alarm him!

"What."

[robinonadderall]

"Dude, you need to learn to eavesdrop better," Stiles said, shaking his head. "The alpha takes me hostage for a bit. And like with most kidnappings I'm a part of, I get let go before anyone really notices I'm gone."

That was really, really sad.

[justlurkinghere]

"I was showering." That wasn't a reason to stop listening, Derek.

[robinonadderall]

Stiles rolled his eyes. "Excuse me, I didn't mean to insult your ability to overhear conversations you're not apart of."

[justlurkinghere]

"Shut up."

[robinonadderall]

Stiles really wished he could sometimes. It probably would have been easy to shut his mouth and just finish his pancake bites but if he didn't bring this up now he probably would never do it. "I gotta tell you something else and you're not going to like it."

[justlurkinghere]

"I don't like most of the things you tell me." Seriously.

[robinonadderall]

"Dude, seriously, can the sass for a second." If it was possible for a Hale to stop with the sass. "My conversation with Kate wasn't all her petting my head and me calling her a psycho for burning your house down."

[justlurkinghere]

Sass was their lifeblood.

Derek went very still in that deer in the headlights, Scott just said he wasn't part of his pack after making him bite a cancer ridden old man sort of way.

[robinonadderall]

It was a very unsettling look. One that actually made Stiles kind of nervous. He was very much not looking Derek in the eye when he spoke.

"Yeah she, um, told me about the the two of you being um...involved. Which I'm guessing you didn't want me or likely anyone else to know and I'm really, really sorry she shared," Stiles said. "If she was trying to reiterate the fact that she was a psycho to me then well done, Kate, 'cause that worked."

Stiles pushed his plate of pancake bites towards Derek, like that would make things better.

[justlurkinghere]

Derek stared at him and then the pancake bites. The nice, nonthreatening pancake bites that would not blame him for the deaths of her family.

Did you do this in a public place so he couldn't make a scene, Stiles? Did you?

[robinonadderall]

Well he couldn't bring it up at the house and put Puppy Joe through more trauma. He had their feelings baby to think about.

"I wasn't going to say anything. Shocker, I know," Stiles said, rubbing the back of his neck. "But I didn't want her to tell you that I knew."

He got the feeling Kate would get a kick out of that.

[justlurkinghere]

Puppy Joe was a Hale, okay? He had a life of sass and trauma ahead of him.

"You know." About his terrible guilt issues.

[robinonadderall]

"Yes." Didn't they just establish that?

[justlurkinghere]

Derek, narrative. This was Derek here.

"Why are you still here?"

Aaaaand boom goes the emotionally stunted dynamite.

[robinonadderall]

"Why wouldn't I still be here?" he asked. "Or are you kicking me out of Denny's right now?"

Your emotional issues and lack of conversational skills were confusing him, Derek.

[justlurkinghere]

Yes, yes they were. And he wasn't even having those alpha mood swings! Which is totally what they were. Like a flowering girl. See how easily the menstration analogy worked on werewolves? See?

Derek gave him a look like he was possibly touched in the head. "You know I got them all killed, Stiles," he ground out like this was more painful than digging a bullet out of himself with a pair of pliers. "Why the hell are you still here?"

[robinonadderall]

Derek shared feelings about as much as Stiles shared feelings which is to say never, so needless to say that outburst was a little shocking. Why couldn't they have a nice trip to Denny's for once?

"That wasn't your fault," Stiles said after a momentary loss for words. "You didn't know any better."

[justlurkinghere]

Because Jeff Davis is an evil man. That's why.

Derek just gave him a look of disbelief, curling both hands around his coffee cup for lack of something to do with them. His eyes went back down to the table as well, not caring to look at Stiles anymore. Ugh, you are such a sack of emo, Derek.

Go buy a loft to express you manpain in with exposed brick walls and a giant random hole.