I Own Nothing

AN: I came up with this as a random AU idea for how Liam and Theo could have met when they were little.

Title: Christmas Wish

Characters: Liam/Theo, Tara

Summary: When Liam was four he lost his dad Christmas morning even though he'd asked for his dad to be home for Christmas. He found a room in the hospital that wasn't empty like he'd thought. Instead there was a boy there without anything, but one small tree in the way of Christmas. He decided to change that with some coloring book pages he'd planned to give his dad.

Liam hadn't wanted to be in his dad's room any longer. He had lain beside of him until his mommy told him he was gone. He'd slipped out while his mommy had been crying not able to listen any longer. He wanted to help his mommy, but he didn't know what to say or do at four. All he knew was that Santa hadn't given him his wish for his daddy to be home and well. Liam had just wanted a few minutes to his self because he hadn't wanted to cry in front of his mommy. His Uncle kept saying he had to be a big boy and crying was for babies. He was four so he didn't understand since his dad had told him it was okay to cry. He'd seen his dad crying and he knew that he was not a baby.

Liam figured he could hide out in one of the rooms in the hospital that was empty. Liam hadn't expected to find one that had someone in it. Liam sat down in the chair beside the bed looking at the boy in the bed. He might be a year or so older than he was, but not much passed that. Liam wiped the tears from his eyes that wouldn't stop falling making his vision blurry. He felt sadder because the boy was here on Christmas and not home with his family. He hadn't meant to walk into a room where someone else was on the verge of dying if that was what was going to happen. He couldn't bring his self to leave either not wanting the boy to be alone.

It was Christmas, but the boy was here all alone and besides a small fake tree there was nothing else Christmas like in the room. Liam found it sad because even if he lost his daddy no one should go without Christmas. He was upset with Santa for not bringing his gift he'd wanted; his dad alive and well at home. He didn't want the boy on the bed to wake up without something Christmas. He was sick or he wouldn't be here, but he shouldn't miss out on Christmas.

Liam wiped his eyes again coming up with an idea before pulling the book bag his mommy had let him bring into his lap. He probably should tell his mommy where he was, but he had forgotten the way back to his daddy's room. He also didn't want to go back there with his mommy crying. It made him really sad and he knew that his daddy wasn't there now, he'd gone off to wherever dead people went. His mommy tried explaining it, but he'd gotten really scared when she started talking and he'd started crying thinking about having to let his mommy go that way too; he would have been an orphan. His mom had promised him that it wasn't happening now though.

Liam pulled out his coloring book and the flashlight he had not wanting to turn on the big lights to wake the boy up. He looked at the pages he'd colored already since he had worked on it a lot in the last week. He'd given Mason, his best friend and closest he had to a brother two of the pages for his room. He hadn't had anything for Mason so he'd colored the pages. Mason had given him a homemade card that he knew Mason's mommy had helped him on. They were just learning their names since Mason's mommy was helping them out so when they went to school they would be ahead of the others. His mommy helped too, but he'd been distracted with his dad being sick.

Liam hoped that his mommy would understand why he pulled the pages out of the coloring book. He didn't have any glue or tape since he'd went a little crazy the last time with each. He'd glued Mason and his hands together because he hadn't wanted Mason to leave. It hadn't been sticky enough because Mason was in Colorado right now with his family. His mommy had also said he couldn't have the glue back unless she was there. He'd used the tape to hold their hands together until the glue had dried. They had been one huge tape and glue mess since it had gotten all over them, the glue that was.

Liam wanted to hang the pictures up and he saw the bulletin board that had only two pictures on it right now. It was one of the boy in the bed with who Liam thought was his sister and the second was with two other boys. Liam knew the boy on the left end, it was his daddy's nurse's son, Scott. He'd seen him a couple of times sitting with his mommy waiting for his to finish work. He hadn't talked to Scott much, but he'd been nice enough to play I spy with him a couple of times. He'd liked Scott's friend the most though, Stiles he thought it was. He never had been able to say it right, Stiles hadn't minded when he'd called him Steals.

Liam used the chair that was against the wall and the food table too get to just the right height for the board. He bit his bottom lip when the table squeaked, but he was little so it should hold up until he finished. He got to his knees being careful pulling the pages he'd torn from his book out. He used the tacks on the board being careful not to poke his fingers either. He wanted to put tacks all around the picture, but there weren't any left when he'd done it with first picture. He took one by one from the first picture adding the others until each picture he'd pulled out was on the board.

The pictures were all Christmas like too, except for one that had a snowman. He had colored the snowman blue though because he'd always wanted a blue snowman. His daddy had tried the year before when they'd gone with Mason's family to where the snow was. His daddy had taken food coloring and made the snowman half green and blue. The pictures had ended up with one tack a piece, but he thought it should hold. He heard another creak from the table and quickly went to get down. He didn't like heights, but he'd wanted to put a little Christmas in the room.

The last thing he wanted was to fall, but his shoe lace got stuck on the corner of the table. Liam let out a panicked cry when he moved to quick and went over the side of the table. He waited for the fall knowing it was going to hurt. The pain never came because someone had caught him. Two arms were holding him and when he looked back it was the boy who had been on the bed. He wasn't sure what he was going to say since he'd thought of just slipping out once he was done with a note of Merry Christmas. He had been busted however all because his shoe got stuck.

"You know the tables are for eating off of not sitting on right?" The boy asked with a smirk on his face before helping Liam by getting his shoe unstuck.

"I know, I just couldn't reach the board," Liam said before he was sitting on the bed where the boy had been. "There was no Christmas here besides the dwarf tree. Just because I can't have a Merry Christmas doesn't mean you shouldn't. Even people here deserve some cheer on Christmas." Liam explained looking over at the board. "Do you like it? I colored all of the pictures for my daddy when he came home. He's not going to come home though so I didn't think he'd mind if I gave them to you." Liam said trying not to cry again, he'd done so good while putting the pictures up.

Theo looked up at the board that Liam had decorated with a dozen Christmas coloring pages. The blue snowman picture was in the center and he smiled at the board. He hadn't expected to wake up and Liam be decorating his board. He hadn't seen Liam but once when he'd been waiting on Melissa with Scott and Stiles. He hadn't forgotten what he looked like though. He'd asked Melissa if he was okay since Liam had been trying not to cry at the time. She'd given him a sad look telling him that Liam's dad was dying. He'd felt horrible and had wanted to say something to Liam then or give him a hug. He hadn't been able to though because when he'd turned back around Liam had already disappeared with his mom.

"I like it and I'm sorry about your dad." Theo said telling Liam his name in the process.

"You're not going to die too are you?" Liam asked looking up at Theo hoping once again he wasn't going to lose someone else even if he didn't really know Theo.

Theo wasn't sure what to tell Liam because he didn't want him to cry again. He wasn't crazy about lying either. "Not today, but we all go in the end because that's how life works." Theo answered finally figuring that would make Liam feel a little better knowing he wasn't in danger of dying right then.

"I just met you, I don't want you dying on me ever. I already lost my daddy I won't lose you too." Liam declared putting his arm around Theo before burying his head against Theo too. "I already lost the only thing I wanted for Christmas. Santa can't be cruel enough to take you too."

Theo wasn't sure what to say so he put his arm around Liam hugging him back. He knew what it was like to ask Santa for something and never get it. It was why he had refused anything that looked like Christmas near him. Melissa had been determined to put the little tree up though. She had pulled out the mom look on him and he'd caved to the stupid tree she'd left before she left the night before. He'd only asked for two things this year and so far neither one of them had come true. He'd asked for Liam's dad to get better even if he hadn't known him. He'd also wanted to have a new heart so he wouldn't get sick anymore.

When he'd opened his eyes seeing Liam putting the pictures up he'd about told him to stop. He'd watched him instead until he'd heard the table creaking knowing it wasn't used to extra weight. He had gotten up glad that the IV had been taken out of his arm since he was supposed to go home at nine and caught Liam right when he'd tried getting down. It had actually scared him thinking about how Liam's mom would be even sadder that her husband was gone and Liam hurt. He had got there in time before taking Liam to the bed. Liam had seen the room being bare of Christmas stuff and wanted to make him happy. It was why Theo hadn't taken them down when he hated anything Christmas.

"I'm not going anywhere," Theo said rubbing Liam's back telling him it was okay to cry.

He had done it more times than he could count. It never helped his asthma or heart, but he needed to sometimes. His sister, Tara was the one that told him it was okay to cry when he felt like it. She'd hold him in a tight hug telling him she loved him even if no one else in their house did. Tara had tried telling their mom that a real tree was not healthy for him. They had been told that he could just stay upstairs with his Scrooge take on Christmas. Tara understood why he didn't like it and she always respected his wish of no Christmas gifts. She always watched scary movies with him on Christmas day instead. They also ate pizza instead of the huge dinner his mom made.

Theo looked down when he didn't hear Liam crying anymore noticing that he was asleep. Theo carefully stood up with Liam laying him on the bed before pulling the blanket up to Liam's chin. He slipped on his house shoes that Melissa kept reminding him he had to wear before going down the hall to the nurses' station. He didn't see the on call nurse so he left a note where she would see it when she came back that Liam was in his room. He didn't want Liam's mom to worry if they were searching for him. He knew Tara would be frantic if he just disappeared on her.

Once Theo got back to the room he climbed back into the bed putting his arm around Liam hugging him close. Liam turned in his sleep burying his self against Theo causing Theo to smile. He had gone to sleep angry at the world because he was stuck here of all days. Tara and he had planned an all night movie marathon for Christmas Eve staying up until dawn then sleeping for a few hours before more movies. He'd even decided to pull out the only two Christmas movies he would watch because Tara loved Christmas even if he didn't. His sister was Christmas crazy even if she kept it buried for his sake. They would be just going to sleep about now since the clock had said five at the Nurses' station. They always fell asleep about five or six in the middle of the tenth or eleventh movie.

Right now Theo wasn't angry though, sad yeah, but he couldn't feel angry. He felt like he was supposed to be here even if it made no sense. He didn't believe in religious stuff or Christmas, but maybe it was someone helping Liam out. He wasn't sure, but he closed his eyes promising his self that he was going to do his best to never make what he'd told Liam about not leaving him be the truth. He'd thought about just giving up at times, but even after losing his dad Liam had found it in him to decorate his room some. Theo tightened his hold on Liam thinking about the board of pictures that had been meant for Liam's dad. He wished they could be back in the coloring book with Liam's dad to look at. However, he couldn't help but love them too even if he hated Christmas.

~TBC~

EN: Thanks for reviews and kudos in advance. I hope that you enjoyed chapter one and chapter 2 will be set in season four of the show.