#sb2017

I saw idle speculation about how many themes could be fitted into one fic, so I give you 8 (9 if we include the wildcard):  (SBWILDCARD1,) SBHP, SBMAGICSTILES, SBFERAL, SBALPHA, SBSHIFTEDDEREK, SBBAMFSTILES, SBREDHOOD, SBCOMFORT

Wordcount: 8.7k

Excerpt:

“Aw, c’mon!” Stiles said. “It’s not even that believable! I mean, really, a Hogwarts student somehow gets bitten by a werewolf and goes full-on feral wolfman and now spends his days snacking on wayward students? Don’t get me wrong, it makes for a great campfire tale, but—”

“You do know it’s not a legend, right?” Allison cut in.

“‘Course it is,” Scott said, confused. “We all heard it as first years. It’s tradition to scare the little kids with it. Don’t they tell it down in the Slytherin dorms too?”

Allison rolled her eyes and dragged herself properly upright, dislodging Scott’s arm much to his disappointment. “Sure they do, but that’s not what I meant,” she said. “I mean, it’s not just a scary story. It’s true.”

Stiles tossed a decorative red and gold throw pillow at her, which she caught with her stupidly good quidditch player reflexes. “Get out of here!” he said. “It’s just a stupid myth made up to keep students out of the woods. Which, by the way, I have gone snooping in many a time, and I have never seen even a hint of any mutant werewolf slavering for a victim.”

“I’m telling you, Stiles, it actually happened,” Allison said, and she really did look like she believed it. Usually when she was pulling his leg about something, she had a hard time keeping her grin under control, but she looked perfectly earnest now as she leaned forward, elbows on her knees. “It wasn’t exactly the way the story gets told,” she allowed, “but he really is out there.”

“The monster?” Scott asked, and really, a tried and true Gryffindor like him had no right sounding that spooked by the mere possibility.