Sterek Stories - A Collection - I

D stands for... - Part 2

Alcoholic drinks with tiny umbrellas in them should be banned.

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Stiles dated other people. It was not like he was waiting for Derek's relationships to crash so he could hook up with the werewolf again. Okay, if he was honest, he did hope for the end sometimes, yet that had more to do with the woman in question than with wanting to have sex with Derek. Yes, sex with Derek was good, very, very good. But Derek was his friend and seeing him happy trumped getting laid. Stiles had other people he could get laid with, he didn't need Derek in particular for that. It was just that some of the women Derek dated - it was always women, Stiles never saw him with another guy - were so unbelievingly dull. There was Joy, the librarian, who could talk for hours and hours about books. Nothing wrong with that, Derek was a real bookworm himself, but it was all she could talk about.

Or Jody from the bakery at Mainstreet, who came after Joy. Stiles definitely made the joke "She's like Joy, but with a D in it!". It was a good joke, because Stiles had it on good authority that Joy wanted to save herself for marriage. Unlike Joy, Jody did put out. Boy, did she! Stiles still laughed at the time he met Derek for coffee one morning and the big guy was visibly put off by the smell of the whipped cream that topped Stiles' seasonal coffee special. Still, daring sexy times to the side, Jody wasn't much of a conversationalist. This time, Derek was the one to break it off, after getting fed up with her yammering on and on about the latest town gossip. Stiles knew from experience Derek could put up with a whole lot of rambling, so it really had to be bad.

And those were only the women Derek dated in Beacon City and the surrounding area. He had some girlfriends in Los Angeles too. Sometimes, when the relationship went on long enough, Derek brought them over to Beacon City for a weekend trip. So they could go on long walks in the forest, or something. Stiles didn't think the girls liked that very much: the LA women Derek dated tended to be of the skinny, fashionable type. They probably didn't even own shoes that were fit for a hike through the Preserve.

Still, Stiles dared to say his partners were more exciting than Derek's. There was Darren, the FBI field agent that was sent to investigate a persistent case of brownies in a neighbouring town of Beacon City; the little buggers probably strayed over from Beacon Hills. Stiles had called Scott about that, telling him to keep a closer eye on his territory, even though it was kind of nice the city had its own supernatural event for a while. After Darren left town they tried the long distance thing for a few months. It didn't really work out, though Stiles definitely learned a thing or two about creative phone sex.

Or Steve, who used to work as a bouncer at Jungle and rivaled Derek when it came to being built like a brick house. Steve had a bit of a temper, which could make things interesting, yet also less than pleasant at some occasions. Stiles was not so secretly happy the guy recently found another job a few towns over, because they didn't end things amicably and he liked going to Jungle.

Right now, he was dating a nice girl called Piper. She was actually the younger sister of one of Derek's conquests, although Stiles didn't know that until after he recognised said sister in one of Piper's Instagram photos. He'd checked in with Derek about that, one of the few times they texted about anything other than Derek announcing he would be in town and asking if Stiles was free for coffee. Turned out, it wasn't a problem, because Derek never got to the point of meeting the family when they dated.

Things were nice. Piper was fun to hang out with and he'd recently taken her out to lunch with his dad. Her father was a retired police detective, so there was enough common ground for easy conversation. The sheriff even pulled Stiles to the side after their lunch, telling him it would be nice "if this one stuck around". Scott hinted at something similar, saying Stiles and Piper made a great couple. Even Lydia deemed Piper worthy of being a Facebook friend.