Six Broken Eggs Laying On My Floor

Six Broken Eggs Laying On My Floor
"Why are we making cookies this early on? Christmas is still a couple of weeks away," Derek noted

"Because I want to make sure that neither of us have any flub-ups wen we make cookies with the pack on Christmas Eve to leave for Santa," Stiles hummed back, laying the dough supplies out on the counter

Derek paused, frosting covered finger in his mouth (Stiles had opted out of making homemade frosting in favor for the local store brand, thank God...)

"....Say again?" Derek asked, removing the finger and staring pensively at Stiles

"What part is tripping you up?" the Spark asked innocently

"Are we really doing this Santa thing? We're both adults, what's the point in it?"

"The POINT Derek, is tradition and Christmas magic!" Stiles insisted with a huff

Derek rolled his eyes and shook his head slowly

"Who's going to eat them then?"

"Well... us, probbably," Stiles shrugged back

Somehow, Derek fully expected that....

"Alright, let's get this test run over with,"

"You got it~"

~+~

"And so my dad thinks it's a BRILLIANT idea to tell me that the reindeers all got in the house, so here we come downstairs on Christmas morning, the living room is TRASHED- like worse than it'd look at a frat party kind of trashed right?- and Mom is just staring in complete and absolute HORROR, and there's my dad smiling in the corner with the camera like it's a GOOD thing that there are ground cookies and spilled milk on the carpet and random peices of fruit thrown everywhere and the tree hanging crooked, and so he tells me that Santa let the reindeer into the house because they were getting cold outside and this was the result," Stiles concludes as he laid out the last bit of flour

Derek shook his head slowly, he really didn't have any idea how to handle that story if he was going to be honest

"SO.... what happened after that?" he asked, almost hesitantly

Don't get him wrong, he was genuienly curious.....

It's just that he was also a little bit afraid of the answer....

"OH well I believe it ofcourse, and I went right on opening presents, but if there was EVER going to be a time when my ANGEL of a mother committed messy and violent murder it would be then and Beacon Hills would be missing a sheriff," he laughed

"Wow... and I thought I had some stories," Derek laughed, moving closer to Stiles as they baked

"Oh yeah? And what are your's?" he asked with a slight grin

"Ah... well.... let's see... there was the year that two birds got stuck in our house,"

"What for real?"

"Yeah... my dad opened the door to go get something from the car and they flew right in and we couldn't get them to leave for TWO HOURS, I can't TELL you how many times they tried to live in our Christmas tree," he laughed

"What else?" Stiles asked excitedly as he rolled the roller over the cookie dough

"Um... well there was the year my parents forgot to buy batteries before hand and Cora cried until they went and borrowed some from the neighbors- a ten minutes drive, mind you,"

"Please tell me there's more," Stiles said excitedly

Derek chuckled lightly and nodded slowly

"Yeah, there's more," he agreed

They went on telling stories like that for the remainder of the time spent baking cookies

And honestly?

It was one of Stiles' favorite moments of their relationship

It was almost amazing really, and the cookies turned out to be great

So good, in fact, that they decided to go on and have the pack come over to test drive baking cookies so that things would go over flawlessly on Christmas Eve....

That didn't go NEARLY as well

In fact, anyone who said it went well at all clearly needed to have their eyes checked

...And their ears

....And their taste buds.....

And their nervous system all together because it was probbably damaged in the near EXPLOSION they almost created...

~+~

"Do you really think making two batches is a good idea?" Derek asked cautiously as Stiles started to ready the supplies

"Yeah ofcourse!"

That was his first mistake

"Alright, I trust you, let's get on with it,"

And that was the second mistake

"Good afternoon wolfies and non-wolfies," Stiles greeted with a grin

"Stiles you do know that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to bake cookies right?" Lydia asked immediately

"I know SOME people know how, but certain OTHER people don't," he explained, twitching his head in Malia's direction

Lydia seemed to understand immediately and shut her mouth

"Besides we need to make sure we can all operate and work cohesively in one kitchen," he added

"I actually agree with him on that," Allison stated

"Really?" Scott asked in surprise

Allison nodded slowly, raking a strand of hair behind her ear

"Yeah, one Christmas my parents and I went to visit my aunt Mary and her family, they all tried to cook at the same time and caught the kitchen on fire,"

"AND that's what we're here for folks, we're going to try to prevent kitchen fires!" Stiles said with a grin

The pack seemed generally less amused than he would have hoped

"....Right then, let's get down to the basics- ingredients,"

~+~

At first everything was seeming to go pretty well and it looked like Stiles had been worried for nothing

But sadly gathering ingredients cannot be the entire cookie baking process and more steps were required

Steps that involved the problems, as a matter of fact....

"Alright, the first thing we want to do is get the flour measured out correctly," Stiles proposed as he leaned over Scott's shoulder to get to the recipe

"Shouldn't be too hard," Kira smiled optimistically

Poor, poor optimists....

They were always the first to go and Kira was no exception....

"Alright, measuring cups are here," Stiles said, moving the cups towards Malia and Liam- the two most prominent students as they were still the youngest, not nessiciarly the newest members of the pack but still the youngest none the less

"Now this thick crap is the flour, the thinner, all around more appealing stuff is sugar, and do NOT dip your hands in it and eat it I swear to GOD if one person does that I will zap you through a window,"

"....Who dips their hand into a bag of sugar and just eats a fistfull of it?" Lydia asked with a cringe

Stiles twitched uncomfortably

"That's really not the concern right now is it?"

It sort of was though....

"Alright let's just get this over with," Derek prompted

Malia nodded, deciding to be the one to open the bag....

And as soon as she did, flour did wat flour does and exploded all around

A cloud of white, thick, dust coated everything in the area and no one seemed pleased....

"Did I do that wrong?" Malia asked with a cringe

"No no, you did fine! Really! I promise! It's natural, it happens to everyone," he insisted

"Really?" she asked slowly

"Really," he promised

"Ok..." she muttered, starting to measure out the flour

Stiles turned to the rest of the pack and presented them with an expression that made it more than clear that if anyone told her otherwise he would personally strangle them

"I'm going to go rinse this out of my hair," Lydia sighed as she headed for the bathroom

"...Right then, next the eggs, who can crack an egg?" Stiles grinned

"I'll do it," Liam offered, taking one of the eggs and...

Well....

They new he MEANT to be gentle when cracking it....

But the force in wich he slammed that egg against the sink did in fact cause the yolk to fly over and land on Kira's shoes

Wich made the Kitsune cringe but give a very sad looking thumbs' up to the beta anyway

"Oh let me do it," Erica huffed, marching forward and taking another egg, she cracked this one gently....

But perhaps a little bit TOO gently given that it didn't want to crack...

Frowning and narrowing her eyes, she gave it another try and it cracked- but once again it was too hard and the shell shards landed on the floor as her hand was covered in yolk

"Ew..." she grumbled

"Ok let's leave that to someone else, like Allison maybe, let's work on getting the oven pre-heated," Stiles suggested

"Do you really want to let any of these people near an oven?" Derek muttered to him, setting his hand on Stiles' shoulder cautiously

"...You know on second thought Publix makes some really great cookies in THEIR bakery so....."

Ultimately they did decide to bake cookies on Christmas Eve as a pack....

But by "they".... it was mostly Stiles and Derek wile everyone else watched TV and waited on them to finish cooking so they could decorate them

Stiles and Derek THOUGHT that wouldn't be a problem....

But given that they had to clean frosting off of the ceiling at nine-thirty that night, they assumed wrong