let me lay waste to thee by flesh_and_bone_telephone (Teen And Up Audiences)
Fandom: TEEN WOLF
Pairing: Lydia Martin/Peter Hale
Length: 4138 words
Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/users/flesh_and_bone_telephone/pseuds/flesh_and_bone_telephone
Why this must be read:
[Sneaking this rec in while I still can, since crack_van is coming to an end (::sobs::).]
Don't let that rating fool you. This fic contains very little outright violence, contains no rape or sex. But what it does contain is the unrelenting assualt against the mind a living nightmare can inflict on you. For Lydia Martin, Peter Hale is literally that living nightmare. What makes this fic stand out is the fact the author doesn't shy away from the true horror of Lydia's situation when Peter was using her as a catalyst for coming back from the dead. This is a Lydia POV that goes DEEP into her psyche as she tries with everything she has (all of which is controlled by Peter) to fight him off if only in the smallest of gestures. Because Lydia is canonically so smart, we get to see every mannerism of Peter's dissected with a scalpel's precision.
But flesh_and_bone_telephone doesn't stop there. Because relegating Peter to a category of beast of cunning brutality would be too simple. And Peter is anything but simple. He's probably the most complicated character on TW. The author's Peter is obsessed with Lydia's hair, seemingly for the perverse reason that it reminds him of his greatest enemy, fire. This Peter is intrigued by Lydia's intelligence and perversely praises and uses her inner strength even as he shreds it to ribbons.
But even stopping there would be too simple, and wouldn't completely capture the warped dynamic between Peter and Lydia -- who know each other as two fellow high school students, as the nightmare and the one having the nightmare, and as brilliant girl and urbane monster. Even as Lydia is released by the end of the fic once she's served her purpose, she's still not released. And even as she finally manages to fight back, it's a real victory for her but may or may not come without the price of feeling Peter's magnetic pull tug at her in a way that has nothing to do with magic. And there is the fact that Peter still views her as an asset even when his own survival doesn't depend on her.
flesh_and_bone's writing has a menace and a beauty to it. It has the sheer amount of psychological insight that I can't help but find fascinating.
I hope you enjoy "let me lay waste to thee" and all of its layers:
Men shift into wolves with the turn of the moon, and Peter Hale comes to her in phases of smoke and ash and earth soaked in blood.
Pairing: Lydia Martin/Peter Hale
Length: 4138 words
Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/users/flesh_and_bone_telephone/pseuds/flesh_and_bone_telephone
Why this must be read:
[Sneaking this rec in while I still can, since crack_van is coming to an end (::sobs::).]
Don't let that rating fool you. This fic contains very little outright violence, contains no rape or sex. But what it does contain is the unrelenting assualt against the mind a living nightmare can inflict on you. For Lydia Martin, Peter Hale is literally that living nightmare. What makes this fic stand out is the fact the author doesn't shy away from the true horror of Lydia's situation when Peter was using her as a catalyst for coming back from the dead. This is a Lydia POV that goes DEEP into her psyche as she tries with everything she has (all of which is controlled by Peter) to fight him off if only in the smallest of gestures. Because Lydia is canonically so smart, we get to see every mannerism of Peter's dissected with a scalpel's precision.
But flesh_and_bone_telephone doesn't stop there. Because relegating Peter to a category of beast of cunning brutality would be too simple. And Peter is anything but simple. He's probably the most complicated character on TW. The author's Peter is obsessed with Lydia's hair, seemingly for the perverse reason that it reminds him of his greatest enemy, fire. This Peter is intrigued by Lydia's intelligence and perversely praises and uses her inner strength even as he shreds it to ribbons.
But even stopping there would be too simple, and wouldn't completely capture the warped dynamic between Peter and Lydia -- who know each other as two fellow high school students, as the nightmare and the one having the nightmare, and as brilliant girl and urbane monster. Even as Lydia is released by the end of the fic once she's served her purpose, she's still not released. And even as she finally manages to fight back, it's a real victory for her but may or may not come without the price of feeling Peter's magnetic pull tug at her in a way that has nothing to do with magic. And there is the fact that Peter still views her as an asset even when his own survival doesn't depend on her.
flesh_and_bone's writing has a menace and a beauty to it. It has the sheer amount of psychological insight that I can't help but find fascinating.
I hope you enjoy "let me lay waste to thee" and all of its layers:
Men shift into wolves with the turn of the moon, and Peter Hale comes to her in phases of smoke and ash and earth soaked in blood.