airplanes(Thiam)

chapter 38: Buckaroo

Liam twisted his hands together, hip resting against the car as his eyes skimmed the now somewhat familiar site of the Niagara Falls State Park. What would apparently forever be the last stop on their roadtrip. The end of the line.

The part where Liam would finally have to give up the pretense that he was just another normal teenager and remember exactly what awaited him in Beacon Hills and start to pick back up the responsibilities he'd left behind.

He heard Theo muttering about time to leave and the click of the door opening but didn't acknowledge it. He watched a family disappear around the bend of a path and wondered when they'd be going home, what exactly they'd left behind, good and bad, to get to Niagara Falls.

"We should get going." Theo said. Liam forced his eyes to meet Theo's as he peeked out over the roof. Liam gave a small nod and a minor hum of what he guessed was meant to be agreement, not that his feet seemed to understand that staying firmly in place as he clenched and unclenched his hands in anxious little shakes.

"You ok?" Theo asked.

"Yeah." Liam hummed, making no move for the door. His eyes moving back to where he knew the falls were, hidden by corpses of trees. He heard the door snap shut and the shuffle of feet.

"Liam." Theo said softly, Liam gulped forcing his eyes from the trees to meet Theo's again. The chimera rested his arms against the lip of the roof gaze flickering across Liam's face. "You alright?"

"Yeah." Liam said and it wasn't exactly a lie but he was fairly sure it wasn't the whole truth either. Theo tilted an eyebrow up disbelievingly. "It's just weird you know? I mean when we leave were leaving." Liam said.

"That is usually the point of leaving." He said lightly.

"Every other time we've left somewhere we've been going somewhere else." Liam said.

"We still are."

"No, we're going back somewhere. Like, when I get in the car it's all just over." He stressed. It felt like the wild hunt, like the second he'd step in the car all the memories would be forgotten, like once they left they'd be leaving it behind as if none of it ever even happened.

"Unless you can teleport and haven't told me about it we have at least a couple of days left. A few years if you're driving." Theo said forcing a groan out of Liam.

"Are you ever going to cut it out with the bad driver jokes?"

"Well I've lasted this long, might as well see it through till the end." Theo grinned.

"You're a terrible person. I'm freaking out here."

"When are you not?" Theo hummed. Liam groaned once again dropping his head down to the lip of the truck bed with a painful crack.

"You're no help." Liam grumbled. He heard Theo give a soft snort of laughter, the truck rattled and shook as Theo used it as a climbing frame, hopping into the back and waltzing across footsteps clapping against the metal before Theo was landing next to him with a soft huff. Liam peaked out from his arms as Theo mimicked his position, resting his arms against the side of the truck, mouth pulled in a thin line, side warm where it was pressed solidly against Liam's. Liam watched him as his eyes ran over the trees and the few people wandering around.

"We don't have to go back." Theo said, eyes slowly sliding over to meet Liam's. "We could fill the tank, keep driving. Canada's just one big ass waterfall away."

"You'd do that?" Liam asked softly. "Just run away with me"

"Liam, what the hell do you think I've been doing for the past month?" Theo said, smirk tilting the corners of his lips. "If you changed your mind about leaving then fine, we don't go back just yet." He said simply. "and you know, with that card Derek gave us the skies the limit, literally. Could hop on a plane. Go to Hawaii, get a tan or go to that Greek place, that we'll definitely get lost at, Mikado or something."