Danae and Eli

> **Danae**: "You, my little bug, are my grandson. The son of a witch, a werewolf, and an  alpha, who will protect you with their lives."
>  **Eli**: "What about you Glammy?"
>  **Danae**: "I will always protect you."
>
> - Danae Tlanta to  Eli Hale about his  parents love for him.

## Canon

### Fandom(s)

* Teen Wolf
* The Vampire Diaries

### Relationship Status

* Grandmother/Grandson
* Close Bond
* Partners in Crime

**Danae** and **Eli** is the grandmother-grandson relationship between **Werewolf-Witch Hybrid, Danae Tlanta,** and **Genetic Werewolf/Shifter Werewolf Hybrid, Eli Hale.**

When Danae first met Eli, he was a little baby, but she found out about him when her son, Conri was pregnant with him in September of 2011. She was called by her son to look after Eli when Conri went to Beacon Hills, California in order to destroy the Deadpool that was targeting not only himself, but Eli's father, Derek Hale, his cousin, Malia Hale, and by association, his great-uncle, Peter Hale. Danae cared for Eli like he was her own child, like she had looked after Conri in infancy, and when her son returned, she was sad to leave Eli.

## Background

In September, 2011, Danae received a phone call from her son, Conri Tlanta, informing her that he was pregnant by Derek Hale, when Conri was considering an abortion. Danae knew that he would regret it if he aborted the baby, because there had been a time when he was younger that he wanted children, but that was before he realized he loved men, and determined that he would never have children if he had to hide who he was, and Eli was his chance. Danae appealed to Conri's ruthless, and power driven side, as he was without humanity, and convinced him to keep the baby for his own power later on down the road, a weapon he could use for his own gain. After Eli was born, and Conri's humanity returned, he called Danae, informing her about his current stance on his child and thanked her for convincing him to keep him, even if it had been for selfish reasons, and showed her pictures of Eli, worried about his physical age, compared to his mental age. Danae consoled him, reminding him that Eli's physical body reflected the age of a baby wolf at his age, and assured him that Eli would age naturally after his mental development hit the six month mark.

Danae met Eli a little earlier than she thought she would, when Conri called her and asked her for help, needing her to watch over Eli while he went off to take care of a threat to the family, and Danae left New Orleans, arriving in Long Island, and instantly took over Eli's care for the next month, before Conri came home. Danae tested Eli to see what traits from which species he had inside of him, and once Conri came home, she told him that Eli had a strong werewolf gene, and dominating shifter werewolf characteristics. According to Danae, Eli had little traces of immortality inside of him, but they were so small that they were almost nonexistent, because Conri passed the werewolf gene onto him, rather than immortality or witch magic. She told Conri that Eli was likely to present as a shifter werewolf, as Derek Hale's genes dominated most of Conri's, but the genetic werewolf gene was strong enough to allow Eli's body to host it until he killed someone.

The next time Danae saw Eli, it was for Thanksgiving in 2012, when she and Diana Winchester came to the mansion for the first time together, and Eli got to meet his godmother; Diana. After the chaos that was met by Liam and Noah's arrivals, Danae and Diana took care of Eli so that Derek and Conri could have one less thing to worry about, and Danae went off to meet with Liam, leaving Eli with Diana.

### Current

In Eli's teenage years, he enjoys spending time with Danae, because she is the coolest Grandma to him, because she's stayed the same since he was born, and he always wanted to be as cool as her, driving in her cool Ferrari. After learning to hotwire cars, Eli steals his father's cars on occasion, never letting them find out because Danae was always able to cover for him.

## Trivia

* Danae and Eli enjoy taking naps when Danae comes to visit, and both Conri and Derek will find Danae and Eli curled up somewhere with a blanket fort no matter what, on the first night of her visit.
* When Eli is in trouble with his parents, Danae is always the one that he calls to talk to, and she always comes to visit on the weekend when Conri or Derek are working, and spends the weekend with Eli.
* After Eli becomes a werewolf, Danae is the one he goes to in order to learn control rather than Derek, because after he spent so much time with Liam Dunbar, and learned about how Liam learned control from Danae, he wanted to have a stable and secure way to control his animalistic instincts rather than being confused and angry.
* Danae has allowed Eli to break his parent's rules on multiple occasions, when she took him out of school to spend time together, and she was even the one who called Jenefer Monique, who taught Eli to hotwire cars.