On Wishing You A Merry Christmas
Title: On Wishing You A Merry Christmas (AO3) (Tumblr)
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pairing: Gen (References but no focus on Scott/Allison, Stiles parents, and Erica/Vernon--I've also heard there's Sterek if you squint so ymmv)
Tags: Hurt/Comfort. Christmas. Stilinkski family feels. Pack Feels. References to cannon death.
Note: getd0rky asked for "Even if its just general holiday feels. Like how would Derek react if he got a Christmas gift?". I attempted to supply with dubious results.
Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
-Augusta E. Rundel
Stiles' dad turns off the air conditioning in late September and opens the windows. They stay open through the fall, which is warmer than usual and lingers. It burns the color from the leaves through November before abruptly leaving in December.
The first burst of cold creeps into Stiles' room and hits him like a punch in the gut. It doesn’t even feel like Christmas ten days into December and if he only listens to the music on his phone he doesn’t even have to hear carols. The sudden drop in temperature had been an unwelcomed, creeping through his still open window and causing him to wake gasping with a conspicuous wetness around his eyes.
He stumbles from his bed, feet tingling with the cold even on his bedroom carpet, and he tries to banish the thoughts that have invaded with the weather with thoughts of: school. School. School. It's a school day.
It's not. He realizes that when he spills from his bedroom door and trips over a row of perfectly labeled, white boxes.
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