Once in a Lifetime

51

(Once again, because this chapter is so short, I'll also be posting the finale.)

Tabitha was sitting on her bed on her laptop working on an essay for college. She'd tried sleeping, but after the third time of trying and failing, she'd given up. Tabitha heard voices and snuck downstairs.

Tabitha put her hair up and asked, "Why are you two here?"

"Where's Malia?" Peter asked.

"And Scott," Lydia added.

Tabitha shook her head. "I don't know sure. I was busy working on an essay. Why?"

"They're not answering. We know that the hunters have taken out some cell phone towers."

Peter frowned. "They're cutting us off from the outside. And from each other. Which likely means that they've already started amassing troops on their side.

Lydia pursed her lips. "Then we better find ours."

Tabitha let out a sigh. "Okay, let's go."

They made their way to the Animal Clinic and after looking around, Lydia sighed. "They haven't been here. Maybe we should go to the school."

Peter frowned. "Lydia, you never said why you were waiting for Scott."

"Are you sure you wanna know?"

"I think we need to," Tabitha said.

Lydia met her eyes. "Last night, I woke up saying two words that might just be from a dream, or it might be from something else."

"Lydia, what two words?"

""Where's Jackson?""

Peter glanced at Lydia. "That is disturbing on multiple levels. What else?" Lydia didn't answer. "Lydia, don't hold back on me. I never held back on you."

"I saw you... Turned to stone. I was in a storage container. It was steel. There was a blue wall. I saw everyone, even Derek and Ethan. All of you turned to stone," Lydia said.

Peter let out an exasperated sigh. "Do you ever see anything remotely optimistic?" He sighed and paused. "Storage con... Do you mean shipping container?"

Lydia nodded. "Yeah! I was surrounded by them."

Tabitha turned to Peter. "Then you know where they are."

They ran off to find Scott and found Malia with him.

"Scott! Scott! Scott!" Lydia yelled, catching his attention. "None of us are going to survive this."

Tabitha shuddered at the thought of possible death once again.

Scott turned to them. "What... Why? What are you doing here?"

"They're coming, Monroe and more," Peter warned. "And they have heavy firepower."

Machine guns began to fire. Deucalion was hit and fell to the ground. Tabitha yanked Lydia behind a box as they ducked. The rest of the pack ducked, hiding from the firing machine guns.

Tabitha glanced up and asked, "Could this get any worse?" The others glanced at her. "Don't answer that."

[Scott and Malia are fighting with Deucalion.]