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These drabbles can be read chronologically or not. Dealer's choice. I'm writing them in a progression style but they all pretty much stand alone.

A/N: I wanted to do Christmas (because I love it!) but everyone does Christmas. So I wanted to try something different. :)

Holiday

Near the end of November the weather starts to get colder, the days get shorter, stores start putting up Christmas decorations with total disregard that it's still November, and Thanksgiving comes.

Derek would have completely forgotten about it if it hadn't been for Isaac, who reminds him on a Tuesday when he refuses to get out of bed to go to school for a half day that was going to be quote: 'just stupid because no one cared because everyone wanted to get the hell out of there'. He thought to argue (you know, be the responsible adult and all) but with Isaac curled up beside him like that with moody, sleepy eyes and mussed curls he just went back to sleep.

On Thursday, Erica and Boyd are at their respective homes in town. Stiles and his father go to visit relatives like Scott and Melissa do. Allison and her father have been invited to the Martin's on Lydia's insistence; she knew that the holidays would be rough for her friend now that her mother was gone.

Invitations are extended to them. But they refuse. Derek assumes that Isaac says no for the same reason he does, which is he doesn't want to intrude on their 'family time'.

Before, the idea of family and pack being separate terms would have been absurd to him. Family meant pack. That was how he had been raised. That was how he was taught. But he had come to accept that the Beta's weren't born, they were made. They had other families outside of the pack, but that didn't make their bond any less strong. They were a family too. Not seeing each other today didn't change that.

So, to be ironic, they make turkey sandwiches with deli container potato salad and chips and watch movies that they own and have seen a hundred times on the sofa.

Cora announces that she's going to run after she's done (along with a snide comment of them being lazy and fat for gorging on store bought pumpkin pie instead of training with her) leaving Isaac and Derek alone to finish the movie.

"I'm thankful I'm going to graduate this year." Derek perks up, stops chewing at his mouthful of pie, and arches a brow at Isaac curiously. "When my family used to have Thanksgiving, we'd go around the table and say what we were thankful for that year. It was a tradition."

"Was?"

"Yeah…" Isaac trails off, picking at his crust because he doesn't eat it (which Derek thinks is weird because the crust was the best part!). "We kind of stopped doing Thanksgiving and holidays when it was just my dad and me." The curve of crust breaks in half under Isaac's poking.

Derek looks at the side of his face, thinking about the parallel of their lives in that respect. When it was just Laura and him, Derek hadn't seen the point in celebrating…well, anything. Laura had tried though. She tried to celebrate every Christmas, Birthday, Easter holiday. But Derek refused to participate. The guilt in his soul that it was his fault that they had to celebrate alone in a small apartment with just the two of them, instead of in their big house surrounded by family, left him bleak and distant even more so around holidays. He regretted that now. He regretted that he had never given in to Laura's holiday cheer, which eventually died out when she had to carry on alone, not thinking that maybe it was what she needed to move on until it was too late.

"I'm thankful that we aren't living in the train depot anymore."

Isaac looks up, apparently surprised Derek said anything, but smiles. "Yeah, I'm thankful for that too." He laughs a little and looks back towards his plate. "I'm thankful the Alpha pack is gone."

"I'm thankful that none of you got hurt. Well…really hurt."

"I'm thankful that everything has calmed down."

"I'm thankful that Cora is alive."

"I'm thankful that I don't have to live with my dad anymore."

"I'm thankful to have a pack again."

"I'm thankful for you."

Derek looks up and into Isaac's eyes. He smiles a little when he looks at Derek, not ashamed or embarrassed that he said it but just…happy.

Derek scoffs through his nose and smiles a crooked smile back. "I'm thankful for you too."

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