-> SteoWeek Day 1: So We Meet Again.
“He has eyes that make silent promises to mine when his lips hesitate to”
Theo was lying in bed when he felt him. Theo could recognise the heartbeat anywhere. Stiles.
Theo had not seen Stiles in a long time, since he left to become a FBI Agent. Liam was not with him, which meant that Stiles wanted to speak with Theo alone. That was bad news. Stiles was probably going to kick him out of the pack.
Theo wasn’t technically a pack member but he has been working with them. He was an ally. He was staying in Liam’s guest room, that had to mean they have accepted him a little bit. But if Stiles wanted him out, he was out.
Theo could hear Stiles heartbeat on the other side of the door, it was steady, his scent serious. Theo closed his eyes. He was starting to like it here.
“Stiles” Theo said to the empty room.
Stiles entered stopping at the door frame and looking directly at the bed in which Theo was lying. “Theo” Stiles said back.
The old childhood friends looked at each other for what it felt like hours.
“Liam is not here” Theo stated breaking the uncomfortable silence.
“I wasn’t looking for Liam, but you already knew that” Stiles responded.
Theo huffed a humourless laugh. “Yeah..”
“I don’t understand how Liam let you stay in his house after everything you did” Stiles proclaimed his voice cold.
Theo closed his eyes. “I wonder that myself too sometimes. Liam’s parents are nice with me”
“Well they probably don’t know they are hiding a killer in his house” Stiles allegued.
“Well I bet the FBI doesn’t know everything about you neither” Theo said back with a cold tone. Stiles knew how to hurt him but he knew how to do that too.
Stiles touched his chin, his chemosignals changing to anger. “Why are you here?” Stiles asked.
“I was living in my car, Liam offered his guest room and I took it” Theo responded.
“Why are you in Beacon Hills? Why did you stay? What are you planning?” Stiles questioned.
Theo snorted. “I was born here too Stiles, you could say this fucking town ruined me too! I did not ask for anything that happened, and yes, I lied, I cheated I killed! I told you I was a survivor, you never asked what I went through!” Theo exclaimed emotions breaking in his voice. Theo looked for Stiles, their eyes meeting. “I’m not planning any harm this time, I want to... I want to belong somewhere. I’m trying, ask Scott, ask Liam, Mason... I’m trying!”
“You manipulated us all before” Stiles claimed with heat and sadness in his glare.
“You could always see through me. So tell me, am I lying now?” Theo dared.
Stiles huffed. “In the end you fooled me too. I just knew there was own thing wrong, you were, you w-were not the same. But I did fall for your tricks in the end. I called you the night my father was attacked by that chimera, I called you before anyone else, and I feel so stupid when you showed your true colours... I fell in the trap, I let myself fell” Stiles explained.
“Please trust me this time” Theo said softly.
Stiles seated at the end of the bed, watching Theo closedly. “Do you regret it? What you did to us?” Stiles asked.
Theo let his back fall to the wall looking at Stiles with a sad expression. “I don’t think I would do things different if I went back in the past, I’m still that person Stiles. But I’m sorry, and I want to do better this time. I know how Scott works, I still don’t think that trying to save everyone is worth it but... I’ll take it, I want this, I want to be here” Theo declared.
Stiles looked at Theo’s eyes, searching. “You know what made me so sure that you were not the same guy from the fourth grade as you claimed?” Stiles asked. Theo denied with his head. “Your eyes. When you saved Scott from Berlasko, when you told that stupid story about how you got turned, I knew you were lying because your eyes told me so. But when you saved me from Josh at the hospital’s rooftop, when you told me that your were going to look out for me in the jeep... you’re eyes... you’re eyes tricked me and...”
“They didn’t” Theo claimed. Stiles glared at him with a doubting expression. “I didn’t lie to you when I said those things. I care about you Stiles, I’ve always cared about you” Theo proclaimed.
“You remembered me” Stiles whispered knowing that Theo would be able to hear him.
“What?” Theo asked coming closer to the human.
“The Wild Hunt, they told me you remembered me when you came back” Stiles explained.
“You’re very hard to forget” Theo smirked.
Stiles rolled his eyes biting his lower lip. “Don’t lie to me” Stiles begged.
“I won’t” Theo promised caressing Stiles’s cheek with his fingers. Stiles exhaled resting his front into Theo’s. Stiles believed him.
