Top 25 Short Teen Wolf Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Teen Wolf fics — 10,000–50,000 words.
Lock All The Doors Behind You
by entanglednow
He has no idea what you're supposed to say when you find one of your...werewolf acquaintances, completely out of their mind, growling like they're about to see what your insides taste like. There's no handbook for this. Stiles is thinking that if he survives he might write one.
Stilinski's Home for Wayward Wolves
by owlpostagain
“At least your puppies knock first,” Stiles snorts. “Here I thought their alpha raised them to be well-mannered.” “There’s a sign,” Derek responds stiffly. Stiles, whose curiosity outweighs even his hardest of grudges, abandons his chilly façade of nonchalance in a heartbeat. He jumps right up a
Every Step You Take
by Nokomis
Stiles accidentally ends up magically bound to Derek. It’s super.
Darling It Is No Joke
by thehoyden
The first thing Stiles thinks when he opens the door is that it’s not his birthday, but someone has sent him some kind of cop stripper.
Fly a Little Faster
by mirrorkill
Everyone knows when you go back in time, you shouldn't step on an ant, just in case you accidentally kill your own grandparent or something. But what happens when you go back in time and, uh, accidentally interrupt the one event that apparently made the Grumpiest Alpha in Town into a ball of mindles
Hide Of A Life War
by Etharei
“We have received confirmation that there is a hostage situation in progress at a warehouse compound two hours out of Los Angeles, following a multiple-vehicle pileup on Highway 101 this morning...” The one in which Stiles has lived to (legal) adulthood and, along the way, become a bit of a badass h
Electricity In the Contact
by ladyblahblah
In which Derek has been invited to the Greater Pacific Northwest Alpha Symposium (that's not what it's called, Stiles, stop saying that), and showing up unattached would mean an arranged marriage. When the rest of the pack objects, he agrees to let Stiles come along to pose as his mate. Derek is r
Don't Worry Baby
by kalpurna
"You know you're allowed to ask for vanilla sex, right?" he says, afterwards. "We can do whatever you want. That's kind of the point."Derek doesn't respond.
Fireman Derek's Crazy Pie [Cheeseburger Baby]
by owlpostagain
“He can't blame me for the fact that I live in a building full of people united in the singular effort to ogle Hot Fireman as often as humanly possible." Laura laughs, loud and echoing in the empty restaurant. "Hot firemen can make a girl do crazy things," she agrees, nodding towards her brother's n
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
by owlpostagain
“Derek,” Stiles groans. “You have me. You’ve always had me, you absolute moron, how many physically impossible feats of life-saving heroics do I have to perform before you get it?”
hope is the thing with feathers
by ShanaStoryteller
Stiles is ten when he saves the Hales from their burning home and Derek from a wolfsbane bullet, and this establishes a pattern that seem to continue indefinitely. "Then he's facing a burning home, and he wraps the hood of his sweatshirt around his mouth before he pushes the door open and steps insi
Patterns of Intention
by drunktuesdays
Derek looked like the stuff of his deepest fantasies. His shirt was rumpled where Stiles had his hands in it, and he was breathing hard as well, chest heaving. His eyes—his eyes were glazed over and he looked stunned, like he’d been—like Stiles had—“No,” Stiles said, blood draining from his face.
Hemingway Can Suck It
by orphan_account
“For those of you who just transferred into this class or simply decided that day one wasn’t important enough to attend, I’m Professor Hale. Welcome to English 346, The American Novel.”Stiles is pretty sure his mouth is hanging open right now and that his eyes are wide with shock, because holy fuck,
Written in the Stars
by Quixoticity
Derek Hale is a lucky guy. He's got a great family, good friends, and a fulfilling job as a tattoo artist.He's also one of the twenty-five per cent of the population born with a soul mark.He likes his life, but he's waiting for his soul-match. The odds of meeting them aren't great but hey, Derek's a
Bite Down Hard
by orphan_account
For a moment, Derek can’t breathe.Because moles aren’t the only thing marring the pale skin of Stiles’ neck. Oh no, that’s –– that’s a bond bite. A bond bite which Stiles definitely did not have yesterday, and which appears to have roughly the same dimensions as Derek’s own mouth.Shit.(Or: In which
For Love is Not Ours to Command
by weathervaanes
Where Derek's skills at thinking on his feet mean that he and Stiles have to act. For the sake of Stiles' dad, of course, for the sake of the pack. No personal interest interference at all, whatsoever. Right.-0-“Why does my dad say that you and your boyfriend are a bad influence on me?”“What?”“Yeah,
Fame is a Vapor
by Triangulum
Most people wouldn't assume Peter likes baseball. There are a lot of stereotypes that come with being a bisexual man in fashion, and one of them is that he must hate sports and typical 'manly' things. Such blind assumptions and gender roles are, of course, ridiculous, but he's not above using them t
Full On Rainstorm
by BarlowGirl
He catches Derek by the arm and Derek lets himself be turned, surprised when Stiles shoves a small box into his hands. “I don’t know if you still celebrate it or what but… I wanted you to know someone was thinking about you. Happy birthday.” Then he squeezes Derek’s arm and bolts, gone before Der
Can't Be Saved (Not So Frail)
by weathervaanes
“Kira doesn't care a wick if you can afford her dresses and bonnets, I'm well aware. It doesn't change the fact that I have to look after her best interests. I'd like her to be with an Alpha that puts her above all else even if he cannot afford her every luxury.”Scott looks surprised. “I know you d
10/10
by ironicallyinternational
Stiles rethinks his rating systems and stumbles upon discoveries he wish he'd left unknown. Being in love with your best friend is never easy.--"Who's a twenty?" Lydia asks, with half a smile."Scott." Stiles answers, unthinkingly.Lydia swerves so sharply they almost go off the road.
The Roads Not Followed
by SylvieW
Scott decides to leave Beacon HIlls with Allison and her father. Stiles is left alone to deal with the supernatural troubles of his home town, so he turns to Derek.Years later, Scott’s new pack is threatened, and the only ones who can help them are the Hale pack and Derek’s powerful mate.
By a Law Divine
by mirrorkill
Okay, so, kissing Stiles. That's a weird thing that Derek's doing now. He has no idea where it's even coming from, especially considering bickering and fighting is their usual state of existence.And then he does find out where it's coming from: A curse that's making everyone in town kiss someone the
Regression to the Mean
by theroguesgambit
There aren’t really words for this. “Sure, dude. Let’s hang out sometime and bond over the fact that our lives suck and we’ve both basically killed a bunch of people by accident” doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.--Prompt: In the aftermath of 3B, Stiles and Derek learn to trust, learn to fuck, and
Possible Still
by rosepetals42
Stiles gets very good at putting himself back together. He learns which cuts just need butterfly bandages and which need actual stitches and he knows to keep a needle threaded because trying to get everything ready when you're shaking from blood loss is fucking hard. (Not impossible though, he learn
Hold Me Close (I'm Falling Apart)
by ajeepandleather
“Wolves without an emissary are naturally turbulent because their instincts are wild. Subconsciously, you’ve been balancing them, but you aren’t tied to the pack so you aren’t getting a balance in return.”“So, they’re bleeding me dry. Always knew they were parasites.” Stiles smiled dryly.“You’ll nee
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This list of 25short Teen Wolf fanfics spans 566,046 total words. Kudos range from 4,473 on the newest entries to 69,106 on the most established. Nearly all (100%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Explicit (10 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Pining · Pack Feels · Alpha Derek · Fake/Pretend Relationship · Pack Dynamics.
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