Chapter 4

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All medical details are either made up or googled.

Not betaed so all the spelling and grammatical mistakes are mine. Let me know if you spot them.

As soon as they reached the hospital, Scott went to the sheriff's side. The sheriff was like a father to him. He has been there for Scott when his own father hadn't. The McCall's and the Stilinski's have together been one family for as long as Scott could remember. Stiles was his brother and Scott cared for him the most second only to his mother. He hugged the sheriff who looked suspiciously red eyed, and asked him if there was any news.

"Nothing yet. He has been there for nearly an hour but the doctors won't tell me anything. Even Melissa hasn't come back with any news yet. God! Scott, I can't lose him. I can't go through this again."

"We won't lose him Sir. Stiles is the strongest person I know and he will be just fine. He has to be." Scott said with stubborn determination but at the same time he sounded like a kid who thought that if he believed with all his heart, anything he wishes for will come true.

"Besides no news is good news right?" Scott asks hopefully, seeking reassurance.

"I hope so kid. I hope so." The sheriff said sighing.

Scott sat down besides Malia and the Sheriff.

"I will be right back." The sheriff said heading towards Parish.

Scott heard the sheriff talking to Parish about the desert Wolf and her attack on Stiles, Malia and Braeden. Parish agreed to return to the station. He waved Lydia goodbye, who distractedly waved him back. Her attention was focussed on the room Stiles was in.

The Sheriff sat down again besides Scott and Malia gave them all a rundown of what went down.

"So, she shot him from a close distance?"

Malia nodded and the sheriff continued, "Then how is the bullet still in his body? It should have exited his body given the speed of the bullet."

"I think that when I pushed Stiles out of the way, the bullet nicked me before hitting him. I am sorry; I should have protected him better." Malia said remorsefully

"Malia, this is not your fault." The sheriff said sternly.

"Yes Malia, the sheriff is right." Scott added and continued, "I shouldn't have sent him alone. I should know better by now. I am the one to blame, no one else."

"Scott!" the Sheriff said in his most paternal voice, the voice that the sheriff used when he and Stiles and gotten into some mischief and the sheriff was scolding them. He felt all of 10 years old again looking at the sheriff with his sad puppy eyes.

"This is no one's fault. Not yours; not Malia's; nobody's; do you understand me?" he continued only after seeing Scott nod in agreement. "We all know how Stiles is. He would do anything to help his friends. So, shop blaming yourselves." The sheriff added sternly. He looked at everyone to see that he got his point across, even Lydia and Liam gave a nod to the sheriff's satisfaction.

The sat in silence for some more time until Melissa made an appearance.

"How's he doing?" the sheriff asked as soon as she was close enough.

"They have managed to stabilize him. He's lost a lot of blood. They are operating on him now to get bullet and the glass out."

"He will be alright, right Mom?"

"The doctors are doing their best sweetie. That's all we can ask for at the moment."

"I will be back with more updates if I can or when Stiles is in recovery." The sheriff nods.

Melissa takes Lydia with her telling that she needs to change her dressing.

When Lydia gets back, Liam is on the phone with Deaton and Hayden. Liam hangs up and asks Scott to accompany him to Deaton's. Both Lydia and the sheriff tell him to go saying that Stiles would be in the operating theatre for some more time, he should go and help Hayden."

Scott agrees asking Lydia and Kira to call him as soon as he has some news. He kisses Kira goodbye and heads off with Liam.

They reach Deaton's and find an injured Hayden on the table. She tells them what happened with Sebastian.

Deaton says , " I have managed to stabilize the injury but considering you are a chimera, I don't know how or IF you will heal."

Scott knows that Liam loves her and he has already lost her once. His beta could not lose her again. He himself does not want to lose anyone else close to him. Stiles is already in the hospital and there is nothing he can do about it, but he can help Liam and Hayden out. It has to be their chose though, so instead he says,

"We can still take you to the hospital"

"I have already done that once." Hayden says

"It's your choice" Liam says

Hayden agrees for the bite and Scott gives t to her. The bite works. Hayden is going to be alright. They both look so happy. Scott's happy that he could at least save someone, make someone happy. Now he can concentrate on Stiles and making him better. He sometimes wishes that saving Stiles could be so easy, a bite to solve all their worries, but he knows that Stiles doesn't want the bite and he would never do anything against Stiles's wishes.

He heads back to the hospital telling Liam to stay with Hayden.

He has a friend to take care of.

TBC.

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