Foresight

Chapter 2: 1-1

The scene starts at a house with rock music playing in the background. "That's my house!" Scott exclaimed. "Keep it down will you. We are watching" Laura scolded him and Scott shrunk into himself with a blush while Allison glared at the woman. A lacrosse stick is thrown on the bed and Scott begins with pull ups while still in a towel. "Damn" Allison muttered to herself quietly. But those with wolf hearing had heard her clearly and were all now smirking at a blushing Scott, except Derek. He still had a sour expression on his face but one could see the hints of a smile at the corner of his lips. Scott then went on to brush his teeth and wash up when he heard creaking from outside. He put on a hoodie and some pants before grabbing a bat and going out. He peeked out to see if anyone was there. He then slowly walked out, bat raised high when suddenly another boy dropped in upside down hanging by the roof and the both of them screamed. "Do you ever make a normal entrance?" Lydia asked looking straight at Stiles. Stiles who was a little surprised by Lydia actually talking to him replied with replied with "Normal is overrated" to which she rolled her eyes. "Stiles! What the hell are you doing!?" Scott asked. "You weren't answering your phone. And why do you have a bat?" Stiles replied and asked. "I thought you were a predator" Scott mumbled. "A pre" he coughs 'Alright I know it's late but you have to hear this. I saw my dad leave 20 minutes ago. Dispatch called. They're bringing in every officer from the Beacon Department, and even state police" Stiles said. "For what?" Scott asked. "Two joggers found a body in the woods" Stiles started, "A dead body?" Scott interrupted. "No a body of water. Yes dumbass a dead body" Stiles rolled his eyes. "You mean like murdered?" Scott asked and the conversation went on till the two of them were in the woods. The two of them keep walking talking about their first day of high school. Scott says he plans to play this year as part of the team's "first line." Stiles mocks this as "pathetically unrealistic." The two climb a hill where Scott falls behind and takes a hit of his inhaler. "I didn't know you had asthma" Allison said looking at him. "You know what, she is right. I haven't seen you take a hit of it at all these days Scott. Are we out?" Melissa asked. Scott just shook his head, "I'm okay now mom. I don't have it anymore" he looked at his mom and then at Allison. Stiles tops the ridge and spots the line of officers and dogs searching. Excited, he runs forward toward the search area leaving Scott, who must take another hit from his inhaler, far behind. While he's trying to stay out of the searchers line of sight, Stiles instead runs right into one of the officers and his K-9 companion. The deputy shouts at him but is called up short by Sheriff Stilinski. The Sheriff questions him about listening in on his phone calls and asks the whereabouts of Stiles' "usual partner in crime". Stiles says that Scott is at home resting up for the first day back at school. The Sheriff not believing it for a minute, shines his flashlight into the woods and calls out for Scott who is hiding behind a nearby tree. Seeing nothing, the Sheriff grabs Stiles by the neck and walks him back to his car. "Are always this troublesome to your father young man?" Claudia looked at Stiles sternly. Stiles said nothing and just stared at his mother with wide eyes. He was still shocked at seeing her here, sitting healthy and right beside him. "She is real Stiles and she is right beside you" Sky spoke up suddenly as Stiles blinked. The rest looked at them with confusion while the McCall family looked at Stiles with a sad smile on their faces. His father put a hand on his shoulder and gave him a reassuring squeeze. Stiles looked back at his father then to his mother who did not look stern at all but had a look of confusion. Stiles without wasting another moment hugged her with everything he had. Claudia was surprised by the sudden hug and the intensity. She looked up at her husband who looked at them with tears in his eyes and then realization dawned on her. She hugged Stiles back. The others looked at the scene in front of them with a smile and some confusion till Sky's words actually registered in their heads and they all understood. It took them a while but Stiles and Claudia broke apart from the hug and the show resumed, Stiles resting his head on her shoulder. Scott pulls up his hoodie and begins making his way through the woods alone. Something on the path ahead catches his attention and he stops and takes out his inhaler to take a puff. As he is about to take a puff, a herd of panicked deer rush through the woods at him. His inhaler goes flying put of his grip and he drops to the ground. Once the herd has passed, he regains his feet and uses the flashlight app on his smartphone to search for his missing inhaler. The light from the phone passes over pale, almost white, flesh. Scott sweeps it back and sees the upper portion of a girls' body, cut in half at the waist with entrails spread out on the fallen leaves. He panics, loses his footing and tumbles down into a ravine. Derek makes a little noise at back of his throat almost unnoticed by the rest and closes his eyes tightly. Talia, Laura, Cora and Peter look at him with worry in their eyes. They had not been able to tell who the girl was as the light wasn't on it for long enough. Standing up, he hears a low growl and turns to see a beast with glowing white eyes standing several feet away. The thing pounces, knocking Scott to the ground. He scrambles to get away but the beast pulls him back and bites down hard. Scott screams and rolls away. He gets to his feet and runs blindly through the woods then out onto a road where a speeding SUV skids and swerves and barely misses him. Melissa and Rafael watched in horror as their son got attacked and almost hit by the car. Melissa lifted his shirt to see if he was still hurt, her eyes building up tears. Scott took her hand in his and looked her in the eyes, "I'm okay mom" he said to her calmly and then looked at his father and nodded. The two of them relaxed slightly in their seats while Allison sat pale in her seat. "That was our car" she whispered and looked at her father who realized what had made her daughter go pale like that and rubbed her shoulder. He looked back at his wife who was looking back at him. They both had realized what had just happened in the woods and decided to see what would happen next. This was after all an opportunity to change the future. Scott, breathing hard from fear and exertion, lifts his hoodie and t-shirt to reveal a large bloody bite. Deep puncture wounds create a rough circle on the right side of his abdomen from just below the ribs to just above his waistline. It begins to rain as Scott stands panting in the road. A wolf howls. And with the howl, the hale pack from the past had also realized what had happened and looked at Scott with some understanding. Talia though was confused as to who was it that had bitten him. The following morning Scott arrives to Beacon Hills High School on his bike just as Jackson is parking his Porsche. Jackson bumps Scott with his car door then warns him in a menacing tone. Lydia looked at her boyfriend with an annoyed look. She had always found this side of Jackson to be a bit rude and she disliked it, but never said anything against it. Stiles threw a dirty look at Jackson which was followed by dirty looks for Allison, Cora and Laura. Later, Scott shows Stiles his wound. It is covered with a white gauze and tape and a small amount of blood has seeped through. Scott says he thinks he was attacked by a wolf because he heard a wolf howling. Stiles says that would be impossible pointing out a lack of wolves in California for almost sixty years. "You sure know a lot about these wolves Stiles" Peter spoke up. Stiles looked at him with a proud smirk, "I like to keep myself in the know of things". "Also he is a big nerd" Scott added as Stiles gave him a sour look. The rest chuckled at this before looking back at the screen. Scott then reveals that he found the body in the woods. Stiles is excited about the discovery but becomes distracted when he sees Lydia approach. He greets her but she ignores him. He blames Scott for Lydia's diss claiming Scott is dragging me down to his nerd depths. And added that he was I've been "scarlet nerded" by him. Lydia looks at Stiles while the others laughed. "He isn't a bad guy" she thought to herself. She had seen him since middle school and could remember him being a weirdo. She would have been friends with him but then the popular kids wouldn't have liked her. She looked back at the screen as these thoughts went through her head. Scott and Stiles sit in English Class. As the teacher writes "Kafka's Metamorphosis" on the chalkboard, he explains that the police have a suspect in the death of the girl in the woods. A loud cell phone ring startles Scott. He looks around the room for the source but can't find it. Then he notices Allison sitting on a bench outside the school. She answers the phone and Scott can hear her conversation perfectly as though she was sitting right next to him instead of beyond the wall and several dozen feet away. The occupants in the room except the Hales, the older Argents, Malia, Kira, Stiles and Deaton looked at Scott weirdly. "How did you hear that!?" Boyde asked from his place beside Rafael. Scott just shrugged, "I think it will be explained now" was all he said as everyone looked back at the screen. Allison was talking to her mother and realised that she left home without a pen. A teacher joins her and walks her into the building. Allison introduces herself to the teacher and says that she and her family moved from San Francisco where they lived for more than a year. She says this was the longest they'd stayed in one place in recent memory. A few seconds later she enters the English class and is introduced and is told to take a seat directly behind Scott. He doesn't say anything but hands her a pen. Their eyes meet briefly as she thanks him. "I thought it was weird that you offered me a pen. I thought you could read minds" Allison grumbles good naturedly to Scott who smiles at her. They meet again at the end of the school day in the hallway when Scott stops at his locker. She catches him staring at her and smiles broadly before being approached by Lydia who compliments her jacket. Despite her locker being several feet away from his, Scott can hear the girls' conversation perfectly. "Stalker much?" Lydia said with a raised eyebrow and Scott blushed, much to the amusement of Allison. Lydia wants to know where she got her jacket and Allison explains that her mother was a buyer for a boutique back in San Francisco. Lydia declares that Allison is her new best friend just as Jackson walks up to them. Lydia and Jackson embrace and then kiss. "Get a room!" Cora shouts and makes gagging noises as the others excluding Derek who just smiled slightly laugh. Lydia blushes brightly and glares at the girl when she notices something. Stiles had not joined in on the laughter nor was he looking at her. Rather he looked a bit uncomfortable. She shrugged and returned to the show. The two of them invite Allison to a party on Friday night but she begs off claiming Friday is family night. Jackson says everyone is going to the party after the scrimmage. Allison thinks he was talking about football and asks. Jackson smirks and says football is a joke around here and explains that the game of choice was lacrosse. He brags that they've won the state championship three years in a row. And Lydia adds that it's due to Jackson being the team captain. The couple then proceeds to drag Allison to lacrosse practice as Scott watches. Peter turns to Derek, "So it isn't basketball anymore huh?" but Derek says nothing, he not even looks at him. Scott and Stiles run onto the practice field, Stiles complaining that if Scott plays he'll have no one to talk to on the bench. Scott says he can't sit out again because his whole life is sitting on the sidelines and again vows to make first line. Allison and Lydia arrive in the stands and Scott again makes eye contact with Allison. She smiles and then Coach Bobby calls to him. The coach throws a goalie's stick and helmet at him and says he wants Scott to play goal because he'll be easy to score on and help build the other players' confidence. "That's some shit coach there" Rafael says stone faced while the lacrosse players laugh a bit nervously. Allison asks Lydia about Scott but she says she doesn't know him. Scott's super hearing lets him hear their conversation from his place in front of the goal. He hears as Lydia asks Allison why she cares who he might be and Allison says that he's in her English class. Someone blows a whistle and with his ears turned up in super hearing, Scott is hurt and disoriented by the noise. While he is covering his ears in pain, one of the other players launches the ball toward the goal striking Scott squarely in his helmet. He is knocked onto his back and lays there stunned. The druid, wolves and kitsune in the room winces having known exactly how bad it was with sensitive hearing while the humans looked at Scott weirdly. Scott gets up on his feet, tightens the grip on his stick and prepares for the next ball just as it flies toward him. He catches it and seems surprised as does Stiles and each of the other players on the field. He stops three more attempted goals in quick succession impressing both Allison and Lydia. "You show them Scott!" Isaac suddenly screamed out but then shrank back as the others looked at him. Jackson wasn't impressed, he seemed rather angry as he forces his way to the front of the line, takes a running start and hurls the ball toward the goal. Scott swoops it up as easily as the others causing Stiles to leap to his feet. He and the rest of crowd, including Lydia, cheer loudly. Jackson catches Lydia's eye and seems put out and a little confused by her enthusiasm for Scott. Jackson looked down at Lydia who was staring straight at the screen. He shrugged mentally and resumed watching. Later when they were walking through the preserve, Scott explains to Stiles what had happened tp him on the field. He goes on to explain about his enhanced hearing and sense of smell. He points out that he can smell a stick of Mint Mojito gum in Stiles' pocket. When the gum turns out to be there, Stiles seems at first confused but brushes it off and regains his jovial attitude. Scott worries that it might be an infection which is flooding his body with adrenaline before he goes into shock. Stiles takes on a knowing and serious tone and explains that he has heard of just such an infection. He says it's called Lycanthropy. The supernatural creatures and hunters all blinked and looked at Stiles with surprise and confusion as to how he had figured it out this fast. Unfamiliar with the word, Scott panics a little. Stiles plays out the joke saying the disease is bad but only once a month on the night of the full moon. He then howls like a wolf and Scott realizes that his friend is joking. He doesn't think it's funny and chides Stiles that there could be something seriously wrong. Stiles is still joking when he says he was now a werewolf and growls. He then jokes about melting silver in preparation for the full moon on Friday. Everyone in the room seemed to laugh at this, the supernatural creatures and hunters not joining in. "And how did you come to that conclusion, Stiles is it?" Talia asked. Stiles shrugged, "I did some reading and cross referenced the symptoms" he simply said. Deaton from his place looked at Stiles, quite impressed. Scott stops and says that they've returned to the spot where he saw the body and lost his inhaler but there is nothing but dead leaves on the ground. Stiles suggests the killer moved the body and as Scott begins looking for his inhaler, Derek seemed to appear out of nowhere. "Aye little brother makes an entrance" Laura cheered and clapped him on the back. He strides purposefully toward them demanding to know what they are doing on private property. They say that they did not know that it was private property and was just looking for an inhaler. Derek then tosses the inhaler to Scott and strides away without another word. Stiles points out that it was Derek, a guy a few years older than they were and adds that Scott should remember him because his entire family died in a fire like 10 years ago. The Hales blinked and then look at Derek who was staring intently at the screen. "Derek" Laura called out a little shakily. He does not respond. "Derek!" Cora and Peter joins in as well. Derek closed his eyes and did not respond to this. Talia looked at the closed eyed Derek as she finally realized all the odd looks he had given them, all the while not talking to them. The play of emotions in his eyes when they had made him sit with them and the tone in his voice. She put a hand on his shoulder and felt him stiffen, "Derek" she called out softly. Derek this time slowly turned around and looked at her. His blue eyes playing various emotions as he looked at her. Talia got up from her spot and pulled her son into a tight hug. Derek froze in the embrace but slowly returned the hug, years of pent up emotions now coming out of him in the form of tears. Laura and Cora joined into the embrace while Peter watched for his spot, a sad look in his eyes. "I am so sorry for leaving you like that" Talia whispered. Derek said nothing but clung to all three of them like his life depended on it. It was while later after the Hales had calmed down that they resumed the show. Thunder rolls across the night sky as Scott is locking the door at the Beacon Hills Animal Clinic.