Wow. This gifset kind of splits the difference between Derek Hale and Tyler Hoechlin, like it’s less sunny than Hoechlin usually looks but less dour than Derek, and so this makes me think of an alternate universe Derek Hale, who maybe has all of season one’s tragedy in his bio but let’s just skip right over seasons two and three (ESPECIALLY THREE). Peter doesn’t come back from the dead, Derek is a competent alpha, Boyd and Erica are still alive, Paige and Jennifer never happened. Or. Wait.

Jennifer happened but she wasn’t a murder zombie and instead it was a nice, healthy relationship that ended amicably when her grandma died and Jennifer used her inheritance to move to Ireland and write poetry. Which sets Derek up to finally be in a stable this-is-it-this-is-the-one relationship with Stiles when Stiles is like 25 and a cop.

I think it was probably Jennifer who encouraged Derek to start keeping a journal (an actual paper book journal, that he writes in with a Ticonderoga pencil) and after a while Derek looks back over what he wrote and he’s like THIS SHIT IS WHACKADOO and decides it might be a pretty good story.

Which is how he ends up at the premiere for the movie based on his book about a badass supernatural bounty hunter, and he gives a couple red carpet interviews and answers all the questions, but he doesn’t smile, even when Stiles is standing behind the reporter making faces at him.

He smiles later, in the theater, when the badass supernatural bounty hunter who happens to have dark hair and lots of facial scruff and fantastic abs finally kisses his love interest, who happens to be tall and smart-mouthed and male.

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