"come on now Mandy... Scott,"

"Papa,"

"no... Scott,"

"Mama?"

"Scott,"

"Woofy,"

"it's only one syllable!" Scott exclaimed at the eleven month old sitting in front of him, she stuck her bottom lip out and launched a plastic pony at his face where it smacked him in the forehead. "OW!"

"woofy!" she demanded. A ten second stare down ensued.

"Okay I'll find woofy," Scott groaned he looked around himself "but don't throw things ok," he reached over and picked up the stuffed wolf. "are you sure you can't say Scott?"

"glub," she said to no one in particular

"okay then," he handed the wolf to the little girl, she took it from him and instantly began chewing his nose. "if you keep eating Woofy you won't be hungry for dinner," he said.

Mandy placed Woofy beside her and crawled towards Scott and plonked her self down in his lap she reached her arms around his side in an attempted hug.

"aww I love you too mandy," he chuckled wrapping his arms around her, she had been able to identify every other member of the family by name, Mama, Papa and Sinky (he was guessing she had attempted to say Stilinski) she knew her own name, she had named her favourite toy and even burbled along when he sang to her now, she had some trouble with T's, D's, L's and R's, she could ask for things she wanted (toys, milk, parents or Stiles) she could definitely identify him as her brother, she could even walk a few steps but somehow she just couldn't put a name to his face.

Stiles told him that he just had to 'show her who the Alpha is' at which point he had to explain the difference between the baby in front of them and a labrador.

"Scopp," Mandy suddenly blurted, Jerking him out of his thoughts.

"huh?"

"Scopp," she said again reaching up and grabbing his ear.

"me? I'm Scopp?" he asked elatedly, impervious to the sudden grabbing of his ear.

"Scoppyyyyyyy," she squealed yanking his ear down with all her might.

"OW! Mandy! Don't pull ears," he laughed picking her up and swinging her round "I knew you could do it! hey, do you wanna go for a ride?"

"YAAAHHHH" she squealed as he slung her onto his back and galloped out of the room.

"NNYOOOOMMM," He burst into the kitchen and zoomed over to her high chair at the head of the table where he gently placed her before bowing with a flourish of his hand. "Presenting her royal highness, princess Amanda Delgado. Supreme ruler of Beacon Hills and high priestess of ponydom,"

Mandy giggled loudly at his antics kicking her legs and clapping her hands gleefully. Stiles sat at the table on his computer absorbed in whatever crime journal he had found on google while Melissa laughed from the stove where she was stirring chilli for dinner.

"Mom, Stiles, if you would like to give us your attention Mandy learnt something new today,"

"oh and what was that?" Melissa asked

"My freaking name!" he cheered

"really?"

"yeah look," he turned to Mandy's chair and pointed at her "you?" he asked

"Mandy!" he pointed at Stiles

"Him?"

"Sinky!" he pointed to melissa

"Her?"

"Mama!,"

"Me?"

"Scopp!" she squealed.

"I knew she could do it," Melissa smiled placing a hand on Scott's shoulder.

"I know I was just being paranoid, she just didn't seem to-"

"OWFAH," she shouted from her highchair, Scott raised an eyebrow and looked to his mother, Stiles' head snapped up from the computer.

"did she just say alpha?" he asked

"I think she did," Scott murmured leaning forward and looking closely at his baby sister. "what did you say mandy?"

"OWFAAHH GRRRR," she squealed waving her arms in what she seemed to think was a menacing fashion

"alpha?" he asked tentatively. Mandy just giggled in response, her laugh was a fat chuckle.

Scott's eyes glowed red, he didn't want to scare her he just needed her to know somehow.

In the next few moments Mandy didn't do three things: she didn't scream and twist away from him, she didn't ignore him and she definitely didn't poke him in the eye out of raw panic. however she did reach out and pat his cheek gently.

"Scopp owfah," she said firmly