Thiam: Book of One Shots

Save me

Summary- Theo has been having nightmares about Liam dying. One day he wakes up to find out that Liam has been taken by hunters. Can Theo find and save him in time? Or will his nightmares become a reality?

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Theo ran through the woods as fast as his feet would carry him. Breath coming in short gasps and branches whipping at him face. He hardly felt any of it. His thoughts were on one werewolf only.

Liam.

The screams and painful roars of the beta echoed through the woods and Theo growled in response. He finally stumbled on a clearing. The scene was horrific, and Theo's eyes glowed and teeth bared viciously at the sight.

Liam was on his knees, his hands clutching at his bleeding abdomen and eyes glowing gold. The barrel of a gun was pressed to his forehead.

Theo glared up at the offending hunter and was startled to find the cruel face of Monroe looking straight at him. She smirked at him tauntingly, as her finger hovered over the trigger. He looked back at Liam who was now staring at him. His eyes full of fear, pleading with him.

He unfroze and rushed forward, dead set on ripping the crazy hunter's head from her shoulders. He had only moved two steps, before a shot rang out.

He stopped in his tracks and stared in horror as the bullet flew straight through Liam's head, painting the earth behind him crimson with his blood. As if in slow motion his body fell baclwards and landed with a thud, hands falling lifelessly at his side. His head lolled to the side and his cold, dead eyes stared straight into Theo's soul, the gaping hole in the middle of his forehead dripping with blood.

A choked scream escaped the chimera's throat as he ran forward and fell to his knees next to the beta.

"Liam?!" He yelled in anguish, finding his voice. "Nonono Liam please!" He begged brokenly, running his thumb over Liam's frozen cheeks.

Monroe's maniacal laughter filled the air, while Theo sat with the beta's head in his lap, the grief and crushing guilt filling his lungs and utterly consuming him.

Suddenly, Liam's body melted away from his hands, and he grasped at it desperately to no avail. Shooting to his feet, he turned his head frantically in confusion, blinking through stinging tears while Liam's screams and cries for help echoed in his ears.

Suddenly, everything stopped, and a deafening silence fell over him.

"It's your fault" the whispered words were like knives plunging into his heart.

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Theo shot up in his bed, gasping for air and clutching his ears in futile efforts to block out the echoes of Liam's painful accusations. He tore his hands away from his ears, and pressed them against his eyes, as flashes of Liam's dead and bloodied body appeared behind them. His heart was in his throat, and he forced himself to calm down, to avoid a full blown panic attack.

It took at least 10 minutes for his heart rate to slow down, and his breathing to become less erratic.

"Shit" he whispered, forcing his claws to retract.