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When; Monday the 5th
Rating; G
Characters; Melissa and Scott McCall, aka Actual Puppy and Actual Pack Mom.
Summary; They've gotten a new apartment, but now it's time to get new furniture! Discussions happen about box springs and animal clinics and werewolf packs.
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She has a notebook open in front of her, with dimensions of their new apartment jotted down in front of her. She's still honestly a bit stunned with everything, but not least of which is how were they going to pay for this? The money looked like Monopoly money to her, frankly, and it didn't seem like they'd have enough for everything they needed.
So she's gonna be frugal. New beds, a sofa, a kitchen table and chairs. They can decorate more as they settle in. The only thing she's really going to splurge on is cookware. She wants a really nice set of pots and pans.
She pauses in front of a muted blue sofa, and cocks her head at it.
"What do you think? Too blue? Not blue enough?" she asks Scott. He was old enough to have an opinion on these things now.
Rating; G
Characters; Melissa and Scott McCall, aka Actual Puppy and Actual Pack Mom.
Summary; They've gotten a new apartment, but now it's time to get new furniture! Discussions happen about box springs and animal clinics and werewolf packs.
Log;
She has a notebook open in front of her, with dimensions of their new apartment jotted down in front of her. She's still honestly a bit stunned with everything, but not least of which is how were they going to pay for this? The money looked like Monopoly money to her, frankly, and it didn't seem like they'd have enough for everything they needed.
So she's gonna be frugal. New beds, a sofa, a kitchen table and chairs. They can decorate more as they settle in. The only thing she's really going to splurge on is cookware. She wants a really nice set of pots and pans.
She pauses in front of a muted blue sofa, and cocks her head at it.
"What do you think? Too blue? Not blue enough?" she asks Scott. He was old enough to have an opinion on these things now.
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She deliberately ignores the pink bed, because oh god no. That's not her style either, thank you. But she does see a nice wood-frame bed that catches her eye.
"Ooh, this looks comfy. I wonder if they have a pillow-top option?"
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Somehow.
"What's the pillow-top option?" He barely remembers furniture and bed terms from the first time they went through this. But, he remembers liking a more modern look. That's what his mom had called it when he'd pointed out all the ones he'd liked.
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She's pushing down on the mattress now with both hands, testing the firmness of it. And she looks back up at him.
"So...one for me, one for you. This is gonna be expensive, Scottie. Are you sure we have enough money for this?"
It's the first time in two decades that her finances haven't been in her direct control and it's very worrying.
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"I haven't used a lot of my allowance for the last two weeks. And your starter money can get us the apartment." It'll work. "You'll get a job at the hospital. I'll get a part time job until the clinic is ready. We can do this." He looks up at her. He means it. "And we can make Stiles get a job and pay rent." He's mostly joking. He would never make Stiles do anything - except for not get drunk and pity himself in the Xanadu gardens, but that's hours from now.
"Are you going to invite Derek?"
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But then she nods, setting her lips just like Scott is. Like mother, like son.
"I am. Whether or not he takes me up on it, I don't know. But I don't want him to think I don't want him around. He is part of your...pack or whatever, right?"
Her voice is very low when she says that, barely audible, so they can't be overheard.
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"We're on the same side," he finally comes up with. "But, I'm not in a pack." He's oblivious to what some things might mean, how Isaac has been acting - how even though Isaac and Derek are pack, Derek still sent Isaac packing. Though, the details about that are fuzzy. "He tried. Last year. I couldn't." He still didn't like what Derek did to Isaac, Erica, and Boyd. Even though they had a choice. They had no idea what they were getting themselves into.
"We can trust him."
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"Then we're on the same side," is the simple answer. "And he's on his own as well, from what you've told me. So, he can come stay with us temporarily, or for good, it's up to him. But there will be an invitation extended. After he and I hash some things out."
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"Hash what things out?" That may be the most foreboding thing he's heart all day. Perhaps this week. He doesn't love the sound of it but he knows his mother still has to be a mother. She's a parent. And not an overworked, exhausted parents right now. Not on her way out or her way to bed. Maybe things would be easier if she got to those 'I think I've parented enough for the night' moments were more frequent, like when she asked him and Stiles about the mandatory curfews.
But, things have changed. And now that they're all here in a relatively smaller space and Derek can actually be found? He knows things are going to have to be said.
"You remember it was Peter who bit me. Not Derek."
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She rolls her head just enough to take him in out of the corner of her eye, and she gives him a wry little smile.
"Peter is one of the things I want to talk to him about, frankly. But the main thing I want to talk about is thanking him for watching over you and Stiles before I got here."
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"I think I like this one for me."
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"If you like it, get it."
His abrupt change of subject is endearing, and a trick he so obviously learned from Stiles. She can only go along with him, and trust in him. Because she does trust him, he's shown he's more than capable of making good choices. Most of the time, anyway.
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"Do you like that one?" he asks, up again and taking a step towards the other bed.
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She pats the mattress one last time, and then stands up.
"So, we'll need sheets and blankets, too. I wonder if this store offers credit? Not that I can prove my FICO score to anybody here, but hey."
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"So, tables, now?" he asks, before, looking around them. "That one looks like the bed Stiles has back home." Maybe giving him actual incentive to stay will help Stiles decide to move with them. Because, he cannot live in the forest alone with Derek Hale. They can't all be that far apart.
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"Tables now. I have a feeling we're going to need more than just four chairs."
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