Chapter 19: Wedding Bells

Just over a month later and Scott and Theo had been sent on a last minute errand to grab things that would be needed for Elizabeth and Derek's engagement party - though no one was sure exactly when they had gotten engaged. Elizabeth and Derek had not only refused to tell them when they'd gotten engaged but also when they had officially gotten together.

"Ace grounded me last week," Theo muttered under his breath as he and Scott walked back into the apartment carrying a random assortment of groceries. "Haven't told Liam that's what I haven't gone to his place..."

"Wait...Ace grounded you? What did you do?" Scott questioned incredulously, as he looked wide eyed at him Theo nodded he may have been nearing nineteen but apparently that didn't matter.

"Yeah... failed two of the last exams I had..." Theo mumbled almost incoherently as the two of them looked up to see Derek walking towards them and grabbing hold of their arms.

"PSATs are in a month, I'll help you out," Scott said before pulling his arm away from Derek. "What'd my dad say...kind of half listened?" Scott admitted that both he and Theo had half listened to the earlier conversation before being told to pick up missing items.

"That'd he'd kill me if I hurt your aunt," Derek answered before letting go of both of them and pushing Theo towards Liam. "Tell him," He hissed indicating that he'd heard Theo's muttering on their way in the door. "Give me the bag and go," Theo almost reluctantly handed Derek the bag he'd been carrying.

"Is my dad forgetting the part where he's in our world now?" Scott raised his eyebrow sometimes he wondered if his dad actually paid attention to what was going on around him.

"More than likely," Elizabeth laughed walking over to the three of them and wrapping her arms around Derek. "Besides your dad never stood up for me when I was a kid, I think Laura did all of that," Elizabeth said, Derek smiled slightly at the mention of his older sisters name. "As for you go talk to Liam," she added giving Theo a gentle push towards Liam who was standing talking with Mason and Corey in the living room.

A few minutes later and they saw Theo and Liam walking down the hall to Theo's bedroom. Scott rolled his eyes at his aunt and Derek before they headed to the kitchen to deposit the food and put some things in the oven to cook. Melissa and Natalie shook their heads and pushed the two out of the kitchen before telling Scott that he had to go talk with Malia who was feeling rather left out.

"Go mingle with your guests, we'll take care of this," Melissa laughed looking at the two and then at Natalie who nodded. No sooner had Elizabeth and Derek walked into the lounge room and they were faced with Liam storming towards them.

"You grounded him?" Liam exclaimed, Theo had told him but hadn't exactly told him the full reason for the grounding.

"Yes, did he actually tell you why or just that he was grounded?" Elizabeth questioned, shooting a glare at Theo who noticeably gulped. "Theo, really?" Elizabeth sighed before Derek shook his head. "Liam not today please,"

"But you grounded my boyfriend!" Liam balled up his fist causing Elizabeth to grab his hand and Derek to growl at him.

"He failed two of the exams he had last week, and he knew the consequences," Elizabeth said flashing her eyes at him quickly before making them go back to normal. "Now calm your ass down and go dance with him," she had temporarily moved all the furniture from the living room and dining room to one side so that they had room.

"Did you have to ground him?" Liam was adamant in getting an answer from her, he didn't care that she'd just gotten engaged.

"Liam," It was Scott's turn to growl at the young beta from across the room, even Theo's voice wasn't calming him down.

"It was my fault Li...I knew what she was going to do if I failed," Theo muttered, he had almost purposely failed so that they could spend sometime apart.

"Can we stop with the whole Theo being grounded and just have fun now please?" Elizabeth sighed, pulling Theo into a hug and whispering in his ear that she'd think about lifting the punishment him later.

A few hours later with Liam still glaring at Elizabeth she'd had enough and wanted him to either start behaving like an almost eighteen year old or to go home. She put her foot down at Theo leaving with him, so they had retreated to Theo's bedroom. Elizabeth had told Scott that Theo had purposely failed the two exams as he had wanted a little space from Liam at the time and hadn't known how to tell him.

Six months later and things were seemingly normal except for the odd hiccup here and there of the spell needing to be completely re-invented. It had taken the pack's a while but they had discovered that it was one of Elizabeth's original pack going against them believing they had been abandoned though that wasn't the case. There was talks of Scott and Malia finally moving in together so that Elizabeth's apartment would be less crowded after movie nights. Stiles was talking about marrying Lydia, though he had yet to propose to her.

"You know Stiles, if you want to actually marry her you have to ask her," Scott said, as they sat around in Derek's loft which had slowly gotten more furniture over the year.

"How did you ask Ace?" Stiles questioned looking to Derek, that's why the boys were sitting around Derek's loft.

"Yes, how did you ask the young McCall woman to marry you?" Peter said standing in the doorway, as Isaac, Jackson and Ethan arrived having flown in from Europe.

"It wasn't romantic if that's what you're asking," Derek said with a slight shrug as he looked at them and then at Theo who was eyeing him as if to say 'it really definitely wasn't,'.

"Theo? What do you know?" Scott asked, looking to him Theo shook his head he wasn't about to say where they had gotten engaged. "Theo, come on?"

"No, nada. Not happening," Theo laughed, Scott flashed his eyes at the beta who just rolled his and shook his head.

"Scott, did Ace ever tell you where we met?" Derek questioned, he was going to lead into where he proposed as it definitely wasn't a romantic place to do it.

"No, all she's ever said is that you've known each other for pretty much ever," Scott answered picking up the cola that was on the table before him.

Derek explained that the day that he and Elizabeth had met, Elizabeth had been playing with his sister Laura at Pre-School and he had wanted to join in. Elizabeth had let him while Laura hadn't initially wanted to, it turned out that Derek was the reason that Elizabeth's magic had activated in the first place. His mother had been there while they were playing and she was the one who had noticed what was happening and taken the young girl under her wing.

*flash back*

September 1991, Beacon Hills Pre-School.

Five year old Elizabeth McCall sat quietly playing going between the dolls and the toy cars. Elizabeth's older brother had dropped her off before heading to university. Talia had planned on just dropping five year old Laura off for the day, but three year old Derek had other ideas.

"Mommy, can I stay?" Derek asked looking up at his mother as he tugged on her hand seeing Laura and Elizabeth playing.

"Go and play with your sister, and I'll talk to Miss Andrews," Talia replied, smiling at her son before watching him run over to his sister and Elizabeth. "Laura, let Derek play with you and your little friend for a while,"

"Her names Elizabeth!" Laura grinned, before returning her attention to Elizabeth who was explaining to Derek what they were doing. "This is my little brother Derek,"

"Hi," Elizabeth grinned at him before telling him what she liked being called. "My names Elizabeth...but my brother calls me Ace and Laura calls me Lizbeth," she giggled watching as Derek took in what she was saying.

"I'm Der..." Derek said as that was as far as he got with his name sometimes. "Ellie, " Derek said, Elizabeth nodded indicating that was good enough for her.

Things moved to the playground, which was were Talia noticed that Elizabeth was a little bit different from the other children just like her own. Talia watched as Derek, Laura and Elizabeth went to the slippery dip (slide). With Derek nearly falling off at one point she saw as Elizabeth closed her eyes tightly and when she opened them they were a different colour and Derek was no longer falling off. Talia raced to the far end of the park, and scooped Derek up in her arms while taking both Laura and Elizabeth by the hand and leading them back inside.

*end flashback*

"And that's how and were we met as kids, and also where I asked her to marry me...the park is run down now," Derek explained, the pre-school had been almost abandoned so everything was over grown and dilapidated. "She didn't become my bestfriend until school,"

"You know that's kind of romantic in a strange way," Stiles said, thinking about it, everyone agreed even Peter. "I can't exactly take her to the third grade,"

"Take her somewhere that means something to both of you," Scott said rolling his eyes as he looked at his best-friend. Stiles was meant to be the smart one but when it came to Lydia he was all thumbs.

"That doesn't mean the day you developed the crush on her," Theo said, he remembered Stiles deciding that Lydia was pretty much the best thing since sliced bread.

"What's he doing here again?" Stiles questioned, glaring at Theo he was still very much undecided on how he felt about him even though he helped them out on multiple occasions.

"He's literally family," Scott said, with an apologetic smile towards him. "Remember, Ace's doing. He's her son...my cousin in a sense,"

"Oh right..." Stiles shrugged, he'd get over it one day.

Meanwhile, across town the girls were having a rather subdued movie day as Elizabeth had straight out refused to have a bachelorette party. Malia wanted strippers, which Elizabeth flat out refused. Cora had come back for the wedding and been spending the time getting to know Lydia and Malia better. Melissa had taken time off work so she was helping with the final preparations.

"Ace, where do you keep the movies?" Malia questioned as Cora made herself comfortable on one of the couches.

"Under the TV," Elizabeth replied, as she moved to go into the kitchen to check that the pizza's she'd made earlier with Melissa were finally ready. "And don't mess up the order!"

"What order?" Malia questioned before she opened the drawer and found that everything was in alphabetical order. "Oh..."

"Yeah, makes it easier for me to find what I'm looking for," Elizabeth laughed as she and Melissa walked back in with the pizza's and drinks. "What?"

"You're weird Ace," Cora laughed grinning at her before she added. "But I can see why my big brother loves you...and I do too,"

"Love you too Cora. Now who's up for pizza?" Elizabeth grinned, putting the pizza's on the coffee table before claiming the seat in the corner as Malia selected a DVD.

"How did you and Derek meet?" Lydia questioned, she knew that they had met when they were kids but that had been all anyone had been able to get out of them.

"Pre-school, I'd been playing with cars and dolls before Laura had joined me, and then Talia – Derek and Cora's mother sent Derek to play with us," Elizabeth paused remembering how she had introduced herself to Derek and ended up with him calling her Ellie. "Where-ever Laura went Derek went, and then one day it was just me and Derek...we were eleven and nine I think,"

"When did you realise you were in love with him?" Malia questioned, these were all questions that Cora had been dying to ask her at some stage but never had.

"Honestly? I don't know, it didn't happen over night," Elizabeth replied, if she wasn't honest she couldn't remember when it had happened. 'I didn't know about Paige until much later, Cora,' Cora looked at Elizabeth and scrunched up her nose she didn't like when she accidentally thought something that she would hear.

Two weeks later and they were preparing for the actual wedding. Rafael had come back into town with the intentions of walking his little sister down the aisle, which he would find to be non-existent. Derek and Alice had decided to ignore all traditions as there was nothing traditional about them as long as the people they cared about were there.

"Hey Kiddo, tell Derek if he screws up he sleeps on the couch," Elizabeth smirked at Scott who raised an eyebrow at her before heading back to find Derek.

"Ace, how can he screw up?" Cora questioned, wrapping an arm around the older girl as she spoke.

"This is Derek we're talking about," Elizabeth said, making Cora realise that Derek didn't always do things according to plan. "I mean he might surprise us today," Elizabeth said before they heard Derek yelling.

"Elizabeth! I won't screw up!" Derek yelled from one of the other rooms of the venue they had hired as Theo and Scott looked at him. "You know this doesn't change anything," he said to both teens as they looked at him.

"Yes it does...kind of," Scott said looking to Derek and then at Theo who nodded. "Considering that you're marrying my aunt, and his adoptive mother..."

"Okay you've been thinking way too much about this, or did Stiles get into your head?" Derek questioned looking at Scott as he ran a hand through his hair.

"He's right you know," Theo said though he didn't really care either way. He was still getting the hang of the whole family dynamic thing. "I'm gonna go find Liam and sit with him,"

Theo walked out of the small room they had been in almost running into Scott's dad in the process. Rafael questioned the entire day until he was told to just sit down somewhere as there was no walking down the aisle. Derek and Elizabeth had decided to things totally untraditional and walk together – they didn't care. Theo found where Liam was sitting and sat beside him grabbing his hand and smiling at him.

"Isn't this weird?" Liam whispered in Theo's ear hoping that no one was listening to them.

"I've been thinking that since you brought me back...but I kind of like it," Theo whispered back kissing the side of his head in the process. "Yeah I know what you meant,"

"You have a strange way of answering questions," Liam laughed as Mason and Corey joined them in the row they were sitting in.

"This is kind of cute," Lydia whispered to Malia who was sitting on one side, while Stiles was on the other.

"You know they could have picked anywhere they wanted and they chose here," Malia whispered back referring to the fact that Elizabeth and Derek had decided on having the wedding near the lake.

'Quiet you lot,' Elizabeth's voice sounded in Theo, Liam, Lydia and Malia's heads as Cora and Scott made their way to the front of the venue.

The wedding itself went off without a hiccup, mainly due to prompts from Melissa and Sheriff Stilinski to Derek so that he wouldn't be sleeping on the couch. At the reception Derek was dragged off by Rafael with both Scott and Theo following close behind to make sure that Rafael didn't murder him. Scott and Theo standing a little bit back out of Rafael's view and listening in with their werewolf hearing.

"I meant what I said about you hurting my sister," Rafael said as he stood in front of Derek. He had practically threatened the man the day that he had found out about them being together.

"Right," Derek rolled his eyes and went to walk away from the older man to head towards Scott and Theo who tried to duck inconspicuously out of his view but failed.

Derek and Elizabeth retreated to a quiet corner of the venue and watched the goings on of the reception. There was no groups per say just everyone had gone into little couples. Melissa and Argent were talking with Noah, Rafael and Natalie. It had been Scott's idea to invite the parents, Elizabeth and Derek had argued with him at first due to it being their wedding but Scott had insisted. Elizabeth watched as Theo took Liam by the hand and lead him outside to talk to.

"I really didn't think everyone we knew would turn up...I mean even if it's just the pack and family," Elizabeth said, as she attempted to take her hair out of the mess that Melissa had put in for the wedding.

"Are you really surprised?" Derek laughed, he had been thinking the same thing and she knew it. "Scott does have a way with words,"

"I heard that!" Scott yelled from the other side of the room where he was talking with Stiles, Lydia and Malia. "You left me and mom in charge of the invitations remember!"

"It's true we did," Elizabeth shrugged as Theo and Liam walked back inside heading straight for them. "Okay...what are they up to?" Elizabeth motioned with her head as Theo and Liam stopped in front of them. "Theo? Liam?"

"You tell her," Liam nudged Theo in the ribs causing the older chimera to glare at him.

"One of you tell me what's going on?" Elizabeth questioned folding her arms as the two looked at her. "Well?"

"We need to find jobs," Theo spoke quickly almost incoherently as he looked at Elizabeth causing her to laugh and shake her head.

"You want jobs?" Both Derek and Elizabeth questioned, raising an eyebrow each at them the two boys nodded. "You know you don't have to ask us right?" Derek laughed before Theo and Liam walked away from the two as Elizabeth and wrapped her arms around Derek and was resting her head on his shoulder.