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i blame this post for this (they’re not watching the rain but okay xD)

Concept: Stiles and Derek sitting on the porch of the rebuilt Hale house wrapped in a blanket, watching the rain, drinking hot cider, and completely and utterly happy.

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DEREK HALE 4.06, Orphaned

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DEREK HALE

Teen Wolf (S01E01)

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV) Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski

Characters: Derek Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Erica Reyes, Lydia Martin, Vernon Boyd, Jackson Whittemore, Isaac Lahey, Scott McCall (Teen Wolf) 

Additional Tags: Pack Mom Stiles, Alpha Derek, Pack Dynamics, Found Family, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Domestic, Nesting, The Hale House Rebuild, Pack Politics, BAMF Stiles, Oblivious Stiles, Derek Hale Deserves Nice Things, Scent Marking, Everyone Knows Before They Do

  Summary:

Derek is tearing down the Hale house. Rebuilding on the foundation. He doesn’t ask for help. Stiles shows up anyway — with a spreadsheet, a build schedule, and a group chat called “HGTV: Hell Edition.”

Within six months, Stiles has nested so deeply into the territory that his scent is in the walls, he’s wearing Derek’s hoodies like they’re his, and every wolf in the pack has quietly rearranged their life around him. He has no idea what he’s doing. He thinks he’s just the annoying human who does research.

Then the Alpha Council shows up, and an ancient Alpha names the thing everyone — except Stiles — has known for over a year.

Or: two people build a home together without admitting they’re building it for each other.

It starts with the house.

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Saw this screenshot somewhere and got really inspired

https://archiveofourown.org/works/80498501

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Teen Wolf ☾ Second Chance at First Line

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Teen Wolf ☾ Pack Mentality

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Teen Wolf ☾ Second Chance at First Line

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AU where there is a problem and Derek loses access to his family's money after Laura dies and he is trying to solve it but it will take at least some months

So he is essentially broke and has nowhere to go. He can't stay at Beacon Hills because it is where all his family died, be it ten years ago or last year. He doesn't even have a comatose body to call his family, and he really wishes Peter had never woken up and feels terrible about it, but look how he is now? The last of the pack killed itself, and Derek doesn't know what to do.

He can't even count with the money to just root alone in peace. And not even the more controlled werewolf can not reveal itself when dying of hunger. So, he needs to choose between the woods and trying to survive in human society alone. The woods are very tempting but where to go? He knows the Beacon Hills territory is (was) safe , but he doesn't know the rules anywhere else.

So he keeps as much cash can and leaves with the Camaro. Looking for a city far enough and knowing he doesn't have much time.

He would never be able to pay rent by himself in the state he is now, so when he accidentally finds an ad for sharing a small apartment for just a bit less than he has in his pocket, he decides it is the best he can get for now.

He meets his new roommate and, for the first time, actually feels how disconnected he is from everything. Without Laura, he truly doesn't know what to do, and even know what to think, apparently. The guy talks and Derel almost can't listen to anything. He can't process any thoughts that aren't basic. He remembers giving the guy money and receiving a key, he doesn't even remember the guy's name. The only actual thought he has is that he must be really desperate to have let Derek in.

And now Derek has a place to sleep for the month and almost no money and Laura would have said he needs to find a job.

And it feels a bit easier. He pretends Laura is telling him what to do, giving him ideas. She tells him he would never be accepted as a cashier or salesman with his face and inability to smile. She tells him he still knows how to fix a car. That he did it as a summer job before and he can again. He doesn't remember how he found a place hiring, he doesn't remember being accepted, but Laura tells him to remember how to get in the shop and when his shift starts, and he does.

He doesn't know how he survived that first month but he did. He has a paycheck that isn't close to a lot, but he can afford to pay the rent again and get actual food. And somehow it means he can start listening to what the roommate says.

He doesn't remember much from the past month, even less anything that would make the guy think Derek is a good listener, but for the way he talks, he could be talking to a wall, maybe, and it wouldn't make a difference.

Derek can't follow most of what he says but he can listen now. Before it was all Laura. And he knows it doesn't count, that she isn't here, that pretending isn't going to bring her back but he can't stop. She still is all he has. He needs to pretend he at least has her.

But a new voice. Not that Derek knows what to do with that. And as the days passed, he supposed it should be annoying that he could listen to every word, step, breath, and heartbeat from the guy in the tiny apartment. But it isn't. Maybe he still is too numb to care, but he catches himself staring at the ceiling of this bedroom and listening. For hours. For all the time he is at the apartment.

He still doesn't know what to do. He has a phone that Laura demanded him to keep, and he is half trying to get the money back, but he doesn't really know how. Laura would know, but not the Laura in his mind.

He doesn't use the phone for anything else. He can't remember what he did to pass the time before, and it hurts to think, so he doesn't. He thinks that he can't remember most of last month because it is all together in his memory of looking at his ceiling.

And now the celling and noise.

The boy (he looked so young when Derek looked at him for a moment) doesn't stop making noise. Derek thinks he works from home? But doesn't really think about it. But the boy is always there and makes noise. When Derek is in the common rooms, he is talking to him. When he isn't, he is still walking like he can't sit down, he mumbles and laughs and talks more, with someone or nothing. Derek knows no one else ever gets inside their place. What he is grateful for, but it shouldn't be weird, maybe? The boy never leaves that Derek knows about.

And it is the first time in two months Derek wonders about something.

The month ends, Derek pays for another rent, he still has his barely making ends meet job and he still doesn't have his money back.

The novelty is that he finds out the boy's name. He can look at him for more than one moment. He officially became a character in Derek's life.

He doesn't know why. Why is he paying even more attention? Why can't he still remember getting groceries or his day at work, but can remember the boy's eyes?

He tried to answer once. When Stiles asks about his day. He doesn't know why he keeps asking, why he always pauses waiting for an answer, and when he doesn't get one, tells Derek how his day was.

Derek is starting to actually be able to process what he says. It becomes less meaningless noise, he knows now that Stiles works at home. He notices that he only talks about his co-workers but not his friends. He don't know what to do or think about it. But Stiles asks for his day again and he tries to say something. It is automatic, like it would be normal. But it isn't, and he knows it isn't because he tried and has nothing to say at all. He doesn't know how his day was.

He grunts, a painfully awkward sound in his ears. But Stiles smiles and says Nice for some reason.

And for the second time Derek wonders.

He tries to remember any piece of information about his day but he can't. Nothing that he can put in a sentence and give to Stiles. Why does he want to? But Laura tells him to keep trying and he does. He can't but he does try.

One day, Stiles knocks on his door, and he thinks it's the first time. Stiles smells sad, powerfully so. Enough to make Derek notice that he associated the smell with Stiles' normal scent. That he apparently always smells like it.

And for the first time, Stiles looks awkward, completely not sure of what he is doing. He invites him to watch a movie on the couch. He says he has food. He smells so sad.

Derek goes without saying anything, he still can't. And he does try to pay attention to the movie because Stiles asks him to and he eats when Stiles eats. He doesn't know what he is doing or why Stiles is so sad and why he wants Derek here instead of anyone else.

And Derek wonders if there is anyone else.

The movie ends, and Stiles is not talking; his heart is beating slowly, and he starts standing, but he is still as sad as before. The month gets another new thing because Derek touches him for the first time.

He holds his wrist loosely until Stiles sits down again. They don't talk, but Stiles puts on some kind of show on his laptop, and they stay there. Derek notices the episode's ending and the next one starting automatically, and he doesn't know what to do, but at some point, Stiles sleeps, and Derek watches over him.

Laura tells him to stay more time in the common rooms after this.

Or he pretends.

Derek notices that the darker the day gets the sadder Stiles is. And he remembers when he does his groceries for the first time because he doesn't do it after work, but on the weekends, so he is always home before the sun starts to go down. And Stiles talks more because Derek is there to listen even if he doesn't answer. And Derek is always on the couch at 8pm waiting for Stiles to show up so they can watch the laptop.

He makes a routine that Stiles doesn't comment on. But he starts showing up at the same time.

Stiles sleeps on the couch, and Derek watches over him.

One day, Stiles is awkward again, smells sad, but like he always does. He asks Derek if they could watch the laptop in his bed. That his neck hurts from sleeping on the couch, and he tells Derek he doesn't need to, and that he is sorry to bring it up. It doesn't make sense to him, the last part. He grunts again because it is still the best he can do and moves to Stiles' bedroom.

And so the routine changes again. Derek is always back before sundown. He spends most of his time in the common rooms. And now he is in Stiles' bedroom at 8pm, they lie on the headboard, and when Stiles sleeps, Derek moves the laptop down the side of the bed and touches Stiles as gently as he can to lay him down properly in bed so his neck doesn't hurt and watches over him.

Derek still doesn't have anything to give Stiles. No words about his day. And it starts annoying him. Making him feel inadequate. Like he needs to. It nags him like Laura's voice.

And one day he just tells him.

With a broken voice due to lack of use, he tells Stiles he listens to Laura every day.

And Stiles is shocked and confused, and Derek feels dumb, but it was really all he could give. So even feeling like a failure when Stiles asks who is Laura, he tells him.

He doesn't talk about werewolves, but he says she was all he had and how he pretends she still is.

And Stiles says he doesn't have anyone else too in a quiet voice.

They are at Stiles' bed at 6pm that night.

Derek keeps trying. The routines stays. There is more rent.

Laura decides to be useful and tells him to buy Stiles something. He doesn't have money to spare but it would be something to say about his day.

He is stupid, he doesn't have money, he buys Stiles a hotdog, and Laura laughs on his ear.

Stiles asks how was his day when he gets on their place and for the first time he has something to say about it. He is too proud for a hot dog.

He doesn't say more than four words and presents it to Stiles. And Stiles is frozen. For enough time Derek feels stupid until he gets it from his hand and says I like your voice

Stiles works two hours more that day but is on his bed at 8pm anyway

And it is routine, Derek buys.more things, talks more, word for word, slowly he tries.

And there is more rent, but Stiles freezes one day, reading something on his laptop. And he is shaking and making terrible noises. Derek doesn't know what to do but tries so hard. He brings Stiles water, he tries talking, and he lifts him to his bed. It takes too much time until Stiles calms down. He tries talking but Derek just wants him to rest after this. He almost doesn't blink the whole night.

The next day Stiles says the owner wants the apartment back. They have a few more weeks to leave. And he is shaking again, saying that he doesn't know what to do.

And Derek hates it. Hates that Stiles is sad, hates that this time he knows why, and is not sure what to do himself.

They could rent somewhere else, right? Maybe it's simple?

And Stiles is looking at him, with wide eyes and you would stay with me?

And for the first time in so long Derek is hit with certainty because always

Stiles smiles and Derek doesn't know how Stiles wasn't sure about it himself already. How could Derek even think about leaving him?

Unfortunately is not that simple. They are in the cheaper part of the city already. Nothing in their price range is available, Stiles is slowly starting to panic again.

They need more money.

Money that Derek can get will somehow get. He calms Stiles down, saying they will find a way to let him take care of it. Stiles tries protesting, but he is defeated. Derek hates that. But he can fix it this time. Somehow.

For the first time, he actually remembers calling banks. It's a mess, being accused of killing his sister made everything much more complicated. But he gets a lawyer who accepts being paid after. It is all slow for the little time they have. Stiles looks worse, and Derek is afraid of saying too much just to be able to give nothing in the end.

But things are moving. He makes Stiles talk when he stops. Asks him about houses, Stiles looks at him hurt and sad but Derek makes him and listen to all he has to say. Remember all the details.

Stiles talks about his childhood home first. He is so sad. It wasn't what Derek was looking for, but he listened. For the first time, Stiles tells him why he is so alone. How his mother died on a cold night. How he and his father got as close as they could be after that. How the hospital bills from his mother wouldn't stop piling up. His father did his best to be there for Stiles and still work as many hours as possible. How Stiles received a call one unremarkable night, saying that his father wasn't coming back home.

He is so sad, but Derek makes him keep talking, about what he would want in a house, how he would see it in his mind.

It doesn't make Stiles less sad but Derek listens to everything.

It was a close call, way more close than Derek would have wanted. Stiles was waking up worse and worse.

But Derek made it.

As soon as he had access to the money he made a strong offer to the house he found. The closer he could get to what Stiles wanted. It was annoying papers and more papers, too much time, but it worked.

He woke Stiles up to pick up his things. Told him he solved it.

He didn't look like he believed Derek yet. But he made the boy move, make a bag for all he would initially need so he wouldn't need to worry about coming back if he didn't want to. Derek would take care of it.

He showed him the house. Stiles wouldn't believe him until he showed the papers with Derek's name on them. He explained how he got the money, and why he didn't have it already. And when he tried apologizing about how he wasn't able to put Stiles' name as the owner of the house yet because it would have taken time they didn't have, but he would do it as soon as possible- Stiles kissed him.

And it made so much sense. Finally, Derek felt like he could understand life again.

They got a new routine.

Derek would still be home before sundown, but mostly because he wasn't leaving the house. He quit his job but was looking for new options for him and Stiles. Looking for what to do for getting careers instead of surviving. They would still be in bed at 8pm. Derek spoke as much as he wanted, which was less than Stiles, but it felt normal and effortless.

He found balance.

And when he realized he hadn't heard Laura's voice in months, he wolfed out immediately in sorrow. But Stiles was there to hold his pieces, to touch his claws, to kiss him with fangs. He looked in his eyes while Derek told him how much it hurt that they were red.

When Derek asked Would you still stay with me?

Stiles said always. And how could you not be sure about it? With a smile.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Rating: General Audiences Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski Additional Tags: Episode: s02e04 Abomination (Teen Wolf TV), Canon Compliant, The Pool Scene (Teen Wolf), Banter, Hurt/Comfort, Derek Hale Trusts Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale is Bad at Feelings, Protective Derek Hale, Pack Alpha Derek Hale, Missing Scene, Werewolf Pain-Relief Magic (Teen Wolf) Summary:

Stiles barked out a weak laugh and got a mouthful of pool water for his trouble. He spit it out. Kept swimming.

“You? Mellow?”

“I’m mellow.” Derek groused and the teen snorted, his eyes scrunching closed with his incredulous smile.

“Not the word I’d use. Pissy. That’s the word I’d-” Derek spit water at his face and Stiles jerked his his head away and spluttered another laugh. The sudden spasm of movement made him wince, though, and gasp in pain. His eyes fluttered closed again and for a few minutes he just breathed through his teeth.

He didn’t know how much longer he could keep them afloat like this.

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“Missing scenes" expansion on the S2x04 “Abomination” episode. SO MUCH BANTER. Mild angst & h/c

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Teen Wolf ☾ Wolf Moon

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DEREK HALE Teen Wolf (S04E04)