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Title: To Save Them All
Author: [archiveofourown.org profile] Goldenpetal13
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Genre: Time Travel, Magic!Stiles, Time Travel Romance
Pairing: Peter/Stiles, Scott/Allison
Length: Very Long (108,798 words)

Author's Summary:
AU, FutureFic/Re do of Season 1, Something happens, something bad, and Stiles finds a way to go back in time to change the past and save them all, to give them a future. He finds the way back and then swaps places with Scott and he gets bitten by Peter instead. Now he has to change the events that where set in motion after that event and maybe, just maybe they’ll all get to live.

Review:
I was prepared to hate this fic. It had so many things I don't like and I'm always worried about the Peter/Stiles pairing plus there's the dubcon tag (that's not the Peter/Stiles ship though) --- anyways, I didn't expect to like this, but time travel fics are totally my not-so-secret weakness so I tried it and I was really pleasantly impressed. The shippiness is a bit much because Stiles starts the fic head-over-heals in love with Peter from all sorts of drama over decades that are all implied backstory. And Peter, being pretty crazy, is not at all weirded out by it. Thus the Time Travel Romance genre tag above rather than just Romance. But the plot is good - I love how Stiles uses magic in a believable way, how he pretends to be the alpha in order to beat the Argents, and how he sets up all the people Peter would have killed to get taken down by law enforcement (which turns into a much more satisfying and dramatic route anyways). While the fic itself could use a little polish just to bring the narrative up to par with the quality of the plotting, it's overall a good fic.

To Save Them All (on AO3)