Nova's outfit
Chapter Sixty-Two
⚔ The Wolves Of War ⚔
Scott, hiding behind a stone support column, looks around the corner for a brief moment to find Malia ducked behind a nearby dumpster, though he's forced to move back to avoid being hit by gunfire, which just broke the cement covering the corner he was just standing behind. Deucalion is desperately trying to crawl away to safety, and Peter has just rushed from behind another support column to behind a steel barrel in hopes of it holding up better against the Hunters' ammunition.
Malia, still ducked down as far as she can against the front of a dumpster, tries to hold the metal container still so Lydia, who is covering her ears to minimize the trauma to her enhanced sense of hearing, remains safe. Scott, who is just barely avoiding being hit where he is, frantically calls out for his girlfriend, "Malia!"
A Hunter with an assault rifle has just found Scott's hiding spot and is about to shoot him, much to Scott's panic, until suddenly, Stiles' Jeep speeds through the road in front of the shipyard and forcefully hits the Hunter so hard he flies backward. Scott, stunned, looks at Stiles, who gives him a relieved-yet-exasperated look.
"You didn't think you were doing this without me, did ya?" Before Scott can process his best friend's arrival, Derek and Nova appears next to the Jeep and smirks at him, "Without us?" Not waiting for a response, Derek immediately lets out his fangs, claws, and glowing blue eyes before roaring and launching himself into the fray, allowing him to easily take down two Hunters in midair.
Nova surged forward, grabbing the barrel of a gun a hunter was pointing at her before hitting him with the butt and up it making him instantly fall to the ground. She scoffed looking down at the hunter before looking back up, "These's fuckers are supposed to be hunters? I've seen kids put up a better fight then these bitches!"
Since Derek's and Nova's intervention has tilted the fight in their favor, Malia gets out of her hiding spot and rushes toward a Hunter, shoving him hard against the chain-link fence behind him. Without pausing, Malia, using her newly-taught sightless acuity, senses a Hunter behind her and pirouettes before slashing him across the chest several times with her claws. Finally, Malia runs backward to kick the first Hunter in the head, easily knocking him out.
Nova smirked seeing a few hunters surround her, all pointing guns at her. "Would it be weird if I said missed this?" She asked making them look at her confused. She smiled shooting forward, grabbing the gun one of the hunters help making him pull the trigger. But instead of the bullet hitting her it hit one if the other hunters, sending him to the ground.
She ripped the gun out of the hunters hands then twisted his hands behind his making making him cry out in pain as she heard a pop, "That would be your should dislocating. But don't worry, I know how to fix it." She said then roughly pulled his arm making him cry out. She brought her foot up and kicked him square in the back, sending him flying into another hunter that was about to shoot at her.
Monroe watches as her hunters go down left and right making her realize that they're outmatched. She runs toward her SUV with the rest of the Hunters who are conscious and not badly injured before they drive away.
Once they're gone, Nova looked around before noticing her father on the ground, his shirt bloody. "Dad!" She yelled running over to him as Scott tried to stop the bleeding. "V-Violet." Deucalion croaked out, holding his hand out to his daughter who tightly grabbed on to his, "I'm here dad." She whispered and he smiled at her weakly.
Deucalion has difficulty continuing as he slowly runs out of air and time, though he chuckles as his eyes trailed over Nova's face, knowing it would be the last time he sees her. "Is- Is she-" He tries to ask but had a hard time but Nova knew what he was trying to say.
"She's okay, she's safe." She said smiling softly at her father who smiled back weakly before looking at Scott.
"Gerard... What he f-f-fears most... He can't... beat you..." He has trouble talking but still tries as he chuckles as if almost in amusement when he realizes how this war ends, smiling in spite of himself, "And he knows it." He said and Nova and Scott glance at eachother, knowing what's about to happen.
Nova bit her lip as a tear falls down her face, "Go see mom, dad. Tell her I said hi." She whispered and he tried to smile at her. His eyes go glassy, his breathing stops, and his hand slips out of Nova's own, confirming his death. Nova let's out a shakey breath, not prepared to lose her father the moment she came back. She slowly stood up, wiping a tear off her cheek as Derek comfortingly wrapped his arm around her.
"It's really started, hasn't it?" Malia asked and Stiles frowns, not knowing what she's talking about, "What started?" Scott stands to his feet, though he doesn't immediately take his eyes off of Deucalion's body, "It's an all-out war."
When Scott finally turns to look at the rest of his friends, he suddenly remembers that Derek and Nova has re-joined them for the first time in over a year and looks at him in shock.
Noticing Scott's line of sight, Lydia, Malia, and Peter all turn to look at the couple as well as Scott walks forward and hugs him tightly, while Lydia runs over and pull Nova into a hug. Soon enough everyone took turns giving Derek and Nova hugs. Though Peter rolls his eyes in the background and sighs before he turns toward his nephew.
"As much as I enjoy the impromptu family reunion, what are you doing here?" Peter asked and Nova rolled her eyes, pulling away from Malia. "Am I still allowed to say I don't like you or are you good now?" She asked and he just rolled his eyes, fighting off a smile.
"We found a pack slaughtered in Brazil. There were two words written in blood on the wall-- "Beacon Hills." Derek explained, wrapping his arm around Nova's waist. Scott glances backward at Deucalion's body for a moment before turning back to Derek with a surprised look on his face. "You came back for Beacon Hills?" He asked making Nova snort, "No, we came back for you."
Scott looks at the couple gratefully and smiles at them before suddenly, the police radio in Stiles' Jeep starts to chirp and beep. After a moment, Gerard's voice is heard through the speakers, and the pack follows Scott and Stiles to the Jeep.Scott gets into the passenger seat while Stiles gets into the driver's seat, just like old times, while the others circle around the open windows to hear what Gerard has to say.
Ever the literary scholar, Gerard recites an modified excerpt from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, which is spoken by Mark Antony in Act 1, Scene 3. "Blood and destruction / And dreadful objects so familiar / All pity choked with custom of fell deeds / And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge / With Ate by his side come hot from hell / Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice...Do you know the rest, Scott? Do you know your Shakespeare?"
Scott looks up at Nova, who is standing outside of the passenger door of the Jeep with Malia and who nods to indicate thats she knows the answer. Scott picks up the radio microphone and hands it to her, who finishes the quote, "Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war..." She quoted as if knowing by heart.
"War, indeed. Welcome back, Violet. You must all be feeling rather nostalgic. Are you pleased with the little family reunion I've gathered around you, Scott?" Scott can't help but roll his eyes, albeit with a grim expression on his face, before he responds over the radio. "Yeah, why don't you come join us, and I can thank you in person."
Gerard ignores this comment in favor of continuing to make his point, "I even have a few visitors for you... from London. Even someone like Jackson Whittemore couldn't resist coming back to Beacon Hills." Gerard says making Nova look over at a shocked Lydia. "Say "Hello," Jackson!" Gerard said followed by yells of pain.
Scott, Nova, Derek, and Stiles look horrified by what they're hearing, and Lydia, who has the most history with Jackson of all of them, is unable to listen without squeezing her eyes closed and covering her ears.
"Do it again, old man! Come a little closer-- I'm gonna shove that thing so far up your ass!"
"He's lost none of his charm, has he? You can find him here with us at the armory, Scott. He's lost none of his charm, has he? You can find him here with us at the armory, Scott. Your deputy Hellhound met some friends of his while responding to a call from Eichen House. Your father was on his way back from San Francisco with the goal of entering the fight... But he didn't get far. You might want to tell your mother to skip her shift at the hospital tonight. Liam and his friends are there now. Optimistic of them, but woefully ill-advised."
"This is how you wage war, Scott. A strategic positioning of your army against theirs. Which is why you will come to me. You will try to save as many as you can, and you might even save a few. But, your limited resources will be spread thin, and ultimately, you will fail."
Scott, overwhelmed by what he's hearing, grimaces and sighs as he squeezes his eyes closed for a moment, clutching the radio so tightly that he nearly crushes it. "The dogs of war, Scott... They're coming for you."
"Oh, I'm so ready to kill an old fucker."
⚔
Lydia flipped the animal clinic sign on the door from "OPEN" to "CLOSED" before joining Scott, Malia, Derek, Nova, and Stiles in the exam room, where they are gathered around the metal exam table as Stiles, Derek and Nova begin to explain how they are involved in the situation.
"So, literally day one of my internship, and up comes this slide about this guy they've been chasing in the woods of North Carolina." Stiles started and Malia frowns in confusion as she looks at Derek and Nova. "I thought you guys were in South America." She said and Nova nodded and sighed.
"We were. The bodies of the wolves we told you about? They blame Derek. Making him wanted for murder... for the third time." Nova said, side glancing at Derek who roll his eyes at her.
tLooking back at Stiles, it's clear by the look on Stiles' face that, though he is exhausted, he's also excited to be back in the supernatural drama of Beacon Hills. "So, I learn that the FBI has cornered this feral, mass-murdering unsub-" Before Stiles can continue, Derek cuts him off with a look and his own version of the story.
"I found a group of Hunters gathering in a meeting place. I was trying to get information." Derek said and Stiles rolls his eyes before finishing his thought, "Yeah, well, the FBI found it, too, and they were planning a SWAT assault to take him down, dead or alive." Stiles looks over to see Lydia smirking, clearly humoring Stiles, while both Scott and Malia are looking at Stiles and Derek with wide eyes. The sudden attention causes Stiles to become even more awkward.
"And, as we all know, though, with Derek, it's preferably dead." Nova snorted and Derek is taken aback by this comment at first before finally shrugging, acknowledging the truth in Stiles' words as the debate continues on, "Preferably." Derek said and Stiles ignores him in favor of moving on with the story.
"So, I convinced them to take me on the field op." Scott and Malia are still looking at Stiles and Derek with shock and confusion, while Lydia's expression is both incredulous and impressed by what she's hearing, "You convinced the FBI to bring an intern onto an extremely dangerous field operation?" Lydia asked.
Derek rolls his eyes sarcastically before he speaks, "I'm surprised he didn't convince them he could lead it." Derek said making Nova chuckle and nudge him. Stiles' expression is one of complete sincerity when he responds to this comment, "I tried- didn't work." Stiles shakes his head slightly before getting to the point.
"Anyway, long story short, I basically had to, you know, save his life." Stiles said making Nova full on laugh while Derek looks at Stiles with a mixture of exasperation and offense at what he is implying, "That's not how it happened."
"Yeah, I may have left out a detail, but that's the gist of it." Stiles said defensively as he looks over at the others. Lydia is nodding skeptically, while Scott and Malia look impressed and Nova is silently laughing while shaking her head. "That's the essential essence of it."
"You couldn't walk." Derek said and Stiles scoffs before trying to save face in an awkward tone of voice, "I was limping."
"You couldn't walk-- and I know that because I was carrying you."
**Sounds of gunfire are ringing loudly as FBI agents all duck for cover and start shooting back. Suddenly, the pair of double doors open to reveal Derek holding Stiles in a bridal carry. Derek's expression is one of annoyance and frustration as Stiles, who seems to have lost his right shoe in the crossfire, dramatically screams in pain at the top of his lungs, his eyes squeezed shut.
Derek only looks more irritated when Stiles finally opens his eyes to find that he was shot in the foot, and the sight of his blood-soaked sock shocks him so badly that he faints, much to Derek's exasperation.
Behind them Nova followed, shaking her head while pinching the bridge of her nose.**
"They shot my toe! You wanna see it?"
Stiles says as he looks at Derek as though he is hurt by Derek's interpretation of their story. Derek rolls his eyes and looks at Lydia, Scott and Malia with an expression that seems to say, 'You see what I had to deal with?'.
"My toe was caught in the crossfire! It was obliterated!" Stiles said making
Nova scoff, "I healed it." Nova said and Stiles dramatically threw his arms up in the air. "It still looks fucked up!" He said. Lydia looks at Stiles exasperatedly, "Okay forget your toe."
Stiles looks at Lydia, clearly upset with the lack of concern regarding his injuries, and mutters quietly, "Obliterated."
Stiles looks over at Scott, who sighs and tries to redirect the conversation back to the task at hand, "Guys, it's not just the Hunters-- we've got another problem." He said and Lydia nodded, "It's called the Anuk-ite." Lydia said making Nova throw her head back and groan.
"Oh come on! That fuckers real?" She asked making them all look at her shocked, "You know it?" Malia asked and Nova nodded, "Yeah, it's in one of my books." She said and Stiles and Derek look confused, "What's the Anuk-ite?" Stiles asked.
"It can get into your head, it can make you see things." Scott says, and Stiles nods slowly, "What doesn't it look like?"
"It used to look like two ordinary people... But, somehow, they merged." Lydia answers and Stiles looks very unsettled by what he's hearing, "All we know is it's made of two faces-- one human, the other supernatural."
"It's a shapeshifter, just like us. But it knows what you're afraid of-- what you fear most." Scott explained and Malia nodded, "And now it can kill you just by looking at you."
"Okay, so you're telling me that we've gotta go up against this thing blind and face our deepest fear?" Stiles asked and they nodded. Scott thinks about this for a moment before responding, "Wjat do you fear most?" Scott asked looking at Stiles.
"Blindness."
Derek looks amused and incredulous by this answer, "Becoming blind?" Derek asked and Stiles nodded. "Yeah, terrified of it. Always have been."
When they all look at him blankly, Stiles continues on, "This just seems to be a situation of unfortunate overlap."
Scott turns the conversation back to their next move, "Lydia, you and Stiles need to find Argent. Get to the armory and rescue Jackson." Scott said and Lydia shrugged, "I don't think we have time to wait for him. I've gotten through those doors once anyway, I can do it again." She said and Stiles looks at them incredulously, interjects before they can continue. "Can we slow it down just for one second to make sure I'm grasping this? So, we're talking about actually doing this? We're gonna do exactly what Gerard wants us to? Is that right?"
"Stopping this thing can stop Gerard an and the Hunters?" Nova asked and Scott sighed, "Not all of them are Hunters." He said making her raise her eyebrows at him. "No, he's right. Most of them are ordinary people acting out of fear." Lydia backed him up and he sighed, "Monroe's not gonna change... But I think that we can reach the others. Most of them, actually."
"The Anuk-ite is causing them to come from a place of fear."
"Well, fear's pretty motivating, especially when it leads to anger." Derek shrugged. "And I think that if we can take out the fear, we can take out the fight in them, too. They're afraid of us, but they don't have to be. They just have to change their minds."
"We have to change their minds." Nova corrected. Malia, who is clearly nervous and still slightly affected by the Anuk-ite's fear inducement powers, attempts to get them all ready for battle,
"Okay. We can face the Anuk-ite. We can try to fight it blind. We can try to face our fears. But, we still need to know how to catch it." She said.
"Yeah, we'll figure that out. We always do." Scott said making Nova smile at him, "Well, it's nice to see someone hasn't lost their optimism." She said and Scott smiled weakly at her, "Not yet." He said. Stiles, who stares off into the distance for a moment, bitterly interjects, "I have." Lydia shoots Stiles another exasperated look before turning to their Alpha. "We will buy you time, Scott. Who knows? Maybe Jackson has the answer."
"Maybe Argent will come back with one." Malia said and Scott looked at her, Derek and Nova, "You three, you're with me. And we need Peter-- anyone who can help stop this thing, or slow it down." Scott looks over at Malia, and the two share an affectionate expression making Nova look at them with a smile. "Where are we headed?" Malia asked.
"The high school."
"That's where we're gonna find this thing?'
"No. It'll find us."
Before anyone can move or say something Lydia spoke up, "Okay, I hate to stop planning but I need to ask." Lydia started, "When were you gonna tell us?" She asked looking directly at Nova making her look confused. "Tell you what?" Nova asked.
"About the ring on your finger." Lydia said gestering to Nova hand making Nova look down at the two rings on her ring finger. "Uhh... Well- we were gonna wait until everything was over to tell you." Nova said with a nervous tone, slightly afraid of the banshee in front of her.
"So when is the wedding?" Lydia asked and Nova glanced fearfully at Derek with wide eyes. "We're already married." Derek said holding out his hand to show his wedding band making all of them look at the couple in shock. They never thought Derek would ever get married but then again they weren't suprised that it was with Nova.
"My best friend had a wedding and I didn't go?" Lydia asked and Nova smiled sheepishly, "We didn't have a wedding, we kinda eloped." Nova said and Lydia hummed. "Well, Im happy for you guys." She said smiling at them. Nova was about to say something but the sound of her phone going off stopped her making her pull it out.
"Shit." She mumbled making Derek look at her with furrowed brows, "Argent's here. Something came up can't watch her anymore." She said looking up at Derek while everyone else looked at the two confused. "Hey Lyds, is your mom busy by any chance?" Nova asked as she walked towards the door. "Uhh.. I don't think so, why?" Lydia asked and Nova smiled, glancing at Derek, "Cause we need a babysitter." She said before walking out and into the front lobby.
A few seconds later Nova came back in, but this time she was carrying a sleepy child making everyone besides Stiles, who had already met her, look between Derek and Nova in shock. "Guys, meet our daughter. Allison Talia Hale. Alli for short." She said smiling at the pack. Lydia and Scott looked more shocked at the name. "Allison?" Scott asked in a whisper, a smile on his face as Nova nodded, "Yeah. Argent cried when he met her."
Lydia and Malia walked over to Nova, smiling a cooing at the young Hale while Scott and Stiles patted Derek on his shoulders, "You have a family and you're married, congrats dude. You're one lucky guy." Scott said and Derek smiled looking over at the girls as he heard his daughter's giggle. Malia was gently tickling Alli's sides making her giggle while Lydia and Nova chuckled. "I know." Derek said smiling fondly as Nova glanced over at him with a smile, "Why don't you guys go meet her before we leave." He said.
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Scott, Malia, Nova and Derek arrived at the high school and are horrified to find that Peter has been petrified into stone. Malia, overwhelmed, pauses for a moment, "He's not dead. He can't be."
The three shapeshifters begin examining the statue more closely with concern as they focus their senses on him. When they hear a quiet heartbeat from inside of the statue, they seem to be slightly relieved.
"He has a heartbeat, but it's faint." Derek said, but the suddenly was distracted by the sound of footsteps approaching them, "And we're not alone."
Scott and Malia share a worried look before Scott looks Peter up and down. When Scott's eyes widen in realization, Malia looks at him with a confused expression, "Scott?" Scott continues to think for a moment before he finally speaks. "I think I know how to catch it."
Two Hunters armed with assault rifles are running down the hallway while Scott, Malia, Nova and Derek hide in the nearby stairwell. Once the Hunters are out of earshot, they begin to quietly plan their next move. "We can't just hide. Peter's not going to last like that." Malia said.
"Well, neither will we if that thing finds us, too."
"We've got to wait for Stiles." Scott said making Malia sigh impatiently, "I'm not waiting here." Before anyone can react, Malia leaps down the steps into the entrance hall, forcing them to follow after her. When they finally catch up to her, Scott grabs her gently by the wrist to stop her, "Whoa, hey, Malia, hold on!"
Suddenly, Scott senses someone approaching them and stops what he's doing in favor of turning in the opposite direction. In doing so, he finds Monroe standing at the other end of the hall, holding a black handgun that she aims at Scott's chest and shoots before he can even react. The bullet misses a center mass hit and instead lodges itself just below his right collarbone with so much force that he falls backward onto the floor with a groan.
Malia wastes no time turning toward him with worry and concern while Nova protectively stand in front of them, throwing up a protective shield, staring at Monroe, almost daring her to try that again.
Just as Monroe turns to leave, Malia partially transforms with her glowing blue eyes, fangs, and claws, and roars in fury at her before running after the Huntress, who immediately flees out of the double doors and into her SUV. Meanwhile, Derek has Scott's right hand gripped into his own and his left hand supporting Scott's neck as he helps him into a seated position, which causes Scott even more pain.
Scott presses his left hand against his bleeding wound and is alarmed when he sees that his blood is tinged with the yellow wolfsbane serum. Derek and Nova immediately recognizing it and remembering what Kate said in about putting it in a bullet, looks at Scott with worry. "No, you're not okay. It's yellow wolfsbane. It's gonna kill you." Derek said making Scott's eyes widen in shock and horror.
"What?!?"
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Derek has Scott's right arm around his shoulder as he half-carries him into the nearby science lab to treat his wounds while Nova keeps and eye out for any hunters. Derek gently seats Scott on one of the stools before beginning to rifle through the nearby cabinet while Scott, already weak from the poison, starts to object. "Derek, just go! Help Malia, please." Derek continues to search the cabinet while he responds.
"I'm not worried about her. We've gotta get rid of this. There's only one way to get rid of wolfsbane-" Derek finds a small, hand-held blowtorch in the cabinet and hits the trigger to make sure it works, causing a small blue flame to come out, "You burn it out."
Nova walked over and placed a gentle hand on Scott's shoulder, "I'll go help Malia. Let Derek do this, okay? We can win without you." Nova said and Scott sighed before nodding. Nova turned to Derek who nodded and quickly kissed her, "Be careful. Remember, we have a daughter to go home to." He said and she smiled and winked, "I'm always careful."
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Nova ran down the familiar hallways of the highschool trying to find Malia while casually keeping an eye down for and hunters. But not to much of an eye out in case the Anuk-ite is around.
She turned the corner and her eyes widened, down the hall Derek stood, completely made of stone. "Derek!" She yelled running over to him, she gently cupped his face before pressing her ear to his chest, sighing in relief when she heard his heart beat. Suddenly the rush of fear flew through her making her instantly close her eyes, resting her forehead on Derek's stoney chest.
"Nova." A familiar voice that she hasn't heard in over a year said making her let out a shaking breath. "Nova look at me." The voice said and Nova shook her head, keeping her eyes close. "You're not real. Allison's dead." She muttered.
"Nova look at me. Look at who you named your daughter after." Allison said and Nova bit her lip sucking in a deep breath. "Don't you want to look at me one more time? Don't you want to remember me?" Allison said and Nova just shook her head. "You're not real!" Nova yelled frustrated.
"Look at me and see just how real I am." Allison said and Nova didn't budge making Allison circle around Nova and Derek. "Why don't you wanna see your best friend one last time? Don't you miss me?"
Nova sighed, knowing that the Anuk-ite wouldn't leave unless she looked. But she wasn't gonna just give up and look. She opened her eyes and swung her arm out, but the Anuk-ite, still wearing Allison's face grabbed her hand, mid swing and smirked. Before Nova could even process it, her body slowly started to turn to stone.
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"We've got two here." A hunter spoke into a radio as him and his buddy looked at Derek and Nova, "I don't know if they're dead... but they definitely looks vulnerable." He spoke, smirking over at his buddy.
"One in the head, and one in the heart." Monroe spoke through the radio, "Copy" the hunter said and nodded to his friend. They lifted their guns up, one pointing at Derek, the other pointing at Nova.
Just before the Hunters can shoot Derek and Nova, they burst out of their stone covering in a burst of dust. Nova's hand finished flying out like she hand intented to do before getting turned it stone making the hunter pointing the gun at her go flying into the row of lockers. Nova startled the other hunter enough that Derek able to hit the gun out of his hand and punch him in the face.
Derek and Nova turned to each other, before sighing in relief seeing they they were okay. Derek pulled Nova into him, kissing her forehead, "This will be a interesting story to tell Alli when she's older." Nova said making Derek chuckle and shake his head.
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Malia makes her way into the library, where Stiles, Lydia, and Derek have gathered around Scott, who is laying weakly on the main staircase. When Malia sees what happened to him, she immediately rushes to his side as Stiles stands and gives her space.
"Scott?" Malia turns to look at the others before returning her attention to Scott,
"He's not healing? Scott, what happened to your eyes?" She asked and Scott sighed, "I had to. I'm sorry." He said and
Derek looks at him with concern. "Scott, you have to heal. If your eyes stay like this much longer, the damage is gonna be permanent." Derek said.
"Come on, Scott, concentrate." Stiles said worriedly. "I'm trying... It's not working. I can't focus." Scott panicked and Malia cradles his face in her hands.
"Hey! Hey, look at me! Yes, you can! Just concentrate!" She said. Between the pain of his eye's injuries and the pressure of the need to focus in order to heal them, Scott begins hyperventilating. "I can't-I can't-I can't do it." He stuttered. "Yes, you can. Scott, please, just look at me."
Nova sighed sadly, pressing her face into Derek's shoulder while Lydia and Stiles hold hands before realization cross over Lydia's face. "Malia?" She says and Malia looks back at Lydia, Scott's face still held in her hands. "Kiss him." Lydia said making Malia looks at Lydia as though she's lost her mind. "What?"
"Kiss him."
Malia turns back to Scott, licking her lips anxiously as she looks how badly his eyes are injured before leaning forward and gently kissing him on the lips. Scott reaches up with his left hand and places it gently on where she has her own hand holding his jaw. After a long moment, she pulls away, and Scott carefully opens his eyes to reveal that they are healing in a burst of Alpha-red light. Malia and the others let out a sigh of relief before Scott, looking at Malia with adoration, leans forward and kisses her again.
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"They ran that night. Gerard put guns in people's hands, but a lot less than they thought were actually willing to use them. More people know our secret now, but more of them are on our side. They weren't afraid of us anymore. Now we have allies who used to be enemies. We have protectors. We have friends willing to fight for us." Scott explains to Alec who looks despondent and confused. "'Kay, Alec... The people who are hunting you? They've got a leader. Her name is Monroe, and she's got a lot of followers."
"Like, what? Hundreds?" Alec asked and Scott looks at Alec with a serious expression, "Thousands- all over the world."
"So what are we doing here?"
'We're meeting up with some people who can help us. Some of them are always with us, others come when we need them. But, tonight... We need everyone we can get." Scott says and Alec is suddenly distracted by the arrival of the Jeep pulling up to them and watches as Stiles and Lydia get out of it to join them.
Next is Derek and Nova, driving his Camaro, and Malia, in her Toyota with Liam, all four of them get out to greet them as well. Malia makes eye contact with Scott and gives him an affectionate smile, while Nova moved to open the back door of the camaro. Alec looks back at Scott with a questioning expression, "Are they all... different?"
"Some of them are." Scott looks back at Malia, who smirks playfully.
Some can do things you'd never believe. And others might only be human-" Scott gestures at Stiles, who smiles. "-but they make up for it by being really smart.'
Scott gestures to Lydia, who nods back at him.
"Or really good in a fight." Scott said looking over at Nova who now had a hold on her daughter that stood in front of. Nova smirked and winked before letting Alli go, the little girl instantly running over to her father. "Who are they?" Scott smiles at Alec at the thought of the answer before turning to giving Derek a look who smiled at him as his daughter wrapped her arms around his legs. "My friends. My pack. And you can be with us, if you want. But you're going to have to fight."
"Against Monroe?"
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And everyone that follows her." He nodded and Alec looks at Scott with fear in his eyes. "She said she'd find me. That she'd hunt me down and kill me. She didn't care how old I was. She said I was a monster." Scott looks at Alec affectionately, remembering a similar conversation he had with Liam before he speaks, "You're not a monster. You're a Werewolf." He says, his eyes glowing bright red, "Like me." Scott looks over at Liam, who smiles proudly in response, before beckoning Alec to follow him.
Scott walks over to the others to make his introduction, and Derek smiles with pride as well as he follows after him after picking his daughter up. Scott puts his arms around Stiles' and Nova's shoulders, and Alec, now excited to meet everyone, quickly rushes over.
Nova smiled at them before pulling away to wrap her arm around Derek's waist as he wrapped his free arm around her shoulders. They smiled at each other as Malia joins them at Scott's side, and Liam is the first to approach Alec to talk to him as all eight of them walk into the proverbial sunset.