Multi-Fandom One-Shots Part 2

It's what you do to me - Stydia (Teen Wolf)

Lydia Martin loved coffee.

It was a common knowledge.

Most people - the ones who didn't know a single thing about Lydia - thought it was a habit she acquired in college. With the amount of work and early complicated classes she had, it was normal to assume her addiction to coffee was due to that.

Boy were they wrong.

Coffee had always been a part of Lydia Martin.

It all started when she was ten years old. It's a very uncommon age for someone to start drinking coffee, but that's when Lydia had her first sip. It was a Friday morning and she was early, as usual, for school. Lydia was sitting at her kitchen table, reading her favorite book while waiting for her mom to finish her shower to take her to school. In the Martin household they had no breakfast. They used to, when she was younger and everyone was happy, but that had changed in the last year and a half.

With her mom back to work and her father out of the house until late at night, the family meals became more and more unknown for the girl. Now, instead of pancakes or waffles for breakfast almost every morning, she had to get used to industrialized food, such as pop tarts (which she didn't care much for) and a very questionable juice (that she avoided drinking at all costs).

The first time she tried coffee was a mistake. She didn't look at what she was drinking, and when the bitter liquid touched her tongue; her first instinct was to spit it out. But she didn't. Because that's not something that Lydia Martin would do. So she swallowed it and decided to pretend that never happened - that was an adult drink and Lydia wasn't an adult yet. When her mother is ready and drinks her own cup of the dark liquid, Lydia doesn't say a word and goes to school like she always does, expecting it to be a normal, boring day.

Except that it isn't.

For some reason, Lydia gets way more active. She reads more, she's talking faster and she's not tired at all when she gets home from school. Lydia is not stupid. She knows where this energy comes from. She's very observant and Lydia is sure it's because of the same liquid her father drinks late at night when he wants to stay awake to finish some work.

She asks her mom to make more coffee for her to drink - honestly, she really wants to finish this big book by evening - but her mother is appalled by the question. Her child should not be drinking coffee. That's bad parenting and Natalie Martin is not a bad parent.

Lydia asks why she's not allowed to drink coffee until she's older - for a ten year old, she does a lot of things the older kids do too. Just look at the books she's reading. She also doesn't understand the big deal of her drinking it. Nothing bad happened - on the contrary, she got more stuff done than usual and was eager for it again.

Unfortunately, Natalie Martin still takes her kid's intelligence for granted and tries to dissuade her from it, explaining in big words why kids aren't allowed to drink coffee. Fortunately, Lydia is smart enough to remember those words and to look for their meanings in her father's big dictionary.

Caffeine

noun , Chemistry, Pharmacology.

a white,crystalline, bitter alkaloid, C8H10N4O2, usually derived from coffee or tea: used in medicine chiefly as a nervous systemstimulant.

She still doesn't understand the problem of a kid drinking coffee, so she looks for it on her dad's computer - the one she's not allowed to use. Bad calcium absorption, negative effects on growth, insomnia, upset stomach, headaches.

Lydia is a smart child. She doesn't want any of these collateral effects to happen to her. So she gives up coffee.

For now.