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Liam entered his room in a fuming fit. The rest of dinner hadn't been much better. He took a deep breath, another and then another.

Just before his fist destroyed a section of his wall, Theo caught his arm and flipped him over. The roar that would have escaped was blocked when Theo's knee dropped down onto his throat, effectively suffocating Liam.

Liam struggled, eyes gold but Theo caught both arms, holding them away from himself.

"Calm down!" he hissesd.

Liam didn't feel like complying. He twisted again but Theo simply dropped more weight onto his throat and after a few long seconds Liam tapped out on his leg. Theo lifted off of him and Liam sat up and hand going to his throat as he gasped for air, eyes still gold.

Theo shook his head at him, giving him a disgusted look, the kind a parent would to a child that was misbehaving.

"Come on," he said, still annoyed. "We're going for a run."

"We are?" rasped Liam.

"Unless you want to tear out your grandfather's throat, yes we are." Theo went over to the window, opening it and raised an eyebrow at Liam.

Liam half-growled at him but went over to the window. Theo hopped out, Liam followed him down and then they running.

Liam lost track of how long they'd been running for. He only stopped when Theo finally slowed down. The chimera bent over, bracing his hands on his knees, taking in deep breaths. Liam copied him a few moment later and went he finally straightened up, he felt better, his head was clearer.

Theo tilted his head from side to side, popping knots out of his neck, flexing his hands as he did so. Liam suddenly realized that wasn't the only one who'd been ready to kill someone tonight. He looked down the street suddenly realizing just how far they'd run.

"Maybe we should have taken the truck," he said.

Theo huffed with laughter. "Yeah but running over a random pedestrian isn't as much fun as running over a ghost rider."

Liam laughed before he could stop himself. "If we ran over a random pedestrian," he replied, "My dad would kill us for giving him work."

Theo flashed one of his rare wide smiles and they both turned to head back home when the wind blew.

They froze and then turned to look at each other.

"Is that…?" began Liam.

"Blood," Theo finished.

The body was half-buried in the hedge of a house with a for sale sign in the yard. Liam watched the corpse if the woman whose entire front was covered in blood, feeling like his dinner was trying to come up again. He felt sick. Theo on the other hand was carefully moving around the perimeter, trying to catch any scents that might be helpful.

Liam shivered, watched the branch-covered corpse and swallowed again. The blood didn't bother him, it was the death. He really, really wished people would stop dying.

"Hey," It was Theo's voice. "You done with your pity party?"

Liam glared at him. "Is it bad that I don't like people dying?"

"No, it's bad if you just stand there and don't do anything," Theo snarked back.

"If I walk over there, chances are I'll much up the crime scene," said Liam.

"Probably," Theo agreed. "Except that's not the reason that you're not helping."

Liam's fist clenched but Theo didn't give him time to react, getting up in his face.

"Look I understand this is hard for you but you can't be fragile about this. Okay? You live in Beacon Hills, you protect this place, blood and death is something that you're going to have to get used to."

"No!" snapped Liam. "I don't have to get used to it! You can get used to it all you want but the day I get used to it is probably the day I'll check myself into Eichen!" Theo recoiled from him, face hardening and then going blank.

"Fine," he snapped. "But chickening out at the crime scene doesn't help anyone."

"I know that!" Liam snapped. "Just give me a moment!"

"You don't have a moment," Theo told him sarcastically, "Scents fade."

"Fine!" Liam yelled back and stalked forward, doing his best to catch any strange scent going to and from the body. Theo stalked off in the opposite direction from him.

It was probably fro the best that the Sheriff turned up two minutes later.

While forensics swarmed over the crime scene Liam and Theo stood with the Sheriff giving their statements. When they were done the Sheriff said, "Okay, anything you two can tell me off the record?"

"Nothing reptilian," said Theo. "I didn't smell anything like that this time."

"And no wired smear," Liam said. "We both checked."

"Less blood this time actually," said Theo frowning. "Less terror too. Like it happened fast. Well faster."

The sheriff blinked and rubbed a hand over his face. "So it's possible that this exploding stomach lady may have been done by someone else?"

"Maybe," said Theo. "We'd have to get the M.E.'s report. See if there's any vital differences."

The Sheriff looked up and then started forward. Liam and Theo turned to look and saw that the body had been extracted from the hedge.

"Wait,"said the Sheriff. He pulled on gloves and pulled back the sheet. He stared for a long moment. Theo and Liam both came up behind him and caught a glimpse of the body. Then the Sheriff covered it back and let them carry it away.

"That wound wasn't by her womb," said Theo. "It was completely different from the first body."

"There's another killer," concluded Liam.

"Okay seriously," said Mason at school. "Two dead bodies? By different killers?"

"Our life sucks," murmurs Corey.

"That's what it looks like," Liam said. "Although this one might actually be a normal killer."

"When have we ever had a normal killer?" asked Corey.

"Yeah the last time we thought we had a normal killer it turned out to be Mr. Douglas," Mason reminded them.

"Yeah and he stuck a lot of cords in me and tried to bring a preternatural army into our world," Corey added.

"Well obviously we'll keep an eye on it," said Liam irritatedly, stuffing books into his locker.

There was silence and Mason and Corey obviously shared a look. Mason apparently lost because he was the one who asked hesitantly.

"Hey, you okay?"

"I'm fine!" said Liam and slammed his locker closed. "I'll see you guys in class." He stalked off leaving his two friends staring worriedly after him.

Mason to Theo: Do you know what's wrong with Liam.

Theo to Mason: Why don't you ask him?

"Ahh," said Mason to Corey as he sat next to him in biology. "I think he and Theo had a fight."

"We didn't have a fight," said Liam, who was sitting one row up from them.

"So what was it? A mild argument?"

Liam glared at Mason while Corey appeared to ignore both of them. Before their conversation could continue though Mrs. Finch walked into class.

Parrish walked into Sheriff Stilinski's office and handed him a file.

"The ME's report on the body came in," he said.

"That was fast," said the Sheriff.

"I put a rush order on it," said PArrish.

"Thank you," said the Sheriff.

Parrish turned to leave but paused. He cocked his head as a strange feeling assaulted him. A rush of heat, something sliding, gliding past. A roar of flame.

He jerked back and snapped into the present.

"You okay deputy?" Sheriff Stilinski asked.

Parrish blinked. "Yeah. I think."

"What happened?"

"I think, I sensed something?"

"What?" asked the Sheriff.

Parrish turned to look at him. "Fire," he said.

When Liam showed up at the hospital after school, per Melissa's request, Theo was already there, lounging at the side entrance. Mason and Corey who'd also come, took one look at the both of them and then Mason said, "We'll go on ahead."

They brushed past Theo and made their way inside. Theo simply raised his eyebrows and then said, "Let's not keep the lady waiting."

He turned to go in but Liam reached out and caught his wrist.

"What?!" Theo bit out.

"I'm sorry," Liam said and saw the shock in Theo's eyes for a moment.

"He's sorry," Theo mocked back at him gently.

"I shouldn't have implied what I did," Liam said,not letting Theo tug his hand away. "I was angry and I just took it out on the people around me. Like I always do because I'm an idiot and a dick."

"You still meant it," said Theo, not quite looking at him.

But Liam shook his head. "You've changed. If you didn't you wouldn't be standing here and I wouldn't have let you into my house. What I said wasn't fair and it wasn't true. I was just lashing out."

Theo sighed and tugged at his hand. Liam let him go but the chimera didn't move.

"Look Liam I grew up with the dread Doctors. I have seen a lot of blood and body parts and more cut open bodies than you can imagine."

"I know," said Liam. "Just because you're accustomed to something doesn't mean you're okay with it. It'd be like being okay with being tackled at lacrosse. No matter how much you're accustomed to it, no one likes to be tackled."

There was a pause and then Theo's lips twitched. "Something like that," he agreed and the anger and hurt between them melted away. "We really shouldn't keep Melissa waiting though," he added.

"She has a stun baton and knows how to use it," agreed Liam. He was rewarded with another smile from Theo,small but it reached all the way to his eyes.

"So," said Melissa as she pulled out the body from it's morgue unit. "This body was significantly different."

"How?" asked Mason.

"For one she wasn't pregnant," Melissa told them. "For another what happened, happened from outside in."

"So nothing tried to crawl out of her," said Corey.

"No," said Melissa. "But someone did take her liver."

"Hang on what?" said Liam.

"She's missing her liver," said Melissa. "This could have been a black market thing except that the cuts weren't surgical enough. Could be a trophy though."

"But the last time something went around taking body parts, it's was Hauptman and the penial glands," Theo spoke up.

"Exactly," said Melissa. "That's why I thought I'd show you the body." She flipped back the sheet and they all sort of recoiled.

The woman's chest was gaping open. Even washed from the blood, it was a terrible sight, ribs sticking out here and there, like they'd been pulled and broken because they were a bother to the killer's work, like he'd needed more space to work his hands in. The skin was pulled back more neatly though, carefully peeled away, something almost clinical about it.

Liam was snapped out of his inspection from the body by Theo's heartbeat picking up. He was staring at the woman's chest but his eyes were somewhere else.

"Theo?" he said, remembering how he'd looked when they'd walked into the hospital to hide from the ghost riders.

Theo snapped back into focus and his heart rate slowed.

"Did they use a knife?" If Theo's voice was a little horse, no one called him out on it.

"They might have used something," agreed Melissa. "The way the skin was cut was too neat. Maybe the knife was a bit blunt. The initial cut was pretty clean too. The ME said that some sort of tool was used but he couldn't tell what. Not yet anyway."

"Great," said Mason.

Corey on the other hand put a hand on the table and went invisible. After a moment he repapered, forehead creased.

"Can I get a forceps?" he asked Melissa.

"What is it?" asked Liam.

"I'm not sure," he said. He took the forceps Melissa returned with and went back invisible.

They all watched as the flesh of the body moved around as Corey poked around it and then something was clearly extracted and Corey returned visible.

Held in the In the forceps was a sliver of something.

Melissa held out a petri dish and Corey dropped it in. She took it over to the light and the rest of them crowd around her.

"What is it?" asked Liam.

"Looks like….a piece of stone," said Mason.

"Wow," said Theo dryly. "So she got some stone in the wound. Must have happened when she was struggling."

"Stone that glows?" asked Corey.

"What?" said Theo.

"It kinda glows when I go invisible and it doesn't look like this either," Corey told them. "It looks like obsidian."

He held out a hand and Theo took it. Liam rested a hand on his shoulder, Melissa took his other hand and Mason grabbed the other shoulder.

Corey reached out with the hand Melissa hand and touched a finger to the bottom of the petri dish. They all went invisible and Liam could see what Corey meant.

Light looked ghostly green in Corey's world but so did the stone. It glowed a bit but it also was different from when they viewed it normally. It was black as opposed to gray and the edges where it had chipped away were much sharper, the structure more crystalline.

Corey made them reappear and they all blinked at the small sliver of rock in the petri dish.

"Well," said Melissa.

"Why can't we have a normal killer for once?" Liam asked rhetorically. His grades were going to suck.

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