Scenes with Stiles 275
[Stiles and Hayden have just brought a seriously-injured Liam into an empty classroom. Both Hayden and Stiles are horrified when they lay him on a desk and peel away his tattered jersey to reveal his chest and abdomen have been shredded open]
Okay. Okay. What do you guys usually do when this happens?
Stiles
[woozily] Uh, I usually pass out... And I think I might still do that...
[Braeden and Malia are talking to Stiles at the McCall House]
You know how my mother wants to kill me? I think she might want to kill you, too.
Stiles
Okay. Uh, that's disconcerting. I should probably have a gun...
[Braeden scoffs and makes a face]
I'm not giving you a gun!
Stiles
You have a gun. The Desert Wolf-- who is trying to kill me-- has a gun. I think I should probably have a gun!
[Malia gives Braeden a look, and Braeden sighs before removing the clip from one of her handguns and tossing it to Stiles, who hilariously fumbles with it helplessly until he drops it on the floor. Braeden gives him a "I told you so" look, and Stiles looks embarrassed]
Stiles
I probably shouldn't have a gun...
Stiles
Still nothing from Scott and Liam.
Are we really sure this is a good idea?
Stiles
Uh, no. No one thinks this is a good idea.
But you're trusting Theo anyway?
Stiles
We're not trusting him, we're using him.
Stiles
...That's probably a given.
Stiles
Yeah, I'm still thinking... Still trying to figure out, why Mason? I mean, he wasn't even on the genetic chimera list...
[Melissa arrives with a medical file in her hands, which she immediately opens and lays on the desk]
He is now. Mason was born with twin embolization syndrome.
[shocked] You mean fetal resorption?
He had a vanishing twin in utero?
[nods] Which accounts for two sets of DNA.
Stiles
Can someone please say it with words that have less than three syllables?
[shortly] He ate his twin.
Stiles
Oh, God!
[Scott and Liam have brought the injured Surgeon to the animal clinic for Deaton]
I'm not sure he technically is alive.
[scoffs] Screw keeping him alive! How do we get him to talk?
Stiles
Personally, I don't think we utilize torture nearly enough...
Maybe there's something in here. Something about how he was a genetic chimera.
Mason had a vanishing twin.
Stiles
Now we've got a vanishing Mason.
What does that have to do with him turning into a 250-year-old French guy? How does that even happen?
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. Metaphorically speaking, the DNA of Mason could still be inside Sebastien as well.
Stiles
How?
Life is energy. Energy doesn't just disappear. The Dread Doctors may have found a way to break the rules of the supernatural, but there are some rules that simply won't break.
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
Hang on... Liam, you said Mason said something right before he turned.
He said, "That's not my name."
He finally remembered his name. Damnatio memoriae.
That's what they wanted. They wanted Sebastien to remember his name. Scott, do you know the myth of what happens when you call a werewolf by its given name?
[shocked] It turns back to human...
What does that mean? Someone can just walk up to the Beast, yell Mason's name, and turn him back?
Stiles
Not someone... Lydia.
[Scott has just handed Stiles a wrapped up package containing Belasko's claws]
Stiles
What is this?
Something I've been working on for a while. Just make sure Malia gets it.
Stiles
Is it Plan B?
Stiles
Plan A never works.
[determinedly] This one will.
[The Desert Wolf has just stabbed Malia in the stomach with her claws]
[Malia, with Belasko's talons on her claws, stabs the Desert Wolf in the stomach with them]
[Malia absorbs the rest of her mother's powers, and her eyes glow bright blue. After Braeden knocks the Desert Wolf out, Stiles, who has been injured, calls out to them]
Stiles
Can someone please come and take this gigantic shard of glass out of my chest? Please?
[about Kira] But she'll be back. She still has to graduate.
Stiles
That's the thing, though. I don't know... When we started this school year, I was so stressed about everyone ending up in the same place after we graduate. But I don't think it matters. We always seem to find each other anyway. Even Allison.
[Lydia stops walking and looks at him in confusion]
Stiles
He didn't tell you? It was in the tunnels, when Sebastien had his hands around Scott's throat. The guy probably didn't even know what he was doing. His claws got into Scott's neck. He was going to kill him... But then he stopped and said a name-- Marie-Jeanne.
[gasps] He saw Scott's memories.
Stiles
He saw Allison.
They must have looked like each other. I mean, maybe exactly like each other.
Stiles
It gave Scott a chance to break free. She saved him. Allison saved his life.
Stiles
Okay, what-what does your Banshee intuition say this is?
[sighs] That you don't have to figure it out right this second?
Stiles
But this kid-- this kid's got no one, you know? And... There's a reason. There's gotta be.
[Suddenly, Lydia begins to get another Banshee premonition similar to those she experienced several times earlier in the day; she can hear the sound of thunder rumbling and rain falling heavily, along with an unknown feminine voice singing through the sounds of the storm]
FVFeminine Voice
...Killer on the road...
[Lydia listens to the premonition for a long moment before muttering to herself under her breath]
"Give this man a ride, sweet family will die... Killer on the road..."
[Stiles frowns in confusion]
Stiles
Riders on the Storm?
[Lydia suddenly snaps out of her trance]
Stiles
That's the song-- Riders on the Storm.
[Lydia's eyes widen as she gets a dawning realization]
Stiles
What's it?
The Ghost Riders. The Wild Hunt! They come by storm, riding horses, and they take people.
[Stiles looks at her in awe]
Stiles
Lydia, you're so smart, I could kiss you right now.
[sternly] Do not kiss me.
[Stiles quickly leans in and kisses her on the cheek before running away and shouting behind him]
Stiles
Did it anyway!
[Lydia smiles despite herself]
[Stiles has just rushed away from Natalie and runs into Liam, Mason, and Hayden, which causes him to be relieved as he addresses Liam and Hayden due to their encounter with the Riders the previous evening]
Stiles
You two, you two have to listen to me right now-- Alex is gone, just like his parents, okay? The Ghost Riders took him, so you guys, you can't be alone. You gotta stick with Scott or with me, because I can see them.
[Liam, Mason, and Hayden all look at Stiles as though he is crazy, and Stiles' is clearly impatient with them]
Stiles
Why the hell are you looking at me like that?
[Hayden turns to whisper in Liam's ear]
[whispers back] I don't even know if he goes here...
[Mason looks at Stiles with a kind and patient expression]
Do you go to this school? What's your name?
[Stiles and Lydia, both of whom have been running around looking for each other, finally find one another outside of the school near the parking lot]
Stiles
Lydia? You know me. Oh, thank God. You know me!
[nods quickly] I know you! But I think everybody else is forgetting...
[Lydia and Stiles are in the Jeep, and when she sees that he has decided not to turn on the car, she looks at him in alarm]
What are you doing? We need to go!
Stiles
[grimly] There's no time. Lydia, I'm going to be erased, okay? Just like Alex. You're gonna forget me.
[frantically shakes her head] I won't! No, I won't! I won't!
Stiles
[sadly] Lydia, you will. Just try to find some way to remember me, okay? Remember how you were the first girl I ever danced with? Or how I had a crush on you freshman year... sophomore year... junior year. Remember how you saved my life?
Stiles
Just remember... Remember I love you.
[The Ghost Riders yank Stiles out of the Jeep before they all disappear, and Lydia gasps in horror. After a moment, she struggles to hang on to her memories of Stiles]
Remember... Remember... Remember...