Scerek

“*Your best ally has always been anger, Derek, but what you lack most is a heart. That's why you've always known that you need Scott more than anyone.*”
―Peter Hale to his nephew about his relationship with Scott McCall.
**Scerek** is the friendship pairing between Scott McCall and Derek Hale from *Teen Wolf*.

## History

Peter himself has acknowledged that while Derek relies on anger as his anchor, Scott also serves as this, as he relies on him more than anyone else, because of the boy's heart.

Though they disliked each other at first, Derek and Scott now have a big-brother/little-brother style relationship, echoing back to Derek's first comment to Scott about them being Werewolf brothers in the pilot episode.

## Relationship

### Season 2

Scott and Derek were reunited in "Omega," when he saw him chasing an omega werewolf, who he accidentally led in a hunter's trap. He then took Scott to hide behind a tree. Even though the younger werewolf convinced Derek to save him, the Alpha refused as he restrained Scott to prevent him from being killed. However, Derek also wanted to show Scott the ruthlessness of the Argents as Gerard murdered and he forced Scott to watch. Derek told the beta werewolf, to see what the monsters had done and why they needed each other.

After Scott learns that Derek turned his classmates Erica and Vernon Boyd, he goes to confront Boyd at the skating rink. Scott knew it was wrong but Derek didn't care less. After Scott engaged Derek in battle, Derek mentally and physically abused him to make his point and told him to join the pack or be killed by the hunters.

In "Party Guessed," Scott (after recovering from the wolfsbane poisoning) realizes that Derek is right and that Jackson can't be saved. Derek held back information on Scott, much to the latter's frustration. Derek later claims to Scott that everything he has done is to protect him. He tells Scott to heal because his fourth full moon is not going to be easy.

### Season 3

In "Frayed", Scott started blaming himself for Derek's apparent death during their confrontation with the Alpha Pack. Because of the guilt, Scott was unable to heal faster. However, in "Motel California," Scott learns that Derek is alive but the Alpha Pack is hunting him because he apparently killed one of their own, Ennis.

**3x10**

After learning his girlfriend, Jennifer Blake was the Darach and that she was responsible for the sacrifices and the Sheriff's abduction, Derek began choking her to death until Scott yelled for him to stop. To no one's surprise, Derek listened to him and let Jennifer go. Derek was also surprised to learn that Scott had the potential to become a True Alpha. However, Scott convinced the group that none of that mattered now because they needed to get Jennifer out of the hospital before the Alpha Pack did. After Scott realized that "Guardians" also referred to parents, he realized Jennifer's intentions of coming to the hospital were to abduct Melissa. He came across Derek, unconscious, and hesitated for a moment before going to the roof. By the time Scott got to the roof, Melissa had already been taken. With no other choice, Scott joined Deucalion's group after the leader promised to help save Melissa.

3X11 Stiles went to Derek and immediately woke him up by slapping him. Stiles tells Derek that Scott left with Deucalion, much to the alpha's horror.

After giving up his Alpha Spark to save Cora, Derek overheard Lydia's Banshee Scream. He returned to the loft to find Kali dead and Ethan and Aiden weakened. After Cora checked up on Lydia, Derek came face to face with Jennifer.

“***Derek* - Stop talking to me like a politician! Stop trying to convince me of your cause!
*Jennifer:*** *Fine. I'll convince you of someone else's-- Scott's. You can save his mother, Stiles' father...*”
―Jennifer to Derek
Jennifer asked him to fight for Scott's cause rather than his own. Believing he was helping Scott, Derek, reluctantly joined Jennifer at the steel barn to confront Scott and Deucalion. Scott was shocked to see Derek had come to join Jennifer's side However, Derek said he was doing it for Scott, whether he believed it or not. After Derek, Scott, and Deucalion defeated Jennifer, Stiles called Scott, asking if they were right. Scott looked to Derek who just shrugged, saying that Scott should tell Stiles that they were fine. Both Scott and Derek decided to spare Deucalion because Talia told Derek that Deucalion was a man of vision. Both decided to give Deucalion a chance to be that man again. However, they threatened to kill him if he ever went back on his word.

In the latter half of the season, Derek consults with the spirit of his mother and decides to support Scott as he ascends to alpha.

### Season 1

* January
	+ Wolf Moon
		- Then Alpha werewolf Peter Hale bites Scott after discovering Laura Hale's body. After leaving his inhaler, Scott and Stiles go to look for where Scott dropped it. Derek Hale catches them both immediately intimidated by him. Derek returns Scott's inhaler to him.
		- Derek figures out that Scott is a recently bitten werewolf and begins stalking him. On January 15, the night of the wolf Moon, Scott notices him from a far during the night of Lydia's party. As it is Scott's first full moon, the boy has a panic attack, abandoning his date, Allison Argent.
		- Scott suspects Derek to be the werewolf who bit him and the one who killed Laura in the woods. Angered by Stiles saying Derek drove Allison home to the party, Scott shifts into a werewolf and runs into the woods, where Derek corners him. However, werewolf hunters led by Argent interrupt them when he shoots Scott. Derek saves the younger werewolf by removing the arrow from his shoulder and tells Scott that he should embrace himself as a Werewolf. Derek swore that one day Scott would turn to him and how to control the wolf.
	+ Second Chance at the First Line
		- Over the next few days, Derek continues to stalk Scott and his friends. He sees Scott nearly shift during practice after being bullied by Jackson during practice. Later that night, Derek confronts Scott about his incident earlier that day, threatening to kill him if Scott plays the next night.
		- Scott didn't let Derek silence him after he saw Allison repossess her jacket. He angrily confronts him at the burned Hale house, Scott notices the smell of blood and a recently dug grave near the house. Derek swears that he is simply looking out for Scott and warns him that if he plays, his mom and friends will never see him that way again.
		- Later that night, Scott and Stiles dig up the grave and find Laura's body. Scott and Stiles call the police, who arrest Derek for his sister's murder. Scott watches from a distance and sees Stiles meets one on one with Derek in the police car.
		- Derek tells the younger boy to stop Scott from playing. Derek is later released on technicalities and watches Jackson Whittemore find Scott's Claws.
	+ 1x03 Pack Mentality
		- Afraid of his attack on a bus driver last night and what could happen if he was near Allison, Scott goes to Derek's house and apologizes for getting him arrested. Derek tells Scott to revisit the sight for him to regain his memories of the incident in exchange for something in return. Scott, despite thinking Derek was the one who bit him, follows the older werewolf's advice and realizes he was trying to defend the bus driver from.
		- After Myers dies of his injuries, Scott goes to confront Derek, and they fight, which Derek wins. Scott begins to accuse him of being the one who bit him. However, Derek denies this. With this, Scott regains his memories of the previous night. The first time he saw it was the night he was bit, and the second time was the morning he woke up in the woods. Derek informs him that he is part of the Alpha's pack and the one that Alpha wants.
	+ 1x04 Magic Bullet\*\*\*The Alpha calls Scott the night Kate Argent returns home to Beacon Hills. As Scott arrives, he overhears Kate say that the werewolf who was shot has forty-eight hours to live.
		- Derek arrives at the school, searching for Scott and needing his help to find the bullet that hit him. After Jackson attempts to blackmail Derek instead of helping him, Derek decides to find Scott himself.
		- Later that afternoon, Scott sees Derek collapse in front of Stiles' car and realizes he was the one who was shot. After being not sure as to why they should help him, Derek tells Scott that he still needs him to find the Alpha.
		- Stiles drives Derek away from the scene as Scott is forced to go into the Argent house and accepts Kate's invite to dinner. Scott snoops around Kate's room and finds the bullet that shot Derek.
		- Arriving at the clinic, Scott stops Stiles from cutting off Derek's arm, who thought it was the only way to save himself. After Derek is healed, Scott wants to go to the Argents with this instead of asking for Derek's help.
		- Realizing that Scott still is too trusting, Derek takes him to see Peter, who has been left in a catatonic state ever since the night of the fire. Scott is badly affected by seeing Peter's burn marks and realize that the Argents are not as noble as they appear to be.
	+ 1x05 The Tell
		- Derek takes Scott to the video store, where the Alpha has killed again, trying to get the message across to the younger werewolf.
		- Derek reveals he needs Scott's help to find the Alpha due to his and Peter's bond. However, he breaks Scott's hand and says that pain like that will keep him as a werewolf.
	+ 1x06 Heart Monitor\*\*\*Derek gives Scott an intimidating lesson about surviving. He even corners him and forces him to stop seeing Allison until the next full moon.
		- Scott asked about the spiral for vendetta but Derek never told him because he didn't want him to know
		- Scott stops Derek from assaulting Deaton after the latter believes the Vet to be the Alpha after finding a flyer of a deer with a burned spiral in its fur, print on the animal clinic's papers. Finally, Derek tells Scott that the "Spiral" is their sign for "vendetta" and nearly kills Deaton. However, after his exercises with Stiles, Scott has full control of his anger, threatening to kill Derek if he ever touches Deaton again. To prove him wrong, Scott has Derek meet him and Stiles at the school.
	+ 1x06-1x07 - Night School
		- Scott and Stiles meet Derek at the high school, in their attempts to lure the alpha out. After Scott releases a successful howl, Derek berates them for their actions. Unfortunately, the Alpha hears the call and apparently kills Derek, trapping them in school, where their friends Allison, Lydia, and Jackson find them.
		- In a panic, Scott unwittingly tells Jackson, Lydia and Allison that Derek is the one who killed Laura Hale and the one who has been murdering the bus driver, the two junkies out in the woods and the video rental store owner.
* February
	+ 1x08 Lunatic
		- Scott wolfs out on the night of his second full moon. After being chained to the radiator by Stiles (as an act of revenge for kissing Lydia), Scott breaks loose. The Alpha takes control of Scott again, and he comes across Jackson, giving Allison a ride in his Posche. Believing them to be kissing, Scott nearly kills them. However, Derek tries restraining Scott and manages to outdo them after they fight.
		- After subduing Scott, Derek takes pity on the younger werewolf and drives him home. Here, Scott asks the older werewolf about a cure of his lycanthropy so he can be with Allison. Derek tells him about a rumor he isn't sure is true: a bitten werewolf can kill the one who sired him and regained his humanity. Derek promises that he will help Scott find the Alpha and kill him.
	+ 1x09 Wolf's Bane
	+ 1x10 Co Captains
	+ 1x11 Scott believed Stiles he said it was impossible to track Derek, likely to protect his best friend. At the party, Peter attacks Lydia and Stiles admitted that he knew how to find Derek.
	+ 1x12
		- Scott finds Derek on his own by howling for him. Derek returns it and Scott finally found him below the manor's sewers. Derek refused to help Scott save Allison until Scott revealed that Peter lied about killing Laura on accident.
		- After saving Derek, they are pursued by Allison (who had seen Scott transform into a werewolf) and Kate Argent. Derek yelled for Scott to run and save himself but even the younger werewolf can't and Derek grows alarmed.
		- When Kate shot Derek, Scott grew worried for Derek and got terrified because she was going to do the same thing to him next.
		- Chris intervenes, and the Alpha comes, where Peter successfully kills Kate.
		- Before he can attack Allison, Scott and Derek intervene. The two fight the Alpha, however Peter overpowers them both. Luckily, Jackson and Stiles arrive with ammunition, which Peter catches. However, Scott throws Allison her bow and arrow, which she uses to shoot at the container, thus burning Peter alive.
		- After he and Allison reconcile, Scott notices Derek is going to kill Peter and tries stopping him. Even though Derek nearly hesitates because of Scott's pleas, but kills Peter instead. To Scott's horror, Derek proclaims himself the Alpha after he kills Peter, avenging Laura's death.

### Between Season 2-3

* Early June- Mid-August 2011: Scott and Derek's relationship becomes damaged in between the four months. Derek kept Scott out of looking for Erica and Boyd so he could live a normal life.