Friday Prompt! Omegaverse AU
Beta Afonso & Alpha Luciano
No one forgets their first rut, but in Luciano's case he wished he could.
Luciano was 18 when the pheromones hit him like a truck and he realized he was an alpha. He was young, excited, nervous, scared and horny and in love with someone who hated alphas.
He couldn't really blame Afonso. The older man had grown up a shadow of his golden, alpha brother. Then, he had been married to an omega for ten years, only for that omega to meet an alpha. He left Afonso a month after meeting that alpha.
Afonso hated the entire alpha/omega system. The heats, ruts, bonding, the packs… he was repulsed by it. He wasn't cruel to them, just didn't want to engage. Luciano had been fine with it, until he became an alpha himself.
However, in the haze of his first rut, Luciano was certain that he could change Afonso's mind. His whole body was telling him that he could. If they had sex together, if Luciano marked him as his, Afonso would see that he was wrong about alphas, that he and Luciano were meant to be together forever.
And so, Luciano texted him to come to his house because he had something important to tell him. When Afonso entered, Luciano could hardly wait for the door to even close. He wanted him. He wanted him so bad.
Luciano thought he was doing a good thing. It felt natural and right and he wanted it. He didn't listen when Afonso said ‘stop’. If only he could show him… this… THEY should just work.
When he was finished, when Afonso pulled away from him, eyes wide with fear and betrayal at the realization that Luciano was an alpha, Luciano realized he had messed up. Everything Afonso hated in alphas, the dominance, the loss of control, Luciano had proved him right.
He tried to apologize, tried to explain, but Afonso left. When they finally met again a few days later, Afonso's neck still bruised and covered with bite marks under bandages, the older man told him he didn't blame Luciano and he didn't hate him, filling Luciano's heart with hope before he crashed it when he told him they were not compatible and he wanted to break up.
“I was following my instincts! I was showing you that I love you! Why can't you see that?” Luciano yelled, tears running down his face. “What am I supposed to do? Ignore it? I can't!”
“If you can't control it, how can you know it's love?!” Afonso yelled back, shutting Luciano up. The older man saw his injured expression and looked down sadly. “I… I don't want this.”
Afonso got up and told Luciano he deserved to be with someone who could match Luciano's new alpha status. Afonso couldn't be that person, he couldn't give him what he wanted.
That had been 5 years ago. Luciano had matured after his disastrous first time. He had met and dated plenty of people. People who loved that he was a dominant and protective alpha. He thought he had forgotten the one beta that didn't want to be dominated and hated what Luciano was.
That is until he saw Afonso again, working as a bartender, and learning from others that he was still single.
Luciano kept visiting that restaurant pratically daily. Even when he wasn't hungry, he would sit at one of the tables at the corner and watch Afonso work. His neck wound was pratically gone now, and he looked happy working there, he didn't dare to let himself be seen with fear Afonso would fear his presence.
Luciano stopped dating for a while, and he started noticing that he didn't miss it. As long as he kept his routine of having a drink at his table and watch Afonso he didn't miss anyone else.
One day, he doesn't find Afonso working there. And neither in the days that followed. A panic grew in his guts, did he noticed and quitted to avoid him?
Deciding to have his lunch break at the office, Luciano leaves. Upset to have lost him again. As he opens the door, Afonso was there, hand raised to open and clock in.
The alpha's face goes pale, the omega doesn't look too bothered. He clears his throat to ask Luciano to let him in. He quickly moves out of the way and turns to continue his way when he feels his coat being grabbed. Afonso stops him.
"I got a promotion and started working the night shift. Feel free to come back to stare, or have a soda if you decide to stop being a coward." and gets inside.
