Coffee's for Closers
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The green-eyed 26-year-old was used to his routine. He knew what to expect each and every day. There weren’t any surprises and where there were no surprises there were not any loss of expectations.
Derek had learned early on that to have hope was to have disappointment and he was sick and tired of being disappointed.
What Derek did not take into account was that life was not content to leave people be.
Things changed, no matter how resistant someone was to it. And the inevitable downward spiral of change all started with a very well made cup of coffee and a very unkind smile.
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- Part 1 of Coffee's for Closers
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Derek was quite used to messing things up.
It wasn’t something he intentionally set out to do, which was only funny because most people didn’t believe that after meeting him, but it was something he begrudgingly got used to.
Begrudgingly.
In college, they had named him Fail-rek as a direct result of all of his defects, which yes, hurt just as much as you would expect. It wasn’t as if he set out to be as incompetent as he apparently was but when you continually kept making mistakes what was there to do other than accept your lot in life and move on?
(He did beat the crap out of anyone who called him Fail-rek to his face though, don’t even get him started.)
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- Part 2 of Coffee's for Closers
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Laura Hale was not meant to be related to Derek Hale.
Derek was so positive of this, when the two of them were barely thirteen years old he had conducted a Power Point presentation to his parents about how one of them had to be adopted (Spoiler Alert: He thought it had been Laura) and that it was cruel to not tell the aforementioned child of said other family when it was obvious that she was not related to this one.
His parents had not been amused.
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- Part 3 of Coffee's for Closers
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Stiles loved Scott.
This was not an observation.
This was not a guess.
This was a fact.
Stiles, when asked, would actually profess said love for Scott without the slightest bit of hesitation, eyes glittering with warmth and affection as he would go on and on about Scott’s many incredible qualities and why both he and Scott meshed so well together.
Derek was not so much a fan.
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- Part 4 of Coffee's for Closers
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Derek was all about boundaries.
In fact, he would go on record as to saying that he loved boundaries.
They were the only consistencies he actually felt any affinity for growing up in a house full of women who loved to push until they got their way.
From Cora trying to sneak into his room and being allowed to actively deny the little wretch access to ducking an interrogation from Laura over his dating habits because it was, as his parents repeatedly said, none of her damn business, boundaries compromised of a majority of the happiness he had in his, admittedly mostly downtrodden, life.
When he didn’t have these boundaries…
Things happened.
And not very good things, either.
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- Part 5 of Coffee's for Closers
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Both Derek and Stiles were much more alike than either man cared to admit.
Both men had gone into the relationship thinking that it was temporary, despite both of their protests to the contrary. The thought of being together was the relationship equivalent of handling a time-bomb; set to a time limit and once detonated, not salvageable. Although Stiles and Derek were positive that they wouldn’t be the one to end it, it would ultimately pan out in disaster when it did. They didn’t see the other man’s devotion. Not when they were both so used to failure and disappointment.
The problem with that type of mentality when you were in a relationship was that when it did end and the dust settled and everyone was scattered away from each other, you were never quite ready for the inevitable goodbye.
Both Derek and Stiles were much more alike than either man cared to admit and they would both come to pay for it dearly.
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- Part 6 of Coffee's for Closers
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Stiles stared at the piece of paper within his hand and read and re-read and re-read until his eyes burned.
It seemed that whenever Stiles felt like he had everything figured out, Derek just had to go and switch up the rules of the game and make the younger brunet feel as if he were completely out of his depth.
He sat down on his bedroom floor and sighed.
For once in his life, Stiles honestly didn’t know what to do.
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- Part 7 of Coffee's for Closers