Teen Wolf: Sterek Rec List of DOOOOOM (Pt 2)
Continuing on with my Sterek Rec List of DOOOOOOM, this is part 2, listing in alphabetical order~
[G-L]
1. [Highly Recommended]
Gravity's Got Nothing on You by zosofi
Summary: “Three weeks,” Derek says.
“Still don’t want to,” Stiles says.
“I’ll pay you,” Derek says, and that… that has Stiles interested. Alf’s Antique’s may be a great job, but it’s not a high-paying job, and half of Stiles’s tuition is coming from financial aid, so…
“How much,” Stiles asks, “are we talking here? Because I know your family, dude. And it’ll be kind of awkward after.“
“My family thinks you’re some sort of fucking gift to the world,” Derek seethes, like he’s jealous, “they’ll probably be pissed at me when we break it off, so don’t worry about that. Five hundred bucks.”
“A thousand,” Stiles says, because screw ethics. Also, the Hale family is loaded. Derek can deal.
Notes: AU, no Hale fire, pretend relationship
My notes: Love this, it's so much fun reading how Sterek try to navigate their pretend relationship and eventually realizing their feelings for one another. Also, the author managed to weave in misunderstandings, mystery, adventure, humour and romance so seamlessly into the story. <3
2. [Recommended]
Grounded on Living Skin by otter
Summary: The tattoo parlor didn’t look like much. The apprentice who was supposed to be inking Derek's new magical tattoo wasn't immediately confidence-inspiring either.
Notes: AU, magical tattoo artist!Stiles
My notes: Really liked how Stiles is written and described in this fic. There's just something so bamf about his actions, even though he's just sketching and tattooing for Derek. I would recommend reading the rest of the series as well. :D
3. [so ridiculously adorable and funny, read it!]
gave your smile to me by Sarageek16
Summary: In which Stiles is a hooker (but not really), Derek wants to feed his skinny little body, and there is soup. Not necessarily in that order.
Notes: AU, no werewolves, detective!Stiles
4. Half Stalled by ifeelflames
Summary: Stiles has just moved back home to start his new job; teaching Psychology at Beacon Hills High. Laura Hale is one of his colleagues and soon becomes a good friend. Stiles spends a lot of time at Laura's place, and if Laura just so happens to live with her rather attractive (and somewhat fascinating) younger brother then Stiles isn't going to complain, no siree.
Notes: AU, no werewolves
5. Happiness Is Not A Horse, You Cannot Harness It by otter
Summary: Derek's expecting the new guy. He's expecting another mostly-useless college kid who doesn't know one end of a horse from the other, and Derek doesn't have the time to babysit. What he's not expecting is Stiles Stilinski, who carries on conversations with the livestock and gets maybe a little too chummy with Isaac and is really kind of stupidly perfect in every way. And it's just distracting, that's all.
Notes: AU, no werewolves, barn workers!Sterek
My notes: Derek's POV and thoughts are just so much fun to read, and the sex and attraction between Stiles and Derek is described perfectly and is so ridiculously hot.
6. [Highly Recommended]
here is the deepest secret nobody knows by owlpostagain
Summary: “Derek,” Stiles groans. “You have me. You’ve always had me, you absolute moron, how many physically impossible feats of life-saving heroics do I have to perform before you get it?”
Notes: Post season 2, kinda-pack mom!Stiles
My notes: Everything I love and adore about the dynamics in the Sterek relationship is described in this fic. Adore the non-platonic relationships too. Love the pining, misunderstandings, and all the lovely Sterek feeeeels.
7. Home by coffeeinallcaps
Summary: Derek has bought a beautiful house. Stiles can't stay away. (In which everyone hangs out at Derek's place all the time, Stiles tries but fails not to fall for a certain socially inept alpha, Peter is everyone's sassy uncle, and my crush on all these characters - but especially Erica - is way too apparent. Rated M for language and sex.)
My notes: I just love the pack dynamics in this fic, and the bantering among all of them is just so much fun to read.
8. [Recommended]
Hopeless Wanderer by blacktofade
Summary: AU: Stiles visits Paris and ends up getting ridiculously lost. Luckily, he meets Derek, who has a sense of direction.
Notes: AU, no werewolves
9. How the Hale/Stilinski Bunch Happened by peacensafety
Summary: Stiles returns home after his wife dies in New York. His kids are demon spawn, but not in the literal sense. Fortunately, the son of his dad's old friends knows exactly what that's like.
Notes: AU, Stiles-with-kids, all the Hale family are alive, werewolves exists
My notes: This is so fluffy I vomited rainbows. Seriously.
10. [Highly Recommended] I Call You Names Because I Love You by tylerfucklin (zimothy)
Summary: Years of touring with Stiles would never have prepared Derek for the day his beloved techie fell in love with someone else.
Notes: AU, no werewolves, band fic
My notes: READ THIS. Just soooooo good. And the art is incredibly gorgeous.
11. [Recommended]
I Don't Want To Be Saved by Lapin
Summary: And everyone, everyone has their own ideas about this relationship, they all say the same things, they all do. "He's not good for you," "It's Derek," "This is the fourth night in a row," "What kind of asshole dates a high schooler?" "I'm not okay with this."
But Stiles pulls the red hood up, wanders from the path, and he's picking flowers, and he's breathing, "My, what big teeth you have," and Derek bares his fangs, and yeah. Fuck them.
My notes: Very intense relationship between Stiles and Derek, a depiction of a maybe somewhat unhealthily dependent relationship, but I love their dynamics in this.
12. [Highly Recommended] Just Act Normal by zosofi
Summary: If someone had told Stiles back in high school that he would be an Oscar winning actor by the time he turned 25, he would’ve probably told Scott to punch them. The thing is, though…they would’ve been right. Which makes returning to Beacon Hills, center of all that is supernatural and better left avoided, all the more awkward.
Notes: Slight AU, actor!Stiles, deputy!Derek, plus a ton of delicious pining and angst. <3
13. If I Tell You My Hell by GotTheSilver
Summary: Cop & Therapist AU. In which Derek has many issues and Stiles really wants to fix him. In a totally professional manner, okay?
Notes: AU, no werewolves
[M-R]
1. Make It Up As We Go Along by akadougal
Summary: Stiles was not expecting to find a baby on the kitchen table at Derek's. Not at all.
My notes: Just so adorably fluffy, and I love the depictions of Derek and Laura's life in New York.
2. Mortal Peril On the Side by Brigantine
Summary: Stiles and Derek figure things out. Sheriff Stilinski remains remarkably calm. Stiles gets some advice from two of his mother's friends.
3. Muse by cheesewithmy
Summary: “Seriously, though, don’t you think it’s kind of weird that Derek keeps painting you?”
My notes: Ugh, I could die from fluff from this fic, awkward Derek is awkward, and Stiles remains adorably oblivious.
4. Night Visitor by demonkatgurl17
Summary: Stiles is working himself over when he receives an unexpected visitor.
Notes: Explicit details of masturbation and sex, slight dub-con, hints of D/s
My notes: This is just so ridiculously hot--! Hngggggg.
5. [Highly Recommended]
Not Like Bond & Moneypenny by WhoNatural
Summary: (AKA, the Ugly Betty AU where Stiles is totally Betty)
Stiles thinks he’s finally getting a break when a job at the sleek, sophisticated, Alpha Magazine opens up - but soon realises he’s not going to be writing anything and instead is playing tutor-slash-babysitter to their new Editor-in-Chief. Derek’s spoiled, grumpy, in way over his head...and so painfully attractive it makes Stiles want to lick his face. So there’s very little choice in the matter.
Notes: AU, office romance, assistant!Stiles, boss!Derek
My notes: READ THIS. It's so gooooood. The pining is just delicious, along with all the misunderstandings and angst. There is also a healthy dose of humour and fluff~ I was just giggling my way through and having so many feeeels. <3
6. [Highly Recommended]
On The Job Training by suzvoy
Summary: Stiles finally gets the practical experience he's been looking for. It's safe to say it doesn't happen even remotely the way he was expecting. AKA, pretend boyfriends! With a twist!
7. on the right track by HalfFizzbin
Summary: Stiles is stuck on a broken-down train instead of dancing with Lydia at a swanky New Year's Eve party, which sucks. OR DOES IT?
8. Part Of My Melody by hayesgeneration
Summary: Derek is a professional classical musician who has found himself lost without a muse, without goal and without even a hint of spark. He's almost settled nearly contently (if not slightly unwillingly) on having to live his life as a recluse, when his sister finally grows tired of his antics, giving him a Christmas ultimatum.
Notes: AU, no werewolves, musicians!Sterek
9. [Highly Recommended]
powerful in-scent-ive by kellifer_fic
Summary: Stiles holds up a hand, because he really can't listen to the bites-are-all-right speech that Derek has given Scott dozens of times. "Dude, don't."
"Look-" Derek tries again, oddly persistent.
"Derek, man, my worst nightmare is not me getting bitten, it's him. It's always been him."
10. [Highly Recommended]
Practice Makes Perfect by blacktofade
Summary: In his sophomore year, Stiles gets dragged to lacrosse tryouts by Scott and ends up practising alongside the senior captain, Derek Hale. Stiles just wants to live long enough to become a junior.
Notes: AU, no werewolves, high school fic
[S-Z]
1. [Recommended]
seems to me it's chemistry by HalfFizzbin
Summary: Awkward Nerd Derek has been crushing on Handsome Jock Stiles since forever-so getting paired with him on a Chemistry project is definitely the best/worst thing that's ever happened to him.
Notes: AU, no werewolves, high school, jock!Stiles, nerd!Derek
2. Speed Dating for Dummies by sperrywink
Summary: For the insmallpackages prompt-- Ficlet Teen Wolf Derek/Stiles - speed dating and/or matchmaking AU., but this is mostly just porn. Seriously, so much porn, omg.
Notes: AU
3. [Recommended]
Stay. by korynnvictoria
Summary: He leaves because the press of Derek’s lips and the sting of his teeth against Stiles’ neck are still burning his skin, and he can’t stop touching them, but then he remembers Derek telling him he’s not pack, he never was, and that he doesn’t belong here.
He leaves because Lydia asks him too, but he doesn’t go back to Beacon Hills because no one asked him to come back.
My notes: So much angst, but the ending is worth all the pain in between. <3
4. Space Pirate Samba by tylerfucklin (zimothy)
Summary: That awkward moment when your fiance comes back from the dead as a space pirate trying to rob you and your sister's ship.
Notes: AU, so many misunderstandings, but with happy ending! :D
5. The Company I Keep by slipintothewater (secondstar)
Summary: Stiles has a favorite table at the library. Then some asshole comes along and steals it from him.
Notes: AU, no werewolves, slow build, college fic
6. [Recommended]
The Importance of Turning Around Three Times Before Lying Down by otter
Summary: It’s like this dog has walked out of all of Stiles’ childhood dreams and into the real world just because Stiles wanted it hard enough. He is the most awesome dog ever, and Stiles and his new dog totally have a bond. A deep, unbreakable bond because this dog is his spirit animal, obviously. Now he just has to convince the dog of that.
Notes: AU, pretending-to-be-dog!Derek
7. Triple Shot Pumpkin Spice Latte by coffeeinallcaps
Summary: AU in which guidance counselor Stiles has to deal with all the students crushing on the elusive and infuriating Professor Hale. This was meant to be a light-hearted winter fic, but some emotional angst slipped in here and there. Rated explicit because of graphic sex.
Notes: AU, no werewolves
8. [Recommended]
The Road to Self-Actualization Is Littered with F-Bombs by blue_fjords
Summary: It's Stiles’s final Spring Break of his college career, and he's got plans to do a whole lot of nothing. But Derek has other plans for him, and before he knows it, Stiles is joining Derek to go undercover at a couples' retreat in a bid to catch a ring of thieves. It's the world's most perfect plan! Nothing could possibly go wrong!
Notes: Deputy!Derek
9. The Pros and Cons of Simulated Love by owlpostagain
Summary: And with that Stiles' slightly-creepy-still-mostly-just-amusing afternoon (and night) came to a dramatic, screeching halt. Because no absolutely not NO was Stiles allowed to be attracted to a stupid, pixelated avatar that was slightly influenced by Derek Hale's character. No.
My notes: So adorable, left me giggling all the way through the fic. C:
10. [Highly Recommended]
this boy, half-destroyed by M_Leigh
Summary: "Bodies - those are something you understand, mostly; you know immediately exactly how much smaller he is than the last time you saw him. Too skinny, too pale; his cheeks cave in a little too much, from his face. He’s a shadow of something: he looks like the dead walking. His hands are stuffed down in the pockets of his hoodie and he looks tentative but not afraid."
Derek Hale used to have a family. Now, he's got a teenage human more trouble than he's worth. Post-S2.
My notes: This left me with so many Derek-feeeeeeeels. My heart just aches for him. Read it.
11. [Recommended]
The One with the Napping by Captain_Loki
Summary: It is a unique and somewhat unhelpful talent, but Stiles can fall asleep anywhere.
My notes: SO MUCH FLUFFFFFF. *rolls around in it*
12. with metal on our tongues (we'll be dressed in rags) by Rena
Summary: Double-oh agents are a piece of work; Stiles knew that before he became MI6's new quartermaster. It's cool, he survived Lydia in college, he can deal with stubborn, reckless, trigger-happy operatives. Derek Hale, though, is definitely trying to live up to his predecessor's legacy and make Stiles' life more difficult. AKA the one where Derek is 007 and Stiles is Q and they bitch and angst their way to a Happy Ending.
Notes: AU, no werewolves
13. will to follow through by owlpostagain
Summary: “It depends entirely on how you look at it, I guess,” Stiles shrugs. “On the one hand, instant healing and the apparently inherited ability to pull off leather at all times. On the other, serious attitude problems and a suspicious disappearance of eyebrows.”
“Even Derek’s?” Danny snorts, “that’s a lot of eyebrow to lose.”
“I know,” Stiles agrees. “You should see, it’s so weird. Every time I want to ask him where they go, except he’d totally eat my face off.”
“There are worse ways to die.”
14. What To Expect When You're Expecting (A Litter of Sourwolf Puppies) by Brego_Mellon_Nin
Summary: The Sheriff sighs and plops down in a chair opposite his son.
“Stiles, I’m going crazy here. We need to get you to a doctor. You sleep like you’re trying to get into the Guinness Book of World Records, and your eating habits are bizarre! You vomit around the clock and for some reason only the tea your mother used when she was pregnant will get your stomach to settle down for any length of time. Is there something you aren’t telling me? Can werewolves get guys pregnant? I’ve noticed how you look at that Hale kid-”
Stiles meeps and flails, sloshing tea down his front. Luckily it’s not scalding anymore, but still hot, so he jumps up and wrenches his shirt off.
“God, dad, no! Guys can’t get pregnant, that’s ridiculous, it’s like...”
“Like werewolves being real?” his dad questions, deadpan.
Notes: Mpreg (Stiles), knotting
15. we're catching bullets in our teeth (it's hard to do but they're so sweet) by prettyasadiagram
Summary: Stiles says he's a Web Developer. Derek says he an Internal Auditor.
They're both liars, but you can't exactly tell your significant other that you kill people for a living, now can you?
Notes: AU, spy!Sterek
16. [Recommended]
When You Stop Believing in Santa You Get Underwear by owlpostagain
Summary: There are some salvageable things though. A virtually untouched heavy slate sign that says, engraved in an ornate script that confirms at least one person in the Hale family had a sense of humor (Stiles has a horrible suspicion it might have been Peter), When You Stop Believing in Santa You Get Underwear.
17. when the walls come down (you'll know i'm here to stay) by korynnvictoria
Summary: It’s not the ideal life, not the life he dreamt about aloud to his parents - he’s no Dodgers pitcher, he’s no lawyer, he’s no doctor - but it pays the bills and it keeps Laura from directing her judging, angry gaze at him too much.
It’s what he deserves.
Notes: hooker!Derek, businessman/client!Stiles
18. Wolf Cub by moodwriter
Summary: A strange wolf is not supposed to touch another pack’s cub and that’s why, on a rescue mission, it’s Stiles’ job to take care of the wolf cub who’s curious about everything and everyone. Stiles is not used to werewolf children, and the pack is not used to Stiles taking care of a child. Their Alpha gets very confused about this, too.
Notes: All the bamf!Stiles feeeeels.
19. The Pope Would Brag by Hatteress
Summary: The thing is, Derek’s really, really hot. Like, insane levels of attraction. What with the leather and the cheekbones and the stubble and the ass - oh god, that ass - Stiles can’t really be blamed, at all for freaking bragging.
Now if only his college friends actually believed Derek existed.
Notes: Established relationship, Stiles in college
{ART RECS}
1. You Did Good Stiles
Notes: More like Peter/Stiles/Derek
2. gogo
3. n107
Notes: Slight NSFW
[G-L]
1. [Highly Recommended]
Gravity's Got Nothing on You by zosofi
Summary: “Three weeks,” Derek says.
“Still don’t want to,” Stiles says.
“I’ll pay you,” Derek says, and that… that has Stiles interested. Alf’s Antique’s may be a great job, but it’s not a high-paying job, and half of Stiles’s tuition is coming from financial aid, so…
“How much,” Stiles asks, “are we talking here? Because I know your family, dude. And it’ll be kind of awkward after.“
“My family thinks you’re some sort of fucking gift to the world,” Derek seethes, like he’s jealous, “they’ll probably be pissed at me when we break it off, so don’t worry about that. Five hundred bucks.”
“A thousand,” Stiles says, because screw ethics. Also, the Hale family is loaded. Derek can deal.
Notes: AU, no Hale fire, pretend relationship
My notes: Love this, it's so much fun reading how Sterek try to navigate their pretend relationship and eventually realizing their feelings for one another. Also, the author managed to weave in misunderstandings, mystery, adventure, humour and romance so seamlessly into the story. <3
2. [Recommended]
Grounded on Living Skin by otter
Summary: The tattoo parlor didn’t look like much. The apprentice who was supposed to be inking Derek's new magical tattoo wasn't immediately confidence-inspiring either.
Notes: AU, magical tattoo artist!Stiles
My notes: Really liked how Stiles is written and described in this fic. There's just something so bamf about his actions, even though he's just sketching and tattooing for Derek. I would recommend reading the rest of the series as well. :D
3. [so ridiculously adorable and funny, read it!]
gave your smile to me by Sarageek16
Summary: In which Stiles is a hooker (but not really), Derek wants to feed his skinny little body, and there is soup. Not necessarily in that order.
Notes: AU, no werewolves, detective!Stiles
4. Half Stalled by ifeelflames
Summary: Stiles has just moved back home to start his new job; teaching Psychology at Beacon Hills High. Laura Hale is one of his colleagues and soon becomes a good friend. Stiles spends a lot of time at Laura's place, and if Laura just so happens to live with her rather attractive (and somewhat fascinating) younger brother then Stiles isn't going to complain, no siree.
Notes: AU, no werewolves
5. Happiness Is Not A Horse, You Cannot Harness It by otter
Summary: Derek's expecting the new guy. He's expecting another mostly-useless college kid who doesn't know one end of a horse from the other, and Derek doesn't have the time to babysit. What he's not expecting is Stiles Stilinski, who carries on conversations with the livestock and gets maybe a little too chummy with Isaac and is really kind of stupidly perfect in every way. And it's just distracting, that's all.
Notes: AU, no werewolves, barn workers!Sterek
My notes: Derek's POV and thoughts are just so much fun to read, and the sex and attraction between Stiles and Derek is described perfectly and is so ridiculously hot.
6. [Highly Recommended]
here is the deepest secret nobody knows by owlpostagain
Summary: “Derek,” Stiles groans. “You have me. You’ve always had me, you absolute moron, how many physically impossible feats of life-saving heroics do I have to perform before you get it?”
Notes: Post season 2, kinda-pack mom!Stiles
My notes: Everything I love and adore about the dynamics in the Sterek relationship is described in this fic. Adore the non-platonic relationships too. Love the pining, misunderstandings, and all the lovely Sterek feeeeels.
7. Home by coffeeinallcaps
Summary: Derek has bought a beautiful house. Stiles can't stay away. (In which everyone hangs out at Derek's place all the time, Stiles tries but fails not to fall for a certain socially inept alpha, Peter is everyone's sassy uncle, and my crush on all these characters - but especially Erica - is way too apparent. Rated M for language and sex.)
My notes: I just love the pack dynamics in this fic, and the bantering among all of them is just so much fun to read.
8. [Recommended]
Hopeless Wanderer by blacktofade
Summary: AU: Stiles visits Paris and ends up getting ridiculously lost. Luckily, he meets Derek, who has a sense of direction.
Notes: AU, no werewolves
9. How the Hale/Stilinski Bunch Happened by peacensafety
Summary: Stiles returns home after his wife dies in New York. His kids are demon spawn, but not in the literal sense. Fortunately, the son of his dad's old friends knows exactly what that's like.
Notes: AU, Stiles-with-kids, all the Hale family are alive, werewolves exists
My notes: This is so fluffy I vomited rainbows. Seriously.
10. [Highly Recommended] I Call You Names Because I Love You by tylerfucklin (zimothy)
Summary: Years of touring with Stiles would never have prepared Derek for the day his beloved techie fell in love with someone else.
Notes: AU, no werewolves, band fic
My notes: READ THIS. Just soooooo good. And the art is incredibly gorgeous.
11. [Recommended]
I Don't Want To Be Saved by Lapin
Summary: And everyone, everyone has their own ideas about this relationship, they all say the same things, they all do. "He's not good for you," "It's Derek," "This is the fourth night in a row," "What kind of asshole dates a high schooler?" "I'm not okay with this."
But Stiles pulls the red hood up, wanders from the path, and he's picking flowers, and he's breathing, "My, what big teeth you have," and Derek bares his fangs, and yeah. Fuck them.
My notes: Very intense relationship between Stiles and Derek, a depiction of a maybe somewhat unhealthily dependent relationship, but I love their dynamics in this.
12. [Highly Recommended] Just Act Normal by zosofi
Summary: If someone had told Stiles back in high school that he would be an Oscar winning actor by the time he turned 25, he would’ve probably told Scott to punch them. The thing is, though…they would’ve been right. Which makes returning to Beacon Hills, center of all that is supernatural and better left avoided, all the more awkward.
Notes: Slight AU, actor!Stiles, deputy!Derek, plus a ton of delicious pining and angst. <3
13. If I Tell You My Hell by GotTheSilver
Summary: Cop & Therapist AU. In which Derek has many issues and Stiles really wants to fix him. In a totally professional manner, okay?
Notes: AU, no werewolves
[M-R]
1. Make It Up As We Go Along by akadougal
Summary: Stiles was not expecting to find a baby on the kitchen table at Derek's. Not at all.
My notes: Just so adorably fluffy, and I love the depictions of Derek and Laura's life in New York.
2. Mortal Peril On the Side by Brigantine
Summary: Stiles and Derek figure things out. Sheriff Stilinski remains remarkably calm. Stiles gets some advice from two of his mother's friends.
3. Muse by cheesewithmy
Summary: “Seriously, though, don’t you think it’s kind of weird that Derek keeps painting you?”
My notes: Ugh, I could die from fluff from this fic, awkward Derek is awkward, and Stiles remains adorably oblivious.
4. Night Visitor by demonkatgurl17
Summary: Stiles is working himself over when he receives an unexpected visitor.
Notes: Explicit details of masturbation and sex, slight dub-con, hints of D/s
My notes: This is just so ridiculously hot--! Hngggggg.
5. [Highly Recommended]
Not Like Bond & Moneypenny by WhoNatural
Summary: (AKA, the Ugly Betty AU where Stiles is totally Betty)
Stiles thinks he’s finally getting a break when a job at the sleek, sophisticated, Alpha Magazine opens up - but soon realises he’s not going to be writing anything and instead is playing tutor-slash-babysitter to their new Editor-in-Chief. Derek’s spoiled, grumpy, in way over his head...and so painfully attractive it makes Stiles want to lick his face. So there’s very little choice in the matter.
Notes: AU, office romance, assistant!Stiles, boss!Derek
My notes: READ THIS. It's so gooooood. The pining is just delicious, along with all the misunderstandings and angst. There is also a healthy dose of humour and fluff~ I was just giggling my way through and having so many feeeels. <3
6. [Highly Recommended]
On The Job Training by suzvoy
Summary: Stiles finally gets the practical experience he's been looking for. It's safe to say it doesn't happen even remotely the way he was expecting. AKA, pretend boyfriends! With a twist!
7. on the right track by HalfFizzbin
Summary: Stiles is stuck on a broken-down train instead of dancing with Lydia at a swanky New Year's Eve party, which sucks. OR DOES IT?
8. Part Of My Melody by hayesgeneration
Summary: Derek is a professional classical musician who has found himself lost without a muse, without goal and without even a hint of spark. He's almost settled nearly contently (if not slightly unwillingly) on having to live his life as a recluse, when his sister finally grows tired of his antics, giving him a Christmas ultimatum.
Notes: AU, no werewolves, musicians!Sterek
9. [Highly Recommended]
powerful in-scent-ive by kellifer_fic
Summary: Stiles holds up a hand, because he really can't listen to the bites-are-all-right speech that Derek has given Scott dozens of times. "Dude, don't."
"Look-" Derek tries again, oddly persistent.
"Derek, man, my worst nightmare is not me getting bitten, it's him. It's always been him."
10. [Highly Recommended]
Practice Makes Perfect by blacktofade
Summary: In his sophomore year, Stiles gets dragged to lacrosse tryouts by Scott and ends up practising alongside the senior captain, Derek Hale. Stiles just wants to live long enough to become a junior.
Notes: AU, no werewolves, high school fic
[S-Z]
1. [Recommended]
seems to me it's chemistry by HalfFizzbin
Summary: Awkward Nerd Derek has been crushing on Handsome Jock Stiles since forever-so getting paired with him on a Chemistry project is definitely the best/worst thing that's ever happened to him.
Notes: AU, no werewolves, high school, jock!Stiles, nerd!Derek
2. Speed Dating for Dummies by sperrywink
Summary: For the insmallpackages prompt-- Ficlet Teen Wolf Derek/Stiles - speed dating and/or matchmaking AU., but this is mostly just porn. Seriously, so much porn, omg.
Notes: AU
3. [Recommended]
Stay. by korynnvictoria
Summary: He leaves because the press of Derek’s lips and the sting of his teeth against Stiles’ neck are still burning his skin, and he can’t stop touching them, but then he remembers Derek telling him he’s not pack, he never was, and that he doesn’t belong here.
He leaves because Lydia asks him too, but he doesn’t go back to Beacon Hills because no one asked him to come back.
My notes: So much angst, but the ending is worth all the pain in between. <3
4. Space Pirate Samba by tylerfucklin (zimothy)
Summary: That awkward moment when your fiance comes back from the dead as a space pirate trying to rob you and your sister's ship.
Notes: AU, so many misunderstandings, but with happy ending! :D
5. The Company I Keep by slipintothewater (secondstar)
Summary: Stiles has a favorite table at the library. Then some asshole comes along and steals it from him.
Notes: AU, no werewolves, slow build, college fic
6. [Recommended]
The Importance of Turning Around Three Times Before Lying Down by otter
Summary: It’s like this dog has walked out of all of Stiles’ childhood dreams and into the real world just because Stiles wanted it hard enough. He is the most awesome dog ever, and Stiles and his new dog totally have a bond. A deep, unbreakable bond because this dog is his spirit animal, obviously. Now he just has to convince the dog of that.
Notes: AU, pretending-to-be-dog!Derek
7. Triple Shot Pumpkin Spice Latte by coffeeinallcaps
Summary: AU in which guidance counselor Stiles has to deal with all the students crushing on the elusive and infuriating Professor Hale. This was meant to be a light-hearted winter fic, but some emotional angst slipped in here and there. Rated explicit because of graphic sex.
Notes: AU, no werewolves
8. [Recommended]
The Road to Self-Actualization Is Littered with F-Bombs by blue_fjords
Summary: It's Stiles’s final Spring Break of his college career, and he's got plans to do a whole lot of nothing. But Derek has other plans for him, and before he knows it, Stiles is joining Derek to go undercover at a couples' retreat in a bid to catch a ring of thieves. It's the world's most perfect plan! Nothing could possibly go wrong!
Notes: Deputy!Derek
9. The Pros and Cons of Simulated Love by owlpostagain
Summary: And with that Stiles' slightly-creepy-still-mostly-just-amusing afternoon (and night) came to a dramatic, screeching halt. Because no absolutely not NO was Stiles allowed to be attracted to a stupid, pixelated avatar that was slightly influenced by Derek Hale's character. No.
My notes: So adorable, left me giggling all the way through the fic. C:
10. [Highly Recommended]
this boy, half-destroyed by M_Leigh
Summary: "Bodies - those are something you understand, mostly; you know immediately exactly how much smaller he is than the last time you saw him. Too skinny, too pale; his cheeks cave in a little too much, from his face. He’s a shadow of something: he looks like the dead walking. His hands are stuffed down in the pockets of his hoodie and he looks tentative but not afraid."
Derek Hale used to have a family. Now, he's got a teenage human more trouble than he's worth. Post-S2.
My notes: This left me with so many Derek-feeeeeeeels. My heart just aches for him. Read it.
11. [Recommended]
The One with the Napping by Captain_Loki
Summary: It is a unique and somewhat unhelpful talent, but Stiles can fall asleep anywhere.
My notes: SO MUCH FLUFFFFFF. *rolls around in it*
12. with metal on our tongues (we'll be dressed in rags) by Rena
Summary: Double-oh agents are a piece of work; Stiles knew that before he became MI6's new quartermaster. It's cool, he survived Lydia in college, he can deal with stubborn, reckless, trigger-happy operatives. Derek Hale, though, is definitely trying to live up to his predecessor's legacy and make Stiles' life more difficult. AKA the one where Derek is 007 and Stiles is Q and they bitch and angst their way to a Happy Ending.
Notes: AU, no werewolves
13. will to follow through by owlpostagain
Summary: “It depends entirely on how you look at it, I guess,” Stiles shrugs. “On the one hand, instant healing and the apparently inherited ability to pull off leather at all times. On the other, serious attitude problems and a suspicious disappearance of eyebrows.”
“Even Derek’s?” Danny snorts, “that’s a lot of eyebrow to lose.”
“I know,” Stiles agrees. “You should see, it’s so weird. Every time I want to ask him where they go, except he’d totally eat my face off.”
“There are worse ways to die.”
14. What To Expect When You're Expecting (A Litter of Sourwolf Puppies) by Brego_Mellon_Nin
Summary: The Sheriff sighs and plops down in a chair opposite his son.
“Stiles, I’m going crazy here. We need to get you to a doctor. You sleep like you’re trying to get into the Guinness Book of World Records, and your eating habits are bizarre! You vomit around the clock and for some reason only the tea your mother used when she was pregnant will get your stomach to settle down for any length of time. Is there something you aren’t telling me? Can werewolves get guys pregnant? I’ve noticed how you look at that Hale kid-”
Stiles meeps and flails, sloshing tea down his front. Luckily it’s not scalding anymore, but still hot, so he jumps up and wrenches his shirt off.
“God, dad, no! Guys can’t get pregnant, that’s ridiculous, it’s like...”
“Like werewolves being real?” his dad questions, deadpan.
Notes: Mpreg (Stiles), knotting
15. we're catching bullets in our teeth (it's hard to do but they're so sweet) by prettyasadiagram
Summary: Stiles says he's a Web Developer. Derek says he an Internal Auditor.
They're both liars, but you can't exactly tell your significant other that you kill people for a living, now can you?
Notes: AU, spy!Sterek
16. [Recommended]
When You Stop Believing in Santa You Get Underwear by owlpostagain
Summary: There are some salvageable things though. A virtually untouched heavy slate sign that says, engraved in an ornate script that confirms at least one person in the Hale family had a sense of humor (Stiles has a horrible suspicion it might have been Peter), When You Stop Believing in Santa You Get Underwear.
17. when the walls come down (you'll know i'm here to stay) by korynnvictoria
Summary: It’s not the ideal life, not the life he dreamt about aloud to his parents - he’s no Dodgers pitcher, he’s no lawyer, he’s no doctor - but it pays the bills and it keeps Laura from directing her judging, angry gaze at him too much.
It’s what he deserves.
Notes: hooker!Derek, businessman/client!Stiles
18. Wolf Cub by moodwriter
Summary: A strange wolf is not supposed to touch another pack’s cub and that’s why, on a rescue mission, it’s Stiles’ job to take care of the wolf cub who’s curious about everything and everyone. Stiles is not used to werewolf children, and the pack is not used to Stiles taking care of a child. Their Alpha gets very confused about this, too.
Notes: All the bamf!Stiles feeeeels.
19. The Pope Would Brag by Hatteress
Summary: The thing is, Derek’s really, really hot. Like, insane levels of attraction. What with the leather and the cheekbones and the stubble and the ass - oh god, that ass - Stiles can’t really be blamed, at all for freaking bragging.
Now if only his college friends actually believed Derek existed.
Notes: Established relationship, Stiles in college
{ART RECS}
1. You Did Good Stiles
Notes: More like Peter/Stiles/Derek
2. gogo
3. n107
Notes: Slight NSFW