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teenwolftuesdaytrash · 3 months
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A Not-Fic - Shared Pregnancies and Losses
Imagine this.
Derek grew up really close with his uncle Peter so they're more brothers than uncle and nephew.
When Derek's in his mid-twenties, Peter's in his thirties and they're both happily in love with two great alphas, not yet mated, but have been in a relationship for a while now.
They also find out that they're pregnant, at the same time. Both unplanned, but not unwelcome.
The family is happy. Talia is...befuddled about the situation but also happy for her brother and son. Stiles is nervous and ecstatic about the baby while also weirded out and amused about the whole situation with Peter.
Because he likes Peter, he likes that Derek has someone he trusts so much and that his mate can have that same person be there for him while they go through this unexpected turn of events. But also Stiles thinks Peter is weird as fuck, and sketchier than Derek realizes. usual Stiles-Peter dynamic really.
(What's funny about this is since Peter and Derek are so close and hang out quite frequently, their heats have synced? and that's why they're pregnant at the same time. And that's why everyone is kinda what-the-fuck-ed by the situation)
Things take an angsty turn on the 9-week mark
Peter and his partner go in for their check-up (him and Derek scheduled theirs together, duh) but Stiles and Derek are late.
After being seen by the doctor, Peter asks the nurse about his nephew and she informs them that Derek and Stiles cancelled for the day.
He later finds out that Derek miscarried.
The Hale family is put in a weird position after.
Derek withdraws from his uncle a little. With some encouragement from Stiles, he does sit down with Peter first to tell his uncle that it's not that he hates him now. He just needs a bit of space from anything pregnancy related.
Peter is a little hurt, but he understands.
They settle into a new normal, where Peter tries to enjoy his pregnancy while missing his nephew, Derek tries to be as supportive as he can while trying not to be resentful of his uncle, and the Hales try to balance celebrating Peter's baby while helping Derek grieve his loss.
On a follow-up check up with his OB, Derek's doctor informs him and Stiles that everything is okay with Derek. And if they should want to try again and Derek feels ready, they could.
Stiles thanks the doctor and drives them home. Derek has a very dumb idea.
Three months later, Derek gets his heat again. Stiles helps him through it under the impression that Derek's using birth control considering what they just went through. Derek neither confirms or denies this assumption.
When Peter is 31 weeks along, Derek finds out he's pregnant again. He doesn't tell Stiles.
A week later, Derek loses it again. He almost doesn't tell Stiles, but Stiles finds out and brings him to the hospital.
The morning after that, after Stiles made Derek sleep on their bed alone out of anger and a sense of betrayal, the two have a long talk.
Stiles tells Derek he couldn't do something like that again, trying to get pregnant without Stiles' consent. He can't do that again, not if he still wants to be in a relationship with Stiles.
Derek apologises, and they agree that Derek will use protection during his next heat which should come again in 3 months.
A couple of months pass by, Peter's baby comes along perfectly healthy. Derek somewhat recovers, enough so that he's there when his favourite uncle gives birth.
Peter is grateful. Everyone is in love with Peter Jr. Maybe Derek a little more than most.
Despite his age, Peter is a first time parent. With his parents no longer around and his mate estranged from their folks, he feels a little on his own. So when Derek drops by to ask if he can hang out and see the baby, Peter is, once again, grateful.
Helping his uncle adjust to being a parent helps Derek rekindle the bond he had with Peter. It also helps ease the longing he feels for his own baby, which he should have welcomed at the same time as Peter did.
Another side effect Derek doesn't anticipate though is having his heat thrown off schedule.
All that baby exposure makes his hormones go a little crazy, and Derek doesn't realise it when he has a mini-heat a little earlier than scheduled.
Stiles also doesn't realise that that one night of crazy hot sex he has with his boyfriend was him helping said boyfriend through a mini-but-just-as-effective heat.
When Peter's baby turns 4 months old, Derek finds out he's 10 weeks along when he goes in to see his OB after worrying over missing his heat.
Derek is scared this time, and he calls Stiles right away.
He relays what the doctor told him, about hormones, and babies, and mini-heats, and he didn't mean to do it this time, he really didn't.
Stiles believes him, thankfully. When Stiles gets home, they talk about what this could mean.
Derek expresses how he's scared, but he also can't help but be a little hopeful. Stiles wants to feel the same way, but he can only worry about what another miscarriage would do to his mate.
Just a couple of days shy of hitting the 12 week mark, Stiles finds out the answer.
Derek doesn't cry as loudly and ask the doctors question after question like the first time.
He doesn't try to hide it from Stiles like the second time.
The third time Derek miscarries, Stiles' dad, the sheriff, drives them to the hospital. When Derek is discharged, he's also the one who drives them home. Stiles cries all the way, Derek holds him, crying just as earnestly but much more quietly.
The next heat Derek has, they're both much more careful about protection. Derek doesn't get pregnant then.
The same goes for the next one.
The one after that is delayed. Derek gets the flu. Nothing too serious, but it leaves Derek's body so weak, his heat doesn't come on until after two weeks past schedule.
He takes his birth control shot, but just as he feels the heat come on, strongly and suddenly. He hopes the shot works, a nagging feeling tells him it won't.
Four weeks later, Stiles comes home to find Derek having a panic attack in their bathroom, a pregnancy test thrown across the floor. When he looks at it, there are two more on the sink.
After Stiles calms Derek down, Derek asks him if they could just ignore it. For the meantime. He tells Stiles he just needs time to figure out how to feel about it.
Of course Stiles says yes.
They don't talk about it, but of course it's all they think about.
Stiles braces himself for another miscarriage, for having to take care of Derek after that, while also researching all the ways to avoid a miscarriage, what food to eat, what food not to eat, any vitamins he should get Derek, he even dabbles into holistic shit.
Derek is caught between just waiting for the cramping and the bleeding again, and secretly telling himself that if he just ignores it, if he doesn't make a big deal out of it, if he doesn't hope, maybe he'll get to keep it.
They don't say anything to anyone. Not to either of their parents, families, friends. Derek doesn't even tell Peter, especially doesn't tell Peter.
To make sure Peter doesn't suspect anything, he keeps up his babysitting duties, he goes to visit Peter Jr. and hang out with his uncle even if it only makes him more anxious about his current state, so much so he feels like throwing up every second he spends with Peter and his baby cousin.
Unfortunately, it's during a Peter Jr. visit when what Stiles and Derek fear most happen.
Derek was leaving, Stiles waiting for him at Peter's driveway, when Peter calls him from the doorway. There's blood on the backside of his pants, Peter tells him, brows furrowed in concern.
Derek has a moment of feeling his gut sinking. Stiles rushes to him, turning him around to check.
And there it is, a spot of blood on Derek's pants.
Derek sort of doesn't move. He freezes, lets Stiles rush him to the car.
Peter tags along, yelling at his mate who just got home to watch over the baby, it's an emergency.
The three of them take the familiar trip to the hospital.
They get to the ER. Derek is seen to. Then they wait, the three of them.
Derek on the bed, checked out, staring into nowhere, face shut down.
Stiles on the chair beside him, holding his hand.
Peter stands by the corner of the curtain separating them from everyone, worriedly watching his nephew.
A nurse comes in informing them that Derek's OB isn't in at the moment so another doctor will be coming in to give them news in a few moments.
The unfamiliar OB comes in.
He's relaxed, is the first thing Peter takes note of. That must mean good news. Peter's not wrong.
The doctor smiles at them, and tells them that everything's fine. There's nothing to worry about. It's just a bit of spotting which is normal especially in the first trimester. So is a bit of light cramping.
He advises Derek to rest the following day and notify him if the bleeding gets worse. But other than that, everything's fine.
Peter and Stiles breathe a sigh of relief, Stiles only a bit more felt than Peter.
Before he lets the doctor go though, Stiles brings up their history of miscarriages. Which shocks Peter, because the family was only aware of the first one.
The doctor tells Stiles that if it will put them more at ease, they could have Derek stay the night.
Stiles asks Derek what he thinks, and that's the only time they notice that Derek wasn't paying attention the whole time.
"Der? Derek, hey."
"Huh?"
"The doctor says we can stay the night if you want to. Just to make sure."
"Why?"
"To make sure everything's fine, babe." Stiles repeats.
"What's the point?" Derek looks at him, blank-faced. "It's gone."
Stiles and Peter look at each other.
The doctor repeats that the baby's fine. And Derek looks at the doctor like he's an alien.
"Oh." is all Derek says.
Stiles asks for a moment with his boyfriend after that. He asks Derek again if he wants to stay the night in the hospital. Stiles expresses that he thinks it's a good idea.
Derek wonders what's the point. He's just going to lose it again, they all know it, and he says as much.
Stiles looks at him, stricken. "Don't say that. You don't know that."
Derek looks at him tiredly in return. "What's that thing you say? Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern."
Stiles doesn't know how to respond.
Thankfully, that's when Peter steps back in from listening behind the curtain. "If you don't try," he tells Derek, trying to get through to his nephew's blank stare, "you'll regret it."
Derek looks at his uncle for a long while. He doesn't look any more convinced, but he agrees to get checked in.
The three of them spend a long night in the hospital, Peter refusing to leave Derek.
Derek's the only one of them who sleeps.
He still doesn't understand what's the point. He's sure now that he'll lose the baby. He's even morbidly hoping he just loses it that night so they won't have to drive back to the hospital.
When morning comes and the nurse gives them the all clear, all smiles and cheer. The haze in Derek's mind clears somewhat, making way for agitation.
He can see the relief in Stiles' eyes and the reassuring smile on Peter's face, and Derek finds himself getting more upset.
Their doctor comes in. When Stiles starts setting an appointment for the following week, Derek has it.
"Stop it," he says, quietly at first.
Stiles doesn't hear him and tries to work out a schedule for Wednesday.
"Stop it," Derek tries again, a bit louder this time. Only Peter hears him.
Stiles has a meeting on Wednesday and starts checking Saturday.
Derek throws the stupid stuffed bear the nurse left for him on his bedside table. "I said STOP IT," he yells.
Stiles stops talking, looking at Derek in shock.
Peter quietly leads the doctor out of the room.
Stiles ignores the teddy bear, joining Derek on the bed. Derek doesn't realise he's crying until Stiles wipes his cheek with the end of his sleeve.
Stiles holds his hand and gently commands him to, "Talk to me."
Derek shakes his head, really getting into the thick of the tears now.
"What's the point," he asks again, sobbing, "I'm going to lose it. I'm just gonna lose it again, Stiles. What's the point?"
All the planning, the relief, the wondering, and the hoping.
"I can't do it. I can't do this, Stiles. I can't!"
Stiles wants to pull Derek in and just agree. But he resists the urge, and settles for holding Derek's hand. "What do you want to do?"
Derek bites his lips and looks down in shame.
"Derek." Stiles persists. "What do you want to do?"
Do you want to terminate? Stiles doesn't ask, but Derek hears all the same.
"You tell me what you want to do, Der," Stiles pushes on, leaning close and speaking softly, "And that's what we'll do."
When all Derek does in reply is cry harder, Stiles asks the more difficult question.
"Do you want this baby?"
And Derek cries impossibly harder still after that.
Because that was the thing, wasn't it? All this time, since having that panic attack after getting those positive test results, Derek's been living in denial.
He hasn't even entertained the idea that there is a baby to be wanted.
All he has is a possibility, a chance that didn't even have the best of odds. That's what he's been telling himself. Because a chance, that's easy to lose. A chance, he can just let go.
A baby though?
A baby that he could want? A baby that he could have? A baby that he might, probably will lose? Again?
"Fuck!" Derek chokes out in between sobs.
Stiles pulls him in then, holding him tight.
Later that day, when they've all gone home, Peter to his, Stiles and Derek to theirs, Derek admits to one more thing.
They're lying in their bed face to face, seeking comfort from each other. Stiles is holding his hand, and Derek holds Stiles' right back even tighter because he's desperately trying not to put his hand on his belly.
When Derek thinks he can speak without his voice breaking, he confesses.
"I'm scared," his voice still breaks, "Stiles…"
And Stiles, who knows he can't promise that there's nothing to be scared of, racks his brain for what best to say, desperate to comfort his omega. He settles for this.
"We have to try. Whatever happens, I'll be right here. But we have to try, okay?"
Derek agrees.
Moving forward from there, Derek finally successfully gets past the first and second trimester, but he can't enjoy his pregnancy. He's just so scared that he's still going to lose the baby.
The doctor reassures him that everything's fine every time he has a check up, but it's not enough. And it's just this constant battle in his head where he's either consumed by his fears, or filled with regret because he's depriving his baby of the chance to be celebrated and welcomed into the world happily, like his Uncle Peter did for Peter Jr.
Of course Derek has more or less a picture perfect pregnancy. Everything goes well during the birth, too, despite things not going to plan and Derek ending up having a home birth instead of the hospital-based one he carefully crafted out on his birthing plan.
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Okay, I’m just all up in my Hale Family Feels™ today, apparently.
In “Magic Bullet,” Derek says he and Laura were at school when the fire was started at their house. Eleven people were trapped inside. Peter survived, so that makes ten. Mark off Cora, too, since they thought she died, that’s nine, and of course, Talia. Which leaves eight more. Who are the other eight people??? And it was also said some were human. And that there were children. Plural. More than one. 
I NEED SOME GODDAMN ANSWERS.
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kitchenisking · 2 years
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Rainy Fic Rec
Heyyyyyyyy! We're scheduled to have a rainy weekend so I though I would do a rec ☺️ and I might even do one tomorrow 😉
So here we gooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cross a Canyon (with a broken limb) by theroguesgambit - (Rating: T, Words: 18010, sterek)
“You never graduated,” Stiles says, just to say it. To test it out in the open air. That's... huh.
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Stiles spends his senior year battling troll-gremlins, taking on an unexpected tutoring job, and definitely not falling for a certain sourwolf (even though everyone else seems to think he is).
Not related by madsmeetsmisha - (Rating: Explicit, Words: 40576, sterek)
"You mean... you mean that Talia is going to become my stepmom and Derek... Derek Hale will become my stepbrother?" Stiles heard his voice squeaking but seriously? Derek fucking Hale would be his stepbrother soon? Fuck his life!
Or: The one where Derek gets a new family, the Sherif becomes a werewolf and Stiles feels lonely and discovers a secret about his dead mother and himself. Oh and Derek and Stiles are mates but they are too stupid to notice...
You Make Me All Achy by Emela - (Rating: Mature, Words: 10965, sterek)
It was only when Derek’s head broke the water’s surface, he realised what was happening - he was being pulled under - and pushing against the boy, flung himself back out of reach, breathing heavily- from fear or the kiss, he couldn’t tell.
“What-” he began to ask but the boy raised his hand, cutting him off, staring at Derek wide-eyed, a look of great surprise on his face, before vanishing into the lake.
It was then that Derek saw it; the golden, red tail where a pair of legs should have been.
OR
The one in which Stiles is a merman, tries to drown Derek, but when he kisses him falls in love with him instead. (Oh, Stiles.)
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon by secondstar - (Rating: Explicit, Words: 21317, sterek)
Being a teenager sucks. Being a werewolf teenager sucks even more. With a life full of holding back who he really is, not having any privacy whatsoever, and the seemingly sudden appearance of one Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale's life just got a whole lot harder.
Secondhand Soulmate by AnnoyinglyCute, Inell - (Rating: T, Words: 25211, sterek)
Not always, not even most of the time, but sometimes -- 24% of the time, statistically speaking -- people meet their soulmates and live happily ever after.
THIS isn't that story.
This is the story of Stiles Stilinski, whose soulmate died before he was born. This is the story of all the sorrows and heartache Stiles experienced, all the bullying and oppression from those who should know better but didn't. This is also the story of the friendships Stiles made along the way, of the battles he fought -- and won -- and the love that endured through it all.
You'll Be Mine and I'll Be Yours by tearsandholdme - (Rating: Mature, Words: 87383, sterek)
“Oh my god!” Stiles hissed, his back colliding with the door. “Oh my god! I slept with my boss, oh my god. I'm a walking cliché!”
It was supposed to be a one night stand. No complications, no feelings, no baggage. But then a missed doctor's appointment in his childhood comes back to haunt him and Stiles is left with a lot more than one very good night.
Let Our Walls Cave In by Fae_vorite, HyperLittleNori (Shiguresan) - (Rating: Explicit, Words: 119297, sterek)
[Complete with stunning artwork by Fae_vorite!] Thinking they're about to crash, Stiles spills his secrets to a stranger on a plane. At least, he thought he was a stranger... Until he later meets Derek, his company's young CEO, who now knows every humiliating detail about him and yet in spite of it all, seems to want to know more. But even as Stiles finds himself falling head over heels for him, he soon starts to realise he’s the only one offering full disclosure. What exactly is it that Derek has to hide?
This story starts out as a Sterek AU romance inspired by the ‘Can You Keep A Secret?’ movie/book by Elise Duran and Sophie Kinsella respectively. But it quickly turns into something more.
The Darkness Fades Away by heartsdesire456 - (Rating: Mature, Words: 44974, sterek)
After Derek is the one who saves Stiles from a terrible night gone wrong, they aren't the only ones forced to overcome barriers, break down walls, and try to rebuild their lives one step at a time.
Though, they are are the only ones doing it together.
What Goes Around by KouriArashi- (Rating: Mature, Words: 71451, sterek)
“Well,” Stiles says, “if they’re going to hunt werewolves, I’m going to hunt them.”
It’s a ridiculous statement from a ten-year-old, but he’s obviously one hundred percent sincere. For the first time since the fire, Peter feels life stir inside him, feels purpose. It’s kismet, clearly. He’ll never meet the child he would have had with Olivia. Instead he’s met this boy, this brilliant, determined, cynical child with a world of potential.
Peter kneels down in front of him so they’re at eye level. “How do you feel about doing that together?”
The Hollow Moon by thepsychicclam - (Rating: Explicit, Words: 180079, sterek)
It's the summer after Stiles' first year of college, and he's working a crappy job and dealing with nightmares and anxiety - but he's okay, he swears. He makes it through most days without too much trouble. Then, a certain werewolf comes back into town. Which Stiles doesn't care about, nope, not at all.
After two and a half years, Derek returns to Beacon Hills with his small Pack. Though he tried to move on, something just kept drawing him back to Beacon Hills, he's just not sure what. Now, he figures he can start building something like a life - but he keeps getting distracted by Stiles Stilinski of all people.
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