Liam let out a shallow sigh, eyes roaming over the ceiling for what had to be at least the thousandth time. He really wished he was exaggerating. Liam tilted his head towards the windows and almost cried in relief when he saw slithers of light peeking through the gaps at the edges of the curtains.

He didn't want to think about how many hours he'd wasted staring blankly at the ceiling rather than going back to sleep. Liam flopped his head to the other side, eyes skimming across the back of Theo's head wondering if he should wake him. Liam chewed his lip, pushing himself up slowly on an elbow, careful not to jostle the bed too much as he squinted at the small clock on the bedside table next to the chimera.

Ten minutes till his alarm would go off. Liam pushed himself off of the bed, sneaking across the room to grab a change of clothes. He'd shower first, if he happened to get out before the alarm woke Theo up then he could, if not then at least Theo would get another few minutes of sleep.

He took one last glance at Theo before disappearing into the bathroom, face lax with sleep breathing soft and even. He climbed into the shower reminding himself that it was going to be a good day. That he had a plan.

All it seemed to do was show him that his plan was fairly lackluster in the light of day. Still, it was all he had. He stood under the spray of the shower, eyeing a small path of mold between the tiles as he tried to figure out how to expand what he'd come up with the night before. He didn't hear the alarm go off, or Theo moving around the room. Too busy trying to think of what advice Mason would give him to think about the time passing.

The first indicator Liam had that Theo was awake was the sudden slam of the bathroom door as it was swung open with too much force and Theo's footsteps as he marched inside.

"Liam." Liam jumped, a high pitched shriek passing his lips as he flailed. His foot slipped out from under him and before he could even begin to register what was happening he was falling into the tub with a loud crash and a rumbling of curses. "...You alright?"

"GET OUT!" Liam yelped ignoring the pain blooming across his lower back from where it had gotten nice and acquainted with the side of the tub.

"Did you crack your head open again?" Theo hummed. Liam heard the rustle of the shower curtain and let out a third high pitched scream that he was sure he would later be very embarrassed about.

"IF YOU OPEN THAT CURTAIN I WILL KILL YOU!" Liam bellowed, sliding across the porcelain as he caught the edges of the shower curtain before Theo could pull it aside.

"Calm down, I was just-"

"We talked about this! You can't just walk in while someone showers okay? especially not silently, I mean what are you, a ninja?"

"It's not my fault you weren't listening." Theo snorted, Liam heard him shifting around the bathroom. the lid of the toilet being put down before there was a thump as Theo sat on it.

"Dude get ou-

"I'm sorry." Theo grumbled voice rasping like the words hurt to get out. Liam yanked back the shower curtain enough so he could peer through the gap at Theo slouched on the closed toilet picking his nails.

"What?" Liam asked. Theo's eyes darted up to meet his, eyes widening in surprise as if he hadn't expected Liam to hear him. He blinked slowly, eyes flickering from Liam's face to the shower draped over his shoulder like a grandma's scarf. His gaze moved away, shifting around the small bathroom like he could find Narnia peeking out from one of the corners.

"I'm sorry." Theo repeated bitterly eyes on the sink. "About last night."

"You talking to me or the sink?" Liam joked lamely. Theo's head snapped back to Liam in record time, eyes narrowing dangerously. "Me too!" Liam rushed out, before they could go for round two, or was it three, on the argument. "I mean, I'm sorry too." Liam corrected sheepishly. "If I made you think we weren't friends I didn't-"

"Yeah, because you not liking me really upsets me." Theo said with a hollow laugh.

"We are friends."

"It doesn't matter." Theo said stiffly, leaning forwards and bracing himself on his forearms. "I just..." He licked his lips, a frustrated sigh slipping out. "If this is the last stop on the whole forced chauffeuring trip I'd rather not spend it with you trying to push me off roller coasters because I mocked your anger issues."

"Last stop?" Liam echoed. Theo ignored it.

"So we good? Or are you going to get kicked out of Disney World for attempted murder." The butterflies were back, zooming around in his stomach fluttering up his throat until he could barely breathe.

Last stop. He knew chances were Theo would want to end the road trip after Disney World but hearing it said still left him nauseas. The only good part about it was that Theo apparently wanted to end the trip on a good note. That he didn't want Liam to be angry with him.

He shoved the wet hair out of his face, wondering how weird it was that he was still sitting on the floor of a motel bathtub. He wasn't, however, about to stand up and risk falling on his ass again, he really didn't want to start their last few days with Theo having to drag his naked body out of the shower to stop him drowning in a half inch of water.

"It doesn't have to be our last stop." Liam wondered when, if ever, he'd stop talking without meaning to. Theo's expression softened for a half moment, corners of his lips twitching upwards before the expression was gone, replaced with a blank face.

"We good then?" Theo asked again.

"Yeah.Yeah we're good."

"Then hurry up and shower so we can go to Disney World." Theo said. He swept through the bathroom without another word, closing the door with a solid click.

*

Liam was fairly sure he should be happy that Theo wanted them to actually be able to talk. In theory, it should make the 'kiss Theo' plan easier. In actuality, however, it left Liam lost, wondering how he would know if Theo was actually okay with him or if he was just keeping them amicable out of a sense of last hurrah duty.

He was positive he was one of the morose people to ever pass the gates of Disney World. The drive had been painfully normal, like nothing had changed, like the conversation at the truck and everything after had never happened, or, at least, like Theo was pretending it hadn't happened. Theo had booked them into the allstar hotel and let them into the room long enough to throw the duffle bag onto his bed and for Liam to glower at his own bed. One he would unfortunately not be sharing as things stood.

Theo had got a three day pass. Liam had three days, to not only make sure they were actually okay but also see if Theo would be at all interested in dating someone who lived a thousand miles away. 72 hours.

For anyone else Liam would say it was more than doable, for himself, well, he was just hoping that he didn't try and talk to Theo again because it seemed that only ended in disaster.

By the time the two were taking their first steps onto main street Liam had managed to come up with a somewhat decent plan.

Day 1 would be step one. Even if Theo said they were fine Liam couldn't help the nagging sensation that something was wrong and so he'd continue on the 'not pissing Theo off' voyage. He'd go along with Theo's nothing's wrong attitude, he'd let Theo take the lead and pick where they went and what they did and hopefully, hopefully by the time they got back to the hotel the awkward tension Liam still felt linger would have dispersed.

Day 2 – Hold Theo's hand. It wasn't an elaborate plan, but it was there.

Day 3 – Kiss Theo to show him that despite his mouth desperately trying to drop him in shit at every turn he did, in fact, like Theo. As a friend and as more. Then hope that once that much of the confession was out the rest and the resulting 'please try to date me' conversation would flow easier than the last two attempts at actually talking to Theo about feelings.

"Liam." Liam jumped as an elbow jabbed into his side, head snapping to Theo who was watching him expectantly.

"What?"

"I said I'm getting an ice cream. You want one?" His eyes moved to an ice cream parlor tucked at the edge of main street like it was more interesting than the Disney castle looming in front of them. Although Liam supposed he couldn't really judge him, he was too interested thinking about how to not fuck up showing Theo he liked him to have even looked around the street properly.

"You're having ice cream for breakfast?" Liam asked, following Theo as he moved to join the barely existent line for plaza ice cream parlour.

"You want one or do you want to keep judging my life choices?"

"...Can I have mint chocolate chip?"

*

Ice cream for breakfast turned out to actually be a fairly decent idea. The two meandered along main street, peering into without actually going inside shops. They stopped once they were out of the alley of stores. Ice creams slowly melting in their hands. Liam's eyes flipped from one side of the giant square to the other.

"It's bigger than I expected." Liam observed warily.

"I'm pretty sure the castles as big as Beacon Hills." Theo said. Liam didn't bother to call him out on the blatant over exaggeration. "So..Where too first?" he asked, eyeing the castle curiously.

"Where do you want to go?" Theo's gaze moved from the castle to him, eyebrows drawn as he licked his ice cream and gave a small shrug.

"I don't know. You're the one who's been looking up maps for the past week." Theo said. "Figured you'd know where you wanted to go."

"Well. Yeah but I mean, don't you have anything you really want to do?" Liam inquired. Theo gave another shrug, frowning as a drip of ice cream landed on his finger.

"Just do whatever you want." Theo said, following the melting drip with his tongue. Liam cleared his throat trying to convince the butterflies in his stomach to calm down and that Theo licking things really wasn't that interesting.

"You sure there's nothing-" Liam tried.

"Liam. Just pick something."

"I'm picking doing whatever you want to do." Liam said stiffly. "I'm trying to be nice here so-"

"You suck at it. You've already forced me to buy you ice cream and we've only been here ten minutes." Theo said.

"I did not force you to buy me an ice cream." Liam hissed scandalized. "You asked if I wanted one and-" Theo was grinning, lips twisted and eyes sparkling as if he was actively trying to get Liam to argue with him. Liam prayed that he was wrong. Maybe it was the norm for them but Liam needed things to be better than normal, he needed Theo to be freaking ecstatic. "thank you for the ice cream Theo." Liam said gently. Theo's face screwed up as if he'd smelt something terrible, eyeing Liam like he'd grown a second head. It evened out a moment later as he returned to his ice cream.

"Just do whatever you want." Theo said.

"I want to do what you want to do." Liam argued.

"Fine. I want you to choose what we do." Theo decided childishly.

"Dude that's not-" Liam started, Theo licked his ice cream, raising an eyebrow slowly, smug smile creeping back onto his face. Liam huffed. "Alright, okay. Well, does Tomorrowland sound good? I want to go on space mountain so-"

"Lead the way."

*

Despite Theo being far more interested in his ice cream, and then Liam's, than walking, they still managed to make it to Space mountain before the queue was too long.

Theo was quiet as they made their way through the line. His eyes flickering across the park with the same kind of childish curiosity he'd had at the water park, just more subdued. By the time they were almost at the front of the line Liam was fairly sure he was more nervous about Theo's reaction to the park than he was actually riding the roller coaster. The most excited he'd looked so far was on the way to the ride when Liam had agreed to give Theo the last of his ice cream.

"So this is good then?" Theo asked, leaning his forearms on the barrier as he peered around the few people left in front of them to watch the next load of thrill seekers scurry to find the best seats on the coaster.

"I think so." Liam said, pushing onto his tiptoes to try and look over the heads of those in front."People say it's good. Most roller coasters are pretty much the same though, don't you think? I mean, not that they're not awesome but they're just-"

"Wouldn't know-" Theo said, eyes following the carriage's as they disappeared out onto the track. "-I've never actually been on one." Theo said. Head tilting and eyes narrowing at the wall where he could no doubt hear the ride working beyond their sight.

"Yeah?" Liam prompted. The chimera finally let his attention be drawn back to Liam when he nodded, shifting so he was leaning back against the barrier.

"Yeah." He hummed.

"Don't worry, you can hold my hand when you get too scared." Liam said, waggling his eyebrows. Theo's forehead pinched, eyes clouding in confusion. Liam grimaced at himself. He was meant to not be pissing Theo off, saying dumb shit probably wouldn't help him in that endeavor. He cleared his throat as he turned back to the track, willing the next ride to start loading. "So uh...You never go to theme parks when you were little?" Theo's eyes burnt into the side of Liam's face for a tense few moments before he shifted again. Liam let out a small sigh of relief when Theo turned his gaze to where the full carriage was rolling in and people were starting to scramble out laughing and talking about the ride.

"My parents-" Theo said slowly, as if figuring out whether not he should talk. "-They took us to six flags one year, for Tara's birthday-" He broke off, finger tapping against the barrier, once, twice. "We got to the front of a line for one I could go on but Tara was telling me about how kids had died on it before and I..chose not to ride it." Theo explained mouth moving as he chewed the inside of his cheek.

"She scared you out of going on it?" Liam asked with a bubble of laughter.

"My Mom couldn't convince me Tara was lying so she eventually just agreed that kids had died on it but promised we'd go on another ride that no one had been hurt on I was happy to find out I was too short for the rest.." His eyes shone, a smile creeping onto his face as he returned his gaze to Liam. "You might still be too short for these rides, we probably should have checked." Liam didn't think he would ever understand Theo's ability to go from talking about undoubtedly bittersweet memories to mocking Liam so seamlessly.

"You're literally an inch taller than me." Liam scoffed.

"That inch could be the difference between staying in the seat or not."

"I'm above the height restriction." Liam said adamantly.

"You sure?" Theo mused. The gate opened, the line scurried forwards. Theo darted along with them to find a seat. Liam chased after him.

He wasn't entirely sure how Theo had managed to get to the very first cart when there had been at least five people in front of them but he couldn't bring himself to ask, it was the best seat and if it turned out that there happened to be some unconscious people stashed at the edge of the platform then Liam could pretend he didn't know any better.

Theo pushed curiously at the safety bar as it was locked into place over them. Liam felt a buzz of adrenaline rushing through him as the ride started, rocking them forwards jerkily when it begun it's slow ascent. The carts clicked along, gears working with a soft click, click, click.

"How high up do you reckon we'll go?" Theo asked, voice a shade too light to actually be casual.

"I'm not scared." Liam said with a soft laugh. "But nice try."

"I'm not trying to scare you." Theo lied. "I'm just curious. How fast do we go? How much of it is motorized and how much is just using gravity. They do loops right? So at one point aren't we going to be high up and upside down held in only by a little metal bar that I could probably break with my teeth alone-" Theo talked animatedly and Liam found himself insanely grateful he'd chosen a dark ride so that Theo wouldn't be able to see his eyes slowly widening at each word Theo said.

He closed his eyes, forcing Theo's voice out of his mind as he tried to remind himself that roller coasters were safe, Disney World was safe.

"I mean, I don't think engineers really had werewolves in mind when they made this stuff you know-" Theo mused.

You will not fall out the ride and die, you will not fall out the ride and die. The cart came to a groaning stop. Wheels teetering over the edge of a drop Liam didn't want to open his eyes and see the size of.

Theo was silent beside him. Another groan sounded, this one angrier, like twisting metal. Liam's eyes snapped open looking to Theo as the chimera peered over the front of the cart, eyes blown wide and glowing gold, lips parted in a minuscule little O and hands twisting the metal bar.

"Why aren't we moving? Is it broken? Are we-"

"It's for tension, it's fine, we're fine. Take your hands off of the bar Theo." Liam said urgently. Theo's hand stayed in their white-knuckled grip, the metal creaked again, the cart rocked tauntingly. Liam let his eyes change, looking down at what Theo was looking at, which, frankly, was a terrible idea. He felt his breath catch in his throat as he looked at the sheer drop ahead of them, floor a mess off poles and concrete that Liam doubted even a werewolf would survive landing on at 100mph.

He locked a hand on Theo's wrist, giving it a soft tug.

"Let go Theo."

"I'm fine." Theo hummed, eyes still glowing on the floor.

"You are so not fine. let the fuck go-AHHH!" The cart plummeted down the drop, screams ripped up from behind them as others went over the ledge. The air rushed fast against Liam's face, howling in his ears. He gave Theo's arm another tug and was happy to find he actually unlocked it from the bar.

At least, he was. Until he realized what two people with supernatural strength could do to each others hands when scared.

The upside to having his hand broken by Theo was that at least he'd done the same right back so neither could really mock the other for the hand breaking. Even with still healing hands the two stumbled off of the roller coaster with flushed cheeks, wind-swept hair and hearts racing.

He wasn't sure which part of having his hand crushed made Theo decide roller coasters were fun but it was evident he had come to that conclusion with the way he was suddenly a lot more interested in where they went, pointing to the grand structures of roller coasters and passing through the crowds like a bull in a china shop.

*

"Mad hatter ride." Liam read. "Dude! we have to go on this!" Liam decided, grabbing Theo's arm and hauling him towards the dwindling queue.

"Teacups, really?" Theo sighed, the line shifted slowly as people moved to find themselves a cup. "Liam this rides for baby's you can't seriously-"

"No, I'm pretty sure it's like the waltzer."

"The what-zer?"

"The waltzer, you know, they have them at fairgrounds and stuff, they spin really fast and you end up needing to puke. It's great."

"Yeah, it sounds it." Theo drawled sarcastically. despite his less than enthusiastic tone he still allowed Liam to pull him onto the ride. the two found themselves a cup and sat down, Liam bouncing in his seat.

"It's gonna be awesome." He said confidently, pulling the small safety bar down. Theo shook his head, lips twitching sardonically, clearly disagreeing. It wasn't long before the ride started