True anchors

7|| secret

When they arrived back at Liams house, they were met with another car parked. Presumably Lydia's car. Meaning her and stiles were here now. Oh god. Stiles is brutal when it comes to Theo. Malia will hold back now after the incident. Scott probably told her to leave the chimera alone a bit. But stiles wouldn't listen if anyone even tried.

"You sure you want me to come in? I can go park back in the ally."
"No. Stay. I don't want you loosing control or sitting in your truck all alone. And whatever stiles says about you. Don't take it to heart. He has a hard time trusting people. He also is shit at putting things into the correct words."

Theo smiled great-fully at Liam. They still had each other's jacket. Liam was wearing Theo's and Theo had Liams wrapped around his neck. Neither has forgotten about what happened in the woods. They both were still smiling even if they didn't always show it. Sometimes they randomly smiled remembering the moment vividly.

Then entered the quiet house. Scott was already inside catching up with stiles and Lydia. Along with Malia. Lisa and Mike sat talking in the kitchen out of the way of everyone else. When they walked through the door all eyes landed on the two.

"Why's Theo here?"
"Stiles." Scott warned threateningly.
"That doesn't matter. We are here because there's a problem."

Liam went and sat down on his original seat. And Theo went upstairs to grab the laptop and books of all research they had done within the last day. It was getting late now. It was about 8pm and the sun had almost completely set. While Theo was upstairs stiles started talking again.

"But seriously why is he here. What use could he be to us. Also where were you guys. We pulled up the same time as Scott. Malia was already here then you two came in together why."

Liam stayed silent not sure what to say that wouldn't cause stiles to have an outbreak.
"Liam seriously what use is he to stopping this thing?"

"More use than you are." The had came back downstairs and dropped the books on the table with a bang before placing the laptop down and taking his seat next to Liam once again.

"The hell do you mean by that?" Stiles wasn't stopping anytime soon. Theo didn't answer this question. He wasn't sure what to say. He didn't know what to say without admiting it. So instead he said
"I can't tell you without saying a secret I saw to two months ago. Unless the other persons okay with it I won't say anything.

"What so now you suddenly care about other people." Stiles was just escalating the situation more than it need to be.

"Suddenly? Suddenly, really? I have been slowly caring for more people. Theres only one person I trusted suddenly. I still don't know why but I did. And I would never break that persons trust. And from a recent incident. I know he wouldn't either. So yes stiles I care about other peoples feelings. I immediately went over to the school today when I found out Nolan was in danger. I got there 20 seconds later than I wished but I still got there. Hell changed me. For the better. I'm not asking you to see it. Or to forgive me or anything. I don't expect it from anyone. But I am asking you to have the smallest but of trust or belief in me so I can prove I'm not that person anymore. So yes I care about other people. And one of those is you. I forgive you. You have every right to hate me after what I did. And I don't care that you still don't like me but I haven't retaliated towards all the comments you made. I just answered them."

Stiles was lost for words. He never really took notice of Theo anymore. Malia looked shocked she never expected that off Theo. Lydia felt sorry for Theo. Hell really did change him. Scott felt guilty. Theo was better now but he still couldn't trust him no matter how hard he tried. Liam looked at the floor smiling before looking at Theo again. Theo saw the beta looking at him with proud eyes and a grin. He couldn't be more thankful for Liam.