“Chance favours only the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur
This series evolved during the 2020-2021 Trope Bingo challenge. It begins during the S2 finale of Teen Wolf and goes AU from there.
Please note that I’m not including Real Life world events in this series.
Title: Dice in the Mirror
Prompt: Free (Enough’s Enough)
Pairing: n/a
Word Count: 1,771
Rating: PG13
Warnings: None
Summary: The showdown with Gerard Argent was a turning point for Stiles. Telling his dad might turn out to be the best choice he could have made.
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Prompt: Competence
Pairing: n/a
Word Count: 9,661
Rating: PG13
Warnings: None
Summary: Derek will never be his mother, but that doesn’t mean he can’t learn to be a better alpha than what he started as.
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Prompt: Epic Friendship
Pairing: n/a
Word Count: 6,211
Rating: PG13
Warnings: None
Summary: Stiles agreed to live in Boston with his mother’s cousin and her wife for one year, planning to return to California for college. Discovering his magical potential changed that, leading him to study at the premier magical school in the world, Albion University.
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Title: Crazy Little Thing
Prompt: Isolated/Trapped
Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Word Count: 9,180
Rating: R
Warnings: Kidnapping, Torture, Brief mention of multiple murders including children
Summary: For Stiles, all roads would eventually lead back to Beacon Hills. After being away for five years, the pull to return was too strong to ignore. He said goodbye to Albion and made his way home.
He wasn’t in Beacon Hills a day before he was knocked unconscious and abducted.
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Prompt: Pregnancy
Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Cora Hale/OFC
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 7,057
Warnings: None
Summary: Stiles had always wanted a family. When he realised that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Derek, he’d expected they would either adopt, or he’d be the pack kids’ favourite uncle. Cora’s offer changed that.
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Prompt: Accidental Baby Aquisition
Relationshiips: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Word Count: 6,758
Warnings: None
Summary: Derek and Stiles are happy with their life, their children, the parenting arrangement they have with Cora and Kamaria, and their pack. Finding a dragon egg in the Preserve was not part of any plan.
Title: The Constant
Prompt: Best Life
Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Peter Hale/OFC/OFC
Word Count: 9,611
Warnings: None
Summary: Peter Hale is living his best life.