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“An Omega.”
“What? That’s impossible! How can two alphas produce an omega? Run your stupid test again!” Talia lacked only the act of stomping her sharp heels on the floor to show her displeasure.
“Damian…”
To determine a person’s designation, between the ages of 10 and 11, during puberty, a buccal epithelial cell sample is taken from the inner cheek lining. This reveals the specific chromosome responsible for the secondary gender.
“Father, all our plans are ruined!”
Damian could hear his mother’s displeasure from the other room. He had hoped Grandfather would be as audible, but Ra’s kept his emotions to himself. It was admirable. Damian wanted to be like his grandfather, to be an alpha like him, to take his place as the Demon’s Head. Talia fell silent. The boy tensed and, without shame, pressed his ear against the wall to hear what happened next. Talia entered her son’s room without knocking. He only had time to pull away from the wall and regard his mother with a cold stare.
“Darling…” Talia knelt before her son and ran her long fingers over the child’s cheek. “It’s time to meet your father.”
The meeting with his father was cold, as the boy deduced he hadn’t even known of his child’s existence. The “father package” also included three older brothers:
Dick – an alpha, with the scent of vanilla.
Jason – also an alpha, with the scent of metal.
Tim – another damn alpha, with the scent of coffee.
And in this breeding ground, Damian was: one rose among the manure.
“Soon we’ll find out what our Baby Bat will smell like,” Dick said, having unexpectedly snuck up from behind and hugged the boy.
“Get the hell off the kid, Grayson!” Jason, though not the best brother, sometimes saved Damian from Dick’s overflow of affection for everything.
“Green tea,” Tim looked up from his smartphone and glanced at Dami. Wayne wrinkled his nose.
Dick immediately buried his nose in the boy’s neck, making him blush.
“Sweet… Ow!”
Damian elbowed the older alpha in the stomach, finally making him let go.
“Oh, your future alpha is in for a treat,” Jason smiled into his fist, watching the younger Wayne begin to boil.
“I won’t have an alpha!”
“Don’t be silly, Baby Bat. A pretty omega like you will have a whole crowd of admirers.”
“Or a mountain of corpses,” Todd shrugged, barely holding back a smile as he watched Dick’s paling face and the spark in their younger brother’s eyes.
“JASON!”
“You just gave the little monster a new life purpose. And by the way, green tea can occur in betas too, but your heat will give you away eventually.”
“TIMOTHY!”
“What? Look at the stars in the Demon Brat’s eyes.”
All the creatures of hell had gathered in Damian’s gaze.
“I’ll shake the hand of whoever falls in love with that fire,” Jason was genuinely amused and no longer hid his delight.
“I’ll kill my true mate!”
“Father doesn’t approve of murder,” Tim protested.
“I don’t care.”
The first heat always comes unexpectedly and is agonizing for a young body. The first stage was dizziness, followed by an overwhelming amount of pheromones.
Tim was in his final year of high school when Damian was only in 8th grade. During class, Tim got a message from Damian. Raising an eyebrow, he opened the chat.
‘Tim.’
Drake bolted from the classroom without asking the teacher’s permission—he’d have problems for that later. But that was later. He checked the classroom where Damian was supposed to be.
“He left.”
“Sorry, thank you.”
Tim found the boy in the bathroom. Damian was sitting in the far corner, his shoulder leaning against the wall. Heavy breathing and beads of sweat rolling down his skin were clear signs of a first heat.
“Tim…” Damian whispered with effort upon noticing his older brother.
He was shivering from a sudden chill and gulping for air. Drake rushed to his brother, first taking off his blazer and draping it over the boy. As soon as the alpha knelt beside the younger, the strong scent of Damian hit him.
Instincts urged him to ‘claim’ the boy’s body, but Tim knew how to suppress his arousal and natural instincts. If another alpha had found the poor thing first, he undoubtedly would have ignored the omega’s pain and fear and raped him right there.
Placing a palm on his younger brother’s cheek, Tim felt intense heat radiating from the omega’s body and breath. Damian tried to inhale as much air as possible, as if there wasn’t enough. He trembled, clutching his stomach with both hands, and moaned when sharp pain seized him.
“Shh…” Tim tried to soothe him, gently stroking his cheek. “It’s going to be okay. We’re going home now. Hold on a little longer, kiddo.”
He frantically searched for the right number in his contacts. The person who would come to help no matter what.
“Jason!” he nearly shouted, calling his brother. “We have a problem!”
Jason arrived a few minutes later, knocking on the restroom window right above them.
“God, Jason, is the main entrance for assholes, huh?” Tim snarled at him.
“The guard wouldn’t let me in, so yeah!”
Tim opened the window, letting his brother inside. Damian looked up when he caught another scent. His cheeks were burning, and his eyes gazed fogily at Todd.
Jason didn’t even plan to check how steady Damian was on his feet. He carefully lifted the boy into his arms. Damian clenched his teeth, gripping Jason’s t-shirt, and buried his face in his shoulder. Todd was about to jump back down to the street when Tim stopped him with words:
“Maybe try the exit? Like a normal person?”
“The normal exit is for assholes,” Jay smiled, repeating the phrase Drake had said earlier.
“So…” Tim put his hands on his hips and sighed. “Let’s do this so our little brother doesn’t get hurt by your parkour.” He patted Damian’s head. “I don’t want to hurt him more.”
“Okay,” Jason agreed. “But I’m not sure my scent will completely cover Dami’s. What do we do if some alpha is snooping around the halls looking for a weak little omega?”
“Then you’ll punch his lights out! Won’t you?” Tim smirked.
In response, Jason just rolled his eyes.
While Jason carried Damian to the car, Tim ran to Damian’s classroom to get his things and say that Wayne was sick and had been taken home.
“I… It h-hurts… D…” The words came out with great difficulty. The internal heat made it hard to breathe, and it felt like the oxygen in his lungs was running out.
“I know,” It sounded somewhat indifferent, but Todd didn’t want to show his real emotions. He was actually worried about the younger one too.
Jason carefully placed Damian on the back seat of the car, buckling him in with every available seatbelt.
“Don’t stain my seats.”
“Hate you…” Dami exhaled, sinking into darkness.
Reality began to return when the younger Wayne felt himself being transferred into other arms. Damian nuzzled into a stranger’s neck that smelled very familiar and pleasant.
Vanilla?
“Dick…”
“Everything will be okay, Baby Bat.” Dick kissed the top of his head. Such a pleasant, warm kiss. Wayne shuddered and closed his eyes. Through the drowsiness, he could distinguish voices, Dick’s the clearest.
“We need to take off his clothes and give him a bath.”
Damian only occasionally felt how his brother’s hot hands burned his naked body. Soft moans escaped the boy’s lips.
“Sorry, Baby Bat.”
Damian felt himself being picked up again; pain once more pierced his body, and his stomach pulled down terribly. The pain subsided when he was placed in a bathtub already filled with warm water. A gentle stream from the showerhead began to pour over his head.
“An omega should be doing this.”
Damian heard his father’s voice. Muffled arguing followed. But from the displeased tone, he understood everything anyway.
The small waterfall stopped, and instead, Dick’s long fingers rested on the omega’s hair, massaging his scalp.
“Where do you see an omega nearby, Bruce?”
“I called Selina…”
“Good, have her bring her medical kit. I need to consult about some medications.”
“How do you…”
“Unlike some, I prepared for this day and read a lot of literature about first heats. So please, leave. He’s feeling bad enough as it is.”
“You’re an alpha too.”
“I smell like vanilla. It’s a very sweet scent for an alpha; a young body might even mistake me for an omega. So get out with your expensive cognac scent!”
Bruce obeyed and left the bathroom, leaving the boys alone.
Dick removed his fingers from Damian’s soapy hair and began rinsing off the lather. Whenever Grayson touched Damian’s hair, the boy’s shoulders shuddered from the sensation. The pain finally receded, replaced by a more pleasant feeling.
“Will you be okay here alone? I’ll get clean clothes.”
Damian nodded. His vision was slowly returning but remained blurry.
Dick left the bathroom, leaving Damian alone. On his way out, his other brothers were waiting.
“Well?” Jason was the first to speak, the most curious of all.
“He’s better now.”
“I bought everything on your list, Dick,” Tim handed his brother a pharmacy bag full of medication.
“Thanks, Tim. Bruce said Selina is coming. She should know more than I do.”
Dick entered the younger’s room.
Jay and Tim immediately tried to follow.
“And where do you two think you’re going? You’ll fill the whole room with your scents, especially you, Jason!”
The brothers didn’t argue, shrugged, and left, closing the door behind them.
Dick started with the “nest.” He’d read that omegas in heat tend to nest, or rather, create a “comfort zone” for themselves. He laid out on the bed the new pillows and a couple of blankets he’d prepared in advance. After finding warm clothes, Dick returned to the bathroom.
“How are you?”
“Better…”
Damian was examining his fingers, which had become pruny.
“Time to get out…”
Dami pushed his hands away, trying to get up on his own.
“Can you do it yourself?”
Wayne nodded and somehow climbed out of the tub. Dick changed the younger into warm pajamas so he’d be as warm and comfortable as possible.
“Can you walk?” Grayson asked anxiously, holding him by the shoulders.
“Will it always be like this now?”
“Well… Definitely 3-4 times a year. Now we need to count the days until the next one, and it’ll be easier to keep track.”
Damian reached out his hands to Dick.
“I get it.” He picked up the omega and carried him to his room.
“I read that during an omega’s heat, alphas lose their minds and…” Damian grimaced.
“That’s written by those perverted alphas who can’t control themselves. And some alphas are taught…” Dick laid his brother on the bed as he entered the room, “…that if an omega is in heat, you should take advantage of it. Most alphas think they’re doing a good deed.”
“But it still arouses alphas.” Damian watched as his brother began leafing through a book while reading the instructions for various medications.
“That happens.” Dick replied calmly, starting to mix some powder with water.
“Even now?..”
“If you’re wondering if any of us would lose control over you, then no! But when you’re older, then it will all depend on your beauty.”
Hearing this, Damian blushed and turned to face the wall.
“So you’re all the same…”
“Drink this.”
“What is it?” Damian turned to his brother.
“Medicine. You’ll have a second wave soon; this will help you sleep through it.”
Wayne sat up on the bed and took the glass.
“It stinks…”
“Don’t smell it then.”
“Tch…”
After drinking the nasty concoction, Damian handed the glass back to his brother, wiping his lips.
“I’m gonna throw up…”
“I left a basin under the bed just in case.”
“I’ll be nauseous too?”
“I don’t know. Better safe than sorry. Rest, I’ll check on you later…”
Dick left, and Damian was alone again. He lay down but kept feeling uncomfortable. He tossed and turned, constantly changing positions and trying to find a more comfortable one. For a whole hour, he covered himself with one blanket, then another. The pillow wasn’t right either… It heated up from his body, and Damian grew tired of constantly flipping it to the cooler side.
Dick came to check on Dami when he was already asleep surrounded by pillows and blankets—it resembled a nest. Smiling, he left the room. Now, it was important for him to discuss as much as possible with Selina.