I come bearing gifts instead of requests
Beta!Pope who has been lied to his entire life. He's been raised as an Alpha, someone to fear, with artificial pheromone pills mixed into his regular meds.
When he meets actual Alpha!Dennis, after running out of meds and running away from home, he questions why there's a pill missing.
"Those are the only meds on your file, sir."
Dennis is so polite about it, and Pope is already tired, so it's dropped.
anyways, yadda yadda, Pope starting to hang around the Pitt more often after breaking his arm, and Dennis realises that Pope isn't an Alpha and they cry about it, but more importantly, Dennis fucks Pope into next Sunday
Ohhhh bone anon ive missed you and your brain..
Just gonna add my littke headcanons onto tgis LOL
I imagine pope was prone to going off his meds when he still lived with smurf so he had moments where he did actually feel more like himself before she was back too sneaking meds into his food..
Oh oh amd when he meets dennis and starts hanging around him he realises slowly that thats what a real alpha is suppose to be like.. not whatever smurf was trying to model him to be. He didnt need to be scsry and control every room his in, he could just be a guiding figure who cares for the people around him- like the way dennis is always ready to step up and help his friends.
When pope realises hed been on med and doesnt need them anymkre he start hanging around the pitt more in hopes to gain dennis's attention. He wants the real alpha to see him and tell him tgats hes a good beta and he doesnt need to be anyone hes not.. he just wants to hear it in that soft voice dennis used when explaining his meds to him and how to take them.
Of course dennis notices the change in the little weirdo that hangs around and puts the effort into working out whats going on. So when he finds out popes a beta whos mums been drugging him to be like an alpha.. he takes pope in and keeps him all nice and cosy in his den. Making sure the beta never has to act like an alpha again!!
Ohhh and dont you know dennis loves trying to bitch him amd push him further into his instinct and helping him remember what its like to take a real knot...