homeless and kinda half looking?

[smilederek]

So you're pretty much certain that Peter's out to betray me, steal my pack, and take back the position of Alpha, but you want me to stay with him anyway? You spent days after the finale agonizing about how everything in my life is going to get worse, but now do you want me to fix things with my pack? Do you want me to come to a compromise with the Argents? Do you want me to finally earn Scott's trust?

No.

You want me to stay allied with the man who murdered my sister, and who you're certain is going to betray me.

Or maybe you don't know what you want, and you've just managed to figure out that this is the only real option I have left. It's the only bridge that actually survived being burned.

[The longest, longest pause.]

And before you say anything, that's just an expression, and I was not making a hilarious joke about the death of my entire family.

Comments

[homemademolotov]

I was almost sympathetic for a second before you started whining.

[smilederek]

I'm not whining, I'm having a conversation.

here comes uncle badtouch

[sassiestwolf]

You're so distrustful. That can't be healthy for you.

[homemademolotov]

It's a little one-sided.

hi uncle creepy :c

[smilederek]

It's healthier than a lot of the alternatives.

[smilederek]

Believe me, she's had plenty to say for herself.

[sassiestwolf]

Sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith.

[homemademolotov]

Was any of it coherent? I'm not getting too much of that at the moment.

[smilederek]

And yet somehow this feels more like being pushed into a canyon.

I don't have a choice about trusting you, Peter, so whether I'm doing it out of faith in your inner goodness or not doesn't actually matter.

[smilederek]

It's getting more coherent as days go by, and less interested in the idea of us getting out of this in one piece.

[Derek please the only one I don't care about the wellbeing of is you!]

I was of the impression you were already IN a game. Shows what I know.

[guilty_pianist]

[....yeah, none of what YOU'RE saying means jack to Phillip. He'll just stare.]

Not with this guy!

[smilederek]

[Well if it's a stare off you want, then you should know that Derek is AMAZING at those.]

[guilty_pianist]

[...is he staring back?

Derek's eyes make Phillip very uncomfortable.]

[smilederek]

[What? How could a pretty face like this one make anyone uncomfortable? Preposterous!

But yeah, Derek's just going to keep on staring back because that's what they're doing right now, isn't it?]

[guilty_pianist]

[And Phillip's gonna shrink back. You worry him, Derek.]

[smilederek]

[Yeah, you'd better shrink back, guy. Look at this leather jacket and this frowny face. Derek's just going to stare for a moment longer before finally coming out with:]

This is private property. You're trespassing.

[guilty_pianist]

Private...?

[How did he wander onto private property?]

I'm sorry. I didn't realize.

[smilederek]

[You're in Hale territory now, Mister. Derek's just going to put his hands on his hips and glare at you.]

Was there something you wanted?

[guilty_pianist]

No,...nothing. I must have gotten lost.

[burninhale]

Fixing things with your pack and working out a compromise with the Argents are still good ideas. They don't have to be mutually exclusive with staying allied with me. You could do it, Derek. It means going out of your comfort zone, it means trying very hard to make the connections you failed to make the first time around. But you could do it.

[robincomplex]

Okay, I know we've had our differences -- all the times you've threatened to use me as a chew toy, broken and entered into my house, held me hostage, and of course, who could forget the time you were seriously considering killing Lydia --

[Which gets the most severe Stiles face. The most severe.]

But I have invested time and effort into keeping you alive. Don't mess it up, because it would actually suck if you died.

[Mostly because Peter would be Alpha and there would be all these bb werewolves running around bumping their heads against sharp corners. ...more than usual.]

[finaltransactions]

I was labouring under the misapprehension that investing all your loyalties in one stock venue was considered unwise.

[smilederek]

Yeah, you must have.

[Glaring intensifies, because he's totally heard that one before, Phillip, and he doesn't buy it for one second!]

[smilederek]

[Huff]

Things with Erica and Boyd might just about be salvageable, but I don't think there's ever going to be peace with the Argents. The one thing in common between Kate, Gerard, Victoria, and Allison, is that we didn't start any of these fights. Every single time something has happened, to our family, to Scott? We try to let it go and they come after us again.

We have been compromising with them, but I don't think they're capable of stopping.

[smilederek]

The multiple times you falsely accused me of murder.

[Wait.]

And I don't remember holding you hostage.

[And then an eyeroll, because yeah, he's getting your motivation for his survival.]

I'm not planning on dying.