Scayden

**The relationship between True Alpha Werewolf Scott McCall and former Werewolf-Werejaguar Chimera/current Beta Werewolf Hayden Romero.**

Scott and Hayden had a brief encounter during Season 5A's *Dreamcatchers* when Tracy Stewart attacked Hayden, but they didn't get the chance to speak. Their first official meeting happened later in *Strange Frequencies* when Liam introduced Hayden to Scott. During this meeting, Scott discovered that Hayden was a part-Werewolf Chimera after she transformed in his bedroom due to the stress caused by the Dread Doctors' attempted capture of her.

Because of the threat of the Dread Doctors pursuing her, Scott and the pack planned to protect her using the Telluric Currents that ran through Beacon Hills High School. When it was revealed that Scott intended to try to use Hayden to lure the Dread Doctors to the school, if possible, to learn more about the threat they were facing, Hayden became scared, and Liam became furious, believing that Scott was putting Hayden in danger by using her as bait. However, they were slightly mollified after Scott argued that they had no choice—people were being turned into Chimeras and killed by the Dread Doctors and they knew nothing about them.

However, he promised Liam that he would do everything he could to protect Hayden, for whom Liam was developing romantic feelings. After Hayden and Liam were both captured by the Dread Doctors, Scott went to great lengths to find them, even performing the Memory Manipulation Ritual without consent on fellow Chimera Corey Bryant. When Hayden was fatally poisoned with Modified Mercury by the Dread Doctors, Liam begged Scott to fulfill his promise by giving her the Bite, but Scott, knowing she was weakened and fearing that combining the Bite with the poison in her system could kill her, refused to take that chance, angering Liam.

Theo Raeken, a Werewolf-Werecoyote Chimera who was masquerading as a true Werewolf and was secretly working with the Dread Doctors, took advantage of Liam's anger and manipulated him into attacking Scott with the intent to kill him and steal his Alpha powers so he could give the dying Hayden the Bite himself; this plan was not successful, as Liam was stopped before he could kill Scott, forcing Theo to kill Scott himself, though his mother Melissa McCall brought him back with the supermoon and CPR. Scott, like Liam, was devastated by Hayden's death, which he believed to be one of his many failures in dealing with the Dread Doctors and their Chimeras. Hours later, Hayden, along with her fellow deceased Chimeras Tracy Stewart, Josh Diaz, and Corey Bryant, was resurrected by Theo using the Dread Doctors' Green Serum.

After Hayden's resurrection, her personality became darker, and her gratitude toward Theo for bringing her back to life combined with her difficulty believing Scott had what it took to fight the Dread Doctors' newly reborn Beast of Gevaudan caused her to join Theo's Chimera Pack, though she continued her relationship with Liam, giving her one lingering connection to the McCall Pack. However, while she was assigned to watch the recently captured Deucalion by Theo, the two had a conversation that led her to realize that Theo only valued his "Betas" as much as they could gain his power and that he was perfectly content to allow them to die in his defense. From then on, she understood that Scott and his pack were who she should be trusting due to Scott's intent to protect the entire town from supernatural threats, so she aligned herself with McCall Pack instead.

After her friend Mason was possessed by the Beast and critically injured her, Hayden ended up at Alan Deaton's animal clinic. Deaton was able to stabilize her wound but cautioned that it may not fully heal. To prevent another near-death experience, Scott decided to give her the Bite, which transformed her from a Werewolf-Werejaguar Chimera into a true Werewolf and his second-bitten Beta. As part of Scott's pack, Hayden joined Liam, Malia Tate, and Scott as the shapeshifter "muscle," while also proving her intelligence by assisting Lydia Martin and Mason Hewitt as the "brains." she allowed herself to be captured so that Liam could warn Scott about the situation when the pack was fighting the Ghost Riders at the Beacon County Sheriff's Station, . She was confident that her Alpha and Liam would come up with a plan to save her from the Phantom Train Station.

After being rescued from the Wild Hunt, Hayden faced a tough choice. She decided to leave Beacon Hills with her sister, Valerie Clark, to keep her safe from the supernatural world. It's believed that even though they're apart, Hayden and Scott are still on good terms thanks to their Alpha-Beta bond and her connection to Liam.