Scenes with Lydia 117
[In a flash-forward, Lydia has just attempted to escape Eichen House, only to be stopped by Gabriel Valack, who has glamoured himself to look like Aiden]
VAValack/Aiden
Sorry, Lydia... But your treatment's not done.
Lydia
Please! I have to tell them. They are all going to die. My friends... They're all going to die.
[Stiles, Lydia, Kira, and Malia have just watched Scott sign the initials S.M. and A.A. on the bookshelf for Senior Scribe-- one for himself, and one for Allison]
She would have been with us.
Lydia
She still is.
[Outside the school, the McCall Pack and Mason are discussing their current problem]
Lydia
Tracy wasn't just having trouble sleeping, it was a real disorder. It was night terrors.
Well, now she's the night terror. Especially since no one can find her.
Okay, I know we're all tired and miserable...
[He looks over at Mason, whose eyes are wide in excitement as he listens to them all talk]
Oh, I'm sorry, this is all just so mind-blowing! [He looks over at Kira] You're a Kitsune! I don't even know what that is!
[bashfully] I'm still learning.
Liam, we said you could tell him, not invite him to the inner circle.
[excitedly] Uh, I'm in the inner circle?
LSLiam & Stiles
[simultaneously] No!
[Lydia and Kira are searching Tracy's room for clues]
Okay, so what are we looking for?
Lydia
I'm not sure... I'm mostly just following a feeling.
[alarmed] Your feelings usually lead to dead bodies.
Lydia
[shrugs] Well, let me know if you find one.
[Parrish is in the middle of a flashback to a few days/weeks ago, when he and Lydia were sitting at his desk at the Sheriff's station. Lydia has just pulled out a lighter]
You gonna do a magic trick?
Lydia
[smiles] No, but you are.
I only know one trick, and it's with a playing card.
Lydia
Well, this one involves a lighter and your hand.
[gives her a look] This is sounding less like a magic trick and more like assault.
Lydia
[shrugs] It's a little dangerous, yes. But, it's not as bad as being lit on fire in a Deputy Sheriff's car. Which, by the way, you walked away from unscathed.
[smiles] Not entirely-- I had to pay for the uniform!
Lydia
When you were looking at me, your eyes kind of drifted. What were you thinking about?
Lydia
What dream?
I've had it here and there for about six months. I'm walking in the woods, carrying a body... but it's completely burned. I can't see who it is, or who it was.
Lydia
Where are you taking it?
A clearing. There's a huge tree in the middle of it. You'd think it was a thousand years old, but it's been cut down. It's just a stump.
Lydia
[frowns] It's real. It's a real tree, in a real part of Beacon Hills. It used to be the center of a grove of trees called a Nemeton.
Lydia
A sacred meeting place for Celtic Druids. They were scientists and healers thousands of years ago.
[confused] I've never seen this place...
Lydia
But that's why you're here. It drew you here. That's what it does. It's a beacon for supernatural creatures... It might even make them more powerful. What else happens?
[nervously] I put the body down. I... I lay it down on the rings of the tree, and...
Lydia
...What?
[lies] Nothing. That's it. That's the end of the dream.
[Malia and Lydia are standing next to Malia's locker as they discuss The Dread Doctors, a book Malia found in Tracy's bedroom. Lydia reads the cover synopsis aloud]
Lydia
"In a small New England town, teenagers are taken in the night and buried alive. Days later, they emerge transformed, wreaking havoc and spreading terror, commanded by an ancient order of parascientists known only as the Dread Doctors." Sounds vaguely familiar. How does it end?
It doesn't. This is supposed to be Volume One.
Lydia
[rolls her eyes] Oh, let me guess... There is no Volume Two?
I think we're living Volume Two.
Lydia
Then maybe the real question is... Is this a novel, or someone's prediction?
Lydia
[to Malia about the book] Look at this. Look at the Acknowledgements page. [She reads the page aloud] "For providing scientific perspective and valuable insight... This book is dedicated to Dr. Gabriel Valack."
Lydia
Yeah. And I know where to find him.
[Lydia has just stopped by the Stilinski house, where Stiles is in the middle of getting dressed. She has just told him their plan to go to Eichen House to talk to Dr. Valack]
[insistently] Lydia, I'm going with you.
Lydia
[suspiciously] I thought you said you were sick.
[awkwardly] I'm slightly under the weather.
Lydia
You don't have to come. Malia's not going either.
Malia's not going because she knows that place is a nightmare asylum of insanity and death, okay? Let's go.
[Stiles has almost finished getting dressed when he puts his arm into the sleeve of his hoodie and winces when his injured shoulder is jostled too hard. This doesn't escape Lydia's notice, and she eyes him suspiciously]
Lydia
What was that?
[plays dumb] What was what?
Lydia
You winced.
Lydia
[gives him a look] It was your shoulder.
Pain radiates. It does that! You are not going without me. You remember what happened to Deaton when he talked to Valack?
Lydia
Scott and Kira are going to be there.
[insistently] Okay, I'm not letting you go to a place where one of the orderlies almost killed you.
Lydia
[exasperatedly] He almost killed you too!
And we're both still alive! See? Teamwork.
[Stiles and Lydia are almost to Valack's cell when Stiles glances at a nearby cell door and is startled to see Donovan. Panicked, he looks over again and instead finds a monstrous looking gray-skinned creature in his place. Upon reaching Valack's room, he gives Stiles a curious look]
Tell me what you just saw.
The creature in the previous cell-- the Sluagh. The myth is that they can take on the appearance of the lost souls that have become bound to it. Happen to have seen any lost souls, Mr. Stilinski?
[smiles] Don't give up on us yet. We're all works in progress.
[Lydia recognizes this statement as something Peter once said and frowns]
Lydia
Where did you hear that from?
Wise words from a former cellmate.
Lydia
What do they want?
Good question, Lydia. Everybody wants something, don't they?
Okay, so what do you want?
[Dr. Valack pulls out an audio recorder and places it in the drawer for Lydia to take]
Lydia
What do you want me to say?
I don't want you to say anything. I want you to scream.
[Stiles and Lydia are arguing about Dr. Valack's request]
No way. Not happening. Sorry.
Lydia
He's the only one who knows anything!
The guy is a nut-job who drilled a hole into his head! He's probably lying his ass off!
[frustrated] How many have died so far? All of them teenagers. Am I right? Want to know how many died the first time they came here? Wonder how many will die if they succeed?
Lydia
[shocked] This did happen before.
And now they're back. All because a few teenagers, who never even considered the consequences, decided to reignite a supernatural force they barely understand.
Lydia
The Nemeton.
How do you even know about that?
[Dr. Valack removes the bandage around his forehead]
[The electricity starts to flicker as Kira loses control over her powers]
Lydia
Our friends...
[urgently] What are they?
Lydia
What's happening?
She's disrupting the building's defenses.
It's not just the mountain ash that keeps this building secure-- it's the electromagnetic energy. Eichen is built on the convergence of telluric currents. Ley lines. It's what allows it to keep certain supernatural creatures in, and certain others out. They knew you were coming. They're here. And you unlocked the door for them.
[Stiles and Lydia have just barely missed being attacked by the Dread Doctors]
Lydia
I think we're okay. Stiles?
No, it's not okay. All of this, it's on us. Everything that's happened, everything that's going to happen? It's our fault.
Lydia
[horrified] It's our responsibility.