Interlude
Central America, Cora's house...
Derek's room's door is ajar, and Cora can see him crying.
Hospital…
Kira's next to Scott's bed, holding his hand, looking him in the eyes, except his are closed.
Gerard enters the room. She gets in his way, saying:
"I'm a kitsune. Stop."
He laughs out loud.
"And you won't want to know what I'am."
Melissa enters now, desolated, saying:
"It's okay. Let him, Kira."
Stiles meets Lydia and her boyfriend in a snack bar.
"So you're the famous Evan." They compliment
The guy, a tall blonde guy: "And you're the famous Style."
Stiles corrects: "Stiles."
Lydia: "We already ordered."
Stiles raises his hand in order for the waitress to come.
Lydia and Evan hold hands, Stiles sees.
Stiles: "Need to go bathroom." goes.
Later…
When he's coming out of the bathroom, Lydia's waiting him. She says:
"You're obviously not ready to move on like this."
"I'm just hanging out. It's not like getting to know the boyfriend of my ex is any kind of awkward."
"Okay, what did you think of him?" She sees a question in Stiles eyes. "Yes, he's human. Scott checked."
Thinking of Scott makes Stiles sad.
Lydia: "Know what I've been thinking? You're not going to like it, but I think that isn't like Derek to hurt Scott like that."
Stiles becomes thoughtful. He says: "Okay. Now I'm not ready to hang out." And leaves.
Hunters camp…
In one tent, Sonia and some other guys reunite.
She proclaims: "We must hurry and get to Gerard in the hospital, while Scott's out of commission. But we can't draw attention, so the plan must be followed thoroughly. Now, guys, Gerard can't escape. This" pauses "is a menace".
Scott wakes up to find Kira, Gerard and Melissa in his room.
Kira to Gerard: "What did you give him?"
Gerard explains: "The same thing I gave myself to get cured. A temporary cure to lycanthropy. He's became temporarily human. He was poisoned with a type of wolfsbane. Sonia, the Argents matriarch, is a master in shooting darts. Which brings me to what I've said before. My family knows secrets. I had to do my own research to find all of this."
Melissa: "Stop. It doesn't matter that you're sharing your information. I won't see you as an ally. Ever. We won't." Goes to hug her son. Thinks and looks to Gerard: "Why'd you took so long to do this?"
Gerard does a little smile before answering: "I'm afraid that what I just did is exactly what my family was expecting me to do. I was debating with myself if there was another way."
Melissa looks stunned that he's so egotistical and goes to slap the old bastard, but he holds her hand.
She goes out and finds the sheriff.
"Mr. Stillinski."
"Melissa, you're still calling me Mister."
"Sorry. Force of habit. How's Stiles?"
"I think he's okay."
"Breakups are never easy."
They share a look. She let it slip. She puts her hand in her shoulder, embarrassed.
"So you knew. He didn't tell me." The sheriff confides.
"Oh, Stiles didn't tell me either. My son let it slip, it must be a family trait."
"I'm relieved my son's not hanging out with Derek Hale anymore."
They share a look of intimacy.
In his house, Stiles remembers talking with Derek, both of them lying in bed.
"Do you think peace will last?" The younger asks.
"I hope it lasts." Derek answers.
"I didn't asked what you hoped for. I asked for your thoughts on it."
"I don't think I'm able to have peaceful thoughts."
"How thoughtful." Stiles smirks. "Other people could even think it's a regular guy talking."
"I'am a regular guy."
"I know."
They kiss.
"Stiles." Waits for Stiles to look at him. "Can't we move out of this cursed city?"
Stiles looks dazzled, he never thought of it before.
"Maybe. Probably. Werewolf-ly."
Derek laughing: "Werewolf-ly?!"
They laugh out loud.
Now, Cora's house…
Derek's doing exercise. Cora sits near him.
Derek stops and prepares to leave.
She holds him. They share a look.
"Little brother, I allowed you to have too much time to think, but now we'll talk. No matter what."
He sits.
"So?" He says.
"So tell me, why did you almost killed your lover's best friend?"
"It just happened. You know we werewolves are adept to loosing control." Tries going away again. She holds him again.
"I know, but you was helping the hunters. Why?"
"Gerard must be stopped."
"Please, I'm not that naïve. You're sabotaging your story because you think it'll end, and you may not have even realized that you're doing this."
"There's no story anymore."
"Yes, there is." He tries to get up to get away, but she demands: "Derek."
He stays. She continues: "Inside of you, the story still goes on. You sensed, in your deep paranoia, that loosing Stiles was a matter of time, so you got berserk and neverminded everything. Now you must deal with the consequences of your acts."
"I thought you didn't like Stiles."
"Now you care what others say." Ironic.
"My story with Beacon Hills has ended." Is his only answer.
Stiles breaks in Derek's loft. There's no one in there and there's nothing. Stiles gasps and leaves.
"Who'd say you're the invader type?"
Stiles is extra-surprised to see Peter Hale standing in front of him.
"Yes, I thought it was time I earned a superpower, so I asked my father to teach me a thing or two. Why am I talking to you?"
"Derek ran away from the madness of this city. He's moved in with Cora now."
"And you're here just watching his house, like a dog?"
Pete's angriness appears very soon in his face, as he comes closer at a slow pace.
"I just happened to be nearby. And to know, as you said, a thing or two."
Stiles's interested: "What things?"
"For instance… that you're still poisoned, because Kate's antidote wasn't ready, she and Gerard were still testing. It just postponed your death. And that's what the Argents promised Derek if he helped them."
Stiles is affected, even shocked. Eyes wide.
Peter's near now, he extends his phone to Stiles.
"Get Cora's number. And call her."
Central America…
Cora follows her brother that enters a bar, asks a shot and calmly drinks it. She's a little surprised he's appearing to try to live a normal life. She's happy for him.
Hospital…
Stiles arrives at Scott's room and closes the door with a key.
"Thank God your mother's your mother"!
Scott: "What are you doing?"
"Right now? Nothing. Hereafter I'll be talking really fast, so pay attention. Gerard will try to interrupt, 'cause he can hear us and he doesn't want you to know this." Gerard's running to the room. "You need to get away from him, 'cause I noticed he was always around you when you were fighting Derek, so I think he can't control you when you're not near him."
Gerard breaks the lock and enters.
"What a shocking surprise." He says. "I might just have to kill you, young boy!" To Stiles. He turns to Scott: "Turn and kill him."
Scott's surprised. Then, nothing happens. Now Gerard's surprised.
Gerard leans against the wall, open-mouthed.
"I must get out of here. The hunters will come." And runs.
Scott: "Thanks, brother! Now we must stop him."
"Do you think this is a good idea? I mean, we'll get caught in a crossfire."
"I already defeated Gerard once. It has to be done again."
"So we'll just let the hunters kill him?"
Scott's anguished, he'd forgotten this: "We can't let they kill him. It's a line we don't trespass."
Stiles dislikes this.
Central America…
A guy comes to talk to Derek. Cora's intrigued but not shocked. Obviously Derek's not an average John Doe.
"Derek." The guy says. "I can't believe you made me come all the way here to Mexico City to meet you."
"What can I say? I'm in a crush for tacos. Did you get the info?"
"Yes."
Derek looks Cora's side. "Practicing werewolf hearing, sis? Are you coming with me to Beacon Hills or not?"
She looks determined, so he raises a shot and compliments her. She should've definitely known. Werewolves can't get drunk.
Hospital…
Gerard gets out of an elevator just to be jumped at by Scott and thrown to the ground. He looks surprised he's been found.
In the security room it's Melissa, cellphone in hands, happy face, seeing this through a monitor.
That's when the energy is shut down. The backup power generator turns on, low lights illuminating the corridor. Gerard's terrified.
Deaton wakes up in his home when his cellphone starts ringing. He looks that it's about his clinic's alarm. It's being invaded.
At Deaton's clinic, Morell gives a good look at the bestiary.
Outside the hospital, the hunters prepare to enter.
In the bathroom, having a panick attack, Stiles coughes blood.
Lydia and her boyfriend Evan are seeing television and cuddling.
"I think it's my time to leave." Says Evan.
She, kittenish voice: "No. I don't want you to."
He whispers: "Your father won't like if I sleep here."
She's sleepy: "I'm not telling you to sleep. Just to stay a little more."
He starts to get up: "I'm afraid I can't."
They say goodbye.
Lydia goes upstairs and starts to change clothes to a jersey. A man watches her through the window.
Evan goes stealthy behind this man and breaks his neck. Then he pushes the dead body away.
Airplane…
Cora looks at Derek at her side, looking at the papers the guy at the bar gave him.
"So, brother, you didn't ever thought about leaving Beacon Hills?"
"Oh, I will leave, I just need to save Stiles first."
"You never cease to surprise me, apparently. What's in these documents?"
"What I was suspicious about. The reason I had to come all the way out here to contact an informer far away from Beacon Hills."
"Color me curious."
"A person has been working with Gerard all along."
"Who?"
"Peter. Peter Hale."
To be continued...