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“Take him to the emergency room, immediately!”
The doctor yelled from behind the nurses who were wheeling the metal bed through the hospital halls.
“Four-year-old, male Omega. Born with a weak heart, suffered a heart attack at 21:54.”
Other doctor said as they arrived at the emergency room. Nurses started to disband around the room, preparing for the surgery.
“We’re losing him!”
“Get the anaesthetics out of here.”
“I almost died that night”
Fixed?
18 years later
“Doctor Kogane! An emergency just arrived!” a female nurse came running toward the small Asian.
My name is Keith Kogane, I’m a doctor at the most powerful hospital in the country, Marmora Hospital. I’m not a beta, but in this rotten land I have to survive.
“Inform me up,” I commanded as I speed walked to the emergency room.
“24, male alpha, no major injuries. Deep gun shot wound on the right hip, and deep stap wound in the left shoulder, could result to being fatal. Patient’s suffering from a blood loss and concussion. Patient name, Lance McClain.”
We arrived at the room as the nurse finished informing the doctor. “Is everything up and running so we can begin?” Doctor Kogane addressed to staff, everyone followed Keith’s instructions and gave him what he needed.
The next morning 8:30 am
Lance woke up at unfamiliar place, dark chocolate brown wolf ears twitching on top of his head. He was alone in a white room. It smelled of different kinds of chemicals. The bed he was laying in wasn’t the most comfortable and the irritating beeping of the heart monitor was killing his head.
’A hospital.’ He thought as a small tan hand appeared in his line of sight, as his bed was slowly being lifted up so he could sit up more easily.
“Here is your medicine and some water,” a soft voice spoke from next to him. He looked to his right and there stood an elderly tan, human, woman with a soft smile and was holding her hand out in front of him holding couple of pills in a small container and offered the glass of water to him.
Lance took them, popping the pills one at a time to his mouth and swallowing them with the help of the water and thanked the nurse.
“Would you like some breakfast, Mr. McClain?”
“Yes please.” He said with a small thumping of his thin, long chocolate brown long furred tail. The elderly lady chuckled as she left the room.
Lance didn’t get a moment of breath before the door opened again, he looked up and walking towards him was a young Asian male, wearing a white lap coat and holding few papers in his hands.
“Good morning, Mr. McClain. My name is doctor Kogane and I’ll be your doctor, how are you doing today?” the doctor asked as he stopped next to Lance’s bed. The Asian had a pale porcelain skin that was almost as white as his coat, he had black ears buried in the little over the shoulder lengthed thick black hair that was braided behind him so that his long front hair fell beautifully between his eyes and the side of his face, framing it.
The ears were so deeply in the fluffy hair that Lance couldn’t say, was the doctor Omega cat or a beta dog, and the tail was well hidden under the long hem of the coat.
And those eyes. So deep violet that the galaxies paled next to them.
“I’m good, doc. So how long till I get to go home?” Lance asked and the doctor's frown deepened.
“It all depends on you, Mr. McClain-“
“Lance.“
“I – what?” Lance hummed a laugh.
“Mr. McClain sounds too formal and I’m pretty sure we’re about the same age, so call me Lance, doc.”
“Alright, Lance, like I was saying.” He flipped through some of the pages in his hand.
“We had to put few stitches on your side and shoulder, so you will be under a surveillance for 24 hours, just to make sure the stitches haven’t reopened. So, if all goes well you will be on your way home tomorrow evening,” the doctor explained.
“Any questions?” he looked up at Lance with a soft frown on his face, but his violet eyes showed the worry and exhaustion.
“Aren’t you usually suppose to call the cops when someone with my injuries show up, and do you happen to know where my phone is?”
“Your phone is in the drawer next to you, and no, we don’t allow police to interrogate patients until they have been cleared from the surveillance. Now I will leave you to eat your breakfast,” the doctor said as the nurse arrived with his breakfast.
The doctor left the room in a hurry, leaving behind a confused alpha and an elderly beta with sadness in her eyes.
*crack*
Doctor Thace’s room 8:46 am
The door slammed open and a very heavily breathing Keith ran in, his black fluffy ears buried deep into the fluffy ebony hair. Ebony colored, big, long, fluffy, long haired cat tail twitching in agony under his lap coat.
“T-Thace, p-please, I-I forgot my m-medicine home. Do-“ Keith coughed very painfully. Thace searched his many drawers in a hurry, until a bottle of tiny pills hit his hand. He hurried the bottle open and gave the one pill to the heaving Keith, who swallowed it dry.
Keith layed down on to the cold floor, slowly settling his breath back to normal, while Thace rubbed his back gently.
“This can’t go on like this, you can’t keep running around and overworking yourself, Keith,” Thace said as he walked back into his chair.
Keith took a few more lungsful of air and responded, “Not like yesterday, triggered bcuz of an Alpha.”
“An Alpha, how!?” Thace panicked.
“I don’t know... I don’t know,“ Keith repeated as he fell into oblivion.
Next day, Lance’s room 11:33
Lance just finished eating lunch as a soft, rhythmic echo of heels hitting the light grey tiles of the hospital hallway outside of his door landed in his brown ears.
Smirk appeared on his thin lips as his thin tail softly started wagging under the white sheets. The clicking of heels stopped on his door and it opened.
“Aww, did you worry about your poor cousin, ‘Lura?” he asked the woman who entered his room.
“Oh hush, Lonce. Of course, I worry when you go to the dark meetings alone, and apparently for a reason,” she said, no amusement in her coldish voice.
White wolf ears pinned back towards the beginning of her high bleached white ponytail, but clearly in sight when against the light brown roots. Light brown and white thin tail swinging behind her long thin legs covered with light blue tight jeans. Pink block heel Mary Jane pumps keeping her on ground. White, tight, long sleeve crop top hiding her dark brown slender hands, that, at the moment, were crossed in front of her chest.
Her stance was intimidating and her glare bringing the older and taller alpha to surrender, ears pinned down in apology.
“ ’Lura, I’m –, “ A knock from the door cut him off. Between the two alphas the doctor was teeny tiny.
“Oh, I’m sorry, hopefully I didn’t disturb anything?” Doctor Kogane said, questioning tone present.
Allura eased herself, noting the doctors slight, almost covered, fear and need to submit.
Lance noted the different atmosphere coming from the doctor. His face was flushed, eyes a little buffy and red, hair ruffled and strands falling out of the braid. Not to mention the small, very soft looking black, cat ears with small white fluffs on the tips, standing in alert on top of his head, and without actually realizing it, Lance let a small cooing sound pass his lips.
‘He’s so cute!‘
Lance coughed, slight blush coloring his cheeks. The doctor in reality didn’t look alright.
“You ok, doc? Comparing to how I looked yesterday I bet you look worse than I did,”
Doctor Kogane completely ignored the question. “It’s almost the end of lunch time, so I hope you’ve eaten well, I’ll do a quick check up for now and one later,” the doctor looked up at Allura, who had made her way to the farthest corner in the room, away from the doctor whose demeanor and aura has changed from careful to intimidating.
“Miss, if you don’t mind, could you please wait outside? “
With Keith earlier
Keith still had job to do, it was the day Lance McClain would finally be allowed to go home. But his heart felt wrong, too heavy and too painful.
A treatment gone wrong the previous night, and he lost a child patient, since early morning he had been running around in 4 different sectors and 2 different buildings, without a break between the night shift and day shift was killing him, Keith felt like Death was knocking on his door.
Not to mention the fact that he hadn’t been home since last evening, so he had ran out of his 24 hour suppressant dosage. So now the doctors lounge smelled of distressed omega.
A soft chuckle was heard from next to the coffee machine.
“You really should get some sleep and did you even remember your meds? “
Adam was his only friend from childhood or more like hospital times, he was six years older than Keith and he was like the mom friend. If Adam could, he would follow Keith around all the time like a protective German Shepherd.
“Har har, Adam,” came a very tired and somewhat angry response from the said distressed omega. “Yes, Adam, I should get some sleep, but at the moment I don’t have time. No, Adam, I didn’t remember my suppressants, but I did remember my medication“. Adam’s amusement died in an instant in mention of the state his fragile, but so strong friend is, but he couldn’t utter a single ounce of concern about his friends state before Keith rushed out with his clipboard in hand with the final words of, “I still have at least a few patients“.
*crack*
Lance’s room, 11:47
Keith wrote down the final statements of Lance’s recovery and letting out an accidental sigh of relief from finally being able to get back home, when said patient opened up his mouth.
“So, doc, I’m pretty sure I’m good to go, but you look like shit, you good? “
“Wow, thank you for the honesty, but it’s none of your concern. Now, please excuse me, I’ll be taking my leave and another doctor will be giving you the go ahead later today. For now, have a good day and rest”.
With Keith’s final words he turned to the door, giving the anxious woman the go ahead to enter, and vanished to the white and empty hallways of the hospital.
2 weeks after Lance got home
Lance’s POV
“Lance a rich CEO of his own company, worked in his father’s and older brothers shadow until his father died and he started his own, much more successful company, got shot and yeeted into a hospital, where he fell hard-.” Said the tall alpha until he received a hard slap around the head, successfully cutting him off.
“Hey-!” Lance barked as he turned around on his office chair, only for the rest of the complaints die on his tongue. His cousin, standing tall in front of him, with her mate standing by the door and his cousin’s even taller friend having a little too knowing smirk on his square face.
“So, Lance, you ready for our game night? Pidge and Matt are waiting downstairs and Hunk is staying home with Shay.” Oh yeah, the game night. Surprisingly, Shiro is pretty demanding of the game nights they have once or twice a month. “Yeah, sorry, let’s go!”
Three hours later, Altean bar
3rd POV
The clock hitting the sweet 2 am, bass blaring, colorful lights painting the black void of the bar with neon. Big mass of sweaty people, betas, alphas and omegas, all pouring different levels of pheromones into the wide open and high ceiling space.
But for the past 15 minutes, one scent stood out amongst the rest, and Lance could drown in it.
He left his friends to yell at him to get back and asking where he was going, but honestly, he couldn’t hear them, neither could he answer them. Lance was hypnotized. Like a walking dead, no thoughts, he walked, following the invisible trail just for him. He pushed through the people mass until he found it.
The sweet, addictive scent of vanilla mixed with burning wood and marshmallows and something spicy, like the warm summer nights, beneath the twinkling stars and around the crackling fireplace roasting sweet, sweet marshmallows.
A young man, in his early twenties, was slumped down in the corner of the bar. Ebony black hair tinted purple in the neon lights, was pulled back with a loose braid, front falling beautifully around his face. He was sluggish, heat radiating off of him in waves, his eyes like purple nebula were hazy and unfocused.
Lance got down in front of the man, hand reaching towards the him, only for the man to fall into Lance’s chest. He heard soft whispers of pleading for help and Lance threw all rationality out the window and carried the young man into the toilets.
Pleasure and the stench of an omegan heat drowned everything else below. “Fuck the reason and rationality. “ The doors slammed open and a chorus of growls was heard from two different sources a human and a dominant alpha.
.... *crack*
Image being on the side lines, watching as your cousin is being kicked around the floor and pushed through the door while the one doing the kicking is a human and carrying a half naked and passed out feral omegan cat. The scene is making an alpha have a bone chilling threat run through ones body.
...
Nonetheless I had to drag Lance’s ass back to the hospital that he got released from two weeks ago!
Marmora Hospital,
09:08 am
“Couple of bruised bones, broken nose, busted lip *sigh*, you’re lucky Mr. McClain.” Doctor Thace lists off, with the tired words strong and a little pissed off. Lance still had a little alcohol in his system and the headache didn’t help his case, or maybe it was the obnoxious tapping coming off of the tan human nurse holding his bills for the coming morning.
“Adam! I won’t allow murder in my hospital!” The old beta snapped and in response Adam banged the door shut.
“And I won’t allow a good for nothing alpha rape my best friend! You saw his state! You know his history! You know –" Adam got cut off.
“You know he wouldn’t like you acting like this... “ Thace said as calmly as possible.
*crack*
A week later
Keith knew, he was aware of a change in him. And he was afraid of it.
He had to tell someone, anyone, Adam.
...
“Are you stupid! That is suicide - “
“If ever there is the smallest of hints that there’s any hope, I will take it, for them! Fuck my physical and mental state I won’t lose them! I am too far gone... “
Allura was walking through the hospital halls when she heard two familiar voices arguing.
Altean name was known for supporting and sponsoring Marmora Hospitals, helping with bigger purchases or renovations. At the moment Allura had decided to take a moment to check the current situation in the hospital her dear cousin visits.
She took a moment and knocked on the doctors office door and opened it. A distressed omega pheromones and something else beneath it, hit her full force.
*unsteady*
I told Adam, Allura and naturally her fiancé, Romelle heard. She’s a sweet beta, though energetic like a a squirrel on 3 cups of caffeine, but she’s reliable and her little brother is the cutest little alpha who’ll grow up to be an amazing gentleman.
Month one
This Has been a calm first month, normal for me, except for the lesser hours.
It’s been 4 months since the incident in the bar. Adam and Allura’s anxiety have been rising every passing day. Keith’s physical conditions has been dropping and rising in an unsteady pace. But the small male has been happier than ever.
Lance hasn’t come back to the hospital thankfully and he is unaware of the consequences of his actions in the bar, just like Keith wanted...
5 months, Keith looks so happy...
6 months, I haven’t seen Keith...
7 months, only two more to go, we are so scared for him...
8 months... “Keith! “
“We have to tell him! “
“Come on! It’s been 19 hours and his still in there! “
“His heart won’t hold! “
“He won’t leave Nico! “
9 months, Keith’s condition is unstable. His heart is beating, slow, without a rhythm and unsteadily...
10 months, for two months Romelle has been taking care of Nico, so young, so innocent, so unaware... For 10 months Lance has been unaware of his cousin's true cause of stress, he hasn't seen Romelle around too much either...
Month 11 Lance needed to visit the hospital, his pheromones have been uncontrollable for a few months by now, it was starting to give him a headache and his secretary and employees were getting effected. On his way he passed the ICU's, a familiar name caught his eyes, the name wasn't placed under the word doctor where it should be.
Intensive Care Unit room 410
Doctor , Dr. Ryner
Patient, K. Kogane