I Wish You Would Write A Fic Where The Sheriff Is The One Bitten In The Woods Instead Of Scott, Leaving

I wish you would write a fic where the Sheriff is the one bitten in the woods instead of Scott, leaving Stiles to help his dad make friends with the surly werewolf who can help them.

Oooooo I don’t think I’ve seen an AU like this before. So like, do Scott and Stiles get caught together, and both shoved off home, while the sheriff and his deputies keep searching the woods? Does the sheriff shoot the wolf before it bites him (or after)?

Does he go to Melissa to get the bite looked at, making sure he doesn’t need any shots, before he heads home? On a scale of one to ten, how MUCH does Stiles freak out when he sees that his dad got attacked by a WOLF? “There are no wolves in California, Dad!” “Oh for God’s sake, clearly there was just one. I’m fine.”

And obviously Stiles would be paying super close attention to this bite (because if his dad shows even the slightest hint of pain or infection, he is going to drag him to the ER SO FAST it’s not even funny) and so he would notice super early that this thing healed in, like, a DAY. And he saw that bite, okay? It was not a pretty bite. His dad should still be wincing when he lifts his arm over his head. And he is NOT. The bite is GONE.

Cue Stiles’s research spiral, and the extremely awkward conversation where he has to sit his dad down and say “So I think you might be a werewolf now.”

His dad is very much not impressed. The opposite of impressed, you might say.

They have a fight, Stiles ends up going to the party on the full moon with Allison and Scott (even though his dad told him he couldn’t), and that’s how the sheriff ends up in the woods, shifted, looking for his son because every instinct he has is telling him child in danger, find him now.

That’s when he gets shot at by hunters, THAT’S when Derek saves his ass, and that’s when the sheriff realizes that 1) he is in over his head and 2) he is too fucking old for this shit.

I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SUBMIT that the sheriff would be an awesome werewolf, because Derek would explain anchors once and he would be “oh my family.” Because this man is wearing his wedding ring for nearly 10 years after his wife dies, okay, Claudia and Stiles are his anchor and nothing you say will ever convince me otherwise.

And of course Stiles hangs around during their werewolf training because “screw you, this is my DAD, and I am 100% GOING TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS OKAY.” 

Derek and Stiles snark at each other the entire time, but training still gets done, and they go out for dinner every night after. AND WE GET OUR WONDERFUL LITTLE AWKWARD FAMILY.

And on the plus side, despite all the wolf stuff and the hunters and having to take the day off every full moon, the sheriff gets to eat as many cheeseburgers and curly fries as he wants now, and Stiles can say nothing.

It’s a good trade-off, he thinks.