Somewhere In Nebraska, Saturday Morning

[justlurkinghere]

Drive across the country, they said. It'll be fun, they said. It was lies. Derek had driven across the country with Laura and had it been at any time but too soon after the fire, they would have murdered each other.

Why he thought it would have been a good idea to accompany Stiles back to Beacon Hills after his first year of college was over... it was possibly a good bit of delusion that this would end somewhere other than being terrible.

Case in point, the god awful jeep of Stiles was overheated and needed to sit to cool. In the middle of Nebraska. God, Derek hated the midwest.

"We could go look at the largest tractor in three counties," Derek said, looking at one of the faded pamphlets of local activities he'd found.

[[For the guy, duh]]

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[justlurkinghere]

"I didn't say that!" Oh, travel. It was the best.

[robinonadderall]

"Kind of acting like it," he said, feeling a little relieved when he saw that the next town was only a few miles away.

[justlurkinghere]

"I am not." He really was.

[robinonadderall]

"Agree to disagree."

[justlurkinghere]

"You're being unreasonable."

[robinonadderall]

He glanced over at Derek. "And you're not?"

[justlurkinghere]

"I'm--" Damn it. "Cars aren't supposed to stop working mid-drive!"

[robinonadderall]

Stiles huffed. "It's been known to happen, Derek."

Happened in horror movies all the time!

[justlurkinghere]

"And then you replace the car." No, you try to fix it, Richie Rich.

[robinonadderall]

"Not happening." As he started to pull into town he realized that the whole fancy hotel thing probably wasn't going to happen. That brought him just a little bit of joy.

[justlurkinghere]

This place would have bed bugs, Stiles! Bed bugs!

And Derek was the guy who lived in an abandoned building. Seriously. What the hell.

Derek sighed again, not enjoying the Americana happening right now. This place probably wouldn't even have complimentary coffee in the morning.

[robinonadderall]

If it was good enough for the Winchester brothers, it would probably be good enough for them.

Then again, Stiles had stayed at the murder motel so it's not like he was too choosy after that.

"Want to wait to see what the next town over has?"

[justlurkinghere]

This was a trick, you little shit. Derek knew that.

"This is fine." It was in no way fine.

[robinonadderall]

"Fine." Your gross motel funeral, Derek. Stiles pulled into the place and parked outside the front office. "Go ahead."

They were bordering the bible belt, Stiles didn't think two guys walking in there and requesting a one bed room would go over well.

[justlurkinghere]

Even if they weren't, they'd get judged because Stiles looked like a teenage hooker. So. There was that.

"Get the bags," Derek grumbled, hauling himself out of the jeep to rent them up a room. The grossest room they could get.

This was going to end in fleeing in the middle of the night.

[robinonadderall]

Stiles pulled out their bags and stood outside the jeep. He looked up at the place and wondered if it was possible that he'd hit up two haunted motels in his lifetime.

[justlurkinghere]

This one was only haunted by poor life choices.

Derek hightailed it out of the 'reception' building with an honest to god key in hand. This was weird to him. "I don't think they liked me."

Could have been the disdain Derek was exuding. Coulda been.

[robinonadderall]

"Somebody not like you? Impossible," Stiles said. Still being bitchy, yep.

[justlurkinghere]

Derek tossed the keys to him. Because he was a jerk who knew all about Stiles' reflexes.

[robinonadderall]

Yup those keys fell right to the ground. Stiles glared, dropping Derek's bag on the ground in order to pick up the keys. The bag stayed there while Stiles went to their godforsaken room.

[justlurkinghere]

Rude, Stiles. Derek's clothing did nothing to you.

Derek rolled his eyes, grabbing his bag to follow. "I hate the midwest."

[robinonadderall]

Stiles unlocked the door and flicked on the light switch. "...gross."

Maybe they should have just slept in the jeep.

[justlurkinghere]

Derek wrinkled his nose once that door was open. "You don't even want to know what it smells like."

The jeep sounded promising right now.

[robinonadderall]

And now Stiles felt bad. But not bad enough to apologize for being an asshole. "Don't have to stay here."

[justlurkinghere]

Derek did say yes to this place.

He huffed, shouldering his bag. "I think if we found a camping store and slept in a tent in the parking lot, it would be better than this room."

Also, so romantic.