sakura_no_miko

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Derek/Stiles

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), angst

Other notes: alternate universe, time travel, ensemble

Length: 5k

Summary: Stiles wakes up in Derek’s bed in a world where they’re married now, and Derek keeps leaving the room every time he tries to have a conversation about how this happened, since they weren’t even dating.

Now, this is how I would react if I woke up, randomly transplanted into the body of my older self, obnoxiously happily married and generally thrown off my angsty normal game.

Oddly, I’m not entirely sure if I’m talking about Stiles or Derek. Shock and anger? Maybe. Kind of sadly resigned and bewildered? Maybe. Of course, deep down, both of them are reacting to the same feeling–disbelief that something so good could happen to them.

Where A Brief Glimpse was highly personal–even the interactions with Dean and Sam were on a personal level–this one takes more of an ensemble approach. Beacon Hills is an awfully small place, I assume. I’ve never really lived in such a close comm–wait, no, strike that. I did go to a K-8 school with fairly small class sizes, meaning that I knew the same group of kids for about nine years–and all their siblings and parents and the teachers. But at the same time, I was a bit too young to follow the lines of gossip. I would find it somewhat frightening that I could go to a coffee shop and someone would chat at me about fighting with my spouse. It’s–a little too much intimacy for me. Almost like that awkward moments where you talk to someone you don’t talk to much and then they say, “oh how was such-and-such,” and you don’t remember telling them about it, but they read it on your blog or whatever.

Coincidentally, my brother came out and started watching Quantum Leap while I was poking these stories. I do have to wonder at what happens to the future versions who are displaced. Never too late to be who you might have been partially answered that, but I keep thinking of having my future self wake up in my past self’s body, or wondering what all these townspeople will think when future Derek and Stiles return and have no idea about their supposed ‘fight.’

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Originally posted on tumblr on 04/24/13