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Everything was blurry, it hurt to move. Breathing felt like a chore, moving even an inch sent a shock up his spine–maybe there’s something in the break room he can eat; besides he needed to take his suppressant before anyone in this building smelt him. “I’ll be back” Cyno mumbles, slipping his pill container in his pocket before slowly and painfully getting up–grabbing his cubicles tightly as he leaves. Wriothesley hums, continuing his work as Cyno shakily walks away.

He sucks in a breath, ears buzzing more with each step. The lights are blinding, everything hurt; why… just why was Cyno born like this he thinks? Why born in a body that others would lust after? The sounds around him echo infinitely louder then before

“Watch out!”

CRASH

Files exploded into the air, like startled birds. Cyno stumbles, knees hitting the office floor hard. He groans, hearing the small squeak of the person he had run into. “I’m so sorry!” She stammers, seemingly already on her feet after just falling 

“Are you alright?” 

Cyno groans, blinking a few times, trying to get his vision to focus on the woman in front of him. 

“Y-yes,” he manages, rubbing his eyes. The woman sighs, clapping her hands together, “Thank everything you're alright!” Cyno huffs, shaking his head as a headache hits him… 

“…” 

“Are you sure you're alright, you don’t look it… Oh, you probably didn’t eat anything this morning!” The woman mumbles, tapping her chin as she thinks, “There is food in the break room, breakfast sandwich… You can have mine, I’m not a breakfast person haha”

Cyno stares, his eyes still fuzzy, but he can indeed make out her face; she's new, he can tell that much. 

“Thank you..” he manages, a small, unnoticeable smile forms on his lips. “And don’t worry about paying me back, ok! You just go get some food, okay!” She brightly says, starting to pick up the files she had dropped. Cyno hums, standing up slowly; his legs very much wanting to give out on him. He leaves using the wall as his support to turn the corner. 

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The lady hums, picking up the files that had scattered after bumping into Cyno, trying to figure out which paper went in each file… Maybe bringing it to Neuvillette was a good idea. “Nice going Furina, now you're brother's gonna spend more time organizing than reading,” she grumbles at herself; one hand reaching for one of the only file that somehow didn’t loses its papers; her other hand grabs a pen by her foot.

“Hope big blue won’t be mad at me,” she mumbles, grabbing the file quickly, sliding it against the floor slightly.

Press

Furina stills file still in hand, pen in the other. She sighs slowly, places the file on the stack, and puts the pen in her jacket’s pocket. Her head turns slowly, looking for what had pressed or bumped into her leg.

It was a container, purple and smooth, her eyes stared before picking it up. She hums, tapping her nails against it slightly; looking it over… she pauses, free hand going for the pocket of her skirt, pulling out a similar container, tho this one was blue with little bubbles drawn on

“Wait, this…” she stammers, quickly pocketing both containers. Picking up the files quickly

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Neuvillette stares at the files, a sigh leaving his lips, “What happened?” He questions… Furina sighs, kicking the tip of her heel against the floor. “I ran into a guy while carrying the files… I’m sorry,” Neuvillette hums… rubbing his eyes. “You can go, I’ll handle this mess.”

Furina hums, rushing out of the office quickly. Skirt pocket feeling heavier than it did before. “This doesn’t make sense, floor thirty should only have betas and alphas. Why would a heat suppressant container be on that floor?” She rambles, hands shaking, as she thinks, maybe another omega dropped it? No… that doesn’t sound right, this isn’t just a regular pill container. Furina mumbles, hands nervously smoothing out her skirt; whoever this belonged to would be needing it soon. Or any alpha would smell them, and they must be freaking the heel out over their missing pills.

“Damn-it… whose could this be?” The question felt like it couldn’t be answered

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“Furina?”

She snaps back to reality, looking around frantically. “Ms. Furina! Over here…” the voice called again. Furina turns her head faced with Emillie, the desk receptionist who had so kindly said hi to her this morning.

“Oh, Ms. Emilie! I didn’t see you,” Furina laughs, scratching the back of her neck nervously. The receptionist laughs, fixing her glass before walking over to Furina. “You seem stressed, work already getting to you?” Emillie kindly questions, hand patting the younger woman's shoulder 

“Yeah, I was just wondering, you know, a lot of people, right?” Furina questions, nervously smiling, “Oh, I do! Why do you ask?” She questions, “Well, I found this container on floor thirty, and was wondering if you know whose it was!” She explains, her hands a little shaky as she pulls out the container 

Emillie hums, eyeing it carefully… 

“Oh, that’s Cyno… he must have dropped it without reliving!” Emilie calmly says, fixing her glasses again. Furina stares, fingers twitching as she processes the information she was just given… “What may his second gender be?” she finally manages, smiling nervously. “Alpha… he said the container was to carry pills for… something I just can’t remember the reason!” the receptionist answers, tapping her chin as she tries to think.

“T-thanks… what does he look like? I’d like to return the container to him!” Furina mumbles quickly, sweat coating her neck. “White hair tied up in a low ponytail, red eyes, tanned skin, but if that's not clear, then look for his desk mate Wriothesly!” 

Furina hums, pocketing the container, smiling kindly. “Thank you, I’ll go return Mr. Cyno's container!” She says quickly, turning fast on her heel. Emilie hums, waving before turning too

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The pain had stopped, but the fear? No, that had built. The container was gone, must have fallen out of his pocket when he ran into the women, and even after reliving she was gone and so was the container. He had eaten made sure of it; the shaking in his hands had stopped, which was good, but he needed his suppressants and fast. The pills he had taken the night before were wearing off, and that wasn’t good, even with the choker around his neck that he hadn’t taken off in forever, or so like it was glued to his skin without any way to remove it!

“Um… are you Cyno?” a woman's voice questions, Cyno turns his eyes meeting with the woman's. “Yes..? Do you need anything?” he asks, taking in the women’s appearance. Her hair was white like his own but with shades of light and dark blue. Eyes two different colors, one light blue, the other dark blue. “Could you come with me for a second?” she questions, Cyno stares lightly weirded out by the women but he obliges. Standing up slowly as the woman backs up. She seemed somewhat familiar in a way

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They move slowly, the women looked around quickly before pulling Cyno into one of the office's storage closets. Box piled up on a small table, Cyno stiffens as the door shuts quickly the lock being heard next

“Um… hello!” The woman said turning to Cyno slowly, like she was trying not to scare him. The room goes quiet under the fluorescent lights. “Okay… what is it you need” Cyno finally says; the silence breaking. The woman breaths hand slipping into her skirt's pocket, “I found this and was told it belonged to you…” she says slowly. Pulling out a purple container… Cyno stills eyes wide

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The woman fidgets, hands shaking as they hold the container “Where did you find this?” Cyno whispers fear very much present in his voice “In the hall right of the breakroom” she explains, the two go quiet again. If a pin dropped you could hear it; “You're the woman I ran into this morning… I’m sorry about that” Cyno murmurs, hand shaking at his sides

“Furina!” she tells

“What..?” Cyno questions… looking up from the floor

'That's my name… here this is you're right?” Furina jabs, hand risen for Cyno to take the container 

“Thank you…” He says, taking the container with shaky hands, “You know what I am right?” Cyno questions, voice a little shaky as he questions. “Yes, you're an omega like me! But Emillie said you were an alpha… is there a reason for you lying?” Furina questions, scratching the back of her neck nervously 

“There is… but I’m not telling you! It’s not your concern” Cyno quickly explains, grip on the container tight “You should take your suppressants…” Furina calmly says, picking up a plastic bottle from a case next to the door, Cyno sighs, taking the bottle from her nicely “Are you gonna tell anyone?” he questions, opening the tap that said “Tuesday” “No… I’m not an asshole who would try and put someone at risk…” She gently says, pressing her hand to her heart. Cyno smiled lightly before taking the suppressants he needed.

“Um… okay so everyone in the office knows you're an alpha right?” Furina mumbles, pressing the tip of her shoe into the floor “Yes… why do you ask?” Cyno replies, twisting the cap back onto the bottle “Okay so I was thinking… What if we I don’t know protected each other?” she mumbles again laughing nervously. Cyno stares unaware on how to answer

“Why?” he questions

“Everyone knows you're an alpha and I'm an omega. Why don’t we pretend to be a couple and fake everyone out?” she explains, quickly hands starting to fidget with each other

Cyno stares taken aback by Furina’s explanation, eyes meeting hers to try and understand her fully. “Not to be rude but what?” he says, giving her a somewhat confused look. “You know those movies where two people pretend to be a couple and-” “They fall in love and live happily ever after, yeah gross crap!” Cyno says, interrupting Furina. 

“Hey those movies are good!” she retorts, crossing her arms against her chest. “Yeah not my cup of tea but why do you wanna fake date? We don’t even know each other!” Cyno says, crossing his arm too. “You seem stressed about others finding out and I wanna help you… I may not know you but helping an omega in need is like omega code!” Furina explains, smiling. Cyno stares blinking a few times, thinking over what Furina said “If we agree to this I’m not becoming you're sugar Daddy I don’t have that kind of money!” 

Furina stares, laughing slightly “Haha… you must not know me, you’d be my sugar baby! I may have an intern level pay but I’m really rich from my inheritance money!” Cyno stares, slightly taken aback by Furina’s words but brushes them off “Do I have to call you a nickname?” he questions, fixing his hair awaiting her answer. “I was called Fufu as a kid so you could call me that!” she answers, Cyno hums. Scratching his neck nervously 

“Call me whatever you’d like…” he mumbles

Furina hums, nodding slowly “Alright then big guy!” 

Cyno sighs, rubbing his temple “Fufu I’m barely taller than you!” 

“Oh well! Doesn’t really matter to me!” she answers, smiling brightly

The two go quiet, office noise being heard on the other side of the door. This was just the beginning of a plan set in play to fool the others. Like a game of sorts, a game that was dangerous if ones who were not meant to discover…

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“Do you need me to buy lunch?” Furina asks, elbowing Cyno as the two walk back to Cyno cubicle 

“Yeah… used up most of my money, paying my suppressant payment last night…” he answers, biting his lip slightly

“Well that’s alright… how about we talk more about this whole thing after work?” she says, smiling gently 

“Yeah… that’ll be alright, how about my place?” Cyno quietly questions

Furina hums, tapping her finger against her chin “Sure… I don’t mind, besides it would be good to know you much better!” 

Cyno nobs, smiling before waving good bye to Furina

“Be safe Fufu!” 

“You too big guy..!”

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Keyboards clicked, as whispers rang through Rex. Inc a highly successful company run by Zhongli; his presence was small and never quite there for the employees. It was quiet to say, that he was barely seen outside his office with his chief adviser Neuvillette. The two men seemed odd because every employee of the company rumored that the two were lovers but it just the flick of Zhongli's wrist shut it down was very powerful not just cause he was the company’s CEO but he was also an alpha.

He didn’t take lightly to rumors being spread throughout the company mainly by other alphas and a few betas the company was his which meant they had to follow his rules and they were heavily enforced by Neuvillette and Clorinde. Besides with two alphas keeping the company safe Zhongli never worried much he knew everything was fine and in order just how he liked it… but things can indeed change

Cyno sighed, turning his small deck fan on the building was unironically hot cause of the cold water outside but Cyno loved the cold. It kept his senses awake and it kept his mind off the suffering heat he felt at a young age. He breathes continuing to type away wanting to get these emails done as soon as possible. Cyno may have liked to keep himself busy with work but these emails were the bane of his existence.

Finish one three more pop up, you know there are other people besides him you can email right? This job always kept him on his toes cause he wanted… no had to keep others from knowing what he really was

“Hello Cyno!”

A cheery voice spoke, Cyno knew exactly who this was she always came by to say hi to him whenever she could. He turns catching her stunning blue eyes that gleamed up the offices' bleak lights.

“Good afternoon Navia!” He calmly greeted, Navia smiles, giving him a gentle smile back “You seem busy emails getting to you?” She questions, readjusting her cardigan. Cyno laughs rubbing his eyes as he nobs sitting back in his chair more “Haha, finish one you get three more huh..?” She laughs, causing Cyno to laugh as well “Well I should let you get back to work have a peaceful afternoon Cyno”

She smiles, waving bye before walking away Cyno sighs about to readjust his shirt before someone catches his eye.

“What do you need, Wriothesley..?” He groans, shooting a glare at the alpha a cube over from him… Wriothesley his very annoying and rude coworker to Cyno maybe it’s because of his own personal reasons but this alpha always found a way to piss him off.

Wriothesley stares placing his pen down before shooting a glare back at Cyno “You seem chummy with her…” he says, crossing his arms over his chest; Cyno scoffs before turning back to his computer adjusting his shirt slightly as he answers another email. Wriothesley hums, turning back to his own computer eyes lingering on Cyno for another minute before looking back over to his computer screen; “Weird…” Wriothesley mumbles to himself. He had been Cyno's neighbor for about nine months and even with all that time Wriothesley could never find out why an alpha like Cyno who was friends with a few beta’s in the office wasn’t interested in them.

He was strange, to say the least, he barely talked with anyone besides Navia, and the company’s receptionist Emilie. But why would he be so distant from every alpha and beta in this building? Wriothesley never had any answer and it pissed him off knowing that his desk neighbor was one big ass mystery to him. He sighed; starting to get back to work he had reports to finish and he couldn’t let the mystery of Cyno bug him right now.

Cyno breathes, hitting send on another finished email; he stretches groaning a little as he does. He reaches for his water bottle hands gripping the metal bottle tightly; he was out of water and needed to refill it and grab his lunch from the break room's fridge. Cyno hums, standing up from his chair before scooting it in, he sighs catching Wriothesley staring at him again. Cyno scoffs before walking away from his desk a chill being sent up his spine as he does. He knows all too well that Wriothesley's sharp eyes almost always made him tense up, and he hated it well correction he hated a lot of things about Wriothesley and the other alphas he worked with. All of them… mainly were arrogant assholes who thought so lowly of others…

He groans, gripping his water bottle tightly as he hurries away from Wriothesley’s sharp eyes. The alpha sighs as Cyno leaves. He always did this, running away from almost every alpha who came too close for comfort, but he must indeed have a reason for this no? His chair squeaks as he stands, hand combing through his hair skillfully before quickly walking in the opposite direction as Cyno

Wriothesley wasn’t one who wanted to scare those who seemed harmed in any way possible, and Cyno seemed to be one of those people. Yes, he may have been an asshole to him but… couldn’t a strong alpha like him see he was joking, or was there more going on with him than Wriothesley could even imagine?

It didn’t matter right now Wriothesley had places to be and following a coworker wasn’t something he was too keen on doing at any point in his work or personal life. Wriothesley quickly adjusted his tie before hitting the elevator button, the doors opened quickly enough for him just hit the button but he was pretty surprised to see who was in the elevator

“Clorinde… what a surprise”

Wriothesley starts, meeting the other alphas’ cold ‘dead’ eyes. She waves stepping out of the elevator quickly her shoes echoing against the office floor as she meets Wriothesley’s eyes

“Good afternoon Mr. Wriothesley; heading out for lunch?”

She questions, crossing her arms against her chest. Wriothesley nods a small laugh leaving his lips as the two alphas awkwardly speak to one another, it leans on for a while before Clorinde excuses herself from the conversation Wriothesley waves goodbye before pressing the elevator button again.

He waits

And waits

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He should have taken the elevator earlier

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Cyno grumbles bending down to the water jug to quickly refill his water bottle, it takes a moment before it completely refills. He sighs standing back up as he closes the bottle lid; his eyes linger on the bottle for a moment before wiping away the excess water dripping from the sides top. Cyno mumbles lowly before spinning around to get his lunch from the fridge, it takes a moment but he finds it right where he lefted it stuffed before a few of his coworkers’ lunch just to make sure no one would take it on purpose

It had happened many times before, but now he knew that with his clever little hiding spot no one would ever notice it! He smiled shutting the door with his foot a proud smile plastered across his lips

“Haven’t you heard?”

Cyno stopped, eyes catching onto a pair of men whispering amongst each other. He breathes, pressing his back up against the break rooms wall to listen in

“No… spill”

“I’ve heard that Mr. Zhongli has just hired a omega intern”

Cyno breathes shutters as he listens, his grip on his water bottle tightening. For fuck sake could alpha just learn to leave omegas alone? Those two were what in their fourities or so this intern could be fucking 20 and they go after them.

“Oh..? What’s their name?”

“Furina..!”

Cyno mumbles curses under his breath, before stepping out of the break room. Taking a breath as he lessening his on his water bottle

“You should leave that intern alone”

He starts, causing the two alphas to turn to him. They give him a glare, not at all happy with the words that just left his lips. The taller of the two place a hand on Cyno shoulders grabbing it harshly

“You know it best to keep to yourself right?”

The alpha starts, smiling slightly as the other alpha behind him laughs. Cyno scoffed, rolling his eyes making the alpha tighten his grip on Cyno's shoulders. Cyno freezes for a moment before someone else breaks the tension between the two

“Should you all be at you're desk?”

Cyno knew that voice everyone in the office did. Ms. Clorinde, she always seemed to be in the right place at the right time, she makes eye contact with the two alphas then the back of Cyno’s head

“Back to work you three!”

She orders, tapping her foot against the floor impatiently. Cyno sighs a sigh of relief when he’s finally let go, he mumbles a curse out at the alpha before stepping away from the two turning on his heel calmly walking past Ms. Clorinde’s tall and scary form. He smiles slightly at Clorinde as he walks past her, calmly before she herself gives a small smile to him

He hurries away from the three, breath starting to get stuck in his throat, body shaking slightly as his throat starts to clam up, Cyno hurriedly walks to his desk setting his bag and water bottle down. He stays standing for a moment trying desperately to catch his breath and relax his tensed body. It works somewhat, after a moment he takes a seat spinning his chair over to his work bag rummaging through it before grabbing a small pill case

He sighs opening the “Monday” tab taking the three small pink pills from the case, he slips the case back into his bag pushing it under his desk with his foot gently; his eyes glancing over that his lunch bag… he wasn’t really hungry now but he need something in his system to not have him throw up these pills and risk getting found out

Cyno grabs his water, turning to see Wriothesley wasn’t at his desk good he thought he could take these pills in peace; a low grumble leaves his lips as he pops the water bottles lid open with one final sighs he pops the pills in his mouth water following suit

His hands grab his lunch bag, opening it slowly… great he thought nothing looked good anymore to him since he packed it; but rules are rules..! He couldn’t risk anyone know what he really was

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an omega

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Wriothesley leans up against the elevators wall, hand rubbing up against his face as his mind is lost in thought; thinking back on every single moment he had ever spent with Cyno that alpha was most definitely hiding something from everyone and Wriothesley was gonna find out one way or another. He sighs blinking a few time as the elevator door open a few people from the low levels stepping in

He sighs, just hoping the elevator wouldn’t miss his floor yet again like last time even though he had indeed hit the floor number… twice at that; his eyes glance over at the few who had stepped in nothing too noticeable for him to even care. The elevator doors opens again a young woman who seemed to be in her mid twenties, steps in a few folders pressed up against her chest as she finds a place in the elevator standing right infront of Wriothesley

She look kind of familiar like he’d seen her before at one of the office banquets, and her hair look just like a certain someone’s in the office… then again Cyno had white hair too, could she be his sibling? The elevator doors open, breaking Wriothesley out of his thoughts, his eyes looking to the red digital numbers reading floor thirty his floor.

“Excuse me Miss, could you move? This is my floor” Wriothesley spoke, the women stiffens for a moment before moving out of his way “Thank you..” he added, exiting the elevator quickly its door shutting behind him. Wriothesley huffs still thinking of were he’d seen that women before. He shrugs, starting to walk back to his desk waving to a few of his coworkers before his eyes meet with the back of Cyno’s head. The alpha pops a piece of cheese into his mouth lunch barley even touched, weird Wriothesley thought Cyno usually finished his lunch before he ever gets back

Strange maybe he’s just under the weather, it’ll pass. Wriothesley thought taking his sit starting back on his work before he lefted for lunch.

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The elevator opens the women from before stepping out, she sighs her heels echoing through the floor. It was empty of any employees besides a few offices for meetings and the two offices that the two most powerful alpha worked in. She stops, one hand knocking on the wood of the door in front of her; no one responds for a moment before the door open she looks up her mismatched eyes staring up at the most important person in this whole building

“Good afternoon Ms. Furina! I hope you had a good lunch” he kindly says, stepping aside for her to step in. Furina nervously smiles, nodding her head slightly “I hope you did too… Mr. Zhongli!” She replies, stepping into the office hearing the door shut behind her.

She turned, sighing a breath of relief Zhongli had left, “You needed me?” A voice called smooth and gentle to Furina’s ears; “Yes! Yes! I do… here I pick these files up from floor seventeen, the head guy wanted you to look at them!” Furina explains, setting the three thick files down onto the desk. He hums, picking them up quickly, setting them aside for a moment. “How has you're first day been? Stressed, nervous?”

Furina laughs, clasping her hands behind her back swaying on her heels slightly; “I’m fine Neuvillette, I believe I ran into Wriothesley while in the elevator!” She breathes as the words leave her lips, nails digging into her palms slightly. Neuvillette hums a soft smile forming on his lips– “I’m sure you’ll do well, I believe you still have files to get on floor eight… I hope you have a good day!” He says, opening up one of the files Furina had given him

She smiles, turning away from Neuvillette hands grabbing the door before stepping out. Furina breaths fixing her skirt slightly before heading back to the elevator, heels clicking against the floor once again.

“Good afternoon Ms. Furina!” A voice greets it sounds cold but warm at the same time, Furina stiffens head turning to were the voice was “O-oh Ms. Clorinde good afternoon as well” she mumbles, eyes looking over the alpha in front of her. Noting small gestures of comfort she was trying to provide because of the different between the two “Have a pleasant rest of you're day!” Clorinde whispers, turning away stepping down hall towards Neuvillette’s office

Furina sighs, wiping his clammy hand down her skirt before turning back to the elevators; press the button quickly just hoping no one would be in the elevator or join her… thought the only ones on the floor would be her brother, Ms. Clorinde, and the company’s boss Zhongli. She takes a few deep breaths, eyeing the elevator as gets closer and closer to the fifth floor. Why’d there have to be fifty floors? Forty would have been fine, maybe Mr. Zhongli had a preference for the number fifty

“You seem tense, first day getting to you?” Zhongli’s voice leaking of authority and class spoke. breaths hands gripping the hem of her skirt “Good afternoon… Mr Zhongli! Just wanna get back to work!” She explains quickly, hoping to everything in the world that Zhongli didn’t see through the bits of fear leaking from her “I see, we’ll have a wonderful rest of you're day… the elevator is waiting for you.” He says a small gust of air hits Furina as Zhongli leaves. She breathes stepping into the elevator quickly press the eighth floor button

“Just a little longer, you’ve got this Furina!” encouragement something everyone need, and Furina would need it if another alpha leaking of rut passes her today

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The day passes smoothly, work being finished, files being printed and ready to be looked over.

Cyno sighs, packing up the rest of his things as the office floor empty’s out. Both betas and alphas hurriy to leave, leaving small items behind that they would be missing the following morning. Cyno mumbles lowly under his breath blinking his eyes a few times staring at his computer after lunch defiantly put a strain on his eyes… again, his ears catch onto the sounding of footsteps… heels might he add. He hums turning to face the women who would say goodbye and good morning to him every day

“Have a wonderful night Cyno!” Navia bubbles, smiling brightly. Her hands slightly full with finished paperwork. Cyno hums, smiling meekly as she calmly walked away; her steps echo signing her leave from the floor. Cyno groans, sending his last email of the night before finally starting to leave. Hands moving quickly but shakily over his things, sipping the last of his coffee before tossing it;

It's quiet… It was peaceful. That may have been good if you wanted the quiet but Cyno didn’t like it, just how he didn’t like the quiet of his apartment or anything for that matter. The quiet made him think and thinking would lead to pain; he grumbles hands rubbing the tiredness out of his eyes. His bag hung low on his shoulders as he began to leave pressing the elevator button with shakily fingers a sighs leaves his lips

He was still scared, that was okay but it didn’t matter he was scared for more than one reason. His phone buzz as the door to the elevator opens, Cyno grumbles fishing the phone out as he steps in pressing the first floor bottom.

“Hello?” He mumbles quietly

“Mr. Cyno! Pleasure to hear from you! You’ve been avoiding calls I can see!” The voice was chipper like their we’re friends, their weren’t. “You’ve miss you're second heat suppressants payment… if this continues will have to put the pills on hold”

Cyno blinks blankly, leaning up against the elevator railing as the door closes “I-I know… I’m trying I promise but… my paycheck can only do so much, I have to split it between everything I need ma’ma!” He explains, voice shaking as he speaks “Between food, my rent, and pay cuts I don’t have much to pay the O pills back”

The women on the other side sighs, the clear sweetness in her voice she had vanished “Mr. Cyno you have one week to pay off both payments before we here stop sending the okay for you to refill the pills… I do hope you have a wonderful night… good night Mr. Cyno”

She hangs up just as the elevator doors open to the first floor. Cyno stares; phone screen black. He sighs sliding it back into his pocket stepping out fear creeping up his neck; tears something he hadn’t thought about in what felt like forever threatened his existence, he wanted to cry but he could not with the pain that came with the tears

“Cyno! Have a good night!”

He snaps back, head turned to the voice… Emilie the company’s receptionist she’d been working here awhile everyone loved her; Cyno did too. Beta or not she was kind and he liked that “You too! Hope Mr. Zhongli doesn’t keep you too late!” He somewhat jokes forcing a smile; Emilie laughs waving a gentle goodbye

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It was quiet, Cyno didn’t like it but he needed to think. Hands balled up against his knees as he stared at the container the caused his problems; it was purple smooth, easy to hide from others. One of the few reasons he liked it. He sighs thinking what to do, phone feeling like a bomb waiting to go off in his hand.

He grumbles, opening it quickly fingers shaking as he types eyes blurring as he finishes

“Fuck…”

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The office buzzed with small noise, as morning peaked it was like this every morning no one wanted to be here but had to be. The fluorescent lights were bright… were they always this bright? Cyno wasn’t sure; his hands shook as he typed, the fear had settled into the back of his mind still present but not thought about.

He hadn’t eaten anything, not since lunch yesterday. It wasn’t ideal but to pay his O pill payments it would have to due for now; just for a while not permanent just till everything was handled! That’s what he told himself; everything hurt Cyno was hungry but he couldn’t bring himself to eat besides he didn’t have the money or anything at home to eat

All he had was water, and it would have to due…

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