What the hell is a Stiles? (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} _stiles) wrote, |
"Yeah, yeah, I'm keeping my first name. Mieczyslaw Stilinski Hale. Happy?" he asked Derek, knowing full well that he would be.
Scott, of course, looked confused. "Oh, he knows your first name?"
"Well duh, of course he does. Did you think I wouldn't tell him? Just keep it a surprise until our wedding day?"
"I guess not," Scott shrugged.
The way Derek spoke about packs and pack dynamics made Stiles feel warm inside. Warm like Derek was holding him, like he was already fit close to his mate's body. He'd been so unsure of his place for so long, in all the time they'd been out there fighting the bad guys. He was just a human, he did what he could. Now he was here, Derek's equal, the person who would birth the pups to make their pack bigger, part of the strength of the Hale pack. He was almost giddy with that honour.
Scott could smell that billowing affection rolling off of Stiles, just a warmth to his scent that was aimed solely at Derek. That wasn't something that could be fabricated. And the look on Derek's face as he spoke, the way his eyes wandered to Stiles, that couldn't be faked, either. His best friend was doing stupid, domestic, grown up stuff and there was nothing he could do about it.
"The rest of your pack really like Stiles," he said, a tentative peace offering aimed at Derek. "I mean, they did before, but they're uh- they're- really...attached to him-" He didn't know how to phrase that without making it sound like they were hitting on Stiles, but there had been a lot of touching, a lot of scenting and protectiveness. And yeah, maybe he didn't want to be here too long when the rest of the pack arrived.
"I'm pack mom, now," Stiles said. "And I smell like Derek. I smell like their alpha and our bond." They hadn't had sex, and he hadn't been claimed the last time he'd seen them, so his scent really had just been their merging of his and Derek's, and okay, there had been some orgasms involved- but he had no doubt he'd smell even more like their alpha's mate now. "You've got all this to look forward to. All your betas going ga-ga over your mate."
"It'll be weird, you not being in my pack anymore," Scott said quietly, not looking at either of them. "I just thought you'd always be there."
"I know, man. Me too. But I was always going to end up someone's mate. Chances were I'd have gone to another pack eventually, anyway. At least it's Derek, and he's staying here and not dragging me to the other side of the country-"
"No. No, I know. I'm glad. I'm glad you'll both be here, still."