Trans Derek is awesome fight me
Let's go with canon for a moment here, por favor. Warnings for Kate Argent, dysphoria mentions and swearing because that's just how I am lol
Imagine 15-year-old Derek, fairly fresh out of the closet and has just started T. Imagine him meeting Kate, and imagine him falling for her and thinking wow this beautiful woman loves me even though I'm trans.
Imagine that all crumbling down around him after the fire.
Laura packs him up and they head out to NY. Laura gets him into a good doctor that helps him keep transitioning. She buys him binders and packers because she'd do anything for him. He gets older and starts working out religiously he puts on more muscle and has top surgery. His beard starts growing in and he can look at himself in the mirror and not feel like dying on the inside (as a fluid nb I can confirm dysphoria sucks ass).
Then he goes back to Beacon Hills, chasing after Laura and everything goes to shit.
Nobody remembers a Derek Hale. He went by a different name back then. Noah Stilinski has to look twice at this kid before he realises who he's looking at.
He hates the judgement, but the people who don't remember him at all immediately take to the new him, never messing up his pronouns once.
His resting bitch face and I-will-rip-your-throat-out demeanor also help with that.
Imagine him meeting Stiles. This bright and bubbly kid who yeah, he doesn't like immediately but he warms up to him.
Imagine them getting closer, with that something but not yet sitting between them constantly. The tension, the fear.
Imagine Stiles being terrified because how could someone as amazing and as hot and caring and thoughtful as Derek ever want a gangly klutz of a fuck-up like him.
Imagine Derek being terrified because he's falling for this sweet boy who is quickly growing into a man, and why would someone as amazing as Stiles want a dysphoric mess with self-worth issues?
Imagine it's just them. They're talking, and it's tense. Derek is mad that Stiles put himself in danger again. Stiles is mad that Derek still has a martyr issue.
They're not sure how it happens, or who goes in first, but they meet in the middle, months and months of tension and sideways looks and comforting touches all piled into one kiss.
The first one is tense and rushed. The one after that is soft and sweet.
Despite appearances, Derek really can't do flings. He tells Stiles this, and Stiles throws his hands in the air because why would I want this to be a one-time thing, you asshole!
Derek comes out to Stiles right then and there. He can't go into this dishonest, he can't stand the fear that once Stiles finds out, he'll leave.
Stiles is silent. Derek can't look him in the eye.
Stiles cups his face and brings it up. He kisses Derek again and it's so soft and caring and stiles says, uncharacteristically calm, thank you for trusting me.
Imagine Derek's utter joy when he realises that he finally has someone who doesn't judge him and won't use him for who he was and who he has become.
And Noah, of course, tells Derek to send anyone who bothers him his way. He's family now, after all.
(submitted by @enby-angel)
