Human is Just a Word 49/?
Chapter 49
Stiles didn't get Derek's knot inside him before he left for South America for two weeks.
Not that they didn't want to do it, it was more a lack of opportunity.
Derek had to work in advance to actually have the time for his trip without missing some deadlines which meant that he was sitting at the kitchen table with a concentrated expression on his face most of the time now. If Stiles wasn't around to feed him, he even forgot to eat.
Not that Stiles was any better. There must be a cock blocking conspiracy going on at his school because the teachers had all agreed to drowning them in homework.
And Mrs. Hanson had somehow heard about suspicious hickeys on Stiles and kept him after school for a few more sessions with her. She was fishing for information about Derek and Stiles' relationship with him but since his birthday was still a few weeks away, Stiles told her that he had been making out with some guy who totally wasn't Derek. She didn't believe him but couldn't prove otherwise so she settled on annoying him with her questions.
Things with Sean's parents had gone down the drain completely now. According to him, they hadn't exchanged a word at normal volume in days, and more often than not he came home with Stiles straight after school. The days he didn't, chances were high that he would show up later that evening. He didn't stay over that often because he didn't want his parents to catch on where he was spending his time, they wouldn't approve of him getting friendly with a werewolf pack, and the last thing he wanted was for them to forbid any contact with Stiles. But he stayed as long as he dared most nights.
Stiles didn't mind helping out his friend and he liked having Sean around, he really did, but he couldn't stop thinking about Derek's knot.
They did have sex, that wasn't the problem, but they never had the luxury of drawing it out which meant no knot. They had a lot of quickies, though. With his werewolf strength Derek had no problem, holding Stiles up while he was fucking him against the wall or in the shower.
However, Derek banned shower sex, at least the dick in butt kind of shower sex, from their list of sexual activities after Stiles slipped and almost brained himself on the faucet. However, he did hit the floor pretty hard and he was sporting an impressive bruise on his hip the next day.
Even Stiles had to admit that shower sex was way too dangerous for him. He was accident prone enough on non-slippery floors and with both feet on the ground, thank you very much.
Blowing Derek under the shower spray, however, was a whole different thing. The way Derek look, blissed out and completely at Stiles' mercy, and when he leaned back against the tiles, the water running down the plane of his abs, Stiles couldn't get enough of that.
And Derek's soapy hand around both their cocks, Stiles happily gave up the other kind of shower sex for that.
Then Isaac stayed in wolf form for almost three full days and he was a clingy wolf like that and Derek and Stiles were more busy comforting the beta than making out.
Stiles didn't know much about Isaac's past but he got that it had something to do with his father's death, it was the anniversary, and some careless comment a fellow student of his had made.
They slept in a pile of three the first night and with the whole pack the second and after Isaac had calmed down enough to walk on two legs for a few hours, they did another pack night for good measure.
The last one collided with a night where Sean stayed over.
Isaac had been in his human form most of the day and had gone back to his place to shower and get away from the pack for a while. Stiles understood and made sure that the beta got some time for himself.
Isaac came upstairs for dinner, though.
As usual Stiles cooked for them. Today with Sean's help while Derek kept on working to finish translating an article.
A few weeks ago Sean had been literally running in the other direction at the very thought of setting a foot in an alpha's den and now he was chopping onions with said alpha sitting just a few feet away.
"Can't we just order pizza?" Sean whined and wiped his watering eyes. Of course he rubbed onion juice into his eyes and now tears were running down his face for real. Stiles just snorted at him and gave him the garlic to chop next.
"We had pizza just yesterday." Stiles told him. It should be weird how often his friend was over now but it wasn't.
Yesterday Sean had left when the others had piled in for their pack night but today he had asked Stiles if he could stay over night before school had even started. Stiles couldn't say no to that.
When dinner was ready, fish in white wine sauce on risotto, Stiles was trying out some new recipes, Derek cleared the table and drawn in by the smell, Isaac came in just in time as well.
Sean stiffened a bit when the werewolf went straight for Derek and buried his nose in his alpha's neck for a good minute but Isaac needed it so as far as Stiles was concerned Sean had to just deal with it.
When Isaac finally stepped away from Derek, he gave Stiles a brief scenting as well before they all sat down for dinner.
It was clear that Sean didn't feel comfortable with such open werewolf behavior but he didn't say anything. Since Isaac was still kind of shaken up and Sean wasn't bonded pack, the beta was quieter than usual as well but Stiles had no problem carrying a conversation over dinner basically by himself.
After dinner Derek and Isaac offered to take care of the dishes and Sean jumped at the opportunity to leave the werewolves to themselves.
"I'll never get used to that." Sean dropped in Stiles' office chair. "He nuzzled him. Hell, he nuzzled you."
"I told you that we do that." Stiles shrugged. At least Sean hadn't freaked out over it. The last thing Isaac needed right now was more stress. He had been on two legs for only a few hours today, not that Stiles intended to tell Sean that. Isaac's issues were nothing to discuss with him.
Besides, Sean had his own issues to worry over.
"So." Stiles drew the word out and flopped down on his bed. "Things are bad at home?"
Now Sean fell quiet. The seam of his jeans seemed very interesting all of a sudden.
"Or we can just watch a movie." Stiles suggested.
They made themselves comfortable on the bed and Stiles set up the laptop.
After the first movie Stiles went downstairs to get them something to drink and some snacks but also to check on Isaac. He knew that the beta was still in the loft and hadn't gone back to his own place. By now Stiles could estimate how far away a pack member was pretty accurately and since his bond with Derek had strengthened into a mating bond, he could keep track of them over farther distances as well. Sensing other people was still a cool superpower.
He found the beta and their alpha on the couch, watching TV. Isaac was in his wolf form again, his clothes scattered around the floor. He had his head in Derek's lap and for now he seemed content.
"Is it okay if we sleep here tonight?" Derek gestured over the coffee table where the den would be later. "We can go downstairs to Isaac's place." He offered.
Stiles considered it for a moment, torn between the need to comfort Isaac and the need to pamper Sean.
This was their den, he decided. Sean would just have to suck it up.
"Na." He made. "I'll just warn him that their might be a few wolves sleeping down here." He gathered the snacks and drinks when something occurred to him.
"Are you okay with Sean sleeping here?" He asked Isaac. If it came down to it, Stiles would kick Sean out if he made Isaac uncomfortable but the beta just tilted his head in a way that told Stiles that he didn't mind.
Stiles didn't know when he had become a master in reading wolf body language, werewolf wolf body language, whatever, but he could talk for hours to one of the wolves, mostly Derek, without really noticing that they couldn't answer him. At least not verbally. Derek wasn't big on words in either form so that was probably the reason for that. And being pack of course.
"There is going to be werewolf sleepover here tonight." Stiles informed Sean when he got back to his room.
"A what?"
"A pack pile." Stiles threw a bag of chips at him. "I told you that we do that from time to time."
Sean fiddled with the bag. "Are you … I mean, are you going to …?"
"Nope." Stiles dropped next to him on the bed. "They'll be fine without me. It's nothing I have to attend to or anything. I'm not even sure if it's going to be just Isaac and Derek tonight or if the others will join them."
They started the next movie but Stiles could tell that there was still something on Sean's mind.
For a while they got distracted by the stupidity going on on the screen. The hero didn't get any smarter from them yelling and throwing popcorn at him but they could try. During the lull after the mentor's tragically death, finally, Sean started to fiddle again.
"Aren't you …" He started and cleared his throat. "I mean, Derek and Isaac, they seemed very close earlier. Don't you, you know … are you okay with them sleeping together?"
"They're not sleeping together." Stiles paused the movie. "Not like sleeping sleeping together." He rolled his eyes but he did remember when he had taken Isaac's question to sleep with them as an invitation to an orgy so he wasn't really in a position to judge Sean.
"Derek is not cheating on me." Stiles stated, absolutely sure that it was the truth. Even without the mating bond they shared, Derek wasn't the kind of guy who cheated on his partner. "It's a wolf thing."
Stiles didn't want to elaborate the whole first beta thing in general and Isaac's past in particular but thankfully Sean didn't ask and just motioned for Stiles to hit play again.
Boyd and Erica did join the pack pile later that night, Stiles could tell from the beacons in his head alone but Sean found out the hard way when they came downstairs in the morning.
He took the shock of four grown wolves lying together in the den better than expected.
"Nobody is ditching their fur in front of Sean." Stiles announced and walked over to the kitchen. He needed coffee.
Sean followed him but he kept throwing glances over his shoulder to where the wolves were slowly waking up.
The betas slipped out of the door but they came back in fully dressed in their human form.
For a moment Stiles thought that Sean would die of a heart attack when Erica greeted him with a cheerful "good morning" while she was still busy buttoning up her business blouse but then she made her pancakes and nobody could resist those.
It was the middle of the week so after breakfast they all left for school, work and campus, except for Derek who was left with the dirty dishes.
"Your pack is pretty cool." Sean admitted when they were alone in Stiles' jeep.
"I know." Stiles grinned at him. It felt like a victory.
Then it was time for Derek's trip to South America and they still hadn't come around to the knotting part.
Derek left but Stiles had only a few days to miss him before a call from his dad made him forget everything else.
"She's waking up."
Chapter 50
Masterpost