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He leaves before the funeral is over, his stomach cramped and hurting, and his tie choking him. He sends the text when he finishes packing, something that takes less than ten minutes because he doesn’t care really, doesn’t want to take anything that will remind him, and he gets a two word response within thirty seconds, and that's that.

He doesn't leave a note. Just drops his phone on his bed and waves a two finger salute at the camera still in his bedroom and--

Prompt #4 of the Sterek Bingo 2018: Leaving Beacon Hills

Stiles pulled his feet onto the seat and rested his forehead on his knee. He pushed down the guilt, forced it away like he did his grief. He was good at ignoring his own feelings by now. He watched the ’Welcome to Beacon Hills’ sign get smaller and smaller in the passenger side mirror and he let out a long sigh. He wouldn’t let himself regret this.

The town had taken too much from him, far more than Stiles had been willing to give and getting out, leaving, running away was all he could do. He had nothing tying him to the town anymore, not without his father alive to keep him there. He had to leave, it was the right choice and if Stiles told himself that enough times maybe it would be true.

He didn’t let himself think of the people he was leaving behind. Scott hadn’t been his brother when it really mattered, after all. The pack - well, the pack was Scott’s too. Scott was their Alpha and they didn’t know any better than to listen to him. Stiles tried not to be bitter about that, that the beta’s he had spent time teaching and training and fucking caring for hadn’t even thought to question their Alpha when Stiles was cast aside.

Stiles closed his eyes, let his magic brighten under his skin for a long moment - let him remind himself that something good had come from his time in Beacon Hills. The death of his father had been heartbreaking and soul-crushing and so fucking horrible but it had also unleashed Stiles’ spark, had awakened the magic that lived under Stiles’ skin.

Stiles turned his head to the left, eyes still closed even as a warm hand wrapped around his ankle. He let his lips pull up into a smile, soft in a way Stiles hadn’t thought he would ever smile again but was so, so thankful he could. The touch was a reminder of another good thing that had come from Beacon Hills.

Derek was sat in the driver’s seat, one hand lazily on the jeep’s wheel and the other around Stiles’ ankle. His beard was longer now, nearing unkempt but Stiles loved it, if only because it was Derek’s beard. He looked softer around the edges and fuck, Stiles had hated to pull him back to the town where he lost everything, no matter how desperate Stiles had been. But Derek had come when Stiles called. He had shown up and stayed and left when Stiles asked him to.

Stiles smiled a little wider and Derek mirrored it, the skin around his eyes creasing as he did and Stiles was thankful he got to see it, would get to see it. He closed his eyes again and thought a little goodbye to the place he once called home. He laid his hand over Derek’s, linked their fingers together around his ankle and squeezed.

Even knowing that it would have to happen eventually, it didn't make it hurt any less when it finally did

                  Theme Spotlight: Leaving Beacon Hills

Leaving Beacon Hills- Let’s be honest here, nothing good ever happens in Beacon Hills, and as the last two episodes of Teen Wolf proved, getting away from that place seems to do good for people’s health, now it’s time to treat Derek and Stiles to something other than horrors and traumas and get them out of there! It can be for good, or just on vacation, just on a work trip even, the point of this theme is to get them away from the town that wants to instill nothing but horror in these boys, and I think fandom can come up with plenty of ways to do that!

Title:  Making a Plan

Rating:  G

Warnings:  None

Themes:  Leaving Beacon Hills and Road Trip

Words:  2037

Summary:  Stiles and Derek plan out a big part of their road trip. 

The sequel to The Promised Land from last year’s Sterek Bingo!

Rating: Teen and Up

Word Count: 5313

Themes: Protective!Sterek, Leaving Beacon Hills, Hospital, Heartbeat

Summary: Stiles would do anything for Derek, he’d killed people to keep his husband alive and now he had to deal with the aftermath of what Kate and the Argent’s did to him in that Camp.

And he would find a way before they left the state.