said: Prompt:
Stiles accidentally turns himself into a cat. He panics, tries to get to
Scott but ends up at Derek’s instead (traffic is scary, OK?). D takes
him in, Stiles is relieved until he realizes D has no idea of who he is,
he just took in a stray. So he does cat things, steals food, cuddles
with D at night, and mentally screams at D and Scott who are morons (and
freaking out b/c they can’t find him), until sb’s like: Why does the
cat still smell like Stiles even though he’s been missing a week?
So I kind of went in a different direction with this! And by “kind of” I mean HARRY POTTER AU:
The first time Stiles manages the change he’s so
excited he barely holds his Animagus form over a minute. He staggers with the
swiftness of stretching back into his limbs, braces his hands on the back of
his couch—and then whoops with glee and maybe dances around a little, but no
one’s there to prove it.
The second time he holds it for all of five minutes,
sniffs the air—mice, must, ash—grimaces at an involuntary lick over his paw,
before stumbling into human form again, breathless with exhilaration.
He can’t wait to tell McGonagall.
*
He’s registered, of course. Managed to do that well before he actually
mastered the art of meditation, which took an unsurprisingly long and arduous
time.
He likes to think his Animagus form was a point in
his favor when applying for the Transfigurations professor position at
Hogwarts, but he doesn’t actually know for sure. He does know that he used to bug the crap out of McGonagall when he
was a student there five years previous, so odds are it certainly didn’t
hurt—the fact that he can turn into a fluffy gray tom now at will.
It’s still possibly the coolest thing that’s ever
happened to him, barring the fact that he’s, you know, a Wizard. Arguably, cool
things happen to him every day.
The least
cool thing currently, though, is that Derek Hale has managed to hold onto the
cursed DADA position at Hogwarts for the better part of six years, and Stiles
still has nightmares of nearly getting eaten by the dude in seventh year—Stiles can be annoying, and Hale has a werewolf-sized temper that Stiles
seemed to test daily.
If the less than enthusiastic reaction he got at the
beginning of the year is any indication, he’s pretty sure Professor Hale still hates
him.
But now the holidays are upon them; most, if not
all, of his students are off at home for the break, and Stiles is enjoying some
downtime before the circus that is the Stilinski-McCall-Argent Christmas celebration
by being a cat.
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