Out of time

Chapter 23

Welcome to Chapter 23 - wow what can I say thank you so much for everyone who has read this story, I have just reached 2k reads which is crazy to me -  I really hope this chapter is worth the wait - long chapter coming your way!!

Lydia POV

As soon as I arrive at Eichen house that feeling of dread seems to run fully over me, I was holding everything within me to not turn and run away from here. No Lydia, Stiles needs you right now. Woman up!

"Alright let's do this, are you all ready to walk into hell?" I ask before pushing open the doors to Eichen House before I am followed in by Teresa, Thomas and Derek.

As soon as we step through the doors they slammed shut and the faint clicking sound can be heard, okay so that is not at all creepy. The lights start flickering as we start making our way down the path, something felt different from the last time I was here but I can't quite seem to put my finger on it.

"Am I the only one who feels like we are walking into a trap?" Derek voices and I notice his eyes are glowing brightly as he looks around.

"Derek, what is it?" Teresa asks grabbing a tighter grip on the gun she was carrying, her finger hovering over the trigger ready to shoot at any moment.

"It's too quite for my liking. Lydia, just think when you have ever known this place to be the slightest bit quite also where is everyone? We have walked, what a good 70 feet, I have not seen or heard a single person patient or orderly." Derek advises and I realise that he was right in what he is saying, where was everyone.

"Parent team to Alpha team, please be advised the Hound has advised directly below our position. Over!" Rafael voices sounds through the radio before the agreed response comes through.

"Derek, Lydia how far is that from our current location?" Thomas asks shifting nervously and impatiently as though he couldn't bare to waste anymore time.

"Hang on, if I remember correctly that is just down the staircase over there on the right." I advise before running off towards the stairs knowing I am getting closer to been reunited with Stiles.

As I open the door to the stairway, a loud scream rips through the area sending everyone expect me flying backwards. I feel my hands start to shake as I recognise that scream as Stiles's but he seemed to have some Banshee power behind it.

"Everyone alright?" I ask raising my voice slightly knowing that their ears would most likely still be ringing from the aftermath of the scream.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Teresa shouts out clearly still unable to hear properly as Derek and Thomas help her back to her feet.

"Stiles!" Derek states before running past me and down the stair case until he reaches a locked door in a corridor.

I hear footsteps coming from all directions as everyone seemed to have realised where we need to go, I notice a few of them rubbing their ears or the back of their heads. However, the main thing I notice is that a group is missing from when we had last gathered outside, I look around expecting them to see arrive slightly later but there was no sign of them.

"Thomas, do you have the radio please?" I ask before he hands me the radio sending me a confused look as he does.

"Parent team, this is Lydia! Do you copy? Over!" I state into the radio as everyone else seems to look around and notice that I am right that they are not there.

No answer is heard from the radio which concerns me as they were the closest out of all of us, so really should have been here first. Before I could radio anymore another loud scream ripped through the air causing everyone to drop to the floor.

"We can't wait for them, they are killing him!!" Mitch shouts getting off the ground and kicking the door open before I get off the floor with everyone else and follow him inside.

As I run inside I can hear the hum of a machine running inside the room, in front of me I can see the machine I had seen in the dream with Stiles. As I walked closer another scream from Stiles rings out and I race over to the machine looking to see which button needed pressing to get him out of there.

"I wouldn't do that if I was you!" Janson's voice sounds out from the other side of the room before the sounds of roars and gun clicking fill the room.

"Let him go now or else!!" Mitch screams at Janson as he moves quickly to him and places his gun firmly on his head before dragging him into the middle of the room forcing him onto his knees.

"I can't do that, if I do then I will doom us all to a fate worse then death. Trust me, it is safer for him to be contained in there then been out here with us." Janson explains sounding almost scared at the idea of Stiles been released.

"Why? What have you done to him?" Derek growls at him as he goes to stand near him with his claws hovering close to Janson's face.

"Let's just say when you try and play God, nature finds a way to balance everything back out." Janson stated vaugly as I walk over to him a smack him squarely around the face.

"Tell me right now, how do we fix him? TELL ME!!" I scream at him grabbing hold of the front of his shirt and holding it tightly so he looks me in the face.

"You can't, what has been done can't be undone." Janson laughs in my face before I punch him knocking him out.

"He has to be lying, we need to find a way to fix whatever the heck they have done to him." I state before turning around and start moving paperwork around trying to find something, anything that will help me stop this machine and save him.

"Lydia, he wasn't lying. I listened to his heart the entire time and it didn't change at all." Scott advises as we look through the paperwork as another scream comes from the machine that Stiles is in.

"Scott, I don't care if he was lying or not and neither should you. This is Stiles we are talking about, the person who would literally go through hell to save any of us. He has never given up on either on of us but here you are yet again letting him down, just like you did when you trusted Theo over him." I snap at him before turning away from him as I am embarrassed by what I just said but in no way regret it.

"Lydia, that is not fair, how can you even say that? It is totally different circumstances." Scott advises before footsteps running are heard to reveal Sheriff, Chris, Parrish and Rafael running into the room.

"Everyone get away from the machine now!!" Sheriff screams before I race over to them with everyone else as he pulls out what looks like a flare gun and aims it at the machine.

"Sheriff, what are you doing? Stiles is inside, if you fire you are going to kill him." I plead with him trying to stop him from making a massive mistake and killing his son.

"It's not him! Inside that machine is nothing more then a Frankenstein monster or VOID 2.0 should we say!" Sheriff explains tears pouring down his face as he fires the weapon causing the machine to explode sending debris everywhere.

"What did you just do? You have doomed us all now!!" Janson states coughing as he tries to back away from the machine as it splits in half as I turn around, my mouth falls open to what I see in front of me.

"Stiles!"

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