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Chapter One - A pack is to be cherished

Chapter One – A pack is to be cherished

The timing was bad. Oh, it was so bad.

Frank Yang had a big problem. Eddy was in his bathroom taking a shower after hitting the gym when he heard a small pling from his watch. It was a special tone. A tone which he heard only every three months; it signalled him the beginning of his rut. His hormone level was rising up and the watch detected it.

Even after being friends with his brother for nearly 15 years, Frank was never close to Eddy when his rut or the omegas heat happened. It wasn't something they talked about, it just never happened.

But now this disaster stroke.

He got his phone and texted Eddy, in hope, that the other could see it before he opened the bathroom door. It would only take minutes now for Frank to be engulfed in the red haze of his rut. A rut came very fast upon the alpha and almost always precisely on time. An omega had up to 48 hours when the first symptoms started, but an alpha only like 5 to 10 minutes. And Frank knew he was on the shorter end with like 5 to 6 minutes. And they were starting now, with the first sign of red creeping into his vision and his skin feeling too tight for him. This wouldn't be a problem for pack members, but the way Frank smelled Eddy now gave a very clear indication that something was off.

Frank didn't just smell Eddy, he hungered for his smell. And this doesn't happen in a pack – alphas were to protect the omegas, even in rut, not wanting to devour him. But it was very clear to Frank in his last scraps of mind that this was not the case now. He needed Eddy to be safe.

In his last attempt he got to his phone and shot Eddy his message.

- Hey, hitting my rut. No meds here. Don't come out. Not pack. -

But Frank knew, that he send the message too late, when he heard the telltale sound of a door being opened only a couple of minutes later.

"Hey Frank, thanks for lending me the shower. I really needed that. All those stinking alphas in the gym..." he trailed off when he was back in the living room and saw that the brother of his best friend hunched over. He was gripping the table so hard, that his knuckles turned white and his shoulders shuddered when Eddy was standing right next to him.

"Everything all right, Frank?"

Eddy omega senses were flaring up, urging him to help the alpha in front of him, even if he knew logically that this probably wasn't the best idea.

But nonetheless Eddy's calloused fingers grazed Frank's arm in an attempt to help.

The alpha flinched from the touch – something Frank never did.

Yes, they didn't touch often, because of Brett's and Ray's protective nature concerning Eddy. But he never flinched away, only let it happen when the omega initiated contact. The other way around it was met with growls.

Just after he laid his hand on the alpha in front of him, he smelled a very special scent.

A scent he knew from instinct, but never smelled from Frank. The alpha was very cautious about that and so Eddy never smelled full blown alpha-pheromones from him. The only rut-smell he knew was from Brett and Ray.

Yes, he smelled the aftermath of the rut from both, when one or both of the alphas wanted the omega near to cuddle, but he was never confronted with the full power of that scent from Frank.

He felt his body quickly reacting to this. And this was not good. His heat was not until next week so he didn't have any inhibitors with him and of course, being an omega, he didn't have any meds for an alpha either. He didn't needed them with his pack and was not sure how Frank could have missed his.