An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski Characters: Derek Hale, Stiles Stilinski Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Full Shift Werewolves, Full Moon, Wolf Derek Hale, Mage Stiles Stilinski, Magical Inheritance, Magical Realm Series: Part 1 of Mila’s Sterek Bingo Summary:
First entry to Sterek Bingo 2020! @sterek-bingo
Full shift
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Special thanks to the admins of the bingo and ofc my eternally supportive friends @oceanvs @kcfriedchicken & @assisreal
And to everyone who sent in a theme as a prompt, I can’t find the post and replies rn 😭
This is my first sterek bingo submission ever and I’m pretty late to the party, both within this month, and especially within my time in the fandom but alas, here I am and super excited to be here!!
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Too often humans feared the monsters that supposedly came out with the rise of the full moon. They told stories round the campfire, pupils wide as saucers full of spilled wine, and made sure to lock the door twice over before pulling the blinds. They spoke of oversized fangs, filed to a point, of claws and twisting limbs, and bones and blood and blood and blood. Hushed words spoken in wonder and rhyme terrified them about just as much.
Showed what they knew. The only dangerous ones out on full moon nights were mad, all-natural humans. Human beings who wanted the power and wanted to be seen so they used bullshit excuses to blame monsters for their deeds. The more heinous acts, even, waited for the moon to grow cold so they remained undiscovered.
But no, that wasn’t where the ‘monsters’ were.
No, Stiles knew better. A lot better. He’d gotten to know the shadowed corners and midnight hours of the world like the back of his hand. That’s why he knew exactly, deep in his bones, that he was making the right decision tonight.
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