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.The Strongest Feelings
Bonus Chapter
Several Years Later
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Stiles sat staring down at the paper he was writing, tapping his fingers along the edge of the keyboard as he thought about a conclusion. These are always the hardest…Stiles thought as he typed out three different sentences that just didn't capture what he wanted. He'd started at the University of California two years ago, and was on the fast track to graduation, although his paper wasn't. He sighed, and just as he was about to slam the lap top close he heard the front door swing open with a loud bang startling him.
"DAD!" He heard his daughter, Talia yell as she ran through the house followed by Cade. Even though they were a few years away from full wolf powers, it was still amazing to see how much stronger and balance they were than other children their age.
"Hey there curly top!" Stiles said with a grin as Talia ran and jumped into Stiles' arms with a big hug.
"Look what Isaac got us from the store!" Talia yelled waving the stuffed toy wolf around in her hand. "Cade got one too! But his is brown and mines is grey!"
"See!" Cade said showing his father next to the chair.
"Oh, those are cool!" Stiles grinned at both of them. "What do wolves sound like?" Stiles asked and the twins cocked their heads back and began to howl. They still sounded childish, in Derek's ears anyway, but to Stiles they sounded 100% wolf.
"Where is papa?" Cade asked as headed toward the kitchen now.
"Downstairs working out." Stiles said as he kept Talia on his lap and turned to his computer again.
"What are you writing?"
"An essay for anthropology." Stiles said flatly.
"What is…an..anthrooo…gy?" Talia tried to say the word.
"It's the study of people over vast periods of time and their cultural habits."
"Is that what you are majoring in?"
"I'm minoring in anthology and majoring in Philosophy."
"Cool." She said as Isaac walked into the house with a large bag from the store they came from.
"This is heavy, even for me, this is heavy." Isaac said dropping the bag by the front door.
"THANK YOU, ISAAC!" The twins yelled in unison as Isaac joined them where Stiles was working.
"Welcome, what'd you have there, Cade?" Isaac asked eyeing the jerk in Cade's hands.
"Ummm…" He turned away not wanting to share the food. Isaac laughed and pat him on his back.
"I'm not going to eat your food, Cade." Isaac said as he sat with a laugh.
"Cade give me some!" Talia demanded.
"Get your own, stinky butt!" Cade said running away at what could be a new track record. Talia was close behind as they hurried outside to "play" fight.
"Can you check on Johnny upstairs?" Stiles asked Isaac with a sweet grin.
"When will I not be the nanny, here?" Isaac huffed standing.
"When you repay your debts to society!" Stiles teased.
"Bleh!" Isaac said heading upstairs. "I can hear him waking up."
Stiles and Derek were thankful to have Cade and Talia and a few years later even more thankful to have Johnny and 7 more months from now a new baby…or babies…Stiles wasn't sure, but he was hoping for one. Turns out when a man carried children they had a 60% chance of having twins or more.
After a moment Stiles stood up and headed to the top of the staircase leading to the basement. He didn't have to yell, instead he simply talked. "I'm planning on taking the next semester off so I can have the baby and maybe the one after that…so a year. But I'll let you help me decided. Also I wanted to ask if you think it's okay if my dad watches Johnny and Isaac takes the twins and we have the night to ourselves…soon…like…reeeeeal soon." Stiles said and a second later he heard the excursing equipment stop.
Derek started to head upstairs shirtless and sweating. "Tonight?"
"Well Isaac had the kids all day today, so how about tomorrow? Scott can even come if he wants with them."
Derek nodded finally upstairs completely.
"Sounds good to me." Derek said touching the side of Stiles' face, making the younger grin. "Talia and Cade are outside." It was more of a statement, but Stiles nodded an answer anyway.
"Well call Scott and I'm going to hop in the shower." Stiles grabbed his phone as Derek went upstairs and into the shower.
Their lives had fallen into a pretty comfortable flow after a while. After Johnny was born Stiles and himself decided it would be okay if Isaac never moved out, and instead kept him as an in house beta. Scott on the other hand was harder to persuade into staying. He had Allison to think about and his mother, so he split his time as best he could between the three of them. Although Isaac was becoming more of a driving force for Scott to stay. At first Derek thought they were just close friends, but he sensed something between them. It wasn't romantic…yet? But he knew that Scott, Allison, and Isaac were indeed a relationship of some kind, as to what, Derek wasn't sure. He did trust Isaac enough to watch over his children and watch his mate when he was gone. The most important things in his life lay in the hands of a once feral werewolf he found in his woods.
Some would call that stupid, but Derek didn't think so. He helped Isaac find a safe place, and in return Isaac helped Derek as much as he could. He was pack. Just like Scott. Allison was stretching it, but she did help out from time to time, and for him to deny her was to deny Scott and Isaac.
"Derek?" He heard Isaac call softly.
"Yeah?"
"Johnny wants to see you." Isaac replied and Derek turned the water off. He toweled off quickly and dressed before heading across the hall to the nursery to scoop little Johnny from Isaac's arms. The restless baby relaxed into his father's touch and gripped his shirt, smiling up at him with his little mouth.
"He likes your scent the most." Isaac grinned.
I would assume so, Isaac I am his father. Derek thought as he tickled the baby's tommy.
"Do you mind watching the kids tomorrow? Derek asked after a moment.
"Tomorrow?" Isaac bit his lip.
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
Isaac's face turned a little red. "Um…Scott and I had plans…"
Derek raised an eyebrow, but Isaac didn't say anything else. There was a silence that followed, only interrupted by Johnny cooing.
"What if I do it tonight that way…"
"Tomorrow."
Isaac looked down at the floor with confliction. He wanted to defend himself, but Derek was the Alpha, he was his boss, and this was his house, and he had to do it.
"Okay…"
"Derek are you bossing Isaac around?" Stiles asked walking into the room.
"No." Derek snapped.
"Did you have something to do?" Stiles asked Isaac.
"N…no." Isaac left the room quickly leaving the couple alone. Stiles stared after him for a moment before he turned to Derek.
"You made him cry!" Stiles frowned.
"He wasn't crying."
"Derek!"
"You asked for time alone, I gave it to you. Isaac can do whatever he has to do with Scott another day."
Stiles looked at Johnny for a moment, the baby was making a grabby hand at Stiles so he grabbed his little hand and smiled at him.
"Derek we can do it another day. Let Isaac have some fun, he's always looking after the kids."
"Stiles…"
"And besides, we can go out another time. Or even sneak out at night."
"Stiles…"
"I won't be as big as a house any time soon, so just let him go out and have fun."
"I am the Alpha, Stiles. Whether or not you like that."
Stiles looked up at his mate. "Yeah, and I am the Alpha's mate."
They stared at each other for a long moment, it was a kind of power exchange until, with grace and a hard serious frown, Derek decided to let Stiles have his way.
"See, that wasn't that hard?" Stiles grin as he let go of Johnny's little hand to tell Isaac to news.
Derek stared down at his baby. Johnny was squirmy again.
"Don't think less of me, you hear me?" Derek said.
The baby was making grabby hands at the door. "Pa!" He said with gusto.
"Johnny."
"Pa!" The baby said again.
"Jesus." Derek felt his inner wolf frown.
"Pa! Pa!" The baby called, he started to really wiggle. Derek sighed, he was losing his rank to his own mate. After a long pause to process how ridiculous that sounded he began to chuckle and Johnny looked up at him.
"Da!" He smiled and touched the side of Derek's neck. "Da! Da! Da!" The baby called with a smile. Its hazel eyes sparkling.
"That's better." Derek laughed again and carried Johnny downstairs to feed him.
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Isaac sat nervously on the front steps of the Hale House waiting for Scott to appear with his motorcycle. When two head lights appeared instead he looked a little confused, but it was in fact Scott, he could smell him.
Isaac stood, and when the car came around, he got in and they took off back down the road.
"How's it going?" Scott asked reaching over and putting his hand on Isaac's arm.
"Fine. Derek wasn't going to let me leave. He wanted me to baby sit. But Stiles changed his mind."
"Haha, Stiles sound me the alpha!" Scott said and laughed so hard that even though Isaac was nervous, he laughed too.
"He might be able to still hear us." Isaac said with a hint of a grin.
"He'll be okay." Scott laughed.
They turned onto the Highway 47 and headed away from town toward the lake.
"Do you think you'll want to live in the house soon?" Isaac asked picking at his nails.
"I don't know. I don't want to explain to my mom that I'm moving into Derek Hale's house. She was worried for Stiles too."
"Oh." I was all Isaac replied with.
They reached the lake soon and got out. Scott popped the trunk and pulled out a blanket, taking it and guiding Isaac down to the side of the lake where he spread it out. Isaac sat down and Scott followed, sitting closely and throwing a hand over the blonde's shoulders.
"The full moon is going to happen in five days so I'm in charge of the kids and getting them to a safe place. We did do it at the sheriff's place, but since the kids are getting older Derek thinks it would be best to start teaching them how to control themselves. Apparently the wolf side is something you grow into and not something that happens overnight."
"So is Derek doing it?"
"I'm not sure. Derek and Stiles usually spend full moons together…mating…loudly." Isaac shifted a little.
Scott rubbed his arm. "He told Stiles he can learn to control that…but honestly I don't think he wants to." Scott laughed.
"Yeah." Isaac grinned. "But he might have to because the kids are getting bigger."
"Right." They sat in silence for a while before Isaac put his leg over Scott's and rested his head on his shoulder. They both looked at each other and grinned softly. Neither one of them were sure about their relationship. It was definitely more than friendship, but honestly they didn't want to put a name to it. Labels made things complicated. And what they had they both understood fully, mostly because they were wolves and understood each other more than two humans.
"When you do decided to move in…" Isaac looked down. "You'll stay with me right?"
"Yeah, of course." Scott said scratching Isaac's back a little. "Where else would I want to go?"
"Just checking." Isaac said softly again.
Isaac didn't mind looking after the children, it distracted him, he didn't mind helping Derek with training either, or staying within the warm walls of the Hale house. All of it distracted him, including having Scott. That was his biggest and best distraction. Although, when he was alone and didn't have to cook dinner, or watch anyone, or Scott was busy, that is when the thoughts started to creep back into his mind.
Before he moved to Beacon Hills and before the accident happened and before Derek decided to keep him.
His past life.
Which he only shared with Scott.
About the horrible abuse. Mentally, physically, and sexually. All of it was horrible. And if he dwelled on it, if he thought too long about it he'd start to crack.
Crack.
CRACK.
"Isaac." Scott whispered and as tears fell from the blonde's eyes.
"I'm fine."
Scott didn't say anything, instead he pulled the younger into a tight embrace. "Hey, look, don't go there. You aren't there anymore and everything is okay. Alright? You're with me." Scott whispered into his ear. "I won't let anything happen to you. Nor will the pack, alright?"
"Okay." Isaac replied through soft sobs.
Scott rubbed his back and held him. "No matter what, I'll be here for you." Scott pressed his cheek to Isaac's and told him sweet things until the boy calmed down. When Isaac was able to get himself together, Isaac put his head in Scott's lap and the elder started to play with his curls.
"So Allison wants to cook a dinner for us."
"When?"
"Probably after the full moon because she knows you're going to be busy…me too." Scott leaned down and touched noses with Isaac. "Maybe we can do something after."
"Maybe." Isaac smiled sweetly up at Scott. These were the things he longed for. Companionship.
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Johnny bit Derek on the arm as they sat in the kitchen waiting for Stiles to come downstairs. Tonight they were planning on going out before the full moon tomorrow and Derek wanted to switch things up. He glared at his son who was now grinning at him.
"You're too cute for me to be angry." Derek said poking his little belly. The child laughed as Talia and Cade came bounding into the kitchen.
"We are ready!" Cade said spinning around to show their father their backpacks, stuffed with things for the night. Tomorrow Stiles was going to have to repack them for their overnight trip for the full moon. He's thought about teaching them self-control, but decided against it. There will always be another full moon to look forward to anyway.
"Is daddy almost done?" Derek asked.
"He's coming." Talia said looking around. "Can I have a cookie?"
"No."
"What about an ice cream?"
"No."
"Cake?"
"Talia…"
"Pizza?"
"We don't have pizza, Talia." Derek said switching Johnny around in his hands.
"Is Johnny coming with us?" Cade asked while making funny faces at the baby.
"Yup, Isaac is taking all of you out."
"Is Isaac our older brother?" Talia asked now pulling out a chair to sit down in.
"No, he is a beta."
"But is he like a big brother?" Cade asked now.
Derek thought about this for a moment. It was important to teach them about hierarchy and how they were the Alpha's children and yada, yada, yada, but instead he just nodded. "Yeah, he's like your older brother. He looks after you and plays with you guys."
"Can he come to school with us?"
Derek raised his eyebrows. "Why?"
"We have show and tell!" Talia yelled a little too loudly startling Johnny. "Sorry, Johnny."
"You can ask him, but I don't think that's a good idea." Derek said looking out the window before yelling. "Stiles!"
"COMING!" His husband yelled, although Derek knew it was a lie.
Just as he was about to get up and give Johnny to one of the twins the front door opened and Isaac came in.
"Hey, sorry I'm late!" The blonde said. "Ready to go guys?"
"You're not late! Daddy is still upstairs." Cade said grabbing Isaac's hand. "Can we go to the zoo?"
"Maybe."
"OMG Can we go see the puppies!" Talia asked excited.
"Pups?" Derek questioned.
"One of the zoo's wolves had puppies." Isaac explained.
"That is interesting." Derek said and turned his head toward the stairs. "STILES, ISSAC IS HERE!"
"COMING!" Stiles yelled, this time Derek heard hurried footsteps.
"So zoo it is?" Isaac asked the kids.
"YES!" They jumped around excited for their new adventure with Isaac. A moment later Stiles appeared downstairs with a smile plastered on his face.
"Papa was getting angry at you!" Cade said running from Isaac to hug his father.
"I'm not angry, Cade." Derek stood. "What took you so long?"
"I was doing something." Stiles said picking up Cade and hugging him back. "Are you ready for today?" Stiles asked Cade.
"Yeah we are going to the zoo!" Cade smiled.
"Awesome!"
"PUPPIES!" Talia exclaimed.
"Don't yell Talia." Derek snapped and she apologized again. Isaac took Johnny and put him in his carrier.
"Okay little buddy, let's go!" Isaac said picking him up. "I'll see you guys at 8."
"Right, bye!" Stiles said with a grin and wave to the kids as they left the house with Isaac. "Is it bad that I kind of want to go to the zoo?"
Derek shrugged. "Kind of, you're an adult."
"Shut your pie hole!" Stiles said as he went to get himself some water.
"Right, you're an adult." Derek shook his head, but smirked.
"Alright, let's do this!" Stiles exclaimed.
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The date yesterday was nice, they went out to eat, and then took a stroll through the woods which was nice, although they held off doing anything else because of the full moon. Derek wanted to be at the top of his game for it, as he told Stiles who just shook his head and laughed it off.
"Are you ready?" Derek asked coming into their bedroom. Stiles was laying on his stomach playing videogames. Some things were hard to grow out of, and GTA waited for no one.
"Yeah…sure…ahhh…" Stiles' eyes didn't move from the TV in their room as he continued to play the game. "You know…I'm not really up for it tonight. Yesterday I was…but tonight…"
Derek came into the room and stood in front of Stiles' view. "Come on!" Stiles huffed sitting up.
"Are you serious?" Derek asked.
"Kind of…you can control it, right?" Stiles looked up at Derek through his lashes. The werewolf sat down slowly unsure of how to handle this. Stiles had never denied him this, and it was true that he need to control himself better so he could help his children, but honestly he didn't. Once a month it was special, more special than other nights.
"Stiles…"
"If you really want to…I mean…" Stiles rested his head on Derek's shoulder.
"I should learn to control this." Derek cut in.
"For the kids." Stiles said with a smile.
"Right."
"So what are you going to do?"
"I'll go out into the woods and try to find an anchor to hold myself in the present. I don't want to come back here and attack you so don't go outside."
"Alright." Stiles kissed Derek on the lips. "I love you."
"I love you too." Derek stood up and headed out. It was time to grow up a little and stop living on pure instinct once a month.
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Stiles handed in his paper at the end of class, the professor nodded to him as he left. It was the last day and he would be getting his grades in a week later for his five classes. "Done with that nightmare."
"Mr. Hale!"
Stiles stopped short and tuned on his heels coming face to face with a kid that was in his class. He was short, with blue eyes, and long twig like black hair that was halfway to his shoulders. "You can call me Stiles, what's up?" He asked.
"Right, um, I was wondering if it wouldn't bother you too much to ask what you thought about that last section."
"It was difficult to be honest. I didn't really understand what he wanted with this paper. I stated the obvious a few times too, which I feel he'll deduct."
"Same here, but you're a smart guy and I'm sure he'll pass you."
"Are you passing?"
"Ahh, kind of. I've been struggling a lot with this section."
"Sucks, huh? We could have had a study group thing started if I knew I wasn't the only person struggling."
"Yeah, that would have been great!" The kid said. "After section 12, anyhow."
Stiles nodded. "Welp, hopefully you'll pass!" Stiles said with a grin. He started to turn when the kid said the same to him. There was an awkward pause followed by Stiles grinning and walking away to the parking lot. He hopped in his jeep and cranked it to life, pulling out into traffic.
"Dad!" Cade yelled as Stiles stepped out of his jeep once he was home.
"Hey Cade, what are you doing?"
"Waiting for you."
"Where is everyone else?"
"Outside…training." Cade huffed. Stiles knew Cade wasn't big on training, as a matter of fact he wasn't much of a fighter to begin with. He preferred research and quiet time unlike Talia that loved training and being outside with Derek, Isaac, and sometimes Scott.
"Well come inside with me and you can help me clean out the study of all my old school work."
"Cool!" Cade stood and followed his daddy inside to help.
Around 6 everyone was inside the house and at the table, including little Johnny who was seated in Derek's lap tonight.
"Congratulations on getting another semester done." Isaac said with a small grin.
"Thanks Isaac, it was really tough this time." Stiles replied.
"He has to graduate first before you say that!" Talia interjected and Cade chuckled.
"You can say it whenever a milestone happens, Talia." Derek said and she nodded.
"I guess…"
"Congratulations on your tummy!" Cade said. "Because it's bigger every day!"
"Thanks, Cade!" Stiles laughed.
"Can we get a dog?" Talia asked.
"No." Derek said almost too fast.
"But-"
"No. End of discussion." Derek snapped and Talia frowned, sitting back in her seat upset.
"I don't think having a dog is a good idea, Talia." Scott said and she turned to him.
"Why?"
"Well…as a werewolf, the dog wouldn't be able to…be very dog like around us. Also werewolves usually don't keep pets. It's…kind of awkward."
"Awkward?"
"Yup."
She looked at her plate in deep thought.
"Then how about a cat?"
"NO!" Derek hissed and Stiles threw a pea at him.
"Chill, what has you ticked off?" Stiles frowned now.
"Take Johnny for me." Derek said handing the baby over to Stiles and walking away upstairs.
"You upset, papa!" Cade whispered not too quietly.
Talia's eyes started to tear up. "No, no I didn't shut up Cade!"
"Don't say 'shut up'." Isaac said the little girl started to sniff as her silent sobs started.
"Talia, Papa isn't made at you, he just has a lot on his mind."
"I'm sorry!" She said knowing her father could hear her.
"I'm sure he forgives you. In the meantime finish eating, baby." Stiles kissed her on the side of her cheek and stood up. "I'm going to put Johnny to bed."
When Stiles made it upstairs and put Johnny to bed first, tucking him in and kissing the top of his head before going into his own room where Derek was taking a shower. He sat on his bed and waited until Derek came out.
"Wanna talk about it?"
"Nothing to talk about."
"You snapped at Talia like she was teenage Isaac, yeah something is wrong."
Derek ran his hand through his wet hair, pushing it from his face. "I'm just a little tense."
Stiles gestured for him to continue.
"Sexually."
Stiles made an O with his mouth. He felt a little guilty about that. After the full moon passed two weeks ago they hadn't done anything. Stiles was busy with school and the kids; Derek was busy with protection, training, and the kids also. They both had a lot on their plate, and their love life had fallen to the side a little this past month. It was highly unlike them.
"I'm glad this isn't about the dog." Stiles said with a laugh.
"I'm still not getting a dog. It's…sick." Derek said and sat down next to Stiles, still in his towel, still wet…still very appealing to Stiles.
"Then I guess we should take some of the tension out of tonight." Stiles whispered as he straddled Derek's hips.
Derek raised his eyebrows. "And how are you going to do that?"
Stiles leaned down a bit and pressed his lips to Derek's. "I could think of a few ways."
"They left the house." Derek whispered in Stiles' ear and the younger wasted no time in pulling off Derek's shirt.
"Good." Stiles mumbled as he started to kiss Derek's neck.
"Hold on." Derek said flipping them over so Stiles was under him. "I like you better like this." Derek said as he pulled Stiles' shirt off too.
"Would you like me better like this?" Stiles said managing to turn over, his ass in the air in front of Derek.
"I really like you like that."
"How much?" Stiles asked with a cheeky smile. Derek almost ripped Stiles' jeans off, turning his pale skin red in the process. He leaned over Stiles' back and started to bite down on him while his fingers began to trace his entrance.
"I'll shove my cock so far up your ass you'll see stars." Derek growled. He managed to push his index finger into Stiles, wiggling it back and forth and in and out.
"Derek…" Stiles breathed as Derek proceeded to push another finger in, widening him more. Derek wanted more than anything to just shove into Stiles right now, but it wasn't going to happen without this.
"One more." Derek mumbled as he pushed in his ring finger. Stiles pushed back onto him, wanting more, but Derek pulled his fingers out a moment later and pulled himself out of his jeans and tossed them on the floor. His head was already leaking precum, so he rubbed it over the tip and down the shaft, but still needed more lube.
"Derek." Stiles turned around.
"Quiet." Derek mumbled reaching to get the tube. He warmed the liquid between his hands before rubbing it on his erection, and then taking the extra and inserting his fingers back into his mate. Stiles moaned, as Derek started to build a fast pace with his hand, gripping his hip as he did so. Once he felt Stiles was open and wet enough he pulled out and rubbed his erection again before lining it up to Stiles' entrance.
"Stiles." Derek said teasing his hole.
"W-what?" Stiles huffed trying to control himself and not touch his own leaking erection.
Derek leaned down and nipped at Stiles' ear. "Say it."
"Derek I-"
"Say it." Derek pushed his head in a little, then pulled out, waiting for Stiles.
"Crap…F-fuck me Alpha." Stiles moaned.
"What?"
"FUCK ME YOU FUCKING ALPHA!" Stiles groaned as Derek slammed his hard on all the way into Stiles until his sac slapped against his skin. "Oh…oh…" Stiles felt his arms go to jelly.
Derek grabbed Stiles' hips, digging into the skin, but not breaking it as he started to hammer into his mate. The bed underneath them rocked and squeaked as Stiles held onto the sheets.
Derek managed to lift one of his legs up until he was genuflecting behind Stiles, drilling into him like a jackhammer. He reached around and grabbed Stiles' wet erection.
"Come for me, Stiles." Derek breathed. "Come on, do it for your Alpha."
"Derek…" Stiles moaned as he came hard in Derek's hand. His arms couldn't support his weight anymore and Stiles dropped, but Derek' held him in place with one arm without missing a beat. He continued to pound into his mate until he made a final deep shove into Stiles and released his load; filling him up and holding himself inside for a while.
Slowly Derek lowered Stiles while still being in him onto the bed and they laid spooning for a while.
"You're awesome." Stiles said after a moment.
"You are." Derek said reluctantly pulling out of Stiles with a pop. "I love you."
"I love you more."
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"Okay, on three!" The sheriff said holding the camera up ready to take the photo of the family.
"I want the next one with you." Stiles said just as he clicked the button.
"Stop talking daddy!" Talia snapped.
"Shh!" Cade added.
"One more time, on three!" The Sheriff said. "One, two,…" The camera went click, and it was a perfect picture of Stiles, Derek, and their three children, the fourth still waiting to join inside of Stiles' belly.
"I'll take the next one!" Scott said taking the camera from the sheriff. He joined the family and Scott took two more photos.
"Let me see!" Cade said hurrying to Scott's side. Scott showed him and he smiled, proud of his family.
"Prefect." Stiles said looking over Cade to look at the photo. "Look at it, Derek!" Stiles said and Derek did the same while holding Johnny.
"It is prefect." He nodded with a grinned.
"Alright then, let's go out to dinner! Are you coming, Scott?" The sheriff asked.
"No thanks, I have plans tonight." Scott smiled.
"Have a good night." Derek said walking past and Scott blushed.
"Are you blushing?" Stiles asked.
"No."
Stiles laughed. "That is such an Isaac move! Ha!" Stiles said walking out the house.
"Bye Scott!" The twins said in unison.
"Bye!" Scott said as they exited the house together. Scott got into his car to head to Allison's house and the family got into the SUV to go out to dinner and on the way there Stiles couldn't help but grin to himself in the backseat with the kids while rubbing his belly. Years ago in high school he would have never thought this would have happened to him. He never would have thought he'd be married to Derek Hale, accused murderer, and would soon be having his fourth child. He never would have thought his father and Derek would have gotten along and he sure as hell didn't think he'd be pregnant ever in his life. Yet here he was, his father and husband I the front seats driving to the restaurant while he sat in the back with his precious children. Nope. Not me. Not Stiles Hale. Not the awkward teenage boy who couldn't make front line because his coach thought Greenburg was a better fit than he was, and Greenburg was always benched. Not the kid who failed a class for turning in a paper on the history of male circumcision. Nope. Never me.
Yet here I am.
And I couldn't be happier!