Ficlet: Are You Ready to Take My Hand? (Part 2)
Author: on_the_ground
Title: Are You Ready to Take My Hand? (Part 2)
Rating: G
Pairing/s: Stiles/Jackson
Character/s: Jackson, Kyle (original child character), Stiles, (mentioned), Derek (mentioned)
Summary: Jackson finally talks to Kyle about what they've decided.
Content Notes: Fluff, nobody is dead, future fic.
Warnings: None
Submission Type: Ficlet
Word Count: 999 words
Prompt: #238 - Threaten
Author's Notes: The remaining 230 words will be added on AO3. This continues "Are You Ready to Take My Hand? (Part 1)". This will be part of my series "All I Saw Was You." Thanks so much to my beta.
“Look, I’m not here to waste my time and believe me when I say that people usually make the most of my time… so, fine, since you think I’m lying…” Jackson closes his eyes and concentrates for a few seconds. When he opens them again, they are still blue but not the regular blue.. And they’re certainly not human.
“Oh-shit,” Kyle says, obviously startled.
“Believe me now?” Jackson smirks.
“How are they blue? I thought… well, I thought they were yellow.” Kyle frowns.
“No, most people think that but there are different colors.” This is not the moment for a longer explanation so that will have for now. Jackson closes his eyes again and after a few seconds he opens them again back in their human form.
“How did you do that? Can you do that all the time?” Kyle asks excited.
“Just control, I guess. And yes but no, I don’t do it all the time. It’s not for show.” Jackson almost rolls his eyes but he stops himself, after all Kyle is just a kid who is totally clueless about pretty much everything werewolf related.
“But in order to get control, you need to practice and you need a teacher. You need an alpha and you need a pack… because every wolf needs a pack.”
“A pack?” Kyle seems to be considering Jackson’s words before he speaks. “You have a pack?”
“Yes, of course, I do.”
“And Detective Stiles is a wolf too? He never said anything…”
“No, he’s human. That’s why I said before that he didn’t know, He doesn’t have my… abilities, if you wanna call it that way.”
“But, if he isn’t…” Kyle shakes his head, confused. “I mean, you’re married… you can marry a human?”
“Yes, you can. He’s part of the pack. Our pack is like a family and he’s part of the family… which is exactly what you need.”
“You’re wrong. I don’t need anybody. I’m perfectly fine by myself,” Kyle says, stubbornly.
“Oh yeah? Look around you. Look at the mess you’ve created for yourself. If you had been arrested by anybody else but Stiles, you’d have probably ended up in a detention center which I know, absolutely terrifies you because they would find out what you are the first time there was a full moon and then... then I don’t even know what would happen to you. So really, you should be really grateful to my husband for being worried about your well being and calling me without even knowing the truth about you. Are we clear?” Jackson raises his eyebrows and waits for some kind of answer.
Kyle doesn’t utter a word but he nods. And at this point Jackson is going to take whatever he can get. Plus, thanks to his own children he knows that getting kids to admit that they were wrong it’s almost mission impossible sometimes.
“Okay, I’ll take that as a “Yes, Sir. Thank you Sir… So, moving on, that colleague I brought before… Derek… he’s actually not my colleague, he’s my alpha and I called him because…well, because, that’s what you do in a case like this. You call your alpha and you ask him his opinion--”
“He’s your boss, right?” Kyle interrupts him.
Jackson smirks, he’s sure Derek would love that definition. “Umm… I guess, that’s one way to put it...” Not the way he’d put it.
“But he’s the one calling the shots, right?”
Jackson licks his lips. “Yeah, he does…” or that’s what he’d like to do “And he offered to make you part of his pack… my pack... which honestly, it’s the best thing that could ever happen to you at this point.”
“You mean he wants me in his pack?” Kyle raises his eyebrows.
“Yeah,” Jackson nods. “That’s exactly it.”
“But… Why? I mean, he doesn’t know me. Why would he want me in his pack?”
And the way Kyle just asked that with genuine wonder in his voice… that’s why he proposed what he did… because he gets it, the thought of something good happening to you when all your life you’ve been pretty much threatened by a secret and just trying to survive somewhere where you didn’t belong must be confusing to say the least. And the thing is that dealing with kids is always complicated but dealing with kids with trust issues is something else entirely.
“The same reason why I’ve offered myself as your temporary guardian... because we want to help you. And yes, we just met you but you’re a wolf like me, and you don’t know what it means… you’ve never had your parents to raise you and help you. And as a father myself, I know that I’d like somebody to take care of my kids if something happened to me and unfortunately, it’s obvious that your parents couldn’t trust anybody… so--”
“Wait.” Kyle interrupts him. “You have kids?” Kyle raises his eyebrows. “And you wanna be my guardian?”
“Yes, I have a couple of those…” Jackson can’t help but smile. “They’re fourteen and seventeen. And yeah, since you need to sleep somewhere tonight and social services can’t find out what you are, we’ve thought about it and we’ve decided that staying with us until the case is over and we can figure out--”
“Until the case is over?”
“Well, yeah. I mean, we’re taking things one step at a time… we don’t know how long it’s going to take and today has been a long day and we all need to get some sleep, okay? So if you trust that we’re doing what’s best for you, you’ll come with us and we’ll see what happens… all I can promise you right now is that we’re all acting in your best interest and we’re really trying to protect you. So, are you going to trust us and let me do my job?”
(230 words left)
Title: Are You Ready to Take My Hand? (Part 2)
Rating: G
Pairing/s: Stiles/Jackson
Character/s: Jackson, Kyle (original child character), Stiles, (mentioned), Derek (mentioned)
Summary: Jackson finally talks to Kyle about what they've decided.
Content Notes: Fluff, nobody is dead, future fic.
Warnings: None
Submission Type: Ficlet
Word Count: 999 words
Prompt: #238 - Threaten
Author's Notes: The remaining 230 words will be added on AO3. This continues "Are You Ready to Take My Hand? (Part 1)". This will be part of my series "All I Saw Was You." Thanks so much to my beta.
“Look, I’m not here to waste my time and believe me when I say that people usually make the most of my time… so, fine, since you think I’m lying…” Jackson closes his eyes and concentrates for a few seconds. When he opens them again, they are still blue but not the regular blue.. And they’re certainly not human.
“Oh-shit,” Kyle says, obviously startled.
“Believe me now?” Jackson smirks.
“How are they blue? I thought… well, I thought they were yellow.” Kyle frowns.
“No, most people think that but there are different colors.” This is not the moment for a longer explanation so that will have for now. Jackson closes his eyes again and after a few seconds he opens them again back in their human form.
“How did you do that? Can you do that all the time?” Kyle asks excited.
“Just control, I guess. And yes but no, I don’t do it all the time. It’s not for show.” Jackson almost rolls his eyes but he stops himself, after all Kyle is just a kid who is totally clueless about pretty much everything werewolf related.
“But in order to get control, you need to practice and you need a teacher. You need an alpha and you need a pack… because every wolf needs a pack.”
“A pack?” Kyle seems to be considering Jackson’s words before he speaks. “You have a pack?”
“Yes, of course, I do.”
“And Detective Stiles is a wolf too? He never said anything…”
“No, he’s human. That’s why I said before that he didn’t know, He doesn’t have my… abilities, if you wanna call it that way.”
“But, if he isn’t…” Kyle shakes his head, confused. “I mean, you’re married… you can marry a human?”
“Yes, you can. He’s part of the pack. Our pack is like a family and he’s part of the family… which is exactly what you need.”
“You’re wrong. I don’t need anybody. I’m perfectly fine by myself,” Kyle says, stubbornly.
“Oh yeah? Look around you. Look at the mess you’ve created for yourself. If you had been arrested by anybody else but Stiles, you’d have probably ended up in a detention center which I know, absolutely terrifies you because they would find out what you are the first time there was a full moon and then... then I don’t even know what would happen to you. So really, you should be really grateful to my husband for being worried about your well being and calling me without even knowing the truth about you. Are we clear?” Jackson raises his eyebrows and waits for some kind of answer.
Kyle doesn’t utter a word but he nods. And at this point Jackson is going to take whatever he can get. Plus, thanks to his own children he knows that getting kids to admit that they were wrong it’s almost mission impossible sometimes.
“Okay, I’ll take that as a “Yes, Sir. Thank you Sir… So, moving on, that colleague I brought before… Derek… he’s actually not my colleague, he’s my alpha and I called him because…well, because, that’s what you do in a case like this. You call your alpha and you ask him his opinion--”
“He’s your boss, right?” Kyle interrupts him.
Jackson smirks, he’s sure Derek would love that definition. “Umm… I guess, that’s one way to put it...” Not the way he’d put it.
“But he’s the one calling the shots, right?”
Jackson licks his lips. “Yeah, he does…” or that’s what he’d like to do “And he offered to make you part of his pack… my pack... which honestly, it’s the best thing that could ever happen to you at this point.”
“You mean he wants me in his pack?” Kyle raises his eyebrows.
“Yeah,” Jackson nods. “That’s exactly it.”
“But… Why? I mean, he doesn’t know me. Why would he want me in his pack?”
And the way Kyle just asked that with genuine wonder in his voice… that’s why he proposed what he did… because he gets it, the thought of something good happening to you when all your life you’ve been pretty much threatened by a secret and just trying to survive somewhere where you didn’t belong must be confusing to say the least. And the thing is that dealing with kids is always complicated but dealing with kids with trust issues is something else entirely.
“The same reason why I’ve offered myself as your temporary guardian... because we want to help you. And yes, we just met you but you’re a wolf like me, and you don’t know what it means… you’ve never had your parents to raise you and help you. And as a father myself, I know that I’d like somebody to take care of my kids if something happened to me and unfortunately, it’s obvious that your parents couldn’t trust anybody… so--”
“Wait.” Kyle interrupts him. “You have kids?” Kyle raises his eyebrows. “And you wanna be my guardian?”
“Yes, I have a couple of those…” Jackson can’t help but smile. “They’re fourteen and seventeen. And yeah, since you need to sleep somewhere tonight and social services can’t find out what you are, we’ve thought about it and we’ve decided that staying with us until the case is over and we can figure out--”
“Until the case is over?”
“Well, yeah. I mean, we’re taking things one step at a time… we don’t know how long it’s going to take and today has been a long day and we all need to get some sleep, okay? So if you trust that we’re doing what’s best for you, you’ll come with us and we’ll see what happens… all I can promise you right now is that we’re all acting in your best interest and we’re really trying to protect you. So, are you going to trust us and let me do my job?”
(230 words left)