Chapter 02: Story Time
A couple of hours later and they had managed to get Scott into Madi's house and into the spare room. Madi and Theo left Scott to sleep, with Isaac sitting in the corner watching him. Derek was in the kitchen making up food, while the rest of the pack arrived to see how Scott was doing. Derek growled a few times, while Madi rolled her eyes and had them all sit down.
"Just talk quietly, he needs to rest to sleep," Madi said, taking a deep breath before she listened to them asking questions.
"What happened to him?" Lydia asked, she was trying to get Stiles to stay in the lounge as they hadn't let him near Scott yet.
"We don't know, whatever Peter did to him...scared him and I've never seen Scott as scared as what he is now," Madi said, the last time Scott had been scared was when they were kids and their dad pushed him down the stairs. Scott didn't remember that happening, only Madi and Melissa remembered it. "It was enough that he's not letting any male near him..."
"Except for me and Derek," Theo stood leaning against the door-frame he didn't want to mention that Isaac was sitting in the room keeping watch over him.
"Has he talked?" Stiles asked, he wanted more than anything for Scott to talk to him to any of them.
"No, and he may not for a while...we don't know how long its going to take," Derek said, from the kitchen having listened to the majority of the talking.
"What state did you find him in?" Allison asked, as Cora took her hand and squeezed it reassuringly.
"He was chained up to fence, arms above his head...legs spread slightly apart," Madi took a deep breath before she considered continuing. "I don't know how long he was in that position but he's lost a lot of control, so no one is going near him for the next few days not until he stops freaking out,"
"What do you mean lost control?" Lydia asked, Theo, Derek and Madi shook their heads they couldn't say anything more.
Madi quickly stood up hearing a whimpering coming from the bedroom, before she was darting up the stairs two at a time. Isaac was standing back in the corner of the room, pointing at Scott. Scott was growling and his eyes glowing red. Madi walked calmly towards Scott and sat on the edge of the bed putting her hand gently on his chest.
"Hey kiddo, you're safe now," Madi said calmly before she closed her eyes and concentrated solely on Scott. 'Scott, you're in my house,'
'Mads...' Scott trailed off as his eyes returned to normal and his claws retracted. Madi looked down the bed and realised why he'd started to freak out.
'It's okay, lets get you cleaned up,' Madi said, gently pulling him towards her and having him wrap his arms around her. 'It'll come back, just give it time,' Madi kissed the side of his head and motioned for Isaac to go and get Theo.
"Mads?" Theo raced to the doorway, and looked at both Madi and Scott before entering the room. "I'll grab the clean sheets and a towel,"
"Thanks Theo, I'll change him," Madi said, as she manoeuvred Scott to the edge of the bed and grabbed a pair of the loosest pyjama pants that Scott owned. Both Scott and Theo had clothes at Madi's. A few minutes later and they had fixed it so that Scott was laying on top of the towel. "Theo's going to stay with you in here tonight okay?" Scott nodded, he was okay with Theo staying in with him.
After everyone had dinner, everyone left and Madi was left with Derek, Cora, Theo and Scott in the house. Derek and Madi had the master suite, Cora had Theo's room, while Theo was in with Scott. The night was fairly quiet except for some thrashing from Scott, which Theo managed to calm down somehow, he wasn't entirely sure. By morning Scott was starting to heal some what on his sides but only just.
"Morning you pair," Madi smiled, poking her head in the door and looking at the two of them. Theo had managed to pull Scott into a sitting position. "Derek's making pancakes," Theo grinned, Derek made the best pancakes out of all of them.
"You're going to stay with him now aren't you?" Theo questioned, Madi nodded and walked into the bedroom and sat on the bed before climbing in between the two of them.
"Come here," Madi sat between the two of them and pulled them both towards her, Scott more gently then Theo. "Scott, it's going to be okay, I promise," Madi kissed the side of Scott's head and then did the same to Theo.
"How are you so calm?" Theo questioned, he hadn't heard her heart beat jump once.
"I'm not, I just know how to keep my heart steady...after all these years..." Madi said jumping after Derek and Cora stood in the doorway. "You two have never once asked how, you just accepted it,"
"How did it happen?" Theo asked, glancing at Scott who was still resting his head on Madi's shoulder only trying to get as close as he could.
"Your sister was sick, she was dying," Derek paused, he wondered if Theo and Scott knew just how sick she had been when she was a child. Madi nodded indicating that he could go on. "She'd caught a pneumonia, she wasn't in school for a month...we were ten years old and she was in the hospital for near a month, Laura was going between sitting with her and looking after you two,"
"It wasn't a normal pneumonia...due to the asthma it made it worse," Madi added, glancing at Theo and Scott and then back to Derek and Cora.
"Our mother bit her, and then Laura and I took turns watching...I mean I was eleven years old but we were in the same class," Derek explained, hoping that he wouldn't need to talk more about it.
"Did mom know?" Theo asked, raising his eyebrow at Madi and then looking at Derek and Cora.
"You mom knew, but it was too much for her so our mom had someone take the memory until she was ready to believe," Derek answered, indicating that when Scott was turned by Peter that was why their mother didn't take long to trust Scott again.
"Enough about the fact that I was ten..." Madi said, as she moved slightly and laid Scott back on the bed. "Try and get some rest kiddo, I'll bring some of Der's pancakes in soon," before she had a chance to move away Scott had grabbed her hand. 'Der will take you into the bathroom soon,'
'No...you…' Scott wanted to be able to vocalise what he was thinking.
'Okay, I will,' Madi sighed, they had to get him cleaned up somewhat before she would even think about removing the rods in his legs. 'Scotty, kiddo what did he do?'
'Not just Peter.' Scott answered, the last time he had said a word to anyone was 10 weeks earlier.
Madi nodded, in half understanding as Theo, Derek and Cora headed back to the kitchen to finish making breakfast. Madi took Scott into the adjoining bathroom, sitting him on the toilet so that she could get him cleaned up more and comfortable. Scott whined while Madi was cleaning him up, he wasn't entirely sure when her medical supplies had been replenished but figured their mother had done it sometime during the night. The part that had surprised him the most was the incontinence pads, he knew he'd lost control somewhere but didn't know how.
After roughly half an hour Madi had managed to get Scott cleaned up and put fresh bandages on where they'd removed the rods the previous day. Scott seemed to be a little on edge thinking that they were going to re-insert them while she was cleaning him up. Madi noticed and put her hand on his shoulder gently pulling him from his thoughts before she carried him back to the bedroom and set him comfortably on the bed again.
"I'll be back in a couple of minutes with some food, think you can feed yourself?" Madi questioned, sitting on the bed beside him and waiting to see what he would do. Scott shook his head, his arms still felt heavy after being hung up for so long. "Do you want Theo to help you?' Scott nodded, Madi smiled leaving the room to go and get Theo and food.
"How is he?" Cora asked, pulling her back in a messy bun as she sat at the counter.
"Shaken, where we took the rods out are slowly starting to close up. But I don't think he remembers what happened," Madi answered, picking up one of the cups of coffee and drinking it. "Theo think you can spend today with Scott, like help him eat etc? Deaton's coming by after he finishes at the clinic,"
"Yeah, I can go sit with him...Do you think Peter fed him?" Theo asked, as he balanced the two plates of pancakes and two coffees.
"He fed him, enough to keep him alive," Derek answered, remembering seeing some discarded food around Scott and traces around his mouth.
Theo nodded and made his way to the bedroom taking the food with him and placing his on one side of the bed while putting Scott's in the middle before climbing up and sitting with him. Theo picked up the cup of coffee and held it for Scott allowing him to drink some before starting on the pancakes. In the kitchen Madi was sitting talking with Cora and Derek about what they had found, they didn't want to say anything to Theo and Scott due to the possibility of triggering a panic attack.
"Hey Der, I'm gonna go for a run in the preserve with Cora," Madi grinned, she and Cora hadn't gone running together in a long time and she missed it.
"I'll call if anything changes, go," Derek smiled, he knew how much Madi and Cora enjoyed running together. "I heard you say Deaton's coming by. Mads he'll be okay,"
"I know, it's just he's the baby like Cora," Madi smirked, as Cora looked up and glared at her before smiling at her. "Give me five to get ready and then we can go,"
"Only five," Cora grinned grabbing to drink bottles from the cupboard and filling them with water.
Madi rolled her eyes and headed towards her room and quickly changed into her running gear and rejoining Cora and Derek in the kitchen. Cora tossed Madi her bottle and both women pocketed their phones before heading out the door. Derek cleaned up the breakfast dishes, never understanding how they could go running after eating – they were crazy.
Meanwhile, the rest of the McCall pack had gathered at Derek's loft they wanted to know what Madi and Derek weren't telling them. Stiles had known Madi for as long as he had known Scott and Theo for. Malia, Liam, Mason, Corey, Allison and Isaac had only known her for a short time so they didn't really know a lot about her.
"What do you know about Scott and Theo's sister?" Allison asked, directing the question at both Lydia and Stiles.
"That she's their sister, that she and Derek are apparently more than just good friends," Stiles said, glancing at Lydia who nodded she had an idea of what he was going to say. "She's also a werewolf...I don't know how it happened or when it happened,"
"That's why she wasn't surprised when Stiles told her everything the other day," Lydia added, taking a deep breath as they looked at their friends. "I do remember that whenever the two of them were scared all Madi had to do was hold their hands,"
"We know she's a werewolf, but what else is she? How did she find Scott when we couldn't?" Liam questioned, he wanted to know how they hadn't been able to find his alpha.
"Families have a special bond," Argent said, he'd somehow arrived while they were talking and had just been standing listening. "The McCall's are slightly different. Madison does things a little unconventionally even by my standards,"
"What does that even mean?" Stiles raised his eyebrow as Allison looked at her father and then at the rest of them.
"That's something that you have to ask her," Argent answered, he wasn't about to tell them something that he had no control over.
"Dad? What did you mean by special bond?" Allison asked, facing her father as Lydia moved to get something from the fridge.
"Ask Madison yourself," Argent told her, he didn't know how to tell her that Madi was the reason that she was still alive.
Allison stood up sensing that her father wasn't telling her something, Isaac sensed the same thing. Isaac glanced at Allison as she walked towards her father and grabbed him by the arm. Isaac stood up and followed her, both of them taking Argent to the far end of the loft.
"Dad, what aren't you telling me?" Allison questioned as Isaac held him against the wall.
"Allison, now is not the time," Argent said, he didn't bother struggling against the teenagers as there was no point.
"Dad, when is the right time?" Allison asked again, nodding to Isaac to let him go, Isaac giving a look to say are you sure.
"Allison, not now," Argent repeated again as he looked at Isaac who was now standing with his arms folded in front of him.
"Madi's not just a werewolf is she?" Isaac questioned, tapping his fingers against his elbow as he spoke. Argent looked blankly at Isaac, which had Isaac smirk as he started to piece things together.
While Madi and Cora were running the two girls half wolfed out in the preserve running as fast as they could. Madi grinned at Cora running as she flipped over a branch and took off again. Cora laughed, jumping over the branch and catching up with her.
"What happened with Scott, there's something you and Derek aren't saying," Cora said as they stopped at the look out overlooking the county.
"We told you, what we saw. But I think whatever Peter did to Scott scared him, I also don't believe your uncle was working alone," Madi said taking a mouthful of water as she looked at the young woman beside her. "Do you remember when I started having sleepovers?"
"Mads? And yeah I kind of remember," Cora answered turning to face her as she had some of the water.
"He was completely immobile...I think they used kanima venom on him at some point," Madi took a deep breath before she continued to speak. "He's my baby brother, and they tortured him. Metal rods running from the top of his ribcage down his sides to just under his hip bone, they were sticking out Cora,"
"Sticking out?" Cora raised her eyebrow uncertainly at the older girl as she nodded.
"Yeah, that's how we knew they were there. He's got metal rods in his legs too, I haven't taken them out yet but I need to otherwise he could die," Madi said, leaning against one of the boulders at the look out.
"He won't die. You won't let him, we won't let him," Cora said sitting on the boulder beside her and wrapping her arms around her. "Now, lets finish our run and get back to the house I'm hungry again,"
"And this Cora, this is why I love you," Madi said kissing the side of her head, Cora smiled and hugged her tightly.
By the time Madi and Cora returned to the house it was 11AM and Theo was in the kitchen talking with Derek, they'd left Scott to sleep. Derek had been telling Theo the same thing as what Madi had been telling Cora about the way they had found Scott. The second that Madi had stepped into the room Theo had wrapped his arms around her.
"Madi, its my fault," Theo muttered into Madi's shoulder, causing her to raise her eyebrow quizzically at him.
"Theo, oh sweetheart it's not your fault," Madi hugged Theo tightly, she knew he always felt guilty whenever something happened. "You know he was with Isaac, Liam and I before. It had nothing to do with your fight I promise,"
"Your mom's in with Scott now. She stopped by on her way to work," Derek said, as Cora pushed past him into the kitchen to find food. "How was your run?"
"Good, I missed it," Madi said as Theo moved away from her and headed towards Melissa and Scott.
"Madison, could you come here?" Melissa called, Madi raised her eyebrow at Derek who shrugged before the two of them headed towards the bedroom.
"What's up mom?" Madi asked, watching as Melissa pulled the blanket away from Scott's lower half. Madi bit her lip they hadn't shown her that.
"Explain this?" Melissa questioned, Madi nodded motioning for her mother to cover Scott up again as she sat beside him.
"Mom, they put metal rods to stop him from moving. We think they did it repeatedly because they're covered in wolfsbane," Madi answered, as Scott tried to scoot closer to her. "I'm not going to know more until Scott's able to tell us,"
"Oh sweetheart," Melissa sighed, leaning over and hugging both of them before Theo joined the hug. "Take care of both of your brothers,"
"Always do mom," Madi smiled as they released the hug before she looked at Scott and saw that his eyes had started glowing red, and his claws had extended. "Mom, Theo step back for a second,"
"Madi?" Derek questioned, glancing into the room and noticing why Madi had asked them to step back. "Melissa, Theo I'd do as Madi asked,"
Madi stayed sitting beside Scott, and took one of his clawed hands in hers and squeezed it tightly. Scott didn't start relaxing only growling, which seemed to be the only sound that he could make. Madi, Derek and Theo each took a deep breath before they exchanged a look realising what had happened.
'Scott, it's okay. I'll get you cleaned up, it's not your fault,' Madi was concentrating solely on Scott as she spoke, her hand still holding his as she rubbed circles on it.
'Mads...I can't stop it...' Scott answered, he couldn't get his claws to retract and he didn't know why.
'Try thinking about Isaac, use him as your anchor...he's been using you,' Madi told him, watching as his eyes slowly faded back to brown and his claws retracted. 'He loves you. No matter what,'