3 times Derek saw Stiles sleeping + 1 time Derek woke up with him.
#the first one derek’s SO DISTURBED#he’s like ‘are you seeing THIS?! look at him! look at the way he sleeps!’#‘doesn’t he have a bed at home? why doesn’t he get enough quality sleep there?!’#‘does he eat enough? does anybody properly care for him oh my god’#love this
Derek is an aggressive cuddler. Like, it’s something that really surprised Stiles, given how standoffish Derek can be otherwise, but once they started dating, it didn’t take long for him to realize Derek is a gigantic marshmallow who really, really enjoys snuggling and being snuggled. He’s not sure if it’s a Derek thing or a werewolf thing or some combination of both, but he sure as hell doesn’t mind.
Who stays up later? Do they read in bed and cuddle or come to bed quietly later?
Stiles. Stiles is virtually always up working on something. Sometimes he’ll come to bed on his own, but other times Derek has to physically remove him from his desk and drag him to bed. (“But I’ve almost got this, Derek!” “Then you can finish it after the sun is up.”)
Who falls asleep on the couch/elsewhere by mistake and who pouts because they were left alone in bed?
Stiles falls asleep almost anywhere in the strangest positions, and Derek has taken to walking the house to find him and bring him back to bed so he doesn’t wake up with a crick in his neck that he will bitch about for at least 5 hours.
Separate blankets? (Separate beds?)
Same bed and same blankets. Even if Derek is the more aggressive snuggler, Stiles really loves wrapping both of them up in a blanket burrito together.
Who wants all the pillows and who shakes their head in disbelief from their very reasonable single pillow?
Stiles has one pillow that he can literally never sleep without, while Derek prefers to make himself a small nest. Each of them thinks the other is ridiculous.
Snoring?
Surprisingly, neither.
Restless sleeper/kicks in their sleep?
Stiles can be occasionally. Once Derek is out, he’s out.
Talks in their sleep?
Stiles. Really, Derek feels like he shouldn’t be surprised.
Who has worse nightmares?
Between everything that’s happened to both of them, they both have some pretty awful nightmares.
How do they handle their own/each other’s nightmares?
Derek needs to curl up to Stiles and breathe in his scent and listen to his heartbeat. It’s something that grounds him when it feels like the nightmares are too real. It helps if Stiles talks, too, but even if he doesn’t, even if he’s just sitting there petting Derek’s hair or stroking his back, it’s enough just to have him there and listen to the steady beat of his heart until Derek can fall back asleep.
Stiles has to get up and move, to remind himself he’s still in control of his own body. He talks, rambles, rants, and Derek sits there and listens until Stiles comes back to bed on his own. Then, Derek can hold him close and remind him that it was just a dream, he’s doing better, this is real, until Stiles’s mind finally quiets and they can both go back to sleep.
Do they have trouble sleeping when they’re apart?
So much trouble sleeping. Usually they’ll end up on the phone until one of them passes out, but it’s still harder on Derek because he really misses Stiles’s scent. More than once, Stiles has come home to see that Derek has piled dirty laundry in the bed just to make it easier.
Who wakes up earlier? Do they wake the other, slip out quietly, or just laze contentedly for a while?
Derek wakes up earlier, and usually goes for a run or putters in the garden before it gets too hot outside. Sometimes he’ll even get Stiles to go with him.
How do mornings go once they’re awake? (On relaxing days or an average day?)
Usually Derek’s up first even though he doesn’t have to be as much now; he’s learned that he actually does like being up early even if there’s no threat, and it’s much nicer to get a slow, quiet start to the day where he can just work out or go do his garden before Stiles gets up.
Sometimes he makes breakfast, other times he gets back in from his run or his yard work to see that Stiles already has the coffee on and is making breakfast for them before he goes to work.
But on relaxing days when Stiles doesn’t have work, Derek will come back to bed with coffee/tea after his run and cuddle up with Stiles until they absolutely have to leave the bed.
(WOULD ALSO KILL FOR VERSION IN WHICH THIS DIALOGUE AND ALL FEELINGS WERE REVERSED.)
stiles buried his head into his pillow, facing the wall. “it’s not safe, y’know. all of this.”
he felt the bed shift beside him. “‘all of this?’”
“you know what i mean. i don’t have to sky write it, or, or spell it out in blood. this—me, i—us.”
he held is breath and waited. the silence stretched out for a long, painful moment, and stiles could feel the agreement in the air, could hear it in the way derek sighed.
but then he felt a nose, slightly cold, nuzzle behind his ear, followed by a faint, soft brush of lips against his neck.
theproblemwithstardust 