Ephemeral ➵ Allison Argent (5)

Ten

Olivia's POV:

"There's four steps." Stiles starts to explain as Liam, Malia, Kira, Scott, Allison, and I were circled around Scott's kitchen table with the blueprints of Eichen House. "We get into Eichen, we get into the Closed Unit, we get Lydia, get out."

"And we have to do it all of this while getting past orderlies, guards, electric door locks, and a Mountain Ash barrier." Scott listed off.

I snort. "You make it sound so easy."

"You have a plan for all that?" Malia asks.

Stiles pulls out a keycard from his pocket. "I stole this last night off an orderly. But it's useless 'cause they reset the codes each night."

"So, why did you take it?" Allison asked as her brows furrow in confusion.

Stiles nods. "I'm getting to that."

"The only way to get Lydia out of Eichen is to make the key card work again." Scott informed.

Liam narrows his eyes. "How are you gonna do that?"

"We're getting to that, okay, just listen." Stiles says as he turned his laptop around so the five of us (who were unaware of the plan) could see. "I pulled all the history off the key card. Two weeks ago, there was a brownout and the security system rebooted. During a reboot, all of the key cards revert back to a default code. So, if we trigger a reboot--"

"The card goes back to the default code." I interrupt with a smile as Stiles nods his head. "It works again."

"How are we going to cause a brownout?" Kira reluctantly asks, almost as if she already knew the answer.

"That's your part. You're going to draw power from the mainline. But only enough to cause the brownout." Scott answered with a sincere smile.

"Not a blackout. Do that and you send Eichen into lockdown which would be bad. Very, very bad." Stiles emphasized.

Scott nods. "There's an electrical room behind the reception counter. The main power line goes into two breakers that run power to all of Eichen." He explains, pointing to one of the rooms in the blueprints.

"Okay, slight problem." Kira awkwardly clears her throat. "I don't know how to do that."

"That's okay, we'll help you practice." Allison assured, nodding her head towards Malia and I.

I narrow my eyes. "Yeah, I don't know how comfortable I am being in the same room as her when she's almost electrocuted me to death last time, no offense." I say, briefly glancing at Kira who guiltily looked down to her feet.

"Let's say all this goes perfectly." Malia says, nudging Kira so she would look up. "How does a brownout get us into the Closed Unit of Eichen?"

"The system takes five minutes to reboot. In that five minutes all the alarms will be turned off, the key card should work." Stiles explained.

"Liam and Olivia, you two are coming with me to get Stiles to the gate of the closed unit but after that, he has to go on his own. We can't get past the Mountain Ash barrier but once he brings her to us, Olivia you'll heal any necessary wounds that they might have done to Lydia. And when we're gone, all anyone's going to think is that there was a reboot of the security system caused by a brownout." Scott explains, making sure to look at each of us.

"Uh...any questions?" Stiles asked.

Liam tilted his head to the side with hesitance. "How do we get into Eichen House in the first place?"

"What's our worst-case scenario?" Malia added.

"What if my powers don't work?" I ask as I hold my hands up. "What if I lose control?"