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Anyway enough self-promotion. Welcome to my first Alpha/Omega Story. This is a short story that is basically just me testing out the lore before I start to delve into it deeper, so this is mostly a fluff piece sort of. The entire story will be posted on fanfiction, but if you want to read the entirety of it right now, it will be up on my by tomorrow. I'm just in the process of getting it cleaned up. Since this is the first, if there's something that I need to start adding or something that will help me with the world building please suggest it. I'm open to constructive criticism. This fic is finished but Stitches which is based in the same world but is a completely different story.
Summary: "I'm your mate." Charlie declares, saying it a second time because it was just so right. It was like everything in her life had led to this moment, everything suddenly clicking into place. Santana was hers. "Yeah, that's not going to happen." Santana slides the sandwich back to Charlie.
Song: Who do you love – Marianas Trench
Disclaimer: I own nothing
Charlie Fabray crinkled her nose as she knocked on her twin's door. "Quinn, mom says that I can't eat until you decide to deign us with your presence. Don't make me come in there and break you two up, you know I have always kicked your ass when it comes to food. I don't care if your dick is currently buried inside Rachel, get the hell out of bed." Charlie groused, she could smell them. The whole hallway stunk of their pheromones, which only made her prickly. It was bad enough that she could tell when her parents were doing it, which was all the time but her sister had been locked in the room all weekend her mother was putting her foot down. Which meant her father was putting his foot down which meant that she had the unfortunate task of breaking the two of them up, because her father didn't want to do it.
The door to Quinn's room opens and Rachel smiles brightly at Charlie a simple towel wrapped around her body, the love bites all over her neck and the mate bite evident on her upper neck, it would be hard for Rachel to hide it. Not that she ever did, "Good morning Charlie, Quinn's pretending to be asleep right now and—"
"Rachel!" Quinn said darting in front of her trying to protect her modesty from her twin. There was a part of her that knew that Charlie wouldn't touch Rachel especially with her scent all over her. She didn't care if she was naked, Rachel was her mate. "Go away, I was—"
Charlie grabs her twin by the scruff of her neck and yanks her out of her room, she could care less if Quinn was naked. "If the bacon is cold I'm going to kick your ass, I don't care if Rachel is right here." Charlie grunts at Quinn practically throwing her down the stairs. She could hear Rachel following them.
"Charlie—while I appreciate the fact that you are hungry we were in the middle of something and I'm sure that your breakfast could have—" Rachel winces when Charlie shoves Quinn down the last few steps. "Waited until Quinn had put on some clothes," she says when she notices both Judy and Russell staring at the scene in front of them. "Good morning Mr. and Mrs. Fabray." Rachel said blushing and wanting to run back upstairs.
Judy sighed as she watched Charlie march to the table and heads to the laundry room to grab them both something to wear. "This isn't what I had in mind when I told you that you couldn't eat until Quinn was at the table."
Charlie grunted at her mother and gets a swift smack upside the head from her father as she begins to shovel food onto her plate. "You told me that I couldn't eat till Quinn was downstairs, you never specified how I got her downstairs or that she had to be wearing clothes. She's the one that tried to pretend to be asleep."
Judy came back from the laundry room with two oversized shirts, it would have to do for now as she handed one to Rachel and the other one to her daughter. She glanced over at her husband who had reached for the paper and gave him a look when he noticed her staring at him. "Russell?" she prompts and tilts her head towards Charlie.
Russell looks at his youngest daughter and then back at Judy and makes a face before clearing his throat causing her to look at him, her mouth filled with food. He sighed and placed the newspaper down. "You are frustrated. You should stop that."
Judy groans and Quinn smirks, but Charlie just eyes her father closely before turning back to her food. Quinn shakes her head. "Smooth, Dad."
"What?" He threw up his hands defensively. This wasn't going as he had envisioned, though if he was honest he wasn't quite sure how he had planned for this to go. "Charlie, you're the only one in this family without a mate. Quinn and Rachel have been mated for a while now, Brittany and Mike are talking about starting their own family—my point is everyone has found their mate besides you and you turned eighteen. Surely there's someone at school that you like."
"Nope." Came the muffled reply as Charlie reached for her orange juice.
Judy sighed and looked "Charlie, what your father is trying to say is that finding your mate is important, you've been rather irritable lately and your father and I are—concerned."
"I'm fine," Charlie grumbles picking at her pancakes before shoveling that into her mouth.
"Charlie," Judy said with a sigh. She had gone over this with Russell already, but she wasn't surprised that he had missed the finer points of this discussion. "I think that your father is right and you've been feeling a bit frustrated and it's causing you to lash out."
Quinn took a seat across from her twin and pulled Rachel onto her lap not caring that her parents were there at all. "Yeah, we're all tired of you bitching out—"
Rachel slapped Quinn's arm reprovingly, but made no move to get off of her alpha's lap. "Be nice." She chided, then turned to Charlie, "What your family is trying to say is that having a mate is a liberating and exhilarating experience. We all just want you to be happy and I know from experience that there are probably dozens of omegas out there trying to find someone like you."
"No thanks." Charlie frowned, her mouth full of eggs and pancakes. She swallowed heavily. "I'll pass."
"You can't just pass." Russell insisted, hardening his gaze at his youngest daughter. "You need to start thinking about your future. As an alpha, big schools will look down on you if you haven't managed to find your mate yet. You're a menace, a threat to other alphas, and you need to find your mate."
"Russell—" Judy warned. She had just wanted him to offer fatherly support and encouragement. This was going downhill quickly.
Quinn decided to speak up attempting to help Charlie out. "It's not as if she doesn't burn off the excess energy. Pretty sure she's—"
"Shut up, Lucy." Charlie glared at her twin. The last thing she needed was her parents on her case for having fun with unclaimed omegas. They weren't hurting anyone and her parents would just see it as proof that she was irresponsible and crying out for attention or some shit like that. She made sure to shower thoroughly before coming home from school, washing the evidence of her escapades away from her parents' senses.
"Why don't you make me?" Quinn snaps back shifting a bit and adjusting Rachel on her lap, she had no problem getting into it with Charlie after what had happened ten minutes ago. Charlie had made her look weak in front of Rachel, and it wasn't something that she could easily forgive.
"Enough," Russell said, back when they were younger it had been sort of cute to watch them roll around on the ground wrestling for dominance. Back then they couldn't break anything, but this table was expensive and he had just replaced it earlier this year after the two of them had an 'accident'. This was exactly what he was talking about, Charlie was picking fights and it was dangerous for other alphas. She still had enough sense to avoid challenging his authority most of the time, but it was getting to the point where he wasn't quite sure how to control her without using brute force. Alpha's needed omegas. It helped balance them out. He turns to his youngest who had a scowl on her face. "Charlie school starts tomorrow. You need to make a concerted effort to find your mate, if by Christmas I'm not satisfied with your efforts, you will be cut off."
Charlie rolled her eyes, but slapped a smile on her face. "Yes, sir."
Russell moved to get up to give her a heavy smack across the back of her head when Judy moved to his side, "That's all we ask, you'll be much happier once you've found your mate." Russell grumbled and Judy rubbed his back to soothe him. "Do you need more coffee?"
"Yes." He groused staring at his youngest, who reached for the plate of bacon. "You've had enough." He smirks when she gives him a horrified look, that would show her who was in charge. He wasn't over the hill just yet.
Charlie grabbed her bag from the car and tried desperately to pull away from Rachel and Quinn, she hated driving them to school, all they did was basically dry hump in the back seat. It's like they didn't even care that she was around. Two years ago her father had said that if she got a mate then he'd buy her a new car, which meant he'd take her down to Al Motta's used car lot and pull her away from the sports cars and towards some old car that was falling apart. She wasn't interested then and she wasn't interested now.
"Hey Charlie, remember what dad said—you need to start making an effort in finding a mate," Quinn called out.
Rachel nods, "Don't worry, I've talked it over with Quinn and we've decided we're going to help you—"
"Please don't," Charlie interrupts, sniffing the air. McKinley still smelled like a dump and it was a sea of teenage pheremones and desperation. It was going to be another headache, but at least she had a list of unclaimed omegas she could go see if it came down to it.
Rachel continued as if Charlie hadn't even spoken. "By interviewing all the unclaimed omega's. Don't worry, Quinn will be with me all times so we can screen all the ones that will just be a disaster for you to mate with." Rachel said brightly, they had completed a personality test for Charlie and they had an idea of who would be compatible with the surly Fabray. Though truthfully it was a test to make sure that they got along with her. So they could go on double dates and do other fun couple things together.
Charlie stopped and turned to inform them what a terrible idea that was, when she was hit with the most intoxicating smell she had ever experienced. It was better than the smell of bacon in the morning, more sweet than the scent of a regular omega in heat. This was incredible. It was like a high that she never wanted to come down from, like being surrounded by the most elegant luxurious things in the entire world and she salivated for the opportunity to simply stay in the scent's presence. Her eyes dilated and she groaned a bit, today was not the day to be wearing tight pants. Or any pants for that matter. "Do you smell that?" Charlie asked looking at her twin.
Quinn sniffed and rolled her eyes, "Someone's in heat, someone's always in heat." She studied her twin for a moment. "Dad wants you to make an effort in finding your mate remember?" Quinn said snapping her fingers in front of Charlie's face. "Which means no more sleeping with unclaimed omegas."
Charlie flicked her eyes to Quinn for a moment before inhaling again, she needed to find who was making that delightful smell, before someone else got to it first. It didn't matter she was quite willing to put whichever alpha made a move on that omega down. She pauses surprised at her possessive nature, this wasn't her omega. It couldn't be. She normally didn't care, but the thought of this mysterious person being with someone else? Well that just wouldn't do. She takes a few steps towards where the scent is coming from when she feels a tight grip around her wrist causing her to turn to Quinn.
"No, you're not going to head off to go and find an omega right now. We're going to class," she wasn't going to allow Charlie to go off and head towards the omega classrooms. Charlie had a tendency to get into trouble especially with the other alphas for being around their claimed mates. Her father wasn't joking when he said that other alphas would see her as a threat. She frowned when Charlie tried to pull her arm free. This wasn't good.
Rachel frowned ever so slightly, taking a step back in case Charlie decided to take a swing at Quinn, "I'll ask around Charlie, it shouldn't take long to find them. I'll see you during the break and keep you updated."
Charlie frowned she wanted to find the scent now. "Fine—but if you see any alpha's sniffing around tell me," Charlie grumbled.
Quinn shook her head and leaned in to kiss Rachel quickly, "I'll miss you," she mumbles against her lips and smiles at her. "I have to go make sure this one doesn't do anything stupid." Quinn tilts her head toward Charlie who was still looking around. She sighs and pulls her twin with her. "Don't do anything that will get us in trouble. It's our senior year, we don't want to start the day off on the wrong foot."
AN: Next Chapter, let's check in with Santana shall we.
