Arranged Marriage [Alpha Xavier Thorpe x omega reader] - part 2 -final
summary: As if it wasn’t enough that his father never wants to hear from him the first time he does so in years is to warn him that he is trapped in an arranged marriage. Apparently she also frequented nervermore but it didn’t matter, no matter who it was he would never agree to any of it.
Note: in this version link marks are permanent. I also inserted deltas but with quite a few changes, here deltas are basically omegas with stature of a beta or omega, stronger than omegas and with more authoritative personality. They still have heat, a sweet smell and usually mate with alphas, the only two deltas Nevermore will have are Wednesday and Bianca.
“I love you” whispers Bianca.
Xavier immediately stops, his teeth already brushing against Bianca’s skin but thankfully with no damage done. Being loved had always been his greatest desire so why did hearing those words bring a bile to his mouth? The memory of Y/n with tears in her eyes confessing that she loved him springs to mind…Why did Bianca’s words seem so false compared to hers?
When he pulls away and looks at her delta she looks so confused but Xavier could do nothing but run out of the room with an almost inaudible “I’m sorry”.
He was so confused, why had that memory surfaced at that very moment? Why had Y/n been so sincere? He had done nothing if not reject her and treat her badly then why was she saying she loved him? How could she say something like that without a single trace of lying or uncertainty?
He remembers the one time he managed to talk to his father and tried to convince him to cancel the wedding.
“I’m not canceling anything Xavier. Besides the fact that just like you she is an incredible psychic pariah, Y/n is the right omega for you and I guarantee you she is the only one who can give you everything you desire. Give the girl a chance, I know she’s trying hard.”
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Xavier finds Ajax in the courtyard and Ajax looks extremely relieved to find him.
“Xavier where the hell have you been?!?”
“Ajax, do you know what Y/n’s psychic power is?”
Ajax stops for a second to think surprised by the sudden question, Xavier never wanted to know anything about Y/n before.
“I think Enid told me about it once, she can see the color of people’s souls and know who and how we are by that color, it basically allows her to read us like an open book or something like that”
Faced with Xavier’s silence Ajax concludes that it would be best to take his friend to his room so that he doesn’t do anything else stupid. The whole way Xavier remained in complete silence not being able to stop thinking about how her power influenced this whole situation.
She could see who he was even behind the cold and indifferent facade he used with her. Y/n knew who he was and yet she was able to love him? Could his father have foreseen this?
She truly loved him as he had always wanted to be loved and yet he treated her so poorly. She was there ready to hand him everything he ever wanted on a platter and he was such an idiot as to almost bond forever with someone he knew he didn’t truly love and who didn’t love him. Gods he certainly was the reincarnation of stupidity.
Luckily for him Doctor Kinbott was available for a last minute session.
Xavier takes a deep breath as he gets into Kinbott’s car and faced with her expectant gaze he decides to begin.
“You finally want to talk about her?”
“Yes I do…she said she loves me and I know it’s true”
“How do you know it’s true?”
Xavier frowns at the strange question.
“Her scent changes when she lies”
Kinbott looks surprised at his statement.
“Can you tell if she is lying or not by her smell?”
Xavier nods and Kinbott thinks for a second before continuing.
“Do you know since when you can do it?”
He bites his lip, he remembered exactly the first time he noticed she was lying.
“The group was talking about parents weekend and when Enid asked her if her parents were coming she said she didn’t know yet but I could tell it was a lie by the way her scent changed, her parents are just as busy as mine, they don’t have time to come to a school event.”
“Is there anything else about her that you can tell by her smell?”
“I think I can also tell when she is anxious or nervous in addition to happy or sad.”
“Xavier have you ever been able to identify if someone was lying before by smell? Like with Bianca or Wednesday or really anyone?”
The alpha’s mind goes blank, trying to remember actually he had never been able to do that with anyone before Y/n and even now he couldn’t tell it on anyone else if not her. Taking his silence as a no Kinbott continues.
“Normally a person would only be able to identify when someone is happy or sad by smell and even that would be hard to notice if the person tried to hide it. Xavier the fact that you can tell even when she is lying means that even if you didn’t realize it you have had extraordinary attention on her. I think you should try to understand why you give her all that attention.”
Hesitating Xavier closes his eyes and takes a deep breath trying to remember what was going on inside him whenever he was near her.
When he met her he remembers really liking the way she smelled, he felt like leaning closer to feel her better and remembers thinking how cute she was.
When he went to her to tell her that his break up with Bianca was not because of her but he found her quite sleepy and still in her pajamas. He couldn’t help but notice her nest in the corner of the room, it looked so comfortable and the thought of lying in it just relaxing seemed tempting. Maybe that’s why he was so hard on her about how he wouldn’t give her a chance.
And when she started getting closer to him? While painting, running and even at the archery club she started to be there. How he himself noticed a difference in his painting when she was there. How she never returned the sweater he lent her when it started to rain while they were running. He himself didn’t touch it, he told himself he did so because he didn’t want them to know he had lent her the garment but now he could see that he just expected her to put it in that comfortable nest. How he lingered and enjoyed it a little more than he should have when he helped her with the bow and arrow or how he let a small smile escape when the omega was happy to have hit the target for the first time.
Now that he thinks about it the time when she started to join him more to ward off Wednesday probably coincided with the time when she started to suspect that he would be the monster. Before that Y/n had never forced any closeness between them always respecting his decision, maybe she just wanted Wednesday to leave him alone.
When the Rave'N started to get closer and he had to get all those alphas away from her without her noticing but there was one smartass who invited her anyway and he had to intervene by deliberately interrupting to ask Y/n if she was going to lunch with the group taking her with him when she said yes. He smiled internally when the other alpha cringed as he saw he had been caught, oh how he masked all the jealousy and told himself he had only defended himself from the affront as the whole school knew they were engaged and yet another alpha dared to invite her. How he pretended not to feel relief when she turned around and said she appreciated the invitation but couldn’t go with him.
Even when she asked him to the dance and he rejected her he remembers feeling something inside him scold him.
During the dance when near the end he finally noticed her on the dance floor and was mesmerized, especially with the way her neck and lips looked so soft, for a second he let himself think about what it would be like to kiss them but soon pushed the thought away.
At the end of the dance when he found her alone and took her in his arms but felt reluctant to put her down.
That night when he slept so soundly and then noticed her scent on the bed, he tried to deny it but now realized that it had been her scent calming him, making him feel safe.
All the times he had repressed himself from tucking that loose lock of her hair behind his ear. Repressed himself from smiling and kissing her forehead whenever she offered him a hair elastic because he was going to dye and had forgotten his. Or even when he suppressed himself whenever he noticed too much how beautifully her eyes sparkled.
Looking at it now it seemed so obvious, he had spent so much time running from this, trying not to feel it. So long pretending not to love the one who loves him.
With a silly but still slightly incredulous smile Xavier asks aloud “Do I love her?”
Kinbott smiles “I think that’s you who knows the answer”
Xavier was currently walking toward his shed, after all he had done he could not simply apologize. He had to think of something special.
His cell phone rings bringing him out of his thoughts and surprising him to see that it was his father.
“Xavier, I’ll try to talk calmly but would you mind explaining to me why the hell I got a call from Y/n’s mom telling me that you decided to schedule a delta?!”
“I know! Apparently you decided to wait for her heat to be more romantic!”
“What? No!!! I was high, I made a mistake, I almost marked Bianca and I hate to admit it but you were right, Y/n is the right omega for me so you don’t have to worry I swear I will fix this”
“I won’t even comment on the part about you being drugged but I really hope you work it out, luckily her mother came to talk to me first but if things aren’t cleared up she will talk to her husband and you can kiss the right omega goodbye for you.”
Xavier swallows dryly, now that he finally realized how he felt he was not willing to lose her “I will I promise.”
“Good” and with that his father hangs up.
Xavier couldn’t believe this was happening, the universe was surely punishing him for everything he did. He just wanted to go to Y/n, hug her and tell her how he felt but Wednesday showed up, brought the police and now he was under arrest.
He made a mistake in refusing Wednesday’s help when she wanted to get him out of there, if only he had read Yoko’s letter first…
“I know that Y/n has never been of the slightest interest to you but I thought you should know what’s going on. Bianca was in our room, I saw her leave when I arrived and Y/n was very upset by what she said to you. Apparently you were with Bianca and you both decided that you would schedule her in her next heat to make it special.
About an hour after this happened she went into heat it is normal for short lived ones to not know it so the nurse says it is no big deal but I am a vampire and have seen this happen. She went into heat due to extreme stress, she loves you, she can’t imagine losing you and when Bianca said that it triggered this. In the old days it was more common but nowadays it is rare that anyone still has this natural defense. This heat is much stronger than any she has had before, it is pure pain accompanied by extremely high fevers because its sole purpose is to make sure she doesn’t lose the alpha she so desperately wants. I am writing this because she may die. Unless you mark her the heat won’t stop and I don’t know how long she can hold out.”
Xavier’s heart squeezes, he had put his omega under so much stress and fear of losing him that he triggered a rut that could kill her. She could die because of him. He kept his breathing calm but could feel himself on the verge of a panic attack. He had thought that eventually the murders would continue, they would realize it wasn’t him and he could go back to Y/n and work things out but now he doesn’t have time. She needs him.
At that moment Sheriff Galpin enters the room signaling that it was time to go. The sudden entrance took him away from his thoughts but soon everything doubled back as he realized that soon there would be nothing he could do.
After being released by Thing Xavier ran as fast as he could towards the school, if what Wednesday had said was happening he had to get Y/n out of there.
After realizing that he couldn’t defeat Crackstone Xavier had decided to sneak out to try to get to Y/n but Bianca caught him and forced him out to the others with her siren song.
Fortunately all ended well but the nurse refused to let Xavier see Y/n even after he argued that he was her fiancé. To his enormous luck his friends decided to wait another day before going home to help him.
While waiting for nightfall so they could start their plan he decided to go talk to Bianca to find out exactly what she had said to his omega.
Xavier almost doesn’t knock before entering the delta dormitory who welcomes him with a huge smile.
Xavier tries to keep control.
“What did you say to my omega?”
“Y/n is in the infirmary in a rut triggered by extreme stress, I know you talked to her. Exactly what did you tell her?”
Xavier finally raises his eyes to look at delta and she swallows dryly. She had never seen the alpha like this before and it was enough to look at him now to know that if she lied and was discovered he would surely torture her in ways even worse than Wednesday could imagine.
“I told her that you came to my dorm to claim me, I omitted the part about you being drugged and changed the part where you ran away to have decided that we would wait for my heat because you wanted to mark me in a more romantic way.”
Nothing he didn’t already know but still he has to crouch on the floor and bring his hands to his face to try to calm himself down. Once again it was all his own foolishness’ fault but he has to admit that Bianca has stepped up.
Xavier says as he leaves the dormitory slamming the door hard.
The plan was this, Enid offered to take care of Y/n while the nurse was away for the weekend. So they would move her nest to Xavier’s room and later in the evening take her there as well with the goal that the smell might help her calm down. Fortunately all the rooms were equipped to block the smells from the inside to the outside because of the routines and heat.
Xavier was nervous but Yoko explained that everything would be fine, that heat was only meant to get her marked and would disappear quickly after that happened. Besides since the heat was specifically intended for him his reaction would be completely different from other alphas who might be tempted to mate with her by smell.
The hardest part was transporting Y/n from the infirmary to Xavier’s room, to do this they wrapped several towels covered in Xavier’s scent to muffle the omega’s scent and had Ajax and other alphas of the Nightshades pour large amounts of her scent all over the hallway they would be walking before and after Y/n passed through to erase her traces.
To the alpha’s distress he was to wait in the dormitory. It seemed like hours but when he finally opened the door and saw Y/n he could feel a great stream of tears run down his face. In a second he snatched her out of Yoko’s arms whispering a “thank you” and closing the door.
He goes to her bed where he sits hugging the omega tighter against his chest. She doesn’t even open her eyes emitting only small moans of pain, regret and guilt paint the young artist, he didn’t deserve her and yet he was the only one who could save her. How ironic could life be?
Yoko was right, he felt no need but to claim and protect her. Taking a deep breath he tries to calm his heartbeat as he begins to lick the spot where he would bite her. He wishes he had realized it sooner and could mark her in other conditions.
A small purr begins to flow from the omega and more tears flow from Xavier’s eyes, even practically unconscious her body was still reacting to his presence. With one arm wrapped around his waist and one hand gently holding his head he takes a deep breath before gritting his teeth.
He could taste blood as his teeth finally penetrate the omega’s soft skin. It seems at the same time something inside him changes, a connection, a conection, he can immediately feel the bond that binds him to Y/n. It was incredible. As he licked the mark to stop the bleeding and ease the pain he couldn’t stop thinking about how he almost wasted something like that on someone who neither loved nor loved him.
When the bleeding finally stops he takes her to the nest where he lies down with her.
Y/n wakes up with a throbbing pain in his head and shoulder. The last things he remembered were the conversation with Bianca, sending some messages to his crying mother, talking to Yoko and shortly after feeling extremely hot and passing out…the conversation with Bianca…
Xavier questions resuming licking and kissing the mark. Y/n’s eyes widen and she blushes as she realizes that Xavier was lying right behind her with his chest pressed against her back and his arms wrapped around her waist as he kissed and licked her shoulder. She wasn’t even in her room, but this was her nest…Why?
Y/n tries to turn to look at him but the glimpse of a mark makes her bring her hand to her shoulder to be sure. The alpha smiles as he kisses his hand over the mark before making his way to kiss her neck and whisper in her ear.
The omega widens her eyes in disbelief.
Xavier lets out a small sad laugh.
“Fair enough I guess. I’m sorry it took me so long to figure it out. I was so wrapped up in anger at my father that the only time he talks to me is to decide who my mate would be that I was locking in my own feelings and couldn’t even see that before you told me how you felt. I’m ashamed to say it but I’m not sure I would have understood it if you didn’t say it.”
The omega smiles before turning to hug him purringly. The alpha smiles and returns the hug before continuing.
“I actually went to Bianca.”
“I know, your scent was on her.”
He swallows dryly pulling her closer to him.
“Still no excuse but I was drugged and I never suggested anything of claiming her in a romantic way, in fact I ran away when she said she loved me and I could see how fake it sounded compared to when you said it to me.”
Xavier smiles “I know and I love you too but you haven’t claimed me back yet”
“Do you want me to mark you?” she asks uncertainly.
Although it was much more common these days she could still count on her fingers the alphas claimed by omegas she has seen.
“Sure, I don’t want someone coming on to me when I have a mate and fiancée” He says tilting his head to the side and exposing his neck to his mate.
Y/n smiles trying to swallow all the pride he feels as he digs his teeth into Xavier’s bonding site, at that moment they can both feel that bond getting much stronger making them both gasp.
Xavier didn’t know how he had gotten so lucky but he was going to make sure he was an alpha that deserves the omega he has and make up for all the pain it caused him. Starting with a real marriage proposal like she deserves, luckily for him, as usual neither of them would be going home this vacation.
