Remember When It Used to Be Creepy? Mansion on Phoenix Way, Saturday Morning

[newroutines]

Mike had a fuller house this weekend than he'd anticipated. And you know what? He was okay with that. He liked having his own space but it could get a little lonely, too, and stress had been piling on him over the last while, between doing repairs for the shark damage on the house and trying to keep his business on its feet.

So even if there'd been more supernaturally enhanced pairs of ears in the house than would've been ideal for a night with a lady visitor who wasn't going to be in town for long... Mike was really freaking happy. He knew all of this was fleeting – Brooke would leave, and so would his assorted werewolf-adjacent friends – so he was just making a point of enjoying himself as much as he could while it was all happening.

And since he was a good host, he'd wandered into the kitchen in his sweatpants and his ratty tank and was making breakfast. A whole ton of it. Eggs and bacon and toast, the whole lot. Coffee, too, of course. And yes, he had at least half an intention of bringing Brooke breakfast in bed, but that remained to be seen.

It was a good morning out here at the mansion.

[ooc: Open for all of the people staying here, and visitors too, what the hell.]

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[justlurkinghere]

Well, bacon was enough of a lure to get Derek out of bed. Which was possibly a little sad. Just possibly.

"Do you need help?" he asked, already getting together a cup of coffee for Stiles on autopilot.

[robinonadderall]

At some point after wandering into the kitchen Stiles managed to find Derek and pull him into a hug. Mostly to use his bosom as a pillow 'cause he was still tired.

[justlurkinghere]

Which meant Derek was putting a cup of coffee down to keep him upright. "You wake up earlier than this for your internship."

[robinonadderall]

"Still tired," he said, sounding muffled with his face in Derek's boobs.

[justlurkinghere]

"I made you coffee," Derek said, bravely dealing with Stiles'... Stiles-ness. That somehow involved running his hands up and down Stiles' back soothingly. "And there's bacon."

WHICH HE WAS ALLOWED TO HAVE.

[newroutines]

"Nah, I'm good," Mike replied, shrugging. "'Less you wanna get started on pancake duty."

No one came around much these days. Let him overdo his breakfast stuff, okay.

[justlurkinghere]

Derek nodded, setting about that. "What happened to the place? Smells like bad sushi."

[newroutines]

Mike groaned, immediately. "It does?" he asked. "Still? We had a, uh, hurricane made of sharks roll through town some months back. I got a shark through the ceiling."

[gobrookeyourself]

If she was in a house full of people, she should probably at least learn their names, right?

"Hi, I'm Brooke," she said, holding out her hand.

[justlurkinghere]

"Derek." Because saying, 'I already know because werewolf hearing' was weird and rude probably. "You and Mike are..."

[gobrookeyourself]

That was kind of a complicated question when Brooke had a feeling the answer would be different if they lived in the same place.

"Let's just go with 'banging' for the moment," she said finally. "How do you know him?"

[robinonadderall]

It was really weird that Stiles could somehow navigate through the house while half-asleep still. This was the kid who shot himself in the foot and yet he managed to blindly come downstairs and follow the smell of food without running into anything.

"Mmph."

[newroutines]

"Did... did you just not open your eyes the whole way down?"

Someone had to ask these things. And that someone was Mike.

[robinonadderall]

"It's a talent," he mumbled. "Honing my FBI skills."

Also he had a long history of sleepwalking that didn't even involve murderous foxes most of the time.

[newroutines]

"Well, I'm glad I haven't renovated the place enough to fuck up your route," Mike noted, more amused than anything. "Help yourself to whatever, man."

[gobrookeyourself]

Brooke could have stayed in bed, but what was the fun in that if she was alone? So she found one of Mike's shirts (it was a cliche for a very good reason) and came downstairs with a cheery, "Good morning."

[newroutines]

She made the cliché look good, if the grin that Mike couldn't hold back was any indication.

"Aww, hey, breakfast was gonna come to you." He didn't sound like it was much of a tragedy, though. "I just got stuck making, like, a ton of it."

[gobrookeyourself]

No one had ever done breakfast in bed for her before, so Brooke was actually really touched by that.

"You are the best," she said, giving him a hello kiss. "Need help?"

[newroutines]

Oh, was he supposed to answer, instead of freeing a hand so he could cup her cheek and try and steal a second kiss right after the first? Whoops.

"Nah, Derek's on the pancakes and I've got everything else going," he said, after he'd done that. "There's some bacon and eggs and coffee ready if you wanna get started, though."

[nomoresportscars]

After sending Ethan very important videos of himself rolling his eyes at everything going on in the other rooms of the house, Jackson had slept with ear plugs in. Because all of you people were pointless.

But when he came to the kitchen, he looked rested. And apparently like he was the only person who gave a crap about what they looked like, because he was already dressed for the new day.

[newroutines]

Mike took one look at him and cocked an eyebrow.

"Okay please tell me you're not wearing some fucking Hugo Boss shit to breakfast?"

[nomoresportscars]

Jackson responded with a mild but withering look.

"And risk getting pancake grease on something actually valuable? No." So it wasn't Hugo Boss, then. "Sorry if I don't feel like dressing like a hobo, though. Fandom or not."

[robinonadderall]

"I thought we silently agreed to keep an ocean between us." Stiles had kept his part of the agreement, damn it.

[nomoresportscars]

"No one cares about what you think, Stilinski," Jackson replied without glancing up from his phone.

Rude, but his tone was more bored than outwardly hostile, so... Progress?

[robinonadderall]

"I see your charm hasn't improved," he said. "Ever heard of growing as a person? And becoming a weird lizard-werewolf hybrid doesn't count."