little witchling

part 6

"are you sure you want your ex-crushes apparent cousin to stay in your house with you and your dad" Melina asks stiles as he leads her into the house while she holds her bags in one hand and her familiar, Juno in the other"
"Yea...i-u-um why would that be a problem, there's no problem-wha-whats so ever..I'm why?"
"Just checking" she says while she cheekily smiles at him and in return he just rolls his eyes with a smile on his face and says "wow black widow can smile and joke, that's a first"
At that she giggled and said "hey! Just cuz I'm a badass doesn't mean I don't have humour?"
"Ahaha"
He says as he leads her upstairs and says "um we don't have a spare room, so I got the blowup mattress out and put it in my room, is that ok?"
"That's fine and thank you for this, apparently not many people come into town so there are no motels, strangely"
"Yea" he replies and leads her up to the room and helps her put down her stuff and Juno purrs and nuzzles her head against stiles leg "awwwwwwww and what's your name little fella"
"Her name is Juno, named after the Roman goddess and queen of the heavens"
"That's a cool name, what made you pick it"
"I didn't, she did"
"...huh?"
"She is my witches familiar, my protector and friend, she is her own being and when we communicated for the first time, she told me her name was Juno"
"IM SORRY, YOUR CAT CAN TALK??!??"
"Hahahaha um not in that sense, yes I can communicate with her in a way, but that's because she is MY familiar, just like I am HER witch"
"...tha-thats so cool"
"Ahaha thank you"
"So wait you're a witch?"
"Yes, in a way.... technically I am a hybrid...a witch and a wolf"
"That can happen?"
"Yes it is very rare, some babies like me don't survive at birth and others only inherit one parents species but I am one of three hybrids in history, I am the daughter of a hale werewolf and a belova witch, which is the strongest witching bloodline since the beginning and one of the last witches on earth"
"Wow......that must be very lonely"
"I-yes, yes it is, no one has ever thought of it the way I do, before."
"They just see you as a powerful prize, or a beast, don't they?" He asked softly and she looked at him vulnerabaly and said "....yes..... I just don't understand, people want to be me because of my strength and power but they don't realise how lonely it is being the only one of your kind and hunters only see an abomination...a monster, even though I never asked to be this.....I don't understand how people hold weapons at anything that is different.....and yet I'm the monster?" she asks with teary eyes and at that stiles goes and engulfs her in a hug, while Juno nuzzles his head against her leg. And a minute later they hear the front door unlock
"Come on, my dad's home, let's go get dinner"
"Ok" she says quietly, not believing for a second that she was just that vulnerable with someone.
"Hey Melina....I don't see a weapon or a monster....I just see you"
And at that she got let's another tear fall and smiles sadly at him
"Hey! Stiles I got Chinese, what did you wanna ask me?"
As stiles and Melina come down stairs and says
"oh whose this?"
"Dad I was wondering if Melina could stay with us for a little bit"
"Wait you haven't asked him yet...I am so sorry I could leave if you want?"
"No no dear it's ok I'm absolutely fine with you staying"
"Oh um thank you so much"
"I'm sorry but you look so familiar, do I know you from somewhere,"
"um no it's still one of my first few times in america but my mother grew up here, maybe you knew her, her name was Anastasia Martin"
"...My god" he mumbles "yeah, yeah I knew Anna, wow, uhh she was my wife's best friend"
"Claudia right?"
"Yeah, did Anna mention her?"
"A lot actually and she was my godmother"
"What?" Noah confusedly asks
"Hey dad can I talk to you for a sec?" Stiles asks as Noah nods and they leave the room, where stiles explains everything and Noah sheds a few tears for his lost friend and then come back in, sit down and start eating
But it's too quiet for Melina, so she says the first thing that came to mind

"Titanic"
"What?"
"Sorry I thought that would be a good ice-breaker"
And at that both men laugh and Melina smiles

P.s I'm most likely going to be using the same pickup lines or jokes from my other stories every once in a while just cuz I love them too much 😂