eachdraidh | fifth scream ♚ video ♚ both courts ♚ (backdated to pre-demon dogs)

( there is a level of quiet calculation to the way lydia addresses the locketed network. she wears not nearly as much makeup. her hair isn't kept in ringlets or curls, nothing fancy, but a simple bun. she seems... slightly detached, from everything, though she's not necessarily detached in an unpleasant way. she's just.. well. she's older. and she holds herself high and with a much more adult strength than previously. )

I slept again. I dreamed of home. Or maybe I lived it, while my body was trapped here. Either way. ( her lips form a thin line, something like a smile but not quite. and there is a certain measure of manipulation glinting just behind her eyes. )

For those of you who know Peter Hale, you should be made aware that anything he tells you about his strength of character is very likely a lie. He is a murderer, and he's the absolute best at the manipulation game. He doesn't care about anyone but himself, and it's very likely that he's using anyone he's pretended to befriend for personal gain. Just when you think you might be able to trust you again, he'll probably try to kill your best friends.

( dear peter hale,

you tried to kill scott to be the alpha again, and she hates you! :D )

Just a public service announcement.

PRIVATE TO STILES.

Am I all caught up with you now? What did I miss?

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I'm an opportunist.

[You have a problem. Maybe he does. Dear doctor, I think I'm addicted to power??? He stares at her, long and hard and then rolls his eyes very maturely. ]

Fine. I'll be honest with you, Lydia. I don't like Scott. I could have, maybe, had he not been such a -- a direct pain in my neck. But he's so wholesome, I suppose it was always inevitable. I don't like him. I would love to plead indifference on him, I really would. But he has everything I want and it is beyond grotesque. Seventeen years old and more naive than a puppy on Christmas day. What part of that is fair?

If you use the loosest definition of the word. ( flat tone is so very flat. )

It's fair because Scott's a decent person who actually deserves that kind of power. People like you don't. They never do, because they just abuse it.

Of course. I've been abusing it so much, since I was gifted it here.

[He gives her a look; it's slightly disappointed, as though he expected better from her. (He does.)]

You know it's not as black and white as that, Lydia.

That, I don't know. I just know people deserve to be forewarned of the possibility. Which is what I'm trying to do here.

( actually peter it is EXACTLY tHAT -- okay maybe not. )

You're half-right. It wasn't. Not up until recently.

It still isn't. You know better than that, Lydia.

[Gently: ]

I have no grudges here. No one is at risk.

[well except celegorm, but he dead. ]

Yet. But be honest with yourself, Peter. How long do you think that's going to last?

[Dryly:]

Should I be paying you by the hour for this impromptu therapy session?

( for a moment her guard drops and she actually chuckles - the genuine kind of chuckling, actually - then she realizes her mistake and smugly smirks at him. )

I think so. Send a messenger pigeon with money.

A silver coin for every hour. Got it.

[A beat. ]

There's something you should know, in the spirit of full disclosure going on here.

Two. Make it two.

( eyebrow raise. )

And what's that?

I can shift, again. Not the sad excuse for a shift Scott and Derek can both do. I mean my previous shift, it's like that. But ... better.

( lydia looks... mildly horrified. ) ... What? What do you mean better?

[a vague smile. ]

It's not really something you can explain in explicit detail.

( her eyes shift rapidly back and forth across his face, like she's trying to figure out what the secret is, why he seems so ... disturbingly pleased. ) I hope it's something along the lines of actual self control.

Well that too.

[He flashes a hint of teeth; the barest tease of a grin. ]

Have you seen a direwolf, Lydia?

( ... it looks


a big

... wolf.

the realization doesn't take long to dawn on her, and she's just... how could the fairies allow this to happen? )

Only in books. They've been extinct for a long time.

Beautiful, aren't they? Their extinction, here, is up for some debate.

I'm going to take a shot in the dark here and guess that they gave you the ability to shift into one.

You wouldn't be wrong.

Because that's exactly what the world needs. You with that sort of strength.

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