Clio's writing journal

Author: Clio
Title: Quadratic Functions
Pairing: Derek Hale/Lydia Martin/Erica Reyes/Stiles Stilinski
Rating: NC-17
Summary: It started because when they asked Stiles what he wanted for his birthday he said, "Sex." Which, being cash-strapped students, was something they could give him. Planning for the rest of their birthdays, though—that took a little more doing. (But it was still sex. Sex all the way down.)
Warning: Dirty talk, if you're not into that.
Length: 22,000 words
Notes: In the same college AU OT4 as Completing the Square. The first two chapters are based on prompts from nightreveals, aliassmith and radioaches; the third is an idea from my tumblr fic Inches on the Reel to Reel; the fourth is all Beyoncé's fault. The biggest thanks go to pinetreekate, who helped immensely in getting this to look like a story and not a series of things that happened one time, and for getting me past some last-minute concerns.

( We should do this every time )

Author: Clio
Title: Martin and Reyes
Pairing: Lydia Martin/Erica Reyes (Teen Wolf)
Rating: NC-17
Summary: The Alliance is the first line of defense against vampires and other misbehaving magical creatures, and agent Lydia Martin takes her responsibility very seriously. Erica Reyes, on the other hand, likes to play it fast and loose. But with the return of Deucalion, werewolf turned vampire, and a mole betraying Alliance missions to the vamps, they'll have to find a way to work together (if the rest of their team doesn't knock their heads together first).
Warning: (skip) Canon-typical violence; one character working through post-traumatic stress issues.
Length: 20,000 words
Notes: Written for teenwolf_bb and you simply must check out the amazing art post! Thanks so much to paynesgrey and the mods at twbb for their patience with my unfinished draft.
radioaches suggested a SHIELD AU, and I'd just seen The Heat, so here we are in supernatural buddy cop land! Thank you to verity for all the encouragement along the way and help with the plotting, ali_wildgoose for a key suggestion early on, and bononoh for the super excellent beta!

Art post!

( First day with a new team is always rough. )

Author: Clio
Title: Couldn't Have One Without the Other
Pairing: Lydia Martin/Erica Reyes, Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Rating: NC-17 (eventually)
Summary: The little town of Beacon that weathered the Long Winter is growing with the arrival of new teacher Miss Laura Hale, who's come to prepare ambitious students Stiles and Lydia for their upcoming college exams. Miss Hale's brother and sister, Derek and Erica, have also come to town to start a horse ranch. But is it their beautiful horses, or the Hale siblings themselves, who have turned Stiles and Lydia's heads?
Length: 68,000 words
Notes: If the summary doesn't give it away to you, it's a Little House-style AU, suggested by katemonster and verity on tumblr one day. Thanks so much to verity and heidi for beta'ing this beast of a story, and to them, evil_erato and stina for cheerleading me during the writing process!
Art in the second half by threelongsteps

( You HAVE to see these horses! )

part two

Author: Clio
Title: The Fun Was in the Capture
Pairing: Lydia/Erica
Rating: PG
Summary: Once Allison lets Erica know what Lydia's been up to—you know, the whole trying to make a girlfriend out of your fuckbuddy thing—Erica decides to take matters into her own hands.
Warning: none
Length: 2300 words
Notes: Written for Femslash February. Title from "Lust to Love" by the Go-Go's. Set a week or so after "Distractions" and in the same timeline as the "baking and waiting" Sterek series. Thanks to verity and radioaches for the once-over!

( I'm really shitty at guessing games )

Author: Clio
Title: The Last Thing I Was Dreaming Of
Pairing: Erica Reyes/Lydia Martin
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Lydia thinks maybe there's more to this thing with Erica than just sex, so she tries to make that happen. Whether she's successful is up for debate.
Warning: none
Length: 2000 words
Notes: Written for Femslash February. Title from "Lust to Love" by the Go-Go's. Set a week or so after "Distractions" and in the same timeline as the "baking and waiting" Sterek series. Thanks to verity and radioaches for the once-over!

( I object to any part of my life being compared to a late sixties rock song )

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 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 radioaches for cheerleading and 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. )