[ Mermaids, eat shit. Tate asks for a favour and Derek doesn't get annoyed in the brief gap of time before he follows up. He just listens, and he waits, and when Tate tells him what he wants, it only takes a second before he connects the dots and remembers what he means.
And yeah, of course he will. They're too close for Derek to comfortably stroke through Tate's hair without touching him a little more, so he has to rest his arm on Tate's side, but again, he doesn't feel that weird about it. It's the kind of comfort he's always wanted to give people, it's the kind of comfort he's only ever really found with Stiles, which - is different, obviously, to the Alpha instincts he has with Tate. He brushes back some of Tate's hair behind his ear, then just - threads his fingers through his hair, grazing over his skin. He touches him, kind and gentle, the way Talia did for him when she first saw his eyes turn blue.
He keeps his voice just as gentle. ]
Do you like mermaids because they're connected to the ocean, or... because you think fucking sailors and drowning them sounds like a metal way to spend your afternoon?
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[ Mermaids, eat shit. Tate asks for a favour and Derek doesn't get annoyed in the brief gap of time before he follows up. He just listens, and he waits, and when Tate tells him what he wants, it only takes a second before he connects the dots and remembers what he means.
And yeah, of course he will. They're too close for Derek to comfortably stroke through Tate's hair without touching him a little more, so he has to rest his arm on Tate's side, but again, he doesn't feel that weird about it. It's the kind of comfort he's always wanted to give people, it's the kind of comfort he's only ever really found with Stiles, which - is different, obviously, to the Alpha instincts he has with Tate. He brushes back some of Tate's hair behind his ear, then just - threads his fingers through his hair, grazing over his skin. He touches him, kind and gentle, the way Talia did for him when she first saw his eyes turn blue.
He keeps his voice just as gentle. ]
Do you like mermaids because they're connected to the ocean, or... because you think fucking sailors and drowning them sounds like a metal way to spend your afternoon?