Stiles Stilinski (
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It was supposed to be a victory day
It was a closed courtroom that had the final hearing on the Stilinski-Grayson divorce. The evidence against the Grayson family as a whole was damning from the photographs of the attempted kidnapping, the assault charges, the history of abuse... it wasn't hard for the judge to grant the divorce.
It was the terms that shocked Stiles the most: Permanent No Contact order of Protection for him and Dina against the Graysons and any family member or agent on their behalf. Any contact moving forward for Stiles or Dina would be done through the Law Office of Samuel Winchester. Suzanna's parental rights over Claudia Marie were terminated, no visitation by anyone in the family or agents acting on their behalf, and Stiles was given sole custody of his daughter with an order to change her birth certificate to remove the Grayson part of her name and Suzanna from her records.
And then the big one: in order to protect the Stilinski family, alimony and child support would be established as a single lump-sum payment based on the financials of the Grayson family and taking into consideration the medical needs Stiles would continue to face both physical and emotionally at present and in the future, and to support Dina for all her present and future medical and educational needs.
Two Million Dollars. Half kept in trust for Dina until her 18th birthday or graduation from high school, whichever came first. The other half in account for Stiles to use as he deemed necessary to provide for his family. Plus all of Sam's legal fees were paid by the Grayson's.
And that was that. Stiles stood, partially in shock as the team of lawyers left with Suzanna and her father, and then he just turned and hugged Sam tightly. The taller man smiled at Malia, nodding at a job well done, and hugged his client back. "You did it, Stiles. You got your daughter the safety you wanted for her. Now it's time for you both to build a better life."
A plumbing issue had kept Stiles from moving into Allison's father's place right away, so he was still at the Hale house. Things had gotten a bit easier with the anger finally out in the air. But after a long day at court, Stiles was ready to join his daughter for naptime before dinner.
John hadn't wanted to worry Stiles, but the Grayson brothers had made bail and weren't in custody any longer. He warned Talia, but with the protective orders in place, putting a detail on the house wasn't possible without a real threat in the air.
No one realized that out in the desert, deals had been made between the family patriarch and another patriarch - Gerard Argent. Knowing that the Hales were protecting the granddaughter of his good friend, it was easy to help equip the two sons with a chip on their shoulder with the right weapons, and a team of hand picked hunters, to help them give one last message that no one could walk away from the Grayson family and expect to win.
It was the terms that shocked Stiles the most: Permanent No Contact order of Protection for him and Dina against the Graysons and any family member or agent on their behalf. Any contact moving forward for Stiles or Dina would be done through the Law Office of Samuel Winchester. Suzanna's parental rights over Claudia Marie were terminated, no visitation by anyone in the family or agents acting on their behalf, and Stiles was given sole custody of his daughter with an order to change her birth certificate to remove the Grayson part of her name and Suzanna from her records.
And then the big one: in order to protect the Stilinski family, alimony and child support would be established as a single lump-sum payment based on the financials of the Grayson family and taking into consideration the medical needs Stiles would continue to face both physical and emotionally at present and in the future, and to support Dina for all her present and future medical and educational needs.
Two Million Dollars. Half kept in trust for Dina until her 18th birthday or graduation from high school, whichever came first. The other half in account for Stiles to use as he deemed necessary to provide for his family. Plus all of Sam's legal fees were paid by the Grayson's.
And that was that. Stiles stood, partially in shock as the team of lawyers left with Suzanna and her father, and then he just turned and hugged Sam tightly. The taller man smiled at Malia, nodding at a job well done, and hugged his client back. "You did it, Stiles. You got your daughter the safety you wanted for her. Now it's time for you both to build a better life."
A plumbing issue had kept Stiles from moving into Allison's father's place right away, so he was still at the Hale house. Things had gotten a bit easier with the anger finally out in the air. But after a long day at court, Stiles was ready to join his daughter for naptime before dinner.
John hadn't wanted to worry Stiles, but the Grayson brothers had made bail and weren't in custody any longer. He warned Talia, but with the protective orders in place, putting a detail on the house wasn't possible without a real threat in the air.
No one realized that out in the desert, deals had been made between the family patriarch and another patriarch - Gerard Argent. Knowing that the Hales were protecting the granddaughter of his good friend, it was easy to help equip the two sons with a chip on their shoulder with the right weapons, and a team of hand picked hunters, to help them give one last message that no one could walk away from the Grayson family and expect to win.
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That is, until Lydia makes a very sudden and almost deadly u-turn while they're running errands in town. Cora finds herself snapped out of her thoughts, jerked away and thrown back against the window on the passenger's side, her head connecting with a crack. "Ow," she hisses, turning to face her with a glare. "Lydia, what the hell?"
"Did you hear that?"
In an instant, the anger fades and is replaced with a look of genuine concern. Lydia hadn't had an episode since Boston. Why is it happening now?
"What'd you hear?"
She doesn't respond, just makes a series of hair pin turns, each punctuated by a vocal "Bang!" almost like a car backfiring. It doesn't take Cora long to realize where they're going, and immediately her heart sinks to her stomach.
"The preserve? Why are we going to the preserve?" She tries to snap her out of it, because sometimes coherency can help get more information from her but Lydia's too lost in the thrall of whatever this is to get anything from her.
She skids to a stop in front of the Hale house, bright blue car blocking in Derek and Fiona's truck and she stumbles out of the driver's seat without even bothering to turn the car off. Her body jumps each time she hears a subsequent bang! and now it's being joined by voices and howls all talking, all at once, jumbling together with more and more noise, and her hands slide to her hair as she drops to her knees.
"Shut up, shut up, shut up," she murmurs, rocking back and forth as Cora drops to her knees in front of her. "Please God, shut up, I can't know what you want if you don't shut up."
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Meanwhile, outside people were moving to positions. One of the Argent hunters recognized the Hale on the front yard with the babbling redhead and he lined her up in his sights. May as well get some work done while on this job. All he needed was the signal.
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"Something's wrong."
"Lydia," Cora begins gently, reaching out to place a hand on her knee. "What is it? What do they want you to hear?"
Lydia looks up at her briefly, eyes wide and wild as she tries to process all the information cramming itself into her brain at once. The voices don't lessen any, however, in fact, it only makes them amplify, as evidenced by the way her voice picks up pitch as she starts to ramble.
"You'd think that if they wanted you to hear something, they would put it in a way you could understand it. You can't really do complex equations and the mambo at the same time, you wind up all off rhythm, and then what happens? All you have is a bunch of mismatched numbers and two left feet and I swear, if you all don't shut up, I'm going to scre - "
The word is cut off by a long shrill cry, loud and sharp and Cora has to glance away briefly, to shield her hearing from the blast. But when it's done, Lydia's face goes calm and dazed, almost as though everything's been brought into sudden, unavoidable focus.
"Someone's coming," she whispers, her voice sounding a little far away. "A lot of someone's." There's a brief hint of a smile at the end, almost like the punchline to a joke. "And they're all going to die."
There's a snap of a twig somewhere to Cora's left, and her head snaps around, before she's grabbing her friend, pulling her up and pushing her towards the porch. "Lydia, get inside now."
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Thomas looked at his wife, and when she was nervous, he was nervous. His hand went for the shotgun that was hidden inside of the grandfather clock in the hallway, and pulled the shells from a box on top of the clock.
Upstairs, Stiles was jolted awake from his sleep, pulling his daughter to his chest quickly as she started to cry in her half awake confusion. "Daddy, what was that?"
"I don't know, honey. Maybe it was just a -"
His story was cut off at the leader gave the signal, and the seven men in the woods opened fire on the house and the residents inside.
At his house, Peter's ears perked up at the sound of the scream where he was in the middle of prepping dinner. He moved away from the table, looking for Nadia to see if she had heard that scream when the sound of bullets followed. Instinct took over and he was off, and he shifted into his coyote form as he ran since he moved twice as fast that way.
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That last part is shouted up the stairs, because with Lydia screaming like that, there's no way he's not awake. She doesn't want Dina upstairs where they can't protect her. The sooner she's down in the basement and away from the windows the better.
Cora is dragging Lydia up the stairs with her, using her body to shield the other girl. She can take a bullet, she'll heal. Lydia won't. She's just about to make it to the porch when she feels one of the bullets catch her in the shoulder, and she stumbles, dropping to her knees against the bottom step.
Lydia turns, coming back to herself more with the smell of blood. "Cora?"
"I'm fine, get in the house!" She starts to push herself up to her feet, but she falters slightly, her eyes flashing as she stumbles, her hands coming out to brace herself on the steps. Lydia's eyes go to the bullet, sees the smoke coming from it, and her eyes widen.
"Wolfsbane."
Cora grits her teeth, her voice a near growl as she tries to push herself up again. "Lydia, go!"
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"Come here, baby. We need to get downstairs."
Dina was crying, but climbed into Stiles' arms as he wrapped her in the blanket, putting the unicorn in her arms and then starting to carry her downstairs. When another barrage of bullets started, he turned to shield her with his body halfway down the stairs.
Liam watched wide-eyes, ducking behind the kitchen table for safety. He sees the door for the basement and went to open it, ducking down on the top few steps, not going all the way down in case he could help.
Thomas moved out to the porch near one of the posts, cocking his shotgun and aiming it at the first head he picked up on the sniper scope that was attached to it. "You boys came to the wrong house looking for a fight," he shouted, and then started shooting as Derek ducked his head out behind him, grabbing Lydia and Cora, getting them both inside.
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"I need to get her downstairs and get that bullet out. I'll fix her. You get rid of them." That's mostly to Derek. "Lydia, Stiles, I need you with me downstairs. C'mon."
Lydia doesn't argue, shifting to Cora's injured side and taking one arm around her shoulders before following Fiona's lead downstairs. They stopped at the stainless steel table in the middle and Cora could feel herself being shifted into it.
"Liam, you have one super duper very important job - watch Dina." Fiona glances to Stiles as she does, before raising her eyebrows. "Unless you have any objections to that since they're staying down here."
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Another was distracted as a large red wolf jumped at him from behind, biting down hard on his shoulder.
Inside, Stiles was at the end, and he handed Dina off to Liam as they watched the three girls get down the stairs. He put a hand on Liam's shoulder to stop the kid, then reached up to take his daughter's cheeks in his hands. "Dina, listen to me. I need you to be a good girl and listen to Mr. Liam, okay?"
"Okay, Daddy."
He leaned in and kissed her forehead, then nodded to Liam. The teenager started to go down the steps, and instead of following, Stiles slammed the door shut behind him, and then turning the deadbolt lock to lock them all safely on the other side. He ducked as bullets shattered the kitchen window, and then he went to find the back door to exit out of the house.
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Lydia is getting ready to charge after him when Fiona catches her arm, pulling her back. She doesn't know what Stiles is up to and frankly she doesn't care. She just wants to save her sister-in-law before it's too late.
"I need you here. I can't manage her all on my own and I need you to keep her distracted. Can you do that?"
Lydia sobers for a moment, then nods, making her way over to Cora's good side, stroking a hand across her face before taking her hand firmly.
"You said Stiles. What's wrong with Stiles?"
"Nothing. Nothing's wrong," she murmurs softly, as Fiona gets ready to remove the bullet from Cora's shoulder. "Everything's going to be just fine."
Except for the parts that weren't.
Nadia had followed as close as she could behind Peter, but she's still slower on her human legs. She sticks back to the trees, wanting to keep herself hidden and not draw too much attention to herself until she had to.
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And then there was a shot and a howl of pain from the wolf as a wolfsbane bullet planted itself into his shoulder blades.
Ray and Chuck made their way forward, guns aimed up at Thomas. "You know why we're here, old man. Send out Stilinski, and maybe we'll let your family live like the pack of dogs they are."
The brothers learned someone on their way back to Beacon Hills, it seems.
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Meanwhile, behind them, the hunters that Peter has been dealing with are finding themselves gurgling on their own blood, throats torn out quickly from behind. She doesn't stop, moving to back up Derek, and she doesn't intend to stop until all of the hunters are bloody shredded messes.
You shot her mate. She intends to do something about it.
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"Don't even think of it, boy," Thomas said, his rifle trained back on him. "You've lost this battle."
"I take her out, others will come and finish the job." He got his sights.
"Ray."
The man turned, and Stiles stood there, only a few feet away as he came out from behind his jeep with a handgun aimed. "You don't threaten my family," he said, and fired one shot. The bullet snapped Ray's head back, and the man went down. Stiles didn't lower the gun though, his arm extended and his face a blank slate devoid of emotion.
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She then turns and steps back up to Stiles meeting his eyes gently and reaching for the weapon in his hand.
"Stiles, give me the gun."
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After that, Stiles had a talk with Lydia about what had happened to her. Then it was dinner and somehow the bodies had been moved and it looked like nothing at all had happened outside. Cora and Peter both slept through the mealtime in their respective healing places.
Bedtime was soon to follow, and Stiles offered to watch over Cora for the night so Lydia could rest. He tucked Dina in and told his daughter he would just be next door if she needed him. He then took up a spot in the corner of the room, watching her sleep and thinking to himself about what he really was feeling below all the anger and hurt, and how to convey that to her without starting another fight.
He did know one thing - seeing her hurt like this was hard. And it was making his ability to stay mad at her harder when all he wanted to do was curl up behind her in bed and hold her and try to make things better.
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It's always way too quiet. It's both comforting and makes her miss the noise of Boston all at the same time.
She also hurts. A lot. But that's not something that's going to go away anytime soon. She blinks for a moment, eyes adjusting to the darkness before they fall on him, and there's a brief moment of tension, wondering what he's doing there, mixed with the relief of him being okay.
(For the record, she wouldn't have minded if he did. She always did sleep better when he's there. Him being there reminds her of the first time he kissed her and she swallows hard, burying the longing under a layer of surprise and confusion.)
"Stiles?"
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His voice is cautious. Not because he's hesitant around her, but that tone he had when he wasn't sure how to help her. Which is a very different tone from the last time they had talked.
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"No, I'm okay. I just want to sit up for a bit."
That feels a little too familiar but it's true. It's what she wants. She rubs at her eyes as she leans back against the headboard, then shifts one hand to rub the shoulder where she was shot?
"How long was I out?"
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"Is everyone okay? The hunters, what happened?"
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Being Nadia, Derek, and the two that Peter had actually taken down as a wolf.
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"Good." She looks up at him, eyes earnest, if nothing else. "Lydia seemed upset when you left, I wasn't sure ... " If she was ever going to see him again. There's a flicker of a smile as he seems to be fine, looking at her without being completely angry with her, but she knows that that doesn't necessarily mean things are better. " ... I didn't expect you to be here."
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He sat on the edge of the bed, folding his hands into his lap. "I didn't mean to upset any of you. I just had to help. I think after everything at court... I just got tired of hiding behind everyone."
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"I'm just glad you're okay."
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He shifted a bit closer, reaching out on his own to take her hand in his. "Cora, I'm sorry I yelled at you and treated you like that the other day. I would have hated myself if those were the last words we ever exchanged."
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"It's okay, Stiles. I deserved a lot of it."
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