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When stiles got home from school he found his dad pacing the kitchen length, ranking his fingers so violently through his hair that stiles was surprised that he didn't have patches of hair falling out. His eyes were red shot and puffy from crying all day and he chest was heaving from trying to hold in his sobs. "Dad… What's the matter?" stiles moved across the kitchen and wrapped his father in a comforting hug.

Turning into his arms john said, "Peter felt it best if we take a break…" he could not finish because the sobs that he had been desperately trying to hold back just took over his body. He didn't know what was going on. It felt like his heart was breaking. His soul mate, his lover, his one and only wasn't there anymore. He couldn't imagine what it was like with peter in his life. Every time he tried to picture his future without his peter, it just looked so dark and dreary filled with sorrow and heartache. He couldn't do anything about it because his dominant had ordered him to move on from him and try to find another dominant. He couldn't comprehend what it meant to be without peter. His life had revolved around peter way before stiles was born, or he married Claudia. It started when they were just friends in high school both hiding the fact that they were gay and attracted to each other. John could still remember the night peter had confessed his love to him.

Flashback

"Peter what are we doing in the woods? You know we can get in trouble for this," john said while glancing around everywhere and trying to calm his frantic heart. Turing towards where peter was, john screamed and stepped back tripping over a tree root. Trying to get his breathing under control he turned his wide eyes to where peter had been standing so close to him that john could fell his body heat. "What was that for peter? Are you trying to scare me to death or worse give me a heart attack?" john said.

Peter just smiled and held out a hand for john to take.

Ignoring peter's hand john lifted himself up and dusted off his pants. He crossed his arms across his chest and glared at peter.

Knowing that there wasn't any steam behind John's glare, Peter let out a light laugh that had john joining in. Seeing that John was no longer mad at him peter closed the distance between them and looked down at john with one of the most breathtaking smiles john has ever seen.

John was so mesmerized by peters smile that he didn't realize peter was leaning in for a kiss until his surprisingly soft lips for a guy were pushed up against his demanding that he kiss him back. John just let go off all the worries and fear that he was feeling and just melted into the kiss.

Peter could tell John was enjoying kissing because he was slowly moving in closer, which he probably didn't realize he was doing. Kissing john was making his wolf hungry for more and he knew that if he continued John would find a much bigger secret than him being gay and in love with him. Pulling away Peter silently mourned the loss of john beautiful lips but seeing John's red, puffy lips swollen from peter's kissing caused his dominant side to smirk because he had been the one to cause john to lose it with just a little bit of kissing imagine what it would be like when they first had sex. Peter could just imagine it now, john begging for peter to take what is rightfully his and to ravish him until he couldn't remember is own name and peter planned on doing that in the near future but right now him and john needed to talk. Letting john recover, peter silently moved both of them to a fallen tree log and set them down. Before peter could move, john turned toward him and curled around him with a soft content smile and snuggled close to keep warm. Peter smiled and wrapped his arms around john and kissed him softly on his head.

"We have to talk now don't we."

Peter could hear the slight hitching of John's breathe from fear and sadness. "Yes but it's nothing bad," turning to lock at john, peter found himself looking into the most beautiful brown eyes that spoke so much and held so much emotion. "I love you and I wanted to tell you that today because I want to be with you and love you like you deserve to be loved. I want to take care of you and protect you from anyone and everything. Let me be that person for you John please?"

Peter said with so much emotion that John knew he was being sincere. Peter hale really loved him and wanted to protect him. Looking up into peters eyes and smiling a soft smile, John nodded and hugged peter with all his might. Breaking out into laughter, John realized that he was crying into peter's shirt.

The look on Peter's face was of pure joy. He was so happy that he brought john into one of the most amazing kisses of his life and got up and swing john around while they both laughed the hardest they had in a long time.

End of flashback

Coming back to the present, John could feel himself calming down. He was able to breathe better and his sobbing had turned into soft whimpers. "What am I going to do? I can't live without him. I love him," He said quietly to stiles.

Unwrapping his self from his dad he slowly led him upstairs to his bedroom. Helping his dad get ready for bed even though it was just early afternoon, stiles could tell that he needed to do something because he didn't know how long his dad would survive without peter by his side. Tucking him in he could see his dad had not been getting enough sleep with the bags under his eyes and the bruising from lack of sleep. He also looked like he hadn't eaten in a while even though this had to have happened early this morning after stiles kicked Peter and Derek out of the house. Deciding to do something about it, stiles found his dad's phone and sent a text off the peter.

To Peter: Peter this is stiles. I need to talk to you. Meet me at the dinner in town at 6 tonight and come alone please.

From Peter: Okay I will be there at six alone.

Deleting the message from his dad's phone, stiles decided to do homework for the 3 hours he had to wait to meet up with peter. Finishing up his homework, stiles saw that he still had 30 minutes until he had to leave to meet peter so he decided to write in his journal.

Journal #2

Dear Diary,

I can't believe he did that. How could he just give up and surrender! My dad deserves to be cherished and he isn't showing that he loves him like he should. It's all my fault. I created this mess and I am going to fix it so that I can see my dad smile again and not just cry. But I am so scared that if I accept this secret that has been kept from me for so long that everything is going to change and I don't know if I am ready for such a big change in my life. I shouldn't have to stress about this secret. I should be stressing out about taking the SAT or the ACT, what college I am going to apply to, what I plan on eating for dinner not this crazy secret that will change my life. The worst part is I don't know if it will help me down the road or hinder me.

Thanks for listening,

Batman

Closing his journal, stiles made his way out of the house and to the dinner. Pulling into the parking lot stiles spotted Peters dodge charger a few spaces over but didn't see anyone in there so he assumed peter had already went inside and got them a table. Walking into the dinner stiles saw peter sitting in a booth in the back of the room and made his way over to him.

Sliding into the booth stiles saw that this break up wasn't just hurting his dad. Peter looked horrible, his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep and his usually smiling expression had turned somber. He was nervously drumming his fingers on the table while trying to keep in the tears and the painful expression from experiencing his not only his pain but his mate's pain as well. The dominant in him wanted to go back to his submissive and reclaim him while his wolf was furious at him for letting their mate go and causing his such execrating pain.

"Why did you do?" stiles said while messing with the straw in front of him. He looked up and caught peter wiping away a stray tear.

"I didn't want to cause a rift between you and your dad. I would rather die than cause you two to hate each other," peter said while looking searchingly in stiles eyes and body language to try and determine if he was mad at him because of keeping the secret of being a wolf and being with his father. But all peter saw was concern and it wasn't towards himself but towards peter.

"You didn't cause a rift between my dad and me. The minute my dad said he loved me and didn't want to upset me, all of you guys were forgiven. Even though I hate lying, I hate not having my family close to me. I can never stay mad at my dad for a long period of time because it makes me feel bad. When it comes to you, I feel that I will be seeing and dealing with you a lot with the way my dad was upset today because of your bright idea to break it off with him. Which I have to say was very noble but very stupid. I can't explain it but I feel very close to you even though I don't know you very well which will change in the near future because once you are a part of the family there is no take backs. Maybe one day I will see you as my second day but before that happens you need to fix things with my dad right now and know that if you ever do anything like this again I will find a way to hurt you," stiles said while staring down Peter. He may be submissive but no one hurts his dad and gets away with it.

Peter nodded and broke into a huge smile. Getting up Peter and stiles headed back to the house and while peter was taking care of his dad stiles made his way up to his room and got ready for bed. Even though it was still kind of early to go to sleep, stiles felt exhausted from today's events and just wanted to sleep it off. The last thing on stiles mind before he fell asleep was if Derek's and his relationship would end up working out like his dad's and peter's. He really hoped it did because he didn't want to end up like his dad did today. He didn't think he could survive it. Smiling softly stiles slipped into a dream filled with one star actor. Derek Hale.