Wicked style, Liam Dunbar

2.10 The Great Divide

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'I know that I'll make it out alive'
- Stitches, Shawn Mendes
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"What do you mean, no?" Liam yells as he glares at Scott from across the surgery room.

"Liam, look at her" Scott argues as he gestures to Hayden. "She's too weak. It will kill her. We don't even know what the mercury's doing to her. We don't even know if it's actually mercury. This can't be the only way to save her."

"It saved mine" Liam pleads.

"You know that was different" Atlas scoffs as he leans against the wall beside Scott. "You were hanging off a roof for gods sake!"

"You promised" Liam states as he stares at Scott. "You said you'd do everything you could."

"Which is why I'm not going to do something I think is going to kill her" Scott responds. Scott begins to pant for breath, "there has to be- There has to-"

"Scott!" Theo calls as he throws an inhaler to the alpha.

Scott takes a hit of the inhaler before looking back at Liam. "There's another way to save her"

"Guys, I don't know what the statistics are for surviving a Werewolf bite, but she's definitely not surviving this" Theo shrugs as he looks at the group. "We need to do something."

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Scott looks across the waiting area at Atlas, who is changing out of his soaking wet shirt. Atlas pulls the back of his shirt up and that's when Scott sees his back, multiple scars all over, a bandage poorly covering a wound on his left hip. A tattoo on his spine in a different language.

Scott didn't understand how the boy hadn't healed. The scars wouldn't be scars anymore, the wound wouldn't be open anymore, the tattoo wouldn't have stuck unless he got help from someone else.

"I haven't shifted in a bit" Atlas shrugs as he pulls his new shirt over his head and turns back around to face Scott. "It'll all go once I do turn it back on."

"Just shift Atlas" Scott pleads. "You must be in some type of pain."

"The pain makes me feel sane" Atlas states. "It makes me feel that I'm not drifting away from reality and getting lost in my own freaking mind."

"It's better than drinking" Scott shrugs.

"Oh I'm also doing that" Atlas smiles innocently.

"How has the tattoo stuck?" Scott questions with an eye roll.

"I've had the tattoo since the summer" Atlas explains. "I got Stiles to help me with it."

"What does it mean?"

"Parameínete kai stiríxte ton eaftó sas. Hang on and brace yourself. It's something Giagiá said to me before she died." Me and Scott stand in silence for a long period of time, "are we going to talk about it? I know you want to."

"You knew Stiles killed Donovan. Why didn't you tell anyone? You've been lying for weeks."

"I promised him Scott. I don't break my promises. Stiles was so shaken up I couldn't do anything but calm him down! I knew exactly how he was feeling as it was exactly how I felt in Mexico! I couldn't say anything, I promised him i wouldn't."