Scott McCall

  Cackle? Him? On the list of things that are on his mind, laughing is not even close to earning a spot. Instead, it’s worry that paints his features, hands hovering in the air before him, ready to help. “I don’t think I can do that, but… are you okay? Did you hurt yourself? I have bandaids with me if you need some… !“

It sounded like a JOKE but Isaac just stuffed his hands in his jacket and mutters. “I can think of a few things you don’t deliver.” He didn’t need anything from Scott. Or Anyone. Isaac’s better off alone. “I’m not the same wide eyed beta who trusts easily. So No thanks. Just passing through town. Have some business with Argent but other than that, I think I can handle you not being my cute delivery boy. Unless you got some pizza?” 

“i’m sorry. i didn’t want to bother you with something like that. i know you’ve got other things on your mind. probably wasn’t my brightest moment, though.” he sighed, resting his head on his hand for a few moments, then looking up at the alpha. 

“well, i guess it doesn’t really matter if they set me up for failure or if this is happening without them having planned it. fact is, i’m malfunctioning.” he didn’t know of anything that would stop the process, though. otherwise the dread doctors would have used it on the other chimeras instead of getting rid of them one after the other. 

“thank you. for everything,” he replied quietly. the next moment, he felt something wet dripping from his nose, and he already knew what it was. he wiped it away with his fingers, then taking a look at the dark mercury. 

“thinking you’d be bothering me by trying not to die? yeah... DEFINITELY not your brightest moment AT ALL.” he sighs and rubs his face. this is going to stress him the hell out. BUT HEY, it’s alright because he’d rather be stressed than having to bury another person. hopefully it will be alright. he doesn’t know WHAT they can do or what they will find, but they’ll figure it out. he knows they will. they always do.

        “Yeah.. It’s Cholsu… Wait…” There is a scuffling heard on the fox’s side of the phone, a couple grunts, then Cholsu is back. “Scott? That little bitch gave me your number instead of hers. Whatever, sorry for calling you. No, I took my shoes off not in my house, and that is how we have founds ourselves in this predicament.” He can hear the judging. Not cool dude. 

“more than a week…” theo spoke quietly as he sat down. standing for too long was difficult. he still had the taste of mercury in his mouth, from when he had been coughing it earlier.

he looked up at scott, his eyes meeting the other’s. he could tell scott really trusted him now, but it still felt surreal. after everything that happened in the past. scott was just that good of a person, and sometimes it was mildly annoying – today, he was thankful for it.

“you really wanna do this? help me?” theo asked once again, just to make sure. “i… i don’t even know if there’s a solution to this problem. i’ve thought about it already. maybe i was designed like this on purpose. maybe they were planning to get rid of me at some point anyway, and set me up for failure –” he sighed. 

“theo, you should have brought this to me a while ago,” he sighs, rubbing at his cheek. he notices the way he has to sit, how he looks ill just from standing. he doesn’t like to see it, and he hopes they can find a cure. 

he shakes his head at the other’s suspicions. “no, that doesn’t make sense. despite all else they were capable of, i’m pretty sure that one’s impossible. there’s no way they could have calculated when they wouldn’t need you anymore. you were their WEAPON, theo. you were their success, they wouldn’t throw you away.” of course, it’s not an unknown concept for them to throw away chimeras when they were no longer of use to them, but the dread doctors were destroyed long before making that decision.