Bang! Theo's head collided with the brick wall. He didn't know where he was. The place was dark, giving off foreign fumes. But strangely it was familiar. The odor reminded of some jail cell he had been kept in for far too long. As he glanced at his surroundings he realized the place he tried so hard to get away from, was exactly where he had landed. The dread doctors lair. It had been the same. His absence didn't affect much. Theo pressed his hand against the back of his head readjusting his vision. When he was able to stand, He walked around surveying the place he had grown accustomed to be in. It was the same place he had taken Malia when she desperately needed his help to find the desert wolf. And not long after, he had shot her because he was evil and conniving.

He shook his head. There was no need to dwell on horrible memories. It was time to focus on the present. The only problem was he didn't really know what he was doing in the dread doctors' lair.

"Why am I here?" Theo shouted glancing at the dead bodies. His heart was pounding, adrenaline rushing, and face flushed.

"What do you want from me?" After there was no answer, he stopped in his tracks. Theo didn't like to wait. He wanted to do things on his own terms, not anyone else's.

Footsteps echoed down the hallway, but they weren't the dread doctors. The steps were quiet and graceful nothing like any man, so it couldn't be Scott, Liam, or Stiles. It was a girl.

He chuckled at the thought that Lydia wanted to see them. They hadn't parted ways in the friendliest. He had used her to resurrect chimeras, and almost electrified her. His smirk ever present stayed on his face as he looked up at the person that addressed him.

But it wasn't Lydia. Hell, it wasn't even Kira.

Theo's expression dropped as his eyes met with Malia's werecoyote ones. Her teeth gleamed as she held a syringe in her hand filled with a green unknown substance. Her eyes sparkled as she roared. Behind her was Theo's sister. Her arms were crossed, mouth set on a hard line.

"Payback bitch!" Malia stabbed the syringe into Theo's neck causing Theo to stumble onto the ground gasping.

"Malia! Malia!" His voice echoed as he began to lose consciousness.

Theo awoke at the dream. His face was sweating as he remembered the vivid details that sent his heart racing and breathing labored. It was only a dream. He thought. There was no way Malia was capable of killing him now that they had at least began to be nice to each other. It was practically a miracle that she could laugh when he was around her.

Suddenly his phone chimed. A text message was sent.

Hey, meet me at the school library I need to talk to you. –M

He smiled as he glanced at his phone. Eager to see her, he changed and ran out the door towards his truck and drove off.

Malia went to school with Scott and Stiles. She was apparently stuck in the back with Liam who hadn't said a word the entire trip. He always kept glancing at the window with a frown etched on his face. Scott was talking about the next Lacrosse game while Stiles was talking about his car.

"Stiles, do you really think coach will kick me off the team if I don't come to another practice?"

"Coach can do practically anything he wants. I mean, this is the guy that said he was for cancer! You're supposed to be against! Completely and utterly against it!" Stiles did his usual hand gestures when he was particularly passionate about a topic.

"You're right." Scott sighed.

"Yeah, I know I'm right. I'm also right about my jeep. It's dying on me and we haven't even finished senior year!"

"Calm down, Stiles, it's normal for any car to start having problems."

Suddenly the car jerked and Stiles had to pull over.

"This is what I mean," He ranted. Popping the hood, he muttered, "Liam stay in the car,"

Liam was ready to open the door when Stiles repeated, "Stay,"

They finally fixed the problem and the four of them got to school. When they all dispersed, Malia strayed to meet eyes with Theo who was leaning against his truck looking down at his phone. Her stomach did flip flops as she saw him and yet she didn't know why. Things between them had gotten better, friendlier. Malia didn't growl at him or simply shoot him death glares so often. She didn't try to claw him every chance she got.

It was weird. Malia had actually enjoyed Theo's company whenever he had offered it whether it be a ride to school or a study hall in the library. Generally, after following Stiles's advise, she noticed a change in him. A good one.

But there was no way she would tell any of the others about her secret hang outs with Theo. They hated his guts and she worried that they would hate her the same way.

Breaking contact, Malia emerged up the steps and into the library only getting stopped by Lydia.

"Hey, I didn't know you'd be here, we should get a headstart onto first period," Lydia looped her arm around Malia's dragging her out of the library. But Malia stayed and released her arm quick.

"It's okay Lydia, I'll meet up with you there,"

"You sure?"

Malia nodded and Lydia left her. Once the library was cleared out, she scrunched her nose at the familiar smell. And in came Theo with his hands in his jean pockets.

"You texted, I delivered."

"Yes, I did. My god you're stench almost made me hurl I could smell it from a mile away." Malia continued to wrinkle her nose.

"How're they?" Theo meant the pack. He hadn't talked to any of them besides Stiles and Malia. The pack didn't even know about Theo secretly meeting Malia.

"They're fine. They don't ask about you especially since Stiles goes on about his car almost every day,"

"Well that's good," Their eyes met and the familiar attraction locked them in place. It was hard to avoid the way their movements seemed to coordinate with each other. They both tried to hang out almost every day. And that's when Theo realized that the only thing that didn't seem right was that he wanted Malia to be his. But since she had broken up with Stiles, Theo didn't want to push it considering the pack didn't know anything about their secret meetings.

So they tried seeing each other during school. It was probably the dumbest idea because any one of them could come by accident and see them enjoy themselves. But it was the only option because Malia spent her afternoons with the pack.

"So, how's math?"

"You're an idiot, I didn't make you come down here to meet me to talk about school," Malia smirked.

"Then what did you want to talk about?"

"Anything. Tell me what it was like being in the ground."

"IT was hell. I saw my sister down there and she made it her job to torture me every day. I just wanted to get out of there. I didn't want to be with her after everything I put her through."

Theo's eyes turned sorrowful at the thought. It's not that he didn't want to spend time with her. He just wished the situation was different. Maybe if he hadn't killed her and just hadn't seen her in a while, it would be okay. But that wasn't the case.

Malia pressed her fingers against Theo's giving him some comfort. She didn't know what kind of life he lived down there nor did she want to find out, but all that mattered was that he was okay.

Theo returned the gesture squeezing her hand. His eyes met hers once again and the sparks erupted as they continued to get lost in each other.

Suddenly a door slammed and Malia and Theo separated from each other their hearts beating vigorously, tauntingly... together.

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