Derek and Eli

> "You're my son. You're a Hale. I love you so much."
>
> - Derek Hale to  Eli Hale about his  werewolf heritage.

**Derek** and **Eli** is the father-son relationship between **Evolved Alpha Werewolf**, **Derek Hale** and **Genetic Werewolf/Shifter Werewolf** **Hybrid**, **Eli Hale.**

Eli was born to Derek Hale and Conri Tlanta on December 17th, 2011, after a one night stand between his parents in Mexico. Derek wasn't aware of his son's existence until January of 2012, when he arrived at Conri's Victorian mansion for the first time, during which time he and Conri named Eli, and Derek held him, beginning to bond with him.

Derek puts Eli above everything else in his life, and had to leave him and his other father, Conri in order to keep him safe and get rid of any threats that could be coming after him, especially when he left Eli with his pack in order to follow trails of hunters killings werewolf packs, trying to snuff out the hunters so that nobody would get close to his son.

## Background

When Eli was conceived, it was unknown to his father at the time, so Derek didn't know he had a son until January of 2012, when he arrived at the Victorian mansion in Brookville, New York, which was in Long Island, and where Conri Tlanta had been raising Eli since he realized he was pregnant with him in late September of 2011, and had not told Derek about Eli, both because he didn't have his phone number, even before Derek got rid of his phone and phone number, and because he didn't want to thrust a child into Derek's life so soon after almost losing his sister, and losing alpha status, along with his pack, but Peter Hale was not about to deprive Derek of a child and offered his assistance to Conri throughout the pregnancy, before Conri's genetics caused him to shift into a wolf for the rest of his pregnancy. After Eli's birth, Peter sought out Derek, and brought him to the mansion, where he met Eli for the first time and Conri brought out the birth certificate, making his only contribution to naming their son with the middle name, and agreeing on the first name; Elias. Instead of hyphenating their last names, Conri encouraged Derek to give Eli the 'Hale' name.

While Derek was bonding with Eli, he accidentally let slip to Conri that there was a Deadpool in Beacon Hills, and both of their names were on it. Conri's at seventeen million, while Derek was valued at fifteen million, and after boasting about being worth more, Conri decided to go to Beacon Hills and kill every one of the assassins working for the Deadpool, bringing Derek and Peter, while leaving Eli with his mother, Danae Tlanta. This was the first time Derek left Eli for a long time, and went with Conri to Beacon Hills, where every single assassin was killed by Conri, who snapped their necks with a bone breaking spell, which stopped the Deadpool from being carried out, after Stiles and Malia turned off the device powering the contracts, and Conri soon left, while Derek went to Mexico to fight Kate Argent and the Berserkers, where he ended up evolving into a full-shift wolf, and returned to Conri and Eli with restored Alpha status, rebuilding his pack while raising his son.

After becoming an Alpha again, Derek became Eli's main English speaker, due to Conri speaking mostly in Norwegian to their son, while the rest of the newly rebuilt Hale Pack spoke in English to him. Derek also stopped Conri from changing Eli's diapers, and took over the deed as his own, taking care of a lot of the less than desirable baby care, such as bathing, changing, taking care of throwing up and cleaning up Eli's messes while Conri did the laundry, and made Eli his food. When Derek bought a puzzle for Peter as a joke, as the puzzle was covered in wolves with sunglasses on, Eli tried to put the puzzle together, and the next day, Eli's play area in the living room was full of boxes of child puzzles, and Eli enjoyed putting them together with Derek and Conri's help, and enjoyed watching Derek play the piano. When the Wild Hunt came through Beacon Hills, it was Conri and many members of the pack who left Derek with Eli, and the two of them spent more and more time together, and when Conri came back home, Derek was happy to share responsibilities with him, but made sure to keep Eli close until he left the pack house again, and went after dead packs to find the source of their killings, and when he found out they were hunters, Conri and most of the pack had arrived in Beacon Hills to fight the genocidal hunters, leaving Eli under the protection of powerful wards and strong, dangerous witches and werewolves until they killed most, if not all of the hunters.

### Growing Up

Eli was overjoyed when his fathers and pack came home, and didn't want to let go of either of them for many months, until he turned two years old, and Derek gave him a big plush stuffed animal, and a teething necklace. Derek held Eli a lot until Conri forced the alpha to allow their son to walk on his own, while Eli was already talking even as a two year old who was being taught two separate languages, one English and the other Nordic. When Eli was able to walk normally, he was impossible to catch, and every time Derek turned around, Eli was gone, and he couldn't find him. Derek also took it upon himself to train Eli out of sleeping in the same bed as him and Conri, and put Eli into the room next to theirs, though he continued to sleep near them and wandered into their bedroom for many years, when he had bad dreams, or just wanted comfort. This stopped when he was nearly eight years old, and enjoyed sleeping in his own bed.

There was an evening in 2015, when Eli was around three and a half, was playing in the floor of the pack house when a pack of wild coyotes broke into the Hale Pack residence. Upon hearing the coyotes, Derek scared them away by shifting into a Werewolf and unleashed a roar powerful enough to shake the whole house. Unfortunately, he scared and traumatized Eli to the point that he spent the majority of his time in his room and refused to talk to his father for several days. When Conri returned home to find Derek hunched over their bed with tears in his eyes, and after he was told about what happened, he demanded that Derek took a shower as he went to Eli's room, and after soft voiced coaxing and promises of strawberry shortcake, Eli let Conri in and allowed himself to be held, eventually agreeing to sleep with his parents in their bed, making Derek feel better. It was this event that created Eli's refusal and lack of interest in accepting his supernatural status and learning in how to control his abilities, which was why they never manifested after this traumatic experience.

## Trivia

* Eli speaks Norwegian and English, while Derek cannot speak Norwegian. As a teenager, Eli uses this to his advantage and when talking to Conri, speaks in Norwegian on purpose, to mess with his father, and curses in Nordic so Derek can't punish him when Conri isn't home, but his tone is what always gave him away.
* When being snarky, Eli calls Derek 'Sourwolf' and in retaliation, Derek says something embarrassing about Eli as a toddler and baby, including referencing the smell of his diapers and how he looked like a mushroom when waking up.
* At Derek's expense, Eli was taught by Danae Tlanta's wolf; Jenefer Monique to hardwire cars before they moved to Beacon Hills, and this skill would make Derek thankful that his uncle was in a romantic relationship with the town sheriff, who wouldn't arrest Eli because he was a minor, and the added bonus of being Peter's lover was a contributing factor.
* Eli's desire to play lacrosse and soccer were more exciting for Conri than they were for Derek, but Derek didn't mind playing the role as the favorite soccer dad, bringing water and snacks, and he even had a bench warmer.
* Eli always beats out Derek when they play video games, which are mostly GTA and Modern Warfare, while Eli and Conri enjoy playing fun games, such as SackBoy when it first came out.