I am so sorry for taking so long to post again. Moving has been crazy and hectic for me. I would have posted something sooner, but I had not been able to even brainstorm what I wanted to be said in the next chapter. I usually do it all in one go, but with everything going on, I felt it was best to do it in parts and hopefully post something sooner rather than trying to wait until I have enough time to do it in one go like I usually do. It has actually made me write a longer chapter this time than the previous ones I have posted. As I was going through the chapter, I realized that it worked better as two different chapters, so now hear is the first part of my special surprise. Hopefully I can continue to post at least at a weekly pace. I am not abandoning this fic and I will have it completed. Please let me know how you feel. I do not own Teen Wolf or any of it's characters.
Looking back on it now, Stiles can say that he could have convinced Derek a lot easier and calmer if he had gone about the conversation another way. Nothing really comes to mind to answer the question of how, but he is sure that it could have gone better.
"What do you mean you won't let us stay here another night" asked Derek with an incredulous look on his face.
"I mean that all of you are going to stay at my house," Stiles answered back like it was the most rational thing in the world.
Derek stared at Stiles hard, like he was trying to figure out what was wrong with him, before he retorted, "Absolutely not."
"Why not? Unless part of the spell forces you guys to live here it should be easy enough for you to just stay at my place." To Stiles, his proposal was pretty simple.
"For you to do that, Chlodulf, would mean that you would be putting your life at risk and I will not have you give up any part of your life to help us."
Stiles groaned in frustration before countering back, "I am not asking for the bite, I just want to help protect your pack that we all want to keep safe."
Derek sighed back, "You are a part of this pack, Chlodulf, from birth, but that does not mean that I will put your life in danger as well."
Derek knew he must have said something wrong when Chlodulf started to get a calculated look in his eyes.
The honey-eyed boy watched Derek for a while before saying, "First off, please stop calling me that. I don't go by my birth name anymore, and it worries me that you know how to say it. I go by Stiles now. Ask them," Stiles spoke while pointing to the three on Derek's left.
"Second, what do you mean that I have been part of the pack since birth?"
Derek shrugged his shoulders and replied, "Your mother was part of the pack, so you are entitled to a place in the pack."
Derek definitely knew he said something wrong when Chlodulf raised an eyebrow and smiled at him.
"Well then, I guess I am staying here tonight. The rest of the pack already stays here, so I might as well join the slumber party, but I wonder what will happen come morning and I have to head home. Silver Bullet will already be out by then, and even though he doesn't know I am part of the pack, he will very likely shoot me for what happened yesterday. What will we do then, Derek? We don't want to leave the human of the group unprotected, do we?"
Initially, Stiles thought he had pushed too far when he heard Derek growl and watched his eyes go from green to red, but the next thing he heard was Derek ordering the pack to grab an overnight bag because they were staying at the Stilinski residence. Stiles thought that the hard part was done, but he didn't take into account how he was going to live with five other people that he didn't want his dad to find out about.
To say that the Hale pack has a few odd habits is akin to saying a turtle's shell is kind of hard, a total understatement.
It turns out that they all sleep together. Now keep in mind that he doesn't mean anything sexual, although if you were to watch them sleep, you would likely think otherwise. What Stiles means is that the pack sleeps on the same bed together and tries to touch each other in some way. Except for Peter, who just lays close to all of them as if he is watching over them, which naturally comes off as extremely creepy.
Lately, because Stiles' bed isn't big enough for all of them, they are all resigned to the floor into a giant puppy pile. Just the other night, Boyd had his arm draped over Erica and Isaac while touching Stiles' side. Erica was able to lay her legs across Isaac and Stiles' legs while hugging Boyd's arm. Isaac had Erica's hair curled loosely around his fingers while half laying on Stiles and resting his hand above Boyd's. The Almighty Alpha, a.k.a. Derek, decided he wanted to starfish over all four of them while touching Peter's leg that so happened to be next to Stiles' head.
Now, you may be wondering how Stiles was aware of all of this. The answer is rather simple. Apparently werewolves run hotter than normal people, so Stiles ends up staying up half the night because he is too hot and the wolves insist on being able to constantly touch pack. That is not even the weirdest part about the group. It is to be expected that they each have a weird quirk, but sometimes it's difficult to live with.
Derek, for example, loves to read. When he comes home from the hunt, he likes to shower, eat a large dinner, and read a book. The problem about him reading the book is that he never puts it down, like literally, and yet he manages to still be able to control everything. One time, Erica had Stiles pinned on the living room floor after declaring that she wanted to reenact a scene from Lion King. While Stiles was calling for help from Boyd, whom was just watching everything go down, Derek comes up behind Erica, wraps an arm around her waist and lifts her, carries her to the dining room, and places a full balanced meal in front of her, that he cooked, all while still reading a book. He didn't even put the book down while he was making dinner. Derek claims that he was able to cook only using his nose, but Stiles thinks it's a special ability that only alphas have.
And the man still insists on calling him by his birth name. Luckily the others haven't started to do the same yet. Stiles suspects it's because they still aren't sure how they are even suppose to pronounce it.
Boyd, on the other hand, sticks to Erica's side all the time. Stiles would say that he follows her around like a lost puppy, but knows that is not how to best describe what he does at all. Boyd is always by her side like a shadow is always connected to your feet. Even if your shadow seems to not actually be touching you in some way, it will always become reattached at your feet. Erica was upset once about how she couldn't get a stain out of one of the sheriff's shirts. Instead of trying to get her to calm down about it, which no one can ever do when Erica is doing laundry, he starts rubbing her shoulders and listens to what she says about all of the different things she has tried to do to get the damn stain out of the shirt. Mid-way through her rant, Boyd stops rubbing her shoulders and heads upstairs to the bathroom and comes back with the bottle of hair spray. It seemed that was the trick to get the stain out because she thanks him by kissing his cheek and tells him he is the best. There are a few times where Boyd will be nowhere in the house. It has worried Stiles a couple times, but nobody seems worried and Erica doesn't even bat an eyelash. Eventually he will come home and be right back at Erica's side.
Now, Isaac loves to cuddle. You will always find him cuddling, or at least sitting closely, with someone. With Stiles he will play video games against him and will have Stiles sit against the couch while he lies on the floor with his legs across Stiles' lap. At least once a day, Isaac will sit back to back against Boyd while he is looking for online videos so Isaac can try a new style with Erica's hair while she is sitting between his legs. After dinner, Isaac will sit on the floor against the front of the arm chair that Derek is sitting in while getting his head scratched by the alpha.
Stiles has wanted to make some sort of joke about how Isaac loves to play with Erica's hair and likes for Derek to mess with his, but then Stiles sees the way he looks when he plays with Erica's hair like he can't believe he is able to touch something so beautiful without consequences, and how he looks so happy that someone is giving him kind touches when he is so used to fearing what will happen next that would land him into the freezer. Even when he is just touching someone by sitting shoulder to shoulder, he looks so satisfied with having people that care about him.
Gorgeous Erica loves to try to mess with Stiles by playing with his ear with her mouth and whispering things to him. When Erica was reenacting the scene from Lion King, she would lean down to Stiles' ear and whisper, "Pinned ya," and pull on his ear lobe with her teeth. Another time, shortly after Stiles came home from the grocery store, she came up behind him and wrapped her arms around him before she licked the shell of his ear and whispered that she hopes that he picked up everything that she asked for. She really emphasized on the everything part with her mouth and body that time. What really traumatized Stiles though was one night he was having a wonderful dream about porn in real life staring him and it seemed the other person had a thing for his ears, constantly licking them, nibbling at the edges, and whispering all of the dirty things they wanted to do to him. It was a wonderful dream until his ear felt too wet and he woke up to find Erica on his back doing what the dream sexy porn star was doing to him. Naturally, he screamed and started yelling how it was unfair that she ruined a really awesome dream of majorly awesome proportions.
When he asked Isaac why she only does that to him, he told Stiles about what happened when she tried to do that to them. Apparently, she tried it on Derek first, who tossed her onto her back and told her to never do that again. She did it to Isaac once and he told her that it felt too much like incest. She agreed. She attacked Boyd's ear once, and it is claimed that he told her that he appreciates the affection, but unless she is planning on making through with her promise in front of the pack, she better save it for later when they are alone. Stiles only half believes that story. There is no way Boyd actually said that much at once.
Peter likes to stand in the background and watch everyone do their thing. In all of the previously mentioned scenarios of the pack life at the Stilinski house, Peter has been leaning against something watching it all play out. To Stiles, this makes him seem like an extra creepy creeper, but Peter refuses to be touched needlessly.
Stiles has never seen anyone in the pack try to hug Peter or touch him in any friendly way. Erica told him once that when Isaac tried to sit shoulder to shoulder with Peter, the man actually pushed Isaac away and told him that he appreciates that he wants to get cuddly with him, but he would rather be close rather than actually touching. Stiles doesn't understand how he could do that to Isaac, who has the puppy-dog eyes of doom that rivals Scott's, but what Peter doesn't notice is that Stiles can see the way he looks at everyone in the pack with love that one can only have for family, so Stiles will let him get away with his creepy creeper ways.
Living with the pack has been pretty good all-around for Stiles. Every day they all see Derek off at the forest behind the Stilinski yard and everyone branches off to do their own thing for the day. Erica is usually found doing laundry. Sometimes Boyd will disappear for about an hour, but is typically by Erica's side. Isaac is commonly found watching online videos and Peter is off doing Peter things. When the sheriff is home during the day, the pack all hide in the guest room where Stiles swears that no one will ever go into. Stiles has even taken to locking his bedroom door at night so his dad won't catch all of the adults having a puppy pile on the floor. Derek usually comes home through the back door at sunset, but when John is home he will climb in through Stiles' bedroom window. When the sheriff starts asking why so much food is getting made, Stiles will tell him that he is making food for the homeless that live in town. Really Stiles is only half-lying.
The rest of the pack really enjoyed staying at the Stilinski house during their days. Erica and Isaac have explained to Stiles that they used to go to the mall and the movie theaters a couple towns away so they could hide from the hunters, but where none of the locals should have been able to recognize them, since it was likely that they never went to school together or even grew up in the same area.
Stiles was able to enjoy the company of the pack. His father used to tell him about how he and his mother had wanted to have many children, but of course those plans were forced into a cancel. Stiles supposes that the amount of noise and activity in the house while the sheriff is away is close to what Loreto wanted. For a couple weeks, the pack enjoyed playing house with each other, but then a new problem came.
When I started trying to brainstorm for this chapter, I started to come up with ideas for other fics I could write, like a Supernatural/Teen Wolf crossover fic where Dean and Cas were Stiles parents, or one where both Lydia and Jackson loved Stiles while dating each other, and an AU based off of the movie Repo: the Genetic Opera. Eventually I realized that, as much fun as I was having coming up with new stories, I really ought to get my head back into the one already in progress.
I feel that too often in Teen Wolf, we don't get to see what makes the characters them when they aren't trying to stay alive, but I also know someone will always be after them in some way, so I wanted to write what I think the pack would do when they have some downtime. I know this seems like a filler chapter, but please keep in mind that this chapter was originally suppose to be longer, but because of the way it flowed, it seemed best to make it two. Please write a review or send me a PM and tell me about what you think of this chapter, what you think about this fic in general, what your feelings are about my story ideas, or all of the above. Thank you.