Ring. Finally the bell rang to let us out of school, Stiles was so ready to go with Derek on their date even though it was just dinner and studying. For a first date it was perfect and low key so that other people didn't really see them. Stopping by his locker, he saw Erica Reyes and Vernon Boyd making their way to where he stood.
"Hey Stiles" Erica said with a smile. Boyd just nodded.
"Hey. What's up?" Stiles said while getting his school things he needed to study tonight.
"Derek wanted us to walk you to the car because he got out early from his class and is already waiting on you," Erica said while starting to move towards the schools exit doors.
Rushing to catch up with them, stiles asked Erica "Hey do you know why Scott and Jackson stopped picking on me. It was weird because the night I told Derek about the bulling the next day they stop bulling me. It's crazy because it's almost like they are afraid of me. Which is good because then I don't have to worry about the bruises and trying to explain them to my dad or Derek but…" stiles stopped short when he realized that Erica was holding back laughter and that Boyd had a fond smile on his face.
"Do you always ramble about anything that comes to your mind?" Erica asked while starting back walking out of the school.
"Yeah, my dad says it's because I have no since of when I have over spoken about a topic," stiles said embarrassedly.
Erica just smiled and ruffled stiles hair and made her way to where Derek was waiting by his Camaro.
Smiling at Derek and waving, Erica and Boyd made it to Erica's car and left the school. Stiles looked to where Derek was waiting by the passenger side door and walking up to him with a huge smile on his face. "Hey Der. How was baseball practice?" Stiles said while leaning up on his tippy toes and planting a small kiss on Derek's cheek.
Opening the door for stiles and making sure he got in comfortably, Derek made his way over to the driver side and got in. "It was good. Coach had us play against each other so we could each other's weakness and strengths," Derek said while staring the car and slowly making his way out of the school parking lot and towards the town's dinner.
"Oh I wanted to ask you what position you played?" stiles said while looking out the Camaro window and slightly bouncing on is seat.
Derek smirked and said, "I play pitcher and I need to first base but I really like pitcher so coach usually has me there in practice and the games. Do you play any sports? I can't remember if I had asked you that yet."
Derek pulled into the parking lot before stiles could answer and cut the engine. Turning towards stiles he waited to hear his answer.
" No I don't play any sports though I wanted to try out for lacrosse but Scott and Jackson were going to try out and I didn't want to deal with the bullying any more than I had to so I gave up on that dream. I decided instead to take up learning the piano. So I have been learning to play since the 9th grade," stiles said with a slight frown.
Getting out of the car and making his way to the stiles side, Derek opened the door and quickly took stiles out of his seatbelt and pulled him into a hug. Whispering into his ear Derek said, "Shush Baby boy, they can't hurt you anymore. I made sure of that. You don't have to worry about them hurting you anymore. I will protect you. All the whiles Derek was talking, stiles was holding back tears.
Hugging Derek closer to him stiles mumbled, "Thank you. I don't know what you did but it stopped them from hurting me." Stiles said while looking into Derek's deep green eyes. Getting lost in his eyes, stiles didn't hear what Derek's question. He didn't realize that he had asked something until Derek's face started to show a worried expression. "Huh?" stiles asked while letting go of Derek.
"I asked if you were ready to go inside and eat," Derek said with a smug look on his face.
Stiles just blushed and nodded.
Derek locked up the car and lead stiles into the dinner with a hand on his lower back. Finding a booth in the back with no one near them, Derek moved towards it and sat down facing stiles. He made sure he was facing the door so he could see if there was any trouble and be able to protect his mate.
Picking up the menu, stiles decided to just get what he always got when he came here. A double cheese burger with curly fries and a chocolate milkshake. Setting down his menu stiles looked up and saw that Derek was staring at him with a small smile on his face. "What?" stiles said with a small annoyed huff.
"I just find it cute that you already knew what you wanted that's all."
"I always get the same thing a double cheese burger, curly fries, and a chocolate milkshake. I get it because it's the last thing my mom and I ate together before she got sick with stomach cancer. So I get it because it makes me feel closer to her even though she isn't here with me to enjoy it," stiles said with a watery smile on his face.
Derek smiled and moved his hand so that it was holding his hand, "Well If that's the case then who I am to change the tradition." Just then the waitress came over to take their orders.
"What can I get you?" a young woman with red hair asked while looking like she wanted to be anywhere but here ordering their food.
"We would like two double cheese burgers, two orders of curly fries, and two chocolate milkshakes," Derek said.
The waitress wrote this down and left their table.
Stiles smiled and said, "Thanks for that. You didn't have to order the same thing but it makes me happy that you did."
"Well that's was all I was trying to do," Derek said while giving a squeeze to stiles hand.
Waiting for their food, stiles and Derek continued to talk about anything that came to their minds. Well stiles talked and Derek listened but that's how Derek liked it, with the attention on stiles so he could learn as much as he could about him. After getting their food and eating, Derek and Stiles paid and left headed to the library to study for a few hours.
Finding a good place to study, Derek and Stiles started to study together. Derek realized that Stiles was really passionate about learning and really smart as well. After study for a good 4 hours, Derek decided that it was time for a break. He softly took stiles pen from his hand and closed his own books. "I think it's time for a break. We have been studying for 4 hours straight and I don't want you over studying because that makes studying suck," Derek said with a soft smile.
Stiles just smiled and nodded. He laid his head down on the table just wanting to rest his eyes but found that he was slowly falling asleep.
After stiles fell asleep, Derek decided it was time to pack up and head home. Gathering his and Stiles books and putting them in their respective backpacks, he put them both on his back and went and lifted stiles up from where he was draped over the library table. The only sound of discomfort that stiles made was a slight whimper from being jostle the wrong way. Making it to his car Derek was able to get stiles into his car without a problem and started the journey home.
When he got close to Stiles house he say the Sheriff's police car in the driveway and his Uncle Peter's truck right behind it. Parking the car and moving around to grab stiles out of the passenger side, he saw that Peter had heard him and opened the house door for him. John was standing slightly behind peter trying to get a look at them. Derek picked stiles up as gentle as he could and starting making his way inside the house. Peter came out and grabbed stiles backpack, and came back into the house locking the door behind him.
Making his way upstairs to stiles room, Derek got stiles in bed and gently tucked him into bed. Standing there and just watching stiles sleep, made Derek realize that he was glad stiles was his mate. He softly ran his hand through stiles hair and softly placed a kiss on his forehead. Stiles sighed softly in his sleep and snuggled into his blankets. Right as Derek was closing the door, Stiles said his name and let out a happy sigh before borrowing deeper into his covers. Derek smiled and closed the door.
Going downstairs, he realized that while he was putting Stiles to bed John and Peter had been completely silent. He found them in the living room sitting close together waiting for Derek to make his way to them.
Peter was the first to see him and when he did, he immediately rose to explain what was going on but before he could get all worked up Derek silenced him with a flash of his red eyes. Derek took the empty arm chair and turned his gaze to peter and john, who was looking slightly scared and worried.
"How long?" Derek asked with a slight growl in his voice.
Peter looked at John before answering, "After Stiles Mom died we became friends and then a year after that we started to date."
"And why am I just now hearing about this?" Derek said with a slight frown.
John looked up and straight in his eyes, "That would be my fault. I didn't want to tell anyone until later because I didn't want stiles to find out yet."
Derek looked at both of them and could see that they were mates, "You better be ready to meet the pack and I would advise you to tell stile soon because I will not lie to my mate and if he finds out from me he will be hurt and angry at the both of you."
They both nodded and stood when Derek did. He nodded to them and left to get home. Peter looked at john and said, "Well that went better than I thought." He softly kissed John on the lips and pulled them upstairs to john's room to go to sleep all the while thinking about the idea of John and stiles moving in with him into the pack house. His wolf was purring at having John next to him at all times and being able to keep their pup safe.
Making his way up and into his house, Derek saw that the whole pack was still up waiting on him. Sniffing he found that they were in the living room lounging around. Finding an open spot on the sofa next to his mom, Derek went there and sat down. He had to wait a total of 5 seconds before questions came flying at him from all over. Sighing, he let out a soft growl that got the pack to quiet down. "Now that I can hear, one at a time and if you get loud again I won't answer anything at all and just go upstairs to bed," he said with a slight smile on his face.
His mom was the first to ask a question since she was right next to him, "How was it?"
"Great. I learned a lot about him and found that he makes a great mate for me," Derek said with a smile on his face.
His dad was next, "Why are you back so early?"
"Well, while we were taking a break from studying he fell asleep. So I took him home and let him get his rest."
This continued for another hour with Derek asking the other couples how their dates went and them asking him more questions. After the questions stopped, Derek made sure every member did their schoolwork and studied for a certain amount of time. After that was done, all the couples took out their journals for class and wrote about their experiences. Finishing their journal entries they made their way to bed.
Derek had finished his journal entry and went and took a shower and got in bed. He sent a text to peter to remind stiles in the morning to quickly write his journal entry before school. After peter texted back that he would, Derek fell into a deep sleep with stiles being the center of his dreams.