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English
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Part 3 of Off The Axis
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Published:
2025-02-26
Completed:
2025-02-27
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11/11
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Grow (Even in the Dark)

Summary:

They go on dates. Derek informs Stiles that they’re not dates. Uh-hu, he agrees, and proceeds to lick his ice cream. While holding eye contact. Derek scowls until Stiles manages to drop half of his ice cream in his lap. Then he laughs in Stiles face. Stiles blushes but looks happy.

Derek is also happy. He thinks. There’s a bubble of white noise in his head making it hard to tell.

Notes:

Part 3 of a series. This continuous right where off the axis (and into the woods) ended.

It has a completely different vibe and might actually make sense without reading the earlier stories, just because it’s so disjointed in and of itself.

Chapter 1: The Eye of the Storm

Chapter Text

Laura wheedles it out of him. The note with the number. Ever since Kate she’s made it her mission to know all of his secrets. And ever since then he’s let her. Maybe it isn’t healthy. Maybe he should make decisions of his own. He tells Laura. She laughs in his face, takes his phone and texts Stiles.

Fine.

Stiles is sixteen.

They go on dates. Derek informs Stiles that they’re not dates. Uh-hu, he agrees, and proceeds to lick his ice cream. While holding eye contact. Derek scowls until Stiles manages to drop half of his ice cream in his lap. Then he laughs in Stiles face. Stiles blushes but looks happy.

Derek is also happy. He thinks. There’s a bubble of white noise in his head making it hard to tell.

They go on dates. Derek continues to inform Stiles that they are not dates.

Stiles is still sixteen.