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Freesia: What are three good things that have happened in the past month?  :) Hello :)

1. It was my flatmates birthday and we had an amazing dinner and games night :)

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Length: 4745

Rating: Teen and Up

Summary: Stiles was supposed to be back two days ago, so when his team returns without him, Derek goes to find him. (And it's totally not because he's in love with Stiles, despite what Erica says.)

A Naruto-inspired Sterek AU! In which Derek and Stiles are team leaders, the nogitsune is to Stiles what the nine-tailed fox is to Naruto, and there is, at one point, ramen.

Note: I hope this is to your liking and that you're having a happy holiday!

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hold your breath and cut through the darkness

Stiles had always been a little odd, had a little too much energy. It wasn’t until Derek’s life was in danger that it had manifested as a creepy fox spirit.

Deaton didn’t own up to why Stiles had a creepy fox spirit in him until it happened again. And again. And the fox spirit—a nogitsune—threatened to take hold of Stiles completely.

At that point, he hunted down some special lichen, did a binding ritual, and explained how the nogitsune that currently resided inside of Stiles had once fed on the town of Beacon Hills. It had taken his mother everything—and more, so much more—to lock it away in her only child and she had thought that, despite the fox inside of him, he would be okay. She had been strong with magic and, if it worked right, Stiles would be stronger with the nogitsune than without.

What other choice did she have?

Everyone had always known, in some way, what Stiles was. He had always been different. The kitsune and wolves alike had been suspicious of him even before the nogitsune emerged, but after a time, it started to be okay. The nogitsune could almost be forgotten, now a devil known rather than a mystery.

Derek can’t forget though. Not when he’s seen the thing firsthand, has seen the sort of hold it can have on Stiles, how it can take those traits that Stiles normally controlled, could amplify and twist them to make it seem like they were just part of who he is. And Stiles is annoying, definitely, but he’s not evil.

The nogitsune, even when it tries to fake it, is definitely not Stiles. And Derek knows Stiles. They didn’t get along when they first met, but they’re… Well.

Derek and Stiles are friends, sure. He has to admit that now after all the times they’ve saved each other’s lives and all the embarrassingly open conversations they’ve had and how much they—ugh—care about each other.

But really? Stiles gets to help train the wolves and kitsune at the school?

Stiles?

He barely even counts as a supernatural given how far buried the nogitsune has to be for him to even function.

Meanwhile, Derek was born a wolf. He had tracked down and killed his own uncle in revenge and inherited the mantle of Hale Alpha. He’s strong even when he’s in control, while Stiles…

Stiles can barely swing a baseball bat without the nogitsune.

And Derek can remember when they’d been caught together in the attack, when he’d been ready to bleed to death, outnumbered and out of options. Stiles had snapped, hadn’t been Stiles anymore but had become something other. The thing that wasn’t Stiles had taken down three Alphas like they were whiny children, had dipped a finger into the hole in Derek’s chest and licked the blood clean, savoring the taste of his suffering.

It could’ve killed him. Derek knows that.

But instead Stiles had struggled to the surface long enough to ask for help, to beg Derek to knock him out, kill him, anything, anything, to keep the nogitsune away (away from Derek, he hadn’t said, but his eyes had pleaded).

Derek doesn’t like to dwell on that, another horrible thing he’d witnessed. Another horrible thing he’d had to do. But it had been necessary and Stiles, when he was really Stiles again, had thanked him for it.

It still doesn’t mean that Stiles is qualified to help supernatural beings find their focus and learn how to fight.

Stiles has his own team. They’re totally screwed, in Derek’s opinion. Then again...Scott has his own team.

Derek isn’t sure which is worse.

Liam, one of Scott’s, nearly bowls Boyd over and Derek thinks maybe Stiles is the better option.

Stiles spends a great deal of time talking to his team. Reassuring them while simultaneously emphasizing just how dangerous it is to be caught alone, to forget their own strength, to let what’s inside of them take over. His eyes, those brilliant amber eyes of his, they go loose for a second, far away to something Derek had seen from the outside but can barely fathom seeing from within.

Derek had always been one with his wolf.

...And maybe Derek shouldn’t be so focused on what Stiles is doing with his team when he should be focused on his own.

Derek’s team is older and more experienced, a couple of them his own Beta wolves that act as seconds in command. Boyd is big, strong, and stoic while Erica is sassy, ready to test anyone she thinks needs to be tested. She’s come the farthest, really.

His younger sister Cora is on his team, another born wolf, and even though Stiles has their cousin Malia, Derek is certain his team would have no problem taking on Stiles’s.

To be fair, Malia had been an actual coyote until a year ago, but still.

Derek feels better for just a moment when he thinks about how his experienced, established team could easily take down Stiles’s ragtag bunch.

And then he feels guilty.

“If you keep watching him,” Erica remarks, “everyone is going to know about your big dumb crush.”

Derek is startled out of his thoughts and glares at her. “What? Shut up.”

“Come on,” she wheedles. “You two were paired together, what? Six times? Everyone knows he only lost control because you were hurt.”

“That’s not— He would’ve done it for anybody.” Which, maybe, is too close to the truth or too kind or too something, because Derek feels like he’s choking.

“Whatever.” Erica flips her hair over her shoulder. “You can call it a hate fuck if it it makes you feel better.”

Derek grits his teeth. “I don’t...hate Stiles.”

“Because you loooove him,” Isaac butts in.

Isaac had been his Beta, too. Before Isaac had fallen head over heels for Scott. (Derek still isn’t sure if it’s romantic or platonic, but whatever it is, it’s intense.)

Thankfully, Boyd has Derek’s back. “Leave him alone.” Derek gives a tight nod of appreciation before Boyd adds, “Obviously he’s in love with him.”

The betrayal.

~

Stiles bumps Derek’s shoulder with his own when they’re grabbing dinner. “You ready for our teams to go head to head? I’m willing to place a pretty good bet on Malia.”

“Well,” Derek acquiesces. “She’s a Hale.” He raises his eyebrow.

Stiles sputters, flushes slightly. “Yeah, well.” He taps his fingers on the counter. “She’s got Stilinski training.”

Derek rolls his eyes, he places his order and takes out his wallet but Stiles is pressing cash into the guy’s hand instead.

“I know I can’t afford much, but I can pay for your ramen, alright?”

Stiles’s smile is bright and disarming and Derek would like to pretend the heat he feels is from the bowl being set in front of him, steam curling over the hot broth. It takes him far too long to mutter a stilted, “Thanks,” before he’s watching Stiles grab his own bowl. “Do you want to…”

“Eat together?” Stiles finishes for him, grin even wider. “Sure!”

They settle across from each other and Stiles slurps his noodles so aggressively that Derek feels little flecks of broth spattering his own face. It’s disgusting and he sneers, ready to tell Stiles so, but he opens his mouth to speak and Stiles looks up at him with those big round doe eyes (and noodles hanging from his mouth, of course) and Derek shuts himself up.

“What?” Stiles asks, but it’s nearly unintelligible, garbled around his ramen.

Derek shakes his head, resumes eating like he’s not the one closer to a wild animal.

~

Stiles’s team gets sent on a mission that’s supposed to be easy. They’re just going to escort a cub back to her pack.

It should’ve taken two days max. Get her there, settle things with the pack, return to Beacon Hills.

Derek had been antsy after two days, at which point Erica had teased him again, but it’s been four now and Derek is seriously worried. Erica is worried. Hell, even Boyd is worried at this point, in his own quiet way.

Malia and the two younger wolves return, but Stiles isn’t with them.

The wolves are scared, don’t want to talk, and Derek growls when he talks to Malia, which she meets with a growl of her own. “What happened? Where is he?”

Malia pulls herself out of Derek’s clawed grasp and flashes her own eyes and fangs. It’s probably for the best that she had been on Stiles’s team and not his. He and Cora were stubborn enough, another Hale would’ve only made things worse. Malia snaps her teeth in warning when Derek doesn’t back off, and Derek retreats to give her space. She shakes her head. “Hunters.”

“Is he—” Derek’s throat closes with a click.

Malia sets her jaw. “I don’t know.” She glances back at the wolves where they cower together, explaining what had happened to Noah, and Melissa, who checks them over, talks them down. “They weren’t after us.”

And it’s clear what she means. A sick, twisting, sour thing churns in Derek’s gut.

The hunters hadn’t been after the shifters.

They had been after the nogitsune.

“Where?” he asks.

Malia huffs. “The scent ends where the northern trail splits. I tried to follow but I lost track and I had to make sure they got back.”

Derek’s nostrils flare. Technically, she made the right decision. She went for the good of the many when she found the way to be too difficult and too dangerous to take.

He gets it.

But he hates it.

“I’m going,” he says, and doesn’t wait for any other information. He stalks off only for Noah to block his path.

“What are you doing, son?”

“I’m going to find Stiles.”

There’s a tension, a furrow in Noah’s brows that says he agrees with Derek. That he’d loved to head right out there with him. But then he says, “He might not be Stiles when you find him.”

Derek knows the other thing better than anyone else, at least so far as it’s connection to Stiles goes. He’d just rather pretend that he isn’t what brings out the nogitsune. (And it’s only been him. Somehow, only him. Three times.)

Noah is waiting for a response, won’t step out of the way until he’s satisfied that Derek knows what he’s getting into, but it takes Derek a moment to muster up the words.

Derek’s heart is stone as he says, “I know.”

Cora is staring at him when he leaves, worried. They used to have a family, parents and siblings, and they have Malia now, but it’s mostly just them. Cora isn’t ready to be an only child and Derek doesn’t want to leave her that way.

He just can’t leave Stiles in the hands of hunters.

And he isn’t sure if it’s because he fears Stiles will be lost to the nogitsune’s destructive powers or if it’s because Stiles will be unable to summon it to his own defense, now of all times. Stiles defends himself, but he defends others far more fiercely. The nogitsune would likely be happy to destroy the hunters and anyone else who crosses its path, Stiles included.

If Derek can get there, and get there soon, maybe there’s a chance.

He sticks to the shadows, has to suppress his own heartbeat a couple of times as the loud thudding in his chest becomes difficult to hear over. He can smell the fear of the wolves, sharp and sour and too bright, but underneath he finds Stiles. Stiles was scared and...something else. There’s something threading through his emotions, the chemosignals more difficult to define, but what matters is that Derek can scent Stiles.

He’s better than most at this; he’s had to be with all that’s happened to him.

Derek hears a twig snap and climbs into one of the trees, hoping against hope he hasn’t already been spotted. He used to sneak up on Stiles sometimes and Stiles would always clutch his chest, scold Derek. He wishes this were like that, just a game.

Watching the ground through his wolf eyes, sensitive to movement, Derek spots a human, but she doesn’t smell like hunters. Derek waits until she’s out of sight, gone the opposite direction, before he continues his pursuit.

It’s likely the hunters have a camp. Something as dangerous as the the nogitsune would need to be dealt with, and soon, so they’d probably try to find somewhere just far enough. Derek knows that their scents will be blocked, that there will be a red herring leading elsewhere.

At least, if these are Argents, and Derek is certain that they are. Deep in his bones, he knows Kate is here, trying to take away one more thing that matters to him. (Because that, Derek can admit. Stiles matters to him. Whatever Erica and the others may think, that much is true.)

But Derek knows Argents well enough to see through all their tricks.

It takes him a while, but he starts to hear the rustling of people, the clinking of chains. There are at least five different heartbeats and he can’t yet determine if one belongs to Stiles. Right now he’s just surprised he can’t hear Stiles’s voice, but that must mean—if Stiles is alive, if—that Stiles is gagged or unconscious.

Chills go down his spine as he hears Kate laugh and he hates being right.

“It looks so human,” she coos, and there’s a crackling sound that Derek knows far too well.

There’s the muffled sound of someone crying out in pain, and Derek has to rein in his wolf so he doesn’t do anything rash because that someone is unmistakably Stiles. He scents the air. They’ve got something else, too, but if Kate’s with Stiles, he’s likely the prize.

“Are you trying to bring it out?” a man’s voice hisses and Derek thinks it must be Kate’s brother, Chris. “We just need to put that thing out of its misery while the host is in control. You don’t need to play with it.”

Derek can hear Kate’s pout. “You’re no fun,” she whines. “I wouldn’t mind taking this one out for a spin,” she continues and Derek has to dig his claws into his own leg.

“This thing is dangerous, Katie.” A third voice. He’s more teasing than chastising. “But since your mother passed, you are in charge.” A fondness. Gerard.

“Dad, do you really think we should—”

Gerard makes a noise you might use to scold a dog. Chris isn’t the favorite, probably because he has some sense in him. In Derek’s opinion, Argents have never seemed overly fond of sense. “Your sister makes the decisions. You follow orders.”

Derek could almost feel bad for him...if he weren’t an Argent.

He risks a move, wants to see, and it’s just as horrifying as he had imagined.

Stiles is strung up, hands tied over his head and his feet dangling, all his weight supported by his bound wrists. He’s certainly feigningunconsciousness, but Derek has a feeling that Stiles is more aware than he lets on. Derek doesn’t have to be a genius to know there’s mountain ash that makes his rescue more difficult than it appears. It looks easy, but the Argents are unfortunately not that stupid.

Kate trails lazy fingers down Stiles. “Less lean than you’d think, huh?”

She turns and Derek ducks down, hopes she doesn’t see the movement through the foliage and get suspicious.

The silence goes on too long but it’s Chris who speaks. “Not paranoid, are we, Kate? That’s not very becoming of a leader.”

“Shut up,” she snaps. “Being cautious is what keeps us one step ahead of the beasts.” Derek can hear her sneer, but Chris’s heartrate stays even.

Derek listens as her footsteps retreat, the sound of a tent flap. He calms himself, starts thinking of a strategy now that Kate’s threat is just a littleless immediate.

“Derek,” Chris whispers. “It’s Derek, isn’t it?”

Derek’s heart drops to the pit of stomach.

“Look, if you’re here for the nogitsune, I’m willing to help.”

With a careful ear for noise, Derek drops down on the other side of the tree and waits, knowing Chris will approach.

Derek keeps his claws out, but hidden, curled toward his own palms. “Why would an Argent go against Argents?”

“I have a daughter,” Chris says. “About the same age.”

“And that means you’re ready to let him go?” Derek shakes his head. “Doesn’t add up.”

“Look.” Chris’s eyes are sharp and blue, but they’re not like Kate’s, not filled with saccharine sympathy that belies the utter disregard for life underneath. “Boy or not, I’m willing to put that thing down if it comes to the surface,” Chris says and Derek wants to rip his throat out, tear him to pieces.

Derek stiffens. “Then why don’t you?”

Chris’s gaze darts over and Derek can hear Kate and Gerard inside.

Derek lets out a low growl. “They think they can use him?”

“It,” Chris corrects.

Normally, Derek would agree, but what they have now is Stiles through and through. Still. Thankfully.

“They haven’t figured it out and I’ve seen one before. They don’t go down easy.” He grits his teeth. “That thing could destroy everything, and I’m not ready for that kind of civilian casualty just because my father and my sister think they can harness it for their benefit.”

“Stiles is not the nogitsune,” Derek warns, hopes his anger covers his worry. “It just lives inside of him. It… It stays there.”

Chris raises an eyebrow. He may not hear the blip in Derek’s heartbeat but he’s trained, and Derek has been obvious. “You’ve seen it.” Not a question.

Maybe… Maybe there’s a way to convince Chris that it’s okay, to hedge this into Stiles’s favor. “Yes. And I survived.”

“How many times?” His mind is calculating and Derek hates that he’s trying to reason with an Argent.

“Doesn’t matter. It doesn’t come out.” He tries to push all the certainty he can into the words.

“It comes for you.” Chris chuckles.

Derek exhales sharply through his nose. “He doesn’t— He doesn’t protect himself with it. It won’t come out because you have him under threat.”

Chris Argent doesn’t say anything else, but Derek can see what he’s thinking, what he must think of Derek and Stiles.

There’s no point in correcting him; it would just be more time wasted that they don’t have if Stiles is going to survive this. Speaking of time… “How long until she comes back?”

“Minutes, if we’re lucky,” Chris says. He eyes Derek warily. “I’ll cut the ties and then you have have fifteen seconds before I start shouting.”

Derek raises an eyebrow. “Fifteen seconds?”

The look he receives in response is hard and incredulous. “Fifteen seconds.”

Derek swallows down any further protest. “Thanks.”

There’s a noise and Chris’s teeth grind. “Alright.”

He moves swiftly and Derek is barely processing before Chris is sawing through the rope that binds Stiles, letting Stiles fall with a painful-sounding thump, just a hint too sharp for his complete safety to be assured.

“Already broken,” Chris informs him offhand, as if the fact that Stiles’s bones had already been cracked was any possible consolation.

Derek drags Stiles out where his arms are beyond the ash, pulls him over his shoulder. “It’ll be okay,” he murmurs, and if Chris hears him, so be it. He uncovers Stiles’s mouth and Stiles’s eyes flicker to his but it seems he’s hit his limit, relieved to see Derek.

“Five seconds,” Chris warns.

Derek doesn’t bother trying to respond. He manages to make a small distance before he hears Chris yelling for help, catches blood in the air and knows that Chris has cut himself to make the story plausible.

“Goddamn it, Chris!” he hears, Kate’s voice, and does his best to move faster.

The shock of the force is what gets him, causes him to stagger and shield Stiles’s body from the hunters. His shoulder already burns from the aconite poisoning and he keeps moving.

“Der— Derek.” Stiles swallows thickly.

“Shh. Don’t try to talk, alright? We’re gonna get out of here.” Stiles shifts and Derek hisses.

Stiles moves around more in his concern. “You’re hurt. What—”

Another bullet flies their direction, missing Stiles only because Derek’s reflexes urge him to protect.

“Whoa.”

“Now is not the time,” Derek grits out.

“I can maybe—”

Derek falls to the ground, cradling Stiles to him as he arches over him and Stiles’s voice goes small.

“Derek?”

When Derek doesn’t respond, Stiles goes deathly still.

The sounds of shouting and footsteps grow closer, cacophonous and chaotic.

“There!”

But then Chris is saying, “Wait, wait!”

The footsteps come to a halt and Kate lets out a growl more wild than any wolf Derek has ever known. “What?” she demands.

“We injured the wolf. I’ve heard the nogitsune has only come out when the wolf is in danger.”

“Good. Two birds with one stone. Two beasts.” Kate clicks her tongue, pleased. “Derek, honey,” she croons. “Don’t worry, we can save you for last.”

“I’m okay,” Derek says, but he obviously isn’t. Two wolfsbane bullets take their toll much quicker than one. “Just… When they get closer, I’ll get them. They won’t think—”

“Aw, puppy,” and Kate’s voice is far too close. The toe of her boot pushes into his injured shoulder and he flinches, refuses to arch completely under the pressure. “Just give in.”

“Back off,” Stiles says, edging into something dangerous, something other.

Derek’s fingers turn to claws, curling around Stiles. “I’m not worth it.”

“Kate,” Chris warns.

Kate laughs. “It’s perfect. Maybe they’ll tear each other apart.”

Stiles’s eyes shut tight and Derek’s feels his body thrumming with energy that isn’t his own.

“I’m okay,” he tries again. Whispers again and again like a mantra, but then Kate cocks her gun, the click deafeningly loud, and Stiles isn’t Stiles anymore.

The nogitsune stands, ignoring whatever of Stiles’s body might protest. It glances down at Derek and frowns.

Derek turns to watch, horror chilling him to the bone. Even as the aconite works toward his heart, it’s this that is truly frightening: Losing Stiles to the nogitsune forever. To know Stiles is trapped inside his own mind as his body rains destruction on all he loves. They’ve bound it but it breaks free, and Derek doesn’t think they’ll ever be able to hold it forever. The thing holds itself differently, its slouch too affected and purposeful, casualness false and wrong.

“Don’t,” Derek says. Not that it’ll matter. He almost misses Kate’s wide grin as she looks to what was Stiles.

The nogitsune raises an eyebrow at him. “Shhh.” It puts a finger to Stiles’s lips, winks.

“I don’t think we’ve been properly introduced,” Kate starts, pulling its attention. “I’ve been trying so hard to get you to come out for a couple of days now. Glad to see something finally worked.” She takes a step toward it in her usual swagger and offers her hand like she’s meeting a new acquaintance over coffee, not a thousand-year-old demon.

Derek would shudder if he had the ability to move at all in this moment, if terror didn’t keep him locked, stock-still.

“Something worked,” it agrees, tilting its head. Its voice is a mockery of Stiles’s. It reaches out for Kate’s hand, but it doesn’t shake, it twists. It takes her down to her knees and leaves her staring up, hair falling over her face as she finally shows pain, some semblance of fear passing through her features before she schools them into anger.

Chris holds out his arm, stops a couple of hunters that had followed from closing in. “Hold on,” he tells them. “Unless you want to get ripped apart.”

The other hunters pause, look between Kate and Chris.

“What are you doing?” Kate snarls. “Shoot it.”

Derek crawls forward, brings himself behind Stiles’s legs and pushes himself up, wraps his arms around Stiles’s body. He wants Kate dead, but not like this. He doesn’t want more blood on Stiles’s hands under the nogitsune’s will. “She’s not worth it.”

“Nothing is,” the nogitsune retorts, “but that’s half the fun. She hurt you and he”—Stiles, the vessel, it’s clear in the nogitsune’s disdain—“got so scared, he let me out. I might as well do him this one little favor...and end her.”

Chris Argent says nothing, just watches the whole exchange with gritted teeth, deep lines creasing around his eyes. The hunters lift their guns uneasily, aim at Stiles, but he waves them down.

“Stiles,” Derek murmurs. “I know you’re in there. Don’t let it do this. Don’t— Don’t be like me. Don’t let anger and fear control you.”

Kate opens her mouth to sneer something else, but the nogitsune forces her back, smiles at the sound of a loud crack and her scream.

“Mmm,” the nogitsune intones. “What a lovely sound. Don’t you think, Derek?”

Derek winces. He forces himself to continue. “Stiles, stop. You have to stop.” Derek hesitates. “Please.” The nogitsune twitches, minutely. If Derek wasn’t a werewolf, he may not have even noticed. “Please, Stiles,” he says again. “Please. For me.”

Kate lets out another noise, animalistic and angry. “Shoot it!” she shouts.

“Please, Stiles. Please. For me. I won’t survive much longer and I want to see you again. You. Please.” He presses his face to the back of Stiles’s neck. “You’re stronger than this.” He can feel his blood seeping through, causing his shirt to stick to Stiles’s.

The resounding explosion of a gunshot deafens Derek and he finds himself on the ground, cradling Stiles’s body whether or not Stiles is its active host.

He’s overwhelmed by the smell of Stiles’s blood and his heart stops in his chest.

Gerard stands beside Kate, although he offers her no help. He likely expects that she should be strong enough on her own if she’s an Argent.

“Derek.” Barely a whisper.

Derek spares a glance to Gerard, to the drawn gun, before gently turning Stiles. Stiles. He can see it in his face.

Stiles’s breath stutters.

Derek starts to leech his pain, but Stiles shakes head, brings up a hand to touch Derek’s chest.

“St— Stop. Derek, you can’t. The wolfsbane.”

Derek’s face crumples. At least he had felt useful, even if only for two seconds.

“Did the team—”

“They made it back.”

Stiles manages a grin that comes out half-grimace. “And you came for me like a self-sacrificing idiot?”

Derek smooths a hand over Stiles’s cheek.

“Can’t we do something?” Kate says, wrestling herself up off the ground. “Shoot them?”

“They’re dying,” Chris says. “Give them a moment.”

Gerard chuckles. “For once, Katie, I agree with your brother. You can see it, can’t you? Beasts in pain, acting like they have the capacity to care for one another. See how they imitate emotion?” He gestures with the gun as if it isn’t incredibly dangerous.

Kate doesn’t respond. She may be the oldest female in the family now, but she still cows to her father’s will.

Derek hears something in the distance, quiet but not so quiet a wolf won’t hear. Multiple heartbeats approaching them.

Familiar heartbeats.

A roar echoes through the trees surrounding the hunters camp, surrounding the hunters. Snarls and howls and Derek closes his eyes, collapses next to Stiles as the sounds of carnage reverberate through his skull. He feels something touch his hand, Stiles’s. Stiles’s fingers finding his and oh.

Oh.

“Erica was right,” Derek says.

Stiles hums and Derek feels it through their little connection.

“I came after you because I loved you.”

The near-inaudible huff is something like a laugh. “Yeah.”

The wolfsbane is working his way into his heart, he can feel everything slowing, feel himself fading.

“Derek?” His voice goes in and out but it’s Stiles. Derek tries to concentrate, to let the last thing he hears be Stiles’s words. “I love you, too. That’s why it— For years.”

Derek twitches his fingers, the closest he can get to a squeeze. He wants to say something else. He wants to, but—

Derek wakes up in the medical ward a couple of days later.

Stiles is still by his side.

They’re… They’re alive.

And Stiles is Stiles again.

Derek lets out a breath of relief.

[agendratum]

a child that gets taken away by ghosts early in his life is a child that never gets to grow up, or zhou zishu realises some things, again

[rudemarshmallow]

Requested moodboards 94/?: lighthearted NamJin.,something along the lines of the dad-jokes Jin likes to make and Namjoon being exasperated but also very much whipped.

For @agna333 I hope you like it 😘

Thank you for requesting ❤️❤️

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[ao3feed-minjoon]

by agna333

In a world, where one of a pair of soulmates will be led to the other by the compass arrow on his wrist, Jimin doesn't really know what to do. His soulmate seems to travel a lot and travel far. Luckily, there the Youtuber RM, who's voice can make Jimin feel better anytime he's feeling down.

Words: 3908, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 20 of BTS Relationship Medley

Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Park Jimin (BTS), Kim Namjoon | RM, Kim Taehyung | V, Min Yoongi | Suga, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope, Kim Seokjin | Jin

Relationships: Kim Namjoon | RM/Park Jimin

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Compass pointing towards soulmate, YouTuber Kim Namjoon | RM, at least kinda, musician yoongi, Serendipity freestyle, Musician Namjoon, Park Jimin (BTS) Is a Sweetheart, Park Jimin (BTS) Is Bad At Feelings, Plot points from BTS world, Like Jimin and his Granny run a rice cake shop and such, nothing major

[ao3feed-yoonjin]

Good point

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Np2VTt

by agna333

In a world, where one day you wake up in your soulmates body and you have time to figure out their identity, Kim Seokjin's plan is very clear. Make his soulmate's flat livable and maybe feed his roommates.

On the other side, Yoongi can't really be bothered that much.

Words: 1478, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 14 of BTS Relationship Medley

Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Kim Seokjin | Jin, Min Yoongi | Suga, Park Jimin (BTS), Jeon Jungkook, Kim Namjoon | RM, Kim Taehyung | V, mentioned Jung Hoseok | J-Hope - Character

Relationships: Kim Seokjin | Jin/Min Yoongi | Suga

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Wake-up in your soulmates body AU, Kim Seokjin | Jin Being a Mom, Kim Seokjin | Jin is So Done, Grumpy Min Yoongi | Suga

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Np2VTt

[jihopeclub]

by agna333

On the run from an Ex, Jimin sees a cute guy with I'm Your Hope t-shirt. His next course of action is easy to predict.

Words: 1212, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of BTS Relationship Medley

Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Park Jimin (BTS), Jung Hoseok | J-Hope, Min Yoongi | Suga, Kim Namjoon | RM, Kim Taehyung | V, Jeon Jungkook

Relationships: Jung Hoseok | J-Hope/Park Jimin

Additional Tags: Running from Ex, Clubbing, Cussing, Park Jimin (BTS) Is a Sweetheart, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope Is a Sweetheart, Jin is barely in this :(, Yoongi might be in Mafia, Crack

[ao3feed-sterek]

Wooing Werewolves

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2RsFo6b

by agna333

Dear Journal, I’m not calling you a diary, as this is in no way a diary. This is a scientific journal. Or something. Yeah, I’m not very good at this either way. BUT! Considering this is for my own use only, I don’t have to be! Take THAT, Harris! Of course I am getting rambly and miss the point of the exercise!

Right. What is the exercise you might ask? I will tell you! You see, dear journal, there is this guy. Pretty hot guy, if I do say so myself. The hottest.

Or alternatively, Stiles finds a book on how to get a werewolf to date you and then proceeds to fail miserably anyway. Or does he?

Words: 3493, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale, Scott McCall (Teen Wolf), Derek Hale's Pack

Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski

Additional Tags: Fluff and Crack, Magical Stiles Stilinski, Kinda, Alternate Universe - College/University

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2RsFo6b

[ao3feed-sugamon]

Collaboration of Your Dreams

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Jcg2DA

by agna333

There is one person in the entire music production industry that Namjoon absolutely refuses to collaborate with. That person just so happens to be very talented and good-looking. Life is so not fair.

Alternatively, Yoongi and Namjoon refuse to work together on what could be the best album ever and Bang-PD gives the five-member BTS a green light to get all up into the bussiness of their two favourite producers.

Words: 4487, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 7 of BTS Relationship Medley

Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Kim Namjoon | RM, Min Yoongi | Suga, Kim Seokjin | Jin, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope, Jeon Jungkook, Kim Taehyung | V, Park Jimin (BTS), Bang Shihyuk

Relationships: Kim Namjoon | RM/Min Yoongi | Suga

Additional Tags: Romantic Comedy, Enemies to Lovers, Producer Min Yoongi | Suga, Producer Kim Namjoon | RM, BTS are little meddling shits, Alternative universe BTS, Minor Jung Hoseok | J-Hope/Kim Seokjin | Jin, Bang PD is So Done, Mild Language

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Jcg2DA

[agna333]

A @narutosecretsanta​ for @hawkai

Hope you enjoy it!

[incorrect-bangtan-boys]

Rhodendron: What is something you used to believe in as a child? Because why not... I like these asks, they're sweet :)

I used to believe in the tooth fairy, I would write letters to her whenever I lost a tooth and my mum would leave a tiny reply on my letters next to a gold coin :)

[stereksecretsanta]

The Sterek Secret Santa 2018 Big Reveal

Ho Ho Ho!

Thus concludes the sixth edition of the Sterek Secret Santa!

I hope you all have had a fantastic Christmas and that you’ve enjoyed all the Sterek-y goodness created by all the lovely secret santas!

I’ll be honest, this year was the most difficult one to date in terms of organisation. I struggled balancing this event with RL, and on top of that there were a whopping 14 drop outs! But on a positive note, there were far more sign ups this year compared to last year’s! Sterek truly is eternal and still very much thriving, even if it gave me more stress and premature grey hairs in the meantime, whahaha.

I’d have been nowhere if it wasn’t for the following AMAZING Christmas Angels, whom all embraced the true Christmas spirit of giving, by merrily coming to my aid to make sure no one was left without a gift: @whispering-sumire755, @outtoshatter, @hyperlittlenori, @allourheroes, @theydraggedmein, @rebekahdarian93, @novkat21, @halehathnofury, @frogsandboxes, @everchanginginks and @callofthemoon. You guys saved my bum and this entire event, thank you so much!!! 

What’s even more humbling and overwhelming, was that I received more than enough aid offerings than I actually needed. Sterek Fandom remains one of the best fandoms out there,  thank you all for the support <333

If you’d like, you can still add your works to the AO3 Collection! You can also repost your gift(s) to your own Tumblrs now, of course! Just poke me and I’ll also add the link to the Tumblr gift post.

That’s it for all the service announcements! Pending Tumblr’s current purity shitfest, I’ll have to see if this event will still be hosted here next year, but that’s a worry for later. I’m gonna sleep for a week first xD

-x- Leonie (leetje)

*****

Click below to find out who your secret santa was!!

Most of you know the drill by now. The list is in alphabetical order. The easiest way to find whom your secret santa was, is by hitting Crl+F and then search for your own Tumblr name :D

agna333 was aussiebee's secret santa - gift(s) here

alcoholproblem was quaterdenarius' secret santa - gift(s) here

alicat54c was nevermoree-tr's secret santa - gift(s) here

allourheroes was agna333's secret santa - gift(s) here

allourheroes was Areiton's secret santa - gift(s) here

allourheroes was mute90's secret santa - gift(s) here

anchorsandadderall was Ravenclawinstarfleet's secret santa - gift(s) here

Anefan was suburbanmotel's secret santa - gift(s) here

aqua-ref was colourfulwizardpolice's secret santa - gift(s) here

aredblush was lostwithnointernet's secret santa - gift(s) here

Areiton was moretomhardy's secret santa - gift(s) here

argento-capitani was go-n-ef's secret santa - gift(s) here

backinteenwolfhell was zjofierose's secret santa - gift(s) here

backwiththemadness-champion was pseudoapollonian's secret santa - gift(s) here

beerwolves was comedicdrama's secret santa - gift(s) here

bewarethesmirk was frogsandboxes' secret santa - gift(s) here

bibliophile246 was Jennoasis' secret santa - gift(s) here

Blizsquees was anchorsandadderall's secret santa - gift(s) here

bloodgutsandstarbucks was vyxynheartssterek's secret santa - gift(s) here

bloody-bee-tea was ritarmandi's secret santa - gift(s) here

caffeine-in-an-iv was blizsquees' secret santa - gift(s) here

callmecracker was Klahey1400's secret santa - gift(s) here

Callofthemoon was damnfancyscotch's secret santa - gift(s) here

Callofthemoon was sourwolfandlionheart's secret santa - gift(s) here

crazylunaimaginationkai was nostalgiafan123's secret santa - gift(s) here

damnfancyscotch was drgrlfriend's secret santa - gift(s) here

deadicateddeath was everchanginginks' secret santa - gift(s) here

designertrashbag was oldestcharm's secret santa - gift(s) here

Do-what-the-knight-tells-you was hazelestelle's secret santa - gift(s) here

drgrlfriend was nerderek's secret santa - gift(s) here

everchanginginks was alicat54c's secret santa - gift(s) here

everchanginginks was theydraggedmein's secret santa - gift(s) here

FoolishSel was stacinadia's secret santa - gift(s) here

froggydarren was mysticrebelwerewolf's secret santa - gift(s) here

frogsandboxes was crazylunaimaginationkai's secret santa - gift(s) here

Frogsandboxes was mesolotea's secret santa - gift(s) here

Fuck-ya-chickn-strips was thatbadvibe's secret santa - gift(s) here

glorious-spoon was Fuck-ya-chickn-strips' secret santa - gift(s) here

Go-n-ef was kevaaronday's secret santa - gift(s) here

greenl3af was outtoshatter's secret santa - gift(s) here

gryvon was Rebekahdarian93's secret santa - gift(s) here

halehathnofury was thisnewjoe's secret santa - gift(s) here

halehathnofury was vanessawolfie's secret santa - gift(s) here

haletostilinski was bloody-bee-tea's secret santa - gift(s) here

hazelestelle was designertrashbag's secret santa - gift(s) here

Herewegohappiness was otpsfloat's secret santa - gift(s) here

hotaruyuki was justicebanana's secret santa - gift(s) here

HyperLittleNori was argento-capitani's secret santa - gift(s) here

HyperLittleNori was tabbytabbytabby's secret santa - gift(s) here

HyperLittleNori was welshwoman1988's secret santa - gift(s) here

inatshej was jadorehale's secret santa - gift(s) here

irrationalrage was michicant123's secret santa - gift(s) here

jadorehale was Superwhumper06's secret santa - gift(s) here

Jennoasis was theproblemwithstardust's secret santa - gift(s) here

Jmeelee was Princessabitchessa's secret santa - gift(s) here

Justicebanana was glorious-spoon's secret santa - gift(s) here

Kevaaronday was HyperLittleNori's secret santa - gift(s) here

Klahey1400 was Novkat21's secret santa - gift(s) here

lostwithnointernet was yogi-bogey-box' secret santa - gift(s) here

Mesolotea was NikoleStilinski24's secret santa - gift(s) here

moretomhardy was herewegohappiness' secret santa - gift(s) here

music-magic-mayhem was mechformers' secret santa - gift(s) here

mute90 was theonewiththeeyebrows' secret santa - gift(s) here

mysticrebelwerewolf was allourheroes' secret santa - gift(s) here

nerderek was sachandesu's secret santa - gift(s) here

nevermoree-tr was Aredblush's secret santa - gift(s) here

NikoleStilinski24 was alcoholproblem's secret santa - gift(s) here

nosetothewind94 was deadicateddeath's secret santa - gift(s) here

nostalgiafan123 was bewarethesmirk's secret santa - gift(s) here

novkat21 was irrationalrage's secret santa - gift(s) here

novkat21 was music-magic-mayhem's secret santa - gift(s) here

otpsfloat was missmamamikki's secret santa - gift(s) here

outtoshatter was bloodgutsandstarbucks' secret santa - gift(s) here

outtoshatter was gryvon's secret santa - gift(s) here

outtoshatter was thatbadvibe's secret santa - gift(s) here

Peanutbutter-jelly-fish was bibliophile246's secret santa - gift(s) here

PrincessaBitchessa was inatshej's secret santa - gift(s) here

prismacolourpencils was cosenangel's secret santa - gift(s) here

pseudoapollonian was rejuvenescencia's secret santa - gift(s) here

Ravenclawinstarfleet was hotaruyuki's secret santa - gift(s) here

Rebekahdarian93 was FroggyDarren's secret santa - gift(s) here

Rebekahdarian93 was gswritings' secret santa - gift(s) here

rejuvenescencia was simplyn2deep's secret santa - gift(s) here

ritarmandi was shinigami714's secret santa - gift(s) here

sachandesu was beerwolves' secret santa - gift(s) here

shinigami714 was jmeelee's secret santa - gift(s) here

simplyn2deep was bloodspeckledraphael's secret santa - gift(s) here

sourwolfandlionheart was caffeine-in-an-iv's secret santa - gift(s) here

stacinadia was prismacolourpencils' secret santa - gift(s) here

suburbanmotel was wolfspirals' secret santa - gift(s) here

Superwhumper06 was peanutbutter-jelly-fish's secret santa - gift(s) here

tabbytabbytabby was backinteenwolfhell's secret santa - gift(s) here

thedaughterofkings was lover95's secret santa - gift(s) here

theproblemwithstardust was foolishsel's secret santa - gift(s) here

theydraggedmein was do-what-the-knight-tells-you's secret santa - gift(s) here

theydraggedmein was nosetothewind94's secret santa - gift(s) here

thisnewjoe was thedaughterofkings' secret santa - gift(s) here

vanessawolfie was darkhawkflying's secret santa - gift(s) here

welshwoman1988 was backwiththemadness-champion's secret santa - gift(s) here

whispering-sumire755 was aqua-ref's secret santa - gift(s) here

whispering-sumire755 was callmecracker's secret santa - gift(s) here

whispering-sumire755 was haletostilinski's secret santa - gift(s) here

withtheredlight was greenl3af's secret santa - gift(s) here

wolfspirals was Anefan's secret santa - gift(s) here

yogi-bogey-box was withtheredlights' secret santa - gift(s) here

zjofierose was Whispering_Sumir's secret santa - gift(s) here

vyxynheartssterek was Callofthemoon's secret santa - gift(s) here

Let me know if I mucked up any names/html or if you’re missing entirely. As usual, I kind of zoned out a few times while coding this list 8-)

That’s it! Go and shower your no-longer-secret-santa with love and virtual tackle hugs!

[ao3-sterek]

Wooing Werewolves

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2RsFo6b

by agna333

Dear Journal, I’m not calling you a diary, as this is in no way a diary. This is a scientific journal. Or something. Yeah, I’m not very good at this either way. BUT! Considering this is for my own use only, I don’t have to be! Take THAT, Harris! Of course I am getting rambly and miss the point of the exercise!

Right. What is the exercise you might ask? I will tell you! You see, dear journal, there is this guy. Pretty hot guy, if I do say so myself. The hottest.

Or alternatively, Stiles finds a book on how to get a werewolf to date you and then proceeds to fail miserably anyway. Or does he?

Words: 3493, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale, Scott McCall (Teen Wolf), Derek Hale's Pack

Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski

Additional Tags: Fluff and Crack, Magical Stiles Stilinski, Kinda, Alternate Universe - College/University

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2RsFo6b

[rudemarshmallow]

Requested moodboards 93/?: Namjoon/Jungkook with idiots in love. The relevant quote: "Convenience stores are also convenient."

For @agna333 this was a difficult one not gonna lie but I hope you like it nonetheless ❤️

Moodboards request are open

[ao3feed-jinkook]

100%

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2XxMA0X

by agna333

In the world of Empaths and Sentinels, an ability to recognize which one is which is very important. Too bad that is the only thing Jungkook isn't good at. Then again, he has Jin to help him through it. And laugh at him. A lot.

Words: 2118, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of BTS Relationship Medley

Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Jeon Jungkook, Kim Seokjin | Jin, Kim Taehyung | V, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope, Park Jimin (BTS), Kim Namjoon | RM, Min Yoongi | Suga, Bang Shihyuk

Relationships: Jeon Jungkook/Kim Seokjin | Jin

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Sentinels & Guides, Alternate Universe - Police, Jeon Jungkook is So Done, Kim Seokjin | Jin Is a Little Shit, Everyone is mean to Jungkook, but not really, Relationship is not the focus of the story

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2XxMA0X

[ao3feed-namkook]

Wow. Thighs.

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2ZRku5N

by agna333

When it's Namjoon's turn to watch over his two friends while they get drunk, he doesn't expect them to bring a new friend. And he definitely doesn't expect said friend to like his legs so much.

Words: 2863, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 17 of BTS Relationship Medley

Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Kim Namjoon | RM, Park Jimin (BTS), Kim Taehyung | V, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope, Min Yoongi | Suga, Kim Seokjin | Jin, Jeon Jungkook

Relationships: Jeon Jungkook/Kim Namjoon | RM

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Clubbing, Kim Namjoon | RM Is a Good Hyung, Jeon Jungkook Is a Sweetheart, Drunk characters, Kim Namjoon | RM Is So Done, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, background sope, backgroung JinTaeMin

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2ZRku5N