Someone is about to die. Someone close to me. There are voices all around me screaming of the danger, and a sickening feeling of rising dread. I can feel it.
I can't let anyone die, not now. Not when I know it's going to happen. Not when so many people have already been killed.
I push Scott ahead of me, yelling at him to run back to the others he left above the ground. I follow on his heels with Stiles close behind me.
He looks like hell. He's even paler than normal, stumbling with every step as he runs, and has dark circles under his eyes that even my $120 concealer couldn't cover. I can tell he's having a hard time staying conscious. At least if he's here I can keep him safe.
"Lydia," Stiles mumbles from behind me. I turn quickly to see he's fallen against the wall of the endless narrow stone tunnel. My arms instantly move around him as I try to hold him up. I have to stay with him, I won't lose him now. Scott sprints on ahead. Oh God, I hope he can keep everyone alive.
Stiles' eyes are closed and his heartbeat is worryingly faint, but at least he's still breathing. My own breaths are too short and quick as the inevitable death creeps closer. I have no idea who it will be, only that it's someone important. Someone I love.
I've never been more angry and scared. I told them not to find me, I warned them not to come. But they didn't listen. They didn't listen to me and now I have to wait down here while all my friends are fighting the Oni. I have to wait until one of them is killed. And they're fighting for me, they'll be killed for me.
The echoing voices of people who suffered here years ago mingle with the screams of death, hurting my ears. Cries from trapped children and women. Panicking. Stiles beside me is definitely unconscious, taking infrequent shaky breaths.
I can't escape the constant, terrifying knowledge that someone is going to die.
I can't do anything to help. I only ever wanted to help but now whoever dies, they die for me. It will be because of me. They shouldn't have tried to find me.
I feel like I'm standing on the edge of a cliff about to fall. I feel a sword through my abdomen, just below my ribs. And I know, I know, it's then.
For a second, everything is quiet, no voices, like I'm floating underwater. Like I'm drowning. Then the volcano erupts.
"Allison," the voices whisper, "Allison." "Allison." "Allison." "Allison!"
All the air is gone from my lungs.
I see my best friend's beautiful, pale face. I see her arrows blazing forward in a protective rage as she saves the people she cares about most. I see her smiling across the room at Scott after they broke up - she never stopped loving him no matter what she told herself. I hear her laughter and her gentle voice. I see her tears, so many times, she is the strongest person I know. I see her hand slowly hit the ground.
I fall from the cliff, drown underwater, and feel my world break.
And I scream. "ALLISON!"
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Woahh so I cried writing this that was so painful. Allison's death BROKE me. Credit to MTV these are not my characters.
