soulmate au where your soulmate's thoughts appear on your skin except your soulmate has adhd and your body becomes a living canvas of nonsensical, never-ending, constantly entertaining trails of thought
Derek just walking around as a wolf doing helpful things so people call him a good boy. Cause that girl who left her doll on the park bench? Yeah nice big doggo gave it back to her.
The man who needed help crossing the street, rests his hand on the dog's back and say thank you.
There's that kid crying cause he lost his mom? Naw, super sniffer brings them back.
In Derek's human form, everyone would be scared of him. But not the helpful pup.
But you know, Stiles has been watching and knows exactly who that is. And one night just when the rest of the pack is doing whatever it is they do just pulls him aside and goes.
"You are a good man, Derek Hale. And you don't have to be a wolf to hear it."
Just... that moment when the character in a slow burn fanfic finally looks the other in the eyes and goes "Oh" because their heart is beating a little bit faster.
Listen, I've been around the blocks a couple of times already, and shows that don't want to make a popular queer ship canon often just absolutely RUINS whatever they have created between the two characters so if we don't get canon Buddie, I don't fucking care as long as they keep giving us Buddie scenes. Like, if the price of having Buddie or Buckley-Diaz family scenes is hearing them call each other brother or having completely useless prop girlfriends then whatever. We'll just create our own Buddie headcanons and interpolate their scenes together and survive instead of them not having any or minimum scenes together.