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Liam was standing there, blood dripping off his claws. He looked at them as they broke through the door.
“Liam,” Theo called out to him.
“What happened?” Nolan looked at the lifeless body of the alpha at his feet.
“I didn’t have a choice,” Liam turned to them his red eyes flashing at them with tears in his eyes.
The night earlier...
It was the last Friday of winter break. All the older pack members were about to go back to college on Sunday, so of course, Lydia decided to have a party.
“Liam, they don’t want me there,” Theo stared at him as the beta broke in the front door.
“Theo, you’ve changed. You literally work with Derek. You’ve lived with me for three months and haven’t killed me,” Liam pleaded.
“First off, I work with Derek in hunting down hunters, common enemies; he still doesn’t completely trust me. Second, I love you; the rest of the pack not so much. Remember the phone call you had with Stiles when you decided to tell him we were dating.”
Liam recalled Stiles screaming and lecturing him for an hour.
“Corey, Mason, and Nolan are coming; you hang out with them all the time.”
“First, you threatened Nolan into coming; he was with me in not going. Second, they have forgiven me. But, Malia will sink her claws in my throat if I breathe the wrong way.”
“You’re coming,” Liam stated.
“I swear Liam; I’m not going!”
Liam just stared him in the eyes; they looked like they were begging about to break on the verge of tears.
“Damn it, Little Wolf,” Theo couldn’t resist his puppy dog eyes, “fine, I’ll go.”
Liam smirked and came over as Theo wrapped him in his arms, laying a kiss on his lips.
“You’re lucky; I love you,” Theo shook his head.
“I know,” Liam smiled back, “and I love you too.”
“When are we leaving?”
“We should have been there five minutes ago.”
“You could haven’t said that early,” Theo glared at him, grabbing his keys.
“Oh, we have to pick Nolan up too.”
“Oh, Liam.”
They pulled into Nolan’s driveway as the boy was sitting on the porch waiting for them.
“He made you come too,” Nolan looked at the chimera.
“Unfortunately,” he rolled his eyes.
They pulled in; Liam was right everyone else was already there. Liam just walked in leading the two outcasts of the packs in.
“Hey, Liam!” Scott bounded over and hugged him, “Theo, Nolan.” He nodded his head at them.
“Hey, Scott,” Theo smiled. Ironically, Scott was one of the most accepting ones of his presence within the pack.
Nolan smiled at him as Corey and Mason came over to save him. He began to follow them around as Liam went straight over to Stiles and Lydia.
“Liam!” Stiles wrapped his arms around the boy, “Theo.” He said calmly.
“Stiles, Lydia,” Theo gave them a light smile as Lydia just smiled at him. Theo almost laughed at Stiles holding back.
Theo decided to let Liam ramble to Stiles about school, lacrosse, and whatever they decided to catch up on and went over to Derek and Parrish. They at least could handle him; he worked with them every day.
“We have reports of hunters, two towns over,” Derek looked over at the chimera.
“Two?”
“Yepp,” Parrish grimaced.
“Why do you think they decided to come back now?” Theo asked the two men.
“Maybe they heard everyone was back in town,” Parrish suggested.
“Unlikely, they know we are stronger in groups,” Derek argued.
“Unless they have something to defeat us with,” Theo suggested.
“I hope you aren’t right, but I have a feeling you are right,” Parrish agreed.
“Me too,” Peter inserted himself into the conversation.
“What the hell are you doing here?” Derek glared at his uncle.
“Dropping off Malia, and I was invited to stay,” Peter smirked, “all the other old enemies of the pack are here why not me?”
Theo shrugged his shoulders, “you’re not wrong.”
“See this is why I like Theo,” Peter smiled at him.
They continued their conversation as Scott and Malia came over. Theo could sense Malia's eyes burning into his soul.
“Malia, I’m not going to kill anyone,” Theo looked back at her.
“I’ll make sure you don’t,” she snarled back.
“Stop it, you two. We are having a good night, no fights, no supernatural nonsense,” Scott glared at his girlfriend and the chimera.
“Fine,” Malia mumbled.
“I would like to see it,” Peter smirked.
“Shut up,” Derek glared at him.
“I’m going to go bother the hunter now,” Peter walked over to Nolan, Mason, and Corey.
“Poor Nolan,” Theo thought to himself, “the boy was going to be terrified of the werewolf.”
“Dad, stop it,” Malia went after him before he tortured the younger boys.
Theo laughed as Liam came up beside him with Lydia and Stiles following him.
“Oh gosh,” Liam looked at Peter cornering Nolan.
“He’ll be fine,” Theo assured him.
“Scott, we need to talk,” Derek looked at the alpha.
“Sure,” Scott and Derek walked away from the group.
Mason, Corey, and Nolan managed to escape Peter and came and sat down beside Theo and Liam.
“How’s everything at school?” Lydia looked at them.
“Quiet for once,” Mason smiled at her.
“I’m glad,” her smile held some worry in it. Theo picked up on it; she knew something they didn’t.
“How’s college?”
Lydia, Mason, and Stiles started talking about stuff the other three except Theo and Mason couldn’t even comprehend.
Parrish sat down and began talking again with the chimera. Everything seemed okay; the pack was just catching up. Everyone was smiling, happy until Scott and Derek came back in.
“What’s wrong?” Malia stared at him, knowing something was off with him. Theo and Parrish shifted their positions, knowing what was up. Lydia seemed to sink back into Stiles.
“Hunters killed a pack two towns over,” Scott looked at them. All were left for dead, an entire pack.”
“Perfect,” Stiles muttered.
“We’ve defeated them before,” Malia looked at him.
“Why are they back now?” Mason brought up the overlooking question.
“That’s what the worry is; what is making them confident enough that they think they can take us? Lydia have you sensed anything?”
“No,” Lydia said calmly.
“Too calmy,” Theo thought to himself. She was holding back.
“I mean we could track them down first,” Liam suggested.
“No,” Derek glared at him, “no one is doing anything until we have more information.”
“I’m just saying we play offense,” Liam stood up, his anger building. Theo knew he was worried, when he was scared he got angry.
“Li,” Theo grabbed his hand pulling him back down, not letting go.
“Derek’s right; it’s dangerous Liam,” Scott looked at his beta, “Nolan, do you have any contact with anyone?”
“No, I’m pretty sure they have kill orders on me,” Nolan said softly.
“And we believe him?” Peter questioned.
“We don’t trust you either,” Stiles stared at him, “yet, you are trying to accuse someone else of being distrustful.”
“I’m just saying; do you trust him?”
Nolan was trying to sink further into the wall.
“I trust him,” Liam defended him.
“You also have the murderous chimera as your boyfriend,” Malia glared over.
“Stop it!” Scott yelled at them, “attacking each other isn’t going to do us any good.”
“Scott, I’ll look further in the report at the station,” Parrish informed the alpha.
“I’ll help,” Stiles added on.
“Argent, Theo, and I will check the scene as we have been,” Derek told him.
“Okay, everyone else needs to lie low, and no one stays alone.”
They dispersed talking among themselves; the tension in the air was high.
“Nolan, are you staying with Mason and Corey or us?” Liam asked.
“Uh, I’ll be okay with myself.”
“No, you said it yourself they have a kill order on you.”
“Nolan stays with us,” Theo told him looking at Liam.
“What you don’t think we can take care of him?” Mason looked at the chimera.
“Do you want the hunters invading your home? because Nolan isn’t low on their hit list I’ll assure you that,” Theo snapped back.
“I was joking, calm down,” Mason rolled his eyes. Corey was silent trying to process everything.
“Will you two be okay?” Liam asked his best friend.
“I’ll protect him,” Corey smiled.