Omega X 

Chapter 09 | Time to Go

Mikhailov sits across from a worn out man. His tired eyes locked onto him. He sits drinking from a flask, his attire worn out as well. His face disheveled and not been shaved. He looks down at a black box.

“It’s been five years Dove.” 

Mikhailov puts both his hands together and lies his face into them. 

“I know.” He breathes into his hands. “The evidence I have are on those flash drives….only from I was able to record. Ian still does not allow the location of the Nest. All I can tell each time I was transferred both to and from is that it has to be a multistory structured yacht. He can be disguising this as a cruise or cargo ship, able to sail across international waters.”  

“We thought we lost our bird.” He says, ignoring the information. The man pierces his eyes into Mikhailov’s. “Either to death… or to the temptations of The Black Veil.”

Mikhailov’s face shoots up, his eyes filled with rage. “I’ve witnessed…done things….I’ve been partaking in the depths of this fucking nightmare!! Temptations?? Are you fucking kidding me right now!?” The pupils in his eyes shrink, sweat pour down his face. “Those monsters…no…monsters have more mercy…those freaks…God…they….they fucking….God…” 

“Dove.” The man says gently. “I think it’s time to make our move.” He drinks from his flask. “I think it’s time to end this nightmare but we need to find the Nest. You said it’s been in standstill due to a product misshape. This may be our only chance before it disappears again.” 

Mikhailov breathes in slowly. “…Product O-X-13, it escaped during the storm. The fucking bastard wants his product back within a week or….” His breaths quicken.

“Or…?” He questions. 

He continues. “…never mind….but I know who has this product…we need to find it, put the tracker on it, and bring it to Ian. You trace it…and we bring your men.” 

The man sits back in his own thoughts for some moments. 

“Dove…who has this Omega?” 

“…Yun Seok…” 

Again the man stays quiet. 

"Yun Seok has been like a ghost as of late, makes sense now. I’ll need to find him, I need his help in finalizing this operation.” 

Mikhailov gasps in disbelief. “Help? Heh, you think he’s really gonna help huh?” 

“Yes, we’re going to have to inform him of everything. I did not want to take this risk but I believe this operation will be at greater risk if we don’t.” 

“Haaaa…Starling, if we proceed, I need one thing done….” 

A silence pursues, Starling waits for Mikhailov to speak his request. 

“…I need out now. Not tomorrow, not next week. Now.” With that said, Mikhailov’s silence is overwhelmed with his tears and whimpers. His hands covering his face as all the years he has gone through come out through his cries. “Take me out Starling…” 

Starling sits up and lies his hand on his shoulder. “You’re relieved of your duties.” 

Mikhailov begins shaking. 

Before Starling leaves, he tells Mikhailov one last thing. “Your duty may be relieved but I still need you to be in my shadows, helping in the background. We’ll make sure Viktor Mikhailov is dead. You can finally help as who you are, Rowan.”

Rowan…I haven’t heard that name in five fucking years…

I’m pretty sure he’s dead as well. 

Starling throws down a black envelop on Rowan’s lap.

“Go to this address, you will have everything you need to change your appearance. Everything is set up there. Wait there.” 

Rowan’s swollen red eyes widen. “How did you know…?” 

“I….had a feeling. Your voice over the phone…seemed to be filled with suffering.” 

Mikhailov scoffs. “Suffering is too kind of word to describe it.”

Starling pats his shoulder. “Wait for me to call.” 

Adruptly, Rowan stands up and grabs Starling’s arm. “Starling. Those drives… they contain things that you will never forget… you’ll never be the same.” 

“I’m fully aware.” He slides Rowan’s hand off. “I don’t expect to be the same after seeing what’s on those drives.” 

Rowan gulps. “Do me one favor. Do not have your gun on you when you look into those drives. Keep it away. Promise me!” 

Starling flinches slightly. He nods his head and walks out from the darkened room with the black box in his coat. 

Seok and X are in X’s room. It’s been a couple hours since Ash had left. Seok is on his knees with X holding his new shirt up. The Alpha grips X’s pants and pulls them down slowly down to his pelvic bone. He looks up at X who has a disdain look upon his face. 

“X, look at me.” 

X’s eyes slowly peer into Seok’s. 

“Don’t look away.” 

“I know…idiot.” 

“Hmph, yeah I know.” 

X bites his lips. “Seok…” 

Seok is about to give the shot. “Yeah?” He replies, both still looking into each other’s eyes. 

“If….I keep taking these things…will….you do those things that guy did?” 

Seok pauses. His Hand freezes as well. 

“No, I won’t.” He positions himself and his hand once again. “Now, look into my eyes.” 

X looks back into Seok’s eyes as he administers the shot. Again, there is no pain. X sighs in relief as Seok disposes the needle.

X bites his lips harder. “How…do you know that?”

Seok turns back at him. “Hm?” 

“Ash said that’s what Alphas do when they smell…Omega pheromones…how do you know that you won’t do those things!” X’s eyes begin to tear up a bit. There is a still airiness in the room. 

“X, the Alpha’s that do that sort of things to Omegas are fucking dick scum.” He disposes the needle in the red bio container. “I may work in my line of work, but there’s one rule we do follow.” X listens on. “We don’t hurt Omegas.” He continues. “In the face of the law, what that Alpha did was justifiable. It ‘wasn’t his fault’ that the Omega ‘willingly omitted his pheromones’.” Seok sighs. “They’re fucked up laws, so Ashford and I take it upon ourselves to give out our own punishment when we see something like that happen.” 

“Oh…” X fixes his clothes. “…what is your job? I mean what is it that you do?” 

Seok becomes still. 

“Let’s go out to the ocean and then we’ll talk.” 

X shuts the car door behind him and leisurely walks up near the cliff. Seok follows the Omega, the sun is beginning to set and cast an orange glow. Seok steps to X’s side, he peers down to look at his face, the orange glow radiated off his skin, almost mixing with his blue hair— illuminating it green. 

He lights up a cigarette. “What I do isn’t what regular people do.” 

X looks on at the ocean.  

Seok proceeds. “Haaa… what I am isn’t what regular people are.” 

X can sense a hesitation in Seok’s voice, maybe even trembling. He puts his hand on Seok’s arm. Seok is a bit shocked from this sudden touch. “I’m not regular am I?” X whispers. “But still you’re helping me…Ash told me that’s how you’re able to protect me and that you have a lot of power in Puleun Dosi…so I guess I’m kind of glad you’re not a regular person doing regular work.” X blushes at the realization at what he’s said and done. He quickly draws his attention back to the sea, slipping his hands into his jacket pockets. 

Seok suddenly laughs. “Oi, you are full of surprises!” 

“Stop laughing at me!” X shouts, his cheeks still pink.

Seok takes a few drags of his cigarette. “I’m a director of the largest company in Puleun Dosi that has vast networks and operations in the U.K, South Korea, Hong Kong, and America. My company in the last five years have built a facade of being ‘regular’, but underneath I guess we still operate the same..I only tried making good on a promise I made to make the company more honest so to speak.” 

X ponders what he was just told. 

“So you’re a gangster?” X asks. 

Seok rubs the bridge of his nose. “Please don’t say gangster…I’m called Director.” 

X chuckles a bit. “Right…I always wondered what you did to be able to slack off like you do…” 

“Oi!” Seok throws his cigarette to the ground. “I took a week off after working months to help a hopeless Omega!” 

X continues to laugh a bit more. Seok can’t help but to grin a bit. “God, you really do get on my nerves.” He takes a flask out from his jacket and takes a swig. “But that’s what I do, that’s what Ashford does. That’s how I can protect you.” 

“Did you think I would be scared?” X asks, Seok is taken aback and looks into X’s eyes. 

“Were you?” He asks back.

He shakes his head. “I wasn’t scared of Ash for what she had to do…I was scared of that man for what he did…I was scared even after Ash took him out… what if he got up again and tried doing what he did? I….I so relieved when I saw you come in. I thought ‘oh if he got up, Seok can just punch him out like he did me’ and I’ll be okay.” 

Seok chokes on his drink. “Oi, for the last time I did not mean that! I was in a very agitated state!” 

X chuckles. “For the last time, I can’t smell your gross pheromones. ” He smiles up at the Alpha. “…but to answer your question, I’m not scared of you…or what you do…I’m scared of the regular people and what they might do..."

Seok twirls the flask in his hand. 

X inhales a deep breath. “He was completely normal…then he changed in an instant…he was scary. Just I’m scared you may….might…I dunno…” X begins crying. “I’m scared if I keep taking those damn shots and pills, you’ll…turn too!” 

Seok is surprised by the sudden emotions. What the hell? 

“X, what’s wrong?” Seok faces towards the crying Omega. He holds his shoulders as X begins crying more. 

“I dunno…I feel so weird…I…ngh!” X holds his lower side and bends over in pain. “Ugh….that fucking hurts.” 

Seok quickly helps X up. “Oi, what’s wrong?” 

“I don’t know, my side…feels like its tearing inside but like in waves…fuck!” X suddenly grabs Seok’s hand and squeezes. Seok drops his flask, its contents spill into the muddy ground.

“Fuck!” Seok exclaims. “Fucking Omega!” 

“Fuck you Alpha!” X squeezes more. Seok tries to let go but X glares at him through the pain. “Let go of my hand and I’ll bite your fucking arm off you fucker!” 

Seok pauses. Wait...this can't be...fuck! i know what the fuck this is…but it’s way too soon. Aston said it’ll take about a week for it to start working....

“Fuck, where’s my phone?” Seok digs into his jacket for his phone. Thankfully he has his good-for-nothing-doctor’s number memorized. He dials it as X squeezes in uniformed pattern.

“Seok, what the actual fuck!?” Aston yells through the phone. “I have no idea which east side safe house you’re at, I couldn’t get a hold of you! I need to do a check up on X you fucking God damn—!” 

“Aston curse me out later you fucking quack! I think the medications are already effecting X, he’s hunched over in pain on his side.” 

Aston pauses. “What do you mean already working? It should only be starting to work after a week, even then it slowly starts to—“ 

X’s breaths quicken and almost like in an instinct bites Seok’s hand in pain.

“Aw Fuck!!” Seok shouts. 

“Seok what’s wrong!?” 

"East 3rd you idiot quack!” Seok hangs up the call. Fucking Omegas and fucking biting habits..fuck! “X, c’mon, Aston’s on his way over to the house!” 

X let’s go of Seok, with tears in his eyes he apologizes. “I’m…sorry…I didn’t mean to bite…it just felt—”

“Instinctual.” Seok interrupts. “I know.” 

He helps X to the car and buckles him in. As he hops in, X is curled over holding his side. “Seok, what’s going on? What’s wrong with me?” He looks over at Seok. 

Seok sighs. “It’s the medication, it’s already starting to work. It shouldn’t be this quick but….” 

“But what??” X quickly asks. 

“But like you said, you’re not just a regular Omega!” Seok exclaims. 

“Don’t call me abnormal you selfish prick!” 

Seok bites his tongue to hold back. Omega’s and their fucking emotional cycles…

X holds his side. “I’m sorry!” He begins crying again. 

Seok slaps his face. For the love of motherfucking God..

“X, it’s fine. Let’s get you home so Aston can look you over, okay?” 

X nods his head gently as he holds his left side. “Ngh…!” 

Seok takes a breath in, he holds his right arm out, X looks at it. “…If you have to, bite down on my arm to ease the pain. I can handle it, trust me.” 

X’s lips quiver. “But…” 

“Do it.” Seok lies his arm close to X. “I don’t mind.” 

X trembles in pain as another wave hits him, this time radiating towards his lower back. He gasps and bites onto Seok’s arm. 

Seok doesn’t flinch, doesn’t even mutter an ounce of discomfort. He just continues to drive on back to the safe house.

Starling sits in a darkened room. His computer is the only thing lighting up the room. He takes a bottle of vodka and places it next to him alongside two packs of cigarettes. 

“Rowan….let’s see what you’ve seen.” He opens up the black box. There are ten 218gb flash drives in it. Each marked by a number, one through ten. 

“Alright let’s start with one.” Starling inserts the first flash drive into the computer. He takes a breath in. He swivels the mouse over to the new recognized folder. Before he clicks on it, he looks down at his waist, no gun. 

He proceeds to click on the folder. 

Within it are 50 sub folders, Each labeled Experiment with a number after it, after each number follows one word,

FAILED

Starling, taking a breath, clicks on the first folder. One video file and 20 pictures are within it. 

His mouse clicks on the video. 

The dark room is filled with a sickening and deafening echoe of nightmares, Starling's eyes glisten, no tears fall as he becomes trapped within hell. 

Chapter 09 | Time to Go

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