"Your kids are a pain in the butt." Lydia walked in looking like hell. She had bags under her eyes and they had only spent one night with her.
"All kids are a pain in the butt." Moira smiled at her taking the baby from her. "How come they made you like this? They are old enough to behave." She had a questioning look.
"I don't know...." she sighed. She threw herself on the the chair and rested her head on the table.
"You want breakfast?" She asked taking the pan from the stove. Lydia raised her hand lazily and refused.
"Well you have to eat something." She put the food in seperate dishes for her kids and her husband.
"I need to sleep, is what it is." Lydia slightly raised and looked at her annoyingly and Moira took the opportunity to put a plate in front of her.
"Moira!" She exclaimed weakly.
"I'll give you a room to rest in after you eat." She answered. Lydia sighed pulling the plate towards herself and started poking the food.
"You're not a kid." Moira scolded trying to get her to to eat, "and yet you treat me like one." She rolled her eyes.
Moira called the kids to come eat and they came running and sat around the table and started eating. Kai who was three and Apollo who was two sat on one seat. It was hard to seperate them, they were like twins and they often isolated themselves and played with each other while Luca and Hunter watched them like they were weird. It's not like they hated their brothers, it's just that they had a closer bond with each other.
"Who is he?" Luca asked Moira poiting at the sleeping baby.
"He's your new brother." Moira answered him with a smile and the shine in Luca's eyes dissappeared.
"What's wrong?" Moira could see that there was a certainly dissatisfaction in her son's eyes.
"I want a sister." Luca cutely said but with a serious tone. As soon as he said that Kai and Apollo nodded along while Lydia let out a little laugh. Moira gave her a side glace and she looked at her with attitude.
"After you eat go see your father in the bedroom." Moira instructed and turned her back on them walking to the bedroom to go feed her husband.
"Where are the kids?" Azriel asked as he qas eating. "They will come see you when they are done eating." She answered absent mindedly. Then she looked her husband in the in the eyes and smiled, "I like that for you." Azriel gave her a questioning look.
"You want to meet the kids." She said.
"They are my kids right...?" Moira rolled her eyes.
As they were talking the kids came running in the bedroom, "dad!!" Luca and Hunter screamed throwing themselves at their father. Kai and Apollo waited by the door. "Come here you two!" Azriel smiled at them and Luca and Hunter went to the other side of their father and Kai and Apollo came walking hand in hand and hugged their father.
They asked him why he was just sitting in the bed and he told them that he was a hero and had gotten hurt so now he can't move at all.
"So you can't play with us anymore?" Apollo asked in a low voice while Kai had pity in his eyes. Azriel shook his head and frowned, "unfortunately. But dad will always love you." He smiled.
Moira looked at her husband lovingly and her heart felt warm and she was glad her husband had made the right decision by not avoiding his kids.
Moira spent the whole day cleaning while her husband and the kids were sleeping in their bedroom, two on each side of Azriel. The baby was also sleeping in the dining room in his baby Moses basket that they had found him in. It was in good condition and Moira kind of liked it's old look, it gave her nostalgia.
While she was cleaning her heart started to pound and suddenly her Lycan Mona started speaking. "What's going on with Micco?" It asked in her head. It suddenly hit Moira that today was a full moon. She sighed internally thinking that her and Azriel won't get to enjoy the full moon today or going forward. She was also worried if maybe this might sadden Azriel all over again.
"Hello...." Mona spoke again, Moira shook her head getting out of her internal monolog. "Not much, just know it won't be the same ever again." She answered her Lycan and Mona would have demanded more explanation but she thought she will find out soon enough. She went silent and let Moira continue with her day.
Night came and Moira woke the kids and bathed them then gave them the dinner. She was going to be here all night long so she planned a movie night with them. "Aren't you going to the holy grounds?" Luca asked and Moira looked at him surprised. "What do you know about the holy grounds?" Moira asked him, he was six years old, he hadn't gotten his Lycan yet and no adult mentions the holy grounds in front of the kids.
"Old people talk about it every full moon. By the way what do you guys do there?" Luca asked again and Moira chuckled, "we eat." She answered in passing. She wasn't lying but she wasn't just giving the full story. "I want to eat too." Hunter raised his hand in excitement as if he was in class volunteering for something fun.
"When you get your Lycan and your mate then you will eat." Moira assured him by patting him on the head and Hunter's face turned sour. Moira sweetly smiled at him and pinched his cheek the she left to fetch Azriel so that they can watch a movie together.
She walked in the bedroom and Azriel was missing on the bed, he was not there which was impossible because he couldn't move a muscle. Moira's heart screamed in fear and she felt like she was about to have a heart attack. She didn't know where to look because there was nowhere Azriel could go, her heart started pounding in her ears and rooted on the spot with eyes not moving from the spot that Azriel was supposed to be seated at with his vegetable state, her eyes started getting moist and the room started spinning. She suddenly heard heavy breathing from behind her and a low growl. She thought an enemy had gotten in her house and she turned around ready to punch the bejesus out of whoever had harmed her husband. As she turned to punch, suddenly a Lycan blocked her punch instinctively, her eyes widened and the tears streamed on their own.
"Mi- Micco...." she said softly not believing her eyes. With the hand that he was holding, Micco pulled her into his embrace. "You're standing!" She exclaimed struggling to embrace the eight feet tall beast that was constricting her breathing. Micco growled and mindlinked her, "Yes my queen." It answered Mona.
"Where is Mona?" Micco asked and Moira set herself free and softly slapped him on the thigh. "What am I not enough?" She looked serious but she was joking.
"That would never happen..." Micco answered lovingly. Moira smiled. "Wait here!" She exclaimed and ran to the seating area. She told Luca to go get Lydia to come and babysit them as her and Azriel were going to the holy grounds. Lydia didn't want to go to the holy grounds anymore as her mate was dead, she had closed in her Lycan and it didn't object to never being let out except when it came to war then it was ready to unleash itself.
Luca did as he was instructed and Moira left with Micco and went to the holy grounds. The holy grounds were where the Lycans after transformation went to be with their mates. It was messy as they had sex there, while others who didn't have mates would indulge in orgies and others in threesomes. Most were there just to have sex with their mates in their Lycan form because if their Lycans had sex in their houses then the houses would be destroyed as their Lycans were rough and creative with their positions. They also ate and drank and bathed in the shine of the moon to worship the moon goddess while praying that the moon goddess gives them their right to transform anytime time they want as opposed to only transforming on the full moon.
Morning came and they were now in their human forms, they took the linens prepared for them and everybody walked home.
Azriel was on the floor again but this time when Moira threw the linen at him he caught it with his hands. Both Moira and Azriel froze after a while, "did your upper body just move?" She was suspicious and thought maybe she imagined it. Azriel tilted his head to the side and raised his hands above his head. "Moira!!" He screamed. "Can you walk?" The question seemed to just roll off her tongue and Azriel's face darkened. She pursed her lips. She immediately carried her husband who was busy clapping his hands all the way to their house afraid that if he didn't move them often they would suddenly lose mobility.
They went to the hospital and the doctor confirmed that Azriel had indeed gotten back his mobility from the waist up and that was due to his Lycan that healed him. He told them that it will continue to heal him with every transformation until he is all healed up and all healthy again. The good news made Moira cry and Azriel was beyond happy that he even suggested that he cook today as he can now use his hands. Moira laughed at that.
They walked in the house and Lydia was holding the crying baby trying to calm him down. "When did Lydia have a baby?" Azriel asked as they came in and Moira answered with, "that's our baby."
Azriel gave her an astonished look, questioning when did they have a baby again as she had made it clear after having Apollo that she would never have another baby. "Long story short, I found a baby in the woods and now we're adopting him." She cutely smiled. Azriel said nothing indicating that he just wanted to have a bath and he also didn't want to have this conversation in front of everybody.
After he bathed he wheeled himself ti the bedroom to find Moira dressing up. He was happy to be able to wheel himself around and soon enough he will be able to walk again.
"That baby is a human, correct?" Moira nodded to his question.
"So how do you plan on keeping him because we can't keep humans in our pack." Azriel reminded her of the rules of the pack.
"Well...." She tilted her head to the side and suggestively smiled. "No." He refused even though he didn't know what she was going to say next.
"The king owes you a favor and if we ask him this he can't say no because it doesn't harm the pack." Azriel immediately shook his head. "Please..." she begged begged. "No!" He exclaimed.
"I love the baby and I want to keep him and I have no doubt that you will love him too. Plus the kids are already attached to him."
"Don't use the kids in your lies." He frowned.
"I'm going to ask the king this." She said this making him aware that she wasn't taking no for an answer.
"I hate you." Azriel shouted when she turned ger back to him.
"You don't even know what you were going to ask for." She reminded him yelling.
"But it's very good to know that I our King owing me a favor." He was now sulking and Moira rolled her eyes. "The bastard is not even a girl." Azriel crossed his hands like a five year old and turned his sour face away from Moira.
The king was informed of what Azriel was asking of him and he wanted to deny the request but Azriel told him that raising a human in the pack didn't harm the pack in any way. It was an inconvenience but that's all it was. King Asher agreed under the condition that the boy will be raised as if he was a lycan. He will be conditioned to live and behave like one as much as he can and he will be pushed. Moira and Lydia didn't object as Moira had appointed Lydia as godmother of the baby.
"So what's it's name?" King Asher asked. Azriel and Moira looked at each other. They had not thought of a name yet and Azriel didn't even care, according to his knowledge he was forced to be here and to negotiate his favor to ask for a human baby to stay here.
"Dean." Lydia suddenly said looking into the baby's eyes while she was rocking him back and forth.
"Dean Nyko." Moira called it reassuring Lydia that she loved the name.