The morning after Stiles woke up for the first time after being in a coma for a couple of weeks, wasn't much better than the day before if you ask him.
According to what his dad told him yesterday, after he woke up from the sedative, he is 23 years old, almost 24, works for the FBI, really low level, but still, for the freaking FBI, lives in San Francisco, he was visiting Beacon Hills when he got hit by a car, the bastard ran away, which caused him to lose the last five years of his memories, Melissa wasn't his nurse, the hospital food still sucked, and on top of all that he couldn't get the brunette from yesterday out of his head and no one bothered to tell him who she was yet, not that there was time before he was asleep again. Plus he had so many questions.
When the doctor came in that morning and explained to him what happened it didn't make much sense, well he understood the 'damage in the temporal lobe' part, the 'memory lost' part and that 'only time will tell' part, but why was he still in Beacon Memorial if he was part of the FBI?, shouldn't he be in one of the best hospitals in the country?. But the doctor couldn't answer his questions because he was being paged from the E.R. He couldn't even ask him when would he be able to leave that hell hole.
It got better the moment visits were allowed to come in and Scott with a goofy smile adorning his face came was starting getting anxious lying in his bed only looking at the ceiling.
"Hey buddy!" Scott said as he entered the room, cheerful as ever "Good to see you up"
"Scottie! Finally a familiar face, I wanted to text you earlier but apparently my dad has my phone"
"Oh right, the doctors told him to keep it last night after what happened so you wouldn't agitate" the werewolf explained calmly "They didn't want anything to trigger you so soon after you woke up" Scott sat at the foot of the bed "I meant it before Stiles, it's so good to finally see you awake, it was so anticlimactic seeing you so still, Malia used to say that it was the antithesis of you"
"Malia? " Stiles asked confused, that name didn't ring any bells "Who are you talking about Scott?"
"I really need to put you up to speed dude" Scott said, not answering Stiles' question, while shaking his head.
"Not much could happen in five years man, I mean sure we are older, and I'm an FBI agent and you probably save puppies for a living, but still, five years are nothing" oh boy was he wrong.
"Hold on, let me see if I got this straight" Stiles looked at Scott and took a deep breath "After we saved our parents, you became an alpha, a true alpha, which is freaking awesome, then we helped save the girl that was here yesterday when I woke up, Malia right?" At least now I know her name, as Stiles talked, Scott was nodding at every word the human said "who lived as a coyote for eight years, while I was being possessed by an evil spirit, but we didn't know it yet?, there was a new girl at school named Kira, who is a Thunder Kitsune" What even are those? "that helped you guys to save me from the nogitsune and stop me from killing you all, but Allison and Aiden were killed by the oni, which I was controlling?" His voice laced with sadness, guilt and confusion, at the last part "And all of that happened two months after my last memory?" To say that Stiles was overwhelmed was the understatement of the year.
"Yeah…" Scott trailed off "But Stiles we can continue this another time, you don't have to find out everything today" Sensing the different chemosignals that come off of his best friend.
"No, I can take it, Scott please tell me" The alpha just let out a sigh and continued his tale.
The pair continued like that for a couple of hours, they would of taken less time but Stiles kept interrupting to clarify the information. He couldn't believe all that crazy things that happened, he was erased from reality?, dated Malia and Lydia? There's a 2.0 version of the pack? He felt like he was in an alternate reality, nothing made sense.
Scott and him fell into an awkward silence, Stiles didn't know what to do with himself, he felt like he was taking over someone else's life, he just wanted to go home, while Scott was feeling guilty over the hole thing. Until an intern came in to take some blood from Stiles for some labs that were needed, so Scott opted to leave the room.
Outside he saw Malia stepping out of the elevator, a smile made an appereance on her face when she saw him.
"How is he?"
"He's fine, a little overwhelmed but fine" He looked Malia in the eyes and said "He knows Malia, he knows everything."
"Everything everything?" Malia remarked with a brow raised. I was the one supposed to tell him the coyote thought "Even about when we got back together? About Nate?"
"No, he doesn't know about that" Scott emphasized "Do you want to go see him? The intern should be done by now"
"I don't think I'm ready to face him" The long haired brunette lamented "It was my fault after all" At this Scott only hugged her in reassurance.
"No one blames you Lia."
When the intern left Stiles' room, Malia let out a breath she didn't even know she was holding and knocked the door "Are you up for one more visitor?" She asked with a small smile, at the foreing voice the young agent looked up from his hands at his lap and saw her standing up at the threshold, he tried to fake a smile, Malia's heart broke at this sight.
"Malia right?"
"Yup, that's me." Malia's eyes shone with tears at seeing him awake and more calm than yesterday "Can I come in?"
A week after that, Stiles was finally out of the hospital, the pack took turns to go see him, so he could get used to the familiar and new faces, but the visits he enjoyed the most were Malia's, she always managed to make him laugh even without her trying.
When his dad opened the door of his childhood home, the entire pack was in the living room with a 'Welcome home Stiles!' sign. Half an hour into the gathering, he approached Liam and Scott to ask them something that has been bothering him since he got home.
"So... huh where's Malia?" He found himself missing the werecoyote "Is she coming?"
"She had to pick someone up from the airport." Liam answered him.
"Oh, her dad?" He remembered something Malia said about Mr. Tate being out of town in one of her visits, when she told him how he used to get nervious whenever her dad was around back when they first started dating.
"No" Scott intervined "Nate" At Stiles' confused expression he had to clarify "is her boyfriend."
