Sterek One Shots (boyxboy)

This Could Be Us

This Could Be Us by Bam4Me
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Stiles growled at the mouse that had once more escaped him, pouncing after it with a renewed fury. It seemed to mock him though, easily getting out from under his paws and scampering off as fast as it's little legs could.

He'd never been good at catching anything bigger than grubs and beetles...

He huffed, thinking about going back home, and sat, his tail curling around his body as he thought to himself. Home always had food.

And dad was always willing to snuggle when Stiles asked for it. (Or when Stiles decided to just take it when he wasn't doing very well with his words.)

And that's where Scott was too, ready to play video games with him and cuddle on the couch (although he didn't exactly know about fox-Stiles, he was still willing to cuddle anyway. It's what surrogate brothers are for.)

Also, sometimes he'd lay outside on the back porch in the sun and tear up the garden. That was fun.

For him. Not for Dad who had to fix it. Oops.

He looked back and forth in the tiny clearing he'd found and sighed as well as a fox could.

Where was home?

***

When the hospital had called to say that his uncle was awake, Derek had mostly just sat in shock, wondering how it could have even happened.

Well, he had some ideas, but he never thought them possible.

His mom had always said the smarter a were was the more control they had over most things they do like healing and the type of transformation they can do.

Derek hadn't ever thought he'd ever meet someone as smart as Peter. It made sense.

But just the call though... Derek had felt like the bottom of his stomach had come out.

Here he was in New York thinking his uncle would never wake up. Sticking to his Alpha's side like glue in desperation. Having watched his younger sister leave the entire continent in sorrow at their loss. It'd never occurred to him that Peter might one day wake up, feeling abandoned by his pack and alone, having lived in his own brain for seven years...

Suitably, Derek felt like a total piece of crap. When he'd told Laura, she obviously seemed to share the sentiments.

Which is partially why he and Laura had expected looks when they finally pulled the van into town, anything really, everything they had gotten from before they had left in the first place. Anything and everything ranging from pitying to dirty... But the town seemed preoccupied.

Strange for a tiny little town that practically lived off of gossip like Beacon Hills. If something else had their attention, it was probably bigger than anything else. When they had first left town, they didn't think anything could top the Hale fire in terms of gossip.

Turns out they found something anyways.

***

"C'mon Derek. The doctors said Peter was looking forward to seeing us." Derek paused before getting out of the car, looking at the hospital worriedly.

For some stupid reason his brain kept taunting him anyways.

What if Peter wasn't awake? What if they had called the wrong family... Derek could have hit himself at the words, thinking he'd probably just die of sorrow right there if he got in there and found his uncle still comatose.

He looked up when Laura hip-checked him and tried to smile at his alpha. "C'mon little brother. He'll be okay. Waiting to see us remember."

Derek nodded and closed his car door, hooking one finger into the belt of her dress like a little kid and following her as she lead him away towards the building.