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“What.” Derek let out as if he forgot who he was.
“Moonflowers- Moon vines and interestingly enough a morning glory” He grinned with a little finger waggle as he walked deeper into the loft, “They're a type of tropical plant, bloom at night Highly poisonous.” Stiles pointed out. Derek glanced to Isaacs direction.
“Exactly Mr. Wolf- I thought my hunch was just that before I found out half the school was poisoned too, But because Isaac is a wolf he only suffered mild symptoms-”
“I'm right here you know.” Isaac pointed out with a sour tone and frown- he's hanging out with Derek to much Stiles noted to himself with a glance. “What you couldn't of just called?”
Stiles mock gasped, hand to his chest in the dramatics he was more well known for.
“Izzy-”
“Don't you dare.”
The two stared off before Derek interrupted with a growl.
“Long story short someone tried to poison the whole School with Moonflowers- Ironic really considering the situation with the pack.”He muttered the last few words to himself, holding his own chin.
“And how did you know that?”Derek asked with one large lift of his furry brows, Stiles froze but waved it off.
“Psh, A human has to have some secrets Sourwolf.” Stiles grinned and pointed to the loft doors with a snap and finger guns, “Schools canceled by the way considering what happened, I'll leave you two to do whatever you two do?” He shrugged with a confused face, like he was trying to understand his own worlds.
“Isaac normally hangs out with Erica and Boyd.” Derek responded back like it was normal conversation.
“I am right here.”Isaac lets out as he stands up from the kitchen island where he was having a nice breakfast.
Either way Stiles left with a toddles type finger wave, whistling to himself, he was in a good mood today- not because people where poisoned mind you fucking hell Stiles isn't a horrible person what the fuck- He was able to garden- yeah one track minds do that to a person.
Stiles was ecstatic when he realized what he had found on the right side of the house, passing from the front to the back like he had done many times as a kid getting off the bus from school. He was doing some cleaning, pulling shit out and dragging it to a much less cluttered area when it caught his eye.
Chicks n' hens!
He knelled down and cleaned away more weeds, finding the succulents even seemed to flourish where they had been left all those years- he had to clean it now, so he did. The garden bed took him longer than he thought, three hours, though that might be the perfectionism worming it's way into his brain, he was still working when all of a sudden there was a voice.
”HOLY FUCKING SHIT JESUS CHRIST WHAT THE FUCKING SON OF A WHORE-!!” a string of curses left Stiles as he was spooked up and flailing, but then he saw Derek standing there and just looking miffed as hell.
Stiles let out a sigh, “Derek what in the fresh hell! I've told you not to fucking do that, What is it? What do you want?” Stiles slowly went back down, getting onto his kneels and sitting on his feet by the garden bed. Derek glanced from Stiles to the garden bed, as if that was a suitable answer.
For Stiles it was- or at least he knew what it meant, kind of, look he was guessing okay?
“They're called Chicks n' hens, or at least that's what Mamo called them, They're a type of succulent, Sempervivum tectorum.” The ones in question where a green base, each leaf ended in a point with a maroon tip.
Derek had slowly gotten down onto the ground with Stiles, sitting on his knees, he glanced to Stiles as if questioning the whole situation but let him talk.
“There are a bunch of others that get called Chicks n' hens too, They're really good plants for a bunch of different temperatures, inside and out, can't really kill them that easily either.”He joked, “But... there are to many.... do you want some?” Stiles slowly turned his head to look at Derek.
Derek I will have you know what going hjkhfjhfd????jkgfjk??? scream?? on the inside, however Derek on the outside was calm, cool and collected, though he didn't answer Stiles was already busy running off to grab a pot and some tools to dig the succulents up.
So that's how Derek brought home a succulent to the loft, which he was not expecting to be occupied by the three trouble making Betas- well two trouble makers plus Boyd.
“Is that from Stiles?”
Derek frowned, he was in the middle of very carefully walking the plant inside, worried he was going to drop the pot if he moved to fast.
“It's definitely from Stiles, I can smell it- Plus Derek looks like he might bite us if we try touching it.” Isaac casually commented, lifting his head up and turning it to look at Derek from his phone, grin on his face.
Derek growled at them and shuffled to the stairs where he went to his room and didn't come back out, setting the succulent up in his window to get the most sun.
The poisonings are taken much more seriously, so There are two weeks off school, which is better than what normally happens, though now there is online learning which Stiles hates but it is what it is.
Stiles yanked his gloves off and answered his phone, “Hey Dad! What's up?”He moved the phone to his shoulder, holding it to his ear as he started to gather things up top bring them inside the house, their kitchen table has been turned into a plant pit stop with all the extra he's been taking out of the garden.
“I'm going to be working late.”
“Again? I know finding whoever poisoned the school is important but you're running on fumes Dad.”
“Another poisoning happened- multiple actually.”
Another one? What the fuck.
“Another one?”Stiles questioned, “What the hell Dad this … does this seem like something I should look into?” He asked, turning the sink on to wash the dirt off his hands.
“No Stiles, I don't want to getting into whatever happened here, alright?”Stiles groaned and sighed at this loudly, he hated when his Dad was like that, he could just disobey him and do it anyway-
“Do you want me to bring you Dinner?”
“Are you just asking so you can bring those plant clippings down for everyone to have one at their desk?”
“.... No comment.”There was a chuckle on the other end, Stiles took it as a yes, “I'll see you soon! Don't get pizza or burgers!” and with that he ended the call.
Stiles is laying on his back in the garden, watching the sky and the clouds pass by, he's overwhelmed now- to much is going on, from the garden and all the steps he wants to do and all the steps he has to do, trying to pin point who keeps trying to poison everyone, all of them plant related poisons.
He's just really overthinking everything, from the garden to the poisonings. He can't think right, and has no idea where to start on who it could be- Moonflowers is such a specific way to go about things, did the Lupine poisons relate to the Moonflowers? Was it the same person? If so why? What the fuck was going on?
Stiles is interrupted by his thinking when he sees in the corner of his eye a tall figure, he sits up and..
It's Boyd of all people.
It's not like Stiles hated Boyd, or even like they fought, not bad blood between them really, but it was odd to see the quieter wolf here, out of place almost with him not coming along because of Erica and Isaac.
“Hey Boyd, what brings you here?”He sat up fully, looking up to the much taller wolf, though he dropped down to be eye level with Stiles.
“I have a question.” Now that was a first.
“Yeah?”
“... I want to get my gran a house plant,”Boyd started, “she used to garden a lot but it's hard on her joints, do you have any idea what I should get?”
Stiles sat there- pretty wide eyed because that was a big responsibility, being the helper to pick out a gift for a grandparent.
“uh... what does her garden look like?”He asked, trying to get a read on what she might like.
“She has lots of flowering plants, bright colours.”
“I'm guessing she liked to bring some inside as well?” Stiles got a nod from Boyd, Stiles held his own chin as he thought, slowly standing up he said, “I think I have a few ideas-” So with that, that's why Stiles and Boyd ended up at several stores going through the plant section, it was a weird time of year but every store has some sort of plants they're trying to sell, Stiles also gave Boyd some of the best extras from his mom garden as he could before he left.
Hopefully Boyds gran likes them all.