#god's failures

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🧪- God's Failures (thiam re-animator au)

Liam is starting to enjoy these nightly trips to the cemetery. With only the sound of Theo shoveling to disturb the peace of the place, Liam thinks graverobbing is a surprisingly relaxing hobby. Legs dangling in the pit Theo is digging, Liam gazes pleasantly at the line of sweat running down Theo’s back. Illuminated by Liam's inattentive flashlight, Theo, panting and with his white button-up shirt rolled up to the elbows, shines like a dirty and cursing star. After yet another inch of dirt dug, Theo straightens himself, his back cracking in the process, and stays still for a few seconds, trying to catch his breath.

“Alright, your turn.”

“Oh no, I’m fine here, thank you,” Liam says sweetly with a grin.

Theo sends him a bitchy fake smile in return but not for long because he needs to breathe through his mouth. And also complain.

“You’re the reason we lost the bag of-”

“You’re the one who wanted new cadavers to experiment on. I was fine with the ones we had.”

Theo stops, supporting himself on the shovel and wiping his face of sweat. “We need to continuously push ourselves, Liam. I don’t want new subjects, we need new subjects.”

He can't help it, Liam grins at Theo’s obvious tactic to get him to take a swing at the shovel. They've known each other for months now, Theo's mindgames don't work as well as they used to. Or maybe Liam developed some kind of shield against them. In any case, Theo is gonna have to try harder if he wants Liam to get in there and do the hard work.

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🧪- God's Failures (thiam re-animator au)

“Since you’re keeping notes, what have I yet to do in terms of experiments, Liam?” Theo asks as he stares at Dr Harris’ head with mad exhilaration. His hand hovers over his many sharp tools.

Liam glances at him and then the head. He doesn’t want Theo to play with Dr Harris, he wants him gone. He has felt guilt for every single creature in this basement but never even a sliver of regret for what befell Dr Harris. He simply wishes he hadn’t had to kill him, the regret being that he was the one who had to kill him, not that he died. So he’s ready to do whatever he needs to get Theo to throw away this toy.

“If he doesn’t want to say anything, then he won’t say it.” His voice is soft, so soft, actually, that Theo forgets the head for a moment and looks back at Liam with a calmer expression, enthralled and curious by this new soothing tone. “Let’s just kill him, Theo. You’re wasting your time with him.” Liam gently takes his arm, pretending to check his watch but his fingers are rubbing on his arm and making Theo sway towards him and away from the table. “And I know you hate to waste your time.”

☀️- Sunshine (Theo can't warm up unless he's close to Liam)

He thought it hadn't really been that much better with Liam but either he forgot how cold his body could become or this is worse. It feels like he's being stabbed everywhere all the time and he can barely move. It hurts so much, all he can think about is that he wants the dread doctors to come back. Something is very very wrong with him. And they always knew how to fix him. His body is giving up on him so they have to come back and help him. He can't do this on his own anymore. It hurts too much and he’s too tired. He never really thought that he missed the doctors but, curled up in a little ball on his backseat, he feels like screaming their names.

✨ - surprise me (All bite, no bark: 5 times Theo bit Liam)

Liam grins but a part of him can't help but be stressed that if Theo knows he's stressed about school without Liam having to say anything, then maybe he knows that he likes spending time with him. Then again, maybe that wouldn't be so bad. Liam likes this new easy confidence Theo has been building these last few months. It's not like the fake arrogance of before, it's… a lack of fear. Like Theo is living now unburdened by the weight of dread. It took him some months after he came back from hell but Liam likes how comfortable Theo is these days. It makes him feel all warm inside. In a totally platonic and uninterested and perfectly detached type of way of course!

As they keep walking into the forest, Liam makes sure to keep a firm and considerable distance between them… which would be a good strategy if Theo didn't take a sick pleasure in walking closer to Liam… who then needs to walk even faster to escape him again.

Theo smiles at Liam's antics and the beta wants to snap. Why is the chimera so freaking amused and nice-looking all the time? Wait. That’s not what he meant! Just that he looks happy and it’s sending a weird tingling sensation in his stomach. No, wait, that’s so much worse!

“What's up with you tonight?”

Theo's words make him snap back to the present and he looks left and right, searching for an exit door in the peaceful forest.

“With me? Oh, I'm fine, it's you who decided to be a freaky little cannibal recently.”

Theo snorts at the defensiveness but before he can make a quick and sassy comeback, Liam is walking away.

“Liam, wait, wait.”

He needs to take a hold of Liam's coat for him to finally stop and Liam folds his arms in a vain attempt to keep some distance or maybe some dignity. Still, he stays put in front of him, looking at the ground.

“What are you talking about?” Theo asks but there's a smirk in the corner of his mouth that Liam easily notices.

“The…! Ah. Th- Uh… You… You know!”

Fuck… Liam can feel blush creeping on his face.

“Know what?”

“The…” Liam glances at his mouth again, losing his train of thought when he sees his teeth. Flashes of memory pop into his mind until it's not just his face that's growing hot. He takes a step back, making Theo lose his hold on his coat. “The biting! Wh-Which is super weird by the way!”

“Is it weird?” Theo asks coyly, his tone calm and his smirk still intact.

“Uh, Yeah! It was super weird and- and you're super weird and- and how – HOW? – could I ever find that not weird!?”

Panting nervously in the quiet of the forest, Liam suddenly can't stand Theo's silence on the subject and he looks at him. “What?”

Theo is still grinning at him but, slowly, two fangs cover his bottom lip. Liam feels a pulse of what he hopes is fear.

“Theo…” Liam whispers like a warning as he starts walking backwards.

Walking towards Liam with his stupid fangs still out, Theo looks like a dumb vampire at best. Liam feels the urge to laugh and run away at the same time… so he does exactly that.

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🧪- God's Failures (re-animator au)

“I too had great hope for Dunbar when he came through my class on the first day. He’s… quite special.”

Theo cocks an eyebrow. Dr Harris has never said one good thing about Liam before.

“It seems being special doesn’t always mean good,” the severed head concludes. “There’s always… something lacking. Like you.”

“I’m perfectly-”

“You lack morals and humanity. None of those things handicap you from being a great doctor. A great scientists. But him? What he lacks is not so easily ignored. How many times did he almost ruin your entire research now? Without him or his girlfriend, you’d still be at school. You’d still have access to all those cadavers and medical equipment.” Dr Harris pauses for a moment, his eyes shining dangerously in the crude light of the lamp. “I can get you those resources back.”

“You can’t even walk out that room,” Theo says, flashing him a wicked smirk. And yet, he can't say that he's not listening.

“A dead limb will not only hold you back, Mr Raeken. The rot will spread. It always does.”

Theo takes a moment to swallow down the words but they’re too obscene, too melodramatic even for his taste. And he surely doesn’t like it when people decide to put words he doesn’t agree with in his mouth.

“Liam Dunbar is not gangrene, Dr Harris. And I don’t think you’re in the right position to qualify someone else of dead weight.”

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🫡 - The Caretaker

“I don't know,” Liam teases, staring into Theo’s eyes, “I'm not sure you could handle it.”

“Oh?” Theo bites down a laugh while still gazing at Liam under him.  

“And you're still healing.” Liam shrugs with a smirk. “We wouldn't want to… shake you too much.” 

“I think I'll be fine.” 

Liam smiles brightly before he raises his head just an inch higher and closer to Theo’s face and whispers, “Then why the fuck didn't you kiss me yet?”

👰‍♀️ - Peter Argent at your disservice

“We need something simpler, I won't remember all of that,” Chris says because he genuinely hates Peter’s dumb backstory he concocted for them but he also knows that saying so will only make Peter cling to it even more. And also… why the hell did Peter have that whole tale off the top of his head? But Chris doesn't ask because he really doesn't want to know. 

Peter pouts slightly. “But you're the silent type, you don't even need to remember anything, I'll gladly tell them all about how you proposed three times before I agreed to marry you.” 

“No, you don't need to talk. You need to go unnoticed and be underwhelming.” 

“Well, how could I?” Peter smirks, pointing at his… everything. 

Chris groans.

🏠 - 10 Years Later

Alec almost knocks a lamp over on his excited and hurried way to hug Liam. “You're even dressing like a professor, now?” The beta pulls away to looks at him and he laughs when he sees the little button-up shirt and tweed. “Do you wear glasses as well?” 

Liam rolls his eyes. “Remind me whose fault it is that you turned out to be such a bully?”

Alec looks around, still laughing softly. “Yeah, where is Theo?” 

Finally ending the hug, Liam picks up the bags Alec just threw everywhere as soon as he came in. “He just had to go pick some of his stuff at his place.”

It takes a few seconds before Alec speaks again. Frowning, he looks at Liam and asks, “I thought Theo lived here.”

It’s the rare hint of seriousness in Alec's tone that makes Liam stop. “No, he has his own apartment.”

“Oh… And that’s okay with you?” Liam gets even more confused. “Very modern, that's all. It's good to have your own space, I get it.” 

Well, Liam does feel lonely sometimes in that big house all by himself but he's not sure what Alec means. Before he can ask, Alec has found his shimmering energy once again and is headed towards the kitchen.

“Yo, is there something to eat?”

🧪 - God's Failures

“I wouldn’t be too ambitious if I were you, doctor,” Theo says with a bright yet sinister smile. “You still have two eyes. Be grateful I’m not plucking them out as we speak. I’d love to know if the optic nerve would still respond without being attached.”

Before Dr Harris can say anything, Liam is walking down the stairs, his arms full with two big laundry baskets of clean clothes. “You already checked that, remember? You glued an eyeball to Spider,” Liam says, his tone tired and disinterested.

Theo holds back a groan of frustration at Liam defusing his threat but he decides to change tactics instead. He's got plenty of threats in his pockets anyway.

“Then I’d just blind you for fun,” Theo says to Dr Harris who looks less and less worried with each new second. “To see if the technically dead tissue would heal.”

“We checked that on Splinter. And on The Mermaid. And on-”

“Liam! I’m trying to intimidate someone?!” Theo groans through his teeth, sending a fiery glare at his partner.

“Well, can you intimidate this box of equipment to wash itself? Because that would be more helpful!”

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🫡 - The Caretaker

"I call dibs on the first shower.”

He doesn’t even ask, Liam just goes through Theo’s wardrobe and takes a pajamas for himself and then one for Theo which Theo barely catches when Liam throws it suddenly at his face. Theo smirks, confused but mostly amused. 

“I don’t have another towel.”

“Well, then I call double dibs,” Liam says with a snort. “You can deal with the wet towel.”

Uh. Theo probably should’ve vetoed the dibs then. Still, it's hard not to find it funny when Liam leaves for the bathroom with an overly pleased bastard smile. He shakes his head. Theo doesn’t even know why Liam insisted on coming to his place.

There's a loud bang! when half of Liam's body collides with the doorframe as the werewolf opens the door of the bathroom in a hurry. Liam points at Theo with a serious and intense stare. “And don’t… get kidnapped again.”

Theo gives him an unimpressed look. “I’ll try my best.”

Liam tsks like it’s not very comforting as he slowly gets back in the bathroom… which Theo finds a bit insulting.

🧪 - God's Failures

“I’m angry at you because you’re angry at me!” Liam screams, his tone wavering slightly with insecurity. “I said I was sorry and you’ve given me nothing but attitude! I even cleaned all the equipment for you!”

“Then why did you ask me to wash it?!” Theo shouts back.

Liam opens his mouth to scream yet again but he stops, his face twisting as the anger shifts into sadness. Not knowing what to do, Liam lets out a small and broken scream. “Because you used your angry dry tone and I panicked!”

“Thank you for the equipment,” Theo says but, even if he means it, the fury he feels inside makes it impossible to sound anything else other than venomous and bitter.

“You’re welcome!” Liam groans, matching his rage.

“Are you ladies done?” Dr Harris asks, rolling his eyes since he can't do much else.

Liam gets his arm ready to punch the infernal talking head but he quickly seems to think better of it when he sees Theo's cold eyes still on him.

“I want him gone!” Liam exclaims instead of doing it himself.

“You already killed him yesterday!”

“Clearly, not good enough!”

“Not well enough.”

“Do you want me to kill you too?” Liam takes a hold of a clean scalpel and glares at Theo with murderous intent.

Liam sees his quirked lips first. Frowning, Liam immediately relaxes when he realizes that Theo isn't mad anymore. Theo's eyes are actually full of lovely little stars as he gazes at Liam's homicidal rage. The obvious fondness snaps Liam out of his angry trance.

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🧪 - God's Failures

Theo empties the bag of blood into a deep ashpan before placing the head of Dr Harris in it like an ugly boat in a sea of red.

“Wouldn’t it be easier if we put the blood in a glass with a straw?” Liam asks, grimacing at the sight.

“Yes, and a tiny umbrella would be nice,” Dr Harris manages to taunt him with an exasperated tone despite the act of talking still being painful.

Liam leaps to punch the talking head yet again but, this time, Theo stops him. The head shows no sign of gratefulness but it does seem to gain some life back now that it's swimming in the blood.

“He’s not a vampire, Liam,” Theo says with an eye roll. “He’s just… dry.”

Liam pulls away from Theo but stays close enough to scream at his face. “Right, let me just write that down in the log. ‘Harris was dry so we fed him blood.’ Because that’s how science works!”

“If it would make you happy,” Theo answers with a tense smile.

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🫡 - The Caretaker

Trying to look natural is hard when Theo can still feel the burn of Liam’s touch on the entirety of his right side but he sure makes a go at it. He even rolls his eyes and crosses his arms, muttering something about “finally being able to have some breathing space”.

Although there’s still suspicion on his face, Mason eventually looks away and Theo can finally breathe again.

👰‍♀️- Peter Hale at your disservice

“This is serious, we'll get killed if-”

“If you don't change that depressing attitude? I agree, we'll never stand a chance.” Peter nods, faking thoughtfulness.

Chris takes a sharp inhale and it feels like he’s about to explode. Looking at Peter, he shakes his head in disbelief. “Why are you so chipper?”

Peter smiles at him. “I have a natural disposition for joy,” he says with a shrug and, for once in his life, Peter looks completely and utterly serious. 

Chris frowns so hard he gets a new forehead wrinkle. 

“Peter, you killed people!”

It's now Peter's time to frown. 

“So did you!”

A thick silence drapes the room as they glare at each other. 

“It seems to me, darling,” Peter says tensely through his teeth, “that you're a bit on edge today. Anything you'd like to share so we can move on from the usual hostilities?”

🏠- Ten Years Later

Somehow, it feels like Theo is always back here, behind the counter at the hospital, waiting for the doctor to finish with their patient so they can get started with the treatment. At least, Melissa is working today. And, at least, he has an energy drink to brave on during this unforgivingly early shift. They wouldn’t mind this supposed break if it didn’t feel so pointless. They already know what the doctor is gonna say but they still need to be told what to do before they do it. 

“So, did you have fun yesterday?” Melissa asks after finishing her little portion of grapes.  

Theo frowns. This isn't good. Melissa sounds way too pleased for such an early hour. “Sure. Why?”

Melissa shrugs with a little grin. “Mondays are date nights, right?”

Closing his eyes before letting out a deep exhale, Theo dramatically slams the file against the counter before leaving his post. He's too tired for this bullshit!

“Oh c’mon.” Melissa chuckles. “Theo, where are you going?”

“I’m gonna do my job, Melissa.” Theo would never say 'fuck you' to Melissa McCall because, well, no one does that. But saying her name with that tone is as close as he is ever gonna get. “Hope you get the hint that you’re not being funny.”

“You know what is funny?”

Theo immediately does a 180 to run back to the counter, his eyes slightly glowing and pointing at her. “If you as much as say Liam’s name, I’ll quit just to spite you and hope that it causes you to burnout.” 

Melissa keeps quiet, knowing that Theo would be just enough of a petty fucker to actually do it.

🧪 - God's Failures

Theo finally gets on his feet and fetches a bag of blood from the fridge.

“I- How did you get that?” Liam asks despite his better judgement.

“Don’t worry, it’s not yours.”

Liam doesn’t know how but, somehow, that statement makes him even more worried.