The sun had barely up when Derek woke-up to an empty bed. By now he was used to it. Ever since their children were born, Stiles had developed a habit of waking up early to the crack of dawn.

Derek made a tired sigh as he slowly crept down the hall, hoping that he wouldn't make sound. He passed by five closed doors successfully without anything or anyone opening them. Now the stairs were the tricky part since they always seemed to creak, so Derek simply jumped over the rail softly and landed in the living room with a soft thud.

He could hear Stiles in the kitchen, trying to not to clatter the pots and pans together, as he made his way to the threshold of the kitchen.

On the kitchen island, there were two empty egg cartons, a large mixing bowl filled with some batter, and a whole loaf of bread with a carton of light butter sitting right next to it. Derek could feel a pull on his face. Stiles always tend to go overboard with the breakfast.

"Are you going to help me?" Stiles asked him, turning his attention away from the stove, "Or you are just going to stand there watching?"

"It's five-thirty in the morning." Derek told him as grabbed the mixing bowl off the island and started stirring the batter and poured into the skillet that Stiles had set out to the side, "You don't have to this so early."

"After what happened yesterday with us being behind for a good hour, this seemed like the best solution." Stiles did have a point. Yesterday was a mess during the full moon when all the werewolves, kitsunes, and kanimas wanted to go out and shift out into the preserve, but actually couldn't since they had eaten properly. It was normally fine, but it was the blood moon and that was when the moon had a more powerful effect on the supernatural, "Besides it's a school day and the kids still need a good breakfast."

"They can fend for themselves."

"Last time that happened someone started a kitchen fire," Stiles reminded him, "Luckily, Jordan's a phoenix and managed to actually eat it before it could spread. Besides it'll make good practice for when everyone decides that they're not going to be moving out."

"No, they are," Derek told him as he turned over the pancake of the batch that he had been making, while Stiles finished making a mountain of eggs and started working on the toast, "They are never moving in here permanently."

"You know that what you said about us moving to this nice small town." Stiles told him in a teasing tone, "You said we were never going to move to a small town and look where we are now in a nice small town called Beacon Hills, along with the rest of the pack."

"The city was no place to raise a family with a phoenix and a spellcaster," Derek reasoned to him, "The others just so happened to follow us here, which I'm pretty sure they did on purpose with Laura being the mastermind behind it. Besides Laura said no longer than 3 months."

"If that's what helps you sleep at night." Stiles chuckled as Derek hip-checked him.

Derek was taking in the scene before him as multiple conversations were going on during the breakfast.

"You know," Stiles was whispering to Laura from the other side of the table, "Derek claims that y'all are never going to move in here permanently."

Beside Stiles Laura laughed at the information, but Derek doesn't get to hear Laura's response when his hearing picked up on his daughter's voice.

"Danny that was mine." Claudia declared as she placed her hand in front of her, causing Danny to levitate in mid-air, "Now give it back!"

"No, yours is still right in front now put me down." Danny demanded, but Claudia doesn't do as she is told until she took Danny's piece of toast as well. Giving him a smug grin as Danny stole Natalie's toast since she wasn't paying attention.

Apparently she, Melissa, and Noshiko were too busy planning some prank for some kids at the school that had been harassing Isaac at school, "I heard Kali was afraid of the dark." Natalie informed her as she took a bite of her pancake, "We could just put a circle of mountain ash around her in the locker room and have you turn off the lights from the outside."

"I don't know," Noshiko said clearly not on board with the plan, "That seems pretty harsh."

"She locked Isaac in the freezer," Melissa reminded Noshiko, "Knowing full well he is claustrophobia. She has it coming. She's lucky I'm not going to shoot her with an arrow."

Derek reminded that day pretty well. The school had called saying that Isaac had lost control of his shift and Derek had to take him home immediately. Isaac never did tell anyone of them what caused it to happen. Derek normally wouldn't condone to the kids getting revenge against other students, but they were a pack and a pack protected each other.

"You got a point," Noshiko replied, "I'm in, but guys we aren't going have her lose control."

"Oh yeah, definitely." Melissa assured her, "We would never stoop on her level, but hopefully she'll get the message."

"I think the girls are planning something." Isaac's voice suddenly filled Derek's ears. Derek looked in his direction and could see that Isaac and Jordan were talking, "I think that they might be getting back at Kali."

"Good," Jordan chirped, "Maybe she'll get the message and leave you alone. If not, I know for a fact that Claudia and Melissa have a plan B."

"The kids are scheming again." Allison informed the pack as the kids got ready for school and the adults cleaned up the kitchen and dining room, "What are we going to do about it?"

"I would stop them," Stiles offered as he was loading up the dishwasher, "but Kali's mom was a totally witch during her visit at the animal clinic."

"She is a witch genius." Jackson told him as he was scrubbing the skillets.

"Now guys we are mature adults," Kira told them as she was putting up the utensils, "Surely there could be another way to solve the problem."

"From what I understand Kali started it first," Erica shared with them, "Eye for an eye." As she wiped off the counters. Beside her Boyd huffed a laugh.

"Besides it's not like they'll get in real trouble since everyone know that the principle as a soft spot for them anyway." Laura told them giving Lydia a sideway glance.

"I have to be fair to all my students," Lydia reminded them, "Otherwise parents would complain to the school board. So thank you Kira for being the only sensible ones in this bunch."

"You know you could just pretend you have no idea about the entire thing." Stiles offered with a mischievous smile, "After all, we all know that Kali has hated you since the moment you walked into this town."

"Hmmm, true." Lydia agreed with a thoughtful look, "Plus no one messes with this pack and gets away with it."

"So much for mature adults, huh?" Derek questioned them as they laughed.

A month later, Derek woke up to Stiles by his side. But he could hear sounds coming from down stairs. He walked silently passed the silent rooms and jumped over the railing and processed to the kitchen and found Laura cutting up a variety of fruit and placed them in a huge mixing bowl.

"What was that you saying about us never moving in permanently?" Laura asked in a mocking tone without looking back.

"No one asked you."

"Yeah, tell that to the blueprints for more rooms I found in your study."