Totally Not Kid-Friendly Creepy Old Mansion on Phoenix Way, Sunday Evening

[justlurkinghere]

As was probably shocking to absolutely no one, Derek did not socialize much at age ten. Which is why having a sleep-over was just crazy talk if you asked him.

Crazy talk.

But that wasn't going to stop him from trying out this whole thing. With friends.

[[Open for anyone who brave the creepy house!]]

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[robinonadderall]

"Sixteen." The legal age of consent in Maryland, Mike, thank you very much! "I hope you don't mind all this...Derek's weirdly convincing when he's a child."

[newroutines]

"Yeah, I've noticed." Even if Mike was still kind of just glossing over the fact that the kid was supposed to be his grumpy squatter because... Well, that just made no kind of sense. "It's fine. It livens up the house a little."

[robinonadderall]

"He's going to be brooding like nobody's business when he's an adult again though," Stiles warned him. "So take advantage of him doing embarrassing things now. And make sure you send the pictures to someone else before he can crush your phone."

[newroutines]

"I think I'd just prefer if he didn't crush my phone at all," Mike decided. "If at all possible. I got snacks, he can't hate me that much."

He probably could, though.

[robinonadderall]

"Dude, I let him eat his weight in pancakes yesterday and he's still gonna glare and shove me into something painful when he becomes adult sized again," Stiles said. "It's what he does."

[newroutines]

Mike shrugged a shoulder. Hey, he'd so far avoided getting shoved. "Well, it's not like we could just leave him to his own devices, right? You really don't think that'll count for something?"

[robinonadderall]

Oh, Mike, you sweet summer child. "No, no I don't. It's not gonna count for anything."

[newroutines]

"Hey, I'm not sure I even buy that's Derek!" Mike pointed out in his own defence. "Because that makes absolutely no fucking sense at all. This could just be, I don't know, some very elaborate hazing."

[robinonadderall]

"Where would we find a kid who has the same expressive eyebrows as Derek?" he asked.

[newroutines]

Shrug. "I don't know, there are a lot of eyebrows and kids out there in the world."

[robinonadderall]

"I really hope this island doesn't end up giving you a heart attack." Because, seriously, this wasn't all that bad compared to other stuff he's seen here.