Harry potter Au: 2nd year Slytherin Stiles asking a 5th
year Hufflepuff prefect Derek about werewolves as famous wizards and
that prefect just amazed to see a Slytherin interested in wizards who
are not only werewolves but not pure bloods too and he’s just in awe.
what if the sheriff and derek start investigating more and more, and they become friends that go to coffee together. and stiles has no idea, like he doesn’t notice at all because he’s so caught up in his own life. but then one day the doorbell rings really early in the morning and stiles answers the door half asleep and finds derek, and he’s like “what? what supernatural crisis is so important that you had to wake me up at this ungodly hour?” and derek looks confused. and then the sheriff walks past stiles and is like “he’s here for me, son. we’re going to get breakfast” and they leave together in the sheriff’s cruiser and stiles just stands there like ‘what the hell just happened?’
In my head this is pre-Sterek, so the whole time John and Derek are out at breakfast, Stiles is just sitting on the couch having an existential crisis over the fact that he has feelings for… his dad’s boyfriend?!?!?!?!?!???? He’s sitting there thinking about how every interaction that he thought was mutual flirting over the last few months was actually Derek trying to be a good boyfriend to his dad by showing interest in his son and keeping him safe… When Stiles can breathe again he starts preparing a “I love you no matter what/Oh, hey, we’re both bi/Sorry I’ve been hitting on your boyfriend” speech for when his dad gets home.
Meanwhile, John is sitting in the booth across from Derek helping him practice how he’s going to ask Stiles out.
John was just going to drop Derek off at the house and head to the station, but when they get there Derek tells him that he thinks something is wrong with Stiles (Oh god, not again. He’s just starting to seem himself again after the Nogitsune).
Stiles jumps off of the couch as soon as the front door opens and just blurts out “I’m sorry, I’m in love with Derek!” and promptly freezes when he realizes that the person standing in front of him is actually Derek and not his dad.
John just laughs and says, “Well, I guess it’s a good thing that he’s here to ask you out then,” before turning around and heading back to the cruiser.
Oh no, poor baby Stiles! OKAY OKAY OKAY, BUT WHAT ABOUT THIS. (Sorry to make this ALL ABOUT STEREK BUT THIS IS ME YOU ARE TALKING TO HERE.)
What about Derek having an enormous crush on Stiles and even though he is a jock and popular he can never work up the courage to ask Stiles out. For one, tons of people try and get Stiles’ attention and Stiles never seems to realise they are asking him out?? Which would be adorable but Derek is pretty awful with words- at least, around Stiles he gets all shy and can’t even remember his own name half the time- so he can pretty much imagine how subtly asking Stiles out would go down, never mind asking him outright.
And so of course there is a lot of pining and wallowing and ice creaming eating until CORA HAS HAD ENOUGH BECAUSE SHE HAS TO SUFFER THIS IN CLASS AS WELL AS AT HOME and she drags Derek over to Stiles one day and says “he needs you, badly” and storms off. Derek is absolutely mortified but, hey, at least he is kind of here now? THE PROBLEM IS THOUGH Stiles thinks Cora means he needs him for match making purposes not making out purposes. AND SO LET THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND DRAMA ENSUE AS STILES ASKS DEREK WHO HE WANTS HELP TALKING TO AND DEREK JUST BLURTS OUT PAIGE BECAUSE SHE’S GOT THOSE SAME CUTE LITTLE MOLES STILES DOES ON HIS FACE AND EVERY TIME HE SEES HER ALL HE CAN THINK ABOUT IS HOW HE WANTS TO SEE STILES. (He has issues, leave him alone.)
AND THEN OF COURSE STILES GOES AND FALLS HEAD OVER CONVERSE FOR DEREK and there will be some tragic scene where Stiles listens to sad songs in his room and watches Star wars and Erica finally has to intervene when Han Solo says “I know “to Leia and Stiles just throws curly fries at his laptop and yells “YOU DON’T KNOW THE PAIN OF REAL LOVE!!”
AND OF COURSE AT ONE POINT THERE WILL BE AN ALMOST KISS. BUT THEN SOMEONE WILL INTERRUPT THEM (let’s face it, it’s probably going to be Scott) and then Derek goes off on his date with Paige which actually goes really well (you know, once Derek breaks down and confesses he’s hopeLESSLY in love with Stiles and he doesn’t know what to do). And the next day at school everyone is talking about how they saw Derek and Paige on a date and how they looked so cute together and how they were smiling and STILES IS CRUSHED.
BUT THEN PAIGE AND ERICA TALK STUFF OUT who then in turn ENROL THE HELP OF CORA AND LYDIA TO TALK SOME SENSE INTO THESE DORKS (and while we are at it let’s have Cora and Lydia make out aggressively while arguing over how best to do this thang because always) AND THEN THE FOUR OF THEM CONSPIRE TO SET DEREK AND STILES UP ON A DATE AND THEN THERE IS AWKWARDNESS AND LOVE CONFESSIONS AND DEREK BUYS STILES A MILKSHAKE AND STILES GIVES DEREK A LIFT HOME IN HIS JEEP AND THERE IS THAT ALL ALONG WAITED FOR KISS AND IT’S PERFECT.
(This is in reference to a post @alecmagnu made, just in case y’all think I have strayed so far from canon that I think Stiles is packing up and leaving for New York next season. Not that he couldn’t.)
Alas, with the greatest sadness in my Sterek heart, I don’t have time to fic at the moment but can you just imagine Stiles arriving in New York only to be picked up by Jackson at the airport???
Imagine him getting to Derek’s apartment to discover Isaac watching a movie with Cora and Stiles maybe panicking a little because the last time he saw Isaac was when Allison died. But Isaac just looks at him, makes some kind of asshole comment, and it’s just…normal?
Normal until Cora says “ugh, thank god. Derek wanted to pick you up but he was too nervous.” Which….what? Why would Derek be nervous? Does he not want Stiles here? Did he not really mean it when he invited Stiles to come and live- “stop thinking and go kiss him, Stilinski!” Which….wait….kiss? Did Jackson just say kiss? Not that Stiles hasn’t thought about- wait no.
Weird.
Imagine him going upstairs only to be crushed in some kind of teddy bear hug. At first Stiles thinks it’s some random dude who is just really friendly, but nope, that’s Derek. Giving him a hug. And grinning. With a blush on his face.
Again, weird.
But not really, because Derek looks…well, he still looks like Derek. There is still a slight scowl there, vulnerability, everything Stiles is used to seeing in Derek. But there is also happiness there. Derek is happy and Stiles feels scared, because what if Stiles undoes that happiness? What is he ruins-
“Stiles, no.”
“But-”
“No.”
So, that settles it then. Derek is still a show off, even more so here with the apartment being rwice as big as the loft and there is a park outside. He still argues with Stiles over everything, but he also kisses Cora on the cheek before he leaves for work (because Derek has a job as a teacher now) and hugs Isaac every day. He even gets on with Jackson. Well, as much as anyone could get on with Jackson without wanting to strangle him.
And Stiles is somehow just..welcomed into this little bubble. This pack that’s been damaged. Not one of them unscathed by something horrible, but somehow they have managed to make it work. And what baffles Stiles is that they want to make it work with him. What baffles him more is Derek wants to make it work with him. And romance doesn’t happen right away, but they become friends. Such good friends. They still keep in touch with the rest of the pack. Lydia comes to visit with Danny. Scott, when he’s got free time off vet school. His Dad and Melissa come to stay a lot, Kira and Malia tagging long with them more and more frequently.
They celebrate Birthdays and somehow make it work. They have a pack. A good pack and love and laughter. They have movie nights and go to clubs. And sure, there is the odd demon or supernatural problem that comes along, but it’s nothing they can’t handle together. So much better than before, so much better than Stiles ever dreamed of this going. They start liking each other, for real. As a family. Fragile, broken and reluctant friendships become more, they mend.
People move out, people move in. Derek rents more space, builds more rooms. Lydia and Scott have their very own bedrooms (although they spend less and less time in them when they come to stay and more and more time in Cora and Isaac’s bedrooms *blinks innocently*). Stiles gives up his bedroom to Kira and Malia (*cough* singular *cough*) because yes, he only needs one pillow from now on and that pillow is Derek’s chest. And ass. He is a fan of both.
This pack is happy. They are a family. They are everything Derek never thought he’d have again and everything Stiles never dreamed of in the first place. They create new lives and memories and they live happily ever after because they deserve that.
It’s pretty much canon Derek’s leather jacket was his dad’s and that’s why he wears it. But what if Derek had to stop wearing it because it was getting too worn? He wanted to preserve it, so he switched to Henleys and jackets instead. The thing is though, his werewolf-ness is what keeps his mom and sisters close to him, but the leather jacket is what kept his dad close. (I am going by my own personal headcanon Derek’s dad was human.) So say his dad worse glasses. Say Derek finds a pair that looks exactly like his one day when he is out shopping. Say he starts wearing them. Say they bring him comfort and he takes them off less and less, especially when he is reading because that’s what he used to do with his dad. He would read with him about everything. About ancient languages and mythology and fairy tales, and when Derek wears his glasses he just feels that much closer to his dad and eventually just starts wearing them all the time because. No-one really asks him about it. Not even Stiles who asks about everything because he can tell the glasses mean something to Derek. Something he isn’t sure Derek wants to talk about. It’s only when Cora comes home and sees him for the first time in months does the truth finally come out. She takes one look at Derek and whispers dad, letting out a half broken sob and smiling when Derek does that thing their dad always did and twitches his nose to push the glasses up his face.
That’s option one. Option two is Derek discovers Stiles has a glasses kink. A big glasses kink. At first he is really disheartened because he doesn’t wear glasses and how is he ever meant to compete with the line of people suddenly vying for Stiles’ attention at college who all wear glasses? Of course, Lydia eventually has ENOUGH of Derek’s pining- “you’re not that subtle about it, sweetheart”- and introduces Derek to hipster culture, complete with fake, cool glasses and a one way ticket into Stiles Stilinski’s pants. She takes him shopping for ones that look really good on him. (There is a movie montage complete with music, okay? If Lydia asks a lot about Cora and when she might be coming back to see her- uh, Derek- that is no-ones business but her own.) The first time Stiles sees Derek in his new glasses his jaw drops while other, uh, things, rise. *insert eyebrow waggle here*. (Scott finds them rutting against each other like two animals in heat an hour later in his bedroom- that is the last time he offers up his house for pack movie night- gasping out things like “what do you mean you’ve been in love with me for three years?”, “wait, you’ve always found me attractive?”, “can you just admit you put my name on the King for a reason!” It’s safe to say Scott is kind of scarred for life, but Stiles was good enough to remove his favourite bedsheets before pulling Derek on top of him, so he tries to focus on being happy for them and not Derek’s hand down his best friend’s pants. Plus, if he had to listen to Stiles get drunk and talk about Derek’s “cute little bunny teeth” one more time…)
Imagine drunk Stiles getting really cuddly, snuggling up to Derek, burying his face in the curve of Derek’s neck and humming with delight. Derek’s frozen in shock, scared to move in case he upsets Stiles or leads him on, but also really happy to have him there.
I have this idea for a story I want to write where one day Derek finds Stiles wondering through the streets of the abandoned part of town (near the loft) and goes up to him to ask if he’s lost. Stiles says no, and tells Derek that he was just testing something. When Derek asks what he was testing Stiles says, “I just wanted to see how long it would be before someone noticed, how far I’d have to go before people lost the fear of offending me and started to worry.”
“What do you mean?” Derek asks, but his question is answered when he finally notices the guide dog at Stiles’ side.
Stiles is blind.
Stiles seems to notice Derek’s unease and so he says, “This is Murdock.” Derek chuckles and asks, “As in Matt Murdock? Daredevil?” Stiles smiles, “You’re the first person to get that reference.” Derek, worried about Stiles, offers for him to come inside while he calls the Sheriff to come and pick him up. They sit together and talk until the Sheriff arrives and Stiles farewells Derek.
A couple of nights later, Derek wakes, instinct telling him he should not be sleeping. He looks out the window and sees Stiles wandering about in the darkness without Murdock. Derek runs down to the street and carefully approaches Stiles, trying not to startle him as he talks softly and ushers him inside. Stiles kind of looks at Derek and whimpers, “I was sleep walking again, wasn’t I?”
Derek lets Stiles stay the night at the loft and watches over him. When Stiles wakes, he’s lost and confused. Derek calms him down and offers to take him home.
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