Where is Lydia?

|hospital – two days later|

Lydia wakes up, dressed in a hospital gown and grunts a bit sitting up in her bed, alerting the two other people in the room, that Lydia has woken up.

"Hey Lydia." Scott says smiling at her.

"You want help getting in the shower?" Mr. Martin asks his daughter.

"Maybe if I was four and still taking bubble baths." Lydia replies sarcastically, sounding weak and goes into the bathroom.

"Right, me and your friend will wait right outside then. But slightly less sarcastic." Mr. Martin says and leaves the room, pulling Scott with him.

Scott slumps down on the chairs in front of Lydias room tired and Mr. Martin goes over to the nurse near him, who happens to be Melissa McCall.

"Has he been here the entire night?" Mr. Martin whispers to the nurse pointing at Scott.

"First, that's my son and secondly he's been here all weekend." Melissa informs Lydias father.

Scott hears the two of them talking but ignores it fighting his exhaustion, hoping to get to talk to Lydia alone soon, since most of the time either her parents were present or Lydia was to exhausted and weak herself.

In the meantime, Lydia is taking of her hospital gown and steps into the shower, standing under the warm water pouring down on her, washing her hair and sightly brushing over the leftover wounds wincing a bit.

Outside of her room Melissa has gotten Scott something to eat since he looks close to collapsing from the lack of sleep. Scott thanks his mother and starts to eat the meal, while thinking about what happened he feels a rage bubbling up inside of himself, since he blames himself for Lydias condition. This causes him to loose control and Scott accidentally breaks the food tray his mother has gotten him with a loud snap and his eyes begin to glow bright red. Scott notices this and starts to listen to Lydias heartbeat calming himself down and reverting the shift.

"Everything OK?" Melissa asks her son going over to him.

"Yeah, sorry I just got angry at the situation Lydia's in and must have lost control over my strength. Sorry." Scott replies.

"Oh, it's gonna be alright son. Lydia is a tough girl and she's almost back to full health." Melissa says trying to cheer her son up.

"I hope you're right." Scott says sullenly thinking about what might happen with Lydia now that she got bitten.

Back in the shower Lydia heard the bang from the food tray snapping and looks out her shower curtain to make sure she's safe. Seeing nothing out of the ordinary she gets back to washing her hair, but then squints, having gotten water into her closed eyes and looks down, opening them and sees that the water is almost entirely a blackish substance.

Freaked out and scared Lydia reaches down and grabs at something in the water, pulling out a few strands of black hair. She gags and starts to whimper scared and starts to pull out more hair from the water, putting it on the side of the tub disgusted. After frantically pulling out hair from the water, sniffling at what's happening she sees a charred red arm grab at her. Lydia screams out loudly, scared out of her mind at what she's seeing and escapes the bathroom through the window.

Outside of her room Scott, his mother and Mr. Martin hear her shriek and rush into the room, yelling her name worriedly and see that she's not there. They immediately check the bathroom and see that there is no sign of her here either. Melissa turns off the shower, seeing nothing out of the ordinary in the tub while Scott looks at the window seeing it open and guesses that Lydia ran off for some reason. He wants to go after her but jumping out of a window doesn't really help keep that he's a shapeshifter under wraps.

|Argent house|

Stiles is hanging out at Allisons house, when she drags him upstairs with her to her room and after pulling him inside she quickly closes the door and Stiles grins at her asking "How much time do we have?"

"They'll be gone an hour." Allison replies and kisses him passionately, which he returns gladly.

After a bit of kissing heavily Allison has pulled Stiles shirt of and Stiles has done the same.

Stiles then starts kissing her again, going to her neck and putting her on the bed with him hovering over her still kissing her over and over and interlocking his fingers with hers.

Stiles then kisses from her belly button upwards, finally reaching her hungry lips again, when she turns them over, causing Stiles to knock over her bedside lamp.

"Sorry." Stiles says laughing.

"It's OK." Allison giggles, pulling him in for a kiss again. They soon roll over again so he's on top and Allison hooks her legs over his waist teasing him and then rolls them over again, wanting to be on top but overestimating the width of her bed and the two of them fall down.

"That was your fault." Stiles chuckles.

"Sorry." Allison replies sheepishly.

"Wait I think a car just pulled up." Stiles says seriously.

"Oh crap, we're so dead." Allison says disappointed and scared at what her father might do to Stiles.

"Only if they see us like this, come on let's hurry and get dressed." Stiles says urgently starting to put his clothes on again.

Two minutes later Victoria Argent comes into Allisons room seeing a fully clothed Stiles laying next to Allison on her bed with his arm wrapped around her lovingly.

"Oh Stiles you're still here?" Victoria says not even trying to hide her disapproval.

"Yeah, sorry am I interrupting something?" Stiles asks hoping to win Allisons parents over by being polite and proving them that he's not a bad guy.

"Not really. Allison I picked up your dress for the funeral." Victoria says going over to her dresser and hangs the dress inside.

"OK just hang it in the dresser." Allison replies.

"Well I guess I have to ask so I can prepare your dad just in case. Stiles are you going to be attending the funeral as well?" Victoria asks hoping Stiles would say no.

"Depends if Allison wants me there beside her I'll be there, otherwise I'd decline." Stiles says.

"Please come. I could really use your support, it's gonna be hard as it is being the niece of the local mass murderer." Allison pleads.

"Well I guess I'm going then and I appreciate you trying to keep your husband from killing me." Stiles says.

"Don't count on it working." Victoria says leaving the room.

|hospital|

About 20 minutes after Lydia disappeared Noah Stilinski and some of his officers show up and ask the three of them what happened while his men looked around the hospital for anything out of the ordinary.

"Naked, as in nude?" Noah asks Melissa.

"I'm pretty sure they mean the same thing but yeah, as far as we know she left her clothing optional." Melissa replies.

"Alright, you checked the whole hospital right?" Noah questions.

"Every last corner." Melissa informs him.

"Nothing suspicious?" Noah asks.

"Nothing. She just took off." Melissa says.

"Alright, let's get a apb on a sixteen year old redhead. Name the descriptions.

"About 5 foot 3. Green eyes and her hair color is according to her strawberry blonde." Scott says.

"Is that right?" Noah asks the father for confirmation.

Mr. Martin nods his head telling the sheriff that the description is fitting.

"Scott, we don't need you here anymore. I think you should get back home and rest, you look like you haven't slept in days." Noah tells him.

"OK, tell me immediately when you find something." Scott says sadly and goes outside to call Stiles.

"I will." Melissa says.

"He seems quite smitten with my daughter, how serious are they?" Mr. Martin asks Melissa.

"Pretty serious for teenagers if you ask me." Melissa replies.

Outside the hospital Scott calls Stiles and says "Hey Stiles, you need to get over to the hospital right now!"

"What's up? Why so hurriedly, everything OK with Lydia?"Stiles asks.

"No, she ran off for some reason and I'm afraid that she might turn and get hurt or hurt somebody." Scott says.

"Alright, I'll be right there." Stiles says hanging up the call.

"Sorry Allison, I gotta go Lydia ran off and Scott fears that your dad and his buddies will try to hurt her." Stiles tells his girlfriend while getting dressed.

"OK, I'll come with you. She is my best friend after all." Allison replies starting to dress her as well.

"OK, let's hurry we need to pick up Scott, he said he should be able to track her by scent since he spend so much time with her." Stiles informs her.

"Sounds like a plan. Let's go." Allison replies going outside and getting into Stiles Jeep with him.

|road|

Stiles and Allison meet Scott at the hospital, where he joins them in the Jeep.

"Allison, I see you're joining us as well." Scott says.

"Lydia is my best friend you didn't think I'd sit this one out did you? So what exactly happened?" Allison replies.

"We don't know, she got up to take a shower and something must have scared her. She screamed really loud, so loud it felt as though my ears were going to burst and a few seconds later, when we came in to check what's happened she had just vanished." Scott informs them.

"Weird, you think it has something to do with being bitten?" Stiles asks.

"I imagine so, or it has to do with me taking her wounds and becoming an alpha. I don't know, either way she probably is in danger either from the hunters or from herself." Scott says sticking his head out of the window smelling the area for Lydia with much difficulty since enhanced smell isn't his prime ability. His sense of smell barely got enhanced at all, but he should be able to figure out where Lydia, his girlfriend, who he just spend the last 2 and a half days with has gone.

"Well we need to hurry and find her before they do." Allison says sounding worried.

"I think we'll be able to find her before the cops can." Scott replies.

"How about before my father does? We just saw him and three other guys leave my house in two SUVs." Allison says.

"Search party?" Scott asks hopeful.

"More of a hunting party." Allions corrects him.

"Crap, are they planning to kill her if she has actually turned?" Scott curses.

"I don't know, all they say is we'll talk after Kate's funeral, when the others get here." Allison informs them.

"What others?" Stiles asks confused.

"They wouldn't tell me that either."Allison answers.

"Take the next right." Scott says sniffing the air around him still having his head out of the window following Lydias scent.

|graveyard|

A blonde teenager is preparing a grave by scooping out earth with a digger. Pausing for a moment he checks his black eye to see how much it still hurt and when he looks up he heard something and turns his digger around shining at his surroundings with the lights on it. When he looks at one grave he suddenly sees a clawed hand grasp around the gravestone and whispers "What the hell?" to himself.

He keeps looking at the grave when suddenly something hits his digger, throwing it over and causing the teen named Isaac to fall into the freshly dug grave, where he immediately presses against the wall hoping not to draw anymore attention to himself so whatever hit him will go away.

Looking out of the hole he sees something jump over the downed digger and he then hears snarling and pulls him up on the edge of the grave and catches a glimpse of what looks like a man digging out a grave with his bare hands. Looking disgusted and scared he lowered himself back into the hole and soon hears a loud growl just before the digger gets lifted off the grave he is in. Looking up out of the grave he sees Derek Hale looking down at him asking "need a hand?" Isaac then slumps down relieved to see another human being.

|woods|

Scott, Stiles and Allison still following the scent arrive in front of Dereks house and Stiles asks his best friend "She came here, are you sure?" doubtfully.

"This is where her scent leads." Scott replies confidently.

"Has Lydia ever been here?" Stiles asks his two companions.

"Not with me." Allison says.

"Me neither." Scott says.

"Maybe she came here on instinct like she's looking for Derek?" Allison asks.

"You mean looking for an alpha?" Scott says looking at her and making his eyes glow red.

"Ah yeah, I forgot you're one too. But wolves need a pack right?" Allison replies.

"Not all of them. Would she have been drawn to an alpha werewolf instead of a were eagle? Is it an instinct to be part of a pack of maybe the same kind?" Allison questions.

"Yeah, well we're stronger in packs and it's possible that Lydia also became a werewolf and wants to be in a werewolf pack yes." Scott tells her.

"Like strength in numbers." Allison says.

"No like literally stronger, faster, better in every way." Scott explains.

"Is that the same for an alpha?" Allison asks.

"Yeah, it'll make Derek stronger too." Scott says.

Stiles then looks around in the trees surrounding the house and yells "Hey come look at this, see this? I think it's a tripwire." and pulls on the wire, causing Scott who is standing a few steps away from Stiles to get his foot caught in a rope and is now hanging upside down from the rope.

"Stiles." Scott says.

"Yeah buddy? Oh." Stiles says turning around and sees Scott hanging upside down.

"Next time you see a tripwire, don't trip. it." Scott says opening his arms in a gesture that shows that it should be common knowledge.

"Yeah got it." Stiles replies while Allison giggles. The two of them then approach the hanging Scott but he stops them ordering "Wait, wait, wait. Someone is coming, hide."

The couple quickly hides behind a big tree still in earshot of Scott.

Scott didn't have to wait long till he sees Chris and two hunters approach and Chris kneels down so he is on Scotts eye level.

"Scott." Chris greets

"Mr. Argent." Scott returns.

"How're you doing?" Chris asks.

"Good, you know just hanging out. Is this one of yours? Nice design, it's very constricting." Scott replies.

"What are you doing out here Scott?" Chris asks seriously.

"Looking for my girlfriend." Scott replies.

"Ah that's right, Lydia is your girlfriend. Is she also a member of your what do you call it, your pack?" Chris asks.

"No. I don't have a pack." Scott tells him.

"I hope so, because she's a friend of Allisons and one special circumstance such as yourself, one I can handle. Not two." Chris says.

"Do you know what a hemocoporectopy is?" Chris asks.

"I have a feeling I don't want to." Scott replies annoyed.

"Medical terms for amputating someone at the waist. Cutting them in half. Takes a tremendous amount of strength to cut through tissue and bone like that. Let's hope a demonstration won't become necessary." Chris informs the teen, then gets up and leaves.

A few seconds later Allison and Stiles come forth and ask "You OK?"

"Just another live threatening conversation with your dad." Scott sighs.

Allison then sees the rope holding Scott upside down attached to a tree and says "Stiles come look at this." going over to the rope and trying to figure out how to get Scott down.

Scott just transforms his fingers into his Talons and slashes through the rope, landing on his feet again.

"Thanks, I think I got it. You coming?" Scott tells them, walking towards the Hale house.

|Graveyard – The next morning|

"It's Lahey, Isaac Lahey." Isaac tells the Sheriff, who is taking a report on what's happened at the graveyard last night.

"You work for your father Isaac?" Noah asks the teen.

"When he's not in school, which is where he needs to be in twenty minutes." Isaacs father says strictly.

"Yeah, I understand that, but I got a missing teenage girl and our canine unit led us here. She's not wearing any clothes and if she's not wearing any tonight, when the temperature really drops." Noah explains.

"Sorry, I didn't see anything." Isaac tells Noah.

"Trust me if he saw a naked girl outside a computer scree, he'd remember." Isaacs father jokes and laughs at his son.

Noah looks at the father suspiciously and asks Isaac "How'd you get that black eye Isaac?"

"School." Isaac replies.

"School fight?" Noah asks.

"no, Lacrosse." Isaac says.

"Lacrosse? You play for beacon hills? My son plays for the team, well I mean he's on the team, he only was in one game for now." Noah says excitedly but then notices Isaac staring at the woods behind him and turns around seeing nothing there. "Something wrong Isaac?" Noah asks confused.

"Sorry I just remembered I actually have a morning practice to get to." Isaac replies.

"Just one more question. Do you guys get many grave robberies here?" Noah asks the two.

"A few, they usually just take stuff like jewelry." Isaac replies.

"What did this one take?" Noah questions.

"Her liver." Isaac says looking down at the smashed in coffin at the bottom of the hole.