AUTHOR'S NOTE: Italics are song lyrics. The song I'll be using is "Kiss Me" by Ed Sheeran. Pure fluff just because I can :)
Walking through the front door of their temporary home, Lea immediately realizes that no-one is home. The house was as empty as they had left it just a little over an hour ago. Stiles had also picked up on the eerie silence, cocking his head to the side and Lea confirmed his curious mind that they were, in fact, still alone with the house.
Instead of heading for the sitting room where they had spent most of their time since being in Klaus' home, Stiles walked past it and headed for tall oak doors that had yet to be opened since their arrival. It was one of the rooms that they weren't banned from but Stiles hadn't been as curious as he was today.
Gently swinging open the doors, Lea and Stiles came face to face with a dancing room that had wooden flooring. The wall in front of them and off to the left side were lined with shimmery golden curtains that hung over each window also with shimmery dark red curtains that were tied off to either side of each window. The wall to their right was mostly plain, an extravagant fireplace sitting in the middle as a large oil painting of a meadow sat above it. The walls were white-washed with golden trimming on each panel of the wall.
Mouth gaping open, Stiles turned to Lea. "Gryffindor pride much?"
Lea's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "What?"
"You know.. Gryffindor." Stiles said the name as if Lea should know what he was talking about. When her eyebrow merely rose in question, he sputtered. "Harry Potter?! Godric Gryffindor?! The House colors are red and gold! Please tell me you've seen the movies or read the books?! You have the same accent, for crying out loud!"
Lea couldn't control her confused expression anymore and started to giggle. "Relax. I think I've seen a couple of the Harry Potter films."
Stiles glared at her before relaxing. "Sure. You know Harry Potter but you don't know Transformers."
"Witches, Wizards, and Death Eaters beats talking cars any time."
Stiles opened his mouth to argue but after thinking about it, he shrugged. "Point taken." Lea smiled at him before walking further into the room, looking up towards the ceiling where crystalline chandeliers were hanging. "So, you think Klaus has held a party in here yet?"
She chuckled. "It's Nik. I'm sure there has been a ball or two in here already."
Following behind Lea, Stiles grinned. "Did you grow up having to learn all those fancy dances?"
"Yes." Lea frowned. "But that doesn't mean I had to like it. I absolutely loathed those corset dresses but I believe Nik and Elijah made me wear one once or twice. They enjoyed watching me squirm."
Stiles smiled as Lea talked about Klaus and Elijah. Whether Lea admitted it or not, he could tell that she cared a lot for the two men who had taken her in and then abandoned her months later. She might've been upset when seeing Klaus for the first time in over hundreds of years but he could tell that she was genuinely happy afterward when they settled things between them. "Well, since we have the house to ourselves.." He trailed off when she looked at him, her eyes sparkling with excitement. "Would you do me a favor and have this dance with me?" He mock bowed before her which caused her to laugh.
"Why yes, good 'sir." She giggled as Stiles straightened up. As the two of them stood toe to toe, she suddenly realized that there was no music. "Hold on one second." She grinned before blurring out of the room.
"What di-"
"Music." Lea cut him off as she suddenly reappeared in the room with her laptop opened in her hands. "We needed music." Bending down to the floor, Lea clicked a few buttons before setting her laptop on the floor in front of the fireplace and headed back over to Stiles. "It might not be fancy but it'll still be a dance."
Stiles nodded as he let Lea position themselves. The music started and the sound of strumming guitars filled the air. They stood nearly flush up against each other and Lea wrapped Stiles' right arm around her so his hand rested lowly on her back. She put her own left arm beneath his right arm so that her hand came up to rest on the back of his shoulder, their other hands joining together loosely at shoulder height.
'Settle down with me, cover me up, cuddle me in. Lie down with me and hold me in your arms. And your heart's against my chest, your lips pressed to my neck. I'm falling for your eyes but they don't know me yet. And with a feeling I'll forget, I'm in love now.'
Lea swayed them back and forth, taking a small step back every other sway and turning just a bit. When Stiles got a hang of the easy swaying, she let him lead, this time Stiles being the one to take steps back and turn them.
'Settle down with me and I'll be your safety, you'll be my lady.'
Lea smiled and layed her head against Stiles' shoulder, her mouth inches from his neck.
'I was made to keep your body warm but I'm cold as the wind blows so hold me in your arms.'
Stiles gripped her hand a tad bit tighter, twirling her away from him before bringing her back towards him, her back against his chest. The move didn't quite fit with the song but from the giggle that escaped Lea's mouth, he figured she didn't mind.
'Kiss me like you wanna be loved.. you wanna be loved.. you wanna be loved. This feels like falling in love.. falling in love.. we're falling in love.'
Stiles nuzzled his nose near her temple before leaning down to press a kiss to her cheek from behind. Once again, he twirled her away but when she came back, he stopped her so they faced each other again. Their eyes connected instantly, their surrounding completely forgotten as their eyes flickered from each other's gazes to the other's lips. The two of them were so caught up in each other and dancing that they had yet to realize there was an audience lurking by the double doors. The guitar solo filled the room, gazes flickered, and their lips slowly connected.
'Yeah, I've been feeling everything from hate to love, from love to lust, from lust to truth.. I guess that's how I know you so I hold you close to help you give it up. So kiss me like you wanna be loved.. you wanna be loved.. you wanna be loved. This feels like falling in love.. falling in love.. we're falling in love.'
The kiss was kept chaste, slow, and intimate but as the song started to fade away, Stiles' hands came up to cup Lea's face in the palms of his hands. The second Stiles' tongue peeked out to lap at her bottom lip, a throat was cleared which ended up causing the couple to jump apart.
"I hope we're not interrupting anything." Klaus smirked at their guilty expressions.
Next to Klaus stood Derek whose eyebrows were raised in obvious shock. Scott and Allison stood next to Derek, biting their bottom lips in attempt to keep their laughter in at the now blushing couple, and Isaac was torn between laughing at them for getting caught and feeling bad for them because he could smell just how attracted they were to each other. Boyd and Erica stood on the other side of Klaus, Erica snuggling into Boyd's side as she grinned knowingly at them, and Boyd was actually smiling!
"I, uh, I need to talk to you." Lea stammered as she directed the statement to Klaus. "In private." She added when everyone gave her their full attention. She hurried over to her laptop, closing the lid to keep it from playing another song while Stiles just stood frozen in place, his blush burning from the tips of his ears, to his cheeks, and down the sides of his neck.
"And here I was hoping that you'd grace us with another performance." Klaus chuckled. "I must say.. that little dance was quite," He trailed off as he thought of the perfect word to describe it. "Now what's the word I'm looking for?"
"Adorable." Allison threw in which put her on the wrong side of Lea's death glare. "What?" She defended herself as her lips twitched in amusement. "It was."
"Ah, yes." Klaus agreed. "Thank you, little Argent."
"Whatever." Lea huffed. Giving her attention to Allison, her glare died off. "Elena wants to speak with you. She wants to know if you can have a training session with her little brother in the morning. She likes that you're highly experienced and come from a family of Hunters." Allison's amusement died off, looking to Scott and Derek for permission. "Oh, don't worry. We can have the session here in the back yard to keep Scott from going cujo on anyone. Someone just has to notify her because I don't have any of their numbers."
"D-did you just make a dog joke?" Scott grinned.
Isaac laughed while Derek grunted. "Exactly like Stiles."
Stiles perked up a bit, a smile gracing his lips as his blush started to finally die down. "Yes." Lea playfully rolled her eyes, happy that the attention was getting off of what they had just witnessed. "Now, Nik.." She trailed off. "Take a walk with me, please? I really need to speak with you."
"Sure thing, love." He gave in, offering her his arm for her to take so he could lead her away from prying ears.
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Taking a walk outside ended up having them walking further than the length of the driveway. What Lea had wanted to ask about was private for her and the only one who would have any type of answers for her would be Klaus.
"Okay, we're far enough now." Klaus stopped them from walking further. "Now what is it you were so desperate to get me alone for?"
Lea gulped and turned to face him. "Stiles." She admitted. When Klaus' lip slowly formed a grin, she rolled her eyes at him. "I'm being serious here." She pouted. "I need to know if soul mates are real?"
Klaus' grin was no longer. "I didn't think it was that serious between you two."
"I didn't know it was either." She retorted. "But on the last full moon, I shifted into a wolf."
"And.."
"Stiles distracted me from attacking Derek and instead of attacking Stiles, I licked him and protected him." She admitted. "I don't remember anything from that night but everyone says that I went to attack Stiles but when I had him pinned, I just stopped. I stopped mid-attack and wouldn't let anyone else near him until I decided to run around the woods with Erica."
"Interesting." Klaus drawled.
"Yeah." Lea sheepishly rubbed that back of her neck. "So do you know what's going on with us?"
Klaus grinned down at how Lea suddenly became nervous and shy around him. "I have a pretty good idea." He told her. "But right now, let's not worry about that. Let's get our heads together and worry about the Council and then I'll tell you everything I know."
"Promise?"
"I give you my word."
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Back inside, everyone can't stop staring at Stiles.
"Sooo.. you and Lea?" Isaac teased.
"When did that happen?" Boyd chuckled. "And who made the first move?"
Stiles gaped at them. "Wha-.. nothing's going on!"
Erica rolled her eyes. "You're in denial, Stiles. We stood here and watched you two dance then makeout."
"N-no.." Stiles scrunched up his face before sighing, his shoulders slumping in defeat. "I don't know what's going. We don't really talk about it. We're kind of just going with the flow."
"And you're fine with that?" Derek asked. He doesn't mean to pry but Derek can't help it. Stiles is pack after all and if Lea is stringing him along, well he'd put an end to it before things got out of hand.
"Yeah." Stiles told him. "I-.. Well, there's something between us, I can feel it, but she won't open up to me." He frowned.
Upon seeing Stiles' frown, everyone else's amusement seems to die down. "Just give her time." Allison murmurs softly as all eyes swivel over to her. "There is something between the two of you and she knows it, too. She just has to figure some stuff out before confronting whatever it is you two having going on."
"How do you know this?" Scott squeezes his girlfriend's hand with a small grin.
Allison shrugs in response. "Girls talk."
"She didn't talk to me." Erica grumbled which caused Allison to laugh.
"Well then I guess I just know what questions to ask."
After the pack releases some of the tension from the room and Stiles relaxes enough, they all start to disperse for the night. Stiles catches Allison's eye, nodding his head to the side for her to follow. When it's just the two of them, Stiles feebly grins at her. "Did you really mean what you said?"
"Of course!" Allison assured him. "I'm positive that if everything goes according to plan, you and Lea are going to have an interesting chat."