Friend Reunion » Theo Raeken

Part 27

Malia ran down the stairs to meet us.

"Where's Kira?" Scott asked her.

"Still at the library. Stiles and Lydia are at the hospital."

"What are they doing there?" I asked confused.

"Lydia's trying to figure out what happened to her during the surgery."

"Well, how long are they gonna be there?" I questioned again.

"They said they're just waiting for the power to go back on?"

When we got to the hospital Scott turned to look at us.

"You guys go and look for Stiles and Lydia and I gonna find my mom." He ran away.

"Okay. I'm going that way. You two that way." Malia said and she ran to the left. I and Theo went the other direction. We were running when Theo suddenly stopped and I ran into him.

"What the hell are you doing?" I said rubbing my nose that I nearly broke.

"I hear something."

"What do you hear? The Dread Doctors? Chimera? What is it? Talk to me!"

"Stiles is in trouble." He said and tugged me towards the stairs.

"What do you mean in trouble?" I screamed as we ran up the stairs.

"I mean that chimera is trying to kill him." As he said that I sped up, leaving Theo behind me. I pushed open the door to the roof revealing Stiles laying on the floor, trying to fight the chimera. I sprinted to them and threw the boy that was trying to bit him away. I kneeled besides Stiles and when I looked up I saw Theo fighting the chimera.

"Stiles are you okay?" I asked worried. He just nodded. We heard bones cracking and we saw Theo holding the chimera by the neck. Blood spurted everywhere and the guy fell to the floor with his neck ripped open. I yelped and stared at Theo's hand covered in blood. I helped Stiles on his feet and we both stared at the dead chimera.

"You can't say anything. Please, don't say anything." Theo said.

"We won't." I promised but Stiles shook his head. "Why not?" He asked.

"Because I never said anything about Donovan." Theo looked at me and then back at Stiles. "I know what happened to Donovan. I know everything." Theo continued. Stiles immediately looked at me. "You told him." He said. "I can't believe you told him."

I didn't know what to say. I betrayed him. "Stiles.. I..." Tears started rolling down my cheeks.

"She didn't have to tell me. I was there. I was at the library."

"What?!" I turned to look at him. Stiles grabbed Theo by the shirt pushing him backwards until Theo's back hit the fencing. I ran to them and pulled Stiles away.

"This isn't helping anything Stiles!" I then turned to Theo. "What do you mean you were at the library?!"

"Malia found the book. She was texting us to see where you were. She said she left you at the library. I told her I was close. When I got there, I heard the scaffolding come down." He explained.

"You saw him?" Stiles asked.

"Just the body. I watched you come out. I was gonna say something, but then I saw the cop car. And the body was gone. I don't know who took him. I only saw what you two saw. I didn't say anything because you didn't."

"Why didn't you tell me? That night when I called you. Why didn't you tell me?" I asked.

Suddenly we heard a police siren and I jumped.

"That's not an ambulance is it?" Theo asked. I shook my head. "We should get out of here."

"Yeah, and let the body here. You are genius." I said sarcastically.

"She's right. We can't just leave him." Stiles agreed.

"Fine. All right, let's take him. Someone's stealing the bodies anyway, right? Here's our chance to found out who. Come on. We gotta do something."

"You killed him." Stiles sighed.

"In self-defense. He was going to kill all of us." Theo defended himself.

"Stiles, we killed someone too, remember?"

"If we stay, we're either going to have to tell the truth or we're going to need a pretty convincing story."

We looked at the body.

"It's your choice, Stiles. I'm not going to ask you to lie to your dad." Theo continued.

"He's actually pretty good at that." I said.