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“I’m leaving,” Lydia tells her mom, who’s sitting on her laptop at the dining room table. From the angle Lydia can’t fully see the screen, but she’s pretty sure she’s shopping.
“Hmm?” Her mom hums, eyes not leaving the screen.
“I got into MIT. I’m leaving in August.”
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- Part 15 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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Because Stiles – Stiles is a spark. A magical being of untold power, incredibly rare and it’s extraordinary that both he and Scott are in one pack; Scott being a True Alpha and all that, also incredibly rare. Not to mention that they’ve got a werecoyote, a kitsune, a banshee, and a hunter. Everyone has heard about the McCall pack, which makes the cloaking spell even more important.
Every spark – and he means every one ever in the history of magical documentation – has a werewolf mate, who’s supposed to help the spark both meet their potential and serve as an anchoring point. It’s not quite clear why, but Stiles guesses it’s mostly because Fate is a motherfucker who likes to do weird little things to fuck with mortal’s minds. So if sparks don’t naturally find their mates, it’s not highly unusual to have these meet-and-greets with various werewolves from all over the world; the cloaking spell was used because apparently only your mate could tell exactly that you were you and not a fellow werewolf.
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- Part 14 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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But, well, now it’s five years later. They’ve got a new captain, and a lot (a lot) has happened in the last five years. She was briefly engaged and almost married, and she’s closer to the squad than she is with most of her friends. They know more about her than she thinks they even realize, and like Captain Holt said – they’re her family. She spends more time with them than anyone else, and she honestly enjoys and looks forward to going out with them.
And now – well, she’s been dating Georgiana for a good chunk of months. Actual months by now, and it’s the longest relationship Rosa’s had with a woman since college. And no matter how much she actually likes the rest of the squad, she’s never gonna be that person who overshares on personal matters and on her love life, so it’s not weird that she hasn’t told any of them about Georgiana yet.
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- Part 13 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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Stiles is tired – so, so tired, he always is after a hunt, taking it out of him emotionally, mentally, and physically – but Lydia and Jackson and Allison and Scott and Malia and Kira are all in his apartment, de-escalating as they always do afterward. Not often for as long as this, but – with the brood here, with them helping out tonight, they’d decided to crash at his place for a while, talk about it.
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- Part 12 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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looking at the earth (instead of the sky) by scepticallyopenminded
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
12 Dec 2018
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“Jus’ because you’re not selling out arenas or have a platinum album doesn’ mean you’re a loser,” Niall replies, and Louis laughs.
“That’s coming from the lad who’s literally sold out arenas and has a platinum album,” he points out.
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- Part 11 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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cover the ashes with flowers, with snow by scepticallyopenminded
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Dec 2018
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- Part 10 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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“I know what you’re feeling,” Derek repeats, “The…emptiness, the uncertainty that you’re in control of yourself, the feeling of not worrying about death. Not being suicidal, just…if you died, you’d be okay with it.”
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- Part 9 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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But this, this is it. Whatever happens tonight, Derek’s either going to be heartbroken or more in love than he’s ever been before. It all depends on Stiles.
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- Part 8 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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- Part 7 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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“Yes, sparks are incredibly rare.”
Those are the only words Stiles remembers for sure, everything else a mumbling mess around the memory, but it’s certainly true. He is a spark and it’s fantastically rare.
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- Part 6 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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“I think I need to tell my dad.”
“Hmm?” Derek hums, clearly caught up in what’s happening on the TV. Stiles sits up a little, repeats himself.
“I’m going to tell my dad.”
Derek actually looks over at him this time, brown drawn.
“About werewolves?” he clarifies, and that makes sense with the look because Stiles has been pretty staunchly against getting his dad entangled in any of this. No reason to have him trying to involve himself and getting hurt.
“No, I don’t need him having a heart attack,” Stiles shakes his head, just imagining how that conversation would go, “I meant about us.”
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- Part 5 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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It’s been two and a half, almost three years, god, but Louis feels the pang in his chest the same as it’s been since nineteen, maybe twenty. And he feels dumb, because who gets trauma from becoming famous? Even harder because of how easily Niall and Harry seem to have moved on, and even Zayn, damn. Only Liam really kind of understands, and even then they don’t really talk about it.
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- Part 4 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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When he looks back at Derek his eyes are that golden brown, again, blinking with wide eyes and Derek –
Derek is in absolute awe, not only at the magnitude of power Stiles obviously harnesses, but also his enormously quick reaction time. He swallows, feeling the slow drip of blood down his neck into his tunic.
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- Part 3 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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Because the sect – the one that Laura’s now the leader of, with her right-hand man who’s her younger brother, not much older than Stiles at twenty-six and born just a year after the Great War started – this sect was nomadic, has been for twenty-seven years. Now under their new leadership and with plenty of the old guard died out or killed from various entanglements, Laura’s decided it’s a good idea for them to settle down. Except there’s no real resources, they’ve never built them up, and had heard through the trade routes that their sect was looking for some reinforcements after half their guard had been killed in a skirmish near two years ago.
They’ve barely been holding on, everyone working double shifts and even those who’ve no training in guard spending time at the wall. But with Laura’s sect – all built up from years of living on the grind, all trained in weaponry – in exchange for time on the guard, would be welcome into their complex with open arms.
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- Part 2 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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‘Cause maybe falling out of love hurts so much more than straight rejection. Maybe knowing that this – whatever this is, anymore, because it’s nothing like what it once was and Harry’s past the point of knowing who exactly is to blame for that – can’t last forever, like he thought it could when he was sixteen and falling in love for the first time in his life, is worse than never having happened.
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- Part 1 of 15 day lyrics challenge - 2k18
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- Part 5 of sterek holiday special 2018
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The sunset is tinting the sky dark red, hints of pink and purple on the horizon. Waves lap up against the shoreline, a gentle rhythm as Stiles stares out at the water, a barely-there wind rocking the lake. It’s a private beach, the only sounds the insects, the low hum of a boat somewhere out too far away to see, the cresting of the waves against the sand.
It’s the most peaceful place Stiles has been in years, but his heart sits heavy.
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Stiles has just gotten up to grab another beer for Scott and Boyd, wine for himself and Erica, and he’s on his way back to the table when he looks over at Allison, splayed out on the couch with her feet under Derek’s thigh, one hand under her head and the other resting on her stomach and he just.
Oh. Oh.
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- Part 2 of teen wolf drabbles
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Derek doesn’t have an aversion to dating, if that’s what you’re thinking. He’s not aromantic or asexual, he likes sex just fine and has had a few one night stands just in the last year and has definitely been in love with people at points in his life. It’s just. Relationships aren’t really his forte, at least not anymore.
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“Okay, so,” Stiles looks up, around the room, “Easter egg Reese’s versus regular Reese’s cups.”
Derek is laughing and rolling his eyes, the asshole, while everyone else looks on in confusion.
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- Part 4 of sterek holiday special 2018