CROSS MY HEART
hope to die. to my lover, i'd never lie.
he said "be true," i swear i'll try.
in the end, it's him and i.

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If fairytales are real
then she is the kind of princess
no prince or king could ever handle.
She was not made
for ballgowns and parties
but for battlefields and saddles.

— Warrior Princess, Nikita Gill

        AVERI BIRD MITCHELL was always known to be one of the sensitive girls living in Beacon Hills. Maybe that was the reason why people found it so easy to walk all over her, take advantage of her. But as much as it fell to be one of her greatest flaws, she learned to wield it as one of her greatest strengths.

        Especially when it came to her relationships, always having a deeper bond than the regular. And that was how it was for them, the three musketeers, a name given to them by their parents. Consisting of Scott McCall, Stiles Stilinski, and Averi Mitchell, best of friends almost their whole lives.

The trio had grown up together, doing everything together and being completely inseparable ever since. However as they grew up, so did their emotions, their feelings.

Stiles couldn't exactly recall when his feelings came about—actually, he could, he just chose not to. His whole life he always liked her but he didn't realize that he liked her until the third grade. She was the sweetest girl he'd ever met, there was simply nothing she could do that he couldn't admire. And even with how stubbornly moody she could be, he cherished all of her.

        And while Averi stood blindly of his heart eyes, Scott saw them clearly. But friendships like such are sacred, the yearning feelings only get in the way of things and Stiles just couldn't risk it—so once he knew in third grade he found a substitute, Lydia Martin.

        In the end, it didn't matter. What was once locked in place was now broken out of. You know what's said about a friend group of three, they never stay together.

        Three always finds a way to become two.

        And in this case, Averi was the one. It was the summer just before eighth grade when it all happened. When her mom died. How? Even Averi herself wasn't sure, but maybe that was because her mom wasn't exactly the most present parent—always having to deal with some sort of business in Virginia. It was all so confusing for the poor girl, and it was after that, that she began to distance herself from the two boys she grew so close to.

It wasn't much of a surprise to any of the parents that the first to run away was Averi, she always had a bad habit of completely shutting down when everything got too hard—pulling away from everyone. She knew nothing else other than to build up a wall in front of herself, trapped in her own box of solace.

Then again, she was grieving.

        Her distance from the boys was never supposed to be even a year, let alone three. Once eighth grade began was when she really started to pull back, and by the summer after she had stopped talking them completely. It wasn't like they had become complete strangers or anything, there were still exchanged smiles with each glance—small acknowledgments while walking past the other in the hallway.

        But during all this, she grew a new bond with the girl she only knew as Stiles' crush. Lydia wasn't someone you'd picture Averi to be best friends with, she wasn't sensitive or soft the way Averi was—still they clicked so easily. And because of the Martin girl's popularity, she started to crawl out of her shell as more eyes fell on her.

        High School started and Parker Kingston fell into the picture, earning the title of being her boyfriend. You could pin the blame on her rotting delicacy, how she was the vulnerable girl every boy wanted to own like a toy, it would never change the damaging fact that was her life. A life she couldn't break free from.

        Genuinely, she did have some sort of feelings for Parker. But as their relationship developed, the more she felt herself slipping away. She was stuck in an empty hole too deep to climb out of, and Lydia could only pull her up so far before she would just fall back down again.

        She wanted to escape, to be free from it all. Free from her hoax of a boyfriend, free from the suffocating storm she was forced to call home, free from all that was nothing but a dead-end maze. Every single day was like an endless loop, waking up to relive the same cycle all over again. She was stuck playing the puppet.

        If she were being honest, the last time she truly felt like herself was three years ago. Three years ago when it was just her and the two boys she loved so dearly...and differently.

        But the damage had already been done, there was no turning back with the butterfly effect that followed the supernatural.

Averi Mitchell was a sensitive light in a life full of challenging darkness. A life that would soon be polluted by all the untold truths and secrets that lay beneath her family crest.

That lay beneath Beacon Hills.

        She wasn't ready for what was to come...

None of them were.

AVERI MITCHELL | alycia debnam-carey

(  alive. the fragile fawn. human?  )

ERIC MITCHELL | jensen ackles

(  alive. the disappeared dad. human.  )

DAVE MITCHELL | andrew lincoln

(  alive. the unloving uncle. human.  )

PARKER KINGSTON | leo howard

(  alive. the bastard boyfriend. human.  )

FLORENCE DELANEY | angelina jolie

(  deceased. the mysterious mom. human?  )

...
THE REST OF THE TEEN WOLF CAST
played by their regular actors

(( i only own my oc's and their plotlines ))

⚠︎︎ warning ⚠︎︎
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this story will include sensitive topics that may be triggering for others such as self-harm, anxiety, few sexual themes, toxic relationships, some aspects of abuse & the usual teen wolf violence

if you aren't comfortable reading any of these topics, then this may not be the story for you <3

✍︎︎ author's note
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did i rewrite my entire synopsis once again because i still absolutely despised the old one? yes, yes i did.

am i currently revamping the entire book because my old writing is terrible? yes, yes i am.

i have so much planned out for this story and i do intend on making it a series. i want to genuinely put dedication to this book because i started getting lazy and i know overall i can do better with this story and the writing.

i don't want to unpublish the book, so i'm keeping it up while i revamp it. i've also recently decided to change up my face claims while trying to fix certain plot points so everything's kinda on pause rn while i fix up chapters.

that being said, i hope you all enjoy this fic <3