"damnatio memoriae"

THEO WAS LOVING HIS NEW role as an alpha, granted, it was to a bunch of fake werewolves and most of them kids, but he still had power over every single one, each supernatural creature believing that they owed him, and doing every single thing they asked him to. This included trying to find more chimeras for his pack, the chimeras that hadn't been killed by the dread doctors yet, potential members of Theo's new pack — Cassie helped him, of course; the second he asked her to go along and help find the next pack member, she obeyed, even when she wanted to carry on and find the poor kid as she smelt he was bleeding mercury, but when Theo told her that they needed to get out of dodge before the doctors found them again. The boy seemed to be keeping the girl glued to his side, and she had no idea as to why, but she was grateful for him, since he didn't have to bring her back to life. He was the only one who was there for her when none of her friends or family were, and she could never thank him enough for it, which is why she obeyed his every call.

The new alpha let her leave the warehouse for small amounts of time, and it had been a whole day since Cassie had seen her dad in hospital — she hadn't announced her living situation to anyone else in her old pack, not even Liam, who she didn't exactly want to see. When she once thought that the boy loved her with all of his heart and would do anything for her; he left her when she needed him most, what could have been more important than staying by her side whilst she died, Cassie didn't know. But whatever he did during that time, she hoped that it was worth it, because it had caused their relationship to end, some may say she might be overreacting, but she didn't think so, and neither did Theo, the boy confirming that she was acting as normal as he would be. He had been so helpful towards her since she had died and come back to life, and she was internally grateful for him, the boy acting like a brother when her own wasn't even there for her during her time of need. Theo saved her.

So, that's why she was currently in front of the warehouse alone, crouched behind a cop car as she heard a roar inside — Theo somehow knew that something would be going down here tonight, and had sent Cassie to scout it out and let her know what the dread doctors were planning, since they weren't experimenting on any teenagers anymore, just chasing down the failures. She couldn't help but feel the fear course through her as she waited for something to happen so she could go back home and let Theo know everything that was going on, she couldn't disappoint him, and finding out the events of tonight was something she was determined to do. She sighed in annoyance — having been here for an hour now, nothing was coming out of that building, not even the cop that had gone in there after their colleague; standing up, the girl was about to turn away and head back to Theo to get him back here so they could go inside, but when she stood up, a face appeared in the window behind her, the reflection of a person scaring the life out of her, and Cassie not thinking twice before springing around and throwing her claws at the attacker, only to see Liam staring at her with wide eyes. "What the hell, Liam?" Cassie asked, scoffing at the boy with an eye roll.

"Cassie." Liam gasped, looking as if he was seeing a ghost. When he saw that her body wasn't at the tree with the others, he knew she was alive, but to see her in the flesh again was shocking to the boy, who had believed for the past two days that he was never going to see her again, "You're alive." He stated, holding his hand out gently to touch her, to make sure she was really here, but the girl instantly took a step back away from him, wanting anything but to be touched by him.

"What are you doing here?" Cassie asked him, crossing her arms over her chest as she looked at Liam with a look he had never seen her look at him with before. A mixture of hatred, sadness and disappointment flooded her facial expression, and Liam wanted anything but for it to be directed wt him, but here he stood, with a girl he barely recognised, the girl who's body he held in his arms just a few days ago. What had happened to her?

"No one knows you're alive Cass." Liam stated, as the girl didn't say anything, looking like she didn't care one bit that her family were grieving over her death still. "You didn't come to find me." He said, trying to hold back the tears that threatened to fall. He couldn't believe that she had been alive this whole time and never let anyone in the pack know — they all thought she was dead, yet here she was, standing in the flesh, very much alive and well.

"I know." Is all she said, shrugging at his words. Her heart was beating out of her chest at an inhuman speed and she was sure that Liam could hear it, but she kept up her wall, making him believe that she didn't care anymore.

"Did you not see my calls? My texts?" Liam questioned, trying to get something out of her. He knew nothing on how she was even here right now, how she was alive, what happened and why she hadn't tried getting in contact with any of the pack to say that she hadn't died. He hadn't exactly spoken to Stiles, the boy not wanting much to do with him as he had left his sister to die — Ellie had obviously spoken to Stiles about everything, telling him everything she knew about that night, and needless to say, no one was happy with him for multiple reasons right now.

"Yes." Cassie said, turning around and facing away from him, looking back at the warehouse door again. Theo had asked her not to talk to Liam, and she didn't want to go against his wishes, so him being here right now and her talking to him was basically Cassie going against Theo, and she hated to even think about that.

"How could you not tell me that you're alive?" Liam asked, moving so he stood in front of her to get her attention yet again, the girl seemingly not wanting to talk to him and he just couldn't understand why. They were good, they had planned to run away together, to get away from this town and avoid the dread doctors, but now she was cold towards him, like she didn't love him anymore. He couldn't even think about that, he loved her too much.

"I don't know, Liam. Maybe because you left me to die alone." Cassie snapped, meeting Liam's eyes as they were filled with hurt, whilst Liam's were filled with pure guilt. He knew what he did, and he was beating himself up over it constantly since it happened, but like Mason had said, he had the effects of the full moon taking over, and he acted on pure anger, he wasn't to blame completely, although he mostly was to blame.

"I- I don't.." Liam stuttered, not knowing what he could say to the girl to make any of this better, nothing he could say would make any of this okay, "The full moon.." He said, trying to explain what was going through his mind when she died.

"Do you know what it felt like, to die without any of my friends by my side? Any of my family? I had Melissa, she stayed by my side until the end, after you left me." Cassie explained, her voice breaking slightly as she spoke. The girl hadn't actually had to talk about the night she died because Theo understood what the girl was feeling and never questioned or pushed her for any answers. "You didn't even call Ellie for me." She added, remembering that she had asked Liam to call her best friend.

"Cassie, I.." Liam began to explain, only for the two of them to pause at the sound of gunshots inside of the warehouse.

Turning around, the two teenagers didn't expect to see a supernatural creature at the door, but instead, one of the cops, but when they saw a huge bear looking beast with glowing blue eyes, the pairs own eyes widened at the sight of it, having never seen something like it before. "What the hell is that?" Cassie asked quietly, absentmindedly moving back into Liam's chest, her eyes locked onto the beast the whole time, unable to take them away.

When it growled, pulling off the whole gate with ease, throwing it so it landed a few feet in front of the teenagers. "Run!" Liam shouted, instantly grabbing Cassie's hand and pulling her along with him in the opposite direction, the girl not hesitating to let him. They ran into the direction of the woods, running as fast as they could to get away from the thing, eventually letting go of each others hands so they could concentrate on running faster — they pushed onwards, looking back a few times to see the beast on their tail, closing in on them.

Cassie could barely breathe before Liam pulled her to a stop in front of the cliff edge, the two unknowingly having ran there, if he hadn't stopped her, they would've both fell off. "Shit, we gotta jump." Cassie said, glancing behind them to see the beast approaching from behind.

"You're kidding, right?" Liam asked, not knowing if she was being serious or not, but when he looked over at her face, he knew that she was being deadly serious about jumping to their deaths.

"We can make that jump if we run up." Cassie said, motioning to the other side of the cliff that Liam had failed to notice. But before Liam could protest, the girl was already backing up, Liam following closely behind as he didn't have much of a choice. Cassie held her breath as she ran up to the edge, before using all of her strength to push her feet up off of the ground, and finally jumping across the large gap. With a grunt, she landed on the other side, rolling a few times before coming to a stop, gasping at the pain from hitting a rock, "God." She grunted, pulling herself up, "See? I told you we'd made it." She said, finally standing up to look over at Liam, only to see the boy hanging on for his dear life on the edge.

Cassie didn't waste any time in rushing for his aid to lift him up, but hearing a pound from behind her, she stopped glancing backwards at the beast as it landed a few feet away from her, standing up and glaring straight at them. Cassie tried to pull him up, but Liam shook his head, "Do you trust me?" He asked.

"What?" Cassie asked, glancing back worriedly as the beast carried on walking forwards, "Not right now." She admitted, shaking her head as she felt like she knew what he wanted to do. She had already died once, and she didn't want to die again.
But before the girl could do anything or say anything else, Liam grabbed onto her arm, and pulled with all of his strength, the only thing being heard in the whole forest, being Cassie's fearful scream as they both fell to their deaths..
 
 
 
 
Cassie woke up with a gasp, her eyes focusing in on the sky above as she tried to comprehend what the hell just happened. Liam pulled her off of a cliff. He could have killed them both with something so stupid, the girl couldn't believe he could be so idiotic by yanking her off with him, they could've outrun the beast, he didn't need to do that. As she lifted herself up off of the ground, she felt a pain in her leg, looking down to see her bone popping out of her shin, and with a grimace and a grunt in pain, she pushed it back in, a gasp coming from her mouth as the pain sent pins and needles through her whole left leg. She took a deep breath in, stretching her muscles and flexing her foot to get her leg moving again, when she turned around to see Liam lying on his back on a large rock, passed out, but luckily breathing.
"Idiot." She muttered, slowly limping over towards him and shaking him, trying to get him to wake up, but the boy wouldn't budge, and his eyes stayed screwed shut, his breathing slow. With a sigh, Cassie formed a fist and brought it up, before slamming it down on his face with little strength, careful not to break any bones but hard enough to wake him up.

"What the hell?" Liam muttered, his eyes fluttering open as the blunt force from Cassie's punch woke him up, "Did you just punch me?" He asked, shocked that the girl even had it in her, she barely had a violent bone in her body, never being in a fight before.

"It's not like you didn't deserve it." Cassie muttered, rolling her eyes at the fact he was so offended she had hit him. Surely he must have seen that coming? He left her for dead and then dragged her off of a cliff, to say she was mad was an understatement. "What the hell is wrong with you, anyway? You just dragged me off of a cliff!" She argued, throwing her hands up in exasperation as the boy furrowed his brows in confusion, having thought that she would be glad he saved her life.

"I just saved your life." Liam said, shaking his head in confusion as he grunted in pain, knowing that something was definitely broken.

"No, you didn't. We could've out run it, instead, we're down here and I have a broken leg." Cassie said, crossing her arms in annoyance, before dropping them to her side and giving him a look. "Is anything broken?" She asked him.

"I think my back's broken." Liam admitted, unable to move from his place on the rock, not even being able to move his legs or anything, for that matter.

"Well, will it heal?" Cassie asked, having never seen Scott or anyone else with a broken back before, she wasn't sure at how fast the healing process would be for that injury, or even if it would heal.

"Yeah, eventually." Liam confirmed, before furrowing his brows in thought, "I think." He added, unsure with his answer.

But that was enough for Cassie, "Well, then, see 'ya." She said, turning around to walk away, but Liam's voice stopping her.

"What? Where are you going?" Liam asked, panicking about being left alone when he couldn't move, and with a weird beast on the loose. "You're going to just leave me here?" He asked, his voice wavering as the panic set in.

Cassie felt bad at the time in his voice, but Theo's voice ran through her mind, the boy telling her not to put up with their shit anymore, and to finally stick up for herself, and that's what she was trying to do. He said that none of them deserved her, and they were right — she was finally putting her foot down. "I'm lucky I only had a broken leg, Liam. You literally just pulled me off of a cliff." She scoffed, not knowing why he would think she would wait with him.

"I saved your life!" Liam argued, not knowing why she was being like this, it looked as if she thought something else but was saying something completely different, like she was being brainwashed.

"This time." Cassie told him, turning away to leave again.

"Who saved it last time?" Liam asked, wanting to know who had saved her life, because it wasn't any of the pack; the last time he saw her, Parrish was taking her dead body away. How could she be alive?

Cassie paused in her footsteps again, not looking back at Liam this time as the girl sighed, knowing he wouldn't like the answer to that question. It wasn't a secret that the pack didn't like Theo, or, well, Stiles, and maybe he had convinced Liam that the boy was evil, but that was far from the truth, and she knew it. "Theo did." She finally admitted, before walking away and leaving Liam on the rock to think about what she had just said.

Liam knew that Theo must have done something to the girl to make her act like this, he must have said something, she knew how much Stiles hated him, why would she go with him? Even worse, the girl didn't know what Theo had done to the whole pack, clearly, or she wouldn't be with him. The second she finds out what he did to Lydia the girl wouldn't hesitate to take their side again, but how would she figure that out when none of them knew where the girl was? Liam had to go to Scott, but it was clear that the boy hated him, so he couldn't go to him for help, he would send him away — he tried to kill him. Hell, Liam wouldn't even forgive himself for what he did. But what the hell was he supposed to do when Theo had Cassie wrapped around his finger? The girl hadn't even gone to see Stiles and her dad, that must mean something.

He just knew that he had to help her. Or he would die trying.