Stiles was never going to open his mouth again. “Do the research yourself for once Derek! I’m not your personal walking talking Google!”

Now he regretted saying that because for the past week… that’s exactly what Derek had been doing. His own research, without once consulting Stiles. It had gotten to the point where Stiles putting post-it notes with giant black x’s on certain books to aid their alpha in his search for monster of the week because he refused to speak to Stiles and he knew how hopeless the pack was without his skills. He even printed off his own research and snuck it into Scott’s bookbag, knowing the beta would find it, play it off as his own research to Derek despite the fact that Stiles’ scent was all over it.

All he wanted was to be included again. He missed being the go-to guy for problem and most of all, he longed to have Derek lingering in the shadows of his room when he came home - and that was concerning.

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