43 : The secrets of that time { TW : Trauma and violence }

*** Five years ago ***

Florence woke up in a weird white room. The smell and the sound of engines around him told him he was in a hospital or a look alike.

His eyes were fixed on the ceiling. He was remembering.

The pain he was feeling down below was real.

Without warning, Florence started to cry. The more he remembered the more his crying were loud.

His cries of pain alerted Gisele who was discussing outside of the room with Gordon, her half brother and a special surgeon.

When Gisele entered the room, she found the omega on the bed, bawling his eyes out as if he lost everything.

She watched the omega from afar. She couldn't approach him, she didn't have the guts nor the heart to console him. How could she ? The omega was broken. His pain was so striking that Gisele was able to feel it in her own heart.

Behind her, the nurse in charge was crying too. Gordon was almost biting his quivering lips to not cry.

Compared to his sister, Gordon was a beta and he was really sensitive. Their family always joked around, saying that Gisele was the true boy between both of them. Gordon didn't deny. He was sensitive and weaker than his older sister, but he was okay with it. He was already happy to be a beta and to be safe in this world where omegas were unfairly treated and Alphas were treated with too much glory than necessary.

Gordon decided to sedate the omega to put him in sleep.

They were actually in Gordon's clinic. Because he was against unfairness between the three classes, he decided to open his own clinic to help everyone regardless of their gender, their age or their bank account.

In this small town far from Androuse - the main city -, Gordon was an angel for everyone. A real god and a real beauty. Because, for a beta, he was actually really pretty with his short bob brown hair and his deep hazel eyes. He had a fair skin with a cloud of freckles on his nose and cheeks. He was smaller than most of alpha and beta but taller than omegas. Because of his shy personality, people thought at first that he was an omega but he was just a simple beta, trying to live a simple life.

But that day, his life went upside down.

He encountered a lot of omegas with those kind of problems so he wasn't really fazed, though he was still sad. But Florence was different… he understood it during the six month the omega had stayed with him.

The first month, Florence wouldn't eat nor drink. He would cry himself to sleep and eventually collapsed because of dehydration.

The second month, Florence tried to kill himself. Gordon had to tie him up to the bed until he calmed down.

The third month, the omega would spend his day looking outside without any life in his eyes.

Gordon only became friend with the omega during the fifth month.

He was watering the flowers Lola brought when the omega asked : " Do you think I still can be pair up ?"

Gordon was shocked. He thought the omega would be disgust by alphas because after what happened to him, it would be the most common behavior, but it wasn't the case with Florence. The omega already knew who he was hating and who he wasn't.

" - I…"

" - Please don't lie," Florence said without looking at him.

The omega was staring outside like always.

Florence touched his neck wrapped in a thick gauze.

" - You… your attacker bit your nape," Gordon struggled to say.

" - I know…" Florence replied softly. " I remember that."

He turned to face Gordon.

" - So ?"

Gordon didn't know what to say. It was pretty obvious that he couldn't pair up with anyone else even if they extracted his omega gland from his nape. Florence would become an omega in name without pheromones. He would still go in heat but he wouldn't produce pheromones anymore.

And if he kept the mark on his nape, he would be linked to his attacker forever. There were no good answers here…

The shadow of a smile brushed Florence's lips before he stared the outside from his window's room.

" - My fated pair is somewhere… outside," Florence said with a soft smile. " Do you think he would hate me ? "

" - No !" Gordon exclaimed.

" - He might hate me if he knows that his best friend had marked me," Florence said with a sad smile.

He looked down to observe his small hands.

" - I was a recessive," Florence started. " I didn't know he was my fated pair because I was… a recessive. But… that night when I was assaulted, his face popped in my head and my body started to reject what was happening. Without knowing it, I was screaming his name, hoping he would come to save me. But you know what ?"

Florence stared at Gordon who was holding his breath.

" - He never came. But… even if he didn't come to save me… I want to see him. But… I'm already someone else's omega," Florence said with a trembling voice. " What am I going to do ?"

Gordon put down the watering can on the table and sat down on the bed next to the omega.

" - The… mark and the… "

" - I know," Gordon answered softly while patting the omega's hands.

" - Do you think he would understand ? " Florence was sobbing now. " He was innocent and I lost it…"

Florence started to cry loud. Gordon hugged the omega, letting him cry on his shoulder.

After three weeks of stay here, Florence showed signs of pregnancy. Gordon didn't want to freak out the omega so he didn't say anything. He tried his best to monitor the omega until the boy collapsed from lack of sleep and stress. That night he went through so much and the fetus couldn't grip anymore on the omega's walls. Florence lost it.

No one told the omega about the pregnancy so no one told him about the fact he lost the baby.

But now, listening to Florence, Gordon understood that the omega actually knew everything since the beginning. That explained why the omega tried to take his own life so much and why he was always apologizing in his nightmares at night.

Gordon thought he was just saying sorry to his love ones,but now… he knew that Florence was asking forgiveness to his dead fetus.

Florence started to become more and more lively by the time.

Gordon operated the omega's nape to seal his attacker's pheromones inside his gland and to remove the teeth mark on his neck. Florence's omega gland was still there but he couldn't be bite again. If someone did it even by accident, it will just let the pheromones of his attacker inside the gland exploded.

The surgery was delicate. Gordon had never do this type of operation before. Omegas would generally ask him to remove the mark and the gland. But Florence was the first one to ask him to hide his attacker's pheromones inside the gland and to just remove the teeth's mark.

That day before the surgery, Gordon asked him why he wanted to do something this dangerous and Florence had replied :

" - I need my pheromones. Without them, my fated pair will not be able to recognize me right ?"

*** Present time ***

" - And that's how the story end !" Gordon said.

The children started to whine. They wanted to know the rest of the story. Did the omega find happiness ? Was he able to meet his fated partner again ?

Gordon didn't have the answers. He wanted to know too, if the omega he befriended years ago was doing well. He hoped so…