one week later and stiles still treads eggshells when around. great, amazing, just what he wants.
it’s not like derek forced their tongues to venture on an impromptu rendezvous and taste one another repeatedly, thank you very much. on top of that, everything’s too clear, crystalline, even, shown through a filter of brightness—— shortened, he’s painfully aware. according to stiles’ corset-tight rules a limit’s been ignored, intimacy overshared. not that you can get physically further than dicks go, than their went, and — well, you can. he’ll ponder over that one later within the non-privacy of his room, though. “dude.” he doesn’t twitch a muscle, simply pretending to be drawn to the tv like a moth. a very educated one. “duuuuuude.”there’s the tidbit he may like making stiles an attention whore, which he’s noticed had been quite frequent prior to the unfortunate thing (no, he didn’t tell danny), and thus continues his little personal riot.
it feels as though his gums have been dented, the beer in his grasp pouring into the holes at each slurp, acidic. obviously under-baked. thing is, ever since the jerk-off involving mouths and whatnot, they’ve kept their distance; but not in the dick area, never in the dick area. they might’ve ended up on the carpet a few times, hands wrestling to grip an inch too tightly, a breath too carelessly, bodies lined up in gusts of hot exhales and excessive number of vodkas (literally let no one ever combine that and weed), and it all turned out to have drowned and weighed out nicely the undue proportion of feelings input by one of the sides.
derek’s side, really, at this point that’s no secret to anyone owning a good pair of eyes, except for stiles. his are severely damaged. stiles likes derek, though — likes likes him, or at least likes him more than your average bro should like another bro, despite the cavity of denial he hibernates in.
“duuuuuuuuuu—-”splash. “—-what the fuck, man? did you just —- are you seriously —-”stiles is fuming whilst derek mourns the loss of his beer’s contents.yeah, he did. “what was that for?”he sent his drink sloshing onto stiles’ face distorted in another of the stilinski i’m going to annoy you until you pay attention to me trademark expressions, and it was glorious. a shot to die for.he shrugs, tilting to preen at his oeuvre. “i was having a moment.” “you were having a ——,” stiles glares, painted comically with the hops rivulets bisecting his forehead, “—- okay.”that’s a murderous pitch. and he provokes, “don’t tell me this is about to turn into one of those `fight-to-make-out´ contests soap opera style.”and, okay, he may’ve slipped there. shit. fuck. “it totally is.”oh?
then stiles is where he prefers him most; draped over derek, not that much of a difference between the catlike technique and an actual kitten. he’s unsure what they’re to be fighting for, but regaled regardless as he isn’t able to latch onto stiles’ too fast wrists. ankles tangle, pulses readying themselves to pound, and he’s trying not to let his competitiveness melt away, but he’s beyond enthused at stiles’ effort and his ridiculous face which he can’t see for all the struggle, but still. he’s pretty sure if he labelled stiles as anything close to adorable, he’d get a rib fracture. free thinking, what a blessing.
surprisingly (the ratio of their measures emphasized), stiles has managed to have the upper hand and to get a hold of the bottle derek’s refused to give up. stiles’ lean in smells like beer, and derek’s too sober for all this, so he attacks fully equipped. with tickles. in no time, stiles is giggling —stiles is giggling. the piece of glass is officially forgotten, rolling into the vicinity of binks’ catacombs, from where nothing has returned whole yet. if they’re lucky, the cat’ll have been wasted by dawn.
preoccupied with laughter and the challenge of not losing the victorious position, stiles insists on not moving apart from full-body tremors that, to derek’s ears, sound very much like defeat. he kisses what’s nearest, and that turns out to be stiles’ clavicle; its jut earning teeth, then more of them, nips growing intentional. far from caresses, even if meant otherwise.stiles’ spine’s fixed bow breaks, his body slackening under a sigh. he lands on derek. firmly. it’s all nice and friction-filled and breathy, but.
something is different from the last handjob, missing the previous sense of light-headedness derek knows was offered of his own volition to stiles as a recovery time. a tone that doesn’t play aright, won’t leap.
or, maybe, one that’d leap too high.they both note, stiles going rigid in seconds, retreating, shrinking to his half of the couch. some distrustful gazes are thrown. more alcohol is hoarded.
they don’t talk about it.