Welcome To The Trainwreck

The world, baby, is scary, I know So close your eyes, hold me tight and don’t let go Still you try And finally now I know why

Rewatching the first two seasons with friends and listening to Neon Lights by Pim Stones got me in some Big Feels about how often these two are just left to pick themselves up (╥﹏╥) This combined with how Stiles is the only one to really stand up for Derek in the beginning was what made me ship them back when i first watched ♡

Song and a closeup under the cut!

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and for a while Derek is pretty sure Stiles believes him when he says he’s nothing more than a restauranteur with a poker hobby. they start dating in earnest and Derek lies about where he’s going and what he’s doing, and Stiles all but moves in after a couple weeks, because they just can’t keep their hands off each other

Stiles doesn’t ask questions beyond what Derek likes, wants, or needs - he’s impressed and excited by every gift Derek gives him, gets along easily with all of Derek’s associates, and makes himself available to Derek whenever he wants

one night, when they’re out at a club owned by one of Derek’s “brothers,” some drunk asshole stumbles into Stiles and then refuses to apologize, and Derek sees red. he has enough restraint not to draw blood right there in a crowd with normal people - not that he has any reason to fear the police in his family’s town - but he makes a low and very serious threat right in the guy’s ear and makes him piss his pants before he stumbles away

Derek worries, after that, that Stiles will be - scared of him, maybe. but that night, they have crazy intense sex and Stiles drops “I love you” for the first time

so Derek relaxes a little bit, becomes more himself in front of Stiles. he still uses innuendo and code when discussing business in front of his lover, but he learns that Stiles seems to like his…power. and Derek likes that Stiles likes it. he starts to flex his status even more, his money, his authority; every time he worries that he’s going to make Stiles uncomfortable, he finds instead that Stiles is enthusiastic about every splurge, every show of strength, every time he casually ignores rules or enforces some of his own

- sneezed wrong

- turned your neck a little too fast

- slept weird

- took the trash out to the curb and stepped at a slightly different angle than usual

- breathed

- failed to breathe properly

- breathed in the wrong stuff. Allergy time

- looked too hard at something too far away