✨And it's a wrap! - WIP Big Bang Complete ✨
Story Title: Hands Off, He’s Mine!
Summary: In a world in which Laura and Derek never left Beacon Hills after the fire, the three surviving Hales have found a new home with the Stilinskis. A decade later, things would be perfect, if only an incident hadn’t just taken away their primary means of protection. With the sheriff needing surgery, an unknown amount of hunters in town, and Peter having gone missing, Stiles’ college break proves to be much more daunting than expected. But he’ll do anything to keep his loved one(s) safe.
Warnings: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, the Hales didn't leave Beacon Hills, Found Family, Permanent Injury, that one applies to Peter, Magical Sheriff Stilinski, Hurt Sheriff Stilinski, But He'll Get Better, Werewolf Hunters, Kidnapping, Magical Stiles Stilinski, College Student Stiles Stilinski, Angst with a Happy Ending, Future Fic, Pre-Relationship, Getting Together
Characters: Peter Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Laura Hale, Derek Hale, Sheriff Stilinski, Original Characters, Gerard Argent, Jordan Parrish, Chris Argent
Pairings: Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski
When I Started: November 2022, for the Steter Secret Santa.
How I Lost My Shit: Like with my last chaptered Steter fic, I thought for sure it'd be shorter than it ended up being. I got 3 chapters done by the deadline for the Secret Santa event. I even got 2 more chapters done at the beginning of this year. And then I dropped the ball. Because me getting something finished without a deadline looming? It's less likely than you think! 🙈
How I Finished My Shit: Because it worked so well last year, I signed up for the WIP Big Bang again. But because there was so much time before posting would begin, my brain went "You know what's much cooler than writing? Starting your nth crocheting project! And reading lots and lots of books. What could go wrong?"
Well, what could go wrong was this: Starting to work on the fic again so late that the first participants of the event had already started posting before I opened my document to reread what I already had. Whoops?
And because I apparently don't learn from past mistakes, I needed 2 extensions again. Because I didn't account for the ECS (the Exploding Chapter Syndrome). Meaning, I innocently believed I'd be able to maintain my previously established average word count per chapter.
News flash: Of course I didn't. 🙄
But I did it! And this year, I only needed one half-nighter instead of two all-nighters to get it done. (I won't mention that I stayed 14k under last year's fic. I'll choose to imagine I got a little better at time management, instead. 😇)