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I saw you on the train - Sterek Fanfic
Sterek fanfiction, shamelessly based on this Tumblr post by @tsaiko. (OP, please let me know if I overstepped!) This is also on A03.
I saw you on the train
Derek gets on the subway after work, mentally bracing himself for having to deal with people because he didn’t charge his phone last night. Or he did, but his pup chewed through his charger cable and he frankly didn’t notice the nearly empty battery until he was already at the office. Any other day he loves his old brick of a phone, but today it was a bit of a bother that nobody had a charger that he could borrow. Ergo, he has no music to drone out the conversations of the other passengers.
He makes his way a little down the train car and sits down in an open seat. Across the aisle and one seat down are two men, mid to late twenties. They’re having one of those whisper-shout conversations with each other, where the words at the end of each sentence get louder with their anger, before they remind themselves that they are in public and go back to furious whispering. Derek can tell they are trying to be quiet, but emotions are high. Things are tense between them, it’s obvious within a few minutes of involuntary eavesdropping.
He knows he should try to ignore them, but it’s pretty hard to do. They’re in Derek’s direct line of sight and one of them has the most mesmerising whiskey coloured eyes he has ever seen. Right now, the lines around the young man’s eyes are hard and stressed, yet Derek can imagine the twinkle that would be there when he’s in better spirits. It fits the slight uptick of his nose. Somehow he just knows the guy can be a nuisance in all the best ways. He has an expressive face, which makes him far more interesting to Derek than his more generically handsome partner, who has neatly styled brown hair and blue eyes.
It’s an easy guess that the two of them are in a relationship, even though the expected easy chemistry is missing. But there aren’t many people that would be fighting in public, except when they’re in a close, intimate relationship. It’s a bit odd that they chose to have a discussion about the future of their relationship on the subway during rush hour, but whatever, they probably had a head of steam up on this topic.
It's a relationship drama that doesn’t involve Derek, yet he’s kind of forced to listen to it as one of the few people without headphones in the direct vicinity. There’s an older woman that glances curiously in the direction of the two men every now and then, but she’s reading a travel guide in a language that Derek can’t place, so chances are her English isn’t good enough to know what the two are talking about.
The gist of their discussion is that the one with the blue eyes wants to move forward with their relationship, maybe move in together, while Whiskey Eyes wants to slow down. Suddenly, Mr. Generic breaks in with a story about how his mom hates the city, but she moved to New York to stay with his dad and has lived there for twenty years now. And then he actually says the words: “Because relationships are about sacrifices.”
Whiskey Eyes looks like he wants to argue that point - which Derek can understand - yet he decides to follow his boyfriend’s reasoning. “And what have you sacrificed for our relationship?”
The barely hidden sarcasm in the question is apparently lost on Mr. Generic, because he has the audacity to come up with something or other he missed out on because he went with his boyfriend to a wedding. “We flew all the way back to California for your step brother’s wedding. I even had to sleep on the floor of your childhood bedroom!”
Like Derek, Whiskey Eyes is totally unimpressed with that answer and even rolls his eyes. Of course, his boyfriend doesn’t like that and their whispered argument continues. Derek can’t exactly hear what they’re saying, though it’s apparent that things aren’t getting better. Then, in a voice clear as day, Whiskey Eyes asks: “Name one thing I’m interested in.”
Mr. Generic freezes. He does a pretty decent impression of a store mannequin, with the vacant expression and the empty eyes. Derek can almost hear the dial tone coming from his brain. It’s clear that he can’t come up with a single thing that his boyfriend likes. On top of that, he looks confused as to why he’s even asked that question.
Things are quiet after that. The boyfriend tries to talk to Whiskey Eyes a couple of times, but he ignores him and just stares straight ahead. There’s a grim expression on his face, his jaws clenched. Still, the boyfriend doesn’t seem to understand the trouble he got himself in.
The train pulls up at the station, Derek’s stop, and Whiskey Eyes gets up. “Baby?” Mr. Generic frowns at his partner. “This isn’t our stop.”
Whiskey Eyes gives him a cold glance. “It’s my stop now.” The doors open and he walks out. Just fucking walks off and leaves him on the train.
Derek almost forgets to get off himself, he gets out just before the doors close. The boyfriend comes to his senses too and he jostles roughly past Derek in his hurry to go after his partner. Or ex-partner, probably. Because Derek sincerely doubts he can recover from that. He almost feels bad for the idiot. Or not, since the contents of Derek’s messenger bag go sprawling across the platform because of his rude shoulder check.
The platform of the small station empties out quickly, leaving Derek to pick up the notes that spilled from their folder. When he looks up, still on one knee and with his papers in hand, he sees the couple from the train. They’re standing halfway between Derek and the exit and he’s just in time to see Whiskey Eyes pull his arm loose from Mr. Generic’s grip. Their voices echo in the empty station.
“We are through, Matt. I should’ve realised before that it wouldn’t work out, this thing between us.” Whiskey Eyes gestures angrily between them. “If there ever was a thing, because I’m starting to think I was the only one who was really invested.”
Mr. Generic - Matt - scoffs. “You’re overreacting. And for what? Just because I couldn’t remember the name of your favourite movie from the top of my head? It’s Star Track, or something.”
“Star Trek,” Whiskey Eyes corrects, emphasising the last word. “And my favourite is Star Wars, not Star Trek.” He looks like he’s completely done with his ex-boyfriend’s bullshit. “Good bye, Matt. I’ll ask Lydia to pick up my stuff from your place later. Don’t follow me please.” He turns on his heel and walks to the stairs.
“Baby…” The now definitely ex-boyfriend tries to keep up with him, but he’s quickly shot down.
“Don’t follow me.” The words are cold and clipped, making the ex-boyfriend stop in his tracks and just watch Whiskey Eyes disappear up the stairs.
Derek briefly makes eye contact with the asshole ex-boyfriend as he too makes his way to the exit. The man ignores him, mumbling something about ‘stupid nerd shit’ as he fumbles his phone from his pocket and simultaneously checks the board for the next train.
Yeah, Derek doesn’t feel sorry for him.
He does feel sorry for the whiskey eyed young man he finds standing forlornly just outside the exit of the train station. The guy just looks so lost that Derek can’t help but go up to him. “Are you okay?” he asks, startling the other.
“What? Oh, yeah, yeah, I’m okay,” Whiskey Eyes hurries to say. Then he looks around him and huffs a small, sad laugh. “Actually, I’m not. I don’t have a clue where I am and I just realised that I left my keys at home and my roommate won’t be home until late tonight.”
“Shitty day, huh?” Derek remarks, showing him a sympathetic smile.
“You can say that again,” is the blunt answer. It sounds almost rude, though it’s followed by a rueful smile. “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t… I mean, I didn’t want to…” Derek isn’t really sure what he’s apologising for and neither seems he. “Sorry. Again. You caught me at a bad time. I just broke up with my… Well, my ex-boyfriend now.”
“I know,” Derek answers and he winces, because it’s clear he was listening in to things that were none of his business. “I mean,” he tries to course correct, “I couldn’t help but overhear. I was on the train too.”
“You were?” Whiskey Eyes blushes a delicious shade of red. “Fuck. That’s embarrassing.”
“Nah.” Derek shrugs. “If anything, he’s the one who should be ashamed. Like, who doesn’t know Star Trek apart from Star Wars?”
“I know, right?” He’s still blushing, but it goes well with his smile.
Derek usually isn’t this forward with strangers, but right now he feels like taking a chance. He could be mistaken, but he doesn’t think he is, not with the shy way Whiskey Eyes is rubbing the back of his neck. So he asks: “Would you like to get something to eat? I’m on my way home and I was planning to get some take out, but if you want, we can go grab a bite together?”
“Uh, sure!” Whiskey Eyes is only a bit taken aback by his question and seems eager to distract himself from the situation from earlier. “Yeah, why not? I have to wait until my roommate gets home anyway.” Then he holds out his hand. “I’m Stiles, by the way.”
“Derek.” He takes his hand and is pleased to find it warm and firm. “How do you feel about Thai food?”
They settle down in the window seat of the small Thai place a block or so from Derek’s home. Stiles declares it the best Tom Kha Kai he has ever had and they discover that they’re born in the same county in California. Derek’s family moved out when he was about twelve years old, yet Stiles’ father still lives there. And so does his recently married step brother.
Conversation flows easily and Derek is happy to discover that Stiles indeed has a very appealing sparkle in his eyes when he’s amused.
Four months later, they kiss for the first time. Another four months later he finds himself lying on a thin camping mattress on the floor of Stiles’ childhood bedroom. There’s a large Star Wars poster above the bed, with the letters of the opening crawl. Glow in the dark stars that have long lost their shine dot the ceiling.
A little above him, Stiles rolls so he can look down over the edge of the bed. “I’m sorry my bed is so tiny,” he whispers. “Are you sure you’re okay down there? We can switch!”
Derek catches the hand Stiles extends to him and presses his lips to the knuckles. “I’m fine, sweetheart. It’s just for a couple of nights anyway.”
Stiles smiles fondly at him. “Okay, if you’re sure.”
“I’m sure,” Derek nods. He presses another kiss to the back of Stiles’ hand. “Now go to sleep, you’ve got a big day tomorrow.”
Stiles yawns and nods. As only son and best man he’s invested in making his father’s wedding day a success. “You really don’t think he’d let me walk him down the aisle?”
Derek chuckles quietly. They’ve been over this before. “Just leave that part to Scott and his mom. Don’t steal their thunder.”
“Right.” Stiles caresses the side of Derek’s face one last time and then tucks his arm back underneath his blanket. “Good night, Der. Love you.”
“I love you too. Good night.”
#sterek#sterek fanfiction#sterek fanfic#derek hale#stiles stilinski#teen wolf#matt daehler#fighting on the subway#public break up#getting together#meet cute#I saw this tumblr post and two hours later there's this#Ilse writes fanfic#Ilse writes fanfiction
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joongdok so far to me. specifically chp 370
#orv#kim dokja#yoo joonghyuk#joongdok#ever makes art#the wind down after the huge divorce blow out fight is so funny to me#yjh still attempting to smash his way into a genuine emotional connection as equals with the guy that made him eat literal dirt. thats amor#lol this is also partly bc i saw the official subway standee from the pop up store#and (almost) everyone sitting politely except for yjh manspreading ferociously is ALSO really funny
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Congratulations! Your Tynamo evolved into an Eelektrik!
(Bonus below!)
(The eel dog quadrupled in weight)
Link to submas masterpost!
#pokemon#art#sketchbook#myart#submas#fanart#pokemon ingo#subway boss ingo#submas comic#pokemon emmet#subway master kudari#subway boss emmet#subway master emmet#tynamo#eelektrik#eel dog time!!!#did you know eelektrik evolves aT LEVEL 39#emmet and tynamo have been fighting for their LIVES here#the joyful ordeal of evolution#anyways emmet laughing so hard he starts crying is a mood#submas emmet#kudari
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Whenever I think about their little assigned triangles im like... the triforce...
#submas#loz#emmet did not doubt the triangles for a second#ingo did. however he is down to go to some castle to fight some guy if destiny said so#with the power of fucked up triforce you can wish for anything within the power of subway transport#defeating ganon is within the power of subway transport#link is imagening some kind new triforce monstrosity with diffrent colours and more triangles#crossover
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Sibling argument (they be silly)
Feel free to make up what they're fighting about☆
#i dont think they fight often#but when they do is over really stupid stuff#i dont draw them enough lately i missed them#but i have no ideas for submas fanart#also just realized i forgot the blue band thingie on the arm#they hugged afterwards guys is all fine#grown men crying my fav <3#my art#submas#pokemon#pokemon black and white#subway bosses#subway boss emmet#subway boss ingo#subway boss kudari#subway boss nobori#pokemon submas
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revenge against Pluto_nium from one Emmet to another 🛑
#I dont have a drawing tag#art fight#art fight 2024#team stardust#cw eyestrain#other peoples ocs#technicallyyyyy?#submas#subway boss emmet
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number one rule of working public transportation: you may be out of pokémon but never be out of options
#submas#subway boss emmet#subway boss ingo#oh how did i learn to fight you ask? i worked customer service for 7 years. comes with the training.#my art#emmet#ingo
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emmetposting
#pokemon#subway boss emmet#pokemon bw#yeah hi are the funny train guys still popular here?#bc this one lives rent free in my head#customer service smile? check.#resting bitch tone of voice? check.#prefers double battles? check#will fight god on behalf of a sibling? check#he's just like me fr#also I HAVE TO WEAR A TIE TO WORK THIS WEEK#and i'm NOT looking forward to it#autumn.art#autumn.fandom#submas
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Oh? You're approaching me?
#ingo#emmet#submas#subway boss#pokemon#subway bosses#subway boss ingo#subway masters#subway boss emmet#I'm sorry but this is immediately what I thought of#heard they're going their seperate ways. I hope they have a little fight about it >:)c
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I had this AU archived off my accounts for a few years, but I'm thinking about it a lot more these days so I'm digging it up for sketches.
This is Kudari from Codebreaker, functionally the starting antagonist for the story when Emmet accidentally collides with him and takes parts of his body.
For a little debrief, the main idea of Codebreaker is that Emmet discovers that he exists in a false reality, and that there is a parallel plane where all of the instructions for his reality exist. He finds his way to this plane by accident after walking back from another lonely day at work, and is hellbent on learning how to manipulate it in the hopes that he can recover Ingo with that knowledge. Kudari is his own set of instructions, who he partly dismantles, allowing him to actually interact with the code. This leaves a hollowed out shell that starts trying to find his own way to get his body back from Emmet.
I'd been thinking about the Beta Submas leaks which lead me to sketching him again. Here's the first rough warmup sketch I did with a fight between him and Emmet.
From there I just started reworking his old design to be worse 💀
Let me know if you guys want more of this freak, he's honestly really fun to sketch.
#submas#submas au#au#emmet#subway master emmet#emmet pokemon#kudari#tw body horror#The armband says“ 駅長”‚ Station Master#If you're wondering about the ribs and spine‚ when Emmet first ran into Kudari it initiated a battle that he couldn't fight in#his pokeballs went dead and the mechanism couldn't open‚ and since Kudari was only speaking the scripted lines and not acknowledging him#he panicked and hit him across the face to disengage#When he fell motionless to the floor‚ he went to go check his vitals/run cpr but every touch was making him dissolve so he freaked out#and ran out of the subway‚ leaving Kudari without a good chunk of his body#Since his instructions were scrambled‚ Emmet gained the ability to see and modify code using Kudari's eyes and mouth#Kudari gained free will‚ no longer having every action decided for him‚ which was immediately exercised to hunt down Emmet for his body#There's more but if it wasn't apparent I'm not a fan of talking about this story 💀 it had several comics and information posts planned#but none were released after the initial 2. There's more rat lore behind why I shut it down but maybe another time#If you want to see this AU‚ the old posts are available on instagram. It's outdated and not great‚ but it can give some background
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the shibuya arc is almost over, i still cant believe it started off with 5 episodes of teen gojo and suguru having the best and then the worst time of their lives all to the back drop of a slice of life setting. I think i will always chose to live in those first 5 episodes they dedicated an entire marketing campaign to.
#literally not even a whisper of shibuya#during the pre s2 advertisments#this season has felt like 3 years#can they do…12 episode seasons…. in the future#just compress the culling games please they arent important#i read it recently and i couldnt even tell u what happens#to summarize megumi and itadori hop hop hop find man#man go subway kawaii gambling girls#?????#yuta kiss bug maki fight noaya worm#oh yea maki is the only good thing about that arc#uhhuhhhuhhhh angel ❤️ megumi bc he has dogs?#gojo cameo ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️#sukuna ruins everything#thats it that can be 12 episodes#jjk spoilers#for that bit ig#OH YEA and then the us government gets involved#its truly one of the arcs of all time
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CSM x Submas
#subway boss#subway boss ingo#ingo#submas#ingo pokemon#pokemon#I was watching the katana man vs denji fight and I couldnt help but think of ingo in the train part
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I'll be the judge of that.
Reshiram | Zekrom | Giratina | Arceus | Kyurem
#emmet used judgment!#(why fight god when you can do whatever the fuck is happening here instead?)#submas#subway boss emmet#arceus#submas emmet#emmet#kudari#my art#pokemon#i'll say it. arceus has christmas eyes and they look kind of silly on a human#unnamed possession au#au#the lighting on this one was fun!#i'm not sure how well it actually turned out#but it was fun
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"The island of Pasio is about to turn from every pokémon trainer's paradise into a trap of nightmares."
#Uh-oh!!#There is no running away from these two!!#The boys are getting tired from fighting all those grunts..!!#WHEW#got more in store for this story!#Over 40 hours of work!!#Drawing comics is hard as heck but worth it!!#submas#subway bosses#subway boss ingo#pokemon ingo#subway boss emmet#pokemon emmet#pokemon gladion#pokemon silver#silvally#ho-oh#zangoose#cyclizar#ferroseed#magneton#team break#breakmas#pokemon masters ex#pokemas#my comics#jun's comics#pokemon
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So.
i drew emmet in all the pokemon miku outfits. for mental illness reasons
im lazy tho so i used my emmet fashun bases 👍
#submas#pokemon#pokemon black and white#pokemon bw#kudari#emmet#subway boss emmet#subway master emmet#project voltage#water type miku#rock type miku#psychic type miku#electric type miku#normal type miku#ice type miku#fire type miku#grass type miku#ground type miku#fighting type miku#bug type miku#dragon type miku#fairy type miku#ghots type miku#poison type miku#flying type miku#steel type miku#dark type miku#what the fuck am i tagging
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i love when iasip does product placement in episodes. usually i despise that shit in media but they make it so glaringly obvious that it’s product placement that it almost becomes a parody and it’s fucking great
#like in ��mac fights gay marriage’ and they’re just in a fucking subway for no reason??#so genuinely funny#iasip#its always sunny in philadelphia#charlie kelly#dennis reynolds#dee reynolds#mac macdonald#frank reynolds
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