Isaac is in his room catching up on schoolwork when he hears a thud and a muffled curse from Scott's room. He rolls his eyes as he can guess what his alpha has been doing. He debates for a second on whether he should intervene or let it go when he decides that he should do something about it or put up with questions why he didn't. He didn't know when he turned into Scott's keeper...oh wait, yeah, it was when he chose Scott over Derek. With a sigh, he puts down his pen and saunters over next door.

Isaac can't help but smirk when he sees Scott grimacing while seated on the floor, wearing nothing but a pair of athletic shorts. The sheen of sweat on his body showing that he's been at it for quite some time now, enough that even his enhanced stamina is being taxed. Looking up he sees the pull-up bar that was on the doorway to Scott's bathroom has been wrenched free from where it was screwed in.

"Didn't Chris say to take it easy for the next couple of days?" Isaac asks with a drawl. "This doesn't look like you're taking it easy."

"We're short-handed," comes Scott's gruff reply as he rises fluidly from the floor.

"Exactly," Isaac bites back. "Which means you won't do us any good if something does happen and you're too exhausted to do anything about it."

Scott exhales and looks up at Isaac sheepishly. "You're right, I know you're right," he mutters as he picks up his towel and starts to wipe himself dry. "It's just I can't take not doing anything. It's driving me crazy."

"There's that math problem Mr. Owens gave us—"

"Done."

"English paper due on—"

"Finished that last week."

"Histo—"

"Yesterday."

"The—"

"Extra credit paper is on my desk," Scott says glumly. "I finished proof-reading it after breakfast this morning."

Isaac stands there blinking for a minute. "Did you sleep anytime at all these last two weeks?"

"Yes," Scott growls out. "Chris made Mom do bed checks when he caught me sneaking out the second night."

Isaac burst out laughing. "I'm sorry!" He says when Scott turns his scowl on him. "I'm sorry I can't help it!" Isaac snickers between breaths. "The big bad alpha Scott McCall has a curfew enforced by his mummy!" And Isaac dissolves into laughter.

Scott's mouth twitches a bit but he refuses to give Isaac the satisfaction. Instead he growls low in his throat, "Mama's boy, am I?" he mutters then lunges at his friend. Isaac lets out a startled squeak that he will deny making until his dying day when the impact of Scott's body knocks him to the floor.

Fortunately for Isaac's dignity, Scott didn't seem to notice his unmanly squeak but unfortunately for Isaac's dignity, after a brief scuffle, Chris' training has paid off and Scott quickly gets the upper hand. Isaac finds himself pinned by the smaller boy. He tells himself that he lost to an alpha so it should not be as embarrassing as it feels that he was taken out so quickly. He sees Scott's look of triumph and while he's pleased that he got Scott out of his funk, he has to keep his alpha from getting too big a head.

"Eeeeyuck!" Isaac grimaces. "Dude you stink! When was the last time you took a bath?" Isaac doesn't see the warning sign when Scott's eyes narrows and carries on, like the Titanic. "Well it does forecast rain tomorrow so I guess you—yaaahh! Dude that's so gross! Get off of me!"

Scott holding Isaac down tight, grins at the huge swath of spit he left after licking Isaac from jaw to temple. "Who's the stinker now, Isaac?"

"You are!"

Scott starts to hack-and-haw and Isaac's eyes grow big as he realizes his predicament and knowing with utter certainty that Scott does not bluff.

"I am! I'm the stinker!"

Scott looks proud and swallows whatever it was in his mouth to Isaac's disgust but he does get up and lets Isaac go. "And don't you forget it!"

Scott walks into the bathroom presumably to take a shower, at least Isaac hopes so. While Scott doesn't really stink, he does smell more...musky than usual. And while it isn't unpleasant, it is rather distracting. When the water starts running, Isaac lets out a sigh of relief and, with a mischievous smirk, picks up one of Scott's clean shirts and uses it to wipe Scott's drool off.

He accidentally kicks the pull-up bar and he bends down to pick it up. He sees where Scott had twisted the metal and where it was yanked off the door frame. Isaac shakes his head, Scott is usually the paragon of control but when it comes to three people he can lose it: Melissa. Allison. Stiles.

Isaac dumps the bar into the waste basket knowing that Scott will get rid of it later. He thinks about Stiles and admits that he is a little worried but they checked in on time last Sunday and everything was going well. They are expected to be back any day now but Scott won't be happy until Stiles is back and his pack is complete.

Isaac is so deep in thought he doesn't notice when Scott has finished his shower and is already half-dressed. Isaac sees him frowning at the shirt Isaac used to clean himself up with and he can't help but let an evil smirk cross his face. Scott looks up at him but instead of scowling he just smiles and shakes his head and throws the shirt into the hamper.

"Thanks for getting me out of my head," he says, sitting beside Isaac on the bed.

"Don't worry so much Scott," Isaac says patiently. He knows by now that Scott is a chronic worrier. "We all talked about it, it needed to be done and this was the best way."

"I know," Scott concedes. "But I still don't like it."

Aiden and Ethan were sent on a quest to atone for their part in Deucalion's madness, especially for the innocent deaths that they had a hand in, especially their parts that led to the deaths of Erica and Boyd. They both wanted to stay in Beacon Hills and were willing to submit to Scott but Scott and the others found it difficult to look at them without thinking of the damage they had caused.

However Scott's pack has become the de facto guardian of Beacon Hills and the Nemeton and while they have proven to be strong, having two additional wolves—who were proven warriors and willing to be betas under Scott—could not be dismissed lightly. There was also the problem of the Nemeton being activated, becoming a beacon for the supernatural.

To prove themselves and to make up for what they have done, Aiden and Ethan willingly gave up their alpha spark in a ritual to ward the Nemeton and agreed to put themselves in Deaton's and Morrell's hands to atone for their offences. So the Emissaries decided that the twins go on a vision quest of sorts with either Morrell or Deaton to accompany them as their guide.

In addition, Stiles and Danny were judged fit and started to train under the two druids. It was supposed to be just Stiles but Morrell pointed out that Stiles will put Scott first, so to counter that, she agreed to take Danny as her acolyte. Stiles will be the Beacon Hills Pack Emissary while Danny will be trained to become the Nemeton Emissary.

It was decided that Morrell should go with the twins and to bring Danny with her to begin his training but Stiles proposed to go with them instead and take part in the quest. He felt that he was no less guilty than the twins were for causing damage when he was possessed by a dark spirit after Scott, Allison and he woke the Nemeton.

Stiles caused a lot of damage and it took the entire pack and their parents to finally stop him. No one blamed him but Stiles still felt guilty and he wanted to feel cleansed and he wanted to atone. Scott was going to object, that Stiles was not guilty for something someone using his body did but Chris supported the decision and subtly signalled Scott to let it stand. Scott allowed himself to be overridden. Chris later told Scott his reason for this was if Stiles comes back vouching for the twins (and Morrell), it will ease Scott's mind about their trustworthiness. It also allowed the druids' lessons to spread out and allow Danny time to bond with Scott and his pack now that he's actively taking part of things happening in town.

All of it made sense and Scott did give his permission, but he was still unhappy about it. The alpha could see why it had to be done but Scott missed and worried over his friend.

"Don't worry so much," Isaac says again. "He'll be back before you know it."

Scott is about to reply when his phone starts to ring. "Hey, doc, what's up?" he asks. Isaac assumes it must be Deaton making the call. Isaac quickly goes on alert when he sees Scott tense up. "On our way. Isaac's here, we'll rendezvous at the Hale house in twenty minutes. Isaac and I will be there in five and we can secure the area."

Scott turns the phone off and looks at Isaac.

"Something tripped the wards near the Nemeton. We're heading to the Hale house and secure it. We'll wait for the others and we'll take it from there."

"You finish getting dressed," Isaac says as he takes out his phone. "I'll call Melissa and tell her to prepare for possible incoming."

Scott nods and quickly finishes dressing up. Isaac jogs to his room quickly to get his jacket as he calls Melissa and lets her know that something is up and to prepare for the worst. It doesn't hurt to have someone at the hospital prepared in case there might be injuries.

Isaac hopes that it doesn't come to that.

This is the fourth version of my story, version three was written after seeing the second half of Season 3 and I tried incorporating the Nogitsune and bringing in Kira but I had written too much and I would have had to dump too much stuff I had already written. So in this AU Stiles was possessed but not by the Nogitsune. Terrible things also happened but the good guys won, yay! And somehow in all of that Danny (finally) got involved with the pack.