Notes:
Ok, just so you guys know this is the first piece of fanfiction that I have posted for public viewing in a very long time. I do not have a beta reader so all mistakes are mine. This was done purely for fun, and if you don't like the content then please don't read it or bitch at me about it if you do.
This is a complete work of fiction, so any parallel to any persons, places, or scenarios in this work are completely coincidental.
AND... Obviously I do not own Marvel.
Chapter 1: Holiday Mistakes & Memories
It has been a little over a week since it ended, and even though his room smelled just as it always had; a mixture of his natural Omega scent, grease, metal, and - for some strange reason that no one could find the source of - coconut. The underlying aroma of unbounded Alpha rut still hung in the air, along with the remnants of his own latest heat.
The night of his bedroom was punctuated by the soft neon glow sprinkled here and there from the various electronics scattered across the room, and as he had lied in the darkness gazing up at the shadowed ceiling, they felt like prying eyes, judging him as they case there low light across his bed.
Which led to his current position with the covers pulled up over his head to block out their disapproving stares. He was curled up on his stomach with his face half turned into the mattress, eyes screwed shut, begging silently for his mind to shut off so he could try and get some sleep.
Howard and Maria where due back home that very evening, they had been gone on a ski vacation over the winter holiday while Tony was home on break from school. He hadn't minded, in fact they had all agreed as a family, that it would be a good idea considering the timing.
They planned that Tony would stay home, due to the fact that during much of the first half of the holiday break he was going to be in heat. The timing of which just happened to be perfect actually. He had been able to get through all his previous semester final exams without incident, followed by a full days rest before his first cycle set in.
Planning it this way meant his parents would get to spend two weeks alone together without the pressures of work, or having to worry about him. It was a very rare opportunity for them, and Tony was happy to give his parents a chance to rekindle some of the old spark of their relationship.
The staff had been dismissed for the first week of the Holiday break, allowing them to celebrate Christmas with their own families. While this left the Omega home alone to suffer through his heat in peace without disturbing anyone else in the house.
Jarvis had made sure that his bedroom refrigerator was stocked with water and Gatorade - he would need the electrolytes -, and that he had a pantry full of simple, no prep foods, all readily available for the down time in between his cycles.
Now it was into the early hours of Sunday morning, Howard and Maria were due to arrival back home that very evening, and with their return signaled the end of Tony's holiday break. The following day his father would be back to work, and he would be starting his winter semester of his Junior year of high school. He wanted to get a little bit of rest while he could in case his worst fears came to reality, and Howard found out what he did.
It wasn't that Tony was afraid that his room had the lingering scent of his Alpha boyfriend Steve Rogers. Ever since they had started dating at the beginning of the school year, Tony's room always had some small amount of the Alpha's scent. Mostly because it was on his clothes from school, but Steve also came over once a week to have dinner with his family.
It had become a weekly tradition now, starting back at the beginning of their relationship. Tony had introduced the Alpha to his parents, and Maria had insisted that he stay for dinner so she and Howard could get to know him. After dinner Maria had invited Steve to come back for dinner again the following week before the pair had retreated up to the Omega's room to cuddle on his sofa and watch movies. It had become a Friday night tradition ever since.
The lingering traces of Steve's scent was usually a comfort to Tony. A reminder that the Omega had the Alpha's protection, and that he was loved by the boy who had stolen his heart practically from the moment they had met - but who had only claimed for his own the summer before this latest school year -.
Tony's parents liked Steve, they were always commenting on what a well mannered, and respectful Alpha he was. Tony had no doubt that if Steve asked permission from Howard to bond with him, that his father wouldn't say no.
Howard was the owner and founder of Stark Industries. The number one manufacturer of viable clean energy products in the country, and Tony was going to take over as CEO when Howard retired. However, if Tony's Alpha didn't want him to work, or decided that he was going to take Stark Industries away from Tony, there wasn't going to be a thing the Omega could do about it.
So, when Tony had hit puberty, and manifested as an Omega, Howard had come to the decision that he was going to have to take measures to ensure his son didn't bond with just any Alpha. Even going so far as to draw up perspective plans to bond him with someone the entrepreneur knew, and trusted.
Considering Omega rights were still a fairly new concept even in today's society, - and even though the government had come leaps and bounds since the time when Howard was a kid - Howard still had to make sure that when Tony bonded, that his mate wasn't going to take everything out from under him and run the business - that Howard had spend his whole life building - into the ground. Since, even with all the new laws, Alpha's still took ownership of everything an Omega had once bonded, and even though Howard would still own SI until the day he died, that didn't mean that once it was all passed on to Tony that it couldn't all come crashing down around the Omega's head.
Howard had actually starting to think that if Steve someday did want to bond with Tony, that the boy would defiantly make sure he did everything in his power to support the Omega, and his business.
So no, it defiantly wasn't that he was afraid of Steve's scent being in the room...
Tony and Steve had become good friends the Omega's Freshman year. Tony had started his years in high school in a new city, with a new school, and no friends. His father had needed to build a new head office due to the expanding growth of his company. Which in turn meant that they had to move, and at the time Tony had hated it.
He hadn't wanted to move. He liked where he was in California; he knew the town, he knew the people, and for a kid who had everything, the moment he was forced through the front door of his new house he felt like he had nothing. He had left all his friends behind, everything he knew, and it wasn't like he could just call a taxi and go visit. No, they had had to move clear across the country.
New York City. Tony liked the city; the sights, the sounds, the people, but he didn't know them, and he missed his three best friends Pepper, Rhodey, and Happy, back in Malibu. He wouldn't however miss Justin, the very thought or mention of the Alpha, Justin Hammer would send a shiver running up Tony's spine, and not in a good way.
Justin was in the same year as Tony and the rest of his friends. A skinny, bespectacled, dirty blonde, boy, no taller then Tony himself, and he was constantly hanging all over him, trying - and failing miserably - to get Tony to be his Omega. It had never turned violent, but Tony was a little afraid that there wouldn't be anything he could do if that day ever came. So in order to get Justin to leave him alone, Tony had turned to Pepper asking her to pretend to be his Alpha in order to get Justin to back off.
Pepper had agreed right away, she couldn't bare to watch one of her best friends be manhandled by an overly aggressive Alpha like Justin - especially since said Omega didn't want to have anything to do with the Alpha in question -. It hadn't worked quite as well as Tony had hoped at first. Justin just didn't seem to take the hint that Tony wasn't an open Omega anymore, and that he had an Alpha girlfriend.
Pepper had been making her way to class one afternoon when she spotted Justin pushing the dark haired Omega up agents a locker. He was holding Tony around the waist with one arm, and by the wrist with the other. His chest pressed against the Omega's. Tony had his head turned to the side, a look of terror and disgust plastered across his scrunched face. Justin's nose buried in Tony's neck inhaling the scent of him, while he made small circles with his hips, grinding his slowly growing erection into the others nonexistent one, and well... Pepper wasn't about to have that. She had had enough of Justin pushing Tony around, and swiftly stepped in to rectified the situation. To make it very clear to the other Alpha that Tony was her Omega.
She had hulled Justin off Tony roughly by the collar of his shirt before tucking the terrified Omega under her arm. She was a bit taller then both of the boys so Tony fit quite comfortably into her side, her hand cradling the back of his head as she pushed his face into her chest, Tony's arms quickly locking around her waist. Glaring daggers at Justin, she held eye contact with the other Alpha, in a definitive sign of challenge, saying all to clearly 'He's mine, try and take him from me'.
Pepper guided the top of the Tony's head up into her neck were she nuzzled him into her, spreading her scent onto him. Never breaking eye contact, she prompted Tony to bare his neck to her - which he did with only the smallest of whimpers in the back of his throat -. She bit down, and sucked at the soft flesh at the junction where his neck met shoulder, the bite not enough to draw blood, but enough to leave a very distinguished mark of claim.
Justin watched the display in awe for a few moments before reluctantly braking eye contact, baring his neck to her in a sign of submission before walking away; and Tony spent the rest of his time in middle school pretending to be Pepper's good, little Omega to keep Justin at bay.
Tony had moved to New York at the beginning of the summer break after finishing middle school, and he called his California friends ever night. It was about half way into the summer when he found out Pepper and Happy had gotten together. Tony knew they both had had feelings for one another during middle school, but had never done anything about it. Mostly because Pepper had tied herself to Tony, and Happy - being a Beta - didn't want to come between an Alpha and Omega.
Tony and Pepper had talked well into the early hours of the morning that night. He told Pepper that he had felt a little guilty that he had come between the couple for so long, and apologized, saying that they could have gotten together a lot sooner if he hadn't gotten in the way. Pepper assured him that she and Happy held no ill feelings about it, and that she was actually glad that she had done it. Explaining to Tony that there was no way she was going to have let Justin Hammer get his grubby paws on him. She went on to say that she had told Happy about the arrangement between them and that the Beta himself was actually proud of them for having done it, 'Need to keep our boy safe,' he'd said. Tony had laughed.
The next time Tony and Pepper had stayed up late on the phone was when the Omega had met Steve. It had been a complete accident how the two had met, and he couldn't believe at the time why such a gorgeous hunk of male Alpha would even look twice at a short, skinny, grease covered, unkempt Omega like him.
It had been about a month into his Freshmen year and he had over worked on his latest creation in the machine shop when the bell had rung. He had hastily thrown his tools back into his box, and shoved the half finished little robot into his rack, making sure to latch the lock - so no one could steel it -, before grabbing up his bag from the work table. He had bolted from the room not thinking twice about the other students milling about on the other side, making their own way to their next class.
The machine shop was in the same corridor as the art labs and as Tony hurled himself threw the door he run head long into a tall, blonde haired, blue eyed, broad shouldered, Alpha. The Omega had sent the pair of them crashing to the floor in his haste, Tony landing unceremoniously right in the other boys lap.
For a moment puppy brown eyes locked on to baby blue, his breath hitching in the back of his throat on the inhale accompanied with the Alpha's scent. Tony sat stunned by the boy the boy under him before reality came crashing back to him, quickly scrabbling to his feet, he hitched his bag more securely over his shoulder before a drawing laying on the ground a few feet away caught his attention. It looked like a pencil sketch of the city sky line at night from someone's window or balcony, and for a moment Tony wondered if this was the view the blonde boy sitting on the ground at his feet had from his bedroom. Tony figured he must of knocked it out of the boys hands when he had ran into him. Sweeping the paper off the ground, the Omega shoved it into the Alpha's chest with a hasty apology before taking off through the double doors at the end of the corridor - he was going to be so late for his next class -.
He was only a little late - 5 minutes -, and snuck into the advanced chemistry class without being noticed. As he set up his station with his lab partner, Tony found that he couldn't get the image of blonde hair, and blue eyes out of his head - and that scent... -.
Later on as the class progressed, he discovered that in his daze he had very nearly caused an incident when mixing the chemicals for the experiment before his lab partner - Bruce Banner an Alpha and fellow Freshman - caught his hand.
Tony had walked around the rest of that day in a brain fog, not paying attention to his teachers, or friends. As soon as he got home he locked himself up in his room, nose almost pressed flat against his computer screen as he scoured the school website, looking through pdf's of the previous years yearbook hoping to figure out who the Alpha from that morning was.
The Omega hadn't been to sure that the Alpha in question hadn't simply been a Freshman like himself, - in which case he wouldn't even be in the year yearbook and he was just wasting his time even looking - but his worry turned out to be unfounded as he locked eyes on the Freshman photo of one Steven Grant Rogers. That meant Steve was only a year older then himself, and by cross referencing the name in the books index, Tony also found out that during his Freshman year Steve had been an honor role student, on the JV Football team, and in the art club.
After finding out who he was, Tony did some more internet digging, discovering that Steve had entered the BoldBrush Painting Competition the previous July, with a stunning watercolor of 'Holy Shit, was that?' the new Stark Industries HQ in Manhattan, Stark Tower - Steve had taken first place -.
Tony just couldn't stop staring at the pictures he found of the muscular, tall, and handsome young man that he had ran into earlier that day, and as soon as he knew - with the time difference - that Pepper was out of school back in California he called her.
The next day, Tony made sure that he had his work table clean, with his tools put away, and his robot safely locked up on its shelf in the rack. When the bell rang Tony hitched his bag over his shoulder, walking out the workshop door with the rest of the class. Stopping about ten feet from the double doors to the corridor, the Omega leaned against the wall watching the students pass by him.
When the Steve came in through the open doors, the Omega's brown eyes instantly locked on to blue. The Alpha had wanted to talk to him as much as he had, and made a beeline straight for the Omega upon spotting him. They exchanged pleasantries, and introductions, and Tony apologized again for having crashed into him the day before. Steve was completely blasé about the whole thing, explaining that if it hadn't of happened then they wouldn't have met at all 'damn, he was an optimist too'.
The pair quickly became fast friends, and they spent the following two years dancing around each other, harboring feelings for the other that they were sure - in their own mind - the other didn't return.
It wasn't until the summer before Tony's Junior year, Steve's Senior, that the Alpha seemed to have finally had had enough of the dance. Not taking 'no' for an answer - not that Tony had said no -, Steve took the Omega out on official dates all summer long. Before finally in August - two weeks before school was to start - they found themselves standing outside Tony's front door, having just returned from a fun filled day of rollercoaster's, and bumper cars at Coney Island, followed by a strolling dinner - which consisted of walking down Times Square at twilight, enjoying large slices of Ray's pizza -.
Tony noticed Steve seemed nervous, but before he could think about it to much, or start asking the Alpha what was wrong Steve had closed the distance between them with a shy, hesitant kiss.
It was awkward, and over to fast, Tony had been so completely caught off guard by it that he hadn't even had a chance to think about responding before Steve was drawing away. The Omega couldn't even tell you what happened after that, because the next thing he knew, he had jumped at the Alpha. Throwing his arms around the taller boys neck, pressing their chests flat together, standing on tip toes in an attempt at a hungry, wet kiss.
Steve had within seconds wrapped one arm around the Omega's waist, while the other hand came up to cradle the back of his head drawing him in closer, he tilted his head down slightly to get a better angle to return and deepen Tony's kiss. With a gasp from the Omega, Steve seized to opportunity to swept his tongue into others mouth. Tony entwining his own with the Alpha's briefly before submitting to the Alpha's dominance with a soft moan, allowing the older boy to fully map every square inch of him.
When the need for air became to great they pulled away breathing heavily, pressing their foreheads together, they stared into the others eyes, while still wrapped tightly around one another. Steve broke the silence first, confessing how he had liked the Omega since the very moment two years ago that the smaller boy had ran into him. Tony had laughed at the confession, earning a confused, and slightly hurt look from the Alpha before admitting the same.
Smiling like morons, they kissed again - but with out the heat - before agreeing to meet early the next day - as it was getting late - for doughnuts coffee, and to discuss their relationship.
When school started again, all their friends gave them knowing looks before Clint piped out "It's about fucking time!" - before getting promptly hit upside the head by his mate -. Following Clint's outburst, everyone else piped in with their own remarks, and after a round of 'Congratulations', and 'I knew you two were perfect for each other', Tony could honestly say that he hadn't been happier in his life.
Burying himself deeper under his covers Tony pressed his face fully into the mattress. His hands balled in tight fists on either side of his head clenching the bed sheet tightly. The diminishing scent hanging in the air reminding him once again that he had done something he shouldn't have.
He felt sick, his stomach was twisting, as he prayed for the remainder of the scent to be gone by morning. He expects that his nerves are just really strung out as his mind clouds with scenarios of what his father will do to him if he finds out what he had done. At least he could be thankful for small favors. Even if he did get in trouble for sharing his heat before getting permission to bond, the knowledge that he couldn't get pregnant the first time he shared a heat helped to lull him off to sleep.