Melissa closed her eyes in frustration, a headache already brewing as he rubbing her forehead "you did what?" she asked turning to the boy, an edge to her voice. Stiles gulped as he took a step back away from his pseudo mother "I um, cast a spell to help me find the perfect girl and uh.." he felt his face heat up "and" she pressed further "and well it kind of backfired." She shook her head "backfired? You think?" she threw up her hands.
Two years she had been dealing with the supernatural world. Her son was a werewolf, her pseudo son was a witch in training, his teacher being none other than scotts half brother, rory, a Gloaming, whatever that was.
She has faced werewolves, kanimas, killer druids, alpha packs. Super natural assassins. Chimeras and killer doctors. She should be able to handle this "stiles, I love you, you know that" she did, she loved him like her own son "I just don't see why the spell affected me instead. I mean, I have a living room filled with men and one woman, who want to date me" she waved a hand behind her, the other on her hip.
Stiles rubbed his neck "and you" she pointed behind stiles "stop your growling, I am your mother not your daughter. We went through last time when I went on a date with peter" stiles turned to face the rest of the pack who stood in the kitchen.
Scott was currently sitting in a chair, arms crossed and teeth clenched which did nothing to stop the growling. Eyes flashing between red and normal. Rory sitting next to him, a grin on his face. Malia and derek were standing around the island, looking bored, stiles thought it must be a hale trait.
Liam and kira were currently trying to keep from laughing. Lydia was on her phone, looking bored but her eyes kept going toward the frustrated women. Aidan and ethan stood behind her, both smiling in approval, she had taken them in after the whole alpha thing seeing as they had no family to go home too.
Plus they helped around the house, they even had gotten jobs in town to help with bills. Isaac and Allison were the only two not at the house as they had gone to france with her aunt kate. Hayden, mason and cory were currently cooking up dinner for everyone. Erica and boyd were watching from their place by the window. Harley and Sean were currently in a heated debate over who would get in trouble more, stiles or scott. Jackson and Danny were on holding onto each other laughing.
Melissa sighed as she turned to deaton, the only man not currently effected by the spell. "melissa I wouldn't worry about it. The spell will eventually wear off in time." She nodded "I just, this is so much. Making someone fall in love with you is wrong" she directed the statement at stiles "that's not what the spell was supposed to do, it was supposed to attract a person who could love me" he defended, looking back at rory who nodded "It's a very simple spell, I'm still not sure how it backfired"
"melissa, the spell can't force someone to love another" she opened her mouth but he continued "the spell only removed whatever was keeping them from saying anything. They all like you, the spell just gave them a kick in the ass" he smiled "I love you the same way I love scott, like family. That's why the spell had no effect on me" he shrugged, melissa was a beautiful women but he wanted to clarify a question that had been stated earlier.
"so how long till this fades?" she asked waving a hand back to the living room holding her guests. Deaton shrugged "a few days, a few weeks.." a few months" another voice added, she glared at rory who raised his hands in surrender "Ma, magic is a tricky thing." scott smacked his chest "ouch bro, not cool" he smacked him again "that is our mother you idiot" melissa just sighed.
"you could date them all" aidan spoke up for the first time since they all gathered, all eyes turned to him "not at once. I mean go on a date with each one" he shrugged "your not married anymore. You deserve a chance to be happy. One of them could be that chance" the others nodding along.
scott still growled not liking the idea. "alright, everyone just go downstairs or something, watch a movie or play a game" she walked back into the living room, deaton following before bidding a goodnight.
Melissa sat down and looked at her guest for the first time since they arrived professing their love for her and assessed each one. The first person who showed up was chris argent. The father to her sons ex girlfriend. The recently widowed husband to her mother. The man who was also a hunter. After their kids broke up, he took scott under his wing and started to treat him like a man, something scott admired, being seen as a man and not a kid.
Alan and linden both treated scott like a son, but that was just it. A son, a child.
The second person to show up was peter hale, the man who had turned her son into a werewolf, who could have killed him. The man who tried to use her to get to her son. Scott hated the man and melissa herself wasn't fond of him either, but he was a sweet man on their date. If it was real or not she couldn't be sure. Not to mention she was malia's biological father.
The third person to show up was a bit of a surprise, which probably shouldn't have been. Linden was a sweet man. He was stile's father and a pseudo father to her own son. He was the one who taught the boys to ride a bike. To fish and camp. He gave the male version of the sex talk, she gave the same talk but from a mothers point of view. Together they raised their sons, watching them both when one had to work, or bringing them to work when they couldn't find a sitter.
Melissa brought them with her most of the time because it was calmer for the kids and they always cheered up the residents with their stories. He was also a widower, his own wife passing away a few years back, she had been like a sister to melissa.
The last person who showed up was a complete shock. Lilith dunbar, liam's mother. Showed up wearing her scrubs, clearly coming from work when the spell hit. Melissa didn't know she was found attractive by other women until that morning.
She had always found women just as attractive as she did men. Lilith and her husband got a divorce after liam was three, the father's cheating and anger issues were too much for her to handle, yet she was perfectly fine with her son being a werewolf and dating scott. She wondered if that should be a factor into all of this.
She realized that each one of these people had a connection to her son. Linden helped raised scott. Chris treated him like a man, for always taking care of his mother. Peter bit her son and changed him, making him a were-dad, scott had punched derek for that one.
Lilth was the odd one out, the mother to her sons boyfriend, her boss. She realized that if she dated one of them and it turned serious each one would bring a big change into their lives. Linden would bring stiles, not much of a change there.
Chris would bring Allison and Isaac, something that might become awkward for the kids later. Peter would connect scott and malia even further, seeing as they would have the same were-dad and be in the same pack. Lilth would bring liam, which might affect their own relationship, not that she cared if they kept dating even if she dated lilth. Hell even if they got married, they would be step siblings not blood, they could date. She would have to speak with Lilith about that if got to that point.
She let out a sigh, her mind a mess of thoughts "I never thought I would have to worry about dating again after the last time" she said more to herself than to her guests. "if it makes you feel better I didn't either" Linden confessed, a small smile on his face. Chris nodded his head "I don't think I would have said anything if it wasn't for whatever stiles did" lilth nodded her agreement but kept silent. Peter just rolled his eyes "I already liked you before, I didn't need a spell to make me say it" he smirked at the other three, who glared back at him.
Chris going so far as to reach for his gun on his side "oh don't even think about fighting in my house" she growled glaring at the men "don't forget I have a basement full of supernatural kids. All of which would be glad to kick the both of you out" chris and peter looked away, shame evident on their faces. Melissa sighed "are you ok melissa?" linden asked earning a smile from the women "yeah just tired" she waved a hand tiredly "if this is too much we can leave" chris said frowning, he didn't want to cause her any stress. Melissa shook her head "no, no. The kids were having a pack meeting, they made dinner. Stay, I have spent too much time with kids, I need adult time"
Linden, chris and Lilith shared a look before laughing "yeah, I think we understand that. I mean, Allison is always bringing the girls over all the time" chris shook his head, being a single father to a teenage girl is never easy. Melissa remembers the things she put her parents through when she was a teenager.
"I'm glad I have a son" linden let his head fall back onto the sofa "I love stiles, he's my son. I love scott, he's stiles best friend, practically brothers. Before I only had those two coming around. Now it's everyone. Malia is over every night" he shook his head "they think I don't notice how she comes down from upstairs instead of the front door. The love bites on his neck" melissa couldn't stop the laugh that escaped her "oh trust me I know."
She looked toward Lilith, a grin on her face "our boys aren't so sneaky either. I can't tell you how many times I have caught those two in all stages of undress" Lilith closed her eyes and shook her head "I don't know if it's a wolf thing or a teenage thing but I swear" melissa threw her hands up "I caught them just last week in scott's shower" Lilith scoffed "you think that's bad. Sunday I caught them in the kitchen. Then Monday they were almost late for school because they were attached at the mouth" she grinned and melissa had to admit the woman had a beautiful smile "I think if I waited a few more minutes they would have wolfed out right in the middle of the drive. Lord knows they were almost shirtless"
The adults laughed, even peter who had to admit it was amusing to hear about his young beta. No matter the past, no matter that he was no longer an alpha, scott would always be his beta. "MOM" Twin cries engulfed their laughter, all eyes turning toward the kitchen were two shocked and red faced boys, a group of teenagers behind them. Failing to withhold their laughter. The sight of which caused the adults to laugh louder.
Scott and liam looked at each other, eyes wide "dude, our moms were talking about our sex life" liam could only nod. Scott sighed as he pulled his beta into his arms, Liam buried his face into Scott's chest trying to hide from the embarrassment. Scott ran his hand through the boy's hair, trying to sooth him, his wolf overriding his own embarrassment to care for his mate. He shot a glare at his pack "I don't know why any of you are snickering." Rory smiled, throwing an arm over his brother's shoulder "oh come on baby brother, no one's making fun of you. We love you" he pinched his brother's cheek.
Scott groaned, dropped his head down, chin resting on his mates head "I hate you all" he lifted his head enough to glare at the group but then smiled "you know what. Your right" liam pulled back confusion written on his face, the others with matching looks of their own. "you guys care about us. You love us" he pulled liam closer, kissing his forehead before looking back at his pack "and we love you. and just because we love you so much. For the next three weeks, I'm going to have extra training. Everyday. Mandatory" liam couldn't keep from laughing at his pack mates.
A thought to appear in her head "wait, if they are together, why would he even need this spell?" melissa asked the group, the others shook their head, all eyes turning to stiles. IT was rory who worked it out first "oh you sneaky, sneaky little minx" he poked the boy in the cheek, stiles swatting his hand away "what? What's going on?" Harley asked confused, the others not understanding either.
Melissa figured it out next "oh you sneaky little brat" she narrowed her eyes "you did this on purpose didn't you?" stiles gulped and backed away "no, not on purpose" his eyes darted around the room, his face turning pink "well not really. I didn't think the spell would work. Rory gave me a book of spells to practice and this spell was in it. It seemed harmless so I figured I'd try it on my dad. I need hair so I went and took a hair from his jacket, but it happened to be your hair, which I don't need to know how it got on his jacket in the first place, I mean what you guys do in your spare.." derek stopped him with a smack to the head "ouch, I'm gonna end up with brain damage from all of you one day" Harley sighed "if you haven't by now, I think you will be just fine"
"anyway" Stiles glared at derek for a second "the spell did backfire, because it was meant for my dad but yeah" Melissa just sighed as linden shook his head.
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Melissa stared down at the sheet of paper in her hands "you guys can't be serious?" she asked the teens sitting in front of her. Stiles shrugged "well while you were up here the other day talking about all of our sex lives.." Derek smacked him in the head "ow! Anyway, as I was saying, we were in the basement talking it over, really it was trying to keep scott from coming up here and attacking someone. My bet was on peter" Scott huffed from his position where he sat with his arm's crossed "I wasn't going to attack him" Liam laughed "you said you would rip his throat out, with your teeth" he pointed out, scott turned to his mate "and you said you would be more than happy to assist" Liam smiled, slightly bouncing in his seat, scott couldn't help but smile. "how very derek of you scotty boy" Stiles smirked at the blushing wolf. Derek looked oddly smug.
Melissa ignored the bickering teens in favor of reading the chart in front of her. Apparently the kids had taken aidens suggestion seriously because there was two sets of charts. The first one was a chart of who she would go on a date with, when the date would happen and even suggestions on what to do for the date. They had set it up with linden going first, going to dinner and a movie. The second was Lilith. The chart had them going out to lunch and then going down to the go-cart rink. That one had to be scott's doing, he knew her secret love for the darn things.
The third was chris, which still surprised her and slightly worried her. The man only just lost his wife just over a year ago. The chart showed them going to lunch and going to the gun range, she wasn't sure how she should feel about that. Shrugging she continued down to the finale name. Peter Hale. She had mixed feelings about him. The first was she hated him, for all that he has put his family through. Turning him into a wolf, trying to turn him into a killer.
On the other hand peter had been nice to her. HE had never hurt her, treated her with respect. Their one and only date had been fun, after stiles tried to interrupt it, they had gone out to eat then went to the arcade. She had really enjoyed that night, then he disappeared for months. The kids did later confess to killing him for a time and he was only brought back because of what he did to Lydia. She wasn't sure how to feel about that.
The second chart caused her to laugh. Apparently the kids had made a betting pool, all of them seemed to be fairly obvious.
Linden Stilinski
Stilies, scott, Ethan, cory, Lydia, Kate
Lilith Dunbar
Liam, Kira, Aiden, Hayden, Mason
Chris Argent
Allison, Isaac, Sean, Harley, rory, danny
Peter Hale
Derek, Malia, Erica, Boyd, Jackson,cora
"guys?" all the teens turned toward her "why does everyone say Friday?" she asked holding the paper up. Every date was set for a Friday during the month "oh that was my idea" Liam said happily "I figured you could go on one date a week, so that you had time to reflect and think about each one" scott smiled proudly as he wrapped his arms around liam "yeah, then at the end of the month you could decide who to date" Stiles smiled, the smile dropping from his face when melissa raised a brow at him "or you know, not if you really don't want too. It's your choice"
AN: hey everyone, I am taking votes and suggestions on the pairing. I do plan on doing a chapter for each date. So I ask who would you like to see first and who do you think would make the best pairing for her.
