Because this is the first time - the first time - someone shows Derek he can count on them.
Everything here is shippable. Even I’m shippable; but that, dear children, is self insertion, and is in fact frowned upon in most fandoms.
#My love for this scene is unparalleled #my love for this scene could fill a small universe #because this is Derek who trusts no one#Derek who thinks that he has to threaten bodily harm for the slightest favor #and then Stiles takes all the power #he sets his jaw and licks his lips and and takes a deep breath and says ‘I won’t be threatened by you’ and means it #And with anyone else that would be game over. He’d have to go home empty handed. #But Stiles takes all that power and then flops into a chair and offers up a backup plan in the event that Scott doesn’t come through. #(Spoiler alert: Scott doesn’t fucking come through.) #Not only is Stiles still going to help him even though he knows he doesn’t have to #he’s been thinking about this. During his free time #when Scott was probably thinking about Allison and lacrosse. Stiles was thinking of how to help #above and beyond what Derek had already asked him to do. #This is Derek learning that there are people he can count on #people like him #who will do the right thing whether they like you or not.
