lovers reunited

|next day - school|

Scott makes his way to school on his newly acquired dirtbike, happy to spend some time with Stiles again and hoping that he can clear things up with Lydia.

Lydia came to school with Allison, who's still talking about her having to replace Scott as soon as possible and suggests that she should get herself some freshman, pointing out the twins in the crowd but Lydia only tells her that she still has to clear things up with Scott.

|hospital|

Melissa is in Isaac's room and looks at his wounds, seeing them heal visibly.

"Yeah, they are definitely healing, no one can see this." She tells him.

"Alright, cover it up." Isaac replies hurriedly.

"I don't think that's gotta matter, I mean you're scheduled for surgery, something which is going to confuse a lot of people." Melissa says.

"Can you do something?" Isaac asks.

"Hey, I'm relatively new to all this and there is a sheriff stationed outside your door." She tells him.

"Can you call Derek?" Isaac suggests.

"I tried calling him five times. Do you have any other emergency werewolf contacts?" She says.

"Call Scott." Isaac replies.

|english class|

Allison and Lydia are the last ones to sit down and Allison sees a seat next to Stiles and immediately takes it, leaving the only empty seat the one right in front of Scott.

Lydia goes over to it, exchanging a unsure look with Scott, who smiles at her gently and sits down despite seeing Allison silently protesting.

Everyone gets a text quoting the ending of a book and their new teacher comes in, reading the passage and telling her students to turn off their phone in class.

During class Lydia decides to listen to her gut instead of her angry best friend and scribbles a note on a piece of paper, quietly passing it to Scott.

'Can we talk?' The note reads and Scott prepares to write a reply, when the teacher calls him out and tells him that his mother called the school to get him out of class and tells him to come to the hospital.

"Hey mom, what's wrong?"

Scott asks, calling his mother, who fills him in on what she knows.

Back in the classroom Stiles notices a band aid on Lydia's ankle and asks "Hey Lydia, what happened there?"

"Prada bit me." Lydia replies.

"Your dog?" Stiles asks.

"Yes, my dog." Lydia answers getting annoyed.

"Has it ever bitten you before?" Stiles asks, making Lydia shake her head no.

"OK, then what if it's the same thing as the deer? You know like animals freaking out before an earthquake or something." Stiles asks.

"Meaning what?" Lydia asks back.

"I don't know, great and Scott got called away. Didn't he say yesterday he's got a hunch about what's going on?" Stiles says.

"I think so, but hey you were riding home with him." Lydia replies, she then over hears some girls talking about Scott a few seats next to her.

"Wow, did you see Scott's tattoo this morning?" One girl asks.

"Yes I did, Lydia really is a lucky girl. I heard that during the break she left him all alone." The other girl replies.

"Yeah and I heard that like 12 girls asked him out and he shot them all down without a second thought." Girl number 1 whispers.

"Stiles, have you heard anything about a tattoo from Scott?" Lydia asks him, a small smile playing on her face after hearing that Scott didn't go out with anyone else.

"No, he mainly asked about you. He obviously hasn't given up on you and then brooded a bit because of Allison's attitude. I really think we shouldn't have left him alone with Derek so long. My guess is 2 more months and he would have moved into Derek's old home." Stiles jokes.

"Anyways, jokes aside do you think that your dog and yesterday that deer are connected?" Stiles asks.

"What is it that you've always told us in France, once is a event, twice is a coincident and three times is a pattern." Lydia shoots back, when all of the sudden a crow flies into the window of their classroom.

The class looks outside surprised and sees a whole murder of crows flying at them, breaking through the window and start attacking them.

Their teacher yells for everyone to get down and take cover. The attack doesn't last long, and everyone is mostly unhurt safe for scratches. The police soon come down to settle the situation.

|hospital|

Cali, one of the alpha werewolves who hunted down Boyd and Erica makes her way through the hospital, dressed in a blue nurse's gown and enters Isaac's room.

"How are you Isaac?" She asks him.

"I think I'm actually able to go." He replies and wants to get out of the bed, but she pushes him back down and injects a drug into his drip. She then looks for Braeden, the mercenary helping her but finds her gone, so she picks up her scent and starts to chase her.

"Why didn't you call me before?" Scott asks his mother, arriving in the hospital.

"Honestly I was hoping I didn't have to." Melissa tells him.

"What do you mean?" Scott asks surprised.

"Everything that you've been doing, the extra reading, the summer school, saving for that bike, even though it scares me half to death, I just didn't want to disrupt a good rhythm." She replies.

"But mom, Isaac is my best friend. And I'm not gonna stop trying to be better this year." Scott tells her.

"best friend, really?" Melissa asks.

"Yeah, I really needed him this summer and Stiles was gone, so we hanged out a lot." Scott tells her.

"OK, he's in room 215 if he's not already in surgery." Melissa informs him.

"Thanks." Scott says, giving his mom a peck on the cheek and leaves to look for his friend.

Issac in the meantime was in the surgery room, with the surgeon about to operate, only to find no wound on the teen. He immediately sends Isaac out of the room and asks for a real patient.

Isaac gets wheeled away on a hospital bed by Ennis, who is like Cali dressed in a nurse's gown.

On the way out Ennis stops to put Isaac into a wheelchair to seem less suspicious and takes off his costume.

Scott arrives on the floor Ennis and Isaac are on, only to see the both of them enter an elevator.

Scott runs towards them and jumps into the elevator just before the doors close.

Scott sees that Isaac is out of commission and shifts with Ennis following his lead.

Ennis grabs him by his collar and slams him against the elevator walls twice. He then picks him up from the floor, throwing him against the top of the elevator, denting it and knocking a few panels lose.

He then picks up Scott by his throat saying, "Payback is a bitch ain't it." And chokes him.

Scott realizes his opportunity and shifts one of his hand into that of the Kanima, with the other trying to support himself on the larger man's arm but before he can swing at Ennis and paralyze him the elevator door opens and Derek greets the other alpha, clawing him into the back and throwing him down the hall while telling him "You're not the only alphas around here."

Scott and Derek make their way out of the hospital quickly, with Derek carrying the still unconscious Isaac.

Derek leads them to his old house and lies Isaac down on a table.

"You don't still live here, do you?" Scott asks, seeing Derek move through the run-down house with ease.

"No but there is something here, that I need. It'll heal his wounds from the alphas." Derek replies, rummaging through some rubble.

"Yeah, but it did heal." Scott says confused, recalling his mother telling him that the wounds are gone.

"Not on the inside." Derek tells Scott, getting a flower out of his hiding spot.

Derek then processes the flower, to give it to Isaac while Scott waits around concerned for his friend.

While Derek and Scott are dealing with Isaac Braeden went looking for Scott at his school and comes upon Lydia and Allison.

"Where is Scott McCall?" She asks them.

"You're Lydia, right?" Braeden asks the redhead.

"Yes." Lydia replies.

"Where is he? I need to talk to him." Braeden demands to know, grabbing Lydia's arm.

"Hey." She says, hurting from Braeden's tight grip.

"He was called out of class, we don't know where he is." Allison tells the brown skinned woman.

She grabs Allison's hand just like Lydia's, seeing the twins standing at the end of the hall and recognizing them from when she and Isaac were chased by them the other night.

She then runs off, hiding in a locker room but the twins as well as the other alphas easily find her and fight with her, easily beating her.

|Later that night|

Allison and Lydia are in Allisons new room, picking out a color for her walls when the girls notice that their bruises form a symbol together and decide to tell the others about it tomorrow.

Isaac feeling indebted towards his only friend decides to call Lydia, having felt the waves of sadness rolling off him.

"Lydia Martin speaking, who is this?" Lydia says answering the phone, while lying on her bed, reading Scott's note over for the 4th time.

"It's Isaac. Look I thought you deserve to know what really happened after the Kanima." Isaac tells her.

"I'm listening." Lydia replies expectantly.

"Well after we won against the Kanima Boyd and Erica, who were leaving town ran into a few alphas in the woods and Scott heard their call for help and saved them." Isaac continues.

"Then what?" Lydia asks.

"He took Boyd home, but Erica asked if she can get some clothes at his place because of her mom." Isaac says.

"And then she slept with him." Lydia hisses.

"No she faked the whole thing, I was there when Scott confronted her and she admitted it." Isaac tells her.

"Scott lost it and she actually had to leave town, he'd have killed her otherwise." He adds.

"Say I believe you, what does it change? We're already broken up." Lydia says emotionally.

"I think you still don't realize what you mean to him. You're his anchor, his everything. The first full moon after you left Scott damn near ripped Derek and me to pieces." Isaac explains.

"Why?" Lydia asked confused.

"With you gone he went feral. After seeing what he did to us on the full moon he tried becoming his own anchor, but it didn't work that well." Isaac informs her.

"Thank you, Isaac." Lydia says relieved that Scott apparently didn't cheat on her.

"Say, do you know anything about a tattoo?"

"Oh yeah, he got a tattoo of your face made on his arm, crazy thing is it actually helped him stay in control." Isaac says.

"I see, thank you. I'll see you around I guess." Lydia thanks him.

"Yeah, bye. I thought you deserved to know." Isaac replies hanging up.

"So, Scott was telling the truth." Lydia says with a smile on her face as she plays with her necklace and Scott's letter.

"I hope he can forgive me, sounded like he had a harder time than me and all of it because Erica tricked me. I should have believed in Scott and trusted him not to betray me." Lydia thinks, fearing that her decision to talk to him tomorrow won't get her anywhere.

That night Scott gets dragged to a birthday party by Stiles and gets hit on by Stiles' old childhood friend but declines the offer to be the one to take her virginity.

|The next day|

Isaac is at Derek's new place where they are waiting for Peter. After Derek convinces Isaac to trust him and let Peter look into his memories Isaac Peter arrives and uses the same method, he used on Scott to show him his memories to look into Isaacs but doesn't get any good leads on Boyd or Erica's whereabouts.

After this is done Derek heads to the school, where Stiles texted him to meet him, Scott, Lydia and Allison.

"I don't see anything." Derek says, looking at Lydia's and Allison's bruises.

"Look again." Scott tells him, believing the girls instinct that there may be something hidden there.

"How is a bruise gonna tell me where Boyd and Erica are?" Derek questions.

"It's the same on both sides, exactly the same." Stiles says.

"It's nothing." Derek replies.

"Pareidolia, seeing patterns that aren't there. It's a subset of apophenia." Lydia tells them.

"They are trying to help." Scott tells Derek, feeling his disbelieve.

"These two? This one who left you, causing you to nearly kill my whole pack, including myself. And this one who actually shot about 30 arrows into me and my pack." Derek says pointing at the girls respectively.

"Alright, come on no one died. There may have been a little maiming, but no death. That's what I call an important distinction." Stiles cuts in.

"My mother died." Allison says with quiet anger.

"Your family's little honor code killed your mother, not me." Derek replies.

"The girl was looking for Scott. I'm here to help him, not you." Allison tells him.

"Want to help? Then find something real." Derek says.

"Give them a chance, they're on our side now." Scott tells Derek, pulling him aside.

"Then maybe you should tell her what her mother was actually trying to do that night." Derek shoots back. Derek however leaves without another word, soon followed by Stiles and Allison, leaving only Lydia and Scott.

"Thank you for trying to help." Scott thanks her, sounding insecure.

"Scott, listen. I know it wasn't fair of me to leave with Allison without any warning or giving you a chance to explain things, but I just couldn't handle it. With everything that happened … Anyways I'd really like to talk things out if you're on board with it." Lydia tells him, moving closer to him slowly.

"It's alright, I understand. I'm glad you'll hear me out." Scott says.

"Let me try to explain what exactly happened that night." Scott then continues.

"You don't have to. Isaac called me last night and told me everything I needed to know, Erica faked having sex with you, you almost killed her and now she's left." Lydia replies, summing things up.

"Isaac did? Anyways, I'm glad that you know. So I guess the real question now is, do you trust me?" Scott asks.

"Scott, I've never stopped trusting you. There were so many times I wanted to call you and ask how you were doing or convince you to get back together. The main reason I waited so long to deal with this was because Allison convinced me otherwise." Lydia explains.

"I know, Stiles told me." Scott says, taking her hand.

"Lydia, I'm still madly in love with you, never stopped and never will. Will you be my girlfriend again?" Scott asks her, stepping closer to her, now standing directly in front of her.

"Yes Scott. I'm just so sorry we had to go this in the first place, now that I know everything the whole thing was rather pointless. And I'm sorry you had to go through your whole control problem alone." Lydia tells him guiltily.

"Lydia, it's not your fault. And I wasn't alone. I had Derek, Isaac, Deaton and my mom to help me." Scott replies, hugging her against his chest with a smile on his face.

"You know there are a few things that changed about me." Scott tells her.

"Like what?" She asks.

"Well for one, I was wrong I can grow a tail. And secondly I smartened up some while you were gone." He informs her.

"A tail huh?" She asks amused before pulling him down to kiss him passionately, finally letting go of all her bottled-up emotions.

"I missed you so much." Scott says, still hugging her after breaking their kiss.

"I missed you too." Lydia replies, giving him another peck before telling him "I think we better leave now or Allison and Stiles' will chew us out for making them wait."

"Haha, let's go then." Scott chuckles.

"Will you come over tonight?" She asks before they leave the room to meet up with their friends.

"Count on it, we might have to explain things to your mom though, minus the supernatural ordeal. She wasn't too happy to see me after you left." Scott says, giving her a kiss on her nose.

"I'll deal with her before you come. She wasn't too thrilled that we broke up herself you know." Lydia tells him.

"I can imagine, she said she liked me on multiple occasions." Scott smirks.