Chapter Text
As they paid to get in, Isaac was screaming with excitement as he could see the lights and evidence of the pretty fish just metres away.
Shaydo was bushing Jack in his pram as Stiles pushed Isaac in his. Jack was fast asleep, frowning as Isaac’s noise disturbs him. Finn was with Maddie, trying to sneak past Derek to explore the aquarium’s staff room but the Alpha knew better and picked up his trouble maker, dangling him upside down to make him laugh.
The Sheriff offered to pay for his grandkids but Stiles refused at first but agreed when John said, “This is the first time I get to go out with my grandbabies, Stiles. Let me spoil them for once.”
As they went in, the pups gaped at the pretty lights and fish that were presented to them.
Damselfish, yellow tang, queen angelfish and more.
Finn placed his hand up to the glass and a seahorse came up to his tiny fingers to investigate.
When they got to the end of the tunnel, Finn and Maddie were pulled towards an activity booth where you have to look through telescopes to see the fossils that were embedded into the rocks. Isaac was more interested in the fish swimming around him, pointing, giggling and drooling. Derek wiped the drool of the pup with a hankie and the pup asked to be picked up and brought closer to the scene around him. Derek did as he asked and helped Isaac to see the fish up close and personal.
As Shaydo began to talk to Stiles about breastfeeding (Stiles was curious), the Sheriff got a phone call and when he hung up, he sighed.
“I’ve got to go into work.” He said it, defeated, “Apparently, the crime never stops.”
Stiles hugged his dad goodbye before calling to his children, “Kids, come say goodbye to grandpa. He has to go to work.”
Finn frowned at that and hugged John, “No stay?”
“I can’t, little man. I’ve got to go fight bad guys.”
The pup’s face lit up, “Like superman!”
“Exactly,” Stiles said, ruffling Finn’s hair, “He has to go be a hero.”
Finn nodded and hugged John once more before going back to Maddie - who was showing her fangs at the fish, scaring them into swimming away.
Isaac bubbled and when John gave him a kiss on the cheek, he giggled. He shook Derek’s hand and left.
As they went to the outside part of the aquarium to see the sea lions, Stiles and Shaydo hung back from the Alphas and pups, talking.
“Rosalyn said she wants more pups.” The witch informed, “I told her I’m not getting pregnant again until Jack is at least two.”
“Wait. Is Jack and Maddie-”
“Biologically ours? Yes.”
“H-How?”
“Magic.” She answered simply, shrugging, “My great grandmother fell in love with a woman during the war and they wanted a child. No orphanage at that time would ever allow a gay couple to adopt, so she created a ritual were different reproductive organs can grow on the body so that she could get pregnant. It worked and she had my grandmother. The ritual was passed down through the family grimoire.”
“So your great grandmother grew a dick?”
Shaydo laughed, “Yep and fucked her girlfriend and boom! baby.”
Stiles was gaping, wide eyes and speechless. He then thought for a moment, the new information rolling through his brain.
They were outside and Stiles watched as Derek held Isaac while holding Finn’s hand - who was holding Maddie’s. They were all looking at the sea lions as they swam and ate fish. Isaac clapped his hands when he saw one of them dive into the water.
Using the opportunity, Stiles turned to Shaydo.
“So… the ritual… does it work for, uh, for-” He stuttered, a flush on his cheeks.
Shaydo smiled knowingly, “Does it work on two men?”
Stiles nodded shyly.
“Of course.” The witch beamed, “My uncle and his husband have a kid. My uncle used the ritual and grew his very own womb for his little one to grow.”
“So… theoretically… I could… y’know…”
“Get pregnant by your hunk of a boyfriend?” When Stiles blushed, Shaydo nudged him with her elbow, “If that’s what you two want, then of course.”
The two families went to see the otters next and they had been there gazing at the adorable creatures swimming on their backs when Jack woke up with a cry. Shaydo collected him from his pram and kissed his head. He was hungry so everyone stopped and let Shaydo breastfeed on the bench that was supplied nearby, her wife beside her, while Derek and Stiles took the other kids to see the penguins.
Derek reached out to grab Stiles’ with his free hand. Stiles looked up at the Alpha and frowned suspiciously when seeing the happy smile on Derek’s face.
“What?”
“I heard you and Shaydo talking.”
“Oh.” Stiles blushed and looked back at the penguins.
“I want it to.”
When the Alpha said that, Stiles whipped his head back to Derek. “R-Really?!”
“Of course, doll.” He reassured, “Do you not remember what we said during our ‘alone time’ last night?”
Flashes flooded Stiles mind. His own voice - ‘Yes! YES! Knot me! Breed me! Give me more pups, Der! Please!’
His blush grew intensely as he muttered, “I thought that was just… talk.”
Derek frowned, “So you didn’t mean it?”
“I didn’t think it was possible!” Stiles shrieked before grinning, “Until now that is.”
Derek leaned forward to kiss his mate softly, nuzzling his throat before pulling away.
“Why don’t you ask Shaydo for info on the ritual and we’ll talk more about it tonight?”
Stiles’ heart fluttered, excitement and a hint of arousal flowing his veins as he nodded, kissing the Alpha on the cheek before going back to watching the penguins.
They soon left when Jack was all done eating - and when Finn and Maddie got close to climbing over the fencing as they wanted to pet the penguins. Derek had to catch them before they could stumble into the water.
They went through and were back inside. This time they were in a dome. Glass surrounding them, a tunnel of gorgeous illuminus lights as coral and underwater plants engulfed the space. But that wasn’t what made the space amazing. No. That was the result of the sharks.
The oceans mightiest beasts swimming in their element, all different sizes and shapes and shades of grey. Finn almost howled in amazement and he pressed his entire face to the glass, as if desperate to melt through the glass to join the sharks. Maddie was beside him, eyes following a hammerhead as it glided passed them.
Isaac and Jack were back in their strollers, looking around in awe as the lights changed colours gradually from blue to white to pink to purple to blue.
It was magical.
Finn then went to his father, tugged on his shirt to get his attention.
“What is it, little man?”
“Ask Mama now.” He said it so seriously that it made Derek smile.
He ruffled his son’s hair, “You sure this is the place to ask Mama?”
Finn nodded.
“Ask Mama what?” Stiles asked, putting his hands on his hips. He hated not knowing things.
Derek pulled Stiles from around the stroller and in front of him, dead centre of the tunnel of sharks.
“Stiles, I love you more than anything in this world. You and the pups are everything to me and you love our babies as if you were the one that gave them life and for that I could only love you more.” Derek brought something out from his pocket. It was a small red silky box. He opened it and inside was a silver ring with five jagged white rocks attached to it, one big one in the middle with two smaller on either side. It sparkled in the lights around them and Stiles gasped, putting a hand to his mouth when he saw it. Stiles' ring.
“It was my mother’s.” Derek explained, voice thick with emotion as everyone around him watched quietly - except for Isaac who was babbling in his pram, “My father told me a story when I was little. He said that once on a full moon he saw a light fall from the moon and tumble down to earth. He said he followed the light it made as it casted down to the ground and when he reached the end of the light, he found small pebbles. Small specimens of the moon. He collected them and wrapped them in silver wiring and said to himself that he would give it to his mate when he found them. He would give his mate the moon.” Tears gathered in Stiles’ eyes as he listened. The male Alpha carried on, clearing his throat, “When - when the fire happened, I thought it was gone but it turns out that my mother threw it out the window before the fire got too bad. I found it a year ago, buried in weeds and dirt. I’ve held onto it all this time and I told myself that I would give it to my mate… and now that I’ve found them…” He looked at Stiles with so much love that it made those tears that were in Stiles’ eyes fall down freely, “I want to give them the moon as well.” Stiles cried happily, a smile on his face as he cupped his chest, his heart hammering. Derek went onto one knee and reached to hold Stiles’ left hand, “So Mieczyslaw Aleksandr Stilinski, Will you marry me?”
Stiles sobbed, scent radiating pure happiness as he nodded, “Y-Yes! Yes! Yes, Der!”
Derek’s inner Alpha howled with joy as he slid the ring onto Stiles’ finger. He stood up and kissed his fiancé hard, arms around his waist and lifting him into the air.
Shaydo and Rosalyn applauded and the kids joined in.
When Finn wrapped his arms around his parent’s legs, the couple separated and Derek picked up their oldest and Stiles wiped his tears away and nuzzled both his boys. When Isaac grumbled with jealousy, obviously wanting the attention too, Stiles went and collected him to join the celebratory cuddle.
“I love you, Der.” Stiles whispered into the Alpha’s throat.
Derek rumbled happily in his chest and kissed the top of his mate’s head, “I love you too, fiancé. ”
Stiles’ smile got impossibly bigger.
Fiancé . He liked that word… a lot.
The End… for now :3