A/N: Dedicated to KrysHarper for their wonderful review on the previous chapter. Thank you for your kind words and yes, you should give it a try and write your own fiction : )


Chapter Seven

Lydia followed Stiles to the path leading towards the house. A few moments later the front door opened, revealing a young woman with long wavy hair and a huge smile plastered on her face.

Stiles, who had already reached her, greeted and gave her a quick hug. She smiled at him and hugged him back. Then, they both turned towards Lydia and the girl realized she had stopped moving and was still behind. Quickly, she approached them and gave a small smile.

"You must be Lydia, it's so nice to finally meet you. I have heard so many things about you!" the woman said and without hesitation gave the strawberry blonde a tight hug.

"Really? I hope they were all good stuff" she hugged back, a little awkwardly.

"Oh, yes. Especially, Stiles' over here. I've known him for like four years now and every time we meet, which is almost every single day, he talks about you. And yes, they were all good stuff" the beautiful woman reassured her.

Lydia looked over at Stiles and she would swear there have been pink dots on his cheeks, but they immediately vanished.

"By the way, I'm Denise" the woman continued.

"Oh, you're Derek's wife, right?" Lydia asked.

"That's what they keep telling me" she laughed. "C'mon let's get inside".

Denise stepped inside and Stiles gestured to Lydia to move in front of him, while giving a little bow. The strawberry blonde chuckled, but couldn't help the blush from appearing on her cheeks. She stepped inside and the young man followed her from behind.

Denise led them to the living room. The room was huge, with a fireplace on one side and a plasma TV on the other. Bookcases and a dozen of cushions were filling the rest of the room, along with some children toys lying on the floor.

Lydia had just sat on the sofa, when a baby started crying. 'Of course, Derek is a daddy' she thought, still unable to believe it.

"I'm gonna go check on Lily and be right back" Denise said, leaving the two old friends alone in the living room.

"I've never thought I'd see this place looking like an actual home" Lydia said when Denise disappeared.

"Yeah, it's really nice, isn't it?"

"Mm-hm".

After that, they both stayed in an awkward silence until Lydia continued.

"So you've been talking about me 'every single' day?" she teased him.

"Me? Nuh… Denise is over exaggerating" Stiles replied with one of his head spasms Lydia knew so well. It was nice to see that not everything had changed after all those years.

She didn't have time to reply back, before the front door opened, followed by several people's footsteps.

"Are you sure she's here?" a voice, which couldn't be anyone else's but Kira's, squealed.

"A hundred per cent" Malia said.

It didn't take long for the two girls to appear. Kira let out an excited scream when she saw the strawberry blonde sitting on the couch.

"Lydiaaaaa!" she screamed and run towards her.

Before Lydia could even stand up, Kira's arms were already around her, squeezing her so tight Lydia couldn't breathe. A few moments later, the kitsune let her arms fall, but didn't take a step back.

"You're back, you're back.! Oh how I missed you!" she said and hugged her again.

"Shhh, you're gonna wake up my daughter!" a voice, Derek's, said.

Lydia's eyes were full with tears when her friend finally pulled back. She looked around the room and smiled so brightly, someone would think the sun itself had paid a visit in the house. Most of her pack was here; Kira, Stiles, Scott, Derek, Malia and even Peter.

Kira squeezed her again, Scott lifted her off the ground and spinned her around, Derek, yes the unapproachable Derek, placed a kiss on her cheek and hugged her, Peter after saying "So you missed me that much", to which Lydia chuckled, hugged her, too. They may have hated each other on the past, but it didn't quite matter in that moment. Even Malia smiled at her, but then proceeded on sitting on Stiles' lap.

It may have bothered Lydia, if she wasn't so happy to be with her old pack to care. Shortly after everyone had taken their seats on the couch and the cushions lying around, 'That's why there are all those cushions in here' Lydia thought, the strawberry blonde noticed another person staring at them from a few meters away.

"Um...hi" she said to him.

"Hey" he replied awkwardly.

"Oh, this is Liam" Scott informed, feeling a little bad for forgetting his mate.

"Are you another one of his wolves?" Lydia asked teasingly.

"His first Beta" Liam winked at her, while approaching her.

"Nice to meet you, Liam".

"The pleasure is all mine" the Beta took the Banshee's hand and brought it to his lips.

Lydia blushed finding his gesture cute, but couldn't help from looking over at Stiles. She couldn't read his expression, however. Was it possible he was jealous? 'No, you need to stop thinking like that, Lydia! His girlfriend is on his lap, for God's sake!'

"Well…Liam, c'mon sit here, man" Stiles said with an unnatural edge in his voice, pointing to an unoccupied cushion on the floor.

"I'm kinda busy right now" he replied, winking once again to Lydia.

Stiles was about to answer back, when Denise came in the room holding a baby in her arms.

"Why do you always act like a 'pack of wolves'? How is my daughter ever going to sleep with the noise you're doing?" she said trying to look angry, but at the sight of Derek the corners of her mouth curled up. "Hey, babe".

"Hey, love" Derek's face brightened up when seeing his wife and daughter.

He stood up and walked over to them. He kissed Denise on the lips and after smiling at her, took their daughter in his hands.

"Hey, sunshine, daddy missed you today" he said to her and kissed her on the cheek.

"You weren't with her for two hours! My poor niece" Peter commented, but you could see the affection for the little baby girl in his eyes.

"Man, I'm gonna be sick from all this cuteness" Scott said.

"Not gonna be the only one" added Stiles.

"Well, the girls are about to melt in a few seconds" Liam commented.

All the women in the room looked indeed like they were going to melt any minute now. The sight of the proud daddy and his little princess was just too cute. Lydia found herself wondering if she could ever have a family like that, too. A husband looking at their baby with the look of adoration Derek was wearing for his daughter. Without realizing, her eyes flickered over to Stiles, whose eyes were already on her.


A/N: OMG let me just say that this chapter was so cute to write. I keep imagining in my head Derek holding a little baby and SMILING.! And I like Denise, too.! Anyway, did you like the chapter? Let me know : )

Some thing about this fiction:

-Next chapter will be on Scott's POV (yes, I know some of you said it will be a little confusing having lots of POVs, but I really need to do this one. You'll see why ;) )

-From now on every chapter will be dedicated to the first person who'll have left the first review on the previous chapter (so review!)

-This fiction contains events from the show until the end of season 3B, not 4. I know I've written about Liam, but Lydia doesn't know who he is. I'm not sure if I'll write about other characters first appearing on s4, I'll see : )

-This is a Stydia fiction, so no hate if anyone's shipping Stalia (after all I said from the very beginning this is going to be a story about Stiles and Lydia).

- Characters like Isaac and Cora will be coming up soon, I promise ;)

- Even if I said it's a Stydia fiction, I'll get into the other characters too.

-And last but not least, THANK you ALL for reading my story and I'll really try to update sooner.

Now it's time for you to review ;)