I Own Nothing
AN: I came up with this idea after reading another story about Brett being saved. That story owns to TV Time and it was about Brett and Liam. It should be checked out because it's great. The Edge of Corruption and its sequel The Edge of Terror. This is for you TV Time hope you like how Brett's saved.
AN2: I know in canon there are two other pack members that live however in this story its Lori and Brett that live instead. There is also another twist in this story. I wrote it when the power was out for almost four days a few weeks back.
Title: Only Three Left
Characters: Brett/Theo, Lori
Summary: Brett and Lori don't die instead they are both saved because Theo finds Brett before he's killed. (I know on the show Theo was captured by the hunters, but not in this story.)
Brett opened his eyes hours later feeling stiff from sleeping on the hard metal table for most of the night. He looked to his right where Theo had been, but his sister was sitting there instead. He looked around best he could without moving and saw Theo sitting on the counter. He was leaning his head back against the cabinet with his eyes closed.
Brett listened closed to see if Theo was sleeping or awake. He had caught Theo fake sleeping before, but he had gotten him to 'wake up' in a hurry. He'd started tickling Theo that morning, which had ended in them having sex. He had found out it was the first time Theo had been tickled in years. He had started doing it more often wanting him to feel normal. He was doing a lot of things to get Theo to feel like he wasn't alone and was safe now.
Feeling eyes on him Theo looked over at the table smiling seeing that Brett was up. "Hey, sleep well?" he asked getting down walking over to Brett. He bent over kissing him nice and slow glad he was finally awake. It had been dull sitting and waiting for Brett to heal. Although there was one not so dull part that he didn't want to repeat. Lori hadn't maimed him, but she had punched the crap out of him. He really shouldn't have told her that he'd hit Brett, but it had slipped out.
"Why do I smell blood?" Brett asked when they pulled apart. "On you," he amended since he was sure the blood from him had dried. This smelled slightly fresher and near Theo's nose.
"Ah, that would be your sister's right hook. You didn't tell me she could hit that hard and I didn't think to duck," Theo said with smile when Brett laughed. "Yeah laugh it up she said she going pumble you too," he added leaning his forehead against Brett's.
"I haven't received her right hook before so I wouldn't know. I taught her how to defend herself and I've seen it. I just haven't done anything to get it, but what did I do?" Brett asked using one of his hands to go to back of Theo's head. He took another moment to kiss Theo again because he loved doing it. He was glad that he was going to get to keep doing it.
"You didn't tell me that you two weren't just messing around for one," Lori said, but she was smiling when she sat up looking at the two in front of her. "I didn't mean to hit him that hard. He said he hit you and I was already scared. I could feel your pain like he could," Lori said glad that her brother was alive.
She had thought the worse was coming for some reason. She'd had that feeling before when they'd been hunted during benefactor days. Brett had done everything to protect her and they had been saved. Theo had saved her brother this time and in a way she knew that Brett had saved the Chimera. She had apologized after she'd hit Theo and hugged him for giving her brother back to her.
"At least you're not angry with me," Brett said giving her a smile back. "I was going to, but it just happened last week," he was hoping she would be okay with it and so far it seemed like she was.
"I'm not angry," Lori said, "My brother has someone that loves him. The mate bond doesn't work if you don't love the person. We both know what mom said when we were younger," she was only six and Brett had been eight but they both remembered their parents. "He hurts you I will hit him again though, mate or not," she said in a serious tone. She would do anything to protect her brother.
"I got the message with the first punch," Theo said, but he could tell it was out of love. He wished at times like now that he still had Tara. He didn't know if he would still have Brett, but he'd have a sister that loved him as much as Lori did Brett. "I'm not going hurt him," he added so low no one outside the room would have heard.
~BT TB~
"Can we get out of here? Satomi's probably going to freak out," Brett said sitting up, but he smelt the sadness in the other two. "What's wrong?" he asked getting off the table looking between Theo and his sister.
"The pack's gone, Brett," Lori said trying not to cry again. She had earlier when she'd told Theo. "She went to the meeting and she never got word back to me," she said knowing that if the pack was alive then she would have known by now. She hadn't known about the meeting until right before she'd been about to leave to help find Brett. Satomi had told her to go that she would be okay. She told Brett that wiping the tears away. "They're gone and if he didn't find you then you would be dead too," she said, "We don't have anyone left," she held onto her brother scared of what was going to happen next.
Brett hugged his sister to him feeling his own sadness. The pack had taken them in when they'd lost their own family. "We're going to be okay, sis. We're alive," he told her glad that Theo had found him too. He didn't want to think about Lori being alone or leaving Theo either. "We got each other so we're not alone," he wasn't sure what they were going do yet, but he didn't want tell her that. He hadn't thought about losing the pack like this or at all. It was one of those things he hadn't let into his mind like before when he lost his biological family.
"You got me too," Theo said coming over to them putting an arm around both of them.
He wasn't sure how to help them besides what he was doing. He had only been welcomed in the pack because of Brett. He had liked Satomi though she had been nice and kind. He had known she wouldn't take any crap from him either. He hadn't wanted to give any though, he had started feeling like he had acceptance. He hadn't been looked at like he was being watched to make sure he didn't kill anyone in their sleep. Brett and Lori put one of their arms around Theo too leaning into him. They were the only three left of the pack that they had all come to in their own ways.
"They won't stop coming because they know we're alive," Brett said, "I don't want to die, but I'm not going run," it had been made personal when they took their family out. "We can help Scott's pack out because they made this war," he let his eyes change colors with his statement and they weren't golden anymore.
When Satomi had died they had become red since he was the oldest in the pack alive. He had decided that he wasn't going to sit back if he got out of the woods alive. They were being hunted, but running wasn't an option now. This was his home too so he'd help to make sure the two people he loved didn't die.
"I got nothing else to do and I'm not about to let you two out of my sight again," Theo said his own eyes shifting to blue. The hunters had shot bullets at him once already, plus the night before Gerard had tried to kill him. They made it personal when they tried killing Brett though that was something he wasn't going to stand for. They could come after him, but they weren't going touch Brett or Lori. He hadn't killed anyone besides the ghost riders since he came back. However, he would do anything to protect the two in front of him.
Lori was the only one with golden eyes, but she smiled at them. "Okay, we fight back, but no heroics. We fight to stay alive and help get our town back," she said looking at both of them.
It might not be a large pack, but they could make it with the three of them. They had already saved each other once. She was glad that Brett had asked for Theo to stay with them. She still had her brother because he'd done what Satomi had done for them. He had taken Theo in not just as a pack member, but a mate.
She could see that they loved each other not just from Theo taking Brett's pain. It went deeper than that and she felt the extension of that love to her too. From what she had heard about Theo he hadn't been a good person. Yet his eyes showed that he had found remorse in what he had done. Your eyes only turned if you felt guilt for taking an innocents life.
"Deal," Brett and Theo both said as their eyes shifting back to their natural colors.
~BT TB~
"When I was waiting on you to wake up I called Scott," Theo said telling them that they had a room at his house until they figured out what to do. "I didn't think it was safe to go back to the house and the three of us in my truck wouldn't go well," he knew Brett would get him for even suggesting staying in it. He wasn't wrong when Brett growled at him before hitting his shoulder.
"It looks comfortable, but he's too tall to sleep anywhere, but the bed of it," Lori smiled wiping the rest of her tears away. "You could get a mattress for it," she needed a little normal and teasing the two of them was normal.
She had been doing that since Theo had started staying with them. She'd teased Brett all of her life since she could walk. It was fun teasing them both and she had gotten them good once with a recorder of them howling and moaning. She hadn't listened to it, just hit record then sent it to their phones. Brett had chased her all over the house and outside too. She had hoped that Theo would protect her, but he'd caught her tickling her until she'd begged for mercy.
"No way, not even the best mattress in the world could get me to sleep in the bed that truck," Brett said, which got a glare from Theo, "Don't give me that look, T, I love the truck, but so not sleeping in it," he gave Theo a kiss before whispering in his ear what they could do later with the tailgate if they got out of this war alive.
"Yeah well we get out this alive then your ass is mine," Theo said taking Brett's hand before he led the way to the back exit. Deaton had already left to deal with something so he locked up before they went to his truck. Once they were inside he paused before he cranked it up. "I don't want to die either, but I'd take a bullet or arrow for either of you. If that meant I died then that would be okay because you two are alive." It wasn't just Brett he cared about.
He kept replaying finding Brett every time he closed his eyes. Instead of being alive he was dead and Lori was right there beside her brother. He hadn't slept at all even when Lori told him too because he didn't want his nightmares to start up. The last month or so staying with Brett he hadn't had them as much. Brett had showed him how to force his self awake when they came. He had been too worried to pull his self from them without Brett sleeping beside him. He felt safe like no one could get to him with Brett's arms around him.
Brett knew what Theo meant by taking a bullet or arrow for them. He squeezed his boyfriend's hand leaning over wrapping him in a hug the best he could. Lori waited til Brett pulled back before she gave Theo one from behind. Something told her what Theo meant by dying for them wasn't easy for him to say.
"We love you too and I'm grateful that my brother took a risk on you. I got something out of this too," Lori said with a smile kissing Theo's cheek, "I got two brother's now and you got an annoying little sister who can hit back," she tightened her hold doing what she could to comfort Theo feeling the relief coming from him.
"I'll take that, you can hit me anytime you want to," Theo said feeling like he was becoming whole for the first time ever. Lori couldn't replace what he had once had with Tara before he'd listened to the fucking Doctors and let her die. She could help him heal the rest of the way though.
He'd die a hundred times over before anyone ever messed with Lori. He wasn't going to screw it up this time he'd protect them both or die trying. He started the truck backing out of the clinic going towards Scott's house. He hadn't seen the others since the ghost riders left. He hadn't planned on sticking around then, but Brett gave him a reason to stay.
He needed help making sure that reason wasn't wiped out. He also needed to start making amends to the others for what he had done. He felt like there was no amount of apologizing that could make up for it. He had to show it instead that he wasn't the same psycho as before. He had helped some with the ghost riders, but he wanted to do more. He no longer needed power to gain control or a pack even. He had something more than that, two people that he loved.
~THE END~
