I Own Nothing
AN: I wrote this story before Christmas Wish, but just now posting it. I hope that you all enjoy. This is a sequel to Happy Daddy, Dad Day that I did back in June for Father's Day. It's just set a couple of years later.
AN2: I'm sorry that this is bitter sweet, but when I was writing this I was in a sad mood thinking about my mom and aunts.
Title: Merry Christmas Daddy, Dad
Characters: Liam/Theo, Mason/Corey, Lydia/Stiles, mention of Scott, Malia, Liam's parents.
Summary: It's Christmas day for Liam and Theo along with their kids including to the two new children that they inherited from a friend that died.
Liam had fallen asleep on the couch since Theo had to work at the hospital the night before. It was his first year being a full time doctor at Beacon Hills, but it wasn't the reason that Theo had gone in. One of his patients that he'd been seeing since he'd first started working at Beacon Hills had been getting worse each day. If it wasn't for her Liam knew that Theo wouldn't have gone in on Christmas Eve, it was now Christmas morning though.
Theo had waited until the Tara, Gabrielle and Brett had fallen asleep before he'd gone in though. Liam hated sleeping alone and on the nights that Theo did have to work their kids always found their way into the bed with him. It was like they always could tell that he was lonely. He loved their kids so much and wouldn't trade them for anything.
Liam had been hoping all night that Beth would ask him to be turned by some miracle. He had offered her the option of being turned three months back. It had been an accident how he became an alpha, but he still didn't feel like one. He hadn't even wanted the title even if in some ways he'd already been one without the eyes.
A pack had come through threatening their pack and families. Scott had been out of town at the time so he'd taken the lead trying to make peace. The alpha hadn't wanted peace, just the opposite and he'd made it clear when he'd tried going after their family. It was where he had drawn the line with protecting his family.
He hadn't thought about it when the alpha had kidnapped Brett and the girls. It hadn't just been his kids either, the other pack had taken their packs kids all except for Scott's family since they'd been gone. He had fought the alpha and won, but he hadn't been going for a killing blow. He'd been trying to wound him enough that the pack was forced to leave. It hadn't worked and he'd ended up with the spark from the alpha that tried taking out their families. It had been a low blow going after the kids and he'd made it clear to the rest of that pack if they dared he wouldn't hesitate to finish even if he didn't want to.
It was why he had offered Beth the chance at living longer by being turned. She'd declined though even though she had two kids. She'd told him that even though she appreciated the offer it was her time. She'd known it when she was born that she was going to die one day. She had the same heart condition that Theo had before the doctors gave him his sister's heart. He knew it was why Theo had felt close to Beth since he'd met her.
He knew it had been eating at Theo that she wanted to give up, in Theo's terms, but Beth had finally made them both realize that she wasn't giving up. She didn't want to cheat fate by prolonging her life even though she'd only gotten thirty years it was her decision. She had already been cheating fate everyday for eight years since she had been supposed to die back then. There was also the fact there was no promise she would even live if he had turned him.
Liam opened his eyes hearing the front door open knowing that it was Theo coming in. However, he didn't just hear Theo's heart beating, there were two others with him. He could tell by the difference that it wan't adults with Theo. He got up going towards the door stopping for a second when he saw Theo carrying Charlie in his arms with Lexi holding onto Theo's leg. He knew in that moment without needing the words that Beth had passed away.
Beth had made one request at the first of the year when the doctors told her she might not make it to the following January. She had wanted them to take care of her kids who were ten and eight. It was why he had offered her the bite so she could be there for them. She'd made them promise to fill her Christmas wish if she made it that far.
Liam carefully took Charlie who was ten from Theo's arms doing his best not to wake him up. Theo untangled Lexi from his leg once Liam had Charlie picking her up so he could get in the house. He had hoped that there would be a last minute heart available even though he'd known she was too weak to probably survive getting it in her chest. Beth's last request before she died had been to make sure the kids had a good Christmas before he told them she'd died.
Beth had already told them that he'd been taking them home for Christmas. Melissa had been watching them for him, which was where he'd picked them up at ten minutes ago. Since they had known it hadn't surprised them when he'd been there to get them at seven. He had tried one more time to get Beth to rethink being turned. All the advances in medicine and he still hadn't been able to save her.
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Liam and Theo put the siblings in the room that they'd made up for them since they had been staying with them a lot when Beth was in the hospital. The last month she had been mostly staying in the hospital so they had been living with them. Their grandparents were gone already and their dad had walked out the day Beth had almost died after having Lexi not wanting to be responsible for two kids if his wife had died. Liam knew that Theo had wanted to say something so many times about it, but he never had unless it was to him since they had met Beth. Melissa had known her first so she'd helped her out when Lexi had been born until she had gotten well enough to leave the hospital back then.
Theo closed the door going down the hall to Liam and his room closing the door. He knew that they weren't going to have much time before their three were up and maybe a little longer before Lexi and Charlie realized that it was Christmas morning too. Even though it was Christmas their three hated getting up early. Tara was the hardest to get up when it was time to go to school especially.
Brett stayed with Corey during the day since he worked from home as a writer. It was kind of ironic in a way since Monroe was the one that had suggested he sign up for creative writing their senior year years ago. Theo pulled his self from those thoughts though leaning against Liam needing a few minutes at least. It didn't feel real yet that Beth was gone.
"They don't know, Beth begged me to wait until tomorrow to tell them. I didn't have the heart to tell them even if she hadn't asked me not to." Theo said.
Liam wrapped his arms around Theo hugging him as tight as he could. He should have registered it since the kids hadn't looked sad only tired. He had been getting Theo's emotions though which had drowned the kids out. He moved his hand over Theo's back letting him know he loved him. He guided them to the bed sitting down with Theo before laying back.
He had already put the presents under the tree before he'd fallen asleep on the couch. There was nothing else to do until the kids woke up so he laid with Theo letting his husband grieve for their friend since he wasn't going to be able to the rest of the day. He let his own tears out because he knew how it felt to lose a parent to illness. His biological dad had died from cancer when he'd been four years old.
"We'll get through today and even if its still hard for you to believe at times; Beth's watching over all of us right now. She knows that we're going to be the best dads to those kids. She wouldn't have given us custody of them if she didn't believe that we could take care of them." Liam said feeling Theo squeeze his hand since he couldn't say anything at the moment.
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The next time that Liam and Theo woke up was two hours later with the sound of someone banging on the bedroom door. Theo buried his head against Liam's neck wanting to go back to sleep. However, he knew it wasn't going to happen since it was Christmas morning. He was glad that ever who was knocking hadn't just barged in the room. He had needed to be closer to Liam earlier so he'd opened his self up letting Liam slid into his ass. They hadn't had sex, he'd just needed the closeness to his husband. He'd wanted Liam to crawl all the way into him, but that wan't possible.
"DADDY, DAD," Brett shouted once again banging on the door with his fist since Tara had told him not to just walk in.
He was getting impatient though since they had to wait until their dads were up to open their gifts. He was only two and a half so it wasn't like he had a large ability to wait for long. He was already trying to get over the baby gate that was at the stairs, but Gabrielle had stopped him. He had not been happy at all and had started crying, but his sisters had taken him back to his room explaining that they had to wait since their dad had gotten in so early.
He flopped down on his freshly diapered bottom thanks to Charlie who had helped him out when Tara and Gabrielle had tried it. However, he'd accidentally peed on them and they hadn't been happy at all with him. He hadn't meant to, he had been too happy about presents to register that he needed to potty when they'd been attempting to change him. He'd told his sisters he was sorry, which thankfully they forgave him since Lexi had explained that he was too little to register if he needed to go at times even if he was being potty trained.
He really hated the toilet too, which was why he had tried not using it. Although, in the last few weeks he'd been being bribed with his favorite cookies to go to the toilet. He still sometimes liked using the flower pot downstairs at the door. The thing was awful looking and he hated the smell of it. Gabrielle had been supplying the cookies even if it was Lexi who climbed up and got them out of the cabinet for his sister.
Brett started letting out low howls hoping that his dads would wake up if they thought he was in distress. It worked a lot of the time especially with his dad who was the biggest softie in the world. He knew that it was only supposed to be for emergencies, but this was an emergency. Christmas would be over before his dads managed to crawl their way out of the bed. He added a hit to the door after each howl along with a plea of Daddy then dad behind it.
Theo opened the door when Brett started letting out another howl that was higher than the first two. It had taken him a moment to find his pants, but he'd just thrown on the Christmas pajama pants that Liam had gotten all of them to match. He squatted down releived that Brett wasn't in danger even if Liam had told him he was doing it to get them up. He still worried about someone taking his kids again after the last time. Once he saw that Brett was just fine he let out his own howl glad that they had sound proofed the house to the outside world. He never wanted their kids to hide who they were inside the house.
Brett hadn't realized the door had opened since he'd been howling and had started using his feet since he'd laid back on the floor. He sat up looking at his dad with a big smile on his face. He let out a squeal before howling again standing up moving the short distance launching his self into his dad's arms. He nuzzled at his dad's neck getting his scent knowing he was safe just from that scent alone.
Theo hugged Brett standing up with his son knowing that it was what Brett needed to know it was them. He didn't know how they had gotten lucky with not only Brett, but their twins. They had wanted more kids and even if he hadn't wanted Beth to die to have them he hadn't hesitated when she'd asked them to take them. He boxed the ache in his heart away right now not wanting to spoil today for the kids.
"Where you howling for us to wake up?" Liam asked tickling Brett's stomach making their son squeal out. "You did a good job, but you scared your dad again." He smiled kissing the top of Brett's head. "So are you ready to see what you got for Christmas?"
Brett wasn't the only one that said yes because not only where his sisters at the door, but Charlie and Lexi were also there now. Theo laughed feeling their happiness flooding out even Charlie and Lexi's. He knew he'd done the right thing in waiting seeing the smiles on their faces. Charlie and Lexi even had a set of Christmas Pajamas that Liam had found that matched their own. The color scheme was the opposite, with green being the primary color with red being the secondary where as the ones Liam got for them was mostly red with green ordiments and a gingerbread man dead center.
"Okay, picture first then we go downstairs." Theo said letting Liam take Brett so he could set up the camera for the picture. They had already done the Christmas card photo they'd sent out weeks back, but he wanted another with all of them in it since Charlie and Lexi hadn't been there that day.
The kids ran over to the bed getting on it while Theo sat the camera up that he'd gotten Liam the Christmas before. Liam had complained about not having a real camera besides their phones. They'd already filled up six or seven memory chips with pictures and he was glad he had gotten it. Once he had it set up with the timer he went over to the bed sitting beside Liam lifting Gabrielle off the bed onto his lap. Of course Tara did like usual and crawled onto her sisters' lap before the picture took. He'd set it to take three just in case the first was blurry. Charlie and Lexi were on either side of Liam and Theo getting in close for the picture. They all shouted Merry Christmas as the picture took.
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The kids had refused breakfast first wanting to open up their gifts, which Liam had known they would do. It was chaos for the most part after they had passed out the gifts. He was taking pictures at first, but Theo had taken it from him after the fourth gift that the kids had opened. He'd been told to enjoy the now too and he was leaning into Theo's side watching their kids rip into the wrapping paper. It would be a disaster to clean up, but he didn't care seeing how happy they were right now was what counted.
Theo had been the elf this year since they switched off every time on who did the shopping and wrapping. The other would play Santa putting the stuff under the tree for the kids being just as curious as the kids to see what they opened. It had started years ago when Theo and he had lived with his parents the first year they were dating. His mom or step-dad, who he just called dad, would do the shopping and wrapping the other put under the tree.
He still remembered the year he'd caught his dad putting the stuff under the tree. He'd been eight, but he hadn't busted him. He'd kept it to his self because he hadn't wanted to ruin it for his parents that he had found out their secret. He hadn't even told Mason about it since for two more years his best friend had believed in Santa. He'd gone along with Mason even if he had known.
He knew that Theo had stopped believing the year that Tara had died since the doctors had destroyed his husband's Christmas that year. It was why he tried every year to give Theo the best Christmas like they did with the kids. Liam looked from the kids to Theo finding his husband looking at him too. He leaned in giving Theo a kiss letting out a happy sigh glad that he got to spend another day with the man he loved and their family.
Tara and Gabrielle let out twin screams drawing Liam and Theo's attention back to their girls. They had just torn the wrapping paper off of the box that Theo had glued a picture of a swing set onto. It was for all of their children, but Tara and Gabrielle had been the ones to get the wrapping paper off first. However, Brett was using his claws that he'd just started learning to let out to try getting more of the paper off. Liam quickly picked up the camera hitting record this time. Lexi and Charlie left their unwrapped gifts helping the other three to finish opening the box.
The swing set was already put together, which had been hard keeping the kids from looking in the back yard for the last week. The pack had helped put it together the weekend before since it was twice as big as the one they'd had before. It still had a baby swing on it since they'd found a place to custom make it so Brett could use it for at least another year before they started letting him on the big kid swings. He was their baby boy who liked trying to be like his sisters jumping off the swing when Tara had let him on it once. He hadn't gotten hurt, but they hadn't wanted a repeat since he had out grown the original baby swing.
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"Seriously?" Tara asked jumping up and down clamping her hands when Gabrielle pulled out the sign that said it was already put together by Santa.
"Yes, but you have to wait until after breakfast to go out and see it," Theo said knowing that she'd want to run out and play the rest of the morning not even finishing opening her gifts.
"If I must wait," Tara pouted with a sigh before pulling the box back so it wasn't in the way of the rest of the gifts.
She was doing her best not to just run outside and look now. However, her dad had asked her to wait so she forced the anger she'd felt for a second being told no back down. She didn't want to ruin today by being bad already even though she was down to maybe one note a week at school. Gabrielle would grab her wrist if she felt like she was going to get angry. The slight pain brought her back before she could get mad and act out. It was one reason that she was glad she was in the same class as her sister. The first week of school she hadn't been, but they'd switched Gabrielle's classes to hers too. She might have gotten upset and threw her books down refusing to study without Gabrielle there. The school had said no at first, but she hadn't been learning nothing in time-out every day.
Theo and Liam both laughed knowing that Tara was usually about as patient as Brett when she wanted something. However, she was being a little better at it today which they were both glad of. Tara usually got sent home with a note twice a week that she'd been in the time out chair at school for not staying in her own chair during class. She was getting better at it, but they knew that Tara had inherited Liam's I.E.D. even if she was a werewolf. They'd found out from Deaton it was possible for it to happen with genetic, but other things like being sick or having cancer they didn't have to worry about. Tara had only gotten one note this month though and two in November.
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Liam had wrapped a couple of gifts up that he'd gotten the kids his self that he'd known wasn't on the lists they'd stuck in the box for Santa. Melissa had been watching them the weekend before while they'd put the swing set together and she'd mentioned what they'd said they wanted. Gabrielle had mostly wanted movies this year, but she'd also asked for a new DVD player since theirs had broken two weeks back.
It had taken almost an hour of trying to get Snow Buddies out of the DVD player before he'd just settled on buying a new one of that as well. It had already started skipping since it was played once a month since they had gotten it five years back. It had been a miracle it had lasted as long as it had he'd thought until Theo had informed him that he'd already replaced it four times. Snow Buddies along with the rest of the Buddies movies they hadn't owned he'd bought.
Gabrielle and Tara were unwrapping them now since they had different paper than the ones Theo had wrapped up. Brett was however almost buried in wrapping paper and boxes the actual gifts were set to the side thanks to Charlie and Lexi so Brett didn't crush anything. He took a picture of Brett before hitting record when he started tossing the bows in the air swiping at them with his claws. The bows didn't stand a chance and were being shredded all over the place like confetti, but it was too adorable to stop. Liam was just glad that he'd seen Lexi move the clothes that Theo had wrapped up for Brett since he was clawing up everything.
Theo had moved over next to Charlie helping him with the remote control helicopter that he'd asked for. He took pictures before recording the moment when Charlie got the helicopter off the floor. Theo was only telling him which buttons to push to get it to go left or right and up other wise Charlie was controlling it his self. He could almost forget that Beth was gone just for a little seeing how happy her kids were right now. Lexi was where he turned towards next with the camera, but she wasn't sitting beside the tree now.
He only panicked for a second before seeing Lexi sitting on the couch with one of the throw blankets wrapped around her. Liam got up going over to the couch sitting down beside her. Lexi had pleaded for a real Christmas tree and he'd only panicked thinking her asthma might have acted up since she was born like her mother had been with asthma and a heart condition. It was what had almost caused her death at birth, but she was strong and had survived. Her heart and asthma wasn't as bad as her mom's had been since she could do most things. He'd worried about the cats they had, but Theo had fixed that by talking to one of the other doctors about an allergy medicine since Lexi hadn't wanted the cats to go.
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"I'm okay, just got a little cold," Lexi said leaning into Liam knowing that Theo and he were both like furnaces although Liam ran warmer than Theo usually did.
Liam smiled listening to her heart beating for a second to make sure there wasn't anything else wrong. He'd already told his self if they couldn't find her a heart and she got worse he'd ask her if she wanted the bite. He didn't want her to die because he already loved her just as much as his own children. Even if she wasn't biologically his and he'd do anything to have Beth here and to have never known them he would do anything to protect and save her and Charlie. Charlie had been born without either, but it hadn't surprised him since Tara's name sake hadn't been born ill either.
"You want more warmth?" Gabrielle asked standing in front of Lexi holding Tara's hand.
"We got tons of warmth we can give you." Tara added getting on the couch without waiting for an answer.
Gabrielle got on her other side after getting her daddy to move over some. They both leaned in wrapping their arms around Lexi locking their fingers together on her lap so she could get all the warmth he needed. They knew that she wasn't like them and needed extra care. They'd found out the first time they'd tried rough housing with her like they did with Brett and their dads when Lexi had trouble breathing for a moment. Charlie had given his sister the inhaler and they'd never played tackle and tickle Lexi until she was having trouble breathing again.
"If you get too hot just tell them," Liam said before getting up kissing the top of each of their heads.
He knew that it had scared the girls when Lexi had problems breathing the first time they'd met her. He hadn't even known that Lexi was like her mom until the girls had come to him crying saying they'd almost broken Lexi. Theo hadn't even known until he'd called him, which had resorted in Beth telling them. She'd been so sick that day she'd forgotten about it until Theo had mentioned it. He hadn't wanted his daughters to learn about humans being a lot more fragile when they were sick like that. Brett still had moments when he didn't understand, but Lexi told him to stop and he would.
"I will," Lexi said putting her arms around each of the girls.
~TBC~
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. Thanks in advance for all the reviews and kudos. You all have been wonderful this year. Thanks for letting me share my love for writing with you.