A Place to Hide Away- Sterek

Girls, Bones, and Anchors

All of the pack froze at the sound of the doors opening, all of them quickly shifting back into their human selves, hiding the furriness that had been appearing as they had become more carefree. A little girl and her father entered the building, with the little girl wearing combat boots and a bright blue dress. She quickly ran towards the arcade section and Derek saw Stiles watching her from the corner of his eye.

"Can I go play with her?" Stiles turned to look at Derek and the Alpha shrugged, nodding. "Awesome!" Then he scrambled out of the ball pit and ran into the arcade section, sock clad.

"Hi! My name's Stiles and I'm five and a half! What's your name?" His little mate asked the girl who looked at him with cheerful eyes.

"My name's Jo." She replied shyly. "I'm six."

"So you're like in first grade?" Stiles said excitedly, and when she nodded hesitantly, he practically burst with excitement. "That's so cool! You get to learn all the cool stuff and I'm stuck learning things like ABC's. It's so boring. You're so lucky. You wanna play some games?"

"Uh, s-sure." Jo replied giving him a smile that verged on excitement and nervousness. "Which game?"

"Ooo, what about that game with the dinosaurs and we have to shoot them?"

Jo's eyes widened and she snatched her hand away.

"B-but I'm a girl. I'm not a boy. How did you-?" Jo's eyes filled with frustrated tears and Stiles looked at her in confusion, wondering what he had done, but not figuring out what he had said.

"Girls can play that game too; I mean, it's kind of scary but girls are pretty brave. There's this one girl in my class called Lydia and she's not scared of anything." Stiles tried to fix it, and Jo blinked through the tears on her eyelashes.

"You don't think that playing it makes me a boy?" Jo asked, biting her lip and Stiles burst out laughing.

"Of course not! Dude, that game is so fun and I'd be sad if only boys could play it cuz girls are smart and they usually win. Let's go play!" Stiles pulled her arm and Jo laughed before following him to the game that Isaac and him had played. It was one of those terrifying interactive games where it was surround sound and the seats buzzed and shifted and everything seemed to be just a little too terrifying and real, but Stiles was brave. He could do this...hopefully.

Derek glared suspiciously at the girl who was being dragged around by Stiles. He lifted an eyebrow when he saw them entering Jurassic Park III, Pterodactyl's Terror. Definitely not a kid's game. He moved to go towards them before they entered but was stopped by Peter's hand on his shoulder.

"They have to learn their lesson to obey their parents when they say don't go to adult places." Peter shrugged amused. Derek sighed and relented.

That was how two minutes later, the only thing you could hear from the arcade was the hysterical, terrified laughing borderline shrieking from the curtained machine. The father of the girl, Leonard 'Bones' McCoy had migrated towards them and Peter, Derek, and he had been talking about the man's career as an Airforce medic. He didn't look like he did much of the physical aspect of it. However, Peter and him tried arm wrestling and Peter had a look of shock on his face when he found out his werewolf strength was being threatened by a mere human's and the Beta werewolf just barely managed to beat him.

"You have to be in the military. There's no way you're that strong just from working out." Bones said incredulously. Peter gave him a tilted smile shrugging, obviously reveling in the praise.

"I just work out." Peter leaned his head against his hand, resting his elbow on the table. Another shriek came from arcade section and Bones' head looked worriedly in the direction of the scream.