I'm fighting the urge to write a Fix-It fic about the Teen Wolf Movie just because this fucking movie has awakened so many of my Sterek feelings and I'm DYING
Movie Spoilers Ahead
So Eli Hale has a habit of stealing STILE'S JEEP from his family garage because it pisses his father off? And Derek has fixed the keep after Stiles left it behind?
FINE. But that's because Derek tried to move on from Stiles, had a kid, and realized he wasn't happy in his marriage.
So he and Stiles try for the first fucking time and Stiles sees Eli growing up. They don't acknowledge their relationship at first - and they don't tell Eli because he's still too little when they are together - but they have some nice moments. They are happy.
Eli grows up seeing how his father and Stiles make a nice family together. He gets attached to Stiles because how can he not? They have taco Thursdays and Stiles promises Eli he'll be the one to teach him how to drive when he's old enough and yes, he's doing in on the Jeep.
And it fills Derek's heart with so much joy, to see his kid and the man he loves getting along.
But by Eli's 10th birthday, things start to get weird between them. Things are getting too serious and Derek is scared and Stiles is afraid of fucking this up because that's what he does, isn't it? He fucks things up.
They fight a lot and Derek can't keep doing this to Eli. He has to put Eli first, so he asks Stiles to move out, for a while. Just until they can find a way to fix whatever is broken between them. But Stiles... He's a martyr and he can't jeopardize Derek and Eli's relationship. That's bigger than anything else.
So without saying anything, he leaves.
And Eli rebels because he just doesn't get it. He thinks his dad messed things up with Stiles. He thinks Stiles didn't like him enough to stay for him. Things get awful, Derek shuts himself off and Stiles just stays away because it's easier.
By the time Eli is turning 16, he starts stealing Stile's jeep. Yes, because he's trying to upset his dad but also because Stiles promised him.
After the tenth time, Eli steals it and no one comes to collect him. He parks it close to the old Hale property and he just hangs out there for a while, lying on the hood of the jeep, looking at the sky.
"There's no place where the sky looks more beautiful than in Beacon Hills." A voice startles him and he gets up in a jump, looking straight at Stiles.
He's older but his head is buzzed. He smiles at Eli and shoves him to the side so he can sit beside him.
"Your father is worried about you, you know."
"He doesn't care about me. Like you didn't care about me."
Stiles sighs. "I care about you, kiddo. So much. That's why I left. And your father... He's a complicated man. But he loves you more than anything."
Eli is silent for a moment and Stiles just looks at him.
"You've grown."
"Well, you're old."
Stiles chuckles. "I guess I am." He waits for a bit, then, "I was just like you when I was 16. Didn't care about rules. Felt like I was invincible."
Eli doesn't say anything to that. There's nothing to be said. He feels invincible. He feels like his being reckless is the only way his father will pay attention to him.
"Let's go home, Eli."
There's a long stretch of silence between them. Eli blinks and Stiles can see there are tears pooling at the corners of his eyes.
"It's been a while since that house felt like home," is what Eli says, in a whisper. Like he's ashamed of saying it.
"I know," Stiles answers, truthfully. He knows the feeling. No place he's lived in after moving away has felt like home either. "But it's time. So let's just go home."
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1. Stiles left Beacon Hills to never return and left his jeep.
2. Derek saved his jeep and fixed everything. Stiles's dad flat out says Derek saved it after Stiles left and tried to fix it up. Stiles had it held together with duck tape but Derek put everything into fixing it, but it wasn't able to run perfectly.
3. In the 15 years since Stiles left to never return, it ended up in the junkyard because Derek couldn't fix it like he wanted to, but he wouldn't abandon it.
4. Eli, Derek's kid, would routinely steal it to piss Derek off.
5. After Derek died. Stiles's dad gave Eli the keys to the jeep and told him Derek had "complicated feelings about the Jeep" but it should definitely be Eli's.
So like Derek was in love with Stiles huh? Like he saved Stiles's jeep, when Stiles himself abandoned it. He tried to make it run smoothly and when he couldn't he kept it under a tarp at the junkyard to not be driven but not to be scrapped either. And then his son would regularly steal it solely to piss Derek off. Derek himself said it was just to make him mad. And then when Derek died, Sheriff Stilinski gave the keys to Eli and said he should have it and that Derek had "complicated feelings about the jeep" but it was Eli's. Derek was definitely in love with Stiles and I just.
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As a Hispanic, can we pls stop with the Eli discourse pls. Just because he has white features and light brown hair doesn't make him freaking white. He is latino based. And it makes people like me feel like I can't embrace my hispanic heritage.
I am half Nicaraguan and look exactly like Eli (though i have a shade lighter skin than he does cause my dad is pale asf) It was fantastic to finally have someone who looks like me and has the same background as me in media. I attached to him because I'm Southern, like West Virginian back in the holler of Appalachia hillbilly.
My mother raised me to love and embrace my hispanic heritage, both my husband and I come from a family of immigrants who had their achievements wiped away because they were brown.
HE'S NOT WHITE
HE'S NOT TAN.
HE'S F'KING BROWN.
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