Paper Airplanes

Airplanes!verse #1

by RemainNameless

Sterek
The road to unfortunate, accidental, and possibly career-destroying relationships is littered with good intentions, snark, bad timing, and not a few paper airplanes.
Words:23581 complete
Original Post: http://archiveofourown.org/works/8377...

Genres: Fan Fiction, M M Romance, Contemporary

71 pages, ebook

First published June 11, 2013

Reviews

[Maygirl7 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to squee all over this fic. Best of all possible teacher-student scenarios. This is not your dirty, hot, wrong teacher-student fic; this is your semi-realistic, not-squicky teacher-student relationship. It's Pre-slash. The snark and banter is there as well as a slow build of feelings between Stiles and Derek. I can't believe haven't read this until now. Remainnameless is one of my favorite Sterek writers. This is a story to read for the feelz. There's a sequel that is for the smex.

Update: Currently I am 0/2 in my recommendations of this story. In my enthusiasm I didn't think that the story would contain as many no goes for people as it has ended up. For example Stiles hooks up with others pre-Sterek. Stiles' friends joking about crushing on teacher. My sister's kids do that to each other so it didn't seem that troubling to me. . My apologies to the other recipients of my recommendation if you end up not enjoying the story.

[* A Reader Obsessed * · Rating 4 out of 5]

Talk about a slow burn. A realistic, perfectly realized, slow burn, where Derek is a teacher and Stiles is his student.

Frustrating? Sure.

Entertainingly smart and spot on characterizations? Yes.

Inappropriate? Well....

Derek is 16 years older than Stiles in this AU, but this wasn't some gratuitous Mr. Robinson situation, where student and teacher get it on, on the sly. Believe me - I've read plenty of underage Stiles and there have been some I've been uncomfortable with. This was NOT one of them.

You have the requisite banter, the subtle (and not so subtle) humor, and simply a true depiction of how these two are just it for the other despite obvious barriers.

So read the tags. This isn't for everyone because perhaps it is a bit too real, a bit too harsh in the set up.

However, even in its inappropriateness this was a thoughtful and different piece about them falling in love.

And uh, btw... the sequel is hot and meaningful and just lovely.

Thanks May! This was just how I like 'em! Perfect portrayal, perfect love.

[Jennifer☠Pher☠ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I never know how I am going to feel about the whole student/teacher thing.



The age difference in this was a little bit much but then, to me, nothing really happened so I guess it was ok.



I also didn’t know if I would be ok with the tags. Stiles ever with someone else is just not my bag but for this story and what this story was really about it worked.

Stiles is in high school. Stiles should do what you do in high school and honestly, how he went about it fit him perfectly. He’s smart.

Derek is also smart. He behaved himself but just like always with Derek, he was tortured.

Sometimes circumstance happens. Sometimes it is wrong as a whole but to the people involved it is magic.

This felt a lot like magic.



I see there is a second part. I’m gonna go read that right now.

[Meep]

No. I really can't.

Derek comes across to teenage for a thirty year old teacher, and unprofessional - thinking a student is being abused and telling another student not a colleague? Allowing a student to constantly buy him food and drinks?

Then there's Stiles, throwing paper aeroplanes at his teacher, getting drunk and hooking up with people - not liking himself afterwards for it.
Erica thinking this is a great bit of gossip and an opening for him getting with Derek.

At Stiles's second unenthusiastic hook-up I quit before they started. I can't read Stiles making random hook-ups in a Sterek fic and the whole dynamic felt wrong (Sorry Maygirl!) really not a fic for me.

[Trix · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a new and interesting view to see the cast (well, some of the members) as human (and some alive, aka Laura). I loved the fact that Stiles and Derek kept their prickly banter and personality traits (Stiles being talkative and the good side of obnoxious and Derek all gruff and aloof, when in fact he was hiding a caring nature).

And the nice thing was that their interactions and growing closeness worked really well even without the supernatural element to bring them together. There was this extra level of seriousness to Stiles, knowing how to protect Scott's fragile ego, how to prepare his dad for the time when Stiles would be leaving to college. And of course, getting past Derek's defenses but still protecting him (as much as was possible) from any rumours. But it was also surprising to see him take such a clinical approach to sexual relationships. Sure, he was aided by alcohol, but he had no problem in trying out a blowjob with Isaac and one of the twins (the threesome scene which earned the tag). Then hooking up with Danny, preferring his first time to be with someone he wasn't emotionally involved with.

But what stole 'the show' for me was the slow connection Derek and Stiles had throughout the story. How they came to learn things about each other, how they toyed with the line between friendly banter and flirtation. How they both stayed clear of it despite wanting to cross it. I liked that Laura wasn't cast as the bad guy. She was trying to protect Derek but she didn't set out to make sure nothing ever happened between Stiles and Derek. And the scene right before the graduation ceremony when Stiles left Derek an 'air force' of paper airplanes, they said their parting words and hugged... almost brought a tear to my eye.

I'm glad Stiles had the courage to seek Derek out and explain why it could actually work between them. It was a bit funny to see them planning years ahead when they hadn't even kissed once. I'm really glad for their happily ever after.

The 'threesome' tag is for one tiny scene but felt it should be noted.

[Pixie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Listen….I don’t want to be the lone hater here so someone please add the PWP sequel so I can do these as a joint review. Please & thank you…

[Plumpka · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sterek AU.
Stiles uczeń ostatniej klasy liceum i Derek jego starszy o 16 lat nauczyciel. W tej historii jest dosłownie zero romansu, a mimo to czyta się ją świetnie. Bardzo mi się podobało.

[Day-thief · Rating 4 out of 5]

RemainNameless was one of my first TW authors and will always be one of my favourites. On the re-read, I can still recommend it. Student/Teacher isn't my preferred fic type by a long shot, but I liked it here. Could have moved along a bit faster or have a bit more plot and I always hate it when the Sheriff is used for cheap jokes about killing bad boyfriends (ugh).

Oh, and don't miss out on the sequel "Paperweight"!

[Kat]

The first RemainNameless I DNF'ed.

[Sandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this was a nice little story. I can understand how the teacher thing might bother some people because obv IRL it's not cool, but I've read other teacher/student fics and I'm pretty sure this is the most tame. It's very Sterek so the reader feels the chemistry straight away, and despite crossing lines and not creating good boundaries, Derek does try (and mostly succeed) at keeping it professional as long as needed.

The second in this series could easily just be the last chapter of this story, but I think the author didn't want to end with sexy times and maybe wanted this one to stand alone without any sex in order to distance itself from the immorality of the situation. Anyway, to me it's just nice kinda fluffy Sterek with a sprinkle of angst .

[Ridley]

Dammit... I really didn't want to go down that rabbit hole again this year.
...But oh well.

[Adrian Fridge · Rating 3 out of 5]

Derek is a high school teacher, Stiles is a student at the school. It's a very tame slow burn with no Sterek sex, although there's a second part/epilogue with the PWP for those that care. However, there's two on-screen drunk hook-ups in this fic that were kind of meh, like the author was trying to squeeze in smut when it'd be fine to skim over the realistic aspect of Stiles exploring sex.

On one hand I'm glad nothing developed while Stiles and Derek have a teacher/student relationship, on the other, there were a lot of moments where it crossed a weird line for me, making me forget this is high school instead of, say, freshman year college. When I was in high school, my teachers went out of their way to correct me every time I called them by their surname without the honorary "Mr" or "Ms," and that was with the teachers I was buddies with. In college, it was more lenient, so even though no sexual boundaries were crossed, this teacher/student relationship never felt professional on a HS level.

[J · Rating 3 out of 5]

M/M fan fiction about a high school senior, Stiles, and his teacher, Derek. Two very bright people who had trouble socializing with others. Stiles starts spending his lunch hour in Derek's room and though Derek feels comfort with Stiles around, he is also deathly afraid of crossing the teacher/student boundaries. A good story but lots of editing problems and seemed to bounce around a little. What made it great for me was the follow-up story "Paperweight". See that review.

[MaelleMaud · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sterek
Teacher and student. The chemistry of these 2 is still there with the awesome writing and fun. Happy read ✨

[Irina Elena · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wonderfully realistic, plausible and non-creepy take on teacher-student relationships, but the physical component was a little lacking, so I didn't completely feel the romance.

[Jonathan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well written as usual, but no wolf stuff and not enough angst for my liking.

[Karla · Rating 5 out of 5]

This has a happy ending but it was bittersweet reading. Very touching.