Police officer is an awesome career. Trust me. [Grinning a little stupidly, he thinks back--the Sheriff had offered fake police badges for the boys, next time he saw them. Taking out his phone, grateful for the shift in conversation, he starts to send a text to his dad.]
are you on patrol? 5th and oak
[And then, naturally, Scott brought it back up. Exhaling noisily, he shoved his hands back into the pockets of his hat, thinking. What did he like to get.
After a beat, he grins.]
Dunno. Think I'd be more impressed if it was a surprise.
[ Derek doesn't sound very apologetic towards Isaac, honestly. But he does have the good grace to pretend to look apologetic, even as he bites the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing.
With Scott's questions, he tips his head just enough to look at the side of Stiles' face while he texts.
The fact he's still looking when he grins is probably a bad thing. ]
[Dad might be the best alpha, but sometimes he needed help. Which was okay. Taking the map when Isaac allowed him, Scott absently begins to read over it.]
[Grinning at the return message, Stiles tucks his phone back into his pocket and looks across the street to the sign reading Oak Street. For the record, he's a totally awesome Honorary Dad.
Letting the boys talk to their dad for a minute, he hangs back with Derek, waiting for the telltale sirens of his dad's arrival.]
True. Neither of us are ever really very sorry, anyways.
[ He obviously doesn't mean it as he says it, if the expression on his face says anything. Derek then turns his attention to Scott, a much better decision than staring at Stiles more, and sighs heavily. ]
[ Derek started to smile the moment Scott touched at his face, but the hug gets a full, if quiet, one onto his face easily. Reaching, he scoops his forearm underneath Scott's tail, supporting him on it as he hugs him against his chest. It also makes it easier for him to reach at Derek's ears, which he knows will be inevitable.
As Laura goes to join them, he looks up at her from Scott for a second. There's a faint sheen of electric blue that flashes across his eyes, but it's more in recognition than anything else. When he sees her smile, though, he looks back down and hides his own against Scott's dark hair, one of his ears cocking to the side.
He knows that look. ]
Slow. There was a pop quiz in math, but I'm pretty sure I passed it.
[Isaac nearly screeches but holds his tongue, eyes flashing gold when he jumps and grabs onto Scott's arm. Seeing the police car he almost panics- until he realises who's inside, and puts on an embarrassed pout.]
[Scott squeezes Derek around the neck quickly before reaching up to pull gently at his ears, grinning as hard as he can. He hasn't seen Derek's ears in forever and he's so excited he nearly starts bouncing in Derek's arms. His tail wags, at least, and his own ears perk.
Looking back over his shoulder at Laura, Scott points at Derek's ears excitedly, and then notices Laura's. Beaming, he points at hers too before giving a little tiny howl- and signing the word for 'wolf'.]
[ Though Derek's reaction is less visible compared to his boys'-- he does jolt, but it's in surprise and a tinge of pain more than anything else-- with his eyes staying that almost colorless green rather than flashing red, his arm tightens around Stiles' where they're joined together.
Resisting the urge to shake his head to get the squawk of the siren out of his ears, he raises his free hand from within the folds of the cloak and points to his side at Stiles in answer. ]
[Scott and Derek are apparently conniving together to melt Laura's heart into a goddamn puddle. Flicking her ears forward in response to Scott's excited grin, she lifts her hands and turns her wrists in an arc, then turns one inward--the slang sign for "pack". Werewolf terms weren't exactly covered in the ASL dictionary, after all. ]
[ Rather than joining Scott in a howl, Derek simply watches his sister sign to the pup and lets out a subvocal rumble, straight from his chest. Ever since Scott was born, he'd always made sure to make the not-noise while holding him, just to give him something familiar to focus on every time he started to get upset or needed to sleep.
The vibration peters out when Laura questions him, but it's mostly so that it doesn't lead him to growling out his response instead of speaking it. ]
A little. [ He bounces Scott to get his attention, but lets him play with his ears. ] What about you, Scott?
[Scott knows that word, too, and he signs it as he lets go of Derek's ears. At the sound of his rumbling, however, Scott leans back against Derek's chest and smiles contentedly, signing the word 'pack' to himself, as well as other little signs.
When Derek bounces him, Scott looks up at him, head still against Derek's chest. He signs, 'hungry' with the tell-tale tilt of his head that marks a question, and then nods.]
Yes.
[Pointing to himself as if to imply 'me too', he nods again.]
[Derek's arm tightening on his is surprising enough that it makes Stiles jump too, flailing out his other arm enough that his hat jostles around. But before he can say anything about that, Derek points at him and he drops his jaw open in a mock annoyed face, then turns to the sheriff, drawling.]
I'm calling the he who smelt it, dealt it rule, officer.
Just my famous trick or treating route! Delinquents not included, we've got a couple superheroes, a nearly headless lordling aaaand the most awesome direwolf to have ever direwolfed.
[This time when his jaw drops it's not mockingly. A flush turns high in his cheeks and he shoots Isaac a look, suddenly feeling the overwhelming want to sink into the ground. Kids say the darndest things. And in front of his dad, too. At least he'd only caught the first half of Isaac's sentence, lacking that necessary super hearing.]
And no, totally not, that'd be weird. Ned didn't even want to keep the direwolves. I could have gone for a much cooler couple's costume, instead.
[ While Stiles might not hear what Isaac says, Derek does, and he slowly levels his mischievous son a disgruntled look. Kids say the darnedest things his ass, Isaac knows exactly what he's doing. Scott's at least mostly innocent, but sometimes...
Sometimes what he says winds up being worse than what Isaac could, just because of how earnest it can get.
Silently, he hopes that they don't say anything else mortifying to the sheriff, even as he realizes he should probably slip his arm out of Stiles'. ]
Ned was an idiot about that. [ Well, he was. ] I really don't want to know what you could've done instead.
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