Through better and worse, I'll still love you. (3rd book to HIABY?)

Chapter 12- Lunar Ellipse

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~Scott, Stiles, and Allison experience.

Stiles, Scott and Allison awake in their water-filled metal tubs. They are in a large white room with support posts spaced evenly down its length. The only other features are florescent light fixtures set into the ceiling above and seemingly random areas of grey and white tiling on the floor below. They exit the tubs and notice, in what appears to be the center of the room, a large tree stump protrudes through the floor. It is the Nemeton. It is surrounded by cracked floor tiles as if it has forced its way up into the room. The three friends approach and Scott takes notice of the rings that mark the stump. He slips up the sleeve of his t-shirt to reveal his tattoo which seems to mimic the tree's growth rings.

~Scott's Flashbacks.

Scott flashes back to the day Derek helped restore the tattoo using fire. He remembers telling Derek that he didn't know what it meant that the image was just "something I traced with my fingers." Scott reaches down to touch the stump and finds himself in the woods on the night he first got bit by The Alpha Werewolf, aka Peter. While this is all part of post-mortem hallucination, it is clear that this is more than a flashback as Scott watches himself discover Laura Hale's body and then sees the attack that made him a werewolf. As he begins to back away from the scene, he bumps into the Nemeton which is apparently somewhere in Beacon Hills Preserve.

~End of Scott's flashbacks.

~Stiles's Flashback.

Stiles also finds himself back on the night Scott got bit. He arrives a bit earlier and sees himself leading Scott and Sadie through the woods in a search for a dead body. He watches as his father catches the other Stiles and one of his deputies catch Sadie and Stiles dad escorts the two teenagers out of the woods. Stiles' vision quest ends as he too bumps into the Nemeton stump.

~End of Stiles's flashback.

~Allison's flashback

Allison finds herself in the Argent's SUV with her mother. Victoria Argent is talking about the unique requirements of her husband's job, "a highly respected private security consultant and a federally licensed firearms dealer." Allison says it's still odd when he runs out in the middle of the night with "duffle bags filled with automatic weapons." At that moment, Allison sees someone in the road ahead. Mrs. Argent swerves and barely misses Scott. This is also the night Scott got bit and he runs out into the road after the attack. Allison insists that her mother turn around but when they return to the scene, Scott is gone. Noticing tracks leading into the woods, Allison follows and finds Scott's inhaler lying on the ground. Her mother arrives and tries to drag her back to their car. They hear a wolf howl. Mrs. Argent takes the inhaler from Allison and throws it back into the woods where it lands at the feet of Allison Argent. Looking to her side, this Allison sees the Nemeton.

~End of Allison's flashback.

~Deaton's Animal Clinic.

*Sadie's pov*

I paced back and forth in front of the tubs, Allison, Scott, and Stiles were still under and its way, way, way past the time they should have been awake.  I heard splashes and then coughing and I looked to see them all awake,"Oh thank god."I said as relieved tears sprung in my eyes. I grabbed a towel and so did Deaton and Isaac, they stepped out of the tub and took the towels and wrapped it around themsefls. "I saw it. I know where it is, we passed it."Scott said. "There's- There's a stump, this huge tree. Well, it's not huge anymore. It was cut down, but it's still big, though, very big."Stiles explained. "It was the night we were looking for the body."Scott said looking at Stiles and I. "Yeah, the same night you were bit by peter."Stiles added. "I was there too, in the car with my mother. We almost hit someone."Allison said. "It was me, you almost hit me."Scott exclaimed. "We can find it."Allison said and they all looked at us. "What?"Scott asked when he saw the look on all of our faces. "You guys were out a long time."Lydia said. "How long is a long time?"Stiles questioned. "16 hours "I said. "We've been in the water for 16 hours?"Scott questioned. "And the moon rises in less than four."Isaac informed them.