The next day Scott, Isaac, Boyd, Stiles and Ethan are all on a school bus headed to a meet along with Coach and a bunch of other students. While they are driving towards the meet Lydia and Allison are following them in a car.
"Stop thinking about it man." Isaac tells Boyd, the two werewolves sitting near the front of the bus.
"What, like you're not thinking about it too?" Boyd replies.
"We both stop thinking about it." Isaac suggests.
"I can't." Boyd says.
"Well there is nothing you can do about it either." Isaac remarks.
"Are you sure about that?" Boyd asks and looks over to Ethan, who is staring at his phone every few minutes.
Meanwhile in the back of the bus Stiles is doing a word quiz with Scott who is lost in thought almost constantly, recalling how he watched his friend and someone he considered a mentor die.
The bus hits a speedbump and Scott winces in pain.
"You OK? We shouldn't have come, I knew we shouldn't have come." Stiles says upon seeing his friend in pain.
"We had to. There is safety in numbers, and we need to watch them." Scott says, nodding at Boyd and Isaac.
At another wince Stiles rolls his eyes, saying "Alright Scott, I'm telling Coach."
"No, I'm alright." Scott insists.
"Well you don't look alright. Just… Just let me see it." Stiles replies.
Scott leans forward and lets Stiles pull down the back of his shirt and Jacket, revealing the two deep gashes he received curtesy of Kali.
"I know it looks bad but they're from another alpha, I'm guessing I'll take a while." Scott says.
"How come Boyd and Isaac are fine then? They're betas." Stiles asks him.
"I don't know alright?" Scott sighs, letting his forehead rest against the seat in front of him.
|In Allison's car|
"Are we driving too close?" Allison asks Lydia.
"Depends, do you mean the bus or your boyfriend you're trying to avoid, yet not avoid." Lydia remarks.
"I'm not trying to avoid him, it's just things have been a little shaky ever since…" Allison says.
"I know. Still, we're not turning around. I need to make sure Scott is OK. Isaac texted me last night and said that Scott didn't seem OK. I don't know why he even went on this trip." Lydia says worried about her boyfriend.
"At least one of us is in a happy relationship." Allison remarks, smirking at her bff.
"Yeah and hey, things will come around. If not I think you might've caught Isaac's attention." Lydia tells her, looking at her mischievously.
"I think you mistake hate for getting his attention. Remember, I cut him up when Gerard tried to cure himself." Allison tells her.
"I'm just saying to me it looked like he is crushing on you hunter girl." Lydia tells her, looking at her phone indecisively.
"Why don't you just call him?" Allison asks.
"I don't want him to think that I don't trust him. Not after the whole Erica deal." Lydia replies.
"This is different, you're worried about him not thinking he's hooking up in the bus right now." Allison tells her.
Back on the bus Scott managed to calm down Boyd, who was about to attack Ethan and Stiles managed to get Danny to find out why Etan keeps checking his phone. And they find out that Ennis is still alive. In fact, unknown to them he's being treated by Deaton, who manages to stabilize him only for Deucalion to kill him, figuring he's better off without Ennis slowing them down. Without anyone's knowledge Ennis isn't the only one who was fighting for life because Derek managed to get to the school and convinces Jennifer into driving him home and helping him heal.
When Stiles sees red patches forming at the back of Scott's shirt, he tries to get Coach to pull over on the rest stop just ahead but Coach only yells at him in response. Having no other idea he tells Scott.
"That's it, I'm calling Allison and Lydia."
"Why? They're back in Beacon Hills." Scott asks perplexed.
"No, they are right behind us." Stiles informs him and dials up Lydia's phone.
"Hey Stiles, yeah I'm about to catch a movie." Lydia answers the phone.
"I know you've been following us, put me on speaker." Stiles tells her.
"Yeah OK." Lydia says.
"Look, Scott's still hurt." Stiles tells the two girls.
"What do you mean still?" Allison asks.
"He's not healing. His blood is actually turning a black color." Stiles informs them.
"What's wrong with him?" Lydia asks worried.
"How am I supposed to know do I have a phd. In Lycanthropy?" Stiles remarks.
"We should get him off the bus. Stiles there is a rest area just ahead, tell Coach to pull over." Allison suggests.
"I've tried." Stiles tells them.
"Reason with him." Allison replies.
"Reason? Have you met this guy?" Stiles asks annoyed at Coach.
"Stiles, listen closely if Scotty dies on that bus he won't be the only one. There will be a certain wannabe detective right by his side." Lydia threatens him and Stiles hangs up, seeing a smirk on Scott's face.
"What?" Stiles asks his best friend annoyed.
"Lydia chewed you out, didn't she?" Scott asks knowingly.
"So what if she did, we need to get Coach to pull over." Stiles says and sees Jared sitting in the bus looking worse for wear. Stiles then gets the carsick teenager to vomit, forcing Coach to pull over the bus at the rest stop.
Stiles helps Scott of the bus and he along with Allison and Lydia bring him to the bathroom at the rest stop.
"Scott, hold still." Lydia tells her boyfriend, removing his jacket and shirt as gently as possible, revealing the claw marks on the back of his shoulder to them, by now dripping with black blood.
"If I was sure you wouldn't die from it I'd punch you right now." Lydia tells him, her voice cracking up at the sight of him so hurt.
"I guess that's fair." Scott says.
"That shouldn't be happening. Especially considering he's stronger than the other alphas, except Deucalion." Allison says, pulling her two friends to the side.
"OK, so what do we do? Call an ambulance? Cause we've got to do something." Sitles asks.
"It could be psychological." Lydia says.
"Like a physical illness form a Psychogenic cause." Lydia explains what she means, and Stiles looks at her dumbfounded.
"It's all in his head." Lydia dumbs it down.
"Because of Derek, he's not letting himself heal because Derek died." Stiles says.
"So what do we do?" Allison asks.
"Stitch him up. Maybe all he needs is to believe he's healing." Lydia says decisively, getting out a small sowing kit.
"We're going to need a new shirt for him, you two get it. I can do this." Lydia tells them, trying to hide that she's actually terrified of losing Scott.
"Lydia, I trust you and no matter what I love you more than anything." Scott tells her, barely being able to make out her hands trembling in fear.
"Scott, stop talking like that and lie down on the floor." She tells him and Scott follows her order, passing out just afterwards.
"Scott?" She asks worried and receives no reply, checking his breath and heartbeat she sees that he's still alive and heats up her needle before sowing him up.
When she's done Scott still hasn't moved an inch or showed any sign of waking.
"Scott?" She asks.
"Scott!" She yells louder and slaps him on his cheek, causing him to rise and take a deep breath.
"What?" He asks, immediately on guard until he feels Lydia's arms wrapped around his neck.
He takes a few breathes to calm himself and sees his back in the mirror.
"Did you do that?" He asks.
"Who else could've done it?" Lydia asks, not letting go of him.
"Good job. See I told you I need you more than you know." Scott says, brushing his hand through her hair to try and reassure the still freaked out Redhead in his arms.
"Uhm, we need to hurry." Stiles says, walking in the bathroom with a new shirt.
"Thanks." Scott accepts the clothing and gets in it with Lydia's help.
The three then hurry back to the bus and get in, the girls leaving the car behind because they were running on fumes anyways.
"Wait, why are there two more students here? You two, where did you come from?" Coach asks Lydia and Allison, who are sitting with their respective boyfriends in the very back.
"We wanted to come along, but our car was running on empty, just our luck that you had to stop." Allison explains.
"Well, just be glad I can't kick a student out of the school bus in the middle of the road." Coach grumbles at them.
"Thanks Coach." The two reply in unison.
"So Scott, how're you feeling?" Stiles asks, leaning over the back of his seat, looking at his were-eagle friend.
"Surprisingly, better already." Scott says rolling his shoulder.
"Good, you had me worried there." Stiles says.
"Not only you." Lydia says and punches Scott in the leg.
"Oww?" He says looking at her confused.
"I said I'd punch you if I know you weren't going to die from it." She says and turns away from him with a pout, only to get pulled down and back so she's half lying on the bench with her torso resting in Scott's lap, making her yelp once in surprise.
"Quiet down you two, you don't have to rub it in everyone's faces that you're in a relationship. Not everyone is as lucky, like a certain Lacrosse Coach." Coach complains, getting stared at from all students at his remark.
"What? Nothing to see here." He yells at them and blows in his whistle for the 200th time that day.