Omega!Robby has never once taken the pups first day of school well, crying for all seven of them.
Omega!robby got pregnant right before Jack got shipped off so he was alone for most of the pregnancy. His only saving grace from getting bond sickness is the fact that Jack is able to ship a fresh piece of clothing back to Robby to add a tiny bit of fresh scent to his nest. The whole thing is a lot, he just started residency to go into emergency medicine which is already a struggle as an omega, most being pushed to OB or pediatrics, and with being pregnant it’s even harder. The idea that an omega in the medical field only working until they have a pup before staying home was still incredibly prevalent, most only really coming back once the pups are in school and it’s more to volunteer in the NICU and Peds department. So the fact that he’s committed to emergency medicine, even with the fact that he’ll be getting his six months of protected Omega parental leave, makes things just that much harder.
So when his first baby girl is born, and those six months are up, just taking her to the hospital daycare is hard. But he couldn’t cry there, he couldn’t let anyone in the hospital see him being weak or he’d lose his edge in residency. Of course Jack eventually comes back, and since he’s off for a while he gets to keep the pup home with him to truly bond before getting a job.
But school is a whole other struggle.
Robby got used to the daycare. He knew the people there, he knew the schedule his pups we’re kept on, and he couldn’t cry always go check on them during the day if he felt the need because they were just an elevator ride away. But not now.
He is able to get the day off to take his little pup, Meredith, to school himself. He’s met the teacher already at family night, saw the classroom, and playground, and lunch room, and every other place his Mery would be, but it didn’t stop the awful ache in his chest. It didn’t help that she was such a shy little girl. She was one of the pups clinging to their parent, big tears running down her face. She even through out calling Robby ‘mama’ in a desperate attempt to go home (every omega is different but Robby let his traditionalness get to him and when the pups are the smallest he does refer to himself as an omega mother, though when they start talking it switches to papa which he loves just as much). Robby was seconds away from scooping her up and heading home, but Jack was there too and reminded Robby that she would have a blast once they were gone. So after big hugs, lots of kisses, and promises that they would be waiting right here when the day was over, they left. In the car Robby sobbed to Jack, and even the alpha let some tears of his own fall.
It’s only three years later when their second is off to school. Lex is no better then Meredith was, but instead of soft tears they threw the biggest fit in the world. They were angry with their parents for leaving them here, and Robby felt his heart break with every word. It took a very stern look from Jack and a reminder that they absolutely should never speak to their father that way. That’s all it takes for Lex to stop yelling, and to stomp off with Meredith. Robby cried as they both left, not even waiting for the car this time. Jack did much better this time around, just wrapping an arm around Robby and placing a kiss to the side of his head.
The twins destroyed Robby in a whole new way. Twins had been a serious shock for Robby, not knowing that they ran in Jacks family. ‘Skips a generation, my dad was a twin.’ But of course he loved the two of them. A baby boy named Milo and a baby girl named Jude. And unlike their older siblings, Jude and Milo were incredibly outgoing. Jude was the most social girl Jack and Robby had ever seen, happily chatting with any adult that would give her the time of day, and upon seeing a playground full of possible new friends she was throwing back a ‘Love you!’ before running off with her backpack and lunch box. Milo was not nearly as social, he was quiet and had been a late bloomer with most milestones like speaking and walking, but he was so curious. It took one teacher offering to show him the swings (a favorite of his at the playground) for him to be off, not even looking back at his parents. Jack had been so proud of them, a huge smile on his face as he waved after them, but one look at his mate and he knew immediately that he was trying not to cry.
‘Mikey, they’re going to do fine. They were so excited.’
‘They don’t even miss us!’
Gen had been next, and by that point she was begging to go to school. Her four older siblings went and constantly talked about all the fun things, so she was ready! All throughout getting her school supplies, picking a first day outfit, and helping pack her lunch she had insisted she didn’t need her parents to walk her to school. Her siblings simply got dropped off in the car, she could do that too. But when Robby pulled up, alone since Jack had been covering a few night shifts and needed to sleep, and her siblings climbed out, suddenly she wasn’t so sure. She shrunk in on herself, lunchbox clenched in hands as the scent of distressed pup filled the car. Robby wanted to cry right then and there, immediately offering to park and walk her in, even with the two youngest in the car still, but Gen shook her head. Her siblings were waiting and she didn’t want to be teased! So she finally climbed out with Robby calling out how proud he was, the tears finally hitting. He may have hit a coffee shop on the way home and got a treat for the littles and himself, but he decided he deserved it for leaving his babies.
Axel was his own version of outgoing. He was a stereotypical boy, hyperactive and currently working on self regulation. Upon getting to school Robby didn’t even get the chance to hug his pup and promise to pick him up before he was running off, one of his siblings promising to catch him and take him to class. Parents couldn’t go in any further, so Robby had to just be okay with that. Jack woke up to Robby collapsing into him with sobs about not being able to say a last ‘I love you’ to his boy before he ran off to play.
Finally, his baby, little Emily. Almost ten years since taking Meredith to school for the first time, and now he was taking her. It was a whole different feeling in Robby’s chest as he took her. She had been nervous, and the siblings still in elementary school had promised to walk her in, so drop off went smoothly without any tears from Emily. Even Robby held out pretty well u til he got in the car. For the first time in so many years, the car was silent. No toddler talking his ear off, no baby babbling, the usually strong milky pup scent was dulled even with the kids only being out of the car fifteen minutes. It hit Robby that he had no more babies, of course he will think of his pups as his babies for as long as he lives, but no pups to stay home with him on day offs or to ride with him to work before he drops them off at daycare. His pups were growing up, and the thought on its own had a set of tears sliding down his face.
