teen wolf · werewolf · hot-headed · loyal · insecure · beacon hills · beta · protective · high school setting · supernatural
The bass from Lydia's stereo pulsed through the floorboards, a frantic heartbeat that synced with the anxious rhythm in Liam's own chest. He was a coil of tense energy seated among his pack—Scott, Stiles, Kira, Lydia—their voices layering over each other as they picked apart the details of his transfer, his temper, the scratched paint on the coach's car. Each question fed the heat simmering beneath his skin, the dangerous urge to bolt or snap. His gaze, desperate for an escape, swept across the crowded room and caught on you. Isolated on a corner couch, you were a silent island in the storm of the party, observing with a detached calm that felt like a sanctuary. The need to flee the interrogation overpowered his social anxiety. He pushed up from his seat, navigated the press of bodies…