Love is Just a Bloodsport

Fandom: Teen Wolf
Summary: Kate teases out Derek's secrets.
Note: Title from “Bloodsport” by the Sneaker Pimps.

Love is Just a Bloodsport

This is the in-between, the waiting that happens in the
    space between
one note and the next, the place where you confuse
                                                his hands with the room, the dog
      with the man, the blood
                                                           with the ripped-up sky.

{ The Dislocated Room by Richard Siken }

Kate wasn’t sure, at first.  Short of seeing one turn or heal, there was no sure way of knowing whether someone was a werewolf or not. Wolfsbane worked as a preliminary test, but as her brother would never cease reminding her, a flinch or cough wasn’t hard evidence. 

She had done her homework, knew the boy was part of the pack, but nothing more.  She wouldn’t put her hand in the fire and swear the boy was a wolf.  Not yet.  But she was working on it.

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A Banquet of Consequences

Fandom: Teen Wolf
Summary: Derek fights for control.
Note: Sequel to Love is Just a Bloodsport.  AU take on the Hale house fire and its consequences.  Title from a Robert Louis Stevenson quote.

A Banquet of Consequences

They’re hurling their bodies down the freeway
                                                        to the smell of gasoline,
which is the sound of a voice saying I told you so.
                                                                                   Yes you did, dear.

{Driving, Not Washing by Richard Siken}

Derek gets called to the principal’s office in the middle of history.  It’s the last class of the day so he grabs his backpack, stuffing the textbook in it as he walks down the hall. He grinds his teeth, wondering if Terry ratted him out, if this is about yesterday at lunch, when he shoved Terry hard against the lockers before he reined his wolf in.  Or maybe it was Michelle with her hand slipping in around his thigh under the desk, and how he squeezed her wrist so hard it bruised almost instantly and he had to bolt to the bathroom before his fangs surfaced.

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Sweet’s the Air with Curly Smoke (From All My Burning Bridges)

Fandom: Teen Wolf
Summary: Derek wakes up in Kate's car smelling smoke.
Notes: Sequel to Love is Just a Bloodsport and A Banquet of Consequences.  AU take on the Hale house fire and its consequences.  Title from “Sanctuary” by Dorothy Parker. 

 Sweet’s the Air with Curly Smoke (From All My Burning Bridges) 

Every story has its chapter in the desert, the long slide from kingdom
      to kingdom through the wilderness,
                   where you learn things, where you’re left to your own devices.
Henry’s driving,
      and Theodore’s bleeding into the upholstery.

    {Driving, Not Washing by Richard Siken}

Derek woke up groggy, head pounding and heavy.  A touch of air wafted over his face, smelling of gasoline and cheap coffee and asphalt.  The smells and a bitter taste in his mouth made his stomach roil.  He swallowed hard and opened his eyes, squinting at the light.  His eyes burned and he felt a tickling cough start in the back of his throat. He felt like he’d been put through a blender.

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The Smell of Something Burning

Fandom: Teen Wolf
Summary: They're somewhere in Nevada when it clicks.
Notes: Sequel to Love is Just a Bloodsport, A Banquet of Consequences, and Sweet’s the Air With Curly Smoke (From All My Burning Bridges).  AU take on the Hale house fire and its consequences.  

The Smell of Something Burning

Someone had a party while you were sleeping but you weren’t really sleeping, you were sick, and parts of you were burning, and you couldn’t move.

{You Are Jeff, #22 by Richard Siken}

When Derek woke up the sun had set and Kate was listening to the radio, some bouncy cheerful thing with a tinny beat.  He could feel air rushing in from her side, the window probably rolled all the way down.  Derek took a careful shallow breath and picked up only the faintest trace of wolfsbane, clinging only to their clothes and the car upholstery. 

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Between Epiphany and Epitaph

Fandom: Teen Wolf
Summary: The news sinks in and Derek puts two and two together.
Notes: Sequel to Love is Just a Bloodsport, A Banquet of Consequences, Sweet’s the Air With Curly Smoke (From All My Burning Bridges), and The Smell of Something Burning.  AU take on the Hale house fire and its consequences.  Title from a David Glaser quote.

Between Epiphany and Epitaph

And then the second boot falls.
                                And then a third, a fourth, a fifth.

{Boot Theory by Richard Siken}

They caught the late night news about the fire.  It was Kate’s idea, considering Derek wasn’t doing much of anything.  The wolfsbane side-effects must have worn off by now, but then keeping a werewolf under wasn’t an exact science.  Kate sat cross-legged on the single bed with the control remote in her lap, the knife strapped to her ankle digging in uncomfortably. 

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Make Ships With Volatile Souls

Fandom: Teen Wolf
Summary: Kate watches Derek and doesn't change her mind
Notes: Sequel to Love is Just a Bloodsport, A Banquet of Consequences, Sweet’s the Air With Curly Smoke (From All My Burning Bridges), The Smell of Something Burning, and Between Epiphany and Epitaph.  AU take on the Hale house fire and its consequences.  Title from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad.

Make Ships with Volatile Souls

I wanted to hurt you
but the victory is that I could not stomach it.

{Snow and Dirty Rain by Richard Siken}

She hadn’t meant to change her mind.  Wasn’t sure she had.  She still smiled at the thought of the fire, at the knowledge of a good plan well-orchestrated, was still immensely satisfied with herself, but the fact was, she was sitting in a motel with her little werewolf.

And wasn’t that the problem.

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