"Wash. where is she?" Taylor asks arriving in the hospital with Scott and the Shannon parents.

"She's right over there." Washington tells them, pointing underneath a table, where the little girl they found wandering outside their gates is hiding herself.

"Hi." Elisabeth greets the young girl cautiously, making her turn away and hide her face in her dirty pants.

"She's terrified, I need everyone to clear out of here and give us some room." Elisabeth instructs.

"Understood, but I want to talk to her." Taylor agrees with a sigh.

"OK, just give me a few minutes alone with her." Elisabeth says.

"Fine." He agrees and moves to the other side of the room with Jim, Washington and Scott.

"Something's wrong." Scott says, watching the table instensely.

"What are you talking about?" Jim questions.

"I don't know yet, but… it doesn't make sense." Scott murmurs to himself.

"What is he going on about?" Jim asks the commander, who simply shrugs his shoulders disinterested, knowing that Scott will speak up if he has something to say.

"Hello little one, don't be frightened. I'm Doctor Shannon, do you know where you are?" Elisabeth introduces herself to the small girl.

"Under a table." She replies.

"Sorry about my colleagues, I don't think they meant to scare you." Elisabeth says.

"They wanted to give me a shot. I don't like shots." The girl tells her.

"Do you have a name?" Elisabeth asks.

"If I tell you, can I go?" She questions in return.

"perhaps, once I've taken a look at you. Why don't you come out here and talk to me?" Elisabeth tells her.

"No." The girl answers quickly.

"OK, what if I promised no shots, just this. It's just a light, look." Elisabeht suggests, showing her the device's function, shining over her pullover.

The little girl cautiously crawls out from under the table and sits down in front of Elisabeth.

"I lost my bag. I dropped it when they were chasing me." The girl says while Elisabeth shines the light at the girls' eyes.

"That's OK. I'm sure we can get somebody to go look for your bag." Elisabeth tells her, continuing to scan a few spots on the girls face.

"So are you going to tell me your name?" Elisabeth asks.

"Lea Marcos." She answers.

"So do you have somebody waiting for you back home, or at your camp?" Elisabeth asks, getting a headshake 'no' in response.

"What about your parents?" Elisabeth asks.

"Dead." The girl simply answers.

"Are you hungry?" Taylor asks, walking up to the two women cautiously, setting down a tray of food on a table, causing the girl to quite literally dive for the food.

"Been a while since you've eaten?" Jim asks, walking over with Scott and Washington.

"I only get scraps. That's why I ran away. I'm going to see my Nana, she always had a lot of food." Lea replies.

"Does that Nana live here in Terra Nova?" Taylor asks.

"No, Texas. I tried to find the portal but I must've gotten lost on the way." Lea tells them.

"Finish your food, we'll talk about it later." Jim says.

"Taylor here, talk to me." Taylor answers his radio then.

"Commander Taylor?" Lea asks.

"That would be me." He replies.

"You're the bad man." Lea says, causing Scott to laugh.

"Scott, just… be quiet." Taylor says, stopping himself from chewing out the teen in front of Lea.

"Scott? Then you're the monster." Lea says shocked, turning to the teen in the room.

"That's quite right little lady." Scott says, shifting.

"Scott, stop scaring her. Go, you're not needed here." Jim tells the teen, who locks his red glowing eyes on Lea, sniffing the air and realizing what he found curious before.

"Phe, just cause I like your daughter that doesn't give you the right to order me around." Scott tells Jim, dropping his transformation and patting the man on the shoulder once while he leaves and whispers "You and Taylor meet me at my house when you're done here. Urgently."

"Well her BMI is lower than I'd like to be and I'd like to get some more fluids in her, but generally she's healthy." Elisabeth tells the group.

"I'm going now." Lea says and tries to run past the adults, but Jim catches her before she passes by them.

"This is my husband, Jim. You're safe OK?" Elisabeth tells the girl while Jim sets her down back on her seat.

"Lea, there is something we need to tell you." Jim says.

"Lea, the portal, it only goes one-way." Elisabeth tells her.

"What?" Lea asks shocked.

"It's true, you can't go back sweetheart." Jim says.

"So I can't go see my grandma?" Lea asks.

"I'm afraid you can't." Elisabeth tells her sadly.

"Where do I go now? I can't stay with the bad man and I can't go back to Mira, she'll hurt me for running away." Lea says panicking.

"That is one tough young lady. Imagine running through the jungle on her own from god knows where." Taylor says, having moved to an empty room to talk to Jim.

"It's amazing she made it as far as she did." Jim agrees.

"You know, this could turn out to be a good thing for us. We need intel on the sixers, like where they hide out or who's their inside man here in Terra Nova." Taylor tells him.

"But she's just a kid, how much could she really know?" Jim asks in return.

"We won't know anything until we gain her trust. How's she doing?" Taylor says with Elisabeth joining the two.

"She's still upset, but I think I managed to calm her down." Elisabeth tells them.

"You do seem to have that effect on her. And you know until we find a permanent place for her, she's going to need some place to stay." Taylor says.

"Well, she can stay with us, right Jim?" Elisabeth suggests.

"So we're a family of six now? Are you sure?" Jim asks worried.

"She can have Josh's room, he can sleep on the couch a couple of nights." Elisabeth suggests.

"It's settled then, very good." Taylor tells them with a grin, having hoped for this outcome.

"Before you go, there is something we need to do before taking Lea home to us." Jim tells the man, who turned to leave.

"And that is?" Taylor questions surprised.

"Scott. He said he needed to speak to the both of us, urgently." Jim answers.

"Hah, that kid. Fine, let's go Shannon, I'm sure the good doctor can manage to take Lea home on her own, right?" Taylor asks.

"Yeah, no problem. And Jim could you send someone to tell the kids, so they can clean up Josh's room?" Elisabeth asks.

"On it." Jim nods positive before he leaves with Taylor, heading to the young werewolf's house.


|Scott's house |

"What is it now Scott?" Taylor asks, stepping inside the doorframe of Scott's dirty home while the teen is throwing metal objects onto a few piles.

"And what is with this mess?" Jim asks standing behind the commander.

"I'm cleaning up. This used to be the smithy, which apparently anyone used, despite the fact that it's supposed to be my house in the colony." Scott replies, throwing another piece of junk metal onto a pile.

"So, what was so urgent that you needed to talk about it right away?" Taylor asks.

"Oh, right. I hope you haven't left your eyes off that Lea girl right?" Scott asks them.

"No, she's safe. My wife is bringing her to our home right now." Jim says.

"She's what?!" Let's go!" Scott asks shocked and walks past the two men, only for Taylor to hold him back by his arm.

"What is this about Scott?" Taylor asks.

"The girl, she's lying. She must be a sixer spy." Scott tells them hurriedly, trying to continue heading to the Shannon's home.

"What makes you say that?" Taylor asks.

"I can smell it. She hasn't been out in the forest for more than an hour." Scott tells them.

"What are you talking about?" Taylor questions, not believing his claim.

"Taylor, listen to me. She didn't come here accidentally." Scott says, turning to the commander.

"Scott, listen. I don't know what you have against that little girl, if it'S the fact that she called you a monster or something but you can't be serious about this." Taylor says doubtfully.

"Jim. Help me out here." Scott implores the former cop, hoping his senses picked up on the girls deceit.

"Sorry, I think she was telling the truth." Jim tells him.

"Ugh, fine then but don't come crying to me when that little girl brings doom over the colony." Scott grunts annoyed and rips himself free of the commander's grasp.

"Where are you going?" Taylor asks.

"To Jim's house. I'm going to try and get at least Maddy out of there." Scott shouts back, already 20 feet away from the men.

"Wait up." Jim shouts, following Scott, while telling Taylor "I got this. You head home yourself commander."

"Ugh, that kid and his ideas." Taylor groans before heading to his home.


|shortly after - Shannon house|

"Would you stop already. You thick headed fool." Jim groans, trying to hold Scott back, who continues walking towards the cops house with Jim, pushing against the teen's chest with no success, only getting pushed towards his own house as a result.

"What is going on out here? We just got Lea to bed." Elisabeth asks, stepping outside with Maddy and Josh upon hearing her husband's voice.

"Scott's got it in his head that Lea is some kind of sixer spy send to destroy us all." Jim tells them, going over to his family, with Scott stopping a couple feet in front of the Shannon's house.

"Tch, Maddy can I talk to you?" Scott asks after scoffing at Jim's disbelieve.
"I guess." She agrees rather unsure of what is going on and joins him while Scott takes her to the fences behind the Shannon's house.

"What is all this about Scott?" Maddy asks him when they stop at the gigantic fence with Jim keeping an eye on them from the porch of their house.

"I don't want you staying in the same house as that girl." Scott tells her.

"Come again?" Maddy asks stupefied.

"She's lying and no body believes me. I can live with everyone hating my guts, but I can't live with you being in danger." Scott tells her worriedly.

"Scott, I saw her. She's what , 8? I doubt she's spying for the enemy." Maddy tells him.

"Maddy, I'm telling you the truth, she's lying." Scott says.

"Scott, I don't know what this is really about… But if you really want to talk to me, without making up a ridiculous story, then you know where I live." Maddy tells Scott, walking over to her father reluctantly, hoping that Scott will stop her and clear up what she assumes is just a misunderstanding. But when she looks back to Scott, arriving next to her father, she only sees him look after her with worry and hurt written across his face.

"Ugh, fuck it. Next time I'm skipping talking to everyone and just kidnap Maddy." Scott growls upset, walking over to the neighboring house of the Shannon's and sits down on their roof with the owner stepping outside shortly after, to check what caused the noise on his roof.

"What the hell do you think you're doing up there punk?" The man yells up to Scott angrily.

"Shut up, I'm in no mood right now!" Scott growls at the man.

"Like it give a fuck." The man says upset.

"Leave or I'll knock you out for three days straight asshole." Scott warns the man, who sees Scott's eyes turn blood red and flees inside his house in a hurry, finally recognizing who is sitting on his house.

"Stupid assholes, every last one in this dump." Scott growls, looking at his clawed hand, being upset, before looking at the Shannon's house, being able to see Maddy reading something through a window and due to his enhanced senses he's able smell her and hear her trying to shush her brother from across the street.


|the next day|

Jim, Maddy and Elisabeth leave the Shannon's home together, Jim is heading to Taylor and the mother and daughter are heading to the hospital.

When they stepped out of the house the group hears yelling coming from their neighbors house.

"What's going on over there?" Jim asks, going further into the road with his wife and daughter to see what's happening at their neighbors.

"What are you still doing up there punk?" They hear their neighbor shout angrily, the man being armed with a shovel.

"Quit your whining old man, I got seniority in this place. I have already been here for 7 years." Scott groans back at the middle aged man, his eyes having red bags under them, not having gotten one wink of sleep since he stood guard, watching the Shannon's house through the window as well as using his enhanced senses to make sure everyone in it is alright.

"Isn't that Scott?" Elisabeth asks, seeing the two arguing parties now.

"Yep." Maddy says feeling somewhat embarrassed that the guy she likes is causing such a ruckus this early in the morning.

"Should I go over there?" Jim asks.

"It's Scott, it's probably going to be just fine." Elisabeth says.

To their surprise however their neighbor swings his shovel up at Scott, shouting "I don't care if you're fighting the dinosaurs, you're going to get down from my house right now!"

The shovel hits Scott in his leg with its sharp edge, cutting him across his shin.

"Son of a bitch. You know I was going to leave it at arguing with your dumb ass, but now you've gotten me angry." Scott says eerily calm, his eyes glowing and his facial hair increasing, sideburns sprouting from his cheeks.

"I better get over there." Jim tells Maddy and Elisabeth, hurrying over to their neighbor's house.
"Hey, Scott. What are you doing here?" Jim asks, trying to calm the werewolf teen down.

"Get lost Shannon, I don't think you have the stomach for this." Scott says dismissively, stepping off the roof and glaring at the panicking man, who tries to hit Scott with his shovel again, only for Scott to catch the object with ease and break the shaft in half with a flick of his wrist.

"I'm sorry. I… I shouldn't have hit you. I'm sorry." The man, who is scared by the werewolf teen calmly walking towards him yells, hurrying into his house, shutting the door behind himself and locking it.

"Come on Scott, it's fine I think he's learned his lesson." Jim tells the teen.

"No, no, no He hasn't. None of them have. It's time I demonstrate who is allowing who to live in this colony." Scott says angrily, stepping over to the houses wall.

"What is my character supposed to say again? Oh right. I'll huff and puff and blow your house in." Scott growls, his arms bulging from the strain while he literally shoves half the houses wall in, making the wall collapse with a loud thud.

"Assholes." Scott says under his breath, looking at his bleeding leg and leaves, heading towards the fence, behind the houses and climbs over it with three jumps before disappearing into the jungle behind them.

"Uhm… I gotta go." Jim tells the neighbor, who's sweating in fear, having taken cover in a corner of his house.

"What was that all about?" Elisabeth asks Jim.

"I don't know. Scott upset the neighbor somehow, the guy cut him with a shovel and then that happened." Jim replies, pointing at the damaged house.

"Why would he do that?" Maddy asks shocked.

"I don't know, first thinking Lea is a spy, now this. Something is going on with Scott and please Maddy, promise me you'll stay away from him for now?" Jim requests.

"I… OK." Maddy agrees saddened, after seeing her mother's agreeing look.

"Thank you." Jim says and the three hurry off to their jobs.


A couple minutes later Jim met up with Taylor and filled him in on what happened that morning.

"Hmm, I see. Is the guy OK?" Taylor asks.

"Yeah, I think so. Probably can never read the three little pigs ever again but he should be good." Jim answers.

"Good. My advise, just forget about it." Taylor tells the former cop.

"what? Forget that the guy who's started dating my daughter just leveled half a house without any warning?" Jim asks stupefied.

"Yeah. Just leave it be. Something like this happened a few times before with him." Taylor explains.

"And you just ignore it?" Jim asks shocked.

"Yeah, well he's never hurt any people and always just gave them a good scare." Taylor says calmly.

"And you don't find that odd or disconcerting?" Jim questions.

"By normal standards sure but remember. Scott isn't normal." Taylor tells him.

"What do you mean by that?" Jim asks.

"Well, he isn't just changed when he transforms. His whole personality is affected by what the experiments turned him into. Luckily for us he has an unbelievably strong protector instinct. But there is also part of him that needs to feel respected as the Alpha." Taylor informs him.

"So what? Whenever he doesn't get his way he goes rogue?" Jim asks.

"No, no, no then he'd be going berserk all the time. I think what may have caused it this time is that Lea called him a monster. I think it's been a while since anyone was dumb enough to say it to his face." Taylor says.

"Hah, fine. You said it happened before, did someone call him a monster then too?" Jim asks.

"Well, one time yes. The other time someone framed Scott for a robbery and everyone wanted him out of the colony. And another time… Well I think it's OK if you know. There was an incident with Skye." Taylor says.

"The girl Josh hangs out with?" Jim asks.

"Yeah. She's a good girl, really. I love her like a daughter. But she made her fair share of mistakes four years ago." Taylor says.

"She was working for the sixers, who held her mother captive and used her to get Skye to spy on us. When Scott, who was dating her at the time was close to finding out about it Skye tried to kill him." Taylor informs Jim heavy heartedly.

"That's a lot to take in." Jim says.

"Yeah, well now you know that it's best if we just give him some time to cool down." Taylor says.

"That's fine with me. But Maddy will stay away from while he's like that." Jim replies.

"That's up to her as far as I'm concerned. I can only advise you to leave it be and let him cool off. Yesterday must've been too much for him, he'll probably be back to his usual self in a day or two." Taylor says calmly, going with Jim to the market.


Meanwhile at the hospital Maddy is having trouble focusing on observing and assisting her mother's work. Partially due to not taking some of the more disgusting sights and smells associated with the job too well and partially because she's worried about Scott.

"Mom, do you think I'm a bad person?" Maddy asks her mother out of nowhere.

"What? No. You might be way off with your choice in a possible career, but that doesn't say anything. A doctor's work isn't for everyone." Elisabeth tells her.

"What? Oh, uhm you noticed huh?" Maddy asks surprised and disappointed.

"No, no, you were very subtle when you were trying to hold in your vomit." Elisabeth says jokingly.

"Now what is this about?" She asks.

"It's about Scott. I'm wondering if I went with him last night, that maybe he wouldn't have acted so weird this morning." Maddy says.

"Maddy, Scott was already behaving irrationally yesterday. Now I don't know what's going on with him. But I'm sure that if you talk to him when he's got his head on straight again everything will be fine. I can tell he's quite smitten with you." Elisabeth tells her daughter, giving her a reassuring hug.


AN: hope you enjoy the story so far,

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