Wicked style, Liam Dunbar

3.3 Lost & Found

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'I can be who I want to be'
- Sexy, Original Broadway Cast of Mean Girls
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Atlas didn't understand what was going on. Liam kissed him. Atlas was high off of butterflies and couldn't help smiling. Someone would begin to think that Atlas had caught some disease because of how wide he was smiling.

Atlas wanted to tell the world what had happened. He was excited to tell Stiles, he couldn't wait to tell the older boy.

He wanted to tell the whole pack. Maybe let Lydia win a few bets. Atlas wanted to shove it in Theo's face that he did eventually get Liam and it wasn't because someone told Liam how Atlas feels about him.

However those butterfly's were killed off quickly as Atlas got a call from Scott telling him to come to his house, and to pack a bag.

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I follow behind Scott down the stairs of his house, holding my duffel bag. "You know when you told me to pack a bag, I assumed we were going on some sweet camping trip. Not going to the middle of nowhere to find your girlfriend."

"Atlas" Scott sighs as he runs a hand through his hair. "Why would we go on a camping trip in the middle of everything that is going on around here?"

"Maybe some pack bonding activities" I Scott with a shrug. "We haven't all been that close recently and I thought we were going on a wilderness adventure. Like team building exercises, the whole one legged race and den building. Also a wilderness adventure would be great if one of us were to kill another, hundreds of different places to bury the body."

Scott mutters something but I don't catch what he says. As we turn the corner into his living room we find Liam waiting for Scott.

It's obvious that Scott is conflicted about Liam's arrival, as he's both sad to be estranged from his beta as well as scared of what he could do after Liam nearly killed him.

Liam appears to be just as anxious to be there, and when he sees Scott, he pauses awkwardly for a moment before suddenly blurting out the first thought that comes to mind. "They're alive."

I look between the pair, trying to mentally decide whether I go and help Stiles with the jeep or stay and make sure they don't claw each other throats out.

Scott looks at Liam in confusion but doesn't speak, causing Liam to nervously ramble to explain himself. "I mean, the Chimeras. Some of them, not all of them."

Scott's face remains unreadable when he finally replies, unable to fully look Liam in the eyes after what happened between them. "I know."

Liam looks surprised by this uncharacteristically curt answer. "You do?"

"Yeah." After a brief awkward silence, Scott goes back to what he was doing and nervously adds to what he's already said. "I'm sorry, I can't talk right now, Liam."

Scott turns to walk out the back door, but Liam, not wanting to leave things as they are, tries again to get Scott to warm up to him. "It was Theo. He's the one who brought them back, and now they're with him. Like they're his pack."