Derek Hale-- Even in the Wind His Hair Is Perfect

Chapter 1

It’s not the greatest job in the world, but someone’s gotta do it.

And Stiles makes the most of it, okay?

Writing captions for the live broadcasts as well as helping run and write the copy for the online news stories can get rather tedious and boring, but Stiles tries his best to keep himself entertained. Slipping in a movie or comic book reference inside a human interest story just to see if someone comments about it, putting up a funny headline to see if someone catches it and puts it up on reddit or Buzzfeed, you know harmless things that to the casual viewer and reader will go unnoticed but to those that actually pay attention, they might get a kick out of it.

Recently though, he maybe has been… abusing his power.

See, there’s this new reporter the station has hired who is basically sex on legs in Stiles’s opinion, and sometimes when Stiles has to put up the captions during his news story he gets distracted. I mean, how could he not, when the guy has stubble that Stiles wants rubbed all over him and cheekbones and a jawline that Stiles wants to lick.

He can’t help it, okay? Derek Hale is hot and has a voice that Stiles wants to hear say dirty things to him in his ear while they are naked in bed together. And he would totally tell Derek this (no he wouldn’t) except for that when the cameras turn off, Derek is the least friendly guy ever. You know how they say people have different personalities when they are on screen than off? That’s Derek.

Derek can report on puppies at the local SPCA adoption event and melt everyone’s hearts with his smiles and his warmth as he holds and lets the fluffy dog lick his face. But back at the studio, he doesn’t even smile when someone says hi to him (Stiles knows cause he was the one that said hi and Derek just glared at him). It’s weird, and because Stiles is weird, he finds it all the more intriguing.

Not that he goes about confronting Derek about it though. Oh no, he keeps to himself, stays in the background at their staff meetings, and on the rare occasion he and Derek have been in the break room at the same time, he just grunts in acknowledgement and turns and flees. He’s happy gazing longingly at his face on his screen while pretending Derek doesn’t know he actually exists.

It’s safer that way, Stiles thinks. He’s not harming anyone by pointing out in a caption that Derek Hale’s hair is looking perfectly coifed that day, or that his eyes are especially blue by the lake behind him, or that his teeth are cute and adorable. It’s not like Derek will ever find out about those captions anyway because Stiles knows for a fact that Derek never looks or watches his own stories. So the only people that know are people that do watch it. But Erica, their producer, loves Stiles too much to fire him over it (plus she called him into her office to question him about it, and she thought it was so hilarious and sappy that she told him to keep it up and maybe Derek would get the hint that Stiles wants to have his metaphorical babies).

Which is why Stiles continues his short 30 to 40 character love letters set in captions to Derek while he reports on a local traffic accident or the protest against raising taxes at city hall. Unrequited works for him, and no one else can argue about the validity of his captions anyway.

Derek’s jaw really is cut like marble. It’s a scientific fact.