The Kids From Yesterday // Stiles Stilinksi [2/2]

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They made their way to the Animal Clinic to find out if Deaton had a way to save Mason. Scott and Liam arrived with the Surgeon and they told Deaton what they'd found out.

"Mason had a vanishing twin," Deaton repeated.

Stiles shrugged. "Now we've got a vanishing Mason."

Lucy shot him a dirty look as Liam asked, "What does that have to do with turning him into a 250-year-old French guy? How does that even happen?"

Deaton looked between them. "Hold on, Scott might have something. Mason's twin wasn't entirely gone. That's what made him a genetic Chimera."

"The DNA was still there," Scott realized.

Deaton nodded. "Metaphorically speaking, the DNA of Mason could still be inside Sebastien as well."

"How?"

Lucy hopped up onto the counter. "Think of life as energy, Scott. Energy doesn't disappear. It merely transfers."

Deaton continued. "The Dread Doctors may have found a way to break the rules of the supernatural world, but there are some rules that simply won't break."

Liam was silent for a moment. "So Mason can't just be gone?"

"Somewhere in Sebastien, he has to still exist in some form. A spark of energy, a flicker of memory."

Stiles turned to the beta. "Hang on... Liam, you said Mason said something right before he turned."

"He said, "That's not my name.""

Stiles turned to his friend. "He finally remembered his name."

Lucy nodded. "Damnatio Memoriae."

Liam looked between the couple. "That's what they wanted. They wanted Sebastien to remember his name."

Stiles turned to his friend. "Scott, you know the myth of what happens when you call a werewolf by its given name? Lu, did Chiron tell you that in your five-minute lycanthropy lesson?"

Lucy nodded and Scott said, "It turns back to human."

Liam frowned, looking between the group. "What does that mean? Someone can just walk up to the Beast, yell Mason's name and turn him back?"

Scott shook his head. "Not someone... Lydia."

Lucy's phone buzzed and she looked at the message. "Lydia's in the hospital."

Stiles drove them over and Lucy immediately ran to Lydia's room to see her neck bandaged.

Melissa walked into the room and Lucy shot up. "What happened to her?"

"I don't know," Melissa replied as they walked towards the strawberry-blonde girl. "Lydia, this is gonna have to be just between us, since I can get fired for it."

Scott smiled softly. "It's a cortisone shot. It's gonna bring the inflammation down."

Lydia nodded and lifted her sleeve to reveal her forearm.

Melissa shook her head. "Not there." She pulled the bandage from Lydia's neck slowly and positioned the needle.

Stiles and Lucy made a move towards the door. "Oh, yeah, okay, we're gonna need to leave."

"You two aren't going anywhere," Melissa said. "Lucy, hold her hand."

Lucy took Lydia's hand and Stiles took Lucy's.

Stiles pursed his lips. "Okay. Here we go."

Melissa moved the needle closer to Lydia's neck. "Okay. Here we go."