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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[robinonadderall]

"Are you being serious or are you being dramatic?" Stiles asked.

[justlurkinghere]

"Totally serious." But he did press his shoulder against Stiles'. Like that was some sort of apology.

[robinonadderall]

Stiles sighed, relaxing a little when Derek bumped up against him. "I'm sure we can put the tent someplace better than the parking lot."

[justlurkinghere]

"That sounds like an innuendo." FYI.

[robinonadderall]

He smiled briefly. "We're being nice now?"

[justlurkinghere]

"We have a common enemy." The Room. It was out to get them.

[robinonadderall]

Stiles rolled his eyes. "Come on, if we're doing this tent thing we need to get stuff before stores close. And we're getting a sleeping bag too."

Because it might have been hot as hell outside now but he knew it'd probably get cold in the night and he didn't have the luxury of being able to turn into a wolf.

[justlurkinghere]

There would still be so much cuddling.

"We can get two," Derek suggested, bumping him before turning back for the jeep. "They zip together."

[robinonadderall]

"There's got to be a Wal-Mart around here somewhere." Even deadbeat towns had Wal-Marts.

[justlurkinghere]

Excuse you, they only had Walmarts. Maybe a Farm and Fleet too.

"We can get food there too." This was sounding like a proper camping trip, guys.

[robinonadderall]

It kind of ended up being a camping trip. Luckily Nebraska had no end to places where people could turn off the highway and put up a tent for the night. Stiles left the tent building to Derek. He never liked following directions which would only end in disaster in this situation.

"I haven't been camping since Cub Scouts. Unless those bouncy castles with Jackson count."

[justlurkinghere]

"They don't count," Derek assured him, looking very intent on getting those poles threaded correctly. "We used to camp when I was a kid. But it was usually full moons."

[robinonadderall]

"Were tents involved or did you just sleep outside in nature?" he asked.

[justlurkinghere]

"...sometimes we had tents." Usually not. "It was fun."

[robinonadderall]

"Are you saying this is going to be fun?" he asked.

[justlurkinghere]

"I think it will." He hoped so. He really hoped so. "On the plus side, animals won't be coming near the area."

Even if they left food out!

[robinonadderall]

"That's a relief." No, seriously. "Almost done?"

[justlurkinghere]

Derek gave the tent a look before stepping back to look at it. "Yeah. It's good." He glanced back at Stiles and gave him a quick smile.

[robinonadderall]

It was kind of cute to see how much Derek was into this camping thing. He had enough time to cool down to be able to admit that to himself.

"Should I take off my shoes before I get in?" He didn't know tent etiquette.

[justlurkinghere]

"Yeah, less mess," he replied, grabbing the sleeping bags to put them inside. "Next time we do this, we should get stuff to make a fire."

Also, not somewhere they could be arrested if the smoke was seen.

[robinonadderall]

"There's going to be a next time?" he asked, kicking off his shoes.

[justlurkinghere]

"Might be easier on the drive," Derek replied, toeing his own off to head on in and set up the sleeping bags for them. "We'll hit the Rockies tomorrow after all."

Enjoy that majestic view.

[robinonadderall]

Stiles suddenly realized he opened the doors to the whole camping thing and he had the feeling it was going to be hard to close them again. He should have known Derek would love the sleeping outdoors thing.

"But what if we see a big fancy hotel?" he joked, crawling in after him.

[justlurkinghere]

Derek hummed, flopping back on the sleeping bags to make them smell like him. There was a little wiggle for that. "What did you tell me about not spending a lot of money on you?"

[robinonadderall]

"Didn't you just grump about us getting a room in a hotel and for me not to complain about it?" Remember, when they were both being bitchy?