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It all happened so suddenly, one second they were watching Scott eyes open after healing at a supernatural speed. Then they all spin around when they hear Theo scream and fall down. It was a shock for a second, but then Liam ran ahead, grabbing Theo by the shoulders, somehow continuing even after his screams get louder and pulling him into the middle of the library.

Scott was the second to move, dropping to his knees and looking the chimera over, not seeing any wounds but by the way Theo was writhing in agony on the floor he assumed there was something deeper inside Theo, something that was going wrong. “Teddy, hey Theo, look at me.” Liam had since fell to his knees beside Scott and pulled Theo into his lap, trying to sooth Theo's whimper and whines at the touches. Ignoring Scott's small sound of protest, maybe fearing something spinal, but Liam knew better because he knew Theo. 

He knew he had to either get Theo to respond or hope he passes out so they can get him to Deaton without him screaming when they touch him. So he tried the only thing he knew how to do around Theo, comfort. “Theodore, baby, look at me okay, that’s it focus on me, it's just me, and you right.”

It may have been a lie considering everyone had arrived by now including Melissa, Argent, and by the gods, thank you Deaton, but Theo was half covered by Liam's body and his eyes were only on Liam's. Moss green meeting glacial blue. Theo's eyes were clouded with pain as they meet Liam's, and he nods his head slightly before promptly passing out in Liam's arms. 

“DEATON!” Liam yells out, breaking everyone out of their shock, causing Deaton and Melissa to rush forward, slowly taking Theo out of Liam's arms and placing him back on the floor. Melissa placed her hand gently on Liam’s arm, causing him to jump slightly before relaxing.

Scott grabs his hand and pulls him up. Liam looks over everyone, using his the control Theo taught him to check their chemosignals. He smells the scent of concern coming off Scott, Melissa, Argent, Lydia, Mason, Corey, Derek, and Deaton, then the scent of confusion from Jackson. Which okay fair he's new, Liam doubts he really even knows him, let alone Theo. 

Then he smells something that set off the recently calmed anger issues and sends his blood boiling. He smells irritation, and anger wafting off of Malia, Stiles, and Peter. He turned to Peter first and glared at him for a moment. 

“Peter, what the hell are you so angry about.” The question causes Peter to turn toward Liam, shocked. “Excuse me, why do you think I’m angry?” Around the middle he throws in a scoff which almost make Liam throw him at a wall. “You’re chemosignals obviously, dumbass.” Everyone's eyes turn to Peter and Liam except Melissa and Deaton still trying to figure out what the hell is happening to Theo. “Okay, wow harsh words tiny, I get that your little pathetic boyfriend is sick, but he’s tried to ruin this pack mu-” 

It's right then that Liam has enough, grabbing Peter by his jacket and pinning him to the wall. “You know nothing, Peter, nothing about what he's been through. You are just a sad man that won't stay dead you just keep coming back, and you know what people call Theo a cockroach, but that's you, you just won't stay dead you fuc-” His tyrant is cut off by Melissa “ENOUGH both of you Theo is dying, and we don't know why yet so we need to get him out of here.” 

Liam is too scared to move before dropping Peter and rushing to Melissa. “What do you mean h-hes dying.” His voice is no louder than a whisper, but in the now silent library, everyone could hear him. “His pulse is very slow, and his body seems to be going into a coma like state.” 

By the end of Deatons statement, Liam's pretty sure his heart was stopping, just like Theo's. “Liam, honey, do you want to come to the vet clinic with us?” Melissa gentle hands touching his face brought him back, and he quickly nodded his head. Seeing everyone looking at him concerned, he assumed they had all been calling his name for a while, although the concern about him made him feel warm it also made him angry.

When Theo dropped to the floor in agony some of these people were angry and now that he dissociates for a few minutes they're concerned, Liam stands up grabs his phone, and Theo's keys then storms past all of them elbowing Stiles and Malia on his way out getting a growl and a grunt. Climbing in Theo's truck, the only thought on his mind is how they’re going to help Theo.

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Liam drives around a little breathing in the scent of Theo to clam him down before rushing his was to the clinic “Deaton, Melissa, Scott! Where are you guys? Theo? Hel-.” A hand grabs his arm and pulls him into a room. He was about to fight the hand before the scent of Scott, wrapped around him. He looks up to see Theo on the metal table with machines and tubes hooked up to him, he walks up and grabs Theo's hand, avoiding the iv put in. “Needles, he has a fear of needles.”

Melissa looked up at him with a watery smile. “It’s okay Liam, unfortunately he can’t feel the needles in him right now and if he wakes up we’ll take them out.” Liam mind stops, and he squeezes Theo's hand harder. “If he wakes up, what do you mean if why not when do you think he's not going to wake up.” Liam stutters out every word he says. “Hey sweetheart, look at me, we don’t know a lot about what’s happening to him right now, so while we're trying everything we can, we aren’t really sure what we're treating.” Liam said the first thing that came to mind. “If you don’t know what wrong, then you don’t know what going to happen right.”

Melissa smile got somehow even sadder. “Right now, the only thing we know is he's getting worse.” A gasp draws Liam's attention from Melissa to Lydia. He looks at her for a moment, then she runs forward and hugs him. “I’m so sorry, Liam, and I will tell Theo I’m sorry when he wakes up too. He didn’t deserve to be sent to hell, and I’ve thought that every day since we sent him there. I don’t know what happened in hell, but ever since he got back here. There’s been this look in his eyes and I just wanted to hug him, he always looks so sad, and it really wasn’t fair what we did to him. I mean Stiles hurt people when he was possessed by the nogitsune, and we automatically forgave him, but when Theo came and was controlled by the doctors who’ve had control over him since he was nine we trapped him in hell even though he was begging us not to. Hell, we forgave Peter even though I’m still sure he’s evil, and he’s been the cause of so many problems. The sacrifices he almost killed Scott, he was the one who bit Scott in the first place, and he was an adult. Theo was a traumatized kid who was just scared and listening to the people who had basically raised him, I’m so sorry.”

Liam pulls back from the hug when she's done to see tears down her face. “Hey, what do we say we’re platonic soulmates and always will be right, I forgive you, and I know he will too, okay it's fine, great, perfect even I promise you.” Lydia giggles at that, and he wipes her tears away, then he pulls her back into a hug again. Both for his comfort and hers. They break apart when they hear a scoff. “What is it, Stiles?”

It’s Lydia who snaps at Stiles before Liam can. “W-w-what I was just you know comparing me being possessed by an evil spirit to Theo making a choice to kill his sister at nin-” Lydia interrupts him with a shout once again. “YES, exactly nine he was nine, do you really think he could make a conscious decision at nine his mind was barely developed he still couldn’t legally make a conscious decision, and we threw him in hell he was also probably terrified I’m 19, and I’m terrified of those doctors he was ten years younger than me what was he supposed to do fight those monsters at nine think about what you’re saying.”

Lydia kept glaring a Stiles then a sharp sound interrupted them, it took her only a minute to realize it was the monitors, “DEATON, MELISSA HELP!” One second later, both adults run into the room. Pushing Liam away, Melissa gets on the table over Theo and start compressions. When Scott hears Theo's ribs break, he yells out.

“MOM! You’re killing him, you're breaking his ribs.” Melissa doesn’t stop, and they hear one more break before Deaton speaks. “She’s not hurting him to do compressions properly you need to break ribs it shows you're doing it right, I promise all of you she's not hurting him she's helping.” She pulls her hands away, checks his the screens and says

“Charge the paddles to 250.” She pulls her hands away and hops off and away from him, a shout of “CLEAR!” is called out by Deaton before he shocks Theo. Liam whimpers like he could feel the pain and ran over to Lydia, hiding his face in Lydia's neck with his arms around the back of her neck. Lydia hides her face in his Liam's hair and closes her eyes, wrapping her arms around him and pulling him closer. They hear a sigh of relief, causing them to scramble away from each other to see if Theo's okay.

“He's Stable, but he's still in the coma right now.” When Liam looks down, he sees black veins crawling up Theo's stomach. “Deaton what is that?” Liam's question makes Deaton look down, only to see something he really doesn’t want to. “I think I know what this is.” The tone of his voice tells everyone that it's not something good. “What is it?” Liam's voice is shaking as he asks. “It's a very bad disease that will kill him if we can't help him.” Liam breathing is harsh and fast. And as he asks his question, his voice breaks. “But we can help him, right.” He asked what everyone else was wondering. “That all depends on Scott.” Scott freezes at that for a moment before honest to god squeaking out “What?” Deaton sigh before talking again.

“So you know how you can look at people's memories if you put your claws in the back of their neck, right?” He waits until Scott give him a nod before continuing. “Well, there is also this thing where you can project people's memories out, so others can also see them, but only a true alpha can do that, so I didn’t ever tell you even thought you are a true alpha I didn’t think we ever need to do it.” Deaton pauses for a moment to that sink in before continuing.

“Theo got hit with something which got him stuck in his head, put him in the coma as of right nowhere, probably going through his worst memories. If I can get Scott to project us all minus one into Theo's head, we can try to get him out and if we can, we will save him.” Everyone's shocked by that, and so Scott wonders aloud what everyone else was wondering. “Why does everyone need to come with?”

Deaton looked at him like he was dumb. “Because all of you hate him and I know that you shouldn’t hate him so if going into his head and seeing why is the only way you stop hating him, then that is what we will do. It runs no more risk to bring more than one person once I tell you how you can bring two, than you can bring more than two at the same time easily. Now enough questions because Theo is going to run out of time, then we won’t be able to do anything.”

Liam steels his face, takes a deep breath and asks what's on his mind. “What can I do?” Deaton smiles in that way that makes everyone feel like it's all going to be fine. “Have you told your parents about everything?” Liam looks confused for a second before nodding his head yes. “Perfect, can you call them and ask them if they can bring some blankets and a change of clothes for Theo and also tell them that they will need to monitor Theo while we are in his head. I know your stepdad is a doctor so he should be able to do that, but he might want company, so call them and tell all that. That is what you can do, everyone else except Melissa, Scott, and Chris will you guys go get food and what ever else you might need. Liam, you will go with them after you call your parents, and I don’t want to hear any argument.”

He gets ‘yes sirs’ or a variation from everyone else except Liam, who looks at him with teary eyes. “B-but t-” Lydia cuts him off. “It’s okay Liam, Theo's in good hand here probably the best in beacon hills, let's go home maybe shower change get some come back here and save Theo's annoying adorable ass.” The end off her sentence makes him giggle and nods his “Yeah, you still got clothes at my house right.” Lydia smiles at him, “Yes I do, come on let's go.”

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When they all arrive back to the clinic, freshly showered and changed. Liam immediately rushes into the room and to Theo even though there was no change, he was going to stay by Theo's side until they all fall into his mind. He wanted to say everything he needed too to Theo in case it was the last time, but he couldn’t say everything in English, so he pulled the French Theo had been teaching him at night out of is mind and started speaking.

“Bonjour mon amour. Je ne sais pas si vous m’entendez, mais je t’aime plus que tu ne le penses, avec tout mon être ma star, s’il te plaît reviens vers moi et je te montrerai combien je t’aime.” He takes a deep breath at the end of his statement. And looks up at the rest of the pack only to find them watching him already.

“What did you say.” Scott asks and Lydia glares at him for a minute, that's when he remembers Lydia speaks or at least knows French he looks over to the adults and sees Chris looking at him with the utmost sympathy he connects then that while it’s a possibility that just because his last name is french doesn’t mean he speaks it but with his look of sympathy and all the others looks of confusion he figures he does speak French.

“I didn’t say anything of importance, Scott just told him to wake up in the language he knows best.” They make a little sound of understanding at his explanation. “Was Scott able to figure out how to bring others into Theo’s memories?” He moves onto the question everyone wondering. Deaton stares at Theo with a sad look on his, and Jenna gasps before. Deaton takes a deep breath and breaks into a smile and speaks.

“Yes, we have, so everyone except Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar, please sit down into a circle and hold hands with the person beside you. Wait, Liam, you need to sit beside Theo. Okay Liam, this sounds weird but once Scott sticks his claws in I need you to stick your claws into the back of his hand then glow your eyes. Derek will walk up to scratch your and Scott’s arm’s, and then he will mix yours Scott’s and Theo’s blood in a bowl. Then he will set it in the middle, light the candles, then walk back to his spot and sit down. I will toss the items in the bowl, chant a few word then the fire will grow and cover us, and then we will be gone into his head.”

Everyone nods, but Liam looks terrified and asked one of the questions in is head. “Why am I also putting blood in the bowl?” Deaton smiles at him and then says. “Because your souls are connected, you pulled him out of hell, he's your anchor and you're his. Lydia stands beside him, and squeezes his hand, he calms marginally trying to process from the harshly life changing news. “Okay Scott.”

Scott sticks his claws in and gasps, his eyes shining red. Then Liam sticks his claws in, lifting his head, glowing his eyes and looking ahead. Derek breaks the circle, walking ahead and grabbing Liam's arm. “I’m sorry kid.” He whispers before bringing one of his claws down Liam’s arm. Ignoring Liam's little gasps and whines, he catches the blood that spills down Liam’s arm in the golden bowl. He waits till it heals to move to Theo’s arm.

Whispering the same words he said to Liam, but in the end he said honey, he didn’t realize it, but he needed to comfort the kid. Who looked so small sitting on the floor with his back propped against a wall with all those wires and tubes coming out of him. He catches the blood once again, waiting for it to heal while smoothing the kid's hair back, then he moves on to Scott doing the same thing.

Derek walks to the middle, places the bowl down, lights the candles, and walks back to his spot. Then he drops to the floor and grabs the hands of the people beside him. “Okay, Luce ignem, turbare flammam, eamus in cerebrum eius, serva vitam eius et dic veritatem, misce sanguinem eorum et perduc nos.” He then throws the items into the fire. It spikes to the ceiling and then lies across them, closing their eyes they are pulled into a place with a dizzying heat and nauseous feeling.

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The first thing he feels when he wakes up is fear. Liam opens his eyes and looks around. “Guys.” No one answers him at first, so he tries again, “GUYS!” Everyone's eyes snap open simultaneously, which honestly kind of scared Liam for a moment before Scott spoke up. “Did it work?” Liam spins around and stares at Deaton until he answers. “Yes it did, we just need to find the first memory.” Everyone lets out a sigh then move on to the second part. “How do we find the first memory?”

Deaton turns to him before answering. “As I said before, your souls are tied, which means you should be able to lead us to the memory.” Liam was too shocked to speak before, Lydia grabbed his hand. “So how does he find the first memory?” Lydia, always so strong, Lydia is the one who asks what was on his mind. “Close your eyes, Liam, take a deep breath and just follow your instincts.” Liam does as he's told, closing his eyes taking a deep breath he hears voices and follows them. He finds a door when he arrives at the voices. He turns the handle and takes a deep breath before pushing the door open.

“HEY! What are you doing?” A semi-tall, athletic looking kid with short hair says. “Hey, is that James?” A shocked gasp is what he gets in return, “It is, oh no, this is not going to go well.” That confused Liam. “Why?” “Because, Liam, James was a bully and while we were lucky to be on his good side, I have a feeling Theo was not.” That made sense but still saddened Liam,

“Oh okay.” “Um, it's gym class and the teacher told me to join your group.” A soft-spoken boy with short, slightly curly hair said. “Our group is for kids who can actually do anything, run get off their butt and move more than to walk to the bookshelf, not kids who spend their days reading.” The look on Theo's face was a mix of embarrassment and heartbreak. “I swear I’m a fast runner, I know I don’t do it often because I get really sick all the time, but I promise that I can run truly fast.” The boy pleads.

“Is that Theo? Why is he getting sick all the time? Why the hell was that guy making fun of him?” The shocked faces after his outburst made him realize he probably said those questions way too fast. “Scott, is that Theo?” Scott nodded his head, so he moved onto Melissa. “Why is he getting sick all the time?” Melissa was thinking for a while, opened her mouth a few times before saying.

“I don’t really know, when I knew him he got sick a lot, but we just assumed he immune system was not good. I knew his parents could be labelled as neglectful at best and abusive at worst, so I put it to that. And before you ask, I tried to help get him away from his parents, but they had money and right after the questions were asked, Theo randomly was admitted into the hospital, and then I never saw him again.”

Almost everyone was shocked, while they knew living in the sewers couldn’t have been great for a child they assumed that before he was taken that his parents were good they didn’t want to believe that Theo had a reason to be bad, they wanted to believe he was a psychopath and evil.

“His parents were bad, why didn’t you tell us?” Scott voice was sadder and quieter than anyone other than Stiles had ever heard it. “You guys were young and until he came back I didn’t know if he was dead or alive I didn’t want you two to be sad, so I just told you he moved away I figured it could be true so that's just what I told you, I’m sorry I didn’t tell you but you 2 were too young to know about what happened in his house I was worried about him but you two were the only ones I still had near me to be able to protect, so I told you what I had to, to protect you.”

Her explanation made sense, but Scott and Stiles still looked hurt. “Okay we should continue, I get you may be angry at Melissa but to save Theo we should most likely keep going.” What Deaton said scared them all, so they put moved their eyes back to the kids.

James walks right up to Theo, grabs him by the arm and throws him to the floor. Theo arms shoot out, from under him, trying and failing to catch himself before he hits the ground he hits his face on the ground and sits up, putting his hand on his face as his nose starts to gush blood the tears spill down his cheeks and blur his sight, but he thinks he sees the bullies walking away. He blinks once and then see two people standing in front of him “Hey my names Scott you’ve got something on your face there if you come with me and my friend Stiles here we can help you to the nurse” Theo looks up at the two with tears in his eyes. “Stiles is a silly name.” The two laugh, then each of them grabs one of Theo's arms.

“That's the first time you meet Theo?” Malia stares at both of them shocked and Chris laughs. “So two questions here, what is this James kid's full name? And why did no teacher help him, why is he just sitting there crying and BLEEDING, LEFT ALONE TO MAKE TWO KIDS HELP HIM!?!?!” By the end of Derek's tangent, he's shouting at no one in particular but just out of pure anger.

“DEREK, calm down, I know that was not fair, and I was just as confused when none of the teachers went over, but the almost all the teachers hated him because he was smarter than them and would correct them often, granted his corrections were right, but the teachers were always pissed when he would do that, I don’t know why they why I’m trying to defend adults who were just jealous of a kid and shitty people, but I guess maybe that could be a reason anyway maybe we should continue. You ready Derek?”

Derek stares at the boy for a moment, then takes a deep breath and nods his head. “Yeah, sorry, just something about a kid having no one to protect them hits a little close to home, and then he became an adult who stills has no one to protect him it’s not fair.” Stiles, Malia, and Peter roll their eyes and Derek growls at them before the voice start back up behind him.

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“Haha, loser.” The younger Scott says, grabbing the piece from Theo's hand, “Hey, give that back, that's not fair.” The pout on Theo's face must have been hilarious to Scott and Stiles because they immediately burst into laughter after they looked at his face.

Theo joined in soon after, the only thing to break them out of their laughter was when Theo started coughing, and didn’t stop. “MOM! COME HERE, SOMETHING’S WRONG WITH THEO.” Melissa runs down the stairs, immediately rushing over to Theo’s side.

“Hey! Sweetie, are you okay, darling, can you look at me.” She lays Theo on the floor, putting his hand on her chest. She tells Scott and Stiles to go to Scott's room for a while, “Hey, sweetie, can you feel my breathing.” When he nods, she continues talking. “I want you to try and follow my breathing, in …1…2…3”

She’s about to start again before she's cut off by him coughing again. And then by her luck the door rings, “Okay sweetie stay here, and I’ll go see who it is, keep breathing.”   

“What was wrong with his breathing?” Melissa turned to Chris. “He was really sick, his heart was failing, his body was giving up on him. We didn’t know that he was sick yet, so we all just assumed he had asthma like Scott, but then the inhalers didn’t really help him, so we just kept trying things until one helped him.

That breathing trick was the one that really helped I don’t medically know why, but I think he was just panicking along with the fact that his body was shutting down, and he just needed some help to calm down. Sorry I don’t know if that made sense, the start of him coughing was because of his illness but afterwards he fell into a panic attack that was why the breathing techniques worked. I just helped him through a panic attack, in the end there was no other way to help breathing when he first started coughing I just had to wait it out.”

Chris nods his head. “I mean I kinda gt it at the end of your first explanation but thank you, the extra explaining did help.” Melissa blushed right up to her ears but nodded.

“Melissa, good day, where is Theo.” Melissa eyes widened, and she took a deep breath before talking. “Theo's in the living room, but I was wondering if I could talk to you for a minute in the kitchen?” His eyes cut to the living room before he nodded his head and followed her into her home.

“Is that Theo’s dad?” Liam’s soft voice asked. “Unfortunately, yes, I’ve had the pleaser of meeting Theo’s parents. I mean, I thought I’d meet bad people before but then Bam Jonathan Raeken shows up, and I’m like wow maybe all those people weren’t as bad, I first thought.” By the end of her statement, she just sounds snarky and irritated. “You really hate him, don’t you?” Melissa looks at Stiles kindly and states.

“There was not a single thing about that man to like, the only thing he ever said to his son who was dying was cruel and harsh words. And the only thing he ever did was even crueller and harsher actions."  “Theo's coughing fits are getting worse and more frequent.” Jonathan’s face sours at the mention of his sons ‘condition’ he stares at Melissa for a moment before lowering his voice “Stay in your fucking lane Melissa, he’s my son are I can do whatever the fuck I want with him.” Melissa glares at him. “Do you want your son to die because that’s where he is heading, he’s going to die, he needs to be taken to the hospital.”

Jonathan scoffs and rolls his eyes, “I will decide when OR if I ever take him to the hospital because he is once again he’s my son.” He’s about to walk out when Melissa grabs his arm. “I have evidence of the bruise's john, take him to the hospital, or I take them to the police.”  He glares at her and huffs before rolling his eyes. “Fine.” He shoots her one last glare. “THEO, sors d’ici tout de suite."