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Summary -  Kris is an alpha. An alpha with Eleven Omegas to find, love, protect and cherish for all his life. One he already has by his side, his second is not too far away and the rest are waiting for him in the big wide world. But there are those who are jealous, those who want to hurt his omegas and they'll do anything to cause harm. Though it's never a good idea to mess with the big bad wolf.

Chapter 1

 Rain thundered down onto the muddy ground below his bare feet, but Kris could barely notice the feeling of dirt as he strode boldly through the gathered circle of alphas. All of them were jeering loudly, making rude comments or else laughing and it made him feel sick to the core for reasons that he could not explain.  

 A clap of thunder had been the thing to awaken him on this dreary night, but it was the noise of these hapless idiots that had made him unable to fall back asleep. For the first few minutes anyway, when his senses were still clogged with the confusion of a disturbed sleep, and then the lingering remains of a flu which had seen the alpha bedridden and confined for the past week. Thankfully, much to Kris’s relief, the symptoms of the flu were finally fading even though they desperately clung to his nose and eyes like leeches, and it gave him a chance to be able to figure out just why the virtually all of the alphas he was forced to share a dorm with were jeering loudly in the middle of the night. During a freaking storm too.

 Once his confused senses had actually caught up with him however, all thoughts of simply pulling the blankets over his head and snuggling back into the pillows, as it was two thirty in the morning, zapped straight out into the rainy night to be gobbled up by the booming thunder and flashing lightening. There was a very sweet smell on the air, one of green tea and orange blossoms that was refreshing and heavenly, but it was infused with a desperation, a spike of musk that allured the senses to salivate. An omega, in heat, smelling absolutely divine. Normally Kris would not be bothered by such a smell, he was one of the few alphas who could honestly be standing right next to any omega who was going into heat with a clear head to be able to get them to safety. Kris never let the sweet enticing smell drive his wolf mad with sudden desire or an unbending will to take the omega without their consent. Many gave him hell because of it, but he could care less about alphas who fucked around with omegas like they were nothing more than precious playthings for them to use and throw away.

 The sweet smell wasn’t what had Kris leaving the warmth of his bed either, to walk barefoot out into the middle of the courtyard where all the stupidly loud, jeering alphas were. There was something far more pressing in that moment and it virtually blinded him to everything else.

 Whilst he knew that he would find an omega in heat in the middle of the jeering alphas and would have probably gone to help them regardless of the situation, the reason why he was shoving his way through the crowd of thick headed beasts was simply the fact that over all the noise, over all the sweet enticing smells, there was one dominating emotion which ripped the alpha’s heart out. The omega in the middle of all these bastards was completely and utterly devastated. Humiliated, degraded, injured, helpless and calling out for help in the tiniest voice imaginable that went unheard by all the leering, horny slobs that were prowling around him like he was a lamb to the slaughter. None of them cared that the omega was hurt or needed to be taken away from all this madness, they only cared about getting laid and that sickened Kris.

 Grabbing hold of someone’s arm, he could care less who the alpha was, Kris shoved him roughly to the side, causing him to crash into a couple of others. “Hey arsehole!” the alpha shouted, “Wait your turn. You’ll get a piece of the little rat soon enough.”

 Kris turned to give the offender a glare, satisfied immensely when the speakers face fell naturally into a look of terror as he quickly stepped back. It was a fool who took on Kris, the cold bitch-faced alpha known to be one of the toughest in the school. He was Captain of the Basketball team, Vice-President of the School Council and rumoured to be the Principles nephew. He towered over most of the alphas in the school, standing at six foot two with broad shoulders and a build that hid most of his strength. He was sculpted like an Adonis, breathtakingly beautiful with dark eyes and his hair dyed a dark blond and always styled up away from his head to add to his already impressive appearance. He was sharp, quick witted and took no prisoners if someone were to piss him off.

 More of the alphas turned away and stepped aside when they felt Kris approaching them, his aura giving them plenty of warning that he was coming and the ones who were too caught up in juvenile emotions, quickly learnt to pay attention when a good hard shove would send them either into one of the other alphas bodies or else the muddy floor. The noise levels had dropped drastically, replaced by frantic whispers of his name and a feeling of worry passing through most of the assembled idiots. Good Kris thought to himself as he strode forward, ignoring the freezing rain which was pelting down his bare back and torso, exposing his muscles and the scars of several fights he had gotten into recently. At least these pups are finally beginning to learn something.

 Now that most of the vile jeering had stopped, it was easier to hear the terrified whimpers of the omega in the centre of the ring and smell the blood.

 Anger boiled at Kris’s very being as he pushed through the few lingering alphas who seemed to be frozen in shock at his appearance. He saw one pulling himself up slowly from a prone figure on the floor, thankfully still clothed and the alpha slightly raised his hands up before stepping away. Kris snarled as the other opened his mouth to say something, “Get away. All of you.”

 There was a beat of silence. “Now!”

 Some of the alphas scurried away in haste, others skulked like boys who had been caught stealing from the cookie jar but three remained. One he wasn’t worried about, having noticed his late arrival in wolf form with pieces of bloodied rope sticking to his limbs and a gaunt that suggested he had been drugged but a fierce determination to rip someone apart right this second. The grey wolf bristled with rage and anger, snarling threats but still too far gone. The second to remain was the one who had been over the distressed omega, his submissive stance was unusual for an alpha however and Kris noted that he was actually quite small and delicate looking with curly hair and eyes that normally shone softly but were filled with anger and fear right now. Kris had a nagging feeling in the back of his mind that he knew the other but could not place him right at that moment in time.

 Though he didn’t really care as clearly whoever the boy was, he wanted to protect the omega on the floor so that was fine. Kris turned his attention to the only alpha to remain and he snarled. “I gave you an order.”

 “I heard it, but I’m not going to go,” the man replied, a smirk on his lips and Kris had to resist the urge to immediately pounce on the speaker. Deng Yi was the lower schools class president but the way he acted; anyone would think that he was the Student Council President. He was young, spoilt, extremely cocky and took no orders from anyone other than those in his family and if he wanted something, virtually all of the student body would give into him because he could make life very difficult for anyone if he felt like it. “That little omega bitch is in heat, if you hadn’t noticed and there’s only one way to deal with it. So, I’m going to take it whilst I’m here.”

 A whimper came from the omega behind, soft, full of fear and humiliation and a desperate plea to be taken away from this nightmare. Kris glanced back over his shoulder to find himself meeting pair of the softest brown eyes he had ever seen, with small little flecks of yellow in them to make it appear that the omegas eyes would sparkle in the sunlight. The boy was covered in mud, had bite marks and bruises visible on his face and was weeping silently as he clung to the fully clothed boy who had previously been covering him. Kris felt his heartbeat heavily in his chest before turning back towards Deng Yi with a growl, “You’ll fuck off before I kick your tail from here to the other side of school to dump it on the doorstep of your brother.”

 Deng Yi snorted a laugh towards him, “I ain’t afraid of you, Wu, that omega is mine tonight and you can’t stop me.”

 Anger rose up in Kris’s throat, a growl deep a powerful slipping past his lips only once before he charged forward toward the smirking bastard. He didn’t care about the politics of the school right now, he only wanted to make sure that this bastard couldn’t inflict any pain on the already distressed omega and if he had to face expulsion from the school for it, then so be it.

 Clothes tore from his body as he changed, his wolf blending into the storm with its grey and white fur before barrelling headfirst into Deng Yi. A snap of jaws nearly claimed the others smirk before he too turned into a wolf of plain dark grey and snapped straight back at him. Claws tore against flesh, teeth snapped and clashed whilst hard bodies danced back and forth in an attempt to overpower one another. Deng Yi was quick and agile, able to dodge quickly and think fast but lacked the ability to keep track of what was going on around him, which allowed the only other alpha who had turned up with ropes on his body to slam into his side and send him scuttling into one of the fences. The wood cracked and splintered with the impact, but Kris took the opportunity to pounce along with the other wolf, who was a light russet colour and pinned Deng Yi down.

 Sharp teeth dug into Kris’s right hand leg, breaking through the flesh to drawn blood and in return Kris snapped off the others ear before latching his jaws around the others neck. It took a full minute for Deng Yi to go down, the circulation of oxygen to his brain cut off but not enough to kill him but it still felt like an eternity.

 The two alphas remained on top of the downed wolf for a moment or two longer, ensuring that he wasn’t about to jump up and sneak attack them from behind before both let go and moved back. They heaved great gusts of air out into the night air, before stepping back further and transforming into their human forms. Almost immediately clothes were flung their way and neither boy said a word as they pulled them on, but they kept their heads down. Two more alphas had joined them, but these two were alphas who held the real authority over the school. The Headmaster, Han Geng and the Student President, Zhou Mi.

 Han Geng was the first to speak, “What happened here?”

 “Someone worked out that there were omegas due to go into heat,” Kevin spoke up immediately, hoping up his bruised and rope burned wrists. “They must have drugged my food or my drink because I came too tied up in the bathhouse around the back. They had cut off all the call points and the emergency call points and taken my phone so I could only follow the smell of blood and ended up here.” Kevin Shin was a young mated alpha who was one of the regular guards around the omega dorms. He was a force to be dealt with as he was trained in all aspects of his job to be virtually an indestructible force. So, for him to be taken out like that meant someone really wanted to get involved with omegas. “When I got here, it appeared that Wu had ordered most of the alphas away, but Deng Yi refused and said that he would take the omega regardless of the order to leave. Wu warned him again, but he refused and then a fight broke out between them.”

 Feeling the heavy eyes land on him, Kris just about managed to keep his tone polite because he could still feel the distress coming off in waves from the wounded omega and something was telling him that he had to get over to him now. “I got woken up by the storm and heard a commotion outside. I would have left it if not for the smell of a distressed omega and I went to investigate. They were gathered around him like a filthy pack of degenerates and I could smell that someone had hurt him, but I couldn’t tell you who and I went to get there but then…”

 “Enough with the yapping!” a deep female voice yelled from across the courtyard, “Deng Yi is a sick twat who got what was coming to him.” Amber sounded as fierce as she ever did, her blue eyes blazing with fury. “Wu, get your ass over here right now!”

 Not one to argue with the Head Omega in the slightest, Kris picked himself up and hurried across to her, though he wasn’t exactly sure as to why. The Head Omega was clearly pissed off, but her eyes softened considerably as he reached her. Long slender fingers caught his right arm, causing the alpha to hiss in pain which was drowned out by the loud clicking of tongue against teeth. Amber shook her head, “That’s going to leave a scar.”

 Kris just pulled his arm lightly away from the omega, not meaning to cause any offense but now that he was this close to the injured and humiliated omega, protective instincts had kicked in and he knelt down in the mud to gather the weeping boy into his embrace. “Oh gods,” he whispered lightly, pulling the shivering boy closer as he naturally curled up into the familiar protective warmth, “Oh my…I’m so sorry! I’m so sorry.”

 A hiccup was his response, the thin arms wrapping around his neck as more tears continued to flow down from the sweet brown eyes. Long black hair, which was usually as soft as silk was mattered with mud and rough to the touch whilst the tears would not stop. The slender frame was exposed to the cruel elements of the night as only a school shirt remained clinging to the body which offered next to no protection in the slightest. The boy’s bare legs, which were long and graceful and perfect for a dancer with just a little extra build around the thigh which Kris always found adorable, were starkly white in the moonlight, allowing the streaks of red to glisten like knives.

 Guilt ate up the alpha in that moment, all those promises that he made, all the times that he had said he would never allow this precious omega to get hurt and here he was, offering what little comfort he could in the nights sky. Tears of shame built up in his eyes, he couldn’t believe for a moment that he had been so foolish to allow this to happen. It shouldn’t have happened under his watch, it shouldn’t have happened to any omega, never mind one of his own. His precious little dancer, his beautiful Yixing was now crying in his arms after being hurt by another and it made him feel weak and dishonest.

 A growl tore from his lips when a sudden pain shot through his neck and he turned with a snap of his jaws, only to see Zhou Mi standing over him with a small patch in his fingers. “Don’t feel no guilt, Wu, they got to you too.”

 Kris frowned before reaching for the patch, snatching it out of the other hands and softly turning it over. The word ‘blocker’ was the only thing he really managed to discern in the grim light provided by a nearby lamp that was virtually doused out because of the rain. Disgust made him instantly throw it away with another growl whilst shaking his head, “I should be better than this.”

 Zhou Mi sat on his haunches next to him, “Kris, don’t think of it now. Go take care of Yixing, that is your main priority right now.”

 Turning his dark eyes to his student president, Kris took a calming breath before nodding his head towards the other and gently looked down at Yixing. “Baobei,” he whispered.

 “I know,” Yixing murmured back softly, “Only you.”

 Pressing a kiss to the top of Yixing’s head, Kris carefully scooped the fragile boy into a bridal hold in order to keep him as close to the warmth of his body, as well as lessen any possible pain that could be running through the youngers body right now. He once again nearly jumped out of his skin when another figure approached him, but he was quick to recover when he realised that it was an omega approaching with a blanket to cover Yixing. Though Kris was quick to blink his surprise as he realised that the small framed man in front of him was the alpha who had been covering Yixing when he arrived on the scene. Now that he could clearly see him, he realised that the curly haired boy was in fact Luhan, the omega Captain of the Football team who looked to be a delicate little flower but was as tough as nails.

 Kris bowed his head towards the other, “Thank you.”

 Luhan smiled shyly, looking a mixture between exhausted and upset. For a second Kris was sure that he wanted to say something, something important but instead he shook his head and sighed a little before focusing on his task of making sure the blanket was wrapped carefully around Yixing’s shivering body. “Take good care of him.”

 Kris nodded, “I will. I owe you a huge debt of gratitude and I’ll return the favour anyway I can.”

 Stepping around the omega, Kris started off towards the bath house, his attention now focused solely on Yixing so he did not see Luhan silently wrap his arms around his frame caught between feeling elation at finally being noticed, or despair that he already knew the alpha of his dreams was captured by another omega who was far more sweeter than he could ever hope to be. Amber stepped up to her fellow omega and hugged him, “Give it time, have a little patience and you’ll see what you can’t yet.”

 “I feel so happy for them,” Lu Ham replied, hiccupping back the tears, “I love seeing them together…by my heart hurts Jiejie, it hurts so much at the same time.”

 Amber sighed and guided Luhan away, noting that Han Geng and Zhou Mi were towering over Deng Yi and lightly shook her head. She kept her thoughts to herself for the time being and headed back to the omega dorm with Luhan. This was not the time to get embroiled in anything more dangerous than what had already happened tonight, and she was pretty sure that Luhan would not wish to witness the punishment that would be inflicted upon the young alpha. Though it wouldn’t be half as bad as the one which would be delivered to the one who had hurt Kris’s omega, that would be a brutal beating indeed.  

 The bathhouse was thankfully warm and smelt fresh and inviting which was a relief to the senses. Now that they were both out of the rain, Kris could smell the heat that had enticed the alphas so much clinging to his beloved omega and lightly he kissed the top of the other head. “I don’t want to ask but…”

 “They didn’t,” Yixing said, sniffling a little as he curled closer to his alpha, “their claws just caught me when they…” The pause was accompanied by a shiver and the lithe dancer leaned closer to his alpha, taking the comfort that he could from the familiar warm scent. “ripped my clothes off.”

 Kris sighed, knowing that his beloved omega could never tell a lie and plus he would probably see the truth of the matter soon enough anyway. “Who did it?”

 Yixing shook his head, clinging quietly to the other as shivers began to rock through his body. Kris took a steadying breath, “Xing, who dared to touch you?”

 Tears welled up in the other eyes and he whimpered just a little. Kris shifted his position a little so that he could place his long fingers under the others chin and tilt his head upwards to look him straight in the eye. He didn’t even need to open his mouth to state the same question once again before Yixing blurted, “If I say they’ll just hurt Luhan and I can’t…”

 “Right,” Kris said softly, leaning forward to press a kiss to Yixing’s lips in order to calm him down. “I get you, don’t worry. Luhan won’t be hurt.”

 Yixing stared at Kris, his eyes wide and disbelieving for a second before he melted under a gently hand caressing the back of his neck. “I’ll deal with them quietly and if they so much as hurt a hair on the top of Luhan’s head then I’ll kick their arses so hard.”

 The omegas hands latched onto the alpha’s shirt, “Please, don’t. Just leave them be.”

 “Yixing,” Kris started.

 “No, hear me out,” Yixing stated, shaking his head. “If you know really know who they are, and what they can do you’ll stay away for me. Because if you do something to them, they’ll get you kicked out and unable to return and then neither of us will be safe.”

 A deep sigh escaped from Kris’s lips, before he leaned forward to place his forehead on to the omegas, “So selfless, my love.”

 “So selfish,” Yixing replied, shuddering a little more, “I want you here by my side always, I want to know that I can call you to me no matter what happens and if they send you away…where would that leave me?”

 Gently brushing the long strands of hair out of the others face, Kris looked down at his omega who by rights should have been screaming the place down with what had just potentially happened to him and demanding to know where he had been because he had just basically failed as a protective alpha. Yet here Yixing was, sharing all the love in his beautiful heart and thinking about the consequences of not taming the wild beast. Kris knew fine well who had attempted to hurt his omega, and there would have to be some form of retribution dealt by him because it was his right to do so, but it was true that if he got expelled then he would be thrown to the human city miles away and would probably never make it back to the protected school that they attended. That would leave Yixing and Luhan in great peril as they were two of the most desired omegas in the school and whilst everyone was jealous of the fact that Kris had clearly caught the primary’s affections, there were many alphas who were determined to claim Luhan before his marked pair could snatch them away.

 Kris just wished that the other omega would deem to talk to him for five minutes, instead of shying away every time he tried to approach the football captain, so he could show him that there was nothing to fear or feel guilty about; but even though Luhan was clearly infatuated with him, he was being the good omega he was supposed to be and staying away so as not to jeopardise Yixing’s chance with him.

 However, what Luhan didn’t know was that Kris was already wearing Luhan’s mark on his right arm. Just below Yixing’s unicorn, was a series of circles held within an infinity sign and it had only been by accident that the pair had realised that it was Luhan’s mark. All omegas bore their own distinct mark, it was invisible until just before their first heat and even then it merely appeared to be an area of extremely dry skin that appeared on the corresponding body part of where their future alpha would have an identical mark. The mark went through several phases, the first being the dry skin form where it was not really possible to form an idea of what the mark looked like, the second was a more defined shaping to the dryness of the skin, the third phase would see the dry skin smooth and turn an very light alternative shade to the natural skin colour of the omega which usually meant that they had met their mate but not fully connected with them and then finally the colour pigment would become stronger and the mark completely defined to signify that their mate had been found and they had been joined together symbolically as soul mates.

 Yixing had a unicorn on his right hand shoulder, in the same spot at Kris did on his and over the last month the dry itchy skin had been replaced by a more dark and defined skin that was smooth on both their bodies as they had connected. Luhan’s mark had only appeared around a month ago, still incredibly light and little undefined but there. Yixing had squealed on the day when he realised who the mark had belonged to, having helped the football captain with a sprained shoulder, but insofar neither he nor Kris had been able to catch Luhan alone to talk things over.

 Whilst omegas did not get their marks until their first heat, alphas bore the dry patches of skin from the age of twelve onwards and Kris was rather unique. In total, Kris had eleven patches of dry skin on both his arms. Five on his right and six on his left. When they had first appeared, it was thought that he had reaction to a new bathing product, but it later transpired that the young alpha was destined to have eleven mates. Eleven omegas to look after and protect. Not an easy feat to begin even contemplating, but something that strangely always drove the young alpha onwards because he knew that he was going to have to be one of the best alphas in the entire world to just cope with that number of omegas, never mind love them all and ensure their safety and happiness.

 Which was why guilt eating at him heavily when he heard Yixing begin to hiccup as tears slipped once again from his eyes. Gently the alpha pulled the omega into a hug and pressed kisses to his head, doing nothing more than holding onto the other for the time being and allowing the omega to deal with this horrible situation in the way that he wanted to deal with it. There was still rage in his heart, a primal urge to go and rip the monsters head off who had dared to use vile trickery to touch his omega, but it could wait. His primary concern right now was to ensure that Yixing was going to be fine and revenge could come later.

 The bath was filled with fresh water from the hot springs and Kris very gently peeled the school shirt away from Yixing’s skin, after the omega had stopped shaking so much. If he hadn’t been so concerned with trying to protect the other, ensure that he was comfortable and doing perfectly fine, Kris probably wouldn’t have been caught off guard by the others sudden sharp movements. Whilst caught up in his guilt at failing to protect Yixing, Kris had forgotten that his first omega was in heat and even though maybe now wasn’t the right time for anything to be happening, lips found one another in a needful exchange.

 At first it was just simple pecks, which became longer and slowly had the pair twisting their heads to the side so that their noses didn’t clonk together painfully, before tongues slowly got involved. It was slow, passionate and explorative as neither alpha nor omega had ever really kissed this way before but that didn’t matter in the slightest. Yixing let out a little moan when he felt Kris’s large hands slip down his bare back, twisting his body into a much easier position and responded in turn by tugging at the alpha’s shirt. “Kris…” he moaned breathily, his hips cantering forward on their own accord which made the other instinctively reach out to support his thighs and buttocks.

 “Yixing,” Kris somehow just about managed to restrain himself, though it was extremely difficult with the deft little fingers pulling open every button on the shirt that he was wearing accompanied by devilishly little caresses from the sinful fingers. “You’re hurt and someone just…”

 “I know, Kris!” Yixing snapped, his watery eyes glaring into Kris’s, “Believe me I know! But I’m not going to let them win.” His voice was filled with such a determination, such conviction that it was extremely frightening to behold. “I’m in heat, they tried to rape me, but they didn’t and now all I want is you to take away the fear and loathing in myself because you’re my alpha. My one and only and even if I have to share you in the future, right now, I just want you.”

 Kris felt his heart pounding in his chest, those words meaning so much on so many levels, but he knew that he couldn’t push things too far. Carefully he raised his hands to Yixing’s face, caressing his tear stained cheeks with his thumbs before leaning forward to kiss the other again. “I know. I know and understand that my love. But I’m not going to hurt you. I love you too much for that.”

 The omega shuddered as more tears threatened to fall, despair in his reaction but Kris knew that this was the heat taking over Yixing’s brain and making the omega think irrationally. His beautiful Yixing, who had so much love to share that he hardly ever gave into his base desires was currently in a state of shock, having been brutalised and hurt and thrown into a rollercoaster of emotions due to a naturally occurring set of hormones that generally spelt trouble for even the strongest of omegas. Kris wasn’t the type to go abusing his position as an alpha at the best of times, he was certainly not going to allow himself to hurt his omega any further than he had been tonight, but he wasn’t going to leave him feeling alone and unloved.

 “I’m going to help you, Yixing. I’m going to tend to the wounds on your body, I’m going to clear away the dirt and grime and I’m going to wrap you up in the safest part of the school and make sure that no one but me comes near you,” he paused for a fraction of a second, “Well excluding anyone who I deem safe enough to help, and when this madness has passed, then we’ll talk about what exactly we are to do next.”

 The omega blinked repeatedly at him, before breaking down into a new set of tears and threw himself around the alpha as he cried unashamedly. It was so tempting to follow through with what their bodies wanted, to breed the other like the desperate omega he was but Kris wasn’t going to do such a terrible thing. Yixing’s body was ready but his mind was scattered, shocked, frightened and the blond haired alpha wasn’t going to allow himself to mate someone who could easily break whenever they got intimate. Yixing would claim that it would never happen, that the events of the night wouldn’t affect him, but it would only be an idiot who would believe something like that. Sexual assault could not be fixed simply by throwing yourself at an alpha whom you trusted with all your heart. It would only add insult to injury and Kris was not going to have it. Especially if he were going to spend the rest of his life with Yixing. He wanted the day they mated to be special, to be filled with joy and sweetly spoken promises. Not rushed and frantic knee-jerk reactions to something terrible that had happened.

 Though Kris would provide Yixing with all the kisses that he needed, because at the moment it was about the only thing that was keeping him grounded.

 Judging that the omega was in a state that could be considered to be relaxed enough, Kris gently stood up and carried the injured male over to a bench before gently coaxing him to lie on his front. Softly he pulled the blanket away from the skin, apologising quietly at the whimpers which came from the other as some of the fabric had stuck to the wounds. There was a lot of blood, more than he had initially expected there to be and the alpha bit back a growl before carefully picking up a bucket and filling it with water from the bath. He grabbed a spare washcloth, just in time to hear a polite knock at the door. A frown filtered onto his face but there was a smell of an omega on the opposite side so he lightly patted Yixing head and headed across.

 Luhan was once again in his line of vision, looking a little on the bedraggled side as he held out a small box with what appeared to be a selection of supplies from the infirmary, some clean towels and a few other bits and pieces. He blushed brightly at seeing the alpha and looked down, “I…I thought…you would need these. For Yixing.”

 “Thank you,” Kris said, feeling his heart go out to the other as it was clear that he had barely taken any care of himself. Was it a trait of all omegas to care so much about others that they would neglect themselves? [1]

 The blush did not fade any less, and once again Kris knew that Luhan wasn’t able to find the words that he probably needed to speak. Though a sweet smell of lavender and freshly ground coffee did reach Kris’s nose and kicked his alpha senses into overdrive. “Erm, you wouldn’t be able to get us some food and clothes, would you? We should be in the huts by the time you get back…”

 Luhan blinked, looking very much like a deer caught in headlights and boy did the wolf inside Kris want to pounce so badly. Whether he would admit it or not, the other looked adorable and it was only the smell of blood that was literally stopping anything else from occurring because he couldn’t see any open wounds on Luhan. Thankfully, however the omega managed a nod in reply and looked down, exposing a large bruise on his neck. Within the space of a heartbeat, Kris was right next to the omega, hand gently caressing the wounded flesh as more rage built up and there was a sudden shiver to the omega that had the alphas’ guts twisting in fear.

 Disguised by the mud and poor lighting earlier, Kris has not noticed that Luhan’s uniform was askew and dirty, plus some of it did not belong to the fragile looking boy in the slightest. There were several bruises forming on his face, similar to the ones that Yixing was sporting in addition to the one on his neck and there was blood on the pale skin of Luhan’s feet. Feeling the omega shiver again, Kris looked up to see someone who was so close to the point of breaking down that he just knew that he couldn’t leave him alone.

 “Don’t!” Luhan said, pulling back suddenly, “Please don’t.”

 “Luhan…” Kris started

 The scared omega shook his head, “I should have stayed away. I shouldn’t have come! I’m sorry, please, please…just forget about this…forget about me…”

 “Luhan!” Kris tried again, dropping the supplies as he stepped after the shivering boy.

 “No! No, please…I can’t, it’ll break his heart!” Luhan was sobbing now, shaking so badly, “I promised and I…” He turned to run, knowing that he shouldn’t have followed Amber’s advice. It was a mistake to come so close to the pair, even he could smell the warmth and love between them. Who was he to even think that he could take that away or even stand a chance?

 All the words which should have been spoken were suddenly gone, evaporated from the tip of his tongue as the pink curly haired omega found himself in a warm, tight embrace. The muscled chest was matched with powerful arms and large hands that safely engulfed his tiny frame. The hold was secure, tight, protective and loving. Luhan immediately felt as though he could just fall asleep here, safe every single night with no more fears or worries because he had finally found what he wanted. His wolf cooed and rubbed up against Yifan’s larger one, feeling safe, protected and part of the family.

 The slight creak of the door to the bath house broke the spell and Luhan’s eyes opened wide in fear as he realised what he had just done. How could he be so foolish, how could he have allowed this to happen. Yixing was going to hate him. He was stealing the others alpha from right under his nose, on a truly terrible night, and it just wasn’t right or fair in the slightest.

 “Geeze,” Yixing’s soft voice, slightly muffled to Luhan’s ears because Kris had not let go, “You really think too much, you know that Luhan?”

 Peeking up at the other, as Yixing was standing unsteadily in the doorway with just the blanket the other omega had provided him with earlier, Luhan expected there to be some kind of hatred in the other’s eyes, or some kind of retribution or demand for him to let go of his lover. Instead he was greeted with a strained smile before delicate fingers prodded at Kris’s side with a whine of, “Let me in too.”

 Luhan could only blink in complete shock and confusion as Kris raised his arm to pull the other omega into his chest, thankful Yixing had wrapped himself back up in the blanket once again and smiled down at the two who were now resting exactly where they were supposed to be. Luhan still looked completely lost and confused, downright terrified even but wasn’t attempting to run away which was a good thing. Though with the warmth that was surrounding them all, Kris wasn’t surprised. Yixing smiled warmly at Luhan, running his fingers down his cheek even with the tears that were in his eyes, “There we are, right where we’re both supposed to be.”

 “What?” Luhan managed to ask softly, sounding completely unsure of this whole situation which quite frankly, Kris didn’t blame him for.

 However, a sudden rumble of thunder had him sighing and with strength that even he was surprised at, Kris leant down to hook his arms underneath both of his omega’s knees and hoist them up so that they could technically rest on his hips. Both boys immediately shrieked at that action, gripping tightly onto his neck and shoulders as the alpha carried them back into the bath house.

 “Healing, bath, food, sleep and explanations in the morning,” Kris said sternly, though his heart was beating extremely happily in his head as the door clicked closed.

 Only to be opened thirty seconds later when the alpha ducked out into the storm to gather the supplies that Luhan had brought along. Kris could only hope that it would be enough to deal with two injured omegas.