If I can't get you a notebook but you still need an outlet, you can always talk to me. I'm not good at talking. Or listening. But. I'm here. If you ever need a sounding board.
No. I couldn't offer anything like that. Just a shoulder.
[ he needs to be better at learning how to support people. for his betas, for stiles, now that they're contracted. he needs to do more for people than snap and get angry and push them, especially now that he has nothing but the fear of the unknown keeping him in place. he doesn't have to rush to teach people how to survive, even if he's lucky enough to form another pack while he's here - he just has to... be a leader.
and he can do that. but having someone like tate to help him practice what he needs to practice will only make things easier. ]
I mean, he wasn't 100% a douchebag but his levels tended to vary guess it didn't help I was kind of dating his daughter and he hated that but the dude had his own demons and I don't think he kept that shit in check
Dating your therapist's daughter seems like one of the worst decisions you could make. Hope it was worth it.
I like late 90s stuff, by the way. Early-mid 2000s. That's the music I grew up with. Mostly stopped keeping up with new releases after 2005. Lost interest.
hm. guess you're passable, then. I stay kind of old school. I like vinyl more than anything else. hated using violet's ipod old tech is good. new shit can fuck off.
Wouldn't have pegged you as a hipster. Makes a certain kind of sense, don't get me wrong. Just. Had you pegged as the kind of guy who carried an ipod filled with Slipknot around with you everywhere you went. You seem like the kind of kid who would stay online until 3am looking up pictures of dead bodies.
I did like to read about cold cases, back at school. might've given the librarian the same impression for all I know. but mostly I just like poetry, classics, some decent fiction. don't need to oogle dead bodies. you see one, you've seen them all. it's just sad? empty.
Still like you better than most people, if it helps.
[ sad, empty. seen one corpse, seen them all. this is getting heavier than derek's capable of dealing with, right now, so he quickly diverts his focus. ]
I like poetry. And classic lit. Anything I can dissect and analyze. If I can read a book or a play from the 17th century, form long and critical opinions about what it represents and then argue with people on the internet about how wrong their own long and critical opinions are, then... I'll probably like that book or play.
But - okay. I'm in the same boat, I guess. It was 2011, when I came here. Spent the past few years before that doing my own thing. Didn't watch a lot of TV. Kind of fell out of step with slang. Just counting down the days until someone says something that makes me feel like an old man. Aside from, you know, "you have a geriatric dick".
Don't, she's a bit of a cocksucker. Canon to her story.
you're from 2011 too? that's kind of relieving. I lived in LA but it was kind of quiet my whole life there was just a different vibe when I was in school
[Tate hesitates for a moment because - is he supposed to recognize this name? He hasn't exactly been keeping up with news outside the house. You'd think the gossip would filter in if anything exceptional had happened, so. He raises his brows but finds this prompts him to have his own question to ask in return.]
[ jk, of course he doesn't. he's relieved, to know that the hale name isn't familiar to tate, but. could just be one of those things - maybe tate heard about the fire, but never bothered committing the details to memory. can't assume tate won't just suddenly put two and two together a few weeks from now when the name suddenly clicks. ]
No, I'm just fucking with you. That your school? Your lacrosse team go to state, or something?
[Tate didn't appreciate that - he hesitated, briefly, but relaxes with mixed feelings when Derek says the name doesn't ring a bell. It feels like it'd be something most of LA still remembers almost twenty years on, but maybe not. It has been a while and... well, he doesn't know the Hale family name either.]
wouldn't know, I got kicked out I ran track though, when I was on a team
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[ bein' a dick again. ]
What do you want the notebook for? You an artist?
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[A pause.]
no. I just like to write stuff down
notes. thoughts. whatever
my therapist used to say it was good getting stuff out in the open
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If I can't get you a notebook but you still need an outlet, you can always talk to me.
I'm not good at talking. Or listening. But.
I'm here. If you ever need a sounding board.
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because you're not nearly enough of a douchebag to replace my prev therapist
but duly noted, I guess
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Just a shoulder.
[ he needs to be better at learning how to support people. for his betas, for stiles, now that they're contracted. he needs to do more for people than snap and get angry and push them, especially now that he has nothing but the fear of the unknown keeping him in place. he doesn't have to rush to teach people how to survive, even if he's lucky enough to form another pack while he's here - he just has to... be a leader.
and he can do that. but having someone like tate to help him practice what he needs to practice will only make things easier. ]
Why was your last therapist a douchebag?
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guess it didn't help I was kind of dating his daughter and he hated that
but the dude had his own demons and I don't think he kept that shit in check
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Hope it was worth it.
I like late 90s stuff, by the way. Early-mid 2000s.
That's the music I grew up with. Mostly stopped keeping up with new releases after 2005.
Lost interest.
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hm. guess you're passable, then. I stay kind of old school.
I like vinyl more than anything else. hated using violet's ipod
old tech is good. new shit can fuck off.
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Makes a certain kind of sense, don't get me wrong. Just.
Had you pegged as the kind of guy who carried an ipod filled with Slipknot around with you everywhere you went.
You seem like the kind of kid who would stay online until 3am looking up pictures of dead bodies.
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I did like to read about cold cases, back at school. might've given the librarian the same impression for all I know. but mostly I just like poetry, classics, some decent fiction. don't need to oogle dead bodies. you see one, you've seen them all. it's just sad? empty.
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[ sad, empty. seen one corpse, seen them all. this is getting heavier than derek's capable of dealing with, right now, so he quickly diverts his focus. ]
I like poetry. And classic lit. Anything I can dissect and analyze.
If I can read a book or a play from the 17th century, form long and critical opinions about what it represents and then argue with people on the internet about how wrong their own long and critical opinions are, then...
I'll probably like that book or play.
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or middleton and dekker if we want to get
what'd you call me? "hipster"?
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You don't know what a hipster is?
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I don't get a lot of - new slang, okay? Call me retro or whatever.
I haven't been exposed to a lot of it. But I can tell when an insult's an insult.
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But - okay.
I'm in the same boat, I guess.
It was 2011, when I came here. Spent the past few years before that doing my own thing. Didn't watch a lot of TV. Kind of fell out of step with slang.
Just counting down the days until someone says something that makes me feel like an old man.
Aside from, you know, "you have a geriatric dick".
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you're from 2011 too? that's kind of relieving.
I lived in LA but it was kind of quiet my whole life
there was just a different vibe when I was in school
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Same year, same state.
Probably lived an hour away from you. If that.
Seems bizarre that we're meeting here when we were already so close.
[ a pause. ]
You don't recognize my last name at all?
"Hale".
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[Tate hesitates for a moment because - is he supposed to recognize this name? He hasn't exactly been keeping up with news outside the house. You'd think the gossip would filter in if anything exceptional had happened, so. He raises his brows but finds this prompts him to have his own question to ask in return.]
no. you know westfield high at all?
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[ jk, of course he doesn't. he's relieved, to know that the hale name isn't familiar to tate, but. could just be one of those things - maybe tate heard about the fire, but never bothered committing the details to memory. can't assume tate won't just suddenly put two and two together a few weeks from now when the name suddenly clicks. ]
No, I'm just fucking with you.
That your school? Your lacrosse team go to state, or something?
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wouldn't know, I got kicked out
I ran track though, when I was on a team
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[ he's not sure if he can ask about tate being kicked out, so... he'll break the ice a bit more, circle back to it. ]
I was the captain of my basketball team.
Would've been friends.
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and they elected you captain?
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I didn't call you out on how unrealistic it was that you stopped hiding in the corners of the library long enough to run track.
Why were you expelled?
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Nice dodge, but we're staying where we are. How'd you get to be captain?
ur telling me ur actually good at basketball?
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