Title: Be Delicate (With This Love)
Genre: Television
Series: Teen Wolf
Characters: Derek Hale, Lydia Martin
Spoilers: season 3
Rating: G
Summary: A series of drabbles.
Disclaimer: I don't own it, I just like playing with its toys.
Prompt: They have their own way of saying I love you.
And love is not a word that the world knows
Whilst fighting for survival from its foe
Derek has never actually said the words and Lydia is okay with that. Every man who has ever spoken those three words to her has left her, and she's always just a little more cracked after they go. She can't resist a little tit-for-tat, however, because if he won't say them then she won't either. They show it in other ways, small little details that not even the enhanced senses of werewolves catch.
Maybe they'll say them someday, maybe even to each other. She's content with the small kiss he presses to her cheek before he leaves in the morning and the way he pauses to inhale the scent of her shampoo. She likes to think he carries it with him even when they're not together.