Ugh I give up! I’m sorry I have to ask for your brilliant help! I’ve searched everywhere but I can’t find this fic where Derek and Stiles grow up together, it’s a Soulmate AU and there’s like this week in high school where everyone finds out who their mate is but Derek supposedly doesn’t and leaves town. Fast forward to Stiles’ year and there’s a Derek fan club called the Dereksters who all think they’re his mate when Derek comes back to town but surprise! it’s Stiles. Pls help me Oh Great Ones!
Hi @captainmjolnir! Anon says it’s this one!
The Mating Rituals of Alphas by clio_jlh
(1/1 I 9,884 I Explicit I Sterek)
Sure, Derek was born an alpha but he's never been good at all that dominant behavior that's expected of him, and even though the adults around him tell him to be himself, he worries that he'll never claim an omega if he doesn't get it together. But his omega actually already claimed him, years ago.
captainmjolnir replied to your post “neuziet replied to your post:i just got really excited to watch teen...”
do nOT watch unreal, it will fuck you up, not good for people in fragile mental states
i’ve read through the synopsis and i’m going to give it a go but i can alway stop watching if i need to but the only thing i’ve ever really needed to turn off was black swan
but i’ll be careful
ty for the warning though xx
Feel free to give me some feed back okay thanks sorry
Jada was throwing on her jeans as her mother was letting Indigo in the front door; she wasn’t going to let him see she had only woken up 5 minutes ago, again. She’d never hear the end of it.
She raced down the stairs grabbing the bannister as her socks nearly made her slip on the wooden steps. “Hey- ah!”
Indigo laughed, his big toothy grin lighting up his face. “Good morning Jada.”
“Is it still morning? I was sure it was the afternoon, I’ve been awake for so long.”
“There’s still toothpaste on your face, also your shirts on backwards.”
“Damn.”
“It’s okay, I know you tried.”
Jada’s mum interrupted, “Alright, I have to go to work now, are you too going to be okay? Call me if there are any problems and if you have to leave the house don’t forget to make sure the stove is off and you’ve locked the doors, okay?”
“Yes mum, don’t worry, we’re 12, I’m pretty sure we know how to lock up.”
Jada’s mum looked concerned, “I’m sorry I have to work all day –“
“It’s okay mum, don’t worry, you have too. I love you.”
“I love you too, I’ll be home later to make dinner okay?”
“All good, see you then.”
Jada’s mum smiled and gave Jada a one armed hug before running out the door. Jada turned to Indigo. “So what’s the plan today, then?”
“Head out to the wood and see if we can find anything cool?”
“Sounds good to me, got your lunch?”
Indigo pulled a small tin box out of his backpack. “Right here.”
“Awesome, I’ll grab mine out of the fridge and then we’re good to go.”
The walk down to the forest was a familiar one, Indigo and Jada knew all the best shortcuts, which neighbours didn’t mind if you crossed through their yard, and which ones had big dogs that minded at least enough that they didn’t cut through that way. Indigo told Jada all about the new videogame he’d found on the internet last night and how he couldn’t wait to show her when she came round to his house in a few days. They climbed through the gap in the stone wall when they arrived at the forest. They followed the winding path closest to the river, it was a cool day but not unpleasantly so; the sun was shining through the green leaves of the trees, giving the forest an ethereal green glow. Jada and Indigo continued to hug close to the river as the sun slowly rose higher above them. Jada went out of her way to kick the same stone along with them, only stopping when she kicked it too hard and it fell into the water, scattering the tadpoles that Indigo had been looking at. He was always staring at tadpoles.
“Oops, sorry!”
“It’s alright don’t worry, do you think we should stop for some lunch soon?”
“That sounds good, do you want to head over to the picnic table by the fox hole?”
“Yeah, here, if we climb up this bank here it’s not too much further that way,” Indigo threw his bag over the top of the bank and became climbing, Jada followed quickly, trying to beat him to the top, and failing.
“I win.”
“Technically you had a head start so don’t get too cocky.”
“Yeah whatever,” he picked up his bag and led the way.
When they’d found it they sat down and pulled out their lunchboxes, keeping one eye on the fox hole as they ate, they’d been here a hundred times before and were pretty sure that there was no fox living there anymore but they still couldn’t stop checking whenever they came back, just hoping to get a glimpse of the red haired creature.
“What should we do now?” asked Indigo when he’d finished his lunch, dusting breadcrumbs off his shirt with grubby hands.
“We could pretend we’re explorers, discovering this place for the first time, looking for something exciting to tell tales about when we return safely home?”
“How long have you been waiting to suggest that one?”
“Long enough, come on Indie, it’ll be fun.”
“Alright, I’m in. Let’s go that way,” he pointed past the foxhole, there was just a hint of a path between the trees and bushes. “We haven’t been that way before.”
They climbed hills and traipsed down banks. Indigo insisted they stop so he could sketch the outline of a natural arch made by some trees. It didn’t take long, he had paper and pens in his bag, he just wanted to jot down enough so that he could draw it properly when he got back home.
“This explorer stuff is going pretty good,” said Indigo “but have we really discovered anything yet?”
“You have to have patience to be an explorer I think.” Jada replied. “Good things come to those who wait? But then again curiosity killed the cat. I’m not sure those sayings are much help to us actually.”
“Jada. Do you actually remember the way back?”
“Don’t worry Indie, we’ll find our way back, this place isn’t that big.”
“Seriously Jada?”
“What?”
“We’re lost?” said Indigo as if there was any question about it.
“No, we just haven’t discovered our way back yet.”
“Oh my god.”
“Chill.” Jada waved dismissively.
“Prove it. Lead us back.”
So Jada led the way. Twisting and turning through the forest and - coming absolutely no where near the way they came.
“We’re lost.” She announced. Indigo threw back his head and groaned loudly. “Oh don’t be so dramatic Indie. It’s not that bad. We’ll find an exit eventually.”
“This time I’m leading the way alright.” Indigo turned, and, instead of heading along the path they had been walking on, he headed into the thick forest.
“Indigo, that’s the most ridiculous idea I’ve ever seen, you can’t just walk off the path then we’re going to get truly lost. Indigo? Indigo. Come back!” Indigo kept walking. “Ugggh,” Jada jogged after him to catch up. Indigo continued leading them deeper into the woods, until he stopped suddenly and put a finger on his lips. Jada nearly bumped into him; then she heard what Indigo must have heard, someone’s muffled yelling.
Indigo, continuing in the vein of foolhardy rushing, gestured to Jada that he was going to investigate. Jada followed behind, they had crept only a little way through the trees before they found the source of the noise. A small creature was locked up in a cage like contraption that was suspended between two trees. The creature was no taller then the top of Jada’s kitchen table and had big pointed boots on over some grubby looking pants, a dark green jacket and a dirty white shirt. His gnarled fingers were wrapped around the bars of his cage and a red cloth was tied around his mouth. His skin was a light green and he wore a farmers cap over his tangled white hair that was impossible to separate from where his white beard began.
Indigo stepped out from behind the tree that he and Jada were hiding behind. The creature saw him and his yells became even more frantic, an angry look in his eye told the children not to come any closer.
Indigo put a finger to his lips before holding up his hands so that the creature could see that Indigo had nothing with which to harm him. Jada did the same. Slowly, the creature stilled, but he continued to eye them suspiciously. When they were closer Indigo tried to speak to him.
“I’m just going to remove this gag, but you have to be quiet, or whatever did this to you might hear and come back. Do you understand?”
The creature rolled his yes, which Indigo interpreted as a yes. Indigo stepped around the creature, opened the cage which was only secured with some rope that Indigo was able to cut through with the scissors he’d taken to cut some flowers. Indigo cut lose the gag and stepped back. The creature took a deep breath.
“What are you?” Jada asked, fascinated.
“First of all, that’s a rude question. Second of all, I’m the Pooka.”
“A Pooka?” Indigo squinted his eyes trying to remember where he’d heard that name before.
“A goblin,” said Jada.
The Pooka harrumphed. “I have many forms you know, I only happen to be a goblin right now. A more accurate answer to what a Pooka is would be that I’m one of the fairy folk that live in these woods. But I suppose you didn’t know that did you?”
“I didn’t actually, I’m sorry.”
“Yeah, well you probably should be.”
“Hey, come one, we just took that gag off of you and you’re yelling at us already?”
“I’m having kind of a bad week you know, first with being captured by a bunch of extremely unpleasant humans. And then when some kind of help does show up, it’s not the knights of the palace or anything, oh no, it’s a couple of human children, who could just as easily run off or try and keep me for themselves instead of helping me.”
“Knights?” Indigo was feeling light-headed; this was becoming an extremely perplexing afternoon.
“Yes knights, as in from the fairy guard, at the palace, okay look, I’ll take you for a visit on the next full moon if you just let me down and don’t try anything funny. Fairy’s honour.”
Indigo and Jada were pretty sceptical of the likelihood of the Pooka following through on his offer but they knew helping him free himself was the right thing to do anyway. Indigo put his hands in to help the Pooka to the ground but was met with an insulted look, the children stepped out of the way of the cage and the Pooka jumped to the ground.
“Alright what are your names?”
“He’s Indigo and I’m Jada.”
“Okay, good to know. Well kids. Thanks for helping me down, I guess I’ll –“
Suddenly the sound of footsteps walking through leaves and low muttering became noticeable.
“Hunters,” hissed The Pooka, “Run!”
The trio sprinted through the trees; behind them they heard sudden yells as the hunters realized that their captive had escaped. Running as fast and as quietly as they could they jumped over sticks and dodged the biggest and nosiest piles of leaves. The Hunters found their footprints and took off in pursuit. The chase continued, on and on through the forest, the children and the Pooka constantly in danger of tripping or slowing down and being caught, but the Hunters never quite catching up. When the group had a good lead the Pooka whispered to the children to climb up the next big tree they came to. When they came to one that was scalable the children scrambled up into the thick leafy branches of the oak tree. They climbed until they heard the hunters grow close, then they stopped and hid silently in the thickest leaves they could find. The Pooka waved his hand and leaves covered back over their footsteps so that their tracks ended in the dead centre of the clearing. The hunters caught up and stood in the clearing. There were three of them, each looking equally menacing in their own way.
“Where did they go?” asked one gruff looking fellow with long hair and a knife in his belt.
“I don’t know, why don’t you ask them. Oh wait you can’t, because apparently you can’t run any faster then a stumpy little elf.” Replied one of the others, she had short hair and a leather jacket that Jada, had she not been too busy fearing for her life, would have envied.
“It’s not like you were running any faster than me?”
The Hunters stood arguing for a few moments before the one that appeared to be in charge, a brutish man that made Jada feel a fear in the pit of her stomach that she could not just place. Indigo instinctively shied away from the man as he spoke.
“Look we’ve lost them, because you two losers weren’t smart enough to imagine that someone might actually find our trap and open it because there was no real bloody lock on it.” The pair of Hunters flinched. “It’s taken us years to track down and capture a fairy creature and when we finally do we lose it because neither of you have a brain between you. I should get rid of the pair of you. Right now. It’s not like anybody would miss your useless behinds.”
Indigo gulped, he didn’t suppose that the hunter just meant firing when he mentioned getting rid of them. He feared he had stumbled into one adventure he could have perhaps gone his whole life without needing to have.
Finally, the hunters left and the group waited in the tree for more than a few minutes, in case by some slim chance the Hunters had figured out their hiding place and were just waiting for them to come out of hiding so they could catch them.
“That was close,” said Indigo.
“I’m not a bloody elf.” Grumbled the Pooka.
Jada looked at the Pooka, “thank you for helping us get away and not just disappearing.”
“Well thank you for helping me escape.” He looked down for a moment, “I do intend to keep my promise, if you’re not too scared now, I can assure you that our visit will be quite safe, I think you saved my life and I owe you for that.”
“It was the right thing to do, you don’t owe us anything.” Indigo looked at his feet.
“Well it’s important to me. So what do you say?”
“We would love to come to the Fairy realm,” said Jada. “It would be our honour.”
“Well I will collect you on the night of the next full moon, wear your nicest clothes, I’m sure the Queens will want to thank you for risking your lives for me.”
Jada blinked. They were going to meet queens and fairies! “But how will you find us?”
“We fairies have to keep some secrets.” The Pooka smiled for the first time, “see you then.” The Pooka faded into the shadows of the woods.
“Jada, I think we’ve discovered far more than we ever expected too today.”
Jada laughed. “Now we just have to find the way home again without getting into any more trouble.”
