Disclaimer: Teen Wolf belongs to Jeff Davies and MTV. I own nothing and I am only writing this for fun.

Warnings: None to speak of, This is fluff, plain and simple Christmas fluff. The warnings might change some in the days to come.

'TIS THE SEASON

CANDY CANE

Derek Hale sat in the front of the yellow school bus and seriously contemplated if he should throw himself out of the moving vehicle and be done with it. He wouldn't suffer much but it would be difficult to explain why a teacher abandoned their class by throwing themselves off a moving bus.

It had seemed like a great idea when he had thought it up. Taking his kindergarten class to the winter wonderland at the edge of town. The children would meet Santa and see real reindeer on top of the other animals at the petting zoo.

Derek had not thought about the massive amounts of sugar being offered in a place like that though. Hot chocolate, cookies, candied apples and the candy canes…oh dear god the candy canes. Bent sticks of almost pure sugar, transforming his class of generally sweet kids to hyper active little monsters.

Derek would prefer rogue wolves and mean hunters any day of the week over this. At least he knew how to battle those enemies. How did you control two dozen children on sugar highs? The two parent chaperones weren't of much help either since both of them mostly giggles and checked out his butt whenever he had to bend over to help a kid with something.

At least they were on their way back from the outing now but the volume in the bus made Derek's head pound. Right now he just wanted the day to be over and done with. One hyper active, flailing person in his life was enough and right now Derek couldn't wait to go home to him. To curl up in front of their Christmas tree, the only candy canes being the ones decorating the branches of the tree. Boyd's beautiful gingerbread creation placed on a place of pride on the side table.

Derek wanted to go home, he wanted peace and quiet and Stiles…Well mostly he wanted Stiles. Peace and quiet were pretty hard to come by sharing your life with Stiles Stilinski but Derek wouldn't change his sweetheart for anything in the world.

He was lost in thoughts, looking out the window of the bus, so at first he didn't notice the tug on his jacket sleeve.

"Mistew Dewek?"

Derek looked down to see Lily, one of his students looking at him with wide blue eyes. "Yes Lily?" He pictured the bus having to pull over for a pee break or some of the children feeling sick. Frankly after all they had eaten during the day, he wouldn't be surprised.

"Mistew Dewek awe you sad?" Lily looked concerned as she peered up at her teacher. "Is it because you couldn't sit on Santa's lap? 'Cause you'we too big?" She was very worried. Mister Derek was a great teacher and Lily loved him very much. What if Santa wouldn't know what Mister Derek wanted for Christmas now, since Mister Derek hadn't been able to sit on his lap and tell him what he wished for? What if horror of horrors, Mister Derek wouldn't get anything come Christmas because of this?

Derek smiled at her, straightening the knitted scarf around her neck gently. "I am not sad Miss Lily, promise. And I think Santa is very relieved I did not try to sit on his lap." Derek thought about the scrawny man in the Santa suit over at the wonderland. He would probably have broken the poor man in half if he had tried.

"But how will Santa know what you wish fow?" Lily was still worried.

"I'll write him a letter, it is okay Lily, I promise it is. You don't have to worry." Derek's smile softened and he remembered just why he was doing this, why he had studied to become a teacher.

Ah, a letter. That actually made sense. Lily nodded to herself as she took in what her teacher told her. That was good, the thought that someone might be without presents was too scary to imagine. She didn't want that for her favorite teacher. He still looked a little sad though so she dug into her pocket and handed him a slightly sticky candy cane. "Hewe, you awe. You didn't get one at Santa land and they awe weally tasty."

"Uh…thank you Lily, that's very kind of you." Derek accepted the sticky treat. "But are you sure you don't want it for yourself? I don't want to take your candy away from you."

"Nah, it's okay. I can shawe with Stacy. You should have it Mistew Dewek and you have to eat it." She stood where she was, looking intently at Derek until he put the candy cane in his mouth. Then she nodded in satisfaction and bounced back to her seat after giving her teacher a beaming smile.

Derek gave up and nibbled on the candy cane, when in Rome and all that. He still felt relieved once the last child was delivered to their parents and the chaperones had taken their leave as well and he was finally on his way home.

He felt even better when Stiles met him in the doorway by jumping on him and kissing him senseless.

"Yum," Stiles licked his lips as he pulled away from the kiss. "You taste like peppermint."

"Candy cane." Derek explained before kissing Stiles again.