#and eli is taking good care of it while papa stiles gets daddy derek back

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But, like, YES. It speaks to Derek being in love with Stilse and, possibly, Stiles having some kind of "complicated" feelings in return.

Stiles didn't abandon his Jeep -- that Jeep was EVERYTHING to him. It was his mom's, it was what he had left of her. He had such an emotional attachment to the Jeep and when he left, he left it with SCOTT. He left it with his best friend to take care of and love it; he left it with someone who KNEW how much the jeep meant to him. Stiles didn't abandon his Jeep or leave it behind carelessly -- he left it with Scott and SCOTT abandoned it. And Derek must have seen. He must have seen Scott leave the jeep and let it fall into disrepair and bad maintenance.

What's more, the jeep means something to Noah. because it was his wife's jeep and his son loves it so much. There is NO WAY Stiles didn't know Derek took the jeep. There is NO WAY Noah wasn't, somehow, involved in Derek obtaining the jeep and keeping it on his property. There is NO WAY Noah would just let the most important inanimate object in his son's life just end up in someone's possession willy-nilly.

Scott abandoned the jeep or decided he could keep up with it. Derek, knowing how special the jeep is and having deep feelings for Stiles, ends up taking it, either with Stiles' direct consent, or Noah's approval. And Stiles would want to know what's up with his jeep, so someone has to tell him at some point Derek has it, and Derek is fixing it, and the fact Stiles doesn't rush back to rescue his jeep speaks volumes that he trusts Derek not to fuck it up.

And for Noah to then give the keys to Eli? Again, Noah KNOWS THAT JEEP. It was Claudia's! He knows what it means to him, to Stiles, and Noah wouldn't just give those keys over to just anyone. He wouldn't let someone Stiles wouldn't approve of have it. Noah wouldn't let it go like that either, because it's a piece of his wife.

No. Derek loves Stiles. And Stiles loves Derek. And Noah, being a Good Father and Smart Man, gifts the jeep to Derek's son because he knows Stiles would approve.

Or, more simply --- Derek has been taking care of his husband's jeep and it's only natural that grandpa stilinski gives the keys to his grandson because dammit that jeep will stay in the family

1. Stiles left Beacon Hills to never return and left his jeep.

2. Derek saved his jeep and fixed everything. Stiles’s dad flat out says Derek saved it after Stiles left and tried to fix it up. Stiles had it held together with duck tape but Derek put everything into fixing it, but it wasn’t able to run perfectly.

3. In the 15 years since Stiles left to never return, it ended up in the junkyard because Derek couldn’t fix it like he wanted to, but he wouldn’t abandon it.

4. Eli, Derek’s kid, would routinely steal it to piss Derek off.

5. After Derek died. Stiles’s dad gave Eli the keys to the jeep and told him Derek had “complicated feelings about the Jeep” but it should definitely be Eli’s.

So like Derek was in love with Stiles huh? Like he saved Stiles’s jeep, when Stiles himself abandoned it. He tried to make it run smoothly and when he couldn’t he kept it under a tarp at the junkyard to not be driven but not to be scrapped either. And then his son would regularly steal it solely to piss Derek off. Derek himself said it was just to make him mad. And then when Derek died, Sheriff Stilinski gave the keys to Eli and said he should have it and that Derek had “complicated feelings about the jeep” but it was Eli’s. Derek was definitely in love with Stiles and I just.