Lake House Party

### Description

This impromptu party was forced to happen after the McCall Pack's lie to get the newly-turned Werewolf, Liam, to let them help him lock up for the full moon (that they were having a party at Lydia's family's lakehouse) was inadvertently spread around the freshman class of Beacon Hills High School.

### Episode

*The Benefactor*

The **Lake House Party** was a party held at the Martin Lake House in Season 4's *The Benefactor*.

## Description

### Lead-Up

This party occurred last-minute on the night of a full moon, the night after Scott McCall was forced to give Liam Dunbar the bite to save his life. When an extremely freaked-out and irritated Liam refused to listen to Scott's pleas about how his life was about to change, the McCall Pack, not knowing what Liam would transform into (or even if he would survive at all) and not wanting him to potentially transform and hurt or kill someone, desperately tried to come up with a plan to get him to come to them.

The decision was eventually made when Lydia Martin, who had already been volunteering her family's lake house to the pack on full moons to help Malia Tate with her transformations, suggested that they lie to Liam and say that there was going to be a party there and that Kira Yukimura should invite him as her date; once he got there, they planned on chaining him up in the boat house to one of the support beams.

The plan initially worked out perfectly-- Liam immediately accepted Kira's invitation and allowed her to drive him to the lake house, where the rest of the McCall Pack had gathered earlier to stage what Stiles Stilinski called an "intervention." Though Liam was about to leave once he figured out what was really going on, he started to painfully transform before he could do so. Just then, the sound of cars pulling up became apparent, and Lydia realized that dozens of people were starting to show up at the house.

When she asked him if he had told anyone about it, he admitted that he had told Mason, reminding them that he was under the impression that he was attending a party and had invited him to come along. It soon became clear that Mason had invited some other students, who had in turn invited others, spawning an actual party that they had no intention of throwing.

When Liam began sprouting claws and fangs, Scott and Kira quickly ushered the young teen out to the boat house to chain him up, only to be followed by Stiles and Malia Tate a moment later when she, too, began to transform. Lydia, overwhelmed and exasperated, demanded to know what she was supposed to do with the gathering horde of students outside, leading Stiles to remind her that she is known for throwing the best parties at school and to do just that.

### The Party

When Lydia answered the door, Mason Hewitt was on the welcome mat, with Garrett, Violet, and several dozen other students standing behind him eagerly. Mason and Garrett, seeing Lydia's frazzled expression, hesitantly asked if they were in the right place for the party, and Lydia took a deep breath before smiling and replying, "Absolutely" and allowing them entry.

However, since this was not a planned party, Lydia spent most of her time frantically running around the downstairs of the lake house, remarking on how expensive certain things were in hopes of preventing them from getting broken, destroyed, or-- in the case of a $400 bottle of wine opened by Garrett-- consumed.

After grabbing the bottle from his hand and picking up a glass someone had set on her MacBook, Demarco Montana, an employee at the liquor store, arrived to deliver a keg and requested payment; though he and Lydia, who had not ordered the keg, argued over the price (as Demarco had added a $20 charge to overlook the fact that no one there was actually of age to drink in the United States), she eventually got distracted by Mason walking up the stairs and absentmindedly ran off to grab cash, allowing Garrett to cover the cost, claiming he felt bad for drinking the expensive wine.

However, it turned out that this was just a ploy by Garrett and his girlfriend Violet to lure Demarco, who was secretly a Werewolf in Satomi Ito's pack and on the Deadpool for $250,000, out so that Violet could behead him with her thermo-wire garrote necklace and claim the bounty on him. Meanwhile, Lydia had caught up to Mason in her grandmother's old study and informed him tersely that the party was limited to the downstairs only. When Mason admitted that he only went up there because he was looking for his best friend Liam, Lydia, who obviously knew exactly where he was, lied and stated she was too busy to keep track of missing freshman, a lie that Mason quickly caught onto due to the fact that she managed to know that he was a freshman in the first place.

Sighing and picking up two more half-full wine glasses from a nearby table, Lydia claimed to have seen Liam downstairs and gestured for Mason to leave the study, accidentally dropping the glasses on the floor in her haste to get back to the party. Lydia then broke down in tears as she desperately tried to clean up the mess with the hem of her sweater, and Mason, feeling immensely guilty, knelt down and listened as Lydia admitted that her family was going through financial difficulties and that the house needed to stay spotless so they could sell it for as much money as possible. Mason kindly assured her that he would get some salt and club soda and help her clean it up before leaving to get the supplies.

However, once he left and Lydia closed the door after him, she realized that the room was soundproofed, as the noise from the party had been completely blocked. Curious as to why her grandmother would have done this, she looked around the 70's-styled room and saw a record player that she was compelled to turn on; when she did so, the record only played static, adding mystery to the room. This static triggered Lydia's Banshee powers of clairaudience, which ultimately gave her the first key-code to the Deadpool hit-list-- ALLISON.

### The Full Moon

While technically not involved with the party, the the rest of the pack was dealing with the full moon concurrently to the party, and in the same location.

Stiles had chained Malia up in the basement, where he stayed to keep her company, citing his social anxiety for the fact that he didn't want to go upstairs to help Lydia with the party (though his romantic feelings for Malia seemed to also play a part in him staying with her as well). Though Malia struggled through the entire full moon in her full Werecoyote form, even breaking through the restraints on each of her wrists, she managed to control herself and return to human form early after Stiles gave her a pep talk about how control was overrated, a lesson he learned when he was possessed by the Nogitsune.

Meanwhile, Scott and Kira had taken Liam out to the boat house to chain him up, but he proved himself to have exceptional strength, even for a new Werewolf, forcing Kira to hit him in the head with a boat oar to keep him from tearing Scott apart. Liam remained unconscious for a little while, but once he woke up, he easily broke through the numerous amount of chains around him and jumped through the window and into the woods, forcing Scott to chase after him.

Fortunately for Scott, Chris Argent had returned to Beacon Hills after getting Scott's text about his sister Kate Argent's return from the dead and had tracked him down to the lake house, where he offered the use of ultrasonic emitters to help corral Liam so Scott could talk him down. When Scott lamented the fact that he had been unable to get through to Liam thus far, Argent suggested he use his own words, implying that Scott's attempt to treat Liam like he was treated by Derek Hale when he was first turned was the wrong approach.

Scott finally found Liam in the emitter trap and shut off the noise, kneeling in front of Liam, who was on his hands and knees and sobbing. The young wolf cried that his parents couldn't see him like this, admitting that he had recently been kicked out of Devenford Prep for vandalizing his lacrosse coach's car, stating that he couldn't make them go through that again. Repeating his earlier words, he insisted that they could see him like this, and Scott, having been through this before, stated, "Like a monster?", leading Liam to nod as he continued to sob. Scott then stood to his feet and made it clear that Liam wasn't a monster-- he was a Werewolf, just like Scott himself, flashing his Alpha-red eyes to emphasize his point.

### Aftermath

Demarco Montana's body was found by an unknown person, with Scott and Argent investigating it together. Scott, using his heightened Werewolf senses, determined that he was part of a pack, and Argent guessed that his packmates would soon be looking for him. It was then determined that he was on the Deadpool and worth $250,000 after the pack used the first key-code discovered by Lydia to unlock one-third of the list. *("I.E.D.")*

Desperate to unlock the rest of the list, Lydia spent the entire weekend in the lake house's study, listening to the static record in hopes of learning the other two key-codes, but it didn't work, and Kira and Malia soon pulled her away to force her to get some rest. *("I.E.D.")*

Mason became extremely suspicious of Liam after having never found him at the party, despite Liam being the one who invited him and told him he would be there. However, it wasn't until the events of Season 5's *Parasomnia* that Mason would learn that Liam was a Werewolf.

## Attendees

* Lydia Martin (hostess)
* Mason Hewitt
* Garrett
* Violet
* Demarco Montana (briefly)
* Dozens of unnamed Beacon Hills High School students

## Trivia

* It was the second Deadpool murder site (the first being the Walcott Family's house), where Demarco Montana was the fifth murder (after Sean Walcott, Sean's parents, and Sean's brother).