Trial and Error (Derek x Reader)
A/N: This has been something living in my brain for a while, and I decided to get it out, along with 5 prompts.
I do not own Teen Wolf or it’s characters. Sadly.
Thank you to @xteenwolfwritingsx and @mymonandsymon for looking this over for me!
Warnings: Some language. As close to smut as I write, (If you squint.) Mostly just fluff, though.
Word count: 1,646
Anon said: “"I'd kill you on the spot if you weren't so nice to look at. Because, full offence, your personality needs a lot of work."”
Anon said: “Can you do 93 & 99 w/ derek hale pls :) thank you!”
(93. “Forget it. You fucking suck.”
99. “Don’t be an asshole. Asshole.”)
Anon said: “Hello! I was wondering if you would be willing to do numbers 8 and 101 with Derek Hale from the the most recent list you have posted? If not it’s okay, thank you ❤️”
(8. “You didn’t just wake me up at 2am because you were ‘in the mood’.”
101. “You got a cute butt.”)
Xxx
You’d barely made it into the loft before you were pinned up against the far wall, Derek holding your hands up on either side of your head at the wrists, his grip much tighter than it should be, but not as much as it could be.
“I thought I told you to stay on your side of the city,” he hissed out, face inches from yours, eyes glowing red, and a low growl rumbling in his chest.
His eyebrows knit in confusion at your smirk, his body pressing against yours as you made a halfhearted effort to push you both off the wall.
Rolling your eyes, you let out a breathy chuckle, which only made him cock one eyebrow up in either amusement or disbelief, you weren’t sure.
“What the hell is so funny?” He asked, both his tone and his weight easing up a bit.
His mistake.
“Oh, nothing,” you mused, looking up and away from him for a few seconds before flipping you both around, holding him pinned against the wall in the same position, your own eyes glowing their bright red as he let out an annoyed snarl. “Just thinking about how things can change in an instant….”
The breath was knocked out of you as you once again were pinned to the wall, this time his weight almost fully against you to keep you still. “What do you want?” He ground out through clenched teeth.
You couldn’t help thinking that the two of you would have been great friends if it weren’t for both of you being Alpha’s. Pack rivalry and whatnot overriding much of any chance at getting any closer than you were now, which given your position physically, was actually pretty damn close.
Baby steps.
“I have an idea,” you began after letting out a huff. Resigned to being stuck against the wall, you relaxed a bit, deciding to try and placate the Big Bad Sourwolf instead of poking him with a metaphorical stick, no matter how fun the latter was. “It would save both of our packs a lot of hassle, and probably save some innocent lives, too, come to think of it-”
“No,” he said firmly, his hold relaxing just a bit.
You looked at him in shock. “You haven’t even heard-”
“I said no!” His voice just as firm as before, he pushed off the wall for emphasis, your body relaxing just slightly, and you rubbed your wrists, despite the fact they were already pretty much healed.
“I’m just trying to be a good leader, Derek, offering you peace and my help for both our sakes and our packs, but because of whatever vendetta you have for me, you’re not willing to listen. Well, you know what? Forget it. You fucking suck.”
Stalking toward the loft door, Derek grabbed your elbow firmly and lightly tugged you to face him, making you roll your eyes again. “What, Hale?”
“I know. Look, I’m sorry. I really don’t know what it is I don’t like about you, I just don’t.”
“Gee, thanks,” you mumbled, looking down at your feet as you fiddled them absently.
Grabbing your shoulders to make you stand still again, you straightened your back and looked him in the eye. It wasn’t the gesture that caught your attention, but the gentleness in it. A new side of Derek Hale had just showed itself, a side you always thought was there, but never got to see, except when he was interacting with his pack.
Very small baby steps.
“But,” he continued pointedly, “I’m willing to put that all aside to listen, for our packs and everyone involved.”
“You’ll really hear me out?” You hated how small your voice sounded.
“I’ll try my hardest.” He smiled a real, genuine smile, and you felt some of the ice crack between you two.
You returned the grin with a small one of your own, before finally saying, “Don’t be an asshole. Asshole.”
Derek laughed, and let go of your shoulders, walking back into the loft, and after a few seconds, you followed him. Looking over his shoulder, he smirked and said, “I’m just trying to be nice.”
You scoffed, then let out a chuckle. "I'd kill you on the spot if you weren't so nice to look at. Because, full offense, your personality needs a lot of work."
Sitting on the couch, he spread his arm out in gesture to the open spot beside him, his own smirk still firmly in place. “So I’ve been told.”
Xxx
Waking up to the wee hours of the morning and a silent loft, you looked around bleary eyed. Once you realized where you were, and who was with you, your eyes went wide.
Laying on the far end of the couch, his legs tangling with yours in the middle at some point while you were both asleep, was Derek, head propped up on the arm of the couch, mouth wide open as a snore escaped him.
You couldn’t contain the giggle from the completely uncharacteristic image of the big bad Hale Alpha, and turned into the couch cushion to smother the sound.
It was only a second later you looked back, but you still jumped as now Derek was looking at you with one eye barely cracked open, his mouth closed in a tight line, but his eyebrow raised in what you now understood was amusement.
Lightly swatting his leg with your own, he said a mock “ow”, but neither of you untangled your legs.
Propping your elbows on the arm of the couch behind you, you glared at him. “Don’t scare me like that!”
“Didn’t anyone ever tell you it’s not polite to stare?”
You swatted at his legs again, and he did the same, both of you grinning lightly.
“Did the alarm go off or something?” He lazily looked to a box on the wall that must have been some sort of baddie alarm, his hand going to the back of his neck to scratch sleepily. Contented with what he saw, he looked back at you, stilling, hand still on his neck. “What?”
“Why do you assume I woke you on purpose? Why would I put myself in a position to endure even more of your company than I have already had today, which, by the way, is I think more than we have had at once ever?”
He grinned. “You didn’t just wake me up at 2am because you were ‘in the mood’.”
You shrugged, smirking right back at him. “You got a cute butt.”
“Why, thank you,” he said cheekily, his grin doing the same.
Batting his legs again lightly, you heard him mutter, “Okay, that’s it,” and you suddenly found yourself pulled toward him, until you were basically straddling him, your wrists once again tightly held in his hands.
“Stop doing that.” His voice was firm, but soft. His eyes searched your face, but for what, you didn’t know.
Digging your knees into his rib cage, just as some sort of retaliation, he groaned softly at the pressure. You leaned down close to his face and whispered, “Make me.”
Suddenly faster than you could blink, your positions had been flipped, him now straddling you, holding you down. “Okay.”
Trying to fight back, you quickly gave up, huffing, much like earlier in the day, looking up at him with a less than enthusiastic look.
Searching your face again with his eyes, he finally landed on your gaze with knit eyebrows.
Raising yours in question, he let go of your wrists, but you left them beside your head, and he sat back on his haunches, your legs still under him.
“I’m trying to figure out what it is about you that drives me so crazy.”
“I have that effect on lots of people,” you said smugly. “I’m awesome like that.”
“That! That’s it.” He pointed at you, and you sat up, elbows once again on the arm of the couch, eyebrows once again raised in confusion. “Yeah, you drive me crazy, but I’m starting to think it’s not because we hate each other or annoy each other-”
“Are you sure? Because you’re kinda driving me insane just a little bit right now-”
He leaned back over you on your perch on the armrest, face closer than it ever had been, and you found yourself staring at his lips. “Am I?”
If it hadn’t been the look in his eyes, the sound of his voice with those last two words did it. Your eyes drifted shut when he finally met you with a kiss, surprisingly soft and tentative given the tension between you two.
But that was just the first one.
Pulling back just enough to look at you one more time, something was exchanged between you without words and you both surged forward in a heated kiss.
Slowly laying back down all the way, your hands briefly in his hair to make sure this never stopped, pulling him with you, his hands grabbed your wrists putting them by your head like before, but this time trailing his fingers lightly from your elbows up to your hands, fingers tangling with yours as he held your hands.
Instead of restricting, his weight now felt warm, and inviting, and the more of it you felt, the more you wanted.
Turning your head to the side, you had a small grin on your face, but it soon turned into a soft gasp as you felt his lips ghosting ever so lightly over your skin, working from your collarbone, up your neck, and to your ear, where he bit the lobe gently.
When he released it after a second, you turned your head to look at him, lips barely touching one another’s, foreheads pressed together, and heavy breaths being shared, almost as if the breath one was breathing out was what the other required to live.
Xxx
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