declaration of war

|school|

Scott and Stiles walk up the steps leading to the school main building.

"She ate the liver?" Scott asks.

"No I didn't say she ate it I just said it was missing. And even if she did, so what? It is the most nutritious part of the body." Stiles corrects Scott.

"I never ate anyones liver." Scott says.

"Yeah right, because when it comes to shapeshifters you are a real model of self control. Actually wait hold on, you're the test case for this so we should be going over what happened to you."

Stiles suggests.

"What do you mean?" Scott asks.

"I mean like what was on your mind when you were turning, what were you drawn to?" Stiles explains.

"Lydia." Scott replies.

"Nothing else? Seriously?" Stiles asks finding it ridiculous.

"Nothing else mattered. But I don't know if Lydia would feel the same. I mean in the end she only got attacked because she was scared of me, I don't even know if she is going to accept me now that she knows that I'm a were eagle." Scott replies sadly.

"Well we could also ask Jackson what he was drawn to?" Stiles suggests seeing Jackson pull into the parking lot.

"We can save us the trouble, he went to kill Lydia so he was giving in to his anger." Scott replies.

"In either case she should be coming to you right? But I don't see her anywhere near here, so something else must be going on with her."

Jackson exits his car and walks towards the school and gives a homeless person rummaging through a trash bin a dollar saying "Here is a dollar, go find another parking lot to die in."

|locker room|

The Lacrosse team is grouping up around their Coach.

"Let's go. I have an announcement, gather around. Quicker! Danny put a shirt on. Stilinski that means you! Come on gather around, listen up police are asking for help on a missing child. There is a sick girl roaming around totally naked. It's supposed to get below 40 degrees tonight, I don't know about you but the last time it was that cold and I was running around naked I lost a testicle to exposure! Now I don't want the same thing happening to some innocent girl. So police are organizing search parties for tonight. Sign up, find the girl you get an automatic A in my class." Coach tells the team hanging up a sign in sheet for the search party.

"Yeah!" The team yells excited at getting the chance to get a good grade.

Scott and Stiles pull Jackson to the side and talk to him about Lydia.

"If Lydia wants to take a naked hike in the woods why should I care?" Jackson asks them.

"Because we have a pretty good idea that she might be, you know turning." Scott replies.

"Well if that is true then I don't think she's the one that's gonna need help." Jackson says.

"What do you mean?" Scott asks.

"Well you should have seen the marks she left on me when we were dating, imagine what she'll do with real claws." Jackson tells them and walks off.

|chemistry class|

Mr. Harris is giving out test papers and Stiles turns to Scott saying "Alright, it's causing me severe mental anguish to say this but maybe he's right." referring to Jacksons earlier comment.

"I know but that won't be good for her either, I mean the hunters will most definitely kill her if she were to attack someone also you don't know how the knowledge that she hurt someone might affect her." Scott replies.

"True but we have to face the fact that she might take the next body part of someone who's still alive." Stiles says.

"This is a pop quiz Mr. Stilinski if I hear your voice again I may be tempted to give you detention for the rest of your high school career." Mr. Harris says annoyed and sweating a bit, having felt unwell the last few days.

"Can you do that?" Stiles asks challenging the teacher.

"And there it is again, your voice triggering the only impulse I've had to strike a student repeatedly and violently, I'll see you at 3 for detention." Mr. Harris replies and Jackson and Danny who're sitting behind Stiles grin to themselves.

"You too Mr. McCall?" Harris asks seeing Scott turn to his friend for support.

"No sir." Scott answers.

|hallway|

After class Jackson leaves the classroom going outside the school to get to his car and go home, when he sees Derek waiting for him at his car.

"What are you doing here?" Jackson asks approaching Derek and opening his car, throwing his stuff inside and getting into the drivers seat.

"I needed to talk to you." Derek replies, opening the passenger side door and sitting down on the seat next to Jackson.

"What about?" Jackson asks confused.

"Well with Peter dead, that would mean that you are part of my pack now." Derek says.

"Seriously? I never even was part of Peters pack." Jackson retorts.

"True, but I think you'll see in time that we need each other and I wanted to help you realize that as soon as possible." Derek says.

"Great, you've informed me now get out." Jackson replies annoyed and not believing Derek, thinking that he doesn't need anybody.

"Alright have it your way but don't be surprised when you're lying somewhere half dead regretting that you didn't take me up on the offer." Derek says calmly and exits the vehicle.

As soon as Derek left his car Jackson speeds of headed home.

Meanwhile Allison is opening her locker seeing a dress hanging inside it with a note attached to it. Getting it out she opens the note which says: "Because I love you." Allison closes her locker and smiles at Stiles thoughtfulness. The guy a few lockers to her right says "nice dress."

Allison looks at him not recognizing him but sees a camera hanging around his neck.

"Nice camera." She replies politely and gets ready to leave when she hears two girls talking about her behind her.

"It's her aunt. The one who murdered all those people." one girl says.

"You mean the crazy bitch who killed all those people." the other girl says.

"Yeah the fire, the animal attacks it was all her aunt." the first girl exclaims.

"Are you kidding, I sit next to her in english." the second girl says.

"find a new seat." The first girl advises and Allison walks off sadly after exchanging a brief look with the guy who talked to her a few seconds ago but was now rather focusing on his locker.

Allison walks down the hallway, when suddenly Stiles appears out of an empty classroom and pulls Allison in.

"How'd you know?" Allison asks wiping away her tears.

"I walked by and overheard it." Stiles tells her.

"I can't do this. I can't go to the funeral. Everyone is going to be watching me and there is going to be cameras there and I can't." Allison stammers.

Stiles shuts her up by kissing her.

"Yes you can. You are one of the strongest people I know also I'll be there with you every step of the way. Everything is going to be OK." Stiles says gently.

"Scott will find Lydia, it's all going to be good. Just think about it, no more Peter, no psycho werewolf killings. Your parents haven't killed me yet, so that's a good thing." Stiles says cheering her up.

"I can't go looking like this." Allison says gesturing to her reddish eyes from her crying.

"Aren't you supposed to cry at funerals?" Stiles asks.

"For her?" Allison asks skeptically.

"Does it matter? You know, you lost someone you could be crying for you. I mean Kate wasn't who you thought she was but you still lost her." Stiles replies stroking her cheek gently, wiping away any tears coming down it.

"Yeah." Allison says weakly.

"You'll be fine. I'll make sure of that." Stiles tells her.

"OK."Allison says leaning into his hand kissing it quickly and then goes out of the room, while Stiles holds the door open for her, following after her.

"I'll see you at the funeral." Stiles tells her, pulling her in for a kiss and they then each go off, Stiles headed to detention and Allison headed home to get ready for the funeral.

|A few hours later – at the funeral|

A frenzy of reporters and cameras are all focusing on the Argent family, having just arrived and pushing through the crowd, assisted by some sheriffs, who try to keep the media at bay.

Allison, Victoria and Chris make it through the media and Chris says "I knew this was a bad idea." having his arm around Allison to support her and keep her safe from the press.

"Well it wasn't my idea." Victoria replies.

"I tried telling him but he insisted on making a point of it." Chris says annoyed.

"Well if he insisted, then he can deal with this, when he gets here." Victoria says.

"Who gets here?" Allison asks confused.

"Just sit down sweetheart." Victoria says, with them having arrived at the chairs put up for the funeral.

At the barricade Stiles arrives having just gotten home from changing into a suit after getting out of detention with Mr. Harris who seems out for him because his father knows that he has helped in the hale fire by accident.

"Hey dad, can you tell them to let me through?" Stiles asks his father.

"Sure let him through." Noah tells his officers and Stiles slips through the barricade.

"They invited you? You barely knew Kate and from what you told me Allisons parents aren't really big fans of yours." Noah asks his son.

"Well I'm here for Allison not her parents or Kate, so they agreed though not really happy about it." Stiles replies and goes over to Allison sitting down next to her and wrapping his arm around her with her leaning into his shoulder exhausted from everything that's going on.

The kid who commented on Allisons dress in the school sneaks through the barricade and gets out his camera, taking pictures of Allison when suddenly a hand grabs his camera and he sees an old man looking at it saying "This looks expensive." with two burly men in suits standing behind him looking like bodyguards.

"Yeah 900 bucks." the teen replies and the media focuses on the mystery man asking themselves who that is.

"And how expensive was this?" the man asks taking out the memory card and snapping it in two and handing the camera back to the teen, who then makes his escape disappointed that his pictures are gone.

The man then walks over then walks over to the Argent family plus Stiles, eyeing him quickly.

"Christopher." the man says hugging Allisons father.

"Gerard." Chris replies hugging his father.

Victoria stands up and Gerard walks towards her kissing her cheeks and Victoria expresses her condolences saying "I'm so sorry."

Allison watches this with a curious expression since she recognizes the man from some pictures.

Gerard then turns to Allison and asks "You remember me?"

Allison nods her head slightly.

"Considering I haven't seen you since you were three I don't suppose you'd call me grandpa, so if it's comfortable call me Gerard for the time being. But I'd prefer grandpa. So who is this young fellow?" Gerard says.

"Hi, I'm Stiles, Allisons boyfriend and I'm very sorry for your loss." Stiles says nervously and Allison grabs his hand to ease his worry.

"Hmm, well thank you for being here for my granddaughter during this difficult time." Gerard says while inspecting Stiles.

After the funeral Stiles grabs a lift with his father, who is about to start driving his son home when the police radio says "415 adam."

"I didn't copy that did you say 415 adam?" Noah asks.

"They were taking a heart attack victim to a hospital but on the way there something hit them." comes the reply.

"What? Hit the ambulance?" Noah asks surprised.

"Copy that. I'm standing in front of it right now. Something got in the back, there is blood everywhere and I mean everywhere." The officer replies.

"Alright unit 4 what's your 20?" Noah asks.

"route 5 and post. I swear I've never seen anything like this." the cop says.

"Alright, take it easy I'm on my way." Noah replies.

"Alright dad, you'd better head over there, I'll walk home and ask Allison if she wants to come over." Stiles tells his father getting out of the car and texts Scott: "check out route 5 and post, ambulance got attacked. Lydia?"

Noah thanks his son and starts the car and drives to the crime scene.

|woods|

Scott, who read Stiles text immediately hurried over to the place since he has had no luck locating Lydia in his part of the woods.

Scott arrives at the scene and sees that there is a corpse in the back and blood all over the back of the ambulance and thinks 'What happened Lydia? I hope you're OK'.

"She should be nearby then." Scott says and takes off into the woods looking for signs to find his girlfriend. After running around the woods for about 5 minutes, often hopping from tree to tree to build up more speed after transforming, he gets tackled out of the air by an unknown werewolf.

"You're not Lydia."the transformed Scott says and the werewolf snarls at him, dashing over to Scott and starts to punch at him but Scott blocks the hits and grabs the attackers arm, rolling down and throwing the unknown werewolf behind him. The guy gets up quickly and tackles Scott to the ground but Scott manages to get up with the guy still holding him and he tries ot throw Scott into a nearby tree but Scott jumps up leaping of the tree and uses his momentum to throw the guy away, who then runs off deeper into the woods.

"Wait where is Lydia." Scott yells running after him.

Scott chases him to a rocky landscape, when the werewolf gets caught in a hunters trap and is now dangling by his hands from a tree.

Scott wants to help him down, when Derek appears and knocks Scott over, dragging him away behind a tree and takes cover with Scott.

"What are you doing? We can help him." Scott asks struggling against Dereks grip.

"Quiet." Derek orders.

And they see a group of hunters appear, surrounding the werewolf.

Chris takes out a shocking stick and tasers the werewolf turning him human. The werewolf turns out to be the homeless guy Jackson met earlier.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" Chris asks.

"Nothing. I swear." the man replies.

"You're not from here are you? Are you?!" Chris yells.

"No. I came looking for the alpha. I heard that he's here, that's all. Look I didn't do anything. I didn't hurt anyone. No one living he wasn't alive in the ambulance. He wasn't I swear." The man replies.

"Gentlemen, take a look at a rare sight. Wanna tell them what we caught?" Gerard Argent says showing himself.

"An omega." Chris answers.

"The lone wolf. Possibly kicked out of his own pack or the survivor of a pack that was hunted down maybe even murdered. Possibly alone by his own choice, certainly not a wise choice." Gerard says and goes over to his bag, taking out a broadsword.

"Because as I am about to demonstrate an omega rarely survives on his own." Gerard says and cuts the man in half at his waist.

"Look, look at them! You see what they do? This is why you need me, why we need each other. The only way to fight them is together." Derek says.

"What are they doing?" Scott asks shocked at the display.

"Declaring war." Derek explains.

"We have a code." Chris says going over to his father.

"Not when they murder my daughter. No code, not anymore. From now on these things are just bodies waiting to be cut in half. Are you listening? Because I don't care if they are wounded or weak or seemingly harmless, begging for their lives with the promise that they'd never ever hurt anyone. Or some desperate lost soul with no idea what they're getting into. We find them, we kill them. We kill them all." Gerard exclaims angrily stabbing his sword into the ground.

"So you get my point about them now?" Derek asks.

"Yeah I got it and I'll try to work together with you as long as your methods are acceptable. Anyway I've gotta find my girlfriend before she freezes to death." Scott says looking determined.

"What does she smell like?" Derek asks.

"What?" Scott asks confused.

"What does she smell like? Describe it." Derek says.

"She smells like cherries, probably still a bit of disinfectant and like me." Scott answers confused.

"OK, give me a sec." Derek says and concentrates on the smells around him and all over the woods.

After a few minutes with Scott walking up and down nervously Derek opens his eyes again and tells him "look about a mile down in that direction, her most recent smell should be coming from there." pointing in a direction.

"Thanks man, I guess I owe you one." Scott says running off and shifting again but seeing that his feet also shifted because he is emotional and hopeful to get his love back home safe.

"Wait, what did Deaton say? I have Peters power to transform right?" Scott asks himself.

"Let's try this then." Scott whispers to himself and concentrates and grunts painfully, when his shoulders start to break and shift around and a few painful minutes later Scott now has wings coming out from the back of his shoulder (AN: think of Joe strong from midnight, texas or angel from X-men)

"Oh that hurt, but at least it paid off, now I have a better shot of finding Lydia." Scott says and tries flapping his wings. He wobbles around in the air but soon after carefully and wobbly flying in the direction Derek pointed him to he figures out how to properly work his wings by remembering what they learned in biology class, that he shouldn't be flapping so much but rather gliding.

And with this Scott is now flying over the woods searching the ground below him with his red glowing alpha eyes and soon sees someone walking through the woods shaking and rubbing her arms.

Scott descends down and lands behind the person, now being able to make out that it's his girlfriend naked and with tousled hair.

Scott takes off his jacket and gently wraps it around her shaking shoulder, pulling her into a hug and whispering "Oh god Lydia, I was so worried. Is everything OK?"

"OK? I'm somehow walking around the woods naked and have no idea how I got here." Lydia asks sarcastically.

"Calm down, we'll sort it out. The important thing is I found you and you're safe now." Scott tells her and then takes off his shirt, helping her put it on and then wraps his jacket around her again closing it up this time.

"Come on everything will be OK, the sheriff is near here and can take us to your home." Scott says and lifts her up bridal style, so she doesn't have to walk around the woods tired and barefooted anymore.

"Yeah get me home please and we need to talk about everything that's been going on soon." Lydia says weakly and snuggles closer into Scotts chest.

"It's alright I got you." Scott says comfortingly and takes them to the crime scene of where the werewolf attacked the ambulance.

"Mr. Stilinski, you think you or one of your sheriffs can give us a ride home? I found Lydia." Scott asks Stiles father, walking over to him still carrying Lydia who is barely awake.

"Yeah sure. Get in." Noah answers and drives the two to the Martins house.

|Martin house|

"Thanks for the help." Scott says and opens the door for Lydia, helping her outside and rings the doorbell to the Martins home.

"No problem, I'm glad Lydia is safe now. Make sure to get her checked up in the hospital as soon as possible." Noah replies and gets back into his car and drives off, informing everyone that Lydia is found and safe.

A few seconds later Natalie opens the door and sees the shirtless Scott carrying Lydia and immediately hugs the two of them saying "I'm so glad you're OK, thank you for finding her."

"No need to thank me, I was at least as worried as you were." Scott replies and Lydia weakly asks "Mom?"

"Yeah sweetheart you're home now." Natalie replies.

"Good but I'm so tired." Lydia says.

"Mrs. Martin is it OK with you if I help Lydia get washed up and get to sleep, and keep her company?"

"Yeah sure. I'll call your mom and tell her you're staying over. Good night sweetheart, I' so glad your back safe." Natalie replies kissing Lydias forehead and goes to the living room to call Scotts mother.

Scott then carries Lydia upstairs to her room, takes off the clothes he put her in and helps her to the bathroom, where he turns on the shower and sits her down in the tub and starts to help her get clean despite her protests, since she is too exhausted to manage it properly on her own.

Scott then gets her some fresh clothes to sleep in and after she got dressed, helps her into bed, tucking her in and sitting down on the chair, pulling it up beside her bed.

He then watches her sleep for a few hours thinking about what to do about the hunters and Lydias possible supernatural situation, before he falls asleep himself, now able to relax somewhat and getting the first real sleep since Peter attacked Lydia.