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It was wrong. Purely and simply wrong.Alphas aren’t attracted to other alphas. They can’t. It’s against their most primitive instincts and everything Jeongguk knows about their biology. It shouldn’t be a thing. It should be impossible. ‘Maybe I’m going crazy’, he thinks as he tries to hide his very obvious arousal by placing the first object he can get his hands on — which ends up being his laptop that he had casually thrown on his bed earlier — onto his lap. He watches his best friend, another alpha, change into the clothes Jeongguk had lent him for the night; one of his billion white t-shirts and a pair of red basketball shorts. ‘To be fair, Taehyung doesn’t look like the typical alpha. He’s a lot smaller and skinnier than the average, even for those who don’t work out. Just look at how he’s basically floating in your clothes. He looks like an omega’, Jeongguk tries to reason, as if any excuse he’s coming up with actually means something in the end. ‘My dick just can’t tell the difference. Yeah, that must be it.’But that wasn’t it, and Jeongguk knows that. His attraction to Kim Taehyung, his childhood best friend, isn’t a new thing at all; it’s been there since Jeongguk presented as an alpha years ago, when they were still in high school. And the older the two boys got, the worse his attraction to the older boy became. Jeongguk had tried to do as much research as possible, because as far as he knew and had been told his whole life, alphas biologically can’t be attracted to other alphas. His research had ended up proving completely fruitless, however, as he found no records anywhere of two alphas being together. It prompted Jeongguk, for a second, to question himself on whether or not his friend was truly an alpha.But Kim Taehyung is an alpha. Everyone in his family is one — his father, his two older brothers, even his younger sister. His mother is a beta. The Kim family essentially prided themselves on the fact that they’re very much an alpha pack, with no omegas appearing in the bloodline for at least five generations according to Taehyung’s father. And not once, not once in over a decade of friendship had Jeongguk ever detected any omega or even beta pheromones emanating from the boy. So there was truly no way around it. The only plausible option is that Jeon Jeongguk is indeed going crazy.And fuck him, honestly, because Taehyung looks too good in his clothes, and Jeongguk suddenly feels possessive, overwhelmed by the urge to claim his friend as his own.He shakes that thought away almost immediately.Jeongguk had considered distancing himself from Taehyung, but those thoughts disappeared pretty much as soon as they had appeared in his mind. Somehow, just the idea of being away from his friend makes his heart feel heavy, makes his stomach knot; it becomes harder for him to breathe. And, well, being near him at all also makes it hard for him to breathe, but no one should ever know about that. No one ever will. That’s a secret Jeongguk is ready to take with him into the grave.“Are you sure your parents are okay with me staying over?” Taehyung asks as he sits down on the futon Jeongguk laid out for him earlier. He unzips his backpack and starts to look for something inside of it. Jeongguk blinks, coming back to reality. He hopes Taehyung doesn’t notice he was staring and he shifts uncomfortably, pressing his laptop harder into his crotch.“Not like they’re here to care anyway,” Jeongguk half-jokes, shrugging, a hint of bitterness over his parents’ constant absence still clearly discernible in his voice. “And I know how uncomfortable your father’s extravagant rich people parties make you. I’m not going to let you stay home with those stuck up people if I can help it.” Taehyung doesn’t reply. He doesn’t even look like he heard what Jeongguk was saying at all. He begins scrambling through his backpack more frantically. Jeongguk frowns. “You okay there bud?”“Yeah. Yeah…,” Taehyung mutters, not sounding convincing at all. In fact, he sounds like he’s panicking. The blonde boy flips the bag around and empties all of its contents in front of him and carefully sets aside everything he doesn’t need — he’s clearly looking for something specific. “Where the hell did I put it..? Did I forget it at home?” Taehyung whispers to himself, low enough that Jeongguk almost doesn’t catch on to what he’s rambling about.“You sure?” Jeongguk presses on, growing increasingly worried. His friend looks distressed.Taehyung sighs in defeat, pushing his bangs back with a shaky hand. “I think I forgot my, erm… meds. At home,” he announces, marking a weird pause in his sentence as if the word ‘meds’ wasn’t the one he was looking for. Jeongguk raises an eyebrow. He didn’t know Taehyung needed medication for anything, but he decides that if his friend never mentioned it to him before, it’s because he’d rather keep this information private for whatever reason, so Jeongguk doesn’t press him to give him any further detail.“And is it… bad? I mean, if you skip a dose? You’re not going to die on me, are you?” Jeongguk awkwardly laughs.“No, no, it’s not like that.” It’s Taehyung’s turn to frown. Jeongguk can tell he’s clearly taking his time to think about each word he’s saying. “But I… don’t know what will happen if I skip it. I’ve never missed a dose before. But I guess it can’t be that bad, right?” Jeongguk can tell Taehyung’s question is rhetorical. He’s trying to convince himself that it wouldn’t be a big deal more than he’s trying to reassure Jeongguk about it. The younger male chews the inside of his cheek, pondering over how he should answer. He doesn’t find anything to say, so he opts to change the subject to lighten up the mood.He ends up suggesting they watch a movie. Taehyung agrees, seemingly lighting up, but Jeongguk can tell that in the back of his mind, his friend is still restless. It makes him restless too, but if Taehyung doesn’t want to talk more about the topic, then Jeongguk will respect that, even if he’s asking himself a million questions in his head.Jeongguk trades his laptop for a blanket, hoping Taehyung doesn’t notice. He doesn’t know why he’s still hard, even after the conversation they’ve just had. He guesses Taehyung sitting right next to him on his twin-sized bed, their sides pressing against each other’s, doesn’t help. He tries to concentrate on the movie Taehyung chooses — Old Boy, a Korean classic. The film follows a questionable plot line at times, but the choice doesn’t surprise him since it’s Taehyung after all, and the piece still remains a gift to cinematography as a whole, so Jeongguk doesn’t complain, even if he fails to follow everything that’s happening. His mind is too focused on the proximity of their bodies to pay attention to anything else.Taehyung falls asleep on his shoulder halfway through the movie. Jeongguk doesn’t have the heart to wake him up so he can go sleep on the futon next to the bed, so he tries his best to gently shuffle his friend into a lying position, bringing up the covers over them both. He turns the TV off and lies on his side, his back facing Taehyung. When Jeongguk wakes up only two hours later, he thinks it’s odd at first. He’s usually a very heavy sleeper, so he lies awake in his bed for about thirty seconds, wondering what could’ve happened to wake him up. Then, he realizes that he can’t feel the weight of Taehyung’s body next to him. He figures his friend woke up eventually and crawled out of bed onto the futon, so Jeongguk turns around to make sure. Even in the dark, he can still make out the outlines of the grey blanket on the mattress, but his friend isn’t there. ‘Maybe he went to the bathroom’, Jeongguk thinks and tries to fall back asleep.He fails.“Oh god,” the black-haired boy exclaims, covering up his nose with both of his hands. “What the hell is that smell?”That’s it. The thing that woke him up. He’s fully awake now. The thick aroma in the air quickly overwhelms his nostrils. He can’t quite make up exactly what scent it is, but it’s incredibly sweet and so endearing that Jeongguk doesn’t know what to do. He needs to find Taehyung, but it feels like whatever — or whoever — is emanating this scent is calling out to him. His feet move on their own accord and Jeongguk panics for a second when he realizes where he’s heading.The bathroom.Where (he assumes) Taehyung is.Was he the one behind all of this?Jeongguk doesn’t think. He can’t. He doesn’t remember opening up the door to the bathroom at the end of the hallway. The smell is even stronger now; it’s so strong Jeongguk feels completely drunk, his senses inhibited and he can only think of one thing. Claim.That’s when he realizes. That’s the scent of an omega. The scent of an omega in heat. Jeongguk has never experienced it before, but he knows. He just knows. And for a second he can’t think straight. His vision goes red. He doesn’t even notice his best friend curled up into a ball on the bathroom floor for a moment. He doesn’t even think about asking himself why and how the hell there was even an omega in heat in his house when it had only just been he and Taehyung for the entire evening.Taehyung.Jeongguk sees him now.“Holy fuck— Taehyung? What the…”For a minute, he only knows confusion. Then, it hits him. It hits him like a brick thrown at his face at close range. Everything makes sense now.“You’re an omega?” Jeongguk’s voice comes out relieved rather than surprised. It’s incredibly soft, softer than he intended it to be. It hits Taehyung like a cool breeze on a scorching summer day, and for a moment, the fog in his mind clears. Jeongguk is there. Alpha is there.Taehyung wants to tell Jeongguk so many things.
Make it stop. It hurts. It’s so hot. My skin feels like it’s on fire. Take care of me. Make me yours. Claim me.
But he can’t. Words don’t come out of his mouth — only pained moans, ragged breaths, groans, a pleading noise. It’s so hard to think. It’s so hard to speak. He’s so hard. His dick stands up proud, the thin material of the shorts he’s wearing doing absolutely nothing to hide the very obvious bulge in his crotch. His arousal is leaking, he feels it running down his thighs.And yet, despite his inability to communicate anything, Jeongguk understands.Jeongguk doesn’t ask questions. He can’t be bothered to, even though he’s confused, even though there are so many things to ask. There will be a time after where they can have a conversation about why Taehyung had lied to the world his whole life. Why he had lied to him, out of all people, but Jeongguk’s mind is also getting clouded by lust, by desire, by his primal instincts screaming at him to take care of the omega in need. His omega. He can’t be upset. He can’t even think rationally enough to be upset.The alpha crouches next to the omega on the floor and he picks him up. His body is acting on its own, and Jeongguk lets it happen, because it feels right. It feels so fucking right and he can tell Taehyung shares the feeling from the way the smaller man visibly relaxes in his arms. Taehyung wraps his arms around Jeongguk’s neck and he clings onto him like his life depends on it — and if anyone were to ask him, he would tell them that it damn well fucking does — and buries his nose in the crook of the alpha’s neck. Jeongguk heart clenches and his grip on the blonde tightens. Taehyung purrs and Jeongguk’s mind snaps.
Must protect.
There’s a voice at the back of his head getting progressively louder and louder. It’s telling him to rip anyone who ever tries to hurt his omega to shreds. It’s telling him to mark him so that other alphas and betas know that they need to stay away. So that everyone knows he’s taken. That they know he belongs to Jeongguk and Jeongguk alone.Usually, a bond between an alpha and his omega takes months, sometimes years to form. But Jeongguk’s been hoping for this, dreaming about this for years, and he doesn’t care that they haven’t discussed their relationship at all. He’s ready to commit to Taehyung forever right now, and he will.Somehow, he knows Taehyung wants it too.He lays the omega down onto his bed. Taehyung doesn’t let go of him. Jeongguk doesn’t want him to. He climbs onto the bed with his mate, caging him between his arms, and their lips crash together; the kiss is messy, urgent, open-mouthed, wet and full of repressed feelings and frustrations accumulated over the years, and they both fucking love it. They crave more. Taehyung moans into the alpha’s mouth, thrusting his hips up the younger man’s impatiently. Jeongguk ruts against him, hard, pinning Taehyung’s waist down into the mattress, and the sound the omega makes is pure music to the black-haired male’s ears.Taehyung’s hands sneak under Jeongguk’s shirt, or at least he tries to, but the younger man is quicker than him and he soon finds his arms pinned down on either side of his face by the wrists. The alpha breaks off the kiss and growls. His usually brown irises have turned red, and the pure animalistic glare he sends the omega has the latter stop completely from moving. Jeongguk’s grip on his wrists is bruising — it’ll leave marks later, and Taehyung is even more turned on.Jeongguk starts to grind his hips against Taehyung’s and the friction is enough to make the omega see stars. But it’s not enough. It’s not nearly enough and they both know it. The alpha reaches down to leave a trail of wet kisses on Taehyung’s jawline. He nips at the blonde’s earlobe, biting it hard enough to make the man under him yelp. Jeongguk smirks and lets go of his lover’s wrists and Taehyung immediately wraps his arms around the alpha’s neck, baring his own so that the younger man can mark him.But the bite doesn’t come like he expected it to and Taehyung is left confused until he feels Jeongguk’s lips press against the skin connecting his hand and shoulder.“You have no fucking idea how long I’ve wanted to do this,” Jeongguk admits, taking his time even though he’s aware that Taehyung is gone at this point and that he’s leaking through his shorts. “Deep down, I’ve always known.” He doesn’t develop his thought further. It’s enough for Taehyung to understand what he meant.Jeongguk’s teeth sink down on the tender flesh and Taehyung cries out. It fucking hurts but it’s worth every second, because Taehyung knows what it means. The alpha is claiming him, marking him as his possession, and the butterflies in the omega’s stomach go crazy. Taehyung is crying, or so he thinks; he can’t be sure. He can’t feel anything but the body of his alpha pressed against his. Jeongguk licks around the mark he’s carved onto Taehyung’s neck almost apologetically. The omega can only moan to let him know that he’s okay, and it’s all Jeongguk needs to speed things up. They’ve played around for too long.The alpha doesn’t waste time. He’s not delicate, either, and he rips every piece of clothing Taehyung is wearing off of his smaller body. He discards the torn pieces of fabric somewhere in the room, Taehyung can’t find it in himself to even care where.Jeongguk pulls back and stands up next to the bed to take his own clothes off, leaving Taehyung completely exposed. The omega whines and chokes on his tears at the loss of contact, the unbearable heat crawling back under his skin. He hadn’t realized up until now that Jeongguk had kept him cool all this time, but now he’s feeling distressed and finds himself on the verge of panic. Jeongguk notices and hurries up, throwing his shirt and boxers off, and wastes no time climbing back on top of Taehyung.The alpha holds himself up with his right hand next to Taehyung’s head and uses the other to cradle the older man’s face, wiping the tears away with his cheeks. Jeongguk shushes him lovingly, momentarily forgetting about his own painful arousal pressing hard against Taehyung’s thigh, and focuses on calming his lover down. The omega leans into his alpha’s touch, his body relaxing instantly. Jeongguk smiles down at him fondly and reaches down to kiss his forehead.Taehyung’s eyes lower down and he suddenly finds himself staring at Jeongguk’s cock resting against his thigh, leaking precum, the tip coated with the slick collected from his leg. The omega’s mouth waters at the sight. ‘It’s fucking gorgeous’, he thinks as he takes in the sight. He’s huge, as expected from an alpha, but what’s even more arousing to him is the pulsating knot at the base, red and ready to explode. Taehyung grows impatient. He wants it. He needs it right fucking now but words are still so hard and all he can do is whimper and reach down to stroke it. Jeongguk involuntarily bucks in his hand, welcoming the contact, but he knows better than to only care about his own pleasure; he wants to make this about Taehyung, who looks so fucking beautiful under him, and so, so needy — he looks completely wrecked and at Jeongguk’s mercy, and if that isn’t the most ethereal thing the alpha’s ever seen in his life, he doesn’t know what is.Jeongguk kneels between Taehyung’s legs and pushes them back, exposing the omega’s leaking hole. It’s clenching around nothing and it’s so fucking wet and inviting that Jeongguk can’t waste any more time. He lines up the tip of his cock with Taehyung’s entrance and pushes against it. The omega’s hole is inviting and swallows him up easily despite how tight it is — so tight in fact that Jeongguk has to stop moving twice while he’s trying to bottom out so he doesn’t cum right there.Taehyung lets out a noise between a purr and a moan and it makes Jeongguk’s head spin. It’s so fucking hot that his cock twitches inside the omega — he won’t last long if his lover keeps this up, so he does the only logical thing that comes to mind and bends down to kiss him with even more passion and urgency than the first kiss they shared. Taehyung is practically bent over in half at this point, but the new angle makes Jeongguk’s tip brush against an extremely sensitive bundle of nerves deep inside of him and the blonde man’s vision goes white, then black, and he moans again against Jeongguk’s mouth.Finally, finally Jeongguk starts moving, and Taehyung is in pure bliss. The alpha continues to kiss him — on the lips, on his jaw, all over his neck — leaving a trail of dark purple bruises all over his skin, covering up every inch of skin Jeongguk can reach. The pace he starts off with is relatively slow, but he quickly finds out that he can’t keep this up for long. He can’t contain himself, and the second Taehyung’s back arches off the bed and he blindly reaches for Jeongguk’s waist as a way to make him know he needs to go faster, he picks up the pace. Taehyung wraps his legs around the alpha’s hips, keeping them high so the younger man can have easy access to his dripping heat, and soon enough Jeongguk is pounding into him at a pace Taehyung can’t keep up with.Soon, Taehyung is nothing but a moaning, sweating, panting mess; a mere object for the alpha to use, to ruin, to wreck, and the omega is sent over the edge, cumming hard on both of their abdomens — but Jeongguk doesn’t stop. Taehyung feels too good, too heavenly, too tight, too warm, too wet around him. He doesn’t want to stop. The omega is exhausted and overstimulated, tears running down his cheeks, but he lets Jeongguk abuse his hole as he pleases. He doesn’t know how that’s possible, but he cums again, letting out a choked cry, and only then can he finally feel his alpha’s knot start to expand, growing tenfold and making it hard for Jeongguk to move as freely as he did before.The alpha contemplates pulling out. Taehyung senses it and frantically shakes his head. “Knot. Need.” Those are the only words he manages to make out, but it’s enough to keep Jeongguk going. With one last powerful thrust, Jeongguk buries himself as deep as he can inside his mate, his knot expanding and stretching Taehyung’s abused hole almost uncomfortably, locking them together, but the feeling of the alpha’s cum shooting out of his cock and filling him up is more than enough to distract him from the burn he’s feeling. Taehyung unconsciously brings a hand down on his lower stomach and Jeongguk notices. He smiles brightly down at his omega, putting his own hand right next to the blonde’s. They don’t say a word. They don’t need to.Jeongguk rolls them around so that Taehyung is now lying on top of him, a much more comfortable position for the both of them as they will be connected together by Jeongguk’s knot for the next twenty minutes. The omega’s skin doesn’t feel like it’s burning anymore, but he knows heats typically last from three to five days, coming in waves every few hours. He’s glad it’s spring break, as they’ll essentially be housebound until his heat passes — now that they’re bonded, as evidenced by the bite mark on Taehyung’s shoulder, the omega will only be able to mate with Jeongguk; having sex with any other alpha will simply result in him being even more sexually frustrated, and honestly, even though this was his very first heat, the experience was horrible enough before Jeongguk came in that he almost feels like crying at the thought. And, anyway, he doesn’t think he’ll ever be able to think about another alpha the same way he thinks about Jeongguk.The alpha waits for his omega’s breathing to go back to normal before he speaks, drawing abstract patterns on his lover’s back to soothe him in the meantime. “You still have a lot to explain,” he starts off. His tone doesn’t sound accusatory — rather, it’s almost playful — and Taehyung is grateful.The omega sighs and thinks about where to start. “The ‘meds’ I’m taking. They’re a really powerful pheromone suppressant that my dad paid a lot of money for. I’ve been taking them every single day since I hit puberty to… hide the fact that I’m an omega.”Jeongguk hates how sad Taehyung sounds. He looks at him with worry and runs a hand through his hair, petting him. The omega relishes in the feeling, releasing a soft purring sound despite him, and Jeongguk’s heart warms up instantly. He keeps petting him and doesn’t urge him to continue; he simply lets Taehyung talk at his own pace, and just the pure respect and care his alpha is showing him in this moment makes the omega feel so incredibly loved. He loves Jeongguk too. So much.“It worked. I was able to blend in with other alphas my entire life. I think you’re the only one who felt like something was off, because I’ve never had any other alpha make advances to me.”Jeongguk growls at the back of his throat, something he couldn’t help — imagining any other alpha flirting with his Taehyung was enough to make him go blind with rage, but he manages to calm down quickly by telling himself it’s only an hypothetical situation.“My dad thought that I would lead an easier life. I wouldn’t have to go through heats and I wouldn’t be at the mercy of other alphas who might’ve wanted to take advantage of me.” Taehyung pauses and chuckles at the thought that crosses his mind. “Honestly, even though this heat wasn’t supposed to happen, I’m glad you were the only alpha around. I wouldn’t have wanted anyone else.”Jeongguk pushes against the back of Taehyung’s head and brings their lips together. The kiss they share this time is soft, loving, tender; a huge contrast to how the previous ones they shared were. They eventually break away and enjoy a moment of comfortable silence together, simply basking in the other’s presence.“But how did you know?” Taehyung suddenly asks.Jeongguk blushes, but he figures he might as well tell him the truth at this point. “I don’t really know. It wasn’t a conscious thing. But I must’ve felt it somewhere deep down in my mind, because ever since I presented as an alpha I remember being attracted to you. You had me thinking I was actually crazy for a moment.”They both share a laugh over how ridiculous their situation was and Jeongguk’s knot finally deflates. The alpha’s now flaccid cock slides out of Taehyung’s hole and the omega winces in pain. The younger male feels guilty over it and offers his mate to run him a bath to soothe his muscles. The omega agrees on the condition that Jeongguk joins him, an offer he truly can’t turn down.The alpha’s touch is incredibly gentle against Taehyung’s skin as he washes him. He takes his time massaging the omega’s back, getting rid of all the knots in his muscles, and exhaustion suddenly crashes over Taehyung’s body. It’s now early in the morning as they realize that they really didn’t sleep that much last night. The younger man quickly dries them up and carries his partner to bed. They don’t bother to put clothes on as they lie under the covers — Taehyung’s heat will come back in a few hours, anyway. They’ll just try to get some sleep before that happens.As they drift off to sleep, Taehyung’s back pressed against his front as he holds him close, Jeongguk wonders if the reason why his subconscious was able to pick up that Taehyung was an omega despite the strength of his suppressants, despite no one else ever noticing, has a deeper meaning.He smiles.He never believed in soulmates. But he does now. Taehyung decides to stop taking his suppressants after that. The heats are and will always be a pain, but he has Jeongguk now, so he doesn’t care anymore. His parents are horrified when they learn about what happened when Taehyung calls them later during the first day of his heat to tell them he won’t be coming home for a little while, but he figures they’ll eventually get over it.When they go back to college the following week, everyone stares at him in shock. Some of his friends completely ditch him, but he tells himself that it’s their loss, and if they can’t accept him for who he is, then he doesn’t need them in his life. He still has to get used to the dirty looks he gets from other alphas, but he knows that if one of them is foolish enough to try and flirt with him, they get scared away by Taehyung’s mating mark that he displays proudly.He’s also glad Jeongguk is such an affectionate and caring mate, or else he would’ve freaked out a lot more when the next heat doesn’t come.