Who: Lydia and Theo What: Kids, kids, everywhere When: Saturday Morning Where: Raeken Residence Rating: low Status: Starting in Gdoc, finishing in log
Lydia couldn’t sleep. She hadn’t been sleeping well since she and Stiles cracked the code of her early premonition. Something was going to happen this month on the twentieth and they hadn’t figured out what it was yet. She was trying her best to relax. Theo was the first to point out there was little good dwelling on things we can’t figure out.
When she finally gave up on sleep, Lydia went to take a shower. It was a long shower, but it helped relax her. She decided she’d attempt breakfast this morning since she was now determined to learn how to cook - it couldn’t be that hard.
Turning off the shower was the first time she heard the running. It sounded like a stampede. As much as she thought Liam could get excitable, she didn’t see him and a bunch of his friends showing up in the morning.
In her towel, she managed to make it out of the bathroom and back into the bedroom in time for the door to open up and a bunch of kids piling in complaining about being hungry. She stared, eyes wide, and her hands coming up to hold her towel against her more.
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When Lydia first got up, Theo had rolled over into her spot, and buried himself under both pillows. It hadn’t snowed recently, so he wasn’t getting dragged in on his days off to do snow removal, so he wasn’t about to get up until he had to. He had just managed to drift off when he heard the first voices, and then several small feet trying to sneak up the stairs.
He was just thinking that this was some sort of prank by Liam or one of the others when Lydia walked in, and then the door busted open with a bunch of whining kids.
“Out,” he growled, which caused all but one of the kids to run back out, slamming the door behind them. And now, hyper-alert, Theo couldn’t help but overhear them calling each other liars about who their parents were, and that Theo was their dad.
He was trying really hard not to freak out, even though the one who stayed, a little girl who smelled a lot like him and Lydia, was trying to snuggle into his side.
“What. The. Fuck?”
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Very rarely was Lydia stunned into silence, but this was one of those moments. Lydia was still processing all the kids and how they all looked similar and different. She didn’t have werewolf hearing, but she could catch some of the words from outside, but mostly Lydia’s mind went to get dressed because she did not exactly want to be half-naked around a bunch of kids.
Years of practice in various situations had her slipping on a pair of Theo’s shorts and a t-shirt without dropping the towel. She’d put on her own clothes later, but right now it was more about what the hell was going on. Turning back to the bed, Lydia meant to look confused and freaked out, but seeing the girl in bed next to Theo suddenly made her lips pressed together and Lydia realized she was smiling. She tried to quell it a little and licked her lips like that would try to get herself under control, but the more she watched, the cuter it was until suddenly she let out a small burst of a laugh. It was enough to get her to compose herself. “Sorry.”
The red hair was hard to ignore as Lydia looked over the child and then to the closed door where she could hear the kids murmuring. When she looked back at Theo, she was trying to process. This had never happened to her before. She had come here later in the year, but she had heard stories. “Could they all really be yours?” Her eyes drifted down to the kid in the bed with Theo. Lydia had a weird desire to want to reach out and hug her while also feeling the panic of a woman her age who wasn’t quite ready to be a mom since she was still in school.