"Pick a card--any card."

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Card shark, magician, or descendant of Cassandra the Prophet:

No matter who or what Stiles Stilinski truly was, he was the only chance at the Hale Pack's survival.

Being a college student is hard, especially when you have a more obscure major (if only because the price of your textbooks seem to be geared to how many times you can break down and sob hopelessly while in the campus bookstore).

So when Stiles is given the chance to make some quick money, well... he'd be an idiot not to take it, right?

All he has to do is stand there and look pretty and let the photographer do his job.

...oh, God. Stiles has made a Horrible Life Decision.

Both Luke and Reid have lost the Christmas spirit - but a chance meeting changes things.

May the best pretend boyfriend win.

When a cute stranger asks Reid to help him out, he actually says yes.

Reid's having a really bad day when he comes to and realises he's been kidnapped. What makes it even worse is that Luke Snyder's been taken, too, and is currently standing in the cell next to his.

Reid's life is going absolutely fine. Just perfectly...fine.

And then Luke moves in next door.

It was only natural, Reid told himself. He'd helped an attractive young man through a rite of passage – his first one night stand with another guy. Reid had practically performed a public service. He felt a little smug about it, if he was honest, and even a little good about himself.

Of course it'd keep playing on his mind.

"You're a werewolf, not Spider-Man."

Peter Hale is a petty, petty man.

Derek has been one of Stiles' best friends for years, almost as long as Scott. They've been friends through Stiles' mom's death, and through Derek's ex trying to burn the Hales' house down. So Stiles only feels slightly badly for ogling Derek's hot uncle. He's covered in tattoos and easily the most attractive man Stiles has ever seen.

"Hello, Stiles," Peter says, his voice like silk.

"Peter?" Stiles stammers. "You're back."

"Astute as ever," Peter says.

"Oh, fuck off," Stiles says. Peter just laughs.

Or

The one where Peter is a tattoo artist and an alpha without a pack, and Stiles is college student and best friends with Derek. When Peter moves back from New York, there's immediately something between them.

Peter makes it a point to know who every student at Beacon Hills High School is. Even if they're completely unremarkable, he likes to know the basics about them. He's a senior, still a child according to his sister, but he's tapped to be her right hand, her enforcer. It's his job to know about everyone that could be a potential threat. She calls him paranoid, he calls it practicing. So when a new student comes, the first in a long time (in years really. No one moves to Beacon Hills.), Peter pays attention.

OR

The one where Stiles is a new student and Cora's new best friend. Derek is traumatized after Paige, Peter's trying to keep his pack safe, and why does Stiles smell so weird?

"You're watching Brokeback Mountain?" Stiles asks.

"Is there a problem with that? I was under the impression that you're bisexual, surely two men having a relationship isn't scandalous to you," Peter says.

"No, it's not that, dumbass," Stiles says. "I just didn't think it's your style."

Peter seems uncomfortable for a moment and Stiles is sure he's about to be told to fuck off, but then Peter sighs.

"Now that the nemeton is dealt with, the territory is finally somewhat secure. I have a chance to catch up on all that I missed," Peter says.

"Missed?"

"While I was in a coma, Stiles," Peter says exasperatedly.

Peter's looking at Stiles like he's waiting for something, maybe for Stiles to make a sarcastic comment or laugh, but Stiles doesn't find it remotely funny.

"Oh," Stiles says awkwardly. "Okay, but if you're doing this, you're doing this right."

OR

Due to his time in a coma, Peter has missed a lot and doesn't get all the cultural references people make. Stiles wants to change that.

Stiles....goes a bit overboard at Christmas. He knows this. His dad knows this. Scott knows this. The pack...does not.

Or

Stiles is going to give the pack a great Christmas whether they like it or not. And if special attention is paid to Peter, well...

It's Monopoly time," Scott says without looking up from Mass Effect.

"Monopoly time?" Derek asks.

"Safeway and all their sister stores like Albertsons are doing their Monopoly game," Stiles says. He grabs his backpack and rifles through it before pulling out his Safeway Monopoly board with little Monopoly pieces stuck to it.

Isaac snorts from next to Scott.

"You're not going to win anything," he says.

"Oh ye of little faith," Stiles says. "I already won a $50 gift card."

"What, seriously?" Isaac asks.

"Stiles wins something every year," Scott says, groaning as his character dies. "Last year he won a $5,000 college scholarship."

"Fingers crossed for the vacation," Stiles says.

Or

Peter woos Stiles with Monopoly pieces.

Hell is busy and Peter is understaffed. There are too many evil people being sent down below and there are only so many demons Peter has to torture them with. He needs to reorganize. They don't utilize group torture nearly as much as they should. Stiles probably has some ideas on that.

Or

Peter is King of Hell, Stiles is his second in command, and Talia summons them for a favor.

It's not that Stiles hates David. Hate is a strong word. It's just that...he hates that guy. And it kills him. You're not supposed to hate your soulmate, the one person the universe has decided is perfect for you. The person made for you. Intellectually, he knows that's ridiculous. Abusive soulmates exist. Cheating, lying, violent soulmates exist, and he would never expect someone to stay with someone like that.

His mother had believed in soulmates. Believed wholeheartedly, and he can't fail her again by it not working with David.

OR

Stiles has a bit of a soulmark miscommunication.

"You can't be a werewolf and a witch!" Stiles says.

"Why not?" Peter asks. He looks entirely too amused.

"They're conflicting magics!" Stiles says. "It's impossible!"

"And yet, here we are," Peter says.

And...well, yeah. In the face of overwhelming evidence, Stiles' worldview is going to have to shift a bit. Werewolves can do magic, okay. Stiles also can do magic. Slightly more mind-boggling, but okay, he did levitate a cat after all. Said cat then led him through the woods to a magic werewolf's house. God.

Or

Based on Mysenia's prompt where Stiles' familiar tries to find creative ways to introduce him to his magic.

"So, you're going to ruin your niece's baby shower with flowers in the wrong color?" the florist, Stiles, asks when they reach the counter. He pulls out a binder and starts flipping through it.

"Not ruin. Mildly inconvenience," Peter says.

"Right, messing with a hormonal pregnant woman seems like a great plan."

"To be fair, her fiance and the father of her baby is my ex-boyfriend," Peter says. "And we weren't broken up when they started 'dating'."

Stiles looks up at him in surprise. "And you're still getting her flowers?" he asks.

"It's under duress, I assure you," Peter says. He absolutely wouldn't be here if his alpha hadn't ordered it.

"Well, shit, yeah, let's get you some purple revenge flowers," Stiles says.

Stiles and Peter's relationship is fairly new and Scott doesn't believe that Peter actually cares about Stiles. This is a story of four times that Peter showed that he cared about Stiles and the one time Scott actually got it.

OR five times Peter refused to lift a finger to help the Pack until Stiles needed help.

They always seemed to forget that Stiles was human. In some manners at least. Scott and Derek always went on about how he was too fragile to be helpful. That he was a liability and the weak link of the Pack, but that awareness of his fragility seemed to always disappear when it came to their own aggression.

A story of how Peter notices the way the Pack treats Stiles and does everything he can to step between Stiles and further harm.

“Good morning, kiddo,” his dad said, and the words hurt.

All Stiles wanted to do was step forward and let his dad hug him, allow his father to give him comfort. His father's hugs had always been all-encompassing, the way he would fold himself around Stiles and hold him as tightly as he could.

Stiles stepped around him, careful not to let foreign skin touch anything that was special to him.

Anything he loved.

Merlin in a dress, Arthur gets bitten and lots of sex.

An Ancient Greek AU loosely based on a tradition in Crete where young men were pursued by suitors in the woods and carried off. Different sources still debate whether or not this was consensual.

Jensen returns from war as the new head of his household and owner of property. He prefers to be different.

There are names for boys who carry the Bible the way Stiles Stilinski does and none of them are pretty. Stiles holds the good book as if he wants to devour scripture like a coyote devours its prey but there’s a delicacy to it, a fear of the holy. He’s clearly dressed in his father’s suit, the boy is swamped in fabric making him look like a child playing dress up. He’s been silent throughout the funeral, except for mouthing the words to Amazing Grace, but his right hand has been clenching and unclenching. The only physical display of the rage that’s simmering below the surface.

Jared Padalecki is blessed as a baby. Which means for most of his life Jared Padalecki has been cursed. Right until he happens to haul an angry man with tentacles out of the ocean.

Sam goes to a sex club by himself. Dean decides to stake his claim.

Peter is enigmatic, egotistical, sometimes barely sane. He's sharp and cutting and takes more time to care for the pack than anyone.

And sometimes, John catches him watching Stiles.

Jared’s been riding through the country for months now, unwilling to stop anywhere for more than a night. But when a thunderstorm forces him to accept shelter from a mysterious green-eyed man, he finds himself questioning his journey as well as wondering who Jensen really is.

Stiles should know better than to trust an offer that seems too good to be true, especially when it comes from Erica. He's supposed to be staying in Erica and Boyd's apartment, not this stupidly ridiculous Hale Pack mansion with Sentinel Prime Peter Hale, who Stiles has an enormous crush on.

He's a green spark. It's in his nature to nurture. And this… this nemeton, she needs him. He's never been so sure of anything in his life.

“Wave at your people, Husband,” the King said softly in his ear. “They will worship you if you treat them right. They will curse you if you abuse them. I prefer to keep them happy,” he said as he raised a hand and waved to the people.

Jared looked at his new husband for a moment before he caught his sister’s eye. She had followed behind and was standing a step behind and to the left of the King. She looked more pleased than he liked, but he turned back to the people and waved as his husband asked.

Jensen’s first time going to a sex club where just about anything goes. He’s only looking for someone to take his knot, let him fuck out his frustrations for the night, when he sees someone who absolutely shouldn’t be there. His best friend, Jared, smelling like heaven and wearing a fucking skirt and very little else.

What kind of an idiot would try to explain magic to a Vulcan.

When the call connects, Will says, “I know what kind of crazy I am, but I’m not this kind of crazy.”

“Will?” Dr. Lecter says.

“Yes, hi, sorry,” Will says. “It’s me. There’s a baby on my porch.”

Jensen is a canis-sapien, a human with canine like qualities and a sub-human, commonly kept as a pet or laborer. In Jensen’s case he’s a pet, a Companion, Misha is his owner and the man thinks Jensen needs a companion of his own species so he brings home Jared, another Companion. Jensen reaction to the male isn’t exactly what Misha expected.

For a Hollywood actor, Jensen leads a pretty private life. Even winning an Academy Award doesn't change that. But then pictures of him kissing his boyfriend, Jared, pop up and it turns his world upside down. His PR team thinks they have two choices: let their accidental outing ruin their careers or stage the grandest love story of modern times, social media style, and make America fall in love with them. Only problem is, Jared and he just started dating and the sudden attention might just be the thing that ruins their relationship.

Jared has a crush on his boss.

Jensen doesn't need a ring and a piece of paper to prove that he loves Jared. They're only getting married because marriage is beneficial. Really.

Dating your friend's ex isn't easy, no matter how right it feels.

Jared meets Jensen through Chad, who's convinced Jensen's just a stuck-up asshole and unfortunately, his boss's superior. Luckily, Jared doesn't really value Chad's opinion, because he's pretty sure Jensen is the kind of guy he could fall in love with.

A sequel to Relief.

Just a little unbeta'd ditty set after the last episode (when Luke and Reid made out for the first time)

Wereanimal!Jensen has been on his mating quest since he didn't find his mate within his pack. It's getting to a critical point where Jensen might go feral and claim his mate where ever and when ever he finds him. Jared is Jensen mate and "unfortunately" for both of them Jensen finds him in a packed college bar, at least there's a pool table in the back."

In which Jared announces that his family is moving, and Jensen suddenly becomes very concerned with time.

The results of a recent blood test see accountant Jared Padalecki summoned to the CDC for tests, only to find that things are far from what they seem. Jared is a candidate, sought by a race of aliens. If that wasn’t bad enough, there are other countries who will go to any lengths to ensure that their candidate is the one, even if that means murder. Rescued, by who he believes to be Secret Service agents, Jared is whisked away to a house in Montana, owned by enigmatic billionaire Jensen Ackles and his unusual ‘family’. Who is Jensen Ackles anyway, and why is he so interested in Jared?

Just what did Dean (or Sam) do to Penny Markle in 6th grade? This is how she remembers it.

Jensen is an Engelon, a species whose home planet was drained of all its resources and abandoned thousands of years ago. Now what remains of their collective live in a large spaceship that travels between galaxies in order to find, conquer and drain new planets and their inhabitants of the one precious substance they need to survive: water. Engelons don’t feel anything except for greed, thirst and hatred for all creatures that stand in their way—except for Jensen. Always the odd alien out, Jensen has tried to keep his yearnings and emotions buried, but when his collective discovers a big blue planet called Earth, everything changes.

Jensen is assigned the task of observing humanity, learning their ways and customs. When Jensen unintentionally takes a human form, his fellow Engelons have finally had enough. They cast him down to Earth, far from any ocean, where it is assumed he will die without access to water. But Jensen is rescued by Jared, a man who lives alone on the farm Jensen was dropped on. Jared has lost everything he ever held dear but he has not lost his kindness or his willingness to help a very strange stranger in need.

Or: The Epic Love Story of Jensen Tentackles and Farmboy!Jared

There were hundreds of houses, thousands of people who came to swim and play in Jensen’s lake, but Jared was the only one he cared to know by name.

Jensen met Jared twenty-six years, four months, two weeks, and one engagement ring too late.

But thankfully, he also met him one wedding cake too early.

“You did something to Dean!” Sam exclaims, backing up and pointing in accusation.

“Correct!” Cas says excitedly. “I removed Dean's inhibitions regarding his frequent desire to kiss you. Now whenever he feels the urge, he simply does so, and has no memory of it afterwards. It's my gift to you!”

In which Cas does not understand the meaning of "gift", Dean has selective amnesia, and Sam is confused as hell.

Jensen is a centuries-old dragon and a bit of a misanthrope with a special abhorrence for wizards.

Jared is a powerful mage nursing Jensen back to health after he was injured saving Jared's life, though he wonders why Jensen would bother rescuing him at all when he claims to hate his kind so deeply.

As Jensen recovers from his wounds, they both discover there's more to one another than first meets the eye - perhaps even finding something they didn't realize they'd been searching for.

Jensen finally has his knot form. It's a big step in a teenagers life, when he becomes a man. But there's a lot of care/concern as well, because with the knot comes a huge dose of testosterone, Jensen is aggressive and prone to violence until the hormone levels out. It also triggers a sexual frenzy. But that's ok, his girlfriend is tucked away safe, forbidden to see him until he's in control. What no one expected was that Jensen's sexual desires weren't for her, but his best friend Jared

The Bard of Morning's Hope is a seemingly unstoppable murderer stalking former Death Eaters and former Slytherins, enacting vengeance on them in an untraceable way. In the wake of Lucius Malfoy's savage death, Harry Potter becomes the Auror assigned to guard Draco and Narcissa Malfoy from a similar fate.

AU: "You're a genie and you live in Chad's bong?" Jared asks stupidly.

"It's a lamp," the genie replies. "It's a goddamn lamp!"

Pokémon AU: Like most kids his age, Jared left home at 18, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, determined to become a Pokémon master. Five years later, the plan has changed a bit—Jared traded in his gym badge collection for a better adventure, a chance to do some good. Now he's what you might call an eco-terrorist; he finds abusive Pokémon masters and, well, persuades them to free their Pokémon. Jared doesn't believe in keeping Pokémon as pets, but he frees a Ninetales from Team Rocket that will not stop following him. In addition to his new, fire-type plus one, Jared keeps bumping into a very forward, very handsome, green-eyed stranger. He doesn't know who Jensen is, why he seems to be everywhere Jared goes, or why his Ninetales takes off every time Jensen is near, but he's very much enjoying trying to figure it out.

The alpha crouches down until they’re level. He examines Stiles and something seems to click in his head. He says, before Stiles can ask any more questions, with a nod at Bunnicula, “Is that your Alpha Buddy?”

“His name’s Bunnicula,” Stiles says around a mouthful of pastry and sugar. Bunnicula is his constant companion, always stuffed in his backpack or hauled along with Stiles in his jacket pocket. Every square inch of him smells like Stiles, from his floppy ears to his velvety pink toe beans. Stiles is proud, especially ‘cause his mom told him that the more his Buddy smelled like him, the easier it would be for his alpha to keep track of it, because otherwise it would just smell like cotton and stuffing.

Stiles is months off from having his next heat but he likes the idea that even if he has to be alone during it, he would have Bunnicula with him. And Bunnicula would smell like his alpha, so it’ll be like having a little piece of them too.

Everyone has a mate and during his or her prime years instinct helped them seek them out. Jensen spent his years searching lazily at first but by then end desperate. Now he's nearly thirty and about to be legally proclaimed 'Widowed Before Mating' Because after nearly fifteen years of hunting for his mate without success, it's clear that he or she has died. Jensen doesn't want to be bitter about it he just wants his mate, because somewhere in him, he knows he is still out there.

Jared finds a small injured dragon and his life is never the same.

Fourteen years ago, magic was banned from the Padalecki kingdom, and all dragons and other magical creatures left the country. When a precious gem is stolen and Jared sets out on a journey to retrieve it, he is reunited with a long lost friend – and slowly finds out just how much the ban on magic has hurt the land and people living there. With Jensen and their friends at Jared's side, he begins to hope he can fix what his father broke, and bring magic, and Jensen, back to the kingdom for good.

Centuries ago, mankind was all but annihilated by the gods in an attempt to save the planet. Now, Jared, a human hunter from a small village, meets Jensen, one of the old gods and protector of the forest Jared hunts in.

Jared's life is great—until his boyfriend cheats on him and breaks his heart. He promises himself he's done with men for a while, but then Jensen moves in next door and he's impossible to resist.

Jared comes home to find a stranger in his bed—Jensen, his brother's boss, needs a place to hide from the press and Jared, who would do anything for his brother, reluctantly agrees to let him stay for a few days. But things spin out of control when he gets sucked into pretending to be Jensen's fiancé. Soon Jared's life is turned upside down; though Jensen might just be the best thing that ever happened to him.

Jared goes to a club, looking for a hookup. He ends up getting more than he bargained for.

Alphas have collars to reign in their aggressive tendancies, unfortunately the grid that keeps them in check fails. Jared is visiting his step brother Jensen when his mother tells him to hide.

Unfortunately, Jensen's collar is only given to the most unruly Alphas- and he happens to want Jared.

Lord Ackles of Stonemere seldom gets directly involved with his subjects' lives, and yet he is the one arranging Jared's marriage to a girl from town. Jared has no idea what to expect when the lord arrives at the wedding feast with a surprising demand.

To cement an alliance between house Padel and house Ackles, Omega Ja’red travels through the Great Waste to be bonded to someone he’s never met.

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Jared has just been jilted by his cheating fiancé, when his car breaks down on a lonely road in the middle of the forest. He sets out to find civilisation, but finds a beautiful, but terrifying, golden wolf, with who he has sex, instead.

Jared is just trying to get enough money for college to prove he's not just his biology. He doesn't expect to meet the city's most powerful Alpha crime lord.

Jensen knew that he wanted Jared, and he was not about to let some purity ring come in his way. Besides, there wasn't anything that couldn't be bought...

"Peter's seducing a succubus, and you're hiding in the closet," Jennifer says from behind him. Ear to the door, Stiles waves his hand at her, as if to swat her away.

"I should've stayed dead," Jennifer grumbles.

The Hale Wolf Sanctuary isn’t just for wolves.

It turns out it’s for Stilinskis as well.

Jared couldn’t imagine the kitsunes had ever lived without the werefoxes to look down on and this was just another example of it.

Jared Padalecki is a homicide detective for the werefox police, up until the kitsune police department decides to recruit him as their ‘Fox Consultant. There is nothing Jared wants less than having to work with the kitsunes, but he doesn’t have much of a choice. Of course, on the first day of his new job, one of the city supervisors is murdered and an official from the US government is flown in to handle it—one Jensen Ackles, an eight-tailed Heaven kitsune. Jared isn’t sure what’s going on, but he just wants to lay low and stay out of trouble. Unfortunately, fate—and Jensen—have other plans.

In a world where the government keeps a close eye on alphas, betas and omegas -- to the point of making certain everyone with these traits is mated by the time they turn eighteen -- it's no wonder the condition has become rather rare. It is, however, essentially unheard of to be unmated at thirty-three, but Jensen Ackles is an alpha who's good at staying under the radar. That is, until he's not and he's matched -- by bureaucratic decree -- to 18-year-old omega, Jared Padalecki. This is the story of how the two of them find far more than they ever thought they could.

In the months following his father’s death, Sam struggles to find his place in a world that’s taken everything, even his brother, away from him.

Jared is lucky when his father picks young businessman Jensen Ackles as his mate. Now he just needs to make sure Jensen never finds out about Jared’s dirty little secret and they can live happily ever after.

Jared's had the best stepbrother in the world in Jensen since the age of five — growing up together and more attached than usual brothers would —, only realizing that he’s in love with Jensen by the time he hits thirteen.

After five more years of Jared's impossible crush, he knows his life turns and spins around his brother. Luckily for Jared, he and Jensen have always been closer than other siblings, making his feelings seem a little less hopeless. Or that is until Jensen announces he’s moving to Austin to live with his girlfriend next year, leaving Jared's perfectly built Jensen-centric world crashing to the ground.

That’s when Chad and Sandy decide to convince Jared that moving on and letting go of his feelings are the only way to get through his lost love for Jensen. Yet their plan to get Jared out of his shell and over his stepbrother doesn't sit well with one person: Jensen himself, who realizes that the more Jared tries to pull away, the more he wants to get him back closer.

Jensen is cast as an Alpha for a "documentation" on Alpha/Omega breeding which will air on a porn channel (if live or recorded is up to the author). He gets to choose his Omega from a group of young men who are willing to be knocked up. Of course, he picks the Jared.

It would be lectures all day and it would only end when Jared was taken to the Crowned Prince for the ceremony. Hopefully, a translator would be found before then.

Jared Padalecki is an omega in an alpha's world, making a name for himself as a tattoo artist and fighting for respect and recognition. Sure, his boss is a jerk and his apartment is a craphole, but he's doing what he wanted. Right up until his co-workers start dropping dead and he meets his mate.