Random One Shots

One last Valentine (Lydia Martin x Stiles Stilinski)

It had been 3 months since my husband died of frontotemporal dementia and it was still hard to look at the empty side of the bed where he used to sleep. I still couldn't bring myself to clean out his draws and my friends said that I should do it when I was ready.

I knew I couldn't fall apart or spend my days crying over the fact that he was gone. I had to be strong for our son Noah. We named him after Stiles' dad who passed away a few days before he was born. He was turning 11 in a few weeks and I tried to distract myself with the thought of my baby having fun on his birthday.

Today though. Today I couldn't do it. Today I couldn't be a Mom. I couldn't be a best friend or a daughter or anything like that. Today was valentine's day and today I was a widow. I woke up pretty late since Noah was spending the day with his aunt Allison to give me some time to be alone and grieve.

I sat in my bed, playing with my wedding ring with an episode of Grey's anatomy on the TV. That was our thing, on our first date we didn't go to a movie or out for dinner. We sat on my couch and binge watched half a season of Grey's anatomy until he drove me home and kissed me goodnight.

Me and Stiles had known each other since the third grade and honestly I was a bitch to him until Sophomore year when we became friends and then in Junior year that's when I started to realise that he knew me better then anyone else. In senior year he finally asked me out and it was all up from there. Our relationship wasn't an instant attraction. It was a slow burn. one that lasted around 10 years but when we finally caved and kissed for the first time....all that time seemed worth it.

It was getting closer to the time I said I would pick Noah up but I didn't wanna leave. Whenever I would look at the TV I could imagine Stiles sat next to me complaining about how Mark and Lexie should have been together or how he was mad at Arizona for cheating and it made me smile. But I knew I couldn't stay in that moment forever, so I cleaned myself up and grabbed my car keys.

When I got to Allison's house she didn't answer the door so I let myself in. I looked around and saw rose petals in a trail leading to the dining room so I followed them. I assumed Scott had done some cheesy thing for Valentine's day and Noah was helping him until I got there and saw Noah stood with a smile on his face next to a fancy looking dinner holding an iPad.

Scott and Allison were stood behind him with his arm draped around her shoulder and both of them looked like they had been crying so I furrowed my brows and looked between the three of them.

"What's going on?" I asked when Scott wiped his eyes and grabbed Allison's hand.

"We'll let this young man explain that." Scott said patting Noah on the back before following Allison out the room.

"Take a seat Mom." He said pulling one of the chairs out. I did as he said and sat down in front of a plate of Stiles' famous lasagne. It was my favourite. I looked up at Noah as he stood the iPad up in front of me and left the room for a second. I was about to ask him why when something caught me off guard.

"Hi sweetie." That voice. His voice. I slowly looked down at the iPad and saw Stiles laying in a hospital bed looking very tired but still so very handsome. A tear fell down my cheek as he continued to speak.

"You just went home to pack some things to stay overnight so I thought this was a better time to do this then any. The doctor told me I don't have long and I don't want our last night together to be in a hospital room. I want you to get a romantic dinner on valentine's day to remember me by. So I talked to Scott, Allison and Noah they agreed to help set this up." He started and I could already feel the tears pouring down my face.

I remembered that day. I remember it every time I close my eyes and every time I see something that reminds me of him. That was the day he died.

*3 months ago*