Insu woke up because of a weird strong smell under his nose. Turning his face away from it and whining at the disturbance of his calm, he suddenly remembered the events of the past few days as his eyes opened wide. He couldn’t believe he had, once again, given himself to the prince. And completely willingly this time as well.
His eyes landed on the exact black-haired man that oozed dominance standing across from him. His thick arms crossed on his chest as he leaned back on the wall, looking at him with the same uninterested, void expression. The one that had been absent the past days they had been in bed together. Namil had various expressions on his pale face then.
“How are you feeling?” A soft voice asked, taking his attention from his captor. Looking at the person with that disgusting smelling cloth at hand, he saw it was Ryung.
“Like I could really use a shower!” He felt sticky and smelt of those things he didn’t know the names of, in addition to his and the prince’s sweat. In short, he felt like vomiting from the smell that filled the room.
The doctor chuckled and put the cloth away, which was a tiny relief in his fucked up situation. He did his best at gathering his strength and sat up, feet dangling from the edge of the bed in the air and feeling so good to be stretching his limbs like that after so long.
“You were in heat for a whole week and then we brought you here right after because your body went into some sort of shock.” He explained with a concerned look before it all got replaced by seriousness. “Did you use suppressant before coming here, Insu?”
He didn’t know what the thing he was questioned about using was, but if he could tell from the way the prince’s eyes widened and got filled with rage in less than a second, it wasn’t anything good. Not at all.
“What is a supp-..ressant?!” He wasn’t even sure if he said the word correctly.
“It’s something omegas take to control their heat. Mostly to not have them. It’s illegal to do so but I’m gonna need you to not be scared and tell me honestly. Did you use anything, anything at all, to prevent yourself from going into heat?” The latter explained slowly to make sure he understood.
“No!” He answered immediately. “I didn’t even know what a heat was before coming here and getting all ripped apart in every possible way because of it!” He was desperate. Getting accused of doing something he didn’t even know the meaning of. “Look, I have no idea who you people really are and what gives you the right to treat me or any other-” He pursed his lips in distaste. “Omega, as you like to call it, the way you do. I have no idea, none at all, about the things that are happening to me, to my body and around me. I don’t know why Duho starts shaking the minute this prince walks into the room and I don’t know why he’s so sad when he looks at me. It’s heartbreaking and my body, too, is broken all over. But you don’t care, do you?” Insu looked straight into the prince’s eyes who was looking back at him with a slight frown. He was breathing fast due to his outburst and the adrenaline, and felt the sudden urge to punch the black-haired guy across his pale face, possibly break his jaw but he knew he didn’t even have the strength to lift a finger at the moment.
Ryung was fast in taking his hands in his, squeezing them and asking for his attention.
“I know this all must be frightening to you. What we don’t understand, and is important to do so for me to be able to treat you, is how it is that you don’t know anything about your body’s anatomy. You know, I found a strong dose of Mugwort in your blood. It’s a-” The doctor was explaining, but Insu cut him short.
“I know what it is. We take it daily at home to eliminate worms and for good digestion.”
The other was confused for a second, back straightening and eyes blinking repeatedly.
“Mugwort is a strong suppressant, Insu. That’s why it’s illegal in the kingdom to even have its plant at home.” He paused and glanced at the prince who was just listening to their conversation with narrowed eyes.
The doctor sighed deeply as he let go of his hands and leaned back in his chair. “Prince Namil told me… stuff- about you. I think I should explain how alpha and omegas and betas like me, work, huh?”
“Betas? I thought there were only arrogant alphas and poor torture tool omegas.” He looked at Namil again while saying that. Lord he despised him so much. The latter didn’t react to his words at all and that pissed him off further.
“How about we don’t test the patience of the prince, hm?” Ryung patted his thigh with a concerned look.
“There’s a total of three. Alphas, Betas and Omegas.”
“You even put it in that order!” He snorted.
“Well, it’s how we’ve been taught…” The other looked in thought for a couple of seconds before continuing. He explained everything about the dynamics and the body anatomy and in all honesty, all the information was burning the wires in Insu’s brain. He told him that a normal heat would take up to 4 days and would happen every three months.
“Tell me something. You said you were confused about the fact that your-” The doctor nodded toward between Insu’s legs, showing him he was talking about his private part. “got all firm and long, right? So you were never aroused before coming here and going into a sudden heat?”
By now he knew the meaning of being aroused. It was in the long monologue the black-haired man had just told him.
Pursing his lips, he shook his head. Quite confused as to why something that was supposed to happen to him naturally had not happened at all.
“Who started giving you the Mugwort? Was it your parents?”
“Uh, my uh…” He hesitated to answer it for a second. Afraid of his word’s consequences. “My books, I had these books, and they said the plant is good for many things and so I went into the jungle and found them. Told my family and we started using it. I was around 12 or something.” He lied. It was his father giving it to them from the early days of their childhood. That and a few other potions he’d make. He didn’t want to put his old man in danger for giving apparently illegal suppressants to them.
“Well, you screwed up your body with your lack of knowledge there. Suppressants can cause great damage to an omega’s body over time. I assume you coming here and not taking your daily dose triggered the sudden heat that was no longer being controlled. But your second heat, I think it was caused by the stress you felt when you thought about being handed over to the others.”
It made sense although it didn’t. Insu knew he had felt a great deal of stress but he also remembered feeling this something when he had seen the three people across the room, Namil, Duho and Hyo. He still couldn’t explain it but at that very moment his stomach had turned and a shiver had run down the side of his neck to his heart down to his abdomen.
“Anyway, now you know the name of those things coming out of your body and what’s really happening to you. And I ran a few tests while you were unconscious. Let’s wait for the results and see how we can prevent your body from further damage.” Ryung then turned around to the prince.
“Take it easy on him. He’s very weak and the last thing we need is losing another rare breed.”
At the mention of that, the muscular man’s face twitched and he looked like he was about to snap the doctor’s neck. Instead, he took a deep breath and walked toward Insu.
“Let’s go.” A firm grip on his arm, and he was lifted to his feet with little to no effort. He winced, body feeling numb and unable to walk without his knees giving out every two steps. Namil sighed before simply crouching down and throwing him over his shoulder like a sack and starting to walk. He didn’t even have the resources to struggle so he just let himself be carried even if his brain was going to burst with the blood gathering in it.
It was quiet for most of their walk. And indeed, it was a rather long distance from the hospital to his prison of a room.
Biting his lip and contemplating whether or not to talk, he decided to just go for it.
“Why do you hate omegas so much?” He asked quietly.
“I don’t.” Was the quick low answer he got.
“Then why do you treat us the way you do? You must hate us enough to beat us up and… go all out like that. You know, my mom always says that eyes never lie. Your eyes are always filled with rage and something else when you hit me. It scares Duho terribly.” He talked slowly. Feeling dizzy because of being dangled like that.
“What about you? You don’t get scared by it?” The raspy voice of the prince asked, adjusting him over his shoulder.
“I get scared, too. You’re really scary and I don’t know why, when instead you can smile the way you do at your kid. It’s just that Duho is way more fragile than I am. He deserves to be treated better. Every omega does.” He was starting to see black at the corners of his eyes but didn’t say anything.
“Don’t be worried about others. They won’t care about you.” Was the last thing the prince said before dropping him on the floor of his room. He ordered the servants to clean him and the guards to continue guarding the door and then left. He didn’t even look at him or Duho at all.
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