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Summary: There is a picture of two boys on the dresser in the living room of the Hale house. One of the boys is small and skinny and freckled, the other is taller and broader, with heavy eyebrows that don’t quite fit his face yet. Derek always seems to come back to that picture these days. He hasn’t seen Stiles in ages. He hasn’t played pirates in even longer. 

AN: The last NEW fic for @sterek-bingo. This was supposed to be epically long and have more issues involved in the reconnection, but I figured out that wasn’t the fic I actually wanted to write. So have all the fluff. Thanks to the wonderful @canigoforaquickwee for talking me off the ledge when I was stuck on this fic. And now I pass on all the fic writing mojo to you so you can finish your epic one shot....

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There is a picture of two boys on the dresser in the living room of the Hale house. Now, that in itself isn’t odd. Even if the boys may be, a little bit.

One of the boys is small and skinny and freckled, the other is taller and broader, with heavy eyebrows that don’t quite fit his face yet. He might just have reached that precious double-digit status, while the other boy seems younger, perhaps eight years of age. They are both grinning in the picture, but it is hard to tell exactly what they’re looking at, as both boys wear eye-patches and are dressed head to toe in cheap party store pirate gear.

The swords are blunt and obviously fake (fortunately), but the happiness is real.

Derek always seems to come back to that picture these days. Just as he comes back to the chest of letters he’s been hiding at the back of his closet for almost fifteen years now. The chest that no one else was allowed to touch, because sometimes, if he opened it, the letters still carried the scent of his childhood friend.

He hasn’t seen Stiles in ages. He hasn’t played pirates in even longer.

Everyone grows out of childhood games, his mother tells him. Everyone loses touch with childhood friends, even though they still remember them fondly. But not everyone had Stiles Stilinski as their best friend. Not everyone had a best friend who wrote them letters for years and years after their last meeting, after Stiles’ father took his son and left, unable to live in the house he used to share with his wife. There was a grandmother somewhere on the East Coast, a fierce old lady that Stiles used to refer to as “Babcia”. Somewhere in the Hale house, there is a note in Stiles’ childhood chicken scratch handwriting, listing his grandmother’s address.

Of course Stiles doesn’t actually live there anymore. Derek’s letters came back last time he tried, with no forwarding address. He’s lost Stiles, and all he has is the letters.

“Oh God are you still mooning?” Laura rolls her eyes at him. “Derek, it’s been a decade at least since he last sent you a letter. It’s done. It’s over. Time to find someone else to play dress-up with, if that’s still a kink for you. I bet you could even get them into a pirate costume.”

Derek has a twin, which is a surprise to most people. Laura is a fraternal twin, of course, so she doesn’t look that much like him at all, and she’s always had her own friends. They haven’t really shared much of anything since they shared their mother’s womb. Or so Talia Hale likes to joke to everyone who’s willing to listen - because she still lives to embarrass her children.

“For the last time, Laura,” Derek cannot believe that he has to tell her this yet again, “I do not have a costume kink, or a pirate kink, or any one of the many crazy things you’ve accused me of. Can’t I just regret the way things turned out without you being extra about it?”

Title: Doctor Dick Series: Sterek Bingo 2020 Ratings: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Fandom(s): Teen Wolf Category: M/M Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski Characters: Derek Hale, Stiles Stilinski Tags: Sterek Bingo 2020, One-Shot, Penpal, Alternate Universe, All Human AU Summary: Derek Hale was a dick and Stiles figured out he was attracted to that. Word Count: 6,804 Year: Pre-Show & Future Spoilers: Everything Notes: This is a completed One-shot. There will be no more written in the universe. Beta: Grammarly

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Here is my story for pen pal with a side of mistaken identity and reconnection. Enjoy.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24465886