Toxic - Theo Raeken

1.8

Stiles looked at Theo and Liana "what are you two doing?" 

"Saving your ass," Liana sighed as she spoke sarcastically. Theo couldn't help but snort as he found himself once again looking at her. 

"We need to get out of here" Theo spoke softly allowing Liana and Stiles a second. 

Together all three of them headed to the animal clinic to meet Scott with the body. Scott looked at all three of them and then the body. "His name's Josh, he's a junior." 

Theo and Liana shared a look as Stiles covered the body. Scott stepped back "which one did it? The one with the cane?" 

Stiles looked back at the other two as Theo nodded "yeah." 

Stiles looked back at Scott "what are we going to do with him? We can't just set the alarm and leave. That's how Tracy disappeared. Someone's gotta stay here with him." 

"We'll do it," Theo spoke as he pointed to him and Stiles. Liana looked at him like he was crazy considering Theo and Stiles don't get along at all but nodded anyway. 

Scott looked at his beta "are you sure?" Stiles nodded although reluctantly. 

It was then that Liana's phone buzzed and she pulled it out of her pocket. She gasped as the others stared at her. She looked up at them with worry in her eyes "there's another Chimera." 

Scott nodded as he spoke to his beta "let's go." 

They rushed out of the room as Theo called to Liana "good luck."

Scott looked over at his beta as they rushed to Scott's car "who is it?" 

Liana sighed "Hayden." Scott's eyes widened recognizing the name of Liana's friend.  

*************

The next day, all of them were at school in the library as Scott was talking "so apparently we found another Chimera. Hayden texted Liana yesterday." 

Theo couldn't help but inaudible growl a little at the fact that Hayden now knew the secret and was a Chimera. He had concluded that he liked Liana and he was a possessive being. He was interrupted as Stiles was looking at the map and then spoke sarcastically "you want to hide a chimera in the freaking high school?" 

Scott sighed "why not? I mean it has places where we can protect her and Parrish is bringing three cell phone jammers so maybe we can use some of the equipment to disrupt their frequency." 

Liana nodded next to Theo "and I'll get Hayden here. She's not going to say anything to her sister yet or at all if I can help it." She then looked at Theo and Stiles "while you two find out who the hell is taking bodies." 

Theo smiled at her as the others watched "I won't let you down." Even as he said that he couldn't help but feel guilty about what the Dread Doctors were planning to do and the fact that he was helping them. 

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Later after school, Theo headed to the clinic to look over Josh's body which was thankfully still there. As he stared at the dead body, he felt a sense of dread and then heard crackling almost like bugs or static. 

He headed out of the exam room and into the reception area and found one of the Dreads "checking up on me? You can't tell me you don't want to know who's taking the bodies." 

The doctor in front of him breathed and those his breathing spoke "inconsequential." 

The chimera looked at one of his makers confused "why? You don't care that someone's running off with your little failed science experiments." The doctor was silent. Theo smiled a little and nodded "you already know who's taking the bodies." 

The dread spoke again "inconsequential." 

Theo sighed "what do you plan to do with Liana?" The dread didn't answer so Theo asked again "what are you going to do with her?" 

All of a sudden he heard a jeep pull up and the dread disappeared. Stiles walked in as he headed to the board in the exam room "whoever's taking the bodies is most likely not going to do it while we're standing guard over one of them." 

Theo sighed "so do you have a better idea?" 

"Yeah." Stiles said as he put his phone with the video on up in the exam room and both headed back to Stiles's jeep. 

They sat together, two people who hated each other's guts in awkward silence. Stiles spoke up then "I don't care about what you are doing or what's going on, I don't but what I do know is if you hurt Liana I will find a way to hurt you." 

Theo nodded wishing that he could say that he would never hurt her but he couldn't considering he was actively working along with the dread doctors to do exactly that. 

*************

While Theo and Stiles were in the car watching over the body, the others were trying to protect Hayden from the doctors at the school. 

It was failing. 

Liana, Scott, and Hayden were in the locker rooms talking when Scott and Liana both heard clanging in one of the lockers. Scott knew exactly what it was but Liana didn't. She moved to the locker and opened it to find chains. She looked back at Scott with a look of betrayal on her face. "Hayden is bait, isn't she?" 

Scott sighed "no she isn't but the dread doctors are unlike anything I've seen before. I don't know if we can save her." 

"So, you're not even going to try?" Liana glared at her alpha. 

Scott raised his hands in surrender as he noticed Liana's eyes glowing. "I'm going to do everything I can. I promise you." 

Liana nodded "she's my friend Scott and I can't leave her to the mercy of those assholes." 

It was then that they noticed that the school was deadly quiet almost like the frequency jammer had stopped then they heard crackling and Scott left the locker room to look. 

While Scott was in the hallway looking, the Dread Doctors appeared in front of Liana and Hayden who backed up into the lockers as far as they could go but it was no use and suddenly everything went black. 

*************

Scott realizing something was wrong rushed back into the locker room to find Malia, Lydia, and Mason standing next to a broken jammer with no Liana and Hayden in sight. Scott looked at Malia "what happened?" 

She just shook her head "the Dreads took them." Scott had a feeling that they needed to find them as quickly as possible.