When Stiles starts getting sick, he assumes his appetite loss and lethargy stem from the darkness the Nemeton left in his heart. But soon enough, even he can’t deny that he’s showing the same symptoms his mom had. When he's forced to face the truth about his illness, Stiles finds himself making a choice he never thought he’d make.
dep·u·tizeverbtemporarily act or speak as a deputy.synonyms: stand in for, sit in for, fill in for, cover for, substitute for, replace
”"He’s too old for you," Derek grunts, and, shit - Stiles looks indignant.
Peter Pan managed to cast his curse on Storybrooke during Going Home. Six months later, the Swan-Mills family breaks the curse and discovers that they'd never been a family at all; that Emma and Regina had never fallen in love; and that they can't quite let go of the lie that had been their happy ending.
As a kid, Derek had always been building little ‘wolf dens’ as his mother would call them. Safe places like this that would pause time and make the world go away for a little while.