The Formally Creepy Mansion | Thursday Evening

[robinonadderall]

Stiles had not been having a good week, but he made a real effort to pull himself together by Thursday so he could work on giving Derek a good, drama-free birthday. He bought meat lovers pizza, how could it go wrong?

It could probably go wrong in a lot of ways, but Stiles wasn't trying to focus on that.

[For the birthday wolf! Up early 'cause I'm working the late shift, ugh]

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[robinonadderall]

"And then we fought." Or maybe they were still fighting. Stiles didn't really feel like they solved anything.

[justlurkinghere]

They never solved anything, Stiles. Because they were bundles of issues, wrapped in insecurities, blanketed by fear of abandonment.

"It was a good cupcake."

[robinonadderall]

"You should have a better birthday than that," he said. "I did get you a gift. It's in the kitchen, you can open it later."

[justlurkinghere]

Derek took his seat on the couch instead of investigating the gift. "I'm not sure what kind of birthdays you think I'm used to."

[robinonadderall]

" I don't care what you're used to, I care about what you should have," Stiles said. "You've gotten used to a lot of things that you shouldn't have."

[justlurkinghere]

"And maybe I don't want you to get used to those kinds of things either," Derek said, lacking the anger from before.

[robinonadderall]

Stiles frowned and crossed his arms over his chest defensively. You got him there, Hale. "That's different. I can't change that."

[justlurkinghere]

"Preetty sure mine is permanent too." Oh, forever alone werewolf.

[robinonadderall]

"It is not." Hey, even the other Derek got to go on a road trip with his little sister that came out of nowhere!

[justlurkinghere]

Oh, inexplicably alive sister with no explanation ever.

"You have a way to make my family alive, I'm all ears."

[robinonadderall]

Oh way to make Stiles feel worse, Derek. Good going. "That's not what I meant."

[justlurkinghere]

IT WAS A SKILL, OKAY?

"Then what did you mean?"

[robinonadderall]

"I meant that you're not alone." This conversation was not going at all like Stiles had planned. Of course he had planned on sunshine and rainbows so he probably had his hopes set too high.

[justlurkinghere]

"It's different with werewolves." Plus all that guilt. All that guilt inside them jeans.

Derek shook his head. "Just pick a movie. Conversation over. Watch out for Kitty."

Yes, retreat when it gets too personal, Derek.

[robinonadderall]

Somehow that just made Stiles even more sad and angry at the same time, but he was tired of fighting tonight. It wouldn't do any good and he felt like both he and Derek weren't saying what they actually wanted to say.

So he decided not to fight back, instead walking over to grab the remote to put on some random action movie and then settling down in the armchair rather than on the couch with Derek like he usually would. There would be no "accidental" falling asleep on Derek tonight, no sir.

[justlurkinghere]

Well then, he could ignore the slightly wounded expression Derek made in his direction. Which was oh so messed up when he remembered that he was distancing himself from all of this that wasn't going to happen.

Why couldn't they just talk this through? Other than the fact that it never happened with people from Beacon Hills. Or maybe those conversations only happened off screen.

...

...nope, Derek was still stubbornly staring at the TV.