A/N: Probably could let this chapter go on forever but I think 2,227 words is enough for now.
Haven't really looked over the chapter too closely but just going to post it anyways.
On a side note, my cat just grabbed a flying bug out of the air and ate it…
Ok, enjoy the chapter and I'm hoping to get another one out soon but there's a thing called life and it doesn't tell me what is in its daily planner, so just have to see what happens.
Enjoy!
The night was long. Katie would wake up screaming and tears running down her face and Stiles would pull her onto his chest, soothing her as Derek moved closer to wrap his arms around Stiles' waist, trying to sooth both the little girl and younger man. Katie would eventually cry herself to sleep but only for an hour or so before waking again. By the time all three had managed to fall asleep, wrapped around each other, the sun's early light was shining through Stiles' bedroom window.
Laura creaks the door open to look upon the three who were soundly asleep. She looks at Katie with saddened eyes. The little girl had already lost so much a few years back when the Argents were here last and now she had just lost her mother to a rogue and a broken heart.
The pack would become extremely protective of the girl now. They would have to find somewhere for Katie to stay, someone who can take care of her. Normally that duty would go to the alpha and his mate but her parents are older and can't keep up with the bundle of energy. She, herself, could give Katie a home but she and her mate are constantly gone or moving about, rarely ever home.
The decision would have to wait, right now there are other things to take care of and as far as Katie's safety, she's sleeping comfortably in the presence of her brother and his mate.
Laura gives a small smile at the thought of Derek finally recognizing Stiles as his mate he was searching for. All that time Derek had lost sleep and was on edge to find someone who he had grown up, someone right under his nose. The two had a bright and beautiful future in front of them.
Taking one last glance, Laura shuts the door quietly, leaving Derek, Stiles and Katie the get well needed sleep. Making her way downstairs, she greets her parents as she enters the kitchen.
"How are they?" Maggie has concern in her voice as she sets some food in front of her daughter.
"They are finally sleeping." Tears start to swell in Laura's eyes, she quickly wipes them away.
"Laura…"
"I'm fine, just, just…she's so young and she lost both…how is she…how are we…" Maggie and Bau, who has been sitting across from Laura, move close to their daughter, wrapping their arms around her and letting her cry into the creases of their arms.
"Shhh, she's going to be fine. It's going to be fine. She still has the pack…"
"It's not her mother."
"No," Maggie's voice is soft. "No it's not." Maggie kisses her daughter's hair as Bau moves his arms so he's wrapping them around both his mate and Laura. The feeling of comfort from the alpha sooths Laura but pain still aches in her heart at the thought of Katie growing up without her mother.
oOo
Stiles had woken up when he heard the door shut earlier and couldn't fall back to sleep, so he lays awake, carding his finger's though Katie's hair as she finally sleeps peacefully and Derek's chest rises and falls with every breath he takes as he stays in a world entirely his own.
A sense of happiness warms him. If the circumstances were different, this is how he would like to wake every morning. Derek, his mate, 'Never get used to that' sleeping, curled into his side and having their children, who snuck into their room in the middle of the night, between them but instead of moving further away, he and Derek will move closer together, creating a protective barrier around their cubs. Then in the morning, they'd wake up with the cubs sprawled out, limbs thrown every which way and Derek with his arm thrown over his eyes to fend of the offending sunlight and a light snore escaping.
Now's not the time to think of his life with Derek. Right now he has to focus on Katie's future and what is going to happen to her now that her only parent, her mother, is gone, leaving the girl, in a sense, orphaned.
Just like he was…
Just…
Like…
Stiles rolls over so he could grasp his crutches. Ready to stand, an arm shoots out and grabs him. Looking over his shoulder, he spots Derek, eyes still closed, is the owner of the limb. "Derek, let go." Stiles whispers. Derek growls. "Derek."
"No." The wolf slightly pouts.
"Derek." Stiles' voice is a little louder making Katie roll over but she remains asleep.
"Don't leave."
"I have to talk to Bau and Maggie." Derek's one eye peaks open. "Now let go."
"Stay. Whatever it is, it can wait."
"It's important. Just let me go." Stiles tries to yank his arm from Derek's grasp but the wolf just tightens his grip. "Derek." Stiles snaps as the door opens revealing Laura. Stiles glares at Derek.
"Don't blame him, I was…I'll just grab Katie." Going over to the bed, Laura bends over Stiles, grabbing Katie, who still doesn't wake, and leaves the two newly love-birds alone. Derek pulls Stiles to the bed and the teen's face contorts in a quick moment of pain.
"Sorry."
"Uh huh, sure, sure coming from the man who gets off on other people's pain. I should totally…" Stiles is quieted by Derek's lips on his. The kiss wasn't as hungry as it was last night; it was soft, sweet, and full of emotion that had been bottled up for so long. Definitely something that Stiles is sure he will never get used to.
Breaking from the kiss, Stiles and Derek just lay there, breathing in the same air, foreheads touching and eyes locked onto the other's gaze. Stiles blushes and Derek smirks as his hand comes up to cup Stiles' cheek.
"Hi." Derek whispers.
"Hi." Stiles replies back, voice just as quiet. Comfortable silence fills the room as the mates lay on the bed. Then Stiles remembers what he wanted to talk to Bau and Maggie about. "Derek, we…there's…but with everything and still a teen and everything is so extremely new and exciting and finding out we're mates and…" Derek kisses Stiles again, smiling into the kiss. Midway through the kiss, Stiles smiles and eventually pulls away. "I just…" Stiles sighs. "Katie needs people to look after her. People who she can call hers."
"Stiles." Derek already knew where Stiles was heading; it didn't surprise him. Derek knew the relationship between the two, the whole pack did. Katie was Stiles' baby girl and Stiles was Katie's father-figure after she had lost hers. The two always joined at the hips. But was Stiles ready for that responsibility? Was he even ready for the task?
They were both young and they had just laid their hearts out to the other, just found out that they were mates. They had their whole lives in front of them and he knew eventually they would want to have children but so soon?
"Derek, just, just hear me out, ok? I know we're young and all that jazz but she needs us, and you know I couldn't stand to see her with another family even if they are part of the pack."
"What about school? You're not going to be able to stay here all the time when you go back. What if you want to see the world, you should see the world, this is the only life you have known for so long, you need to see whatever else is out there."
Stiles places his hand on Derek's cheek. "I'm not going back to school. The pack needs me. Katie needs me. You need me. I don't want, this is going to sound so cheesy, but I don't want to explore the world without you by my side." Derek smiles. "My world, my life is with you and I want Katie included in it. I want to make those memories with the both of you." The wolf brings Stiles in for another kiss.
Derek speaks against the other's lips. "Ok." Stiles' falters and moves his head to look at Derek.
"Wha…you serious? I thought I would have to…" He's cut off by another deep kiss, giggling in absolute delight. "We have to tell the others. Will Mags and Bau let us? They have to right?"
"Stiles." The younger man stares at Derek. "We'll talk to them...later."
"Later? Why later, let's talk to them…oh." Stiles groans as Derek starts to leave small love bites on the skin behind his ear and traveling down the teen's neck, stopping to make a mark on Stiles' collar bone. "This, this isn't the t-time, s-shouldn't be…" Stiles' is cut off by another moan and a gasp when Derek's hands travel up Stiles' shirt to touch the bare skin.
Back in the deepest part of Stiles' mind, he knows that they shouldn't be doing this, not when poor Katie had just lost her mother. It was wrong, they should be going to the others to seek out comfort or to sooth the little girl, but it just felt so right; so very wrongfully right. If they were going to be the guardians, the parents to Katie, who knew when they would find the alone time? Sure they could ask someone to babysit her, but it couldn't be a daily thing, they needed to be the parents that Katie has lost.
Stiles knew, but he wasn't going to stop this; the thing that he and Derek had been denying and hiding for so long.
Derek continues kissing Stiles' exposed skin as his hands start to tug at the hem of the teen's shirt. Shifting, Stiles sits up and allows Derek to pull the fabric off of him to toss to the side. Derek's eyes drink in the sight of the boy in front of him for a moment before placing a hand on Stiles' chest, pushing him back to the bed and connecting their lips once more.
It was Stiles' turn to let his hands roam under Derek's shirt, which was soon taken off and also tossed to the side, forgotten. The teen hesitantly brings his shaking hands up, pulling back a quick second. "C-can I?" Derek nods silently, giving Stiles permission. The brunette touches the sculpted body of the man who he would spend the rest of his life with.
This was real, finally after so long. Stiles still couldn't believe that Derek was his and he was Derek's. He was now allowed to touch, kiss, lick and whatever else his heart desired to the man above him.
Stiles looks into Derek's forest green eyes, seeing the longing, happiness and the unspoken words of love.
Love.
Stiles is in love with Derek.
The revelation should freak him out but it fills him with warmth and comfort.
"Stiles?" He comes back to the present, reaching up to caress the face above.
"Sorry, just…just realized something." Derek looks scared, afraid of the answer.
"W-what?"
"That I'm completely and utterly in love with you."
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The touches are tender and careful. Their bodies slotting together perfectly, moving as one. Derek's hold is gentle, acting as if Stiles could break from the slightest of touches.
"Derek." Stiles gasps out as Derek slowly thrusts back into the body under him. Stiles was laying on his back, legs spread wide, one arm griping Derek's neck as the other grips tightly onto the sheets on the bed. Derek strokes the teen's cock in time with his thrusts.
Stiles has his head thrown back in pure ecstasy and waiting for release.
All movements stop
Stiles groans to protest and looks downwards toward Derek, who has his hand behind him. "Derek…?" Derek moves up the doe-eyed boy's body, kissing him as he lowers himself on Stiles' aching length that screams for release. "You're so…so good." Stiles grips Derek's thighs as the wolf starts to move up and down. The angle a little weird but felt amazing.
Derek and Stiles continue kissing as the older of the two fucks himself on Stiles, who moves his hand to grip Derek's begging cock.
"Nnnrgggg…Derek." Stiles' breathing is coming out faster and faster in puffs of air. Derek makes his movements quicker and Stiles fucks up into his body, thrust for thrust. The wolf, feeling his mate close to the edge, clenches around Stiles, growling in the teen's ear.
"Come for me." That was all it took for Stiles to scream out Derek's name as he releases his hot load into Derek's body, sending shocks of pleasure through his body.
"Stiles!" Derek yells out as his own release hits him and long, hot spurts land on the stomach of the teen. Midway through his orgasm, Derek leans down to connect his lips to the juncture of Stiles' neck, biting and claiming.
oOo
Downstairs, Maggie, Bau and Laura lay on the couch with Katie lying comfortably in the middle. They hear the commotion overhead and turn the volume up on the television, trying to drown out the sound so Katie wouldn't be scarred for life. But luckily, it seemed as if the little girl was focused on the screen in front of her and not paying attention to the noise above.
Running her finger's through Katie's hair, Laura smiles and whispers, "I feel a disturbance in the force."
Heart-to-Heart.
I love you all, really and I know I don't reply to the reviews and stuff like I should…blame my shyness/awkwardness on that…but thank you to all of you who have taken the time to read/review/alert this story. Every so often, I click on the review page just to re-read all of the comments, they make my day and feel great about continuing on with this story.
Ok, I'm done being cheesy so I'm going to grab a few chocolate bars and stuff my face. Toodles!
