Melissa came back in a few hours later, to give Liam dinner. She slowly opened the door, seeing Theo and Liam fast asleep on the bed. She hated to wake them but knew Liam had to eat dinner. She brought Theo dinner too, knowing the chimera would be staying there until tomorrow when Liam had to go to the psych unit.
"Liam, Theo," Melissa softly said.
Theo rolled over and looked at the woman, "Sorry, I didn't mean to fall asleep."
"I think it's okay this time," she laughed at him. "Liam, I brought you dinner."
Liam just continued to lay there, slowly opening his eyes. Theo sat up and pulled Liam up with him. He was already shaking, not looking up at Melissa.
The nurse kneeled to look the boy in the face, "Liam you either have to eat or get a tube feeding, you know that. The longer you fight it the longer you have to be in here; you are skin and bones, you know you have to be stable to leave."
The beta shook his head at his motherly figure, "I know Melissa. I'll try some food tonight."
Theo smiled at him; Melissa gave them both their dinners, so Liam could be slightly distracted by Theo eating with him. Liam stared at the tray, it just had a small peanut butter sandwich, a granola bar, and a cup of mixed fruit. They knew his body wouldn't be able to eat a lot of food right away, and they wanted to avoid refeeding syndrome.
Liam picked up his spoon and pushed around the fruit. "60 calories, I can do this," he thought to himself.
Theo looked at him, "Liam it's just fruit."
Liam knew it was stupid; he fought numerous supernatural creatures, defending his friends against hunters, and would not back down from anything, but he was afraid of food. Liam finally decided to eat the fruit, but he just stared at the rest of the food.
Liam started shaking from a combination of being cold and not being able to eat the rest of the food.
Melissa came back in, "You can't try anything else?"
The beta shook his head no.
"Thank you for trying; I'm going to get the rest of your supplement. Do you want to drink it?"
Liam gagged just thinking of the taste. "I can't."
"Okay, sweetie I'll be back."
Liam looked at Theo; he looked so weak especially with the NG tube in his nose. Theo started to brush the side of his face.
Back at the McCall house, Scott looked at Malia. He has barely talked since leaving the hospital.
"I don't know if he's going to be okay."
"He will Scott; he's strong."
"You saw him; I've never seen someone so skinny in my life. He's Liam, the best lacrosse player I ever saw, one of the strongest werewolves I know, and right now he looks like a pile of bones. He survived being thrown down a well, fighting berserkers, fighting his best friend as the beast, almost losing his girlfriend of the time, recovering from Theo manipulating him, fighting off ghost riders and hunters, facing everyone knowing he was a werewolf, even learning how to control his anger and turning into a werewolf, but he just seems like now he's given up. Corey told me the other day that Liam told Nolan and him that he didn't know if he even wanted to live anymore," Scott looked at his girlfriend.
Malia wrapped her arms around the alpha's shoulders, "that's why he has all of us to support him."
"I hope you are right," just then Scott's phone started to ring. "Stiles, what's up?"
"Scott, hunters just took out at least 8 supernaturals in New York; her army is growing. All the people that were found dead, were all over the state, and it looked like they were clawed to death by werewolves," Stiles spoke quickly over the phone. "How's Liam?"
Scott was taken aback, "How do you know they were hunters?"
"Didn't Derek tell you?"
"No, we were kind of busy this morning at the hospital. Liam isn't doing well; I'm scared Stiles, like really scared."
Stiles went silent over the phone. He couldn't believe this was happening to the boy; never in a million years would he expect Liam to be the one to fall apart he was always so strong.
"Stiles, what didn't Derek tell me?" Scott broke Stiles's train of thought.
"Monroe's starting to imitate supernatural's deaths like werewolves killed them. That way she can make more people fear you guys, getting more people to join her army."
"And Derek figured this out how?"
"Derek, love him dearly, but we all know I am the brains of our relationship. The FBI had footage of one of the hunters doing it; she shot the body then ran this rake thing over the body making it look like werewolf claws. However, someone must be working for her inside the FBI because the footage is now deleted."
"And how did you see this?"
"I hacked into the system; what else did you expect? But Monroe is playing smart, the media displays it was a werewolf, means people fear werewolves, equals more hunters."
"So, Monroe can reason we are all home right now with Liam, but she's attacked elsewhere I'm confused."
"Easier she knows she can't fight our pack, so us out of the way means easier job elsewhere. She knew taking Liam out himself would be near impossible with his power and Theo by his side, but by taking his parents out meant hitting him mentally hard. She was the school guidance counselor; she probably looked up his files and saw his history. She knew mentally he was an easy target. I mean she knew about his father and even got him involved. She had to know about his self-blaming tendencies and could only hope he would relapse with his eating disorder. Taking him out took the entire puppy pack out the question, she knew we would come back to support him."
"Stiles, you are a genius, but that means she probably still has eyes here on us too."
"I mean probably; it makes sense."
"And Liam is being trapped in a hospital with possible hunters."
"Well...I didn't think about that."
"I don't know what to do I mean the kid needs hospitalization; he's going to die if he doesn't, but he might also die within the hospital."
"He doesn't really need to be a hospital; I know Liam he's not going to listen to any therapist. I mean I've only been to Eichen House being controlled by the Nogistsune, but everyone says inpatient usual makes your mental state worse but health better. Your mom's a nurse she could get him what he needs; she has to have at least one doctor she can trust that can help her sneak supplies and have them check on him."
"Again, Stiles you are a genius, and Liam would be in such a better mindset being here where everyone could be with him more. The issue is Peter already signed him in."
"Well, get your mom to have Peter sign him out. I mean if legal things are an issue; she just needs to get a doctor to sign off that he can be medically discharged before child services can get their hands on it."
"Thanks, man. I'm going to go to the hospital and get my mom right now."
"Welcome, be careful. Take care of yourself and hug Liam for me."
Malia was listening to his conversation the entire time, "So, we are breaking Liam out of the hospital to hospitalize him ourselves."
"Yes, oh gosh, and we are going to have to get him medically excused from school still."
The werecoyote stared at the alpha, "Just have Natalie fudge some note."
"Ah, I love you," Scott looked at Malia.
"I'm not even supposed to be the smart one."
"I just realized the hunters would assume we took Liam here."
"I doubt they know where Peter and Derek bought a house at. I mean it's in the middle of the woods more than the old Hale house, no one drives past the zoo in Beacon Hills anyways. It's way passed it. We just need to convince them it's necessary," Malia looked at Scott.
"I'll go talk to my mom; you go talk to your dad," Scott said.
"You don't want to switch?" Malia grinned at Scott.