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[studmuffin]

Yeah.

[ Drumming his fingers against his knee. ]

[lupusalpha]

Why do you want to know?

[He's not going to dismantle any jealousy here.]

[studmuffin]

I just --.

[ He pauses, runs a hand through his hair, then moves to sit on the edge of the couch. He's not sitting on him, just beside him, tilting himself to look at Derek. ]

I'm trying to fit everything together.

[lupusalpha]

I was attracted to her. She was something clean.

[Was. Before. Before he knew that she wasn't.]

[studmuffin]

[ He crosses his arms and scratches at his elbow. ]

You don't let anyone in.

[lupusalpha]

The night of the fight, the day after, when I wasn't healing-

She helped me.

[studmuffin]

We thought you were dead.

[ A pause. ] And she didn't flip out over your massive gaping wounds?

[lupusalpha]

No, she did.

She did everything a person is supposed to do in that situation.

[studmuffin]

I'm vetoing your friends from now on.

[lupusalpha]

[Pause]

Because I make so many of them.

[And another pause]

Are you staying in this pack?

[studmuffin]

Do I have to pick one? Can I be a floating pack member?

[lupusalpha]

What happens when Scott and I disagree?

[studmuffin]

Then I make an informed decision about how you're both dumb and do my own shit.

[lupusalpha]

Not helpful.

[studmuffin]

[ He offers him the slightest of smiles. ]

I'm not going to choose, Derek. But I'm not leaving you either.

[lupusalpha]

[He takes a moment, then reaches for him. Come here.]

[studmuffin]

[ He shifts closer, into Derek's embrace. And maybe he should put a stop to this because of everything that's happening back home but he doesn't. ]

Our lives suck.

[lupusalpha]

Yeah, they do.

[studmuffin]

Peter told me about Paige.

[ He figures that should be something Derek knows. ] When you were gone. I kind of cased your place with him and Cora.

[lupusalpha]

[Whoa.

Derek's face shuts down, then. Seriously shuts down.]

I'm not talking about Paige.

[studmuffin]

[ Well, that's alarming. ]

Okay. I just thought --. Okay. Sorry.

[lupusalpha]

[He goes very still, but]

As long as we understand each other.

[studmuffin]

Yeah, loud and clear.

[ Not really, no. But hey, he's backing off. ]

[lupusalpha]

[He reaches for him, then, and pulls him closer, to take a hit of his scent]

[studmuffin]

Junkie.

[ Though not that he minds. ]