AN: This is my first attempt at an a/b/o fic...it isn't going to be your typical one with lots and lots of sex. There will be some, but not a lot. I just wanted to let ya'll know a head of time! Anyways, here we go! This is cross posted with A03. My account name there is KDSkywalker - similar but not quite. Enjoy!

Yuri on Ice doesn't belong to me...I'm just borrowing my new favorite characters for a bit

Chapter One: The Best Kept Secret in the Former Soviet Union

Victor Nikiforov was tired. In fact he had been for a long time. Endless practices. Endless seasons. Both for well over the last 20 years had finally worn him out, along with competing Internationally for almost as long. At age 29, he finally retired.

He had called it 'quits' once before or in the eyes of many, including his longtime coach Yakov Feltsman, he had simply taken a "break" for a year. Actually it was less than a year, just the Grand Prix Series, but who really thought that way?

Many believed that he would be ruined, never able to come back after taking so long off the ice to coach Yuuri Katsuki. Yet he simply kept on surprising them all. Well that was everyone but one person – the one person who he had dropped everything in Russia for and hightailed it to Japan for.

Yuuri Katsuki.

If there was one thing that Victor had learned from Yuuri in the months that he had spent with him at his home in Hasetsu, Japan, it was patience. He hadn't always been one to sit around and wait for things to happen or wait for what he wanted. But for Yuuri he would. Yuuri was worth it. Perhaps that's why Victor had fallen irrevocably in love with the Japanese skater. And everyday spent with him, he seemed to find himself deeper in love with him.

Yet it scared him. It scared him, because he had never felt these feelings for anyone else before. He thought that he had felt them for others before, yet he had been wrong. There had been an alpha or two and even an beta. But none of them were the "one" for him – he knew this for several reasons. The largest reason that stood out was that all of those partners he had been with – both the males and one female – was the fact that none were interested in being with an omega for the long haul. The reason that he had heard primarily dealt with the perceptions that came with omegas. The heats. The pheromones. The nests – just to name a few.

That was why after a while Victor decided that he would just not dwell on his secondary nature and instead simply be Victor. More and more, society was accepting of omegas – especially with better heat suppressants. But even then, an omega had to have a heat at least once a year for health reasons. Thankfully, once a year heats were perfect for a skater. Plan out a heat during the off-season when he could sequester himself away from the world for a week.

It had always been like that. Always alone. Never sharing his heat with anyone, no matter how much his body was calling out for someone else to claim it. Nobody to even make sure he was safe and protected or even hydrated - except for his first heats after he had presented as an omega shortly before his 13th birthday. That was when his mother had been by his side to make sure that no harm befell him. And even then, that was such a long time ago.

So in his hastiness to get to Japan after seeing the online trending video Yuuri skating to his 'Aria: Stay Close to Me' free skate, Victor forgot a vital part of his off-season routine.

His heat.

Needless to say, Victor was genuinely surprised to find out that the lithe Japanese figure skater that he had been smitten with for a while now was an alpha. And it happened purely on accident. Being as forgetful as he often was, by the time that Victor realized that his pre-heat symptoms were upon him, he was entrenched in coaching Yuuri. It was mid-July, just prior to the release of the Grand Prix assignments. There was little room for error and even less for time off.

Once he had realized what was going on, he quickly began to panic. Sensing that something was off with his coach, Yuuri began to question what was wrong.

At first, Victor was worried about telling him. What if Yuuri turned him away because he was an omega? Victor honestly had no idea how omegas – especially male omegas – were treated in Japan, because in Russia they still weren't treated with the same respect as they were in other places around the globe. Some people in Russia still thought that all omegas should be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen at all times – no matter if they were male or female.

Eventually, Victor gave into Yuuri's insistent worrying and anxieties that he really didn't want to be his coach – which was the absolute furthest thing from the truth – and explained why he needed a break for a few days. Yet in this effort to quell the young skaters anxieties, Victor let his own feelings slip.

"Can you not see just how beautiful you are?" he had said as Yuuri sat across from him in the onsen one night after practice. "Do you know why I wanted to become your coach, Yuuri?"

The young skater shook his head no as Victor moved to sit directly across from him.

"I was drawn to you Yuuri. You skate like your body is creating music. It's just as beautiful as you are."

"Alphas aren't supposed to be beautiful," Yuuri had said looking away from Victor. "They are supposed to be the protectors. Strong and brave. Not anxious and soft."

Moving to tip his chin back up, Victor looked directly into Yuuri's eyes and revealed his closely guarded secret. "Anyone would be stupid not to want to become your mate. Not all everyone, especially omegas, want the domineering alpha type. Some omegas simply want someone who will accept them for who they are and not their secondary."

It was in that moment that Victor knew that Yuuri understood what he was saying – that he, Victor Nikiforov, the most decorated men's figure skater in history, was an omega. And from that moment on, their relationship wasn't just skater-coach, but something much deeper and something much richer.

It was also the first heat that Victor ever shared with someone and if things stay the way they are right now, it won't be the last either. Hopefully Yuuri Katsuki would always stay close to him.

In all honesty, he was shocked that he had never been questioned about his secondary. Most people had assumed when he was younger that he was an omega with his long hair and feminine features. Yet as he grew – and cut his hair – along with his body filling out, people began to assume that he was an alpha. Then there would always be those who wanted to simply say he was a beta, hoping to keep things simple.

Perhaps that had been why he had never really been asked what his secondary was once he started winning and breaking records.

People's notions of who he was.

Fine with him.

It also helped that most believed that Yuuri Katsuki was an omega because of his lithe build and feminine features that he had maintained into adulthood.

Oh did they have it wrong. Yuuri could definitely pull the alpha card when he had to. Did he like it? No. in fact, he liked to be left alone about his secondary too.

And that was fine with Victor.

Yet with retirement looming ever closer for Victor and Yuuri following within the next two years, Victor had begun to dream of the future.

Soon they would finally be getting married after their long engagement. Why rush things, when things were good how they were? He loved Yuuri. Yuuri loved him. They had bonded with each other during Victor's second heat that they were together for – by that time, they had been a couple for over a year and were already engaged, so why wait to bond? But what would come after skating?

Sure there was coaching. Yet there was something deeper that was tugging at Victor's heart. A need for something.

The need for a family.

He would give anything to be able to carry Yuuri's children. The urge to become pregnant was becoming greater and greater the closer Victor drew to retirement. He and Yuuri had discussed having a family of their own someday, when the time was right.

And Victor felt that the time was drawing near for that.

Yet there was one thing that he needed to do before he even brought up the idea of children. Actually, it needed to be done prior to marrying Yuuri.

It was to tell his fiancé the last secret kept close to his heart, yet it was the hardest one to divulge.

The secret of his family.

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