And that was how Stiles accidentally became a New York Times bestselling author. (And solved a mystery, and got to date Derek Hale, and adopted some kittens along the way. It was a busy month.)

Derek only started getting the dreams a few years ago, and he knows what it means, his soulmate is younger than him. Laura teases him incessantly about it, but Derek doesn’t pay her any mind. The dreams are fuzzy at best, he only has a fleeting glimpse of plaid shirts and laughter and a pink mouth. As Laura and he start on their roadtrip back to California from New York, the dreams start to get clearer. Every state they cross, Derek can see the outline of his soulmate get more defined, knows that he has brown eyes, a gorgeous smile and fluffy hair that looks soft to touch.

He's carefully balancing the sandwiches and the two biggest tupperware containers he could find that both had functioning lids when the front door opens and he almost drops everything right there in front of the stupid fountain. If that's Derek Hale, he's definitely not a mountain man.

Stiles and Derek have an agreement, a gentleman’s agreement, if you will. And it’s actually worked out quite nicely, on multiple occasions, in fact. The agreement being that if the situation should arise where it would be necessary to have a significant other close by, they would step in and pretend to be that significant other.

[This is an AU where Stiles is a girl and Laura is alive.] Her dad tries to sit up at that, opens his mouth to protest at the same time that Stiles starts to say, "That's definitely not what-" when Laura's eyes turn a bright and unnatural red in the darkness. "We don't have time to argue," she growls at them and her dad snaps his jaw shut. "I can get you through this, but you're going to have to trust me." Against all reason, Stiles' dad nods. Laura lifts her gaze back to Stiles. "Both of you."

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, 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. *Cover created by bleep0bleep.tumblr.com

Derek wouldn’t say he’s an unobservant person. He’s good at taking in his surroundings, analyzing a situation enough to know whether he should stay or leave for his own comfort. But when he drives to and from work, his world becomes the inside of his car, and his thoughts turn to the errands or projects he has to do rather than looking at the countless advertisements and billboards he drives past. That is until he notices something from the corner of his eye as he’s stuck in rush hour traffic on the way home. *Cover art by mianewarcher.tumblr.com