That's why my hair is red, it's full of s̶e̶c̶r̶e̶t̶s̶

Sean Irwin 🐾 17🐾  Barista Extraordinaire [Werewolf]

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skylvrbenscn·:

Skylar did a double take because that took her by surprise. “I’m - No. I don’t think I’m going to be the next gen Beta.” She thought if it wasn’t Avery, then it’d be Sean. Any wolf before her. Besides, she hadn’t been taking care of the pack at all in all those years she was away. “If I get killed by her, I’m going to haunt you forever because you told me she’s safe enough to live with.” Her words still filled with doubt because she still thought that Sean wasn’t telling her something. 

“You are being so weird.” Should she ask her roommate instead? “Now I’m wondering what my roommate did to have you acting all weird about it. Oh did you ask her out and she turned you down?” 

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“I love the pack like no other, but I am also fully aware of the fact that I’m not the brightest the crayon in the box. I would be of zero help to Brax. Between the two of us we average about...well...a not so good average intelligence.” She was honestly the only choice. Tomi and Luke may have had some contention -Tomi way more than Luke- but both were human, “You sound like Hunter with talk of hauntings,” he laughed.

He opened and closed his mouth a few times, trying to find out what to say, because he didn’t want to lie to her. Then suddenly he turned to the PA controls for the cafe’s sound system and exclaimed, “Oh I like this song. Let me turn it up.” The redhead then fumbled with the controls before turning back to her with a grin, thinking he’d found the perfect distraction, only to have Imagine Dragons blaring out their chorus to Bad Liar...

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skylvrbenscn​:

 Now her curiosity was getting the better of her. Sean was a shit liar so if she really pressed on it, he might just tell her. However, when Sean felt that it might be something that she didn’t want to hear, it made her hesitate a little. “Is my roommate like.. a shit person or something?” So far, they seemed to get along but if there was anything dangerous about Dallas… 

“You’re changing the subject, Sean. Why are you cha- Is she actually dangerous? Because I don’t want to be killed in the middle of the night.”

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All he could do was scoff in response. “You’re a freakin’ werewolf, Lady Red. Poised to be the next gen Beta, unless Col somehow finds someone willing to have kids with him....Anyway, you getting murdered in your sleep by a crazy roommate is just highly unlikely overall, least of all because I don’t really think she’d be up for the hassle that would come from committing said murder.” Sometimes Dallas struck him as someone who wouldn’t really bother with the hassle of doing a lot of things...

“Don’t worry about it,” he said waving her off. This was definitely not a conversation he wanted to be the one to have with his friend.

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 “I think she’s a DJ? I saw her with her spintable a few times.” She frowned, “You have a weird look on your face. Why?” What could she possibly have said that brought on that look? Skylar grew up with Sean long enough to know something’s up with a simple glance at his face. “Is my roommate a friend of yours?” Considering how small this town was, and Sean was such a people person compared to her, Skylar wasn’t at all surprised. 

“You know who she is, don’t you? Cool. Wait, is she your ex or something? I was going to suggest we all chill but if she’s your ex, then I- Wait.” Her eyes narrowed as more ideas float into her mind. “Do I want to know?” 

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Shit...shit shit shit...shit shit was the only thing going through his head on loop at this very moment. “What weird look?” he asked, like he didn’t already know exactly what look she was referring to. Amaryllis once said it looked like he was thinking real hard about the meaning of life, and Tomi said it was more like he was trying to recall if he forgot to turn the oven off while dealing with constipation. In other words, not good. Not good at all.

Sean simply let her go on asking questions, figuring the less he said the better. “Honestly? I don’t really think so,” he manged, in response to whether she’d want to know or not. It was the only question he bothered answering because his reply was very much the truth. “Hey, did you pick up any classes at FCC this semester?”

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Skylar didn’t give much thought as to why Sean wanted to know who her roommate was. It seemed natural to ask after all, his friend was living with a possible stranger. “Dallas. I.. don’t recall her last name though. She doesn’t really talk much but we seem to get along. She does her thing, I do mine. I’m just glad she has the courtesy to play her music during the day and uses her headphones at night.” 

“Depending on who you ask, I could be a real duchecanoe.” She laughed, knowing that she was far from it considering the selective few who still lived in this town. “I suppose I’ll just have to sacrifice myself to take up the mantle as Daphne.” She sighed, “Good to know that the shenanigans didn’t die down.”

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Sean was a terrible liar. It genuinely was not something he was inclined to do, and it was still a miracle to the pack that he hadn’t managed to out himself or anyone else as a supe. That being said, he was able to display a surprising amount of self-restraint at the mention of Dallas’ name. It wasn’t exactly a common name after all, but he wasn’t about to be the one to open that can of worms. “Oh? So what like is she a musician or something?” He had to be sure before he provided this information to Tomi...

“To be fair, that can be said about pretty much anyone,” he pointed out. Sean pumped his fist into the air, “Woo-hoo! Because I was not looking forward to waxing my legs.”

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“I get it, boss man. You’re good at building and fixing things.” She chuckled. “The place I’m at seems pretty decent. I mean, nothing’s broke soooo that’s a good sign. My roommate hasn’t complained either.” 

“Oh.. That means her two moms get along? That’s pretty nice for her.” It sounded complicated but it wasn’t her business so no point in trying to pry. “This sounds like quite the group you’ve found yourself.” A part of her couldn’t help but feel melancholic about it. Despite being her hometown, she felt like a stranger after being gone for so long. “Well, it also depends on whether your gang accepts me as Daphne.”

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“So, does your roommate have a name?” he asked, the look on his face already giving him away even if the lack of subtlety did not. He couldn’t help if he was a curious guy and wanted to make sure his friend wasn’t sharing a house with a psycho or something.

“Yeah, but Leo tends to get on with just about anyone. Like, you’d have to be a real duchecanoe for her to not like you,” Sean noted. He couldn’t help the smile at her mention of having found his little group. “Oh, I’m sure they’ll accept you as Daphne,” he reassured. “Otherwise, they’re only other option would be to promote me from Scooby to Daphne since the only other ginge, and I’m not sure how well I’d pull off a purple skirt suit...”

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“Oh.. I know you’ve tried.” She chuckled, recalling all the moments long ago before Tomi and Skylar got together. The attempts were cute, and if Tomi wasn’t in the picture, she would probably have gone with Sean. However, things just weren’t meant to be and thankfully their friendship didn’t head south from it. 

“I don’t think we have issues yet but don’t worry, you’ll be the first to know if we ever need help fixing the place up. Besides, I wouldn’t trust any other person to do the job right.” She couldn’t help but frown, “What’s a sea-mom? Aren’t I too pessimistic to be Daphne? And also, it depends on who’s Velma. Wait! Are you Scooby?”

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“Darn tootin’,” he quipped back, completely unironically stepping right into the rural boy stereotype. “I mean, not to boast or anything, but I do have a construction company named after me.” Technically it was named for his dad, but details schmetails.

“Oh, no. Not a sea-mom. I was just going to say sister, but then changed it. Because like her foster sister -how we met Leo- adopted her and so she’s technically her mom...but we also met her bio-mom over Christmas so...” The look on his face looked like pained confusion, before he just let it go and shook his head. “Oh, we have few Velmas....just because there’s actually more of us now than there are members to the gang. No Scrappy’s tho, thank god.” Sean smiled broadly before exclaiming, “Rooby, Rooby, Rooby-Doo!”

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“You’re just tall. What are you talking about.” She snorted, “Besides, dyeing your hair doesn’t make you a true dark haired boy.” Skylar joked as she genuinely didn’t have an issue against dating another red head. It wasn’t as if she never thought about what life would have been like if she dated Sean instead but the girl had a soft spot for the token human in their group.

“I found a roommate.” She answered, "I guess you can say we get along. She doesn’t bother me, I don’t bother her. That’s pretty much the arrangement.” Skylar thought back to her interactions with said roommate, “I have school in the morning, and it seems she works mostly at night, so I don’t really see her all that often either.” She paused, “…You guys call yourselves the Scooby gang?”

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“I mean, I guess,” he said with feigned exasperation. “But it can never be said that I didn’t offer.” Sean knew know that there was no way in heck he’d ever have had any semblance of a chance with Skylar. All it took was seeing how the shorter girl had looked at his sister after they’d somehow managed to survive the comedy of errors that was them admitting they liked each other, for him to know it had been Tomi all along. And he was oddly more than okay with that.

“Roommates don’t always make for the best at home repairs though, and you might wind up in a situation where two heads are in fact worse than one,” Sean said with a warning tone. He couldn’t help but laugh at the question she followed up with though. “Not quite. Leo, she’s my friend Embry’s seee-mom....? Anyway, she called us that, and it stuck with other grown-ups. Wanna be our Daphne?”

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“Thought you guys know already that I’d do anything for family.” She rolled her eyes, wanting to move away from the cheesiness that came out of nowhere. “Anyways.” Skylar cleared her throat, “Yeah no, Seanie. I think I liked tall, dark and doe-eyed a lot more.” She joked as she reached up to mess with her friend’s hair. 

“Well, if you guys don’t work out, I’ve got a couch.” Skylar smiled, feeling no doubt that Sean was going to be fine because it was impossible to dislike the guy. “My relationship issues weren’t even caused by my own hand, that’s what stupid about all of it.” That definitely hit a nerve as a frown replaced the smile she had earlier.

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Time may have passed, but he was glad to see that he could still read his friend like a book...or at the very least, he would get a passing grade if tested. Sean knew better than to press his luck when the shorter redhead was clearly trying to move past ‘feelings’. “You do realize, that basically two-thirds of that description fit me too right? If you think the double-dose of ginger would be the only issue, I could’ve dyed my hair,” he teased.

“Oh hey, speaking of having couches,” the teen began -latching onto the part of the conversation that hadn’t visibly hurt his friend- “Where are you staying? Do you like actually have a place? Is it safe? Does it need any repairs or anything? ‘Cause like, we’ve got this sort of Scooby gang of peeps now and I’m sure someone will have a useful skill for something.”

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“Yeah but you know.. the choice is always there if anything happens.” She shrugged. It was obvious to everyone just how big of a heart Sean had but Skylar didn’t have a lot of confidence that she wouldn’t screw this up so much that even the kindest boy would be angry with her. “I’d be lucky if she even wants to be in the same room with me so I don’t know if this will get resolved anytime soon anyways.” 

The shorter of the two couldn’t help but frown. “You’re telling me.” She laughed, “I’m shit with relationship advice but if you really want her to be your girlfriend, you can just ask. If not, then.. you’re still friends? I don’t know that bit is weird because I’ve never seen anyone actually follow through with that.”

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“It’s very chivalrous of you to be willing to make the sacrifice,” Sean stated, with a solemn nod. Coming from anybody else, that might come across as sarcasm, but this bean wholeheartedly meant it s a proper compliment. At her pessimistic view on her chances, all Sean could do was give a small shrug and say, “See? You should’ve just decided to take me up on my offer of dating and things would’ve been far less complicated.”

He couldn’t help but laugh at his friend’s ‘wisdom’. “I think I’ll play it by ear for now. We’ll see how you’re own relationships play out first and then I’ll decide if I’ll follow the advice.”

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Skylar was still upset with her father. Whether it was fun or not, she missed out experiencing it all with the others. They were supposed to be a pack where no one gets left behind and instead, the shorter red head was dragged out by her own father of all people. “Can’t wait to hear all about it.” 

She shrugged a little, somewhat unsurprised by it. Izzy did raise Tomi and Sean. Skylar was more of a third party who joined in on the fun. “I see that happening.” When Sean mentioned about needing to talk with Tomi, her blue hues looked away. “I won’t hold it against you if you uh.. take her side, you know. I mean.. it makes sense.” Focusing back on him, her eyes narrowed. “You… Don’t know if you have a girlfriend? Or you don’t know you want her to be your girlfriend. I mean, you do want to ask, right? How have Tomi not shoved you to go ask her already?” Skylar blanked, “I did not think quiet loner chick was your type. Wait, does she and Tomi get along? Is that why you haven’t asked yet? Because if that’s the case, then I didn’t say anything.”

Sean couldn’t help but send her a look at the idea of taking sides. “I think we both know that regardless of how upset Tomi is or continues to be with you, she would never be one to ask me to pick sides...mainly because she knows I’m rubbish at actually cutting people off,” he said, with a small shrug at the end. He’d been told he cared too much many times before, so it was nothing new.

The taller redhead rubbed at his neck as he begrudgingly clarified. “I don’t know if I have a girlfriend, because like, I haven’t asked her. And I want to, but I also don’t want to because what if she doesn’t want me to and then things get awkward...girls are complicated.”

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“That intense huh?” Never a dull moment in Fallcrest. Still, Skylar wouldn’t mind being caught up to date. “The fabled tre- Oh. Wait. It’s real?” She heard plenty of stories about the Nexus and how they weren’t really allowed to run near a certain area of the forest but she didn’t think that it actually existed. She definitely missed a lot since she left. 

“MINI IZZIES! I want to see them.” She paused, waiting for his words to sink in. “From the way you’re phrasing it, it definitely doesn’t sound like your new roomie is Tomi. Did our lil bean get himself a girlfriend? Wait, do I know her?” 

“Yeah,” he drawled out. “Oh, very much so. Just wait till I tell you how we found out it was,” Sean added with a look on his face that made it clear just how ridiculous the story was bound to get. As much as he’d enjoyed running around as Spider-man, learning that the Nexus was real and had its first seal broken, had been a wake up call.

“Izzie keeps teasing that they’re basically mini-me and Tom-” He stopped mid sentence as he realized he was bringing up their point of contention again. “-mies,” Sean finished lamely. “Well, this will take some getting used to...I hope you get to talk things out soon. I feel like a kid with divorced parents.” At the question, his face matched his hair. “I...I don’t know yet...I haven’t asked, but I don’t think you know her. She’s not originally from town, and she’s not really one to make a lot of friends. She likes to keep to herself.”

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“And what happened the year before?” She asked, “I’m back now, so… You’ve got one extra wolf who could help out?” Skylar would have dragged Luke back with her if she wasn’t covering for her with her dad. “Know what they’re after?” People normally don’t brew up a mystical storm for nothing… Normally being the key word. 

“Want to catch me up to date then?” She refused to let go of Sean because it had been forever since she had seen him. “Besides the whole hailstorm and all, what gossip do you have for me?” Skylar could care less about gossip but it was still nice to know what the town has been up to while she was gone. 

“Oh boy,” he said as he rubbed at his neck sheepishly. “Uh...that might take a bit more explaining, but luckily I’m off in like ten minutes.” There was no way he was going to be able to go into detail about their face off against the bezzerkers in the middle of the Buzz. “I’m sure it will definitely be appreciated. They seem to be after the fabled treasure in the forest.” They’d all grown up knowing about the Nexus, but now they all had to deal with just how real it actually was.

He couldn’t help but laugh at the petition. “I am the absolute worst with gossip and you know it. You and Tomi would literally hold full conversations in front of me knowing I’d pay zero attention and recall nothing,” he chuckled. “But hey! Izzy’s back in town and she has her twins with her! And I have a great friend...whose a girl...and lives with me...”

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“Merry.. happy.. whatever.. too?” She laughed. Amaryllis never really celebrated anything before - nor did she have any reason to but something about this dinner was enjoyable. Perhaps she was glad she came afterall. “With all this food, I don’t think I know where to begin.” There was simply way too many choices.

Sean’s smile grew impossibly brighter at the sound of Amaryllis’ laughter. It was so incredibly nice to get to see her so carefree and happy, and to know he had a small part to do in it just made it that much better. “I would recommend spinach puffs. The last time I had them, they were delicious, though I don’t really think you could go wrong,” he reassured. Granted, it was less because of his confidence in the cooking and more so because he himself felt that they could all be indulging in dollar cheeseburgers from McDonald’s and the dinner would still be amazing for being surrounded by his friends. His family.

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“Well.. I wouldn’t have minded if a few certain people stayed out.” Skylar scoffed despite feeling relieved that no one she cared about was hurt - at least not to her knowledge. “Sounds like I missed out on a party though.” In all honesty, she wouldn’t know what she would have done if she was still in town. 

With the height difference, it wasn’t hard for Skylar to bury her face into Sean - her arms automatically found their place around the other redhead. “I missed you, stupid.” She mumbled into him as her arms tightened in their embrace. 

Sean couldn’t help the slight wince at the mention of her having a list of people she would be okay with getting hurt. It wasn’t an unexpected reaction from the other redhead, but it still elicited the same drop in his tummy after all this time. “Well, even though no one wants to really admit it, we’re not entirely sure there won’t be more ‘parties’ to follow,” he mentioned, glancing around to ensure they weren’t being listened to. “We’re pretty sure the same folks are responsible for this one, that were responsible for the one the year before...”

“I normally answer to ‘Sean’ these days, but I guess I can make an exception for you and go by stupid,” he teased, before giving Skylar a squeeze and saying, “I missed you too, Lady Red. Things haven’t been the same without you...like, at all.”

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This was a much more complicated relationship than Amaryllis assumed. While she doubt Sean could hate anyone, she guessed that the person who dated Tomi was also a friend of his. The shapeshifter had come to the conclusion that if the two of them did everything together, then they’d be friends with the same people as well. 

Amaryllis hummed after learning that the human was the Beta wolf’s weakspot - at least that what it’s being made to seem like. “Whoever messed with Tomi clearly didn’t care about having Braxton come after them.” She concluded and she wasn’t sure what else to stay about it before the plates started to occupy space on the table. Honestly, she was surprised the table could even fit them all with how much was appearing out of thin air. 

“Well, to be honest, Brax wasn’t going to ‘pull the trigger’, so to speak, unless Tomi gave the okay. Which, all in all, she would never have done so,” Sean replied with a small smile. Not only did he believe that deep down Tomi still saw Skylar as their best friend, but if the girl hadn’t ‘released the hounds’ on James, she wasn’t about to set them on the other redhead. Turning his attention back to Amaryllis he couldn’t help but beam at her and say “Merry Happy Whatever!”

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“Are you sure that’s still considered hail? That big could actually kill a human. Maybe.” She snorted before looking away at the topic of Tomi. Even Skylar herself was livid when she found herself leaving Fallcrest without a reason which was why she couldn’t blame the other two for being upset with her. “Right..” She didn’t know what to do with that information. “I’m back now though.” 

“I think it definitely would’ve had the sheriff’s department not acted as quickly as they did to get people out of the streets,” he said with a small wince at the memory. “Pretty sure it’s the only time being hardheaded was a benefit,” Sean chuckled, as he recalled his trek back from the park to his house, only to find Amaryllis frightened on his porch.

At the clear look of sadness that crossed Skylar’s features -even as she tried to hide it- Sean couldn’t bring himself to remain upset any longer. He reached out and wrapped her tiny frame in a strong embrace, like he’d done many times before, and like she’d done for him in turn. “That’s definitely a step in the right direction,” he said.

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“Hail storm? In Fallcrest?” That was unheard of - at least she never experienced it in her time at Fallcrest. She didn’t know what she expected from Sean; he was always the nicest one out of the three of them but she was still surprised when he offered a hand instead. “So you’re mad at me too?” She still shook his hand, giving a firm squeeze at the end. 

“It came out of nowhere, and the size of the things? None were smaller than a golfball, but there were plenty that were bigger,” he said, his natural manner of conversing hard to deny even now. If all strangers were new friends to the wolf, old friends were just ones he hadn’t seen in a while. Sean thought about the question, as he took his hand back -the squeeze noted. He shook his head as he said, “No, not mad. At least not anymore. I won’t lie though, I was livid when you first left. I’ve never seen my sister like that, and I never want to see her like that again. But now...now, I’m just disappointed, I guess.”