After leaving the Stilinski house for the second time that night Derek went back to the motel just outside of town that he was staying in. Derek didn't even know what he was supposed to think, he had left Stiles so he could have a normal life, be a teenager and go to college but by the looks of it he had just stolen that anyway when he left. Derek woke up that morning believing that Peter was the only family member he had left and now he's a father to not one son but two, two sons that he has had nothing to do with over the last eighteen months of their young lives.
Derek had absolutely no idea as to what he was going to do, he didn't have a job, he didn't have a place to live and he didn't know the first thing about being a father.
Derek had called Isaac later that night, again wondering why nobody had told him, he did cut off contact when they left but not completely, he had checked in on Isaac at graduation and when he was accepted into college. From what he could tell, Isaac was just doing as he was told.
Scott has never liked Derek, that has always been apparent. After Scott found out that Stiles was pregnant and that Derek was the cause, he was livid. Stiles had told Derek once that even though Scott could be the sweetest guy you'll ever meet, he is never one to get over a grudge and even more so if it's somebody that wronged Stiles.
Derek was walking up to the Stilinski house the next day, it was around twelve in the day and he could hear three heartbeats so he knew that Stiles and the twins where inside. He rang the doorbell twice and Stiles appear a minute later with his hair messy and his glasses sliding down his nose.
"You using the front door will never not be weird" Stiles told him.
"Is this a bad time?" Derek asked.
"No dude come in" Stiles said stepping aside and allowing Derek enough room to walk in.
"I was just reading but I have to wake them from their nap anyway" Stiles said taking off his glasses and running a hand through his hair.
"I can come back" Derek said awkwardly, he had realised that the twins would be sleeping.
"No, man" Stiles started towards the stairs and then turned to Derek.
"You ever change a diaper?" Stiles asked.
Derek shook his head.
A grin spread across Stiles face as he turned to walk up the stairs and then shouted over his shoulder back at Derek "Well you learn something everyday".
Stiles was surprise at how well Derek was taking to everything. He had changed Logan's diaper without that much of a struggle and he had managed to get him changed with a tantrum. They had gone downstairs after that and Derek and Stiles were sitting on the living room floor with the twins playing between.
"Are they like in your pack now?" Stiles asked. It had been on his mind since he found out that the twins were werewolves.
"Yeah it's a automatic thing really, I should have realised when I first saw them" Derek said staring at Logan.
"They've got blue eyes like the ones you did when you were a beta" Stiles told him.
"Most born wolves do" Derek flashed his own red eyes and both Charlie and Logan flashed blue back at him.
"Dude that's awesome" Stiles said grinning. The twins were never able to just shift when they wanted to or just to shift one part of them like Scott and Isaac could.
Derek left before the Sheriff got home, with a promise to come back the next afternoon.
Derek had dealt with the hunters by himself about a week after they had first attacked Stiles. He had been shot with several arrows and bullets, luckily none of them containing wolfsbane but he was still in a bad way. Stiles had found him bleeding out in the old Hale house. Stiles had been furious when he found him, after Stiles had ranted at him about self preservation and how this kind of thing doesn't just affect him anymore, Derek realised that for the first time in a long time that somebody would actually care if he died.
The next month went smoothly with Derek coming into his own as a parent, getting a two bedroom apartment and even working up to having the boys on Saturday and Sunday nights. Stiles had been all for Derek spending time with the boys. Derek would come over and play with them and help with dinner, sometimes even staying to put them to bed. He would also take the boys when Stiles was in work. They had a good thing going, they were civil maybe even friends but like all good co-parents they always put the twins first.
The sheriff had even warmed to Derek over the past month. They weren't watching football games and sharing a beer but they were on speaking terms and John even joined Stiles when he had breakfast with Derek and the boys on a Sunday morning at the local diner.
Stiles had giving much thought to a romantic relationship with Derek, over the months that he was pregnant Stiles had become bitter towards the older man but he had pushed that aside and overcome it for his children's sakes but as far as being with Derek, he hadn't even allowed himself to think about it.
Maybe if had been together before and had not just had a one night stand things would be different but they hadn't and whatever feelings Stiles had for Derek before were now buried.
Derek knew that things between him and Stiles would never be ideal and because of that he used everything he had to not give into his urges that were screaming Mate and Claim. Derek had been weak the night he left, he gave in and in result he ruined Stiles life. They both love the boys but Stiles had plans for college and his life that he had to give up because of them and because of Derek.
But Derek still watches, just like he always has. He'll stare at Stiles do the most normal things but still find such beauty in the younger man's movements. Stiles will be cooking or reading and Derek will just be overcome. Watching his hands and his ridiculously long fingers or he'll be memorised by his mouth.
Stiles doesn't feel anything for Derek anymore and he understands that, he respects that but sometimes he can't help but feel a pang of hurt and jealously when he sees Stiles checking somebody out.
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