the man on the bridge

Last night, Derek talked to some random guy for all of 10 minutes before hooking up with him and subsequently having the best sex of his life. They parted ways early the morning after, with a promise to meet again soon… They meet sooner than expected. Turns out the guy who made Derek see God three times in one night is Stiles Stilinski, his company’s newest hire. Derek is the CEO and Stiles is his employee. Because of course. He can be cool about this – he just needs to feign their ‘first’ meeting and be professional. Derek does not need to think about how less than 12 hours ago Stiles had his legs spread exactly like that but wrapped around his waist instead… Yeah. Maybe he can’t be cool about this.

So here's the sitch, after the Hale fire, Derek goes to hiding in his wolf form in the woods. He struggles to take care of himself not because he can't but because he doesn't want to.

Stiles ends up in these woods getting growled at by a huge black wolf. Of course the puny human gets freaked out because, heck, that's a wolf who looks like they're hungry and Stiles has zero muscle mass to protect himself. But before he goes into reasons why the wolf shouldn't eat him, the wolf just gives him some nudges and a couple of sniffs before it leaves him be (with a roll of its eyes, maybe).

So because he's himself, Stiles goes back into the woods (since he has no sense of self preservation) and this time, he takes some meat to feed the thin wolf. It goes as good as Stiles thought it would. The wolf doesn't eat any of it and that leads to a long scolding from Stiles, which oddly enough gets the wolf to eat, perhaps to shut him up.

Over time Stiles helps the wolf out, pulling thorns out of it's fur, bringing food, and only once a squeaky toy...which had deeply offended the wolf.

But one day the wolf gets injured, leading to Stiles' reasonable choice to bring the wolf home to take care of him. Yes, he expected to get mangled or chewed to pieces which...amazingly didn't happen. What he didn't expect from that night was waking up to a naked man in his bed, who seems oddly protective of him. Oh, and he's basically married to this guy now, according to wolf standards. Cool.

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What were you the God of, again?

Shichi-Go-San (七五三) or “Seven- Five Three” is a traditional rite of passage and festival day in Japan for girls (ages 3 & 7) and boys (ages 3 & 5), held annually on November 15 to celebrate the growth and well-being of young children. 

The ages 3, 5 and 7 are consistent with East Asian numerology, which claims that odd numbers are lucky.