Dream-generated Fanfiction
I just had a dream about reading a Sterek fanfic and in the dream I spaced out part way through reading it and asked @blizgori “is this a real fic I’m thinking about?” And then halfway through describing it stopped and went “oh yeah of course it’s [name of fic] my silly brain just tried to make me think I dreamed it” so thanks subconscious for trying to call me out
Notable features of the dream-generated fanfic:
• It hugely featured “Derek’s sister” who, rather than being any of his actual sisters, was the writer’s OFC that I was a little suspicious of because she was basically a viewpoint character, but she narrowly escaped being a Mary-Sue
• In the dream I’d already read the fic and was rereading the end and remembering how much I’d liked it so went back to the beginning to start over for real
• Therefore, all I know about the story is the beginning and the end:
• It starts with Derek’s family moving into town:
• His sister, for some inexplicable reason, is obsessed with ugly 1970s architecture and so is ecstatic that they’re looking at a particular area of town full of these houses and she wrote some little thinkpiece for the local magazine that included the phrase “if you’re in the area you can expect to hear two things: the air whistling between my brother’s knobby knees, and me screaming in unadulterated joy”
• This statement is more accurate than it may seem because in this fic Derek is played by Tyler Hoechlin in his baseball days only with a little more of his current beauty [Did I mention it was a Generic-High-School AU?]
• Derek is super insulted by this article his sister wrote but his parents think it’s hilarious and they’re super proud of it
• I have no idea what happens in the middle of the fic, I had skipped to the end where suddenly:
• Derek and Stiles are in the Stilinski family living room
• Obviously some kind of wild hijinks have just ensued because they both look rain-soaked and underdressed
• They’re both sulking because they’ve been fake-dating and a misunderstanding of comical proportions is looming: there had been a quote in the school journal involving “a 2 hopelessly pining after a 10” and they had both seen it and essentially gone “ouch haha too real” at the same time and
• Each thought the other was identifying with the 10 in this situation and sympathetically chuckling at him, the 2, with pity for his hopeless crush
• “Um,” says Derek, suddenly realizing the state of his undress, not looking Stiles in the eye because how could he, a lowly 2, make eye contact with this 10 who is secretly mocking him for his ridiculous feelings, “I should change, I’m only wearing shorts and a jacket,”
• Right as Stiles, flushing in humiliation as he realizes that he, a pathetic 2, is inappropriately dressed in front of the universally-acknowledged 10 who has deigned to laugh at his pitiful crush, and also in front of his dad, and says “Oh man, I just realized I’m only wearing this hoody and one stocking” [why Stiles is wearing one thigh high striped sock with briefs and a hoodie is the mystery of the ages]
• After a comical beat they each scramble to offer each other their clothes which includes Derek starting to take off his own shorts in the middle of the Stilinski family living room and Stiles physically forcing his hoodie over Derek’s head [this scene is very comical]
• As each one of them says something along the lines of “I know my clothes are probably disgusting to you because I’m only a 2 but-“
• CUE MOMENT OF SIMULTANEOUS REALIZATION
• “you think YOU’RE-“ “but you’re so-“ “I’M the-“ “that’s ridiculous!”
• Now they’re making out and Stiles’s dad laughs at them and goes off to make them burgers
