Ch. 76 - LIE ABILITY

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Chapter Seventy-Six
๐ŸŒ’ Lie Ability ๐ŸŒ˜


Sawyer and Stiles watched as Parrish walked towards the pack of Chimeras until Theo walked back into Lydia's room before coming back out. This time he had Lydia with his claws to her neck making Sawyer's eyes widen. She was gonna step out but Stiles grabbed her arm to stop her. "Back off." Theo threatened as Tracy dropped Valack, "I said back off." Theo said as his claws slightly punctured Lydia's skin.

"Take him." Theo said, making his pack look at him wide eyed, "The guy's on fire!" Corey said. "You'll heal. Do it!" Theo said and the guys hesitated for a moment but Tracy instantly ran towards Parrish. She stabbed her claws into his stomach but they didn't affect him in the slightest, making her eyes widen. He looked up at her and growled before forcefully shoving her into a wall.

Josh ran over and broke one of the metal tubes that protect the wires running through the building and siphoned the electricity from the cables before going to grab Parrish's shoulder. But just like Tracy, he didn't affect Parrish at all as Parrish just gave him.an unimpressed look. "Theo, this isn't working!" Josh yelled before Parrish shoved him into the wall as well.

All of the sudden Valack drilled into Theo's shin making him cry out in pain and drop Lydia. Theo fell to his knees and Valack instantly slammed the drill against his head making him fall back. "Sorry, Theo, but I'm not done with her yet." He said and Sawyer took an angry deep breath as she watched Valack pick Lydia up to carry her away. Parrish lifted Josh into the air and slammed him flat on his back on the ground with a loud, painful-sounding thud.

Valack turned around only to stop when he saw a very angry Sawyer standing in front of him, Stiles behind her. All of the sudden the sound of screaming made them all look over to see Parrish's and Corey's bodies erupt into flames before Parrish picked him up and threw him across the hall.

Valack quickly moved out of the way while Stiles pushed his sister out of the way so then he was the only one to get hit by Corey. Sawyer's eyes widened as she quickly ran over to pull Corey off of Stiles while Valack took that moment to quickly run past them.

The twins looked up to see Valack walk through a door making their eyes widened before running over. They try to open the door only for it to be locked, making Sawyer groan in frustration and pound on the door, "Lydia!" She yelled as Stiles tried to pull on the handle.

"Let me try." Theo said, making the twins step back slightly before he kicked the door open. The twins didn't say anything, all they did was run through the door, barely even sparing a glance at Theo. "You're not going to find her without me!" Theo called out and all he got in a response was silence, making him sigh in annoyance.

Stiles and Sawyer ran down a hall until they found a gate that was left open. "Guys!" Theo said as he ran up to them making Sawyer groan under her breath, "I'm going to kill him." Sawyer muttered before they turned around to look at him.

"I want her out of here, too. I have her scent." Theo said, making them both glare at him, "What do you want?" Stiles asked. "What's the difference?" Theo said, making Sawyer raise her eyebrows at him and step forward. "The difference? The difference is that we want her out because we actually care about her and we don't want to use her." Sawyer said.

"I can find her, you can't." Theo said, making Sawyer glare at him, "I can find her myself, probably better than you can." She said.

"You'll find her quicker if I helped. You don't have heightened senses." Theo said and Sawyer looked at her brother who sighed and nodded slightly knowing he had a point. Sawyer sighed and shook her head slightly as she stepped towards Theo, making him raise his eyebrows in amusement.

"What? Gonna tell me if something happens to Lydia, I'll end up worse than Donovan?" Theo asked and Sawyer smiled and shook her head. "No, I was just gonna say that it won't be hard for me to have your sister on a spiritual speed dial." She said, making any trace of amusement wash away from his face.

They all started to walk but stopped when they heard the sound of steam coming from a vent at the top of the wall. They follow the sound and Lydia's scent through a door that leads inside the boys' shower room, where there are at least six young men who are only wearing towels and were instantly frightened by their appearance.

They all crouch down and huddle together, not knowing what is going on, as Sawyer walked over to a sewer grate near the far wall. "It leads to the tunnels, doesn't it?" Theo asked as he, Stiles and Sawyer crouched down in front of it. "There's miles of them. They can be anywhere by now." Stiles said and Sawyer nodded slightly, "Then let's not waste any time." Sawyer said.

A couple minutes later they were walking down the underground tunnels when Theo stopped and pressed his ear next to the pipes running along the walls. "I thought you had her scent." Sawyer said, making Theo sigh, "I lost it." He said and she rolled her eyes slightly.

"So find it again!"

"What do you smell down here?"

"Chemicals... and fecal matter. Although, I'm pretty sure the fecal matter is you." Stiles said and Theo nodded, "I smell it, too. It's all that I can smell... Which is why I'm trying something else. So, can you shut up and let me concentrate?" He said, making the twins sigh in frustration.

"I'll find her myself." Sawyer said, grabbing her brother's arm and going to walk away but Theo spoke up, "You know you won't. You're gonna have to trust me." Theo said, making them stop and turn to him. "Trust you? The guy who murdered his own sister when he was nine?" Sawyer asked and Theo nodded.

"Yeah, I was nine years old. I also believed a guy in a red suit came down the chimney to deliver presents. So, when three people in leather masks showed up and said that my sister wanted me to have her heart, I believed them, too." Theo said, making Stiles roll his eyes, "So then, together you gutted and killed her. That's a beautiful story." He said.

"I watched her fall into the water and freeze to death in minutes! Do you think I had any idea what was going on?"

"I think you pushed her. And I think you liked it." Stiles said and before Theo can reply, the three of them are overwhelmed by the sound of Lydia's banshee-wail. "What direction was that? Where is it coming from?" Stiles asked and Sawyer slightly shook her head, "Everywhere."

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A few minutes after splitting up they ended up running into each other again. "Nothing." Theo said and Sawyer and Stiles sighed in frustration. "Great. You're just as useless as I am." Stiles said, making Theo glare at him, "I'm trying to help save her life!" Theo yelled, making Sawyer glare at him.

"No, we are trying to save her life. You are only doing this because she gets you to Parrish and he gets you to the Beast." She snapped and Theo shrugged, "So what? I want it dead, too." Theo said and Stiles rolled his eyes.

"After you take its power, right? We know why you got the talons, and we know you're looking for Deucalion." Stiles said, making Theo look over at him, "I found Deucalion." Theo said and Sawyer just hummed and rolled her eyes.

"Good luck with him."

"You're right. I'm going to help Parrish stop the Beast. I'm going to take its power. And then, I'm going to break its neck. So, maybe I'm not the good guy in your eyes, but I might end up being the guy that saves all your asses." Theo said. All of the sudden Sawyer paused, turning her head slightly as she heard a bunch of whispers that sounded like they came from a specific direction.

"Sawyer? What do you hear?" Stiles asked as he looked over at his sister, "This way." She said before walking down the tunnel making Theo and Stiles follow her. A few minutes later they made it to a set of doors and the whispers got even louder. "They're in there." Sawyer said as she ran over to the doors. Theo rammed his shoulder into the door trying to get it open when Theo failed to break through, Stiles lost his patience, "What the hell are you doing? Get the door!" Stiles said, making Theo groan, "I'm trying!" He said through clenched teeth.

All of the sudden an ear piercing scream ripped throughout the tunnels making the three of them lower their hands, their ears ringing from the power of Lydia's scream. "Oh my god. You're hitting the wrong place." Sawyer said, pushing Theo away from the door, slamming her foot down on the handles a couple times until they snapped off.

She quickly pushed open the doors to see Lydia weakly laying on a chair covered in wires making Sawyer quickly run over to her. "You came back..." Lydia said weakly as Sawyer started pulling off the wires, "You didn't actually think I would leave you to die here, did you?" Sawyer asked and Lydia started shaking her head, "You can't! It's too dangerous-" She started to say but Sawyer cut her off while gently grabbing her face.

"Lydia, I love you but please shut up and let me save you." Sawyer said and Lydia stared at her for a moment before giving her a weak smile. Sawyer smiled back at her before helping Lydia to her feet. She wrapped Lydia's arm around her shoulder and then wrapped her arm around Lydia's waist.

"Okay, let's get the hell out of here." Sawyer said looking at her brother who nodded. They ran out paying no attention whatsoever to Theo, who noticed the Dread Doctor helmet on the ground next to Valack's body.

As they ran through the tunnels Sawyer tried her best to keep Lydia standing as Stiles led them through the tunnels. But Lydia was obviously getting weaker and weaker by the second. "The plan didn't work too well, so I'm gonna need your help, okay?" Sawyer said, making Lydia raise her eyebrows slightly.

"You guys had a plan?" Lydia asked weakly, making Stiles chuckle and glance back at Sawyer who looked at him, "Yeah. It was good on paper. Not so much in reality." Stiles said.

The voices in Lydia's head overwhelm her to the point that she whimpers loudly, "Come on Lydia. You can do this. I know it's hard but you're strong" Sawyer said. But when they and Stiles turn a corner and burst through a door, Lydia can no longer handle everything she's hearing and falls to her knees, pressing her hands against her temples.

"I can't do it!" She yelled, making Sawyer turn back to Lydia to try to help her up. The walls around them start to shake, "Guys, run!" Lydia yelled. Just then, Parrish in his Hellhound form appears behind the twins, grabbing them by their shoulders and forcefully throwing them back into the adjacent hallway, where Scott and Liam catch them before they could hit the wall.

Just as Lydia let go of her head and opened her mouth to scream, Parrish burst into flames and wrapped his arms around her as she let out a loud, deafening scream. The walls shook slightly as dust fell around them until the screaming slowly stopped.

Parrish, now fully back to himself, walks out of the massive cloud of dust carrying a barely-conscious Lydia toward them. All of them look shocked by the fact that they survived. "Where to?" He asked and Scott nodded, "This way." He said before leading them down the hall.

"There's a gate up ahead." Liam called out as he led them to the exit, "What about Mason?" Sawyer asked. "He's on it! Trust me." Liam says before running as fast as he can ahead of the group while the rest struggle to keep up. "Liam, slow down!"

"Liam, wait!"

Liam beats them to the exit, which is an electrified chain-link fence and gate. The rest skid to a halt behind him and watch nervously as Liam grabs the fence with his hands. Though it sparks with electricity upon contact but Liam easily breaks the gate open before turning to the others and smirking in satisfaction. "I told you!"

Malia and Kira drove the Jeep to the front steps just as Liam, Scott, Stiles, Sawyer, Parrish, and Lydia crawled out of the underground tunnels. "Can you stand?" Parrish asks before gently setting Lydia on her feet, though he continues to help her stay standing as Kira and Malia get out of the Jeep, "Is she okay?" Malia asked, looking at Lydia.

"No. We need to go. Give us the keys. We gotta get her to the clinic." Sawyer says and Malia hands Stiles the keys. Just then, Parrish groans in pain and falls forward against the hood of the Jeep, revealing his back has several fresh, deep claw gashes along the length of his back.

The others look up to find that once again, Lydia is being held by Tracy, who is partially transformed into her Kanima form and who is sneering at them smugly as she holds her clawed hand up to Lydia's stomach, "Sorry, she's coming with me." Tracy said.

"Okay, Tracy, just wait. You don't know what's about to happen-" Scott tries to reason with her but she just cuts him off and starts to slowly walk backward with her clawed hand still against Lydia's stomach. "I'm taking her. That's what's happening. And none of you are going to do a thing-"

Before she can finish her sentence, her body starts to seize and spasm before she collapses onto the ground, revealing Natalie behind her, holding one of the guard's tasers. Lydia falls forward making Sawyer instantly shoot out and grab her as Natalie looks at them with an overwhelmed expression. "Could somebody please get my daughter out of this hellhole?"

Seconds later Stiles is driving the Jeep while Scott sits next to him and Sawyer and Lydia sit in the backseat, but Stiles is having difficulty getting the gear shift to move, and looks slightly concerned about the condition of his Jeep. "Stiles." Sawyer says and Stiles nodded, "Yeah, I'm trying. I'm trying."

Sawyer ignored the car troubles in favor of making sure Lydia kept a lid on her scream as long as possible, but its obvious by the fact that Lydia's eyes and mouth are clamped shut as tightly as she can muster that she's barely hanging on. Sawyer's eyes widened when she noticed Lydia could hold it in any long.

"Cover your ears!" Sawyer said as she tightened her arms around Lydia before Lydia let out a scream. This scream was not as powerful as her earlier screams and less ear damaging but it still packs a punch, and Stiles and Scott try their best to protect their ears from it. The driver's side mirror cracks into dozens of pieces, making Stiles' eyes widen.

Sawyer immediately tried to calm Lydia down as she went back to suppressing the screams in her head as much as possible. "Lydia. Lydia, hey. You're gonna get through this, okay?" Sawyer says as she turns Lydia's head to look at her, "Lydia, look at me. You're going to make it." Sawyer said. Lydia noticed something that made the remaining color drain from her face before she quietly replies between rapid, shallow breaths. "But you might not."

Sawyer followed Lydia's gaze and lifted her hand up to her ear which started to bleed down her neck meaning Lydia had shattered Sawyer's eardrum. Sawyer looked over at Scott and Stiles with wide eyes but regardless she didn't let this faze her, though it scared her brother enough to the point he was finally able to get the gears to shift before he pushed the gas pedal down to the floor to drive faster.

Finally, they arrive at the animal clinic, where Deaton rushes toward his materials as they enter the exam room, "Get her on the table!" He said and Scott and Sawyer did just that while Deaton worked on something at the counter. "Hold her!" He said as the three try to hold Lydia down onto the table as firmly but gently as possible as Lydia lets out another mini-scream that rattles the walls of the clinic.

"Doc, I think you gotta do something..." Sawyer said as Deaton is in the middle of drawing the contents of the container up into a steel syringe gun while the three watch over Lydia. "I will! But right now, I need you to keep her still."

Deaton finally finishes what he's doing and walks over to Lydia, using his left hand to stabilize Lydia's neck while he holds the syringe gun, which has had its needle removed, in his other hand. The three continue to press Lydia to the table.

Sawyer sees the syringe and her eyebrows furrow at the sight of it, "What is that?" She asked worriedly. "Mistletoe." Deaton said, making Stiles' mouth gape open, and he looks at Deaton as though he thinks he's crazy, "Mistletoe? She's got a freaking hole in her head!" He said.

Lydia groans in pain and tries to sit up, but Scott and Sawyer push her back down and orders Stiles to do the same. Deaton takes the syringe gun and prepares to fill the hole in Lydia's head with the mistletoe paste while the three hold her down.

Just as soon as Deaton fills her wound with the mistletoe past, she bolts into a seated position and screams her most powerful scream yet.The scream still manages to shake the entire building to the point every window shatters making Sawyer quickly wrap her arms around Lydia.

Sawyer groaned in pain as the scream pierced her ears but she was too focused on trying to protect Lydia from flying shards of glass until she stopped screaming. Once Lydia stopped screaming she slowly fell back onto the metal and Sawyer looked her over worriedly until she noticed Lydia's chest wasn't moving making her eyes widen.

"Lydia?" Sawyer asked as she gently grabbed Lydia's face. She waited for a moment, but Lydia doesn't move or respond in any way, making her start to panic. Scott and Stiles join Sawyer next to the table and watch as Sawyer cradled her girlfriend's head in her hands and continues to frantically try to wake her up.

"Lydia? Lydia, come on please." She said but Lydia's body is like a rag doll in Sawyer's arms, and Sawyer only becomes more desperate. Tears start to fall down her face as let's out a groan, "Lydia please! Wake up! Please!" She cried.

Sawyer continues to desperately brush the hair off of Lydia's face with shaky hands in hopes of waking her. Scott's face is absolutely devastated, his eyes filling with tears at the thought that Lydia is dead. And Stiles watches with glossy eyes as his sister desperately tries to wake up her girlfriend and childhood crush.

"No, no. Lydia, please! Wake up. Lydia. Lydia, open your eyes!" Sawyer cried but still got nothing in response. "Lydia, wake up!" She yelled as tears ran down her face but she was not giving up.

All of the sudden, Sawyer's eyes clouded over, "Lydia!" She yelled, her voice echoing slightly. Almost instantly Lydia gasps for breath, and after a moment, she opens her eyes, causing the three men to sigh in relief that she survived everything she's been through. Sawyer's eyes went back to normal as she looked at her girlfriend in shock as Lydia looked up at her.

"Hi! Are you okay? Do you wanna sit up?" Sawyer asked and Lydia smiled weakly and nodded, making Sawyer smile as she helped Lydia sit up before pulling Lydia into a kiss. Lydia instantly kissed back while grabbing Sawyer's arm for a moment before they pulled away slightly.

Sawyer smiled softly as she moved some of Lydia's hair out of her face right as Natalie ran into the clinic. The sight of her seems to relieve Lydia as well as her mother. "Mom?" Lydia says Natalie rushes forward to hug her daughter tightly.

Sawyer backs up to give the family space and Stiles tossed his arm over his sister's shoulder. Lydia smiles in relief as her mother wraps her arms around her, "They saved my life, Mom." Lydia says as she looks at Sawyer, Stiles and Scott with a grateful smile. "Sawyer saved me." She said and Sawyer smiled softly as she glanced at Scott and Stiles.

Sawyer let out a small sigh before noticing the windows, "Um- I'm not at fault for the windows..." Sawyer said, making Deaton chuckle and shake his head slightly.

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"How do you feel?" Sawyer asked as Lydia sat down on the edge of her bed, "Tired... scared." Lydia said. Sawyer sighed softly and kneeling down in front of her girlfriend, comfortingly grabbing her hands.

"If it makes you feel better, I can go get Anakin and we can watch The Notebook." Sawyer said, making Lydia smile softly, "Can you stay over tonight?" She asked in a slight whisper. "I'll stay every night if you really want me to." She said, before standing up.

Sawyer laid down on the bed, making Lydia lay down next to her before laying her head on Sawyer's chest. They laid there in silence for a moment before Sawyer spoke up. "I can still kill Theo?" Sawyer asked, making Lydia chuckle, "Sure." She said and Sawyer smiled. "Awesome." She said before gently kissing the top of Lydia's head.

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