Hear Me Roar [] Liam Dunbar []

THIRTY-EIGHT|Lies & Bites

"4x04: The Benefactor"

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After giving her statement to the police and omitting the part about Liam being there, Victoria was about to leave the hospital before someone grabbed onto her arm.

"Hey Derek." Victoria said and Derek glanced down at her. "What's up now on your mind?" She asked and he looked at her.

"What are you hiding?" Derek asked and Victoria narrowed her eyes a bit at him. "Hey. Don't you ever now start trying to lie to me, since I can tell. You didn't actually tell the police everything this time, did you?" He asked and she growled at him.

"Fine." Victoria quietly admitted and he was gently marching her now back up to the roof and she was quietly now sighing, at the sight of Sheriff Stilinski standing there. "I'm sure that I don't need to be here..."

"Tell Sheriff Stilinski whatever it was that you omitted from your statement earlier, tell him whatever it was." Her uncle said and he growled at her.

"Scott bit someone. A kid, he was up here with us. I couldn't pull him up in time, Scott had to bite him or he would have fallen to his death." She admitted and Derek stared at her. "If you were expecting something else to have happened..."

"You're telling me that if this kid changes, we are either goin' to have another werewolf running around or we are going to have to bury yet another young kid?" Sheriff Stilinski questioned and Victoria sighed.

"He's strong, he will survive the bite from Scott, I'm ninety percent sure of it." Victoria said and Sheriff Stilinski sighed. "Now, can I go?" She asked as Derek nodded quickly.

Victoria swiftly was climbing down the side of the hospital as she walked down the road quickly.

Before she was able to take a minute to start thinkin' better of it she quickly took off running and she was racing towards the McCall house.

Victoria took off running quickly as she was jumping up into the air and she caught onto the lip of Scott's window, as she was pulling herself up and into the room.

"Where the hell is Liam?" She asked and from Scott and Stiles, they were both yelping in surprise. "Where is he?" She asked and then faintly, she could hear whimpering, whining and even a few faint groans. "Oh, man, Scott, you have got to be kidding." She said but he didn't protest it as she was walking into the bathroom.

"Liam?" A quiet whimper came from the bathtub and Victoria sighed as she pulled the shower curtain to the side and she crouched down next to him a bit. "I'm real sorry that they did this to you." Victoria murmured gently as he was looking up at her. "If you promise not to scream, I will take that tape off of your mouth." She said and he was nodding. "All right." Victoria said and she pulled the tape off of his mouth as she helps him up, quickly now cutting the tape off of his legs so that he could get up on his own.

"Thanks." Liam said and she glanced at him, before she was nodding at the words and she was walking out of the bathroom.

"What the hell did you have to go and do that for?" Stiles accused and she stared at him.

"Go screw yourself Stilinski, I'm just trying to save you both from a damn lawsuit." She snapped and now, she was sitting on Scott's desk and he had given Liam a chair, that he was sitting on now facing the three of them.

"Okay, Liam, now you've seen a lot of confusing things tonight. And the even more confusing things are going to happen because of these confusing things that happened tonight. Do you understand?" Stiles asked.

"Not really." Liam admitted.

"Maybe I should explain." Victoria said from the corner of the room as she had her arms crossed over her chest. "It is kind of hard to disapprove someone having a tail, as a sort of an hallucination." She said, as Stiles was turning around to look at her.

"Maybe you should tell him." Stiles said and he pointed at Scott.

"Tell me what?" Liam demanded angrily.

"Victoria?" Scott asked and Victoria sighed.

"He already knows what I am, it is honestly best if you just tell him." She said.

"Liam... What happened to you, what I did to you, which I had to do in order to save you, it's going to change you." Scott said and Liam's eyebrows were raising.

"Well, unless it kills you." At the words from Stiles' mouth, Liam's heart was suddenly pounding with fear and Victoria was shaking her head.

"Liam, just look at me." She said and she growled at Stiles loudly. "You are not going to die." Victoria murmured and a moment later, she could hear his breathing changing. It was angry, not tears anymore.

"Back." It was barely a whisper, an exhale through the fake tears, which was why Scott hadn't been able to detect it. Victoria was backing up as Scott and Stiles were untying Liam as her eyes narrowed swiftly.

Victoria backed up at the sight of Liam having knocked both Scott and Stiles onto the floor with a chair and she looked at him, raising her hands up in surrender and now swiftly, she was nodding at the door.

Liam took off running and Victoria was shaking her head quickly at Scott and Stiles. "I'll go and make sure, that he gets home safely." She murmured and she was taking off running, as she caught his scent quickly.

"Why are you following me?" Liam asked as he looked over his shoulder at her and Victoria walked out of the shadows and her eyes glowed golden before the glow faded.

"Wanted to make sure that you got home okay." Victoria said and Liam raised his eyebrows. "And also, I did want to thank you for not hitting me with a chair or punching me." She said and he looked at her.

"Seemed like the least that I could do for you. I mean, you saved my life on the hospital roof and gave me time to get back up. You also fought off, well, whoever that was." Liam said and she smiled a little. "I'm not going crazy at the moment am I? Or, do you actually have a tail?" Liam asked and Victoria's chuckle was partially humorous and a moment later, her tail unfurled. "That is insane." He said and she nodded at the words.

"If you could, uh, just refrain from telling anyone about my tail and the fact that my face changes to look like an animal and that my eyes change to look like a pair of glowsticks, I would really appreciate it." She said and he looked at her before his eyes flickered to her tail again.

"Your secret is safe with me." Liam reassured her as Victoria sighed with relief.

"Thank you, Liam, the absolute last thing that I need is for my absolutely best-kept secret to get out." Victoria admitted and he nodded. "If you need help, I'll be there." She said as then, he was looking at her. "But, for now, just get some sleep and I'll see you later at school, all right?"

"Hey Tori?" Victoria turned back around to look at him. "Thank you."

"No problem." She said as the standard response, although quite frankly, she wasn't sure as to why she was being thanked.