"I'm sorry" She mumbles not even able to look into his eyes
"It's fine don't worry" Scott replies holding an ice pack up to his eye "I don't even think you hit me at all to be honest"
"Your eye said otherwise" She mumbles
"You knocked him a good 3ft back" Stiles laughs before looking at Scarlett's upset face and letting a cough out to hide the rest of the laugh.
"I'm sorry" She mumbles again tears forming in her eyes. She looked towards the window where she could see early morning light starting to creep in. The dream had felt so feel as if the last few days being back in Beacon Hills weren't real
"Look" Scott says grabbing her attention back to him. "Nothing right? You didn't hurt me Scar"
She looked at his face to see the remains of redness near his eye and on the side of his face. She took her hand and traced his along the side of his face.
"Yep definitely crazy" She mutters
"You're not crazy" Stiles replies putting his feet on her bed closing his eyes for the first time since she interrupted both their sleep.
"I hit him and he had a mark on his face" She deadpans back
"You were half asleep the brain tricks you in that state, people have seen all sorts" He muses back opening one eye before closing it again.
"Will you plead my case when they want to admit me to Eichen house?" She jokes
"Ha ha very funny, now sleep need some more shut eye before I can function" and not even 10 seconds later snores came out.
"Do you believe I'm fine now?" Scott asks rolling his eyes at Stiles sleeping form.
"Mhmmm I'm still sorry though"
"I know you are, but more importantly are you alright?" He asks
"I'm fine" She replies a little too fast for both their liking.
"Listen I know it's hard not remembering and i'm not saying you need to tell everyone what happened but I need to know what I'm looking out for"
"What your looking out for?" She questions as he smiles back
"I'm going to find who did this" she rolled her eyes at him as he let out a chuckle
"What?"
"All you men are the same where's Melissa when I need some women are independent speech"
"You can independent and protected"
"Sure, why don't you get a GPS tracker implanted in me" She jokes laughing her nerves of the topic away.
"I want to help you"
There was a brief pause before she looked him directly in his eyes trying to be as truthful as possible without getting upset again.
"I don't want you getting hurt Scott" Scarlett replies as he has a look of realisation on his face.
"Your not scared for yourself"
"They can do whatever they want to me, but Scott it would kill me to know one of you got hurt trying to protect me… I know you've been sneaking out for a few hours here and there and i'm just afraid you'll get yourself into a situation… there's a reason I can't remember what happened"
"You think your brains blocking it?" He asks avoiding what she said about him sneaking out. She nods slowly taking in a deep breath. She bit the skin on her lip, like she always did when she was stressed or deep in thought.
"What else could it be? You heard your mom, they can't find any injury that would cause this kind of memory loss"
"So your dream?" He asks as she nods her head
"I was back in the forest whoever had me was calling for me while i was running away from them, I tripped up and landed on my back, he appeared over me"
"He?"
"Definitely a he" She almost whispers remembering the voice calling her as it echoed around her head.
"Anything else you can remember?"
She thought about the face, the teeth overtaking it and morphing.
"No"
She hadn't slept since waking up from the nightmare. Scott had tried to stay awake but since it was just after 5am she had woke them up screaming the room down, he eventually fell asleep just after 7.
She had been in the hospital for 5 days now, 3 of which she was awake for.
It was tough. She desperately wanted to remember, wanted to know why she was taken and by who. But so far the only piece of information she could remember was that nightmare she had, and now she was doubting it was even a memory. How could it be? It's face wasnt normal, it wasnt human.
She stretched her arms out, sick of seeing the four walls of the room she decided she could go ask Melissa for coffee.
She quietly got out of the bed making sure not to wake up the two sleeping figures in the chairs.
She opened the door slowly before closing it quietly and making her way towards the nurses station on the floor.
Her slippers were almost dragging against the floor she kept her eyes focused on the white walls of the hospital hallways.
She bumped into a tall frame almost knocking herself down but the frame grabbed her before she could tumble.
"Oh my god I'm sorry" She mumbles
"No no it was my fault" He replied letting go of her, standing back.
"Need to keep myself focused, falling over too much" She mutters smile falling reminding herself of her nightmare.
"Are you okay?" He asks looking at her first then into her eyes almost looking for something but she wasn't sure what.
You're okay
Her eyes widened slightly at his voice.
"Do I know you?"
"Uh, maybe I know Scott" He rubbed his hand against the back of his neck
"You're gone three months and everything's changed" She mutters
His eyes changed from worry to sympathy as she let out a sigh
"Anyways I'm going to find coffee cause I've cabin fever in that room and my company isn't exactly the best when they're sleeping"
He let out a small almost unheard chuckle. She turned to walk away before stopping to look at the figure again
"I never got your name?" She asks
"Derek"
"Well Derek thanks again for catching me" She smiled walking towards the station.
"Scarlett sweetie what are you doing out of bed?" Melissa asks looking up from notes, ironically hers.
"Does my notes say anything against caffeine?"
"No"
"Then I'm here for a coffee" She smiles after Melissa gives a roll of the eyes. Her and Scott looked exactly alike when they did that. She looked back down to the pages as she pats the seat beside her.
Scarlett looked back down the hallway to see Derek briefly in the elevator as the doors closed. She walked over to the chair beside Melissa eyes still fixed in the elevator.
When Melissa finished she moved into an office themed room where not too long later she returned with two mugs.
"Hey when did Derek Hale come back to Beacon Hills?" She asks holding the warm mug in her hands after a quick thank you.
"January? Around that time why?" She asks as Scarlett did a small nod.
"I bumped into him in the hallway, I didn't realise who he was till he said his name"
"His sister was murdered and he came back not long after"
Scarlett choked on her coffee almost spitting out the mouthful she had.
"Murdered?"
"Poor girl was cut in half"
"Laura? I thought she left after the fire?" She asks looking down the hallway to where she had last seen Derek.
"She had, came back to visit her uncle"
"That must be extremely hard" She mutters after a silence but she knew the feeling, being the only one of the family left.
Things went quiet for a few minutes as she was left in her own thoughts.
"I punched Scott in the face"
"I heard" Melissa replies as she raised an eyebrow at the women in front of her.
"You heard?" She asks
"I asked Liz to inform me if anything happened during the night, the only reason i didn't come around was I thought you'd be asleep"
"The only people sleeping right now are sleeping beauty and snow white"
"Who's who, cause I think Scott could pull off the blonde hair"
Scarlett almost snorted at Melissa question having not really put any thought into it but she quickly came to the conclusion she was right.
"And I wouldn't worry about it all the stress he's caused me recently he deserves a good punch in the face"
"Melissa" She laughs at the women who just puts her hands up with a smile on her face.
"Anyways, the doctor is due around to you at 12"
"Oh great with updates on what?" Scarlett asks holding onto the mug a bit harder
"On everything"
"I fell asleep didn't I" Scott mumbles as he takes his eyes of the TV that she had mindlessly earlier been watching while in her thoughts.
"Yeah you missed some good reality TV" She chuckles as Scott shakes Stiles awake.
"Mmmhm what times it" Stiles asks eyes still closed
"11.55" She answers as Stiles eyes snap open
"I only meant to sleep for like 2 hours"
There was a knock at the door, before it opened revealing a man in his late 40's.
"Hi, Scarlett I'm Doctor Floyd how're you today?"
"I'm good Doctor" She smiles sitting on the bed as he stands at the end of the bed.
"Are you comfortable having these two young men in here while I talk about what we found?"
"Of course, they're my family"
He opened the folder in his arm, the mark on front read her full name and took out a piece of paper.
"The x ray we took shows no current brain injury, meaning the memory loss is a defense mechanism… we can offer therapy sessions to try help you unravel your last three months but of course we can't say for certain you'll ever get the memory back"
She took a deep breath in disappointed with what he was saying. She had hoped for an injury that would heal while giving her some memory back.
"But during the body xray we did notice a few things, you have rib fractures that are nearly healed along with scar tissue formed on your left abdomen side… your heart also when you were brought in, was beating a bit irregularly more slow than usual.
At first we assumed it was due hypothermia but it didn't start beating normally again until you woke up"
"Is my heart okay?"
"There's not been a beat out of place every test we've done so far so your fine"
"Okay so what do we do?"
"While I'm advising the therapy sessions starting as soon as possible, I'm also prescribing pain medication and sleeping tablets as a precautionary after this morning's events due to you waking from the sleep within 2 hours of sleeping… but other then that we wait and hope things around you will help you get your memory" He states as she just nods along to his words not exactly thrilled about the tablets.
"So when can I go home?"
"I'll be discharging you today, but any problems and you're to return here straight away"
"What about School?" She asks as he nods at her.
"You can return whenever you feel ready but you've to take it easy for a while Scarlett you've been through an awful time, you need time to let yourself relax"
"Of course Doctor, thank you"
He smiles nodding at the two boys before leaving the room.
"You hear that I'm going home"
"Did you also hear about the ribs and Scar tissue" Stiles asks hand at his mouth
"Always negativity Stiles" She mumbles
"I'm sorry, it's going to be great having you in the house, it's been so quiet not having someone sing loudly to music at 9am"
"Funny"
"Oh Scott"
"Yeah?" He asks, her words bringing him out of his trance.
"When did you become friends with Derek Hale?"
AN - Thanks for the support so far! Things are going to pick up now and fit into the season!