Title: Be Delicate (With This Love)
Genre: Television
Series: Teen Wolf
Characters: Derek Hale, Lydia Martin
Spoilers: season 3
Rating: PG
Summary: A series of drabbles.
Disclaimer: If it was mine, this would be canon.
Prompt: mari-chaunn00dles – AU, where Derek and Lydia had gotten together between s2 and s3a and when he kicks Isaac out, he's sad and depressed and Lydia is there for him.
I'll drop by some other day now
I will seek you out in silence
Another book, another mystery
Some accounts of love and violence
"Am I next?"
A soft nod of her head had Cora heading for the door, leaving her to the private conversation with her boyfriend that she'd been anticipating the entire ride over here.
"I passed Isaac on my way over, walking in the rain towards Scott's house. I probably could've given him a ride, but I figure you've pushed him away so I should do the same. Wouldn't want you getting any ideas about kicking me out of your life too."
Lydia knew it was snide and a little mean to speak to Derek this way, but she'd learned that he didn't like to explain himself and sometimes the only way to get an answer was to poke the beast.
"You'd be safer if I did," Derek replied, turning his back to her to brood out the large window in the open living area of the loft. He tilted his head enough to glance at her, but the streetlights made it impossible to read his expression.
Good thing she didn't need to see it to know what he was feeling.
She crossed the loft quickly, wrapping her arms around him from behind and pressing her face to his shoulder blades. Her hands just barely met but she twisted her fingers together and squeezed tighter. He was stiff in her arms, refusing to respond but unable to help the softness that slipped into his spine. Finally he covered her hands with one of his, lacing his fingers through her's and rubbing soft caresses on the back of her hand.
"You can't get rid of me that easily."
"Everyone around me dies."
"I have faith in you," she whispered into the triskelion on his back, "even if you don't."
M-Rated drabbles can now be found under the title "Be Delicate (With This Heart)".