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[ Melissa is not in her scrubs this time, but her civvies, and she’s smirking quietly to herself. The memory of Scott closing the door in his father’s face is one that she’ll treasure for a very long time. ]

Hello? Scott McCall and I are back again. I think we just took a year off the poor worker’s life, the guy doing the drywall in the clinic? Yeah, not pretty. I’ve never seen a saw bounce before. Hope I never see it again.

[ And, sure enough, there’s a very loud buzzing just off camera. Apparently the worker heard that. Oops.

Into the feed, a wild Scott McCall appears! Just his head, anyway, leaning down into it beside his mother’s. ]

But, he’s fine, he’s fine! [ He looks off screen.. ] Nobody was injured. [ He looks back. ] Sorry to anybody if we had plans. But, we’re back now and we’re not planning on going anywhere. [ Unless everyone else gets out with them.

Melissa pokes her head back into frame again.]

Oh! And Lydia? Tell me you fed the cat? I mean...how long have we been gone, after all? Ziggy wasn’t too much of problem, was he?

[ Scott is about to say something else, but he notices something offscreen. ] No way. [ And he slides out of frame leaving Melissa to take the reins. Offscreen… ] Cool.

...Okay. Just a note to say we’re back. Stiles, Isaac, Derek? Are you all okay?

[ And Scott is back. ]

You’re still here, right? [ Scott brings it closer, fiddling and then soon, the feed is private! ]

derek ]

Thanks. [ To his mom. To the device... ] I think I’m all caught up. Sorry if you came by Monday night. The City thought we didn’t need to talk. But, we still should.

isaac ]
We will hang out this weekend.

[ Fiddling with it again, Scott adjusts to make the feed public once more ]

public ]

So, that’s what leaving is like. We had no clue we were here. And then we were just… back. If anybody needs us, we’ll be back at the apartment in a couple of minutes. Angela, I’ll be in to work tomorrow. [ A beat before he adds ] Has anybody heard from Wally?

[ ooc: Replies will be coming from both Scott and Melissa! ]

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The alphas were there waiting. They were after her. It turns out she used to be Kali's emissary. Her name was Julia. She said if we want to save Cora then we had to get her out of there alive. With Allison's and her dad's help, we almost did but it was all a trick. She knocked Derek out - they'd gotten stuck in the elevator - [ a beat for this. ] And she took my mom.

[Lydia's face just falls.] Oh god, I'm so sorry. [A beat.] But she's here with you now. Does that mean she's okay, or am I getting ahead of things?

You're ahead but she's fine.

[ He takes a second to form his next thought, to explain what he needs to. It's like he's back there again on that roof realizing he has no choice. ]

Deucalian was waiting for me. He said he'd get her back if I... joined his pack. I didn't do it for long but I thought I didn't have a choice. She was gone.

[Well, that's a relief. Lydia actually really likes Melissa. It shows on her face.

But the news about him joining Deucalion's pack? Not good. She wants to ask about the twins...well. She wants to ask about Aidan, but now isn't the time. So she continues to listen.]

While I was with them, Allison, Isaac and her dad tried to find them. [ He doesn't know how to explain this part. He's only heard about it from a third party. ] Her dad got taken, too. But, he wanted to be. It was his plan. [ What else happened. He spent the day with Deucalian's pack. ]

Right, right. Get inside and take her down from within. Alison's father was totally secret super bad ass, just the sort of thing he'd do. [She nods.] If your mom's okay, then I'm hoping Alison's dad and...the sheriff?

They're all okay. [ Lydia, way to spoil yourself. But, this is the point of telling the story. They'd hunted down Ms. Morrell and she'd revealed that Deucalian had killed Ennis. He'd been alive. That was enough to get Scott to leave his side. ] Ms. Morrell told me they were under the Nematon. [ A beat. ] Deaton came up with a plan. Allison, Stiles and me would step in as sacrifices.

[Blink.]

Wait, what?!

We had to give the nematon power to find where it was. We had to delay the sacrifices. We had to be held under in vats of ice water.

You were going to let someone just drown you and give you hypothermia? [Lydia is a bit freaked out by that. But okay, that makes sense, lower the body's temperature to effectively kill all three of them for a time before then being able to revive them, Lydia's already got the line on this. Still, she can't help but ask about the person - the people - she cares about. ] Oh my god, are Alison and Stiles okay? Who the hell would be crazy enough to do that? Be okay with drowning you?

You volunteered to hold Allison under but Deaton stopped you. There had to be a connection between us. So, you held Stiles down, Deaton held me and [ setting his jaw, he understands what's happened or what might be happening, he's still all right with it ] Isaac held Allison.

[It would be a moment for the Lydia Stare, but she's really too shocked for it to have any effect. Her jaw works for a long moment as she struggles with the notion of killing Alison, of killing Stiles (even if they were to come back), killing anyone. And beyond that, why would Isaac hold down Alison, why would she hold down Stiles, even though the math suggests Deaton would have to be the one for Scott, why would...]

That seems all kinds of wrong to me.

Did it work?

[ He remembers how it felt submerged in ice. He remembers not struggling, doing this for Stiles' dad and Allison's dad and his mom. He remembers dying. ]

We woke up and we knew where it was. [ He watches her, continuing. ] Sixteen hours later. Ethan came by to help. You and him went to Derek's loft. Isaac, Stiles, and Allison went to find our parents.

[16 hours?! They shouldn't have survived that...this is a lot of information to process, though one detail sticks and she can't help herself.]

Ethan...but not Aidan? [She's...disappointed.]

He wasn't there but when Kali tried to attack, he turned on her. Both twins did. This was at Derek's loft. You'd sent Derek and Cora out of town. [ Well, he had but she helped. ] But, Jennifer found you and them. She killed Kali and she made a deal with Derek. I met back up with Deucalian. This all led up to the lunar eclipse. Have you found out what happens to werewolves during a lunar eclipse?

[She shakes her head.] It's more than just the moon being covered over, though. The shadow blocks the light completely. [A sudden peer at him.] I can guess. [It's logical. Spock would be pleased.]

Derek and Jennifer met us. Deucalian finally showed us what he was. He transformed and attacked Jennifer and then Derek. He tried to get me to kill her but I wouldn't. But, I had a flash bomb ready and I blinded him right as the eclipse kicked in.

[She grimly smiles at that, nodding.] Smart. [Lydia Seal of Approval.]

[ He feels like he's explaining a movie or maybe an episode of television but this is his life. He's looking down now, replaying the entire scene in his mind. ]

She grabbed Deucalian and, and slammed him down. She was going to kill him. But, Derek told her to make him see what he'd done. What he'd made Kali do. You remember Deucalian's blind? She used her power - I guess killed healers meant she could heal other people. And then he wasn't blind.

[It does feel like that, doesn't it?]

Healing a blind man? That would have taken a lot of power.

It did. It took a lot of power. She tried to attack Derek but he got the upperhand. But the lunar eclipse ended and she threw down a ring of mountain ash. I saw Ms. Morrell do it in the woods. It's thrown down and then a ring appears. She threatened everyone - she said she was going to bury them under the nematon.

[Lydia nods.] Ring around the rosey. [Whatever that means.] But what good did that do? I mean, making the ring. What's it for? And clearly she didn't bury them because they're all okay, right?

We can't get through. When I found Deaton, when you went to Derek's with everyone, he was surrounded by a ring of mountain ash. Stiles' dad saved him by shooting him down. Humans can get through but werewolves can't. [ Which is why all could've been lost. ] She started using her power to finish the job. She was going to kill our parents. And Isaac and Allison and Stiles. They were there trying to get them out.

[Okay, in the thick of it now, Lydia's got no questions presently - she knows this all came out well...more or less. But she wants to hear about how it got there.]

But, I got through.

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