Foresight

Chapter 93: 6-6

Lydia is in the locker room washing her hands in front of the mirror. Her reflection suddenly shifts to that of another woman with wild curly blond hair. He reaches out to the mirror and is pulled inside.

"It's like watching all my worst fears coming true" Lydia rubbed the bridge of her nose. "You're afraid of being pulled into a mirror?" Allison raised an eyebrow. "Young me was. And now is me me" Lydia groaned.

Lydia is suddenly at a street fair in the town of Canaan. She races to catch up with the blond woman as families enjoy a cookout and Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf" plays on a boom box. A banner hung over the street proclaims this the "35th Annual Canaan Day."

"Well at least you found Canaan" Peter shrugged.

A rickety carousel spins slowly with children riding on faded and badly paint-chipped horses. Lydia notices one of the horses, a black one, is covered in blood.

"The children" Hayden muttered in horror. "I'm sure they're be okay" Liam said weakly.

The skies darken and chaos ensues. A man runs from a house and disappears in a puff of green smoke. Screaming people run in all directions. Each eventually disappears in the same fashion until only the blond woman remains. She screams into the lightning, thunder and wind, "It's not real." Lydia reaches out and touches her shoulder and the woman ages to an old woman in a flash. Lydia screams.

"So...Canaan is a town the ghost riders raided and that woman is the only one alive?" Theo summarized. "It looks like it" Mason nodded slightly.

Scott tells Noah Stilinski about their recent radio contact with Stiles. The sheriff is unconvinced. He says it could be just a random signal cross. Scott produces the keys and explains how Peter provided them and that they fit Claudia Stilinski's Jeep which started easily. Noah is suspicious of Peter Hale suggesting that he too now remembers the former Alpha. Scott pleads with the sheriff, but the older man shuts him down, refusing to believe that he has a son that he doesn't remember. He shoves the keys back at Scott.

"I actually forgot him. Even when the proof is right there" Noah thought in pain. Claudia looked at her husband and rested her head on his shoulder.

Lydia relays to Malia the things she saw in her "dream" about Canaan. Malia says her research on the town has turned up little. No one answers at Canaan City Hall, and the only map reference to the town is 30 years old. Lydia says they just need to know how to get to the town. Scott is asleep in the back seat of a car. Malia taps him awake and informs him that they've arrived in Canaan. They emerge onto a leaf-strewn street with abandoned cars, rickety picket fences, and rundown houses. The "Canaan Day" banner still hangs, now faded and torn, across the street. They stare into what was once a town square, now covered in dirt and overgrown with weeds and Lydia declare Canaan a ghost town. As they wander through a residential street, Scott announces that he can't hear a single heartbeat and Malia says there are no scents either. As Scott wonders aloud why Stiles would send them to this town, a street light buzzes and flickers to life just above them. Looking at the tattered banner hanging across the street, Lydia declares that this is the place she saw in the mirror. Among the relics left abandoned on a picnic table, Scott picks up an early-model cell phone and a newspaper, Canaan Courier, dated April 8, 1987. Malia finds a receipt in a bag. It's dated April 8, 1987.

"So this was probably the place the riders attacked before they came to Beacon Hills" Peter mused.

The carousel creaks in the distance. They head toward it. The black horse is still covered in blood, and as Scott steps forward onto the rusted and faded metal platform, the ride suddenly starts turning, music blaring and horses bobbing up and down.