Derek leaves the hospital and heads to the diner to see Stiles and get breakfast. Derek makes sure to sit in the same seat as yesterday. He picks up his menu and looks at the breakfast choices.
“Hello sir, what breakfast can I get you?”
Derek chuckles, “I’ll have the bacon eggs and hash browns, with a coffee.”
Stiles nods his approval, “How would you like your eggs and coffee?”
“Fried, cooked all the way and coffee black.”
Stiles nods as he writes it down then he tears an order sheet from his booklet and sits it down with a pen and walks off toward the kitchen. Derek looks at the paper, “Your late, how was James?” Derek chuckles and writes below it, “Jeff is an asshole! James is great, I stayed a little longer than planned because I accidently scared James when I was arguing with Jeff. But he's fine now.”
While Derek is sitting there waiting on his food, his phone vibrates. So he pulls it out to see he has a text message from Laura. “Aww you two look adorable Der! Is that your mate’s kid? Mom gushed about how happy you look. Dad commented on how you are going to be a great father and alpha one day.” Derek smiled and texted back, “Thanks sis, yeah Stiles’ boy James. Call you after work with more details gotta go now.”
Just after he sends that Stiles walks over to the table and sets the plates and coffee down and reads the note. Stiles smiles and turns to leave but Derek says, “Hey wait a sec I want to show you something.” Derek pulls up the picture of him and James and shows Stiles.
“Aww Derek you both look so happy! Is that after you calmed him down?” Stiles says quietly
“Yeah he fell asleep after this was taken.” Derek answered.
Stiles smiled touched Derek's shoulder lightly then went back to work. Derek ate his breakfast and drank his coffee, then he raised his arm and Stiles came over and said, “Here’s the check sir.”
Derek grinned and said, “I hate being called sir. Maybe Mr. Hale if your job requires you to be formal.” Then he hands Stiles his master card.
Stiles chuckles, “Alright Mr. Hale follow me to the cash register.”
Derek grinned and said “Thank you Stiles.”
Stiles swipes Derek's card then hands it back to him and whispers “Are you coming by to see James later?”
Derek nods, “Yeah if that’s ok with you plus I promised him I would try to see him before he went to bed.”
Stiles smiles and whispers, “That’s great Derek! I don’t mind at all. Do you remember how to get to the apartment?”
Derek nods again, “Yeah I remember, but I might have to work later beens I'm late.”
Stiles eyes widen, “If you knew you would be late you should have just went to work.”
Derek grins, “I called in and told them I would be late, plus I wanted to see you and I need to eat.”
Stiles blushes a little, then he speaks up “Well have a nice day Mr. Hale you come back and see us.”
Derek smiles and turns to leave but Stiles calls him back, “Yeah Stiles?”
“Come here.” Derek leans closer and Stiles kisses his cheek and whispers, “have a great day Derek.”
Derek smiles and kisses Stiles’ cheek, “You have a great day to Stiles.” Then Derek leaves for work an hour late.
Angie having seen the whole thing walks over to Stiles and says, “Is he family?”
Stiles who is smiling like an idiot turns to Angie, “No why?”
“Oh just that when we were together you weren’t gay and you two kissing each other’s cheeks make you seem gay Stiles.”
“Oh I forgot to tell you, I’m bi and Derek and I are seeing each other sorta.”
“What do you mean sorta?”
“Well we haven’t been on a date yet, but Derek does care for me and James. I told him we could go out sometime if he wanted.” Stiles says with a smile
“Oh I see, I'm not good enough for you but a man you just met is.” Angie says angrily
“Angie I told you we would never work, you have completely different life goals.” Stiles says with a sigh. Angie just stomps off angrily.
LINE
Later at Hale Inc. Derek walks in and a nice looking young man in his early twenties walks over to Derek and says, “Hey man you’re an hour late. Where have you been?”
Derek smiles at the young and replies, “Sorry Jimmy I know, my mate’s kid is sick and I visited him in the hospital.”
Jimmy’s eyes widen at the word mate. “You mean you found your mate?”
Derek smiles a bright happy smile, “Yeah Jim I did.”
Jimmy smiles, “And they have a kid.”
Derek nods, “Yeah Stiles is my mates name, he's a guy, and his sons name is James.”
Jimmy doesn’t look too shocked at the fact Derek's mate is a guy. “I’m so happy for you Derek! When I can I meet them?”
Derek chuckles, “Well Stiles and I aren’t together yet. Just earlier today he told me after he makes sure James is ok, that I can take him out sometime if I want.”
Jimmy smiles, “Does he know about your family yet?”
Derek frowns, “No I haven’t told him anything. He was married before to a woman named veronica they were high school sweethearts. But after James was born she got addicted to drugs and it hurt Stiles. He divorced her after two years and got sole custody of James.”
Jimmy frowns, “Ouch he's had it rough. So when do you think you’ll tell him?”
Derek frowns, “I don’t know jimmy, I wanna tell him now but he's still confused about his feelings for me. Then I wanna wait till he's in love with me but then we will have been together a while, it would hurt and maybe anger him that I didn’t tell him sooner.” Derek sighs
“Oh man, Derek maybe your dad can help aren’t you supposed to go to the family dinner tonight?”
Derek chuckles, “Yeah, are you still going?”
Jimmy grins, “I still can believe your dad made me family.”
Derek grins, “Dad loves you, he has offered to make you actual family if you ever wanted.”
Jimmy smiles but shakes his head no. “Yeah but I don’t want it.”
Derek nods, “So I have to go yell at some people for not doing their jobs right, yada yada.”
Jimmy laughs and pushes Derek lightly, “You know you love being the boss.”
Derek chuckles, “Yeah I do love it.” Then Derek walks into a conference room.
