The Freedom Song of the Jigsaw Girl

Yes, that is a deliberate misquote in the title. 😄

The week just before Christmas was insanely busy so I didn't get a chance to post my Steter Secret Santa fic here as well as everywhere else, so I'll be doing that at the end of this short update.

The main reason it was so busy was I was trying to get everything in order at work before I left for vacation the day before Christmas Eve. My holiday plans involved traveling to Virginia to visit my chosen family and it was a fabulous week with them. I left Virginia yesterday and had a chance to spend the afternoon and evening with a very dear friend. Said friend and I were able to find rooms at the same hotel so we even got to have breakfast together today before going our separate ways to travel onwards to our own destinations. I was as safe as one can be while traveling during these times, but am still dreading taking a rapid covid test before I return to work. There is always the worry that no matter how careful one is that you will get it. But I will take the test before returning to work just to be on the safe side. I'm thankful I bought a few kits before the holidays (I wanted to test before I went, just to be extra careful).

But despite the pea soup fog that I drove through today, it was a lovely day and a fabulous trip overall. I'm glad to be home and am very much looking forward to sleeping in my own bed. I'm also glad I took Monday off as well as I'm sure the extra days to rest before returning to work will be needed. I hope you all have a safe and happy New Year! 💖💖💖

And now, back to the Steter Secret Santa fic that I mentioned before. I was delighted to write the following story and create the title art for DiscontentedWinter who is one of my favorite Steter writers.

A Change of Luck (8115 words) by vMures
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale & Stiles Stilinski, Cora Hale & Stiles Stilinski
Characters: Stiles Stilinski, Peter Hale, Derek Hale, Cora Hale, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Post-Season/Series 05 AU, College Student Stiles Stilinski, Werewolf Stiles Stilinski, Canon-Typical Violence, Bad Friend Scott McCall (Teen Wolf), Good Parent Sheriff Stilinski, Pre-Slash, Getting Together, Cuddling & Snuggling, Steter Secret Santa 2021
Summary:

Stiles curses his bad luck. Figures he’d survive Beacon Hills and get bitten by a rogue alpha while attending college. But maybe the bad penny in his life isn’t such a bad thing after all.

I'm beyond ecstatic to announce that I completed my first Rough Trade challenge. This month's challenge to complete a paranormal romance novella. I decided to sign up to write a Teen Wolf romance and had a blast doing so.

July Rough Trade - Perceptions Challenge (Paranormal Romance)
Title: A Merry War
Rating: R (though it turned out to be more Teen)
Warnings: None (all the were used on the RT site were just in case as we had to put the warnings in our project file, none were needed in the end)
Fandoms: Teen Wolf
Genres: Alternate Universe, Paranormal, Romance, Slash
Category: m/m
Relationships: Stiles/Peter, Sheriff Stilinski/Chris Argent, Jackson/Danny
Tags: AU-No Hale Fire
Word Count: 19,420
Summary: After his dad suffers an injury at work, Stiles decides to take his step-dad up on the offer to co-run his training gym. It’s weird to be back in Beacon Hills after all this time, but one thing is for sure--the Hales are every bit as gorgeous and weird as he remembers. He’d been content to ponder their weirdness from afar, just as he’d done as a kid. But then he meets Peter and he can’t decide if he’d rather climb the man like a tree or strangle him with one of his outrageously expensive neck-ties.
Author’s Notes: The rating and warnings are all just to be on the safe side given the underlying canon. Better to err on the side of caution in these things. The potential character bashing would be towards Scott McCall.

Title from Much Ado About Nothing
There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her:
they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them.
-Act 1, Scene 1

In this universe the Hale Fire never happened. Christopher Argent discovered what his dad and sister were up to long before Kate set her sight on Beacon Hills and turned them into his great aunt, the Argent Matriarch at that time. He ended up divorced and leaving hunting forever. Since the fire never happened, Scott was never bitten, Stiles wasn’t introduced to the supernatural world in high school, and Beacon Hills is a calm and peaceful territory.

My project file for the story can be found here. The project file has links to all six parts.

The Just Write Discord held a weekend write-in this weekend, and I wrote a cute little fluffy story for it.

Kismet (2881 words) by vMures
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Danny Mahealani/Stiles Stilinski
Characters: Stiles Stilinski, Danny Mahealani, Chris Argent, Peter Hale
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe- No Supernatural, Alternate Universe - Human, Established Chris Argent/Peter Hale, Background Relationships, Future Fic, Fluff
Summary:

Sometimes the universe brings people back into our lives at just the right time. It’s not always a life-saving or big world-changing moment, sometimes, it’s just someone rescuing you from a shitty night out and a bad date.

So I managed to snag the very first posting day for the 2020 Every Fandom Reverse Bang and my story is now live.

A Hallowed Pack (33838 words) by vMures
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Peter Hale/Harry Potter, Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Characters: Harry Potter, Peter Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale, Sheriff Stilinski
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Master of Death Harry Potter, Werewolf Harry Potter, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Magical Stiles Stilinski, Good Peter Hale, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
Summary:

Harry Potter arrives in Beacon Hills to clean up some messes for his boss, he is not expecting to find a new pack, let alone a love interest. But very little in his life has ever gone the way he planned.

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And for those following my ongoing work in progess, "Hanging On (You're All that's Left to Hold On To)" I managed an update on that last weekend as well, and it can be found here.

Hope everyone is hanging in there and doing as well as can be in this chaotic dumspter fire of a world. Love to you all.

So I got hit by a wild plot bunny last Sunday when I saw the Full Moon Ficlet prompt of the week. Thankfully one doesn't have to have a tumblr to participate, as I nuked mine years ago since I find tumblr to be overwhelming at best. I still visit some occasionally for good gif sets, but that's about it.

Anyway, my wild plot bunny resulted in a short fluff piece:

Finding Your Own Wild Rumpus (3419 words) by vMures
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cora Hale & Stiles Stilinski, Peter Hale & Stiles Stilinski
Characters: Stiles Stilinski, Cora Hale, Peter Hale, Sheriff Stilinski, Talia Hale
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Pre-Canon, Light Angst, Full Shift Werewolves, Happy Ending, Full Moon Ficlet
Summary:

Two lonely wild things manage to find each other one day in the Preserve -- or how Stiles got stealth adopted by the Hales.

So I recently participated in my first fic exchange (at least my first one in well over a decade and a half), and had a very good time doing so.

I received an utterly fantastic slice of life story (with some lovely smut) from CinnamonLily, completely based on a flippant comment in my prompts where I was listing preferred pairings and stated that you could throw Stiles, Peter, Derek, and Chris together in a foursome and I'd be thrilled.

CinnamonLily took that and ran, and this lovely story was the result:

Started as a Joke (3992 words) by CinnamonLily
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Chris Argent/Peter Hale, Derek Hale/Peter Hale, Chris Argent/Stiles Stilinski, Chris Argent/Derek Hale, Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Chris Argent/Derek Hale/Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Characters: Peter Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale, Chris Argent
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Future Fic-ish really, Polyamory, Porn With Plot, Porn with Feelings, Foursome - M/M/M/M, Mild Humiliation, but not really, Established Relationship, Bad Friend Scott McCall (Teen Wolf), Scott McCall (Teen Wolf) Bashing, Slice of Life, Double Penetration, Double Anal Penetration, Hurt/Comfort
Summary:

Sometimes the best things start as a joke.

The four of them might be an unlikely relationship from an outsider's point of view, but on the inside, they're the perfect unit. Each one of them has something unique to give to the relationship, and when Stiles comes home upset and needs a distraction, the others provide him everything he needs.

My giftee was the wonderful Jackclaw, who mentioned a love of magic!Stiles, worldbuilding, and angst so long as it has a happy ending in their prompts. I sneakily bounced around a couple of different ideas I had in a discord server we share with hopes they'd chime in and ran with the idea they liked the most. :D

It's still a work in progress, but the first chapter is posted and I'm well into writing the second chapter.

The title will be changed slightly when I update, because it should have been "Hanging On (You're All That's Left To Hold On To" (taken from Red Hill Mining Town by U2), but I mistyped it when I posted it.

Holding On (You're All That's Left To Hold On To) (4447 words) by vMures
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Bobby Finstock/Sheriff Stilinski
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Nogitsune, Panic Attacks, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Fox Stiles Stilinski, Awesome Bobby Finstock, Angst with a Happy Ending, Suicidal Thoughts, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Recovery, Bad Friend Scott McCall (Teen Wolf), Spark Stiles Stilinski, Good Peter Hale
Summary:

The Stilinskis find themselves struggling in the aftermath of the Nogitsune; sometimes help comes from the most unlikeliest of places.