Connected: Prologue - Chapter 8
Title: Connected
Author: readridinghood
Rating: Explicit
Genre and/or Pairing: Stiles / Derek
Spoilers: Anything before Season 2 - Some S3 Characters
Warnings:Grief & Mourning, Ritualistic Mating Practices which include but are not limited to; biting-but not for the sake of turning, bloodletting-but not for the sake of kink, knotting-but definitely for the sake of kink.
Post Season 2, Future fic, Some canonical events/characters from Season 3 are mentioned
Story begins roughly nine years post high school.
Word Count: 60,000 ish
Notes: Work in Progress throughout this week
Summary:After the death of his wife, Stiles finds himself left alone with their three children, struggling to keep from being sucked into a void of grief and despair that her death left him with. Knowing his children are safe in the pack's arms under Derek's watchful eyes, he struggles to regain his footing. What do you do when the world keeps tumbling over you and what you've thought of as fact no longer holds true? As the world comes back into focus, so does the love for Derek he thought he'd long since conquered and now with his eyes open, what he thought was the end of him, is only a new beginning.
A decade after he fell in love with Stiles, countless days of keeping himself restrained while building a friendship with him, Derek finds out with absolute certainty that Stiles is his mate. You only mate once in your life, so how is it that Stiles was mated to Sophia, his wife and mother of his three children, the woman he is grieving the loss of at the same moment that Derek makes his discovery.
Connected Master Post
Author: readridinghood
Rating: Explicit
Genre and/or Pairing: Stiles / Derek
Spoilers: Anything before Season 2 - Some S3 Characters
Warnings:Grief & Mourning, Ritualistic Mating Practices which include but are not limited to; biting-but not for the sake of turning, bloodletting-but not for the sake of kink, knotting-but definitely for the sake of kink.
Post Season 2, Future fic, Some canonical events/characters from Season 3 are mentioned
Story begins roughly nine years post high school.
Word Count: 60,000 ish
Notes: Work in Progress throughout this week
Summary:After the death of his wife, Stiles finds himself left alone with their three children, struggling to keep from being sucked into a void of grief and despair that her death left him with. Knowing his children are safe in the pack's arms under Derek's watchful eyes, he struggles to regain his footing. What do you do when the world keeps tumbling over you and what you've thought of as fact no longer holds true? As the world comes back into focus, so does the love for Derek he thought he'd long since conquered and now with his eyes open, what he thought was the end of him, is only a new beginning.
A decade after he fell in love with Stiles, countless days of keeping himself restrained while building a friendship with him, Derek finds out with absolute certainty that Stiles is his mate. You only mate once in your life, so how is it that Stiles was mated to Sophia, his wife and mother of his three children, the woman he is grieving the loss of at the same moment that Derek makes his discovery.
Connected Master Post