A Heartbeat In The Distance

Chapter 19

I hear her before I see her, Lydia and Stiles see Malia as she enters the room.
'We found Satomi's pack.' She says to us, dripping wet from the downpour outside.
'Derek and I. But they're dead.' She tells us. I look to Lydia, because I didn't know what to do but Lydia and Stiles were still shocked at the fact that I'm an alien, I knew I shouldn't of told them.

'All of them?' Stiles asks as he picks up his phone to call Scott.
'All the ones we found.' She replies,
'Then where's Derek?' I ask her.

The next day we were to take our PSAT, but Lydia and I had already taken them so we got to miss out while the rest of the grade had to take them. We decided to go to the Lake house again, Lydia wants to take Meredith's belongings there. We go to the plain white room with the record player, where this all began, where Lydia discovered the first cipher key. She takes out a box with Meredith Walker written on the top, she opens it and takes out a small bottle of perfume with a pump on it and she places it in front of the old record player. Next Lydia takes out a bouquet of old, brown flowers and places it next to the perfume, I can only look on while Lydia is going through Meredith's things and I cannot help the girl with tears running down her face. She then pulls out a little bear with a black and white photograph underneath. She looks up to the record player, then turning it on and putting the needle on a record, but all I hear is static. I step closer to Lydia taking another look at Meredith's things, the photo is of someone and I'm curious to see who it is, so I bend down and pick it up.

'All right Meredith, I'm not sure how to do this. I'm not a psychic. And apparently I'm no much of a banshee either. But I'm trying to help my friends.' Lydia says, speaking to the record player that only replies with static. The person in the photograph is Meredith but without the dark circles under her eyes.

'I don't know if you can hear me. Or, uh, what I'm supposed to ask you. But if I have this thing its got to work some of the time. It's got to help someone.' Lydia tells the record player, hoping that somehow Meredith is hearing the words coming out of her mouth. I look at the wall Meredith is standing against in the photo, I look above the photo and at the wall. In the photo Meredith is standing in a room with a power outlet to the side of her and the skirting boards are fancy, I then notice that they are the same skirting boards as in here and in front of me is a power outlet in the exact same spot as in the photo. Realisation dawns on me as I look back and forth between the photo and the wall.

'Maybe what I really wanted to say was, I'm sorry. I wish I could've helped you. I'm sorry.' She says after a pause, she turns the record player off.

'Lydia.' I start to talk, handing the photo to her, she only gasps. My phone starts buzzing before she can say anything, it is Sheriff Stilinski's number so I pick it up.

'Hello?' I ask into the phone,
'Hey Kara, the High School has been quarantined.' he tells me.
'But aren't Scott, Stiles, Kira and Malia taking their PSAT's?' I question,

'Yeah and I haven't been able to contact them, you might want to come fast, I don't think the Orphans were the only professional killers in Beacon hills.' He finishes, hanging up the phone. I grab Lydia and tell her we are going to the high school and that there has been a quarantine.
'My mums in there.' She tells me.

We arrive at the High School and find a huge crowd of people around the main entrance.
'Sheriff!' I yell through the crowd hoping to see him in front of the doors.
'Sheriff!' I yell again, holding onto Lydia's hand so she doesn't get pulled away as we make our way through the crowd. As we get to the front one of the deputy's hold us back but I try to get through to Sheriff Stilinski.