Half_Arsed_Muse
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“Well,” Peter says at last, forcing a crooked smile into his voice, “at least this time he didn’t almost get us all killed.”
Derek swallows. His throat is dry, the words scraping on the way out. “I was drunk.”They land and disappear without effect.
Talia turns then, her gaze settling on him fully. It’s steady, unreadable, and it makes his shoulders tense despite himself. “You were careless,” she says. “You are a werewolf, and if you got drunk, you laced it with wolfsbane, you did it. Do you understand, In twenty-four years, every scandal has had the same root. You. At some point, it stops being bad luck and becomes character. And I am tired of pretending this is something that merely happens to you.”
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Derek just wanted a moment of quiet. Instead, he crosses a line with the last person he should trust.....old grudges, bad decisions and a mistake he keeps repeating."He learned the shape of the poison once,
from a woman who wore it like skin.
Now hemlock blooms in his own hands,
and he cannot tell where she ends and he begins. "Bookmarked by Half_Arsed_Muse
10 Mar 2026
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A boy’s head appears upside down, hanging off the bed. “Is anyone there?” he calls out curiously, looking right at Derek’s eyes.
Caught, then. The protocol for being deliberately seen by a child is just to look as strange and fearsome as possible. No one would believe them, anyways. But Derek is tired, and he’s been running and scared, and now he just kind of flickers, curling out a tendril of dark smoke, hoping that he’s a little bit scary.
No such luck.
The boy’s eyes widen. “Oooh, are you the bogeyman?”
“Bogeyperson,” Derek says, before he can help himself.~
When Stiles was a boy, he had an imaginary friend named Derek. Ten years later, Derek comes back, and is very, very real.
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Derek Hale has always known two things about himself: He's not good at making people like him, and he's going to be his sister's second for the Sacramento pack. But when a random assignment leads him to be the new alpha of Beacon Hills, dealing with far too big shoes to fill and a new pack orphan that everyone listens to far more than they do him, he thinks it's his big chance to finally prove his worth to his mother. Besides, it's not forever, is it?
Stiles Stilinski has always known two things about himself, too: Being the son of the alpha is a Big Job, and it's his to do, and one day, his mate will be the next alpha of his mother's pack. But when his parents are murdered, and some growly man with expressive eyebrows unwillingly takes her place, he's got two choices: keep glaring at Derek or teach him to man up. At least until he's found a replacement. How long could that take?
This is a story about building a pack, finding a home and cuddling with a dog. It's mostly about the dog.
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06 Dec 2025
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He knew he’d handled it badly.
Not like he knew any other way to handle this kind of thing, Derek thought, only a little bitter.
But Derek had heard the word Emissary come out of Scott’s mouth, and had immediately vetoed it with extreme prejudice.
It was like he wanted Scott to set his jaw and ignore Derek’s input. Honestly.
But Stiles- Derek had thought that at the very least, Stiles would listen. That their relationship meant enough that Stiles would hear him out before deciding.
Derek had thought wrong.
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Stiles' sophomore year starts something like this:
3 FourLokos
+ 1 peer-pressuring cat
- 1 best bro to end all best bros
= 1 Craigslist ad headline that reads "str8 dude - m4m - strictly platonic".
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11 Oct 2025