A/N: Thanks for reading! More coming soon. Currently writing chapter 27.

Chapter 20: Nightmare's

A week into married life, Elizabeth and Derek were woken one night by Theo standing in their bedroom doorway in a cold sweat. It was the first time that he'd done it, that they knew about, so both of them were slightly surprised. Derek stood up and headed into the kitchen motioning for Theo to go sit with Elizabeth he could smell the fear dripping off his body.

"Liam?" Derek questioned seeing the teenager standing in the kitchen leaning against the counter. "Everything okay?"

"I don't know...Theo just woke up tossing and turning and then left the room," Liam said looking up at Derek as he spoke and then back down at the floor. "What happened?"

"Focus your senses and tell me what you can feel," was the only answer that Derek gave the younger wolf as they stood in the kitchen and Derek reached around him to flick the kettle on.

"Love..." Liam said before shaking his head and feeling something else, something that he wasn't sure about. "Fear,"

In the bedroom Theo had moved from standing in the door way and was sitting cross-legged n the bed resting his head on Elizabeth's shoulder. He didn't know what to do, he couldn't shake the dream that had started up again, and he didn't know why.

*flashback*

"I get it, I do. I know you're not scared but you know that it's okay to be because nobody's going to think any less of you," Elizabeth was sitting cross-legged on the floor of the hotel room that she had booked talking to Theo on the phone. It wasn't the first time she'd gotten a call from him.

'They already hate me,' Theo muttered, he was hiding out in his truck after Liam had brought him back.

"Currently, yes they do. But Liam doesn't he may not like you currently but he doesn't hate you," Elizabeth sighed running a hand through her hair. "You know this is your second call in as many days...from his phone,"

'I know...' Theo trailed off wondering if she had worked out why he had called her again.

"Tell me what happened this time?" Elizabeth questioned, glancing around the room before leaning against the bed. "All the details,"

Theo took a deep breath before he went into detail about the reoccurring nightmare he was having involving his sister Tara. 'I keep dreaming that I'm waking up inside one of the box things in the morgue, and I escape and hear Tara's voice calling...' Theo stopped his voice slightly wavering as he spoke but he recomposed himself before he continued. 'She crawls towards me with a hole in her chest where her heart should be...I run...she catches me and rips out my heart...her heart,' Theo finishes as he glances out the window of his truck seeing that he was still alone.

*end flashback*

"What happened?" Elizabeth questioned, wrapping an arm around Theo and pulling him close as she hugged him.

"It started again..." Theo muttered, his head still resting on Elizabeth's shoulder. "The dream about Tara..."

"Sweetheart, she can't hurt you. When was the last time you had the dream?" Elizabeth sighed, she knew he'd had the dream more than once but not when the last time was.

"Before you guys got married...but before that it had been months...and before that it was just after Liam brought me back..." Theo was quiet as he said it out loud for the first time, every other time he'd managed to calm himself down, or Liam had helped somewhat but tonight was different.

"Shh, take a deep breath," Elizabeth said, still holding him as she attempted to get him to stop freaking out. "Theo, no one is going to get you it's okay,"

"Then why won't the dreams stop?" Theo questioned, he was slightly unnerved by their reappearance.

"I think I might know...I'll call Scott in the morning," Elizabeth told him, as he slowly calmed down enough to go back to his own bed. "Think you can sleep now? Or?"

"No..." Theo trailed off as Liam and Derek entered the bedroom with hot-chocolate.

"Hot Chocolate?" Elizabeth raised her eyebrow as she took the cup from Derek and Theo took his from Liam. "I know it cures everything, but at THREE AM?"

"Shut up and just drink it," Derek said as he downed his not caring that it was burning his throat on the way down.

The following morning, Elizabeth decided to keep Theo back from school as he hadn't slept at all even after returning to bed with Liam. Liam, she'd made go, telling him to come back after school with Mason and Corey. Scott and Lydia were the only ones free to join Elizabeth and Derek in their research of what was happening and why Theo was suddenly having the dream again.

"Ace, what do you think it is?" Scott questioned looking up from his laptop as they searched for everything that they could think of.

"Skinwalkers...it's been two years since Kira sent him to them," Elizabeth answered, that was the only thing that she could think of.

"You really think they're causing the dreams?" Lydia questioned, even though she had come to the same conclusion.

"Kira, can't be the cause of the dreams," Scott said, he was sure that Kira couldn't be it she wasn't a skinwalker, she was kitsune.

"She doesn't mean Kira, she means that the anniversary is causing the dreams," Derek explained, looking up from one of the books he'd been reading. "I think she could be right,"

"Theo, when did the first dream happen?" Scott asked sensing Theo leaning against the door-frame yawning.

"After Liam brought me back..." Theo said, walking towards them as Scott motioned for him to sit beside him. "Then a couple of months later with the hunters..."

"Ace, how can they be linked to the skinwalkers?" Scott asked putting a hand on Theo's shoulder as he spoke.

"The skinwalkers want him," Lydia said suddenly as she looked at them, she wanted to scream but at the same time she didn't, she didn't want to predict death.

"Lydia, I know you want to," Elizabeth nodded at her indicating that she could scream, it wouldn't exactly predict death but it would show her what she wanted. "Take my hand and show me,"

Lydia and Elizabeth walked into the bedroom where Lydia let out an ear-piercing scream while holding Elizabeth's hand enabling her to see what she was seeing. Elizabeth closed her eyes and listened to the scream, both ladies being slightly surprised what at was showing.

"Lyds, can you call Parrish?" Elizabeth questioned, she hadn't let go of Lydia's hand as she spoke. "Tell him what we both saw...he needs to be prepared,"

"I can, but what does it all mean?" Lydia replied, as she pulled out her phone from her pocket and looked at Elizabeth.

"Not entirely sure, but it somewhat explains Theo's dreams," Elizabeth said as she took a deep breath and tried to see what they had just seen again.

"We can't tell Liam, he'll think it's all his fault," Lydia said before she dialled Parrish's number getting his answering service and leaving a message for him to call her or Elizabeth.

"I know," Elizabeth sighed, before they walked back out to the others and rejoined them with Theo grabbing Elizabeth as she went to walk past him into the kitchen. "Well come on then,"

"Ace...what is it?" Theo questioned, stopping her from walking any further as Lydia resumed the position she had previously been in.

"Come with me to the kitchen," Elizabeth said, peeling her arm away from Theo before heading into the kitchen. "We're not entirely sure," she answered truthfully leaning against the kitchen counter as Theo looked at her a look of worry washing over his face. "Come here," Elizabeth held her arms out for him Theo muttered something under his breath before finding himself wrapped in her arms.

"I don't like it..." Theo mumbled, he'd spent so long being an asshole to everyone that he'd forgotten what it was like when someone actually cared about him. Elizabeth hugged him kissing the side of his head as she did so.

"I know," Elizabeth sighed, she could feel all kinds of emotions being thrown around inside the boys head and she knew that Derek, Scott and Liam could feel them too. "Just remember what I said, okay? You never have to be alone again,"

"We're going to New Mexico," Scott called from the lounge room, causing both Elizabeth and Theo to walk back towards them.

Elizabeth walked back into the lounge room with Theo close behind her but he stopped short of the doorway. Derek, Scott and Lydia looked up at her and then glanced at Theo as they explained what they wanted to do. Theo looked almost terrified at the thought of going back to the skinwalkers.

"Derek, was this your idea or Scott's?" Elizabeth questioned looking between the two grown men as her eyes settled on her husband.

"Ace...it was mine. We're not going to let anything happen to him," Scott said, from where he was sitting as the door opened and Mason, Liam and Corey near tumbled through it.

"Hey, Liam told us why you weren't in today," Mason said watching as his bestfriend quickly wrapped his arms protectively around the older boy.

"Hey," Theo replied before trying to worm his way out of Liam's grip. "Li..I need to breathe you know," He muttered as Corey was hugged by Elizabeth, she actually asked them how their day was unlike his own parents.

"You're not going to flipping New Mexico!" Elizabeth stated as calmly as she could while still giving Corey a hug. "Sorry Corey," she said as he suddenly became invisible at the loudness of her voice. "I thought we had a handle on this kiddo," Elizabeth said not taking her arms away from him. "How was your day?"

"We did..." Corey said as she slowly faded back into view and Elizabeth let go of him. "Like a normal school day,"

"Okay, I think something more than skinwalkers is going on now," Elizabeth said, looking to Mason who was being shown what they'd found by Scott. "Remember if you need to talk you can come to me,"

"Skinwalkers...no we can't send him back!" Liam exclaimed, his grip tightening on Theo again, Theo looked down at Liam and attempted to pry his arms away. Liam looked down at where he'd been gripping Theo and saw a small trickle of blood.

"Liam, calm down. No one said anything about sending him back," Scott said standing up from Mason and going over to the two boys and putting his hand on the young beta's shoulder. "Go with Theo to his room for a bit,"

Liam sent glares to the older werewolves, Mason, Corey and Lydia ,he didn't want to send his boyfriend back to the skinwalkers it was why he had broken Kira's sword in the first place. At the time Liam hadn't realised just what breaking the sword meant until it had been six months later and Scott had asked him about it. Liam and Theo sat on Theo's bed with the older of the two ending up curling up in his arms.

"Scott, tell me what happened the other night when you were going past Theo's room," Elizabeth said as she remembered that Scott had said something but not what he'd said.

"He was tossing and turning, I could hear Liam trying to comfort him," Scott said glancing at Mason as he spoke he could see that he was worried. "I'll talk to Stiles,"

"You said something else," Elizabeth said, she was trying to get him to remember exactly what he'd heard Theo saying.

"There was lot of mumbling about his heart and not wanting to go anywhere," Scott said causing Mason and Corey too look at him, they didn't think it was possible for anything to scare Theo.

"Everyone gets scared, I still do from time to time," Elizabeth said Derek nodded he'd seen her scared on more than one occasion. "I know you think heading to New Mexico to confront the skinwalkers is a good idea but..."

"But, we need to know more first," Derek finished, they had to ask Deaton or Noshiko Yukimura to tell them more about them. "Scott do you think you could talk with Kira's parents? And Mason with Deaton?"