So I couldn't wait for tomorrow to share this with you! Happy New Year!
After all the drama with the Alpha pack, things leveled out for us. Don't get me wrong, we still had to deal with our fair share of supernatural creatures trying to either encroach on our territory and random passerbys that liked to cause trouble. But we managed to get through the last two years of high school pretty much unscathed. I can't believe it's been ten years already since I found out about this side of life. Ten years. It may seem like a long time, but really, it has gone by so fast.
Cora got enrolled for school and finished our junior year out with us. Between her own smarts, Derek, Lydia, and I, we managed to get her up to speed with where she needed to be. After she woke up from her poisoning, she really became a member of the pack. She told the others what happened to her, and really embraced pack life. She took Peter's old room after Derek, her, and I cleaned it out. It was a somber affair, but we tried to keep it light and told stories about him, both good and bad.
After high school college came. Boyd, Erica, Cora, and I stayed in town and went to the community college in the next town over. I went for criminal justice, and then enrolled in the police academy so I could join the force with my dad. He was both proud and nervous to have me, but I think he enjoyed bossing me around now that I don't live at home. But I only lasted there for a few years. Then a young girl, well fifteen year old girl, with the Gift showed up on our door step and it was clear what my calling truly was. Training her and holding down a full time job was proving too much for me. So I quit the force, and delved right into the role of teacher. Since her, I have trained about eight people. Most of them stay for about a year to gain what I consider a full education. That first girl I taught became very close to many of the pack members. She is now the emissary for a pack in northern Washington. While the Gifted is training with me, they stay in the house, and temporarily join the pack. Not all have gone off to find a wolf pack to work with, but after being a part of what we are, I think most of them try.
Derek and I finally got married on the five year anniversary of our consummation of the Mate bond, and I became Stiles Hale. I think dad was kind of sad to see me take his name, but it was important to me to keep the name alive. There can never be enough Hales in the world. Derek keeps saying that it was only for insurance and other paperwork reasons, but he is the one who got down on one knee in the middle of our clearing. The pack all thinks that I am the one who popped the question and we are okay letting them think that, but Derek really, at heart, is a big romantic. We have received another gift to our lives. Right after we were married the talk of children came up. And we both agreed that it was time. Derek owned his own company and I was working with the future of our magical world. When she heard that we were looking for a surrogate, my first student volunteered most adamantly, and I can't say that I would have rather had anyone else. She is still a major part of Claudia and Laura's lives. Claudia was born a werewolf, and even at the age of four, we can tell that she will be Derek's heir as Alpha. She is strong willed and in most cases can only be subdued by Derek, myself, or Laura. Laura has shown that she might possess the Gift. She has yet to show any outright power, but I can feel it in her, and know that someday she will be just as strong, if not stronger, than myself. We love our girls dearly, and have recently been thinking of adding another child to our family. I know Derek wants more and really I wouldn't mind, I just don't want us to overwhelm ourselves. I mean we are only thirty-two and twenty-six after all. Still plenty of time for more pups.
Word of what I had done to Deucalion, and how we managed the Alpha pack along with a Darach, spread like wildfire. I think it kept many unwanted visitors from coming, but I also think it drew some in. I had a coven of witches try to sacrifice me to harvest my power once. I say try, because after I had them all dopey and smiley, Derek ripped their leader's throat out, and that scared the others off.
Cora showed an interest in animal care, so she transferred to a college not too far away to become a vet. Deaton had already offered her a position as soon as she graduated, and she put in many hours of apprenticeship with him. I think when he retires he is going to leave the business with her. Deaton managed to stay out of the supernatural world, much like he was doing before Scott was turned all those years ago. Sometimes I still have questions for him, but those are becoming far and few between as I have been building contacts all over the country with packs and others with the Gift.
Boyd went to college more for the experience than the necessity. He started working at the same garage Derek was working at in high school and is still working there now. But it has gained new ownership. It only took about two years of working there before Derek decided to use some of the pack money to buy the shop. He kept the name, so Jim's Auto Repair is now a pack business. Erica got a degree in accounting and manages all the office work, while Boyd runs the shop. Derek still works part time, but his hands are full with other things at the moment as he is home taking care of the twins. So do Boyd and Erica. They got married right out of high school and had Vernon Boyd V. He is nine now. A wolf. Then there's Damian, their seven year old, a human, and Rosalie their five year old daughter, also a wolf. They are not the only pack members with kids but they were the first. And it's been a wild ride.
Lydia and Jackson went to the east coast for school. Lydia MIT of course. It's actually thanks to them that we have a strong alliance with a pack out there. They are about the same size as ours is, and we have helped each other on many occasions. I even helped to train their emissary. He was still a bit green and was kind of learning by himself, so when I made the offer, his pack jumped at the chance. Lydia now works for a big company out of her home. When I asked what she does she started talking in math mumbo jumbo that to this day I still can't understand. Jackson went to work with his father, at his father's law firm. Good to have a lawyer in the pack. They only just got married two years ago. Lydia wanted to wait until they were both done with school and had stable jobs. Their daughter Violet is a year old and she is just as beautiful as her parents. Lydia was worried about her being a wolf, but she worried for nothing. Violet is completely human, except for the fact that she might be a Banshee, but that will be years before we are able to tell that. Lydia did get a handle on her powers, and it's a good thing too. They have saved us from many near death experiences.
Danny took the bite after college. He went to medical school and became a pediatrician. I think he wanted the bite so he would be able to help the kids more than he could as a human. He specializes in kids with terminal diseases. After he received the bite, he married Ethan. Ethan riddled with the guilt of his actions with the Alpha pack went looking for penance. He formed this strange bond with Mellissa and became a nurse to help others. A few years ago we got wind of some Hunters in the area causing trouble for a nearby pack that had settled in, and when we got there it was chaos. It took a few days to take care of them, but when the dust settled there was only one surviving member of their pack. She was an eight year old named Natalie. Danny and Ethan only took two seconds to ask her into their family and into our pack. She's twelve now and they too have been talking about trying to have a child the way Derek and I did. They know that I would be more than willing to perform the spell, and now with me teaching we have many contacts that would be willing to surrogate for them.
Sadly Scott left the pack a few years after we all graduated college. He told me before he left that he never really felt part of the pack, and honestly, he didn't quite feel that he wanted to be either. He moved to Nevada and joined a pack out there. We stay in touch with each other and see each other on holidays, mostly because our parents finally got together three years after the whole Alpha pack fiasco. He found a mate and they have a three year old son who is a wolf. I can still tell that there are days he wished that Peter had never bitten him, but then all he has to do is think about his son and those thoughts are gone.
Isaac and Allison had somewhat of a rocky relationship. I thought that after the Alpha pack that they would have become an item almost instantly. But if anything it pushed them apart. I can't say that Scott didn't use that to his advantage, because he did try to win Allison back, but it didn't work. But the fact that he tried drove somewhat of a wedge between the couple. It wasn't until junior year of college that they finally got their heads out of their asses and made it happen. Mostly under threat of myself and Erica. I swear if I had to hear either of them moon over each other one more day I was going to lose it. And when they are two of my three best friends, well the sexual tension was so thick I you had to use a bread knife to saw into that shit. They were married right after college and both started on vastly different career paths.
Allison came with me to work as a deputy at the Sheriff's office, and I have it on good authority that she is going to run for Sheriff when my dad finally retires next year. Isaac became a second grade school teacher. He is probably the best with any of the kids, my own included. He is truly one of the gentlest people I know, but also one of the scariest. A few years ago a marauding pack came into our territory and thought he would try to take it over. He took Derek by surprise and knocked him unconscious before we even knew what was happening. I barely had time to raise shield against the Alpha before Isaac had ripped out his throat. The red eyes looked so strange on Isaac, and he could have gone off to start his own pack, but not even two hours later, I was preforming the same ritual I had on the twins years before to give the power to the pack and move back down to Beta status. After that Derek and his brotherly bond only got stronger, and often Allison and I are left with the kids while they go off and do Gods know what. They have two beautiful children. Miranda and Camden. Miranda is five and a wolf, while Camden is two and human. I'm not sure if they will have more, but I know that Allison doesn't like to be off of work for too long. I also think that it was pretty progressive of Isaac to take her last name rather than the more 'traditional' way. They fought over it for a long time, Allison wanting to take his name and Isaac refusing. He told her that if she kept the Argent name going then it will still strike a certain amount of fear into the hearts of those who would mean us harm. And I can't say that he is wrong. While we still have our fair share of supernatural troubles, the number of Hunters that have come to our area is somewhat low. They tend to pass us right by. They still fight sometimes about some of the most absurd things, but then so do Derek and I.
Aiden and Cora had lots of hate sex our senior year of high school. I mean lots, so much that even us humans could smell them on each other. They acted as though they couldn't stand each other, but they were almost always all over each other when they thought no one was looking. Aiden is a part of the pack and is always back for the major drama that happens, and every month for the full moon and pack night, but he usually doesn't stay in one place for too long. When he is in town he works at the shop and picks up a few babysitting shifts so the rest of us parents can have date nights. He and Cora still deny that they are together but we all know differently. If they don't settle down soon, I may have to intervene a bit. Derek doesn't want me to, but we all know that I always get what I want in the end.
A lot has happened in our past, and now we are raising the next generation of the Hale pack to carry on. I don't know where life will take us, but we are together and strong and in the end, isn't that all the matters. We are truly happy, in every sense of the word.
So there it is. That's the last chapter to this series! I can't believe I actually did it. I have written other things before these fics, but I have never finished one. I have so many feels for the characters and So much more to say, but not in this fic.
In my cannon Derek and Stiles do have more kids. Having twins conceived the way they are rarely results in twins. They were only expecting one kid the first time around, but is speaks to how powerful they are that they manage twins not only the first time but the second as well. I am not sure of when but they will have another girl and a boy. Talia and Peter. Both wolves. Not sure about the others, Ethan and Danny probably have one kid other than their adoptive daughter.
I have not really ever liked Scott's character, so to me it made sense that he leaves the pack to join another. I have a scene for the one-shots of Scott and Stiles talking about Scott's decision to leave, so you will get to know the details of that.
The other scenes I have planned are the following.
-Peter/Jackson talk before Peter gives him the bite.
-Stiles letter from his mother for his 18th birthday.
-A pack gathering far into the future with multiple generations present.
-Derek and Stiles talk about having kids after they are married.
-The birth of Talia and Peter.
-Stiles getting his first student and his decision to leave the force.
-How Natalie joins the pack.
-the marauding pack and Isaac's rise and fall from Alpha status.
I want to know what else you guys what to see. I might think of some other things, but right now this is what I got. So if there is something you want to know about or see let me know! Also I am going to write this all from Derek's point of view after I finish the fic I am working on now. So any scenes with him should wait until I pass the point of when they occur in his fic, or after his story is posted. ^_^
His Series will be called
-How could I expect the Unexpected.
-Unexpected Mate (First installment)
Also the next fic I am working on is called -Anywhere Place-. I am hoping to have it almost finished by February or March but I make no promises. It is the first entirely AU fic that I am writing so the words come a little slower sometimes
Lastly I want to thank all of you who have followed me through this five month journey. Five months and over 200,000 words! You have been amazing readers and I can't thank you enough for all the support and kind words you have bestowed upon me. My gratitude is literally endless! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Until next time...