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Part 6 of Sterek Drabbles
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2020-04-06
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The Weight of Grief

Summary:

Derek and Noah deal with a new loss.

Notes:

Honestly I wish I could say I didn’t know where this came from, but I do. One night I had a terrible idea, what if I ended Nemeton’s Shade with an inverse of Timeline A. So in A where Stiles is the only one to live, becomes B where Stiles is the only one to die. And it tied into the subversion of canon in some awesome ways. And so I wrote the original version of this.
And I loved it.
But I hated what it would do to the story to write that ending. So I scrapped it, and scrapped the idea. But the little snippet still existed it my notes. And I dusted it off and put it out here now for you. A tiny what might have been.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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        Derek and Noah have both felt the world grow emptier before. This was not a new feeling, but both know you’re never ready.

       Scott, who had lost a brother, had Malia and their new daughters to to distract him from the giant loss, so it seems harder for Derek and the sheriff, who have nothing to fill the space.

         Slowly, perhaps inevitably they grow closer. A strange friendship built on his memory. Because they both know loss isn’t a contest, it’s a storm, and all that those left behind can try to do is take shelter where they find it.

Notes:

I hope you enjoyed that, please leave comments and kudos as they keep this going. And now I’m going to go write another 1000 words of endless dialogue.

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