thepicketfencecliche | canon au } { post-s4, of holiday planning and ebola scares

Scott: No, maybe it's better if I don't bring Dad...

Dawn: Okay. It's your call. But I figured we'd be polite and invite him too.

Stiles: I can totally fake an amber alert for him to go chase so he will think he's the one excusing himself from the invite.

Dawn: We are not faking the kidnapping of a child.

Stiles: But it's a fake child. So we're not putting a real child in danger.

Dawn: We're not fake kidnapping a fake child.

Stiles: So we're kidnapping a real child?

Dawn: There is no kidnapping!

Stiles: Fine! ....... Ebola?

Dawn: [squints] Giving him Ebola?

Scott: We're not giving my dad Ebola.

Stiles: Did I say that? No, a fake ebola scare.

Dawn: [shakes her head] We just had one of those. People would start to wonder about this town.

Stiles: We can…

Scott: No, I'll just talk to mom about having two dinners - one with him, one with the pack

Dawn: That's what we're doing with Peter!

Scott: So it's a sold plan that will work.

Dawn: [nods] I think so.

Scott: Okay. I'll tell Mom.

Stiles: And if it doesn't work, we can have Liam get kidnapped by someone with Ebola. [because no, he just had to add that out of spite]

Dawn: [... sigh, Stiles]

Cora: Why are you so obsessed with Ebola?

Stiles: It's the in thing right now?

Cora: [she shakes her head a bit] Beacon Hills does not need Ebola.

Stiles: No, it really doesn't.

Cora: So that's Thanksgiving then? Dinner with Peter and then the mass Slayer-Hunter invasion?

Derek: That works.

Cora: Sounds like fun.

Stiles: So does Peter know he actually is hosting a Thanksgiving? Cause I'm assuming when we say dinner with Peter, that means his place and he's cooking, right?

Cora: Will Buffy let him cook?

Stiles: Does Peter even know how to cook?

Derek: [shrugs] I've never seen him cook.

Dawn: ... We'll figure it out.

Scott: There's nothing wrong with a KFC Thanksgiving, you know.

Dawn: Tell Buffy that.

Cora: She insisted on having Thanksgiving dinner even when we were living in Scotland.

Scott: Well, do you have KFC in Scotland?

Stiles: I dunno.

Cora: We didn't look for one.

Scott & Stiles: Huh.

Dawn: Buffy feels for Thanksgiving what most people feel for Christmas. She'll want to do it right, no matter how small the meal is.

Derek: Peter may be safer to just let her take over the kitchen and stay out of her way. I think I almost got stabbed last year and it was my kitchen.

Cora: I don't think he'll have a problem with that. He dealt with mom for years, after all. [she doesn't remember much about Hale Thanksgivings, but she remembers her mom being very protective of the kitchen]

Derek: Yeah, but Mom and Buffy are two different people.

Cora: True.

Derek: And Mom and Peter were actually very close. Like you, me and Laura were. So he'd get away with things with her.

Cora: He still hung out in the living room when she was cooking.

Derek: I just remember he would take me to the basketball court on the driveway to play for a while.

Cora: [she shrugs] Mom always put me to work.

Derek: I got dishes. [wrinkles his nose]

Cora: [laughs a bit] I was usually setting the table.

Derek: [chuckles] Yeah. it was different back then.

Cora: [she nods] Now I just hide in my room until Buffy's finished, and then have a post-turkey nap after.

Stiles: Well, we can do something before? Like a movie?

Cora: We could, if there's anything out.

Stiles: There's always something out at Thanksgiving. It's like, one of the major holiday release days

Cora: [she nods] So a movie while we let Buffy destroy the kitchen.

Stiles: Yup

Dawn: Great. So we have a plan. Buffy will just feed us all for a week.

Stiles: Sounds like a good plan.

Cora: [she nods] And at least Buffy can cook.

Stiles: There is that.