It was the last day of summer. It was dark, but the moon shined brightly. Nova leaned against Stiles' jeep, glancing up at the dark sky when she heard thunder. Scott sat on the hood of the jeep while Stiles leaned against it, looking at a map that was in front of him. 

"Alright, so I found some cool two bedrooms in the Mission District; but they're pretty expensive." Stiles said. "A couple in Haight and Ashbury. Also expensive."

"What about Berkeley?" Scott asks. "Don't a lot of students live up there?"

"Yeah, yeah." Stiles nods. "We could try Nob Hill. But, the jeep would probably burn through a lot of clutches."

Nova raises her eyebrows, glancing at her brother when he said that. "Stiles, you're really bringing the jeep?"

Stiles nods as he glances at her. "Yeah. The plan is no one gets left behind. That's the plan." He looks at Scott. "Lydia's not gonna have a problem with getting into Stanford. Kira's thinking USF. Malia's," He smiles nervously. "Uh, gonna, you know, she'll figure something out, okay. The plan is perfect."

"Did you come up with the plan?" Nova questions, tilting her head to the side. She chuckles. "Most of the time your plans suck."Stiles sent her a glare, reaching over to flick her forehead which caused her to wince and she whined as she rubbed her forehead.

Scott chuckles at the siblings, shaking his head. "Or you know we could just wait until we actually get into college and then figure out where to live."

"I have a vision, dude." Stiles looks back at Scott. "And it's a beautiful vision. Don't ruin the vision." He looks down at the map in front of him. "Okay, we can check out the East Bay. Haven't looked at Oakland yet, you know." He looks back at Scott, looking in the direction Scott is looking at to see he was looking at the full moon. "You alright? You starting to feel it?"

"No." Scott shakes his head. "Just thinking."

"Whatcha thinking about, Scotty?" Nova asked him.

"Senior year." Scott responded.

"Senior year, come on, that's-that's...That's nothing." Stiles speaks in a nervous tone. "That's going to be easy."

"You're nervous." Nova stated since she was listening to his heartbeat and could easily tell he was nervous. Even if she didnt listen to his heartbeat she could tell her brother was nervous.

"Maybe just a little." Stiles admitted.

"It's more like something Deaton told me once." Scott speaks, looking at the Stilinski siblings. "You ever hear of the regression of mean?"

Nova and Stiles shake their heads. "No," Stiles replies. "I don't think so."

"It was his way of saying that life can't ever be all bad or all good." Scott explains. "You know, eventually things have to come back to the middle. So, let's think about the last few months. Things have been good, right? But not amazing."

"I would call it amazing since no one has tried to kill us in six months." Nova shrugged and Stiles nodded in agreement.

"Right." Scott nods. "We've been pretty much in the middle for a while. Which means, at some point, the scale has to tip one way or the other. Things are gonna get really good again..."

"Or really bad." Stiles finished his sentence.

They each look at the sky when thunder rumbles again and they see lightening strike. A comfortable silence fell between the three before Stiles breaks it by saying, "Think it's been long enough?"

"Yes!" 

The three of them look over to where they chained Liam up to a nearby large tree. "Hey, we're trying to have an adult conversation over here!" Stiles told him. 

Shaking his head, Liam rolls his eyes. "Nova is my age, you two are two years older than us, and I'm fine. Just let me go."

Scott got off of the jeep and Nova follows her brother and Scott over to Liam. "It's not that we don't trust you." Scott said.

Stiles raises his hand. "It's not that I don't trust you."

"But after that last full moon..." Scott spoke, beginning to unlock the chains keeping Liam to the tree. 

Liam sheepishly smiles. "It was one slip up."

Stiles raises his eyebrows at him. "One slip up? A dozen calls to the Sherriff Department about a 'monstrous dog-boy running around the streets of Beacon Hills naked'. That's a slip up?"

Nova tilts her head to the side, raising her eyebrows at Liam. "Do I even want to know why you were naked?"

"It was really hot out that night, okay?" Liam defends himself, his face turning pink out of embarassment. "Let me go."

Scott looks at him with concern. "You sure you're okay?"

Liam nods. "It won't happen again."

"You're in complete and total control?" Scott asked him.

"Yeah." Liam replies. Nova furrows her eyebrows when she heard his heartbeat skip a beat. Did Scott not notice that Liam was lying? "Complete and total control."

Scott takes the chains off of Liam, dropping them into the duffle bag that Stiles picks up. When they walk back to the jeep, Liam unfolds his fists, looking at his bloody palms. Nova looks at him with concern. "Okay, why did you lie?"

"I didn't lie." Liam looks at her as he replies. He sighs and then frowns."I really am trying to have total control though. It's just harder than I thought it would be."

Nova sends him a sympathetic smile, patting his shoulder comfortingly. "Don't worry. You'll get better."

The four teens get back in the jeep and Stiles began driving down the road. Liam and Nova were in the back, Scott was in the passenger seat, and Stiles was behind the wheel. "Is it a party?" Liam asked in a nervous tone.

Stiles shakes his head. "It's not a party."

Liam furrows his eyebrows. "Then what's at midnight?"

Stiles glances back at him with annoyance. "Your bedtime."

From her place beside Liam, Nova snickered at Stiles' reply. Liam rolls his eyes. "Then why isn't Nova and the other girls going?" 

"Nova's not going 'cause it's a senior thing and they're meeting us there, okay?" Stiles responds. "Just stop asking questions, alright? Like I said, it's a senior thing." He glances back at Liam and Nova. "You two will know when you're a senior."

Scott was on his phone during Stiles' and Liam's conversation and he asks, "Have you guys been having trouble with your phones?"

Nova turns her phone on, furrowing her eyebrows when she saw that she didn't have any data. "Yeah. That's weird." She looked up when the jeep suddenly stopped.

Nova glances out the window beside her, looking out at where they were. Which was the middle of nowhere. This was not a good spot to stop at. And it was night which made things even creepier.

"You ran out of gas?" Liam questioned.

Stiles opens the door. "No, it's electrical. Probably the alternator again." He got out of the jeep along with Scott and they went to push open the hood of the jeep.

Nova decided to stay in the jeep with Liam, knowing it might be awhile before her brother and Scott figured out how to fix the jeep. She put her phone in the pocket of her denim jacket she had on, leaning her head back against the seat while closing her eyes. 

She then hears Liam ask her, "You good?"

"Yeah," She sighs, opening her eyes to look at him, seeing he was already looking at her, his eyes full of concern. She sends him a reassuring smile. "Just tired."

"You can use my shoulder as a pillow if you want." Liam offered, looking at her with a small smile. Nova couldn't help the smile that formed on her face and she nodded. 

She scooted closer to him so she was now sitting in the middle seat of the back. As she did that Liam had took his earphones out of his pocket, untangling them, and plugged them into his phone. He plugged one of the earphones into his ear and when Nova looked at him he offered the other earphone to her. She smiled at him and just when she was about to take the earphone from him she noticed something bright and heard a loud noise behind them. 

She shares a worried look with Liam before they both look behind them out the window, seeing the spot where lightening had just strike the road a few feet away from them. "You heard that, right?"

Liam nods in response and looks to the front where Scott and Stiles are. "Uh, guys..."

Nova's eyes widen and jumped a bit along with Liam, both of them startled with another lightening strikes right behind the jeep. "Guys!" Nova called out to Scott and Stiles, hoping that she and Liam could get their attention. She didn't want to be struck by lightening and she didn't want any of them to get hurt.

"Yeah," Stiles calls back to her. "Give us a second, please."

"You guys, stay in the car, okay?" Scott added.

Liam and Nova share a slightly panicked look with each other. "I don't know if I want to stay in the car or be outside if there are lightening strikes happening all over the place." Nova commented and Liam nodded in agreement.

They look back towards the front when a lightening strike happens off to the right side of the road, really close to where they were at. "Okay, I'm starting this thing." Liam stated with a scared expression on his face. Nova was scared too and he just hoped her brother and Scott would hurry up so they could leave.

Liam handed his phone and earphones to Nova before he leaned over to the front, turning the keys in the ignition. Nova let out a sigh of relief when the jeep started after he did that.

Liam leans out the window, looking out at Scott and Stiles. "Can we go now?"

****

Stiles went to pick up Malia before they head to the school. Malia had been standing next to Mr. Tate and to get Malia's attention, Stiles excitedly honked a few times as he pulled over to where she was at. Stiles leans out the window slightly, apologizing, "Sorry we're late." 

Malia ran up to him, her smile as big as Stiles', and the two shared a kiss. Liam suddenly leaned forward, looking at them with a smile. "I'm sorry, too." Nova couldn't help the small laugh that escapes her lips while Stiles glared at Liam and even sent a glare to her.

"You all do remember I own a gun, right?" Mr. Tate asked.

"Vividly." Stiles grumbled. 

Mr. Tate smirks, winked at Malia, and then walked off. Stiles opened his door so Malia could get in. She got in the back, sitting on the right side of Nova. Malia sent a smile to Nova and Liam and waved slightly. Nova smiled back at her and Liam waved back at Malia. 

By this point Liam and Nova were now listening to music on Liam's earphones as Scott and Stiles look at Malia. Malia looks at them with confusion. "What?"

"Did you find out yet?" Stiles asked her.

"Find out what?" Liam questioned.

"They're gonna email me." Malia replied to Stiles.

Liam glances at Malia curiously. "Is this about summer school?"

Malia furrows her eyebrows, glancing at Stiles. "You told him?"

"Technically, Nova was the one to tell him." Stiles pointed at his younger sister, who sheepishly smiled at Malia when the short-haired girl looked at her with furrowed eyebrows.

"All she said was that you were going to summer school 'cause the principal said your test scores weren't good enough and you might have to repeat junior year." Liam said.

Malia looks forward with an upset expression and sighs. Nova smiles apologetically. "Sorry."

Stiles looks at Liam with a glare. He glanced at Nova and Scott. "We should've left him chained to the tree."

****

Plans were changed after Scott had got a panicked phone call from Melissa about a build-up at the hospital. Liam and Nova decided on going with Scott since they had nothing else better to do. Nova noticed a blonde-haired girl on a hospital bed wheeled by them. The girl had blood covering her face and it was a good thing the girl was unconscious because it looked like it hurt. 

"My dad is helping out in surgery." Liam tells them. "He's not gonna be done for hours. So I'm either hanging out here...Or I could still go with you guys."

The three of them reach an elevator and Scott presses the down button before turning to look at Liam. "Show me your hands."

Liam sighs, taking his hands out of his pocket of his jacket. There was dry blood on his palms and under his finger nails. On his palms there were crescent shapes in his palms from his nails that were already healing. "Okay, so I'm-I'm still having trouble."

"No. You're still learning." Scott softly smiled.

"Liam, control takes time." Nova chimes in. "And you're gonna get there. I know it."

"What do you do to stay focused on not changing?" Scott asked Liam.

Liam pulls the earphones that were dangling from his shirt and Nova noticed he didn't look happy about it. "But it's not working."

Scott nods. "It's working enough. Listen, Derek told me that you're one of the strongest that he'd ever seen at your age. Now, coming from him that means a lot." Even though the elevator dinged behind Scott they each ignored it. "Maybe that means things are gonna be harder for you for a while," Scott steps inside the elevator, putting his hand on where the door opens to stop it from opening as he kept looking at Liam. "But it also means something else, doesn't it?"

Liam glances at Nova as if she would know the answer. Nova just shook her head, raising her hands up in defense as if that was her way of saying 'don't look at me'. Liam looks back at Scott while shrugging. "That I'm really strong?" 

Scott nods, looking at him with a smile while he agreed with Liam. He looks at Nova wiht a small smile. "Do you just want to wait here for your dad or do you wanna go with us, Nova?"

Nova sends him an assuring smile. "I'll just wait here. Thanks though."

Scott nods and let the elevator close. Nova turned to Liam who was staring at the floor with a frown. "Hey," Nova playfully elbows him to get his attention and he looks at her as she continues to speak. "You shouldn't be upset. Scott just told you that Derek basically complimented you. I don't think Derek ever complimented anyone before."

Liam smiles a bit at the fact that she was trying to cheer him up and then sighs, shaking his head. "I just thought I would have control of it by now."

"Trust me, you'll get there." Nova smiles at him, wrapping an arm around his shoulders and a smile tugged on Liam's lips at what she says next. "And I'll be with you every step of the way."

Nova furrowed her eyebrows and a frown tugged on her lips when she noticed out of the corner of her eye her dad and Melissa carrying Jordan Parrish over to the morgue and he didn't look good. Liam furrowed his eyebrows upon the change of her demeanor and glanced behind her. Nova's dad and Melissa had already got into the morgue by then so he didn't see them.

"What's the matter?" Liam asked her.

"I think something's wrong with Parrish." Nova took her arm off of his shoulders, moving over to the morgue with Liam following her.

Nova had peeked through the window of one of the doors that went to the morgue and it seemed like Jordan was okay now. She and Liam listened in to the conversation he was having with her dad and Melissa. Apparently some supernatural creature attacked him and was looking for Scott which wasn't good. Liam and Nova shared a look of worry with each other when they heard that Jordan thinks this supernatural creature can take away Scott's power even though he's a true Alpha.

"We need to find Scott." Nova said what she's sure they're both thinking at the moment. Liam nodded in agreement and they went over to the elevator.

****

Running in the pouring rain wasn't something Nova was a fan of. But it was something she and Liam had to do if they wanted to get to the others to warn them about what was going to happen to Scott. They get to the school, both drenched from the rain. They find Stiles and Malia kissing underneath one of the coverings in front of the school. 

Nova stopped in her tracks, her eyes widening when Malia suddenly turned to them and shoved Liam to the ground. Liam groaned, landing on his back roughly.

"Malia, calm down!" Nova exclaims. "It's just us."

"Scott's in trouble." Liam panted, out of breath from getting knocked down.

They all run over to where Scott and Kira are at fighting with the supernatural creature. When they get there, the supernatural creature had Scott on his knees with his claws in Scott's chest. Liam and Nova growled, both ready to fight whatever kind of supernatural creature the man attacking Scott is. He looked like some kind of creature that was part werewolf.

Nova noticed Kira was on the ground along with some other boy who's a werewolf. She didn't recognize the boy. He did look cute though. Kira and the boy stood up and Kira got her sword ready to fight. Scott then grabbed onto the man's wrist that was in front of him. He slowly stood up, easily snapping the bone's in the man's arm which sent the man to his knees. Scott then threw away talons that had been attached to his chest.

Scott stares down at him with an intimidating look. "I don't know who you are or what you thought you were going to do, but I'll give you a choice. You can stay and I'll break something else. Or you can run."

The man looks back at where Liam, Malia, Nova, and Stiles are standing. Stiles nods. "I'd run."

And that's what the man did. He ran. Liam, Malia, Nova, and Stiles met Scott halfway while Kira and the boy walked over to them. Kira stood beside Scott as they all looked at the boy who had helped them. 

The boy smirks a bit and walks towards them. "You don't remember me, do you?"

When no one said anything and just looked at him with confusion, the boy continues. "I guess I look a little different since the fourth grade."

Scott's eyes widen. "Theo?" 

Malia looks at Scott with confusion. "You know him?"

"They used to." Theo nods with a smile on his lips. "Trust me, I never thought I'd see you guys again. Couple of months ago, I heard of an Alpha in Beacon Hills. When I found out his name was Scott McCall, just couldn't believe it. Not just an Alpha, but a True Alpha."

It looked like to Nova that Scott didn't seem to be used to that title of his yet, most likely because of his humble personality. "What do you want?"

"I came back to Beacon Hills." Theo replies. "Back home with my family. Because I want to be apart of your pack."

A/N yay first chapter of season 5 is up (: