The Hale Orphanage

Ch. 10

"Derek!" Stiles shouted, because he was too lazy to walk the twenty steps to the kitchen where Derek currently stood.

"Yeah?"

"Bring the bag of pretzels will ya?"

The naked man shook his head with a hearty laugh. He snatched the half eaten bag from the counter and sauntered back to their bedroom water bottle and pretzels in tow "I've never heard of pretzels after sex" he grinned when he entered and seen his boyfriend splayed across their bed. He was naked, a leg dangling off of the mattress and a hand playing with his lip as he scrolled through his phone.

Stiles shrugged as he took the bag, thanking Derek with a kiss "I had a craving"

Derek and Stiles had survived their first months living together away from home. He wasn't going to lie and say the entire time was a peach. They were starting a new chapter of their lives, and starting it alone, it took some getting used to. Like the fact that Derek was a tidy person and Stiles really wasn't. Or how Stiles liked to cook and would get really pissed if Derek wasted money on ordering food. But the two would work it out, either through an adult conversation or childish shouting. Either way it ended in sex and Derek was happy for that. If you asked him it meant they forgave each other, and the love they started out with was still there.

Because Derek was a rational man he could say that even though their last disagreement was small it was his fault.

~FLASHBACK~

"Hey baby, who's your friend?" Stiles had left to check the mail, and had not returned for twenty minutes. So imagine Derek's surprise when he decides to poke his head into the hall way and catches Stiles standing at the end of it grinning hard with someone else.

"Danny. He's on the floor above us, he was nice enough to help me bring this up. I think it's the shelves we ordered for the bathroom"

His Hawaiian skin was tastefully tan, his bright smile contrasting against it as he grinned in Derek's direction. It was hard to miss his bulging biceps that were currently brushing against Stiles' own "Nice to meet you Derek"

"You too. You ready to go?" Derek asked all in one breath looking towards his boyfriend. His sudden need to get back inside rudely brushed Danny off. Stiles nodded, grabbing the package and following behind Derek's quick steps.

The man listened for the door to close and he thought there would be no conversation, but Stiles easily dumped the cardboard box onto the floor before walking up to the bar connected to their reasonably sized kitchen "You know I'm going to make friends. That's the idea of starting a life, meeting new people"

"Where's this coming from?"

"We haven't been dating long, but I've known you all my life. I am well aware when you're jealous. You don't have a reason to be, you're the one I'm with. But you are going to have to get used to me making friends. Even attractive ones"

"So you admit he's attractive?"

"Derek Hale" Stiles scoffed unbelievably. Shaking his head slowly he rounded the corner and looked upon Derek with confused eyes. His brown iris's danced fast as they whipped across Derek's being as if he were trying to figure out how they got to where they were "You have to calm down, and trust me. Or you and I aren't going to last long. A friend is just a friend, have I given you any reason not to trust me?"

"No. No you haven't"

"Okay, then don't do this to us"

Derek hated when Stiles had to be the bigger person, because then he would always realize how childish he was being.

~END FLASHBACK~

Now Derek lay belly down as Stiles ran his long fingers up and down his back brushing gently. It wouldn't be long until they were both starting school and had full schedules. It would be an entirely new chapter to tackle but he had faith they could do it.

Not wanting to get lost to deep in his thoughts Derek took a particular interest in the stacks of cardboard boxes he had been fixated on "You know we're going to have to put that stuff together one day"

Stopping his ministrations, Stiles rolled over to see the packages Derek had been staring at "Really? I thought we could just build a fort out of it and call that our furniture" The sound of Derek slapping his hand against Stiles naked flesh echoed throughout the room, as the man jumped up "Ow"

Ignoring his cry Derek slipped on some lounge clothes "C'mon. Let's get started, it's time it starts to look like an actual home in here"

"Awww Der, can't we just have sex again?"

"Maybe if you get out here and get started we'll be able to break in the headboard tonight" There was nothing else after that. Derek pulled out his tool box and began slicing boxes open, separating the furniture so Stiles would have to work on the one with the least amount of construction.

Ten minutes in Stiles finally came shuffling out of the room, finally fully clothed. He fell to his knees as he looked over the instructions for their round oak wood dinging table "I better get my reward" he groaned playfully as he began to slowly screw in the first leg.

Derek could only chuckle. He really loved that boy.