Theo and Liam

> "I went through all this to keep you from being taken!"
>
> - Theo to  Liam when fighting the Ghost Riders

## Thiam

### Tropes

* Enemies to Lovers  Theo was Liam's enemy after he tried to get him to kill Scott.
* Partners in Crime  Theo and Liam aide each other in multiple breaking and entering crimes, as well as stealing a police car, and killing on school property, and stealing Danae Tlanta's red  Ferrari to go on a date.
* Power Couple  Theo will always fight for Liam, and Liam will always do the same for him if they find themselves in such a situation, and they fight for each other.
* Always Save the Boy  This applies mostly to Theo, who has risked his life in order to make sure Liam is still alive, and will go to him when he is in danger.
* Longing Look  Theo and Liam both have a staring problem, where they will keep eye contact long after the acceptable time, and can convey feelings through looks.
* Anchors  Theo is the only one who calms Liam down enough to be content when he is overwhelmed, and Liam reels in that part of Theo that is ingrained to kill.

**Theo and Liam** is the relationship between **Beta Werewolf,** **Liam Dunbar**, and **Werewolf-Werecoyote Chimera**, **Theo Raeken**.

When Theo returned to Beacon Hills in order to steal Scott McCall's Alpha powers, he met Liam after he assisted the McCall Pack in disarming Belasko, another fellow Chimera, while acting under the guise of being a normal Werewolf. In reality, Theo was a chimera, and was steadily manipulating the McCall Pack into getting on his good side so that he could get Liam to kill Scott on the Supermoon, and steal the alpha powers, in order for Theo to steal the power from Liam, with Belasko's harpy talons, where he intended to either steal the power from Liam, or kill Liam if necessary.

Liam became closer to Theo after Theo saved him and his chimera girlfriend, Hayden Romero from the Dread Doctors, by breaking through an electrically charged fence in order to save them, and take them to the vet clinic, to treat Hayden, until the Supermoon, when Theo manipulated Liam to kill Scott because Scott wouldn't give a dying Hayden the bite in order to save her. Theo took advantage of Liam's anger towards Scott, and sent him towards the school, to steal his alpha's power so that Liam could save Hayden on his own, and not rely on Scott. When Liam's best friend broke him out of his rage, Theo killed Scott, and used the green serum to revive the now dead chimeras, including Hayden as members of his own pack, dubbing himself as their "Alpha" as a consolation prize for losing his opportunity for alpha status.

Ultimately, Theo was taken down by Deucalion, and Conri Tlanta, the latter of whom took him to the East Coast in order to reform him, and while he was gone, Liam and the rest of the pack assumed that Deucalion and Theo had fought, and the chimera had perished at the hand of the alpha. During November in 2012, when Liam was locked down hard by his alpha due to the pack losing Malia Hale, Stiles Stilinski, and even though he was in Eichen House, an ally of the pack; Peter Hale, he is contacted by the sheriff, Noah Stilinski, who was going to Long Island, New York, to visit his son, Stiles, and because Liam missed Stiles, he asked if he could come.

When Liam and Noah arrived in Long Island, Conri picked them up at the airport, and took them to the Hale Pack house, where the pack was getting ready for Thanksgiving, and this was when he met Theo again, after thinking that the chimera had been dead since the Dread Doctors. Liam sees how much Theo has changed without really interacting with him, due to his interactions with the twins he was working with, how he acted around Conri, and his son, as well as how formally he apologized about his behavior to Noah, and how Stiles had slung an arm around him when they went to sit down and eat their Thanksgiving dinner. Liam stayed with Theo in the pool house, and would wake up to Theo making him breakfast and some tea or coffee in the morning, as Liam mostly preferred coffee, and Theo was an avid tea drinker.

After returning to Beacon Hills, seeing Theo in a new light, Liam was subjected to Scott and the rest of the pack talking shit about him as the Ghost Riders came into town, and when Liam was one of the only members of the town left, along with the pack in diminishing numbers, Theo and some members of the Hale Pack arrived to help, and Theo saved Liam's life in order to let the beta live and keep fighting, until Liam had to tell Scott that instead of killing Theo, Deucalion had taken him to a therapist, who knew about the supernatural and helped Theo get better, and the alpha accepted it because Theo had only killed the Ghost Riders when defending Liam.

During the war between the global genocidal hunters and werewolves, the Hale Pack came to fight and kill all of them, with Theo fighting for, and alongside Liam as the beta allowed Theo to take out the hunters with the help of his pack members, during which time, Theo learned how to take pain, and made a hunter's last moments alive, free of pain. After this, Liam didn't want Theo to go, but since Scott would hate that Theo and his pack killed most of the hunters, they left as soon as possible, and Liam didn't see Theo again until Christmas, when he gave Theo a new sound system for his truck, as a joint present with Jenefer Monique, who installed it, and it was then that Theo kissed Liam, and they began their romantic relationship.

**Theo and Liam** are known as **"Thiam"**

## Background

### Before Theo's Reformation

When they first met, Liam was still a young, and slightly naive beta, while Theo was a conniving chimera, who wanted to take the power of Liam's pack, and his alpha for his own, and make Liam one of his betas with the alpha status he intended to steal from him, or kill him to get. Theo was the one who ended up pushing Liam to reveal himself as a werewolf to his best friend, by shifting into his wolf form, and chasing Liam and Mason through the high school until Liam roared at him, shifting his face, flashing claws, fangs, and his lupine shift at Theo's wolf. After this, Theo ran into the forest and shifted back into his human body, proud of himself.

Liam did end up trusting Theo after multiple instances when Theo swooped in to save Liam and his friends from the Dread Doctors, and each time, Liam grew to trust him more and more, until he took Theo's advice and fell into a rage, during the Supermoon and tried to kill Scott because he would not bite and turn his girlfriend, in order to save her from dying of mercury poisoning, due to being a "failed chimera", and even after Theo saved both Liam and Hayden from the Dread Doctors prison, by breaking through an electrical fence at great risk to his own health, Theo began to show signs of true care and affection for Liam, but he ignored it as Liam kissed Hayden in the backseat of Theo's truck, and held her as her health got worse.

After Theo revealed his true colors, and Liam broke out his Supermoon rage trance, he realized what Theo had done and just like the rest of the pack, Liam prepared to go against Theo and the other chimeras he resurrected, including Hayden, who was now on Theo's side, but questioning her loyalty due to her relationship and feelings for Liam. Theo knew that Hayden was pulling away from his plans with their pack after he brought Deucalion to their hideout, and the Augmented Alpha taught him how to steal power with Belasko's talons. When he would run into Scott or Liam, he would act happy to see Liam, and make sarcastic jokes and comments to make the beta either entertained or uncomfortable, but Liam would shoot him down and make it blindly clear to Theo that he wasn't amused.

When Theo was ultimately taken away by Conri Tlanta, who was aided by Deucalion in trapping the chimera and getting him out of Beacon Hills, Liam was initially pleased that he was gone, as the McCall Pack thought he was killed in a fight with Deucalion. Liam thought he'd never see Theo again and got back with Hayden after she was turned into a real werewolf, and didn't think much about Theo, because he had so much more on his plate, after Malia, Stiles, and Peter vanished from Beacon Hills without a trace, and Scott started to become paranoid he'd lose more pack members, so he tightened his hold on Liam so he wouldn't get any ideas about leaving.

### East Coast

Theo was on the East Coast, suffering for nearly two months from hallucinations of his dead sister, throwing every wrongdoing in his life into his face until he accepted who he was and what he'd done, and wanted to atone. After he was freed from the dungeon he had been kept in, he started living in the pool house on the back grounds of the mansion that laid on eleven acres, which housed the newly reformed Hale Pack. Theo joined the pack almost instantly, and enrolled in order to get his GED. By the time Thanksgiving rolled around in 2012, Theo was enlisted to help with the turkey, and make a lot of other dishes, and worked the entire day on the food, until he realized that there had been a few unexpected guests arriving.

Liam had been told by the Sheriff that Stiles had left to go to the East Coast, and he was invited to visit his son for Thanksgiving, and because Liam missed Stiles, and he was being put under extreme amounts of pressure from Scott, he asked Noah if he could come along. After convincing his parents, but not telling Scott, and instead making the excuse of visiting his grandparents, Liam got on a plane, and flew out to JFK in New York, and both he and Noah were picked up by Conri, who drove them to the mansion. When Liam arrived, he was in awe of the place, and excited to see both Stiles, Malia, and Peter, even though the older Hale werewolf had always freaked him out before, and the stories Scott told him about Peter, painted him terribly, and way different than the man Liam met. He also met Derek's son, Eli Hale, who he didn't realize was also Conri's until he met Conri's mother, Danae, who educated him on genetic werewolves, and ended up being the one to teach him how to shift into a full wolf by focusing on his pain.

Theo and Liam were reunited at this time, and but when Liam first saw Theo, his first instinct was to attack, but Conri and Derek held him back as Theo opened the oven and basted the turkey, before talking to one of the French witch twins about another timer, and finally noticed Liam, smiling at him before he noticed Liam's angry face. Theo took interactions with Liam slow for the rest of the day as he stayed in the kitchen, but after Liam sat on one of the bar chairs and watched Theo work on scalloped potatoes, he realized that Theo was different, and there was a lighter, airy scent to him, whereas his old scent was dark and thick. What really cemented Theo's personality shift was when Eli crawled into the kitchen and even though Liam knew it was against the rules that the witches had put in place, and talked about often in their thick French accents, Theo lifted Eli onto the counter and played with his little hands and feet as he rolled out dough for pastries, and gave Eli a taste of the apple turnover filling.

The two of them got more time to get to know each other, and Liam got to know the new Theo, and Theo was able to see and experience Liam's personality and easygoing attitude without the looming threat of the enemy, or the pack. Liam stayed in the pool house, and Theo would make him coffee and breakfast in the morning, making him grateful for it, and on Saturday, they spent the day at the pool, and Theo took Liam out to get a pair of swim trunks in town, and bought him a bunch of junk food on the way back. Theo was sad when Liam left, and on their last day before Liam left, the beta talked to Theo, wanting to know how he changed as Theo showed Liam the underground tunnels that went from the pool house to the mansion, with a dungeon cell at the end of the pool house tunnel, below the building itself, where Theo had been locked up for two months, and from Peter's cabin to the mansion, which was only used by Peter and Malia.

When Liam left for the airport, he and Theo hugged each other goodbye, and Theo called him "Little Wolf" when he let go of him and Liam got into the car to leave, and Theo watched them drive away until they turned onto the main road, and pulled out of the gate. After returning to Beacon Hills, Liam was in a gray area of floating between the warm, familial feeling he'd gotten from the Hale Pack and Theo when he was there, and the pull of his alpha, who turned him into a werewolf in the first place, and his current pack.

### Ghost Riders

Liam called Theo when the Ghost Riders came through Beacon Hills and took everyone, diminishing the numbers of the McCall Pack until Liam knew that the Hale Pack was his only hope to live. After getting Liam's call, Theo immediately went to his alpha and Conri, asking them for help, only to learn that they were already planning something, because Noah Stilinski had called Peter for help, and Liam's call to Theo was even more of a reason to go to Beacon Hills in order to save Noah and Liam from the Ghost Riders. They linked the witches to the werewolves, who were going, including Peter and Theo, who got to Beacon Hills as Liam was locked in the police station with Hayden and Mason, the latter two, who were taken by the Ghost Riders before Theo saved Liam, and Nixie Snow, an immortal witch teleported them away.

Theo couldn't stop Liam from running into the danger, so he tailed him and both of them ended up at the police station again, before Noah and Peter narrowly managed to escape with the help of Jasper Veracruse, one of Danae's witches. Liam broke into a police car, and after searching frantically for the key, while the Ghost Riders were closing in on them, not helped by Theo's shouts, he finally found it and they both cheered before driving backwards, and Theo ran over at least four Ghost Riders before they both got out of the police station and broke into the high school, where Theo saved Liam from another Ghost Rider after the beta realized a way to get into the Wild Hunt, and stole one of the horses. Theo was enraged at Liam for running into the hunt, and told him that he'd made sure to do whatever it took to keep Liam alive before he told him to hurry up and get on with it.

Theo was there when Danae and Ash ended up stopping the Ghost Riders and a Nazi werewolf, while he and Peter kept Scott and his pack, including Liam, back from the fight as the train approached for the Hunt, and Danae used a powerful wind blast to switch the tracks, and placed an internal death spell on the Nazi, who was transformed into a Ghost Rider before the spell could finish him off. Theo, Peter, Danae, and Ash quickly teleported away with the help of Nixie and Jasper, who got them out of the forest, and Peter barely had time to say goodbye to Noah, before Scott got to the police station, and Theo only got to say goodbye to Liam just before they were about to leave. They hugged each other goodbye, and Theo touched Nixie, who teleported him, along with the rest of his packmates back to the East Coast.

### Werewolves versus Hunters

By the time the war between the hunters and werewolves was underway, Liam had already paid another visit to the Hale Pack in Long Island, where he and Theo spent more and more time together. Theo had gotten his GED by that point and was excited to find a place to go to school while he worked for a year or two before going off to culinary school, and Liam was getting ready to start his senior year, being pushed up a grade because the principal had wanted him and the rest of the younger members of the McCall Pack out of high school sooner. Liam visited during the summer and both he and Theo were pawned off a lot to babysit Eli, who was getting older and speaking in a lot more Norwegian, due to Conri only speaking in that language to his son, and making babysitting confusing for Liam, who only knew Latin.

By the time Liam left, he and Theo were extremely close, and Liam was not excited to leave Theo, and it got even worse when he returned to Beacon Hills and found out that Hayden was going to move away, and called Theo to talk to him about it. Theo, who had been harboring feelings for Liam since the Ghost Riders tried to assure him that it would end up being a good thing, so that the beta could focus on himself during senior year, and focus on lacrosse, even telling him that he might be able to come to one of Liam's games if Nixie cast a scent removal spell on him. This made Liam feel a little better, and he went on, still going through the natural stages of his breakup, until one lacrosse practice, when a wolf came onto the field, and he realized that something was about to happen, but he didn't know what. Theo enrolled in a culinary course in the local community college, and went into a business class for the future, so he knew how it worked.

Noah Stilinski called Conri and told him about the possible threat, and after Conri tried to get Theo to call Liam, the chimera not having any luck, because Liam was under house arrest from Scott, and had been at school when Theo called, and had his phone in his bag. The Hale Pack did not intervene until one of their allies, Diana Winchester informed Conri, who was acting as alpha because Derek had run off in the middle of August, and ended up in South America for reasons Conri didn't find out about until later. Diana had been contacted by a hunter who wanted her aide in taking out the supernatural creatures of Beacon Hills, before they moved onto the entire world, and Diana did not trust her, so she contacted Conri, who sent out Peter, Theo, Luke, and Diana, who acted as the hunter's double agent. Danae joined soon after, and ordered Theo to get himself caught by hunters, free himself, and then go to the McCall Pack with his capture as a cover in order to get on Scott's good side for the war.

Theo broke out of the hunter's armory, and took two omega wolves with him, before he was arrested by Noah Stilinski and his deputies, and taken to the police station, where he was reunited with Liam, the two of them silently smiling at each other in front of the pack, and when Liam went to look at the back of the station, Theo hugged him and told him about the Hale Pack's plan, to have Diana sabotage the hunters from the inside, and Danae, Peter, Luke, and himself to kill most of the hunters, if not all, only leaving a few of them alive, to kill them later. Liam told Theo about the Anuk-Ite, and the two of them set off to stop it from merging, which ultimately failed, and Danae was called in to give the pack vision removal rings for fighting it. This was also when Conri came, and the final battle began.

Liam was locked in the hospital, and was saved by Theo, who brought Conri, Luke, and Peter with him, and they all managed to kill all of the hunters that attacked them, before a few of them caught them off guard, and Theo was shot in the shoulder. One of the hunters, a teenager in Liam's high school class was shot multiple times in the chest as Conri and Luke were checking the hospital for more hunters, and Theo stood up, walking over to the hunter as Liam stood next to Peter, watching as his chimera took the boy's pain, taking pain away for the first time, and making Liam smile as he really and truly knew that Theo was a new person. When Theo had finished taking away the hunter's pain, Liam hugged the chimera and told him that he did good and that he didn't want him to leave when Conri told Theo they had to leave, and despite wanting to stay with Liam, Theo did go back to the East Coast, and started his culinary classes.

## Getting Together

### Surprise Visit

After graduating, Liam and his best friend took a road trip up and down the California coast, before Liam started going to school for his History degree, and once he got off early for Winter Break, he hopped onto a plane and flew to the East Coast, where he intended to see Theo, who was in the middle of his finals for his two semester culinary course and business course, and was applying for the International Culinary Institute (ICE) in their Pastry and Baking Arts program. When Liam arrived at the mansion, he was surprised to see that Theo wasn't there, and after getting confirmation that Theo was coming back soon from the alpha of the pack, Liam went about getting a movie night at the pool house ready for himself and Theo.

When Theo came home after a long day of class and submitting his application for ICE, he found Liam waiting for him with snacks and a movie ready to play for him. After getting over his shock, Theo was overjoyed to see Liam, and after taking a shower, and getting the grime from the kitchen off him, before they watched their movie and Theo fell asleep on Liam, before the beta followed, in dozing off on the chimera's shoulder. They spent the rest of the weekend together, and watched movies and swam in the pool, before Liam told Theo he felt comfortable enough to go out into the woods for a run in wolf form, something that Theo agreed to enthusiastically.

During the night of the full moon, Liam and Theo shifted into their wolf forms, and went running in the woods, where they played and tackled each other near a stream, and fell asleep curled up to one another, until Liam woke up as a human the next morning, and carried Theo's sleeping wolf form into the pool house, and laid him on the couch, covering him with a blanket and sleeping on the opposite couch, watching Theo's wolf as he fell asleep, feeling something warm and fuzzy in his stomach.

### Christmas

Liam was staying for Christmas, and was sleeping with Theo in the guest room of the pool house for Christmas with the Hale Pack. He came to terms with his feelings for Theo when the chimera opened his acceptance letter from his new culinary school, and hugged Liam, lifting him up and spinning him around in the air, before he kissed his cheek and they started cheering for him. Liam had been thinking about an appropriate and practical gift for Theo that he knew the chimera would enjoy, and got the idea after a ride in Theo's truck, when he tried to turn on the speakers, and Theo stopped him, telling him that the speakers and radio hadn't worked since the hunters shot up his truck. Liam was confused, because Conri had fixed the truck, but he clearly had forgotten to fix the speakers and the radio.

Then, Liam called Jenefer Monique, who helped him figure out the best system to buy for Theo, based on reviews, installation, and overall performance and surround sound. The new speakers and radio systems were shipped and arrived the day before Christmas, and Liam breathed out in relief when he checked his phone, and started acting skittish around Theo, who was planning to ask him to be his boyfriend after nearly five calls to his close friends, and one to his parents, to ask about it. After getting the green light, Theo planned a surprise for Liam after present opening, and enlisted Eli Hale to help him in getting Liam to go along with the plan, something that the three year old was enthusiastic to do.

On Christmas morning, Liam woke up to find candy canes leading him into the tunnels, and out of the den, into the living room, where the pack were opening presents. Theo smiled at him with Eli on his lap as he sat on the loveseat, and beckoned Liam over as Conri handed Peter his present, kicking off the flurry of wrapping paper, until Liam gave Theo a letter, which told him to go outside and find Jenefer, who told Theo to open the box over the sound and radio system, while Liam stood behind the chimera, and watched his reaction as he let out a happy sound, and turned to Liam, grinning before he wrapped his arms around the beta, and before Liam could say anything, Theo kissed him, and showed him a silver ring with a golden gem in the center, hanging around his neck, and told Liam that Eli had been wearing the one Theo wanted to give Liam, and Theo was going to surprise him at the end of their gifting, only for Liam to ruin his surprise with a better one.

After this, they are officially together, and Theo takes Liam for their first ride in the truck with the new sound system listening to "Die Young" and a number of Taylor Swift songs that Liam swore his mother put on his playlist before Theo called his bluff and told him that he liked Adele, making Liam smile as they went to a diner, where they had their first official date. Liam ended up transferring to a university in Long Island, to be close to Theo, and get his degree in History, before interning at the Natural History Museum as an archivist.

## Trivia

* Because Theo helped Liam learn how to keep his anger in check, he became Liam's anchor, replacing the anchor to pain that he'd possessed, thanks to Danae Tlanta, teaching him how to shift into a wolf.
* Liam is the only Werewolf that is not an official member of the Hale Pack, who is able to transform into a wolf.
* Theo and Liam bond over their love for female artists, and listen to their songs, sending each other samples of music for the other to listen to, and give feedback.
* Liam became Theo's anchor after he saved Liam from the Ghost Riders, and Liam told him that he didn't want Theo to leave him even after the Ghost Riders were defeated.
* Liam has an obnoxious sweet tooth, and after going to pastry and baking school, Theo made him a pie, and Liam always begged for that same pie every weekend after getting it for the first time.
* Theo and Liam will go to the gym together on occasion, and Liam always gets jealous of other men looking at his boyfriend, so he will walk over to Theo and spot him while he benches.
* Theo is a cat person, and Liam is a dog person. Liam wanted to get a dog, and begged Theo, who challenged him to a rock-paper-scissors match, and because Liam had never played with Theo before, he was confident, but lost, so they got a cat, but Liam got to choose which cat they got at the shelter; a cute calico.

## Gallery

\*Double Side Eye\*Judgy BoyfriendsLiam is a damselPower CoupleWhen Conri takes a pictureTheo got a modeling gig, but Liam stole the spotlight"This is for you Li"\*Theo and Misty are sleeping\*Playful Kitties"He's Mine B\*\*\*hes"