Sterek One Shots (boyxboy)

Midnight Wolf vs. Abombinal Snowman *Part Two*

(Read part one first or this won't make sense to you)
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"Hey, Derek, so on a scale of one to ten, how mad would you be if I accidentally outed us to the world by posting a picture of us kissing with the caption 'I can't hear you over the sound of my hot boyfriend moaning my name'?"

Derek blinks at him. He opens his mouth and then closes it again, at a loss for what to say.

"Yeah, you might want to steer clear of the internet for a couple of weeks," Stiles says, nodding seriously.

"What did you do?" Derek finally manages, his voice more than a little strangled as he tries to ignore the pounding in his head indicative of a massive hangover. Yesterday was their one year anniversary and it had started out well enough, with a romantic candlelit dinner and fancy chocolate cake for dessert, but afterwards it had devolved into getting completely and totally smashed. (And also scarring his neighbors by making out vigorously in the hallway outside of his apartment, if he remembers correctly.)

"Wellllllll, you know how sometimes assholes send me those annoying messages on my site about me 'making DC gay' or whatever?" Stiles says, worrying his lower lip and looking up at Derek through thick eyelashes with those big brown eyes of his. "I guess drunk me has a lower tolerance for discriminatory bullshit than sober me."

Derek nods, clenching his jaw. It's been more difficult since Stiles joined DC and Abominable Snowman gained an even larger and more diverse following. Stiles had fought tooth and nail to keep DC from reprinting and selling it instead of keeping it free and internet based, but he'd managed it. Of course, when DC had officially announced that he'd be taking over the new Robin series, there had been a rather vocal opposition from homophobic and biphobic readers, who decided to completely overrun his website's inbox with all sorts of nasty comments. In fact, Derek had even received a few emails trying to convince him to threaten to quit DC if Stiles was hired. As if.

He likes to think they've mostly gotten past that stage, though. In fact, in response to the opposition, Stiles had aggressively promoted queer representation within DC, and Derek's pretty sure the only mainstream comic he's read with even close to the number of queer characters as Stiles' Robin is Marvel's Young Avengers. Really, whenever Stiles is having trouble working on Robin, he always jokes that the comic's just getting "too queer to function."

Not that Robin is actually "too queer to function." In fact, it's become so popular that it's starting to give Midnight Wolf a run for its money, which makes for plenty of teasing arguments (and fantastic, competitive sex) around the apartment.

"Hey, it's okay," Derek says, pulling Stiles in to press a light, comforting kiss to his lips. "It wasn't like we were going to be able to hide forever."

"I know. I just – " Stiles replies, running a hand through is sleep-mussed hair and making it stick up even more. "I know you hate the publicity."

"I do, but I'm not ashamed about being with you," Derek answers, sitting down on the couch and pulling Stiles down into his lap, looping his arms around his waist gently as Stiles tries to keep a firm grip on his laptop. "I can deal with a few fans knowing."

"Uh," Stiles says, and Derek can feel him tensing slightly. Clearly there's more bad news. "Okay, so when I said that I'd outed us to the world I, for once, wasn't actually exaggerating."

"What?" Derek asks, blinking, because clearly he heard wrong. "We're just a couple of comic writers. It's not like we're actors or something."

"That's what I thought, too, until I saw a freaking article about us when I went to check my yahoo mail this morning. We're in the Huffington Post," Stiles says, scrolling through his newsfeed, and okay, maybe Derek's starting to realize why he's freaking out now. "I mean, it wasn't like the article was front and center or anything, but still. Also, we're a trending topic on tumblr and twitter."