Yin To His Yang | Sterek

One Plus Two

When Derek gets home later that night, he demolish the cake and guzzles any tea left he had, and takes his mind off of his day by tidy up the flat. He spends an hour swifting through his refrigerator and cabinets, throwing out things that are no longer in date or he didn’t consider as appetizing anymore. He manages to catch a nest of rats that he’s been trying to catch for weeks, and spends several moments of debating on whether to kill them or set them free; he does the latter. He goes as far as taking his books and movies off the shelfs and rearranges them alphabetical, only to to be them back by genre again.

Derek is placing the last movie back in it’s slot when a banging comes from his front door, and makes him jump three feet up in the air. He curses when he stumps his toe on the bookshelf and rushes his way to the door, careful not to harm himself in any other way. Opening the door, his stomach makes an uneasy flutter when he sees Deputy Abernathy and Deputy Willow, but that isn’t what makes his heart constrict at uneasy rate. Amy Collins beautiful twins—Joshlyn and Ashlyn—have themselves wedged between the two policemen at about waist height. Their flushed faces, tear stained cheeks, and puffy eyes is all the evidence that Derek needs in order to squat down so he is at their height.

Joshlyn, the one who has always been more confident than her sister, cries out a sob as she breaks out of the older deputy hold, and leaps toward him. Derek rubs her back to try to calm her down but her sobs only get louder. Ashlyn looks hesitant to follow her sister but he waves at to come over which she does without another thought. Derek ignores the deputies protests because his first priority is to try to ease the twins. Ashlyn doesn't cry, but she does have a tight grip on his arm. He can't imagine what they are going through. Their whole life is now going to be scrambled because of some maniac decided to get trigger happy. Derek makes a motion to stand but stays put in a squat when Joshlyn arms clutch tight around his neck.

Derek looks up and gives his attention to the two deputies when the Alpha Vampire speaks up, "Mr. Hale, it might become a shock to you but Mrs. Collins passed away today." Derek can only nod at the information and look down at his scrubs he hasn’t bother changing out of yet. He almost says something smart about the irony of the Vampire’s words. Anyone with a enhance scent of smell any notice the odor if faded blood and sterile to know that Derek works at the hospital. Derek is the one who treated on Amy. He watched as the jagger lines turned to straight, and the long beep sounded as it stamped her death. Yet he doesn’t say anything as he keeps his musing thoughts to himself. "We are sorry for your lost, but we must ask what your relationship was with Mrs. Collins?"

"Seems more of a personal question so I must ask why?" Derek says, clearing his throat, and glaring at the both of them. He brushes Joshlyn hair out of her face when she complains about it.

The deputies share a look, and the younger one speaks for both of them, "It says in her files that she has no blood relation to you in any kind yet she left her will in your name to do as you please." Derek can feel his jaw go slick a bit, and his eyes widen some as he inwardly curses Isaac for jixing him. "The twins?" He will deal with the shock of what Amy did, but first he must know where the twins are going. He made a promise to himself while talking to Isaac that he would do anything and everything to make sure that the Collins Twins have a good home. Derek is the type of person to never go against that word.

"She left everything to you. She was a widowed who had no other family other than the girls." Deputy Willow says, and Derek signal that he understands. "Legally Mrs. Collins put you down as their Godfather. Legally, she left them to you and we child services has granted you temporary custody until a court date is set. They're yours unless you or the courts decide.”

Derek almost glares at the two deputies. That's not something you say in front of newly orphans. Moving beside his frustration, it isn't much big pill to swallow then Derek thought it would be. It's quite amusing and ironic how less than 24 hours ago he was with Isaac, in a joking nature about how to come up with a situation. Derek can only guess that replaying the possibilities that this could happen—though the chances would be slim—some part of him accepted it before it came true.