When him and Liam had gotten back to Scott's, he hadn't been expecting to be dragged into a seat and told to 'stay', by Lydia. Everyone was staring at him, but he chose to ignore them in favour of looking at Liam, who looked to be just as confused as him, if not more. They stared at each other for a few seconds, communicating with the other through their facial expressions. It was only when Scott cleared his throat that they turned away from the other. "So," the alpha started. "Alec expressed some...concerns while you were gone." He seemed reluctant to continue, alternating between looking at Stiles and Lydia for support while Malia lounged like she didn't have a care in the world. Alec was noticeably avoiding looking at the chimera, not that the others were much better. "Uh, well. We realised you aren't able to get a job 'cause we kind of said you were dead-"

"Shut up." Theo's voice was ice. "Don't pretend to care when you don't, Scott. You hate me, so why don't we just straight up say it: if you're helping me for anything, it's for Alex." He stared the alpha down, unable to look away from the rapidly forming anger on the werewolf's face.

"Oh please." Stiles could not have sounded more condescending even if he tried. "We tried, okay. Hell, I fucking tried to believe you, and that got me separated from my best friend that you then killed." They got up from their respective chairs, Stiles poking Theo's chest as he ranted. "We tried to care, okay? You didn't let us. You" He pushed him back lightly. "Decided to stab us all in the back." Stiles poked his chest again, finger digging painfully against a rib. "So shut up and let us be stupid enough to care, okay Teddy?" He was breathing loud by the end of it, staring at Theo like he was daring him to say something, but all he could think of was the fact that he hadn't been called Teddy since he was nine.

He raised an eyebrow. "Did you just call me Teddy?"

Stiles made a face. "You know what, asshole-"

They were interrupted by Alex making her way downstairs, looking at everyone and then focusing on Stiles. "Mama told me that only Mieczyslaw used to call him Teddy." She narrowed her eyes at the older boy. "Are you Mieczyslaw?" Stiles's eyebrows lifted until they practically left his face, not that the others were far behind. Theo rubbed his face with both hands: he had not expected this to happen this way.

Stiles was frozen for a few more seconds before his eloquent answer was: "Uh…" Theo sighed, he was going to have to explain everything to them. "Mama?" Stiles squeaked.

"Mama." Alex nodded assertively and pointed at Theo.

Mason cleared his throat, hesitating before speaking. "Don't you mean dad?" Mason had a really squeaky voice when he was shocked. Theo would have laughed had it been in any other circumstance.

Alex shrugged. "Both." She walked up to Stiles, looking him up and down in suspicion before looking at him in the eye. "Are you Mieczyslaw?"

"Yeah?" He looked really freaked.

"Mama told me that you were one of his bestest friends." The room was at a standstill, nobody breathed, and the tight knot that had wedged itself in Theo's throat felt painful.

"Alex." He breathed. His daughter turned to look at him before he gestured for her to take his hand. "Mieczyslaw was my friend a long time ago." He kneeled in front of her and held both her shoulders comfortingly. "We haven't been friends for a long time." He whispered quietly, aware that everyone was looking at him.

Alex looked sad. "But you said-"

Theo interrupted her. "I know what I said baby, but sometimes things just...happen." He looked regretful as her expression fell further, eyes glassy. "C'mon, maybe Ms. McCall can make you a sandwich." He looked at Melissa hopefully, and was relieved when she extended her hand, taking Alex's in hers.

She grinned brightly. "Call me Melissa."

Alex looked up in surprise. "Like mama's aunt Melissa? Scotty's mama?" Melissa's eyes snapped to him, and he couldn't hold the stare for more than a few seconds before looking at Alex and reminding her to wash her hands before eating. Theo watched them go in silence, a warmth behind his eyes as he turned to look at the others, rubbing his face. It had become a habit in the past hours.

"Well, I was not expecting that." Malia, as blunt as ever.

Theo flipped her off, ignoring the snort that came from her and Scott's growl. Mason interrupted before a fight could break out. "She called you mama. Several times over. " Theo could feel everyone's eyes on him.

Theo felt his heart beat faster as anger and embarrassment welled up inside him. "Yeah, so?" He didn't care that he was being an asshole at this point, he just wanted to go to sleep somewhere and cuddle with his baby girl. Everyone was quiet. "Fine." He said, realising that they weren't just going to ignore this. "Well, as you already know, I was the first successful chimera. I was the only one not to die and this proved invaluable to the doctors, who had been trying to achieve this for almost three hundred years. They finally knew what to look for when creating one, so it was easier to do after that." He took a pause then, unsure how to continue. "There were these two eighteen year olds, both of them selected because of kidney transplants. They had gotten to know each other in the hospital, and had gotten together a while after." His tongue was heavy, his eyes refusing to cooperate as he blinked back the tears. "When the doctors turned them into chimeras successfully, they stayed together, but the girl got pregnant."

Peter rolled his eyes. "This is a great sob story, but why is it important?" Theo wanted to punch that smirk off his face.

"Maybe, if you let me finish, its relevance might even surprise you." He glared at Peter before continuing. "The baby was premature, and it was killing both the mother and itself, and the doctors decided to terminate them both while the father got caught in the crossfire. The doctors were disappointed that that the baby hadn't survived. They dug into creating chimeras by impregnating female ones, but it never worked: according to them, their bodies were too fragile." He spat out the word like it disgusted him, clenching his fists as his claws came out. "They decided to implant a uterus in the male chimeras, hoping that the fetus would be brought to term, but strangely, everyone would miscarry at around three weeks. The surgeon theorised that it had to be done naturally for the pregnancy to be complete, so when one day I start throwing up for no reason at all in their lab, getting the weirdest cravings, they realised he was right, and I got the surprise of having a baby in me. Turns out they had been waiting since I was thirteen." He looked at Liam, trying to get some support from the younger male, but he seemed deep in thought, so he looked back to the ground.

Theo thought that maybe telling them one of his darkest secrets would have garnered some sort of reaction, not complete silence, but maybe shouting, screaming, anything would have been fine. "Does that mean Corey can get pregnant?" His eyes snapped up to look at Liam, an eyebrow raised.

"No. Beacon Hills was not meant to become a supernatural nursery, so you can just...keep doing what you're doing." And if maybe half the room looked at Mason and Corey, who had turned an interesting shade of red, like judgemental parents, then Theo enjoyed it while it lasted.

Scott was the one that seemed to remember what they had been talking about. "Well, I was just thinking that since it's our fault you were dead-"

"I wasn't dead. I was in hell."

"That you should come live here until you're legally alive and can actually get a job." Scott ignored his interruption.

Liam seemed to finally get back to the real world. "Uh, Theo's actually going back to school." Everyone looked at him, including Theo.

"I am?" He questioned, confused.

Liam shrugged. "It was one of the conditions my mom set in place when she agreed to house you."

"We literally talked about it an hour ago. When did you two talk?"

Liam shrugged again. "I texted her while you were driving."

"Of course you did." He couldn't help but roll his eyes.