This chapter takes place the day after the last chapter.

Warnings for this chapter: Implied shock and emotional trauma


Jabra's concerned. Something's wrong with Lucci. The Omega looks like a marionette with cut strings; there's something haunted and broken in his eyes, his face frighteningly blank.

"Lucci?" Jabra queries, hesitantly reaching out towards him. "What's happened?"

Lucci is completely stiff and unresponsive.

"Lucci?" Jabra repeats, thoroughly alarmed that the smaller teen isn't pulling away. "Are you sick? Lucci!"

"Is something wrong, Mr Wolff?" Crocodile asks sharply from the front of the classroom.

"I think Lucci's sick. Can I take him to the nurse?"

"You aren't sure, but are asking regardless?" Crocodile sounds distinctly unimpressed.

"As he's completely unresponsive, I can't tell," Jabra retorts.

Crocodile frowns and leaves the front of the room to take a look at the situation; he cares deeply about his students behind his cold exterior. He takes one look at the Omega and recognizes the symptoms of shock and severe trauma.

"Class dismissed."

The students leave in a hurry, in case he changes his mind. Only Kid lingers hesitantly in the doorway.

"Get your boyfriend," his uncle instructs, and Kid hurries away.