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    "If Sherlock's brain is a hard drive, then these attacks are an electro-magnetic pulse." Sherlock Holmes does not do anything by half, not even a migraine. It falls to John to witness one of the greatest minds he has ever known tear itself apart, and he must do his best to help Sherlock pick up the pieces.

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    23 Dec 2012

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    Incredible, lengthy sickfic that I keep coming back to.

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    Prompt: After being rejected for the eleventy-seventh time, Stiles, feeling utterly hopeless, asks Derek for the bite. He figures if it worked for Scott and Erica it could work for him. Derek shows him that he's perfect as is and that everyone else is just blind.

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    28 Feb 2022

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    “You said we’re friends.”

    In the corner of his eye he can see Stiles blink owlishly at that, a thousand hesitations flitting over his face before he settles on, “O–kay, way to hold what a guy says in the heat of the moment against him, got it.”

    No. That’s not the only time he’s said it, and they both know it. In the In-N-Out parking lot, once Derek wasn’t being poisoned by human medicine or crushed under agonizing pain, and Stiles wasn’t about to throw up all over him. A couple times since then. All the buddys and some of the big guys. Derek stares at him long enough to make sure he knows they both know.

    “…Yeah, okay,” Stiles gives in. “I guess, yeah. Seems weird if we aren’t.”

    Derek watches the screen for another moment, head too full for the movie itself but tracking the light and the movement, breathing quietly. “Then, this? All this? It’s inevitable.”

    Stiles says nothing for a moment. Maybe he’s cautious. Hopefully he’s afraid.

    Instead, he whistles in disbelief. “Wow, you are the biggest downer.”

    Derek and Stiles still aren't the main characters.

    [Ch 1: Original 2013 work (42k). Chs 2-5: Rewritten 2025 work (97k).]

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    27 Feb 2022

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    “You—I—” Stiles splutters for a second, scrutinizing Derek’s face. He huffs in frustration. “I take it all back. You haven’t changed at all, you’re still acting like a petulant ten-year-old who unleashes his bad mood on others. You know, all Unleash the Derek style.”

    “‘Unleash the Derek’?” Derek asks, dubiously.

    “Yeah,” Stiles nods, gazing out the window again. “You know, the thing where you dump your bad mood on others, pour your suffocating attitude over everyone around you, twist everything that is said to you into some sort of—insult or whatever. It’s what I used to call it back in high school.”

    “Sometimes I get the feeling you were dropped on your head an awful lot as a child,” Derek says appraisingly, eyebrows furrowed.

    Stiles snorts. “Yeah, right back at you.”

    Derek’s lips quirk in amusement, he arches his eyebrows. “I was, actually. But unlike you I regained full health.”

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    25 Feb 2022

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    “I had a dream about a boy last night,” Mischief says through a mouthful of pancakes. His dad points the spatula at him and he swallows before he says anything else. “His name was Derek. He called me Stiles. I want to be called that from now on.”

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    24 Feb 2022