Rec links below the cut:
How to Pass a Take-Home Exam by dancinbutterfly, (note: not what I usually read since it has mpreg, but I gave it a shot and it honestly wasn't half bad, also this is a part 4 of a series)
A Sated City by ColetheWolf, (note: not Sterek, just Derek sleeping around, but he very specifically buys a frozen dinner in this one)
It was just a cupcake by thelittlestwolf
The Weight Of Living by thecomedownchampion
Full On Rainstorm by BarlowGirl
Trust Fall by stoney
Bogarted by HalfFizzbin, (note: sheriff doesn't call Derek son, but Derek admits to seeing the sheriff as a father-figure)
An Iceberg Named Stiles by orphan_account
Gorgeous by Asterekmess (Livinginfictions)
Bravery Is A Loaded Gun by LiviKate DefNotForWork, (note: the author was named LiviKate when I first found the fic, username has since been changed to DefNotForWork)
stuck in reverse by crazyassmurdererwall (smartalli)
First and Last and Always by sffan, (note: not a kiss, but Derek does automatically brace himself for rejection during a conversation, also this is a part 1 of 2)
For You There's No Warning by Zee (orphan_account)
Came Out Of The Woods By Choice by thensepia
will to follow through by owlpostagain
You Have Reached... by isthatbloodonhisshirt, (note: over the phone)
if you want my love you got it by vlieger
Bravery Is A Loaded Gun by LiviKate DefNotForWork, (note: the author was named LiviKate when I first found the fic, username has since been changed to DefNotForWork)
Walk me down your broken line by geordielover
For You There's No Warning by Zee (orphan_account)
Pretty Much a Big Deal by Dira Sudis (dsudis)
Love, Like A Death Sentence by DevilDoll
For You There's No Warning by Zee (orphan_account)
Life Because of It series by FiccinDylan, (note: series, but part 2, Mi Primo Miguel, is what I think embodies this theme the most)
Make You Believe by LittleLynn
Walk me down your broken line by geordielover, (note: these words are very, very close to being said, but they get choked off)
You Always Make A Bloody Mess by Sweetsyren
The More My Prayer (the lesser is my grace) by LadySlytherin
Kintsukuroi by Quixoticity
The Weight Of Living by thecomedownchampion
Kintsugi by artemis69
Trust Fall by stoney
Cuddly Therapy by alisvolatpropiis
Walk me down your broken line by geordielover
We've Written Volumes (in Blood and Scars and Ink) by notthequiettype
Safety In Silence by Survivah
Trust Fall by stoney
Cuddly Therapy by alisvolatpropiis
"Stiles, I was talking about the lasagna" by quackquackcey
will to follow through by owlpostagain, (note: not a small, shy smile, but just a rare, genuine smile that absolutely breaks Stiles' heart)
First and Last and Always by sffan
For You There's No Warning by Zee (orphan_account)
Are You Happy Now? by chasingshadows
For You There's No Warning by Zee (orphan_account)
Convenient by exclamation
Hard-Hitting by all-or-nothing-baby (BundleOfSoy)
Sick Day by dragon_temeraire, (note: last part of the It's Casual, Really series, also it's a friends-with-benefits relationship, that they both only agree on because they think it's the most they can ever get, that evolves)
Have It All by doc_sock, (note: this is the reverse, where Derek thinks they're friends with benefits and is terrified of Stiles being bored with him one day)
Gorgeous by Asterekmess (Livinginfictions)
Bravery Is A Loaded Gun by LiviKate DefNotForWork, (note: the author was named LiviKate when I first found the fic, username has since been changed to DefNotForWork)
Just For Now by linksofmemories_archive
Stepping Off the Razor's Edge by MissAnnThropic
You Saw Me Standing Alone by orphan_account
We've Written Volumes (in Blood and Scars and Ink) by notthequiettype, (note: Derek seems to know their dynamic pretty well, but Stiles is confused as fuck)
I Broke a Rule by isthatbloodonhisshirt
Five Times Derek and Stiles Had Casual Sex and One Time
They Realized It Was Something More
by 42hrb
Slide on over and forget it's wrong by linaerys
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Okay, but really, people be sleeping on the hilarity of new Alpha Derek being completely shook by a new set of instincts he was never equipped to deal with, and all his other instincts being cranked up to 11 by the upgrade. And while I do appreciate a good mating/claiming fic, there's plenty more to it. Denning. Cub-rearing. Herding. Food caching. A variety of other wolf behaviours.
Like, in the beginning, they didn't have Pack Nights at the loft. They didn't like each other enough to willingly spend that much time together. But after Derek buys the place and gets actual furniture and everything else, he starts feeling the absolute Need to have his betas all there. Usually he can ignore it, or at least manage it, but sometimes, when he's stressed (and lbr, when is he ever not stressed?) it gets a lot harder to control.
Cue Derek who's had a terrible, awful, no-good, very bad week just wandering around Beacon Hills collecting his betas and dragging them to the loft because nope. Gotta have 'em together. No more roaming. Could he have called them and asked them to come over? Yes. Does he do that? No. He just....shows up and drags them to the loft by their necks, drops them on the sofa and tells them to "stay" while he gets the next one. Rinse and repeat until he's got the whole set, and then he just sits down in his chair and Relaxes because he's got them all in one place, where he can see them.
The betas are confused. They have no idea what's going on. He hasn't said anything, but if something was wrong, he'd be more agitated, right? But he's not. So....dafuq?
Derek is also confused. He doesn't know why he's doing this, just that he's gotta. It's either this or go bonkers.
Peter knows what's up. He's seen it before, in Talia, usually in the first few months after each of her cubs kids were born, when her instincts spilled over. He says nothing. This is funnier.
And when he's like this, leaving is not allowed. Do not try. Derek is willing to be gentle up to a point in making sure they don't leave, but he can be....insistent. It's easier to just let themselves be herded back over to the couch because otherwise he will pick them up and carry them. Move or be moved.
It's Isaac who cracks first, unsurprisingly. He calls Scott first, which gets him nowhere, and then Erica steals his phone (even though she has hers with her) and calls Stiles.
Thirty minutes, and he's there with a backpack full of DVDs and his laptop because Derek doesn't have a TV (of course he doesn't), a little confused but Erica promised him pizza, and he doesn't turn down free food.
He's not allowed to leave, tho. He thought he was just bringing some supplies and getting paid in slices, then he'd leave them to whatever werewolfy powwow they have going on....except there is suddenly a six-foot wall of supernaturally strong Alpha between him and the door, a silent but clear 'no.'
Erica pushes Isaac off the couch and pats the cushion next to her. "Embrace the weird, Batman."
Well. Shit. At least he's getting fed.
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as much as the movie grossed me tf out
i do like the idea of derek holding onto stiles' jeep when he starts the auto shop, fixing it for his friend who he occasionally talks to (remember how he's the first person to bring up stiles in the movie), not quite sure why he's so fixated on keeping the jeep in shape when he knows stiles isn't coming back, that stiles himself abandoned escaped beacon hills & that the jeep was another thing that was left behind.
but stiles is still derek's anchor, and derek will fix the jeep, if only to maintain some connection at first. then he finds out about eli, and his anchor shifts, because another hale child, when he thought his family was all but gone. but there's still a part of him that wants some part of stiles in beacon hills to live on, so he continues fixing the jeep. and derek's annoyed at himself, cause he talks to stiles, he knows there's no chance of stiles returning, but fixing the jeep is another chance to talk to stiles outside of consulting the fbi.
(eli never really learns about stiles, just that there was someone in his dad's life that was always there, but not really. for some reason his father never lets him into his office when he's doing consulting work. it's always "scott and his friend saved me from getting my arm chopped off", "scott's friends helped me save your aunt cora," but eli doesn't know who stiles actually is, doesn't know who the jeep belongs to, not until-)
derek dies. the stupid jeep is in his auto shop yard and sheriff stilinski has the keys after eli's stolen it for the umpteenth time, and he gives the jeep to eli. and tells him about it being stiles' jeep, about how his dad had complicated feelings about the jeep. and then eli realises that all those times that derek was smiling on the phone, was annoyed in the yard fixing the hunk of junk over and over again, might've been for someone something other than just a project he could never get rid of.
stiles doesn't find out derek's dead right away. the sheriff doesn't feel like it's his part to tell his son that his friend died. not until eli shows up at his apartment and stiles just knows that there's no longer going to be any calls from his 'friend from the hometown'. and stiles thinks about the goddamn jeep and how it's no longer going to be taken care of, that the jeep is just going to be abandoned like stiles originally did. but stiles steps outside and sees his jeep behind eli and realises that it's in new hands now.
stiles tells eli stories about derek from a whole new light, keeps the memory of derek alive, with the jeep in the front yard gleaming. they grieve together for the loss of a loved one.
(because all this time stiles was waiting on the other end of the phone, excited to hear about his jeep, the sheriff, eli, about derek. all this time stiles was waiting on "i found another roll of duct tape hidden in your engine, goddamnit stiles", knowing that he couldn't go back to beacon hills, but he could wait for derek to figure it out and come to him)
(derek doesn't, but his jeep does.)
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