As you can clearly tell, I'm on a bit of a roll? This one was also posted on a fanmix I made; I've just, er, added to it? I don't know. I'd really appreciate it if you would provide some constructive criticism (or even just a "Hey, this wasn't terrible!") because I've never really written anything before now.
Neither of them know when it happened, just that it did (hell, Stiles isn't even sure when he stopped being halfway to terrified whenever Derek looked at him). It isn't love – they're quick to reassure each other of that (not that it wouldn't serve Scott right if he got involved with Derek, Stiles thinks, because it's his fault that they're so constantly thrown together and there's no way he would have ended up spending any time with Derek if it weren't for the fact that Scott is seriously the most incompetent werewolf ever) – it's companionship and nothing more than scratching an itch. Stiles has never been picky about gender before, but he's never actually been with anyone before Derek (not for lack of trying, it just seems like nobody is actually interested and if they are, he doesn't find out until long after the fact, when they've moved on to bigger and better things); he figures, hey, attraction is attraction (and love is love, not that that applies here, he's quick to remind himself of that) and if he wants to have hot sex with the alpha of a pack of werewolves, that's his own damn decision. Derek doesn't seem to be particularly picky about gender either, so long as there's trust (and that's the part that still baffles Stiles – the fact that he's among the people that Derek trusts and apparently the only he trusts enough to fuck into the mattress on multiple occasions – because when they'd met, they definitely hadn't gotten along, too much snark and too many family issues manifesting themselves as this attitude problem and that attitude problem between them). It's not love – but it's comfort and companionship and trust and who the hell is Stiles to turn down sex (which he's come to learn, these past few months, is a great stress reliever and god bless Derek hale because man definitely knows what he's doing as he pistons his hips against Stiles' and hisses straight-up filthy things in his ear)? Even if he genuinely wanted to call it quits on this whatever the hell it is that he has with Derek, he isn't sure he'd be able to make it through the conversation without thinking about it, and he knows that Derek can smell how turned on he is when he thinks about it, so he's lucky that there's nobody else in the picture that would complicate this for him, because that conversation would never actually be finished.
