fatal attraction || isaac lahey

22. out of time

A/N Hey my loves!! Thank you so much for all the love! Updates have slowed and I am so sorry about that! My head has just been in 4,000 different places. I am so sorry for what I am about to do in this chapter, I was going to hold this off longer but if I don't do it now, the rest of Lydia's plotline won't make sense. All hate will be deleted.

After their 'meeting' at the Hale House, Sage asked Stiles to take her straight home, she just wanted to relax. She didn't want them to know that she was going to be checking into Ms.Morrell, and her Latin.

She walked in and was met with a crying Lydia Martin. Sage dropped her bags to the floor and opened her arms so that her best friend could be engulfed in a hug. For a moment, the two just standing in the kitchen, Coach watching from the hallway, a solemn look on his face.

"Can we go upstairs?" Lydia mumbled into the crook of her best friend's neck.

"Of course, let's go." Sage led her best friend up the steps and into her room.

Lydia sat down on the edge of Sage's bed, and Sage knelt on the floor at her feet. She didn't want to push, but she wasn't going to let her cry alone. Sage laid her head gently on her best friend's knee and sat with her until she was ready to talk.

"She's gone Sage," Lydia whispered to the point where Sage barely heard her.

"Who's gone Lyds?" She looked up at her best friend and wiped the tears from her eyes, even though she was guessing she knew the answer.

"Allison. She's gone."

Sage stood up and when she noticed Lydia's confusion, she gave a soft smile, "I'm gonna get us some ice cream and some sodas, and then we're gonna talk as late as you want okay?" She ran downstairs after getting Lydia's approval.

Sage opened the freezer and pulled out the container of Lydia's favorite ice cream that she keeps on standby. She grabbed her own container, their favorite sodas, and put it all on a tray to carry back upstairs. When she got upstairs she saw that Lydia had taken off her shoes and was now curled up on the bed.

"You ready to talk about it honey, or do you wanna wait just a little?" Sage set down the tray in the empty space on the bed.

"What if we just never talk about it?" Lydia groaned through the pillows, causing Sage to laugh a little bit.

"As much as I'd love to let that happen, I can't allow it." Sage nudged the girl and climbed onto the spot on the bed next to her.

"Sage Grace Finstock you must allow it." Lydia rolled over and threw her hands up in dismay.

"No Lydia Camille Grace Martin, I must not. Now come here." She gave a pat on her lap, gesturing for Lydia to lay down, and she did.

"It hurts Sage." Lydia felt the tears welling up again.

"I know Lyds. Talk to me." She ran her hands through Lydia's hair, in her best efforts to comfort her best friend.

Lydia was home alone, her mom had been working late. She was watching a movie in the living room when she heard a knock at her back door, the special knock that she and Allison had created. She jumped up in excitement and opened the door. She was shocked to see that her girlfriend didn't share in her excitement.

"Allison? Is something wrong? Come in come in." She opened the door wide enough so that the brunette could walk in, but something seemed to be troubling her.

"I can't do this Lydia." That was all she said, clearly fighting back the tears.

"Can't do what? Allison, you're scaring me." Lydia could see the taller girl fidgeting with her sleeves.

"This. Us. I can't do this." Allison blurted it out and before she could realize how harshly she put it, the damage was done. "Lydia I love you. You are the first girl my parents don't hate. But you and me aren't meant to be forever."

"Why are you saying this Allison? You're being cruel." Lydia's eyes were beginning to mirror Allion's in tears.

"It has to be said Lyds."

"Don't you dare say that you can't do this and then call me 'Lyds.' Obviously we're not meant to be forever, we're in high school! We figure that out when we get to it." Lydia was near pleading at this point, grabbing at Allison's hands.

"Lydia. You and me don't mix. My family is known to hunt the supernatural, your best friend helps the supernatural. She got my aunt killed!" Lydia hadn't realized that Allison held this resentment for Sage.

"Don't put this on her. Your aunt burnt the Hale's House down. She killed innocent people!" Lydia dropped her hands and looked at her. "So you're breaking up with me over something that isn't even about us? Wow Allison, wow."

"Have you helped Sage before?"

"Of course I've helped Sage before we've been best friends since middle school."

"That's not what I meant and you know it." Allison's rage was slowly starting to reach the surface. "Have you helped Sage with her 'pack research' before?"

"Yes. And I would do it again if she asked because that's my best friend." Lydia had finally let the tears boil over.

"Then this is about us." Allison had a blank look in her eyes.

"How is this about us?" Lydia still didn't understand what was unfolding in front of her.

"Because if my family asked me to help them I wouldn't hesitate. And as much as it hurts to admit it if the mission was one of your friends and my dad said shoot, I would but an arrow right through them."

"I've never heard you talk like this." Fear was beginning to was over Lydia. "You're talking about murder. That's insane you wouldn't do that."

"I don't know that and neither do you. And I don't plan on having to choose between you and my family. So we're done. That's it. You can go on helping them, and my family will hunt them down the second they screw up." Allison stepped forward and placed a hand on Lydia's face.

"Get out." Lydia took a step back. "If helping my friends is so horrible, if hunting my friends is inevitable. I want you to leave."

Allison dropped her hand immediately, it was as if she had come to her senses. "Right. Well my parents are splitting up. The loss of my aunt has destroyed our family. I'm going to live with my mom so you won't have to see me anymore." She turned to walk out the door, but stopped. "Did you love me?"

"Of course I did, and maybe if you weren't leaving we could've gotten past this, but I guess we just ran out of time."

Allison walked out the door and as it closed Lydia dropped to her knees, all of the emotions she was holding back at once toppling over her. She couldn't hold back the pain that Allison slamming that door put her through. She couldn't believe what had just happened. She had just lost her girlfriend, because she couldn't choose anyone over her best friend.

"Oh my god Lydia I am so sorry." Sage looked down at her best friend and felt her heartbreaking at a sight that she couldn't help but feel guilty for.

She held Lydia in that spot for the rest of the night. They ate their ice cream and Sage held her while she cried. She had completely forgotten about the research she was supposed to do, her best friend needed her and she would do anything and everything to be there for her. Even if that meant forgetting the danger they were in.