You know what would be cool? If Steam let me waste my money on the games it offers me, but no! It has to be difficult. I just wanted to play Okami TnT
Me, an asexual: How do you write sexual tension?
22. Ανακάλυψες
Trevor watches as Alexei digs around their room searching for something, quietly making sure the piles of discarded stuff don't collapse or get in their way. When the beta finally finds what they're looking for they turn to him and give him a look; Trevor shrugs.
"Instincts are a weird thing my dear Lexi"
Alexei makes a face.
"I'm inclined to agree"
Trevor laughs, and watches as the beta sets an old book by the desk and sits themself beside him.
"What's that for?"
Lexi opens it with care, riffling through the pages gently, as if afraid to break them; the book starts like a photo album but the page Alexei settles in looks more like part of a journal.
"Do you still have that piece of paper we found?"
Trevor nods and pulls it from his pocket, where it was folded carefully, and hands it over without needing to be asked to. Alexei puts the note bellow a few lines of writing, and sure enough, there's a match.
-.. ..- -. / -.. ..- -. / -.. ..- -.
Evan has a tendency to forget himself sometimes, forget what he is, how his body works; forgets that stronger scents and mood changes aren't only tied to his unstable mental health. He only realizes because well, his mind is a terrible thing, and spending so much time with an alpha has its effects; nothing to do with Connor personally, really, nothing at all.
If Evan found himself having very specific fantasies, then that was just the hormones speaking… damn it, this was the worst.
See, Evan was going through the same thing every omega went through once a year, a horrible month-long ailment that didn't actually have a cure, but had a way to be less torturous; only, said method was not happening, no matter what his inner omega wanted. So, Evan was approaching his heat… wonderful.
The thing was, because he was a dragon, and had presented when he was very young, he should have regular heats; you know, biologically speaking. But no, it had to be difficult, heats only started after he hit puberty, and were still all over the place; he still only had them one a year, but he couldn't tell when they would happen.
Generally though, Evan would get symptoms a week before it, and would be able to prepare a bit, but he had been a little… preoccupied, what with the whole Tera debacle; so Evan missed the warnings.
It didn't have to be a problem, heat blockers were easy enough to get, only the cheap ones Evan could get did very little to his sudden arousal; just stopped him from going into the almost feverish state heats drove omegas to, which meant he could mostly go through his day as normal. The problem was, scent blockers were a lot more expensive, a lot harder to get as heat blockers generally took care of heat scent; but since Evan's didn't deal away the arousal, he still smelled like… well, like an animal in heat.
Thankfully, because of his choice in animal, people still ignored him during these times; but now…
Connor's words rung in his ears, the fact that Jared knew never really left his head, but the idea that the alpha could be keeping it to himself only because Evan was now eligible for a mate? Well, it made going to school still smelling like an open buffet of sex a whole lot scarier.
Evan also has to remind himself that Jared isn't the only alpha he has to worry about, not that he thinks Connor would do anything, but the whole ordeal might make things awkward between them; they're both hormonal teens, there's really no way around it. It's going to be awkward enough to tell Connor about it in the first place, but he has to, they're kind of a team now; Evan also wonders how Tera will react, as he doubts she ever had to deal with heats in her two year long life.
The bright side is that he now has an excuse not to go to the Murphy household, as in, one Connor can actually use to delay the dinner by a good margin.
.- . .-.. .-.. / - ... .- - .-. .-.. .-.. / -... . / ..-. ..- -. / .-.. .- - . .-.
Alexei somehow falls into the chair beside the desk, their entire body trembling, Trevor is moving in seconds; he crosses the distance and gathers them in his arms because he knows them well enough by now to know what works.
He has to do a complicated maneuver in order to get into the chair with them and have them curl into him, but he manages; the last time this happened Alexei had decided to tell their mom about their pronouns, and explain that no, they didn't actually know what they identified as yet.
"I have a sister"
Trevor makes his voice soft and comforting.
"You do"
Alexei makes a low pitched sound that's too feline for Trevor to really get.
"They are dragons, both of them are dragons"
Trevor takes advantage of the fact that Alexei can't see him, to allow himself the proper expression at the array of emotions that statement causes him.
"We'll find them"
He doesn't exactly know who 'them' is, who exactly Alexei wants to find; the person they had been looking for in the first place, or the sister they have just learned they have. Trevor has a better lead for the sister, and a heavy feeling that the other person is nowhere near her.
