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“Hunk! Huuuuuuunk, buddy ol’ pal!”
Placing down his latest culinary concoction, Lance wasn’t completely sure what it was supposed to be… they kind of looked like cookies… but they fluorescent pink. Wait… Why was he so surprised they were pink? Everything in the castle was weird, why should cookies be exempt?Shaking his head, Lance grabbed Hunk’s hands as he looked pleadingly into his best friend’s face
“Hunk! I need a favour!”
Taken back momentarily, Hunk nodded quickly
“Anything for my best bud. What’s wrong?”
“Do you have any suppressants left?”
“Suppressants?”
“Tiny white pills…”
“I know what suppressants are. I just don’t know why you’d need them”
“Because they’re the only thing that makes Keith tolerable! I might be the greatest sharpshooter in space, but he’s such a downer…”
Sighing softly, Hunk pulled his hands back
“You know everyone here’s an alpha… you don’t need to take suppressants anymore. It’s not like back on Earth. Besides, Keith’s just being Keith”
That was the problem. If Keith could kindly stop being Keith, that would be great
“Pleeeeease”
“Alright. I think there’s some in my quarters”
“You, my friend are awesome. I’ll just go help myself, and then it’s off to see what Allura’s doing”
Making a sweeping gesture, he really hoped Hunk would believe his performance. Watching Hunk turn all his attention back to his cookies, Lance took that as all the permission he needed.
Hunk might be his best friend, but even Lance had secrets he couldn’t tell him. Walking through the castle halls, he tried his hardest to act like absolutely nothing was wrong… like he hadn’t run out of his suppressants and was now spiralling fast into pre-heat. On Earth, it had been easy to hide the fact he was secretly an omega. All he had to do was bat his eyelashes as he flirted with every woman who caught his eye, and now he had Allura to provide the perfect cover… no one suspected a thing, not even her. It wasn’t that the princess wasn’t beautiful, but she definitely was more like an annoying older sister than a future mate. No. He absolutely couldn’t let anyone at all find out he was an omega, even if it did slightly twinge on his conscious for deceiving Hunk. He knew his best friend wouldn’t be mad, or rather, too mad at him for hiding it, but he absolutely didn’t want him worrying about him when they all had much bigger things to worry about.
“Lance? If you’re looking for Hunk, he’s not in his quarters”
With a racing heart, Lance turned to face Shiro. He hadn’t even realised the alpha was behind him, but now he had, he could definitely feel his body responding to having such a powerful alpha before him. Shiro was the ideal alpha. Smart, handsome, with just the right amounts of broody and mystery… and he’d be lying if he said he hadn’t mentally gone there more than once. Scratching the back of his head, Lance hoped he wasn’t coming across too weird as he forced a casual tone
“No, no he’s off baking cookies. I… I uh, actually just left something in his room”
Stepping closer towards him, Shiro frowned at him as Lance’s heart began to race. It took everything he had not to let out a whine as Shiro stopped just short of him
“Lance, can I ask you something?”
“Sure? I mean, why wouldn’t you?”
“Do you think it’s possible Hunk’s an omega? I can smell something sweet in this corridor”
“Hunk. An Omega? Dude, no. There’s no way. We’re all alphas. No, what you’re smelling is probably something he’s been cooking”
Shiro’s frown deepened, and Lance was sure he was a goner… but the look passed after a moment, and Shiro finally nodded
“I suppose you’re right. Alright. I’m off to see Allura, I’ll catch you later”
“Right! Later bud!”
Turning away from Shiro, Lance resisted the urge to bolt as he walked the last few steps to Hunk’s room. Letting himself in, he could feel Shiro’s eyes on him right up to the moment the door slid closed behind him. Quiznak. He needed suppressants and he needed them now.
Finding the bottle of small white pills buried in the bottom drawer of Hunk’s desk, Lance rushed to open them. Even though they were suppressants for alpha’s, he had no idea if they’d actually work for him. He was choosing to just pay attention to word “suppressant”, and ignore the glaringly obvious fact that they more than likely wouldn’t work… hoping for the best, he shook half a dozen out the bottle, before downing them and shoving the bottle as far into his jacket pocket as he could. Either way, he’d find out in a few hours.
*
Nope. Nope. Nope. Noooooo. This couldn’t be happening. Lance had barely made it back to his quarters before the castle alarms were blaring. Stuffing the pills in his draw, he’d been on his way up to the control room, when Coran’s voice came over the speakers. The damn Galra couldn’t even let him have a mini-breakdown in peace. Thanks that, he was now in Blue, and his lion was being less than cooperative
“Come on Blue. We just need to make it through this, then we both get to go home and take a long nap”
Squirming at the increasing wetness across his arse and thighs, the suppressants hadn’t worked in the slightest, no, if anything they’d sped the process up, making the battle damn near impossible to keep up with. Wiping the sweat from his brow, he groaned with exertion
“Lance, what are you doing?! Get out of there”
Blinking at Pidge’s unexpected voice, he looked up in time to see the black lion ramming into Blue
“Shiro!”
“Lance, I don’t know what’s going on with you, but we need to protect the castle”
“I know that I’m just having a little trouble with Blue. I think I made her mad”
“Well hurry up and apologise, we need to finish these guys before any more of their buddies show up”
Quiznak…
“Blue, I know I should have told you and I’m sorry, but can we please just kick some Galra arse?”
Blue was definitely in a huff, they needed to get the hell out of there
“Yeah guys, I don’t think my apology worked”
“Well you shouldn’t have made her mad in the first place”
“Paladins, get back to the castle, I’m opening a wormhole. You have 30 ticks”
30 ticks… Quiznak… he was going to be lucky to make it back in time. Ignoring his commands, Blue immediately turned towards the castle despite the fact they were still being fired at
“Blue. Please. A male omega isn’t exactly the norm back home. I don’t need someone else I care about turning their back on me too”
Feeling tears creeping into his eyes, he cursed his omega side. He loved his family, and his family had always loved and supported him, but they were all alphas… when he’d first presented, he couldn’t even bring himself to tell them the truth. He didn’t want to ruin the family by being born wrong.
Reaching the castle, he only just made it into the hanger before the castle entered the wormhole. Slumping over in his seat, Lance buried his face in his hands as he tried to bring his breathing back under control. He could hear Keith yelling at him, while Shiro tried to keep the peace, but with his body burning, he couldn’t really concentrate on what was being said. After 3 years on heavy suppressants, he’d nearly forgotten how unpleasant a heat could truly be
“Guys, I think I’m going to hang out with Blue”
“Lance, we need to be prepared for the next attack”
“How much more prepared can I be if I’m already in Blue?”
Feeling Blue moving beneath him, he cast a look out at the wormhole around them… no she couldn’t be… pulling back on the controls, his lion refused to listen to him
“Blue?”
“Lance, what is it?”
“Blue not listening to me”
“Hold tight, I’m on way”
No… he didn’t need Shiro… not when his willpower was eroding by the tick. With two long leaps, Blue launched herself off the castle
“Lance!”
It was the last thing he heard before they crashed through the side of the wormhole.
*
Waking up with a moan, it was ice as far as he could see. Rubbing his face, Lance shivered despite the fact he wasn’t actually cold
“Where are we Blue?”
Trying to move the controls, nothing happened
“Blue?”
Feeling nothing from his lion, he couldn’t swallow down his panic
“Blue!”
Quiznak, Quiznak, Quiznak
“Blue, come on”
When nothing happened again, Lance drew his knees to his chest. The sensation of the fabric rubbing against his already leaking erection had him mewing with need. He needed an alpha… and not to be trapped on some alien planet in the middle of nowhere.
Struggling from his seat, he made it just behind it before a crackling came through his radio
“Lance? Lance, can you hear me?”
Shiro… Shiro had followed him? That was fast, but then again, he had no way of knowing how long he’d been unconscious for
“I’m here”
“Lance! What happened?”
“I don’t know, it was Blue”
Each word fell between a pant as his hands fumbled his pants undone
“Lance are you alright? You sound like you’re in pain”
“I’m… I’m ok, but I’m not going anywhere”
“I’m on my way”
Tugging his helmet off, Lance let it fall to the floor with a heavy thud. All he could think about was getting his clothes off his sweltering body.
By the time Shiro finally found him, Lance was curled in a ball of pain. The waves of need were pretty much falling right on the heels of each other, leaving his stomach muscles incredibly tender and his thighs wet with slick and cum. Hearing the top entrance hatch slide open, it was accompanied by a small thud as Shiro landed in his lion
“Lance!”
“Alpha…”
Throwing off his own helmet, Shiro rushed to his side
“You’re an omega?”
“Surprise… ah!”
Crying out in pain, he couldn’t stop himself as he reached for Shiro, but the moment his fingers brushed the man’s skin, a sick feeling filled him
“It’s alright, I’ve got you”
Shaking his head, he was conflicted by everything he was feeling. He was filled with overwhelming need to be breed, but not by Shiro
“D-don’t touch me…”
“Lance”
The way Shiro growled out his name filled him with fear
“Get out of here!”
“Omega”
Struggling to push himself up, he tried to slide away from Shiro
“No…”
Snarling, something inside Shiro seemed to have snapped. Grabbing him by the legs, his friend pushed them apart
“Sh-Shiro… s-stop”
“You will submit to me omega”
Unprepared for what happened next, Lance screamed as something penetrated him with no warning
“That’s right. Scream for me omega”
Having passed out from the initial pain, Lance woke to snarls and growls. Fighting weakly, he found he had no strength to push Shiro away as he pounded into him mercilessly. With the initial need to be breed quenched temporarily, he found himself able to focus as he stared at Shiro’s face
“Shiro… Shiro let me go”
Baring his teeth as he snarled, Lance didn’t see any trace of his friend behind his eyes
“Shiro!”
Shiro’s bionic arm grabbed him by the throat, and the alpha began to squeeze firmly
“Sh-Shiro… stop!”
Feeling Shiro’s knot catch, his whole body arched in an attempt to get it out
“Shiro!”
Unable to dislodge the knot, Lance forced his shaking left leg to move, bringing his foot up the best he could as he tried to kick him off. Not caring his knot was still very much inside, Shiro hoisted his limp body up by his neck. With a small twist of his hand, there was a small pop, before of pain filled his entire body. Coughing weakly, he could taste blood as his vision darkened. He’d never known fear like this and never thought Shiro capable. There were moments when his friend would turn cold or grew angry for no apparent reason, but this… He trusted Shiro. He even loved Shiro in a way.
*
The next time Lance woke, he found himself propped up in Shiro’s lap. Unable to move his body at all, his head hung limply, forcing him to stare at the blood and cum between his legs. The moment his eyes saw the blood, the smell hit him. The whole of Blue was filled with it, and it’s copper tones overrode the sweet honey of his slick. Hearing something weakly, his eyes flicked towards where his and Shiro’s helmets laid discarded
“Omega… omega…”
Stilling his breathing, Lance gradually became away of the fact that Shiro was repeating that one word on repeat. He wanted to fight, he wanted to run, he wanted to scream but none of that happened. He simply couldn’t. As if sensing he was finally awake, he was lifted from Shiro’s lap and dropped to the floor. Laying there, he had no choice as Shiro buried himself between his legs again. This time he couldn’t pass out. All he could do was scrunch his eyes closed as Shiro pressed kisses to his lips and pounded into his abused opening. Was this his punishment for not speaking up? For not admitting the truth? Now that he thought about it, Allura or Coran probably could have found a way for him to pass through his heat in a pod or a way to suppress it… Pidge could have done it… after all, there was nothing she couldn’t do when she set her mind to it. Thinking of his friends made him want to laugh. If only the could see him now.
*
“Lance! Shiro! Can you guys hear me?!”
Growing at the interruption, Shiro clearly wasn’t one for sharing. The alpha had grown tired of screwing him inside Blue, and at some point, he’d moved them outside. Hidden in a small valley between two stone outcrops, the alpha had been considerate enough to build a fire, though the warmth barely made a dent in the chill that had seeped into his bones. He was dying. He was sure he was dying… but he didn’t want to die. It was a horrible sensation, and when he’d tried to move, nothing at all had happened. He wondered if Shiro had done something when he’d been unconscious because he couldn’t control any of his bodily functions. All he could do was lay there in Shiro’s arms, the alpha had one hand splayed protectively across his stomach as if he was already carrying his friend’s pups
“I’ve pinpointed your locating and I’m on my way”
Keith… Keith was coming… it was probably for the best. Keith had always hated him, though he never really knew why. He knew his omega side was attracted to the broody teen, and even knowing his part Galra hadn’t done anything to diminish that… so he’d tried his hardest to earn Keith’s respect. If Keith wanted to him hate, he’d rather be hated for something other than being an omega. Closing his eyes again, he felt Shiro beginning to rut against his hip. He’d never spent a heat with an alpha before, but he doubted this could be called a normal heat. Shiro had seemingly lost his mind because he seriously doubted a normal alpha could have this kind of sex drive.
**
“Lance!”
Whining weakly, Lance’s eyes fluttered open to a face full of Keith. The fellow teen was sprouting a black eye, accompanied by what seemed to be a suspiciously broke nose. Whimpering as he tried to move, he was confused he’d forgotten he couldn’t
“Lance, it’s ok. Hunk and Pidge are in the process of taking Shiro back to the castle”
His already racing heart seemed to grow louder
“They didn’t see you. They don’t know. I covered you with a blanket before they arrived. Can you move?”
Why was Keith being so nice? He wanted Keith to yell at him or scold him… he didn’t want his pity
“I’ll take that as no. Why didn’t you tell us you were an omega? All this time I thought you were an alpha”
Trying to find the words, Lance coughed as blood slid down the back of his throat
“Blue and Black aren’t responding, so we’ll use Red to get back to the castle. I’m going to lift you”
The moment Keith’s skin met his, Lance was filled with warmth. Where Shiro’s touch had been unwelcoming to a nauseating degree, he wanted to just melt into Keith. Feeling his eyelids start to close, Keith’s hand came to his face
“You need to stay awake”
He wanted to yelp when Keith slapped his face, instead, he glared the best he could
“Yeah yeah. I know you hate me, just put up with it until we get back to the castle”