It makes Stiles' stomach churn unhappily. He doesn't live with Derek but he's around him enough to know what his home smells like, to know that the scent alone is safe and warm, the Pack, the renovated Hale house, the woods around it. They're just as comforting as the scent of his father's jacket, the shape of the gun at his back.
So here, where everything smells like the darker parts of Derek he'd thought he wouldn't have to face again, where Erica and Boyd are gone, he feels unsettled. Derek isn't his Derek, but that doesn't stop him from holding his jacket between his hands, fingers against leather and his breathing deep. In, Out. ]
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It makes Stiles' stomach churn unhappily. He doesn't live with Derek but he's around him enough to know what his home smells like, to know that the scent alone is safe and warm, the Pack, the renovated Hale house, the woods around it. They're just as comforting as the scent of his father's jacket, the shape of the gun at his back.
So here, where everything smells like the darker parts of Derek he'd thought he wouldn't have to face again, where Erica and Boyd are gone, he feels unsettled. Derek isn't his Derek, but that doesn't stop him from holding his jacket between his hands, fingers against leather and his breathing deep. In, Out. ]