A/N This is a fanfic for Teen Wolf the series and it's not Stiles-centric, it's just this first chapter. There will be plenty of Scott in the next chapter! And yes comparisons between Teen Wolf and Twilight should not be made but this idea struck me and I actually wrote it and now it's up to you to read it! There will be wolf-actions in the next part =) Enjoy!
Stiles was dragging his feet behind as he made his way to his locker further down the corridor. His lacrosse stick kept bumping him annoyingly on the shoulder but he did not bother to put both backpack straps on. The lacrosse practice had been uneventful, for Stiles at least. Scott on the other hand had managed to get a better hand on his new found powers, perfecting his control by taunting Jackson when they both went for the ball as he kept snatching it under Jackson's nose. However the other team members did somehow always get to the ball before Scott. Stiles was just relieved that nobody tackled Scott too hard or gives him anything else to get pissed off about.
"Geez then why did he suddenly run off?"
Stiles would still crash at Scott's place later that evening to maybe do some homework but it would be nice of him to give a heads up before he sprinted off. From the looks of it his best friend's disappearance had not been caused by claws and fangs growth as he had, in a blurry rush, packed his bag before dashing. Stiles opened his locker and glanced at a group of pretty cute girls nearby. Sighing, he grabbed some books and was about to close his locker when a too familiar word caught his ears.
"I did not hear that." He thought and leaned back slightly to see the girls again. They were girly giggling. Wishing he had Scott's sharp hearing he tried his best to hear what they said again.
"I'd take the werewolf any day!" One girl exclaimed. Stiles forgot about his supposed sneaky stance now standing fully turned towards the group, obviously listening and mouth hanging open slightly.
"Yeah, me too! Could you imagine anything more romantic than a sprint through the woods and hotter than hot arms to fall into?" A second girl giggled out.
"How can you be Team Jacob?" That girl really did sound upset. "Bella did choose Edward in the end!"
"It's not like that proves anything. Jake is still the hotter of the two." Instantly happy and heated discussions broke out and arguments flew back and worth. Stiles stood perplexed. Not only at how the girls acted but since when were werewolves a hot topic among girls? Two of them had moved to the side of the group, fortunately closer for Stiles to hear as the volume of the other girls chatter rose. They continued with their own conversation.
"Before I was all for Bella and Jacob but now Bella can have Edward all she wants. It's so perfect that Jake imprinted on Nessie!" The two giggled in unison.
"I know! When they first talked about the imprinting for the wolves I was totally sure that Jake would at some point finally imprint on Bella. But now Nessie is so much better for him." The second girl stated.
"Yeah me too, I also thought that! Stephanie Meyer really knows her werewolf stuff."
The girl lifted her eyes and raising an eyebrow at Stiles stare. Both quickly lowered their voices, giggled and cast a few looks his way. Stiles turned quickly back to his locker.
"Phew they only think I was checking them out, which I also was, and not eavesdropping" he thought. "But what the heck is imprinting? Why would werewolves do that, what ever it is? Shit, maybe it's like targeting a specific girl before… Crap I really have to look this up before Scott has the chance to do something he'll regret!"
With his laptop always on standby, Stiles just slapped a random key and the monitor came to life. He was panting from the bike ride and did not pay attention to the sweat marks from his bag on his back as he eagerly sat down in his black leather office chair, which he thought of as his mastermind chair. He kept tapping his foot, waiting anxiously for the computer finish booting, grabbing a soda from his "secret" soft drink stash in arms reach by his table, gulping it down in one move. The little hourglass finally disappeared and Stiles practically threw himself over the keyboard and dived into the whirlpool of the internet.
"Show me your magic" he mumbled dramatically as his search was running. On the result page the first hit on imprinting directed to an article related to psychology on Wikipedia. In Stiles opinion the fountain of truth could never be wrong and held most of life's answers.
"Hm" he kept mumbling as he scrolled down the page. "This wasn't what they were talking about."
Apparently imprinting was a term used in psychology and ethnology, and applies to both animal and human behavior.
"The best known form of imprinting is filial imprinting, in which a young animal acquires several of its behavioral characteristics from its parent." Stiles read out loud.
"Huh, I've heard of this. It's like when ducklings only follow the first thing they see when they've hatched, and sometimes it's not their parent. Wasn't there a guy with a bunch of geese after him?"
Stiles kept reading, confirming his thoughts. "Whoa what's this?"
"Sexual imprinting is the process by which a young animal learns the characteristics of a desirable mate."
"Can that be it? But werewolf transformation is related to blood lust… and other lust…could Allison somehow have something to do with wolves? Maybe she has a dog at home. And dog hair is on her clothes. Could it be the dog that Scott is attracted to? But characteristics. Humans should not be attractive to werewolves, they're prey. But what if the imprint instinct is still there when they are human?"
Stiles was not any wiser after reading the page. "Does this actually have anything to do with werewolf mythology? But why did those girls seem to know so much about it? Back to random search mode." This time Stiles typed in imprinting + werewolf in the search field. This result was completely different and not at all related to anything scientific on Wikipedia. Hit after hit contained the word werewolf, imprinting and Twilight.
"Wait a sec, isn't this the girl book series? Could there be anything trustworthy in those kinds of books?"
One hit looked promising though. It did direct him to a type of wiki-page but to his disappointment it was a Twilight Wiki. The article though did catch his interest.
"Imprinting is the involuntary mechanism by which shape-shifters find their soul-mates."
What was this? He had not searched for shape-shifters. After reading the page the werewolves were actually shape-shifters, shifting into a giant wolf at will. That did not sound too crazy actually. Scott did not shift into an entire wolf; it was more of a half shift and he was not completely bound by the full moon either. Stiles still did not entirely believe that this specifically applied to werewolves, but it was highly probable that it was based on myth and after what had happened to Scott, myth went hand in hand with fact.
"Maybe this stuff isn't really true for werewolves after all. But hey, werewolves are not even supposed to exist!" However, there was a certain part of this 'myth' that kept nagging Stiles. If an imprintee is killed, the imprinter will never be able to forget or forgive. Those wolves in the book kept their human mind, but Scott did not. And if Scott's world resulted in revolving around Allison and nothing else mattered ever, Stiles did not dare to think about the consequences for his best friend if he ended up accidentally slitting her throat. With all the new information mixed with deep concern for his friend, and a few sodas on top of that, Stiles head was spinning wildly and he had to find Scott as soon as possible to try and warn him about the inevitable.
A/N What do you think? Enough in character? Well we don't really know everything about Stiles. When I wrote this episode 3 of Teen Wolf had just aired. I will write and upload chapter 2 as soon as it's written =)
And the imprinting, meh it was tricky to make it sound somewhat believable and for it to actually have a scientific basis.
And yes I have read the Twilight books. I like them but I'm not obsessed. However right now I really really really like Teen Wolf ^^