canon au } { post-5a, of wedding plans and future plans

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Derek: [and he's coming in the front door, coffee carrier in his hand with coffees for both of them and a baggie of donuts]

Dawn: [and Dawn, predictably, is passed out on a pile of books and bridal magazines, probably because she hasn't been getting a lot of sleep in general]

Derek: [and he will sneak up behind and chuckle] That dress would look awful on that kanima.

Dawn: [stirs softly at the sound of his voice but doesn't quite wake yet]

Derek: [leans and nuzzles her cheek] Good morning.

Dawn: [sighs softly because that gets her up] Is it morning?

Derek: Close enough. Still time for coffee and donuts.

Dawn: [groans as she slowly sits up, reaching up to rub her eyes] I didn't mean to fall asleep.

Derek: No, I know. I also took an extra long trip home. I checked up on Liam to see how he was doing, and brought breakfast over to Stiles and Cora at the hospital.

Dawn: How's the sheriff?

Derek: Trying to plot an escape.

Dawn: Don't blame him. Hospitals make me all squirmy too.

Derek: He's on a strict diet while he's healing. I'm pretty sure he would have sold his soul of Stiles' coffee.

Dawn: It doesn't help that hospital food isn't the greatest. I mean, it's not the worst but when my mom was in the hospital she got sick of it pretty quick.

Derek: Yeah, well I've never been a big fan of hospitals. Not that I usually need them.

Dawn: I don't think I've ever had to stay long term either. But a good chunk of when I was fourteen was spent in the hospital so that she wasn't alone.

Derek: I think the only time I was in one long term was that time I was shot with the wolfsbane bullet.

Dawn: Let's never do that again.

Derek: I'm down for that plan. [he goes to wander into the kitchen and get them napkins and paper plates] So you have any luck in the books before you passed out?

Dawn: [sighs and shakes her head] There's some notes in the books Laura brought from your family archives about hellhounds, but nothing overly useful in helping Parrish control it.

Derek: Laura pulled her theory from Norse mythology, right? The wild hunt?

Dawn: Yeah, but there's more to it than that. There are mentions of black dogs all throughout the lore - Cwn Annwn, Garmr, Cerebus, Barghests - they're all associated with crossroads, places of execution ... they're mostly death omens.

Derek: [goes to sit next to her] Seeing tea leaves in the shape of a black dog was a death omen.

Dawn: Cwn Annwn are the hounds of the Wild Hunt, though. Celtic hunting hounds of Arawn, king of Annwn or paradise. I have learned, however, the Welsh clearly do not believe in vowels.

Derek: [laughs] Yeah, I know. I'm pretty sure Stiles' real name is Welsh.

Dawn: It wouldn't surprise me. Anyway. Cwn Annwn seem to be the closest to what Parrish is based on his behavior. Protectors of the balance. Guardians of paradise.

Derek: That sounds like an angel.

Dawn: Sort of. They say that they're generally benevolent but when the Christians saw them their red eyes and black forms caused them to think that they belonged to Satan and called them hellhounds.

Derek: Have we hit up Sam for research?

Dawn: I asked Michael about it and mostly what he came up with was faerie lore and ... the Winchesters are reluctant to get back into bed with faerie. Not that I blame them - the last time they did, Dean almost became a consort of Oberon.

Derek: .... Sorry, I'm just imagining Dean as a consort to Oberon. [smirking]

Dawn: Don't worry, I laughed too.

Derek: I hope he thanks Sam every day for that.

Dawn: Probably more Bela. Sam didn't have a soul at the time.

Derek: [just nods] The more I learn about those two... the less I wish I knew.

Dawn: You and me both.

Derek: I’m sure they feel that way about us too.

Dawn: Buffy? Yes. But you guys? I think they'd kill to have your problems. They're so much simpler in the grand scheme of things.

Derek: Doesn't feel like it to me.

Dawn: They've got angels and demons who both want them dead. This is the kind of stuff they used to deal with before they found out that they're the vessels of the Apocalypse.

Derek: Their problems go back to that. Ours go back to a stupid tree.

Dawn: Yeah, but the stupid tree is kind of like the hellmouth. You could leave Beacon Hills and in theory, that trouble wouldn't follow you.

Derek: I'm not sure I can actually leave Beacon Hills long term. It draws us back, remember?

Dawn: Still, you actually had a home and family and friends. Dean and Sam have never really had that.

Derek: And then they were taken away in a fire. Now I'm starting to compare my life to them and no, we need to change topics.

Dawn: Yes. Would you like to talk wedding because I think the wedding I've actually made progress on.

Derek: I'm always happy to talk about wedding. [his grin grows]

Dawn: [she grins a bit] Okay, so. Since we're probably going to do it here we need a location. And a date.

Derek: It would have to be during a holiday break for school and be able to try and get a honeymoon in there before you have to go back. So Christmas time or summer.

Dawn: I think summer. Summer is probably the best chance for good weather.

Derek: End of May so it's not so hot yet?

Dawn: Sounds perfect. Though ... do you think things will have calmed down by then?

Derek: If we keep putting things off to wait for a time for Beacon Hills to be calm...

Dawn: Point. I just know that in Sunnydale? May was always apocalypse season.

Derek: And June would be clean up season... which pushes us to July.

Dawn: July wouldn't be too bad if it's an indoor wedding? In fact, we'd be a pretty small group, so we could probably find a hall that'll do weddings and receptions in the same place.

Derek: I'm sure there's something downtown that would work. But you're right - it'll be small.

Dawn: My family, your family, the pack ... I have a feeling we can do this with less than fifty people.

Derek: I think we can pretty much just go with who is at our Thanksgiving Table is who will be there. A few plus ones aside.

Dawn: Yep. So definitely nice and tiny.

Derek: Though I have a few friends in New York who will literally come out here and hurt me if I don't invite them.

Dawn: Well, we can't have that.

Derek: You're going to like Sarah. Very.... she may actually stab Peter.

Dawn: Really?

Derek: She was close to both me and Laura.

Dawn: Then we should introduce them before the wedding.

Derek: Probably a good idea.

Dawn: So July. Small venue. Nice and quiet and intimate.

Derek: Well, saving the intimate for later away from the rest. [smirks as he leans over to kiss her neck]

Dawn: [she laughs as she leans into him] Yes. Not that intimate.

Derek: [and he's going to just keep kissing her. He was doing full moon things with Liam last night, and then right into breakfast and he missed bedtime intimacy]

Dawn: [mmmmm kisses. Dawn is for this plan and she'll eagerly turn into that kiss, sliding her arms around his neck to pull him closer]

Derek: [yup, and since they are alone in the loft for the unforeseeable future, he has no problem just sitting there kissing her, his fingers inching to her hips and pulling her closer]

Dawn: [and closer she will go, shifting one leg to slide over his hips]

Derek: [and yup, wedding plans, hellhounds, breakfast, that was all put on hold for some morning makeout times]

Dawn: [and this is much more satisfying because here she can actually get somewhere and it usually has a happy ending]

Derek: [always has a happy ending, unless they are interrupted. but no sisters coming home as far as he knows]

Dawn: [nope. Laura might call but she can do that later, and Cora isn't leaving Stiles' side if she can help it]

Derek: [but they can be grateful that he will still eventually pick Dawn up, pulling her legs around his hips and walking them off to the bedroom so that the scent won't be around]

Dawn: [good brother. And she will slide her legs around his waist to keep him close, using her foot to kick the door closed behind them]

Derek: [and there will be a lot of sexy times]

Dawn: [so much sexy times. and once they're done she'll curl up into his side, drawing shapes on his chest] So are we going to go somewhere for the honeymoon?

Derek: Scott should be back and hopefully he and Stiles will be back to some semblance of normal by then. I think the town can miss me for a week.

Dawn: So where do you want to go?

Derek: Somewhere we can be alone.

Dawn: So the moon?

Derek: I may be loaded, but I don't have that kind of money.

Dawn: [she smirks] Antarctica?

Derek: You realize it will be the height of winter there, right?

Dawn: I'm just listing places where we will actually be alone. [none of them are serious]

Derek: [laughs] How about somewhere in Europe that is not Scotland?

Dawn: Oooh, that could work. Eastern or Western Europe?

Derek: Either. Maybe around the Mediterranean?

Dawn: Oh! I've never been to Greece. Though they're broke, so I'm not sure how much of a tourist attraction they'll be.

Derek: I'm sure there are parts that the resorts are doing just fine.

Dawn: So Greece. Maybe somewhere on a beach.

Derek: Somewhere all-inclusive so we don't have to worry about the details.

Dawn: Perfect.

Derek: And we can just focus on each other.

Dawn: Even better.

Derek: [he looked down at her a moment] So I'll work on those reservations, or the wedding place?

Dawn: I'd rather do the latter together.

Derek: Okay, we can do that.

Dawn: Are you looking for things to do?

Derek: It's more I don't want you to think you have to do it all on your own... I know me playing second wasn't part of the plan when I proposed, but that doesn't mean I'm not wanting to help.

Dawn: If we're waiting until July we have so much time. You don't have to take stuff on right now when you're busy worrying about the pack.

Derek: So you don't feel like you're the only one holding the ball on this?

Dawn: [she shakes her head] In fact, a lot of the stuff I've been working on is stuff I don't actually need you for. Like dresses and girly things.

Derek: So stuff you're doing with Buffy pretty much.

Dawn: Was doing with Buffy. Now she's off spirit questing with Scott but I was told that I was absolutely under no circumstances allowed to make a decision on my dress without her. So I've been focusing on bridesmaid dresses which I'm sure will make her very happy. [she may be teasing her sister with hideous pictures just to make her shriek in the desert, Sorry Scott]

Scott: [hey, it brings him some amusement]

Derek: I hope you're sharing with Laura and Cora too.

Dawn: I am. My actual options, not ones I'm choosing just to make Buffy scream.

Derek: You are a horrible sister. [smirks]

Dawn: [she grins] I know. [shifts a bit so that she's facing him, resting her chin against his chest] We should pick colors though.

Derek: Well, I'd like blue for the guys’ ties. I mean, it's my best color.

Dawn: I can work with blue. Dark blue or light blue?

Derek: Dark. It can be an accent color though if you want something else.

Dawn: Maybe. I like dark blue though, so I can probably figure out something that works with it.

Derek: Okay. [smiles]

Dawn: [she nods once] Dark blue looks good on your sisters, right?

Derek: It does, I think. Peter will bitch because green is his color but it's my wedding so he can deal.

Dawn: He'll look good in dark blue. Besides, it's just a tie, it's not like it's the entire suit.

Derek: Well, I could get a powder blue suit...

Dawn: No.

Derek: [smirks] What, you don't like the idea?

Dawn: Nope.

Derek: We can make the bridesmaid dresses match...

Dawn: I am not having a seventies wedding.

Derek: [laughs] Okay, okay.

Dawn: [she smirks, as she resettles again, resting her head against his shoulder] This'll be good, though.

Derek: [nuzzles her cheek] It will be. And then once it's over, we'll have to deal with them wanting to know when we're having kids.

Dawn: [laughs] I don't know about that. We do live in Beacon Hills.

Derek: Well, my family's been having kids here for a long time and we're mostly okay.

Dawn: That is true. But your mom's Beacon Hills was a bit different from ours.

Derek: All we need to do is get Deaton to figure out how to excavate the nematon and hope it doesn't drive Parrish to homicide in the process. Easy fix.

Dawn: Sure. Because removing the supernatural source of power in a place has never gone wrong before. [she gives him a look at that because hello! From Sunnydale. The town which is now a crater] I'm not saying that we should make it a huge factor, but it is something to think about.

Derek: But we are going to have kids eventually, right? [worried face]

Dawn: Yes. Don't worry. It'll happen.

Derek: [lets out that breath he was holding] Okay, you had me scared there a moment.

Dawn: [she shakes her head] No, I definitely want to have kids with you. It's just going to be a matter of ... timing.

Derek: I know. And I'm not really ready yet either, but doesn't mean we're not going to be hearing it.

Dawn: Well, you can just give them one of those silent eyebrow stares until they shut up and go away.

Derek: I will do that.

Dawn: Good.

Derek: [looks at the clock] Alright, so we can either be responsible adults and go back to research work, or get that sleep we didn't get last night.

Dawn: [hums softly as she curls into him] I think I need to sleep.

Derek: Sleep it is then. [pulls her closer, snuggling up to her]

Dawn: [and she'll curl in with him and pass out almost immediately]