Sad Lahey brothers headcanon

When they were younger, Camden used to sing Blackbird by The Beatles to Jordan, Isaac, and Liam to comfort them, and to calm Liam down when he got angry. After Camden died Jordan used to hum the song to himself to help him sleep, but Isaac and Liam couldn’t listen to it without crying their eyes out. Isaac was finally able to listen to it again after Allison died and he moved to France. Liam wasn’t able to listen to it again until the war with the hunters started, he hummed and sang it to calm himself down whenever no one else (Theo) was around to help, after Brett and Lori died he put on a video of himself, Camden, Isaac, Jordan, Brett, Lori, and Mason singing it on repeat and cried himself to sleep.

What if... the bite killed Liam?

Isaac comes back from France when he gets the call from his mom.

He sees Scott and Stiles at the funeral.

He goes up to them to ask them how they knew Liam and Stiles tells him what happened, and he just breaks down

Jordan comes over and holds Isaac as close as possible while he cries, glaring at Scott while doing so, because he somehow knows about the supernatural already.

Mason, Brett, and Lori are all there and Mason snaps at Brett because it’s the only way he knows how to handle him being there because Brett left him and Liam alone even though they had been friends basically since birth.

Lori, having kept in touch with Mason and Liam after Brett left them, had asked Brett to take her knowing that no matter how much he protested he would go because he wanted to apologize to Mason at least.

Brett breaking down while Mason yells at him repeating the words “I’m sorry” under his breath until he’s saying it loud enough for Mason to hear him and there’s tears in his eyes.

Mason stopping his rant to just stare at Brett and ask: “If you’re sorry why did you leave us?” Brett doesn’t say anything, he just cries, and this is the most Mason and Lori have seen him cry since Camden died.

Isaac just keeps shouting at Scott and Stiles even though he knows Scott bit Liam to save him.

Scott telling Isaac that he’s sorry and he didn’t think about the chance that Liam could’ve died until after he bit him or that Liam was the younger brother he had talked about and letting Isaac yell at him after he says that.

The next time Isaac visits Beacon Hills Jordan takes him on a trip to all the places they visited with Camden and Liam growing up, including their grandad’s grave.

Mason and Brett slowly becoming friends again because they both agreed that it would be better if they had someone to confide in other than Lori and their families.

Jenna breaking down like she had when Camden died at the funeral and when she finds out.

Jordan and Isaac seeing Liam out of the corners of their eyes and knowing he isn’t real, but still trying to catch him thinking it’s his ghost. After a while they no longer see him.

After the funeral Isaac avoids Scott and Stiles until he goes back to France, ignoring their calls and texts, not leaving his mom’s house. He even goes as far as blocking Stiles’ number, but not Scott’s because he couldn’t bring himself to do it.

Isaac sleeping in Liam’s room while he’s at his mom’s home, reading the history books that Liam always talked about so happily.

Jordan carries on Liam’s tradition of visiting Camden’s grave on Camden’s birthday, Liam’s birthday, and sometimes Christmas along with visiting Liam’s grave on those days and the day Liam died.

Scott and Isaac get back into contact with each other after a few years, but Isaac is still a little distant. Until he has a nightmare and has to call Scott because no one else is picking up their phones.

Brett, Lori, and Mason each finding a different place or object significant to the three of them and Liam to place rocks and honor the pact they all made when they were kids. (Mason’s is hidden at the bottom of the tree they all used to climb in the park where he first came out to all of them. Brett’s is in the little hole in the only remaining tree in the backyard of his and Lori’s old house after the fire. Lori’s is on a necklace she’s almost always wearing that the other three bought her for her birthday after scrounging up enough money.)

Brett and Lori end up buying a lot of history books they skim through so they can read them and read to Liam’s grave because they think he might like them. (Mason also does this sometimes.)

@waiting-to-be-lost-at-sea I know this isn’t really what you had in mind, but I can only write angst apparently and it was pretty much the only thing I could think of.

Sad Liam Dunbar/Lahey brothers headcannon

Liam is scared of people he loves dying or leaving him. That's why he didn't want Scott and the older pack members to leave. This fear comes from Camden dying when Liam was ten, Jordan almost dying a few years later, as well as Isaac leaving to live in France at the end of season 3.

In conclusion Liam Dunbar has abandonment issues.

Sad Lahey brothers headcanon

Liam going downstairs on his tenth birthday, after reading the note that his oldest brother wrote to him just like the year before, to see his step-father, David, holding Liam’s mother in his arms, while sitting on the floor. Holding her tight as she sobs into his shoulder, neither of them noticing Liam as he stands in the doorway to the kitchen, the pancakes that his mom was making him disregarded on the stove after the landline started ringing and the person on the other side of the phone told her that her son, her oldest, her baby, Camden, had died just an hour beforehand. Liam, not knowing what’s going on, but knowing that he needed to comfort his mom, goes up to the both of them and grabs her hand, his palm pressed softly against hers. She looks at her youngest, tears in her eyes as he asks, “What’s wrong mama?” his voice so innocent and sweet as the smell of burning pancakes flows through the house, she just ends up crying even more as his blue eyes stare into hers. Isaac walks down the stairs a few seconds later seeing David stand up to scrape the burnt pancakes off of the now ruined pan, and his mother on the floor choking back sobs as she motions for him to come closer to her and his brother, he sits down next to Liam on the floor confused as his mom hugs him and his brother. "What's wrong mama?" Liam repeats, after their mom lets go. Still trying to keep her composure Jenna looks at her youngest sons, with a look in her eye that Isaac hasn't seen since she told Camden, Jordan, Liam, and himself that their seanair (grandpa/grandfather/grandad/etc. in Scottish Gaelic) had died. "You two aren't going to school today." Jenna says, pulling her boys into her arms again, "Why not?" Isaac asks, "David and I got a call." she stops, taking a shaky breath in, "Camden died a little over an hour ago." she finishes. Liam pulls out of the hug face suddenly going from confused to on the verge of tears, Isaac's doing the same thing as he buries his head in the crook of his mother's neck. After a few seconds Liam hugs his mom and brother again, tears falling onto the back of his mom's shirt as sobs make his body shake.

Jenna calls Liam and Isaac's school telling the lady at the front desk that they won't be going that day.

At the end of the school day Brett, Mason, and Lori walk to the Dunbar-Geyer house to ask Liam why he wasn't at school, when Liam tells them they all crowd in for a hug as they sob.

That night Liam fell asleep re-reading the note he read that morning, the words having a new meaning to him.

Dear Li Li,

Happy birthday, buddy! I can't believe you're ten now, it seems like just yesterday you were brought home from the hospital. I miss you very much and I can't wait to see you again when I come back home. I hope you're doing well in school and that Mason, Brett, and Lori are doing well. I'll write you another letter soon!

Love, Camden

Sad Lahey brothers headcanon

Liam got diagnosed with IED and immediately became scared that he was going to end up being like his father. Just let that sink in.

(Kinda) sad Liam Dunbar headcanon

A lot of the time he zones out because he isn’t getting enough sleep because of his nightmares about becoming his father.