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"No Refills" by scottmcniceass, read by striped_bowties | Derek/Stiles | AU | Stiles spends almost every night at Winston Diner. They have the best coffee he's ever tasted, and free wifi. Of course, the only waiter ever on staff after eleven, Derek, was a piece of work. But maybe, underneath that chilly personality, Derek was the kind of person who Stiles didn't mind spending every night with, after all. | 45min.

Just as he pulled open his laptop and typed in his password, a cup of coffee was placed a bit roughly on the table beside his arm. Liquid sloshed over the top, spilling onto the table beside it. His server didn’t make any move to clean it up or apologize.

“Always so hospitable, Derek,” Stiles commented, not looking up.

Another funny AU, LOL!

I decided to go through the TW podfics I saved on my HDD again!

"Random Craigslist Missed Connections Derek/Stiles Not!Fic of Doom" by fire_juggler, read by inkjunket | AU | Derek/Stiles | Stiles is lonely and addicted to the Missed Connections page on Craigslist, Derek is a hermit with a persistent sister, Scott gives unexpectedly good relationship advice, and it all ends happily-ever-after. | 1hr. 53 min.

"I really don't understand!" He wails. He sounds angry and petulant and hurt. "You could have just not replied? That's what everyone else does. Why would you go out of your way to be such an asshole? You don't make any sense at all… and you know what?"

"What?"

"I don't actually hold my alcohol very well."

Wonderful, wonderful fic and podfic! You just have to adore these characters! Even Scott, which is quite unusual in Derek/Stiles fics...

"Play It Again" by metisket, read by mothlights | Stiles/Derek | In which Stiles goes along with one of Derek’s plans and ends up in an alternate universe as a result. He should’ve known better. He did know better, actually, and that means he has no one to blame but himself. | 9hr. 46min.

Laura wants to lure the kid in with food and kindness and make a pet of him, like a feral cat. Derek wants to have him arrested for stalking. They’re at an impasse. (And the rest of the family is staying emphatically out of it in a way that suggests bets have been placed.)

Amazing fic! Amazing doesn't actually even begin to cover it. And not just the fic itself. Mothlights' reading makes it twice as great. She's fantastic!

"A Simple Life" by survivah, read by mothlights | AU | Derek/Stiles | Derek plans to spend the rest of his life holed up in the woods after Laura dies. Then he meets a stubborn young fox, and the stubborn young fox meets an urn of Deaton's magic powder, and his plans change. | 1hr. 46min.

A laryngitic bark sounds behind him. Derek wearily turns his head, ears flicking. Sure enough, there’s the fox, bounding over a tree root, tail wagging. Without a thought for the danger of approaching a strange wolf in the woods, the fox patters over to him and butts the underside of Derek’s chin with its head.

Derek gives a warning growl.

The fox doesn’t care, and flops onto its back, black-dipped paws flopping around above him.

This is a beautiful fic and mothlights' voice is to die for. So wonderful!

"An Algorithm for Mistakes" by fleete, read by lunchee | Stiles/Lydia, Lydia/Jackson, Stiles/Derek | Lydia has a plan: attend college, study the biological makeup of werewolves, win prizes, and wear amazing shoes. She does not expect to make friends with Stiles. Or flirt with Stiles. Or accidentally start a pack war with Stiles. Whatever. The point is, Lydia has a plan. | 3hr. 6min.

“It’s just…”

“Just…”

She shrugs. “I don’t want to be a weirdo.”

“You’re unique. Nothing wrong with that.”

A really, really wonderful Lydia-centric story. I planned to read it, had it open in a tab, and then I came across this podfic this morning and it made. my. day! Wonderfully written, wonderfully read!

"The Sanctuary" by chase_acow, read by rhea314 | AU | Derek/Stiles | Stiles runs away during his first heat, right into the waiting and ambiguously scary arms of the Alpha's nephew, Derek Hale. | 2hr. 27min.

"You're going to kill me," Stiles answered, struggling to get his elbows underneath him. Sunlight reflected off the snow, painful when he turned his head and got an eyeful through the window. "How are you even mobile?"

Hot and intriguing tale. Lovely stuff!

"Help Wanted" by jebiwonkenobi, read by rhea314 | Derek/Stiles | Nice things begin to happen to Derek Hale and it kind of freaks him out. | 1hr. 36min.

Stiles laughs, but it chokes off when Derek glares at him. That doesn’t stop him from saying, “You ran out of gas?” like it’s the funniest thing he’s heard all day.

Derek has no intention of answering, but Stiles doesn’t say anything else, he just waits. If prompted, Derek probably wouldn’t be able to explain how that’s different from just being quiet, but it is, so eventually he mutters, “I’ve been avoiding the gas station.”

“Why?”

“The guy that works there keeps talking to me.”

LOL! Just... LOL!

"And Pulse To Pulse, Now Shush" by theaeblackthorn, read by jinxy | Laura/Derek | She always starts so gently with him, he wonders sometimes what it would be like if Kate hadn't ruined him. | 12min.

Laura's hand is on the back of his head now, pushing his face down into the mattress. The one still rests on his tattoo. The sheets smell, good, they smell like pack and home. He feels tears coming.

Yeesh! There really need to be more fics about pegging. Just sayin'...

"Pretend this is our den, kay?" by survivah, read by opalsong | AU | Derek/Stiles | In which Stiles is raised by (were)wolves, and he and Derek are childhood sweethearts that never stopped. Also, Kate Argent is a homicidal maniac but a very helpful plot device. | 1hr. 54min.

When they got taken back to the house, and George and Kiana’s Very Serious Faces (patent pending,) they got the Sex Talk, subtitle: When Two Boys Love Each Other Very Much. Stiles thinks that that talk was much worse than the Werewolf Talk was. Even years later he cringes at how George stroked his beard continually and refused to make eye contact with anyone, and how Kiana had used “love” as a euphemism for way too many things. Peter had just sat back and watched, amused, as his brother and his sister-in-law haltingly lurched through explaining sex to a nine and ten year old. Stiles remembers being weirded out by the whole concept, and also weirded out by how Derek kept nodding like he understood what they were saying. Derek’s parents were giving them the Sex Talk, subtitle: When Two Boys Love Each Other Very Much so that they understood the significance of sleeping in the same bed, and would be responsible about it, but Derek seemed to be taking their explanations as suggestions.

LOL! Just... LOL! *giggles*