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"Now, who's going to help me get William back?"

Nathan's heart constricted in his chest and his breath hitched. He knew immediately from Audrey's voice that Mara had taken over, stronger than ever. He could not go through this again, losing Audrey to some other personality, especially a seemingly evil one. Refusing to believe that this was how it was going to end, he resolved to make damn sure that today would not be the day he would lose her.

In hot anger, he rushed towards Mara and growled with authority "NO ONE! YOU are going to give AUDREY back."

"Not so fast there, knight-in-shining armor!" Mara warned Nathan to stay back. "At any time I can erase your precious Audrey Parker from existence, never to be recovered again."

Nathan stopped his advancement but firmly locked his pleading eyes with Mara. "Audrey, I know you're in there. Don't let Mara take over." Nathan swallowed hard. "I know you can fight this."

Mara's evil stare turned soft, a glimmer of Audrey showing through.

"Parker?" Nathan begged, hoping with all his might that he had gotten through to her.

"Nathan, help me! I can't hold-" Audrey's scared and shaky voice was cut off.

Nathan ran to her when he saw her big wet tears drip down both sides of her face; she looked beyond frightened. It was the second time today that he had seen her in such a state, and he felt completely helpless. He was beyond livid that he couldn't protect her from the horror that she was battling inside her mind. He held her face in his hands and brushed her tears away with his thumbs.

"We're going to get through this, you hear me? You are strong enough to fight her. Audrey, I will NEVER give up on you…" Then he saw the shift in her eyes again.

Mara let out a taunting laugh at Nathan. "Your Audrey is a feisty one; she's been fighting me for a long time. Longer than you'll ever know. But I'm stronger now. She no longer gets to rule over me. I'm in control. Now unhand me." She pushed his hands away from her face.

Nathan narrowed his eyes and gave her a glare that could kill. Mara grinned. "Oh. I see this upsets you, you poor, poor dear. But I will do whatever it takes to get William back, and there's nothing you mere mortals can do to stop me."

Duke coughed again as more blood came pouring out of every orifice of his face. The noise turned Mara's attention away from Nathan and towards Duke. The gang all watched frozen in place as she made her way over to Duke who was hunched over in terrible pain next to Jennifer who was still unconscious.

"Well would you look at that," Mara gloated as she stood over Duke and Jennifer. "I guess I don't need anyone's help after all. The Fair Maiden Audrey and the Child of Ruin left me the perfect gift that will do the trick."

Dwight stepped forward to make a move with his taser, but Nathan stole a glance over to him, giving him the non-verbal wave of his hand to back off. The last thing Nathan wanted was another impulsive move to hurt Audrey or destroy any chance he had at getting her back. Dwight stopped in his tracks and nodded silently in understanding.

Mara loomed over Duke and stretched out the palm of her hand. The black orbs that contained all of the Troubles that Duke was suffering from flew out of his left ear and floated in the air over to Mara. They landed in a pyramid-shaped pile into her palm. Then the orbs dissolved in place, covering her hand first in black ash and then disappearing completely. Immediately, Duke was back to normal.

Mara grinned with delight. "It's about time I have back what I created. Looks like this town is in for some more…Trouble."

"Duke, you okay?" Nathan called. Duke nodded, not able to speak as he looked down on Jennifer's pale face.

"Don't look so sad. She's not dead by the way. Unfortunately, I'm still going to need her," Mara spoke to Duke.

Jennifer suddenly jumped back to life. She took a big gulp of air and then let out a shriek. Duke grabbed her face and forced her to look into his eyes to focus. "Jennifer? Shhh….you're okay."

While Duke and Jennifer were distracted, Mara grabbed Jennifer's book that had been thrown off to the side in all the commotion. Mara pointed the book at the door to the abyss, and a powerful force sprang forth from the glowing pages which opened up the door to the abyss once again.

"NO!" Jennifer yelled. But it was too late. Out of the clouds and lightening arose the body of William. It was clear that his body was dead, but Mara knew his Spirit was not. His body came to rest on the ground as the door closed shut.

Mara crouched down and placed her hand over his heart. A spark of electricity ignited between them, and the Spirit of William came out and hovered over the body. There was no form to his Spirit; he was just a ball of pure energy. A great rushing wind started to blow around the entire lighthouse cavern, making everyone brace themselves against its power or else they would be swept in.

Mara shouted above the roar. "Now we can be together again, my darling!"

Nathan stood in shock as the Spirit of Mara stepped out of Audrey's body. Audrey screamed in pain as the separation took place. The jolt of it threw her backwards into the wall of the cavern, and she hit her head hard against the rock. The wind howled stronger as the two Spirits joined together and swirled around in the air, creating a lightning storm.

"AUDREY!" Nathan cried above the raucous. He ran to her and fell on his knees at her side. Her eyes were wide and teary as she gasped while clutching to Nathan for comfort, her body trembling from the after-effects of Mara's energy that had ripped through her.

Nathan held her tightly and shielded her as best he could while everyone watched in amazement as the Spirits hovered in the air for a moment and then shot out of the cavern like a lightning bolt and left them.

The cavern went quiet.

Duke was the first to speak. "Okay. That was….interesting."

"Everyone okay?" Dwight asked.

"Dave's still hanging on," Vince replied as he looked at his brother who was still bleeding from his shoulder.

Duke helped Jennifer up and hugged her, rubbing his hands across her back to help calm her obvious nerves. "You okay?"

"I feel a little light-headed, but yeah, I'm okay. You?"

"Me? Oh, I'm just peachy," he replied. He placed a kiss to the top of her head. Wrapping an arm around her waist, he helped her to walk over to where Nathan and Audrey were still huddled together on the ground.

"How's she doing?" Duke looked to Nathan.

"I think she's in shock. I need to get her out of here. Dwight- call Laverne, get an ambulance for Dave. Jennifer and Duke should be looked at too. I'll take care of Audrey."

Nathan easily lifted Audrey up into his arms and carried her out of the lighthouse towards the Bronco, leaving Dwight to take care of everyone else.