Author's Note (Monster): Hi guys. Posting twice in a day? Yes. I've been thinking a lot about the future and I don't think I have another 5 years of fanfiction left in me to finish every single story I have so I really need to speed it up a bit and not take a year to update. Enjoy.

Previously on Savage;

Johnny breaks things off with the young and cute Omega because he keeps being reminded of the first night he saw Danny; the night he fought an Alpha assaulting him. His body may have lost the battle, but his spirit was fire. It was the night Johnny knew he wanted to be with Danny.

Danny's POV

"He's growing well", she mused, face glued to the screen. I folded my arms over my abdomen in a reflex. He. First, I heard it existed and it was still an abstract term, but now it became a 'he'. There was no doubting the gender. The offspring of two males, can only be male, but hearing a pronoun instead of an "it" still shook me a little. I shuddered.

She averted her eyes from the screen to look me over. "I'm sorry my assistant had to break it to you like that."

I shrugged. "Expecting is expecting. Whether the news came in softly or harshly. I can't change having one."

"No, you can't."

I think there's one question some of you are asking me right now. Why not get an abortion? Because it doesn't exist, ever since the second gender was introduced in the evolution. There is no way of undoing this sort of thing in an Omega and even if there was, my body was in full parent mode already. Losing him would be detrimental to my health.

"Is the father male?" Doctor Miller asked, typing away at my file. I nodded, tightening the grip around myself. "He's not in my life anymore."

"I'm sorry", she murmured.

I could sense exactly what she was thinking. An Omega out of heat does not carry unless there was love and care and a safe space provided. To have lost the person who provided my comfort and care, is rough on its own, let alone if it sparked this in me.

No, not 'this'. It sparked him in me.

After typing her paragraph on my medical visit, she turned to me. "You know I hate to patronise you."

I lifted my head, guard immediately flaring up. "But?"

"Does your Alpha know? I'm obliged to report your state to your Alpha familias because you're unmated."

Miller had been with me since the incident, examining me each year. She knew what I'd been through and she understood my need for independence and strength in myself. I would've been angered by her question if I didn't understand why she had to ask.

"My Alpha familias, my father, doesn't know, but my brothers do so I have Alphas to take care of me."

In this context 'take care of me' meant 'keep me on a leash'. Carrying Omegas are sacred and need to be kept safe, but who has time to babysit all day? Just lock them into a room with all they need.

I sighed. "After birth I will move back home to my mother and father to provide for him."

"First you have to tell them."

"Yes", I whispered.

The entire visit had been a rollercoaster of emotions. I'd felt a possessive pride over my child, seeing shades of him in the images doctor Miller took of me. I'd felt a mourning loss over Johnny. He could never find out. Not that it would matter. He was happy with a new Omega boyfriend, one who wouldn't mind being manipulated into mating him.

Guess I was too independent for him anyway.

On my way home, I hid in my hoodie, not trying to attract any attention but it was near impossible. Before, I had smelled like a desperate old Omega, in need of a partner. Now? Now my odour had gone bad. I smelled of a disgrace, of an Omega who left their loving partner carrying their child.

"Did you hear about Johnny 3 Tears?" someone said to their friend as I walked past them. My heart skipped a beat, but I tried to ignore it.

"Crazy, he gave up on his seat for love. What a fool."

I stopped dead in my tracks, behind me, someone complained as they bumped into me. "I think it's romantic he chose love."

Then the two friends had moved too far away from me to hear the rest of the conversation. They must've heard it wrong. Johnny 3 Tears was proceeding as a High Council member because he was soon to be mated.

I walked into the pharmacy to get my prescription from the doctor. The radio was playing some bullshit Spanish hype song that everyone was so crazy about. There were two people in front of me, getting their meds or pills or whatever.

I needed some extra vitamins to help my child grow since the father was out of my life. His pheromones would've been enough to provide me those vitamins, but Johnny wasn't with me so I needed extra.

The tune of the news played through the radio speakers and I checked the clock. Shit, it was 1pm already. Good thing I had lunch before my doctor's appointment. I looked down at my abdomen. We would've both been hungry.

"In other news, Johnny 3 Tears has given up his council seat for love."

I immediately shifted my attention to the radio. "In a press conference he had this to say."

The voice on the radio switched to Johnny's and my heart responded to it fondly. I hated it so badly. "I have decided, with all due respect to my sweet partner-to-be, to not mate him. It would be unfair to mate him while my love is with another."

I rolled my eyes. He wasn't talking about me. There was no way Johnny loved me out of all people. He wouldn't have done this to me if he loved me. Must've found yet another partner.

I couldn't believe I was on a list of partners. How disgusting.

By the time it was my turn in the pharmacy, I nearly forgot what I was there for until I put the prescription on the counter. The pharmacist took one look at my prescription and smiled. "Congratulations."

Then his eyes slid down to the extra vitamins and the smile vanished. He handed me the pills and said nothing, but he knew very well what those pills meant. "Sorry", he mused when I turned my back.

I shrugged it off, like so many things these days.

Please review, they're my fuel.