Deaton was becoming more anxious as more time passed with Scott not reviving like Allison and Stiles did. He didn't expect for the teenagers to be dead for 16 hours. 16 long hours! Deaton was really regretting ever mentioning the surrogate sacrifice to begin with. Lydia, Isaac, Stiles and Allison were just as anxious.
Scott was completely submerged and not showing any signs of coming back. To pass the time and keep himself from trying to manually resurrect his best friend, Stiles began telling the others about his experience during the ritual; with Allison given hers as well. She didn't like seeing Scott so vulnerable.
Cora couldn't believe that her brother gave up his alpha spark for her to live. It was a little overwhelming to know that Derek cared and loved her to the point that he would do that without a second thought. From what Peter told his niece, the one he didn't kill, Derek chose to focus on her rather than deal with the Alpha Pack and Jennifer.
That decision warmed Cora's heart, but she couldn't help but see herself as a hindrance because not only was Derek not helping to stop Jennifer, but he was also going to face Kali, weakened from healing her.
Cora was distracted from that line of thought when her brother woke up; he was visibly weak, dehydrated too.She brought a bottle of water to his lips and helped him drink.
"You're alright," Noted Derek.
He was relieved the process worked because there was a chance that Peter lied. It seemed like his uncle came through for family, just this once.
"Yeah, I have you to thank for that." Cora, smiling a bit, relieved that her brother was alright too, even if he was a little weak.
"Time is running out, you know. Kali, a powerful alpha I might add, is still coming for you, Derek. And she won't hesitate to tear you apart." Peter cut through the mini celebration between his niece and nephew.
There were more pressing matters at hand. The two siblings looked annoyed at his interruption.
Scott felt it. He felt the change in him the moment he revived. There wasn't any possibility of ignoring it because it was imprinted deep into his very being, and the burning in his eyes made it hard to even try.
The McCall felt stronger and more powerful than he has ever been, way more powerful than when he joined the Alpha Pack but there was something...
Before Scott could fully analyze himself, he felt a need to breath and remembered that Allison, Stiles and he had sacrificed themselves, by drowning, to find the nemeton, and they did.
Just as Deaton was about to suggest that Allison and Stiles go to the nemeton because time was running out, Scott suddenly emerged from the water, surprising everyone.
They weren't paying close attention to him while listening to the Argent and Stilinski, and Isaac had stopped listening for any heartbeats after sometime, so he didn't hear his fellow werewolf's heartbeat restart.
Lydia breathed a sigh of relief along with everyone when she saw the McCall step out of the water, until she noticed something strange along his forearms that disappeared soon after.
The banshee almost convinced herself that it was just her imagination as no one else seemed to have seen it, but the deep controlled breaths Scott took and the way he subtly hid his hands, coupled with how tight the boy shut his eyelids for a moment, told her otherwise.
Something was going on and the werewolf didn't want anyone knowing about it. Lydia almost snorted at that. There was no way she would just ignore what she saw. No way!
"Thank God you're okay, Scott. We have less than four hours before the moon rises," Said Stiles, shocking his best friend.
"What?" Scott asked, surprised and the look he got from Deaton told him that it was true.
"Yeah, so we've got to go, like right now before its too late," Continued the Stilinski.
"What is it, Scott?" Asked Allison, when the boy didn't respond as expected.
"I need to get back to my, my pack." He answered.
Silence met Scott's answer. Deaton, Lydia, Allison, Isaac and most of all Stiles couldn't believe what they just heard. It actually hurt a little to hear what the McCall said. They thought that he wouldn't be going back to Deucalion when they found the location of the nemeton and could rescue their parents together.
"What do you mean by that?" Stiles questioned, looking betrayed.
Dr. Deaton was a little uncertain about the situation. He'd thought that his sister, Marin, had some success in convincing the boy to leave the Alpha Pack when Scott saved her life, but it didn't look like that at all.
"I made a deal with Deucalion, Stiles." Scott reminded.
"So? Didn't you join the Alpha Pack so that you could find your mom? You know where we can find her, along with Allison and Stiles' fathers." Isaac saw fit to understand what was going through Scott's mind, and he couldn't help but feel like Scott was abandoning him just like Derek did.
"Finding the nemeton is one thing, facing Jennifer is another. I made an agreement with Deucalion to join the Alpha Pack and help deal with Jennifer. I can't just back out, so while we focus on her, you focus on saving our parents," Said the McCall, already leaving the clinic without waiting for a response, he needed to get out of there.
Stiles made to follow Scott out to try and convince him otherwise but Lydia held her hand up.
"Let him go, Stiles, you still need to find the nemeton." She said.
"She's right. Jennifer might not wait until the full Moon, so you have to hurry." Deaton quickly supported the banshee.
The druid was actually worried about what he saw just before Scott hid it, and Stiles had a tendency of irritating people.
They didn't need an irate Scott with the full moon fueling his emotions, especially if the ritual they did might have forced the werewolf to reach his potential upon resurrection as Deaton suspected from what he saw. When Allison, Stiles and Isaac left Lydia stayed behind.
"Can I help you, Lydia?" The vet calmly asked.
If the girl didn't notice how quickly Deaton supported her, she might have fallen for his act, too bad the Martin did and she wanted answers before she confronted Scott.
"You saw it too, didn't you?" She inquired.
When the man raised an eyebrow, Lydia couldn't help but be a little irritated.
"Don't act like you didn't see the black-gray skin on Scott's forearms. It's the reason why you didn't try to reason with him and stopped Stiles, isn't it? You know what that was and I'd like to know too." She stated, daring the druid to say otherwise.
Deaton sight, he wasn't the only one who noticed, after all. Scott had suppressed his bloodlust but now...
Kali kept thinking back to Marin's words as she drove to Derek's home with the twins. She didn't know if the druid lied or not. Could Deucalion have killed Ennis? The she-wolf didn't want to admit it but it was likely.
The Alpha Pack leader knew that Kali didn't agree with having Derek and Scott in the pack and could have used her love for Ennis and his death to motivate her in the pursuit of either forcing the Hale Pack alpha to join them or kill him, while Deucalion worked on securing Scott.
It made sense, so much sense that Kali stopped the car halfway to their destination. She had sacrificed a lot to be with Ennis. Yes, Kali loved the power she got from killing her betas but she loved Ennis more, and if Deucalion killed him... No, not if.
The longer she thought about it the more Kali was convinced that Derek Hale wasn't the cause of her lover's death. Ennis' fall might have made him look like the weak link in Deucalion's perfect pack and the man didn't tolerate weakness. Kali didn't either but the conclusion she was reaching wasn't pleasant.
Killing Ennis could have been a move to protect the pack's image in some way, especially if the person who supposedly killed him joined the Alpha Pack or Kali killed the supposed killer, and Deucalion took Ennis' power to make himself stronger.
Deucalion planned everything and used everyone to finally get Scott's loyalty to their pack, but the boy was defiant to the core. Standing up to everyone in the pack to save Marin proved that and instead of punishing Scott for that, Deucalion allowed the druid to live.
'What did Deuc say at the hospital? Oh, right, he said that Scott was an investment he was trying to mature. Well, he took Ennis from me; I'll take his investment from him. But that won't hurt Deucalion as much as he hurt me, so what would hurt him more?' Kali's thoughts were interrupted.
"Uh, Kali?" Ethan asked after exchanging confused looks with Aiden.
The woman had just stopped the car on the side of the road and remained silent, but the chemo-signals she was releasing...
"Derek isn't going to kill himself, you know." Commented Aiden, the moon was already up and he didn't want to experience the lunar eclipse at the Hales, a fair fight was not on his mind.
That seemed to get their female pack mate into focus.
"We're not going after him anymore." Kali said, taking out her phone and before the alpha twins could question that statement the she-wolf called a certain werewolf. "Where are you?"
She asked when the person answered the call. Leaving Aiden and Ethan a little confused. Kali had been pushing for Derek's death since Ennis died.
Once Scott left the animal clinic, he ran as fast as he could on all fours for the woods. He was surprised at how quickly he reached his desired destination, but shock took root when the McCall saw his reflection on the surface of the stream he stopped at.
Scott was so shocked that he lost his footing and fell. He knew that there was something different the moment he came back from whatever realm they found the nemeton in. He felt the change in his eyes and stopped himself from shape-shifting when he felt the start of the process.
The reason Scott left the clinic as soon as he did was so that he could be alone and allow the transformation to happen, away from everyone in case he lost control. So he came to his secret haven, deep in the woods. Not even Stiles knew of the place and it was a little hard to reach.
Scott didn't realize that he'd shifted on the way to his destination until he saw his reflection and sure enough, he was as different as he felt. But he could deal with it if it meant saving his mother.
Scott shook his head, he couldn't focus on that just yet, and he had to get used to his new form, power and status so that he could stand a chance against Jennifer. If they stopped the darach, his friends wouldn't have to fight anyone to save their parents.
With that thought, the young werewolf stood up and approached the stream again to study his external changes.
"I'm really a monster, now." Scott said to himself, and was surprised at how different his voice was, it matched his new look.
He couldn't help but laugh out loud. The boy couldn't help but remember Derek's words.
"Sometimes the shape you take reflects the person you are."
He'd worked so hard trying to prove otherwise, but it was time he fully and truly accepted just who and what he was.
"I am Scott McCall, a true alpha werewolf." The McCall spoke the words as though a confession after taking in his new appearance.
It felt good to be an alpha, no, to be the true alpha, the rarest of his kind and he was quite proud of it. The werewolf smirked, he had to make use of the time he had before he met with Deucalion and the others, and stop Jennifer from killing him mom.
Sheriff Noah Stilinski couldn't help but feel his head spinning. It hadn't been that long since Stiles filled him in on what had been going on in his town but didn't know about and now he found himself along with Melissa McCall and Chris Argent tied up and waiting to be sacrificed.
His son spent his last semester as a sophomore busy running around town with his werewolf best friend and he, as a father, didn't know. He didn't know the dangers Stiles experienced and that thought made the law enforcement man question his parenting skills.
"Am I a bad parent?" Noah asked himself, not realizing that he'd just absentmindedly voiced the question aloud.
"I ask myself that question every day." Said Melissa, closing her eyes as the cellar Jennifer Blake, put them in started filling with sand from above while it shook, surprising Noah.
"So do I." Chris found himself confessing.
Allison wasn't supposed to know about what they did as a family, at least not the way Kate informed her. Victoria and himself had discussed the issue a lot, questioning if they should tell her or not.
"I was actually hoping for a tip." Noah said, causing them to laugh a bit.
It seemed like they were all lost there.
"Allison just found out about our family history last semester. My wife and I kept her in the dark about what we did. It was an ongoing discussion on whether we should tell her or not, and now, now that she knows..." Said the Argent, shaking his head before he continued. "My sister and wife died because of this life, it's why we are not hunters anymore and decided to settled down."
Melissa observed Chris for a moment. As much as the man tried to put up a strong front, he was just like the rest of them. Experienced, yes, but he still felt just like everyone else and no training could take that away. When she went to say something the cellar shook violently, stopping her.
It looked like all hope was lost until they heard Stiles voice shouting out for his father a moment before the cellar door open. Isaac was first to enter and went to untie Melissa, while Allison and Stiles followed before helping their respective fathers, happy to be reunited with them.
"Thank God you're here. Where's Scott?" Said the nurse before asking.
Isaac stilled a bit at the question and so did his peers. They were saved from answering when the cellar roof began weakening and the stairs broke apart before falling down.
"What the hell are they waiting for?" Cora asked irritated that none of the Alpha Pack members had arrived yet, the waiting was killing her.
"It's called psychological warfare, my dear niece. Since Derek doesn't want to run you'll have to endure the waiting game." Said Peter.
He had advices his nephew to leave but Derek didn't listen, like usual. Said nephew narrowed his eyes on his uncle. Peter was too relaxed; he acted as though he wasn't in danger too. So far, he had avoided confrontation at every turn.
"I'm feeling better and I can handle myself." Derek said.
He had recovered from losing his alpha spark and was confident that he could fight Kali. Cora rolled her eyes at her brother's words. Every time the Alpha Pack attacked them, they were three.
There wasn't any chance of that being any different with the coming attack, so would he be able to stand up to not one, not two but three alphas? She knew their chances, but the Hale girl understood why Derek didn't want to run, she didn't either.
"If you want to die, then go ahead and stay here, but I'm leaving. You might want to leave too, Cora, if you want to see another day or else this full moon will be your last." Peter said.
To prove his point he got up and headed for the door, leaving his shocked family members behind. He wasn't stupid enough to stay where he knew he'd probably die when the Alpha Pack arrived, but most of all; he didn't plan on dying again anytime soon.
Peter closed the door behind him. Cora couldn't believe it and neither could Derek but he guessed that he shouldn't have been that surprised since their uncle favored self-preservation too much to risk his life even for family, though...
"He's right, you know. You should get out of here, Cora. Kali is after me and not you. She..." Derek tried to persuade his younger sister to leave but was interrupted.
"Do you really think I would abandon you again, especially when I thought you were dead?" Cora asked. "If you're not leaving then Im not either. We're family, we're pack and we stick together." She stated.
The former alpha was touched by his sister's words. He got up from where he was sitting and went to give Cora a hug; the two siblings shared a heartfelt moment.
Just as Derek was about to suggest that they leave, there was a knock on the door. The Hales exchanged a look before the male cautiously approached the door and slowly opened it. To his relief but anger, it wasn't Kali but a certain darach who poisoned his sister.
"Hi." Jennifer greeted, not meeting Derek's eyes.
"What do you want?" He asked.
Once Cora recognized the voice, she couldn't help but want to get payback.
"I need your help." The darach said.
When Derek seemed to get more mad at her, she interrupted.
"I'm sorry, okay? I'm sorry for what I did but you need to understand just how dangerous the Alpha Pack is." Jennifer desperately explained and tried to reason with the Hale. "I'm not their first victim nor last and now that they have Scott they'll be unstoppable.
You have no idea just want that boy will be capable of if, actually when he achieves true alpha status and you definitely don't want Deucalion as his mentor when that happens.
I don't stand a chance without you, Derek, just 15 minutes of the eclipse and if you help me kill the Alpha Pack, especially Kali and Deucalion, I'll release the Guardian sacrifices."
"Don't believe her, Derek, she's lying and trying to manipulate you into helping her." Said Cora.
She didn't want Derek to be tempted to help the darach.
Scott was about to leave his haven and head out to find his new pack, satisfied that he now had the power to defeat Jennifer and save him mother and friends when he got a call from Kali. He thought that she might be angry at him for being off the radar for the entire day as he was at the clinic and dead.
"Where are you?" Where Kali's words when Scott answered his phone, confirming his suspicion.
"I'm on my way. I was busy tryi..." He tried to explain but to his annoyance, the she-wolf cut him off.
"I'm sending you coordinates meet us there in 10 minutes and don't be late." Kali said before hanging up.
The McCall almost squeezed his phone to pieces at the order, demanding tone and dismissal. He couldn't help but wonder how Kali, Aiden, Ethan and Ennis could stand Deucalion ordering them around like betas for so long without rebelling.
Even as an omega, Scott didn't like having an alpha to boss him around; Peter and Derek failed spectacularly when they tried that. The werewolf wasn't even going to mention Gerard's attempt.
He was a true alpha and not some beta to be ordered around but that could wait because his mother, his friends' fathers and said friends were still in danger. They were the reason he joined the Alpha Pack in the first place and had to follow the demon wolf's orders like a good beta and swallow his pride.
Kali sent the coordinates as she said and Scott looked up at the full moon before he ran to met her deadline. They still had some time before the eclipse and if Deucalion was right, Jennifer would start her attack around that time. That was the only reason he had taken the time to center himself and see just what he was capable of as a true alpha.
Scott knew that there were a lot of things he still didn't know but getting used to his new abilities could be a difference maker in a fight.
Peter couldn't help but marvel at how stupid his nephew was as he drove to his apartment. His family seemed to lack any self-preservation instincts whatsoever, just like his sister Talia. He'd warned his sister against making them weak and prey to be taken advantage of but did she listen?
Hell no! And look how that ended up. The former alpha couldn't help but shake his head. He put some music on to take his mind off the thought of how low his family fell. Peter swore that he would make it right; the Hale name would reign over Beacon County once again.
Instead of sound coming out of the speakers, thick clouds of yellow smoke were released from every direction. The Hale alpha made the mistake of breathing it in his surprise and regretted it instantly.
The yellow smoke was in fact poison, not just any poison but wolfsbane, yellow wolfsbane. Peter tried to a door or a window but the wolfsbane had already started to take effect, he was swimming in it and when he coughed it became worse.
He ended up losing control of the car and it crashed into a tree. Peter's head hit his driving wheel hard enough to cause the werewolf to lose consciousness and the wolfsbane took full effect. It didn't take long before the unconscious Hale began having seizures.
"What the hell is going on, Kali?" Questioned an irritated Aiden.
He and his brother had been asking the second-in-command of their pack to explain the sudden change of plans but the only response they got was a vindictive look and the she-wolf telling them to wait until they met up with Scott.
What was so hard with just telling them? Ethan looked a little relieved when Kali turned the car around, his brother was against them killing anymore of the Hale Pack and Aiden could understand why but orders were orders and it was not like they hadn't killed before, so Deucalion and Kali would start to get suspicious if they hesitated.
"Stop whining, Aiden. You're old enough to understand when you're told to wait." The she-wolf responded before she packed her car at the place they would be meeting with Scott and got out to wait for him.
Just as the boy was about to retort Scott came into view and they couldn't help but notice how fast he was running. The McCall flipped over to break his speed before he stood before them. Kali couldn't help but note a little difference in how the boy carried himself but couldn't focus on that now.
"Um, where's Deucalion?" Scott asked upon realizing the older male werewolf was not around.
"Not here. Do you really want to be part of the Alpha Pack, Scott?" Answered Kali before she asked.
That question surprised all three males.
"Is that a trick question?" The werewolf in question return, playing it safe.
"No, it's a real question. The way I see it, you'll have to leave Beacon Hills with us after Deucalion gets what he wants as a member of the pack. If you don't want that, I have a deal for you." She replied.
"What's going on, Kali?" Ethan asked this time, feeling a little anxious.
Kali was acting a little strange. First she changed her mind about killing Derek and now she seemed to be plotting something, something that could result in Deucalion retaliating and that wouldn't be a pretty sight.
Kali observed the twins for a moment; it looked as though she was judging them.
"Deucalion killed Ennis, and before you say anything, think about it. Ennis was more durable than Derek, and yet he died from the fall but Derek didn't." Kali informed the boys. "I doesn't make sense that an augmented alpha with four Alpha Pack mates would die from that fall and Derek who is just a normal alpha with three betas for pack mates would survive.
Deucalion had more to gain from Ennis' death than any of us. Actually, he's gained more than any of us from everything that's happened.
Ju-Jennifer would be dead right now if he really wanted her dead, but he needs her to secure Scott's loyalty to the pack while I'm busy focusing on Derek for revenge to either force him to join us to solidify Scott's loyalty or kill him.
Deucalion has been setting and manipulating things into his favor since we arrived here, making sure that Scott would need our help, his help and get his gratitude in return. Do you still want to be part of his pack, Scott?
Do you want to follow the man that let your mother be kidnapped so that you could be grateful to him when he helps you get her back?"
They found that they couldn't dispute what she said. Aiden and Ethan already knew their part in the whole situation. While Kali focused on Derek and Deucalion on Scott, they were assigned to target Lydia and Danny respectively. The demon wolf thought that the two could help the potential true alpha and needed them distracted and unable to do that.
Jennifer poisoning Danny and trying to kill Lydia at the school proved that point; even she didn't want them in the picture to help. But the twins found themselves falling for their assignments in the process and genuinely liking them. It was kind of hard not to.
That was the reason Ethan was against killing more of the Hale Pack, he just wanted a normal life with a boy he liked. Well, as normal a life as werewolves could have. Scott connected the dots and found that he couldn't argue with what Kali said.
He felt a little helpless but most of all angry with himself and Deucalion. He wanted to rage and let out his frustration. Kali just had to do all that just before they went after Jennifer and now Scott found that he couldn't truly rely on Deucalion or his pack mates to help him. Deucalion's stalling made sense now, it all made sense!
When Kali heard a deep growl come from Scott she went in for the kill, she had the siblings and Scott right where she wanted them. Aiden and Ethan lost faith in Deucalion and Scott was disillusioned and desperate. Deucalion saw fit to hurt her and take away what she loved, she would return the favor.
Kali had the male alpha alienated by the pack, eliminating the power boost he got from the pack bond and ultimately making him that much weaker. Oh, Deucalion was strong as an individual plus he had Ennis' power but the pack bond still augmented some of his power and eliminating it just increased the chances of her plan succeeding.
"I have a proposition for you, Scott." Kali said, regaining his attention along with the twins'. "Deucalion plans on facing Jennifer with you by his side, just you. If you want to stay in Beacon Hills and freedom from the pack, you'll kill him after you've dealt with Jennifer. We won't retaliate; in fact, I'll even leave Derek alone."
That shocked Scott and the twins. They just realized what Kali planned. She wanted the Alpha Pack for herself as revenge against Deucalion and to spite the man even more, Kali wanted the McCall to betray him just like his beta tried to do when the demon wolf had just been blinded.
Scott couldn't believe what the woman was suggesting. He hadn't killed before, he worked very hard not to. The young werewolf remembered Deucalion's words about having to take a life to save another and realized something from what Kali said.
If Deucalion just wanted the two of them to stop Jennifer, then the man wanted him to kill her to save his mother and his friends' parents. Kali wanted him to kill Deucalion to secure his freedom and Derek's life. It seemed like everyone wanted him to kill, but this time Scott was actually willing to, the stakes were high, too high not to.
Multiple lives depended on him; he couldn't care if he lost his status as a true alpha. No one even knew that he was already an alpha, so it would work to his advantage. The twins were surprised when their fellow pack mate seemed to accept the proposal, but they understood, they would do anything for each other.
Kali hid a smirk as she saw the look that entered Scott's eyes. She hoped that Deucalion and Scott would end up killing each other after finishing off Julia, commonly known as Jennifer. Actually, she would make sure that neither survived the fight.
Kali planned to kill the last werewolf standing. They were both threats to her, after all and she didn't plan on having another Julia after her.
"If I'm going to do this then I need your help." Said Scott after he thought it over.
The twins raised their eyebrows, there was no way they would fight and help kill Deucalion. They didn't like that he killed Ennis but he still helped them out and going against him directly was just not an option. Kali was annoyed.
"Deucalion thinks that we're after Derek, he would be suspicious if we just showed up." She said.
The she-wolf wasn't planning on tiring herself out.
"Not with that. I need Aiden and Ethan to help my friends find and save my mom while I do my part. I need you guys to help my friends." Scott clarified, locking eyes with the twins but most importantly, Ethan.
He was the most likely of the two to put some effort to help his friends.
Aiden and Ethan felt something settle in them when the McCall directed the last part to them. There was a certain command to his voice that reminded the twins of an alpha's command to betas. They'd experienced that enough to recognize it. Being omegas in a pack wasn't an easy thing, especially if you disobeyed an order.
"We don't know where the nemeton is." Said Aiden, trying to understand why he was affected as though he was a beta.
"Um, it's a supernatural beacon so to find it I think you need your wolf eyes." Scott replied.
Kali noticed how he was confused by how he came to that conclusion but shook it off, it wasn't important. Scott killing Deucalion was important, he would subsume the demon wolf's power and then she would kill him and subsume both of their powers from the boy.
That would be power from three powerful alpha werewolves, she would be unstoppable and that was all that mattered.