Felicity

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"You don't know how hard it is trying to keep it together. The harassment; the torment of being an omega. The constant compliments for breathing and walking. The slaps on the ass from strange alpha males and when you try to tell anyone, they brush it off as them being nice or kind." He spits out like poison before looking up at me. "I'm... sorry I couldn't tell you guys. And it wasn't you. It's me. It's always me."

"What do you mean?" I asked as I pet his head, earning small rumbles of enjoyment from him.

Before he could get another word out, the speakers roared to life as the princess called us to the training deck. "We'll continue this later... But I really don't want you to blame yourself. We're a team and I was going to tell you all when I was ready. But it's as good of a time as any to answer questions." He nods at me before getting off of my lap and clearing his throat, extending his hand towards me. "Need help?"

"Thanks..."

~

Third Person

"What's the emergency?" Keith asks as the two of them rush in; his eyes bloodshot as Lance's sweater was slightly damp from soaking up the other's tears.

"Yeesh! What happened to you two?" Pidge asks as she points at the two of them, respectively. "You're soaked and you look like someone killed your cat."

"Nothing. Don't mind us. Now what's happening?" Keith pushes as Pidge clears her throat before elbowing Shiro.

"Oh-! Yeah, so we have a new training exercise that will get us to bond. We each take turns going into a machine that will put us in a trance-like state and have us relive a memory from the past. We believed that we should go in gender order. If that's fine." Shiro smiled unsurely as Keith shrugged his shoulders.

"Ok? So Alphas first? Lance?" He looks over to Lance as he slowly makes his way to standing near Hunk. "Huh-?"

"Keith, you leave us no choice." Allura speaks as Pidge cuffs Keith's arms behind his back without him noticing as he struggles to get away from her. "You are to be going first. We know nothing about you and you clearly aren't the type to willingly open up. If we must pry, we shall pry."

Keith looks at them all in shock before looking at Lance in disappointment. "I thought... I thought we had a bonding moment... You... You cradled me in your arms."

"... I'm sorry Keith. I really am. But you'll feel better if you just listen to them. We'll talk after you get out. Okay?" Lance tried to reason as Keith glares at him before he's shoved into the pod and locked in.

Allura presses a button that begins the process, causing Keith to close his eyes and let the memories flood.

~

Keith's Flashbacks

"You're just James' little bitch aren't you? You won't even survive as a Garrison student. You might as well step down, omega." Ezra growled as I stared into his eyes with defiance.

"I know you did not-!" I began to shout before Owen moved Ezra back before gripping the waistband of my jeans and pulling it so our crotches touched, a whimper escaping my mouth as the alpha and betas lick their lips and gaze over me.