A little while later when Melissa returned she saw them all sitting around the living room. Ethan had a row of cards in front of him on the coffee table some of them had some very questionable things on them. There was a black card above it that said "Here is the church here is the Steeple, open the doors and there's_."
Ethan then pushed forward a card that said "two midgets shitting in a bucket." Mike then said "yes I get another awesome point"
Stiles then said "seriously the dwarf plays a midget card and no one cares."
Ethan replied "which makes it even funnier now."
Mike was next to draw a black card that said "_ kid tested, mother approved."
Ethan was looking through the cards he had and came across one that was absolutely perfect, and there was no way that anyone could top it. He waited until some others had played theirs. Once everyone had played theirs Mike picked them up and shuffled them together. He then read them out as he placed them on the table. Mike then pushed up one of them and said "how can you top coat hanger abortions?"
Ethan then said "thanks, that's why I played it," as he grabbed the black card and added it to his pile.
Melissa then said "are all of the answers like that?"
Danny replied "mostly some are worse than others."
Melissa then asked "so what is the name of this game?"
Danny replied "It's called Cards against Humanity."
Just then Scott came in and said "hey mom what's for dinner?"
Melissa replied "I was going to make some spaghetti with meat sauce and there's some soup left for Ethan, but he can have whatever he feels like."
Scott then sat down and picked up some cards to play. Ethan then got up to grab something to drink and a freeze, and said "anyone want a freeze well I'm up?"
Melissa then said "come on it will spoil your appetite."
Ethan looked at her and said "well maybe Stiles, Lydia, Allison, and Danny."
They all said that they'd be fine. Ethan then walked over with Freezes for everyone and a pair of scissors. Stiles then said "I don't want a blue one." Ethan looked at him and said "you're as bad as Aiden when I make shirt suggestions for him."
Stiles laughed as Aiden glared at his brother and rolled his eyes. Ethan then said "I'll take the blue one ok."
They then got back to the game Scott was looking at his cards and found a good one to play the black card said "lifetime presents _ the story of _"
He made a choice that he knew the pack would go nuts over, especially since Stiles was the one who was going to be choosing the cards, he figured that he would be the last one expected to a play "Daddy issues" and "a gentle cares of the inner thigh."
When it came time for Stiles to read off the answers he had been given some of them weren't too bad but the winner ended up being Scott's before Scott could say anything Melissa walked over and said "who played that?" She expected maybe one of the twins, as did everyone else and they were all shocked as Scott picked up the black card with a big grin on his face and said "yes I went there. I had no choice it was the best combo I had."
Everyone laughed at Scott's reaction, Melissa then said to Scott "are you ok."
Scott said "yeah I'm good."
Melissa then said "is it ok if I join you guys for a little bit?"
They all nodded as Scott told her to pick up ten of the white cards. It was now Scott's turn to choose the cards he ended up choosing the one his Mom had played. She ended up being up next as she read out the answers she was given everyone was laughing, as they were blank cards that they had put answers that were specific to the pack on them.
Mellissa knew there was something funny about them and said "Ok so after I pick the card I want to know who each of them refer to and what some of them are about."
The pack all nodded, as Melissa was looking for one that fit with "Anthropologists have discovered a primitive tribe that worships _" The cards she had to pick from where "My Gay Werewolf, Kanima Aka Lizard Boy, being possessed by a 1,00 year old demon, Demonic Ninjas, becoming a werewolf by being bit by your cousin, finding dead bodies without knowing how, getting stabbed with Chinese ring daggers, tasering your boyfriend in the woods, cutting yourself with your claws to see what it feels like.
Well she was doing that Ethan grabbed the deck of cards from the middle and stared sorting through them and put more on the table that said "Pack Mom/Pack Nurse, Twinzilla, sandals in the shower but otherwise barefoot, big cuddly teddy bear but lethal when needed, not always blind, wired uncle nobody likes."
Scott then said "there should be one more."
Melissa then pulled out of her hand "Alpha with performance issues" and said "is this the one?"
They all nodded as she said "ok I'm going to take this one" as she selected the card that said "Kanima Aka Lizard boy." Melissa then asked "so now who do all these refer too?"
Scott picked up the one she had played and took the black card and said "this one refers to Jackson being the Kanima."
Melissa then said "that was the big lizard thing that guy that had it hold me against the wall was controlling right?"
Scott said "yeah Derek bit Jackson and because he had some unresolved issues in his past he became a Kanima instead, but he's werewolf now."
Danny then said "My Gay werewolf is the one I came up with for Ethan and mines relationship."
Stiles then said "I think the 1,000 year old demon one is pretty explanatory."
Melissa nodded Aiden then grabbed the Dominic Ninjas card and said "I still hate them, but I don't blame Stiles for them."
Stiles then said "thanks," as he reached over to give Aiden props. Aiden reached out and gave it back to him.
Mike then picked up his and said "it explains itself."
Isaac grabbed the one about the ring daggers and said "they hurt." Alison then said "I'm sorry about that."
Allison then grabbed the one about tasering their boyfriend and told the story about when she had teasered Scott in the woods.
Lydia grabbed the one about finding bodies and explained about her being a banshee.
Ethan grabbed the one about cutting yourself with your claws and said "in the school we went to before coming here I knew someone that cut themselves and I wanted to know how it felt as I saw him do it once so I used my claws to do it. I still don't get why he did it he told me something about it making himself feel better or something like that. I didn't get it, it just felt the same as any other cut or scratch I've gotten to me."
Melissa then said "do you know if he got help, because that's a serious thing for someone to do to themselves."
Ethan nodded and said "yeah he got some help and went away for a little while. I haven't really seen him since we left, but last time I saw him he was ok."
Melissa then said "I hope he's ok too, and that you haven't done it again." Ethan replied "no I've been hurt in too many other ways to bother with it."
Melissa then picked up the pack Mom/ Pack Nurse card and said "this one refers to me right?"
They all nodded. Scott then grabbed the Alpha with performance issues card and said it was joke about how when he first became one he was scared to be one.
Aiden grabbed the twinzilla one and said as he put an arm around Ethan and said "I don't think this needs an explanation."
Melissa then said "your merged form then?"
The twins nodded as Aiden then grabbed a few of the others and said "the sandals in the shower one is about Kali, she was kind of odd that way I don't know why she wore them. The teddy bear one refers to Enis because that's what he was like around Eth and me. Not always blind referred to Deucalion as he was only blind when he hadn't shifted."
Scott then said "the last one is about Derek's uncle Peter."
Melissa then said "I thought you guys referred to the merged twins as voltron- wolf."
Stiles replied "we did but they liked Twinzilla better."
Aiden then said "Ethan referred to us as that as that's how he feels when we do it."
Ethan then said "yeah because I'm the shorter one."
Mike then said "can you guys do it right now?"
Ethan then said "I'm not really at full strength and it takes a lot out of us to do it."
Stiles then said "I guess that makes sense I mean you guys essentially force your bodies together it's not really natural."
Melissa then asked "so are there any other cards you guys made up?"
Scott replied "yeah Logan, Jeff, Liam and Masson each have one. I think Logan and Jeff keep them with Logan's deck."
Just then the timer went off and Melissa said "why don't we eat now and then we can play some more of this game later or we can watch the movie you guys picked up."
As they were making their way to the dining room Scott picked up the drawing pad and saw the sketch of him lying on a couch with Aiden in a chair next to him and said "who drew this and when."
Ethan replied "I did and that was when you spent the night at our apartment the night you're Mom got kidnapped and your briefly joined Deucalion's pack."
Scott nodded and said "yeah I remember that night you guys stayed with me well everyone else went off to do something else."
Aiden then said "we knew what they were like and we know what it's like to lose people you love so we figured that someone should watch over you."
Scott then said "yeah that was good of you guys, I kind of forgot about it when you wanted to join the pack."
Lydia then walked over and said "can I see them?"
Ethan nodded as he headed over to the dining room. Melissa brought him over his anti biotic and some Tylenol as he said he'd rather have that during the day. Lydia looked through them and said "these are really good you should take art."
Ethan replied "I kind of just like drawing what I want rather then what some else wants me to draw."
Lydia replied "I can understand that too."
As they sat down at the table Danny then said "never really asked yesterday but did anything funny happen with Ethan well he was under the anesthetic for his surgery?"
Melissa replied "he wasn't too out of it, he did ask about the number of the truck that hit him before he went out."
Ethan smiled and said "I kind of remember that a little."
Melissa then said "as for when he was waking up he said something in Latin, but I couldn't really tell what it was."
Aiden then said "let me guess was it 'Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare' by any chance?"
Ethan nodded as he remembered saying that vaguely. Lydia then said "that's kind of an odd thing to ask."
Everyone looked at her wondering what it meant as they all knew that she could speak and read Latin, she was acutely helping both Allison and Ethan translate their respective bestiaries.
Aiden then said "Ethan sometime says it when he wakes up when he has a nightmare or in the morning if he had one when I nudge him to wake up. He told me it means 'I think some people in togas are plotting against me'; personally I like the phrase 'Semper ubi ubi in caput tuum'."
Lydia then said "I'm not really familiar with that one. Some of the words don't really make much sense."
Ethan then replied "it's kind of a joke phrase our grandfather used to say it means 'Always wear underwear on your head'."
Everyone laughed at that, and then turned their minds to food.
Well they were eating they talked about what had gone on during the day and brought Ethan up to speed on what was going on at school and how coach Finstock had said he was going to bring in a card for the cross country team to sign. Danny then said "he even said for me to keep it PG so I figured I get you one of my own."
Ethan smiled at that and said "I can't wait to read it."
Danny then said "I'll bring it over tomorrow. I should have gotten you one when I brought you the stuffed wolf."
Everyone noticed that Ethan was still caring it with him at that point as he said "what it's comforting to cuddle with a stuffed animal sometimes."
Aiden then put an arm round his brother and said "you don't need to ever explain why you do anything to me."
Scott then said "who said anyone was judging you for cuddling a stuffed animal when you're sick?"
Ethan smiled and said "thanks. I just need some comfort sometimes."
After Dinner they all sat down on the couches to watch the movie that Mike had picked out. They all laughed as he reviled it was the Teen Wolf Movie from the 1980's. They spent most of the time laughing at how dumb some things were in it, especially the werewolf costume. When it was over Aiden said to Scott "hey how come you've never shown up at a party with a keg?"
Scott then said "because I'm underage."
Aiden then said "good point, maybe once were of drinking age we should throw a keg party."
As the night went on Ethan ended up falling asleep on Danny's shoulder. Danny commented "looks like someone needs to go to bed."
Ethan woke up and yawned and said "yeah I feel kind of sleepy right now; I think I'll just head to bed."
Melissa got up and helped him take his meds before he headed off to his room. Just before he was about to go to bed Danny came in to say goodnight to him and said he'd be over tomorrow. A little while later Aiden came into their room and found Ethan sound asleep and pulled the blankets up around him before getting into bed himself. He gently rubbed his brothers back and said "sleep tight bro."
Ethan murmured "you too bro."
