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Mystery AU
Made for @sterekweek2019 and Day 1 prompt ‘mystery.’
Stiles likes being Agent Stilinski. He likes the thrill of the chase and solving case after case. Turns out, no matter how much his praises are sung by his boss, he likes it too much for the HR department because he gets reluctantly ordered to take a holiday.
You can take the case away from the Stilinski but you can’t take the case out of the Stilinski. Or something like that. Stiles does go on holiday. He just might have happened to pick a small town with the aesthetics of a low-budget horror film and four times the amount of missing persons per capita. No biggie. Besides, they have good local beers and a strangely adorable cryptid themed B&B. Stiles checks into The Mothman room and spends his evening drinking while he peruses digitized case-files with his tablet. But then he sees him and a chill goes down his spine as their eyes meet for a second. Then the man is gone, leaving only a nagging sense of recognition.
The bartender tells him the guy’s nickname is Blue, he lives out of town in a small cabin by himself, and no one seems to know any more than that. Stiles scours his files for that face and eventually finds it - a much younger, hopeful version with eyes shining out in the photo: Derek Hale. Sole known survivor of a tragic house fire two states over and a decade ago, who disappeared days after, never to be seen again. Until now.
Stiles starts asking around and can’t get a clear picture of who he is – half the town believes he’s a dangerous lone wolf, and the other half appears indebted to him, convinced he’s a man of few words but no shortage of heart.
A week’s holiday changes into two, eagerly taken with flimsy excuses as to why. No one else knows what’s gotten into him all of a sudden. Stiles never has been able to leave a mystery alone once he’s stumbled onto it. He wants to know the truth and the only version of the truth that matters is the one he intends to coax from the wolf’s mouth…
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