So this little pet project that I'll be working on in my spare time will be my attempt to explore alternate pairings and alternate scenarios for Tyler Lockwood. First, we start up with Forbewood. The classic and canon Tyler pairing that is a fan favorite, and will no doubt be the cause of much fan rioting if the show runners go the obvious route that they're angling for, have Hybrid!Tyler ( I can't believe I have to type that now. Gaaaah!) get drunk on power and be killed off to create more wangst for Caroline. You know Damon will be the one to do it too and he'll probably straight up wreck Tyler's shit with no effort even though he's a hybrid (Gaaaah!). Damon will also probably follow it up with a smug one liner about mongrels, and then face no consequences except maybe a mild tongue lashing from Elena. I also wanted to flex my Forbewood muscle a bit since I've probably written about them…once.


****/Forbewood: Against All Odds\****

He hates himself for how he feels about her. It's not that he doesn't want to love her, it's not that he's ashamed of her. He's ashamed of himself because there's some part of him, some dark and slithering thing in the back of his mind that finds her repulsive. Offensive. Maybe it's the fact that when she lays next to him in bed, naked as a jaybird and far more interesting to look at she doesn't breath. She does when she's conscious, but Stefan says that's a vestigial habit. Being undead she doesn't actually need air and when she sleeps…she's still and cold as a corpse. It like laying in bed with a dead body.

Or maybe it's something else. Maybe that slinking darkness that prowls through his thoughts and tells him that he should shudder every time she touches him. That demands he gag every time he touches her is something deeper and more savage than that. Maybe that's the wolf inside, the thing that sees vampires as prey. As enemies. The thing that would rip her to pieces with its teeth and scatter her remains across the forest.

It doesn't matter. He doesn't care what anyone says. Not Jules, not his mother, and certainly not Damon Fucking Salvatore. There are times when he honestly considers taking out the murdering asshole the next time the full moon comes around. Jules taught him techniques, how to "mark" certain prey so his wolf self would attack it but there's no guarantee innocent people wouldn't be hurt in the process and Caroline made him promise he would play nice when around Damon. So he doesn't let the taunts and threats get to him for Caroline's sake. Besides, this whole vampire/werewolf war bullshit has done enough damage to his life. He promised Caroline and his love for her is stronger than all the animal instincts in the world.


I created this project in between waiting for more inspiration to finish up the new chapter of Wolves on the Run and tinkering with the mythology and timeline of Dogs of War. Basically, it's almost impossible to find a Tyler fic that doesn't center around him and Caroline. Since he's basically just a Caroline appendage on the show, this doesn't surprise me. Finding a fic where he's paired up with someone other than Caroline, Jeremy or the occasional and coveted Tylena pairing? Ha! Good luck. I can count the number of Damon/Tyler and Tyler/Katherine fics on one hand. And not just on . Anywhere.

So this is my little laboratory if you will, where I'll mix and match different Tyler pairings. Maybe one or two will take off, but that's not why I'm doing this. I'm doing this mostly as a writing exorcise and add a few unique side dishes to the delicious buffet of Jyler and Forbewood on .

Here are a few (tentative) previews of what's kind of going on in the back of my head as far as future installments.

Vicki: The fact of the matter was he never had any idea how miserable he had made her and it really sucks that she would never know, that despite all the fighting and screaming and cheating and dysfunction, how happy she had made him. (An alternate look at Vicki's death and their relationship through Tyler's eyes as well as an exploration of season 1 Tyler.)

Elena: He's had a taste of her blood, now he wants to taste something else. And it's not like anyone in town can stop him now that he's a hybrid. (Takes place after The Reckoning, and examines how Hybrid!Tyler deals with being the most powerful supernatural being in Mystic Falls. Also, expect epic ranting on the Hybrid Tyler plotline as well as hybrids in general.)

Bonnie: What is it with him and falling for girls who come to his rescue…what is it with him always needing to be rescued? He's a werewolf now isn't he? Isn't that supposed to make him more badass than before? But Bonnie is the baddest of all asses, and he wonders if maybe that's why he finds her so attractive. (Assumes that the Sun and Moon curse is true and Jules and her pack got everything they need for the ritual. Everything but a witch, that's where Bonnie comes in.)

Jeremy: Their relationship isn't all sunshine and roses, and the little geek still annoys the fuck out of him. The best part is that Jeremy doesn't insist they cuddle afterwards. (A more begrudging romance than what is normally portrayed. This'll be my first slashfic.)

Katherine: The truth about why Sarah attacked him hits him like a ton of bricks and the night after he's gone from Mystic Falls to track the evil bitch down and stake her ass. The last thing he intended was to fall in love with the woman who ruined his life, and he's ashamed of himself for it. The booze and his latent crush on Elena helps. (Tyler/Katherine seems to be something of a minor cult crack pairing despite the fact that these two might have said two words to each other of the course of the show. I can see why though, Katherine did have a major impact on Tyler's life, even if he never finds out.)

Damon: The sweetest part is the look of heartbreak on the bastard's face when Tyler puts the wooden stake where it belongs, in the heart that was starting to thaw for the werewolf. Now it's Tyler's turn to penetrate Damon. (Damon/Tyler seems to be another minor crack pairing. Based on a misunderstanding I had the first time I read a summary of the events of the season finale. I thought Damon had killed Mayor Lockwood, though a quick reread fixed that. Also considering that Damon killed Vicki and Tyler's uncle Mason, I thought a revenge tale would be a good spin on this pairing.)

Kelly: He had wondered if maybe sleeping with Vicki's mother would help make him forget, or at least make him feel a bit better. Instead it just makes him feel worse. He's gone before he wakes up, and that makes him feel bad too. (Of course, based on the infamous MILF scene following Vicki's death. Something of a continuation of the Vicki oneshot, may also have elements of the supposed deleted scene that revealed Kelly was a succubus.)

Klaus: His sire is a really crappy mentor, partly because he's new to this hybrid stuff too but also because he's so damn crazy. On the other hand he's way more fun than Jules and Tyler's always wanted to see Europe. (Based on the premise that Klaus took "his hybrid" when he left Mystic Falls in The Reckoning. Possibly a slash fic, but it could wind up being more mentor/student or bromance than anything.)

Jules: He's the only thing standing between the woman he's come to love as more than just a teacher and the oldest, meanest bloodsucking bastard to ever walk the earth and for the first time he doesn't fight the transformation but wills it to go faster. He sees the briefest glint of trepidation in the Original's bloodshot eyes and with Jules helpless on the ground behind him he plants his feet and roars. Game on, Klaus. (Another fic that assumes the Sun and Moon Curse is true and Klaus is trying to break the curse to prevent werewolves from regaining their full power. Also an attempt to address the criminal lack of Jules fics.)

Jenna: How is he supposed to help her through her transition into a vampire? Everything he knows about them revolves around tracking and killing them, and he's just lost the only two people who ever tried to help him. Somehow though, he makes it easier for her to bare and he hopes that saving Jenna will somehow be penance for what he did to Caroline. (Thrown in on a whim, because I realized that Jenna is pretty much the only main character Tyler never met in the show. The premise is that both Jules and Caroline were sacrificed by Klaus to break the hybrid curse. Might wind up more a friendship fic than a couple.)

Rose: After he saved her from the werewolf bite by feeding her his blood he wonders if maybe some of those crappy paranormal romance novels have a point about some connection forming between a vampire and those they feed on. When he tells her his theory she laughs, calls him a romantic idiot and shoves him down onto the bed. (When Rose, and latter Damon, were bitten one fan theory about the cure was that werewolf blood, or the blood of the werewolf who bit them, could save a vampire who'd been infected. It was a theory I liked, and when I decided to start this project it was one that led me right to poor Rose.)

Lexi: After the massacre at Mystic Falls where he lost everyone he loved she found him in Florida. Hunting down human murderers and rapists in human form and targeting vampires every moonrise, but heedless to how many innocent people got in his way. She's never helped a werewolf before, but she's always loved a challenge. (Probably more of a one sided crush on Tyler's part. I always liked Lexi, and I'm still a bit miffed that Damon never really got his comeuppance for killing her.)

Isobel: She says something to him in French he doesn't understand but the expression on her face tells him more than words ever could. He responds by pinning her to the wall and slipping his tongue into her mouth. Both of them wonder if tonight is the night the other will betray them. By the time she throws him to the floor and starts clawing off his pants while he tears off her shirt with his teeth neither one of them are very much interested in ancient blood feuds or espionage. (Ah yes, my pet crack ship. Muahahahaha.)

If anyone out there has any suggestions, feel free to bring them up them. I'll accept crossover requests as well as long as I know what the other property is.