Dark Side of the World // S.S. [Book Two]

Chapter 4

Even with my door closed, I can hear muffling, and I pull out my sword and quietly make my way to Scott's room. I sneak into Scott's room and hear voices. I see the kid from earlier, Liam, tied up. His eyes are wide and he's terrified.

I enter Scott's bathroom and raise my sword between my friends. "What in Hades are you doing with him?!"

Scott turns to face me. "I panicked. Can you put the sword down, please?"

"Let the kid go then."

"I--I can't. I bit him."

"Oh. You panicked. And you bit him?! Scott, need I remind you, your plans suck. I'm so sorry, Liam. We'll get you out of here."

Stiles nods. "Like she said, as a reminder, this is why I always come up with the plans. Your plans suck."

Scott sighs. "I know. Which is why I called you. So, what do we do?"

They boys move Liam from the tub to the chair. "Liam, we're going to take the tape off your mouth. If you scream, it goes right back on. If you talk quietly, it stays off. Got it? Okay."

Liam cries out painfully as the tape is ripped from his mouth. Stiles continues, "Okay, Liam, now you've seen a lot of confusing things tonight. And more confusing things are going to happen because of the confusing things that happened tonight. Do you understand?"

Liam shakes his head. "Not really."

"Good. That's good."

"I don't understand either." Scott replies.

Stiles glances to Scott. "Maybe you should tell him."

"Tell me what?" Liam asks in a terrified tone.

"Liam...What happened to you, what I did to you, which I had to do in order to save you, it's going to change you." Scott says.

"Unless it kills you." Stiles says, noticing Liam's tears. "Shouldn't have said that."

"What?" Liam asks in a shaky breath.

"Uh...Uh-oh. Oh-oh. Is he...Is he crying?"

I glare at the boys and kneel in front of the terrified freshman. "Liam, it's okay. You're going to be just fine." He continues sobbing and I say, "You're not going to die."

"Probably not." Stiles says.

I glare. "Not helping."

At the same time, Scott says, "Stop it."

"Okay, possibly not." Stiles corrects.

"Liam, I'm going to untie you now." I say softly. I do so and then say, "Are you alright? Liam?"

"We're sorry about that. We're really sorry." Stiles apologizes.

He grunts and asks, "Liam, what the hell is your..."

Liam suddenly jumps up from the chair and in the process, I'm knocked into the wall and hit my head, but not hard enough to knock me out. Liam runs out of the room. "Ah! Get him!" Stiles cries.

They run after Liam and Stiles flops onto the ground. "Leg! I got him! I got him! I got him, I got him!"

Scott lets out a deep breath and says, "Your plan sucked, too."

Liam looks to me. "I'm sorry for hitting you into the wall."

Stiles looks from Liam to me. "How come you apologized to her?"

"Because she didn't capture me and tie me up! She's the only one who's been nice!"

In math the next day, Kira looks at Lydia's notes. "These are your math notes? No wonder Malia and Megara are failing."