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[immuno]

WHO: STILES STILINSKI, LYDIA MARTIN, DEREK HALE, and NICK BURKHARDT
WHERE: Residence #023, Police Station
WHEN: Week of July 15
WHAT: Stiles and Lydia being a detective team (again).
WARNINGS: Stalking

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[ex_question191]

Derek doesn't eat anyone.

[ also kinda side-eying nick a little here because like seriously even peter hale didn't eat people and he was a rampaging murderer. ]

Are you sure you're not thinking of vampires? Or maybe cannibals. Werewolves are mostly the "uncontrollable mauling" kinda monsters.

[connate]

[ Wow what the hell. ]

Vampires don't exist. And a lot of Wesen are cannibals, but it isn't... like I said, we don't have werewolves. Not exactly.

[ Maybe he'll just loan them the journal, it'd be easier than explaining. Nick pauses, glancing between them, and his tone's entirely light at this point; not even annoyed. ]

We can do the history lesson later. The important thing here is that I'm not a serial killer.

[immuno]

That has yet to be proven.

[ Just sayin. You're still on trial. ]

Can we rewind to explaining what a Wesen is? That's German, right?

kills tagging order

[connate]

[ Pause to look slightly impressed. Why does everyone know German better than he does. ]

Yeah. It means creature. [ He nods towards the book, though he stays on his side of the table, giving them space. ] Those are Wesen.

[ex_question191]

[ stiles checks out the drawings again, now that he can take his leisurely time instead of trying to keep up while lydia flicks through the book really fast. some look more familiar than others, but most of them seem human. ]

None of these are werewolves. Though that one kinda looks like a were-goat.

[immuno]

That's all of them? All of the monsters that you hunt, or fight, or—All of the Wesen you've seen are in that book?

[ She still wants to rifle through it for banshee things desperately tbh. ]

[connate]

Were-goat, were-lion, were-everything. I'm pretty sure one of them is just an alien. [ Said to Stiles, then he's looking to Lydia with an easy confirmation. ] Just the ones I've seen. But I don't fight all of them— just the ones who commit crimes.

[ Sometimes sort of a cop?? His brow furrows, thoughtful, but his tone implies disbelief. ] You only have werewolves?

[ Pointedly not looking at Lydia. Still no idea what she is, but he's 99% sure it'’s not vanilla human. ]

[ex_question191]

I know a werecoyote, actually.

[ he shrugs, not wanting to talk about malia. ]

And uh, I was possessed by a Japanese trickster demon for a while.

[ casually redirecting attention off lydia, even though he doesn't wanna talk about the nogitsune, either. ]

[immuno]

My ex-boyfriend turned into a murderous, amnesiac lizard for a while.

[ Draws the attention off both of them!! She's not coming out with the banshee thing, but she also doesn't want Nick digging at Stiles' experience with being possessed. While she's gotten no confirmation that he's fragile about the whole thing, she has her suspicions. Like the fact that this is one of the first times they've even spoken on the subject, and it's clearly intended to be passed off quickly.

She meets Nick's gaze when she says it, a clear, hard dismissal of any interest he might have in why she tracked him down into that alley. She knows he's trying to figure it out, and she's not fucking telling. Not for now, anyway. ]

[connate]

[ The deflection doesn't go unnoticed, if only because he's used to conducting actual interrogations. The thing is that it's a very, very good deflection, so he quits digging. ]

And you're getting on my case because my werewolves eat people. [ What the hell, guys. His expression is appropriately disbelieving; he may be surrounded by weird shit, but he still reserves the right to call it weird. ]

Whatever, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to hurt Derek. [ Your loyalty to that asshole is both cute and strange, p.s., but he's not going to comment. ] So we're good, right? You guys can quit playing Nancy Drew.

[ Is the implication there that Lydia's in charge? Absolutely. ]