I wouldn't call this the best chapter in the story so far, but it is the longest, just because of the amount of detail enlaced throughout. I did include bits and pieces from the most recent episodes, so Scott knows that Peter's his Alpha, he had already made the threat to make his mother one of the pack and bits of Derek's past with Kate become known. Fyi, the usage of curse words has increased in this chapter for the sake of the context.
Nightmares plagued Scott's sleep. The Alpha's threat kept him from having a restful night; "Maybe it would make it easier if your mother was part of the pack too." He tossed and turned, the echo of a wolf's howl burned through his brain.
Scott found himself in the middle of the forest, wearing nothing more than his jeans. His vision was blurry; he could hear the faint noise of a television coming from a house miles away, he shoved the noise to the back of his mind. A scent of something putrid infiltrated his nose. It smelled of something dead, like a rotting corpse. Scott let his nose lead him through the forest to origin of the scent. After a few minutes of wandering through the forest, he saw that he was in front of the dilapidated Hale house. Looking around, Scott knew that Derek hadn't been at the house recently; at least not for a few days, maybe a week.
Suddenly, he noticed a woman with long dark brown hair and pearly green eyes standing on the porch of the house. She smiled at him and beckoned him to come inside. With unexpected speed, Scott felt his body unintentionally follow the unknown woman into the house. Once inside, the house around him became like any normal house; bright paints splattering the walls, polished wood tables with people sitting around them and talking about everyday things. A young man ran past Scott, chasing a girl who was only a couple of years his senior. He wondered why the boy seemed so familiar. Scott followed him through several rooms in the house. In one room sat an easily recognizable Peter Hale playing cards with other family members and laughing, genuinely laughing. In another room, he saw a man that looked a lot like Derek in his mid-forties kissing a slightly younger woman who looked like Laura. The boy was pulled aside by an older member of the family and whispered something in his ear.
"Derek, why don't you tell your parents about that Argent girl you've been hanging around with lately? They won't get mad at you for falling in love." His tone was teasing young Derek. He shook his head and ran away from the elderly member, leaving a streak of tears in his wake. Scott ran after young Derek and followed him all the way into the middle of the forest. After running about a mile through the forest, Derek finally stopped and looked around. Scott hid behind a thick tree as a young woman came into their view. She had beautiful blonde hair that flowed down her back. To match her flowing blonde hair, her piercing green eyes glimmered against the dull sunlight, seemingly illuminating the darkening forest. Derek smiled brightly at the girl as she jogged over to embrace him. Her dazzling smile reminded Scott of Allison. His smile took Scott by surprise. He was used to Derek always scowling and always behaving as if he had a stick up his ass.
"Derek, I've missed you." She whispered into the young Derek's ear before nipping it. He chuckled and kissed her on the cheek.
"I was gone only two days, Kate. You know that my family's in for the week and that I had to pick up my uncle so he could come live with us." He took her face in his hands and kissed her lips. Scott was stunned. Derek and Kate had once been a couple? But why did they now hate each other so much?
The scene dissolved around Scott, causing him to whirl his head around in wonder. The woman appeared again and took Scott's hand, leading him once again back to the Hale house, late at night. He heard the crackling of leaves and twigs as two thugs walked up with large jugs of gasoline. They gave each other a crooked smile and began to pour the gasoline all around the house. They threw it everywhere, on the roof, the walls, even through the basement window. After all of the gasoline was emptied onto the house, a woman appeared from the shadows and pulled out a large pack of matches. She lit one match, letting it glow in front of her evil grin for a moment, and flicked it onto the side of the house. The house immediately went up in flames. The acrid smell of burning wood and gasoline pained Scott to no end, but he couldn't simply run as far away as possible. His feet felt as though they were glued to the forest floor.
He just stood there, unable to move, as the woman threw match after match onto the flame-engulfed house. After a few minutes, he began to hear screams. Screams that came from the basement of the house, that came from several voices belonging to the Hale family. He yelled at the woman to stop, but she could not hear him. She finally walked away calmly and laughing maniacally. The scene dissolved again as the woman with the pearly green eyes once again took his hand.
Scott stood in front of the remains of the Hale house, staring directly at Derek's trembling body. Derek sat there, trembling and sobbing, in front of his house while Laura stood, trying to look strong. Her body was positioned so Derek couldn't see her face, but Scott could see each tear roll down her face like a waterfall. The woman looked at Scott and began to mouth something, but not one word came from her. He turned his head as she finally spoke.
"Scott. Wake up," He just stared at her with confusion practically written on his face. She suddenly began to shake him violently. "SCOTT! WAKE UP!"
His eyes burst open as the shaking continued. Looking at who was shaking him, he pushed them away and accidentally rolled off of his bed. With a loud thud mixed with a slough of cursing, Scott sat up and glared at the person who had awoken him.
"Dammit Stiles! What are you doing here? Do I have to get the baseball bat?" Scott's heart was beating hard as Stiles backed away toward the doorway. "Stiles, I'm not going to go wolf on you. Just don't do that to me again!" He growled and lifted himself off of the floor.
"Well, how do I know if you're gonna go off the deep end? You did that yesterday and almost ripped my head off!" Stiles sighed and slumped into Scott's desk chair. Meanwhile, Scott rummaged through his closet to find a decently clean shirt to throw on.
"Anyway, what are you doing in my room?" Scott practically murmured the question to himself. He knew that Stiles was there to talk about what had happened with Allison. "Ugh, what time is it? It feels like it's still night time…" He trailed off and groaned when he saw the time on the clock read 12:45am.
"Scott, Derek texted me and told me to relay this message: Time is running out, the Alpha's patience is running thin and you need to gain complete control over your powers in order to kill him. Meet me in the forest in 20 minutes. Since it took me about fifteen minutes to drive over here and wake you up, you now have five minutes to find Derek, before he…" Stiles was unable to finish his sentence before Scott grabbed his shoes, pulled them on and hopped out the window.