This story comes as a background for "Good things come to those who wait". Melissa is a strong woman and she deserves a character study of her own, and how her romantic and/or sexual relationships changed her. It's the final part of the series "The Sun, the Moon, the Truth".
Canon: the Argents had a place of business in Beacon Hills.
Assumptions:
the Argents used to live in Beacon Hills.
Melissa was born and raised in Beacon Hills.
Chris Argent, Melissa Delgado and the future Sheriff Stilinski are about the same age so they knew of each other in high school.
The Truth
The Argents left this town about the same time as I did. They abandoned the warehouse here and moved away to better things. I went into the big city to become a nurse. I met Rafael there and had Scott. We moved here, I started working at the hospital and Rafe started a grueling commute. But we had a big house with a white picket fence and life was good.
Rafe had run out of our lives many years before the Argents returned. When the Argents starting accusing Scott of kidnapping Allison, I lashed out and for a moment wished Rafe was still around. He'd always been the more level headed of the two of us. He would have handled the situation differently. I still think that the only reason I hadn't slapped Chris Argent's smug face was because Scott and Allison returned in time.
I disliked all the Argents I met, except for Allison. She was such a nice girl. And not in a pretty girl kind of way. She was the first girl I met that made me think "she's so much like me!"
When I watched her with Scott… I used to think of my first love and how that ended. And then I wonder how could this girl be related to Victoria and Kate. I met both of them and my instinct branded them bitches.
The first time I am in the same room as Chris Argent… is not even a room. I'm bound to a pole, a few feet away from my best friend who is also bound. This woman brings Chris Argent who seems dead but is probably just passed out or it wouldn't make any sense for her to frisk him. I'm scared and amused at the same time to see how many weapons the woman removes from him.
"Well, he was prepared," my friend says and we both watch Chris Argent waking up.
My nurse training kicks in and I use his name to help him focus. The fact that our captor took the time to disarm him and tie him up gave me hope. She comes back and tells the story that it's not silver that kills werewolves, but it's the family named with the French word for silver who kills werewolves. And I'm not sure I hope that Chris Argent gets out of this place.
It's Isaac, my new werewolf-adoptive son who keeps the ceiling up. I see the interaction between Isaac and Allison and I start to think I ran out of Argents to like.
When I find out that Allison is dead, I am shocked and it hurts more than I would have thought. Where does this pain come from? She was just a girl who reminded me of myself.
Isaac comes to say goodbye. He seems even more broken hearted than Scott, and telling him that he will survive this tragedy is the hardest thing I ever did. When he says he's going to go to France with Allison's father, the mother in me reacts.
"Isaac, I know it's hard, and you think this pain will never end. But it will, and you need to think about your future. Stay here and finish high school. You have a family here… Scott and me. Stiles and his dad. Derek."
The boy looks at me and my heart is breaking.
"I know. But Mr. Argent doesn't have anyone."
At first I don't understand what he means. For me, the only Argent that mattered was Allison. Now I realize there's another one left. Just one. For most of my life, it's just been me and Scott. If anything happened to Scott… I'd go insane.
"You are a good person, Isaac," I tell him. "But do you think you'll be able to help him? You're in pain yourself."
I try to be gentle but I know that if this was about me and Scott… there would be nothing in the world that might console me. The boy looks at me like I'm an idiot. Which turns out to be true after I listen to him.
"I won't be the one helping him. I saw Mr. Argent's reaction. He's on auto pilot now but soon he will feel. And with no one left… he won't stay strong for himself. But he would stay strong to help someone who is weak."
When did children become so wise? I didn't know the man, but hearing Isaac I realize that the only reason I would try to stay sane if I ever lost Scott would be for the sake of someone who would be lost without my help.
I hug him tightly and kiss head. He's not crying but I don't need supernatural hearing to hear that his breathing is a lot like sobbing. I pray that Argent is the man this boy saw.