Stiles is un-banned from Derek's house 3 days later. Outside is a large pile of furniture and bits of the broken down walls. Next to that is a large pile of wood, along with a ridiculous amount of equipment. Isaac, Boyd, Jackson and Derek are hammering away clean new wood covering a small section of the porch. Peter is lurking by the equipment with a saw, smirking happily down at a piece of wood before he starts cutting it a mad glint in his eyes.
"Grab a hammer and some wood" Is all that is snapped at him by Derek. He sighs and walks grabbing some of the already cut pieces of wood, trying to stay as far as possible away from peter. Erica walks over to grab some new bits as he gets there and lifts up a bundle of them before storming back to the porch. He reaches down towards a pile the same size as Erica's before trying to lift it. He gets it about an inch of the floor before he's stumbling forward under the weight and dropping them all. He hears Peter chuckle and looks up, The older Hale is looking to him, seemingly very amused before he turns back to the wood he's sawing. Awkwardly, Stiles grabs a few pieces of wood and shuffles towards the porch setting them down near Derek and attempting to help renovate the house. It takes 2 minutes 17 seconds before stiles sitting whimpering gently as Derek pulls a nail from his hand. A thoroughly unimpressed look on his face. He looks to the others, Jackson and Peter watching him trying to hide there laughs, Erica and Boyd still working, no longer bothered by the injured Stiles now Derek was taking care of his hand.
"Where's Isaac?" Stiles mumbles, trying to distract himself from the pain and blood seeping from his hand.
"Out with Scott" The alpha says back, surprisingly calm. Stiles pouts at that,the past three days Scott and Isaac have been almost inseparable, hanging out constantly giving Stiles no Scott time. The two where quickly falling into a deep deep bromance that Stiles thought would soon escalated to that of brokeback mountain. He lets out a hiss when Derek pours some antiseptic into the hole in his hand, trying to move away only to be stopped by Derek's hands firmly holding his arm still as he begins to wrap a bandage around the cut.
"you're not going to ban me from the house again are you ? Because man that sucks, I just sit around the house all day reading comics and going on the internet...actually..wait no! Ban me from the house again!" Stiles yelps the last part making Derek roll his eyes.
"You're on food duty. Go pick up some lunch" He orders, shoving money into stiles' uninjured hand. The wolves watch him as he shuffles towards his Jeep.
"I want pizza" Jackson yells
"we had pizza last night buttmuch, get us burgers" Erica snaps
"Pizza!"
"Burgers!"
"Chinese!" Peter adds in making the two teens already arguing turn their glare to him.
"what about Subway?" Boyd suggests. Stiles jumps into his Jeep just as they start screaming at each other and tears down the path towards the road.
He ends up getting pots of bacon, tomato and cheese pasta for everyone. Along with a set of plastic cups and a few 2 litre bottles of coke. Erica slices Jackson with her claws when Jackson tries to throw him into a tree only to be caught by Boyd. Peter, of course, sits cackling madly on the slightly re build porch watching the scene unfold. Derek punches Jackson knocking him out for ten minutes before snapping at him when he goes to eat his pasta and makes him work another hour before he's allowed anywhere near his food or a cup of coke. The hyperactive teen tries not to laugh to hard at Jackson glowering confused face when Stiles mumbles 15 years under his breath. He spends the next few hours yelling encouragement to the wolves earning plenty of growls and red eyes from Derek. Only to throw a lazy smile his way, hoping he won't get his throat ripped out.
"Where are we meant to sleep?" Erica asks when they finish for the day, all sitting around drinking coke greedily.
"here?" the alpha replies confused.
"all our blankets and bedding are in the pile" Boyd reminds him motioning to the pile that had grown throughout the day.
"then sleep without a blanket" He drawls bored.
"What do you think they are? Dogs?! oh...wait" Stiles muses. Erica growls at him whilst Peter smothers a laugh. "I was going to say you could spend the night at mine but if you're going to be all growly then you can forget it, Boyd you're more than welcome" Boyd gives him a tight smile as Erica starts to protest.
"You spent a month hanging around in an abandoned subway cart you can sleep on the floor without blankets for a few months." Derek reminds them
"Or you could always stop being missing children ?" Peter adds casually
"Then we wouldn't be able to stay here when the renovations are done" Erica mumbles, sounding embarrassed.
"You could still have a room. For full moons and if you ever feel like staying" this conversation just got painfully adorable and awkward Stiles thinks looking between the alpha and his Betas.
"My dads an asshole" The blonde replies, casually flickering her hair.
"so's Derek" All but Derek let out laughs
"Shut up" Mcbroody wolf snaps at him. "Fine stay at his house, Don't kill him or his father and do not let the sheriff find out you're there. Be back here at 7:30 tomorrow, Stiles bring breakfast"
The plan for the house, Stiles figures out two days later is for them to get the porch habitable before calling in a small team of people to re do the structure. Then the wolves would continue working themselves until they needed plumbers and electricians.
Having people wander through the house is strange, but also means that for once there is no growling or wolfing out. It also means that the beta's and Stiles have more free time again, of course, Jackson spent this with Lydia, Peter..doing something. Probably killing innocent bunnies for fun, Isaac with Scott and Derek staying to supervise the workers at the house Stiles was left with Erica and Boyd, who couldn't go into crowded area's as they where still missing. So the free time pretty much was spent eating cheetos watching all the star wars movies and catching up on doctor who.
"Dude, we've watched this episode a thousand times" Stiles groaned at Boyd as he put on the Shakespeare episode of doctor who. Doing the structure was taking longer than they had expected and the two Betas had became permanent residents in the Stilinski household, not that the sheriff knew anything about that.
"well what do you suggest we do?"
"I dunno, go play fetch let me have some stiles time" The teen moaned, throwing his head back. Instead of that thrilling idea they ended up discussing what they wanted to do before they turned 18
"Learn full control, have a room done at Derek's" Boyd answered seeming uninterested in the conversation.
"Spend a day watching all the harry potters, not sleep for 4 days straight, spend a weak without nearly dying, have sex, grow a moustache" The last one earned a snort of laughter from Erica.
"Learn to drive" Erica mumbled.
"Catwoman I love you" Stiles yelped jumping of the coach.
"what are you doing?"
"To the batmobile!" He exclaimed grabbing his keys and rushing from the house. Erica and Boyd followed quickly and Stiles spend off. Carefully turning into an abandoned car park when no other cars where around.
"What are we doing here?" Erica asked looking out the window at the tattered multi story car park. Stiles went up to level three before answering.
"Teaching you to drive"
"You're going to teach me to drive?"Erica asked sounding amused
"Hell yeah , I'm an amazing driver" She lets out a very unladylike like snort and Stiles rolls his eyes "It's something else to do, now switch sides with me. When she's in the drivers seat stiles runs her through how to start without stalling, something she takes a while to get. Boyd sits quietly the entire time, looking amused by Erica's failing to start the Jeep.
When Erica managed to start the car a few times he got her to drive forwards slowly from one end of the car park to the other. When she could do a small lap around the level without almost hitting pillars he called it a night and switched seats with her again. He drove back to the house quickly, talked calmly with his dad as Erica and Boyd climbed through his window.
Stiles was sitting at the top of his bed, Boyd on his computer chair and Erica laid out at the bottom of the bed.
"I got the hang of driving today didn't I?" Erica said proudly, Boyd let out a laugh under his breath
"you got a hang of the very basics." Stiles admitted. She glowered at him "you'll be driving in no time"
"I need a licence and a car" She mumbled
"That's going to work considering you're a missing person" Erica looked about a second away from throttling Boyd so stiles quickly changed the subject
"Do you have a knot?" He blurted making both the teens look to him wide eyed
"what?" Boyd gasped
"Well dogs have this knot thing so when they have sex there dick bl-"
"Really Stiles?" Erica gasped laughing
"what?! Scott wont answer me and it's something I really want to know"
"Stiles. We're not dogs" Stiles jumped head spinning to the window to see Derek crouched there. Normal scowl on his face
"I know that, but..you have some dog like qualities" He snapped back, trying not to seem to intimidated by the glaring alpha.
"Shut up" Derek replied, sliding into his room, standing in the corner. Theres a few seconds of silence
"You never answered...so do you ha-"
"We don't have Knots stiles!" The alpha spat. Erica sat laughing whilst Boyd looked slightly horrified
"Why would you even want to know if we did?" He asked
"I liked to know things" he answered simply.
"It's the full moon tomorrow" Derek stated to his Beta's
"Okay" Erica replied with a shrug
"Come to the house before twilight"
"Do we have to" The blonde groaned.
"Yes"
"Bu-"
"Where else would you plan on spending the full moon"
"Here?" She said, looking to the alpha with hopeful eyes
"So you can lose control and rip Stiles to pieces, as nice as it would be to not have to listen to his constant babbling"
"Hey!" Stiles protested.
"It'd be best to not kill the sheriffs son." Derek finished.
"But he looks so tasty, you can't say you don't want to have at least a little nibble on that" Erica cooed.
"Is it bad I don't know if I should be scared or turned on by that" He asked moving towards Boyd who rolled his eyes and they begun to watch as the alpha and his beta started to argue. Suddenly Boyd tensed up
"Guys" neither of them listened "Derek?" Derek continued snapping at Erica "Erica!.. listen we really need to, will you two listen to me?!" The two turned their glowers to him.
"What Boyd?" Derek snapped
"We need to go, The sheriffs" The door opened and all eyes went to the door "home" He finished lamely. Stiles looked to his dad innocently as his eyes bulged.
"Stiles, Erica, Boyd,Mr Hale downstairs. Now" His dad stormed from the room and Boyd stood quickly making his way after the sheriff
"crap, crap..Craaap" Stiles groaned rubbing a hand over his buzz cut. He looked to Erica and Derek, spotting Derek looking towards the window, body inching slowly closer to it. "don't even think about it sourwolf. Come on" The three trudged down the stairs, finding his dad and Boyd in the kitchen. His dad taking a long drink from a glass of whiskey, the bottle place next to him on the table. Boyd sat across from him.
"How was work?" Stiles tried making his dads head shoot to him with a glare.
"What the hell is going on Stiles." the teen chewed on his lip
"With what?" He tried to look innocent but was grimacing the entire time.
"With what? Are you kidding?! I come home to find two missing people and a wanted man in your room"
"I was found innocent" Derek mumbled.
"Even so you still had half a dead body hidden in your yard." His father snapped. "An innocent man doesn't hide a body"
"I was hiding it. That was my sister" The alpha all but growled "Of course I was going to bury her, I didn't want someone playing with her body, cutting her up like she's some piece of meat to 'find out how she" he stopped, as if unable to say the final word. Before Stiles could think better of it he ran to the cupboard grabbing the box of chocolate chip reaching in the box grabbing two cookies and shoving one into his mouth, one into Derek's. He guessed it was because Derek was so shocked by his actions that he hadn't been batted away before he got within a three foot radius. The alpha slowly chewed on his cookie, glaring at Stiles.
"Why were you in my sons room?"
"I...was checking on Erica and Boyd" he replied honestly after swallowing the cookie.
Half an hour later they were sitting in the living room. Derek munching away on cookies sat brooding on the sofa, Erica and Boyd curled together in the arm chair, Stiles' dad on a chair on the other side of the four of them whilst stiles was sat next to Derek on the couch.
"He was obviously beating Boyd or something!" Stiles yelped
"Do you have any evidence of this?" The sheriff asked looking to Boyd who sat wide eyed looking at Stiles
"They called him Vernon! Anyone whos that cruel to their son is obviously going to beat him or something!"
"Great point Genim" Derek snorted through a cookie. Stiles and his father both turned to the alpha.
"how do you know that name!" Stiles asked, eyed bulging
"how can you pronounce that thing?" His father gasped.
"I was living here when you were born. I heard Serenity use it"
"You remember my mum" Was the only thing stiles could think of saying. Derek gave a short nod, suddenly looking guilty at bringing up the name and his mother.
"you remembered his name?" His dad asked, eyes filling with tears at the thought of his wife. Stiles watched his hand fiddle with the wedding ring.
"not really a name you forget" Derek shrugged. Biting into another cookie.
"I still don't get why you're here" His dad moaned, dropping his head into his hands frustrated. "I mean to 'check on Erica and Boyd' but why check on them, why did you know where they where"
"We're living with Derek" Erica replied before Derek could swallow the rest of the cookie to reply. "But he's rebuilding the house and we need somewhere to stay, Isaac's fine living in a building site but I'd rather not"
"Isaac? You have three under-age youths living with you. How and why did this happen?" His dad asked bemused
"I uh.. Helped Isaac after his dad died, new clothes, new house, new life and memories" Derek tried sounding nervous.
"But why?"
"The kid got chained into a box. Trying to scratch his way out. I'm not going to leave someone who's went through that to go to some crappy care home." Stiles watched as his dad groaned. Quickly seeming to care less and less about the fact Derek and his beta where in his sons room and more about his whiskey.
"So what about these two?" he asked exasperated.
"They just...seemed like they might want my help" The alpha said lamely.
"So what,you bought them a new wardrobe and invited them to live with you"
"We like the freedom we can have when we're there" Boyd stated. Stiles was impressed with the way they we're managing to tell his father the truth without spilling all the werewolf crap.
"I'm taking you two to your homes tomorrow morning, Mr Hale, meet us there and you can try to explain this to their parents and we'll just have to see what charges they press"
"Dad! Come on. If they want to live with Derek they should be able to it's their lives, if they want to move out it's their decision."
"It will be there's to make when they are adults. Isaac, I understand, he has no where else to go. But these two. I can't just pretend I haven't seen them, let their parents keep wondering where they are"
"So we just say we wanted to get away for a while, took of on a road trip. Didn't realise we'd caused so much fuss" Erica says with a smile "then we move to Derek's and everything's fine" The sheriff looked to the two teenagers, draining yet another glass. Before pinching his nose.
"fine, you two upstairs" Erica and Boyd left quickly back to Stiles' room, leaving Stiles and Derek on the couch, staring at the sheriff.
"Isaac can't stay with you" Stiles opened his mouth to protest. "After renovations fine but during no way, if you want to in danger yourself that is fine Mr hale but a youngster cannot live in those conditions when we know of it. He can stay here in the meantime or at another friends house. When you're finished and I want to see the building to deem it safe, then he can move back in. now I'm going to bed, let him out. I'll take those two to their homes in the morning, you know nothing about where they've been" Derek gives a sharp nod, trying to look serious over another cookie being shoved into his mouth, crumbs on is lips until his tongue darts out, capturing them. "if you need a place to stay during the renovations, our couch is free. But there are some lovely motels in the next town" Stiles couldn't help but roles his eyes at his dads obvious plea for Derek not stay.
That could be why it's so surprising to come downstairs at midday the day after the full moon and find Derek Hale in his kitchen, or it could be the fact he's caught with his hand in the cookie jar staring at stiles wide eyed in a pair of sweatpants and a wife beater.
"you're buying us more cookies" Is all Stiles says before making his way to the cupboard to find cereal for a late breakfast.
"Isaac is staying tonight" The alpha informs him, ignoring Stiles' order of more cookies.
"are you?" Stiles asks with a raised eyebrow.
"Your father said I could..The motels out of town are to far away to be here fast enough if something happens" The teen just nods in response. Both look towards the stairs as footsteps start coming down, Derek face morphing to exasperated. Stiles drops his spoon when Peter wanders into his kitchen.
"morning Boys" He says happily.
"Why the hell are you in my house"
"Derek and Isaac are staying here, so am I"
"Peter" Derek growls
"You can't expect to have an ongoing slumber party and not invite me"
"You can't stay here"
"bu-"
"Go back to the house" Peter all but pouts as Derek uses his 'I'm the alpha you must obey me' voice before storming off out the front door.
"Wanna play call of duty?"
"no"
"awesome"
And thus begun the month of life with Derek. The broody Alpha who apparently has a love for chocolate chip cookies.