|a week later|

"What kind of work are they doing out there?" Jim asks his wife while he helps her carry some equipment to a rover.

"Standard medical research, nothing dangerous." Elisabeth replies.

"Yeah, then why hasn't anyone heard from them in over 72 hours?" Jim questions.

"That's what we're going there to find out. Don't worry I'll be back before dinner." She tells him reassuringly upon seeing his worried look.

"You better be because that Reynolds kid is coming over for courting tonight." Jim reminds her with annoyance evident in his voice.

"I think it's really sweet he's going about things the old-fashioned way." Elisabeth tells him.

"I think it's weird." Jim says.

"Lieutenant Washington is in command while I'm gone so if you need anything talk to her or Scott while I'm gone." The commander tells Jim, before hopping in the rover with Elisabeth and a soldier joining him.

"Alright, be safe." Jim tells his wife, giving her a quick kiss.

"Oh, my wedding ring, do you mind picking it up at the hospital? I took it off before surgery this morning." Elisabeth asks him when she notices her ring missing.

"Sure." Jim replies and waves to her when Taylor drives away, giving them no chance to talk further.


|An hour later|

Jim is at the hospital, waiting for one of the staff to bring him his wife's ring.

"Mr. Shannon, your wife's wedding ring." An Asian woman tells him, handing him the ring.

"Thanks, you didn't have to cut anyone open did you?" He jokes, getting an unamused look in return.

"They did." Scott jokes, pulling away the curtain from around the bed he's sitting on just a couple feet away from the former police officer.

"Haha, what did you get into again? Wait, let me guess." Jim asks Scott, walking over to him and standing at his bedside while observing the wounds.

"I'm gonna say carno." Jim guesses, looking at Scott quizzical.

"Oh, I'm afraid you couldn't be more wrong. This happened while fixing the electrical fence around the farming station actually. People really must think my only job here is duking it out with the saurs, but I'll have you know I'm smarter than I look." Scott tells him, motioning to his cut-up arm.

"Wow, remind me to stay away from that fence." Jim replies and sees his two daughters arrive at the hospital form the corner of his eye.

"What are you two doing here? Shouldn't you be at school?" Jim asks them while Maddy makes her way over to her father and Scott while holding Zoey's hand.

"Zoey's sick and this time she's not pretending. It's just a cold but they asked me to take her out of class." Maddy informs her father.

"I need mommy." Zoey says while wiping her nose.

"Sorry sweety, mommy's not here?" Jim tells her.

"Where is she?" Zoey asks confused.

"On a special mission." Scott tells her.

"How about I get someone to treat your cold and then I'll take you home?" Jim tells his youngest.

"Just be careful not to catch her cold." Maddy warns him.

"I never catch colds." Jim replies.

"Oh and he jinxed it." Scott chimes in with a smirk, only to receive a doubtful look from the older man.

"So, how come half the time our paths cross is at the hospital?" Maddy asks Scott, walking over to his bed.

"Hmm, could be that your mom is part of the staff and you're a diligent daughter paying visits?" Scott suggests.

"Weird, I could've sworn it's because a certain wolf-boy can't keep his hands of sharp objects, what was it this time? If I remember the last time it was a mistake in the smithy which almost impaled, you to a wall." Maddy asks her friend.

"Hey, the metal I was given was of bad quality. And I had a run in with the fence I was repairing." Scott tells her.

"So how are things going on your end?" He asks her.

"OK I guess, I'm actually going to be working with my mom soon." Maddy tells him excited.

"Great, can't wait to have you stitch me up." Scott tells her with a chuckle.

"Or you could just be more careful and not hurt you during every activity you do." Maddy suggests.

"I'll keep it in mind." Scott replies.

"Hey, I'll see you around. Looks like it's your turn and I have to get ready for my date soon." Maddy tells him.

"Date?" Scott questions.

"Yeah, you know Mark right? He's coming over tonight." Maddy replies and heads off, when a nurse approaches Scott, who looks after her with disappointment.


|That evening|

Maddy and Mark just had an awkward date, partly due to Maddy being nervous and rambling the whole time and partly due to Jim playing watchdog over his daughter, making Mark just as nervous.

"OK, tell me the truth. That was the worst date ever right?" Maddy asks her father after Mark left.

"No." Jim replies.

"Yeah, you're just saying that to make me feel better." Maddy says with disbelieve.

"I'm saying it cause I lived it. My first date with your mom. She was so astronomical out of my league. It was a total failure but guess what? When it was over, I asked her out again because I knew in the end it'd be worth it." Jim tells her.

"Well that's for you and mom. I just don't think that's the case for me and Mark." Maddy tells him thoughtfully.

"What do you mean?" Jim asks confused.

"I don't know. I like him but somehow, it's not like people say it should be. Like that I can't stop thinking about him or my day would get better by just talking to him. I don't have any of that stuff with Mark." Maddy explains.

"Look Maddy, just do what you think is right. If you don't have feelings for Mark that's OK, just be honest to him and don't lead him on." Her father advises and gives her a kiss on her head before getting up from the table and going back to his tablet to look over some file.

"Thanks dad, I won't be long." Maddy tells him. When Jim is in his room, she grabs her jacket and heads out, going looking for Mark.

"Hey, what's got you in such a rush? I thought you had a date tonight?" Scott asks Maddy as she rushes past him while he was working on something not too far from her house.

"I'm looking for Mark. We had our date, but I have to tell him something." Maddy replies.

"Must really like the guy huh? Give me a sec I'll see if I can catch his scent." Scott asks and shifts.

"Well like being the right word, I actually want to let him down easy before its too late." Maddy replies.

"You're a weird one." Scott laughs before concentrating on the soldier's scent again.

"Alright, got it. Hop on." Scott tells her and empties out the rest of his wagon in seconds.

"OK." She agrees unsure about it and gets in the wagon with Scott grabbing the handle and running towards where Mark's scent is coming from.

"Hey, warn me next time." Maddy protest as she falls over due to his inhuman speed.

"Next time?" Scott asks and looks back at her questioningly.

"Look in front of you." She tells him, turning his face so he's facing the road he's running down again.

A couple minutes later Scott and Maddy are only a hundred feet or so away from Mark when Scott stops.

"You got the rest on your own?" Scott asks.

"Yeah, thanks." Maddy replies and hops out of the wagon before jogging towards Mark.

While Maddy is heading towards Mark Scott sets down his wagon and lies down in the back of it, partially to relax and partially to stick around and see if Maddy goes through with it.

After 5 minutes of him lying down another person lies down in the wagon, next to him.

"So, how'd he take it?" Scott asks, not opening his eyes.

"Well he was disappointed but glad that I told him now how I feel." Maddy replies.

"So how're you holding up?" Scott questions.

"To be honest, better than I thought I would. I guess it helped being able to talk to someone." Maddy says.

"Aww, it's my pleasure." Scott replies jokingly.

"I wasn't talking about you. I meant my dad." Maddy tells him.

"Of course, you know anytime I do something Mr. bigshot Shannon shows me up." Scott says with a small scoff.

"What are you talking about?" Maddy asks laughing and sits up, propped against the back of the wagon.

"As if you don't know what I'm talking about. First your dad saves the commander while I dealt with that carno and everybody is glad your dad saved Taylor and annoyed that they have to lend a hand in preparing the meat. And after that there was the whole flying saur thingy where I held off the first wave by myself and the only thing people care about is your dad and Taylor luring those flying lizards away. I mean in that instance it was quite heroic but still a little appreciation for my involvement wouldn't have hurt." Scott tells her, joining her against the back of the wagon.

"Didn't I thank you for that?" She asks.

"Not in so many words, but even if you did there were a few dozen other people who got off scoff free because of me could've said even just a thanks." Scott says.

"You're right. I'm sorry I never noticed that no one appreciates you around here." Maddy apologizes guiltily.

"Don't worry. You're not the problem. And neither is your dad. He was just reference material." Scott tells her in a calming tone, noticing that she got upset.

"Still it's wrong that no one shows you any appreciation when you're keeping everyone safe all the time." Maddy says upset.

"Hey, I said don't worry." Scott tells her, putting his arm around her shoulder while Maddy is close to tears.

In that moment Josh walks down the same road they are on and sees Maddy upset with Scott's arm around her and thinks that he has to defend her from him.

"Hey, let go of her!" Josh shouts and jumps up on the wagon, throwing Scott over the side and jumps after him.

"What are you doing Josh?! Stop!" Maddy yells at her brother, who is kneeling on Scott's chest and punches him in the face twice before Maddy snaps him out of it and pulls her brother off Scott.

"Are you OK? I don't know what he was thinking." Maddy asks Scott, helping him up and glares at her brother.

"What? I was defending you! You were upset. Obviously he did something." Josh says.

"You need to get your facts straight." Scott tells Josh and spits out a bit of blood.

"Josh, he did nothing wrong. He only hugged me because I was upset not the other way around you dumbass. Seriously, how could you even think like that he saved your life twice already, do you even realize that?" Maddy asks her brother accusingly.

"Skye told me all about him and said that he can't be trusted." Josh tells her.

"Hah, alright I see what happened. Do me a favor and ask the commander about this the next time you see him alright?" Scott tells Josh and pulls down his shirt enough to reveal the scar over his heart.

"What are you talking about?" Josh asks confused and annoyed.

"Just do it." Scott says and leaves with his wagon, leaving the two siblings alone.

"Did he really not do anything to you?" Josh asks concerned after Scott is halfway down the road.

"No, he gave me a lift and we talked. You really are such a stupid jerk. If I didn't know that you were trying to protect me I'd slap you." Maddy tells Josh disappointed and starts walking.

"What? It looked like you were crying because he was forcing himself on you or something." Josh defends himself and goes after her.

"Well he wasn't." Maddy replies.

"Then why were you so upset?" Josh asks.

"Because of how unfair everyone treats Scott, you included apparently." Maddy explains.

"What are you talking about? Oh you know what, forget it." Josh says.

"So, are you going to talk to the commander?" Maddy asks.

"No, what's the point? So he has scars, no news here." Josh tells her.

"Then I'll ask him." Maddy says annoyed and the two head home in silence.

When they reach their house, Jim checks on his children only to see them pissed at each other.

"What the hell happened? I thought you were going to stop things with Mark?" Jim asks the two.

"I did, and then I was hanging out with Scott when Josh decided to attack him." Maddy explains.

"I thought he was hurting her. She was upset, apparently not because of him though." Josh explains when his father looks at him expectantly.

"Ugh, alright. Do I need to intervene here?" Jim asks and receives two headshakes 'no' in response.

"Then that is good enough for me." Jim says and goes back to his room.


|next morning – command center|

"What's the word from outpost 3?" Jim asks arriving in the house.

"Still waiting." Washington replies.

"what do you mean, shouldn't they have checked in already?" Jim asks.

"Yes, but we've been having communication problems out that way for weeks." Washington informs him.

"Then shouldn't we send another team out there to check?" Jim suggests.

"Commander Taylor left me with specific orders. Until he says otherwise outpost 3 is under quarantine." Washington tells him.

"Quarantine? No, I spoke to my wife last night I think I'd know about a quarantine." Jim asks with disbelieve.

"If the commander hasn't checked in by nightfall, I will consider sending another team." Washington suggests.

"No, there is no way I'm waiting around that long." Jim disagrees.

"If there is any news you will be informed." Washington tells him.

"understood." Jim says annoyed and walks out.

"You know he's going anyways right?" Scott asks Washington from his spot on the couch in the room.

"Well then don't sit around and stop him." Washington replies.

"Phe, as if I'd have any luck with that headstrong goat." Scott scoffs but follows Jim anyways.

"Hey, wait up." Scott yells, running after Jim.

"What?" Jim asks annoyed.

"Look, I know I can't stop you from going out there, so this is me trying at least for the record." Scott tells him.

"Thanks." Jim replies and wants to continue on his track, only for Scott to stop him, seeing Washington check on them.

"Wait up. Would you look at that Malcom's rover still has a functioning roof, nowadays that isn`t a given for most rovers." Scott says, holding Jim back with his arm until Washington left the balcony and is back inside.

"Wash. was watching." Scott tells Jim with a wink and heads back to the command center.

"Hey, can you do me a favor?" Jim asks.

"Maybe." Scott replies.

"Can you check on my children if I'm not back this evening?" Jim asks.

"Maddy and the twerp no problem. Josh however isn't too fond of me. I'll see where he's at though if that's enough for you." Scott replies.

"Yeah, thanks." Jim thanks him, patting Scott's shoulder and heads to the hospital to look for Malcom.

While this is happening, across town Josh pays the local bar owner a visit with Skye after she told him that he may have a way to get Josh's girlfriend onto the next pilgrimage.


|that evening|

After checking on Josh, who is at Skye's place Scott makes his way over to the Shannon's house and knocks on the door.

Moments later Maddy opens the door.

"Scott?" She says surprised.

"I'm sorry, I was expecting my parents." She apologizes.

"Don't worry, your father asked me to check on you actually." Scott informs her.

"He did? Where are they?" Maddy asks.

"Uhm, outpost 3." Scott replies.

"Why?" She asks.

"Let's just say they are held up." Scott replies.

"What do you mean held up?" She asks, stepping closer to him and staring at him expectantly.

"Alright, let me in and I'll tell you." Scott says and Maddy lets him enter.

"So, what's going on?" She asks him again.

"They are under quarantine. Well your mom was and your father went to make sure she's alright and now is stuck same as her." Scott explains.

"What? What is going on in that outpost?" Maddy asks.

"I honestly don't know, I only overheard what I already told you. Something medical or biological or something I'm guessing. If it were technical or combat related, I'd have been filled in." Scott replies.

"Well that is not good enough." Maddy says upset and wants to leave.

"Hey, hold up where are you going?" Scott stops her, holding her arm.

"I'm going to get some answers from Lieutenant Washington." Maddy tells him decidedly.

"Alright, let me get someone to watch your sister first though." Scott tells her.

"OK, you have 5 minutes." She agrees with a frown.

"Give me 10." Scott tells her and is already out the door.

Once outside he rushes over to Skye's place and basically kidnaps Josh, tying up his arms and throwing him over his shoulder.

"What are you doing, let me down!" Josh yells angrily, while Skye only watches Scott with shock.

"Sorry, no time for you to make a fuzz, I'll explain on the way." Scott tells him and leaves while carrying the teen the same size as himself.

"Alright, listen you need to watch Zoey for a while." Scott tells him after he carried the teen half the way to his house.

"And you couldn't have told me that like a normal person?" Josh yells angrily.

"Now where would be the fun in that? And consider this payback." Scott replies and lets him down, untying him in the process.

"So why do I need to watch Zoey? Isn't Maddy watching her?" Josh asks confused and jogs towards his house with Scott.

"She is, but she wants to see Washington about the situation your parents are in and someone needs to watch Zoey, meaning you." Scott explains

"What situation?" Josh asks confused.

"They're held up in an outpost. Maddy and I are just going to get an update from Washington." Scott tells him.

"Hmpf. Alright, but I'm not happy about you tying me up and dragging me away." Josh tells him.

"Yeah, well to be honest I just didn't want to have to deal with Skye." Scott replies.

"What's the problem between you two?" Josh asks.

"You don't need to know, it doesn't concern you and it's in the past. Something just happened that's hard to look past." Scott says and the two reach the Shannon's home.

"finally, I was about to go by myself." Maddy says, waiting for the two in the entrance.

"Sorry that your brother isn't the fastest." Scott replies and takes her hand, heading towards the command center with her.

"Don't let the twerp out of your sight. She's sick, remember?" Scott tells Josh, who heads inside to look for his little sister.


A couple minutes later

"Just keep a cool head alright?" Scott tells Maddy who was fuming the whole way over to the command center.

"It's my parents. If I want to worry, I'll worry." Maddy replies.

"Fine." Scott says defeated and goes after her, while Maddy walks up to the door and knocks, saying "Lieutenant Washington it's Maddy Shannon I'd like to speak to you."

"What are you knocking for? I sleep here so much I consider moving in for good." Scott asks her, walking past his friend and opening the door, stepping inside with her.

"Lieutenant Washington, my parents…" Maddy says only for Washington to try and send her away, looking freaked out.

"Leave now." She tells both teens and moments later Taylor appears out of his hiding spot and holds a knife to Scott's neck.

"You're not too good at following orders are you soldier?" Taylor asks Scott.

"That's news to you?" Scott asks him relaxed, pulling the arm free Taylor held behind his back and rubbing the wrist with his other hand.

"What's with him? He got a death wish?" Taylor asks, holding the knife stronger against Scott's neck, making Maddy shriek fearfully while Washington shields her from Taylor.

"What's wrong with him? Did he forget his course in werewolf 1o1?" Scott asks Washington.

"Shut your mouth you bastard. Now where is my wife, where is Ayani?"

"You're sick commander, your mind's confused. The war has been over for decades, we won." Washington tells him, glaring at Scott to signal him to stay still, while Maddy is watching Scott, fearing for his life.

"Don't you lie to me Wash. I want answers." Taylor tells her and draws some blood from Scott.

"Please, Don't!" Maddy yells, tearing up.

"You don't want to do that sir. His name is Scott McCall. He is like a son to you." Washington tells him.

"I have a son. Where are they? Where is my son and my wife?" Taylor asks.

"7 years ago, you led us to this place so that we could have a second chance." Washington tells him while Taylor turns Scott so he faces Taylor, who holds his knife at the teen's eye, who only looks at it, not caring about the weapon in the slightest.

"What is this place?" Taylor asks.

"It's home." Washington tells him.

"Home? Then where is my wife?" Taylor demands to know, releasing his hold on Scott but keeps his knife pointed at him.

"Ayani is gone Nathaniel. She died." Washington tells him.

"You're lying to me Wash." Taylor says in disbelieve.

"I would never lie to you Nathaniel, this is your place. Your home and you've forgotten that's all but we can help you remember." Washington informs him.

"Ayani is dead? Well why would I want to remember that?" Washington asks and tries to stab himself in the heart, only for Scott to hold his hand in between the man's chest and the knife, getting stabbed right through it but keeping it away from Taylor's chest. While Scott is holding the knife and getting a shocked look from Taylor and a worried one from Maddy Washington gets her sonic gun and shoots the two men, knocking them out.

Not long after Jim, Elisabeth and Malcom return from the outpost with a cure, having found by using the cold Jim caught from Zoey.


|The next morning|

"OK, take it easy. Commander, can you tell me where you are?" Elisabeth asks Taylor, who is strapped down to a bed.

"Terra Nova." He replies, looking at her and Washington with some confusion.

"Well you should be OK in a couple of hours. We've administered the antidote to you and your memory might take a few more hours to recover. We'll give you some rest." She tells him while Washington removes the straps on the commander's arms before both women walk away.

"Lieutenant. You shot me." Taylor says.

"Yes sir." She replies.

"Good job." Taylor tells her.

"No, not a good job. She shot me too, that was really uncalled for." Scott chimes in, peeking around the corner and walking over to the commander.

"So, you feeling better?" Scott asks Taylor, offering the commander his knife back.

"Yes. Sorry about before." Taylor apologizes, taking the knife.

"Oh well you know I only found it confusing that I'm the only one who wasn't worried, since you can't very well kill me by normal means as you of all people should know." Scott tells him.

"Still. I'm sorry." Taylor apologizes.

"Don't worry. And can you do me a favor, in the moment I blabbed that Josh should ask you about my scar, I changed my mind. Don't tell anyone." Scott says, pointing at his chest.

"Sure, it's your call. I'm not sure I remember what happened at the moment anyways." Taylor replies.

"Well you better remember this conversation, or I'll write you a note on your hand and believe me that will take a while to get rid of." Scott tells him jokingly while he leaves.

As he leaves, he bumps into Maddy.

"Oh, sorry. I was actually going to look for you right now. Sorry I wasn't able to check in earlier, but I had to help out with the whole outbreak situation after coming to." Scott apologizes to her.

"Yeah I understand. Want to catch up tonight?" Maddy suggests.

"Sure. I'll see you tonight then." Scott agrees with a grin.

Maddy enters the commanders' room.

"Hey, I wanted to see how you're doing." She tells him, knocking on the door.

"Just fine. Sorry for scaring you like that." Taylor apologizes.

"Say can you tell me something? Scott mentioned that you can shed some light on a scar over his chest and I was curious." She asks him.

"Sorry, he just swore me to secrecy not too long ago but from the look of it you know who else is involved, maybe ask them?" Taylor suggest, knowing that Scott has feelings for the girl.

"Alright, thanks." Maddy says and leaves the hospital to go looking for Skye, who is by herself at her house.

"Hey, can I ask you something?" Maddy asks the girl with a wave.

"Sure, what is it?" Skye asks, making room for the girl to sit.

"Scott said something about a scar on his chest and apparently you should know about it so I was curious if you can tell me." Maddy says.

"I guess you can't run away from your past. Do you want the short or the long version?" Skye asks with a heavy sigh.

"long I guess." Maddy replies.

"Well first thing you need to know then is that years ago Scott and I were dating." Skye informs her.

"Anyways, at that time my parents or at least my mom was still alive and when everyone thought she was dead from an illness someone from the sixers approached me and they actually held my mother captive, giving her enough medicine to survive in their captivity." Skye tells her.

"That's horrible." Maddy says shocked.

"Yeah, and it got worse, they wanted me help them. And of course, I did it. At first it was only stealing a supply here and there and it was all manageable until Scott got concerned about me disappearing from time to time and he was bound to figure out what was happening so the sixers ordered me to kill him." Skye explains.

"I asked him to meet me outside Nova for a romantic date and stabbed him in the heart with a blade covered in wolfsbane which the sixers brought from the future. Wolfsbane by the way is one of the few things dangerous to Scott if you don't know that yet." Skye tells her.

"Why did you do that?" Maddy asks shocked.

"I was thinking about my mom. Who they killed after I failed to kill Scott. I lost my two most important people that day. One by my own hand and the other by the sixers. Only difference is that the one I tried to kill is still alive." Skye says sorrowfully."

"Granted I didn't know Scott then but I'm sure you could've asked him for help instead of trying to kill him.

"Yeah, looking back I should've done that. To be honest I was probably too scared, fearing that I was going to be found out to think of another way." Skye tells him.

"So that's how Scott got the Scar on his chest?" Maddy asks.

"Yeah. The other scars are probably all from the future, since he can't really be hurt indefinitely here. The Only way he'd die is probably if someone from the future tries again or if one of the big ones eats him, which is doubtful." Skye explains.

"So that's why he doesn't trust you." Maddy says.

"Yeah, he has every reason to. I'm always hoping I can try and make up for what I've done but there is nothing I can really do. I didn't just try to kill him I also broke his heart. But from the looks of it you are well on your way to fixing it." Syke tells her with a small grin.

"What are you talking about?" Maddy asks blushing.

"Come on we both know you have the hots for him." Skye says.

Maddy simply gets up to leave in reply.

"Are you going to tell Josh?" Skye asks worried.

"No, but I think you should. If not now, then soon. Because Scott almost told us himself but decided against it apparently." Maddy tells her.

"I wonder why." Skye says surprised.

"Maybe he still cares about you." Maddy replies and leaves.


|that night|

"Jo Shannon family." Scott greets the family, walking into their house.

"It's good to see you again, it'd be more polite to knock though." Elisabeth tells Scott.

"Sorry. Taylor always has his door open, so I forget it sometimes." Scott replies.

"Ah Scott, give me a second. I'll be right out." Maddy tells him and Scott waits outside.

"Why is Scott here?" Jim asks.

"I asked him to meet me tonight." Maddy replies while fixing her hair over and over before leaving while her parents exchange knowing looks.

"So, what is the plan?" Scott asks Maddy once she steps outside her door with him sitting on her porch.

"I don't know I was just hoping to find a quiet place to talk." She replies.

"Hmm, up for a little adventure?" Scott asks with a grin.

"depends, how dangerous is it?" She asks.

"Not at all." Scott replies.

"Alright, lead the way." She agrees and Scott takes her hand, leading her to the fence behind her house.

"What are we doing here?" She asks.

"I'm going to take you to my actual home, well the one not used as a smithy." He tells her and starts to climb over the fence with her looking up at the large fence with worry.

"Alright, put your arms around me and don't let go." Scott tells her, jumping back down and offering her to get on his back.

Maddy puts her arms around his back and slings her legs across his stomach clinging to his back for dear life while Scott climbs the fence with ease and back down on the other side.

"You can let go now, not that I mind this." Scott tells her teasingly when he starts to walk through the woods with her still hanging on his back with her eyes closed.

"Oh, sorry." She replies and jumps off his back, walking by his side instead.

"So what did you want to talk about?" Scott asks her.

"Uhm, can we do the talking once I don't fear being eaten my a dino?" Maddy asks.

"Sure, that won't happen while you're here anyways. But we're almost there." Scott tells her and points to a large tree house in the top of four thick grown together trees.

"How exactly do we get up there?" She asks when they are standing under the structure.

"Alright, hop on." Scott tells her and she gets back to clinging to his back for dear life while Scott climbs a rope ladder.

Another minute later they are in the treehouse.

"We're here." Scott tells her and she looks around before touching the floor beneath cautiously.

"So why are you living in a tree house?" She asks.

"Save from the saurs and just far enough for Nova not to bother me with noise, well other than the alarm, which is a good thing." Scott tells her.

"Thanks for showing me this. It's really cool up here, a little scary but cool." Maddy tells him.

"Thanks, you're the … 6th person up here." Scott tells her after thinking about it.

"So what did you want to talk about that we have to be away from everybody?" He asks.

"I asked Skye about your scar." She tells him.

"Oh." Scott says, his mood turning sour.

"I'm sorry that happened to you." She tells him.

"It was long ago, 3 or 4 years now I think." Scott says.

"So was that all you wanted to talk about?" Scott asks, sounding void of emotion.

"No, I know this might be sudden and probably the worst timing ever, but I want to go out with you." She tells him.

"Are you sure you aren't just feeling pity for me?" Scott asks.

"Yeah I'm sure. I mean I was going to ask you out before I even asked her about the scar but that whole disaster with my parents happened." Maddy replies.

"Well in that case I'd be honored to go out with you." Scott tells her and gives her a kiss on the back of her hand.

"Just a quick warning. I learned that I am terrible at first dates." Maddy warns him.

"Hah, you're preaching to the quire. I only ever had one girlfriend and you heard how that turned out." Scott tells her amused.

"Well I never had a boyfriend, so let's call it a tie." She tells him.

"Deal." He agrees with a grin.

"Well since we're already up here, let me give you a tour." Scott tells her and shows her around the large tree house.

"This place is really great, if only it wasn't 60 feet up in the air." Maddy says.

"Hey, I have a reason to actually stay in my actual house now, so I'll clean It up and make sure it's live able when I get around to it." Scott suggests.

"That'd be so great." She says happily, hugging him.

"Well I guess I better bring you back home or your dad will start a manhunt for us." Scott tells her while playing with her hair.

"Yeah, you're right. I totally forgot." Maddy agrees and approaches the ladder leading down. "How exactly am I getting down?" Maddy asks, glancing at the ground 60 feet beneath her.

"Same way we came up." Scott says, turning his back to her.

"Alright, but first. While we have a moment to ourselves…" Maddy says and turns Scott around, giving him a deep kiss as soon as he's facing her.

"Do we have to be by ourselves for this?" Scott asks, holding the girl close to himself with his arms around her waist.

"Preferably. At least until I can kiss you without thinking my head will burst from the blood rushing through my cheeks." Maddy tells him.

"I like your cheeks like that." Scott tells her after looking at the blush on her face.

Scott then brings Maddy back to her house, where Jim is already waiting for them.

"I hope you didn't do anything unmannerly with my daughter." Jim warns Scott, who's bringing Maddy over hand in hand.

"Are you sure you want to open the door to those quips and comebacks?" Scott asks Jim.

"No, just treat her right." Jim tells him.

"I intend to." Scott replies and gives Maddy's hand a quick kiss before he leaves and waves her good night.

"What happened?" Jim asks his daughter once Scott is walking away.

"Are you sure you want to know?" Maddy asks her father doubtfully.

"No." Jim replies defeated and the two turn back to Scott who is laughing loudly, having listened in on them with his wolf-hearing.

"Night Scott." Maddy says and Scott turns towards her waving again with a wide smile.

"That's going to be so annoying." Jim says, looking towards the werewolf.