Sixteen hours passed.
The entire time her friends were in a coma she thought about Peter. She couldn't deny their connection.
Many times she found her hand rubbing against her scar.
She boiled it down to the facts of her love life.
Jackson, despite their good times was the worst thing to ever happen in her life. He used her, abused her and humiliated her many times over. Even when Peter attacked her, he never came to the hospital to visit her. Even now with Aiden, even though she did not see this as a real relationship, she was being used as leverage against her friends.
Peter did tell her the truth. He did open her eyes to her own powers and abilities even though she is still figuring out what those are. He did keep his promise until now to stay away from her. Despite what he had to do in order for her to resurrect him, he was the most gentle out of the three.
Peter Hale: gentle. That thought made her laugh.
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Stiles, Allison and Scott and just come up from the water finally. They were discussing their next plan of attack when the front door of the clinic rang. It was Ethan asking for Lydia's help.
He wanted her to help him stop his brother and Kali from killing Derek.
She agreed.
They stood in front of Derek, Peter and a now healed Cora explaining them the situation.
"We know about the lunar eclipse. So don't think Kali is going to sit around and wait for it to level the playing field. She's coming and my brother's coming with her." Ethan spoke to Derek.
Lydia's eyes were at the floor in front of Peter's feet. She didn't want to look at him.
"Good enough for me. Derek?" Peter looked to his nephew.
"You want me to run?" Derek was a stubborn Hale. Lydia knew it had to be a strong family trait.
"No. I-I want you to stay and get slaughtered by an Alpha with a psychotic foot fetish. Of course I want you to run. Sprint, gallop, leap your way the hell out of this town." Peter was genuinely concerned for his nephew but he also wanted him out of the way, Lydia could see that.
"How do you know I'm going to lose?" Derek was confident.
"We don't, but I bet she has an idea." His head pointed towards Lydia.
He stepped towards her as her eyes slowly moved from Derek to the man who claimed he loved her.
"Don't you Lydia." His gaze was direct, he could tell she was scared but not as much as before, something inside her had changed but this was not the place to point it out.
"I don't know anything."
"But you feel something. Don't you?" This question was meant for two answers, the answer of you know you feel the same way I feel about youand the more pertinent, you know someone is going to die here.
"What do you feel?" Derek asked as her eyes looked to the side. She felt the air with her body and sorrow filled her heart. She wanted to cry in that instant.
"I feel like..." She trembled. Peter looked at her and already had the answer to his question from earlier and it made his heart sing, "I'm standing in a graveyard."
Derek and Cora began packing quickly. They went upstairs to collect everything they had that was important.
Ethan went outside to check and see if Kali and his brother had arrived.
Peter and Lydia were now alone, for the most part...
