#angst angst angstorama

[luulapants]

A Peter Hale character study fic for @teenwolflegacy​ Top Dogs week, day 1

First Born | Chapter 1/1 | 4741 words | Rated M

The stairs down to the old servants’ entrance squeaked horrendously in the middle, but Peter had learned that he could press the sides of his feet against the walls, where the support was strongest, and slowly creep downward without making a sound. It was a narrow little passageway, windowless, which once carried maids and butlers from the servants’ quarters on the third floor down to the study on the first. Secret stairs and hidden passageways, all meant to ensure that the help was neither seen nor heard, as much as possible.

In what was perhaps a fit of youthful melodrama, Peter found it dreadfully appropriate that they had put his bedroom on the third floor. His parents, he thought, liked him the way the manor’s previous owners had liked their servants: out of sight, out of mind.

He stopped on the fifth step from the bottom – the one that didn’t squeak at all – and quietly sat himself on it. Peter had to strain to hear through the bookcase that covered the passageway, which was good. It meant someone in the room would have to strain to hear his heartbeat as he listened in.

“Now Gianna is making claims on Deucalion’s territory,” said a rough, bass voice. Peter’s Uncle Ambrose. “It’s outrageous. After everything Ambrose Ward did for her.”

“That territory has belonged to the Ward pack for a century,” said an older woman. Peter’s great aunt, Maxine. “She becomes an alpha through bloodshed, and now she thinks she can come home and take the land from its rightful heir?”

After a pause, his mother spoke in her soft yet somehow imposing tone. Talia said she spoke quietly so that people had to work harder to listen, which caused them to assign more importance to her words than they might otherwise. “What do you think, Talia?” she asked.

They’d been doing this lately, both of their parents. Posing tactical questions to their eldest, preparing and assessing her for when she would someday become alpha. Read the rest on AO3

[dangermousie]

The “he watches her catch fireflies and falls in love” scene is total cliche, but it’s cliche for a reason. YUM. 

I am really enjoying Legend of the Phoenix so far, in part because it’s exciting to see Jeremy Tsui play the lead AND a good guy, and because it’s a fun breezy watch (well, it’s a fun breezy watch by period cdrama standards - in the first three eps, male lead already got whipped and the OTP fell off a cliff with arrows in them.) From the previews it’s gonna be full on angstorama at some point, and I am gonna eagerly lap it up as an angst vampire, but for now it’s plain period fun.

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