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When the evening feeding time came around, a stocky man walked by each stall and scooped brown mush into each feeding bowl. The seasonals paced and behaved very animated, bobbing their heads up and down in excitement and yipping and barking for their food. Jack remained in his corner, not moving but watching as Hiccup did the same, pacing the front of his stall while making a low sound in his throat. His green eyes were focused on the man filling up each food bowl with the brown mush. The man finally got to the end of the hall and scooped out Hiccup's portion and then Jacks.

The hall had quieted with only the sound of the seasonals wolfing down their meals and humming in delight. Jack watched as Hiccup ate, bending down low to his bowl and scooping the mush up into his mouth. Jack looked longingly at the food in his bowl, he was hungry, but the shared tomato and apple Hiccup had given him had been enough to stave off his stomach for a little while longer. He was too scared and too tired to move from his spot in the corner. It wasn't the most comfortable, by now his legs were starting to cramp and his neck ached from hiding his face in his knees, but his breathing had calmed and leveled out to a slow, steady intake and release.

Hiccup was done with his portion in record time, and when he had finished, he sat back on his haunches and licked his hands clean, slightly purring at the warmth that sank into his belly. As he cleaned himself, he noticed that his Omega neighbor's ration was untouched and he looked over his shoulder to see the little Omega still huddled in the corner of his stall. Green eyes studied him with curiosity, knowing he must've been hungry. After a moment of debating, Hiccup decided to let the Omega be, if he had accepted Hiccup's tomato and apple slices, surely he would eventually eat his food.

Hiccup drank some of his water and returned to his nest where he lay down to groom himself more after his meal. He stretched out his prosthetic leg and made a face as if it ached. Jack watched silently, his blue eyes peeking shyly over his knees.

They sat like that for a while, Hiccup grooming himself quietly as Jack watched. Watched as Hiccup's face gradually became more tired and his tongue lazy. With one last like to his shoulder, he settled his head down in his arms and released a tired sigh. Jack was tired too, and he envied how relaxed the Beta seemed to be. Jack wanted to sleep but was too frightened to relax enough for his eyes to shut. Jack once more looked over at his bowl of food, which had long lost its warmth and he cursed his missed opportunity of having a warm belly of food. He bit his lip and remained where he was.

The evening dragged on, all the seasonals settling down after their meals into their nests. They weren't all humanoids, though the majority of them were. There were a few interbred species among them. One was a female that looked much like a cat, her irises slits and her ears long with furred tips. She also had a tail and her body shape was long and lean. Another was a male that had dark fur all over, along with a short tail and long ears. He was large and intimidating to Jack, but he was a ways down the isle, and for that he was grateful.

Jack watched wide eyed at them as they all eventually nestled down and fell asleep.

Jack had started to relax just slightly along with the others, but then the lights overhead were shut off and they were thrown into darkness. Jack yelped, loud and embarrassing and it echoed throughout the hall. Some of the seasonals grunted at him in their sleep, complaining about the loud noise. Jack's eyes were impossibly wide, as they started to adjust to the darkness. His hands slapped against the ground of his stall, feeling around for any kind of security. He pushed his back up against the back stone wall of his stall and whimpered under his breath. He quickly started hyperventilating again, his feet pushing desperately against the ground, pushing away straw and anything that tickled his feet. Where was his food bowl? Where were the bars of his stall that kept everything and everyone dangerous out? He couldn't see them well, were they still there? His harsh breathing and whimpering emanated loudly throughout the hall, but all the other seasonals did their best to ignore him, not caring if he was on the verge of having a heart attack out of fear.

At home, back at his lake, there was always light at night, there was always the moon, but here, the moon was blocked out by stone and fences and he was scared. The was a little light coming from the EXIT signs over the doors at the end of the hallways but that was all. He only had the back wall of his stall, which he kept himself pressed up against. With all his desperate pushing to get as close against the wall as possible, he had moved himself out of his corner, which scared him even more. His voice hitched and choked as fresh tears fell from his eyes. He was scared and he couldn't breath and it was dark, it was so dark.

Little did he know a pair of silent green eyes watched him from his neighboring cell.

Jack eventually found a corner again but it was the one to the left, and he pressed himself hard against it, sobbing and whimpering in misery. He realized he was pressed up against the back wall and the bars separating his and Hiccup's stalls. Fear filled him as he realized how close he was to the Beta, that Hiccup could simply reach through the bars to attack him. But his fear of the dark overpowered his fear of the Beta. At it did until he heard a quiet shifting of feet in Hiccup's stall and there was suddenly warmth settling cautiously down beside him. He wanted to move away, he wanted so badly to get away, but he froze in fear and his breathing halted.

He could hear Hiccup's calm breathing beside him and the warmth his body offered. Jack didn't dare move, he didn't dare breathe. His crying hadn't stopped fully, tears still rushed down his face and he wondered if the other could here the frantic pounding of his heart.

One of Hiccup's hands came slowly through the bars and gently grasped Jack's closest wrist. The moment he felt Hiccup grab him, Jack flung his weight away from the bars and yelped loudly, not caring if he annoyed or woke the others. He shrieked and thrashed and pulled but Hiccup's grip held firm. Jack's heart was racing, and he was hyperventilating again, all while squeaking pathetically in an attempt to get the Beta to let him go. But Hiccup was bigger than Jack and was therefore stronger. Jack was also exhausted from the day's trauma. Hiccup recognized this and cooed low in his throat in a soothing manner, the way mothers did to calm their kits. Jack wrist hurt from yanking against it with all his wait. Hiccup held firmly on him and just waited him out. Sure enough after a few minutes, Jack collapsed, exhausted from his fit and lay gasping and whimpering on the floor.

Hiccup reached his other hand through the bars to pull the Omega as close to him as possible and lie him with his back against the bars. He then laid down with his chest against the bars, all the while cooing soothingly to calm the Omega's racing heart. He placed one hand over Jack's chest, over his heart and rubbed it gently, willing it to slow and calm down. Jack wheezed where he lay, his mouth open and panting. He felt his senses cloud and his breathing seemed to hitch from the panic attack. He then felt a warmth against his back and a warmth rubbing his chest and it did calm him, it made him drowsy.

From exhaustion and trauma, Jack finally passed out with the feel of Hiccup's breath in his hair.

When Jack woke the next morning, It was to the sound of the other seasonals pacing and yipping in their cells, all eager for their breakfast. Jack was still by the bars separating his and Hiccup's stalls. He was comfortably curled up in the corner, and exhaustion clung heavily to him as he raised his head of white hair, tousled from sleep to see Hiccup pacing at the front of his cell, waiting for his breakfast. Jack blinked sluggishly and felt too weak to get up. He lay his head back down against the flooring and sighed brokenly. He didn't move or even stretch. His stomach ached horribly from hunger and his mouth felt dry but he couldn't find the will power in him to get up. His neck ached from lifting his head alone. He doubted he could walk over to his water bowl.

Soon he heard the door opening at the end of the hall and the stocky man make his way down the long hall, scooping warm mush mixed with chopped up apples and carrots into each seasonal's feed bowl. Jack didn't lift his head to look, he was too tired to. He felt sick and he didn't want to move, not even for warm mush and apples. His mouth watered at the thought of them though and his stomach pains grew.

Hiccup received his ration and happily started devouring it. Jack's bowl was filled and the stocky man was too distracted by his pair of headphones and his music to notice that Jack didn't stir, but remained deathly still in the corner. Hiccup did notice however.

Hiccup paused in his eating and looked back at Jack, waiting for him to get up and eat, after all he had to eat something, but to Hiccup's growing concern, the small omega didn't even look to his bowl. Hiccup started to tentatively go back to eating, but found it less appetizing with the worry swirling in his stomach.

New seasonals that he had trained were often hesitant and scared the first day, but the ones he had trained had always been born in a mill and raised in it. They knew to eat and they knew not to be scared of the dark and they knew they were relatively safe. No one had ever been like this, not eating and so terrified that they had a panic attack. Non of the seasonals he had trained had never been plucked from the wild and thrown into a new and terrifying world. And who knew when the little Omega had had a proper meal in the wild before he was captured.

With those being his thoughts, Hiccup scooped up a bit of mush in his hand and brought it over to where Jack lay on the other side of the bars, his back turned toward them. His eyes were open and distant. Hiccup reached through the bars with a bit of still-warm mush on his fingers and gently pushed them against Jack's lips. Jack didn't move or even blink.

Hiccup hadn't caught the Omega's name so he improvised and for the first time since their first introduction, he spoke. When he did, it was in a soft, soothing tone.

"C'mon Snowflake, you gotta work with me here." He offered as he pressed more mush up against Jack's lips. It frightened him when Jack didn't respond. Hiccup had seen seasonal's like this before, when he was younger, seasonals that had lost their will to eat or sleep or do anything. It was always frightening to witness but he refused to give up on the Omega before him.

He could feel that Jack had a touch of a fever when he touched his face. Hiccup turned and scampered over to his water bowl and scooped up one hand full and brought it back to Jack and let it drip over the other male's temple. That got him and Jack blinked and gave a small shudder, much to Hiccup's delight. He quickly went back to fetch some more mush before bringing it over to Jack and trying to feed him again. This time when he pressed it against Jack's lips, Jack opened his mouth slightly and Hiccup pushed the food in with a relieved fall of his shoulders.

The warm food stirred something in Jack and he was blinking, as if realizing where he was again and he swallowed the food and sighed as it went down, warming him from the inside. Hiccup placed a hand on his shoulder and urged him to sit up. He was immensely please when Jack attempted to. Hiccup helped as much as he could as Jack pushed himself up on shaky arms. That alone left Jack breathless. Hiccup smiled though, his eyes glinting.

"C'mon, Snowflake," He urged, walking back over to his own food bowl. "Yours is getting cold."

Jack looked at Hiccup and then to his bowl. With a renewed hunger, he slowly found the strength to crawl over to his food bowl. He had almost stopped halfway to go back to the safety of his corner, but when a whiff of smell from the food reached him, he couldn't refuse it. When he reached it, he gave a soft sob of relief and slowly cupped the warm mush in his hands, treasuring it, and brought it to his mouth, thanking the moon above for it. It warmed his belly and he slowly ate nearly every bite. Hiccup watched him from the corner of his eye and was content that the Omega was finally eating.

After having is fill of his breakfast, Jack slowly made his way over to his water and drank desperately from it. Hiccup watched him intently, having been long done with his serving. He noted how much better the Omega looked just from eating a bit and drinking.

Jack jumped when Hiccup started speaking.

"What did they name you?" He asked curiously, his head tilted in questioning.

Jack hesitated and wasn't sure if he was supposed to look the Beta in the eye. "J-Jack." He answered timidly, lowering himself a bit as a sign that he was not the dominant one here.

Hiccup then walked over to the bars separating them, to wear Jack sat on the other side. Jack didn't move away, but he dipped his head and crouched a little, submitting to the higher ranking male. Hiccup nosed through the bars and sniffed the air around Jack Intently, His face a mix of expressions as he gathered silent information. Jack didn't dare look Hiccup in the eye.

From what Hiccup could gather from Jack's scent, Jack was three to two years younger than he was. He wreaked of the smell of an Omega and he was definitely a virgin. Hiccup vaguely wondered if Jack had a panic attack last night simply because of the dark, what would he do when he was being pinned down and bred?

Hiccup brought his head back from the bars and gave a little snort, clearing his nose.

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