Laura Hale Appreciation Week: Day 3 — Alpha Laura

laura hale + the missing years

Almost 8K of fic for @laurahale-appreciation - here you’ll find themes 1 through 4, because I’m an overachiever. 

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Summary: Most teenagers would run off if they found a bleeding half-wolf, half-lady with red eyes snarling at them. But Stiles’ fight or flight response has always been a little fucked, and Laura Hale looks like she could use a break.

AN: blame @clotpolesonly for encouraging my Laura Bailey faceclaim. This was a blast to write - all the Laura & Stiles banter canon never gave us. 

Also, the Sterek of it all deserves a sequel. That I might write. Eventually. Maybe. 

Preview: 

Stiles Stilinski finds out about werewolves the usual way. Because a wounded ladywolf passes out in the back of his Jeep. 

He doesn’t know exactly when she climbed in, because he’s been on an errands run for a while now, and the grocery store was just the final stop. All he knows is that the sun is shining rather brightly, his grocery bags are cutting into his hands, and there’s a bleeding woman in the back of Roscoe, snarling at being discovered. And also, she’s clearly a werewolf. 

Fangs and claws don’t exactly scream vampire. And the facial hair just reminds him of Wolverine, so he’s sticking with werewolf. And a girl werewolf too, which is all kinds of badass - they have actual girl werewolves in Beacon Hills of all places. Suck it, Forks! 

It’s impossible to try and recognize her with her face like this, but she might just be someone he knows. Who is actually a werewolf. Because apparently he knows actual werewolves now and that is both extremely cool and really fucking terrifying. 

“Fuck,” he says the word mostly because he likes the way that first fricative feels. 

The woman responds by letting out a growl - which really sells him on the werewolf thing, because there is very little humanity in that sound. It’s the sound that a cornered animal makes to sound threatening, trying to trick a predator into leaving them alone. 

So she’s alone. Don’t werewolves have packs, like wolves? How closely do they resemble wolves? Are there knots or is that just porn he’s totally never seen before no Sir not ever? Do werewolves have Alphas? Clearly they don’t just shift into actual wolves - because this girl is like a weird hybrid creature. And they don’t just shift on the night of the full moon.

Title:  At the Edge of the Preserve

Rating:  T

Warnings:  None

Theme:  Dealer’s Choice

Words:  1398

Summary:  Laura goes looking for Derek yet again.

Summary: There is a house on the Beacon Hills preserve that sits and rots. It's a dangerous house all on its own, old and burned and far away from the nearest help. But there's also a rumor of something inside the house that was supposed to leave a long time ago.

Rating: T

Genre: Horror

Words: 3,811

There’s a strange majesty that time and fiction have assigned to haunted houses. They simply last forever. If a place is big enough or old enough, there will be a haunted house. Something will stand on some street corner or on a lonely road beyond the street lights, spooky and unkempt, often empty and decaying. There is the understanding that there is something rotten inside, and it will withstand attempts to purge it. Leave it alone. Don’t look too long or poke at it, and it very well may sit quietly.

But that’s not quite true. The truth about haunted houses is that the world does try to get rid of them. Homeowners’ associations and contractors and neighborhood developers all try to get rid of them. The world is hostile to things that are ugly an unprofitable.

The truth is that the houses fight back.

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It’s the fourth time in six months that Peter has had to submit to the indignity of a town hall meeting.

Mrs. Weinstein has been sobbing at the microphone for twelve minutes. Her husband stands stoically at her side with an arm around her as she blubbers out a halting story that most of the sparse gathering in the gymnasium can’t understand. Every time her voice hits a hysterical pitch (often), the squeal of feedback cuts off the words, and she doesn’t bother to repeat them. She’s upset. Upset about ‘the woman in the house.’

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Laura Hale & Peter Hale Characters: Laura Hale, Peter Hale, Derek Hale, Cora Hale, Alan Deaton, Brunski (Teen Wolf), Conrad Fenris Additional Tags: Alpha Laura Hale, Post-Hale Fire (Teen Wolf), Violence, Discussion of Rape, Laura Hale Lives Series: Part 1 of Howl Summary:

In the aftermath of the fire that killed most of her pack, Laura tries to live up to the mantle of Alpha.