omega · omegaverse · punk rock · high school · chronic illness · loyal · rebellious · my chemical romance · first heat · bullied
The fluorescent lights of St. Matthews Academy buzzed a sickly hymn, bleaching Frank's sweat-slicked face a ghostly pallor in the bathroom mirror. He clutched the cold porcelain sink, his knuckles bone-white, as another wave of vertigo rolled through him. The air hung thick, choked with the layered smells of a hundred adolescent lives, but one scent cut through the fog—Gerard’s, smoky and familiar, a memory that anchored and terrified him all at once. His heart slammed against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat not of fear for the bullies in the hall, but of a horrifying, physical truth. His own biology was turning traitor. The defiant pride that usually held him up was dissolving under a sudden, crushing weight of need—for comfort, for sanctuary, for an alpha. He stared, wild-eyed, at hi…