Hi Everyone this is another chapter and the last of the 'Sterek' children.
I have to admit that this was a turn around for me because I didn't have a clue as to what to write for this chapter, until a guest review gave me an idea. This chapter is also based on what I believe Derek went through before he found his pack-all the fear and the running away, I haven't gone into a great amount of detail as to her past as I believe as a reader that is yours to speculate
I am nearly at the end of this story so I will just say a massive thank you to all those so far who have shown an appreciation for this story-I realised the other day that this story has had nearly 2,000 views which is incredible.
Disclaimer- I own nothing and nobody apart from my babies, Blake, Spencer, Ryder, Logan, Lucas, Avery, Jade, David, Savanna, Madeleine, Arthur, Andrew and Emilee- so far but there are still a couple more chapters to come!
I have hopes to update soon x
Chapter 13-Emilee Madison
Derek and Stiles have been thinking about a second child but they really weren't expecting the circumstances they had to face.
In all honesty they had really been thinking about it. Or at least that was what they told anyone who asked. That they had been thinking it-that it had been planned.
It wasn't.
There had been reports of a runaway from the Lupus Orphanage in Chicago, a lone wolf that had ran when she had the chance. Some fifteen year old who hadn't been seen in nearly two months.
"Do you think the rabid wolf will come here?" Jade asked one day over pancakes and syrup and Derek frowned "No I don't, and anyway Jade don't call her that-she's just a scared wolf with no home-she's not rabid" Jade shrugged "I heard Uncle Scott telling Daddy Stiles last night" she said and Derek resisted the urge to role his eyes "Of course you did" he muttered.
Stiles had taken that moment to come down fresh from the shower and smelling all clean and fresh and Derek loved when his husband still had that sleepy expression to him. It was hard to remember what he had been talking about.
Oh yeah that kid.
Thing were almost (not that Derek was going to presume-he had done that once and look where it had got him) going well.
Most of the pack had settled down into a near normality-living in the house now was Stiles, Derek and Jade, Liam, Brett and Andrew, Sean, Kira and David, Scott, Isaac and Maddie and Jackson, Lydia and Arthur. Jackson and his family took three sets of rooms on the middle floor, Sean and his opposite them, both their children quite young within their ages, the bottom floor consisted of Scott, Isaac and Maddie and the third floor had Brett, Liam and Andrew. The top floor was for Derek and his family.
It was during that very night that it went wrong, or good depending on how you looked at it.
Once Jade had been put to bed Derek tucked himself into bed next to Stiles reaching for the book he kept on the bedside cabinet while Stiles flipped through things on his IPad that he heard it. It was a faint padding sound from the downstairs-somewhere on the perimeter, footsteps.
There was someone on his territory.
Screw that, it sounded like someone was trying to break into his house.
"I'm just going to check on something downstairs" he whispered to Stiles who pulled down his reading glasses to stare at him, Derek forced a smile onto his face and gently pressed a kiss to the corner of his mouth. "Won't be a sec" he whispered gently detaching himself from his mate.
Padding downstairs he pulled on his sweat pants and loose cotton jumper and nearly crashed into Scott who was looking at him with a worried expression.
"Someone on the boarder?" he asked quietly and Derek nodded.
The night was frigid another year come and gone and nearing November time, the wind howling around the house and making the two Alpha's shiver. Derek paused on the porch every instinct screaming out at him that something was there.
And then he saw it.
It was a shadow at first, the first sightings of something at the edge of the woods at the front of the house. And it gave Derek and Scott enough time to give chase.
It was Derek that caught whoever it was around the waist and sent them plunging to the ground. There was a small shriek and then Scott arrived helping Derek hold the intruder down. It was then that a shaft of moonlight-a half moon barely affecting anyone shifted and Derek got a good look at the intruders face.
She was a girl, barely fifteen her face white with terror struggling vainly. It was the wolf that had ran away Derek realised, the one that they all thought was dead or feral. "Enough" he snapped at her and she stopped her eyes instead of flashing the usual gold, turned icy blue and wide.
"Who sent you?" Scott asked and Derek shook his head as the child-because God she was just a child, cringed slightly "Nobody" she snapped sitting herself up her whole body trembling.
The girl was tall with long black hair, high cheekbones and bright dark eyes, there was a pause where she stood up, she was clad in a pair of ripped high wasted shorts covered in mud, a white shirt that was thin and dirty and muddy boots.
"You're the one that ran away" Scott said no question attached and she nodded. "I'm not going back" she demanded her voice raw and Derek exchanged a look with Scott that spoke volumes-if this kid had run off and managed to survive this long with no pack without going completely mad then there was something that she was running from that was keeping her sane.
"What's your name kid?" Derek asked and the girl's eyes flickered down to her boots before raising them again as if judging whether or not she could trust him, when her inscrutable gaze finally came to rest on Derek she muttered something that sounded like "Emilee, Emilee Maddison"
"What's your last name Emilee?" Scott asked only for Emilee to shrug clearly not interested in divulging more information than she had already given.
Derek coughed slightly catching both of their attentions "Do you want to come inside and get something to eat?" she watched him desperate to notice anything that might forewarn her that this could be a trap but Derek nodded again and she followed him stumbling slightly her boots tripping her up in the mud until she stumbled into the house the light making her seem more gaunt and skinny than the night.
"Derek?" came a voice and he saw Stiles, Lydia and Isaac all watching him from the stairs. "Get her some fresh clothes will you Lydia" he said pushing Emilee into a chair and reaching for some canned spaghetti bolognaise and toast- a go to meal they generally fed the kids when they got home from school.
Emilee was just stuffing down the last of her meal when Lydia came down carrying some thick leggings and an old Hollister jumper. Once she had showered, changed and eaten more than her fair weight in hot food she looked healthier than before.
"You can stay here tonight" Derek said his eyes on her trying to use her Alpha power to bind her into place, "I won't send you back anywhere you can claim a place here in this pack If you like"
It was an offer that made her head snap up and Emilee nodded her face filled with something that Derek recognised as a sick sense of hope. This was a child who had known no security and no sense of belonging-a child that had never had a pack or a family-someone who before he had Stiles, before he had Jade or even Scott and it made his heart hurt.
There was no way in hell that he would ever let this kid live through the years of loneliness that he had lived through.
Emilee had transformed into the pack in the next few months. She had her own room-Lydia's old one and she had moved in quite nicely. She was now in a position where she didn't wolf down every meal like it was the last thing she had eaten, she didn't cover herself in thick blankets as if trying to protect herself from an eternal cold and she had adapted rather well to the children.
In particular to Derek. She seemed to gravitate to him and it wasn't just Stiles that soon noticed that whenever Emilee was upset or quieter than usual it was Derek that she went to-it wasn't he soon realised an Alpha-Beta relationship, it was turning into a father-daughter relationship.
"Do you want to adopt her or something?" Stiles asked one night in January trying to be flippant and catching Derek right of guard, "Would that be a bad thing?" he asked eventually and Stiles blinked-Damn he didn't expect it to be that easy, he honestly expected Derek to at least deny it.
"You really want to don't you" he said slowly looking into Derek's face and Derek shrugged pretending ignorance. "Jade likes her you know" he whispered eventually, he looked into Stiles face "I know we were only talking about it but…I wish I could explain it Stiles I really do but…" he trailed off face twisting in anguish and Stiles grinned in the triumph of being right.
"Ok then" he said simply "Do you wanna tell her or I-plus we'll have to enrol her in school as soon as possible find out how much she's missed and what she has to catch up on and maybe I could speak to Aidan and see about getting her a car or a license and passport first I suppose…"
"Stiles" Derek croaked cutting off Stiles ramblings and Stiles grinned up at him.
"Do you wanna tell her or should I?" he asked again peeping upwards roguishly through his eyelashes a look that never failed to stir the wolf in Derek and he grinned.
"Thank you, thank you thank you" he crooned wrapping Stiles in his arms and pressing kisses into his neck and face smiling manically.
And with that Derek reached over and flicked the light off (because they didn't need the pack to come in and the days of sex with the light on had sadly ended) safe in the knowledge that he was wrapped around his mate, his two daughters in their bed and his pack all safe.
And for the first time in a long time Derek Hale was perfectly happy.
And let me know what you think
Next Chapter-Erica's labour with her and Boyd's third child does not happen the way she wants it, which is why she's trapped in a basement with Chris Argent, Melissa McCall Emilee and some boy in the corner convinced that the hunters Chris has pissed off are gonna kill them all