ext_256317 ([identity profile] saraste-impi.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] 31_days2013-12-07 11:41 pm

[December 7th] [Teen Wolf] Not Stalking

Title: Not Stalking
Day/Theme: 7.I work. I slave. I drive myself like a locomotive.
Series: Teen Wolf
Character/Pairing: Derek, Sheriff Stilinski, Stiles
Rating: G


Derek is not stalking Stiles. He's just making sure the boy is okay. He had left before the sheriff had come to the hospital because that was one conversation he was going to postpone until much much later, if ever. Derek can't believe what had happened. Stiles had seemed to be ok, getting warmer and his skin had felt warmer, far warmer than the icy coldness that had met Derek's hands when he'd lifted Stiles up from the snow.

They had talked when Stiles had woken up, they had kissed, even when Derek had tried to keep himself away from doing just that. Had wanted it more than anything and still known that he shouldn't have. Because Stiles was still all too young and Derek did not want to become Kate.

Even when he knew that he could never be her.

If he was, he never would have taken Stiles into the hospital, explaining that he'd found him in the snow, freezing, then taking his hasty retreat before anyone could stop him. But Derek had lingered, had made himself stay around the hospital, even when it smelled like death to him, even when it made his skin crawl and his wolf wanting to run and flee. And even when he had wanted to leave, he also wanted to stay as stubbornly. Because Stiles is inside, because he had heard Stiles' hear-beat start to falter, because his skin had suddenly been so cold that it had seemed to burn Derek's fingers through Stiles' clothes.

So Derek stays. Looks on when Stiles' father, the sheriff, arrives, runs into the hospital, the terror of his heart ringing in Derek's ears even when Derek isn't that close to the doors.

Derek strides, runs around the perimeter of the hospital for what feels like hours but possibly isn't. Finally he takes to haunting the halls of the hospital, trying to remain unseen. He follows Stiles' scent, this way and that, until he finds his room. He waits, skirting nurses who would tell him to go, until he can hear Stiles' father fall asleep.

Then Derek slips into Stiles' room and stands by his bed, because he can't keep away.