Forget Me Not

68. Process

~Aubrey~
Stiles and I were curled up next to each in the station, we were just looking up, "how long do you think it's been" he asked "five minutes since the last time you asked that question" I joked, "they're never going to find us, some battles you just don't win" he told me, "if you really believe that then you're a bigger idiot than I thought" I laughed, "do you think this is a joke" he asked "no, but I know them, they find a way out of nothing" I told him, "Aubrey we've been erased from existence" he told me, I laughed then stopped when I seen his face "oh you were serious".

"Stiles, we exist, they keep us existing, they remember, and you might want to be forgotten, but forget me not" I told him, he looked back at the ceiling, "and the worst that could happen is we reunite with them here" I laughed.

~Allison~

We ran into my fathers bunker, I was placing lines of mountain ash in front of doorways to hold the ghost riders off, Liam also had plans to distract them.

We went into a room that Lydia led us to, there was a machine, "the temperature drops low enough to put you in a subconscious state" Lydia told us, Scott immediately took off his shirt, "what if it gets too cold" Malia asked, "we pull him out" Lydia answered.

Scott walked into the machine "how do we get this to work" I asked looking at all the knobs and buttons, "here's start" Malia pointed out.

Lydia pressed start then started to randomly turn knobs, a bluish smoke started to release inside of the machine, "woah, that's cold" Scott complained, "okay just relax" Lydia told him.

His eyes began to close, "Scott, can you hear me" Lydia asked a couple of times.

Scott's face began twitching and his head was moving like it was looking around, "what's happening" I asked "I'm not sure if it's working" Lydia wondered "Stiles" Scott whispered, "it's working" Malia stated, "maybe he's getting them all at once" Lydia guessed, "how do we control his memories" I asked, "we have to treat it like hypnosis" Lydia said.

"Scott, imagine you are in the school, you're in the halls with all the lockers, are you there Scott, are you in the hall" Lydia spoke, Scott's face was still, he was no longer looking at every memory at once, "okay Scott, open a locker, and you will get back one memory of Stiles for each locker" Lydia told him, I seen his hand move up a little bit like he was opening a locker.

He repeated that motion a few times, then we heard the machine start beeping, we looked at the temperature, "his body temperature is dropping" I said, Malia hit the stop button and Lydia pulled the latch to the sarcophagus. Scott dropped out and onto the ground, "why'd you take me out" he questioned "it was too cold" Lydia told him, Lydia touched his arm, then pulled back, "Aubrey" she whispered, Scott shot a look at her, "sorry, I just thought I remembered something" Lydia mumbled, "well stop" Scott told her.

Malia took her shirt off, "it's my turn" she told us, "that thing isn't safe" I told her, "if I get too cold pull me out" she said, then got into the machine and closed it behind her, Lydia put on the latch and I pressed the start button, I looked at Lydia but she didn't make eye contact with me, she just pulled me into a hug and took a deep breath, "you're here" she whispered "I've always been here" I told her.

We waited for it to get colder until Malia's eyes began to droop.

"Okay Malia, you are in the library, there's books on the shelves, every shelf is a group of memories, find the shelf of Stiles, now open a book, that equals to one memory" Lydia guided her, Malia's eyes twitched, her shoulders moved, she was in a memory.

"Now pick up another book, another memory" Lydia told her, Malia's face expression changed, she was in another memory.

We seen a bright light on the wall but then it went dark.

Malia placed her blue hand on the window, Lydia opened the door, catching Malia before she hit the ground, Malia took in a deep breath, "it was working" Scott told her, "she almost died, we're not going to kill anyone for a weird light" Lydia told us, "but I have his face, I can remember more" Scott told her, "Lydia, you have to try, you guys had a strong connection" Malia told her, "I seen a memory and you were there" Scott told her, Lydia looked at me, "this is going to save our friend, I don't know why you guys look at me when you want to forget, I don't want you to forget" I told her.

"Fine, but we're doing an actual hypnosis, find a candle" Lydia told us, she grabbed a paper and began writing, as we looked for a candle, I pulled out a chair and table, Malia pulled out a blow torch, "is this too much" she asked, Scott yelled out a candle, "yeah" he answered.

She lit up the candle with the blowtorch and they set it on the table I turned the lights off, that single candle had the entire room bright.

"I wrote a script, have a soft yet aware voice, not monotoned but not emphasized" Lydia told us, Malia to the paper.

"Take. A. Deep. Breath" Malia spoke word by word, Scott tool the paper out of her hands.

"Take a deep breath, feel your body begin to relax, as you're relaxing picture yourself in front of a tv" Scott paused a bit then continued "you see the remote next to you, turn the tv on, and flip through the channels, each channel is a memory" Scott told her.

I seen her thumb moving, like she was pressing the buttons on a remote, "think of Stiles, find the channels that are memories of Stiles" Scott told her.

"That's when it happened" Lydia whispered, "when what happened" Scott asked, her eyes were closed and she was still flipping thought memories, her eyes opened, "when I kissed him, that's when things started to change" she spoke.

The table began to shake, the room began to rumble like it was an earthquake, there was a bright light coming from the door, Lydia stood up and began to walk to it, when the shaking stopped, there was a tunnel, with a white light coming through, there was a silhouette of a man at the beginning of that light.

"Stiles" Lydia whispered.

~Aubrey~
"Okay, I give up, I don't want to be an optimist anymore, I am starving, actually I'm not hungry I just want the taste of food in my mouth" I whined "you're being a baby" he told me, "Stiles this is serious we don't-" he put his finger over my mouth, "do you hear that" he asked "what" I asked "Lydia, she's calling me" he told me, I seen the tunnel that only the riders went through start to glow, it was a green outline with white-ish waves blowing out at us, "go Stiles" I told him, "come on" he said, "I don't hear her" I told him.

He looked back at me "I can't leave you behind, you came to save me" he said, "Stiles soon you'll return the favor but now, go get your girl" I yelled at him, he nodded and started bolting towards the tunnel, it was like the waves were pushing him back but he kept going.

When he went through the tunnel stopped glowing, instead I heard hooves.