#young!derek

Okayyy another one, exact same thing. Young Derek goes with Stiles to Scott's house to wait for him. Goes like this: Stiles opens the door to Scott's house, with a younger version of Derek following. "We're just gonna wait here for Scott." Stiles gestures around with his pointer finger. "We're gonna sit here quietly and we are not gonna call or talk to anyone." The lanky pale boy stated putting emphasis on the 'anyone'. The younger version of Derek follows, "Do I talk to you?" he asks. "No." "Good." "Fine." Stiles agreed, getting annoyed. "Who's gonna talk to him?" Derek asked gesturing towards Scott's dad, who was holding up a brown paper bag, clearly filled with takeout food. Stiles made a sound of surprise which turned into an unsatisfied hum. "Are you getting taller?" He asked rhetorically while gesturing with his hand at the man. "What are you guys doing here?" The McCall father asked. Younger Derek glances at Stiles exasperated expression while answering. "Waiting for Scott." "I bought extra, you guys hungry?" Special Agent McCall, Scott's dad asked while placing the takeout bag onto the table. "Yeah." "No. No we're not hungry." Stiles insisted. "No, I'm starving." The younger version of sourwolf stated. Stiles points at Derek. "Neither of us are hungry. Thanks, though." The Stilinski kid said with a slight smile. Agent McCall, nods and puts his hands in his pants pockets. "Okay, well if you're not hungry Stiles. You're friend can still eat with us." Scott's dad said. "What's your name?" "Derek Ha-" "Derek Hall," Stiles pointed to the younger version of Derek while the confused werewolf gave Stiles a weird look. "Its uh... my boyfriend Derek Hall." Stiles wrapped his arm around Derek's shoulder, with an awkward smile. Young Derek stared a little dumbfoundly at Stiles before smiling awkwardly too. "From eh... Mexico, so." Stiles pronounced the 'x' like a 'h', as he patted the shoulder his arm rested on before withdrawing his hand. Scott's dad pursed his lips and nodded. "Es usted natural de Mexico, Derek?" "Oh my god." Stiles expressed as he both realised what he had said and how Agent McCall was speaking Mexican to Derek. "No soy nativo, uh... sino que pase un monton de tempo alli." Derek replied while Stiles was looking more shocked and confused by the second. "Fantastic." Mr McCall praised. "Eggroll?" "Hell yeah." Derek said with a genuine smile. "Hahaa." Stiles laughed drily, in disbelief that A, he had called Derek his boyfriend and Scott's dad actually believed him and B, that he was lucky enough that Derek spoke Mexican.

and it’s made my feels for young derek/ian nelson soar.

so naturally, i feel like writing a smut fic about him :) would anyone be interested? i’m thinking a sort of a sub!derek with blindfolding 👀

FAVORITE STEREK MOMENTS ☆ 2/?

I think about this a lot, actually. Whenever I see alive!Hale AUs, or alternate realities where the fire never happened. And there are two ways of thinking about this –– one is that your experiences, your history, your choices… so much of who you are is made up of what you’ve done. So if you take away such an essential part of Derek’s past, if you take away the fire and the betrayal and the loss and the guilt, he would be a very different person, at least on the surface. And so many of the reasons fandom fell for Sterek and saw them fitting together –– their shared understanding of loss, their guilt, the things they would recognize in each other and help each other through in ways no one else could hope to touch –– wouldn’t exist in that world.

And the other is that… I can’t picture any universe where Sterek aren’t meant for each other.

In all honesty –– and this isn’t just my shipper heart talking –– I don’t think that Stiles and Derek wouldn’t connect. I think they’d just connect differently.

We get a few glimpses of pre-fire Derek, first in “Visionary” where he’s shown to be athletic, popular, sporty, and self-confident. Now, this was “Derek as described by Peter” so the flashbacks could be suspect, but fact is that the Derek shown in “Visionary” is pretty on track with the one we see later in “117,″ so I think we can take it as truth. Sporty also makes sense with Derek’s general athleticism and fondness for showing off (his flips, sudden appearances, and leaps down flights of stairs throughout the series aren’t strictly necessary). And I think Derek would probably seek popularity and social contact for the same reasons he sought out Kate later –– to fill a void, to feel important and needed in ways he wasn’t getting at home. I think a lot of teen Derek’s personality, even pre-fire and pre-Paige, probably wasn’t as carefree as it seems on the surface. 

Laura was always a big set of footsteps to follow in, and Derek did what he could to live up while always feeling a little bit like an outsider. The fact of hiding Paige instead of telling his family, the fact of thinking that turning her so he’d have someone to love and understand him completely was a great idea, seems to point to that, doesn’t it? And again, going to Kate later when he was looking for someone to cling to… Derek wasn’t someone who felt comfortable confiding in his family.

Most important for this question, though –– in “Visionary” we’re shown the type of person young!Derek’s attracted to…… and it’s someone exactly like Stiles. I mean… seriously, the show couldn’t have created someone who reminds me more of Stiles if they tried (let’s be honest, they probably were trying). Derek has always been intrigued by the outsider, the unconventional. By clever, sharp-tongued people who call him out on his bullshit.

And I think that first part of it –– being drawn to the outsider –– is probably because Derek’s always known deeply what it is to be an outsider.  No matter how popular he was or how many trophies he won, he could never be fully honest with his friends… and he could never quite feel good enough for his family.

(He was always loved by them, I’m not in any way calling the Hales a bad family or particularly neglectful, but I do think that Talia’s attentions were often elsewhere –– with Alpha duties and with training Laura. If she sensed any issues going on with Derek she would drop everything to help him, but there was always a lot taking up her focus and sometimes –– being the type of person to internalize his problems, I don’t think that’s something that just started post-fire –– he would just… slip through the cracks.)

But anyway, the next major piece of evidence that Sterek would connect, even without the fire, is that we actually see Stiles interacting with pre-fire Derek for an entire episode during season four. And it’s a different sort of connection in a lot of ways –– Derek’s more cheerful, more trusting (which you can see just baffling Stiles repeatedly)

but in a lot of ways it’s also not.

Hale Pack edit!!! Well, for the early Hale Pack at least I couldn’t decide how I wanted to organize the Hale Pack since they’ve gone through a few Alphas soooo... I’m going with version numbers for this Pack too XD

Yes, yes, yes, I know, Laura was played by Haley Roe Murphy in the show but we only got two shots of her... one looking over her shoulder and one... well... dead, covered in dirt. I feel like it’s widely accepted enough that I could use Meghan Ory as Laura since she’s a very popular stand-in.

Also, it wasn’t until after I made this that I found out that supposedly there’s a young!Laura in Visionary that I had no idea about... I’m assuming that that version of her isn’t super well-known/recognized... (honestly I had no idea that was supposed to be Laura, did they say her name and I missed it??? XD) and I was too lazy to re-edit the picture to change it XD so Laura aged better than Derek and Peter! lmao