whatevermortal | (no subject)

Haven AU

FBI agent Derek Hale knows that the supernatural is best left to the childhood he never really got to have, but when he arrives in Haven on a routine case he discovers that he has to believe the unbelievable to catch the killer of an escaped felon. Stiles Stilinski, a chatty, overenthusiastic reporter with an intense fascination in what he’s named “the troubles” and a newspaper he runs single-handedly, adopts Derek (despite his fierce protestations) after discovering an article written by his predecessors with a photo of a man who looks shockingly like Derek’s father, who he resembles closely.

Stiles and he once best friend Scott McCall have drifted apart since high school, but when Scott meets Allison, he falls so fast and so hard that it triggers the return of his trouble; a spike in his heart rate causes him to shape shift and he can’t be around her without transforming into a wolf-like monster. Scott goes to Stiles, who’d had his back during the last troubles when they were eight, for help and their friendship is rekindled—but so are the problems that had caused them to separate to start with.

After the case is closed, Derek decides to take the personal time he never uses to stay in Haven and figure out what connection his family has to the town. Haven is a close-lipped town and unwilling to share the secrets surrounding the mystery of the Colorado Kid murder and the photograph, but Derek does find out that the man pictured went by the name Lucas Ripley, and that, stranger still, he and Derek may be one-and-the-same person and his memories of the loving family he lost are a lie. Derek is destined to help the afflicted of Haven, but he needs Stiles, his connections and his lively intelligence to get anywhere with the reticent townspeople.

For all his willingness to help, Stiles is keeping something huge a secret: he’s the boy with Lucas in the photo and that whole day is a blank in his memory.

“Are you really surprised no one’s willing to talk to you about your maybe-dad?”

“What do you mean?”

“Derek, seriously? Look at you! Who’d open up to a guy who looks like he’s two seconds from stabbing you in the face?”