Three days later Scott is staying over at Lydia´s home, since the threat on his mother is reduced, now that a third doctor was sacrificed.
"Hey Lydia, I´m gonna grab a water, do you want something?" Scott asks Lydia, who is lying on her bed, posting something on her mobile phone.
"Uhm, no thanks." She says and Scott heads downstairs to the Martin´s kitchen, where he grabs a water bottle and starts to head back upstairs when Lydia comes down the stairs.
"Did you want something after all? Lydia?" Scott asks, getting no sign of response.
Scott assumes that her abilities are acting up and shifts one hand, gently grasping her hand with his glowing talon.
The next thing they both know they are in front of the school.
"Wait, why are we here?" Scott asks Lydia, coming back to his senses.
"I don´t know. I must´ve driven here like when I found the body at the pool." She says equally confused.
"right. The last thing I really recall is seeing you walk down the stairs like in a trance and I grabbed your hand." Scott tells her.
"Great, so there is a dead body around here." Lydia says grumpily.
"I guess so. Hey at least we found out that me zapping your powers doesn´t help." Scott tells her, trying to find a silver lining.
"Great. More bad news." Lydia says disappointed, holding her arms because she´s cold.
"Here." Scott says, draping his jacket around her.
"Thanks." She sighs.
"What now though?" She asks, turning to look at him.
"I don´t know. I better call Stiles. He´ll want to know about this, plus we might need the manpower to search for a body." Scott replies, taking out his phone and dialing up his quirky friend.
10 minutes later Stiles and Allison, who was next to him when he answered Scott´s call arrive at the school.
"What happened?" Stiles asks, stepping out of his Jeep with Allison.
"It´s the same thing as before, I was doing something entirely different and the next thing I know we´re at the school." Lydia tells them.
"So you found a body? And why are you here already?" Stiles asks, turning to Scott at the second question.
"Not yet and I saw her walking through her house like in a trance and tried using my powers to snap her out of it, but it only made me go with her. We only came to when we were parking at the school." Scott explains.
"What do you mean not yet?" Stiles questions stupefied.
"Well we don´t know where it is or what to do when we find a body, so we called for reinforcements ahead of time." Scott explains.
"Man, you´re supposed to call after you find a dead body, what if the killer is around?" Stiles asks worried and grabs his baseball bat from the Jeep.
"Just come on, let´s see if something is amiss." Scott tells the group and leads them to the front entrance, until he stops dead in his tracks.
"What´s wrong?" Allison asks, being the last of the group.
"I found the body." Scott tells them, pointing over to the school´s sign, where a dead deputy lies, her blood covering half of the sign.
|at school - next day|
Scott, Stiles and Lydia are sitting in Jennifer Blake´s class while Allison and Issaac, who got tasked to look after her by Stiles and Scott follow her father and try to find out what he has to do with the sacrifices, since the map he has shows everything before it happened.
"I think we should try to get to Ethan." Scott tells Stiles and Lydia.
"Why?" Stiles asks opposed to the idea.
"Druids are emissaries right? What if the Darach was an emissary for the alphas?" Scott suggests.
"That might be right but we´ll have one big problem if we want to get to Ethan." Lydia says.
"What´s that?" Scott asks, turning around since she´s sitting behind him.
"Aiden." Lyida answers.
"I think I can keep him busy. You two try to get something out of Ethan." Scott tells them.
"And what if he gets violent?" Stiles asks.
"shout for help and stab him with this." Scott tells him, pulling out the handle of the dagger he gave Lydia for her birthday.
"What with a knife?" Stiles asks, thinking Scott is kidding.
"it's a claw. A kanima claw." Lydia informs Stiles.
"How?" Stiles asks confused.
"You don´t wanna know." Scott says shuddering at the memory of how Deaton removed the claw in a way it can regrow but won´t lose its potency.
After their class the group split up with Scott going ahead and basically dragging Aiden into the locker room. Once Aiden is away from his brother Lydia and Stiles pull him aside to question him.
"Why are you even talking to me? I already helped kill one of your friends, why do you think I won´t kill another one?" Ethan asks the two.
"We´re talking to you because Scotty asked us to and he believes that you didn´t want to kill Boyd." Lydia tells him.
"You don´t know what we owe them. Especially Deucalion. We weren´t like the others, already alphas when he found us, we were Omegas. Scratching at the bottom of the barrel. He taught us how to fuse together and gave us the strength to kill our entire pack up until we killed the alpha and stole his power." Ethan explains.
"What about your emissary?" Stiles asks, only to receive a headshake ´no´ in response.
"They are all dead? Kali and Enis´s too?" Lydia questions.
"Everyone but Deucalions." Ethan answers and then feels a pain going over his chest, knowing it comes from his brother.
|Moments earlier with Scott and Aiden|
"What do you want?" Aiden asks Scott, breaking free of his grip.
"To warn you. After the stunt you pulled with Boyd I just want you to deliver a message to Deucalion.
If any of you touch one hair on Lydia´s head I´m holding him and your whole pack responsible. I will be coming after you and ripping you apart one by one, starting with you." Scott threatens him.
"Good luck with that." Aiden says.
Scott is about to retort when someone scratches a spiral on the locker rooms window.
"Derek!" Aiden says angrily and stops out of the room, following the scent of who did it to the workout room with Scott following after him, lagging a bit behind because he has to concentrate to follow the scent, since the enhanced smell stems mainly from Derek power and Enis´s to some degree.
When he catches up with Aiden he already has a claw mark going over his chest, curtesy of Cora who he flung across the room in response and hits her over the head with a large weight.
"Stop!" Scott and Ethan yell entering the room from both sides simultaneously with Lydia and Stiles waiting at the door.
The two hold back Ethan, who was already rearing back the weight to deliver another hit.
"You can´t do this!" Ethan shouts at him.
"She came at me." Aiden defends himself.
"That doesn´t matter. Kali gave Derek to the next full moon. You can´t touch him or her." Ethan reprimands his brother, who calms down and lets the weight fall while Stiles is looking over Cora.
Ethan drags his brother away and the others help Cora up, who shrugs off their help, tending to the wound, checking it in a mirror.
"You OK?" Scott asks, seeing no sign of healing.
"She doesn´t look OK." Lydia remarks, from her spot at Scott´s side.
"I´ll heal." Cora replies annoyedly.
"Do you realize how suicidally crazy that was? What were you thinking going after him?" Stiles questions.
"I did it for Boyd. None of you were doing anything." Cora says pissed, looking at Scott.
"We´re trying." Scott tells her.
"And failing. You´re just a bunch of teenagers running around, thinking you can stop people from getting killed, but all you do is show up late and find the bodies." Cora tells them and leaves.
"Well she´s definitely a Hale. I´ll make sure she gets home." Stiles tells Scott and Lydia, leaving them standing in the room alone.
"Scott…" Lydia says sullenly.
"Lydia, don´t listen to her OK? We are both doing the best we can." Scott tells his girlfriend, rubbing her arm soothingly.
"I know but she´s right, isn´t she?" Lydia asks.
"Hey, we got other stuff to deal with than Cora Hale´s opinion of us. I still can´t control my shift and we don´t even know what to do with your ability." Scott says.
"Lydia? Great again." Scott asks her but she is in a trance, going out of the locker room and to a classroom where a fivefold knot is drawn on the blackboard.
"What?" Scott asks, seeing the Celtic symbol. Lydia continues to the symbol and writes ´2´ into one of the outer circles before letting out a loud scream, alerting anyone in the near vicinity.
"What happened? Again?" Lydia asks, seeing that she´s standing in front of the blackboard with a 2 written on it in her handwriting.
"You zoned out and came in here, writing the 2 on the board." Scott tells her, holding his ears, which are still ringing.
Soon after Jennifer Blake and some of the school´s security arrive at the room, keeping other students out of the room.
"What is going on?" Jennifer asks the two teens.
"The teacher who was here is gone, like the others. Taken." Lydia tells her.
"We´ll call him out over the pa." Jennifer says, not believing her.
"Just call the police will you?" Lydia asks stubbornly.
"We have no proof that anyone is missing." Jennifer tells her.
"Ugh." Lydia grunts and storms out of the room with Scott following close behind her, grabbing her bag, which she left in the room on his way out.
"Lyds. Wait up." Scott says, jogging to catch up with his furious girlfriend.
"Why does no one believe me?" Lydia asks angrily.
"Hey, I believe you and so will Stiles, Allison and Isaac." Scott says, rubbing her arm calmingly once he catches up to her.
"This is what Cora was talking about you know? For some reason I know that that teacher is the second sacrifice, but I can´t do anything about it because no one believes me." Lydia complains frustrated.
"I know it´s frustrating, but it´s not your fault. You tried everything you could." Scott says.
"Hmpf. What now?" She asks, slumping down on a bench.
"First things first, we´ll tell Stiles what happened and try to come up with a plan from there." Scott suggests, already dialing up their friend.
"What?" Stiles answers his phone annoyed.
"Hey, Lydia thinks that the new history teacher is the next sacrifice." Scott informs his friend.
"Yeah I know, Allison just called. She and Isaac followed her father to one of the spots and he tried to take out the Darach, no luck though but Mr. Westover is there, dead." Stiles replies.
"What does that mean? I thought guardians were being targeted." Scott asks, putting his phone on speaker so Lydia, who scooted closer to him on the bench in front of the school can listen in.
"No it's philosophers. The officer who died, she used to be a teacher. She helped me with my homework a long time ago." Stiles informs him.
"Well now what do we do? I mean it could be any teacher now and school is about over so they're gonna head home." Scott asks.
"Actually no. Most have to help prepare for the memorial concert." Lydia chimes in.
"That's good right? We can stay here and try to stop the next sacrifice before they get taken." Scott asks.
"I guess, listen I'm going to head home to tell my dad everything anyways. Guardians are next which means he isn't out of danger and needs to know now more than ever." Stiles tells them.
"OK, I guess we'll see you later?" Scott asks.
"Yeah, later." Stiles says hanging up and parks in front of his house.
Stiles then tells his father about werewolves, kanimas and everything they know, using a chessboard with its pieces as reference. When Noah is about to head to the crime scene of Mr. Westerfields body however Stiles asks Cora in a hail mary to shift but when she gets up from her chair she passes out, bleeding from her head wound.
"Call an ambulance." Noah tells Stiles while he's looking over the girl.
Cora then gets brought to the hospital with Stiles and Noah Stilinski following it to make sure she's ok. Stiles asks his father to believe him once more, asking him to send officers to the school but Noah doesn't believe Stiles story and leaves the hospital.
|that evening – memorial concert|
Scott and Lydia are standing near the entrance doors while people start to fill in the rows in front of the stage.
"Do you feel anything? I don't feel anything unusual." Scott asks his girlfriend.
"No." She says disappointed.
"Hey, it's going to be alright. We can do this." Scott tells her, grasping taking her hand in his firmly.
"Look, I don't know why I'm always finding the bodies. I don't know if that is all a banshee does but maybe if I stop trying to fight it… I could find them before it's too late." Lydia says, looking to the floor lost in thought.
"And with enough time we might still be able to do something about it." She finishes, looking into Scott's eyes.
"You get me the time, I'm gonna try everything I can to stop what's happening." Scott replies, squeezing her hand and nodding his head.
Minutes later the concert starts and Lydia gets a text from an unknown number, saying " I have some information for you, meet in the science lab!"
"Scott." She says, showing him the text and pulling him along behind herself heading towards the science lab.
When the two enter the room however Scott gets hit over the head with a stone and falls to the ground. While he's lying there Jennifer, who hit him throws a circle of mountain ash around the young shapeshifter.
"Scott!" Lydia says scared until Jennifer knocks her out by hitting her in the face with a broom handle.
"What are you doing?" Scott asks, getting up, the wound on his head already closing.
"What do you think I'm doing?" Jennifer asks with a sickening smile, dragging Lydia over to a chair she prepared, where she secures the unconscious redhead to it by tying a rope around her waist.
"What? Why are you doing this?" Lydia asks coming to, looking around the room in confusion, head head pounding while she can only see everything blurry.
"I'm doing what is necessary, but none of you seem to get that. You call them sacrifices but you're not understanding the word." Jennifer says, readying a garrote.
"I don't give a fuck. Let Lydia go!" Scott yells angrily, already pushing against the mountain ash barrier for the last 3 minutes during which Lydia was unconscious, so much that his skin is coming off from the friction.
"Stop, you don't have to do this." Lydia begs the teacher.
"Oh I wish I could, but you don't know the Alphas like I do. But you Lydia, you are not a sacrifice, you're just a girl who knew too much." Jennifer says, stepping behind the redhead and putting the garrote around her throat and tries to suffocate her, Lydia however has enough strength to hold the wire back and lets out a banshee scream before she looses all strength in her hand and Jennifer who pauses at the scream goes around, looking at Lydia like she's a rare animal.
"Unbelievable you have no idea what you are do you? The wailing woman, a banshee. You are just like me Lydia, you look like the innocent flower but are the serpent under it. Too bad though, I can't let you life." Jennifer tells her while Lydia is crying helplessly in the chair.
Jennifer steps around the chair to continue what she started and chokes the girl until she lets go of the wire in shock when a loud screech comes from a few feet away and she looks towards Scott, who she totally ignored as he breaks out of the mountain ash trap, his Skin being an ashy gray color with his eyes burning hot red on a black sclera his mouth didn't change into a beak but instead now has a couple large fangs sprouting in them. Two large black feathered wings sprouting from his back and his Talon's shining a bright red as well. Additionally a long reptilian tail is sprouting from his tailbone, the spiked tip of it hovering over his shoulder like a scorpion waiting to strike.
Jennifer pushes Lydia aside, focusing on the new bigger threat in the room and uses her powers to throw a couple tables at him, which Scott blocks with his wings.
He takes a step forward and Jennifer's knees buckle due to the power coming off the shapeshifter in front of her.
"What are you? This is Deucalion's power isn't it?" Jennifer asks, having seen what is happening to her happen to another pack when Deucalion shifted.
Scott runs at the woman, grabs her throat and lifts her in the air while she's choking from his grip.
Scott gets a vicious smirk on his face and rears his free hand back, his Talons on the hand glowing even brighter as he readies himself to deliver the killing blow until Noah Stilinski bursts into the room and aims his gun at him.
"What the hell are you?" The sherriff asks, opening fire on Scott who throws Jennifer across the room and slowly walks towards Noah, the bullets not slowing him down at all.
Lydia sees this and has managed to wiggle herself free from her chair. She runs towards Scott and steps in front of Noah Stilinski.
"Stop!" she screams.
"Lydia?" Noah asks shocked.
"Scott, you can fight it. I'm OK for now, but not if you can't get control of this. You know what will happen don't you? You will kill me then Stiles father, then Stiles. Everyone you know and care about.
Scott come back to us." Lydia says before she glomps onto him, kissing him passionately.
After a few seconds of nothing happening Scott slowly shifts back to his human self, sweating bullets.
Jennifer then walks over to Noah, who tries to shoot her but she regenerates the wounds the sheriff causes moments later.
When she reaches him she stabs him with a ripped of table leg lying around from when she hurled them at Scott and jumps out of the window with him, leaving behind his damaged sheriff's badge. Moments after she's gone Scott passes out and Lydia checks his pulse and breathing, letting out a sigh of relief when she sees that he's alright. She gets her dagger out of her purse in case Jennifer comes back and sits down against a wall with her unconscious boyfriend.
Minutes later Stiles, Allison, Isaac and Chris Argent burst into the room only to see half of the room in disarray and Lydia sitting against a wall with a passed out Scott in her arms.
"My god what happened?" Allison asks, hurrying over to her best friend, who slings her arm around her and cries into her shirt, relieve washing over her now that she isn't alone in the situation anymore.
"My dad's badge? Lydia what went on here?" Stiles asks, picking up his fathers badge.
"She took him. Jennifer took your father." Lydia says still crying lightly.
"What! How could that happen? And why is Scott unconscious?" Stiles asks angrily.
"Stiles! Give her some room. I'm sure she will explain." Allison tells him.
"Jennifer ambushed me and Scott…" Lydia starts to explain.
"She trapped him in a mountain ash circle." Chris chimes in, looking at the remains of the barrier scattered on the floor.
"Yes. She was about to choke me to death when Scott broke free, but he wasn't in control." Lydia explains.
"Wasn't in control? What does that mean?" Stiles asks pissed.
"Oh no, don't tell me…" Isaac says, recalling what happened when Deucalion made him absorb his powers.
"Yes, he was like a madmen, he was toying with Jennifer and wanted to kill her but your father shot him and Scott was about to attack him when I managed to snap him out of it but he was already a second away from passing out. Jennifer took your dad and jumped through the window." Lydia finishes.