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Jabber and Zanka have been dating for 2 years. Of course in secret. Zanka didn’t want the cleaners to know about them since he was dating a literal RAIDER out of everyone. Nonetheless he loves Jabber. Zanka never understood why Jabber wanted to make him his mate, since he was an average beta while Jabber was an entire alpha with an already powerful vital instrument.
Especially since Jabber loves strong men, he really doesn’t think about how he was considered as a ‘strong man’ in Jabber’s eyes but he loves him.
Whenever Zanka had to deal with Jabber’s ruts it was really no different but that Jabber is just more erratic. Yes it does mean Jabber has said the craziest stuff about trying to get him pregnant without even being in rut. Nonetheless as a masochist Jabber has asked Zanka to put in his own poison while he was in rut or make Zanka use it lube. At this point Zanka doesn’t even know anymore and Jabber is making him question his love life.
Besides all that, Jabber has brought the worst out of Zanka and he did the same to Jabber - if that was even possible at this rate.
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It was the evening, Zanka was done getting ready for bed and was just getting back to bed. He entered his room and saw Jabber just laying there. Zanka looked at him surprised before quickly closing the door. “Jabber, what are you doing here?”, Zanka questioned, Jabber grinned as he flopped onto the bed “Can’t I see my sexy beta”, Jabber commented. Zanka walked past him and locked his window and closed the curtains, just in case Riyo starts climbing. Jabber was now on his belly just staring up at him, and when Zanka got close enough he pulled him onto the bed making Zanka let out a yelp.
“Hey!”, Zanka exclaimed , as he scooched to turn around to Jabber. Jabber peeled off Zanka’s scent blocker patch and then buried Zanka's neck to breathe into his scent gland like he was snotting cocaine. Zanka flinched at the touch and tried to pull away, “You’re so weird”, Zanka stated as he just went slack against him. “Mmmmm… you smell like incense and..” Jabber paused, and took another whiff on him before speaking again “Vanilla, and DAMN am I addicted”, Jabber exclaimed. Zanka quickly shushed him while his face flushed “Keep it down, will ya!You’re gonna let the whole buildin’ know you’re here”, Zanka hissed. Jabber just grinned, then he took a look at Zanka’s scent blocker patch then peeled it off then snuggled into Zanka’s scent gland.
“Why do you even put these on?”, Jabber asked curiously as he held up the patch. “It’s just distracting.”, Zanka stated simply, Jabber hummed and threw the patch on the floor. Then buried into Zanka’s scent gland again, “I can’t wait to have our kids have the same scent as you”, Jabber murmured, Zanka felt his face heat up even more. “It’s not going to be possible and you know it”, Zanka stated, he heard a little huff on his chest from Jabber. “So.. you don’t mind having my little pups”, he teased.
Zanka smacked Jabber’s head, hard. Jabber happily laughed as he hugged Zanka closer “Oh, that felt good baby”, Jabber cued. Zanka scoffed and rolled his eyes “You know it’s biologically impossible to impregnate me, no matter how much you try”, Zanka stated firmly, but he secretly felt a bit disappointed himself that they won’t be able to get a pup of their own.
Nonetheless Jabber gave a wicked smile “Never say never. I’ll take it as a challenge to get your pups”, Jabber stated proudly. Zanka didn’t take it seriously and just cuddled him closer.
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A few months later, Zanka woke up unusually late at 8:30 in the morning. Zanka quickly got up but then felt his stomach hurling into each other way too fast and harshly, his head was killing him, and that hurling was quickly coming up into his throat. He slapped his hand over his mouth and ran into his connected bathroom to throw up into the toilet, but even after that he still felt a jarring headache.
After a while Zanka finally came out of the bathroom with a groan. He should probably get some rest since he feels like absolute shit but he still wants to train and spend some time with lovely assistaff. Hence Zanka got himself ready into his cleaners uniform and put on his scent blocker patch.
When he finally left his room in the afternoon, Enjin saw him and looked at him worried. “You ok, Zanka? It’s not like you to be this late out.”, Enjin asked, his tone was calm and comforting, it felt really nice and Zanka nodded. “I’m fine, I just had some complications, nothing much”, Zanka reassured. Enjin didn’t really buy it, yet he trusted Zanka’s words and let him go.
A week has passed since this mysterious sickness came. He was vomiting day and night, growling at every Alpha and beta that even tried to get near him, however he was spending more time with team children more often than usual. One time, Gris was just trying to hand him some water after he vomited onto the ground and instead of being his usual polite self and accepting the water. Zanka growled at him and slapped the water away making it drop on the ground.
Yeah this gots to stop, so Zanka went to visit Alice.
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“SIT DOWN ON THE BED”, Alice announced, Zanka did as she said and sat on the thin mattress to the side. Alice closed the door and walked up towards him “What symptoms are you experiencing?”Alice questioned, she grabbed a note pad and sat on a chair in front of him.
Zanka sighed before answering “Well, I have been throwing up a lot recently..”, Zanka explained. Alice hummed, her crazy wide eyes scanned Zanka up and down, “Take the blocker off, it'll make my life easier”, Alice commanded, Zanka rolled his eyes and took the blocker off as instructed.
Alice basically inhaled the air before cupping her chin in between two of her fingers. She let out a long hum, her eyes closed, then write something down on her notepad
“Hmmm, What's your second gender?”, she exclaimed.
Zanka, with an exhausted expression, answered “Beta”.
Alice raised an eyebrow, and flipped through her notepad then back up at me. After a while she got up from her chair all of the sudden “I need to take your blood to test if my diagnosis is accurate or not”, she announced before walking away to her cabinets. Zanka looked at her curious and confused, “What's the diagnosis?”, Zanka asked.
Alice turned back to him as she brought a syringe in her gloved hands. “You might be pregnant”, Alice informed causally. Zanka completely froze in place, speechless. Alice just started to prepare for his shot. Then he suddenly snapped out of it before turning to him “WHAT??”, Zanka yelled in confusion. “DON'T YELL AT ME WHILE I'M TAKING YOUR BLOOD!”, Alice yelled back.
Zanka just sat there speechless. How?? There's no way. He’s a damn male beta, it is impossible for him to get pregnant in any way possible. Zanka felt his chest tighten as he thought about all the possibilities that could happen. What will Jabber think? Would he leave Zanka cause he’s going to be weaker now? Find him annoying, clingy, or even worse… get bored of him..? A tight knot started to form in his stomach as he thought about the cleaners, what will they think? They might’ve thought that he had betrayed them for a raider. The look in their eyes when he has to tell them–their glares of disappointment and disgust stab into Zanka.
Suddenly his stomach drops as his siblings' faces come into mind. Kyouka and Goka… oh shit, there's no way in hell they would be ok with this. They’ll think he’s a disgrace to their family, they’ll-
“Alright all done! Come back tomorrow!”, Alice yelled, Zanka snapped out of his trance and turned to her a bit stunned. Zanka hopped off the bed, then put on an extra patch of scent blockers just in case he was pregnant,- he didn’t want the other to know yet, and went out the clinic, guess he has to wait until tomorrow then for the test.
When Zanka got back to HQ, he made sure to come in at Semiu’s lunch break, one glance at him with her glasses and he’ll get exposed. As he was walking to his room Riyo saw him and went up to him “Zanka, is everything okay?”, Riyo asked worriedly, Zanka turned to her surprised. Zanka let out a low growl as he got a whiff of her alpha scent, it was very faint but there was a hint of mint. Zanka took a deep breath to calm himself down then took a step back from her, he doesn’t want to lash out on his own friend. “I’m fine, I just need some rest”.
Riyo frowned, her worries were all out on display. She tried to walk forward to him and reach a hand towards him, but Zanka moved back again so she pulled away. “I just want to say.. We’re always here for you, ok?”, Riyo said softly, Zanka looked at her a bit surprised by her statement. He stared at her longingly, his eyes shifted away from her sight yet he felt his heart tighten by her words “I- I appreciate it, Riyo. Thank you.”, Zanka said softly before he continued his walk back to his room.
Riyo was left standing at the hall with a worry aroma. She knew something was wrong but wasn’t sure what was bothering him.
As soon as Zanka got to his room he flopped onto his bed. What should he do when it tests positive? Should he get an abortion? Maybe? It’ll be better for his performance on the field, plus kids are time consuming as hell, but.. It’s Jabber’s child… he has been imagining this day for months, and he got exactly that, yet there's still this still lingering doubt tugging onto him.