Scott Aldridge

Scott Carter Aldridge, also known as Scott Pierce. is a vampire and one of the main protagonists in The Hathaway Chronicles. He is the son of the late Christopher Aldridge and Camille Carter. He is best friends with Zachary Pierce and Eleanor Harris. He was also briefly with Adelaide Hathaway before her death. Later on, he met Lillian Rezza and the two later became romantically involved. He was turned into a vampire by Seana Kane, but they later went separate ways when he turned his humanity back thanks to the intervention of Adelaide. Afterward, he went to Seaside with her before her death. After the attack on the Pierce pack in 2005, he joined Marcus to help look Markus also got false documents saying that Scott was his son, so his new name would be Scott Pierce. After and protect Zachary from Seana who killed his mother that night. In 2012, he went with Zach to Franklin High to watch over him. After reconnecting with the Rezza family and having to deal with the return of Seana Kane, Scott helps his friends put an end to the misery she caused once and for all. After meeting and falling for Lillian Rezza, Scott has slowly started to let go of his past trauma and learned to trust himself again. When the Hathaway coven wanted Eleanor Harris put to death, he was one of the few that defended her. He later helped her adjust to her new life as a vampire, the two becoming close. 
Scott is a member of the Aldridge Family and the Carter Family.
== History ==
Scott Carter Aldridge was born on November 1, 1954, to Christopher Aldridge and Camille Carter in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother was from Seaside, California, while his father was from New York. He graduated from high school in 1973, and began a career to become a doctor like his father that fall. In 1976 before he started his third year of pre-medical school, he and his parents were in a terrible car accident, coming home from a restaurant. A drunken driver crashed into them head-on, killing his parents, and fatally wounding Scott. When he was at the hospital, somehow he miraculously healed, but it was later revealed Seana Kane found him and healed him. Seeing he was alone, she watched him for three months. Then, one night, she decided to finally meet him officially, and turn him, to be her companion, she didn't want to be alone, but she wanted someone to control, to corrupt. Which is what she did. After she forced him to complete the transition into a vampire by killing a friend of his, he shuts off his humanity, there, she finally turns him into a monster, killing without remorse. However, 16 years later, he crosses paths with Adelaide Hathaway, who forced him to turn on his humanity, after being free of Seana's clutches. Scott left with Adelaide, settling in Seaside, California in 1994. His grandfather had left the deed to his home for him, back in 1978, and he discovered it after his death. Adelaide however, unfortunately, died at the hands of her father, the reasons unknown. This left him in a deep state of grief that he never recovered from. Later on, in 2005, he met Markus Pierce, which later they became allies and to find Seana Kane, who had killed his wife Aria, during a gathering to stop the killings of Markus' pack. There, he met the Reza Family and saved Lily Reza's life after she was attacked by a newly turned Zachary, who couldn't control his shifting, since his mother was killed right in front of them. He later, by Laura Rezza's request, erased Lily's memory of that night. Since then, he has helped raise Zachary, the two became super close. When it came time to enroll Zach into school, Marcus "adopted" Scott as his own son so he could enroll him legally, as well as give Scott a new "identity" to blend in better. 
== The Hathaway Chronicles ==
=== Darkness Descending ===
In the prologue, he is seen in Boston with an unnamed woman (later revealed to be Lily). He is looking at his parent's graves, reminiscing on his past and how things have changed over the course of his life as a vampire. Then the woman mentions people are waiting for them, alluding to an unknown confrontation. He then begins his tale of what his life has been like, along with Lily's. 
In the first chapter Sins of the Past, Scott has been living off of his inheritance from his late father. Having dropped out of medical school, he had become an alcoholic. Later that evening when he arrives at his usual bar and speaks to his friend Alexander, he meets Seana Kane. 
In the chapter Salvation, ....
== Appearance ==
Scott is shown to be tall, standing a little over six feet. When Lily first saw him, she described him as being tall and lean but still looking strong, in comparison to Marcus's pack member who was very muscled and big. His hair is a dark shade of brown, almost black with piercing blue eyes that tend to shift in shades due to his mood. He most often wears dark colors and black boots. 
== Personality ==
=== Human ===
When Scott was growing up in Boston, it was heavily implied he was close to his parents, even wanting to follow in his father's footsteps and become a doctor. He would say how he was always upbeat and optimistic about life, but when his parents died in a car crash and he somehow survived it, Scott seeped into a deep depression. Becoming a shadow of his former self, he turned to alcohol to help cope with life he no longer cherished. When he turned into a vampire, all of his human emotions were amplified, so it can be implied how he currently is, is similar to how he was when he was a human, before the accident. 
=== Vampire ===
When Scott first turned, Seana manipulated him into turning off his humanity, thus he became a ruthless killer with no regard for life. But despite that, Orion mentioned that while Seana reveled in killing, Scott did it without too much fanfare. When his humanity was forced back sixteen years later by Adelaide, he was horrified to what he had done since he turned. The first thing he wanted was to take revenge, but Adelaide later took him to Seaside with her to help him connect to his humanity. It was she that showed him how to love and appreciate life again. But when she passed, he reverted back to his depression, but still attempted to live a life that Adelaide wanted him to have. It was when he met Zachary, after his mother's death is when Scott found a sense of family. The two became as close as brother's, and Scott even had a hand in raising him since he was ten. He usually uses dry humor when talking to others, or in reference to himself. Lily described him as usually being silent, brooding, and being sarcastic or always cracking some self-deprecating joke. He also enjoys annoying Celesta, such as when he paid the DJ to play songs he knew she hated. He is also known for being blunt about things, or he could also be just as awkward as his friends. Particularly when meeting Celesta, Elle and Amberly for the first time. He is also protective of others, especially Zach and Lily and all of his friends. But he is also shown to sometimes go overboard, having lost so many that he has loved over the years, it has led him to take drastic measures to "protect" people he cares about. Having a good head on his shoulders, he strives to do everything in his power to keep others safe. But despite that, he can be laid back and carefree. 
== Abilities ==
* Super Strength - Vampires are much stronger than humans and grow stronger with time. Even new vampires who are still in transition can toss a fully grown human across a room with great speed and force. Their strength is also more powerful than werewolves that are not in wolf form. Being three generations down from one of the first vampires of existence, he is much stronger than his age.
* Super Speed - Vampires can accelerate their movements to cover short instances in an instant, faster than the human eye can see. When running across long distances, they appear as vibrating blurs of motion.
* Emotional Control - Like all vampires, Scott has the ability to switch off his humanity.
* Heightened Senses - They can hear whispered conversations, even ones in far off buildings, smell blood, and see in total darkness.
* Mind Compulsion - Vampires have the ability to control minds, plague people's dreams, and alter/erase human memories.
* Immortality - A vampire stops aging once turned. Upon their transformation, vampires then on become immune to all conventional illness, disease, virus, and infection. 
* Healing Factor - Vampires can snap their finger bones back into place after being broken and have been seen to fully recover from gunshots, stab wounds, and torso impalement.
* Fire Opal - He possesses a fire opal ring that enables him to walk in daylight without being harmed
* Bond Connection - He and Lily developed a bond from blood sharing, they are able to feel the other when they are close. 
=== Weaknesses ===
* Sunlight - Will result in permanent death to a vampire.
* Fire - Will harm a vampire, if burnt enough, they will die.
* Staked - Will result in permanent death.
* Broken Neck - Will subdue him for a short time.
* Werewolf Bite - it weakens a vampire for a limited amount of time, they lose their vampiric abilities depending on the severity of the bite, the most common being about a week to a month.
== Relationships ==
== Book Appearances ==
=== Darkness Descending ===
* Prologue (Narrator; First Appearance)
* Sins of the Past (Narrator; Temporary Death)
* The Devil Within (Narrator)
* Salvation (Narrator)
* To Build a Home (Narrator)
* Before I Go (Narrator)
* The Reckoning 
* A Mother's Love
* The Glimpse (Narrator)
* Where We Started
* Trials of Magic
* Remembrance (Narrator)
* Lose Your Marbles
* Out of the Woods
* Straight For the Kill
* Bitches and Cleats
*She's Like the Wind (Narrator)
*Way Down We Go
*Let the Flames Begin
*So You Say
*Times Like This
*Lights Down Low
*Little Did She Know
*Warning Signs (Seen; Mentioned)
*Outsider At the Door
*When Sparks Fly (Narrator)
*Reminding Me 
*Let's Get Lost
*Hold On Tight (Narrator)
*Forget the World
*Down the Rabbit Hole (Narrator)
*Stroke of Midnight
*Crystal Eyes
*A Downward Spiral 
== Trivia ==
* Even though he hasn't been a vampire for a long period of time, due to being only a third generation down from one of the original vampires, he is stronger than most vampires his age. 
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Category:Vampire
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