Melissa and Lydia

Separated (Lydia lives in San Francisco and Melissa still lives in Beacon Hills)

### Intimacy Level

Good friends
Allies
Help each other defend Beacon Hills
Melissa has acted as Lydia's nurse on three occasions
Lydia currently lives in San Francisco as a successful businesswoman and Melissa is still working at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital

**The relationship between Banshee Lydia Martin and human Melissa McCall.**

Though Lydia and Melissa were present at the first lacrosse game for the season, they didn't interact. After Lydia had been viciously attacked by Peter Hale, she was admitted into Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, where Melissa was as her nurse. Throughout the first two seasons, Lydia and Melissa were completely unaware of the supernatural and had minimal interaction with each other. After they were both introduced to the supernatural world, Melissa and Lydia began developing a friendship. Unfortunately, Melissa, Noah Stilinski and Chris Argent were all chosen to be Jennifer Blake's three final guardian sacrifices. Lydia was instrumental in finding and rescuing the parents after she and Stiles realized that Lydia was drawing the roots of the Nemeton. Melissa and the other parents were saved when Jennifer was defeated by Scott, Derek Hale and Deucalion.

In Season 5, Melissa was the nurse in charge of overseeing Lydia's surgery after she was severely wounded by Tracy Stewart when she was trying to kill Natalie. Melissa proved her worth once more by showing hospital files to Stiles and Lydia that their friend Mason Hewitt had become a genetic chimera after absorbing his twin brother's fetus in the womb. She even helped Lydia regain her voice with an injection of cortisone after she had her throat sliced by Sebastien Valet's claws.

By 2026, Lydia had become a successful businesswoman at an energy plant located in San Francisco while Melissa continued her career as a doctor at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital. However, Lydia, Scott and Jackson returned to Beacon Hills to deal with the reemergence of the Nogitsune and the Oni as well as the newly-resurrected Allison Argent. Melissa assisted the McCall pack and her allies in defeating the demonic entities but at the cost of Derek's life. After his memorial service, Lydia returned to San Francisco and Melissa continued her life in Beacon Hills while Scott and Allison became a couple once more and moved to Los Angeles with Derek's son, Eli Hale, whom they adopted.

## History

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 5

In *Second Chance at First Line*, both Melissa and Lydia were present at the first lacrosse game of the season. However, Lydia was rooting for her boyfriend, Jackson and Melissa was there to support her son, Scott.

 In *Omega*, Melissa was Lydia's nurse after she had been attacked by Peter Hale during the formal. When she heard Lydia scream, Melissa, Stiles and Mr. Martin rushed to Lydia's room. Melissa quickly went to her room and unlocked the door, only to find it that Lydia had vanished. In truth, Lydia's Banshee powers had activated and in her fugue state, Lydia went to the Hale House.
In *Battlefield*, Lydia chose to sit next to Melissa and Noah during the game. Both women grew concerned for Stiles after the opposing teammates tackled him down. Lydia tried assuring herself and Melissa that Stiles was fine. However, after Stiles made the winning goal, Melissa, Noah, Lydia and the rest of the crowd cheered for him. As the buzzer went off and Beacon Hills High won the game, the field lights were shut off. When the light came on, Gerard Argent kidnapped Stiles and Jackson Whittemore had killed himself with his claws. Lydia assisted Melissa in giving Jackson CPR but they were unable to revive him.

In *Amplification*, Melissa indirectly helped the McCall pack rescue Lydia from Eichen by providing them body bags so Scott, Stiles and Liam could get past security at the back gate.

In *The Beast of Beacon Hills*, Melissa helped Lydia and the rest of the McCall Pack in their search for the missing Mason Hewitt, who Liam and Scott had just learned was the only successful Chimera and the perfect host for the Beast of Gévaudan. Corey figured it out after he had turned himself and Mason invisible the night that the Beast attacked the charity lacrosse game. When Melissa heard that a boy fitting Mason's description was being wheeled into the hospital. However, when she looked up, she realizes that the young man is simply an anonymous human and not the person for whom she's looking for. Melissa called Lydia, Malia, and Braeden and confirmed that Mason was not at the hospital. Lydia was at the Sheriff's station with Stiles and Noah and Malia were hiding out at the McCall House. Malia started growing impatient being trapped in the house because she wanted to protect Stiles from her mother. Melissa and Lydia stated that the Mountain Ash at the door and in the floorboards are lined with Mountain Ash is for their protection. Unknown to Melissa and Lydia, the Desert Wolf listened to their entire conversation on the outside and went to confront Malia and steal her powers.

Later, Lydia and Stiles wondering why Mason was the Beast's host when he was not a genetic chimera in the first place. Melissa goes into the sheriff station with Mason's medical file in her hand and answers their question. She shows the Mason's medical file and reveals that he is a genetic chimera because he was born with twin embolization syndrome. While Lydia understands that it was a case of fetal resorption (vanishing twin in the utero). Stiles is confused by the women's medical talk and asks for more clarification. Melissa confirms that while Mason absorbed his twin brother's DNA when they were both in the fetus. Lydia wondered if the information helps and Melissa confirms that it is bizarre enough to sound like it might be important. Lydia insisted that someone can help them.

In *Apotheosis*, the Pack needed Lydia's Banshee scream to exorcise the Beast from Mason's body. However, Sebastian sliced Lydia's throat with his claws, severely damaging her vocal cords. The group takes Lydia to the hospital, where her wound is patched up but she is severely weakened. Melissa comes to them with a cortisone shot, which Scott knows will help bring the inflammation in Lydia's injury down. Though Lydia is against the idea of having a syringe inserted in her opened wound, She allows Melissa to give her the shot. Stiles and Liam start to get oozy as Stiles tries to excuse himself because they don't like the prospect of Lydia getting a shot in her open wound any more than she is. However, Melissa tells Stiles that she needs him to hold Lydia's hand. Meanwhile, Liam faints at the sight of our as Scott goes to check on him. Melissa was annoyed at the younger beta for fainting before she returned her attention to Lydia and told her that the shot was going to "hurt like a bitch" before Lydia is injected with the shot.

Because of Melissa's medical expertise, Lydia was able to use her Banshee scream and free Mason from the Beast's control when the McCall confronted the Beast in the tunnels running below Beacon Hills. After Mason was freed, Jordan held the Beast's non-corporeal form in place as Scott took Marie-Jeanne's pike and killed la Bête once and for all.
## Trivia

* Both Lydia and Melissa were exposed to the supernatural world at the end of Season 2 and around the same time. Lydia figured it out by Party Guessed and Melissa found out in the next episode, Fury, because of Matt Daehler's psychotic rampage.
* Both women have a close relationship with Scott who is Melissa's son and Lydia's best friend, and Stiles, who was Melissa's surrogate son and Lydia's boyfriend.