Extra Room
read tags. triggers.
Why Stiles likes coach so much even if sometimes coach gives him hell.
"Okay, dad. I'm hanging up now. Take care. I love you." Stiles got off the phone with his dad. Then he dialled another person, Coach Finstock.
People might look down on coach but Stiles knows he is so much more than what people think.
Coach grumbled as he got out of bed. He tousled his messy hair and slipped on his shoes. Took a jacket and headed out. Cursing under his breath.
"Damn, kids!" he muttered as he drove to the convenience store to get more liquor.
He passed by some of his lacrosse boys, talked a while then he sent them home. Then headed to the store to get his liquor. He drove home, pass the abandoned lot. Parking behind a dark pickup truck. He got out and knocked on the back seat window.
"Hey! Hey! Open up!"
Theo threw the blanket off his face, held his hand up and said "Okay, okay. I'm moving." thinking they're deputies again, driving him off.
"Hey, kid."
"...Finstock?" Theo recognized.
"Follow me."
"What?"
"Just follow me, Raeken!"
Theo was hesitant at first but the coach can't possibly do or have something to harm him. So he followed, driving closely behind the coach. They stopped in front an old house. It was okay but it was a little unkempt. Lawn all grown out, a mix of grass and weeds, maybe a foot or two high.
"Get in." Coach told Theo. "I have an extra room. You can stay as long as you need. But you gotta fend for your own food. I only offer you a room and a bed to sleep on."
Theo was floored. Of all people, he never thought this lacrosse coach would help him out.
"Yeah yeah, I know. You're not part of the team, and you were not in any of my classes." -Coach Finstock opened the door to his extra room.
Theo walked in and he inspected the room. It looks okay. But there are things on the desk that looked like belongings from other people. Probably the ones that stayed here before. Theo took a shirt and recognized the scent: Danny. Then there was a scarf, there were some blood stains on it. He doesn't recognize the scent. But it's probably another lacrosse boy.
"Oh, just leave them there. They belonged to Danny and Isaac."
Finstock let them stay there when they had troubles.
Danny, when he came out to his family the first time. They weren't very receptive, and Danny had to live out. He let Danny live here until about a month when his family finally accepted him.
Isaac, whenever his dad beats him up. He saw Isaac on the side of the road one night, wiping his bloody face with the scarf.
He sheltered them boys until they were okay. And he will shelter Theo until he's okay.
Because, when coach was young, he's got this deadbeat dad too. Who beats him up too. He stayed in abandoned houses for nights to avoid him. No adult helped him out. And he swore he would help his lacrosse boys out of their troubles.
"Why are you helping me?" Theo asked.
"Because you need help and you are Bilinski's friend."
"Stilinski." Theo corrected.
"Whatever." coach closed the door. Then he peeked back in. "And be quiet! I don't like noisy teenagers... and there are bread, peanut butter and jelly in the fridge."
"...thank you." Theo said, sincerely.
Theo closed the door and fished his phone out. Sent a chat to Stiles.
-Thanks- was all it said.
Stiles read and replied -coach got you?-
-Yeah, I'm in the extra room now-
-Can I call you?-
-Sure-
Theo's phone rang... a video call. Theo let it ring for a while before picking up.
"Stiles."
"Hey, Theo." Stiles was in a black suit and tie.
"You look good, Stiles. FBI?"
"Ah-Yeah. Thanks. You too. Looking good for someone who lives in his truck."
Theo just chuckled. Stiles smiled on it.
"So uhm, I talked to my dad a while ago and I heard about you."
"Then you called coach."
"Yup."
"I... Stiles, I've done terrible things-"
"You helped me get out of the Wild Hunt."
"...Just a little bit."
"...Theo..." Stiles stared.
"What?"
"... I like your hair shorter and spikey."
Theo laughed. "I'll get a hair cut when I get money."
Stiles laughed too. "One more thing, Theo."
"Anything for you, Stiles. Anything."
"Look out for my dad, will you?"
"Of course."
"Okay... talk to you next time, Theo. Bye." Stiles waved and ended the call.
Theo put his phone down to charge on the desk. He stepped out of the room to get and make himself pb & j sandwich, he's starving. He hasn't eaten since yesterday lunch. He sat on the counter. He can see the living room from it. He saw Finstock on the couch, watching and laughing at some show on TV.
Coach might not be the brightest, best looking, and favorite of most students; but he shows up when needed.
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Thanks for reading. I thought of this when I rewatched the Teen Wolf Zoom reunion and Coach was saying he doesn't really know what's happening. And that he does not care about the boys. But we know he does. He cares about them alot.
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