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Damian woke up feeling dizzy. He couldn’t quite recall what put him in this state.
After a few moments Damian realized he was being carried by a much bigger person. at first he thought it was his father, but the faint smell of cigarettes left no room for doubt.
“T…To…alpha ?” Why couldn’t he say his brother’s name? That was strange… oh. OH.
The morning events hit him like a train and the only thing he could feel was pure horror.
“Unhand me you- you -alpha.”
The moron had the audacity to snicker!
“No can do, doll. I got orders from the old man himself to get you back to him. Babies need their daddies Don’t they? Because I love you and all that shit, but there is no way I'm gonna change your diaper. I already had to deal with your little temper tantrum.”
“I’m not… it’s not… how dare you!?” The bite still felt too fresh, too real. He couldn’t deal with this.
The young alpha looked like he was about to respond with equal condescension but was interrupted by a third part intruding their conversation.
“Dami! Jay!” The eldest of the bat siblings rushed over them leaving Bruce to catch up behind him.
“Did you have fun with little wing ? Was he mean to you? Do I need to scold him?” He started while smoothly taking the youngest out of Jason's hands and into his.
Damian didn’t respond. Instead, he tried to hide the mark jason made on his neck, but of course the universe hated him,and there was no way anything would go his way.
Richard's eyes caught on the teeth mark and darkened “ what’s that? Jason, did you… did you fucking mark him!?”
“he did what?!” their father joined them. He looked, to say the least, not amused
“You don’t get it!” Jason defended. “he was acting like a brat and needed to understand his place. You guys coddle him to much; he is spoiled.”
“You’re the last that can talk about spoiled sibling, jason. Don't forget; I was there when you first came here. and most importantly, you can’t just mark him! You are not the pack alpha,and he is so young and freshly presented! Maybe you messed up his heat or something! You can’t just do whatever the fuck that please you,” dick hissed, shocked that his younger brother would do something so stupid
“Jason, I am deeply disappointed. I trusted you with our omega and you let me down. Maybe you are not mature enough to -“
“No, fuck both of you! You are acting like I claimed him when I only marked him. You weren’t there, you don’t understand! He was trying to fight me and he could have gotten hurt because of it! It’s YOUR fault for not stepping up as an alpha and teach your kid some manners.”
“Jason, I understand your concerns but there are better ways-“
“there weren’t! You know him. you can’t approach it with a sugercoat or he’ll hurt himself trying to play the big bad alpha. Claim him.” damian wouldn’t, couldn’t, stand for this. There was no way he’d let anyone bite him again.
“I didn’t do anything wrong!”
“Shut up doll, the adults are talking.” jason ordered, not even sparing him a glance. the young omega’s face went even warmer.
“I… i will think about it jay, but don’t ever do anything like this without asking me, alright?”
At the idea of bruce claiming damian dick twitched with annoyance. He pulled Jason's jacket’s collar so that they were eye to eye and quickly added, “and if you ever step out of line and hurt anyone in this family, including yourself, I’ll take a page off your own book on how to teach naughty pups how to behave, you got it jay jay?”
The younger man looked fearful before putting on a brave facade
“i would like to see you try, golden boy,” he was a good actor but not THAT good, and to be fair no one wanted to get on dick’s bad side.
“Right… kids, please don’t fight. now, I’ve got big news! Damian, your new bedroom is ready! I can’t wait for you to see it.”
“ohh, the nursery is ready ? Please tell me you got the little baby a crib “
“… you’ll see, don’t spoil your brother surprise.“
And that, in Damian's not so humble opinion, didn't promise anything good for him.
“Can I walk there ?“ he dared to ask.
“Hell no- I mean, we’ll get there faster this way little d! Don’t trouble your little legs, I got you”
That was bullshit; Damian was small for a 16 year old but not toddler sized like his family was pretending he was.
He didn’t look forward to seeing his new room.
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Finally, fucking finally. Damian thought while his alpha put him down on the floor while his fath- baba opened the door to a room suspiciously close to his own .
His ”bedroom” or how Jason better described it his nursery made him want to run away or at least scream until his throat couldn’t and even more.
“Damn,I knew it, like your nursery, Dolly ?”
Thankfully there was no crib, but a canopy bed full to the brink with pillows and various animal plushies. The bedsheet, like everything else in the room, had way brighter color than what the young gothamite was used to.
The rest of the room was equally childish,more plushies, the soft carpet covering every bit of floor, child proofed, well, everything, visible cameras that left no blind spot, a big library with colorful books, a cradling chair… but also more adultish things like a tv, a night dresser filled to the brink of jewelry and there were even a designed art zone with a table and everything that an artist could want but there was none of his old stuff.
There was only one, small window with bars on it and 2 different doors excluding the one he used to enter the room
Bruce happily took his hands to show him around the room. “me and the others had a lot of fun shopping but we will probably get you lots more. Anything for our little pup, hon.”
The books in the library where nowhere near his reading level, it was filled with children books, “family friendly novels”, some books on etiquette and lot’s of children comics. “ I understand you and Jason got into a discussion on your reading choice? Well there won’t be any more trouble of that sorts. all of these are omega friendly and adapt to your age. Take a look at this one,“
He quickly scanned the summary on the book his father handed him; a young omega girl tries to rebel and get an alpha, only to realize that staying with her family pack was the safest and best choice ugh
So no more books, Damian thought as he pulled it down and started looking at a giraffe plushie which eye looked suspicious.
If his father knew what he was thinking or was genuinely unaware he didn’t knew, but when he noticed his child interest in the toy he said:
“ah, I knew you would love the plushie! Alfred said they were too much but you love animals so much and this is definitely safer than real ones. now, look, these are all the jewelry passed down from omega to omega in our family. they are now yours,” his fatger gestured to a shelf filled with heavy looking jewelry. “ I hope you will do good use of them… when you are much older.”
“And this is your closet. We got you new omegan clothes, in the third drawer. I made sure to get a clothing article from everyone. I’m sure you will look adorable in this.”
“I’ll help you pick out the outfits, dami.” Richard chimed in.
Damian did not like how that sounded.
“now the rules: don’t ever do anything to the cameras; the window can be opened but don’t touch the bars; we will lock you in the nights so if you want anything just call, here is a phone for omegas with all of the pack’s numbers, the password is 054812. everyone knows it and you’re not allowed to change it; the tv too is set on the approved channels only. and the most important rule, that door connects our rooms,” father gestured to tge right door. “you are never to lock it. Did I make myself clear?”
Damian felt sick. The room was a cage. Did they really not trust him at all? he felt like he couldn’t breathe.
He couldn’t, his lungs were desperate for air but he just couldn’t suck it in.
Maybe his family was right, maybe he was truly as pathetic and as useless as they thought him to be.
“Son, you need to calm down.”
“Brat, what’s got your pants in a twist?”
“breath, baby.”
The voices sounded so far away, like his ears were filled with water, like-
“little brother, calm down. NOW.” the alpha’s order forced him to relax. When did Cassandra enter the room ? He couldn’t tell.
“oh, sweetheart. i know chances can be scary, but is for the best.”
“ no… you can’t -“
“Stop, baby.” Cassandra has ordered again. “ scenting session, help him feel good.” cass decided, then threw him on the bed before following herself and started snuggling him.
“No, I-” he started to protest weakly only for cassandra to shush him gentely and rub his belly. Like he’s some misbehaving pet.
“Hard pass, see y-“
Jason tried to make a run for it, only for Richard to tug him by the arm.
“No way , little wing. you need to learn pack dynamics, apparently so there’s no getting out of this.” the oldest followed his sister’s example and threw His little brother on the bed.
“and don’t think you won’t get consequences for what you did to damian. you clearly need more supervision than I thought, so you are stuck with me for a while.”
“this is hell… i died again and now i’m in hell.”
“i’ve been to hell; this is much worse”
Damian muttered as he fell asleep.