The Clock Opera
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“Are you going to speak or you going to keep staring at me the whole night?” Her voice slices through his thoughts like a knife to butter.
He stammers, eventually choking out a coarse, thick “no.” He notices that her eyes are just as sharp as her words and he diverts his sight with a sense that is almost like shame. Almost.
“You’ve been staring at me for the past fifteen minutes, Scott. There something you gotta say?” she asks, less harsh this time. “Say it.”
And then Scott’s given the opportunity. He has the option of speaking this out, to maybe come to an agreement to this all or at least an understanding because there’s no way, absolutely no way—
His mouth drops open and for a moment, for one second, be believes that the mark will take over and that this must all be some kind of cosmic joke—because it has to be—it must be.
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- Part 1 of The Clock Opera
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But then she finds herself staring at the little symbol and wondering, contemplating, refusing. Malia has made a lot of bad decisions, but Stiles isn’t one of them. He's intelligent and a chatterer and who was her first time. He was supposed to be her mate, her other half—that’s what it always indicated in books and fairytales; the hero who came and saved the princess was the one who was always the best choice, who could comfort her and show her the world, and they always ended up together. Happily ever after.
And Malia grew angry. This whole fate ideal, this pointing of direction—how could something like this exist? What cruel game by the gods thought this would be funny, amusing?
She decides to go to Scott for help.
Malia makes a lot of bad decisions. Going to Scott’s for help was one of them.
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- Part 2 of The Clock Opera
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Stiles has a type: short, strawberry blondes with rhinestones and lurid, enticing, kissable lips. Girls who wear stilettos, skirts, rompers, and mini dresses; girls who are intelligent and proper. He sees that Lydia’s mark is a pretty little indented scar on her ring finger and his gut twists into an unsure knot. He sees Lydia, the light of his young adult life—
But then, there's Kira. There's a new girl named Kira who is quirky and shy and imbalanced.
Kira has thick, ebony hair that sways in her eyes when she’s nervous and tilts her head, and has dimples that makes a tug pull somewhere in Stiles’ thorax just a little bit more every time. And then he’d swallow and say something stupid or too serious. She’d smile shyly and—
But she gravitates toward Scott instead. Stiles catches that she has a mark on the back of her bicep once, but Kira pulls her sleeve down before he could see. She holds his stares with a look of foreboding before turning, eyes large, then dark ponytail swaying.
Stiles' type are pretty girls with expensive tastes and who could kill a man with her heels. He is unsure, but soon the Nogitsune takes over.
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- Part 3 of The Clock Opera
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It happened on her first day of history class.
There's a cute guy in Kira's class. Her neck rubber-bands for second glances whenever he passes, her chest clenching with anxiety. He's a boy who is lean and lively. He's overzealous, highlighter on his fingers, and never seems to have a pen when needs it. He's sandpapered edges and coffee brown hair and skin stars. He's the first to talk to her in class—albeit because he misplaced his pen.
Kira rubs her mark as she watches Skin-stars and his friend, watching from their lockers sometimes in the morning. But she gravitates toward Scott instead because he's ice block cool, sun-kissed and he's gentle; he's safe and what she needs. Because she knows who the owner of her mark is, and every time he's near her knees weaken, and the world slows while it simultaneously collapses and it's marvelous.
Kira knows the owner of her mark and he's deranged, intangible. She knows the owner of her mark and because of this, they can never be together.
And throughout all of this time, Kira doesn't tell.
It starts with a secret.
Kira has always hated secrets. They never last long.
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- Part 4 of The Clock Opera
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And at this point, Allison needs an anchor.
When she finds out Scott McCall is a werewolf, three things happen in those following months that have subjectively ruined her life: One, her family. The drama—the secrets, good god. Two, Scott McCall himself. That puppy-dog eyed, heart-stopping, knees-to-jelly, trouble-magnet. And that he’s a werewolf. And three, she realizes that Scott is her soulmate.
But here comes the rest of that awful list.
Four, Allison’s mother dies. Five, Allison has to put herself on hold, and her love-life on pause. This wasn’t an easy or even desired decision but her grandfather had become suspicious. Six, and then—
And then—
Allison Argent is seventeen years old when she gets another mark. A separate mark. A new mark. It’s a tiny lightning bolt stamped on the right side of her back, near her hipbone and edging her side.
[AU of the original Soulmate Mark Universe]
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- Part 5 of The Clock Opera