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It started with his scent.
It wasn’t that big of a difference, especially since they were used to his scent changing due to his meds.
But this was different. It was an undertone that kept getting stronger, lingering longer on things he wore. When Seonghwa tried to bring it up, Jongho would brush him off with a “Hyung it’s nothing, my scent is just adjusting again.”
Then it was the nesting.
Sure, the omega would nest when stressed from his exams or if his heat was coming or if the pack was coming over. Yet none of that was happening.
Jongho’s last heat was a month ago, he wasn’t due for one for another two months at least. His exams didn’t start until the end of spring, and the pack came over two weeks ago.
Still, the omega nests every day. Sometimes in their bed, or at the foot of the bed. He’d even seen Jongho start to make one on the living room floor and that’s when he’d finally tried to approach the omega again.
“Baby bear, are you sure you’re okay?” Seonghwa asked, causing Jongho to look over from where he was shifting their throw blankets.
The brunet furrowed his eyebrows, tilting his head to the side. “Yeah? Why wouldn’t I be?”
Seonghwa motioned his head towards the mess of the couch pillows and blankets and Jongho flushed.
“Hey! I just… thought a couch nest would be nice is all.” The omega mumbled, slowly moving the objects around again. Seonghwa gave an amused hum before turning around to finish making his lunch in the kitchen.
The final straw was the growling.
Any time someone got more than a few feet close to him or Seonghwa, the omega would growl and his scent would spike. Which wouldn’t be a problem save for the fact that Jongho is in his last year of uni and Seonghwa picks him up whenever his schedule allows.
So, after the omega had growled at yet another student crossing their path and Jongho’s invisible boundary, Seonghwa chose to do something he normally wouldn’t.
He grabbed Jongho by the nape, his other hand coming to tilt his head to look up at him. Their eyes locked and Seonghwa have him a hard look before lowly growling out “ Behave, omega .”
That seemed to settle the younger long enough to get them back to their apartment where Seonghwa proceeded to sit the omega down on the couch (the nest was cleaned up a few days prior) and order him to stay there until he got back with a stern glare. Jongho complied easily, for his alpha was never like this. He was always sweet and understanding, not assertive with barely concealed anger.
It still didn’t prepare him for when Seonghwa came back with a bag containing three pregnancy tests, and motioned towards the bathroom.
“Why did you get those?” Jongho didn’t move from his spot on the couch. Seonghwa could see the shock on his face.
“Baby. You’ve been nesting, you’re possessive and your scent is changing to have a milky undertone. It’s been a month since your heat. Please.”
“There is no way!” Jongho laughed incredulously.
“Can you atleast try? For me? I’m worried about you. You keep doing these things that aren’t normal for you. I kept brushing it off because of your meds but this is just, it’s all pointing to this. This is what my sister was like before they found out she was pregnant. Please baby. There’s no harm in trying.” Seonghwa pleaded, moving to crouch in front of the omega.
Jongho eyed the bag of pregnancy tests, hands moving to fidget against his lap.
“The doctor said it was impossible for me.” He mumbled, hands twisting together. Seonghwa sighed, closing his eyes for a moment.
The alpha rested his head against the youngers knees. “I know. I know lovely. But please, do this for me? You have no idea how worried I’ve been over you these past few weeks.” He pleaded again, head moving up to look at the omega. Jongho pursed his lips, closing his eyes briefly before slowly nodding.
“This can’t be happening. This isn’t possible.”
“Baby…baby this is the third test.” Seonghwa murmured, pressing a kiss to his knee. The alpha was sat on the bathroom floor, hands on either side of Jongho’s thighs.
Jongho let out a shaky breath, hands trembling as he held the plastic showing two pink lines. The other tests lost to the bathroom tile.
“The doctor said this wasn’t possible Hwa. This isn’t possible. This can’t be happening.”
“Doctor Min said it was unlikely. Not impossible love. Please look at me.”
Jongho couldn’t take his eyes off the test.
Pregnant.
He was pregnant.
He felt Seonghwa lightly grab his jaw and tilt his face to look at the elder. Concerned eyes met his own.
“Do you want this?” His voice was so quiet in the silence of the bathroom. The alphas' eyes kept darting between his own.
“I…I’m having a pup? We’re having pups?” Jongho couldn’t understand. The doctor said even with all his hormone changes and pills the likelihood he would be able to carry pups was one of hundreds. There was no way. He wasn’t a beta, the chances were one in hundreds, if not thousands.
“Yes,” Seonghwa’s lips lifted to a small smile, hands coming to cup both sides of the omegas face. “Yes jjongie, but only if you want to. I know what the doctor said, I know it seems fake but baby I need to know if you want this.”
Tears flooded Jongho’s vision. He was carrying pups. He was. A transitioned omega. An omega who was told it wouldn’t be possible. An omega who never felt whole, even
“Me? I have pups? I didn’t. I didn’t know I could give you pups.” At his words the alpha drew in a sharp breath, hands on his face pressing a little harder.
“Oh baby bear…” The nickname fully broke the floodgates and the omega all but collapsed into tears. Hiccuping as the Alpha pulled him off the toilet seat and down onto his lap.
“I-I know we didn’t talk about this much but I was always so..so worried you’d reject me one day b-because I couldn’t give you a family. I couldn’t give you pups. And now I can? Like…like I’ve done it. I cant. I cant believe it.”
“Oh baby how could I ever leave you? You are my sun, my baby bear, my love. My everything.” Seonghwa cooed, hand cupping the back of his head as the omega buried himself in the olders neck.
“I’m pregnant.” He whispered into Seonghwa’s skin.
“You are, you really are jjongie.”
“I want to keep it. My pup. Our pup. I want to keep our pup so bad Hwa you don’t even understand. I cant believe this is hap-penning.” He shuddered against Seonghwa’s hold, eyes screwed shut as he burrowed deeper into the olders neck surrounding himself in the meadow that was his mates scent.
His mate.
He’s pregnant with his mate.
Seonghwa held Jongho tighter at the omegas words. And he could feel the uneven breaths he let out. “We’re having a pup. Jjongie we’re having a pup.”
They stayed like that, Jongho curled in Seonghwas embrace on their bathroom floor. Scenting each other, repeating their revelation, passing soft kisses to cheeks, temples, necks. Building a bubble neither wanted to break.
It took the pair a while to get off the bathroom floor, since Jongho became putty in the olders hands due to all the shock rolling through his body. The alpha didn’t struggle to lift him up necessarily, it's just hard to manage the limbs of another when Jongho can’t even stand on his own.
The shriek the omega let out made the alpha giggle as he swept him off his feet bridal style and walked back into their bedroom, gently laying the omega in the stress nest he had built while they waited earlier.
Jongho immediately began pushing blankets around, fussing for a minute before going boneless once more after he deemed his nest done. Seonghwa cooed at the sight of the younger. He had left space for the alpha to lay behind him, slightly curled with a protective arm around his stomach.
Seonghwa made sure to slip into proper nest clothes before laying down as well, curling his body around Jongho’s laying his arm overtop the omegas, lacing their fingers together. “I love you, so so much Jongho. I’m so proud of you, my strong angel. You’ve done amazing, so amazing. We’re gonna have pups baby, pups.” Seonghwa murmured into his shoulder, pressing a kiss to his shirt and tightening his grip around the younger as he let out another sniffle.
“We’re really having a baby..”