Holy...it has been a minute, but I got distracted with writing "Don't Mess With My Lady" and, tbh, when inspiration hits, I have to run with it.
I hope you all enjoy the incoming wack-a-doodle.
Episode Summary: Peter plays The Sims, Stiles watches Safiya Nygaard, and Derek is gonna blow an artery one of these days.
"Hey Peter...did you know that there's such a thing as a wine bath?"
Against his better judgment, the 'Zombie Wolf' looked up from playing with his recently installed 'werewolf mod' for The Sims 4. So far, no one had the courage to try to peek over his shoulder to see exactly what type of family or anything that he was playing with...and he personally had no intention of telling anyone how he had spent countless hours painstakingly creating his sims in the images of all of the deceased, and living, Hale pack members to populate his current world. Was it healthy? Probably not...but he had never been the type who did healthy things for himself. "I'm sorry but what?"
"A wine bath. It's a thing at a hot springs-slash water theme park spa kinda thing called Yunesun in Japan." Stiles answered from his typical position of 'sprawl out on the couch not unlike a limp Muppet', staring at a YouTube video on his cellphone. "There's a traditional bath area called 'the naked zone', then you have all of these cool pools and baths and stuff."
"Really now?" Peter asked as he saved his game before closing-it had only taken the game crashing on him after having not saved in four hours for him to learn that oh so vital lesson. "I trust that, outside of the 'naked zone', that bathing suits are appropriate attire in the rest of the park?"
"And actively encouraged." The resident mad genius proclaimed with a grin as he rolled over onto his stomach...narrowly avoiding falling off the couch for the third time that day if one was to be charitable. "Safiya went to check it out a few years ago and damn am I behind the times, but still, this place looks awesome. They've got a pool of those fish that eat dead skin off your feet and stuff like, other than the wine baths, there's also a couple different kinds of green tea baths, and coffee baths that have an event called a 'coffee pour' if I'm reading this right, and-are you booking a flight?"
"I need a vacation." Was all that Peter said as he proceeded to choose his airline of choice-and sure, he would have to drive into the city, but that was no matter-and was now waffling on if he wanted the be thrifty and go with business class or if he wanted to just sate his more 'entitled' side and go with first class just for fun.
And of course, he would need to book a hotel in Japan, but that could be handled right after flight arrangements. "All of the drama that Derek seems to breed is starting to give me gray hairs and stress lines."
After a moment of awkward silence on that tidbit, Stiles finally ventured: "Can I go? I kinda wanna check out the coffee bath. And I've never been to Japan."
"You two had better be including me in this international spa retreat." Came Lydia's voice as the strawberry blonde joined the duo of delinquents in the living room. The girl sipped at her drink as she moved to sit in the chair that Cora and Erica had gleefully described as 'Lydia's Throne' after it had arrived with the rest of the furniture for the Hale House.
"Never would we forget you." Stiles chimed in at the same time that Peter said "And upping that to three...someone get me Derek's credit card."
Two days later, after Peter had left claiming that he was going on vacation and for no one to call him for at least a week, unless there was an apocalypse scenario, or he would gleefully rip the offender's throat out with his teeth, Derek had received a very interesting message on his phone regarding his bank account. After some digging, the rest of the Hale pack heard their Alpha's exasperated and confused yell of: "What actual fuck are these charges for a first class plane trip and week-long hotel accommodations for six to Japan?! What the fuck is Yunesun?!"
Cora blinked in confusion at her brother's shouting from the 'currently a home office but it's not really a home office' and turned to the rest of the pack, mouthing: "...six?"
Scott just gave a small shrug at the youngest Hale's question before returning his attention to watching a glorious rerun of Gordon Ramsey pleading with God to not punish him with food poisoning before he tried a terrible restaurant's food. "Yeah. First it was just Peter, Stiles, and Lydia...but then they decided to invite Danny, Isaac, and Allison."
Was the Wonderpup sad that he hadn't been invited on the trip? No...not really. Scott had been invited on the trip, but his going had been nixed by Melissa who had said that he couldn't go along since he had bombed his last four tests and tried to hide it from her...again.
He really needed a better hiding spot for failed schoolwork than the Stilinski garbage cans. The Sheriff was a great guy, but he was a massive narc.
Jackson hadn't gone on the trip either though no one was sure what his reasons were because he hadn't told anyone, though there was an implication that he just didn't want to go on a trip out of the country with Peter. Was he regretting it now? Yes. Yes, he was if the sulking look on his face was anything to go by.
Aiden and Ethan, however, had a very good reason for why neither of them were going on the trip: none of their faked paperwork covered passports.
Was Ethan particularly upset over that? Yes. Yes, he was and he was already sorting out exactly what all he would need to do to convince Danny to put those wonderful hacking skills to good use to make a fake passport so that the former-Alpha could enjoy an out-of-the-country trip with his boyfriend the next time one of these trip whims cropped up.
Boyd glanced up from his book just long enough to cast a small frown on the remains of the pack. "Danny and Isaac I get 'cause I'm sure those two are Peter's favorites after Stiles and Lydia...but why Allison?"
Why hadn't Boyd gotten to go? Simple. He couldn't take the time off work for a week-long trip.
Erica finally looked up from where she was sprawled across Boyd's lap not unlike a cat, even batting a hand at her boyfriend's book just for shits and giggles. "Allison got to go because Lydia wanted a shopping buddy...though how they talked Mr. Argent into letting Allison go with them to Japan is a mystery for the ages. Especially after the last incident where Mr. Argent had to break out the net gun."
Despite Derek's audible frustration with life, and his choice of insults that were in no way complimentary towards Peter's tendency for mischief nor his choice in hair products, from the next room, Cora still found it in her to ask: "So...think this stunt counts as fraud?"
"We've all done worse." Was all that Boyd said as he returned to his book and Scott turned the volume up on the tv.
Idk how they talked Chris into letting Allison leave the country with Peter...or how anyone talked the Sheriff into letting ANYONE leave the country with Peter. Feel free to headcanon.
