𝒮𝒸𝒶𝓇𝓈//𝒯𝒽ℯℴ ℛ𝒶ℯ𝓀ℯ𝓃

Chapter XXXIII

Chapter Thirty-Three - Raw Talent

"I do not like Eliza anymore."

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Theo and Eliza were sleeping in his truck, the two cuddle up on the backseat, when they were woken up by a knock on the window. Eliza groans as they look around, another knocks was heard, causing the two of them to look towards the other window, where a cop was standing there. "Babe, we need to move." Theo told the girl, who groaned once again as she sat up. The cop knocked once again, this time a little hard, causing Theo to shoot his hand up. "Okay. Okay."

The two climb into the front seats and turn the truck on, driving off to another spot. Theo looked over to Eliza, who had her head resting on the window with her eyes closed. "Do you wanna go home?" Theo asked her, catching her by surprise, her eyes shot open and she lifted her head off the window, looking over at him.

"Hmm?" She hummed.

"Do you wanna go home?" He repeated.

Eliza shook her head. "No." She smiled over at him. "I'd rather be here, with you." She grabbed his hand, and he smiled back over at her.

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It was now nighttime, the two were sleeping again, they were both in the front seats. Theo and Eliza were woken up to a cop holding a lamp, once again causing them to have to move. "Yeah, okay, alright, alright." Eliza groaned, smacking her head against the window, causing her to wince as Theo looks over at her real quick while starting up the truck.

Theo drives off and parks behind a mattress junkyard. The two stay up, looking around to see if any cops are going to show up. "You should rest." Theo spoke up, looking over at Eliza.

"I can't sleep when I have a pounding headache." Eliza grumbled, resting her elbow on the center console and putting her head in her hand. Theo took her free hand and focused, a few minutes later and Eliza was sighing in relief, she looked down to see the black veins on Theo's arm, instantly pulling her hand away. "Baby, I don't need you to do that." She told him.

Theo sighed. "It helps reassure me that I can help you." He told her, looking out the drivers' side window.

"I'm sorry. I guess I just stopped letting people help me after you..." Eliza trailed off, but Theo knew what she was going to say, or maybe what she was going to say. There was honestly a bunch of things that she could say.

"After I got dragged to hell?" Theo questioned, looking over at her.

"Actually, that's one of them, but the main one was after you stopped Tracy from killing me." Eliza told him.

"I didn't need to be reminded of that." Theo muttered.

"I guess that night, I realized that I wasn't needed by the pack, and that I was always relying on the others to help me. It was like I was the... The burden of the pack, they didn't, and never will, need me. It-It's kind of like I'm a side character in a movie or show, like I don't matter to them, and I have so much trauma and all this shit that has happened to me and nobody talks about it because I don't matter. I never have." Eliza rambled, not realizing that she was crying until Theo had swiped away a stray tear that had fallen.

"That's not true, it's not true at all, Eliza, you-you are a very important part of that pack, and you always have been. Do I have to remind you what they went through to get you back?" Theo asked.

Eliza scoffed. "They didn't try jack shit to get me back, they basically let me stay with you."

"You remember when we were down in the tunnels looking for Lydia?" Theo questioned.