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It was like a thunderstorm in both his head and his heart. As soon as he heard her voice and sensed her tears, his inner Alpha started roaring with rage and concern. He sobered up instantly and all idiotic pro and contra sheets were forgotten, all doubts pushed aside, all prejudices deleted at once. All he knew was that she was in pain, and he was in pain, too, and that every further second apart from each other would continue that pain. His Omega needed him, and he needed her, too, and badly.
„I am coming right over, stay put!“, he yelled into the phone and already made arrangements to be picked up and taken to the nearest airport. As Lora was busy right in that moment with blowing her nose, she didn't really understand what he said, she just sensed the urgency in his voice.
„Mycroft? Halo? What you say?“, she asked and received only the dialing tone in answer. That was weird. He'll probably call back again..? I'm exhausted; let me get some sleep...
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A few hours later, loud banging at her front door startled her out of her sleep.
„Koj e? (Who is it?)“, Lora yelled as she wrestled with her sheets.
„Jac cym. (It's me.) I mean, Mycroft!“, she heard an impatient response.
„Mycroft?!“, she froze. What is he doing here? OMG my place looks like a mess..I look like a mess! Why is he here? What have I done? Did I do something wrong? He sounds angry..why would he be so angry?
„Will you open this door instantly“, his beautiful but furious voice brought her back to reality.
„Ahhh, uhm..yes?“, she took a few steps closer to the door, without actually opening it.
„I will smash the door down in a minute, I swear to God. Open. The. Door.“
„But I look like mess!“, she protested.
„I don't care!“, he growled as he started banging his shoulder against the door.
„Hristos! (Christ!)“, she realized he was serious about destroying her door, so she opened it in a haste, causing him to tumble inside her apartment, “Mycroft! What is going on?”
In a second, his intelligent eyes, now hooded with full Alpha craziness, scanned her from head to toe, looking for any sign of distress. Yes, she was crying, and she did look like a lovely mess, and yes, hell, he liked it.
“You cried”, he accused her, and took a few steps towards her.
“I did, I had a really bad day – I would tell you on phone, but you finished the call!”, she retorted right away. He took one step more and now he was so damn near..argh, his Alpha scent is stronger than ever before! This is agony-he’s so close, and I can’t do anything about it! Although – he came to me, not the other way around-that must mean something?!
Just as she remembered that only a few hours before, she promised herself that she would “climb him like a tree” if she ever had the chance again, she felt a pair of hands, very sure of what they are doing, sliding around her waist and taking her into a very strong embrace.
Mycroft has had it. He was finally sure that not only Lora attracts him as an Omega, but also as an individual. He missed her, he longed for her, he was interested in what she had to say and what she felt..and right now, he wanted nothing more than to let her know how he feels, without any further delay, in the simplest and most natural way possible.
She glanced up, met his eyes, recognized the same inferno in them that she was sure was visible in hers, and after that, nothing more needed to be said. The kiss that followed was one that ensured that the next coherent conversation will be lead after days have passed.
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“I was a fool, and an idiot, and an utter snob and please smack me right in my nose if I ever act so foolishly again”, Mycroft whispered into Lora’s hair as he was holding her in a strong embrace, lying in bed.
“Will you stop it.”, she giggled at his continued apologies and confessions, “I was not much better, anyway.”
“You at least had the common sense to give nature a chance!”, he retorted.
“And you had the common sense to give us as persons a chance!”, she turned towards him, “If you didn’t do that…I would probably think that you are with me only because of scent. Now I know that at least in part, you actually like me.”
“I adore both you and your scent and the way you pronounce my name. I adore that you drive mother crazy and that you accept Sherlock for the oddball he is. I tried staying away from you for that short little while when you left back to Macedonia, and I almost caused an international scandal, then I punched Wells in the face, and I also threw cake on my office wall! I am completely hopeless without you – completely at your mercy, you vixen.”
“You punched son of a lord in face?”, Lora laughed, but then had her own confession to make, “Well, I managed to get fired, humiliated by both my boss, land lady and ex boyfriend for not being able to keep you as a trophy partner, and kicked out of apartment. All in one day. So we both suck when we are apart. Ok, at least I paid for a very good English course, so I did that one constructive thing.”
“Money spent on education is always money well spent. However, ask for your money back, from now on you’ll have a tutor who comes with only the highest recommendations”, Mycroft smiled smugly.
“Are you talking about you?”, Lora giggled.
“I sure am”, he beamed at her.
“I will learn nothing with professor who is so..distracting”, her fingers playfully wandered over his abs, “But, repetitio est mater studiorum..?”
“How very right you are, my lovely darling”, Mycroft kissed her neck once more, “Let us repeat some of the lessons from the previous night..”