#petermelissa

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ANddd there you have it, all 16 ships left in this rarepair ships poll! Reminder, don't forget to vote for the *romantic relationship*, not for any platonic friendship. Like always, you will have 1 week to vote, and the winners of this round will move onto the round 5 next week, so have fun and vote to your hearts content! And see you next week for round 5!

Hey all! To round out the Best Teen Wolf Rarepair ship tournament, I'm going to give the rankings of how every Rarepair ship placed of the 128 Teen Wolf Rarepair Ships in it. How I'm ranking them is going by the rounds. So the Rarepair ships that didn't make it past the first round are the lowest, then second, third round etc - within each round, they're ranked by how many or few votes they got.

So if a Rarepair ship made it past the first round, I'll put their total votes just to see how many they got throughout the whole competition, and just for those who might be curious - but total votes don't have any bearing on their placements. So one Rarepair ship might have gotten a lot one round and very few the next round, but have more total votes than the Rarepair ship ranked above them because that Rarepair ship got more votes the second round.

I know this ranking isn't full proof, but I'm just doing this for fun, so again let's not take it too seriously. This way just made the most sense for how each Rarepair ship should be ranked. Also I will highlight a Rarepair ship's vote count red to indicate that it was eliminated that round.

So, without further ado, the rankings! Part 6 😁 (Part 1)(Part 2)(Part 3)(Part 4)(Part 5)

#20-#11

20. Cordia (Cora/Lydia) - 136 votes

(Round 1: 259 votes | Round 2: 188 votes | Round 3: 136 votes | Total Votes: 583)

19. Stallison (Stiles/Allison) - 137 votes

(Round 1: 239 votes | Round 2: 134 votes | Round 3: 137 votes | Total Votes: 510)

18. Dargent (Derek/Chris) - 140 votes

(Round 1: 230 votes | Round 2: 167 votes | Round 3: 140 votes | Total Votes: 537)

17. Derek/Isaac/Stiles - 151 votes

(Round 1: 205 votes | Round 2: 183 votes | Round 3: 151 votes | Total Votes: 539)

16. Allerica (Allison/Erica) - 53 votes

(Round 1: 183 votes | Round 2: 164 votes | Round 3: 159 votes | Round 4: 53 votes | Total Votes: 559)

15. Jisaac (Jackson/Isaac) - 72 votes

(Round 1: 238 votes | Round 2: 149 votes | Round 3: 158 votes | Round 4: 72 votes | Total Votes: 617)

14. Stira (Stiles/Kira) - 98 votes

(Round 1: 198 votes | Round 2: 212 votes | Round 3: 145 votes | Round 4: 98 votes | Total Votes: 653)

13. Peter/Melissa - 102 votes

(Round 1: 225 votes | Round 2: 200 votes | Round 3: 181 votes | Round 4: 102 votes | Total Votes: 708)

12. Allira (Allison/Kira) - 104 votes

(Round 1: 239 votes | Round 2: 175 votes | Round 3: 187 votes | Round 4: 104 votes | Total Votes: 705)

11. Kydia (Kira/Lydia) - 108 votes

He could make her powerful. He could bring forth all of that potential, all of that strength and righteous fury to the surface, make her into the perfect woman and wolf to stand by his side.

ilu so much right now anon

Peter doesn't think much of Melissa at first. Because she's a nurse - we've seen the respect Peter has for medical professionals - because she's a single mom with a teenage son, because she seems tired, ordinary and pedestrian and boring, the kind of person Peter picks up to play around with, to fuck with Scott's head, to make Scott angry. To cause suffering just because he can. Peter doesn't really get enough of that on the business side of things these days - once you get a certain reputation people are afraid to step out of line; and you can't just hurt people whenever you want, you can't get a reputation for being crazy, right? - so he amuses himself where he can. He thinks Melissa is the ticket, for now (IDK how he knows Scott - maybe he's a low-level messenger boy, trying to make some money as not-illegally as he can; maybe he lifts some ketamine from Dr. Deaton's now and again; maybe Scott just knows who Peter is because Stiles's dad is a cop. "He's a criminal, Mom!" Scott hisses, and Peter raises his wine glass with a smirk. "Alleged criminal. Such an important distinction to make, don't you think?" and Melissa admonishes Scott about his manners.) 

But Melissa doesn't even accept when he first asks her out on a date.

Which. I'm sorry?

She smiles at him, pretty and sweet and just a touch apologetic, thanks but no thanks, you're not really my type, I don't think we'd suit, rushing him along and back out the hospital door before Peter knows which way is up, and he's standing there, stunned, on the sidewalk.

and lbr, Peter is contrary enough to enjoy a no. Particularly one that came in such nice packaging and left his head spinning.

Thus begins the great seduction, flowers - which immediately go to patient's rooms in the ICU - chocolates - carefully distributed among some of the children's wards and the nursing home - little things he think she'd like, which are always sent back with apologetic notes (until, maybe there's something that does catch her eye, something she really does want for herself. a little spiral charm on a thin silver chain?). and when she finally does accept - dinner! - Peter goes to pull out all the stops. The nicest restaurant in town, the nicest table. And Derek and Isaac are looking at Peter all WTF, raising their eyebrows and glancing at each other, like, what is even happening here? 

also Melissa totally hits that on their first date because hello, this was all just foreplay. Melissa has needs. 

and one night Peter goes back to Melissa's apartment, bleeding from a run-in with one of the other businessmen in town, and Melissa pulls out an alarmingly well-fitted first aid kit. because what is she, an idiot? she works at the city hospital. She knows who the Hales are. and Peter probably falls in love there, not just infatuation, not just an interest in the game, but falls in love sitting in Melissa's bathtub, blood swirling over the cheap fiberglass and down the drain, while she stitches him up in her fuzzy pjs. 

Scott hates Peter on sight, and the loathing only grows, even though Peter is totally involved in being the best stepdaddy ever. he buys him a nice new motorcycle for his sixteenth birthday, which Scott stubbornly refuses even though the one he can afford is a total piece of crap. 

"It's good that he wants to make it on his own," Peter says, diplomatic, and Melissa sighs. 

Also! Scott and Stiles meeting Derek, Peter's nephew and right hand man! Which goes about as well as can be expected, and all Hale-McCall events leave Derek twitchy and Scott sullen, because Derek doesn't really know what to do with his new pseudo-cousin - the same things that work with Cora don't work with Scott, like showing off knives, or scars. arm wrestling! - and Scott doesn't want any part of this. At all. 

"Derek can't follow me," Peter tells Melissa one night. "He doesn't --"

"He doesn't have the killer instinct," Melissa says, and Peter nods. Of course she sees it. Derek is great at what he does - looking scary, being scary, rough and angry and ready to crack a head when that's what needs to be done. But he doesn't have vision. Cora might be a suitable replacement, and Derek would be loyal to her. But Peter would be lying if he said that Scott wasn't part of Melissa's appeal. Perhaps Peter could win him over one day; Derek would be loyal to Scott too. Already is, all on his own. 

SO OKAY Melissa first starts taking over the hospital-doctor side of things, the drugs and the back-alley surgeons, all the little things Peter used to do to keep doctors, the administrators, the donors in his pockets.  And she's very good at it - the gladhanding, smoothing over all the little bumps in the road; the logistics, what goes where and with who and when. She's nice and pretty and pleasant, which is good enough for some; and when it isn't she has a stomach for blood. She doesn't skim off the top, she doesn't need any product of her own to keep her going. So while it starts there, it's certainly not where it ends. Once Scott graduates high school she quits her nursing job, marries her rich, attractive fiance, and doesn't look back.