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Chapter 4 – explanations

10 minutes after Lexi fell asleep; Derek puts the car into park at the garage. A glance around the car tells him that he is the only one awake in his family. That thought made him smile, even if he never thought about having one at this point in his life. But that is so typical Lexi; she always brings so much light into his life and turns his world around. Hopefully they will stay in his life for a long time. Not that he will let them go that easily.

But for now he needs to get the three of them into his loft. Best to start with the kids, so he gets out, goes first to his little girl, he claimed her without thinking and it made him happy. He takes her out of the car, as she in his arms she snuggles into him without waking. It feels good to have her in his arms and he wants to keep her there to keep her save.

For a moment he marveled in the feeling, before he closes the door to go to other side of the car to take out the boy. He feels a similar bond between him and David, not as strong, at least for now, but it is still there. He will do everything to make it better. As he has both of them secure in his arms, he takes on look at Lexi before he carries the both of them up to his loft. A moment later he is in his home and instead of putting the kids in one of the spare rooms he brings them to his room. It has the biggest bed after all and he knows that pack members need close proximity in a new environment to feel save.

He put the kids on the bed beside each other and put the comforter over them. On instinct they snuggle closer together and Derek has to smile at the sight. With a small kiss on the children's foreheads, like his father did for him all those years ago, he turns around to bring the last guest or better family member to his bed, because that is what they are to him now.

Alexa was still sound asleep as he reached the car again. She is so beautiful it takes his breath away. He didn't know that he could feel this way, he is surprised by himself, but he will think about it later, after he put her to bed as well.

With a swift move he has her in his arms bridle style, just like her daughter she snuggles into him as well. It felt good to have her in his arms like she belonged there. With this warm feeling he carried her to his loft and his room. Like the kids he put her to bed. As soon as she was on the bed and the other two registered her, they subconsciously snuggled closer to her. And just with the children he gives her a kiss on the forehead, like it was a normal occurrence.

For a moment he watches them before he walks to the car again to get all their belongings so that they have what they need at hand. He arrived back with full hands and put everything on the floor on the living room. With nothing else to do, he took the book Enders Game, which he currently was reading in his hands and took place at the couch. For now he only can wait while they sleep and that is what he does.

Waiting with a good book that captures the attention of the reader lets time literally fly. Almost two hours after he arrived with his guests in his loft, there was a knock on the door. His fine nose tells him exactly, who it is, it is the pack and they brought pizza. Good, he can eat something. He walks to the door and lets them in. "Hey." he greets them.

In difference to their visit at the clinic two hours ago, now the whole pack is present. Meaning that after Scott and Malia, Lydia and Stiles walking in holding hands, Stiles father beside them enters as well as Chris and Melissa. The last ones to enter were Liam, Mason and Cory. All get comfortable at the kitchen table; like always when a pack meeting is in his home happened, they start to eat before they discuss problems. Some things are better dealt with on a full stomach.

Normally it was him, who would start the meeting, not because he is the alpha, no that is Scott's role, but he has the most experience with such things. But this time he waits, he knew that the curiosity will get the better of them, all of them. He almost was sure, who would talk first about the elephant in the room and he was right.

After 10 minutes of eating a little bit, Stiles couldn't stop himself anymore. "So Sourwolf do you want to explain, who the mystery lady is?"

"And why or how you gained a kid in the process?" Lydia wants to know.

"I think I start with the easy one." he says with a smile as he explains. "If a wolf cub lost his parents and is searching for a parent to take care of him, they do that in the most cases in packs they know. The smell of the pack members is familiar to them. Little Sarah apparently found that in me, because her mother and me were best friends during our childhoods." after a moment he adds. "Even if it only was for one summer, but that is Alexa for you. She always gets you."

"And you are ok with having a daughter now?" the Sheriff wants know.

Without hesitation or thinking about it, he answers honestly. "Yes." It is like Mother Nature wants to give him something back and he can feel the bond between him and the little girl. The boy as well, but they don't need to know that. Some things don't need to be told to make them real. Not only did they adopt him, he subconsciously did as well and he will try to protect them and care for them until his dying breath, all of them including Lexi.

"Am I am the only one, who founds that a bit strange? That almost screams that the next Beacon Hills catastrophe is on the horizon." Stiles points out. He always was a pessimist, but he also almost was right every time, just like he is now.

"I know and you are right." Derek states with a shoulder shrug like it isn't a big deal.

Now Stiles was perplexed, but he still is the scrawny kid, who uses sarcasm as a weapon. "Ok, I just wanted to be sure."

Scott on the other hand, wants, no needs, more information to work with. "Who is she?"

Instead of answering directly he asks them a counter question. "Who knows about the protector?" There was silence for a moment. Apparently no-one of them knows what he is talking about. That doesn't make his job easier.

Surprisingly it was Chris, who answered before Derek can start with his explanation. "That is a legend." he points out.

Derek laughs. "And so are werewolves, banshees, chameleons and …" He points at the respective creature in the room.

But he couldn't go on as Chris says. "Ok, ok I see your point. … But that legend is more than unbelievable."

Before Derek can give something back, Stiles smart mouth points out. "Can someone clue us in please, I feel like a child at his first day at school, who knows nothing and I hate that feeling." He was clearly irritated with Chris, but especially with Derek.

"There is a legend that speaks about the protector of the supernatural. She shall bring peace so that supernatural beings aren't hunted anymore." Chris explains.

"That is not all." Derek continues and makes a break for a little dramatic effect. Until the moment he smells the curiosity of all the pack members in the room. "She will unite all the supernatural beings under her leadership, if you want to call it that. But is more like all become equals. The unity of the packs if you want to call it that."

That was the part that fascinated him always the most, that she would unite them against one goal. That isn't easy because the different races don't like each other very much. In this setting it also explains, why Scott would be her second in command. One look around the pack is the reason, they are the best example that it works and that they can work together given the chance.

After a moment of thinking Lydia remembered something Derek said at the clinic. "You believe that is her … that she is the protector." Lydia concludes. But she wasn't sold on that part, because she doesn't look like the Messiah to her. That is the best association with the protector that comes to her smart mind. "Why do you think that?" she wants to know next.

"Her eyes." was Derek's fast answer.

"What?" Stiles yells perplex.

"Hey not so loud the kids are sleep." Derek reprimands him, just like he had other fathers or mothers saw doing it. Switching into the role of a parent was as easy as breathing and he likes it. The others look at him perplex that he took to the role so easily.

It took a moment for Stiles to get over the shock, before he asks again. "What have her eyes to do with it?"

"What color did they take as she growled at me in the clinic?" Derek answers with a counter question. Why does he have to do all the work, they have to learn somehow.

"They were green." Scott said after a moment of thinking about it. "So?"

It was Chris, who answered. "It is said, that she has green eyes, when the wolf is on the surface and that even on the day of her birth they glowed in that color."

"So she wasn't bitten, but is the child of werewolves." Malia wants to clear that up.

"Not quite."

"What do you mean?" Lydia wants to know, what other ways are there.

"She was born as a werewolf, but her parents are humans without any supernatural genes in their DNA." Derek explains.

"How is that possible?" Lydia wants to know.

Derek ignores it, because he can't answer that. "But that is not the only thing that makes her special. The other thing is her presence or personality." Derek says and all look at him with What-the-hell-look on their faces, so he explains further in form of a new question. "All of you whom have seen her, how did you feel in her close proximity?" He waits and gives them a moment to think about his question. He knows what the answer will be.

It was Malia, who answered the question, probably because she was more in tune with her inner animal than the others. "I felt drown to her like she was my alpha, but she isn't."

"Yeah, I felt the same, she is the warmth flame and I am the moth, who wants to be near her to shine with her." Lydia tells them in a poetic way. She always was the eloquent one of the pack. Stiles and Scott simply nod in agreement without saying that they felt the same way.

Derek's smiles, he knows how they feel; he felt the same as he met her for the first time and every other time he was with her. But for him it somehow more, it is like he belongs to her. In his childhood it was there, but not as strong as it is now. Now it feels like coming home, like having a pack of his own, like having family, which he of course has now. "Yeah it always was this way. Every person, who met her, felt like that. I saw it as she visited my family one summer, even Peter wanted to be near her and the funny thing was, he was a better person, when he was around her, like he wanted to impress her." Derek explains.

"Of course, he would want that, considering how power hungry he is and if she is who you say she is, he definitely would want her." Stiles points out. Not that he is sold on the whole story yet, but he knew, how Peter thinks and what he wants most. Profiling was his best and easiest tool, he learnt at the FBI, he exceled at it. No wonder with his experience in the supernatural world, if you can profile them you can profile anyone. Even if some say animals are not as complex as humans and that you can't compare them, which is only one part of the truth. It is still so, that humans have basic instincts they don't understand clearly, but if you understand the animal you can understand the human more easily.

"Maybe." Derek grits through his teeth. The thought of this uncle wanting her, doesn't sit right with him. He will not let that happen on his watch. But for now he concentrates at the matters at hand. "But that is beside the point. It is part of the legend that all supernatural beings will want to be near her." he tries to change the topic. "But there has to be a reason, why she is here now?"

"Yeah, Deacon told me that her parents' home was destroyed by hunters and she come here for help, because of something called the Circle." Scott explains what the emissary has told him.

"The Circle, are you sure?" Chris wants to know.

"Yeah, why?"

"The Circle is a secret society of druids around the world they help the members of the supernatural community to keep them save. But they normally don't give sanctuary." Chris explains.

"That confirms that she is the protector." Derek concludes to bring the last of the non-believer on his side. He will need their help to keep his new family save.

"Ok, what now?" Stiles wants to know.

A big smile starts on Derek's face as he looks at him and answers. "You will have to start training your spark." It was clear to him that after she criticized his lack of training that she would train him and that could be bad or good for him. It all depends on his willingness to engage in it.

"What?" Stiles exclaims again.

A sigh escapes Derek. "If I know her as good as I think I do, than she will want to train you to unfold your whole potential." And she can do it, he had seen doing it as she calmed a feral omega down and brought him into a pack without even breaking a sweat and she was a child at that time. Alexa simply is phenomenal. That doesn't mean that she doesn't have any flaws and that is the reason you never should cross her, especially not in the mornings. She is a terrible morning person, at least she was in the past, but having kids could have changed that, let's see.

"Why?" Stiles was outraged that someone wants to control his life and to dictate what he has to do.

"Because you shouldn't ignore, who you are. That always backfires." Derek knows what he is talking about. If you are a werewolf you can't change that, you have to accept it, if not, you will go feral and that isn't good for the rest of the population in your close proximity.

"But …" Stiles tries to argue.

But Alexa wasn't the only one, who thought that he should start training. "No, buts Stiles, he is right." Lydia tells the man she loves.

Like always when Lydia tells him what to do, Stiles accepts it like it was the new law. "Ok." he says with a shoulder shrug and like always it got him little laughs from the rest of the pack. He is so whipped, but it looked to Derek as if he hasn't a problem with it, if the smile is anything to go by.

After that they all finished the pizza, slowly some of the members leave until only Scott and Malia were the last ones in Derek's loft. Derek expected that, Scott always talks things out with him as his beta and second in command, without the others. Not that he doesn't trust them, that is so far from the truth. But more along the lines that in an intimate conversation he fully can concentrate on his dialogue partner. "Are you sure about her?"

He also knows that his answer will be discussed with his other second in command Stiles. His responsibility is the human side of things and Derek's the supernatural side. He also knows that he will lose this status to Malia after they finally mated, but Derek doesn't have a problem with that. It is the way a pack should work after all. "Yes I trust her and I know she will do everything to keep us as well as the people in Beacon Hills save. That is who she is; she puts everyone else before herself." But who does it for her, he questions himself. Maybe he should do that.

"Ok." Scott accepts that answer, before he adds. "We nevertheless would have protected her now, because of you and the connection to the little girl. The pack grew with them." He wants that Derek knows that he would have kept her save even without them being part of his pack. It is the right thing to do.

With a smile Derek says. "I know, but thank you."

In answer Scott nods before he and Malia leave the loft. Derek alone again takes his book and walks back to his bedroom. It is late and he will take a seat besides his bed and watch over them. The best way to do that is by staying awake and a good book that keeps you awake is a way to go.

So after a moment he reaches his room and takes the seat beside the bed and starts reading again. Occasional he would glance at the three sleeping figures and marvel Alexa's beauty. At his last glance beautiful, sleepy eyes look back at him. They smile at each other for a moment before Alexa asks. "What are you doing?"

"Reading."

She shakes her head as she clarifies. "I can see that, but I mend why didn't you go to sleep?"

To keep you save, Derek thought to himself. But he wouldn't say that out loud. He would receive a lecture that she didn't need saving for it. He has been there and done that, so thank you very much, one time is enough. So he answers with a joke. "My bed is occupied by someone else, who looks way better in my bed than myself anyway."

A smile starts on her face, before she reaches out to him with her hand and says. "Come here."

"What?" he asks her bewildered.

"There is enough space for all of us here." she points at the bed. "so come on lets go to sleep."

The meaning was clear and without any hesitation he follows her invitation and glides into the bed beside her. She was right there was enough space in the bed so that he can sleep, even with her back pressed against his side. Not that he hates that, no on the contrary, he likes it and with a smile on his face and a beautiful woman in his bed, even if not in his arms, he fell asleep.

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