Ephemeral ➵ Allison Argent (5)

Thirteen

Allison's POV:

"Why isn't he healing?" Josh asks as the three of us carefully place Corey on the table.

"Maybe he can't. Maybe it's too much." Malia answered as her eyes trailed along the scarred burns on his body.

I quickly shake my head. "It's the pain."

"He's going to die, isn't he?" Josh muttered.

"His heartbeat's getting slower."

"What do we do?" He worriedly asks before he met my eyes. "You can't heal him, can you?"

"I'm not supernatural," I say before I point to Malia. "but you can take his pain."

Malia nods in agreement. "It could help. It might even get him to start healing.

"Then do it." Josh demanded which causes Malia to glare.

"You first." She countered as she pointed to Kira and within seconds, crackles of electricity emit from her body which causes me to back away. "You said you could help her."

"Yeah, but it's not like taking voltage from a car battery. She's got a lot more power than that." He argued but Corey lets out a groan, causing his eyes to widen. "Are you going to do something or not?" He angrily asked.

"When you help her. We don't trust you." She harshly stated.

"I don't trust you either."

"Look, we're all gonna die if we don't set aside our differences." I sternly order, pointing to Corey and Kira. "So stop being stubborn and do it at the same time."

"Fine." Josh mutters as he walks to Kira while Malia grumbled under her breath.

"Ready?" I ask, glancing between Josh who hovered his hands above Kira while Malia placed her hands on Corey's arm. "All right, here we go!" I call out.

Black veins begin to trickle along Malia's hands and I look over to Kira and Josh, seeing the bright blue crackles of electricity travel across to Josh's body.

Malia tightly clutches into Corey's arm with a grunt but Josh looks up to the ceiling with a pained expression, letting out a roar with his fangs extended.

Olivia's POV:

I swing open the gate as Scott takes his claws off of Meredith, causing the guard to fall forward.

Scott looks between Liam and I in shock. "Uh..."

"Is he out?" Liam panted.

"Yeah."

"Good." I mutter as I roll my shoulder, earning a loud snap. "Please tell me your conversation with Meredith wasn't for nothing."

"We need to find Parrish." He responded before he turns to the gate. "He's this way."

Liam and I quickly follow after Scott to the door that led to the stairwell but thankfully not having to run very far, a burned Parrish laid unconscious on the stairs.

"Parrish? Parrish." Scott calls as he carefully helped him lean against the wall. "Parrish. Parrish, hey. Can you hear me?"

Parrish blinks a few times before he looks around in confusion. "How did I get here?"

"We don't know. We just followed the burning smell." Liam answered.

Parrish looks down at his hands, seeing his scorched palms which causes me to crouch down to his level. "I can help with that." I say as I hold out my hand.

He nods and I hover my hand over him in which emits a bright glow, causing the skin to patch itself up.

"Parrish, listen. Eichen's in lockdown. There's no way for us to get out unless Plan B works." Scott carefully explains but Parrish narrows his eyes.