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TWFEMSLASH: erica reyes & lydia martin

"what the holy hell is that?"

combined with the @teenwolffemslashcollection bingo slot "summer road trip" (also posted on ao3)

They were cheap. Not even a dollar each. Gaudy and ugly and brightly colored. Just the usual tacky post card picked up at some tourist trap wherever they stopped. Beach towns, hiking resorts, amusement parks they wheedled Derek into buying tickets for. What was the point of a summer road trip without souvenirs, right? Or rubbing it in your friends’ faces you were somewhere pretty and they weren’t.

Still, Erica spent an ungodly amount of time picking each out. Wrote a little message on the back. Left a lipstick kiss in the corner. Dropped it in the mail and resolutely didn’t let herself wonder how Lydia felt getting them, if they were going in the trash or in her bedside table drawer. 

She never brought it up when they talked, so Erica figured it was probably the latter, but she still sent them anyway, telling herself if nothing else it would keep Lydia from forgetting her while they were apart. Three months cross country was kind of a long time.

But maybe she wasn’t as subtle about it as she thought. 

A single photo, sent out of the blue.

Pairing: Erica Reyes/Lydia Martin

Words: 669

Written for @teenwolfrarepairevents August Character of the Month and @torturedpoetskywalker prompt: Post-Canon Moving In Together or Going to the same college together

In the past month, Lydia has found her groove at MIT. She's gotten used to the new environment, new objectives, new faces of going to college. Which is why she's taken aback when she walks into the main library one day and spots a familiar blonde.

“Erica?”

Erica looks up from her laptop. “Oh, Lydia! Hi.”

“I didn't know you went to MIT.”

“Yeah, computing,” Erica replies shyly.

Lydia cocks her head and remembers Erica hacking into her father's insurance records many years ago. She smiles. “It's nice to see you.”

“You too.”

Over the next few months the two girls run into each other more and more. It starts off as knowing smiles across the library —

(“Who's that?” Lydia's friends ask.

“Just someone from home.”)

— and nods in the corridor —

(“Lydia, thank God!” Erica exhales. “Do you know where this building is?”)

— but slowly they morph from old classmates to friends. It surprises Erica to begin with. After all, she used to hate Lydia and people like her. The popular kids who made her life hell. But Erica's changed a lot since freshman year of high school and so has Lydia. Away from the terrors of Beacon Hills High and the horrors of Beacon Hills supernatural scene, Erica finds it easy to like Lydia.

They start spending more time together, studying and helping each other on assignments and going to coffee shops and parks and stores.

It's so nice, Erica thinks, to talk to someone who knows what it means to be supernatural.

(“So what actually is a banshee?” Erica asks one night.

Lydia explains and Erica nods in half understanding.

“Now ask me what a chimera is,” Lydia laughs.

“Oh I missed a lot after I left, huh?”)

It's so nice, Erica thinks, to talk to someone who remembers the time Stiles snorted chocolate milk out of his nose.

(“Did anyone ever tell you about the first time he got drunk?”

Erica's eyes go wide. “No? Tell me immediately!”)

So they become friends. They hang out in each others’ rooms. Lydia encourages Erica to try climbing again. Erica helps Lydia run for student council —

(“We don't need badges.”

“That's where you're wrong, Lydia!”)

— They talk about their fears, their nightmares, their hopes and dreams. They have inside jokes —

(“Oh!” A mutual friend they’re studying with turns to Erica. “Can you make it to the party on Saturday?”

“Maybe,” Erica replies, glancing over at Lydia.

“No, mayflies,” Lydia mutters without looking up from her textbook.

Erica giggles and looks back at their friend. “Sorry, what time did you say it starts?”)

— They click.

And then one day, Erica walks into Lydia's room and throws herself down onto Lydia's bed. “God! I hate my roommate.”

Lydia, at her desk, is undisturbed by the dramatics. “You should come live here,” She says offhandedly.

“What?”

“My roommate's dropping out, going back to Poland. You should move in.”

“Okay.”

So they live together.

They live together.

All the little things about Lydia that Erica had been ignoring become unignorable. Like the way Lydia's hair always smells like strawberries or the way Lydia laughs like an angel or the way Lydia is somehow both incredibly competitive and incredibly bad at Mario Kart.

That last one becomes especially unignorable late one night when they're sitting on Erica's bed playing together. Lydia is losing, of course, so she decides that if she can't win herself the only option is to sabotage Erica. She attempts to grab the controller out of Erica's hands but can't quite reach. After two more tries, Lydia just decides to launch herself at the other girl. This works to knock the controller away. It also, however, means Lydia is now lying on top of Erica on Erica's bed.

“Hi,” Erica says.

“Hi,” Lydia replies.

Erica can feel herself blushing.

“Fuck it,” Lydia mutters and closes the gap between their lips.

Erica kisses back fiercely.

How to Participate

Simply create something about Lydia. Fic, art, gifsets, moodboards etc are all welcome. If you want your work reblogged, simply tag it #LydiaWeek2023 or tag @lydiamartinappreciation. If you write fic on ao3, you can add it to the Lydia Martin Week 2023 collection.

All works must be Lydia-centric and Lydia-positive. A further list of rules can be found here.

Prompts

NOTE: These are just a guide. You can produce visual work for the writing prompts and you can produce written work for the visual prompts. You can combine prompts. You can choose not to use the prompts. All of this is just for fun.

Writing prompts:

Mon 18th Sept: Lydia & power

Tell us about Lydia's banshee powers or about her relationship to someone in power or about a time she felt powerless or any other interpretation you might have of Lydia & power.

Tues 19th Sept: Lydia & pack

What does pack mean to her? This could be a deep introspection of her connections or just a fluffy work about pack-bonding. As always, anything goes!

Weds 20th Sept: What-If Wednesday

It's What-If Wednesday! Here for all your missing scene, fix-it and alternate universe needs.

Thurs 21st Sept: Outsider POV

How do other characters from the show/movie see Lydia?

Fri 22nd Sept: Lydia & death

In Season 3, Lydia loses Allison and Aiden. In Season 5, she loses Tracy after trying so hard to help her and we also see Lydia relive her grandmother's death. What does death mean to Lydia? How does she cope with having death-related powers?

Sat 23rd Sept: Lydia post-canon

What happens to Lydia after Teen Wolf ends? Feel free to use or ignore the movie as much as you wish for this prompt.

Sun 24th Sept: Free day!

Create whatever your heart desires!

Visual prompts:

Mon 18th Sept: Favourite outfits

Lydia is a style icon. What are your favourite looks that she wears throughout the show?

Tues 19th Sept: Favourite relationship/dynamic

This can be romantic, platonic, family etc.

Wed 20th Sept: What-If Wednesday

Join the writers on What-If Wednesday! Here for all your missing scene, fix-it and alternate universe needs.

Thurs 21st Sept: Lyrics/quotes

What words perfectly incapsculate Lydia to you? These can be quotes from the show, from tumblr, from poetry, from songs etc.

Fri 22nd Sept: Parallels

What parallels exist between Lydia and other characters on Teen Wolf? Between her and other characters from different shows or films? Between her and herself?

Sat 23rd Sept: Lydia & enemies

What are her relationships like with the "bad guys" of the show?

Sun 24th Sept: Free day!

Create whatever your heart desires!

Alternative prompts

1 - Lydia pre-canon: What did her life look like before the show?

2 - Lydia & parents: This is could be her own mum, Natalie, or someone else's parents. You could also include her grandparents in this prompt

3 - Lydia being a teenager: She might be a banshee fighting supernatural villains but she's also just a kid

Title: At the Candy Store Author: Nenagh24(EverFascinated) Prompt: I trust you Warnings: No Warnings Apply Chapter 6 Word Count: 1202 Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV) Relationships: Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Lydia Martin/Erica Reyes Tags: Fictober 2020, Motorcycle Gang AU, Bonding over peanut butter cups, Meet-Cute, or at least I think so, Engineer Stiles Stilinski, I'm not sure where the Lydia/Erica came from, but I'm here for it, Steter Week 2020, Harlequin Summary: After particularly hard days at work, Stiles will often make the trip out to his favorite candy shop. With their wide variety, he always finds something he likes which makes the drive worth it. The eye candy that stood among the rest of the treats today isn't something he expected, but more of a welcome surprise. Chapter 6 Summary: Stiles is just trying to wake up, which makes him especially easy to surprise