Fic: Open With a Gambit or be Rogue (2/2)
Title: Open With a Gambit or be Rogue
Author: kayevelyn
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pairing: Stiles/Derek, Erica/Boyd, Scott/Isaac, Jackson/Danny
Rating: PG-13
Summary: He establishes the school because he needs something safe. (The one where Peter runs a mutant school)
Notes: For my very good friend Chelsea :)
Chapter 1
scott + stiles
Scott and Stiles become friends because both their parents work at the school. That right there is enough to form a bond. Stiles is shy when he first comes to the academy, and Scott has been there for three years now so he gladly shows Stiles the ropes.
They are the outcasts for a while. Scott takes classes with everyone even though he’s not a mutant, and Stiles can’t touch anyone. They make quite a pair.
It’s only made worse once Scott’s powers manifest because now they actually have a destructive power on their hands. They pull pranks and it draws the attention of Derek, who has to chase them around the school, keeping them in range so Scott’s powers don’t “accidently” freeze Jackson in the bathroom, causing him to have to burn the whole door down.
They have a good time, and Stiles thinks he has a friend for life in Scott if he wants.
Scott never asks about how Stiles got the ability to fly even though he finds it fascinating. He only knows because they were playing Frisbee one afternoon and the wind took their Frisbee up onto the roof. When Stiles came back down from getting it he was shaking.
“How can you be afraid of heights if you have the power to fly?” Scott asks, thinking it’s the coolest thing in the world.
“One of the many ironies in life,” Stiles replies with a dismissive hand wave.
He likes Scott, Scott’s his best friend, but he’s not sure he’ll ever feel comfortable talking about his mom with anyone.
boyd + erica
He spots her watching him one day while he’s playing hide and seek with the four year olds. She flushes and ducks her head, hiding behind her long blonde hair. Boyd doesn’t think on it, because it’s Erica. She doesn’t talk to anyone but her not-brother Isaac.
She keeps watching him though, and one day she joins him while he entertains some of the older kids, six and seven, with a puppet show.
“I can help,” she says shyly, and then she’s picking up one of the puppets so he can have three characters in the scene at once, instead of just two.
The kids love it, and Erica finds a way to fit in more with their playtime every day. She helps him watch the kids in the afternoon, and then she worms her way into having dinner with him.
Isaac joins them some nights, and at first Boyd worries that he’ll be forgotten between the not-siblings talk, but Erica never ignores him, and Isaac rarely says anything, just watches over them.
Erica doesn’t mind his shifted form, has no hesitation in touching him when he’s in it, and he wishes he could be as supportive of her powers as she is of his. He’s never seen her use her powers though, and he can’t begin to imagine what they are.
“I can’t remember them,” she tells him when he asks. “I can’t remember how to use them, but I feel them, my powers.” She looks at her hand, pulling away from him. “Sometimes if I wish really hard, bad things happen, and I wonder if that’s my power.” She gives him a faint smile. “So I try not to wish bad things on anyone, because the last time it happened I wished Allison would fall down the stairs and she did.”
Boyd wraps her in his arms, hugging her tightly. “I know you didn’t do it on purpose.”
She shakes in his embrace, and he knows she’s thinking about everything she’s missed in life. He hopes together they will make new memories, so she doesn’t need to think on what she’s lost.
derek + stiles
Stiles knows Derek, and knows Derek’s power, but by the time Stiles joins the school Derek has already reined in his powers tight to his body, and there’s no way to ever use them to his advantage. He doesn’t want to ask Derek, beg him to be more accurate, to let him touch him, skin to skin, because he misses how it feels.
The last skin he touched he killed, and he doesn’t want that to be his final memory of human contact. He wants to feel someone the way he used to and not have to worry.
Stiles finally caves when he’s seventeen. He’s spoken with Derek, and feels they have a tentative friendship, enough that Stiles can ask this and not feel like he’s being completely selfish. He’s not using Derek for his powers. He’s simply using Derek’s powers.
He cries when he touches Derek’s skin, unable to stop himself. Derek looks terrified for a moment, and he tries to pull his arm back but Stiles grips his forearm and holds tight. It’s the first skin he’s touched in six years and he wants to remember it.
“Do you?” Derek stumbles over his words as Stiles runs his hand up and down his arm, tracing the veins and feelings the muscles. “Do you want to see your dad?”
Stiles stares at him with wide eyes, tears threatening to fall again. He hasn’t thought of that, and he feels bad that it wasn’t his idea, but he nods. Derek doesn’t shake off his hand as they walk to his father’s classroom, and Stiles lets go of his hand when they finally get outside the classroom. Stiles looks at Derek, not sure what to do, and Derek just nods.
Stiles swallows and walks in to see his dad sitting at his desk correcting history papers. He hesitates, looking back at Derek to make sure everything is okay, and only when Derek nods again, getting that frustrated look on his face does Stiles advance his father and touch his face.
They both freeze, and Stiles waits expecting to feel that soul sucking force in his fingertips. His mouth drops, and his dad looks at his hand, and then darts eyes at Derek, before he’s sweeping Stiles up in his arms. He’s seventeen and crying while he’s hugging his father but he doesn’t care.
Derek gave him this.
He stays there talking with his dad for what seems like hours, simply just so he can hold his dad’s hand. Derek stays outside, and the only reason Stiles finally stops is because Derek says his name softly. That one word tells Stiles all he needs to know; Derek is getting weak exerting his power like this. Stiles pulls away from his dad, putting back on his gloves.
“We’ll do this again tomorrow,” Derek says as they leave, and Stiles feels his face light up.
He kisses Derek right outside his dad’s classroom, unable to stop himself because he can. Derek won’t be affected by it. Stiles can touch him however much he wants and it will never bother him. Derek kisses back like he understands this, and it makes Stiles vow that he’ll never let him go.
allison + scott
Allison knows the only reason they are dating is because the pool of people is small, and eventually everyone will date everyone if they are so inclined. It’s not a forever love, even though sometimes it feels like it, but it still hurts when it’s over.
She tries to argue with her father about why she doesn’t need to leave, but all he does is quote statistics and headlines at her, painting the anti-mutant sentiment in big bright letters in front of her.
“That was you not long ago!” She yells at him, and her father looks at his feet.
“I know. That’s why I need to move you. I know what they are capable of. It’s no longer safe here.”
She runs through him, taking his keys when she does because she needs time. She needs time to say goodbye to everyone.
It hurts that they let her go so easily, even Scott who had told her he loves her, and says it again while she cries.
“You don’t understand,” she says fiercely. “He’s going to lock me up in some closet because he’s seen the other side and he’s scared for me.”
“We’ll still be able to write each other,” Scott tries to say, but it’s obvious he’s not hearing the words she’s actually saying. He doesn’t understand.
No one does, and she’s just glad that no prison can ever hold her because she refuses to be trapped somewhere due to her dad’s own paranoia.
peter + john
Peter has many staff members now, adults who he can talk to, but he still likes John Stilinski the most. John came to him after his wife had died, begging for a way to help his son. Peter took one look at Stiles, wrapped up in more layers than necessary, and offered John a job.
He never regrets it because John is good at his job. He treats the students well, and provides a good balance for the staff. He’s also got connections in high places, or at least higher places than Peter ever did.
John hears rumors sometimes, of picket lines that want to come and protest their school. John has personally been the one to chase down journalists and force them to remove stories about the academy from the paper. Peter knows he’s the stronger one, but John is the enforcer, because John can do it from the human side. If Peter needs to act it will only lead to death, so he sits back and lets John do the work.
They stop a bomb from going off in the school. It’s very hush-hush, and only they, Melissa, Derek and Laura know about it. They catch the culprits, two hired thugs, and John uses his police background to accurately interrogate them. He finds out who hired them, who almost killed everyone in the main house, and there’s a debate on how to handle it.
It’s an anti-mutant group, headed by Chris Argent’s sister, who apparently didn’t know her own niece was sleeping in the main house that was rigged to explode.
When they finally get their hands on Kate Argent it seems she doesn’t care if it killed Allison.
Peter rarely uses his powers. He lets John handle everything, but they exchange a look, and at the end of it John is hustling Melissa, Derek and Laura out of the room.
John understands him, Peter thinks.
jackson + danny
Danny is one hundred percent sure that he is assigned to be Jackson’s roommate because Peter took one look at his power and decided he couldn’t be harmed by any angry outbursts. So far it’s proven to be true because whenever Jackson explodes Danny can stay right there and the fire will roll right off his back.
Eventually he learns to adapt by getting water powers whenever Jackson gets too out of control, and he just smiles sweetly whenever Jackson tries to burn something only to have water douse it out a second later.
Jackson gets bad after seeing his step-parents, but after he turns sixteen he does it every weekend, even if it’s just for an hour.
“They look out for me,” he grudgingly says. “It’s the least I can do.”
Danny doesn’t argue, and when Jackson returns one day in a sour mood, face grey, he finds himself falling into bed with him. Danny doesn’t know if it’s his power reacting to Jackson’s down mood, or if it’s a genuine want of his, but when he sees Jackson get a full nights sleep he doesn’t care because they are friends, and this is what friends do.
“Never leave me,” Jackson begs one night while they are together.
“I don’t think I could adapt to a life without you,” Danny says sincerely, even if it sounds cheesy.
lydia + erica
If Lydia wants to she could unravel the puzzle inside Erica’s mind. Erica doesn't know this, doesn’t realize she can feel Lydia’s powers playing at the edge of her memories, and that’s why she likes spending time with her.
Lydia can do a lot of things if she wants, and it only takes a brief check through to find out Erica’s real identity, that she is actually siblings with Isaac. They sit together when Erica isn’t with Boyd, and Lydia plays with her mind, soothing through the bad memories. It only takes a quick peek in to see why hers’ and Isaac’s minds have been changed, and if Lydia were a better person the truth would be enough to make her stop.
She isn’t though, so she continues to do it, watching the memories that are hidden behind a wall, and seeing if there is a way to rearrange them so Erica can remember enough things that she can have her powers under control.
Lydia knows how much they mean to Erica, and how she worries that her powers have been lost along with her memories, and Lydia wants to be able to give her friend this, because it was the one thing she could give that wouldn’t be obvious. She can keep her secret and Erica can be happy.
She feels a tapping inside her mind, someone trying to connect with her, demanding that she stops tampering with them.
Lydia blocks the voice out, ignores it even when it comes back stronger, angrier. He never threatens outright, but she can read the undercurrent and she doesn’t care. She knows he’s the one who blocked Erica and Isaac’s minds and if she was closer to him, she would play with his just to see how he liked it.
you shouldn’t play with things you don't understand, the voice whispers to her.
neither should you, she replies, shutting her mind off to him.
scott + isaac
Isaac likes Scott because he reminds him of someone in his memories. Scott is strong in his convictions, and never backs down. He doesn’t believe in a no-win scenario and while Isaac doesn’t want his memories back like Erica does, the conviction Scott has that there is a way makes him smile. It’s good to have someone believe in him, when all anyone ever sees is the goofy kid who runs around too fast.
He becomes closer with Scott after Allison leaves, wanting to do the same for Scott that he did for him. He sticks with him, cheering him up when Stiles can’t, because Scott shouldn’t be upset. Scott needs to smile.
Their second winter as friends, the first after Allison has left, he convinces Scott to make it snow for a little. It takes some concentration from Scott, because he’s used to making ice, but eventually he gets it, and he looks so proud of himself.
Isaac runs around, swirling the flakes in the air with the wind he creates and Scott lets out a loud whoop, falling back on the ground as snow starts to cover him.
“Not sure how much longer I can keep this up,” Scott muses as Isaac stops at his feet.
“You can stop if you need to,” Isaac says, looking down at the three inches of snow that has accumulated in the fifteen foot circle they have.
Scott closes his eyes and the snow stops. “Come lay next to me,” he says, and Isaac grins, flopping down on the ground next to him.
They stay there until the snow melts and by the time they go in for hot chocolate their ears are red and they are holding hands.
The End
Author: kayevelyn
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pairing: Stiles/Derek, Erica/Boyd, Scott/Isaac, Jackson/Danny
Rating: PG-13
Summary: He establishes the school because he needs something safe. (The one where Peter runs a mutant school)
Notes: For my very good friend Chelsea :)
Chapter 1
scott + stiles
Scott and Stiles become friends because both their parents work at the school. That right there is enough to form a bond. Stiles is shy when he first comes to the academy, and Scott has been there for three years now so he gladly shows Stiles the ropes.
They are the outcasts for a while. Scott takes classes with everyone even though he’s not a mutant, and Stiles can’t touch anyone. They make quite a pair.
It’s only made worse once Scott’s powers manifest because now they actually have a destructive power on their hands. They pull pranks and it draws the attention of Derek, who has to chase them around the school, keeping them in range so Scott’s powers don’t “accidently” freeze Jackson in the bathroom, causing him to have to burn the whole door down.
They have a good time, and Stiles thinks he has a friend for life in Scott if he wants.
Scott never asks about how Stiles got the ability to fly even though he finds it fascinating. He only knows because they were playing Frisbee one afternoon and the wind took their Frisbee up onto the roof. When Stiles came back down from getting it he was shaking.
“How can you be afraid of heights if you have the power to fly?” Scott asks, thinking it’s the coolest thing in the world.
“One of the many ironies in life,” Stiles replies with a dismissive hand wave.
He likes Scott, Scott’s his best friend, but he’s not sure he’ll ever feel comfortable talking about his mom with anyone.
boyd + erica
He spots her watching him one day while he’s playing hide and seek with the four year olds. She flushes and ducks her head, hiding behind her long blonde hair. Boyd doesn’t think on it, because it’s Erica. She doesn’t talk to anyone but her not-brother Isaac.
She keeps watching him though, and one day she joins him while he entertains some of the older kids, six and seven, with a puppet show.
“I can help,” she says shyly, and then she’s picking up one of the puppets so he can have three characters in the scene at once, instead of just two.
The kids love it, and Erica finds a way to fit in more with their playtime every day. She helps him watch the kids in the afternoon, and then she worms her way into having dinner with him.
Isaac joins them some nights, and at first Boyd worries that he’ll be forgotten between the not-siblings talk, but Erica never ignores him, and Isaac rarely says anything, just watches over them.
Erica doesn’t mind his shifted form, has no hesitation in touching him when he’s in it, and he wishes he could be as supportive of her powers as she is of his. He’s never seen her use her powers though, and he can’t begin to imagine what they are.
“I can’t remember them,” she tells him when he asks. “I can’t remember how to use them, but I feel them, my powers.” She looks at her hand, pulling away from him. “Sometimes if I wish really hard, bad things happen, and I wonder if that’s my power.” She gives him a faint smile. “So I try not to wish bad things on anyone, because the last time it happened I wished Allison would fall down the stairs and she did.”
Boyd wraps her in his arms, hugging her tightly. “I know you didn’t do it on purpose.”
She shakes in his embrace, and he knows she’s thinking about everything she’s missed in life. He hopes together they will make new memories, so she doesn’t need to think on what she’s lost.
derek + stiles
Stiles knows Derek, and knows Derek’s power, but by the time Stiles joins the school Derek has already reined in his powers tight to his body, and there’s no way to ever use them to his advantage. He doesn’t want to ask Derek, beg him to be more accurate, to let him touch him, skin to skin, because he misses how it feels.
The last skin he touched he killed, and he doesn’t want that to be his final memory of human contact. He wants to feel someone the way he used to and not have to worry.
Stiles finally caves when he’s seventeen. He’s spoken with Derek, and feels they have a tentative friendship, enough that Stiles can ask this and not feel like he’s being completely selfish. He’s not using Derek for his powers. He’s simply using Derek’s powers.
He cries when he touches Derek’s skin, unable to stop himself. Derek looks terrified for a moment, and he tries to pull his arm back but Stiles grips his forearm and holds tight. It’s the first skin he’s touched in six years and he wants to remember it.
“Do you?” Derek stumbles over his words as Stiles runs his hand up and down his arm, tracing the veins and feelings the muscles. “Do you want to see your dad?”
Stiles stares at him with wide eyes, tears threatening to fall again. He hasn’t thought of that, and he feels bad that it wasn’t his idea, but he nods. Derek doesn’t shake off his hand as they walk to his father’s classroom, and Stiles lets go of his hand when they finally get outside the classroom. Stiles looks at Derek, not sure what to do, and Derek just nods.
Stiles swallows and walks in to see his dad sitting at his desk correcting history papers. He hesitates, looking back at Derek to make sure everything is okay, and only when Derek nods again, getting that frustrated look on his face does Stiles advance his father and touch his face.
They both freeze, and Stiles waits expecting to feel that soul sucking force in his fingertips. His mouth drops, and his dad looks at his hand, and then darts eyes at Derek, before he’s sweeping Stiles up in his arms. He’s seventeen and crying while he’s hugging his father but he doesn’t care.
Derek gave him this.
He stays there talking with his dad for what seems like hours, simply just so he can hold his dad’s hand. Derek stays outside, and the only reason Stiles finally stops is because Derek says his name softly. That one word tells Stiles all he needs to know; Derek is getting weak exerting his power like this. Stiles pulls away from his dad, putting back on his gloves.
“We’ll do this again tomorrow,” Derek says as they leave, and Stiles feels his face light up.
He kisses Derek right outside his dad’s classroom, unable to stop himself because he can. Derek won’t be affected by it. Stiles can touch him however much he wants and it will never bother him. Derek kisses back like he understands this, and it makes Stiles vow that he’ll never let him go.
allison + scott
Allison knows the only reason they are dating is because the pool of people is small, and eventually everyone will date everyone if they are so inclined. It’s not a forever love, even though sometimes it feels like it, but it still hurts when it’s over.
She tries to argue with her father about why she doesn’t need to leave, but all he does is quote statistics and headlines at her, painting the anti-mutant sentiment in big bright letters in front of her.
“That was you not long ago!” She yells at him, and her father looks at his feet.
“I know. That’s why I need to move you. I know what they are capable of. It’s no longer safe here.”
She runs through him, taking his keys when she does because she needs time. She needs time to say goodbye to everyone.
It hurts that they let her go so easily, even Scott who had told her he loves her, and says it again while she cries.
“You don’t understand,” she says fiercely. “He’s going to lock me up in some closet because he’s seen the other side and he’s scared for me.”
“We’ll still be able to write each other,” Scott tries to say, but it’s obvious he’s not hearing the words she’s actually saying. He doesn’t understand.
No one does, and she’s just glad that no prison can ever hold her because she refuses to be trapped somewhere due to her dad’s own paranoia.
peter + john
Peter has many staff members now, adults who he can talk to, but he still likes John Stilinski the most. John came to him after his wife had died, begging for a way to help his son. Peter took one look at Stiles, wrapped up in more layers than necessary, and offered John a job.
He never regrets it because John is good at his job. He treats the students well, and provides a good balance for the staff. He’s also got connections in high places, or at least higher places than Peter ever did.
John hears rumors sometimes, of picket lines that want to come and protest their school. John has personally been the one to chase down journalists and force them to remove stories about the academy from the paper. Peter knows he’s the stronger one, but John is the enforcer, because John can do it from the human side. If Peter needs to act it will only lead to death, so he sits back and lets John do the work.
They stop a bomb from going off in the school. It’s very hush-hush, and only they, Melissa, Derek and Laura know about it. They catch the culprits, two hired thugs, and John uses his police background to accurately interrogate them. He finds out who hired them, who almost killed everyone in the main house, and there’s a debate on how to handle it.
It’s an anti-mutant group, headed by Chris Argent’s sister, who apparently didn’t know her own niece was sleeping in the main house that was rigged to explode.
When they finally get their hands on Kate Argent it seems she doesn’t care if it killed Allison.
Peter rarely uses his powers. He lets John handle everything, but they exchange a look, and at the end of it John is hustling Melissa, Derek and Laura out of the room.
John understands him, Peter thinks.
jackson + danny
Danny is one hundred percent sure that he is assigned to be Jackson’s roommate because Peter took one look at his power and decided he couldn’t be harmed by any angry outbursts. So far it’s proven to be true because whenever Jackson explodes Danny can stay right there and the fire will roll right off his back.
Eventually he learns to adapt by getting water powers whenever Jackson gets too out of control, and he just smiles sweetly whenever Jackson tries to burn something only to have water douse it out a second later.
Jackson gets bad after seeing his step-parents, but after he turns sixteen he does it every weekend, even if it’s just for an hour.
“They look out for me,” he grudgingly says. “It’s the least I can do.”
Danny doesn’t argue, and when Jackson returns one day in a sour mood, face grey, he finds himself falling into bed with him. Danny doesn’t know if it’s his power reacting to Jackson’s down mood, or if it’s a genuine want of his, but when he sees Jackson get a full nights sleep he doesn’t care because they are friends, and this is what friends do.
“Never leave me,” Jackson begs one night while they are together.
“I don’t think I could adapt to a life without you,” Danny says sincerely, even if it sounds cheesy.
lydia + erica
If Lydia wants to she could unravel the puzzle inside Erica’s mind. Erica doesn't know this, doesn’t realize she can feel Lydia’s powers playing at the edge of her memories, and that’s why she likes spending time with her.
Lydia can do a lot of things if she wants, and it only takes a brief check through to find out Erica’s real identity, that she is actually siblings with Isaac. They sit together when Erica isn’t with Boyd, and Lydia plays with her mind, soothing through the bad memories. It only takes a quick peek in to see why hers’ and Isaac’s minds have been changed, and if Lydia were a better person the truth would be enough to make her stop.
She isn’t though, so she continues to do it, watching the memories that are hidden behind a wall, and seeing if there is a way to rearrange them so Erica can remember enough things that she can have her powers under control.
Lydia knows how much they mean to Erica, and how she worries that her powers have been lost along with her memories, and Lydia wants to be able to give her friend this, because it was the one thing she could give that wouldn’t be obvious. She can keep her secret and Erica can be happy.
She feels a tapping inside her mind, someone trying to connect with her, demanding that she stops tampering with them.
Lydia blocks the voice out, ignores it even when it comes back stronger, angrier. He never threatens outright, but she can read the undercurrent and she doesn’t care. She knows he’s the one who blocked Erica and Isaac’s minds and if she was closer to him, she would play with his just to see how he liked it.
you shouldn’t play with things you don't understand, the voice whispers to her.
neither should you, she replies, shutting her mind off to him.
scott + isaac
Isaac likes Scott because he reminds him of someone in his memories. Scott is strong in his convictions, and never backs down. He doesn’t believe in a no-win scenario and while Isaac doesn’t want his memories back like Erica does, the conviction Scott has that there is a way makes him smile. It’s good to have someone believe in him, when all anyone ever sees is the goofy kid who runs around too fast.
He becomes closer with Scott after Allison leaves, wanting to do the same for Scott that he did for him. He sticks with him, cheering him up when Stiles can’t, because Scott shouldn’t be upset. Scott needs to smile.
Their second winter as friends, the first after Allison has left, he convinces Scott to make it snow for a little. It takes some concentration from Scott, because he’s used to making ice, but eventually he gets it, and he looks so proud of himself.
Isaac runs around, swirling the flakes in the air with the wind he creates and Scott lets out a loud whoop, falling back on the ground as snow starts to cover him.
“Not sure how much longer I can keep this up,” Scott muses as Isaac stops at his feet.
“You can stop if you need to,” Isaac says, looking down at the three inches of snow that has accumulated in the fifteen foot circle they have.
Scott closes his eyes and the snow stops. “Come lay next to me,” he says, and Isaac grins, flopping down on the ground next to him.
They stay there until the snow melts and by the time they go in for hot chocolate their ears are red and they are holding hands.
The End