"Oh shit, he's early." Stiles whispered to Scott, during lacrosse practise. They were playing a game and Derek was watching them from the stands.
Derek was sat there near some of the girlfriends of members of the team. He spotted Kira and waved at her, she waved back and then turned to Stiles, winking at him from across the field before continuing to run towards the goal.
People probably assumed he was Kira's gorgeous older boyfriend. That thought made Stiles slightly jealous.
After Derek's appearance he was even more useless than he usually was but they only played for 10 more minutes and then the torture was over. Stiles loved playing lacrosse but not when the guy he liked was watching him.
Scott hissed, "Go over there, I'll see you in the locker room."
"No, wait, Scott!" he protested but Scott abandoned him alone in the middle of the lacrosse field. He tried to find where Kira and Cora were but they had gone too. Finally he turned to Derek.
Derek was staring at him, awkwardly he lifted a hand up to wave at him and Stiles had to go over after that.
"Hey, you're here earlier than usual," observed Stiles.
"Satomi let me go earlier today," he replied.
Stiles said, "How nice of her, you got to come here earlier and watch me make a fool out of myself playing lacrosse."
"You didn't make a fool out of yourself," reassured Derek but then he added, "Well no more than usual."
"Hey! You're the one who made a fool out of yourself yesterday, saying you don't like batman!"
Derek frowned, "I don't."
"Stop!" yelled Stiles, "How can you not like batman?
"I told you yesterday," replied Derek.
"Okay yes, you're reasons are slightly valid and maybe, if you are considering only the crappy old batman movies and shows then yes, I would understand, but after watching Christopher Nolan's movies you have to at least like batman?"
In response, Derek only looked down at the floor.
Stiles gasped, "You haven't seen them?"
"I saw the first one," he replied and then he corrected himself, "I saw most of the first one."
For a long moment Stiles was silent, sitting next to Derek with his head in his hands. Maybe he was being a bit dramatic but Stiles was passionate about batman. He felt the need to convert anyone he met into a batman lover, and that included Derek.
"Are you doing anything later tonight?"
"Um, no, well I'm dropping the girls home obviously but after that no," answered Derek with a smile.
Stiles said, "Come round and we can at least watch the first one, maybe the second one even though it's a school night and I should probably sleep instead of watch batman with you."
"Would your dad mind?" he asked.
"He's working till late."
"Okay," grinned Derek, "I'll take the girls home and come over, we still need to watch the fault in our stars."
"Okay," joked Stiles, "Next time, batman first."
Stiles rushed to the locker room and had the quickest shower he'd ever had since Scott was waiting for him to take him home. He told Scott what had happened as he showered, which wasn't weird at all.
Derek arrived soon after Stiles did, giving him little time to emotionally prepare.
He told him to sit down while he tried to find his batman dvds, it didn't take long. Stiles tried not to feel weird but he couldn't help it. Derek Hale was sitting on his sofa about to watch batman begins with him.
"Get ready to eat your words Hale."
"We'll see."
They ended up watching the two films, it was pretty late when Derek left Stiles' house but thankfully, his dad hadn't got home yet.
"So, you changed your mind right?"
"Um."
Stiles dramatically through his hands up in the air and said, "We'll have to watch the third one too, then you'll be convinced."
Derek replied, "Okay, we can do that."
"And we can watch the fault in our stars too."
Derek made his move to leave, standing awkwardly outside the door, saying his goodbyes. Stiles wondered whether he would kiss him but he didn't, he just left instead. Stiles felt slightly disappointed but after the night they'd had it was hard to be too upset.