The Perk | Thursday Morning

[robinonadderall]

Stiles would have thought his mopey mood would have dissipated some after being alone for a few days but, no, he was still mopey. At least he had become too tired to be angry anymore and instead was putting whatever focus he had to making sense of his weirder nemeton-related dreams. It wasn't working very well, mostly because the need for sleep kept getting in the way. He had gone to the coffee shop in hopes of not being able to sleep in there, but he was now napping in one of the chairs with his face plastered against the window and music blasting through his ipod earbuds.

It'd probably be cute if he wasn't drooling slightly and mumbling in his sleep.

[Post is open and the first person that pings gets to wake him up, anybody else will have to deal with a sleepy guy staring at his laptop]

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[justlurkinghere]

See what happened when you didn't let Derek get weird about things? Do you see?

He sighed, ordering an extra large peppermint latte along with his coffee. The latte was put down on table next to Stiles' head. Because shut up.

[robinonadderall]

Aw, that was adorable. Stiles would appreciate it once the smell of peppermint got to him 'cause right now he was dozing so soundly that he didn't notice anybody was there.

In his defense, his music was up pretty loud. It was Fleetwood Mac. Shut up, he was a gold dust woman!

[justlurkinghere]

Which would be why Derek was trying to shut off the music. He might have only succeeded in getting Miley Cyrys playing. Derek didn't know your pop music these days. Damn punk kids.

"Stiles." Fix the music.

[robinonadderall]

Well the shift in music was enough for Stiles to jerk his head up, looking confused for a moment before yanking his earbuds out and blearily staring up at Derek. "What are you doing?"

[justlurkinghere]

Derek just stared at him. Mostly because he didn't have a reasonable answer, but it was coming across as creepy and threatening glares. Which was his thing.

[robinonadderall]

Luckily Stiles was used to that by now. He looked down at the latte that he didn't remember buying. "Did you get this for me?"

[justlurkinghere]

"Yeah, I bought you a coffee." If he made the truth sound sarcastic, it was better.

[robinonadderall]

Stiles lifted an eyebrow, trying to ignore the fact he was relieved that Derek actually spoke. The silent thing was the start of one of his nightmares, don't worry him like that!

"So you did buy it for me." He wasn't about to drink a latte if he didn't know where it came from!

[justlurkinghere]

"You can toss it out if you don't want it." Oh god, you two.

[robinonadderall]

"Dude, I'm just trying to make sure the creepy barista wasn't trying to kill me," Stiles said. "It's a legitimate fear."

[justlurkinghere]

"She's not trying to kill you." She wanted a threesome now.

[robinonadderall]

"You don't know that for sure." But he was going to drink the latte anyway. "What's up?"

You had to have been hovering over him for a reason, Derek.

[justlurkinghere]

He hovered where he wanted!

"Nothing. You were asleep." On the table.

[throughaphase]

Kitty had said she was getting coffee, so here she was. And while she knew he was apparently mad at her, once she got her drink she figured she should at least come over.

"Hey." That was a start.

[robinonadderall]

"Hey." He didn't look particularly angry. Just tired. "What's up?"

[throughaphase]

"Just thought I'd say hi. How're you doing?" She was careful enough with her words to avoid 'are you okay?'

[robinonadderall]

Stiles shrugged. "Tired. Mostly focused on when I can get my next nap."

Which sucked, considering he should be gathering college application materials soon if he wanted early admission.

"You?"

[throughaphase]

"I'm okay." Which was a change from what she'd have said two days ago. "Why are you here instead of napping?"

[robinonadderall]

"Have to get something done in between naps," he said. "Just researching some stuff on sign language."

[throughaphase]

Kitty frowned. "Wasn't expecting that subject," she admitted.

[robinonadderall]

"Something I saw in a dream," he admitted. "Figured it was worth looking into."

[throughaphase]

Kitty took a seat. "Is this research on like, symbolism or are you trying to learn it?"

[robinonadderall]

"Either/or," he replied. "I don't know what I'm really trying to get out of it. Figure if it's different from the usual terrifying nightmare it should be looked into."

[throughaphase]

"You might want to talk to Clint," she said after a pause. "It's one of the many languages he knows some of. Might be worth a shot." And see, she even went with the story Clint had originally given her so she wasn't oversharing about personal stuff.

[robinonadderall]

"Maybe," he said evenly. "It's not really something I want to discuss with a lot of people."

Hence why he was so irritated last week.