(Fuck you they said) As they threw their threads from their wedding bed (1/9)
Summary: First Son Stiles Stilinski just accidentally caused an international incident. And apparently the only way to save human-werewolf relations is to marry him off to Prince Derek of Triskele. Stiles is going to need all of his acting skills to make the marriage look real, because the Prince is kind of a fucking asshole.
AN: Maybe youāve heard about this, maybe you havenāt, but my attempt at Arranged Marriage for @sterek-bingo kind of got out of hand. It grew 3 extra prompts and about 50+k extra of enemies to allies to friends to lovers, so... Updating throughout bingo month, every 4 days or so. Chapter length may vary, but 10k is a solid estimate.Ā
Stiles honestly didnāt mean to cause an international incident this time. Had there been times where he had proceeded with a plan fully aware that it was likely to cause an international incident of some kind? Absolutely, not that he ever would have admitted to it in front of his father (or anyone except his closest confidantes, if he had those).
This time, though, heād honestly just been intending to observe the visitors from close by. He didnāt get very many opportunities to interact with werewolves - and technically he was not supposed to be interacting with them this time either. The Royal Family - and honestly, how come that werewolves had actual royalty? - was just there as a show of faith, as a way to prove that their relations with the human leadership had much improved since Gerald Argent had been impeached five years ago (and his vice-president had lost the election to John Stilinski a few years later). The media had to believe that President Stilinski and Queen Laura were at least allies with a strong partnership, if not actual friends.
Which they really, really were not. Not for lack of trying, probably, but it just wasnāt happening.
Not that Queen Laura seemed like a bad person. Stiles was just very aware that most important people had about a million faces they swapped out like they were changing clothes. Why would the young Queen of the werewolf nation of Triskele be any different?
After the way sheād inherited the throne, Stiles would not have been surprised if she was even more guarded than all of her predecessors combined. Sheād lost most of her family because of the previous presidentās insane beliefs about wolves, so technically no one should have been able to blame her if she held a bit of a grudge against his replacement.
Stiles would though. Heād put every inch of blame on her if she held a grudge, because John Noah Stilinski was a much better man and president than Gerald Argent (or his cronies) had ever been. And that should have been obvious to anyone, even werewolves who hardly left their territory because they hated humans much more than humans had ever hated the wolves. Still they (Laura and her entourage) did not seem to trust his Dad much.
It pissed him off, but it also made him curious. He needed to find out more about these wolves and the risks they could pose. It didnāt matter that the Secret Service already had every bit of intel that had ever been collected about anyone whoād ever come into contact with Queen Laura. Because they didnāt have the kind of vested interest that Stiles did.
āStiles!ā His Dad sounded pretty damn furious, even though he was trying to hide it.
Oh, right, international incident. The giant problem heād created by attempting to spy upon the Royal Family - Prince Derek in particular. Honestly, could it really be purely Stilesā problem if all heād done is hide in the secret passageway to observe the wolves privately?