A/N: Thanks for reading! Sorry it's taking so long between chapters. Hope that you're enjoying. :)
Chapter 06: New Life
Present day – sometime in April 2011
One night on a Sunday in the middle of April, Emilia spent the night at her fathers house, having wanted to just be around them. During the night she woke up screaming which scared both Stiles and Noah as it was the first time in a long time that they'd heard her scream. Stiles woke up with a start and raced to the guest room pushing the door open as Noah followed him in. Stiles looked at his father and then at Emilia, he didn't know what to do except watch as his father climbed onto the bed beside Emilia and pulled her into his arms. Pulling Emilia into his arms was something the Noah would do later down the track with Stiles.
"Emilia, I've got you," Noah wrapped his arms tightly around her as she screamed again, causing Stiles to cover his ears. "You're safe here,"
"You know, I thought about terminating...I even made the appointment, went in with a fellow soldier..." Emilia paused to take a breathe as she sat with Noah and Stiles she was telling them for the first time after going over it in her head for what had felt like the millionth time. "I made it into the room where they do it,"
"Em, you don't have to tell us," Noah said putting his arm around her shoulder and pulling her close on the lounge.
"I know, but it's something that I want to do," Emilia told them, as hard as it was to get the words out she felt like it was something that had to be done.
"What made you change your mind?" Stiles was genuinely curious over what made his sister change her mind.
"I thought about it, I really did. It was when they were talking to me and telling me again what the process was and what my body would do," Emilia told them, that was something that she didn't want to go into detail about and didn't plan on so long as Stiles left it alone. "I couldn't do it, I walked out of the room...out of the building and sat in the car in silence,"
Stiles wrapped his arms tightly around Emilia not knowing what else to do, Emilia rested her head against Stiles shoulder Stiles had an inkling that there was something that Emilia wasn't saying due to her being a werewolf. Emilia shook her head against his shoulder, Stiles could feel her breathing shuddering and his shoulder getting wet. Stiles recognised it as a panic attack, but knew it was more than that.
"Dad, maybe we should call Derek?" Stiles suggested, he didn't know what to do and Emilia didn't seem to be moving towards their father. Noah nodded and held his hand out for Stiles' phone. "I don't have it," Emilia elbowed Stiles and made him hand her phone to their dad after unlocking it. "But Em does," Emilia knew that Stiles had Derek's number, but calling from her phone was one that they both knew Derek would answer.
Noah took Emilia's phone from Stiles and searched the contacts for Derek's name. Once he found the young man's number he hit the call button, not entirely sure what he was going to say to him. Noah waited for Derek to answer the phone, still not sure of what to say to him as he looked at Stiles and at Emilia.
"Em?" Derek's voice sounded through Emilia's phone as he answered not knowing it was the Sheriff on the other end.
"Sheriff Stilinski, Derek can you..." Noah trailed off so Stiles snatched Emilia's phone from his fathers hand and held it to his ear.
"Hey Derek, can you come over? Em's..." Stiles didn't get to finish his sentence before Derek was telling him he'd be there in ten minutes.
Ten minutes later and Derek was at the Stilinski's knocking on the front door, not something that he was particularly fond of doing. Once Stiles let him in, Derek was bounding up the stairs to Emilia and taking her from Noah. Noah rolled his eyes, he remembered when Derek would turned up in Emilia's room in the middle of the night with no explanation of how he got there.
"Em," Derek's voice was barely audible to Noah and Stiles, but Emilia heard him. "Em, it's alright,"
"Derek?" Emilia mumbled as Derek took her in his arms and pulled her closer to him.
"Yeah, it's me," Derek was still quiet as he spoke to her. Stiles and Noah looked at on another, Stiles concerned with why his father wasn't holding a gun to Derek's head.
"Don't go," Emilia mumbled into Derek's shoulder only glancing at Stiles and her father.
"She'll be okay," Derek looked at Stiles and then at Noah as he felt Emilia's head being buried in his shoulder again.
"Are you sure?" Stiles questioned, he hated that Emilia trusted Derek more than him but what could he do? Noah left the room before he could hear the answer that Derek was giving.
"Yes," There was Derek's standard one word answer as he looked up his arms not moving from around Emilia at the same time. "I'll take her home and send Isaac to get the car," Derek's voice was quiet as he said the last part, Stiles nodded.
Derek helped Emilia to her feet as Stiles threw all of his sisters things into her bag and followed Derek and Emilia out to the Camaro. Stiles watched as Derek drove off with Emilia leaning against his car window. Stiles walked back inside and closed the door, and faced his father who was concerned with why they had just let Derek leave with his daughter.
"Dad, from what I've seen between them they protect each other...she's like a mama bear,"
Four months later in August, the Alpha pack attacked while Derek and Cora were looking after Emilia's two week old baby boy. Emilia turned up hearing her baby crying at the top of the loft's spiral staircase, and Kali holding a pole in Derek's back twisting it until he couldn't move. Cora was being held down by Ennis as Deucalion gave a speech about who he was. Emilia knew better than to make her presence known around the group of alpha's so instead waited until they were gone, hoping that they paid no attention to the crying baby.
"Cora, can you check on Toby?" Emilia asked as she stepped into the room, having been hidden from view from the alpha's. "Please? I'll help Derek," Cora growled at her, Emilia growled back before she walked over to Derek and pulled him into her arms.
"Cora just do it," Derek muttered before passing out with his head dropping into Emilia's lap. Cora muttered something before she disappeared up the top of the loft stairs.
"Stay with me Der," Emilia spoke quietly running a hand over his face and pushing his hair from his face. "Come back," Emilia lifted up Derek's shirt and gasped, before letting it drop back down again and moving to lift him up.
"Toby's okay. He's asleep again," Cora called as she walked back down the stairs and helped Emilia get Derek onto his feet before moving him to the bed. "What do you want me to do?"
"Help me get him to the bed, and then in my bag there's a first aid kit...when your brothers human you carry one," Emilia nodded, motioning towards where she'd dropped her bag at the door.
Cora held Toby in her arms before she was handing him to Emilia. Emilia
"You can go now," Emilia said as she balanced Toby in one arm and Derek near passed out on the other side.
"Are you sure?" the woman who had introduced herself as Jennifer said as she looked at Derek and then at Emilia.
Emilia smiled at her before motioning with her head as she kept hold of Toby. "Lady, Derek's been my best-friend since I was a kid,"
"Em...what are you doing here?" Derek mumbled before he passed out his head hitting her shoulder at the same time right as Emilia and Jennifer got him to the bed.
"Damn it Der. Look Jennifer get out," Emilia stated, as she laid Derek down and and put Toby up on the pillow. "Trust me, you don't want to be here," Emilia sat next to Derek and watched as Jennifer reluctantly walked from the loft, knowing that she had questions about who the baby was.
The second that Jennifer was out of the loft, Emilia clasped her hand with Derek's and started to drain his pain. Derek slowly opened his eyes, as he felt the baby kicking at his head. Emilia shrugged, she wasn't about to leave her newborn somewhere she couldn't see him. Emilia leant down and kissed Derek, she'd stayed at the loft and not at her own apartment. Derek knew that Emilia didn't like Jennifer, but he didn't know exactly why.
A few days later, and they'd witnessed Boyd being held by Ethan and Aiden, forcing Derek to impale him on his claws and kill him. Jennifer was being held by Isaac, no one having any idea that Jennifer was the one that they were after – the one causing the chaos with the murders that had been happening around town.
"Someone has to tell Emilia," Lydia said, Cora and Stiles both shook their heads they didn't want to tell Emilia not yet at least.
"No, we can't she has a baby to look after," Stiles said, as though that was the most obvious thing in the world. "My nephew,"
"And Derek just killed one of his own betas," Lydia said, Isaac shook his head it hadn't been Derek's fault the alpha pack had made him do it.
"She's already on her way," Stiles looked at his phone as a message from Emilia flashed on the screen. No sooner had Stiles said the words that Emilia was on her way, Cora looked towards the door from where she was with Boyd.
"Lydia, can you take Toby?" Emilia questioned, handing off her baby as soon as she saw Derek with Stiles standing behind him. Lydia nodded and held him as she watched Emilia push Stiles out of the way. "Der, look at me,"
"Em..." Derek trailed off, his head dropping as Emilia crouched down to his level and pulled him into her arms.
"Look at me Der, it's not your fault. None of this is your fault," Emilia told him, watching as Derek's hands and body shook in her arms. Emilia held Derek until he calmed down, she knew how long he took to calm down.
Not long after, Scott and Stiles proved to Derek that Jennifer was the one that they were after, Stiles calling his sister as they were on the way to the hospital. Emilia had wanted to be there to help them, but with a newborn it wasn't the best situation. Derek called Emilia once they'd found Cora and asked her to met them back at the loft. Emilia left Toby with her neighbour and headed straight to the loft, she knew that Derek had some plan up his sleeve but not what.
"Em! Help me get her to the bed," Derek called the second that he, Isaac and Peter had Cora to the loft.
"Why the hell didn't you just take her straight to mine?" Emilia questioned, pushing Peter out of the way and helping Derek get Cora to the bed and sitting with her.
"I..." Derek looked at Cora and then at Emilia, he could never pick between the two of them.
"Cora, sweetheart it'll be okay," Emilia whispered, taking Cora's hand in hers and drawing her pain while glaring at Derek.
"You don't know that," Derek growled at her, before Isaac started to rant at the older man. Emilia shook her head and pulled both Derek and Isaac into a hug.
"Hey! No more fighting," Emilia muttered, they hadn't told the wolves about not having powers during the lunar eclipse. "I'll take her pain, you and Peter need to talk now," Isaac ran off heading to the Argents leaving the Hales and Emilia alone.
"Where's Toby?" Peter questioned, he'd grown fond of the small baby the only one didn't give shit. "They'll find your father,"
"Neighbours are looking after him, now would you tell Derek the story," Emilia questioned, pushing Cora's hair from her face and leaning down to kiss her.
Peter explained the story, looking between his nephew and niece. Derek didn't care what the consequences were if he lost his alpha powers. Emilia didn't care either, it seemed that Peter was the only one that did. Derek started taking Cora's pain, with Emilia on standby to take his if it was needed. Peter stood back as Emilia jumped behind Derek as he started to collapse backwards. Peter wanted to send the four of them far away, but Emilia wasn't having it not while her father was missing. After they found their parents, Derek, Cora, Emilia and Toby left Beacon Hills. Scott and Stiles not knowing if it was forever or temporary. There was an argument had between Derek and Emilia.
"No, I'm going home to my baby and taking Cora with me," Emilia stated, taking Cora's hand at the same time and squeezing it. "She's not leaving my sight,"
"I'm taking you with me," Derek stated as though it was the most obvious thing. "We'll get Toby and then leave,"
"Em," Cora wrapped her arms around Emilia and pulled her closer and rested her head against her shoulder.
"I'm staying," Emilia was insistent, but Derek knew that he could convince her she couldn't really stay in Beacon while he wasn't there, could she?
"Em," There it was there was the tone that Derek knew that Emilia could never say no to.
Emilia left Beacon Hills with Cora, she'd be back one day she just didn't know when. Derek joined them over six months later before Emilia went to find Isaac in France taking Toby with her. After she found him, she gave him the option of having a family with her, Derek and Toby.