laura didn’t die / @laurahale-appreciation

For Day 7 of @laurahale-appreciation Week: Dealer’s Choice

“Sometimes ghosts can haunt each other.”

Written for Day 5 of the @laurahale-appreciation week: Loveable Laura! I hope you enjoy my 500 words of taking this prompt very literally :D Derek has loved Laura all his life.

He has also hated her all his life. Sometimes both at once. But that’s what it means to have siblings - you love them, you hate them, you can’t life with them, but even less without them.

All in all, though, Derek loves Laura and he knows she loves him, too, and that’s what’s most important.

~*~

Isaac has something of a hero worship for Laura. Or possibly a crush. Probably both.

She’s almost larger than life to him, an avenging angel coming down on Isaac’s father and offering him a new family. She’s not quite a mother to him, but more than a sister nevertheless. She’s his hero and he loves her.

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Braeden loves Laura, of course she does.

Just not how she used to, there’s no more romantic love or sexual attraction. Their breakup was amicable, and while they both needed some time apart, there are no hard feelings between them now. Friendship is all that binds them now and that’s okay. They still love each other, just differently.

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Stiles used to have the biggest crush on Laura.

Well, he also had a fear boner for Cora, and he has a crush on Derek now, so he might just have a thing for the Hales. At least his crush on Derek is being reciprocated, otherwise he’d really worry about himself and his stupid heart.

But Laura was still his first Hale crush and he never got quite over the feelings of awe and love she inspired and still inspires in him. Laura is just very lovable.

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Allison hates Laura.

She’s everything her parents taught her to hate - a werewolf, an alpha drunk on power, biting Allison’s classmates left, right, and center, and completely unrepentant even when confronted with her crimes.

But she’s also kind, taking in Isaac when she didn’t have to, smart, giving even Stiles and Lydia a run for their money when she puts her mind to it, and funny, often the only one who can get Derek to laugh.

And she doesn’t give up on Allison. Laura never excludes her from pack events, even in Allison’s darkest hour, when she listens to Kate and Gerard, poisoned by their words and fears and hate. Laura lets her rage and vent and rampage, offering herself up as an easy target, but keeping Allison from attacking anyone else. It’s something Allison cannot thank her enough for; she shudders to imagine what lengths she might have gone to otherwise to defend an untenable ideology. Laura accepts her apologies afterwards and extends her own apologies in return, listens to Allison and talks to her when Allison allows it. Laura is the first one outside of Allison’s immediate family to hear the new Argent motto: “Nous protégeons ceux qui ne peuvent pas se protéger eux-même.”

And Laura is the one whose answering kiss speaks of pride and elation and pure love.

laura/allison + from the other side

i continue to be very predictable in my outcomes XD

DAMN IT alkdjfgh oh gosh, okay, let’s see, uhhh.....

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Laura’s bike hummed under her as she idled in the driveway of the rec center. She didn’t bother to check her phone display. She knew she was on time. Theo was just late.

When he finally came jogging around the side of the building from the basketball courts, already grimacing, she was a little annoyed. At least he had changed back into his leathers; she would never have let him out on the road in gym shorts.

He snatched up his helmet and offered her a hopeful smile. She raised a reproachful eyebrow at him. 

“Okay, yes, I know, I know,” he panted. “I was just--”

“Talking to Scott,” Laura finished for him. “Yeah, I figured.” Theo opened his mouth to deny it, cheeks red from more than just the heat, but Laura cut him off. “Also Derek texted me a warning that you might forget completely because you were busy flirting.”

Theo rolled his eyes and jammed the helmet on his head. “As if Derek has any room to talk with how much he moons over that Stiles guy. Did you know he forgot to pick Cora up from her soccer practice last week because he and Stiles were making goo-goo eyes at each other?”

“Are we gonna ride at any point today?” Laura asked. “Or do you just wanna talk boys?”

Theo mounted his bike. “We can talk girls, if you’d prefer,” he said. “How’s Allison?”

Fighting a stubborn blush of her own, Laura revved her bike. “Probably fighting to keep her crew from leaving right about now,” she said pointedly. “Because we’re late. This wasn’t easy to arrange, you know.”

“You didn’t have to wait for me,” Theo pointed out, eyes on his gloves as he pulled them on. “This peace talk has been months in the making. I know how important it is. To you, and the crew.”

Laura’s sigh was swallowed up by the low growl of the bikes. “Theo.”

She waited until he finally raised his eyes to meet hers. For weeks after she’d gotten him out of his old house, he hadn’t been willing to at all. He’d been smaller then, thin and scrappy and angry at the world. That Theo never would never have smiled at a boy the way Laura had seen him smile at Scott lately. No matter how many times he was late for their rides, she could never not be grateful for that.

“You’re important to the crew too,” she said. “And to me.”

The heavy helmet made it hard to see Theo’s face. Some days she was convinced that was half the reason he’d taken to riding so eagerly. Other days, he would leave home in a terrible mood, be gone for hours, then come back windswept and grinning as openly as he ever did, and Laura remembered why she’d taken to it so many years ago.

Honestly, Laura didn’t need to see his face to know how much her words affected Theo. Not when he looked away, cleared his throat, and came back with, “Important enough to buy me a new bike?”

Laura snorted. “Please, kid. You already got one freebie from me. Don’t push your luck.”

She tugged on her own helmet to the satisfying sound of Theo’s laugh. Judging by the glimpse of a tanned face peeking around the building’s edge, she wasn’t the only one enjoying it. With a quick wave in Scott’s direction, she kicked up her stand and peeled out of the parking lot. Theo was close on her heels, revving his engine like the total showoff he was.

THANKS SO MUCH!!!

ooh, that’s a great question, bless you

Stackson  -  if it still qualifies lol, but it only has like 1k fics compared to Sterek’s 50k so i’m gonna go ahead and count it

Dallison  -  vastly underrated, god, why don’t more people ship it?? alkdfjhg

Stallison  -  they could be so good i need moooore

Laurallison  -  for many of the same reasons as Dallison tbh but with a different flavor to it