Conri and Eli

> **Eli**: "What if I can't turn into a  werewolf?"
> **Conri**: "It won't matter my boy, you will always be my angel. Being a werewolf is not what defines you."
>
> - Conri Tlanta to  Eli Hale about Eli's  werewolf heritage.

## Canon

### Fandom(s)

* Teen Wolf
* The Vampire Diaries

### Relationship Status

* Birth Father/Son Relationship
* Close Bond
* Devoted to You

**Conri** and **Eli** is the father-son relationship between **Werewolf-Witch Hybrid, Conri Tlanta,** and **Genetic Werewolf/Shifter Werewolf** **Hybrid**, **Eli Hale.**

Eli was born to Conri Tlanta and Derek Hale on December 17th, 2011, after a one night stand between his parents in Mexico. Conri discovered that he was pregnant with Eli in September of 2011, and after his mother, Danae convinced him to keep the baby, he traveled to Long Island, and settled at his mansion, where he and his immortal werewolves and witches put up protections around the property even as Peter Hale found him and was told about Eli while he was in the womb. When Conri was four months pregnant, at the traditional gestational limit of an actual wolf, he shifted into his wolf form until he gave birth to Eli on December 17th, 2011, and neither one of them shifted back into their human forms until early January of 2012, with Eli appearing as a six month old in physicality, while mentally, he was still a newborn. Conri allowed Eli to sleep in the same bed with him and Derek until the boy was two, and Derek surprised Conri for Eli's birthday with a new room for him to sleep in.

## Background

The night Conri slept with Derek for the first time in Mexico, he conceived Eli mere hours after sex, and the next morning, when Peter Hale arrived, he could already smell the scent of a growing life, but he didn't know where it was coming from. Conri left Mexico and settled at one of his safe houses with one of his wolves until he couldn't keep up blood when he would go out for feedings, something that Eli didn't like even in embryo, and Conri called his mother after a morning of particularly bad morning sickness. Danae convinced him to keep the baby, even though he was currently void of his humanity, appealing to the promise of a powerful offspring initially, but as the pregnancy progressed and Peter Hale arrived at the mansion, he started realizing that he didn't want to use the baby for his own personal gain, and his humanity returned as he cradled Eli in his stomach. When it came time to shift into a wolf, Conri made sure that his baby would be comfortable when he was born, and made a comfortable nest of blankets and pillows in the pool house, where he gave birth to Eli on December 17th, 2011.

When Eli came out, he was in the shape of a baby wolf cub, and Conri took care of him as a wolf cub when Peter came in to meet him for the first time and commented about how he smelled like a Hale, but with the fire that Conri let off. In the beginning of January, Conri took Eli into the woods behind the property, and howled, prompting himself and Eli to turn back into human form, which revealed Eli to have the physical appearance of a six month old, while mentally, he was still a newborn, a side effect of the rapid aging of wolf cubs, and did not physically age for a long time. When Eli eventually did reach six months of mental development, he continued to age normally. After a little more than a week of getting acclimated to being a human with a newborn again, Conri was met with Derek Hale and Peter Hale at his front door, and let them in to see Eli, who took to Derek right away as the two of them decided on a name for him.

Conri gave him his middle name "Ari" as it had been what his mother almost named him as a child, and Derek brought up the idea of "Eli" and Conri proposed "Elias" or "Elijah". Derek chose "Elias" and Conri wrote Derek's last name: "Hale" on the birth certificate, telling Derek that he was happy enough to have a son, but Derek missed out on the pregnancy, and by Conri's strange logic, Eli was entitled to the Hale name. Danae ended up telling Derek later that giving Eli the last name: "Tlanta" was asking for enemies to come after him, so Conri had wanted to protect him with a less dangerous last name, and Derek was happy to have another little Hale. Conri only left Eli a few times before the war between the hunters and werewolves ended, and they returned back to the mansion, where they remained peaceful and Conri continued to speak to Eli in Norwegian, until he was completely fluent in both English and Norwegian when he was an older toddler.

For Christmas of 2013, Theo Raeken decided to enlist Eli in his scheme to get together with Liam Dunbar, and because he loved their relationship and Eli loved Theo, Conri allowed it, not even telling Derek anything about it when he and Theo went out too buy the ring for Liam, and buy Eli the candy cane patterned onesie for Christmas. When Eli unwrapped his presents, Derek was happy to see the look on his face when he saw a stuffed animal wrapped up with a new bed and a sign that said 'New Room' and Conri was a little annoyed, knowing that the meaning of that was that Derek was weaning Eli off of sleeping in the same bed as them. Despite his annoyance, Conri helped put the room together and Eli loved it, but continued to sleep with his parents until he was almost three, periodically sleeping through the night in his new room, but spent the majority of his nights in Derek and Conri's bed.

### Growing Up

When Conri returned home to find Derek hunched over their bed with tears in his eyes, and after he was told about what happened while he was gone, and Derek recounted the events of the wild coyotes breaking into the mansion and going to attack Eli before he transformed to protect him, but Eli was petrified. Conri insisted that it wasn't Derek's fault, and 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.

As a teenager, Eli was pulling away from Derek, while Conri was out of the house a lot and stealing cars from Derek's autoshop, which rubbed both his fathers the wrong way. Conri would come home and scold him, while Derek would give him stern and intense talks about how wrong it was for him to steal cars, and take them for joyrides around Beacon Hills. Though Conri would always make Eli know why he was wrong to do unintelligent things, he was always there for Eli to talk to about his concerns about being the heir to two different werewolf species, with the looming threat of killing someone and becoming shackled to transforming every full moon without his consent. Conri was Eli's and Derek's savior during the Nogitsune, as he arrived at the worst time, and destroyed any threat from the creature, wiping out a threat to the Hale Pack by allowing Scott McCall to believe Derek was dead, and have Peter and Cora Hale, who lived in New York take Eli into their custody.

## Trivia

* Conri is the only one who speaks to Eli in Norwegian, except when his mother is visiting, and it drives the rest of the pack crazy that they can't understand what Eli and Conri talk about.
* Conri was the one who wanted Eli to sleep in his bed with him for years, but was foiled by Derek on Eli's second birthday. He is still giddy when Eli wants to sleep with them after a bad dream or a cold night.
* Eli has Conri's blue eyes, and Derek's hazel eyes, but as a baby, he looked more like Conri.
* Besides Stiles' Jeep, Eli's favorite car in the entire world is Conri's Ford Mustang, but when he isn't allowed to drive it, he turns to Derek's Camaro.