Nov. 12th, 2012

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Author: Clio
Title: The Migratory Patterns of Omegas
Pairing: Teen Wolf: Lydia Martin/Erica Reyes
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Erica and Stiles are convinced that they're going to go down in history as the first-ever omegas at Beacon Hills High School to go unclaimed. But they also, deep down, have an alpha that they're hoping will come to them when they go into heat. Both of these ideas about instinctive mating are pretty much entirely wrong.
Warning: (skip) Unproblematically positive treatment of instinctive mating-for-life, but nothing dub- or non-con. A/B/O dynamics. Participants are 17.
Length: 8700 words
Notes: Written for the [profile] a_b_o_ladies challenge! And thanks to the mod there for having this challenge. I'd been having thoughts about how omega verse works in a femslash context so it's awesome to have a place to work out my ideas!
Also this fic would not be what it is without the Wincon femslash panel and their idea of what an alpha female organ should be, and everyone's general enthusiasm for the story. HUGE thanks to [personal profile] radioaches for cheerleading and [personal profile] verity for being a great beta!
Obviously I'm pretty unapologetic about falling into this particular fandom wormhole, but I will say that this story is grade-A Romantic Fantasy Sugar that presents instinctive mating-for-life at seventeen as entirely unproblematic. There's a lot of overt mutual consent going on, but I know some people feel that mating as a concept is always already dub-con, so note that this really is an omega verse story. For the challenge our requirements were preset roles from birth, a biological imperative for mating (heat or rut) and biological differences between alphas and omegas, and all of those are present in the story as well as the mating-for-life. Oh, and the tentacle-like ovipositor.

I'm not going to cower in the middle of the caf. )
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