Omega X

Chapter 4.1 | Of Secrets and Men

X sits in his room, spacing out through the window over his bed. He watches each raindrop platter against the glass, then slide down, before being swiped away from the gushing winds. 

His mind and thoughts do not flinch from a knock on his door. 

Seok cautiously opens the door. He steps in slightly and looks at X who is only paying attention to the window. His body wrapped in one of the pajama sets he bought earlier. He pauses and only looks on. Does he remember anything that happened last evening? 

“X.” Seok paces himself slow as he makes his way further into the room. X does not respond. He repeats himself, “X.” He now agitatedly walks closer to the silent omega. 

X still does not move. 

“X.” Seok’s voice suddenly becoming more sharp and pronounced. He places his hand on X’s shoulder. “Oi!”

X slaps his hand away, glaring with his cyan eyes. Seok is taken aback, he has been crying. Silence persisted only mere seconds before Seok releases an irritated groan. “X, we need to talk.” 

X looks away back at the window, he clenches his knees close to his chest. “I…I don’t think we need to talk about anything.” 

Seok slams his fists down on the nightstand next to the bed and he leans his face down to X’s. “Like hell we don’t.” He growled. “You remember what happened yesterday. We need to talk about that, whether you like it or not.” 

“I… don’t know if I remember.” 

“Don’t know?” Seok asks. 

“I…feel like it was a dream… I don’t know. I remember Aston with the needle then it was like I fell asleep…and woke up in a nightmare. I can’t recall much when it happened, it’s blurry. I only know what you had told me I said…and it…it scares me.” X lies his head on his knees and mumbles, “If I actually start to remember, what will happen?” 

Seok breathes in and out, trying to put his irritability to rest. He remembers Aston telling him about X repressing his memory due to how traumatizing it was. He sits down on the bed, facing away from X. “I just wanted to talk about your upcoming treatment.” He changes the subject. “Let’s focus on getting your pheromones on track… you don’t need to remember anything right now.” 

X’s head perks up a bit. “Oh…” he looks at Seok’s back. Why did he suddenly change his attitude? He must feel a little sorry for me…I guess I would too if I saw someone like me…

Seok sits up, “Aston will be here in half an hour, freshen up and come out.” With that he leaves X to gather his thoughts and ready himself for his first day of treatment. 

Aston feels the piercing gaze of his Alpha friend staring daggers into his back. Aston sighs, “Seok.” He began. “You don’t need to call off work for this.” 

He sips from his glass. “After what happened yesterday, I want to make sure nothing happens.” 

“Like I’ve said before, what happened was no one’s fault.” Aston angrily said, trying to not lose focus on the main subject before him. “Besides, aren’t you awfully busy with work after that storm?” 

“I’m the Director, I can push it onto Ashford. She’s good at my work.” He takes another sip. “Besides once my curiosity is peeked, it’s hard for me to lose interest.” 

“Curiosity?” Aston smirks. “With which head?” 

SLAP! 

Seok slaps the back of Aston’s head. “I should be asking you that.” 

“Well, I have to admit he is very beautiful, it’s a shame I’m a beta… but that hasn’t stopped betas’ before being with an omega or alpha—“ 

SLAP! 

Seok blows another slap. 

“Um….I’m right here…”

X stares at the two grown men with unease. Gross….

Aston immediately focuses back on X and clears his throat. “Yes, sorry about that X, sometimes I like to yank my Alpha friend’s chains a bit.” He smiles. 

“It’s fine….” X attempts a little smile back at the kind doctor. He glimpses up at Seok who is focused on him, he shyly looks away. Why does he have to stare at me like this? I’m not a fucking science project….

Aston pulls out a prescription bottle. The pills inside are solid light purple. “These are called Accelarax XR, it’s a medication to help your gland start releasing all those pent up pheromones. The dose is only 0.02mg, higher doses results in medically induced heat or rut and can severely impact the heart muscle. The physical complaints with Pheromone Shock are quite simple to fix, it just takes time and it goes hand in hand with the status of the omega’s mentality. With this and helping you mentally, you should start to release pheromones a little within a week.” He hands X the bottle. “You take it twice a day, once in the morning and once at night. There are some side effects, nothing major, the main one being dry mouth and thirst. You might experience some slight headaches and body aches but that’s to be expected when your body is prepping to release pheromones.” 

X looks at the bottle. “Okay…” before he has time to digest the information, Aston flings something else out of his bad, but this time it’s in a black hard case, the size of Aston’s hand. 

Aston looks almost troubled to speak. “In regards to what happened yesterday, I’ll be more careful about things that trigger high emotional response. This medicine here isn’t in a form of a pill or liquid to drink but… shots.” 

X flinches, “Shots?” 

Seok looks at X, who he notices begins trembling just a bit. 

Aston unzips the case. There is a pink 5 inch like tube inside, underneath it are seven little needle packs, almost like thumbtacks. “This whole pen looking thing is a prefilled medicine tube, these right here,” He points to the tiny needles, “Are sterilized pre-packed needles you unwrap and attach to the front tip of this scary thing here. You take it once a day, you can pick day or night, I have a practice one in my bag that doesn’t contain any needles.” Aston reaches in and takes out a grayed out version of the one he was shown. “You will need to take every shot right here…if I may?” He pulls X’s shirt a bit up, and off to the lower side besides the X marking, he presses the gray tube gently onto his skin.

“Alright…but what is it? Can’t I just be on the pills?” X grimaces at the whole needle set. “I don’t know if I can do it…” 

“We’ll get to that…” Aston puts the gray tube down. “but first, what I just showed you is called Pherasone. Only Omegas have these hormones inside to help them ovulate and produce special type of pheromones, both Pherasone and pheromones play hand in hand in making each other work.” 

X groans in disgust. “Ugh why do I need to ovulate?” He looks over at Seok, “Plus, if I start that and start releasing pheromones, won’t it cause him… to like get a hard on for me?” 

Seok chokes on his whiskey. He doesn’t know how many times he has wasted good whiskey since X has been here but he’s not letting another drop go to waste. “What makes you think I’ll fucking want you—“ 

Aston chimes in, “You don’t need to worry about that X, Seok has a bit of an issue with omegas in that regard.” 

X raises his eyebrows. “What do you mean?” 

Seok stops them from further talking. “None of your fucking business omega. And you,” Seok shoots Aston an irate glare. “Don’t fucking go talking about my shit to a mere Omega. I’ll fucking sue your ass if you violate our patient/doctor confidentiality.” 

“Hey, then why do you get to know my medical things?” X exasperates. 

He sneers at X. “You’re an omega, you don’t have those same rights especially since I’m keeping you. Just think of it like an owner bringing its dog to the vet.” 

“I told you I’m not a fucking animal.” X tenses up. “You’re the fucking weird one if keeping me, a human like an animal gives you something to feel special about.”

Seok’s outer corner of his lips curl, showing his sharp canine tooth in intimidation. Aston stands up blocking each other from seeing each other. 

“For God’s sake!” He looks at Seok. “Can you please show a little respect to X?” He turns around at the omega. “X, what he says comes out of concern in a way… I mentioned something he’s sensitive about. He doesn’t think of you as an animal, he’s only concerned about your treatment especially with what happened yesterday.” 

“He sure has a fucking weird way of showing his concern.” X sits back down, still glaring at Seok. “I’m tired of being treated and talked to like I am an animal. I can hear you, speak to you, I can fucking…” X trails off, his eyes glistening. 

A crestfallen expression overpasses Aston, he sits down in front of X and puts his hand on his shoulder. “X…you’re not an animal but in our society, the law, the people, especially Alphas, they do have a mindset that Omegas do not have certain rights like the rest of us. Doctors like me do what we do to help second genders, especially omegas. We see you as equal when the rest of world refuses to.” 

Seok lowers his intent gaze and tries to calm himself. Aston continues. “Even Seok here, he’s rough and although he says what he says, he would never treat you like an animal. He’s all talk.” 

X remains silent. An awkward silence ensues between him and Seok.

“We still have a little more to talk about with your new medication. I’m sure Seok will apologize soon enough X.” He gently smiles at X. “Now, back to what we were discussing. With the shot, yes it helps late bloomers start the ovulation process but it comes in handy if the omega has pheromone shock. This brings to what I found so far with your blood tests I took yesterday. I still have one test I’m waiting for a call on but your Pherasone levels were depleted but having a little bit of it showing up means you have ovulated before and gone into heat. However, when you developed Pheromone Shock, it halted your ovulation thus depleting your Pherasone levels. If we only treat your hormone levels, your hormones would only build up along with their respective pheromone type.”

“Sort of like a faucet?” X suggest. 

Seok bluntly laughs, “What?” 

X ignores his obvious sarcasm and continues. “You have cold and hot, having one on either side only will be uncomfortable or even hurt you but in the middle makes perfect temperature and it flows much better.” 

Aston pats X’s shoulder, “That’s a great reference.” He couldn’t help but grin at the cute analogy. “Yes and it’s vice versa with your other pheromones. If we only treated the Pheromone Shock, your ovulation would be severely impacted, like running a car without oil. It would only cause your body to go into a frenzy since your Pherasone levels are not high enough to produce those special pheromones.”  

X looks at both his medications, it’s still so surreal being an omega. For some reason he can’t fathom being one. 

“What if I don’t take this medication? Why do I have to take it? Because I’m omega?” He frowns. “Why can’t I just go as I am!?” 

Aston and Seok are taken aback from X’s sudden outburst. Aston opens his mouth but before he can utter a word, Seok walks up to X and sits down. X looks nervously at him as he watches him gulp down a huge swig of his drink, expecting another belittling comment or angry outburst.

In a very calm manner, Seok comforts X. “If you don’t take you’re medication, the effects of Pheromone Shock have severe consequences. You may not feel like an Omega now, but two years…five years from now you may wake up one day wanting things Omegas can do— imprinting, bonding, having children. If we treat you now, you can have a normal life, whether or not you want to venture into things omegas can do.” Seok sighs. “Trust me, you don’t want to experience what can happen if we don’t treat you…” 

Aston is shocked. “Seok…” he didn’t expect his friend to even mention anything close to what happened to him in the past, directly nor indirectly. 

X looks at his medications once again and slowly nods. Somehow, Seok keeps surprising him, it’s confusing seeing these two sides of him but with just those simple words, he can understand how grave the situation is, better than Aston’s medical lingo. 

RIING RIING RINNG 

Aston’s cellphone interrupts the room with its ringing. He looks at the caller I.D. “One moment,” he picks up the phone. Seok and X look on as Aston strides a little ways past the living room area. 

They both can hear Aston talk in a grave manner. “The results?….You tested three times… same result?” Aston suddenly becomes stiff. “No, do not…I said DO NOT upload the data…..That’s right. You will dispose of it right away. Delete everything….You heard me.” 

X and Seok look at each other in a state of confusion, this is the first time seeing Aston in such an agitated state. 

Aston ends his call and hurriedly walks back to them. “We have an issue."

Omega X 

Chapter 4.1 | Of Secrets and Men

To Be Continued in Chapter 4.2  Of Secrets and Men