Mansion of Tiredness | Sunday Morning

[robinonadderall]

After coming to in the woods yesterday Stiles made his way to the mansion, ignoring Derek's annoyed growls as he flopped down on the bed. He was too tired to deal with wolfy disapproval. The day was saved and he was fine, okay? No disapproval needed.

Now he was sound asleep, arm around what he thought was a cuddly wolf buddy. He was wrong. So, so wrong.

[For Derek first and then anybody else that lives there/wants to stop by after he's awake]

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[justlurkinghere]

Well then. Just ignore the indignant noise from the bathroom, Stiles. It was only a few minutes later that Derek came out in the only thing he found in there: a pair of Stiles' sleep pants.

This was not helping anything.

"Kitchen," he said, trying and failing to not look at Stiles in his bed with pleasure.

[robinonadderall]

And it was the pair with little cartoon raccoons on them, how cute.

"Kitchen, right," he said, scrambling out of the bed. He slept with his clothes on. Like his actual clothes, he had been that tired last night. "I'll just go down there."

[justlurkinghere]

HE WAS ADORABLE AND BAD ASS.

And thank god for that, Stiles. The last they need needed right now was mutual nudity. Sweet, wonderful, mutual nudity...

Damn it.

Derek took a deep breath before following after him like a man on a mission for coffee.

[robinonadderall]

Stiles was sitting on one of the counters, waiting for his coffee to be made. And he had this look on his face, like a person who had just realized that Derek hadn't put on underwear before putting on Stiles' sleep pants.

Ugh it was too early to be this turned on.

[justlurkinghere]

Damn it, Stiles!

Derek turned to give him a look for that before going to make that coffee. And not think about whatever it was setting Stiles off. Because someone wasn't wearing underwear and only a pair of loose pants. Things would be obvious and terrible.

[robinonadderall]

"So you're not a wolf anymore." There. Safe topic that didn't involve awkward things.

[justlurkinghere]

Let's be real. Everything is awkward for them right now.

"I'm not a wolf anymore," Derek agreed, pushing the start button on the coffee maker.

[robinonadderall]

"Was it solely an island thing?" he asked. "Or do you think you can do it whenever you want now?"

[justlurkinghere]

Derek looked away, giving the air of being deeply embarrassed as he dug for something easy to eat that did not require cooking.

This meant a giant box of cereal.

"I told you my anchor wasn't working as well anymore."

[robinonadderall]

"Well have you considered trying to change anchors?" he asked. "I mean, I'm sure it's not easy, but if anger's not working anymore..."

[justlurkinghere]

"I am changing it," Derek muttered, pouring some in a bowl. "It just doesn't happen quickly."

And he was well aware how bad a choice having a person as an anchor was. So, so aware.

[robinonadderall]

"Oh. Well that's good." He knew he probably shouldn't ask but he was gonna ask anyway. "What are you changing it to?"

[justlurkinghere]

Derek shoved the box of cereal at Stile like a shield before going to grab himself some milk.

"This," he muttered, head in the fridge so he couldn't see Stiles' reaction.

[robinonadderall]

"The cereal?" Look he hadn't had coffee yet. At least he was quick to realize it wasn't the cereal. "Oh, oh. Not the cereal."

[justlurkinghere]

"Not the cereal." Wow, why not just throw more awkward emotions at Stiles, Derek?

[robinonadderall]

"I thought you told Scott that it was a bad idea to have people as anchors." Not that Stiles wasn't pleased with this. You could probably smell just how happy he was about it. But still, he didn't want Derek making a mistake.

[justlurkinghere]

"A concept is harder to lose than a person," Derek replied. "People leave. Or die. They're finite.."

[robinonadderall]

Or get possessed by Japanese fox demons and kill a whole bunch of people!

"Are you okay with this?" Not that it seemed like Derek had much of a choice whether he was okay with it or not. It's not like you could help how you felt.

[justlurkinghere]

That too! Can't forget that.

"It's too much to put on someone," he, well, mostly told himself.

[robinonadderall]

"Too much to put on yourself? Or me?" he asked. "Because it's not too much for me."

[justlurkinghere]

"And when you change your mind?"

[robinonadderall]

"I'm not going to change my mind," he said. "I mean, okay, there's going to be a problem somewhere along the line because I'm gonna die one day, nothing I can do about that. But I'm not leaving you."

[justlurkinghere]

Somewhere... Scott was frowning over people taking his romantic thing.

Derek sighed, finally moving away from the fridge. "Say that again after you graduate."

And maybe he'll start believing it.

[robinonadderall]

"Derek, it's less than thirty days from now," Stiles said. "You really think I'll change my mind before then?"

[justlurkinghere]

He needed that arbitrary number, okay!

"It's when we'll date. For real," Derek pointed out.