Tether ⌲ Stiles Stilinski [2]

author's note

Don't worry! That wasn't it, I didn't come back after all this time just to serve you crumbs LOL In fact, I'm publishing this at the same time as the rest of season 3A (so the next 7-8 chapters). AND I'm continuing to stockpile the chapters to bring us home, to the end of this book, for season 3B. Initially, I was gonna wait until I was done all of them and just dump them all in one go but I'm so impatient and you've waited so long I figured the midseason finale was a good enough place to stop and post. :)

So, if that's all you were concerned about it's cool just go ahead and keep going (sorry if this made you have to watch an unnecessary ad - I still can't believe that when I started this book I would've never expected there to be such a thing as Wattpad premium but here we are). Carry on!

This little note is for those of you who may be wondering where I went, and why the hell I'm back now. I can't really give you a clear answer as to why I was gone for so long. Partially, it was because I felt overwhelmed and busy, another part was because I had lost passion for writing and felt I was no good at it anymore. At some point, I just hit a bit of a downward stress spiral that led me to delete the Wattpad app off my phone entirely.

I always knew deep down that I'd come back to this book series, that's why I never deleted this story. I just didn't know when that would be, and I was beginning to feel so unbearably guilty as each year passed knowing I didn't have it in me to continue yet.

It wasn't until this past year that I really hit a low. I lost my job in the spring (unsurprisingly bc of covid) and have been unemployed for almost a year which kinda sucks, especially since I thought last summer would be full of career opportunities for me having just graduated college and all. But quarantine and unemployment, while distressing sometimes, has also led me back to all of my old nostalgia comforts. I went through a Harry Potter phase in the fall (don't know if y'all can maybe relate to that LOL), and had the urge to listen to all of my favourite music and rewatch all of my favourite shows from when I was a teenager. In December, I saw a TikTok (of all things) of Stiles due to a random algorithm dropping it into my feed. My heart leapt at it bc ig I'll always be that same fifteen-year-old girl who had the hugest crush on him, prob the biggest I've ever had on a fictional character and that's saying something LMAO

Anyway, over the holidays I redownloaded Wattpad. And, finally, I knew it was time to get back into this story. I binged the first few seasons of Teen Wolf and was once again hooked.

I just want you all to know, that I didn't stop writing because I didn't care about you anymore or even that I didn't care about this story. It broke my heart when I looked at the notes still saved in my phone about it. What I'm trying to say is that life changes and sometimes I ended up having to prioritize other things, but I never forgot about this.

All of that is pretty cheesy, and I really doubt that there are many of you still left from the early days of this series who would even care that I updated. I wouldn't expect you to tbh, I was making you wait literal YEARS without owning up to it and telling you all where I was. I'm sorry.

I still saw the comments and the messages I received over the years, and there were some really sweet ones that I still literally have screenshotted in my phone. It was your kind words that made me recognize that I could come back to this work, no matter what self-doubt lives in my head.

So this is for you, even if it's just two of you out there who still have this saved in your library from 2016 that'd be worth it lmao. And, of course, it is for any new readers that joined along the way who don't know much of the pain that was waiting for me to get my sorry ass back where it belonged. It's for all of us to collectively simp over the man the myth the legend that is Stiles Stilinski together, and not worry about the stresses of life even just for a little bit.

Anyway, that's all. If you read this, thank you. As I said, I actually finished outlining this entire book already and lemme tell you I was making myself cry. Just by doing the OUTLINE... Honey, we've got a big storm comin.

Enjoy :)

P.S. As the story continues I will be making slight changes to teen wolf lore LOL nothing drastic, but as season 3 introduces so many new characters and so much is happening all at once, it is sometimes easier for me to change things around slightly. So if you come across a scene in here and think "uhhm wait a minute what's she on about" or "it didn't happen like this in the show" just roll with it haha I promise it'll all make sense in the end and no characters are being left behind or anything! Okie thanks in advance lol