#mech!derek

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Enhancement

"My new arm's complete babe" Stiles waved for him to come over, "Scott can you strap him down please"

"Are you sure it's ready?" Scott pondered, looking at the second complete model that he made, "You said there needs to be some tests"

Derek grunted as the strap tightened around this arm, "Yeah, testing will be when he puts it on. Okay, Derek you know the drill, it'll hurt a bit so don't hit your boyfriend when he's working"

"I hate you" Derek murmured, Stiles has only done it a few times but it seems like the times they would upgrade his arm it always hurt; the first time he punched Stiles in the face, he was on the verge of crying as he repeatedly apologized Stiles only laughed saying he was sorry for not warning him about the pain.

"No you don't, now come on ready for you next enhancement?"

He uncoupled the nerve connection before Derek could respond, causing him to groan, the brought over the new arm. There were two prototypes before this second model, he had designed it to have Derek change it's shape during his shift. it wasn't perfect, it just adjusted it's length to compensate if Derek chose to shift into full wolf mode, it was also programmed to increase reflex and movement in high stress environments, keyword: fights.

"Oh my god hurry up and make the connection" Derek raised his head and slammed it on the cushioning, Stiles was aligning the prosthetic to the joint.

"Okay, okay, ready?" He took hold of the forearm, "I'm going to count to-"

"No you aren't just do it-ugh!" there was a click and the arm was live,

"Okay try moving your fingers" Derek nodded and looked at the new hand, moving a few of it's fingers

"Feels a lot smoother than the others"

"That's great. I'm going to have Danny come by and run some diagnostics"  

* * *

Stiles walked out back to Derek stretching his new limb, he smiled at the sight.

"Everything check out Danny?"

"Yeah, I'm just having him shift now see how it works"

"Great" he walked up to Derek and gave him a quick kiss, "When you're ready babe"

Derek nodded and breathed deeply, Stiles and Danny stood back a few paces as Derek began to change. He controlled the shift, first into his half form then gradually to his beast form. Stiles gasped as he watched, especially watching the change of the new arm; it reformed itself rudimentarily taking the shape of a wolf's limb

"You did it man" Danny patted him on the back

"Holy crap"

Derek wandered over to him and yipped, licking his face

"!- holy crap! Der, stop. I have to call Lydia" he jumped happily as he hit dial on his phone

"Lyd I did it!. Yeah, It's a little rudimentary and it obviously could be updated a few times, but it works. Derek can Shift with his arm now!" he hung up and turned towards Derek once more; who was changing to his wolfman form, still the arm responded accordingly,

"Thank you" he took Stiles in his fur covered arms and kissed him

"I am a genius"

"That you are"

Stiles smiled, before remembering, "Oh Danny, can you keep a copy today's data for you me and Lydia?"

"Sure, why don't you usually keep it?"

"No I sort of leave it at the institute due to the personal-ness of my project"

Derek looks at him questioning, "Oh relax its not what you think, I just have to hide what I'm doing as a private side project, I am only an intern in their robotics department"

Derek sighs, a little miffed but ignores it. Danny leaves with his laptop, leaving the two of them in the forest, the old Hale house in front of them, Derek nudges him

"Why don't we head home and I can reward your genius"

Stiles chuckles, "I like the sound of that"

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First attempt

Derek stood out in an open field behind the old Hale house, breathing deeply. His eyes turning electric blue; he was going to try to shift. He searched for that primal instinct in the recesses of his mind, claws appeared on his one arm, fur sprouted from the sides of his face, fangs in place of teeth. So far so good, shifting half-way and no backlash or awkwardness from his new arm. He looked down at it and huffed

"Looks odd with the rest of me" he murmured to himself, the metallic body part stood apart from the rest of his changed body; like a peg-leg. He shrugged it off and prepped to continue his shift, become the wolf complete. He felt his body change: bones shifting, fur sprouting, he moved to crouch on all fours. His form semi-complete; he stood on all paws, looking like a wolf, but he felt off- the prosthetic arm looked like shrivelled and lame limb. He couldn't move properly, he attempted to take a step with the metal limb, quickly receiving a jolt of uncomfortable pain. He jumped up- quickly reverting back to human shape.

"Fuck!" Derek sat down with a thump, rubbing where the prosthetic met with his body

"You shouldn't try going full wolf with that"

He turned quickly to see Stiles walking up to him, "I wanted to try"

"I know, you know that I'm still working on the part where the arm can change shape so that it'll work with your wolf form." Stiles knelt beside him, giving Derek a quick kiss on the lips

"You know you look like a gimp wolf with that arm when you shift right?"

"Psh"

"Can you just wait until I finish the next prototype? It's already past the idea process, i just have to figure out how to make it shift smoothly. not to mention the materials are really heavy and that'll need to change. Maybe even fix the configuration and data intake so that the signals you give the arm will-"

Derek cut him off with a kiss and smiled, "You talk too much. I know you'll get it done."

Stiles blushed, chuckling slightly before pouncing the werewolf. The two of them smiled at each other; Stiles held the metallic hand looking it over, admiring his work. Derek noticed his face change as Stiles remembered the night of the accident.

"You are a gift Stiles. I love you, I can't thank you enough for all this"

"I still feel like this is all my fault" he sighs, Derek pulls him in and hugs him tightly

"Idiot"

"What?"

"Stop worrying about that. What matters now is that I now have a genius building me a new chance, not to mention that his badass smarts make me look super cool."

"When did you start being a dope?" Stiles looks at him funny, Derek shoves him

"You started to smell sad. I can't have you down it the dumps."

"You're right, I can't afford to be sad I have much to do about this" his pats the metal, it gives off a soft twang sound. Derek smirks and stands up, lifting Stiles in the process

"Come on, enough first attempts. I'm taking you to dinner"

"How bout no attempts until I finish the new mech?"

"Sure."

"Good. I want chinese."

Derek huffs, "We had that two days ago"

"Well I want more."

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Prototype

"DER!"

Stiles' voice rang through their loft, jolting him awake from his nap. Derek groggily rubbed his face and sat up from his bed. He could smell Stiles' excitement; raising the hairs on the back of his neck and sending a shiver down his spine. 

"Babe, babe, babe! Come downstairs!" 

Derek hopped up and bounded his way down the stairs, his boyfriend's excitement clearly infecting him

"What's going on?"

Lydia waltzed in through the door not a moment later, pulling along a trolley carrying a large box.

"We've got you something"

"Yeah! It's just a prototype but I think its ready enough for you to wear" Stiles skitted over to him, taking the trolley from Lydia in the process

"Easy Stiles"

"I know but I'm just so excited"

He popped the lid off revealing a metallic limb. The joints were blocked out and looks a little bit like a large robot toy arm. Stiles lifted it out of the box,

"Lydia could you help him with his arm?"

"Sure" 

"Thanks, oh Derek you can use this for now, but this is just a start"

Stiles began prepping Derek's limb; surprising him a little when he took out electrodes; which had spikes protruding from them

"Don't worry, they're to collect your electrical signals."

"The spikes are what I'm worried about"

"Oh" Stiles chuckled, "Yeah um, there wasn't any other solution. I'll come up with a better one soon. I promise."

Stiles pushed the first two electrodes in without warning, Derek growled slightly

"Bear with me babe, please" he continued to hook derek up to the arm. After setting everything, he pushed whole of the limb in, creating a joint. It sent a spike of pain up Derek's arm, but quickly subsided

"Shit, I'm sorry"

"No, its fine, just-" Derek looked at the bionic arm, the fingers were moving smoothly, like he was imagining them to, "wow"

Stiles and Lydia smiled as they watched him test everything out. He lifted and twisted his arm, wiggled his fingers, touched his face with them.

"Stiles I-" Derek stops and stares at him, and smiles. He reaches out with his new arm, pulling Stiles into him and kisses him.

Lydia smirks and heads out of the loft, "Well that's my queue. I'll see you later"

"Thanks Lyds, tell Andrew that I'll be in tomorrow afternoon"

"Yeah, alright. Bye now."

The door slid closed, and Derek went back to 'thanking' Stiles. Continually stoking his face with his new arm, grabbing Stiles' face and kissing it

"I love you, I can't thank you enough"

"I know, but this is just a prototype. The end result might change, I still have to get it to shift and adjust to your wolfman form-"

"It's fine as it is now, and I'll look forward to any new stuff" Derek responds, kissing him again "you're turning into a real nerd"

"What's wrong with that sourwolf?"

"Nothing" he smirked, lifting Stiles up and making their way to the bed upstairs, "I was just thinking I could get some hot nerd sex to thank the man that's giving everything to me"

Stiles blushes a deep red and chuckles shakily, looking at his boyfriend

"Oh- yeah, we could definitely do that"

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Pre-read

Series of events surrounding an incident that results in Derek losing an arm.

Stiles learns to become a robotic mechanic, to develop a special arm for Derek (because shifting is funny with a prosthetic hand)

dual alpha pack

pretty slowed down, no big bads, going for a domestic sort of thing

I have no knowledge in programming/robotics/medical prosthetics, but that doesn't mean I can't grab a little info to make this credible for the universe.

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Intern

"Gah- Andrew I get the coding, but what about this section right here?"

The screen flashed error as Stiles ran a test. Andrew, had been showing him the ropes for the past three months at the robotics lab just  little ways out of Beacon Hills, he was rather surprised with how fast Stiles had picked up the basics of coding and programming. Stiles had already begun to program a system for a moveable arm, much like the ones Andrew's showed him in their factory section. He rolled over to his computer to see what the problem was

"Idiot, you put that section in the wrong place, that chunk of data needs to be up there" he tussled his hair and pointed to the screen, "I'm proud of you kid, you pick this up rather quickly"

"I have a purpose for all this so yeah"

"Right top secret stuff Lydia talked to me about, don't worry it'll become our side project while you're working here"

"Great!"

"You know you're going to put into mechanics straight after this right? No more hanging out with me"

"You're lying" Stiles looked shocked, The arrangement between them was that he was Andrew's intern slash assistant, he didn't know what he'd do with himself if he wasn't being trained by him. Andrew cracked a smile at his reaction

"Who else is going to teach you robo-mechanics?"

"We're a little too early in this relationship for jokes"

"We'll be alright" Andrew slung an arm around him, "come on, I'm taking you to lunch"

"I have a boyfriend."

"Congrats, its just food" 

- - - - - - 

"How do you know Lydia anyways?" Stiles looked up from his tray, they were eating in the mall food court. Andrew chewed and nodded, knowingly,

"Uncle's co-worker"

"Makes sense, but-"

"I sort of hit on her at this thing she was at"

Stiles pulled a face before laughing, not expecting his answer, "how'd she take it?"

"Like she usually does"

"Mhm" They laughed for a bit, then went back to their food. The months that have past he had learnt who to write code, apply it to animation and movement, learnt the basics of a robo-prosthetic, then learnt how to program that. It was all very, very hard work; but he did have a good teacher. He made a mental note to get something remarkable for Lydia as a thank you. Derek had learnt a lot too, he had gotten used to his prosthetic, he went through physiotherapy and now has great control. However it was still a little weird for him to shift, his stub didn't shift completely and looked weird. 

"What about you? Why did you want to go into this?"

"Um"

"I mean, I know you're in your senior year, yet you're spending more time at the lab with us. Lydia said something about helping a friend out with what you're learning, but couldn't you have just given them a regular prosthetic? Or even had the custom arm made privately, am I prying too much?"

Stiles started at him, thinking of a way to word everything, "Well... I mean- Yeah sure we could have, but my friend's a special circumstance. That and all this interning at your lab has finally given me a direction for my future."

"I'll take it" Andrew nodded, "all I wanted to know. Glad to know that what ever situation you and your friends are in, this sparked your interest for your future, we might hire you with how fast you're learning."

"Really?"

"Well, I'll put a word in for you"

"Awesome."

"Great, let's head back, I'm going to show you how they put the arms together, like the synthetic muscle and everything."

- - - - - - 

"Hey sourwolf" Stiles smiled into the camera, he and Derek skyped ever since he started the internship, always too busy and tired to see him unfortunately; it was a good thing that Derek had other things to focus on 

"I miss you"

"Me too, how's the stub?"

"Good, we need to come up with a better name for my lack of arm" Derek smirked

"Haha, just call it righty"

"Whatever. Scott won't stop whining about you. He's actually whining"

"Awe, tell him I'm fine and I'll be home on the weekends like always"

"Ugh, he's supposed to be the second alpha and all he does is whine, it's really sad. If I didn't know any better, you'd think you were his boyfriend that went away."

"Awe, well how's boyfriend holding up?"

"Good, miss you. Want you really bad right now."

"Oh shit" Stiles held a hand to his mouth surprised at a sudden thought

"What?"

"We haven't had sex in three months"

Derek laughed, he hitched every so often; a side effect from his arm, some kind of ghost pain, "I can fix that as soon as you get back"

Stiles laughed but noticed Derek's discomfort, "Are you-?"

"Yeah I'm okay, really. It's not your fault"

"I should have-"

"No- you're ruining the mood, I love you, not your fault. I miss you, go back to talking about sex"

Stiles blinked, he still felt terrible about the whole incident, but dropped it watching Derek's face, who in ernest wanted to get past it. They continued to share how their days have been, Stiles talked about how Andrew showed him how the synthetic muscles got put in, and how he could use it for his new arm. Derek talked about everyday stuff, the pack, Stiles' dad, there wasn't any new activity or emergencies, which was great. They talked for hours; Scott even popped by to say hi, and whine about missing him, Derek had to shove him out of the way from all of Scott's kicked puppy-ness.

"Stiles, its late. You should sleep"

"I know, can we sleep together?"

"You know that's impo-"

"Put your laptop by your bed, leave the camera on"

"Oh" Derek raised a brow, but did so. He and Stiles lay on their beds with skype still open, lights off, they lay there whispering sweet nothings to each other until they fell asleep.

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Heal factor

"I thought werewolves didn't need amputations from wolfsbane, I know you've survived from stuff like that." Lydia wondered staring at Derek's arm, the plastic prosthetic was fitted on him last week after it had completely healed over. Being left the family vault had it's perks, Peter had doctors fashion the latest make of prosthetics, although the movements were still stiff and rather choppy.

"It wasn't normal wolfsbane, the hunters we encountered were something of bio-engineers."

"oh"

"Deaton says that the strain they used on me spread faster than normal and destroyed any cells it touched."

"But couldn't you do what you normally do when you're poisoned?"

"There wasn't anytime to find the strain and burn it, he would have died if we didn't cut it" Stiles spoke behind the two, coming out of the rebuilt Hale house. He sat beside Lydia, taking Derek's prosthetic hand from across the table.

"His heal factor couldn't keep up with the damage."

"Sounds like a nightmare"

"Understatement, but yeah."

"I'm sorry"

"Don't be" Derek held up his hand, "at least I'm not dead. I'd rather have this instead of the latter, plus Stiles is building me an arm"

Lydia turned to him, "how's that coming along?"

"I'm sort of at a stand-still. I've only made a skeleton for your arm, it's pretty hard to make one that will change it's shape and retain it's balance. Robotics is tough."

"Danny and I can help"

"Well why do you think I had Derek invite you over?"

Derek smirked at Stiles' bluntness and no regard for any backlash that Lydia could possibly give him. Sure the two were best friends, but she held dominance most of the time.

"Do you want help or not?"

"Yes, please. Thanks"

************

"Do we really need all this wiring?" Stiles pointed at an area in the schematics, him and Danny were in his room attempting to research and plan out Derek's new arm.

"Well that's what the schematic shows. Where did you find this anyways?"

"I found people in robotics"

"Yeah but these look like models for synthetic-robotic limbs"

Stiles sighed, Danny was pressing into how he actually came across the blueprints, something he had avoided telling Derek, "I sort of found it"

"You hacked into a robotics lab archive" 

"... Yeah?"

"Wow. I'm impressed, you didn't even get caught"

"Well I did pick some stuff up from watching you big guy"

"Don't call me that."

The two went into silence, looking over the schematics again; there were a lot of components that Stiles never actually looked into, or could even afford. Lydia came by a few minutes after, on the phone with someone

"-great, okay. Thank you." hanging up she looks pointedly at Stiles, "So I have news"

"Wha-?"

"Since you've showed me the blueprint, and the skeleton you've modelled, I have a friend, an actual friend, in robotics that can help."

"Great"

"As long as you intern for him, he'll teach you robo-mechanics"

Stiles nodded, taking in the offer before him. It would do him a great amount of good seeing as the only experience with mechanics is fixing his jeep, never mind about robotics,

"I'll do it."

"Great, I'll let him know" Lydia went over to Danny and the schematic, "You might have to scrap this, you don't want to get pinned for hacking into an archive."

"Yeah. Burn that, I'll go wipe my hard drive."

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Technical difficulties

"Damn it!" Stiles heard a crash just outside of his room window. It had been a week after Derek's right arm had been amputated up to the elbow, it was no surprise that he'd be struggling with everything. Stiles got up from his computer and opened the window "You could use the door. My dad knows" "Shut up" "fine, suit yourself" shaking his head, Stiles sat back at his desk looking at schematics. Five minutes later he heard Derek sigh loudly and the doorbell rang. He heard his dad open the door, some murmuring probably sympathy for being newly amputated despite being a werewolf. Their recent attack had involved a more aggressive, possibly genetically engineered, strain of wolfsbane, which lead to Derek's amputation.  "Hi" Derek huffed, slightly embarrassed with the whole thing "Hey" Stiles stood to hug him, "I told you" "Shut up" "How's your arm?" Derek waved the bandaged stub of his arm, there was a little red discolouration, but the blood looked dry "It's healing. The bleeding stopped today" "That's good, guess that means the wolfsbane is out of your system" The two shared an awkward silence. Stiles went to rub Derek's arm "Look, I'm really sorry I should have been more wary-" "It wasn't your fault" "But-" "You couldn't have known" Derek smiled and kissed him on the top of his head comfortingly "I'll be able to have a prosthetic once it heals completely. I'll be good as new" "Relatively" "Yeah" Derek glanced at his laptop that had schematics scrawled across the screen, he nudged his chin towards the desk, "What are you looking at?" "Oh!" Stiles bounced from his place and grabbed the machine, "just a little something that I'm looking into" he turns the screen for Derek to look at. The schematics were blueprints for a prosthetic arm "An arm" "Robotic arm, sort of. It looks like automail" "Auto what?" "Never mind." "So is this for me? How are you going to afford this?" "I'm not going to buy it, I'm working with a mechanic and a robotistic professor to make this for you" Derek smirked "you know I can shift to full wolfman now right?" "I know, I'm going to pantent it so that it shifts when you do. I'm just figuring out some technical difficulties with the mechanics" "Meaning?" "I haven't actually started making your new arm" "I'll just get the hospital prosthetic, I'm not going to wait around for you to develop this" Stiles' eyes flickered with excitement, "So you'll let me do this for you?" "Sure. I'll have a piece of you with me all the time" "Sappy" "Shut up. How do you plan to make this anyways. Last time I checked you don't have any knowledge or experience in this" "Didn't I say I was working with specialists?" Derek rolled his eyes, once his boyfriend got an idea in his head, he was going to follow through with it, looks like Derek was going to have a a prosthetics mechanic.