Have you ever woken up DEAD? Well I did... when I was eight years old I woke up in my bed covered in blood. I found my mother, father, and baby sister all dead in their sleep. Soaked in blood. From then on I felt like death. Everyone around me dies...
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FEET POUNDING DOWN THE STAIRS, Allison and Isaac charge in to find the dusted and dirtied parents tied to posts.
"Oh God-- thank God." Allison reaches for her father.
He blinks away the dust to look at her in pride as he speaks with difficulty, "You found us."
Noah nods to Isaac, "Get Melissa untied. Hurry. And where's my son? Where's Stiles?"
"And Scott?" Melissa frowns worried.
"They're on the way. They're coming to help."
He and Allison begin to pull and tug at the ropes, trying to loosen the complicated knots as quickly as possible. But they both pause when they hear an ominous cream from above.
All eyes turn to the moonlight blinking through the holes in the ceiling. And the sound of wind picking up its pace.
The storm builds outside the entrance to the root cellar, wind whipping through the woods with ever-rising intensity.
...
Through the open door, two silhouettes look in on the same distillery where Derek Hale once fell in love with a girl named Paige.
Scott notices Deucalion's hesitation, the visible tightening of his jaw.
"You said you had a plan?"
Nodding, Scott takes out his phone, "On the first day of class, Jennifer sent all of us a message. It was the last line from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. I've got a message of my own to send her."
A video begins streaming on a phone. Shaky. An image walking into the darkened interior of the distillery.
"You see this symbol?" Scott comments as he shows the spiral clawed into the side of the distillery years ago by Ennis appears within the video frame.
"It's a symbol of revenge." Scott turns the phone to Deucalion and himself, "You talk about balance. About saving people. We know what you really want. And now you know where to find us."
The video ends. Derek by her side, Jennifer lowers her phone, barely able to conceal her rage.
...
With the last of the rope bindings falling to the floor, Allison and Isaac help the parents to their feet.
"Hurry."
The group turns for the stairs. But hearing the wind above increasing velocity, they pause. The root cellar shakes violently, as if hit by an earthquake.
Noah looks around cautiously, "What the hell was that?"
He's answered by a loud cream, snapping sounds all around them. Argent and Melissa take cautious steps back from the walls. Allison and Isaac look to the ceiling as another violent tremor sends clouds of dirt bursting in and fragments of wood flying. Hand raised over his face, Isaac's eyes widen as he sees the stairs rip right off the wall and collapse in a heap of splintering wood and cracking stone.
