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Theo hated his Tourettes, always repeating words or not being able to keep his body still he hated it, and what made it worse was that his parents didn't seem to care always yelling at him to stop his random hand clapping, blinking, wheezed squealing or just repeating random words. When he didn't stop his parents used to yell and scream at him and sometimes when he didn’t stop even after their yelling it would end up with him being smacked and being told to stop with the childish behaviour. It got worse when he was taken by the dread doctors they didn’t want to listen to the ‘’stupid noises’’or watch his random childish movements and he tried so hard to be ‘normal’ to not whistle or make noises or make random movements he tried to suppress his tics but it was painful. so they used to wire his mouth shut and try anything to keep him quiet and when the movements started they used to strap him down and make sure he couldn’t move. He’s free now away from the grip that the dread doctors had on him.
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Mason sighs defeatedly as he sinks back in his seat cuddling up to Corey, he’s feeling really hurt. There at a pack meeting Scott was talking about the new supernatural problem in Beacon Hills. Mason had just given a suggestion of what they could do to get rid of the problem; he even thought it was a pretty good idea.Everyone in the pack had agreed and stated that they would try it and see if it works but Theo had just made the same face he always does. It was a mix of irritation and disgust, his upper lip curling up almost like he's about to let out a snarl, his teeth poking out as he frowns. Mason was used to it by now it seemed like Theo had a personal problem with him. He’s always making that face at him. Maybe not when the others are around. Maybe that's why the pack hasn’t mentioned anything about it to Theo, but Mason knows that Corey’s been with him a few times when he’s made that face and Corey hasn't said anything to Theo but Mason can understand why Corey hasn’t said anything to him, but what bothers him is the fact that Corey doesn’t even look bothered when Theo makes that face.The thing that makes it so much worse is that Theo always gives him a compliment or says things like that's a good suggestion, Scott you should definitely keep note of that one, wow you might even be smarter than stilinski or keep it up and you might even get better than me ending his comments with his signature smirk.Mason hates it, it's like giving him hope thinking he might actually be doing something to help in some way and right after he crushes all his hope by making that face. He just wants to be a good friend and try to get along with Theo for Liam just like Liam did for him when he started dating Corey.Mason doesn't find it fair though because Corey has a bond with Theo even though Corey suffered the most when Theo was in his psychotic killing phase by Theo manipulating him and forcing him to join his chimaera pack and then killing Josh and Tracey just for some power. But he doesn't have that bond and Mason doesn’t wanna seem ungrateful or selfish or anything, he’s grateful for even being allowed to be a part of the pack with his boyfriend and best friend.Mason buries his face in his boyfriend's neck letting out a sad sigh when Theo makes the same face at him during the movie the older pack members decided to put on after the pack meeting ended.
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Lydia sometimes comes over to the McCall house to watch Tv with Melissa and Theo isn't letting her watch it; he does this sometimes. He doesn’t do it as often but when he does do it, it really annoys her.Like right now.Lydia is sitting on the well used sofa, waiting for Melissa to get back with the snacks they're trying to watch Grey's Anatomy pointing out all the medical inaccuracies in the show. Trying to be the keyword as Theo won’t stop making random noises and saying random words.Lydia doesn't understand why he does it. It’s like he's purposely trying to wind her up. He will sometimes make some sounds when the pack are together trying to bond and spend time with each other, but today he seems to be doing a lot more.He keeps grunting and clicking his tongue. Sometimes letting out the occasional whistle. Every ten or twenty seconds he will blurt out a word relating to science and half the time it won’t even make any sense because he just says random things like bluey or nine and after he lets out a frustrated sigh.Theo sat at the coffee table, sketchbook open, colouring pencils and pens scattered out in front of him so maybe it's his way of concentrating. Theo takes drawing very seriously he has done since he moved into the McCall house when the pack found out he was homeless and living in his truck.But today Lydia hasn’t had a very good day. Lydia woke up to her mother arguing with someone over the phone and on her way here she decided to stop at starbucks only to find out that they were sold out of her usual almond and biscotti cookie and while pulling out of the drive through she spilled her coffee all over her car. So she's not in a good mood.And Theo’s still going with the noises getting louder and louder and it’s really starting to irritate her. Huffing and letting out a glare aimed at the back of his head (a glare Stiles would be proud of, not that she would ever tell him) she gets up and heads over to the kitchen where Argent is sat at the table looking at something on his phone while talking to Melissa whos rummaging through the cupboards.Melissa turns to her with a smile. ‘’ I’ll be there in a second. I'm just looking for the cookies. I can't remember where I put them’’ she says sheepishly. Lydia returns her smile before replying ‘’ no. no. It's okay. We might not be able to hear anything though because Theo keeps saying things and making noises’’ she tries to sound angry but it comes out more tired than angry.Melissa sends Chris a quick look before he stands up walking into the living room ‘’Theo’’ he mutters tapping him on the shoulder to get his attention.Theo looks up at Chris with a confused look on his face. They seem to have a quiet conversation before Theo looks at her with a sad look on his face. Lydia feels a wave of confusion wash over her, why is Theo sad when he was the one making noises and being annoying.‘’I’ll head upstairs and draw in my room, sorry Lyds’’ He mutters heading towards the stairs as Chris gives him a fatherly pat on the back.When Melissa returns after finding the cookies. They start the show again Lydia getting lost in the plot forgetting about everything that's happened today.
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Isaac shouldn't even be awake right now, but he is.It’s not his fault, he had a nightmare again. It wasn’t as bad as they normally were but still bad, and now he really needs to pee.So he quietly climbs out of bed aware of all the supernatural hearing around and tiptoes out of his bedroom towards the bathroom not wanting to wake anybody up. He freezes when he hears Chris’s voice.‘’Was it about Tara or the dread doctors?’’ Isaac shrugs it off when he realises Argent wasn’t actually talking to him and that the voice was coming from Theo’s room.‘’Both’’ Theo’s voice comes out just above a whisper he sounds so broken. Isaac thinks he wouldn’t have heard without his supernatural hearing. It doesn’t feel right to Isaac knowing that Theo can be that quiet. What happened to the snarky sarcastic comments that he normally makes. To him Theo sounds just like he did when he was finally free from his fathers abuse.He doesn’t know why both Theo and Argent are awake but he can only guess that Theo had a nightmare just by the mention of his sister or the dread doctors and now Argent is comforting him.Isaac doesn’t want Argent to know he’s awake. He has to be up early tomorrow. He's going with him to pick Allison up from paris. So he quickly moves next to the door so that they don't see him.‘’Here’’ he hears Chris speak again.Isaac watches through the gap in the door, watching as Argent passes Theo a glass of water. Theo grabs it with a shaky hand bringing it to his mouth slowly, as he brings the water to his mouth his hand jerks causing him to spill the water over both of them and Theos bed.‘’Fuck. Shit!’’ Isaac moves back slightly as Theo raises his voice as Argent tries to calm him down reassuring him that it's okay. ‘’Sorry. I don't know why-’’Theo’s voice breaks as he speaks. But Isaac can't understand why Theo would do something like that. His first thought is that maybe it was an accident. But the glass was almost to his lips and he jerked his arm, and it didn’t look like a normal spill. It was almost as if he threw it all over the bed on purpose, but if he did it on purpose why did he apologise.Chris pulls Theo into a one armed hug reassuring him. ‘’Hey, hey, hey, It’s fine Theo, it's only water. We can just change the bed and dry the sheets. why don't you go change into some new pjs while I change your sheets.’’Theo takes a deep breath, going to get up to change before he can get up, his right arm is at a perpendicular angle and clenching into a fist before hitting his collarbone violently. He continues to do this while making a pained face as his breath hitches. He goes to do it again but Argent is quick to grab his wrist and stop him.‘’Calm down. Theo breathe with me.’’ Theo does as he's told, copying Argents breath. Argent smiles sadly at Theo. ‘’Come on we’ll go downstairs and put on some music for a bit’’Theo just nods and sniffles. Before suddenly shrugging and letting out a whistle.What? Isaac thinks. Didn’t he just say yes so what’s with the shrugging and why did he need to whistle as well. But Isaac doesn’t have any time to dwell on it as Chris is standing up grabbing Theo’s sketch book and headphones off his desk and making his way to the door Theo is following close behind him. Isaac moves fast and silently back to his room.When he closes the door he stands there for a second leaning against the wood, just breathing and listening as the two men make their way downstairs. Thinking about how what he just witnessed was nothing like the Theo they once knew.He sighs and walks over to his bed, laying down letting out a tired yawn. His need to pee isn’t there anymore, and with his adrenaline wearing off he's tired.
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Argent is out with Isaac doing something, and Melissa is at work, which means that it’ll only be her Scott and Theo having dinner, as Scott had explained to her when she first arrived to spend time with him.She’s sitting at the table helping her boyfriend prepare the meal they're going to be eating that night when she hears Theo yell something from his room followed by a loud bang.Scott tenses at the bang before saying that he's going to go check what it was, maybe something was knocked over due to the wind and drag theo downstairs from his ‘den’ as he likes to call it.Scotts only upstairs for a moment before Malia hears Theo yell.‘’I said I'm not coming down today! Fuck!’’She hears Scott reply to him a minute later ‘’Theo, Mallia won't care. Come on, it’s the first time the three of us have been able to spend time together. Please just give it a chance.’’ Theo doesn't wanna eat with them? Maybe he just doesn’t wanna be a third wheel all throughout dinner. Or at least that's what she thinks until she hears Theo’s reply.‘’No, they’re bad enough already without all the trouble of dinner. I’m not coming.’’ This is followed by another bang and a tongue click.Is he talking about her? Is it because of her? Has Theo still not forgiven her for attacking him after Liam brought him back from hell? She knows her and Theo have had their share of problems in the past but she thought they were moving past them… both being werecoyotes and sharing a bond different to the others in the pack. She doesn’t think so, would Scott let him talk about his girlfriend like that, her scent sours at the thought.Scott speaks from upstairs ‘’Ill tell Chris your not coming down to eat or better yet i'll tell Mellisa, you know mum will make us do some sort of bonding activity if you don't come downstairs and eat‘’Malia has a small smile on her face at this knowing Melissa will make them do some sort of bonding activity knowing Melissa loves having the pack around and seeing them all as her children.‘’shit no please‘’ Theo huffs out ‘’i'll come down but it won't be nice for anyone involved‘’‘’okay‘’ is all Scott responds with before heading back downstairs.When Theo comes downstairs he looks tired no not tired shes seen Theo when hes tired his is more like exaustion. she also notices that Theos blinking really hard ‘maybe hes trying to stay awake’ she thinks to herself that is until Scott whispers something to him and theo throws his head back letting out a noise which causes Scott to wince.Theo and Scott take there seats at the table and the three of them start eating in comfortable silence, a clinking sound fills the silent room causing Malia to look around the room and when her eyes land on Theo she finds him sat there with a scrunched up look n his face and his fork nowhere to be seen. Theo slowly rises from his seat, picks up his fork from the ground and puts it in the sink, exchanging it for a new one before sitting down again without a word.They go back to eating in silence but soon enough the room is filled with the sound of cutlery banging on a plate followed by a small loud sound almost like a squeal, Malia looks in Theos direction seeing him banging his cutlery on his place she looks at Scott with a confused look on her face Scott just shakes his head and goes to talk to Theo but before he can get a word out Theos knife flies out of his hand in the direction of the opposite side of the room.Malia looks shocked with a hint of anger in her eyes, she can't believe Theo would do something like that well she could maybe in the past but now… throwing knives. He could have hurt Scott. She goes to say something but Scott gives her a look and goes to pick up Theos cutlery so she remains quiet.Scott gives Theo back his cutlery and goes back to acting like nothing ever happened until a few seconds later it happens again and then a few more times and every time Scott gives Theo back his cutlery.Malia's starts to get annoyed though, why cant Theo just keep hold of his own cutlery? Is he doing it for attention? Is he actually trying to hurt Scott and make it look like an accident, she doesnt know but she's determined to find out if Theos is going back to his old ways.The room goes silent again and they all go back to eating, that is until in Malias opinion Theo starts trying to get attention again. Theo keeps holding the fork up to mouth before his hand jerks and the food on his fork falls off.Both Malia and Scott can hear the frustration in Theos voice, him letting out little sighs everytime it happens. Malia can't seem to grasp why he's getting frustrated when Theos is doing it to himself. Scott offers help to Theo but he declines.‘’I can do it myself Scott i'm not stupid i know how to feed myself, i'm not a baby‘’Scott just nods his head and goes back to eating his own food as Theo puts his fork down. When Theo lifts his fork up again his head jerks forward and he ends up stabbing himself in the cheek.Malia just stares at Theo deciding he's definitely trying to get attention now, why would he purposely stab himself in the face with his fork?‘’Shit Theo‘’ Scott takes the fork from Theos hand wiping the blood from his cheek with his thumb and examines his cheek. Theo pulls his face away from Scott.‘’Im fine scott i’ll heal, werewolf remember‘’ Theo gives his little smirk as he speaks.‘’I'm going back upstairs i'm not hungry anymore‘’ Theo says as he gets up heading over to the stairs, once he gets there he lets out a mutter of ‘’I told you this was a bad idea‘’ before walking up the stairs.
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Tonight is Friday which means pack sleepover night. Theos comes to love pack sleepover night since he's learned he is part of the pack. It means cuddling with Liam all night and arguing with stiles about which avenger is best and making sure Brett doesn't wind up his boyfriend too much.So here he is sitting in the comfort of his anchor arms wrapped up in his favourite fluffy blanket, a nice fluffy baby blue one that Liam got him for his birthday once he realised that Theos body doesn't run as warm as all of the natural werewolves.The movie is only five minutes in there watching the notebook. Lydia's choice.Theo makes a noise and shuffles a bit in Liam's arms. Liam looks down at him and gives him a small smile and kisses his nose.When they get halfway through the movie that's when things start to go wrong, Theos noises are getting louder and his movements are getting stronger.Brett looks at Theo and can't help but wonder what he's trying to do.Theos head starts jerking forwards. Malia can't help but realise that he's doing the same thing he did at dinner a few nights ago with her and Scott and realises that maybe he's not doing it for attention anymore, maybe he has a reason, some sort of supernatural possession maybe? She wears a worried look on her face wondering why nobodys doing anything.Ten minutes later and his arms start twitching, only small twitches but still there.Scott seems to have noticed because he gives Theo a look and Theo nods his head. That is until he starts blinking rapidly and his face scrunches up every few seconds. Malia thinks Scott may do something but all he does is move the dog off theos lap and back down onto the floor, her stomach sinks in disappointment.Deton gave them the dog as a therapy dog after a particularly hard battle with a new supernatural creature causing chaos in Beacon hills. Alec mentioned that dogs make him feel better and more like a person than a werewolf always fighting for his life.Malia thinks that if Scott isn't not doing anything then it must not be that bad. She pushes the sinking feeling that something bad is going to happen in her stomach to the bottom and goes back to focusing on the movie.Ten minutes have passed and Theos is still going. By now nobodys focused on the movie, all focused on Theo. Who shrugs and blinks and grips his thighs so hard he's leaving moon shaped marks in his skin from his nails but occasionally his arm will fly out or he’ll throw himself forwards then go back to laying on Liam's chest.A few more minutes later and Theos starts to whimper and sniff, Theos arm starts doing a weird movement. Isaac recognises it from the other night when he had to go to the bathroom and ended up spying on Theo and Chris instead, hitting his collarbone. Maybe now someone will do something?Liam does, without looking away from the movie he grabs Theos wrist and holds it so he stops hitting himself. Liam starts rubbing his thumb over Theos knuckles and kissing them gently.Theo is crying by now and the whole room looks worried.Another whimper leaves Theos mouth followed by him throwing himself forwards again.Corey cant take it anymore, having got really close with Theo since he moved into the McCalls house and cries out.‘’Why is nobody doing anything!‘’All eyes in the room turn to focus on him.‘’Corey what-‘’ Scott starts to ask but before he can finish Alec cuts him off.‘’Why aren't you doing anything? You're all just sitting here like nothings happening, he's clearly in pain!‘’‘’Is this about Theo?‘’ Melissa asks carmly‘’You both need to calm down he's just-‘’ Stiles speaks but Malia cuts him off.‘’No! He's just what? Somebody needs to help him..‘’Everyone is too worked up trying to get somebody to help Theo to realise he's actually calmed down slightly, still making some movements and noises and that he's stopped crying. When he speaks up.‘’Guys calm down, I'm fine. I was just having a tic attack‘’‘’A what?‘’ Malia asks, somewhat calmly now that she knows Theos okay.‘’A tic attack‘’ Theo smacks his lip and jerks his head.‘’What's a tic attack‘’ Malias face fills with confusion thinking it's probably another human thing she hasn't learnt yet. She turns to look between her boyfriend and Stiles for an answer.‘’A tic attack. Its where Theo has multiple tics at once and he cant stop them.‘’ Stiles provides her with an answer.‘’Tics?‘’ Malia asks, still confused.‘’yeah, ‘cause of my tourettes.‘’ Theo responds‘’your..?‘’ Alec asks.By now everyone apart from Melissa, Chris, Scott, Stiles and Liam are looking at Theo confused.Theos eyes widened and he looked confused before speaking.‘’You told your pack I had tourettes right?‘’ when scott doesn't speak Theo repeats himself ‘’right?‘’‘’I thought you would tell them! It's your thing!‘’ Scott is quick to defend himself.‘’My thing?! what the fuck is that supposed to mean?! You're the alpha!‘’ Theo responds back, digging the palm of his hands into his eyes in frustration.‘’I thought you told them, they never asked me anything!‘’The pack all look dumbfounded.‘’Okay enough!‘’ Melissa's voice travels through the room. ‘’it doesn't matter whose fault it was the pack knows now right.‘’Everyone lets out a mhm sound.Soon enough the movie goes back on and the pack all go back to watching the movie with occasional tic from Theo but they all just smile.