Roman(ian) Holiday: Previously In Series | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5
Fandom: Spacedogs Series: Welcome To California (ABO) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Nigel (Charlie Countryman)/Adam Raki Characters: Nigel (Charlie Countryman), Adam Raki Additional Tags: Tagging as I go, Established Relationship, Anal Sex, Commitment, tiny bit of angst/hurt, mostly fluff… as usual, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omega Verse, Alpha/Omega, Paperwork, lots of paperwork, and resenting paperwork, because it actually sometimes sucks to be an alpha or omega, discussion about pregnancy, (female pregnancy), No mpreg, Anxiety, discussions about Heat, nuzzling, So. much. nuzzling, Rimming, (tiny bit. just for flavour. lol), Knotting, Adam pretty much gets his own way, Anxiety Attacks, Fluff and Angst, Adam loves The Hobbit, Bucharest, Romania, meeting Gabi and Charlie, visiting the past, family home, Family Feels, overwhelming desire to punch Charlie in the face, there’s a reason Nigel loves dachshunds, surprise visitor, Nigel has to keep his shit together, Adam is pretty badass, Gabi is pretty badass, Charlie is as much use as a chocolate teapot, Threats, Canon-Typical Violence, Sexually Suggestive, Lace Panties Summary: Adam and Nigel, inevitably, run into trouble.
Nigel had been so focused on Darko, and remaining firmly between the alpha and Adam, that he completely missed the heavies who came into the room as Darko got to his feet. Two from one door, one from another, a fourth behind them who must have followed them in from the street.
“Imagine my surprise when my contact at the airport saw your name on a manifest. I like keeping tabs on such things as you know.”
“No, I don’t know. No memories.” He tapped his head and Darko grinned.
“Shit? I thought that was a put on. Well, damn.” He chuckled.
Nigel bristled, but remained still. This was no match and he wasn’t going to endanger Adam or the others by doing something stupid and impulsive. Which was probably the opposite of what he might have done before he moved to The States.
Darko seemed to think this too from his reaction. A sort of amused surprise.
“Whatever this is, it does not involve anyone else here, so how about we take it elsewhere.” Nigel kept his voice level and calm out of necessity. He could feel Adam’s anxiety and fear, likely every alpha in the room could smell it. He was just thankful that he and Adam were mated and bonded - he wouldn’t want an unmated omega in this situation.
“That’s very reasonable of you.” Darko smirked. “Unexpectedly so. What have they done to you in America? You used to be a much angrier man.” He let out a low chuckle and looked at Adam then.
The shift of Darko’s eyes onto his omega had Nigel fighting the combustive anger within him. The anger he had learned not only how to control, but how to harness with disciplined action. Disciplined violence. If he believed in fate he might have believed that boxing had come into his life for this exact moment. To protect Adam right, not to get them both hurt or killed by rash action.
A smashed glass. Charlie’s throat and puffed out cheeks. Gabi pointing a gun at him.
He pushed the jumble of thoughts from his head, trying to forget the anger that accompanied it, that he had felt at the time perhaps. It didn’t linger, not like they had when he had first begun to have these flashes. He remained in control.
Darko’s smile had dropped and he appeared to be perturbed by the Nigel in front of him that was different than the Nigel he had known in at least one very important way - he was mated and Darko was threatening his omega. Something that Darko clearly knew he had realised too late.
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