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Derek was feeling pretty good as of late. Scott had dumped or had been dumped by Kate Jr. He didn't have all of the details, but the end result was still a good thing for him. The hole in his chest had finally healed completely. The police had gotten tired of keeping a watch on his "creepy old shack" as they called it, but home was home. To top it all off, he was pretty sure that Stiles had been giving him the eye during his short incarceration at the Stilinski residence. He was so having a "walkin' on sunshine" week and absolutely nothing was going to ruin it. Derek casually leapt onto the second story of the house near Stiles' window and paused. He always got a kick out of causing the spastic teen to spazz out. After doing so, Stiles would say something that would serve as the perfect segue into getting himself pinned against the...well, whatever was closest. Just then he heard a familiar voice that didn't belong to Stiles. 'Damn it! Didn't Scott need to study or something.' he thought. Derek was the resident fugitive and recluse, but even he'd heard about the boy's 'D' streak. He began to consider starting his own grading scale, given the fact that the younger beta had failed at sensing his presence only a few feet away. All logical thought ceased as he heard something that definitely peaked his interest.

"Dude, I'm glad that you didn't bale on me again, but shouldn't you be trying to give the whole Allison thing another go?" Derek thought that it was a terrible idea, but he'd always grown to appreciate Stiles' loyalty to his friends, even at his own expense.

"She couldn't even look at me. It was hard the first week, but my mom thinks that I ought to move on to bigger and better things. To kick it off I'm giving this to you." For a moment, Derek idly wondered what "this" was. It was soon forgotten.

"Scott, are you sure that you want to give me this? I mean it's awesome, but I thought that you were giving this to Allison." Derek now seriously wondered what it was. 'Come on Stiles, keep talking.' he mentally pleaded.

"It's yours. You can always have it near whenever I'm not around." Derek was getting a very bad feeling about this. His 'sunshine' was now down to about a moderately cloudy. He was sure that he'd misunderstood and it was the ramblings of two friends.

"I've got something for you too! My dad won't be back until morning and I'm sure that I have something that might serve as a satisfactory way of passing the time. Besides, we can turn the volume up high." Derek listened and held on to his last shred of hope with all of his might. He shocked himself as he began thinking 'Come on Scott. Don't forget about Allison. She needs you.'

"Where did you get this? Dude, it's perfect! I freaking love you so much right now! We've done enough talking, Let's go downstairs and make this memorable." Derek tuned everything else out over the sound of his hopes being dashed. He wasn't in love per se, but it was the closest that he'd been to someone since Kate. He told himself that it didn't hurt when the Scott shadow grabbed 'his' Stiles shadow and disappeared downstairs.

As Derek drove away, he began to do some thinking. He wasn't overly emotional by nature, but he wasn't a pushover either. If Stiles didn't know that he'd been after him, then he'd do the next best thing and make the teen come to him. Derek was going to come out on top, Scott be damned.

He picked up his cell and began to dial. He felt a little more like himself when he heard the forced confidence when the other person picked up.

"Jackson it's Derek. You and I are throwing a party next weekend. You take care of the finer points. I might be able to help you get what you want if you help me get what I want. Got that? Good, I'll come by tomorrow morning and go over the details. Oh yeah, you and I are together." He hung up as Jackson began to cough and splutter in surprise.

AN: I had an idea that I wanted to use a while back. I think that this will be fun. Well not much fun for the characters, but we'll see how they fare in the next few chapters. Besides I'm 16 minutes away from part two of the Season 2 premiere. Gotta save and upload. Hope you guys are watching!