#petopheria

I will not let this Red Dead Redemption 2 (Outlaw) au for Teen Wolf go.

It’s going on my plotbunny list.

Could be Petopher, Petopheria, Chris/Peter/Noah, you name it. So many possibilities.

Sheriff Noah Stilinski and Bounty hunters Chris and Victoria Argent protect and run the town named Beacon Hills. When the notorious Hale gang comes to town they expect trouble and mayhem from the outlaws. They’re surprised to find a wild, mischievous but reasonable group of people who are just trying to live their best lives and make some money. 

Peter Hale, the enforcer of the gang and brother to gang leader Talia Hale, however, is another matter entirely. Shenanigans with said enforcer ensue.

When a new and rising government agency catches wind of what’s happening in Beacon Hills with Hale gang, federal agents start closing in on the town. The sheriff, the bounty hunters, and the town itself are forced to choose; Turn in people who are generally peaceful and just trying to live their lives or risk being outlawed and hunted themselves.

Oh, I’m so happy you enjoyed it! Me and @shippyrexrex had so much fun with it. Between the flashbacks to the past, the subplots about Derek and the giant campaign for Allison to dump Scott, we had an absolute blast. And yeah, poor Isaac, he was probably the only inocent part in all the drama, xD

As a special little birthday treat to everyone who follows me on here, I will post this chapter here and I will probably update Once upon a time when I wake up in 8 hours or so. I’ve hit a point in both chapters that I can put both of these up for my birthday celebration. Once I finished this outlaw au I will start writing the Chris/Noah/Peter one unless this one doesn’t do well. I might start writing that one first. But for now, Enjoy and let me know if you enjoy this!

“Christopher, dinner’s ready!” He wiped the sweat of his brow and looked up to where his lovely wife was calling out to him from the homestead.

All-day long he’d been putting down more of the fence surrounding their land, expanding upon ranch lune argentée, and it showed. He was sweaty, dirty, and slightly sunburned from the hard work. But it would pay off in the end, it always did.

He stored the wooden beams underneath the canvas tarp that he kept around to keep them dry and headed over to the house, making sure to stop by the water basin to clean himself up before he went inside.

“Smells lovely, darling.” He pressed a kiss to Victoria’s cheek as he walked past her and took a seat at the dinner table.  

They had a decent life together, him and Vic. And a large part of that was because of her cunning mind and his family’s ranch. They had all they needed and with Victoria’s insights and investments they even had some spared for the future ahead. His father had called her a downright mastermind. He was inclined to agree.

“Thank you, dear, I see you managed to clean yourself up a little. Good. Wouldn’t do for you to smell like a pig at the dinner table.” Victoria said sharply, though he noticed the way her lips curled up just a little. Indicating her amusement.

“I’m glad to see you find my suffering amusing, darling.” He smiled, patiently waiting for her to help herself to the chicken and potato roast before making himself a plate.

“As if I don’t suffer every day with your little ideas and schemes. I told you to let the fences stay put. We don’t have enough farmhands to handle the daily chores right now, let alone to expand the ranch. But you don’t listen to me, now do you?” Victoria sighed, she was a tough woman, his wife. And she wouldn’t ever let him forget it.

Yey, Victoria!

How I feel about this character:

Victoria and I had a bit of a journey. I started disliking her because I was a teenager watching the show and she was one of the baddies. When I really got into Petopher, I started to like her because she was a cool side character in the fics I read. But then I started to create content, and I... started to resent her.

Thing is, I’ve been in fandom for a decade, so I’ve been through the “they get between my ship so I HATE THEM!” thing and it wasn’t impressive at all. I realized what was happening really quick and stopped myself, because I’m not sixteen anymore and I like to think I’ve grown up a bit, xD So I thought in deep about the character and decided that everything pointed to the fact that Chris had really loved her, so I would never write their relationship any other way. With time, I started to appreciate her as a character, even if I disagree with... a lot of her choices. But she has done nothing that Peter and/or Chris haven’t done first, so that isn’t a valid argument.

At this point, she’s one of my favorite characters because she’s a cool, ruthless badass and deserves my respect. I usually make her a bit less specist, though, because she gets sooooo nazi sometimes. So do Chris. And Allison. All hunters are a bit nazi and I have to tone them down to normal bigotry so I can make them grow to be non-horrible people, but that’s part of the course.

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

Chris, of course, and Peter. Sometimes both of them at the same time. I’ve read some Victoria/Melissa and it was good and all but I’m not that excited about it. She’s a hard character to ship because she could and would destroy all the other characters.

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

Allison and Peter. Because I love family dynamics and because Peter and Victoria are similar enough to work well together or kill each other!

My unpopular opinion about this character:

I don’t know if there is any popular opinions about her, to be honest. I believe that Allison and her say some misogonistic things and that the Argent’s matriarchy is some bullshit that they pulled off their ass for plot convinience and “feminist” points, if that counts.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

I wish she had some more development and we’ve seen her be more of a mother to Allison. That and been Peter’s friend. I’ve said this before but Chris would die if those two become besties.

my OTP:

Christoria, I think. I love Petopheria, but I don’t belive in it the same way I believe in Petopher or Christoria: it’s a fun idea to play with, but it doesn’t ring as true.

my cross over ship:

I’ve been thinking about it for a while... and I can’t think in anyone. Victoria is picky, she wouldn’t give the time of the day to most people, xD

a headcanon fact:

Yes! Let’s add Jackson to the mix!

Maybe he wasn’t around in the other posts because he was in a lacrosse camp or he was an exchange student in London. And then, he comes back home a week after the Horrible Vacation of Doom. Everyone is happy to have him back, and there is hugs, and laughter.

And then Allison goes for a hug. And Jackson takes a step back and, very serious, raises his hand to his sister forehead.

“Eh... What are you doing?”

“Yo don’t seem to have a fever.”

“I don’t?”

“Then WHY ON EARTH are you dating McCall?!!”

Peter and Victoria are so proud. Also, he is the only one of their children who hasn’t had sex with Scott, so obviously he is their new favorite. Scott refuses to go to the next family dinner. No. Not when Jackson fucking Hargent is there. He will punch his head against the wall and make jokes about the size of his penis and just-- he will be terrible! They know this because he alredy did it when he dated Malia, and this time Victoria isn’t going to stop it.

It doesn’t really work, because in the next lacrosse practice Jackson makes him pay for dating both his sisters. In blood. But come on, everyone ends up in hospital once in a while! It’s not really Jackson’s fault that Scott triped in his net and made him drop it in his head a couple of times. If you are going to whine because of a mild concussion, then you shouldn’t be playing lacrosse to beging with.

Chris relents in their perpetual argument and buys him a new car within a couple of days of the incident, but that’s completely unrelated.

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Jackson is the youngest sibling. He is the youngest of all the youngest siblings. When Allison would pull their hair and Malia would scream, Jackson would only calm down if he was being cuddled with every inch of his life. If Allison was the child that you couldn’t let out of your sight because she would go and try to befriend the scary looking man fliping a knife in the corner, and Malia was the child that would try to headbut the light chimney, Jackson was the one that would throw tantrums if you didn’t pay him attention 24/7 (both Victoria and Chris agree that he got it from Peter, who is also an oversensitve attention whore). It was only berable because they had Derek, wonderful Derek, who was happy as a clam to play with his little cousin and give him his full undivided attention while the adults recharged.

Yey! Petopheria! I always love to think about mi OT3 <3

1. Who wakes up first?

Chris and Victoria wake up first. Actually, they have a little cute ritual after they turn off the alarm, where one of them counts five seconds of cuddling before getting out off of bed. Peter doesn’t find it cute because why on Earth would they want to get up to beging with???? “IT’S EARLY! GO BACK TO SLEEP! Fucking hunters, I swear, your inner clock is bullshit...”

22. Who texts more often?

Peter. Chris text back one word answers and Victoria thinks that a phone call is more efficient.

26. Who puts the fork in the microwave?

Also Peter, because he’s the one that could burn water and the one making pizza rolls at 3 a.m.

35. What do they smell when they smell amortentia?

Peter smells their three scents entangled to a point when you don’t know which one is which, old books and mint.

Chris smells Peter’s aftershave, Victoria’s perfume and a scent he can only define as “breakfast”.

Victoria smells cinnamon rolls, forget-me-nots and the air freshener they use in their house, the scent of home.

43. What is the first thing that changes when they realize they have feelings for the other?

The point that changed everything was when Victoria and Peter realized that they had feelings for each other. Both of them loved Chris already, but falling in love with each other was unexpected... and scary. It made it more real, riskier. They had to make the decision of being actually together, and it was scarier.

The ex who Chris had to break up with because of Gerard, and there's a lot of hurt between the two, but Peter is also the only one he could possibly trust with this.

Victoria and Peter don't trust and low-key hate each other, but also bond over thinly veiled threats and werewolf 101.

And, sure, they're nowhere near the point where they would want to date the others, but by the end everyone's at least friendly.

(I don't know if it makes it better or worse that they're all aware that if either of their families find out they're all dead.)

Peter stays with them until after her first full moon.

Victoria has unsurprisingly good control (because really, have you met that woman?) but she still brings up the mountain ash circle, just in case.

(She's dead either way if they chose to betray her, and she refuses to kill an innocent.)

Chris has only ever used mountain ash during a hunt before, and trapping someone always meant capturing or killing them.

He knows that she knows that.

Peter looks at him, at both of them really, with apprehension. He's the born wolf. Chris and Victoria may know what mountain ash does, but they don't know.

And everything went well so far, but he's still painfully aware that Chris is, before anything else, before everyone he loved, a hunter.

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Chris' and Victoria's families have been pushing for them to get married, preferably soon and to another hunter, or they will be married because hunter politics are a pain like that.

They don't love each other, not yet. It's a marriage of convenience more than anything else. But they're also sharing one of the worse secrets a hunter could have, and it's impossible to not get closer.

They exchange texts or emails every so often, but after the engagement Peter keeps his distance.

(He and Chris helped her track down the alpha and she killed them. He considers them more pack than his family, on some days. But Victoria never acknowledged it, and Peter wasn't going to mention it if they didn't want him.)

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Until Victoria finds out she is pregnant, and calls Peter before she even tells Chris, because what if the baby is a werewolf? They can't raise a werewolf and hope to keep it a secret.

Peter reassures her that it's rare for a human and a turned wolf to have werewolf children. (Because the hunters never bothered to teach that. Go figure.)

But it does happen.

She's going to have twins.

Two girls.

Even if they'll only find out if they're werewolves after they're actually born.

After the initial shock and after having all the information Victoria goes straight into Planning Mode, making sure that no one even adjacent to being involved is a threat to the girls.

Chris is the one who lives in a state of Concealed Panic because his own mother died when he was young, and Gerard is Gerard. And what if he fucks up? What if he turns into another Gerard?

Peter splits his time between helping Victoria and trying to calm dowm Chris. Because he isn't Gerard. The fact that he cares means that he won't be. Peter won't let him be. Victoria won't.

They see Peter more in those few months than in the past 3 years, and despite him living nowhere near them, it's weirdly, nicely, domestic.

They're all aware that they're this close to changing their relationship, if they let it. They're comfortable with each other, but they never say the words, never talk about it at all.

They know they can't. No matter what happens, none of them is going to put the girls in that kind of danger.

She has her doctor's appointments 2 states over, under a fake name and with enough threats against their families to make sure no one is talking.

Peter is already in town when Victoria's water breaks.

He can't be seen anywhere near the hospital, and Chris is with Victoria, so he can't text him any updates. He hates it.

He finally gets a text a few hours later.

Both the girls are healthy.

One of them is a shifter.

Victoria's werewolf healing is taking care of the worst, and they leave town before the end of the day.

It's not uncommon for packs to take in orphaned wolves. It's not even a lie. Not really.

Victoria and Chris are the proud parents of Allison Argent.

Peter takes Malia back with him to Beacon Hills.