True North

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BEACON HILLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

The lights were flickering in the deserted hospital, where the floors in the halls are covered with scraps of paper and dead leaves blown in by the wind. The metal doors are groaning under Liam's hands as he wrenched the doors open with his super strength.

Now free to move around, Liam slowly walked out of the elevator, visibly uneasy as a result of how quiet and abandoned the building seemed to be. When he reached the emergency room receptionist desk, he got a bad feeling and looked down an adjacent hall, though he was confused when he found nothing amiss. However, when he turned around to walk back to the desk, his eyes widened in alarm at the sight of the same list of cities as the Phantom Train Station on the wall behind it. Liam took specific notice of the top city row, which shuffles between a number of different towns before stopping at "BEACON HILLS." The arrival time for the train was 2:20AM, and the other visible cities include Bodie, Boneville, Pripyat, Bannack, Skido, Canaan, Garnet, Harappa, and Red Bird.

PHANTOM TRAIN STATION

Stiles and Lena were staring at the exact same bulletin board of city names and their arrival times while in the captivity of the Wild Hunt. After a moment, what appeared to be a train ticket blows across the floor in the wind, and when they looked down at it, they suddenly heard a familiar female voice.

Lydia's voice echoed. "Stiles... Stiles... Stiles..."

"Lydia?" Stiles and Lena said.

Corey said over the PA system, "Attention all passengers -- the train will be arriving in twenty-five minutes."

"Lydia?"

Lydia's voice echoed. "Stiles?"

"Lydia!"

"Stiles, Lena, look at me."

"Lydia, wait!"

"Stiles! Lena!" Sheriff Stilinski called as he walked up to his kids. "Give the boy and girl some room."

"Dad? Dad!" Stiles called.

"Uncle Noah!" Lena shouted.

"Oh, thank God. Oh, I found you two. I can't believe I found you two." He hugged them and placed a hand on the back of his niece's head. "I'm right here."

"Dad, Lena and I can hear Lydia," Stiles told him. "I think... I think Lena and I can get to her. I think she can get us out of here."

"You need to get out of here. Don't worry about me."

Stiles scoffed. "What? You're kidding, right?"

"Go. Get help. Find your friends."

"Yeah? And what about you?" Lena wondered.

"We'll find each other again."

"Dad..." Stiles began.

"Stiles, Lena... I'll hold them back. Now, get the hell out of here. Go. Go!"

Lydia's voice echoed once again. "When I kissed you... When I kissed you... When I kissed you!"

Stiles and Lena started making their way towards her voice and three shapes slowly began becoming clearer.

ARGENT BUNKER

"Stiles? Lena?" Lydia called. "I can see you! Don't stop! Stiles?"

The light faded and the strawberry blonde's hopeful expression dropped.

"Lydia?" Malia called.

The light disappeared and the spots Lydia had seen Stiles and Lena was empty.

"Where is he?" she asked. "It was working. You saw him, right? You saw her?"