Alpha and Omega

24. Omega (Ω,ω)

I was shaking, everything hurt and I was in a strange state between being awake and unconscious.

Someone was talking to me. I tried to open my eyes, which were burning with tears, and concentrate on my parents' frightened faces.

Konstantin... I tried to utter the name of the only person who could help me out of this misery. But no words came out.

They forced some water into me. I couldn't swallow it and most of it ran down my chin.

Someone else entered.

An alpha. But not my alpha.

The older man's face came into my line of sight. He was saying something, but I couldn't make it out.

I winced as a pain shot through my forearm and I realised he'd injected me.

A few minutes later, my mind cleared enough for me to take in my surroundings.

"W... what's going on?"

"You are very ill, we have called an ambulance," my mother explained, her brown eyes looking worriedly at me.

My father stood next to her, his expression similarly frightened.

And then there was the alpha. He was a doctor, an older, tall man in a white coat with a stethoscope around his neck.

"How is he?" Dad asked in a worried voice.

"Not very well. Why isn't his alpha with him?"

"His alpha?" Mum wondered. "You mean Konstantin?"

"I mean the one he has bonded with."

"What?" I could hear the incredible shock in this single mum's word.

And if I didn't feel so miserable right now, I'd be pretty freaked out that my parents had found out the truth. But as it was, I didn't care.

"But Adrian isn't bonded to an alpha," my father argued.

"Of course he is," the doctor said. Being an alpha himself, he realised at once. And then he pulled the scarf off my neck.

I heard my mother gasp in shock.

"You see?" the doctor commented matter-of-factly. "It's a day or two old, as is their bond."

"Besides, I can clearly sense another alpha from him. And it was the fact that they separated so soon after bonding, and while the heat was still in progress, that caused this unpleasant condition in Adrian."

My parents were silent and I could imagine their horrified and certainly angry expressions even though my eyes were closed.

"Hm... What about you, my boy?" the doctor said as he leaned over me.

Then he turned back to my parents, "How long has he been without the alpha?"

"He was with him all weekend and returned in the evening," my father began.

"About four hours," Ella rushed to answer. I hadn't even noticed she was in the room.

"You are telling me," my mother said in an angry tone, "that over the last two days Konstantin... Oh God, so he's the one who caused all this, that alpha hurt my son."

She turned to my father and said, "I'm going to report him for the abuse of a minor."

"No," I grunted with all my might, but I didn't know if she heard me. Talking wasn't something I could do very well at the moment. "He... hasn't done anything wrong..." I tried to defend Konstantin.

"Your son is a minor?" The doctor asked.

"He'll be eighteen in three weeks," Ella answered.

"In that case, I wouldn't make a drama of it," the doctor waved his hand, instantly winning my sympathy. "There are plenty of couples like that. If it was voluntary on Adrian's part, I wouldn't see it as a big problem."