Birthday Retreat
Happy Birthday Harper! nighttimemachinery
Kira woke up to discover she was alone in the loft. The bed was empty next to her and she shook her head to wake up.
She grabbed her phone and panicked realizing she had overslept.
Leaping and almost falling out of the bed she frantically ran over to the dresser to grab some jeans. But there weren’t any clean jeans, which meant Derek had’t done the laundry yet. She ruffled through the drawers getting more and more frustrated. She found some leggings and tugged them on. One of Derek’s Henley’s looked like dresses on her anyways so some leggings underneath made an outfit. She found her socks but then couldn’t find the other shoe. She was hopping around the room looking for her other shoe when Derek walked out of the bathroom when he heard all the commotion. He stopped and grinned when he saw her hopping around.
“Kira? Babe, what are you doing?” He had a toothbrush in his mouth.
“I’m late for work!!”
“It’s Saturday.” And went back to the bathroom to rinse his mouth.
She groaned and flopped face first onto their bed.
Derek walked over to the bed and mimicked her, and flopped on the other side of the bed. (His weight made her small frame bounce slightly up off the bed - she giggled).
She lifted her head to see him face first on the bed. She started laughing really hard. He rose his head just enough to make eye contact with her. Kira could see the smile in his eyes.
“I didn’t know someone could get dressed that fast. I think you have a talent.” He spoke - his voice muffled.
“That’s not a talent. It’s a skill that has to be learned. And in case you didn’t see, I was failing miserably.”
“That didn’t make any less cute though.”
Kira’s heart jumped a little at that. Derek heard it, like always, but he decided to give her a break today and not tease her too much.
She reached across to her bedside table to grab her phone to see what the weather would be like. She froze.
“Derek!” She leapt up again. “It isn’t Saturday!! It’s Friday!! I have to go to work!!!”
Before she could get too far, he grabbed her wrist.
“Go look on the counter.” He said simply.
She gave him a look and sighed, but did as he asked. She walked over to the kitchen counter. About halfway there she turned and looked back at him. He was resting his back against the headboard, with his legs crossed at the ankles. He made a shooing motion with his hands at her. She giggled a little but was still unsure.
On the kitchen counter was a folded piece of paper. She unfolded it and began to read. She was horrified to see the header from her workplace at the top, but she continued to read.
“They’re giving me the weekend off? Why?”
“Keep reading.”
Kira could barely finish reading it because she was so excited. Her company has a deal, just for fun, where they send all of their employees on a small weekend trip on their birthday in upstate California. The company owns a small property with a cabin, and Kira’s birthday was that Sunday. But since she had just started working there they hadn’t had the chance to tell her.
One of her coworkers knows Derek and told him about it. Derek went early that morning and picked up the keys and got everything ready. Including packing some clothes for Kira, which explains why she couldn’t find any jeans earlier.
“So we are going on a birthday trip this weekend?? When do we leave?”
“We can leave right now.”
“Thank you for planning all this. This was a great surprise.” She smiled.
“Just wait til we get to the cabin.”
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Happy (Late) Birthday Harper!!
Also I have NO idea if companies really do that and I have no clue what kind of company Kira would even work for it just worked for my au.
And come one spending the weekend with Derek Hale in a cabin away from the world??? Yes please. ;)
