COME INSIDE OF MY HEART

Ho Ho Ho!

Thus concludes the twelfth 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!

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.

Sadly I'd like to announce that this has been the last Sterek Secret Santa. RL doesn't allow me much time to spend on hosting gift exchanges anymore.

It's been an amazing twelve year run, and I'd like to thank each and everyone of you that's participated over the years. Sterek is and always will be eternal <3

-x- Leonie (leetje)

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Now it's time to find out who your secret santa was!

@1989dreamer made a gift for heavensenthale - gift here

@alaidiem made a gift for negativenorth - gift here

@always-mimits made a gift for sivan325 - gift here

@comedicdrama made a gift for in-over-my-head - gift here

@eevylynn made a gift for sugareey-makes-stuff - gift here

@geekmom13 made a gift for wolfspurr - gift here

@goddess47 made a gift for nightlight9 - gift here

@greenleaf1316 made a gift for theydraggedmein - gift here

@heavensenthale made a gift for mintonarel - gift here

@in-over-my-head made a gift for serenelystrange - gift here

@mintonarel made a gift for alaidiem - gift here

@myulalie made a gift for comedicdrama - gift here

@negativenorth made a gift for 1989dreamer - gift here

@nightlight9 made a gift for always-mimiTs - gift here

@quackquackcey made a gift for greenleaf1316 - gift here

@renmackree made a gift for thotpuppy - gift here

@serenelystrange made a gift for geekmom13 - gift here

@silverloveless made a gift for stacinadia - gift here

@sivan325 made a gift for eevylynn - gift here

@stacinadia made a gift for goddess47 - gift here

@sugareey-makes-stuff made a gift for renmackree - gift here

@thefrailtyofgenius made a gift for violetfairydust - gift here

@theydraggedmein made a gift for thefrailtyofgenius - gift here

@thotpuppy made a gift for myulalie - gift here

@violetfairydust made a gift for quackquackcey - gift here

@wolfspurr made a gift for silverloveless - gift here

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

Happy Holidays! 🎁 I hope you enjoy this fic—I know you like fantasy & AUs, but I couldn't for the life of me come up with a fantasy/AU plot that wouldn't end up being a longfic..... I’m sorry 😭🙇‍♀️ But I wrote this fic inspired from 4 songs by your favorite artists that you've been listening to recently (or at the time of my ask lmao), so I do hope you like this! 🥰

Spotify playlist for this fic: like the sun and stars playlist~

(I tend to take things too literally when it comes to songfics, which is probs why I struggle with them LOL but here we are: the fic is divided into 2 parts, with 2 songs per part ahaha 💛 I'll link the individual songs (with english subs if applicable) at the beginning of each part!) 🐥

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like the sun and stars

Derek didn't know the last time he'd been himself.

He didn't know if he even knew how to be himself anymore.

"The bite is a gift," he'd told Scott, but the words had felt wooden, sharp—a barbed stake impaling his chest.

Perhaps he'd said it because he'd grown up hearing that, perhaps he'd said it to convince himself, or perhaps he'd said it because saying it was a curse wouldn't help a panicking, newly-bitten teenager one bit.

Was it a curse?

Or was he himself the curse?

Any event I'm at! I can say "okay well I'm tired I'm going home goodbye." Could not do that shit as a kid. If you're a kid it's like yeah you will sit here at your brother's soccer game in the cold for the next 1.5 hours. You will sit here at your sibling's football practice. You will stay at this BBQ until the whole family is done with the BBQ. You are stuck at the mall until mom finds the pants she needs. You are stuck at the grocery store. No we don't know how long. You are stuck at band practice. It's running late but you're not allowed to leave. You are stuck at the party that the adults said you're leaving soon but they keep talking to these 2 people who showed up late. What the Fuck.