This is Chapter 2 in the "What if it Runs in the Family series" I know people did not like the bad Allison of chapter 1. It will get worse, but then it will get better. This will likely be an eventual Stiles/Derek story. So please bear with me through the sad or hard parts and go back and read Chapter 1 even if you don't want to.
Across town, Derek is sitting in his den (read the subway car) with Scott. Scott looks nervous about being there. It's only a week or so after everyone found out he had lied his way into their pack and had told Derek that he wasn't his alpha. He knows that Derek has to be super pissed. I mean Stiles was still sort of mad at him about all of it and he hadn't wanted Scott to join Derek's pack in the first place. So if Stiles is pissy, Derek must have a super huge mad on.
So he's really kinda taken aback by Derek's brusque "What's wrong with Stiles." "What?!" He asks all confused. "You're asking me about Stiles?"
"Why is that so hard to believe?" Derek asks him. "When you were pack, so was Stiles. Just because you bowed out, doesn't mean that Stiles has yet and there is something wrong. He's too happy, too up."
"Stiles is always cheerful. It's his thing." He looks at Derek confused. "Stiles is my pack. When I left I took him with me."
"Really Scott? Perhaps you should have researched pack law or talked to Stiles or Deaton about it a bit more before joining my pack. You can't just do that kind of shit with your fingers crossed behind your back and expect no take backs. These things have effects and consequences, to more than just you. But I didn't bring you here to argue about that. I want to talk about Stiles."
Scott feels defensive. He had thought about pack dynamics and about how it would be best to work within the pack to get what he wanted and since it worked with what Gerard had wanted him to do, well all the better. Gerard hadn't said anything about what that meant to his pack. Determined not to let Derek know that he was worried about what this new pack dynamics thing meant about Stiles and Derek's pack and WTF does this involve Allison too? Shit, well now he was wearing his concerned face. So much for playing it cool. Wait what? Derek was looking at him like he expected some kind of answer to some question. "Wait, what?"
"I asked if you thought that Stiles was behaving differently since the whole Argent thing? Or if you noticed that he seemed to be avoiding us all just that little bit more than before?" Derek repeated
"Uhhh...No?" Scott realized that his answer sounded more like a question. So he sat down and really thought about it. "Well, I've been trying to get Alison back, you know? And Stiles has kinda been helping with that, I think. I mean he has coffee with her a lot? He's told me a few times that his Dad his coming home and he wants to be there and hang out with him more that he normally does. Like last Tuesday night when he skipped the pack meeting. You know the one you ended early..." He feels his voice peter out because well, the meeting had ended early because Derek had invited Stiles to that pack meeting and had been surprised when Scott showed up instead. It lead to a little argument where Derek basically told him that he couldn't come back if he wasn't in the pack and with him childishly storming out after saying that he didn't want to be in Derek's stupid werewolf club anyway. Why did h have to bring that one up. Shit, total facepalm.
"Tuesday night? Are you sure?" Derek asks. "Uhh yeah, remember Stiles didn't come and our manly discussion about your pack rules."
Derek glares but then surprises Scott by saying "I went by the police station that night. The officer at the desk on that shift lets me peak at some reports if I flirt enough. I had to bail though because the Sherriff was there. She told me he took an extra shift and would be there most the night."
"So Stiles is lying" He hears himself mutter. "Maybe he just didn't want to come to your pack meeting!" But inside there were burning questions now. Was Stiles lying often? What else was he lying about? When had Stiles started lying to him? I mean he got Stiles lying to his Dad. That's like parent kid stuff. Standard teenage practice, even if it was for non-standard teenage stuff (He doesn't care what Stiles says was meant by the whole Gingersnap movie thingy, he was not a werewolf because of puberty or whatever!) So if Stiles is lying about his Dad being home, it means he's avoiding them, or him or both.
"Has he talked to you at all about his time in the Argent house?" Derek asks him "Has Allison said anything about what Gerard did?"
"No, what would Alison know about what happened. She wasn't there. She was like probably hunting Erica and Boyd." He knew his voice sounded defensive, but he just didn't want the whole Allison is an Argent and therefore the harbinger of evil speech. "No speeches about Argents." He warns Derek with his palm held out. "You are not my Alpha, I don't have to listen to it anymore."
"Jesus kid, get your head out of your wet dreams for like five minutes. I'm asking you because your best friend, not to try and knock your sometimes maybe girlfriend." Scott can tell Derek is starting to get kind off peeved.
"It's Stiles. He never says much about this kind of thing. I mean he said Gerard laid a few punches on him and he was fine." Even to his ears that sounds lame. He'd never pushed Stiles any further on that, but a man as crazy as Gerard only giving Stiles a light beat down as a warning to the pack? Not likely.
He finally looks Derek in the eye "Your right. There is something wrong with Stiles. I can't believe I didn't notice any of this."
"You've been through a lot. We all have. We make mistakes. We need to own them and fix them when we can." The older man tells him.
"Okay, I'll talk to him. I'll try to get some answers." This is the first time he felt he understood why Derek might make a good Alpha some day. What Stiles meant when he said Derek had potential. Well potential to be some OTHER wolfs alpha.
"Let me know what you get. If he stonewalls you, we'll have to try something else, and I think he will stonewall you." Derek says.
"What the hell dude, Stiles is my friend. I'll deal with it."
"Stiles is not just your problem or purview anymore Scott. And honestly you are going to need help with this whether you believe it or not. This is about what's good or necessary for Stiles. This isn't about you or me or our egos. For Stiles, we need to put them aside."
"Okay," Scott agrees and can't believe he is doing so "for Stiles."