A/N: since i'm unoriginal that is the title i've decided upon, but there is angst before the forced proximity too, ofc!!
i'm still me guys <33
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Theo arrived outside the beta's house. He hadn't needed the address, all important things stored in the back of his mind.
He hooked the horn of his truck, not yet coming to a complete stop. He released the break from under his foot, honking again.
“I'm- I'm coming,” Liam huffed. “I said I was coming, didn't I?”
The front door slammed shut behind him as he appeared on the doorstep, shoes in hand, a piece of toast shovelled into his mouth. “What, like this is some picnic for me?”
The chimera simply rolled his eyes, leaning across to open the passenger side. He let out a deep sigh, scratching the back of his neck.
Talk about a rough night.
He'd pulled into the preserve gone midnight last night, unable to render his thoughts to silence. The birds were already chirping, sunlight peeking through by the time he'd crashed.
It was different from his relentless nightmares including his very much dead sister in his own personal hell, cops banging at his window.
Call him soft but he'd gotten used to a physical bed, a bed that required a mattress.
“Just buckle your seat belt,” he ordered, turning his keys in the ignition. They drove out of the driveway, finding themselves back at the abandoned zoo.
To call it weird would be to say the least.
“What's the plan?” Theo asked, looking up at the empty lot before them.
“I don't- I don't have a plan,” Liam stared back at him like a deer in headlights. “Why don't you have a plan?”
“Let me rephrase this for you, then. What did your alpha tell you to do in his step by ste-”
“I'm not an imbecile, Theo. I don't have a plan, but neither do you,” the beta retorted. “So, what does that say about you?”
Touché.
“I'm not eighteen anymore, so stop treating me like a child of two. You're not my mother.”
“What do you suppose we do then, I mean.. besides wait?” he shrugged his shoulders.
Liam crossed his arms, prominent with tattoos. He seemed to be assessing his surroundings, “It seemed to work well enough last time.”
That was how he remembered it, but that wasn't how Theo remembered it.
He remembered Liam jumping off a cliff and taking Nolan down with him, punching the beta until he blacked out. All to prevent him from becoming a killer.
He remembered waiting out, dogging arrows as he carried his dead weight to the car.
He also remembered cleaning the blood from his knuckles, fixing his ruffled hair. Maybe it hadn't been so bad, but maybe it had.
“What- okay, so what exactly is the plan?”
“Mykonos.”
“Mykonos?”
“You know, where they had these-”
“Long narrow winding streets that all met with each other, confusing.. yes, I remember Mykonos.”
The other man seemed taken aback, as if his words weren't worth remembering. Theo had remembered everything he'd said and done, who.
“Mykonos, then?”
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the way i loved you
Werewolfeven 7 years later, theo finds himself in beacon hills for liam, a town he had once tried so hard to escape.
