Gabe and Lilly Q&A

THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS TO THE LAST CHAPTER OF STORMY.

Here are some of the questions I was asked by readers regarding Gabe and Lilly.

1) When does Lilly accept Gabe as her friend?

LOL, he's a Black. It didn't take him that long to soften her attitude towards him.

2) When do they start to date?

Leah said Lilly couldn't date until after she was sixteen and Gabe took her to her prom (which most people go to when they are around seventeenish). So sometime around that period.

3) Will Gabe have a pack of his own and when will Lilly join that?

No, Gabe never has his own pack and Lilly stays in Nate's. As Leah said, it would be too distracting for them to be in the same mindset. And once Jace Uley becomes Alpha, Nate and Gabe's Alpha powers will go dormant like Sam and Jake's did.

4) Does Lilly have to stop phasing to have kids?

Yes. But unlike Leah, it doesn't take Lilly years to become fertile again. As Nate was made for Meena, Gabe and Lilly were made for each other. In other words, she was made to be with an immortal. Once she stops phasing, she would be able to have kids fairly quickly and...lol, let's just say Gabe has some pretty powerful sperm. (He's an Alpha, after all.) Pregnancy would have happened fast once they decided to have children.

5) Did Gabe and Lilly have twins?

No, Caleb is a few years older than Elijah.

6) Did Gabe/Lilly's sons eventually phase later on in life?

Yes. They joined Jace's pack. Caleb became his cousin's beta.

7) How did the Cullens react to his imprinting and breaking up with Tanya? What happened to Tanya after the breakup?

The Cullens lived with Jake and Ness for years and saw imprinting firsthand. They also were never crazy about Tanya and Gabe together so they were fine with Gabe's imprinting, though it put some strain on their friendship with Tanya.

As for Tanya, I can see her eventually settling down with another vampire, which would ease the tension between the families. In fact, before I decided to have Gabe and Tanya hook up, I had asked a fellow writer, Nicollette Knight, if I could use an OC from her Tanya story. Tanya was going to show up in my stories with Jesse...an incredibly sexy nomadic vampire. But then I got the idea for Gabe and Tanya and nixed the idea. (Nic's story is called Rising Moon if you want to check it out...you may need to read her Kate story first, which is also a good read. They were some of the first fan fics I ever read.)

8) Where did Gabe & Lilly decide to live? Did they stay on the rez or stay away from it like Leah did?

They ended up with the Cullens.

9) I was wondering since Lilly is part Clearwater if the Alpha gene would be quite strong?

Meena (daughter of Alpha) + Nate (Alpha) is greater than Lilly (daughter of Beta) + Gabe (Alpha). Gabe and Lilly's kids would be incredibly powerful. Meena and Nate's children are infinitely more so.

10) When did Lilly decide to leave Nate's pack? How was she with the pack?

Lilly is Nate's cousin. She would have been treated with nothing but affection and respect. When she got old enough (I'd say eighteen when she left for college), she would have "retired" like Jacob did. They're both still active wolves, but they aren't in a pack.

11) When Lilly was old enough to go to college, Gabe followed her... does that mean he enrolled into college again and earned his second bachelor's?

He got his Master's. But like the other Cullens, I'm sure they both went back to school throughout their existence to earn different degrees.