Epilogue

Stiles woke to the sun coming in his bedroom window. He rolled over into Derek's sleepy warmth putting his back to it. It was way too early. Pressing against Derek he smiles to himself as he thinks of the coming day. Derek murmurs and presses back into Stiles, his hands move to clasp Stiles' closer to him and Stiles grins as he feels the rub of Derek's leather bracelet on his arm.

He can feel his own necklace when he swallows. It's firm around his throat, not tight and not loose. Realising he's awake Stiles thinks about waking Derek but decides not to. He steps out of bed and drags on some sweats and makes his way downstairs.

In the kitchen he takes his meds with water and starts the coffee for Derek and his dad and then drinks a glass of juice as he looks at the white board he'd tacked on the wall. Pursing his lips he begins to prep for the lunch he and Derek are making. They're going one better and doing an entrée as well as a main and a dessert.

Looking at the dessert he'd chosen Stiles grinned. If it worked it was going to knock Peter's socks off. He started to prep for the honey tuiles and had them cooking when his dad came home from work. Stiles sent him off with coffee and a muffin of Peter's that Derek had brought over.

He's making the fig jam when Derek comes in. He sits at the table and watches Stiles as he cooks the fig jam. "Going to leave the sauce until last?" Derek asked as he looked at the whiteboard.

"Yeah, make and serve straight away." Stiles says. He passes Derek a muffin and he eats as Stiles finishes with the jam. Then he takes a muffin himself and another glad of juice. He's already wired, coffee would have him dancing on the ceiling like Gene Kelly.

Derek presses a kiss on Stiles' cheek as he stands and Stiles takes his seat at the table. They'd set the table in the dining room last night.

Stiles watches Derek make the sauce for their entrée. It's the easiest dish, now all they need to do is wait for people to arrive and boil the pasta to go with it. Derek had made it fresh last night and it was now covered in flour after drying.

"Stop, you're the enemy, you don't get to set foot in here until after lunch." Stiles ordered his father who laughed and obeyed his order, stopping in the doorway.

"Okay kiddo, is there anything you need I'm dashing out for a bit."

Rolling his eyes Stiles looked at Derek. "Do they seriously think we don't realise they're going off to have sex somewhere?" Derek laughed and shook his head as he wiped his hands and opened the fridge for the pork belly.

He started to prep it as he listened to Stiles and John banter back and forth. When John had left Stiles came over and they began to prepare and cook working together. Time passes and Stiles' mobile alarm begins to beep.

"Time for a shower, you or me first?" Stiles asked.

"You go." Derek says. "I'm going to finish the potatoes."

"Cool, be back soon." Stiles ran down the hall and up the stairs. Derek grinned after him for a few seconds before he got back to work.

They traded places when Stiles came back down, freshly showered and shaved and dressed with a shirt this time as well.

Derek went upstairs and took his shower, he thought about he and Stiles and Peter and John. And Stiles graduating by Thanksgiving or Christmas. And where they were going. Wherever it was, it would be together.

Drying off in front of the mirror he looks at the words now inked on his own upper arms, matching Stiles' words. Forever and everything. He'd taken a day to drive to San Francisco and have his mentor do them as a surprise to Stiles a few weeks ago. And it had been a nice surprise.

He'd also picked up the bracelet and two collars. And those had been an even better surprise.

Shaking his head he decides to forgo shaving today. It is Sunday after all. He checks the dining room one more time when he's back downstairs and moves into the kitchen. "Smells fantastic."

"It does, and it's going to taste fantastic as well." Stiles grins over at him, his face is flushed from the oven door he'd just opened and Derek leans in for a kiss. "Mmm, you taste even better." He murmurs as they kiss again.

The front door opening distracts them. It's Cora and Isaac along with Melissa McCall. Some weeks ago, Peter and John had invited her to one of their lunches and she had become a regular when she wasn't working, as had Isaac and Danny. Scott and Allison had been once, but usually they had Sunday lunch with Allison's parents which neither Stiles nor the Hales minded at all.

Stiles wasn't sure what was going on with Danny and Isaac, but it was something. He was staying out of it all together. Though he knew Danny was falling for Isaac, he knew that because he reminded him of himself when he'd started to have feelings for Derek.

Isaac kept everything close to his chest but Stiles thought he might like Danny, though how deep that like ran was anybody's guess.

The last two to arrive were his father and Peter. Both looking very flushed and smelling very freshly showered. Stiles shook his head at them and then grinned at Derek. "You ever get the feeling we're the adults?" He questioned.

"Yeah, all the time." Derek deadpanned making everyone crack up.

Peter, the cad just smiled and his dad winced. Stiles snorted a laugh as he served his dad and Peter and Melissa a glass of wine. Everyone else was drinking the punch he'd made.

When they sat down to a lunch of pasta with pickled anchovies and rocket, followed by slow cooked pork belly with Asian greens and a seared scallop in orange and brown sugar dressing with potatoes on the side they all laughed and joked and messed with each other.

Like family.

Yes, not really, but close enough. And the thing was, the core of this Sunday lunch group of Cora, Peter, his dad, Derek, himself and Isaac? Well, they were family, now, forever and always.

And when Stiles served his dessert of caramelised figs with goat's curd and fig caramel sauce, he did indeed knock Peter's socks off.

A/N - Thanks to everyone who has followed, favourited, reviewed and just simply read and enjoyed my AU version of Sterek. Next story in my Teen Wolf fandom will be Damaged Goods, Isaac and Danny's story, followed by Sheriff(John)/Peter. There will of course be Sheriff/Peter in Damaged Goods, especially Peter at this stage for reasons you will read about if you choose to follow on this Teen Wolf journey with me. And I hope you do. Its been a pleasure for me to delve into. Thank you again to everyone.