Summary: After the loss of his last surviving family member and his alpha, Derek Hale goes on a quest for vengeance, systematically destroying every Argent hunter who had anything to do with her death, or the death of the rest of his family 15 years ago. The Hunters want him dead, the sheriff's department wants him brought to justice, Beacon Hills' resident superhero vigilante the True Alpha wants him stopped, and only Stiles Stilinski, Private Investigator, is interested in the reasons behind Derek's murderous rampage.
Info: 24k | Mature | AU, Fusion, The Punisher AU | Warnings: Violence, Gore
Notes: I haven’t watched the second season of Daredevil but I heard there’s a Punisher spin-off coming soon on Netflix so this is the perfect pre-gaming for all of you Defenders fans. If you’re not a fan, don’t worry because you don’t need to know the Punisher story to understand this fic. At all. And this one is so, so worth it. -C
But no one has actually hired Stiles to look into this particular case. It’s pure professional curiosity on his part. Rogue armies of wolves taking out one of the strongest hunter factions – it made him itch with the need to know more, to help.
“Try to stay out of this one,” Erica says, as she locks the door behind them. “It’s too dangerous. Your dad would kill me if anything happened to you.”
Stiles grins. “Nothing’s gonna happen to me, not with you watching my back.”
He can see Boyd waiting in the patrol car, face carefully angled away, so he can pretend he doesn’t see Erica technically breaking the law. Stiles isn’t too worried about Boyd turning them in – Boyd would do just about anything for Erica, though she doesn’t know it.
She’ll figure it out one day. Until that day, Boyd was willing to wait patiently, and so was Stiles, because he was totally going to be Best Man at that wedding.
“Stay safe,” she says, and there’s tension around her eyes and her mouth that he doesn’t usually see. “There’s something off about this one.”
