What if I Stayed? (Thiam Fic)

Chapter Four

"Alright, we need a plan." Lydia sighed, rubbing her hand over her face with a sigh. Starting the morning off with an emergency pack meeting was definitely not the most fun thing. "The full moon is tonight."

"We could just kill him." Malia suggested, shrugging her shoulders. If Scott had bitten anyone else, Theo might've been in agreement but he felt weirdly protective of Theo.

"No. Absolutely not." Theo said at the the same time Scott said "We're not killing him, Mal." Theo hadn't failed to notice that Scott was holding Kira's hand the entire time.

"Malia, babe, we talked about this. Murder bad." Stiles smiled tightly, wrapping his arms around her and hugging her tightly before releasing her again. "Although, we do need a plan to get him to the lake house tonight."

"I'm not sharing my basement." Theo couldn't help but laugh at Malia. They were close in the way siblings were. Both of them had lost their sisters and in a way, found them in each other again. Besides after Theo had been bit by a werecoyote during the whole Kanima thing, he found himself in touch with both the werewolf and coyote side of his supernatural abilities.

"You don't have to share Lia. We can use the boathouse-shed thing. Right Lydia?" Theo added, leaning against one of the buses. Lydia gave him a glare but a tight nod, proving that he was right about his theory. "Alright, let's do that."

"How do we get him up there? No offense and all but I don't think Liam is going to trust you two anymore." Kira pointed out, gesturing to her boyfriend and Stiles. Everyone took a moment, thinking about the best way to do this when;

"We could kidnap him?" Malia's eyes were bright as she gave forth her non-murder idea. Everyone looked at her and Stiles, eyebrows raised in amusment, shock and concern.

"Progress guys. Progress." Stiles tried to cover, giving Malia a quick kiss on her cheek as encouragement. "Let's just tell him it's a party. Lydia throws the best ones and everyone knows that."

"Okay but how are we getting him there?" Scott pondered, "Someone's going to have to invite him and it can't be Stiles or I."

"Don't look at me." Malia raised her hands in surrender, "I know nothing about flirting."

"It's true, she doesn't." Theo stifled a laugh at Stiles' comment, turning it into a cough out of fear from the death glare Malia had sent his way.

"I'm done with teenage boys." Lydia smirked, but Theo saw through it. Guilt twisted in his gut as he remembered Aiden and exactly what had happened that night. She didn't want someone else, even as a mission.

"Kira?" Scott asked and the whole pack turned to look at her but she looked petrified.

"No. No way. I can't do that." Kira panicked, shaking her head and backing up slightly as her eyes landed on him. "What about Theo? Liam will probably trust him after Theo took him to the hospital, right?"

"I'm sorry, what?" Theo coughed, feeling his cheeks turn bright red as heat flushed his face. he felt like he was choking on air. "I'm guessing from us turning to Lydia and Kira, this is the seduction of a teenage boy to get him to go to a party so he can hook up with a cute girl."

"Yep." Stiles nodded as Scott said "No." and shook his head. They glared at each other in annoyance. Great.

"Dude, clearly this is a seduction mission and I'm lying if my gaydar wasn't going off a little bit when I saw him." Stiles looked at Theo, "Plus even if he's not into men, pretty sure you could make him."

"Stiles, what the fuck?" Theo laughed in shock. Stiles had been idenitfying gays and supernatural creatures for a year, ever since he and the discovery of werewolves came out. "You aren't even gay, you're bi."

"Okay then bi-fi. Plus that proves that I can find the other bisexuals easier." Stiles seemed proud of himself as everyone else either laughed or put their head down in embarassment. "Dude, just do it. Flirt with him a little bit, ask him to go to the party with you, pick him up at like six and then drive up to Lydia's lake house. We'll hold a conference there and debrief him on everything."

"So slight kidnapping?" Malia asked and Scott threw his hands up, done with his pack and friends. "What? I'm just saying what it is."

"Anyways," Lydia continued before looking directly at Theo, "Come on. Just do it Theo, it'll be easy. You flirt with so many guys. Just act like Liam's another one of those guys."

That ticked something off in Theo. Anger bubbled below his skin at the idea of treating Liam 'like the other guys' because he wasn't to Theo. To him, Liam was... well shit. Theo didn't know what he was to him just yet, but he wanted to find out. Desperately. Maybe this was his shot.

"Fine. I'll do it but only," Theo added, raising his hand, "If Stiles and Scott talk to Liam first. If it doesn't work, plan Theo's-a-whore is a go."

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Liam closed his locker to see Scott and Stiles standing around him, staring at him. He jumped a little, he wasn't going to lie. Remembering what they did to him both terrified and pissed him off.

"What'd you want?" Liam demanded, staring Scott, the guy who bit him, dead in the eyes. 

"We need to talk. About what happened to you. What I did." Scott started and Liam wanted to roll his eyes. 

"You mean bite and then kidnap me?"

"To be fair, I didn't kidnap you, I just aided and abetted." Stiles added and he had an urge to punch this rambling asshole. Feeling his anger rise, Liam took a deep breath. "Sorry, I'm just gonna stay quiet."

"Liam, the bite is a gift." That surprised him. Sure, Liam had seen and heard some unexplainable things but hearing that being bite by some random dude who also broke your ankle? That was weird. "We're brothers now."

"What are you talking about? We just met and you bit me!" Liam was nearly yelling but took a moment to calm himself down.

"The bite's a gift." Scott repeated himself, seeming confused why Liam was reacting the way he was.

"Oh dude please stop. Please." Stiles groaned, hitting his head against the locked, "Just stop. No."

"Look, I'm not gonna tell anyone." Liam pulled up his sleeve, revealing the perfectly healed skin that stared back at the two boys, "See? All gone. Couldn't tell people even if I wanted to so just, leave me alone. We're good."

Liam turned on his heel and spedwalked down the hallway to his first class of the day, as Scott and Stiles stared after him.

"I'm calling Theo." Stiles muttered, pulling out his phone and dialing the number, "It's his time to shine."