nogitsune

"Are you a cop?" the man asked hesitantly. “Uh, no. I just work reception,” Stiles said, tugging nervously at his hoodie. There was something about this man that made his anxiety start to build. Normally Stiles was great at charming the people who walk into the station, even calming down the angry moms. “We’ve been understaffed for years so I help out where I can. You needed something?” “I need to file a missing person’s report.”

What if Stiles and Derek were already dating way before Scott got bitten? What if Chris and Peter had more to their past? What if Victoria still lived? Long kept secrets will finally be brought to the surface, allowing Derek to finally heal from his mistake and Allison to know the truth about her family. But when it seems like things are finally becoming a happy ending for those in love or moving on, something or someone always comes into town to destroy it and bring nothing but misery.

"Take me away," Stiles breathes when Peter opens his door. He's soaked through, heavy rain drumming against the stiff line of his shoulders, mud cached up his pants, his arms, teeth-clacking, bone-clinking shivers wracking harshly through him. He feels cracked open, desperate, hollow, and there's a tight, blistering ache in the back of his throat begging him to cry, to spill out all his secrets, his terror, his misery. "Alpha," he murmurs, crumbling, nearly whisked away by the harsh winds, and Peter's eyes go molten, from ice to lava in a split second, the liquid magma in those irises so entrancing that Stiles, roughly, helplessly, raggedly, repeats what can only be a benediction, "Alpha." Peter growls, rough and low, and drags him inside, shutting the door behind him a little gentler than he'd expect, but then, Peter is always doing things gentler than he'd expect. He fucking drowned him gentler than he would've expected, and isn't that just... his life in a nutshell. [Or: Peter is protective and violent, Stiles is fucked up but surviving, and they elope to canada to see the northern lights.]

What do you do when the people you are supposed to trust, betray you in the worst possible way? What would you do if someone offered you a way out?