(Fuck you they said) As they threw their threads from their wedding bed (8/9)
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Summary: In which things are supposed to get back to normal
AN: Getting real close to that happy ending. The epilogue (coming in two days) will be my final contribution to @sterek-bingo - I know, I know.
Preview:
For once, Stiles didn’t mind staying inside the apartments together. Not just because of the sex, but because he wasn’t sure just how the world had responded to the attack on Derek. Because he didn’t know if it was finished now, with Peter dead and Deucalion dealt with somehow - was that it, was that all of it? Were things going back to normal now?
“There’s an event in a few days,” Derek mentioned that morning, while they were still naked and panting. “Not anything too formal. I think you’d like it.”
Well, maybe it was just Stiles who was panting, because Derek’s stamina was superhuman and Stiles was still working on being able to keep up with him. Apparently he had the rest of their lives to figure that out, so at least there was that. He had time.
But, event? An event that Stiles was going to be allowed to go to? An event that took place outside of the palace? With Stiles in attendance? How? Why? How?
Three excellent questions. Or well, more than three.
“We’re allowed to go outside now?” Stiles pretended not to freak out internally.
Or maybe not just internally, because Derek looked at him with that almost fond exasperation that had been driving Stiles particularly fucking crazy lately. It was just so annoying when Derek looked at him like he gave a damn, because it made Stiles worry that his stupid feelings were written all over his face. Because he didn’t hate Derek anymore, not at all. In fact, he was pretty sure he actually liked the idiot these days. He didn’t even mind the marriage much anymore.
Sure, it sucked that he wasn’t going to get to live happily ever after with a mysterious true love, but Stiles thought he might be able to stand growing old with a friend he got to sleep with.
“Of course we are,” Derek said as if it were actually normal.
“What the hell changed?” Stiles wanted to know.
Shouldn’t Derek be more worried than ever after finding out that his own uncle desperately wanted Stiles dead? And Derek too, and maybe Laura - but mostly Stiles. Shouldn’t almost dying be a very good reason for Derek wanting to stay inside the palace for the rest of their lives? Not that Stiles would have accepted that - fuck no - but he had been pretty damn sure that he was going to have to convince Derek using sexual favors of some kind. And he’d almost been looking forward to that. It made him feel a little sexy.
“Well,” Derek was almost hesitant about it. “We caught the people who were after you.”
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