AUTHOR'S NOTE: Well, so many people asked for them so here they are ;)
Previously on 'We Might Fall'..
There's a moment of silence as the three Stilinski's just stare at the two identical black Kawasaki sport bikes before Avery starts jumping up and down squealing. Stiles just gapes when his mind processes that this was addressed to him and his twin while John audibly groans and pinches the bridge of his nose.
"Would someone like to tell me why there are two identical motorcycles on my front lawn?" John grumbles.
Avery and Stiles both whirl around to face their Dad- Stiles' mouth dropping open even more as Avery's eyes widen at the now two figures standing behind their father. The two impeccably dressed figures standing behind their Dad- one with a dimpled smirk and the other looking stoic as ever though you could clearly read the amusement in his eyes.
"I believe that would be my brother's doing, Mr. Stilinski." A heavily accented British voice drawls.
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"Jesus!" John yelps as he whirls around to face the men standing behind him.
Nik's smirk widens even more as he flicks his gaze over to John who has his hand held over his heart. Elijah just stands there, hands clasped together in front of him as he slowly grins at the family standing before him. True to the pictures Avery had showed them- Nik stands there in a dark gray henley with dark-washed jeans and boots as Elijah stands there in a business suit and fancy black glossy shoes.
"Mr. Stilinski," The man in the business suit steps forward, the one Avery always referred to as Elijah. "-it's a pleasure to finally meet you. I'm Elijah Reynolds."
Elijah holds his hand out for John to shake but it seems that everyone is still frozen in their shock. Elijah just lets his hand hang there and when John finally snaps out of it, and raises his own hand to shake- Avery squeals and jumps up and down in place before launching herself at the two Originals.
Elijah and Nik grin, opening their arms up for a hug only for Avery to jump and wrap an arm around each of their necks as she brings them down to her level in a double hug. "Oh my god! You guys are here!" She squeals in delight- Stiles' amused chuckles from behind her only adding on to her excitement seeing as he woke up in a good mood. As Nik's deep amused chuckles sound in her ear, Avery's smile instantly drops as she pushes herself away with a horrified expression. "Oh my god, you guys are here!"
At his sister's horrified expression, Stiles guffaws and instead of rounding on him and punching him for laughing at her, Aver slowly slinks behind him to use as a human shield. Elijah's lips twitch in amusement and Nik smirks playfully at her.
"It's okay, Avery. I'm not mad." Nik assures her.
From behind Stiles, Avery peeks over his shoulder. "Are you sure?"
"I'm sure." He rolls his eyes. "I wouldn't have bought you or your twin a gift if I had been angry with you."
Avery sighs in relief as she comes out from behind Stiles to stand next to him. When she looks up at him, she sees Stiles trying to fight off a smile and rolls her eyes. "Not that we don't appreciate it but why did you buy us identical motorcycles?"
"Yeah." John finally speaks with dignity. "Would you like to explain why you bought my teen twins motorcycles?" He says as he crosses his arms and huffs.
Stiles and Avery find their Dad's antics quite funny as do Elijah and Nik though they don't show it. "I'm terribly sorry." Elijah speaks first. "I told my reckless brother he should have asked you first but as you can see, he went against my wishes." He says with a shake of his head. "He's a bit of a shoot first, ask questions later kind of man."
Avery snorts. "More like rip out your heart first, ask questions later type of guy."
Elijah and Nik both smirk at her words while Stiles' eyes go wide and round, and John rounds on his daughter. "What?! What did you just say?" He frantically asks. After everything he's been through and seen, he's not about to let things fly over his head anymore.
When she notices the attention is now on her, Avery bites the bottom corner of her lip. "So, I guess we should have that talk now, huh?"
"You're damn right we are." John nods though he casts a suspicious glance towards the two brothers who his daughter was taken in by. "But maybe we should save that for when we don't have company."
Stiles just rolls his eyes though he doesn't let his Dad see. If his Dad knew what he knew, he wouldn't care what he let slipped.
"Oh and to answer your question," Nik suddenly pipes up. "-the bikes are for the two of you in case you ever find yourself in a sticky situation again. We can't have some creature mauling you to death just because you didn't have any mode of transportation to get you away." He drawls.
Now it's time for John to go wide-eyed as his gaze darts back and forth between Nik, Elijah, and Avery. "Does he- do they know?"
"Of course they know." Stiles finally sighs. "Elijah's a vampire and Nik's the werewolf-slash-vampire hybrid. Both the first of their kind."
John slowly went red in the face, eyes bulging even more as his jaw went slack before he gritted his teeth together. Turning his attention to Avery and pointing his pointer finger at her, Avery internally cringed as she shrugs innocently. "Surprise?"
"You. Inside. Now."
"But-"
"No buts, young lady."
"Oh, come on!" Avery whines. "You can't be mad at me! I told you we were going to tell you everything today." She continues to whine as she marches towards the front door.
Elijah was smart to keep his mouth closed while Nik snickered at Avery's misfortune. When John turned his glare on him, he too shrugged innocently, and it was Stiles who came to Avery's aide. "She has a point, Dad. There's no use in getting mad." He shrugged nonchalantly. "And besides, these are the dudes that took her in after she- after her accident." He corrected as he shook his head clear.
Both Elijah and Nik caught the slip of his tongue and stared at him curiously before turning to Avery who had stopped in the doorway to watch them. John sighs audibly, pinching the bridge of his nose as he collects himself. "Fine. Let us all go inside so we can finally have the discussion that is long overdue."
Being too far away to actually hear since she's human, Avery didn't hear a word her brother or Dad said but when she sees them walking towards her, she beams. And when they get to the front door, Avery's lips twitch in amusement when Elijah and Nik can't enter after her brother and Dad.
"Uh, Dad, you're going to need to invite them in." She tells him instead of inviting them in herself.
John's brows furrow in confusion. "Why? Most people just walk in the door."
"Vampires, remember?" She grins.
John's brows furrow even further. "That part of the myth is real?" At their nods, he frowns. "And the sun? We were just standing outside."
"Werewolf lineage." Nik smirks. "One of the perks of being half-and-half is that the sun doesn't bother me."
"And myself," Elijah says. "-I have a piece of jewelry that has been spelled by a witch to let me walk in the daylight." As one, John and Stiles' gaze falls to Elijah's hands. "But I keep it well hidden on myself so my attackers don't take it from me."
"Yeah, I lived with him for two years and he still wouldn't tell me what it was." Avery sidles up to her Dad with a roll of her eyes.
"That's because you and Nik would make it a game to strand me outside after taking it away from me and let me burn for your amusement."
"What?!" Avery yelps. "I would never."
"You so would." John snorts which causes Elijah and Nik to grin. "If it sounds like something Stiles would do, you'd do it as well."
Avery and Stiles share of look of contemplation before laughing and agreeing with his words. "You make a fair point."
John chuckles at his daughter before giving Elijah and Nik his attention. "Come on in."
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As the five of them settle down in the living room- Avery being stuck between Elijah and Nik on the couch as John sits opposite them to study them, Stiles sits off to the side with his eyes darting back and forth between his Dad and sister in obvious amusement.
Elijah and Nik fearlessly meet John's gaze head on whereas Avery is nervously gulping and trying in vain to not bite her fingernails.
After a tense moment of silence, John clears his throat. "So let me get this straight." He sighs as he narrows his eyes on Elijah and Nik. "You are a vampire," He says at he points at Elijah before moving on to Nik. "-and you are both vampire and werewolf?" At their nods, John seems to tense up. "What were two very old men doing taking in a little girl? Why her?"
Avery's nervous tick of bouncing her knee suddenly ceases as her gaze snaps to meet Stiles. Both teens go wide-eyed before Avery gulps and looks to her Dad. "T-the accident, remember? They were just being gentlemen."
"Well while I'm glad they helped you, it still doesn't explain their actions." John shakes his head. If they were going to talk this out, he wanted all the answers. He didn't want to be tip-toed around. "There are hundreds, if not thousands, of children who don't have a great life. What made you stick out to them?"
Avery's leg immediately starts bouncing again and now she's chewing on the corner of her lip. She can practically feel the sweat beading at her hairline and her heart is already beating erratically so she's pretty sure Elijah and Nik are getting worked up because she's worked up. Her eyes meet Stiles'- Stiles' look full of pity seeing as he knows this story and while he knowing this story was hard enough, then John finding out right now was going to be heartbreaking- depending on his reaction.
"I-"
"Mr. Stilinski," Elijah immediately cuts in, his hand falling on Avery's knee to keep it from bouncing as he leans forward so the attention is on him. "-I know you want answers and I'm sure your daughter is going to give them but before she does, I just want you make sure you're ready to know. This story is hard for one to keep to themselves let alone letting her family know about it. And from the look your son is casting his sister, I'm pretty sure he already knows. So I must make sure, are you ready to know?"
John gulps, this day already turning out to be something he hadn't anticipated. He has no idea what's going on but after Elijah's words sink in, he has a feeling that this is going to change the way he sees things. And after looking at his son who's clenching his jaw and fighting back tears while throwing a pitying glance at his sister, he knows it's something that every Father fears.
"Tell me." He deadpans.
"Very well." Elijah nods before leaning back to give Avery the floor once more.
John glances at his daughter and he can see her bottom lip trembling. Her eyes are glossy and full of tears but none fall. "I-" She gasps out. "It was my thirteenth birthday and I-"
"She was abused." Nik bluntly states. At the pace Avery was going, she was only setting herself up for a panic attack so it was in everyone's best interest if someone else took over.
John's eyes widen in shock, his jaw falling open at Nik's words. He watched as his daughter seemed to slump in on herself, picking up her feet on the sofa between the two brothers and hugging her legs while she hid her face behind her knees.
She cries softly as she listens to Nik tell her father about how they found her beaten and bloodied with her clothes ripped and strewn about a darkened alley. She listens to him tell her father about how he and Elijah were disgusted that a human could do that to another human being, let alone a child, and that they pitied her greatly in that moment. She listens to him tell of how they gave her a choice and how she chose to live, and how they kept an eye on her afterward once they got her to the hospital.
Elijah took over next for his brother while Nik wrapped an arm around Avery's shoulders and filled in John that afterward, they saw how she was treated by her family. When they saw that the family didn't know much about Avery's history, they did a bit of digging on their own and found out she was adopted. And then when the family continued to treat Avery with no respect, they took it upon themselves to give Avery an ultimatum: that she could stay with her current family but that they'd erase her memory of them ever saving her or she could leave with them where they'd give her the respect she deserved but she'd have a very strict schedule should she live with them.
Elijah admitted that when they found Avery, she reminded them of the little sister they once had and that was also part of the reason why they took her in and under their wing.
Elijah and Nik fell silent after that, Avery working on controlling her breathing. She's waiting for her Dad to lash out- to yell or do something but he's quiet as well. But the moment she makes up her mind to pick up her head and peer over at her Dad, the sudden thwack! of a fist on the wooden coffee table makes her flinch in fright.
Avery's head snaps up, heart pounding in her ears as her eyes zero in on her Dad who's now pacing right before her eyes. He looks pissed- scratch that- he looks livid with his hands balled into fists at his sides. "Are you telling me.. that my baby girl was-" He cuts himself off, a choked sob filling the air before he shakes his head clear as if denying it. When Avery chances a look at Stiles, he too is watching their Dad with tears in his eyes.
"Yes." Elijah answers anyway. "I'm terribly sorry it happened to your daughter, sir."
John whines from the back of his throat before furiously wiping beneath his eyes. Sniffling, John stops pacing and faces Avery. With a heartbroken smile, he opens up in arms as an invite and Avery doesn't think twice about climbing to her feet and practically tackling her dad in a hug. The moment Avery's face is buried against her Dad's chest and John has his arms wrapped tightly around her, Avery breaks down crying as John holds his cries in. All he cares about now is that his daughter is safe in his arms- in his home and nothing or no-one is ever going to hurt her again.
Before he can voice any of these thoughts, the front door is kicked open with a loud bang followed by a ferocious growl.
"Holy shit!" Stiles yelps just as John squeezes Avery tighter as if protecting her.
Nik's answering growl and snarl is enough to send shivers up and down the Stilinski's spine, and Avery finally manages to turn around in John's embrace to see what's going on. And when she sees the so-called threat, she immediately throws herself between everyone much to John's horrified awe.
Nik is snarling at the threat in all his fangy glory and raised black veins beneath his glowing yellow eyes while Scott snarls right back. Scott has a mouth full of fang, red alpha eyes shining bright and his face has shifted to that of his inner wolf.
John and Stiles are too stunned to say anything while Elijah watches on with poise. The moment Scott and Nik take a step towards one another, Avery thrusts her palms out to catch the both of them by their chests.
"Stop it!" She yells at them. "Put the fangs away, Nik! And Scooby," She rounds on him. "-get your temper in check. We're all family here."
And just like someone hit a switch, both of their visages fade away and they're left with human Scott who looks a bit ashamed and human Nik who looks curious.
"Aw, Avs, did you really have to introduce me as Scooby?"
"Yep." She popped the 'p' with a shaky grin before wiping her face clean. "I had to calm you down somehow."
Scott grinned and then frowned at her when he took in the tears and the slightly puffy eyes. "Uh, Scott, not that I'm happy you came to the rescue but why exactly did you storm in here all werewolf-y?" Stiles pipes up.
Scott turned sheepish under everyone's gaze which made Elijah and Nik grin. Now they knew why he had been dubbed Scooby- he looked like puppy. "I, uh, I felt Avery's distress." He admits to them while averting his gaze. "My chest- it felt like," He trails off as he tried to think of how to phrase it. "-you know that sensation you get when your foot falls asleep?" Avery and Stiles nod in confusion. "Like that! Only it hurt and I tried to ignore it but then I started to panic only I realized it wasn't me panicking, and then Avery's face just flashed in my mind and I thought she was in trouble."
"So you came running?" John mused.
"Yes, sir."
"Good. It's nice to know my daughter's being taken care of."
"Dad." Avery groaned in embarrassment.
John's lips twitch in amusement while Scott scoots off to the side with Stiles and everyone retook their seat. "Well, now that that's out of the way and we've all calmed down- I have one question." Nik and Elijah gesture for John to continue. "Did they ever catch the son of a bitch who-" He trailed off, eyes darting to Scott who's brows furrowed in confusion when everyone looked towards him.
"He knows." Avery waved off the sudden silence. "Long story short- the Darach got into all the werewolves head when we stayed at that creepy motel and Scott tried to commit suicide. We shared crappy stories and Stiles talked Scott down."
John gaped, it having been the first time he heard that story while Nik narrowed his eyes on Avery. "It seems like you skipped that little detail when you emailed us."
Avery shrugged. "Our night at the motel wasn't as important as everything else."
"So Scott becoming an alpha wasn't important?" Elijah quirked an eyebrow at her. "Last we knew, one Derek Hale was Beacon Hills' current alpha."
"You didn't tell them?!" Stiles squeaked. "What the hell did you write to them then?"
"I'm sorry." Avery chuckled. "Our resident alpha situation didn't seem relevant since I didn't expect anyone to visit. And yeah, Scott's the alpha now and Derek's back to a beta. He sacrificed his alpha powers to save Cora."
"Wait, Cora?" John then asked.
"Derek's little sister." Avery answered.
"His little sister?" John's eyebrows raised. "I thought his entire family sans Laura died in the fire?"
"So did he." Stiles mumbled.
John sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Is there anything else I don't know?"
"Loads." Stiles admitted. "Though I believe you asked a question that has yet to be answered." He turned to Elijah and Nik. "What happened to the guy that abused my sister?"
Both Originals turned to Avery who shrugged with a grin. "Might as well tell them. We're about to come clean to my Dad about everything and I'm pretty sure there's going to be a lot of w-t-f moments."
Scott and Stiles leaned forward in interest now and Nik smugly smirked. "I chased the imbecile down and tore his heart from his chest."
At the visible paling of John, Stiles, and Scott's face- Avery laughs. "Aren't you glad they're on our side?!"
After that, Stiles and Scott fill in John everything he's missed. Everything starting from the night Scott was bitten up until a couple of nights ago.
John takes it all in stride, muttering curses beneath his breath. Stiles, Avery, and Scott expected Mr. Stilinski to fly off the handle and yell at them for being so careless with their lives but he didn't. He was surprisingly calm though you could see the anger within him when he finally found out the truth of Stiles' beat down- that it wasn't the losing lacrosse team like Stiles had said but Gerard Argent. And lets just say that John was quite smug when Scott spun his tale of poisoning Gerard and quite bummed to learn that Gerard was still alive even though he lived in pain every day.
When they caught up to the current situation with Ms. Blake and Scott retold the story of how she was taken down- purposely saying again that it was Deucalion who killed her and not Avery- Elijah marveled at Scott when he found out this teenager was a true alpha. After Elijah got over his moment of fangirling, Nik asked what had become of the so-called teachers body and if they needed help for cover stories.
Scott then shrugged, informing them all for the first time that Jennifer's body had disappeared. Avery and Stiles gulped, not liking that situation in the slightest but Scott assured them it was okay. If she did decide to come back somehow, she'd be easily taken care of now.
Stiles and Avery both seemed skeptical but John quickly turned his attention to the two Reynolds brothers. He really wanted to know more about the two oldest beings he ever met face to face.
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With the Reynolds brothers telling some of their life story, it eventually led Scott calling his Mom to tell her that he'd be out all day and Avery texting Isaac, Allison, and Lydia that she was going to be busy so she was sorry if she didn't answer their texts throughout the day.
By the time Elijah and Nik got to the 1900s, the sun was long gone and Avery had ordered in numerous pizzas that she, Stiles, and Scott tore into while John ordered Thai for himself, Elijah, and Nik.
By the time the Originals finished with their tale, it was a little after midnight. Stiles and Scott were practically on their edge of their seats with their jaws open in awe at everything the brother's had been through. When they had gotten to the point of finding Avery, they skimmed over the details of her training and education that they provided her with, and John was more than a little impressed with how far his daughter had come.
All in all, John took to the knowledge of the supernatural realm- and just how invested his twin children were in it- with a calm ease.
A calm ease that Elijah picked up on.
"With all due respect, Mr. Stilinski-"
"John." Said man cut Elijah off. "I think we've earned the right to call each other by our first names."
"John." Elijah nodded his head in understanding. "With all due respect, John, may I ask why you're taking this so well? Most people would be in denial about the supernatural realm."
All eyes turned to John, especially those of the teens who had seemed engulfed with their phones. When he took in Avery and Stiles' calculating gaze, he sighs while rubbing at his forehead. "What do you know of your Mother's death?" He says before pointedly looking at Avery.
"N-not much." She says, eyes widening at the sudden turn of conversation. "Just that she was sick."
John nods and clears his throat. "The reason I believe so easily is because, well, I knew about something other existing. I just wasn't ready to believe it." He shrugs.
Stiles gapes. "What?! Explain. Please." He adds on when John levels him with a stare.
"There was a night.. eight years ago." John says. "The night my wife, Claudia, died." Scott's eyes widen as he glances at his two friends- both of whom have also gone wide-eyed though there's a look sympathy sketched into their features and shock. Scott knew that Mr. Stilinski never spoke of his wife so it was a shock to Stiles and himself. "It was the end of my shift and a call came in. There had been a pile up and a young woman- she was a teenager, actually- she was trapped under an overturned car. We had to wait for the paramedics; we were never getting her out. But I was able to hold her hand. She knew she was going to die." A sniffle cuts him off and he turns to find his daughter with tears in her eyes though she's not letting them fall. After giving Avery a moment, John turns back to the Reynolds brothers. "I just kept telling her 'No, no, listen. The paramedics are on their way.' and I remember her hand suddenly gripped mine so tightly that I-" He trails off, his eyes staring at the floor as he recalled the memory. "-I literally thought she was going to break the bones."
"A werewolf?" Scott suddenly voices. "You met a werewolf before?"
John shakes his head. "No. She looked me in the eye and she said, 'If you wanna be with her, go. Now.' And I knew she was talking about my wife. But then the other part of my brain, the one that looks for clues, for fingerprints, for logical connections- that part told me that there is no way that this girl could possibly know about Claudia. And so I stayed." John pauses once more in his story- just long enough to glance at his kids who are wiping away tears. "I stayed until the paramedics pulled her out. 'Til her heart stopped beating and they declared her dead.
When I finally got to the hospital, I saw Stiles sitting in the waiting room with his head in his hands. He was with Claudia when she died.. but I wasn't. I wasn't with her because I didn't believe. I just did not believe."
"And now you do." Nik drawled.
John nodded though it wasn't a question and cleared his throat to get rid of the lump that had suddenly formed. "My condolences." Elijah told him.
John gave him a feeble smile and the group then lapsed into a silence. When they can find no other topic to discuss and people start yawning, Scott asks Stiles for a ride home. Stiles agrees to take his friend and just as he begins his search for the jeep's keys, John turns to Avery.
"So now that you have yourself a new bike, what are you going to do with the green one?"
For a split second, Avery's brows furrow in confusion. And when the words click in her mind, she shrugs with a grin. "Probably give it to Scott if he wants it. He's the only other person who's licensed to drive one." When John rolls his eyes and Scott turns a hopeful look in her direction, she turns to Nik. "Is that okay if I give it away? You're the one who bought it for me."
"Do as you wish, little one." Nik smirks at her.
Scott beams while John looks apprehensive. "I don't think Melissa is going to like that."
"Probably not." Avery frowns. "But it'll be worth it to see Scott's dad have a conniption when he sees his son's upgrade."
"His dad?"
"Yeah." Avery grins while turning to Scott so he can explain the rest.
"Uh, my Dad is sticking around for a bit. Might as well piss him off and let him see that Stiles isn't the only Stilinski capable of getting under his skin."
John, Nik, and Elijah all snort in amusement. Stalling Stiles' search for his keys, Avery quickly runs up to her room before coming back down and tossing a key to Scott. "Ride like the wind, Bullseye!"
Scott laughs as his two friends follow him outside, followed by Elijah, Nik, and John. After saying a quick goodbye, Scott starts up the bike and heads for home.
I'm really sorry for any mistakes you find. I'm in a hurry because there's a family get-together happening and I'm supposed to be there. So yeah, if you find mistakes, tell me and I'll fix it when I can.
Also, as you can see(read), Scott sensing Avery's distress is because he now considers her Pack :)