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3rd pov
“Excuse me! Excuse me. Hi. I'm Jake Peralta. All right, all right. So thrilled to be here today. As many of you may know, I used to be a cop. Hey, I was dirty! I took tons of bribes. But as a former Detective, uh, I know a thing or two about life sentences. And, Angie, Marco, you just got slapped with the best life sentence there is … Marriage. To Angie and Marco. Make us proud, have a son.”
“Hey, I love the spray tan, Joey. Let me take a picture of you. I want to show this colour
to the guy who stains my deck!”
“Congratulations, Tony. It's a beautiful night.”
“Hey, you're one of us now.” “You know how long I've been waiting
for one of you old men to kiss me?” “He's a good kid.” “I gotta say, out of the four of you,
I think Vito's the best kisser. Ah, what a wedding, huh? Although the meatballs were a little dry.”
“Dry meatballs. That's Peralta's signal. Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Come on!Let's go!”
“Stay where you are!Hands on your head!”
“Stay where you are! Hands on your head!”
“Nobody say anything! Nobody talk! Get your hands off of me, you piece of… Hey, Captain Holt! Long time no see. How you doing?” “This is not the time, Peralta.” “Oh, yeah, that's the stuff. Ah! I've missed us.”
2 days later
“He's here. He's here!Jake's here! Okay, let's do the prank where we don't even acknowledge him when he comes in.” “Okay?” “Shh! Shh! Everyone, shh. Back in the nine-nine! Whoo! Hoo-hoo-hoo! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake!” “Played to perfection, Charles.”
“God, I missed this place. Let me just soak it in. Oh, yeah, stale coffee, fingerprinting ink, whatever Charles is fermenting in his desk.” “Beans.” “Beans. It's like I never left. All right, fill me in. Tell me everything I missed.” “Won't take long. Only three things happened. Terry chipped his tooth and had a lisp for a week.” “Lithen up, theeven. I'm Thorry, did I thay thumthing amuthing to you? Anther me, you thun of a bitth!”
“Number two, Santiago and Boyle wore the same outfit to work one day.” “How does it look better on you? “And Captain banned headphones from the office, due to the Gina incident.”
[Ice cream (Milkshake) By world music ensemble playing] “♪ And a man and a milkshake ♪”
“Gina! Gina! Take off those stupid headphones and get some help!”
“Great recap.” “Welcome back, Peralta.” “Captain.” “Everyone has a lot of work. So you have exactly two minutes to share personal anecdotes. And those two minutes began when you entered. You now have… 12 seconds left.”
“Challenge accepted. Undercover highlights. Fixed a boxing match, smoked a whole cigar without vomiting, was once in a room with ten guys named Sal, and missed you all so very much.” “Everyone back to work.”
“Now, before everyone continues to their desk and I assign this morning‘s cases to everyone, please join me in the briefing room. In the next 10 minutes there is something important I must announce to all.”
in SpongeBob voice 10 minutes later
“All right, thank you everyone for meeting me here in the briefing room, Peralta, why are you not in uniform?” “Come on captain, I just got back from being undercover cut me some slack” Peralta you haven’t been undercover for two days. I do believe that is enough slack for you to get back to your normal workplace attire anyways, back to what I wanted to mention to you all there will be a new detective joining our precinct. I expect you all to treat him very well, and I hope you all get along with him. Well, he is the youngest person to ever make it through the police Acad-.”
“WHAT NO I’m the youngest. I already checked it. I check it every year. How is-” “come on amsss settle down.” “Yes Santiago there is no need for you to be so abrupt anyways as I was saying detective Stilinski finished the police detective program at 17 he started it just a year before and graduated college at 14 in which well he was in college he did 2, 4 year diplomas which include criminal and justice law and a bachelor in nursing.”
“That's not possible, people don’t graduate high school until they’re at least 18.” “Yes Santiago, I understand that but Mr. Stilinski graduated when he was 11. The only reason he did not attend university and college in person is because he wanted to stay close to his friends.” “Captain, if he wanted to stay close to his friends, why is he now joining us?” “Well, it is not my story to tell, but his father recently passed, and he cannot bear to stay in the town where he was born and both his parents died now detective Stilinski should be arriving here in the next hour, you all to be here when he gets here and to be pleasant meeting adjourned”
“Hey Jakey, it’s so great to have you back. I missed you so much OK tell me about your undercover mission” “not now Charles I need to figure out who captain Holt is replacing me with” “Jake He’s not replacing you” “I just got back and instead of our normal banter the first thing he says is oh yeah, we’re getting a new detective, the only open desk is the one across from mine.” “I mean Jake I could always just take that desk” “boyle We have already discussed why you will not be sitting across from Peralta” “yes Terry.” “buzz kill” charles whispers to jake
Just as Charles goes to start talking to Jake again, they hear an elevator ding. Everyone freezes and looks to the elevator and out walks this skinny yet muscular runner/swimmer build kid who can’t be over 21.
He has dark hair cut about the same length as Jake’s, and is covered in freckles, but his skin is pale, almost ghost like And he has warm honey, brown eyes that look as as though they have seen so much, that someone his age should not have seen they look, haunted and empty, yet hopeful and happy at the same time as he walks out of the elevator, and into the bullpen captain halt exits its office “detective Stilinski it’s wonderful to have you here with us I can say I myself cannot wait to start working with you” the entire precinct hold their breath.
This is the first time they’ve ever heard Holt compliment someone just as they unfreeze they hear this melodious voice that has a bit of a female hint to it “Thank you Captain Holt. I cannot wait to start working with you, I hope that I do my best to impress and keep up with the… workflow.” Captain Holt nods his head and has a bit of a smile on his face. We can see Amy start to freak the fuck out trying to figure out how this kid managed to make Holt smile without even being there, 10 minutes “don’t worry Stilinski I do believe you will have no problem, keeping up with the workflow in fact, based on your records, I believe that you will overcome and over achieve what is expected of you by the commission”
“Thank you, Captain Holt may please tell me which desk is mine, so that I may start preparing my space.” “Of course, you will be sitting across from detective Peralta Peralta please raise your hand.” Jake shoots his hand up at first learning what he said, and then when he finally processed it, he instantly brought his hand back down, as if he had offended him, but stiles had already seen and was making his way over to his desk before he could get there.
Rosa stepped in front of him she squared her shoulders, and was staring at Stiles, as if to make him scared of her, but after being through what Stiles has been through there’s not much that can actually scare him so he just sets his shoulders right back and dead pans at her the exact same way she is doing it to him except he does that little eyebrow thing that he learned from void, and it only takes five minutes for Rosa to give a little nod, almost unnoticeable, except for those that know her best and Stiles. Everyone in the precinct is silent while this is happening and then all they hear as Rosa moves away is “if you need anything come find me” stiles does a little nod and proceeds to his desk and instantly hops on his computer.
They don’t actually know what he’s doing but he’s so intently focussed on it that he doesn’t That they don’t seem to think he can see the looks they’re giving each other as to say what the fuck just happened how the hell did he make Holt smile? How the hell did he make Rosa respect him? Amy stands up from her desk and is about to make her way over to stiles when Holt calls out “everyone, please let Stilinski have today and tomorrow to get settled in before you go trying to talk to him. He will come talk to you when he is ready. Do not push him” and with that turns back into his office and closes the door
Time skip lunch
Just as the clock strikes noon, Jake stands up straight from his desk and instantly rushes towards Holtz office Amy following behind him, but as soon as Jake enters the office, he closes the door right on Amy’s face. “Peralta, why did you hurry into my office and shut the door on Santiago‘s face?” “I'm showing the kid around right?” Jake says with this huge smirk and does finger guns at Captain Holt “no Peralta you are not. I have already said that someone else may show Stilinski around.” How is that possible? I’m the first person that asked” “no you are not. Rosa was the one who asked me first.”
At that exact moment, Amy opens the door and the entire precinct freezes aside from stiles as they hear Jake yelling “WHAT! Rosa asked” Amy is staring into the office, mouth wide, open eyes blown wide, and Rosa walks right up next. “Yeah you got a problem with that Peralta.” She looks at Jake with the same look that she gave stIles earlier that day, “no problem here” quickly makes his exit to his desk with Rosa following behind him “Stilinski” stiles looks up to Rosa. “I’ll show you around” stIles nods his head once turns off his computer, grabs his bag and stands. They have another little stare off then they nod at each other in unison.
how the tour went, was stiles not speaking, and Rosa only speaking when she was pointing out which rooms were where before they’re able to enter the bullpen again, rosa pulls stiles into the briefing room with Hitchcock and Scully, where they instantly scurry out, then closes the doors she turns to face stiles. “How the hell did you do that?” a blunt statement a bit more blunt than what is expected of Rosa stiles answers “How the hell did I do what” “ Glare at me, no one has ever been able to match mine, top it even so how the hell did you do it?” “ My dad was the police sheriff of my former town. The FBI kept wanting to come in and make fun of him and make him lose his job. The FBI also happens to be my ex-best friend's dad. He quite often asked me questions about how my dad was.”
“Are you gonna answer these questions without the usual level of sarcasm?" “my response was always. Are you going to ask questions without the usual level of stupid, it always makes my dad laugh.” “Respect, I've noticed that you’ve just been working on your computer all day. What have you been doing?” “just adding a couple upgrades to my computer.” “What kind of upgrades” “I have some pretty bad ADHD so all of the very tedious work in filling out forms and all that stuff it’s really hard for me to do because of ADHD and I just can’t stay focussed on it so I installed a algorithm that’ll do all that stuff for me and then all I have to fill out is super specific stuff.”
“Where the hell did you get that?” “I made it” “you made it?” “I mean yeah I kind of built this algorithm when I was 13. It helped a lot with schoolwork,” “holy shit you’re smart smart” “yeah I am” “ you think maybe you could put that algorithm on my computer?” “I can’t put the full thing on because I had to get special permission from the commission to put it on but yeah there’s a couple things I can put on your computer that’ll make it go quicker” “OK” “do you want me to do it now or when I have time to do it” “now considering the fact that I have to go on a case in 10 minutes I’ll leave you my password and you can start installing it.” “It’ll be done before you’re back””we'll see.”
“Let me guess. You normally get your work done freaking fast” “yes” “now it’ll go by faster” stiles then exits the briefing room into the bullpen head straight to his desk leaving Rosa stunned five minutes later, Rosa passes styles desk, dropping a piece of paper onto it, and then leaves the precinct. Everyone else is curious and worried as to what Rosa left on stiles’s desk, but all they see is stiles grab the piece of paper, stand up, walk over to Rosa’s desk, log into her computer and start doing something.
Times skip next day
This is probably the one and only time that Jake is actually early because you know Jake was going to pull a little prank on his new desk buddy so he’s there even before Amy. When Jake walks out of the elevator and sees his desk buddy, The only thing he can think is ‘fuck this I could’ve slept in more’ stiles as sensing jake Looks up and makes eye Contact with Jake “good morning Peralta” Jake is just silent stiles continues on. “Holt just went to the bathroom. He should be out in the next couple minutes then he was asking if he could speak with you” “he knows I don’t normally get in until like half hour after” “I am aware, he just asked me to tell you that he wanted to speak with you when you got here” “me not Terry, or Charles or Amy” “yes you” “guess let’s go see what captain wants then” Jake then strolls to his desk, throws down his bag onto his chair and Marches straight into Captain Holt‘s office. Please note Jake did not hear when stile said captain just went to the bathroom, so then Jake is standing in Holt‘s office for five minutes wondering if his new desk buddy just pulled a prank on him just as Jake was about to stand up and head back to his desk Holt enters only to see Peralta suspiciously early. “What are you planning to do” “nothing Capitan, Stilinski said you wanted to talk to me about something?” “yes, I know that you’ve been having trouble with your current case, I’d like you to take Stiles as your secondary today get a second pair of eyes on it” “you know that the only person that I have secondary my cases is Charles” “yes I understand that but boyle is currently busy working on his own case with Santiago and Diaz” “I mean come on Terry then”
“Jeffords does not have his certification to use his gun Stilinski does, you’re taking Stilinski, end of discussion. Seeing as though you are here early though perhaps now you can take this time to organise your desk” “you’ve never complained about it before” “yes I have so has Jeffords so has Diaz so has Santiago even Gina has made comments about how messy your desk is” “fine i'll go clean my freaking desk” Jake then walks out of the office heading towards his desk as he leaves, he slams the door behind him, hoping to spook stiles, stiles doesn’t even flinch.
As Jake storms to his desk, you can see stiles just glance up and you can just tell he’s thinking my God he’s worse than Liam no no no no he’s worse than Theo when he's grounded and not allowed to see Liam and that says a lot, he is a child in a man’s body, he is overprotective of the things that he considers his and of course that started with Liam and then we don’t know how, but it moved onto stiles, but it seems as though Theo has claimed stiles as his motherly role model type figure.
Which, considering what’s happened in the past you wouldn’t have expected that. As Jake sits down, he sits down a little too hard and his chair rolls away from his desk. We see stiles crack a little grin, that seems exactly like something Isaac would do stiles thinks. He is distracted from his work thinking about his pups, but he knows this is for the best, as Jake rolls back to his desk and starts typing aggressively on his keyboard, hoping to gain stiles attention. Stiles simply looks up and says “so I’m your secondary on your case.”
Jake is stunned and Doesn’t know what to say, Stiles continues, “I do not understand why you don’t like me, but I hope we can put this aside to get our work done, I would like to work together I would like to get to know the squad that I will be working with.”
Jake finally snaps out of it, “you're taking my spot” “what?” “you’re taking my spot as Captain Holt's favourite. I am the one that he normally paid the most attention to. I'm the one that he went after the most.” It then clicks in stiles brain. “Your dad was absent from your life growing up wasn’t he?” “Yeah how did you know that?”
“Jake, can I call you Jake? I understand when it’s like to not grow up with a parent I’m guessing you feel overprotective of the females in your life seeing though you grew up with a single mom, and you felt like you had to provide everything for her, so now that you have a fatherly figure, you don’t wanna lose that to somebody else. I completely understand that my mother died when I was 10 and my father threw himself into a really bad habit of drinking. I was the one that had to clean up everything I made dinner, kept The house clean and the thing is I was the one that saw her die, I was the one that was at her bedside when she passed he wasn’t. He came to the hospital three hours later walking into the waiting room to find my ex-friend‘s mother, comforting me and trying to calm me down as she had been trying to do for the past two hours, I understand how you feel and I’m not trying to take your place in anyway”
This is a person Jake has barely even met and has just told him something very personal about them. Nobody ever opens up that quickly. Jake starts to see Stiles in a new light. “Yeah, you’re my secondary, I hope you don’t mind. I like playing some good tunes in the car while we’re driving to the crime scene.” “What kind of tunes?” “you know little bit of Jay-Z little bit of Beyoncé,Taylor Swift, Katy Perry” Jake trails off
“shut your fucking door that sounds almost exactly like my playlist,” it clicks in Jake that this isn’t some other Jefford like person who’s gonna be super focussed on work and not really want to do anything fun or dramatic this is someone who is like himself they work hard but they’re sarcastic. They’re witty, they do things instinctively, yeah this can work Jake thought… THE END THANKS FOR READING