What if I Stayed? (Thiam Fic)

Chapter Fifteen

"They're after Brett, not you." Stiles said to Liam, like this was a good thing. They were still after someone and despite Brett treating him like shit, he still cared about him. Well, he cared about people not getting killed.

"I'll go help him." Liam started only to be stopped by his friends grabbing him and turning him back around. 

"Uh no, you will not." Stiles scoffed, rolling his eyes. "We need to stay here and Theo can handle himself."

"You sent Theo after Brett and two professional killers?" Liam snarled, feeling his claws begin to break through the soft fabric of his gloves. Garrett had carried Brett in and no one knew where the hell Violet was. "What's wrong with you?"

"He offered Liam." Scott put his hand on his shoulder, attempting to calm him. "Theo's smart and strong. He can handle himself."

"Theo could die!" Liam had nearly lost him once and the idea of losing him again made Liam something other than angry. It made him scary.

"Theo's nearly died a million times. He can handle a beta and a teenage killer." Stiles was clearly getting irritated with him at this point. "Beside, if shit hits the fan, Theo can signal us."

"Unless his head had been chopped off." 

"Just focus on the game right now. Everything will be fine." Scott finished and they turned back to Coach who was shouting at the ref and the other coach. Liam couldn't help but watch as he saw Theo duck into the school. He was 99% sure he saw another figure slip through the darkness.

Theo heard the heartbeats before he heard what they were saying. It was somewhere down the hall. He was trying to pinpoint exactly what was happening.

"Please no. Please don't kill me. I- I haven't hurt anyone." There were dragging sounds. Clearly Brett couldn't stand. He opened the door to the boy's locker room and kept listening. "Come on man. Don't do this. Please!"

"You're worth a lot of money Brett." Garrett said, his voice echoing around the dark room. Theo was close enough to see the shadows mixed with moonlight. "I want that money. Besides, you aren't exactly human enough to beg for mercy."

"But you are." Theo had finally caught up with them, taking Garrett by surprise. The two boys began to fight as Brett continued to crawl away. 

"I should kill you too." Garrett hissed and Theo knocked him out with a swift punch before he got another word in. He turned to a terrified Brett, who was shaking and looking worse by the minute. Theo could smell the rot coming from his wound. 

"Thank you." Brett's voice was quaky and Theo should've felt bad but all he could feel was disdain for him. 

"Yeah, don't thank me- fuck!" The pain hit him like a flash grenade. His vision went white for a few seconds as his arm burnt like nothing he'd ever felt. Yellow wolfsbane. The little bitch had managed to knick his arm. "Oh shit."

"Oh shit is right." A voice said from behind him as a thin piece of wire suddenly restricted his breathing. "A supernatural chimera. Part wolf, part coyote, part human. Worth a pretty penny too. I think this'll get your alpha freaked out enough to make it even easier to take him down."

Brett was vomitting on the ground, unable to do shit at this point. Theo hissed as the wire tightened, his eyes flashing yellow as his claws came out.  He dug his fingers underneath the wire but it barely did anything.

"I always said we should've gone for the true alpha but," The wire started heating up and the pain intensified, "I think you'll do just fine Theo."

He fell to his knees, the screaming pain causing burning flesh. He could smell the cooking skin and heard his own blood physically boil. Theo knew that he was most likely going to die as he saw the smoke and his eyes teared up. There was one shot he had and one shot alone at alerting the others.

"Help!" He shouted but it was barely a shout, more like a desperate whisper. Slowly, Theo's vision turned black as the pain overtook his entire being. Violet laughed and he just waiting for a response or help from anyone.

Liam heard the cry like it was coming from right beside him. In the middle of a pass, he heard it. It was Theo shouting for help. He wasn't sure if Scott or anyone else heard it but it didn't matter. Theo was in trouble. Theo needed help, he needed him. There wasn't a second to waste.

"Theo!" Liam shouted, moving faster than his brain could keep up. He was running, sprinting with werewolf speed, towards the doors but it didn't feel fast enough. He wasn't close enough. "Theo, hold on! I'm coming!"

"Liam wait!" Someone yelled at him but it barely made it to his brain. Liam burst through the doors but didn't stop. Theo was all that was on his mind.

"Theo!" His voice cracked with desperation. he knew something bad would happen. He told Stiles and Scott but no one listened. No one listened and now Theo was probably dead. "Theo come on! Please!"

"Help us!" The voice wasn't Theo yet it sounded croaked and panicked but it was coming from the locker room, where Liam could hear movement. It was his best shot.

The doors flung open loudly as Liam took no time in finding Brett, throwing his guts up on the floor. He didn't really care though as only a few feet away Violet was cutting the head off of Theo's limp body.

"Get off of him!" He roared as his entire body was filled with rage and power. Liam jumped on Violet, cutting the hot wire with a quick slice. She was taken down easily and quickily compared to a full strength werewolf with everything to lose.  

His fist connected with her jaw and she was out like a light but Liam didn't stop there. He couldn't. Not after what she did to Theo. He was about to land a second blow when someone grabbed his hand.

"Liam, you need to stop." It was Scott. Maybe it was his alpha abilities or the fact that Liam was overwhelmed with despair but he just broke. Stiles was on the phone with his dad, Kira was dealing with Brett, Isaac was on the phone with someone else and Theo was just laying there, not healing.

"Theo." His voice broke as he rushed over to him, praying that somehow, he'd wake up but he wasn't. Liam knew this would happen. He knew that Theo was going to get hurt or die because no one listened to him. Why wasn't Theo waking up? Was he even still alive? "Theo man please don't be dead. Wake up man. Please."

"Wolfsbane." Scott cursed and Liam felt his heart drop. He saw how the Wolfsbane was affecting Brett but Theo had just been strangled too. Scott smelled the fear and softened his voice before continuwing to talk, "He's still alive Liam. Isaac's calling Deaton and we'll be in a car in less than ten. Malia, Lydia and Parrish are coming here right now. We'll be following them in the jeep."

"I'm not leaving him." Liam snapped, desperately trying to hear Theo's heartbeat, "I'm not leaving him."

"Liam-"

"I can't leav him Scott." He was taken aback by how raw his voice sounded. There were now tears streaming down his face. "Please."