FAUX PAWS AND WOLF CLAWS

I WANT AN AU IN WHICH STILES IS THE SON OF THE KING/CHIEFTAIN AND IT IS CONSIDERED TRADITION FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY TO HAVE THEIR VERY OWN TAME WEREWOLVES FROM BIRTH, LIKE, THEIR VERY OWN LIFELONG FURRY BODYGUARDS

THE WEREWOLVES ARE TRAPPED IN THEIR WOLF BODIES BY MAGICAL COLLARS THAT ALSO FORCE THEM TO BE OBEDIENT TO AND PROTECTIVE OF THE PERSON THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO GUARD

ANYWAY, PRINCE STILES IS BORN AND IS DEREK IS IMMEDIATELY “ASSIGNED” TO HIM

AND WATCHES OVER HIM AND WATCHES HIM GROW, RIGHT FROM THE CRADLE ONWARDS; DEREK LETS A BABY STILES PULL ON HIS FUR AND GIGGLE AND FALL ASLEEP AGAINST HIM; DEREK FOLLOWS A TODDLER STILES AROUND TO MAKE SURE HE DOESN’T FALL AND HURT HIMSELF OR PICK UP THE WRONG SORTS OF THINGS AND EAT THEM; DEREK SITS NEXT TO A YOUNG STUDENT STILES AS STILES IS SUBJECTED TO HOURS OF BORING LESSONS FROM PRIVATE TUTORS AND AMUSES HIMSELF BY PLAYING CATCH WITH DEREK’S WAVING TAIL; DEREK SETTLES AT STILES’S FEET DURING DINNERTIME AND GENTLY TAKES FOOD FROM STILES’S FINGERS WHEN STILES REACHES DOWN TO FEED HIM

IT DOESN’T TAKE LONG FOR DEREK TO REALIZE THAT HE’S STARTED TO CARE ABOUT THE STILINSKI HEIR MORE THAN HE SHOULD, THAT IT’S GONE BEYOND MAGIC AND RIGHT INTO HIS HEART, BECAUSE ALL HE WANTS IS FOR STILES TO BE SAFE, FOR STILES TO BE HAPPY, AND IT’S -

IT’S HORRIFYING BECAUSE DEREK IS BEING FORCED INTO THIS SERVITUDE, AND HE FEELS BETRAYED BY HIS OWN MIND BECAUSE HE’S STARTING TO LIKE IT, TO WANT IT, TO NEED IT BECAUSE IT ALLOWS HIM TO CURL AROUND STILES AT NIGHT AND KEEP STILES WARM

DEREK HATES BEING TRAPPED IN HIS WOLF’S BODY, HATES TRYING SO HARD TO MAINTAIN HIS HUMANITY IN AN ANIMAL’S BODY, BUT HE LOVES STILES, LOVES STILES LIKE HE WOULD LOVE HIS OWN CUB, LIKE HE WOULD LOVE HIS OWN…

…MATE

AND THAT’S - THAT’S HORRIFIC, BECAUSE DEREK HAS ALL BUT RAISED STILES, AND YES, STILES IS SIXTEEN, NOW, BUT HE’S STILL YOUNG AND DEREK IS A BEAST UNSUITED TO HIM, NOT EVEN HUMAN, A WOLF WITH SLAVERING JAWS AND TALONED PAWS, MADE TO REND AND KILL, AND LOVE SHOULD BE BEYOND HIM, BUT IT ISN’T, EVEN THOUGH IT’S SO WRONG

MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE DEREK HASN’T SPENT TIME WITH ANYONE OTHER THAN STILES FOR YEARS AND YEARS; MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE STILES’S SCENT IS THE ONLY SCENT HE RECOGNIZES AS PACK ANYMORE

OR MAYBE IT’S JUST SOME ROOT OF EVIL WITHIN DEREK, TO DESIRE A GROWING STILES LIKE THIS, AND MAYBE THAT EVIL IS WHY DEREK HAS BEEN SPELLED INTO SERVITUDE IN THE FIRST PLACE, MAYBE THIS IS WHY HE’S BEING PUNISHED

AND IT DOESN’T HELP THAT STILES LOVES HIM BACK, ALBEIT FAR MORE INNOCENTLY; IT DOESN’T HELP THAT STILES IS AS PROTECTIVE OF HIM AS HE IS OF STILES; IT DOESN’T HELP THAT STILES SEEMS LESS CLOSE TO OTHER HUMAN BEINGS THAN HE DOES TO DEREK, THAT STILES PREFERS SPENDING TIME WITH DEREK RATHER THAN THE GIRLS AND BOYS HE’S INTRODUCED TO AS POTENTIAL SPOUSES, THE GIRLS AND BOYS THAT MAKE DEREK WANT TO DESTROY THEM FOR SO MUCH AS HOPING FOR STILES’S TOUCH, FOR STILES’S FAVOR, FOR STILES’S BODY

BECAUSE IT’S A BODY THAT DEREK WANTS TO CLAIM AS HIS OWN, BESTIAL AS HE IS, AND HE FEELS MORE AND MORE LIKE HE’S A DANGER TO STILES, BUT HE STILL CAN’T LEAVE, STILL CAN’T PULL AWAY, BECAUSE HE IS AS BOUND TO STILES BY DESIRE AS HE IS BY MAGIC

AND THEN ONE NIGHT, WARM AND NAKED IN BED AND WITH HIS ARMS WRAPPED AROUND DEREK, STILES WHISPERS: “I SWEAR IT SEEMS LIKE YOU KNOW ME, SOMETIMES, THAT YOU GET ME, AND - AND I KNOW THEY TOLD ME NEVER TO TAKE YOUR COLLAR OFF, THAT YOU’D GO BERSERK AND KILL ME, BUT I DON’T… I DON’T BELIEVE THEM. I JUST DON’T. YOU’RE MINE, AND I’M YOURS, RIGHT? YOU COULDN’T HURT ME ANY MORE THAN YOU COULD HURT YOURSELF. SO I’M… I’M TAKING IT OFF, AND I’M - I WANT YOU TO BE WITH ME ‘CAUSE YOU’RE FREE, YOU KNOW? NOT BECAUSE YOU’RE BOUND. YOU’RE NOT MY PET; YOU’VE NEVER BEEN MY PET. YOU’RE MY FRIEND.”

AND DEREK’S SOUL BURNS AT THAT, BURNS WITH VICTORY AT BEING LOVED SO TRULY, AND BURNS WITH DEFEAT AT BEING LABELED A FRIEND, BUT HOW ELSE WOULD STILES VIEW AN ANIMAL? STILES DOESN’T KNOW THAT WEREWOLVES ARE PART-HUMAN; IT’S BEEN KEPT FROM HIM, LIKE IT’S BEEN KEPT FROM EVERY ROYAL HEIR UNTIL IT’S THEIR TIME TO INHERIT

DEREK HOLDS HIS BREATH AS STILES TAKES OFF THE COLLAR, AS STILES HOLDS HIS BREATH AS WELL - AND THEN, IN A SURGE OF MAGIC, DEREK IS FREE

AND HE TRANSFORMS, UNSTOPPABLY, SNARLING AS HIS BONES LENGTHEN AND HIS FORM CHANGES, AND HE HEARS STILES GASP BENEATH HIM, SUDDENLY SKIN-TO-SKIN AGAINST DEREK AS DEREK LOOMS OVER HIM AND TRAPS STILES’S WRISTS IN ONE HAND AND PLACES THE OTHER OVER STILES’S MOUTH

"DON’T SCREAM," DEREK SAYS, HIS HUMAN VOICE DISUSED AND HOARSE, AS STILES STARES UP AT HIM WITH WIDE, FRIGHTENED EYES

I MEAN

WHERE ARE U GETTING THEM DYLAN

THERE MUST BE A LIMIT

THEY JUST APPEAR

"If it makes you less sad, I’ll die by your hand."

But Lydia’s hand is steady, her touch light despite its profound presence. It’s not a comfort. Comfort isn’t something they give lightly, not even to each other. Comfort is a luxury that can only be earned. Taken. Stolen, even, in the quiet hours before dawn, but never given.

Peter taught them well. Nothing is free.

Instead, that touch serves as a reminder — of his training, of their struggle, of what it will mean if he can finally do this. What they could become.

We could be free, he thinks, so softly because even to think it feels like a jinx. Even to give it an inner voice could be too much.

If Peter ever guessed… if he even dreamed of the possibility…

Stiles rolls his shoulders, pushes away the fear until his mind was as empty as the clearing, as cold and pure as the snow.

"No," he answers. "Up and under the ribs."

AU: Body Swap

Guest host Madison - Oh Derek  (Not Another Teen Wolf Podcast Episode #60 – Waylaid By Narnia)

I agree with the first part, even Peter said he used to be a lot like Scott. A lot of trauma changed things for Derek and he closed up, but he still tried to do good. As he has been mellowing out (or sinking into a worse state of depression due to his anger burning out as things continued to get worse, depending on how you look at it) he started returning to his base state and was actually better than Scott (due to not caring if he lived or died so long as his actions saved someone).

I disagree with the last part as a lot of what has happened to Derek has mostly been other people’s choices and/or chance/shitty circumstances.

He didn’t choose to have his uncle manipulate Paige into getting bitten. He didn’t choose to have her reject the bite and have a drawn out painful death. He did choose to end her suffering sooner, an act of mercy that left him with blue wolf eyes and supposedly (according to mythos that sounds like complete BS) prevents him from becoming a true alpha.

He didn’t choose to have a hunter seduce him when he was vulnerable, likely under the age of consent, or choose to have her burn his family alive. He didn’t choose to have a psycho uncle who killed his sister or any of the other things Peter did. He didn’t choose to have PTSD and tons of issues due to all of the trauma in his life.

He does bare some responsibility for his tenure as alpha as he knew about some of the danger ahead of time and was overconfident about his ability to overcome it, but he is not responsible for the actions of Matt/Gerard/the alpha pack/the darach (which, btw, he did not choose to be magically roofied into a relationship with her), etc

If he had had guidance from Deaton and more consistent support from Scott (this is before solidly teaming up at the end of 3A), he might have mellowed out sooner and things turned out better. A huge part of the fandom saw his potential to be a good alpha, but the writers constantly stacked the deck against him to ensure he failed at practically everything.

There are some bad choices Derek has made, but most of the bad things, especially the big ones, were not his fault. Can we not participate in victim blaming?

Scott is not the version of Derek that didn’t make bad choices, Scott is the version of Derek that didn’t have a shitty life and actually had people supporting and guiding him. (- ravewulf)

Also, I’d love to know what ‘good’ choices Scott has made.

The text pretty much keeps Scott away from having to make any difficult choices and pretty much all of his choices to date have been fairly selfish.

To name the ones off the top of my head - and this is in no way a comprehensive list

- Scott chose to care more about getting a girl, playing lacrosse and going to a party than he did about the fact that he could kill his mum and best friend

- He chose not to learn control until he realised that control was important if he wanted the girl and to play lacrosse

- He chose to kiss Lydia (which happened partly because he refused to learn how to control his wolf)

- Scott chose Jackson over the people of BH and at least six more people died because of it - I’m not saying he shouldn’t have helped Jackson. I’m saying he should have had a plan beyond ‘stop Derek’

- He chose not to tell Stiles about Gerard threatening Melissa, leading to Stiles eventually being beaten by Gerard and we never saw him even ask Stiles how he was or apologise

- He chose to tell Deaton and he chose to go along with Deaton’s plan to swap out Gerard’s pills with Mountain Ash

- He chose to force Derek to his knees and make him bite Gerard. As far as we know he never even considered asking Derek for his help

- He also chose to throw how he tricked Derek, pretending to be part of his pack and family, back in his face. It wasn’t enough to force Derek to use his body as a weapon, he had to mock him about it

- He chose not to tell Allison the truth about her mum trying to murder him, contributing to Allison being open to manipulation by Gerard, leaving her to nearly becoming a murderer - remember that if Chris hadn’t been there to knock off her aim, Allison wasn’t going to back down and she would have killed Erica and Boyd and probably never looked back

- He chose to throw Isaac - an abuse survivor - across the room and into a wall for daring to look at Allison

- He chose to keep two murderers around for reasons - but obviously not caring that Derek was used by them, that Isaac witnessed his pack member being murdered, and that Stiles and Lydia saw the aftermath

- He chose to have ‘a moment’ with Kira when Isaac was hurting on the ground

- I can’t even remember what Scott chose to do while Derek spent two entire days trying to hunt Stiles down

- He chooses to trust Deaton over anyone else without ever asking questions - even when it’s about Stiles

- He chooses to trust the Argents over Derek, even when he knows the truth - and choosing the Argents leads to Erica and Boyd being tortured and Isaac being stabbed multiple times

His good choices seem to be being generally good natured and not killing people.

But being good natured isn’t the same as being a good person or making good choices and not killing people is - in that kind of life - a lofty ideal, but not one that’s at all practical. And could just as easily be putting more nameless people - and therefore people Scott doesn’t think about - at risk. Like, what’s Gerard doing? And who is Decualion terrorising now he can see again?

(via mynuet)

Oh, God, thank you for this beautifully worded post. You said it way better than I could have.

(via flower-of-the-desert)

they’re pointless and used for self-amusement and nothing more. he’s a terrible director and has no idea how to make something golden. 

au | stiles has a one sided crush

Teen Wolf AU: Formula 1

Derek Hale is the face of the Ferrari racing team, known for his fierce and ruthless driving style, as well as his cold and distant attitude towards the media and other drivers. No one likes Derek Hale but everyone must acknowledge that he’s a force to be reckoned with.

Stiles Stilinski is the new face on the circuit, racing for Toro Rosso, but everyone recognizes that he’s a natural talent behind the wheel of a F1 car. He’s fast and cunning  and not to be underestimated.

Things heat up between the two drivers when Stiles makes a rookie mistake and collides with Derek’s car, ending a race for the both of them. It’s a bad start for the season and Stiles is more than disappointed with himself. It doesn’t help that Derek is absolutely livid and hellbent on trying to make Stiles feel as bad as possible even after he apologized.

Stiles refuses to let the more experienced driver walk all over him just because he’s new, which leads to escalation of their conflict. Derek can’t help but admire the guts the new kid has as he lets Derek know in vivid detail just where he can shove his attitude. Before they know, their arguments and banter turn into something they both actually enjoy, and eventually a heated quarrel leads to Stiles pushed up against a wall with Derek’s insistent tongue in his mouth.

Sterek AU - Where Stiles and Derek are serial killers (prequel)

(part 1)

"Derek, don’t you think you’ve had enough? You’ve been stabbed, betrayed, shot, impaled, tortured, dragged through the mud, electrocuted, your entire family was murdered and your uncle is fucking crazy. Plus-"

"…I get it, Stiles. What is your point?"

"Don’t you think it’s about time you get some revenge? The world has fucked you over, I think it’s time to do a little fucking of your own, or well, stabbing, impaling, etc., etc."

"I’m not a killer. You and I both know that." 

"Yeah, but you’re a predator. So, let’s play a game, Derek. Let’s chase some prey. And maybe we can enjoy the meat of our labor.”

scott and stiles nervously making eye contact at school the next morning

scott hesitantly taking stiles hand under the lunch table and stiles letting him hold it until lunch is over

scott and stiles meeting up at the jeep after last period “to talk”

scott and stiles “discussion” turning into their first nervous and giddy make out session

No but really, why don’t we talk about this?  How he socks him GOOD, not just a light punch, and Scott has to pull him back to KEEP HIM FROM DOING MORE.  THIS RIGHT HERE FOLKS, this is our first view of that rage he hides behind the humor.  THIS IS WHY I WRITE HIS WOLF AS SO AGGRESSIVE, because take away the sarcasm coping mechanism and you have a truly fucked up kid.  A kid who holds it together for his friends and dad.  A kid who had to grow up fast.  A kid who saw way too much of the worst this world has to offer even before he knew werewolves were a thing.