Chapter Eleven: Hospital Stay
Scott looked down at his phone and could see his mother was calling, he looked over to Alison and called out, "Mom is calling, give me a sec?"
Alison gave her happy smile and waved from where she was leaning against a nearby bridge. Scott pressed the call button and spoke into the phone, "Hey mom."
"Hey Scottie, you and Alison should probably get to the hospital. There was an attack and many of the pack members were hurt. Stiles was hurt badly."
"Oh god, what happened? Is he okay? Tell me he's going to be okay?" Scott gasped and Alison caught his words and her attention was on him instantly. He would never try to hide anything from his mate but the Beta was strong enough to hear him from across the distance that was between them.
"He has wolfsbane burns, he was shot with a wolfsbane bullet but they are taking care of him now. Derek, Ricky and most of the family have slight wolfsbane burns from the booby traps. It's going to be a painful couple of hours for a few of them but I don't think any of them are in horrible danger. Stiles is going to have a slow recovery."
"On my way," Scott said before he'd even understood he was moving. Alison and he were both moving towards the hospital from the Preserve where they'd been for their romantic stroll. Alison didn't talk to him, didn't ask anything that she may have wanted to know and they were coming close to the hospital when someone called out, "Alison!"
His mate stopped and turned, forcing Scott to stop as well since Alison was holding his hand. She frowned at whoever was calling out and Scott took in a deep breath through his nose and found that scent of perfume and wolfsbane, "Ali, she's a hunter. Stay away from her!"
"Aunt Kate?" Alison finally spoke but she didn't open the door.
Scott jerked his gaze from 'Aunt Kate' in the shadows of a tree but he got the sense of a slender woman with waves of dark hair then back to Alison and back again, "What the hell!"
"Alison, how could you do this? You're a wolf? And with the Hale pack to boot?"
"Aunt Kate, I've been a werewolf for several years now, I was going to die if I didn't accept the Bite. An alpha not local did it for me and Dad was right there with me. What are you doing here?"
"I am here to be sure the wolves cease to exist, I didn't take into account you would have a Spark among you."
"Spark?" Scott asked. He knew the stories about mythical and magical Sparks but he'd never heard of one in the Hale pack. He didn't know what she was talking about but they had places to be and she was a hunter even if she was apparently related to Scott's girlfriend.
"Don't go to that hospital Alison, don't throw your lot in with the Hales and the omega."
Alison frowned, "This is about Stiles, don't you dare hurt him. He's my friend!"
"That won't save him Ali, stay away from him otherwise you are going to get caught in the crossfire," with that she was walking away and Scott couldn't give enough damn to chase after her.
He grabbed Alison again and they booked it around the corner and into the hospital. Luckily his mother must have been waiting because she was right there, gripping Scott's hands in between hers suddenly, allowing the touch to calm him immediately. He got the instant pack sensation and was able to take a deep breath before he spoke.
"Mom, where is he?"
"He's with the doctors, they've been able to undo the damage of the bullet and thankfully because of his slower healing abilities, they've been able scrub his skin and keep the healing and burning to a minimum, that's the crap with wolf healing sometimes. Stiles doesn't have any hair right now so he's going to look a little different and they are going to induce a pretty heavily sedated sleep for a day or so. He's not going to be up for visitors but I can take you to Talia and the others who are already in recovery.
Scott nodded and shared a sideways glance with Alison, "What about Stiles' dad?"
"He's in recovery too, just a little burning across the neck and shoulder. Do you want to go see him first?"
"No, Sherriff and Mrs. Hale, we have information for them both."
Alison whimpered a little, her eyes widening but Scott ignored her reaction. He wasn't going to protect a woman he barely knew when his best friend was at stake. Melissa nodded and brought them to a small room and a few moments of silence between the couple then Talia was walking into the room, red marks still healing on her neck and a simple shirt wrapped around her to leave the tops of her shoulder blades open to healing. Scott had never seen wolfsbane burns like that, he could see that the skin was mending into tight flesh but it was taking a long time for an alpha. Stiles' dad was the same way.
John immediately pulled Scott close for a loose hug, "So glad you weren't there Scottie, just wish Stiles hadn't been either."
Scott smiled and tucked his head into the older alpha's neck so he could scent the area with something other hospital smell and healing flesh. "Glad you're okay Sheriff."
John chuckled at Scott's words then the two alphas settled on the side of the bed in the room, close together but not close enough to touch. It was a clear sign that they were both tired and in need of pack to sit so close to another alpha, especially injured but then John and Talia had grown close since their sons became mates.
"Who is your aunt?" Scott demanded of Alison and she glared at him so he just spoke. "We ran into the hunter who attacked the house and Stiles at the mall too, her name to Alison is 'Aunt Kate'. What the hell Alison?" he demanded.
Alison winced under his shout as well as the intense stare of both of the other alphas, "I didn't know anything about this. Kate, my father's sister, was an estranged part of my family and she is close with my grandfather: Gerard. When I got sick and I was turned, my father became estranged from Gerard and I haven't heard from them for a long time. I don't want you to kill my aunt but I don't think you have a choice do you?"
Talia took a couple steps towards Alison and tugged her in close for a hug, "Oh sweetie, we're not going to do anything unless she comes for us again. We are already going to have fire damage and special cleansing for the house but no one died."
"She said she's coming back for Stiles, maybe its time to get him out of Beacon Hills and back to the college or something. In the college, Kate wouldn't be able to get to him so easily or something. I don't know but I feel like he's a sitting duck here."
Talia released Alison for a moment and touched the side of Scott's face, "Listen, I am going to do everything in my power to make sure my son's mate is protected. I can't watch him go through the same loss I did, especially so soon after they found each other. I promise you that Scott, and we'll keep you safe Alison if your aunt comes at us again."
Alison and Scott just nodded and then Melissa came to show Scott to where Stiles was. Scott looked into the other room from the window to find Stiles lying on his side with red patches of skin everywhere. Nurses were sitting next to the bed, flaking away skin that was still burning off as they tried to get the wolfsbane off his skin before it healed again.
"Why is he so much worse?" Scott asked, his voice rough from fear and tears.
"Because he stayed under the booby trapped door to get them out of the Mountain Ash trap as far as I can tell. I don't know how he got them out but from what the others said, he was being sprayed with wolfsbane infused water the whole time he was in the doorway. Everyone else got seconds of water poured on them whereas Stiles was showered for a lot longer."
Scott sighed, gripping his mother's hand for a moment and he watched as Derek and Ricky were brought into the room. They were sleeping at the moment, tucked onto the same bed and it was locked into place close enough to Stiles that they could see him but far enough that the nurses could still stand and do their job and the alpha knew his best friend was in for a god awful recovery from this so he sat down in one of the chairs near the window and Alison paced the hall, staying out of the way of the hospital employees. Others of the pack came and went but as they were healing better, almost all of the pack returned to some of the houses around Beacon Hills until the Hale house could be checked over. Braeden, Shelby and Ravyn returned to Melissa's house after they spoke to Ricky who woke for a few minutes before the hospital gave him another sedative. When Scott asked about the sedatives for Ricky and Derek to which Talia interrupted, as she was there, "Stiles is hurting, he is badly injured and there is nothing they can do to fix it. That could send Ricky of Derek into a rage or something, they could fly off the handle and search for the hunters with a blood thirsty vengeance and we do not want that, the sleep is for their own good."
Scott nodded and just kept on sitting with him while most of the Hales, except for Peter and Talia went to the Stilinski house. They were going to be shoved into small spaces but after being injured that's probably not going to be a problem. Scott tried to get Alison to go home but she wouldn't go for it and John refused to leave his son. Cora and Otto didn't want to leave Derek and Talia but their mother insisted they be safe. Carmen was with them as well and several of Stilinski's deputies were on each house, a wolf and human both just in case of another trap and John had constant updates while he was at the hospital.
Almost a week passed like this, with bad hospital food and quick trips to the Stilinski house to shower. Scott knew that Talia had a Were contractor and Deaton come in and determine if the house was salvageable and luckily with some cleansing and elbow grease the house would be just fine and it would be there for the pack and Derek when they are home and so on. Scott was pleased to know the house wouldn't have to be torn down to his foundation because of the tainted showers of water.
It was on the sixth day when the skin of Stiles' body started to truly heal and all three mates were allowed to come out of the drugged stupor they were in and Scott was there when it happened.