#failegaidin

light on - david cook

“Man, are you sure you wanna do this?” Buck checks for the third time this evening. He’s walking backward, toe to heel, to scrutinize Eddie’s reaction, arms outstretched, head tilted sideways like a confused puppy dog.

Eddie huffs and rolls his eyes. He lurches forward and shoves Buck’s shoulder, knocking him off balance. He stumbles and flails, and Eddie takes pity on him, catching his strong forearms and yanking him back to find solid footing.

“Stop asking,” Eddie says. “I said yes the first time. You’re gonna make me think all that time around the sirens is messing with your hearing.”

“Oh, I’m sorry, what?” Buck teases, cupping a hand around his ear and leaning in. Eddie scoffs, knocks against Buck’s side to break his charade, and Buck laughs, turning to fall in step beside him.  

“You know, you’re not gonna lose Ally Points for not wanting to spend your only night off this week at a gay bar,” Buck says.

Lifting his gaze to the garish sign on the otherwise plain building ahead, Eddie squints against the onslaught of flashing purple neon and shrugs. “I’m the one who asked to crash your night out,” he reminds Buck.

Their schedules have been hectic, between work, and Chris’ jam-packed schedule. An injury on another of the 118’s crews means Buck and Eddie are working different hours, and in the past three weeks, they’ve hardly had time to say hello as one person rolls into the station and the other clocks out for the day.

It feels significant, too, since The Conversation happened around the same time.  

Is Steve a werewolf in this scenario? I could get behind that.

He is not, unfortunately. This was an AU where Derek and Cora are non-supernatural kids, though the fire still happens and their family still dies. Steve is on duty in California when he comes across Derek and Cora, just after the fire. They’re sitting in the police station and Cora is leaning on Derek, while Derek is holding her and scowling at anyone who comes close to them (who isn’t Sheriff Stilinski or lil’ Stiles). Steve recognizes the look of a kid who just lost someone really close to him and he asks the Sheriff about them. When he learns their story, Steve feels for them and wants to talk to them. He keeps his distance, because Derek is pretty wild eyes and both angry and extremely sad. But Steve still talks to them and gives his condolences. Eventually, Derek and Cora do talk to Steve (they’re sitting across from each other outside of the Sheriff’s office), but it’s only briefly, and Derek is quieter than Cora. 

Unfortunately, Steve has to leave and continue his duties elsewhere, leaving Derek and Cora to be placed in foster care. He doesn’t want to go and both Derek and Cora don’t want him to go, and even though Derek is standoffish, he looks at Steve longingly like he wants to leave with Steve, even though he would never admit to it. Steve doesn’t see that look. 

Steve’s work keeps him away for about a month or so, and in that entire time, all he can think about is Derek and Cora. He wonders how they’re doing and who they’re with, and they’re almost all he ever talks about when he’s talking to Freddie. Freddie, being the awesome person he is, convinces Steve to take some time off and go check up on the kids. Freddie offers to go with him, stating that he needs a vacation, and he really wants to meet the kids that made such a mark on his best friend. So they take vacay time and head back to Beacon Hills to get the 411 about Derek and Cora from Sheriff Stilinski. They learn that the kids are doing okay, considering, and are living with a single woman who doesn’t have any kids, because Derek has not yet adjusted to being around other kids (he mistrusts just about everyone except the woman taking care of them, Cora, Lil’ Stiles, and the Sheriff). Steve is happy for them, but something about the situation is bothering him and he can’t put his finger on it until Freddie laughs at him and goes, “you want to adopt them don’t you?” Steve tries to deny it, tries to say that he is in no position to be a dad right now because of his job, but Freddie knows him better than anyone, and Steve really can’t deny it. He absolutely wants to adopt Derek and Cora because he knows what they’re going through, he’s been there, and he feels like he can absolutely provide them the kind of loving home they need right now. 

So in the next few days Steve and Freddie work together to figure out what they need to do to in order to get the kids in their custody. Lots of stuff happens they go through a bunch of procedures, and when it comes down to it, Sheriff Stilinski and the Social Worker ask if Steve plans to adopt Derek and Cora alone or with his partner. Freddie and Steve aren’t technically dating, but without missing a beat, Freddie says he wants to adopt the kids with Steve. It throws Steve for a loop, but he doesn’t say anything about it until after they leave from talking to the Social Worker, which leads to them having a fantastic night together (so much sex!). 

Anyways, Steve and Freddie adopt Derek and Cora together and then stay in California for a bit so the kids can get used to being with. But after like four or so months they move back to Hawaii as a family and start their lives for real. 

i’ll tell you what, as much as i love living in full lala land where they actually dated in high school and whatnot... this concept really gets me going too

even for this scenario i still imagine them both harboring secret crushes, its just that this time neither of them ever came out and were never able to really identify the feelings they were having because the environment they were living in wasnt really supportive of those attractions. so fred and fp were still super close best friends but any further feelings they may have been experiences were being written off or repressed until eventually they went on and had girlfriends that turned into wives that turned into families and they never really had to think about anything else again.

so with that all being said, ideally what i would like to happen is first and foremost, theyd have to actually have a friendship present day. not just conveniently hanging out when the other ones in desperate need of help (which... theres something to be said for the fact theyre always each others go to guy for help but ... thats another post. actually no. thats for this post. this is relevant.)

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/1XOSTdJ

by FaileGaidin

While trying to figure out a way to save Dean from the Mark, Cas gets some very unusual advice from a very unusual encounter.

Words: 657, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Supernatural, Once Upon a Time (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel, Sam Winchester, Henry Mills (Once Upon a Time)

Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Additional Tags: True Love's Kiss, First Kiss