Stiles swore he isn't a stalker. He just had half an hour before to kill before his shift started and felt like a cup of tea. It had nothing to do with the attractive grumpy waiter in the apron.

"What are you doing here?" demanded Derek.

"Derek, be nice to the customers!"

Derek protested, "But Satomi…"

"Don't make me call your mother!" she yelled at him waving a teapot in the air.

Admitting defeat, he looked sheepishly to the floor, his face turning a familiar red colour as he mumbled, "So what do you want?"

"Um, tea?"

Derek let out a long sigh, rolled his eyes and sniped, "We have a lot of different types of tea here, what kind of tea?"

"What do you recommend?" he asked, not meaning to sound flirtatious but somehow he did anyway, in his own weird Stiles kind of way.

"Um, uh, I…" Derek looked uncomfortable and slightly flustered; he coughed and then purposely changed his expression from embarrassment to his usual, angry look, "I'll get you the Halloween special."

Stiles said, "Okay, thanks." He wanted to say something more but Derek stormed away to make his order. Kira wasn't working today so there was no one there to tease him about his awkward attempt to flirt with Derek but Satomi was giving him weird looks. He worried about the fact she seemed to know Derek's family. She'd know Cora.

"Thank you Derek," smiled Stiles when Derek gave him his order, trying not to do anything else that would earn him Derek's signature death glare. He didn't understand why he was trying so hard to impress Derek who hadn't been very nice to Stiles since met. Stiles had thrown toilet paper at him though in the early hours of the morning. It had been a turbulent start to their… whatever this was.

He tried to apologise. "I'm sorry about the toilet paper thing."

Derek look surprised at that, he didn't know what to say and so he didn't respond at all.

"I mean, it's a tradition but I didn't mean to throw it at you, just at your house, and I didn't want to wake you up." Stiles started babbling. "I didn't even know you lived there, Cora didn't tell me you'd moved back home, I didn't know you'd finished college, you were in New York weren't you? It's not weird that I know that, Cora told me that, or Erica, someone did, I didn't ask. I don't really know you. Why did you moved back home?"

How anyone could process Stiles when he was at full babble mode was a mystery to him but somehow Derek managed it.

"I missed California and I wanted to take a break before I did my masters to do some writing."

"Oh that's interesting," replied Stiles.

"Derek!" Satomi shouted from behind the counter glaring at her employee.

Derek frowned and said, "I have to go, enjoy the tea."

"Yeah thanks, see you later."

Stiles burnt his tongue trying to drink his tea quickly before he had to get to work. He didn't want to be late for his first shift.