"I'm a werewolf." Liam said for the fifth time that night. It was as if he was still convincing himself that he had turned into a werewolf and ran through the woods basking in the moon light. He was leaning forward with his hands gripped together.
"Yes." I sat on the sofa next to him. The party had ended hours ago and the only things left around were half-full red solo cups. Scott, Lydia, and Kira were walking around the house picking it up. At least, I thought they were. They might've been in the other room discussing the dead pool. I was currently on Liam patrol.
I decided that as head officer that I had better try to cheer him up. He was still a little shocked even though Scott had shown him what had happened.
"A werewolf." He said nonchalantly.
"Yep. Arooo." I made a little werewolf howl noise. I didn't know what to say. I'd never been a werewolf before. So far my cheering up abilities were being pretty pitiful.
He turned his head and I could tell if he thought my howl was humorous or not called for.
"Sorry." I said anyway. I leaned forward so I was parallel with him. "So, am I still a psychotic nut job?"
"What?" He was confused. I didn't think he'd forget that much. Weird. I knew he didn't remember scratching me or jumping through the window. I didn't want him to know about my arm, so had put my hoodie back on once I had bandaged it all up.
"You know, you called us all psychotic nut jobs? You know? Before the party?" I did a little whirl with my fingers to gesture to the dead party.
"Oh," He nodded. He remembered now, "no, you're not a psychotic nut job."
I sighed. "Phew," I said jokingly, "I was worried for a moment."
Liam turned and frowned. "Worried about what?"
I sat up straight and shrugged. "That our friendship wouldn't be able to get passed the psychotic nut job zone. I mean, I guess I got lucky."
Liam laughed softly, but then he laughed a little louder. He began to shake his head.
"What? I didn't think what I said was that funny." I said.
Liam sat up and looked into my eyes. "I'm just remembering the other day. Back when you, you know, kidnapped me."
"Oh." I looked down. "Not one of my finer moments. Am I forgiven for that by the way?"
Liam looked straight ahead at the large fireplace. "Yeah. I mean, then it was creepy. Now, it's…. not?"
"Well, that had been a very confusing night. Wendigos, mutes, accidental werewolf bites." I leaned back against the back of the sofa. Liam followed me.
"It's weird. Hours ago I thought this was some crazy prank. But it's all true." Liam turned his head and stared at me.
I looked back into his stunning blue eyes. Damn.
"Well, just so you know, being a werewolf is serious business." I told him. While what I said was true, I had said it what a humorous tone.
"Really?" He said as if he was amused. It looked like he finally had accepted his new lycanthropy and ready to at least talk about it. Even if we weren't being serious.
"Oh yeah. You can't have chocolate." I informed him of the false fact.
He smirked. "And why's that?"
I gave him wide eyes. "You know, dogs have an allergy to it. Very deadly."
He nodded and went along with my joke. "Really? I'll have to take note of that."
"Oh yeah." I looked up at the ceiling. "Werewolves also have this problem with chasing squirrels. I know, crazy, but so true."
"Avoid chocolate and squirrels. That it?" Liam noted.
I turned my head and looked back into his eyes.
"Oh yeah…" I kept staring. "Definetly."
There was this tender moment between us that just happened. Maybe he was vulnerable because of what had just happened, or maybe because he had forgiven me for had I had done and we were on good terms. I didn't really care. It was awesome.
"Whoa, hey."
I sat up from my relaxed position and looked at the doorway. Stiles was standing there with Malia. Liam was sitting up next to me.
"Uh, I was just giving him a werewolf run down." I explained. Stiles was eyeing us suspiciously.
"Yeah," Liam added, "no chocolate or squirrels."
Stiles tilted his head, clearly confused.
"We can't have chocolate?" Malia muttered to Stiles.
Stiles rolled his eyes. "Yes, you can have chocolate. Cecilia's making things up."
Malia mouthed "oh" and nodded.
"Where's Scott?" Stiles asked me.
I shook my head. "I thought he was helping clean up. Maybe he's upstairs."
Stiles grabbed Malia's wrist and they headed to the stairs to search for Scott. I stood and stretched.
"Hey." Liam was standing next to me. He had gently grabbed my forearm and was looking at it. I looked down. Crap. There were five blood splats. They weren't big. The biggest one was about the size of a dime, but the rest were smaller.
"Where'd this come from?" He asked. His voice was full of concern.
I slid my arm from his grasp. "Not sure," I lied, "maybe it's been there for a while and I didn't notice."
I hoped that his smelling capabilities were still not under his control so that he wouldn't smell that it was fresh.
"Can I see your arm?" He didn't believe what I had said.
I held out my arm and shook it goofily. "Yeah, it's right here."
He crossed his arms. "Oh, aren't you hilarious."
I shrugged and began to clean up. "I try."
A wide grin spread across his face. I'd say I did an okay job cheering him up.
Mission accomplished.
Alright, here's a shorter chapter. It's more a filler chapter. I wanted to do one with the canon story, but I wanted to do this instead first. So here it is. It's shorter but I didn't get much written last night like I wanted and I had school for seven hours so I was behind. But I got this for you guys.
I'd like to thank everyone who left a review or PMed me. Thanks a ton! I've concluded that it's best not to do a love triangle considering I got mostly no's, but I did get a few yes's. However, I did come up with a plan to make everyone happy! Thank you again for responding to my questions. (And now that this chapter is posted and I've had time to look at all the responses, you guys don't have to leave anymore about the Q&A, unless for some reason you want to. Then go ahead. I'll still read what you have to say.)
I've got some written for tomorrow's chapter, so it should be posted earlier than this one. Also, it'll jump ahead a little. I wanted to get a little bit more with Liam and Cecilia interacting together so I skipped some of the beginning of the fifth episode (I.E.D. if you need another reminder of what that episode was) and just jumped to a place were they could interact.
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