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[studmuffin]

When: August 14th.
Rating: R.
Characters: Everyone! Tell your friends!
Summary: There are no Star Wars people in the City so let's have ourselves a bit of education.

What started off as a brosession quickly turned into a free for all movie night. Not that Stiles minds considering, but it means he has to plan and execute everything a lot more smoothly. So when Saya offers up the equipment they need he jumps at the chance.

Isaac helps cart everything about - werewolf strength, Stiles is envious -, and together they track down a space in Xanadu and fill it. It's not a hot night but it's warm and balmy and nobody's going to end up with pneumonia. Squashy beanbags get borrowed off a particularly hipster coffee shop and placed liberally about the place. They take what they can, couches that fit out of doors and large obnoxious cushions so everyone has a place to settle. There's a fuckton of candy too. Stiles pretty much wipes out a weeks allowance alone getting it and the soda. But if he's doing something he's doing it properly and he texts everyone the time and the place and all but collapses into a beanbag.

When people arrive he'll move. Honest.

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[affectioning]

"But, you are," he says, leaning his head forward. "It might be weird and Derek but, he cares about you." A beat passes before he asks his next question. "Do you guys sleep together?" Another beat before he adds, "Have you guys..."

[studmuffin]

"No."

He sounds disappointed for a moment, then offers Scott a sheepish grin. "Derek's super into ... waiting. I'm still 65% a virgin."

Is he toeing the line? Is Scott going to make him eat the beanbag. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.

[affectioning]

"I'm going to regret asking, but, why 65%?" he asks, leaning in. Hey, Scott was serious a few weeks ago. Share and share alike.

[studmuffin]

His eyebrows arch a little. It's strange, to have it out in the open now, to have someone with who he can talk to about his not quite relationship with Derek.

"We've fooled around." He fidgets, tapping his knee. "Recently. I uh think it was mostly -- oh hey you're back in the city let me get all up in that -- most of the time he's like no stiles, go away." Pulling a face and furrowing his eyebrows.

"This is weird. The only person who knows is Chase and he guessed before we were anything."

[affectioning]

"Chase the doctor, Chase?" he asks. "I met him at Ginny's party." He was nice. He also nods. "Cool." How else is he supposed to react? "Maybe he doesn't want you to go away." Maybe it's like a hard to get thing. Not that Allison ever did that to him. Speaking of Allison. "So, a lot of people are coming tonight. You're okay I invited them, right?"

[studmuffin]

"The bearer of good drugs, yeah. He's cool."

Running a hand through his hair again, "Yeah, it's cool. That's why I got so much stuff in."

[affectioning]

"I think Allison's coming, too," he says. But, he doesn't think he was the one who invited her. He just knows she's joining them.

[studmuffin]

"So you and Allison?"

Casually steering the conversation that-a-way.

[affectioning]

He shrugs.

"We agreed it didn't mean anything," he says, looking at him. "And he admitted that something might be happening between her and Isaac."

[studmuffin]

"Wow."

And Stiles thought his life was complicated. "So what are you going to do?"

[affectioning]

"I don't know. What can I do?" he takes a second to consider something. "Also," he starts. "I might have feelings for Isaac." He tries that on for size. "Or, him for me. I don't... really know?"

See, you did think your live was complicated!

"The other day we hung out it was a great day but I think there was flirting?"

[studmuffin]

Stiles is quiet for a moment then he pulls a face, "Awh Scotty, I was going to leave Derek for you!"

No, no he wasn't. But their lives don't have to be as serious as they are back in Beacon Hills. "You think there was flirting? Who? You or him?"

[affectioning]

"Sorry to dash your hopes. But, hey if you want to join in on this massive fustercluck," he says, lips coming together. He's not one to really curse other than when he's in more intimate situations. "Or, I could just forget about Allison and Isaac and we can elope. My mom would love it."

"You know how we flirt. Like, joking flirt. Like, I'm gonna make out with you, marry you, whatever. But, then it just didn't stop? It kind of lasted all day. And -" He thinks about it. "Me and him."

[studmuffin]

"I think I'll pass on the orgy. That'd be a whole lot of anxiety for my first time, bro. I'd rather take it slow."

He reaches over and grabs Scott's Reece's and tears them open with his teeth. Invasion of space, theft of gifts, it's like the good old times. "So you're into Isaac and you think he's into you but also Allison and you and Allison had a thing again?"

[affectioning]

"There's not going to be an orgy." Bite your tongue.

Scott smiles. With Derek being out in the open, a lot has reset in a good way. Everything feels right - at least with Stiles.

"I'm not into Isaac." But, he thinks about it. "Maybe. Maybe I just hadn't hung out with Isaac in a long time." Because even if all of that was true, two of them couldn't date, any two of them because how fair would that have been? And just because he and Allison had -- their moment, it didn't mean she and Isaac didn't rightfully have something.

He shakes his head. "Maybe it's all the secrets getting to me," he smiles. "At least they're all out in the open?" He grabs a Reese's.

[studmuffin]

"A fifty shades Orgy. Choose your safe-word wisely."

He could tell Scott just to get over it and have a threesome. But maybe being in the City makes him think differently. He's seen a lot of people fall in love where they shouldn't. He's seen people cursed into relationships and staying with them. It could happen.

"Yeah. Well, no more secrets. Not from me."

[affectioning]

"Apples," he says after a second, thinking about it. "Or maybe wolfsbane." Too obvious?

At this moment, he'd laugh and then his brain would explode. This idea needs some breathing room. It needs to be given some love. It needs to ruminate. But, Stiles should keep that at the forefront of his mind as he witnesses interactions.

"Good. Same," he says, remembering back to how he and Derek had said the same thing with one more caveat. They may keep things from everyone. That was going to blow up.

[studmuffin]

"Wolfsbane is cool."

He stretches his legs out in front of himself, "Isaac knows, by the way. Derek told him."

[affectioning]

"It's not," he replies.

"Oh." He takes a second. "So does Allison. I saw her after I saw Derek." He looks at Stiles, apologetically. "But, nobody else." He thinks for a second. "We can work on my mom slowly until you turn eighteen. Maybe remind her how good he is."

[studmuffin]

"As a safeword, bro. Of course wolfsbane isn't cool."

So that's Scott, Allison, Isaac, Chase. It's a longer list than he'd like. "That's okay. We just ... have to keep it on the downlow for a while. I don't want him to freak out."

[affectioning]

"Oh. Yeah. No..."

"Derek Hale? Freak out?" Hah! Of course he would. He got a degree in freaking out. Or, would've had he gone to college. "Did Derek ever go to college?" Inquiring minds!

[studmuffin]

"I don't know?"

He pulls a face, "See, this is totally not a relationship thing."

[affectioning]

"It is. It's just your kind of relationship thing. Being in a relationship with Derek is just different than being in a relationship with anyone else..." he figures. "But, he makes your happy?"

[studmuffin]

"Most of the time?"

He shrugs again, "It's Derek. It's never going to be sunshine and rainbows all of the time. I want to punch him less and less though."

[affectioning]

"That's good..." Scott's never wanted to punch Allison. Or Isaac.