Danny could tell something had shifted with he and Isaac. He didn't know what, but something. He'd been so busy these past weeks setting himself up in Massachusetts, packing and stuff it hadn't registered until they'd come up to the cabin.

He couldn't put his finger on it, but something was missing.

Touching, stroking, having sex. Isaac was on board for all of it, he and Cora were the same, he and Jackson, and even with Danny himself. But Danny knew something wasn't right.

They've been there three days with another four to go. Danny is unsurprised to know that Jackson and Cora share a love of hiking. When he thought about it they were like each other's male and female equivalent.

Disappearing daily, they left Danny and Isaac to their own devices. He was leaving in a week. Leaving for good. Jackson was flying with him, to stay with him for a few days before he came back and finished the rest of his summer break. Danny wanted to be acclimated in his new town before he started at college.

Isaac hadn't protested when he'd told him that. Hadn't told him not to go, hadn't asked or offered to go with him, even just to help him settle in.

Simply accepting that Danny couldn't stay, he was spending time with him when Danny could and not pushing for more. Danny wanted him to push for more. And that was twisted. He wanted to have his cake and eat it too.

Walking back up to the cabin, Danny sees Isaac sitting on the porch reading. Tossing off a good morning, Danny heads inside and grabs something, shoving it into his pocket before he moves back out to the porch.

Leaning on the railing he looks at Isaac. When he looks up Danny smiles. Isaac smiles back. "You have a rather wicked look on your face there." He says teasingly.

"Well, that's because I'm thinking wicked thoughts Isaac." Danny whispers as he pulls his hand out of his pockets with the condoms and lube.

"Out here?" Isaac raises an eyebrow but puts his book down.

"It's been a fantasy for a while." Danny says. He steps forward when Isaac spreads his legs and motions him forward with a jerk of his head. Standing between Isaac's legs, Danny inhales sharply when Isaac leans forward and kisses his chest, his tongue sliding wetly over his skin.

He licks and nips at Danny's nipples before sucking on them a little. His hands rove over Danny's backside, slip inside his loose cargo shorts and palm it. "Hmm, someone is going commando." He says with a smile in his voice.

"And you're not?" Danny teases back knowing full well Isaac was naked under the cut-off sweat pants he was wearing. "You forgetting I watched you dress?" He smiles as Isaac laughs on his stomach, his breath puffing against his abs, making them jump.

Danny watches Isaac pleasure him finds pleasure in the watching as well as feeling it. He can see the hickey he'd left on Isaac's neck last night, a black mark on his pale skin. Danny has discovered that Isaac, no matter how much sun he gets doesn't tan. At all.

Letting his eyes close, Danny gives himself over to Isaac's arousing touches. "God, your mouth, so good." He murmurs. Isaac pauses on his journey down to Danny's cock, but then keeps going.

And that was something too, sometimes he kind of paused when Danny would say something to him when they were being sexy, he didn't know what it was, didn't know if he should bring it up since he was leaving so soon. Wasn't it better to leave on a good note, with good memories?

Deliberately pushing his dark thoughts away, Danny pushed his fingers through Isaac's curly hair, needing to touch him. He tugged on it a little, knowing how much Isaac had grown to love that.

Pulling Isaac's head back, exposing his long throat, Danny leaned down and kissed him, not hard and fast, but gentle. Like they had all the time in the world. He felt Isaac's hands on his shorts and they slid to the ground, pooling around his bare feet.

Letting go of Isaac's hair, Danny slid his hands down and grasped Isaac's waistband, he pushed and with Isaac tilting his hips, they managed to get them off too.

"Cora and Jackson could come back anytime you know." Isaac said mildly, even as his hands began to stroke Danny's cock, cup his balls and stroke behind them, flicking his piercing a little.

"No, they've been gone all day every other time, why would this be different?" Danny asked as he moved back and then stepped forward, straddling Isaac now. He sank down, letting his cock slide down Isaac's abs.

The both moaned at the contact, Danny moaned again when he felt Isaac's cock slide up the crack of his ass. "Want you inside me." He muttered as he reached for a condom.

"I want to be there." Isaac returned. He surprised Danny by taking his mouth in a kiss, before he pushed him up and turned him around. Then he closed his legs and pulled Danny back against him.

"Oh fuck, Isaac.' Danny moaned, loudly now, heedless of his surroundings. He was realising Isaac was not a bottom, despite his own asshat comment so long ago now, Isaac was a top, an instinctive top even when he was on the bottom.

Danny had a feeling that he was going to be one of the lucky few in life who actually got to fuck Isaac Hale. But today, right here and now, he was going to be fucked. And he wanted it, needed it badly.

Isaac spread his legs, thus spreading Danny's as he was now straddling Isaac as they sat together in the chair, his back to Isaac's front. Danny writhed back on Isaac as his hands played freely.

Vaguely he felt the condom be drawn from his hand and the tube of lube put in it. "Get yourself ready for me Danny, let me watch you pleasure yourself." Isaac's voice is sinful in his ear.

"God, Isaac. You're going to make me come before you're even inside me." Danny whimpers, actually whimpers as he feels Isaac's breath ghost over his neck as he laughed quietly.

"Prep your hole Danny, or I'll fuck you anyway, you've made me too hot," Isaac whispers in his ear as his tongue sweeps out to run around the rim of it before he bites down on Danny's neck. He doesn't suck though.

Unlike Danny, he hasn't gone on a hickey spree, hasn't left a mark or scratch or finger bruise on him at all. And Danny wants that, he realises, wants to take something away with him, even if it will fade in time, he wants, needs to take a bruise or something away with him that Isaac put on him in the throes of passion.

"Suck my neck, it's okay." Danny says breathlessly as he squirts lube on his fingers. His trembling fingers.

"Hmm," Isaac sucks a little but not enough to leave a mark on Danny's darker skin he knew. He ignores Danny's encouragement to suck harder and moves his hands to Danny's pec muscles, fingers, pinching and flicking his nipples.

Danny gives in and begins to prep his hole for Isaac's cock. "Tell me what you feel, how you feel." Isaac ordered him.

Groaning, Danny dragged in a deep breath, "Feels good, hot, I'm, my muscles are clenching on my fingers, wishing it was your cock already. I'm scissoring them, prepping myself for you." Danny says as he does indeed scissor his fingers inside himself.

"How many fingers?" Isaac asks him even as he glides a hand down over Danny's ridged abdomen, bypasses his weeping cock and feels for himself.

"Three huh? Nice, but I think you can do better." And so saying, his right hand grasps Danny's neck, holding him still as he slowly pushes his left middle finger into Danny, alongside his own three fingers inside already. "Oh yes, you are hot and tight and you are grasping, your hole is just needing today Danny isn't it, needing to be filled and fucked by my cock. Can you feel how hard my cock is for you Danny?"

Isaac whispers all of this into Danny's ear, overloading his senses. Danny feels his balls draw up but before he can come, Isaac withdraws from his body and grabs hold of them, choking off his orgasm.

Whining Danny moves on Isaac's body, rubbing off on him like a bitch in heat. Isaac laughs again and pushes Danny forward a little. Danny feels his hands on his back, hears the condom wrapper tear and then Isaac's warm hands are holding onto his ass, pushing it up and pulling him back.

Groaning in pleasure. Danny sinks down on Isaac's cock, lets his fingers be pulled out by Isaac as he pushes his cock in. "Oh God, Isaac." Danny says as he feels himself stretching around Isaac's cock. "Oh God." Danny says again.

"Not nearly Danny, not nearly." Isaac laughs again, just a little, his voice is breathless telling Danny he is affected too.

Danny lets Isaac pull him up and drop him down on his cock, they both moan as he does so, and clenches down on Isaac's cock when he bottoms out. Danny sets the rhythm and Isaac lets him, his hands wandering all over Danny's body, tweaking, pinching, stroking and teasing the hell out of him.

Feeling like one giant exposed nerve, Danny's skin tingles and literally twitches wherever Isaac touches him, he both wants and dreads his touch, knowing Isaac is going to draw out his pleasure until he is mired in nothing but the need to come on his cock.

Flexing his thighs, Danny works himself off on Isaac. He feels his balls drawing up again and Isaac strokes them lightly, pinches his sac making him flinch in aroused pain. "Isaac." Danny gasped.

It was new, Isaac's hints of pain, something he'd only been doing for the last couple of weeks or so. Danny didn't want to know why he'd suddenly started adding it in, he was glad he had because he was damn good at it. A pinch here, a slap there, a nip.

But still no bruises. "Getting close." Danny said. He felt Isaac smile against his back.

"Then come for me Danny, let me see you shoot without a touch on your cock." He said, his head pushing under Danny's arm so he could watch. Danny tilted a little to the side and worked his thighs harder, fucked himself up and down on Isaac's cock.

"You'll come too?" He questioned breathlessly.

"Of course." Isaac said, his hands starting to help Danny's thighs keep going, keep him fucking.

"I, oohhh…" Danny trailed off as he felt himself erupt. As Isaac had asked, he shot, hard and fast up over his chest, splattering some on his arm.

Isaac pushed him up when he would have sank back down and Danny stumbled up and to the railing, wincing as Isaac withdrew from his ass. Then he looked over his shoulder in time to see Isaac yank off the condom and stroke himself harshly.

Isaac looked at him as he stepped up into Danny's space and pressed himself against Danny's back, knuckles dragging across his skin as he jerked his cock. And then Danny felt his come get added to the mix as Isaac spilled into his hand.

"God, that's hot." Danny breathed, he felt Isaac wipe his hand over his ass, smearing his come everywhere before he slid his arms around Danny's waist and pulled him back down into the chair.

They sat together for some time in the position they'd fucked in, naked and sweaty and not caring if Jackson or Cora came back and saw them.

And Danny suddenly wanted to end on this note. This one perfect moment, nothing could top it, he didn't want to even try.

"We need to leave when Jackson and Cora get back, I'm going to pack." He said even as he wondered what Isaac would say.

But Isaac hugged him a little tighter before his hands dropped away. "Yeah, I agree. You need to be on your way, you're not helping yourself by delaying leaving."

Danny felt Isaac's hands push on his hips and he stood, stooping back down for his shorts. He stepped into them and watched as Isaac dragged his sweats back up his legs and covered his cock as he hitched them when he stood.

Words hang in the air, but Danny doesn't say them. He thinks Isaac is holding them back too.

Grabbing the used condom and wrapper and the lube they head inside to pack.

Neither of them have seen the flashes of colour in the distance that are Jackson and Cora.

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"Fuck!" Jackson whispered as he stopped and Cora slammed into him. She braced herself with a hand on his shoulder.

"What?" She questioned, looking around him. "Oh." She said as she saw Isaac and Danny on the porch.

"Yeah, oh." Jackson says. He steps back slowly and quietly and Cora follows his lead. She watches them though.

"They're beautiful aren't they?" The question is out before she realises she's spoken it aloud.

"Got a thing for gay porn little girl?" Jackson asks her sarcastically.

It's new, his calling her 'little girl', Cora both hates and likes it. "I do, it's hot. They're hot." She says with a jerk of her head at the two guys fucking on the front porch.

Isaac was working Danny over good she saw. She knew Isaac was hurting so she was glad he was on top so to speak.

"They are and it can be, like most porn if it's done right." Jackson concurred and Cora gaped at him.

"Are you gay or bi or something?" She asked him now.

"No. Why?" He answered her.

"Because most guys, most straight guys wouldn't admit to having watched gay porn, let alone admit that it has arousing properties." She knows she sounds like a psychologist or something but doesn't care right now. This subject was way too interesting to pass up.

"I'm not most guys. My best friend is gay you know." His sarcasm is very dry.

Continuing to watch Isaac and Danny, Cora only nods.

"When you add the lack of emotional support Danny grew up without, especially once his sister left home, well he's only ever had me. I wasn't going to let him down too." Cora does look at Jackson now.

This was the Jackson she was falling for. It was a pity he was rarely seen. But now that he was here, she had a proposition for him.

"So hey, you're not eighteen until between Halloween and Thanksgiving right?"

Jackson looked at her with a frown but nodded. "Okay, are you interested in deflowering me before you're eighteen then?" She asks him bluntly.

"What. The. Fuck?" Jackson says to her, enunciating each word as its own sentence.

"I'm a virgin, I don't want to be a virgin, but I want someone who knows what they're doing to get rid of it for me. I guess I could just shove a dildo up there or something, but it's not the same you know?"

She watched Jackson's face redden before he turned away and ignored her.

"Dammit, I thought you had more balls Whittemore." She muttered before turning her gaze to Isaac and Danny again. She watched as Isaac came over Danny's back and then they settled down for a few minutes.

Then she watched as they stood and dressed and went inside. Shaking her head she left Jackson staring after her.

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Cora opened the door as Isaac packed up the books they'd all brought along. "What's going on?" Isaac looked up at her. "Oh no." He shrugged.

"It had to happen sometime." Nodding Cora went past him with a stroke of his arm. She went down the hall to the bedroom she and Jackson had been sharing and started to pack without another word. She also packed Jackson stuff and it was sitting on the bed he'd been using when he came in.

"What the hell is going on?" He questioned her.

"Not really sure, but we're leaving which I'd think you'd be happy about." Cora answered as she stood and grabbed her stuff.

"Cora," She sopped and looked back at Jackson. "I'm not ready to get involved with anyone, Lydia," Jackson broke off again and looked away. He hated admitting what he was about to. "She mind fucked me. In a bad way."

"Jackson, I wasn't asking for a relationship, I only wanted a booty call. But okay," Cora broke off, shrugged and then continued. "I get that, I appreciate you telling me the truth." She turned and left the room, leaving Jackson with the thought that he'd always tell her above all others the truth. She was just that sort of person.

Danny stuck his head in as Jackson finished remaking the bed with the fresh sheets and gathering up his and Cora's used ones for Danny to take back.

"Ready?" He asked. Jackson could see he hadn't showered or anything, just thrown on a shirt and some flip flops.

"Yeah dude, let's go." Jackson looked around and then he closed the door behind him.

The trip home is silent, no one talking. Danny drops Isaac and Cora off first, then Jackson and then drives home himself.

He has a week left in town and nothing to do. He's packed everything he's taking with him and shipped it already. His room is empty save for some clothes and his laptop, a couple of books.

Glancing around he shakes his head and boots up his laptop. Then he changes his flight to tomorrow.

Then he calls Jackson and tells him. Tells him to keep to his original flight, he'd pick him up at the airport.

Taking up his phone again, Danny looks at it, then he brings up Isaac's contact info and calls him.

"Hey." Isaac answers, hesitation in his voice.

"Hey, I've changed my flight, brought it forward." Danny says without preamble.

"To when?"

"Tomorrow morning."

There is a small gasp, then Isaac speaks. "I'm glad, you've been ready to do for a long time Danny. You follow your dream okay? Don't let anyone get in your way, not even yourself."

Danny feels tears prick his eyes. He realises what he's leaving behind is his dream. "I love you Isaac Hale, I think I'll love you forever." He ends the call before Isaac can say anything in return.

The night stretches before him interminably.

##########

"I love you too Danny Mahealani and I think I'll love you forever too." Isaac answers even as he hears the disconnect sound.

Taking a breath he boots up his computer. Logs on to Facebook. Hesitates and then unfriends and blocks Danny. Again. Then he picks up his phone and pulls up his contact information. Hesitates again before he deletes that too.

Okay, it had happened, earlier than he'd thought, hoped for or expected, but it had happened. Moving on instinct, Isaac exits his room and moves down the hall to Peter's. It's standing open and empty. Cora had already gone out to Erica's he knew.

Wheeling around, Isaac looks at his phone. Laughed a little hysterically as he realised the person he'd normally call he couldn't, because he was freaking out over Danny going.

The keys in the door signal someone coming and Isaac turns. Derek opens the door and stops when he sees Isaac. "Hey, I thought you weren't back until the weekend?" He questions as he closes the door behind him.

"Uh, change of plans." Isaac feels his throat closing as emotion begins to overwhelm him.

Derek takes one look at him and swears. "Shit." He moves forward and guides Isaac onto the couch, pushes his head between his knees.

Then Isaac feels his warmth beside him as Derek's large hands start to stroke his back, over and over, not saying anything. He doesn't cry. Isaac doesn't think he really has any tears left in his body, he'd shed so many when he was with his father.

After a while, Isaac finally sits up. Derek keeps his arm around his shoulder. Looks him over carefully, brows drawn tight and hard. "When is he leaving?"

"In the morning I think, tomorrow some time anyway." Isaac answers as he rests his head back on Derek's arm.

"You're not seeing him again?"

Shaking his head, Isaac closed his eyes. "No, no I'm not." He pushed himself to his feet, swaying a little. Derek steadied him and walked with him back into his bedroom.

He helped Isaac get settled and then left him. "I'm leaving the door open Is, you need anything, just yell." He said quietly. "And I'm going to make some sandwiches for you too. You'll need to eat eventually."

"Okay, thanks Derek." Isaac said as he drifted. He felt someone come in some time later and lie down with him, draw him into their warmth and hold him close, but he didn't open his eyes to check who it was.

Isaac slept without dreaming, he never felt the bed jostle as another body joined in and snuggled to his other side. He never heard the quite conversations that were held in his room as other's came and went.

He slept through the night and the next morning and on into the afternoon.

It's mid-afternoon when he finally stirs and feels himself surrounded by warmth. Opening his dry eyes, Isaac blinks a couple of times. He recognises Peter's watch on the wrist that is resting on his thigh, but he can feel someone behind him too.

Turning around slowly he sees Stiles sleeping peacefully. A vague breath from a distance draws his attention to his reading chair. John is lazing in it reading, still in uniform.

"Derek had clients or he'd be here too. He stayed with you all night." Peter said softly. John looked up at Peter's voice and smiled at Isaac. He stood, settled his utility belt and walked from the room.

"John is getting you some food, or would you prefer to get up?" Peter asks him, still talking quietly.

"Up. Need to pee." Isaac said as he pushed himself up.

Peter rolled out of bed allowing Isaac to get up. "I'll see you in the kitchen." Isaac nodded as he moved into his bathroom.

He stared at himself in the mirror before deciding to take a shower and wash away the last vestiges of Danny.

When he's finished, he sees a pair of sweatpants and a t-shirt and some underwear on the bench. Smiling for the first time in what feels like years, he dresses and cleans his teeth.

Back in the kitchen the three of them are waiting. Stiles looks up. "I spoke to Jackson." Isaac nodded.

Sitting down he eats the sandwiches that John had prepared and set out and drinks a gallon of juice and water. The other's talk around him, but include him in the conversation.

Wiping his mouth when he's finished Isaac looks at them. "Thanks, I'm glad I've got you guys, all of you." He amends, thinking of Derek and Cora. "I'm not okay, not going to pretend I am. I don't know when I will be okay again, but eventually, one day I will be." Isaac vowed.

"I think you've about got it Is," John said to him. He glanced at Stiles. "When Claudia passed, sometimes I thought I couldn't take my next breath, but I did. And over time I realised it got a little easier to take it."

"Yeah, that's about it, one day you just…realise that it is okay, that you are okay. That you survived." Stiles said to him.

"I concur. With all of you. It will take time, but it will happen. In the meantime though, I think you should wallow. A lot." Peter said making John smile and Stiles laugh.

Isaac grinned again and nodded. "If I say I'll wallow, will you back me a whole cheesecake to eat myself?" He asked slyly, unable to help it. He loved Peter's baked cheesecake.

"I will." Peter stood and moved the two steps to him and bent down, wrapping him in a tight hug. Pulling back, he ruffled Isaac's still uncombed hair. "I'll get right on that."

"And that's my cue, I'll be back tonight though Is, if you need anything, don't hesitate to call yeah?" John said as he stood.

"I will John, thanks." Isaac answered him.

Later that evening, lying in bed, now between Derek and Stiles with Cora in the chair, Isaac drifts to sleep again.

Yes, it would take time, but he would be okay. He had his whole life ahead of him.

A/N - Next story in my Hale Gang series will be Sheriff and Peter. And yes, Jackson and Cora will get a story of their own as well. But Sheriff and Peter first, they've been very patient with me but they're chomping at the bit to be published. Thank-you to everyone who has read, reviewed, followed and favourited Damaged Goods. If you continue to read my AU Teen Wolf series I hope you enjoy Sheriff and Peter in Breakfast At... when it is published.

P.S. When I publish Hale Gang Vignettes which will be after Jackson/Cora's story, I will be publishing an already-written epilogue for Isaac and Danny, don't worry, they're not done yet. But after having a very patient friend read through the last chapter and epilogue, I've decided not to publish it until then as it gives away some further story points re Sheriff/Peter and Jackson/Cora. Thank you all again.