MHA #10- Monday afternoon

[throughaphase]

When you'd gotten sucked into a locker and spent days in there, your priorities were fairly simple upon getting out. So once Kitty got to her apartment again, there was a shower, and there was food, and now it was time for her to relax on the sofa with her laptop to catch up on everything she'd missed in the last few days.

Which meant she was obsessively refreshing the BBC's website to see how the royal baby watch was going. She'd lived in the UK long enough to claim real interest in this subject, okay, shut up.


[Expecting one but open!]

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[robinonadderall]

"Tell me about it," Stiles said, pulling away so he could scrub his hands over his face. He really needed to sleep for about a month. "Things are only going to get worse before they get better, and now I have to worry about Derek too. He didn't even tell me he was going back to Beacon Hills, the asshole. After all that crap he gave me about telling him when I left."

[throughaphase]

"Trust me, I understand." Since her own last conversation with Derek had involved worrying about Stiles going back there. "Any idea what he was up to? I doubt he'd tell me."

[robinonadderall]

Stiles nodded. "Yeah, he's still trying to find out the identity of the alpha that killed Laura. We lured the alpha to the school and he practically ripped Derek's chest out through his back. Scott and I thought he was dead at the time."

That happens with Derek a lot.

[throughaphase]

Well that wasn't a happy mental image. "And he's supposed to be fine?"

[robinonadderall]

"He's pretty much healed from it," Stiles said, shrugging a shoulder. "He's more irritated I won't tell him who the alpha is but even ghost Laura told me not to. He'll find out soon and then he'll be pissed at me. Again."

[throughaphase]

"If ghost Laura told you not to, then he'll have to deal," she said, because she kind of figured Laura knew best on this one.

[robinonadderall]

"When has Derek ever been known to just deal?" Stiles asked.

[throughaphase]

"...Okay, point," she conceded. "He'll have to learn."

[robinonadderall]

Stiles snorted 'cause, yeah, no way that was happening. "Man you so did not sign up for all this when you decided to be friends with us, I'm sorry."

And they hadn't even gotten their weird romantic feelings out in the open yet! Kitty had so much to look forward to.

[throughaphase]

"Don't be. I come from somewhere where people get de-aged and re-aged and come back from the dead and cloned on a regular basis," Kitty told him. "I'm kind of used to it."

[robinonadderall]

"Still feel bad about getting my drama all over you," Stiles said. "I don't really talk like this with people back home."

And that is why canon Stiles was about five seconds from a mental breakdown.

[throughaphase]

"And that's why I like that you talk about it here. It's a lot to deal with, and you have people who are willing to at least let you get it out of your system." Lord knew she'd needed it, so she was more than happy to be his sounding board.

[robinonadderall]

"It helps I don't have to lie about the weird stuff when I talk about it here," he said. "Though it does come with the downside of making you people freak out over me. At least you're a lot more sane about it than Derek."

[throughaphase]

"I don't freak out, I worry in a reasonable manner," she corrected. "And yeah, I worry, but I also know that a few years ago I was doing the same sort of things, so."

[robinonadderall]

"And you somehow survived it," he said, smiling slightly. "Well, that gives me hope for the future."

[throughaphase]

Kitty decided she should probably not tell him that she'd more or less ran away after one too many people close to her died.

"I'm glad I could help that much."