10
Noah referred to him as the big bad wolf. He's less big and less bad now, but Noah warned me never to forget that Peter Hale is a psycho who murdered a lot of people in cold blood. I got a chance to speak with him for ten minutes while Derek and Noah chatted about a case.
Melissa and Noah filled me in on everything supernatural they could. They told me what the boys had done, but it was those ten minutes with Peter that gave me some of the clearest insight about the boys.
"You know what Stiles and Scott have been through," Peter said, "but do you truly understand what they experienced?"
Peter was Scott's alpha and he seems to have a lot of admiration for Stiles. Somehow, the perspective of this psycho, this former adversary who once kidnapped Stiles and tried to kill Scott, told me what I needed to understand.
Scott and Stiles aren't petulant boys anymore. They're men. To Peter, they can be annoying men, but if the big bad wolf can speak so highly of their accomplishments, what kind of father would I be if I didn't understand just how proud I should be? If I want a real relationship with Scott, I need to treat them accordingly. For now, at least I can say I helped Scott with the hunter crisis and I helped Stiles with his admission. If I had known then what I know now, I probably would have barged into the FBI director's office and demanded he do everything he could do to get Stiles into the pre-FBI program, not that Stiles needed the help.
I need to call Scott. I've been trying to be a better father, but now it's time to amp it up. I'm grateful UC Davis isn't prohibitively far from me. If I want Scott back on my side, I'm going to need to get Stiles on my side, too. I need to reach out to both of them.