Devoted ║ Liam Dunbar

║Chapter 15║

The chatter within the back of the van soon died down. All the 'supplies' we managed to buy consisted of chocolate bars, chewing gum and junk food which we all ate within the first two hours. It was so stuffy in here, yet everytime Braedon opened a window to let air through, we would be attacked by millions of grains of sand from the desert we were driving through.

Liam seemed to be suffering the effects of the full moon faster than I did. Derek tightly chained him up, so his back could barley lift off the wall. I was sat towards the other end of the constricting van, taking deep breaths as Stiles seemed a little hesitant to chain me.

''Stiles, please I don't want to lash out.'' I felt my teeth sharpen and extened, pressing against my lips as just mentioning his name reminded me of childhood memories from when mom was around.

The more I was starting to think about it, the less it was actually working. I was getting fustrated with myself as I began bringing back worser memories, from her actual death day but it was making me worse.

I rolled my head back letting out a soft growl before I heard Liam starting to loose it. My eyes landed on his wolf complex, even in that form it still sent memories of the tender way he kissed me and held me. The way it made me feel so special and like we were the only two people in the world.

Even though I knew returning back to human form would be extremely hard, the thought of Liam was so relaxing.. It calmed me down and made me feel less out of control again. I don't think I've ever been so relaxed on a full moon before.

''Hey you're doing good.'' Stiles spoke as I nodded, swallowing. Liam on the other hand was growling and snapping, Derek finding it hard to keep him held down. He was trying to get him to repeat all these 'three status names' as a mantra, but it wasn't work, Liam started pulling on the cuffs, breaking one off and struggling to resist his transformation. The bus was rocking due to him loosing it until Derek basically pinned him to the wall. ''Look at her- Liam- look at her!'' He basically yelled as Liam snapped forward to innocent Stiles, who jumped almost onto my lap in fright.

''She's calm, she's found her anchor- you need to find yours.'' Although I knew Liam wasn't very aware at this moment, I couldn't help but look back towards him, his glowing yellow eyes reflecting back into my own shining eyes.

My heart rate sped up, but not in a way I was loosing control, from the way Liam was directly staring back towards me, I watched nervously as he growled a little before leaning back, his breathing still heavy and on edge; but at least he wasn't snapping towards Derek anymore. ''That's right.. Save your inner hulk till later.'' Stiles chuckled at himself but I simply ignored him- just like everybody else did.

''Look's like he found his anchor.'' Derek mumbled, purposely to annoy Stiles. ''Wha- shut up. That doesn't mean anything..''

''Do you think you can both use the same control and strength in the fight?'' Derek questioned as my hands ran across my face, what felt like my normal features had returned instead of the striking features of a wolf.

I simply nodded as Liam flicked out his claws, demonstrating that he was able to as well, his features were much softer as well now, the only trait left of his wolf side was the glowing red eyes that shone back into mine when I looked towards me. I was so shocked that that actually worked, I mean I just thought of Liam..

Was he my anchor? I always thought my mom was my anchor- in fact I knew she was my anchor.. How could it change?? I loved my mom, so so much.. Why didn't it work today? I mean I really did like Liam, but my mom was my mom. She made me strong. I couldn't replace her..