Working in Pairs
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| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Working in Pairs |
| Author(s): | soaringrachel |
| Date(s): | 8 March 2013 |
| Length: | 3,702 words |
| Genre: | F/F slash, M/M slash |
| Fandom: | Teen Wolf |
| External Links: | Fic on AO3 |
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Working in Pairs is a popular Teen Wolf fan fic by soaringrachel. It's set in canon sometime around season 2 but doesn't deal with the canon at all, focusing on exploring the characters' relationships with their sexualities and building a friends to lovers romance for Allison/Lydia and Scott/Stiles after the break-up of Allison/Scott. Unusually, it uses all four of its main characters -- Allison, Lydia, Stiles, and Scott as POV characters.
Summary
When Allison breaks up with Scott, Lydia wears red for a week and files her nails in class. It’s terryfing; equally scary is Stiles sitting perfectly still across the room. When they think she’s not looking she catches a glance between them, and Allison realizes—they have some sort of understanding, Stiles and Lydia, though she can’t imagine what it could be. The thought chills her, a little, but more than that she finds herself lying awake wondering what it is they have in common.
Recs and Reviews
The fic has been widely read and recced, though it appears more often on Allison/Lydia rec lists than Scott/Stiles ones. As of 20 July 2014 it has nearly 500 kudos on AO3, placing it in the top 15 most-kudosed Allison/Lydia fics and top 40 most-kudosed Scott/Stiles fics.
This is so good. It just captured that feeling of being queer and knowing you can't have what you want because statistically they probably can't feel that way, and even if they did they might not be ready to accept it, and even if they were ready why would they want you? Because pining for your best friend is so different for queer people than it is for straight people, and a lot of fics don't capture that. And in essence this is perfect and everything I've ever needed in a fic, especially with the femslash and feminist undertones. --PollyOliver's review.[2]
Thank you so much for this. Not only is it eloquent and well-characterized and compelling, but the queerness it adds to these characters feels both natural and necessary. You offer ideas and beauty and innovation and compassion that surpass that of the source material. These are queer narratives that are often overlooked and they are handled so kindly and deftly in your writing. Thank you. --mybffwonderwoman's review.[3]
References
- ^ Rec post by natabutts, accessed 20 July 2014.
- ^ Comment by PollyOliver, accessed 20 July 2014.
- ^ Comment by mybffwonderwoman, accessed 20 July 2014.