Beta Robby and Alpha Jack as housemates during med school.
Jack being a manwhore and bring back omegas every single day. More like a couple time a week but still.
Robby getting fed up pretty early on and imposing a ‘no omegas’ rule. Childish but hey, he’s desperate and on a scholarship. So is Jack, now that he thinks about it.
Jack’s annoying about it but respects his wishes. Now just chasing tail and hooking up somewhere else.
During one of these longer absences Robby presents as omega. He just had to be part of the .7% of the population that presents after 20.
It’s painful and a nightmare and he ends it with a new body part and a couple new organs.
Jack comes back and immediately like, “What gives man?! You had an omega in heat.”
Then he runs his mouth and is on some misogynistic shit when Robby just clocks him. They start fighting until Jack finally smells him and is just, ‘oh…oh. Oh no. Oh fuck.’ Que the most awkward conversation ever.
Robby’s debating moving out but breaking the lease is expensive as shit. Jack’s besides himself and apologetic because he was a dick and he actually likes Robby as a housemate. Ultimately he decides to stay, because of financial reasons and not because Jack has the saddest, greenest eyes known to man kind.
Jack doesn’t go out as often. Robby’s slowly getting to know him as a persons and not just ‘asshole who I have to bang the wall of so they quiet the fuck down’. Jack starts to real Joan Didion and Bell Hooks. Robby actually runs with Jack occasionally.
When Robby does have a heat Jack always leaves the house. That doesn’t mean the scent is gone when he gets back.
They’re kicking ass in school. Jack’s still charming 99.9% of the omega population. With one notable exception. Robby’s getting plenty of attention himself but doesn’t notice because he’s used to people just being friendly.
Jack starts hanging around him even more. Neither really know why but they like being together so it doesn’t matter.
About two months into the semester one of Jack’s college friend, Trevor, comes to visit. While Jack was only a frat boy in spirit due to extenuating circumstances (the Army), Noah is a bonafide Sigma Phi Epsilon. Robby threatens Jack with castration if he makes their small, cheap apartment into keg stand central.
It goes well for the first day. Trevor’s funny and surprisingly nice. He’s got good embarrassing stories about Jack.
Then he finds out they aren’t together.
Noah becomes pushy when Jack isn’t around. Robby tries being nice, the mean. It all comes to a head when he tries to use pheromones on him.
Contrary to popular understanding, no one type can actually over power the other via pheromones. It’s just that it’s been so socialized to respective designations that most believe this is the case.
Robby pushes Trevor away and Jack hears the ruckus from outside and nearly breaks the door in. He takes maybe a moment to analyze the scene before he’s on Trevor. Absolutely beating the shit out of him, before physically throwing him out.
Robby says that it was excessive.
Jack argues he should’ve killed him.
From then on Jack’s…sensitive about Robby. He notices all the eyes, all the lingering touches, the subtle scenting. It drives him crazy.
He’s a good boy about it. Doesn’t snap at the jogger turning his head as they pass him, doesn’t snatch the hand of the women feeling up Robby’s bicep, doesn’t flood the room with his own scent when the teen clumsily tries to get Robby to notice his half baked pheromones.
The last one was especially hard.
He figures out he loves Robby just in time for the winter break.
He spends the entire holiday oscillating between angsting about courting Robby and having the most sickeningly besotted calls with him. His older brothers are no help, being still in their shithead phase; his mother’s advice is solid, if it was 1968; his dad’s was too old fashion and boiled down to, isn’t being a future doctor enough?.
Jack comes back to school with no more of a plan and a startling realization he desperately needs Robby.
He tries to implement his mother’s advice with a modern twist. Class notes instead of lover letter, meals in the fridge instead of extravagant dinners, he’s planning on gifting Robby a stethoscope when they graduate (Robby’s mentioned how his only family, his grandmother, died while he was in undergrad).
By now Jack’s acting like a kept man. No late nights, with Robby as much as possible, getting small trinkets (they don’t own a vase) every couple of weeks.
His rut hits right after mid terms. It’s a stress induced one. Usually Robby leaves, as he does for his heats. But Jack won’t allow it. He whines every time Robby gets too close to the door. It’s pathetic, he just snuggles up to Robby. Scenting him and at some point dragging him into the kitchen so that he can show off his provider skills (he makes them cereal with milk…he over pours the milk).
Robby’s amused and baffled. Especially when Jack calls him sweetheart entirely sincerely. At the worst of it, Jack takes them to the threshold of Robby’s room. Robby’s nest.
He waits there, respectfully, desperately, for Robby to invite him in. Now the omega’s really confused and just stands a little into his room, waiting for Jack to do something. It gets so bad that the alpha’s sure he’s ending rejected and is about to leave. He’s turning and Robby asks where’s he’s going and to just get in there. Jack actually bounces in like a puppy.
They snuggle and sleep until Jack’s lucid and he’s mortified.
Robby wakes up to a freaking out Jack and he asks what’s wrong. Jack looks at him incredulously and wonders for a split second if this is how Robby’s planning on playing it off. Before he dismisses the idea, not Robby’s style, and concludes that his friend is an oblivious idiot who’s somehow made it nearly a year and a half as an omega without pickup if up any social norms.
When he explains it to Robby the omega gradually gets redder and redder and shyer and shyer. It’s adorable. He doesn’t kick Jack out.
In the end, he accepts Jack’s offer to court.
They celebrate by Jack showing him the joys of being an omega.
