Stalia + Chunky Monkey and Malira + Cookies and Cream? :)
okay this is gonna have a part two for the malira one, don’t worry
At first, Malia thinks it’s silly to hate your own name, but then she gets a look at it. She tries pronouncing it and Stiles begs her to just let it go. He doesn’t really want anyone trying to call him by his thoroughly embarrassing name.
She doesn’t stop trying. The Polish is thick and clumsy and inelegant on her tongue, but she powers through. She looks up pronunciation guides and YouTube videos. She even learns a bit of the language and practices, over and over again, until the consonants dance from her throat and the vowels sing between her teeth.
And one day, while they’re hanging out on his bed, trading lazy kisses, she whispers it against his lips and he freezes. She says it again, and in her stumbling, unsure Polish, tells him she loves him. She’s never seen him cry, but suddenly she’s seeing tears at his eyes–and he tells her no one’s even tried to say his name since his mother died. Scott was too nice to push it after he begged him to stop. And now, hearing it on Malia’s lips–he asks her to say it again, and she does, over and over again.
She doesn’t say it in public. She knows she’s broken a barrier, jumped a hurdle of some kind, but Stiles isn’t ready to share it with the world. And that’s okay. She likes it being their private thing.
He’s seen so many raw pieces of her, soothed so many hurts, and she’s just happy she finally gets to return the favor.
send me a ship/friendship/character/fandom + an ice cream flavor