#unknowndreams

This happens a little bit after he meets mc again as her physician. He's shocked that Tabby (that's what I'm gonna call reader) is so friendly with him because animals usually run away from him. Tabby follows him to work, after letting him pet them for a bit, meowing as if they were having a conversation while they walked. And when he makes it to Akso hospital he crouches to say goodbye and pets their head before walking in.

It becomes a habit, sometimes Tabby walks him to work, other times they don't. Until one day they decide to just walk in, climb one of the desks and situate themselves where people could see them and easily pet them. It's perfect, because they get to see Zayne come in and leave, they get food and treats, it's warm and everybody loves them.

They decide to start roaming the halls, follow Zayne around when he goes to see the kids and offer some emotional support for them. Everyone pitches in to get Tabby a collar, and they do a little makeshift ceremony when they put it on.

Naturally, Tabby meets mc after a while– she's Zayne's patient after all– and while they like her at first, they are quick to realize Zayne has a thing for them when they notice the way he softens with her. Cue marking territory, the moment they see mc or even catch a whiff of her scent, they book it towards Zayne's office and sit on his desk.

They're not openly hostile towards mc, they still let her pet their head, but they show that they don't like it when they approach each other. Tabby is always the barrier between them. It's a clear "Zayne is their human, back off" of course, mc jokes about it with him and he finds it adorable, but he makes sure to gently remind them that it's fine when they're alone.

Then comes the moment where mc indirectly rejects Zayne. He doesn't confess or any of that, but one of the other boys comes to pick her up after the check up and he sees them kiss. Instant heartbreak. He throws himself into work, barely finishes his meals and barely sleeps. Tabby is the one to slowly pull him out of it by getting him to take breaks and providing distractions for him. (Idk if I wanna write a scene where he allows himself to cry into Tabby's fur over a culmination of a bad day, but, it could happen)

Something happens that Tabby gets sick– idk, they eat something they shouldn't or they get injured in some way (I'm leaning heavily towards injured)– and Zayne is the one to take them to the vet and later drive back home after getting a few days off to take care of them, and finally, after a few days, we get the big reveal scene:

They're cuddling on his bed when it happens. In one second, it's night time and Zayne fell asleep to the rumbles of a purring orange cat on his arm. The next, it's early morning and he's waking up the warmth of another body pressed against his.

He's disoriented when he turns to kiss Tabby's head and ends up feeling hair instead of fur. It takes him a few minutes to compute that the broken thing under their neck is the collar they had given them. And then he stares, silently, taking in every feature of the hybrid in front of him.

I don't remember very well beyond that point, but I think Tabby went back to being human? They were practically homeless when they met him and all their important things were stored somewhere safe. They were just trying to figure out how to move with life when they met him– right in the middle of a crisis that turned them into a cat because of the stress– it ended up snowballing out of control the day they went into the hospital.

Zayne "adopted" them (It means that he became her willing "caretaker" because the mandated one had proven to be negligent and untrustworthy– they were the reason she ended up homeless–) and she was able to find more stable footing after moving in with him. She still visited the hospital from time to time, both in cat and human form (I think it's implied that Ivonne and Greyson recognize them because of the hair and mannerisms).

And there's a bit of an angsty scene where she makes something for Zayne and ends up having a misunderstanding when she sees him with mc. I don't remember what they were doing but it was enough for them to walk away without saying anything and staying a cat for a few days. They stay close to him during that time, but there's an obvious distance that hurts both of them and then I truly don't know what the fuck happens after because I woke up....

Then come the explosions. You're already on top of him, for some reason, straddling his lap, when the first one happens. Your reaction? Hold his head against your chest as you protect the both of you from the blast and all of that. It's useless, you know that, still, habits are some tough motherfucker's to unlearn. He says something, idk what but you respond by grabbing his chin and tilting it upwards:

"And yet," you stare into his eyes, a thumb tracing over his cheek, "I can tell you fell in love with me all over again," you tilt your head and sigh, just like Miss hunter used to, "You're so greedy, Mister Sylus." And then you get up and dust yourself off before going to whoop ass.

In another instance, you have to make out, because if you want to go unnoticed, you have to make people not want to look– you know, hiding in plain sight and all of that. You pull him in, wrap your arms around his shoulders and try (keyword: try) not to lose yourself in his lips, in his touch, because you know how intense even a simple kiss with Sylus could be.

He's confused when you shove him away, and you can see it dawn on him when you say the coast is clear. He's a bit stiff for a while, but it gradually goes away the further you make it.

There's more moments of almost-there intimacy, you pull each other closer, put up an act (but is it really?) and then pull away the moment no one is watching.

How does it end? With his confession after everything was done. He's holding your wrist, you're one step away, ready to walk away and never see him again after this. But he does it, he confesses. Says he wants you in his life and wants to be in yours, that he misses you, that he should've known earlier and made it clear to you, that he loves you.

"I know," you answer, "I always knew, but you wouldn't have made a move if I stayed."

He stills, and for a brief second, you get to see surprise color his features before he's already composed. You continue, leaning towards him, grin big and mirthful, "No one can make the leader of Onychinus do whatever they want, but if you know how, you can carefully shove him in the right direction." He scoffs but doesn't shove you away when you put your hands on his chest, leans into it when you pull him closer "Took you fucking long enough."

And BOOM (literally) you make out as a building explodes behind him.

You don't go back to being his bodyguard, you've got your own empire to run after all these years, but it's nice. The twins are elated, Miss Hunter literally sighs in relief when she sees you "Finally, took you long enough! Any later and I would've jumped off a bridge!"

Like, R fell asleep on the nest for naptime, all nice and comfy and woke up in a haze with all the symptoms: the fever, the aches, the horniness.

It was quite intense for their first time. It's already bad for first timers but they had it especially bad because of the past repressions. So when the boys come back, they hear R's pained and sad whines and instantly go into the nesting room to see what's going on.

While Xav gets her a cup of water (lots of sweating) Zayne is the one to realize what is happening because hybrid doctor and he's the first to help in alleviating the ache haze under R's insistence. (With fingers, cause I love that man's hands) In those brief minutes of clarity, R gets them to help throughout the heat.

They all take turns helping and plan a schedule around it because R doesn't know how long the heat will last.

R clings to Sylus while eating.

Raf fucks them on the kitchen table while Caleb cooks because they absolutely refused to let any of the boys out of their sight.

Caleb, Zayne and Sylus take turns fucking them throughout the night while the other two rest.

It's a rinse and repeat of cockwarming for a bit, then some fucking, maybe some light meal while R is lucid enough, fucking some more, napping while cockwarming, waking up to fuck and then the cycle restarts.

After that, Sylus buys a shitton of waterproof blankets and all that shit because half the things in the nest got really dirty.