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Stiles doesn't remember much.
But he still knows everything about that one day. The day his mother died.
His father had to work and didn't know what to do with Stiles so he took Stiles with him. Stilinski worked at a castle.
Well, at THE castle.It was the Hale castle, the rulers of the country.
The queen and the King had three kids when Stilinski brought Stiles there for the first time.
At first Stiles was dropped off at the kitchen where all the maids tried to cheer him up. Which ended that Stiles started crying again and somehow accomplished to break 5 jars of honey 3 plates, a cup and well, to run away.
Stiles had never been in the castle before so he didn't knew where to run. He just wanted to be somewhere else, not in a room with about 25 women and men who tried to cook and play with him ( all the attemps to play with him were just rejected with a shaking head).
He ran and ran, not knowing where he was going.
Even though he knew his mother wasn't here anymore he tried to find her.
He looked in every corner he thought where she could possibly be.
In the end he somehow landed in the garden.
A really big garden.
Everywhere he looked were pretty flowers and weird looking trees.
After he ran through the whole garden he ended up sitting at lilltle lake with a even more weird looking tree by its side.
Stiles noticed how sad the tree looked and a thing his dad always said came into his mind
'' Well, son you know that there are many things in the world, don't you?'', he did nodd, '' Some of these things or maybe also even people can look sad, so if you ever see someone who looks a bit like this'' his dad made a sad face '' you should go to them and try to cheer them up!''.
Stiles walked to the tree and rembered his dad saying that in the garden of the Hales they had a tree called a ''Trauerweide'' which was a german word for weeping willow.
Shy stiles touched the tree and mumbled some compliments to it.
He didn't know why but he felt a bit more relaxed.
He seated himself next to the tree and looked at the lake. His mom always loved water. She teached him how to swim when he've been four.
Stiles didn't want but had to cry. Near soundless sobs escaped his mouth. When suddenly someone stod behind him.
It was a boy, around the age of ten, maybe? The boy had really dark hair and green eyes. He kind of looked like a spoiled child but somehow serious.
'' Who are you?'' That stupid looking child asked. As Stiles looked up to him that dumb kid looked very confused at him.
Stiles didn't like him but replied ''Stiles... Stiles Stilinski'', he wiped away his tears.
The kid looked suprised. '' So you're the kid from that guardian, your mother died, right ?'' the kid asked.
Stiles tried to hold back his tears and just nodded.
Suddenly the kid hugged him and Stiles didn't know what to do, but he kinda hugged him back.
The child then stood up and held out a hand for Stiles.
''I'm Derek Hale, nice to meet you''.
Stiles shaked hands with him. Somehow that kid didn't look stupid anymore.
''Wanna play a game?'', Derek asked and Stiles just nodded slowly.
A big fat grin came across that kid and grabbed for Stiles hand to get him to run with him.
Stiles didn't have an option, so he ran, ran away with the Kings child, but Stiles didn't know that. Derek just seemed to be a normal kid wich was maybe a bit spoiled to him.
They played till evening and longer. They played till Stiles dad and many other guardians searched for them. Because, well Stiles was his fathers child and Derek the Kings and Queens.
When the guards finnaly found them, the kids were laughing and having fun with messing with them.
After 8pm the Queen showed up and watched the kids, which were still followed by the guards.
She chuckeld, Stilinski stand next to her, ''I'm verry sorry for my childs behavior, my queen''.
But she just laughed happily
'' It's not a problem. It's been a while since i last saw my Derek this happy!''
As Stiles and Derek saw their parents the kids ran up to them and hugged them.
Derek looked pleased and opened his mouth.
''Mom ..?''
She nodded ''Yes my son?
'' Could Stiles live here? With his dad? I really want to play with him again but Stiles said he didn't know if he would ever come back''
Derek looked at his mother with puppy eyes.
''Well does he want to live here?'', Stilinski was a bit confused and startled as the queen asked Stiles.
'' Oh yes! I'd really like to stay!'' he replied happily.
Stilinski looked at the queen.
''Then it's a thing. I'll get you two a butler who will show you both your rooms!''
'' But my queen I can't accept su-'' but the queen silenced Stiles dad.
'' I'm really looking forward to live with you, Stiles, and also with your dad'' she said and patted Stiles lightly on the head.
Stiles couldn't do anything else but smile and Derek began to hug stiles and jump in the air because of the just achieved happiness.
Derek followed the boy and his dad all the way to the rooms and said good night.
Stiles went into the room after hugging Derek once again and saw an huge bed. It didn't even took two seconds and Stiles started jumping on the bed.
Suddenly his father came in and just smiled at him. Stiles jumped into his fathers arms and mumbled something wich sounded like
'' Thanks for taking me here dad..''
Stilinski could tell that his son just started to sleep so he lay him in his enourmous bed and put a blanket over him.
''Good night'' he mutterd
Derek couldn't believe how happy he was. He liked Stiles. He was a quirky kid and really loud but he liked him and then that last phrase he said
''Thank you for saving me''