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Derek Hale. Leave a message.

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[personal profile] overshirts 2021-08-04 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you charge extra?

[ seems like something derek should charge extra for, bearing someone else's pain for an extended period time, paired with still having to focus and concentrate enough so he doesn't fucking up someone's tattoo or piercing.

not that that's why stiles is asking, but he's just curious. he could also probably just as easily check derek's paperwork and rate sheet, considering stiles is the fucking bookkeeper and it's his job to keep track of everyone's profits and payouts, etc., but. then he'd have less of a reason to text derek.

less of a legitimate reason. stiles can and does text derek about everything under the fucking sun when he feels like it. ]


Maybe you can start some kind of underground business when we get home. Like a speakeasy, but instead of slinging booze you sling ink and werewolf morphine, for people who know the password.
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[personal profile] overshirts 2021-08-04 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, at the end of the day, it is a service.
Don't some of the other artists offer like... numbing cream?
I'm pretty sure it's on our expense reports, so someone's using it, and that cost is factored into their rates whether their client uses it or not, if I'm remembering correctly.
But that's pretty much the same thing, only, you know... they're not suffering by slathering that on someone's arm/leg etc.

I know you've got a pretty high pain tolerance as it is, so it's probably not a huge deal, but
I don't know. Seems like something to think about.
Maybe you shouldn't suffer for free is all I'm saying. You've done enough of that already.

Anyway.
You're the whole draw of the speakeasy, buddy.
There wouldn't be any naps for you.
Who do you think is going to do all the tattooing and pain syphoning?
Because it sure as hell isn't going to be me.
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[personal profile] overshirts 2021-08-04 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but you pay for it with stress and tension and, as I've already said before, in case you missed it: suffering at the expense of others.
It's an expense. Just because you can handle it doesn't mean it's not, dude.


[ but stiles isn't going to sit here and argue until he's blue in the face for once - at least not now, anyway. derek might here more about this later once stiles gets home, but for now, he's willing to concede. ]

How many werewolves do you think I know?

[ correction: ]

How many werewolves do you think I know who would be willing to work under my direction and also be capable of keeping their chatty little werewolf mouth shut when it comes to the secrecy of said imaginary speakeasy?

[ those are all rhetorical questions anyway. the answer is "one", and that's derek. sorry, pal.

anyway, back to the point, and the reason stiles brought any of this up in the first place: ]


I was contemplating getting something done.
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[personal profile] overshirts 2021-08-04 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not telling you to change what you do
I'd just wondered if it was anything you'd thought about
Not to like, shit talk you to your face, but you do sometimes forget to worry about you. So.
Just checking.

If you want to keep doing it for free, by all means.
Just promise me you'll dial it back if it ever gets to be, you know. A lot.


[ dot. dot. dot. ]

Bold of you to pretend you wouldn't.

[ but - it'd be a partnership, if any sort of business were to ever exist. equals, like they always are.

stiles kicks his feet up on his desk and snorts a little at his phone, propping it over his ribs and holding it with both hands as he ignores the low hum of the shop just beyond the office door. ]


Yeah? You'd charge me?
What's your going rate?
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[personal profile] overshirts 2021-08-04 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Worrying about myself is included in worrying about you.
I need you to be okay for me to be okay.
Totally selfish, I know. I can hardly live with myself.

Hold on.
You think a BJ is equal to a month's worth of dishes???
Those two things aren't equivalent at all.
Also, that's not how this works?
That's like going into a restaurant and asking for
I don't know - a bottle of wine? And letting the restaurant decide how much it's going to cost after you've finished the whole bottle.
No one would do that.


[ rich people would probably do that, but shut up? not his point. ]

Anyway.
I got about as far as "maybe I'll get something done" before I got super woozy thinking about the pain and getting stabbed by a needle 1-20,000 times, so.
You know about as much as I do.
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[personal profile] overshirts 2021-08-04 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't even know what to say to you right now.
I think that's the worst thing you've ever said to me.


[ he's joking. well - it is probably the worst thing derek's ever said to him, but he can take a joke, however much he fucking despises theo's entire existence and all the bullshit stiles had to go through because no one wanted to listen to him, and theo knew it.

it's funny, but it's not. either way, because it's derek that's saying it, stiles can roll with it. ]


I'd rather die on the operating table a thousand times.
In no world would I willingly fuck Theo.
But also let's get this straight: he would never get to fuck me.
He would never be so lucky.


[ how fucked up is it that it takes hypotheticals about fucking one of his worst enemies to make him talk himself up? anyway, that's not even the point derek is trying to make. ]

I wouldn't want to sleep through it though.
Gotta make sure you don't draw dicks on my face.
Or put that stupid double-ring shit somewhere on my body.


[ sorry not sorry, scott. your tattoo still and always will suck. ]
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[personal profile] overshirts 2021-08-04 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's just brush that one under the rug.
Not my favorite thing to think about in any sense.


[ theo doesn't deserve anyone's time in any capacity as far as stiles is concerned, so. moving on.

for the next minute or so, stiles doesn't really say anything else. it's impossible for derek to know this - or maybe he could guess, maybe he knows stiles well enough - but stiles spends that minute chewing on the skin around his thumb nail, a little anxious, just because he's not exactly sure what derek will say.

you'd think he'd have some kind of idea, but it's... very easy for stiles to psyche himself out sometimes. self-doubt and second-guessing are, sometimes, his downfall. eventually, though, he takes his hand away from his mouth and texts with both hands, quick before he can change his mind. ]


I was thinking about maybe getting a triskele?
Small, nothing anywhere near as big as yours, maybe not the same place, but.


[ ... ]

I don't know.
The... mark on my neck tells the people who recognize what it is that I'm yours, right?
But this would be different, you know?
This would let everyone know what pack I belong to.


[ not that he's particularly worried about people knowing or not knowing, and it's not like packs traditionally get their symbol tattooed in general, but. it's something he's thought about more than once since starting his job at the tattoo shop.

he keeps typing. ]


But obviously the triskele is like a Hale thing, so it's totally cool if that's not... cool.
I could just get a piercing or something. No big deal.
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[personal profile] overshirts 2021-08-04 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ stiles is... immediately relieved that derek doesn't shut him down or reject him. he could have handled it if he had, tucked his tail (ha) between his legs and sulked about it at work for a bit while trying not to drown in his own embarrassment, but - well, he doesn't have to. he exhales, not realizing until then that he'd been holding his breath, and sinks a little more into his chair, smiling a little to himself. ]

I thought for sure you'd go for something shitty.
Can of Mountain Dew, something dweeby and mocking.


[ he's kidding, obviously, trying to gloss over how touched he is at the idea of derek getting something done for him. that's not at all what stiles was implying or expecting. an anchor. it's still weird to stiles that he could be that important to anyone. ]

An anchor could be cool, though.
Where would you put it?
Somewhere on your front, obviously, but.
Edited 2021-08-04 22:35 (UTC)
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[personal profile] overshirts 2021-08-04 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, stop.
You're gonna make me barf at work and I cannot afford that blow to my rep.


[ his "rep". okay. also, it's unclear if he's nauseated over the idea of derek getting an anchor over his heart, or the thought of a needle in his face and his skull rattling. actually, it's probably pretty obvious which one it is. ]

Jesus.

[ he takes his feet off of his desk, lets his weight bring him forward in his chair so h can lean his arms against the desk. ]

Maybe my wrist? Or my forearm, on the inside.
I like the idea of it being somewhere visible.
But I'm also kind of into putting it somewhere only you know about.


[ not like - on his ass or anything, but it's rare that stiles is less than 50% dressed around other people, so. the chances of it being kept hidden would be pretty high. ]
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[personal profile] overshirts 2021-08-04 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ god. the thought of getting tattooed twice sounds like literal insanity - however, stiles is... very, very into the mental image of derek down between his legs, mouth hot and featherlight as it brushes against ink meant for him only. his leg starts to bounce a little and he swallows, quietly clearing his throat.

it's... weird, to feel both anxious and aroused over getting a tattoo. or, well - tattoos. who the hell is he anymore? his thumbs fumble for a moment. ]


Maybe.
I don't hate the idea.
Kinda... weirdly hard over it, actually.
Not sure how I feel about that.


[ ... ]

You'd have to do that one at home.
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[personal profile] overshirts 2021-08-04 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ stiles should have more to say. he should have a hell of a whole lot more to say than this, but all he comes back with is: ]

You could tie me down, if you're so worried about it.

[ okay. no. he does have more to say, it just takes him a minute to pull himself out of whatever daydream he's half-slipping into already. ]

I'd be good.
I promise.
Okay, no, I can't promise that.
But I'd try really hard to stay still.


[ ... ]

You're really good at knowing how to make me feel good.
And it'd be important enough to me to make sure we'd get it finished.
That it looks good. Just like yours.
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[personal profile] overshirts 2021-08-04 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ is stiles wasn't so distracted by the rest of derek's reply, and the fact that he's half hard under his desk, at work, the small, bratty side of him would probably try to argue that he's plenty good, and plenty capable of keeping still.

as it stands, stiles wants nothing more than to go home right now. but going home early would require asking harley, and he's not about to walk out onto the floor half hard. over his dead body.

( besides, with his luck, he'd catch a glimpse of someone's bloody, inky arm and pass out in the middle of the shop with half a boner. how the fuck would he live that down? he'd have to quit, never leave the den again. )

he shifts in his chair, crossing his ankles under the desk and parting his knees a little, weight braced on his forearms. hunched a little over his phone. ]


You're kind of making me want to practice tonight.
After work.
You know - make sure you can put your money where your mouth is before we put something permanent on my body.


[ it's weak dirty talk, stiles is very aware. weak goading, too, but half of his brain is focused on keeping his hands on his phone, above his desk, instead of below it, working into the front of his pants. ]
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[personal profile] overshirts 2021-08-04 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ well. stiles lays his phone down flat for a second, puts his hands on the desk on either side of it, palms down. he breathes out for a second, eyes darting upwards as he glances at the door. closed, but not locked, just in case any of the artists need to talk to him about something - reordering supplies that may have been lost or damaged in all of the flooding, changing their rates to compensate for money lost while the shop wasn't open, etc.

he could just get up and lock it though. cover his ass by saying he was taking his allotted 30 minute break, if anyone does try to come in while he's... occupied.

stiles picks his phone back up, wets his lips. catches his bottom one under the edge of his upper teeth. ]


You think after being with you for this long that I haven't built up some stamina?
I should be offended.
But if you're posing a challenge


[ ... ]

I accept.

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