Definitely Magic (Stiles/Derek, NC-17)
Stiles is waiting for him.
“Great, you came,” he grins, jumping to his feet. “I wasn’t sure you’d come, you seemed kind of, well, distracted is one way to put it. Barely hearing me is another. But hey, you’re here, come in.”
Derek shrugs. “I said I would.”
“Yeah, I know,” Stiles says cheerfully, ushering Derek inside the house. The door closes behind them, and Derek tenses, though he knows he doesn’t need to. Stiles doesn’t seem to notice. Or maybe he’s just ignoring it, Derek can’t tell. His heart rate is normal, anyway.
He isn’t sure why he’s here, exactly. No, that’s not true. He’s here because Stiles asked him to come. He’s here because, for some reason, he likes being around Stiles, likes watching his expressions shift and change, likes how easily smiles still seem to come to him. He’s here because when Stiles found him in the woods earlier and asked him to come over, he’d stood barely a foot away and the scent of him had been so strong that Derek hadn’t been able to think of a way to say no.
“Why am I here?” he asks Stiles, before he can contemplate it too much.
“I have something,” Stiles says, evasive. Derek frowns at him, but Stiles doesn’t elaborate, which alarms him somewhat. Stiles is usually as far from evasive as Derek is from chatty. But all he says is, “Come on, it’s upstairs.”
Derek follows him up, breathing through his mouth. Trying not to notice the smell of him, so close, strong enough that he feels like he can taste it. He’d always noticed Stiles’s smell, of course. It’s potent, distinct, unique. But lately, he’s been noticing it more. Differently. Almost primally.
He isn’t sure what to think of that, either.
Stiles leads him to his room and opens the door. “Come on,” he says again, and Derek steps inside, frowning slightly. It’s worse here; the whole room brims with Stiles’s scent, infused into everything, it seems. Derek has to resist the urge to pull in deep breaths, to let it flow through him. It doesn’t matter, though. He’s responding to it anyway, the hairs on his neck prickling, his body wanting to lean into it.
“What is it?” he asks, before he can do something stupid like close his eyes and start sniffing. “You said it was important.”