Fiction Rated M (16)
TV Show: Teen Wolf
Couple: Theo Raeken / Liam Dunbar
Disclaimer: None of the characters shown here are my property. This is just an artwork based on the work of Jeff Davis for the MTV channel. It is a non-profit work made solely for the purpose of entertaining.
Comments and feedback are welcome. My first Teen Wolf fic, if you have some likes and comments I will be uploading a chapter per week on Saturday or Sunday. This is a translation of my own property fic called "Redención" in spanish please enjoy and if U have some point on the traduction are welcome too.
Chapter 1: Decline.
The war is over. Scott's pack finally had some peace. They met in the lacrosse field, the wind blew calmly and coolly as if to help appease the habitants of Beacon Hills. Many began to doubt if it had happened or had only been a bad memory, however for the gang it had been real, painful and an experience from which it would be very difficult to recover.
Of course, the war was over, but one does not go through that kind of experience without having changed. Some found their courage to face their own fears, others affirmed friendships and loves, but there was a complex situation where in an enemy Liam found a friend, an anchor and maybe something else.
"What's up Liam? All right? You seem lost" Scott said at the same time that his first beta was curious looking everywhere, in some moments raised his nose indicating that he was looking for a trace.
"What? No! Everything is fine... I just want to know if there is someone nearby" The young man hurried to answer his alpha, but Scott knew very well the behavior and the chemical reactions of the body of his young pupil, he immediately knew that he was lying.
Scott looked down at the floor, trying to think, they had won but Liam looked like he had lost. He began to remember everything he told him when they found him outside the city, how he had survived the hospital assault. How Theo had saved him by throwing him into the elevator, how Theo had prevented him from killing Nolan at the zoo, how Theo… Scott looked up and saw Jackson and Ethan hugged on the first step of the bleachers and it all started to make sense.
While it is true that Theo was one of his adversaries, It was also true that since Liam freed him from his infernal cell to be used as bait, Theo had shown more feelings in a single day than all the time he wanted to kill him. Scott looked up again to observe Liam again, noticing that perhaps even his young friend knew well that he was looking.
"Listen!" Scott started talking while standing up, thus calling the attention of his pack. "This is good and it's fun but to start the real celebration we need someone else, has anyone seen Theo?".
Three surprised looks immediately went to the alpha. Two of them with a mixture of confusion and anger, another of them, grateful?
"Are you crazy Scott? That Theo was lost is the second best thing that has happened to us today, after you know… Won the war" Stiles sentenced very sure of himself.
"I'm with Stiles, maybe we should let Theo disappear from our lives and continue" Mason continued with the idea of the FBI agent in training.
Liam's heart rate was starting to rise, he knew that Theo had done very bad things in the past. But who does not all deserve a second chance? Theo had done bad things but from his point of view something would have had to see the Dread Doctors, because the Theo he knew now could not even compare with the Theo he had once known in the past.
Liam looked at Stiles, while his heart rate kept increasing. Scott took a step forward expecting the worst, ready to stop Liam if necessary. The young beta closed his eyes trying to remember the blue eyes of the chimera, this helped to calm a little his anxieties but still.
"WHY DO YOU CONTINUE TO INSIST WITH THAT?" It was all, Liam had exploded. "TELL ME STILES, DOES SCOTT BLAME YOU FOR THE POSSESSION OF NOGITSUNE? NO, NOBODY BLAME YOU BECAUSE WAS NOT YOUR FAULT AND IF PASS THE SAME WITH THEO AND THE DOCTORS?" They all watched in amazement as the first beta unleashed what looked like contained anger against their friends. Scott took a step forward to try to calm him down even if it was a little.
Just as Liam turned to see his best friend, he felt a hand grabbing his right arm. His heart stopped and he turned quickly without thinking of anyone else, just wanted to see him. However both his emotion and his anger went to the floor when he saw the person who least expected: Hayden.
"Liam, what's the matter? Why do you yell at others like that?" Said his ex-girlfriend at the same time she climbed up to hug him, but, she was no longer his anchor. She had decided to leave and left him. The memory of his suffering only made Theo's absence hurt the most.
"Hay… den" Liam's heavy breath indicates that the girl's presence was not helping anything. Scott stopped and studied the situation. He knew it, that did not work. The pack had gathered around the others, Liam turned around looking for a way out. His emotions were on the surface and it was not exactly good, his breathing became agitated and he ran away heading to the forest.
The pack kept talking about what was happening while Scott went to Hayden. "Hi. How are you?" He continued the alpha while giving a hug to the female chimera. "What are you doing here? We did not expect to see you" He said as he walked away a little and looked up to see her.
"I knew what was happening, and I care about you. About Liam" She said at the same time that he raises the hand to which the boy had rejected the touch.
"Come on guys, it's time to leave it's getting late and it's cooling down fast" The alpha communicated the order as he took Malia's hand and began to come down from the stands. Everyone started talking, Scott could still hear comments about Liam.
Malia approached Scott enough to have a little privacy, the young man knew the question that followed because others had been talking about the same thing. "Are not we going to look for Liam?".
"I do not think it's time. In these moments it is the IED speaking, as long as it does not have its anchor even for me it is difficult to reason with it" Answered the alpha gently.
"But…" Malia had started talking and turned to see Hayden coming along with Mason and Corey. Scott with a look gave to understand to Malia a we speak later.
In the depths of the forest Liam was still running with the little self-control he had left. He knew that if he stayed with the pack the situation would only get more tense. He started running without sense or at least that was what he believed. When at least expect it from a distance he hear the sound of running water, immediately along with the sound a smell, the smell that he was looking for. He looked up and immediately saw a bridge over a river.
"¡Liam!" Theo started running towards the young wolf. When he reached it he held it as soon as Liam began to lose strength. "Is everything all right? Does someone chase you?" The chimera looked up looking for the persecutor of its custodian.
After Liam regained his breath "No. I, just…" the beta had begun to speak, but what was he going to say to him? That he had lost his mind when he did not see him with the others? Or that when they had insulted the chimera he had lost more than only his mind? "Where the hell were you?" He say, while a blow strong enough to move Theo but without hurting him landed on his right shoulder.
"I, just come to… My sis…" The chimera answered looking back with repentance. Theo helped Liam get up. "Hey, everything it's ok?" Continued Theo trying to make Liam talk to him.
The young beta looked up and saw the large bouquet of flowers that was on the railings of the bridge, looked to the right and saw a few flowers that dragged the current towards an end he did not know exactly. He hear Theo's heartbeat and its smell change thanks to its chemical reaction, nervousness and haste. He look at his nervous eyes looking for a place, anywhere but the young werewolf.
"Oh God, you plan to go" Liam accused the chimera while looking at him in disbelief.
"Listen Liam, that was always the plan" He began to explain as he turned to start walking to the bouquet he bought in honor of his sister. He knew that some flowers were not enough, but it was the only thing he could offer right now to his sister, maybe if he had a little more courage he would throw himself into the river to drown and return to that eternal punishment of the one who had Liam taken out. A tear ran down the chimera's right cheek as he took another flower and threw it into the river. No, he was not so brave. "I was already out of town. Come back to help them, but you ... Your pack is fine. It's time to leave and leave you alone", he said releasing another flower in the river.
"Hey listen" Liam started as he took Theo's hand to turn to him. He raised his hands to put them on the cheeks of the older. "You're part of our pack, Scott was looking for you a while ago" He said as his words softened as much as he could and his heart rate seemed to synchronize with that of the highest.
"Liam, please I do not belong here. I do not even have a place to call home. By God I do not even have where to spend the night!" The chimera tried to get away from Liam's grip, in vain. He did not really want to achieve it but he did not want the younger one to notice the feeling that he was getting near him.
"If that is the problem, you will crash the night with me" the beta said while lowering his right hand to the left wrist of the omega to start walking.
"And after that?" An intrigued Theo threw a question into the air waiting and craving for a specific response.
"Tomorrow we'll see" He said, meanwhile with a little more force began to pull the chimera who took what was left of the bouquet. For a minute Liam slowed down and turned to see Theo who had been watching the flowers as if it were the most interesting thing in the world. "You do not have where to sleep?" To which the chimera only denied seeing the flowers "And where have you been sleeping all this time?".
"Well some nights here, others there, almost all the time in my truck" said a strangely embarrassed Theo. It was hard for him to admit that he really did not have anything. He sacrificed everything to have a pack. And in the end he got? His own personal torture cell with his torturer sister included. Now that he was back on earth he was alone.
"Idiot" Liam released, but more than offense he said it in a tone of complaint. While Liam walked, he felt his heart rate return to normal just to have the chimera present. He pressed his hand a little more on his wrist and continued walking.