One Moment (Sterek AU)

Chapter 2

I decided to update cause why not. I'm bored and have been heavily procrastinating hw for practically the entire school year.
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⚠️TW: Abuse⚠️

Stiles only got home ten minutes late because of a traffic jam on the road. When he closed the front door behind him he turned around to see his boyfriend very angry. "You're late." he said in a scarily calm voice.

"I-I'm s-sorry there was a t-traffic jam a-and I couldn't let y-you know be-because m-my phone had di-died." "What have I told you about stuttering?" he said with gritted teeth as he stalked over to Stiles.

"N-Not to do it." "Then why are you stuttering?!!" he yelled as he backhanded Stiles across the face. "I'm sorry." Stiles whispered as he looked down at the  the ground. "You will be." His boyfriend said before punching Stiles in the face and kneeing him in the stomach to get him on the ground.

"Please!" Stiles said loudly as he shot up from bed. He took a deep breath and tried to steady his breathing, he couldn't have a panic attack this early in the morning. Stiles didn't get nightmares too often but when he did he almost always had a panic attack following them.

They had started when he was ten after his mother died and they sort of just stopped around his senior year of high school then they started back up again about a year ago. He knew why but he didn't like it.

He decided to take a quick cold shower to wake himself up. After his shower, he brushed his teeth and put on something casual but relatively formal, a blue and red flannel shirt under a red sweater with some black jeans and his converse.

He made a quick cup of coffee and put it in a cup to take to work and hurried over to the couch to get his brown satchel which he left there last night and shoved his phone and charger into the bag and practically ran out the door.

It was only 7:30 but he had to be at the station by 8:15 and knowing the traffic was not going to be in his favor he rushed over to the elevator and pressed the button several times before the doors finally opened.

They were about to close when someone yelled "Hold the door!" So he stuck his arm in between the doors and they opened again as Derek came rushing into the elevator, the doors closing behind him.

Stiles leaned on the back wall as Derek leaned beside him "Hey." he said with a smile "Hi." There was a small awkward silence before Derek asked "So where are going dressed like that?" he said with a smirk. Stiles gave a huffed chuckle.

"I'm uh- I have an early shift at the station actually."

"You're a cop?"

"Kinda. I work at the station as a forensic scientist."

"Well, you're full of surprises huh?"

Stiles just smiled and said "I guess so. What are you doing up at this time? Early shift too?"

"Yes actually, I'm starting as a bartender at the bar down the street."

Stiles was about to ask which bar because the whole corner is covered with bars but the elevator doors opened and he really had to go. "I guess I'll see you later then." "I guess so." Stiles gave Derek a smile and walked out of the elevator and out into the parking lot.

He was about the get into his jeep when he noticed Derek following right behind him. He saw as Derek walked over to the black Camaro next to his jeep. "Nice car!" Derek gave him a chuckle and said "Thanks!"

Stiles was heading to get into his car once again when Derek stopped him "Hey! I was wondering if you'd like to come over tonight? I have a bottle of wine and I don't think it'd be great if I drank it alone."

"I'd love to!' Stiles said with a smile as he looked down at his watch 'I've gotta go, I'll come over around seven?"

"Sounds great."

With that Stiles and Derek got into their vehicles and drove in opposite directions. While Derek was relieved he held a conversation with Stiles and managed to ask him over without stuttering, Stiles was having a minor crisis.

He needed to talk to someone and he figured Scott was already at work so he decided to text Lydia to meet him at his office. Lydia worked as a biologist near the station and they got together a lot in the mornings.

Stiles got to work in record time, twelve minutes while breaking a few speeding laws. When he got into his office, which was above everyone else and very spacious, he saw Lydia sitting at his desk reading a magazine.

"Lydia!" He yelled, startling her and making her jump a little before apologizing and starting on his rant about his hot new neighbor and their non-specified date. "So you're going on a date with this guy but you're not sure it's a date because he never actually said that."

Stiles nodded and Lydia continued "And you're also nervous because if it is a date then you haven't gone on a date in almost a year." Stiles nodded again and Lydia proceeded nonchalantly.

"It's a date and you're going. You have nothing to be worried about because you are a great guy and I think it's about time you get out there again."

But how do you know? What if he doesn't like me? What if he hates it when I talk about my work?"

"Just give him a chance, not everyone is like Theo."

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Think Barry Allen in Season 1, Episode 1 for this chapter.
Hope you guys like this chapter can you guess what happened already?
Much love. ✌️💕