Beta || Liam Dunbar || ON HOLD

14

Liam.

"I can't," I growled loudly as I dug my fingers down into the field below me, pulling up dirt and grass as I breathed heavily, trying to stop my panic attack. "I can't do this!" I yelled and Adriana was now sat beside me.

"Liam." She spoke and I looked at her. "You can do this."

"No I can't!" I snapped back and she flinched slightly before returning with her cool attitude.

She took a hold of my wrists and placed them on her chest as she did once before only this time her heart was racing. I felt my claws grow out and dig slightly into her chest. I quickly yanked my hands from her. "You're not calm - it't not working!"

I stared down at my fingers, trying to steady my breathing so my claws would retract back into my fingers. Suddenly her hands were on my face again and her lips were pressed against mine. I felt my heart race even more at this as I raised my hands to her waist, pulling her impossibly close to me.

I let my lips merge freely with hers and she soon pulled away, breathing heavily. I looked up at her, confusion on my face. "It was panic attack - Lydia told me it helps if you hold your breath and when I kissed you, you held your breath." She whispered and I remembered when Stiles told me about how Lydia had calmed him down by kissing him.

"Thank you.." I muttered and her lips were on mine once again.

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3rd Person.

Adriana, Scott, Stiles and Kira all stood around Liam's hospital bed, watching with confusion as his lips moved. He looked as if he was kissing the air. Isaac, Lydia and Malia had all gone to get coffee and call Derek to tell him about what had happened. "What's he doing?" Adriana asked with a raised eyebrow as they all watched Liam purse his lips yet again.

"I think he's having a dream about someone." Scott answered and they were all well aware of what this 'dream' was about.

At that moment, Liam's step-dad walked into the hospital room, his eyes landing on the crowd that had surrounded Liam. When he was last in the room the only person in here was Adriana "Is he going to be okay?" Adriana asked as the rest of the people in the room all knew he would be fine.

"Yes - he should be fine, he's made a miraculous recovery, supernatural even!" Dr Geyers spoke, both him and Adriana laughing off the remark and the other three people in the room all laughed awkwardly, painfully aware of how ironic that was. "Liam?"

Liam's step-dad shook his shoulders lightly and Liam groaned, rolling over to his stomach before sitting up, looking around the room curiously after frowning, realising his dream wasn't real. She didn't kiss him.

"Hey, are you alright?" His step-dad asked him and he glanced to him, meeting his eyes as he nodded, clearing his throat. He felt extremely drowsy right now and he wasn't entirely sure why..

"Yeah-- I'm uh, fine." he muttered, connecting his eyes with Scott's. "What happened?"

"You got in a fight with Brett on the lacrosse field, what happened with that?" Stiles asked cautiously, worried he would make Liam angrier by bringing up the experience, the fight had started over nothing so it could just as easily happen again.

Liam pondered Stiles' words for a few seconds before answering. "I don't know.. one minute we were playing lacrosse, the next I was in midair, he took me out." He muttered and everyone listened intently. "He didn't even apologise I don't know I guess I just got angry with him." He tried to remember why he had reacted so badly but he just couldn't.

"Alright, i've got a few more patients to tend to, could you guys thin out a little bit? We're not meant to have this many people in the room at once when the patent first wakes." They all nodded and decided Adriana could speak to him first as she had stayed by his side all night.

"Hey." She smiled as she stepped closer to his bedside, taking his hand into hers and playing with his fingers which were still had some dried blood on them. "You feeling okay?"

"Yeah, i'm fine.. are you?" Adriana simply nodded at his questions, looking over his face which didn't seem to have any bruises on it despite how many times Brett had hit him, maybe he didn't bruise easily? "What time is it?"

"It's..." She paused, looking down at her phone and cringing slightly at the time that it read "Half past one," She answered. She had stayed here all night? Was she really that concerned for him?

"In the afternoon?" She nodded at his question, dropping his hand from her grip and moving them to play with his soft hair. Liam couldn't help but smile at this, she had stayed with him despite school and sleep. "You didn't have to."

"I know I didn't but I wanted to." It was now that Liam noticed the blood that stained her t-shirt, shorts and her exposed legs. He began to panic slightly, did he hurt her?! "Relax, Liam, it's yours." She spoke and Liam instantly calmed at this. He had bled that much? "I broke up with Brett."

"Good," Liam muttered without thinking and instantly looked up at her, awaiting her frown. "Sorry - I.. I just don't like him and I don't think that he's right for you! I didn-"

"I know, Liam." She cut off his rambling and he smiled at her again. He was falling for her hard. "I'm glad I broke up with him too. Everyone is saying he attacked you for no reason - real dick move." She continued to play with his hair, braiding small parts of it before letting it fall back down onto his forehead as he didn't have any gel in it anymore to help it stay up.

"Thank you for staying.. it means a lot."

"No problem, Liam. Like i've said before, I'm always going to be here for you even if you hate me or I hate you."

"I could never hate you."

"You hated me when i started dating Brett."

"No.. I didn't hate you I just hated how... oblivious you were of his shitty personality." Liam answered, choosing his words carefully in case he hurt the younger girl's feelings.

"Yeah, I hate me too." Adriana responded, smiling down at the boy as his blue eyes met her brown eyes. "You're beautiful," she muttered without thinking, amazed at the fact he was just in a fight that probably would have ended in someone dying and somehow, he miraculously still looked as amazing as ever.

"Am I not meant to say that to you?" Liam asked with a joking tone as he replayed her words over and over in her head.

"Not if what I'm saying is true - no. You're honestly amazing, Liam. You never fail to surprise me every day," she whispered, feeling herself getting lost in his blue eyes she felt she could jail swim around in all day.

"Ditto, Adriana."