The drive to the water park hadn't seemed long at all. A half hour was nothing compared to the past few days. Liam knew he'd definitely spent more time in the car than out of it. The passenger seat had to have a permanent Liam shaped dent by now with how many hours he'd spent in it.

So thirty minutes, thirty minutes was nothing, especially not when he was full and happy and Theo smelt happy, lips tilted in a quiet smile. It had been filled with the soft thrum of the radio and an easy silence as the engine hummed beneath them and wind rushed through the open windows. It was safe, nice.

The drive back, however, felt far too long, the thirty minutes stretching to an agonising eternity. The silence was tense in a way that left the hairs on the back of Liam's neck standing on end. The radio was off, Theo had tried to put it on but Liam had jabbed the off button again almost immediately when the tiny hum had left Liam wanting to claw his ears off.

His phone buzzed a near constant crescendo in his pocket that he refused to acknowledge, passed actively trying to ignore the way each vibration felt like it was burning a hole in his leg, focusing instead on trying to keep breathing, Theo's fingers were tapping a constant heartbeat on the steering wheel that was almost unbearable and the scent of chlorine and his own confusing mix of emotions left him wanting to gag.

"So are you going to tell me what's wrong or are we going to do the whole night in uncomfortable silence?" Theo asked as the car crept through traffic. Liam kept quiet, eyes wandering aimlessly out the window. "Great." Theo snorted. His fingers tapped harder against the wheel, once, twice. The truck continued down the road, wheels bumping in a pothole jostling the two in their seats.

"That one looks like a duck." Theo blurted.

"What?" Liam asked, finally drawing his eyes from the horizon.

"The cloud." Theo hummed, taking a hand off the steering wheel as he pointed to the horizon. "It looks like a duck." Liam knew Theo was trying to distract him from whatever he thought was wrong and honestly, it was a pretty good effort, enough to throw Liam through a loop for a moment and make him peer at the duck-esque cloud but then he remembered why Theo thought of it. Remembered sitting in the bed of the truck talking about cloud watching when he was younger. With Mason, who was pack, a pack he'd lied to and still hadn't called back. A pack who Theo had torn apart.

Liam grit his teeth, sliding further down in his seat trying to ignore the way Theo's heartbeat seemed to echo in his ears.

"That one looks like an umbrella." Liam closed his eyes, breathing in through his nose when his chest tightened. What if Scott hated him? What if he never trusted him again? What if- "And that one looks like an old couple stuck in a loveless marriage having dinner and wishing the other would just die already so they could live their last few years in peace." Theo said, hand returning to the wheel.

"Will you shut up?!" Liam groaned. Theo didn't reply further than clicking his tongue. finger tapping against the wheel. Once, twice.

Liam slapped his hand before he could think about it. Theo barely managed to stop the truck swerving straight off of the road.

"Are you trying to kill us?" Theo hissed, slapping Liam away again.

"I asked you to shut up!"

"I wasn't saying anything!"

"No but you were tapping. What the hell is it with the stupid tapping? You're worse than Stiles-" Stiles who was going to disown him faster. Theo slammed his foot on the break, drawing them to a sudden stop in the center of the road. The car behind them screeched to a stop, horn blaring.

"Okay seriou-"

"Our Motel is literally there! Drive you idiot." Liam growled. "You can't just stop in the middle of the road!"

"I can when you're being a bi-" Theo started. Liam didn't let him finish, ripping off his seatbelt and throwing himself out of the truck. He stomped across the road towards their motel. He heard Theo swearing behind him, the blare of a horn still screaming, leaving Liam's head pounding as it bounced around his mind.

In....out....Liam sped towards their door fishing his key from his pocket as he tried to breathe.

They were going to think he'd betrayed them.

They were going to hate him because he'd been selfish enough to run off in the middle of the night with their enemy.

Liam shook his hands at his sides, feeling his blood buzzing in his veins, roaring in his ears. If he could get in the hotel room he could calm down. Maybe throw himself under the shower like Scott and Stiles forced him to do when he lost control at school. If he could just get inside, it would be fine.

His phone buzzed in his pocket. He sucked in a rattling breath, claws threatening to slide out of his fingertips.

Liam slammed his way through the motel room door, a wave of heat and stale air flowing over him as he powered inside. His heart hammering.

In, out.

The door slammed behind him and Liam turned to see Theo, his cheeks were flushed red in anger, jaw tense.

"What the hell is your problem?"

"Nothing!"

"Yeah because I'm going to believe that." Theo scoffed.

"You're my problem!"

"Wha-"

"I said you're my problem!" Liam screamed. Digging his phone out of his pocket. "You killed Scott! You manipulate people! You manipulated me! And now my packs going to hate me for being here with you and they should! Because this is probably just some..some ploy to get me to trust you so you can screw us over again. That's what you're good at right? It wouldn't be the first time you pretended to be a friend just so you could-" the words spilled from Liam's mouth in a frantic huff. Thoughts coming too fast for him to focus on any in particular.

"What is happening?" Theo asked with a surprised bubble of laughter. "You were fine half an hour ago, why are you freaking-"

"Because I remembered who you really are!" Liam bellowed. He barely noted the way Theo's body begun to reel back as if hit before he stopped it. "And now the pack knows that I'm here with you and they won't stop freaking calling me!" Liam tossed his phone onto Theo's bed, watching it bounce across the mattress screen lit up in another call from Scott. "They're going to hate me, Scott's going to hate me. Again. Thanks to you"

"You told me to drive! You told me to come. You asked to stay longer. I told you to tell Scott I was here. You can't blame this on me!"

"I can blame it on you! You're the one that hurt them. You're the one that betrayed us! You're the evil one. Not me! It's not fair that I'm going to get dragged down by-"

"This was all your choice! I didn't ask you to come! I didn't even want to come! You lied, you made us carry on with no money. You screwed up! Not me."

"You murdered your own sister!" Theo's eyes flashed when he took two quick steps towards Liam. Liam stood his ground glaring right back, ignoring the bite of his claws in his palms.

"What and you're such a saint?" Theo hissed.

"Compared to you, yeah. Tara was just the beginning of your psycho killing spree! You're a killer! A lying manipulative mur-"

"And you and your pack worked with Deucalion to convince me to murder my pack.." Theo growled, his hands slammed into Liam's chest sending him stumbling back. "You killed me. Scott killed me. I suppose it doesn't count though does it? Because Scott's good, because sending an eighteen-year-old into hell for what you thought would be eternity was a necessary evil, because if his dead sister is the one dragging him away it leaves your hands clean."

"YOU DESERVED IT! Everything that happened to you. It's not fair that someone like you gets to still be here and someone like Brett doesn't! You shouldn't be here. You shouldn't be screwing up my life."

"You don't want me here? Fine." Theo growled, grabbing the phone from his bed. "Here." Liam barley managed to catch the phone as it was launched full speed at his head. "Call Scott, tell him you made big bad Theo leave and I'm sure he'll forgive your sins. You can get a bus back to Beacon Hills." The table shook when Theo slammed a wad of cash onto it and stormed towards the door.

"Where the hell are you going?" Theo didn't answer, the door slammed with a heavy snap behind him. Liam let a growl rumble through his chest as he followed, throwing the door open and watching as Theo stalked towards his truck, throwing himself in it. "Theo! I said whe-"

Theo peeled out of the car park without a glance at Liam, which, really, was quite insulting, he could have at least stuck his middle finger up.