This is the story of how Cora Hale came home, and why it took her seven years to do so, featuring werewolves, ghosts, minotaurs, wandering magicians, talking birds, gryphons, wolpertingers, assassins, and one particularly stubborn federal investigator. It's also a story about magic, and how it works, and-more importantly-why. (AU)

Part Six of STRANGE LIVES - "Little by little they will differ from us; little by little they will not imitate us. They will break through the barriers of glass or metal and this time will not be defeated." Two worlds go to war. (AU, Derek/Stiles.)

Part Five of STRANGE LIVES - Lydia calls in that favor Allison owes her. (AU)

Part Four of STRANGE LIVES - Glamor. Luxury. Nightlife. Trickster gods. Occult mysteries. Impending doom. Book your vacation in sunny Palm Springs today! (AU, Derek/Stiles.)

Part Three of STRANGE LIVES - Four federal agents arrive at an evacuated hospital in north California. Special Agent Stilinski stands before a chapel in the Arcadian countryside. Derek Hale wakes from a nightmare in an abandoned train depot. This is what happens next. (Derek/Stiles, AU.)

Part One of STRANGE LIVES - It's Derek's first Saturday off in months. He just wants a quiet night in with his sister. Clearly, that's not going to happen.

Part Two of STRANGE LIVES - When half a dead woman is found in the woods outside Beacon Hills, Special Agents Stilinski and Martin return to their hometown to investigate. (Derek/Stiles, AU.)