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X-Men Abridged 1985: Adventures in Asgard

The X-Men, those Asgardian mutants that have sworn to protect a world that hates and fears them, are a cultural juggernaut with a long, tangled history. Want to unravel this tapestry? Then read the Abridged X-Men!

(X-Men & Alpha Flight 1 - 2, New Mutants Annual ‘85, Uncanny X-Men ‘85 ) - by Chris Claremont and Paul Smith, Bob Wiacek, Arthur Adams

Yes, you see that correctly. That little falcon has a teeny-tiny mohawk on its tiny-teeny bird head, because comics are ridiculous. (New Mutants Annual ‘85)

You know what would really spice up the X-Men? To let them visit the most boring part of the Marvel Universe: Asgard!

As said before, for the Uncanny X-Men, 1985 has been a disjointed year. This was not helped by a sort of interlocking plotline that spread throughout one limited series and two annuals, all of them tied together by the presence of Loki. So that’s what we’re doing: we’re going to cover the reason why Loki takes a special interest in our merry mutants (Alpha Flight & X-Men Limited Series 1 and 2) and what happens when they are whisked away to Asgard. (New Mutants Annual ‘85 and Uncanny X-Men Annual ‘85.)

If you’re super-duper not into the Thor-part of the Marvel Universe, you can skip this one. All we really need to know, continuity-wise, is that Danielle Moonstar somehow becomes a Valkyrie and adopts a pegasus. If you’re not deterred, well…

Because this storyline deals with three superteams, the cast is absolutely huge. Hold onto your butts!

The Uncanny X-Men:

Cyclops: Scott Summers, red eyebeams. Currently on sabbatical to enjoy married life with his wife. Enjoy him while you can, because there will be massive character derailment coming up soon.

Madelyne Pryor. Cyclops’ wife. Bears an uncanny resemblance to his deceased girlfriend, Jean Grey, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.

Storm: Ororo Munroe, currently depowered. Is on a spiritual journey to find herself.

Wolverine: Logan. Clawed ball of anger.

Colossus: Piotr Rasputin. Russian tin man. Cuddly communist.

Nightcrawler: Kurt Wagner. Fuzzy demonic elf. Bae.

Shadowcat: Kitty Pryde. Phasing powers. The one teenager on the adult squad.

Rogue. Former villain, current flying brick. Steals powers and memories with a touch. Also bae.

Rachel Summers. Jean and Scott’s child from a future-that-never-was. Has yet to tell him this. Telepath. A little dramatic, even for an X-Man.

Professor Xavier. Telepath with boundary issues. The original dreamer and mentor to the X-Men and the New Mutants.

The New Mutants:

Psyche: Danielle Moonstar. Cheyenne, illusionist. About to have her backstory needlessly complicated.

Cannonball: Sam Guthrie. Human… well, you can figure that out. Good old boy.

Sunspot: Roberto daCosta. Fiery ball of anger.

Wolfsbane: Rahne Sinclair. Scottish werewolf who hates her human side and loves her wolf side.

Magma: Amara Aquila. Lava girl from not-so-Ancient-Rome.

Magik. Illyana Rasputin. Teleporter, demonic sorcerer and ruler of an infernal dimension. Has the most impressive resumé out of these young ones, also Colossus’ younger sister.

Cypher. Douglas Ramsey. Innate linguist. Cutie, perhaps not suited for the life of a superhero, but is just so very excited.

Warlock. Robot alien that can change shape. Pacifist born to a warrior race. Class clown.

Karma. Xi’an Coy Manh. Telepath that got possessed by a villain for a good long time, recently returned to the fold.

Alpha Flight:

Shaman: Michael Twoyoungmen. Chirurg turned sorcerer. V. man of science/man of faith.

Snowbird: Narya. Canadian half-goddess. Cool as fuck.

Heather McNeil: wife of the late Vindicator (ugh!), soon to be the next Vindicator. Leads Alpha Flight despite being human.

Puck: Eugene Judd. Tiny rubber ball man.

Sasquatch: Walter Langkowski. Canadian werebeast who loves his human side and Aurora’s human side.

Aurora. Mutant. Superspeed and supersparkle powers with her twin. Has a ‘split personality’, as written by someone who has no idea what that means. One side of her has access to her mutant powers and is fun, outgoing and flirty; the other is an introverted school teacher. The latter hates the former.

Northstar. Twin of the above. Superquebecois. Still kind of stuck in the closet, in a time where even the existence of the closet was vehemently denied.

Talisman. Elizabeth Twoyoungmen. Daughter of; magical conduit.

THEY UPPED THE LIMIT FOR PICTURES I CAN HAVE MORE THAN TEN PICTURES?!?

Madelyne and Scott are flying a crew of scientists over Canada, since Scott is trying his hand at being a regular non-X-Man person. They’re caught in a freak storm that Scott recognizes, because when you hang around Storm for long enough, you become a bit of a meteorologist yourself.

While I have full faith in Madelyne as a pilot, I'm still not sure it's wise to make Scott your co-pilot, since those ruby quartz glasses mean he’s essentially colour blind. (X-Men and Alpha Flight 1)

Half a continent away, the mayday is received by the X-Men. It causes Rachel to go haywire, because what if her dad dies and she never told him that she’s actually daughter? (There is actually an easy solution to that, but whatever.) Due diligence is for dummies, so she immediately goes on the attack.

Just as Snowbird arrives in the Alpha Flight headquarters to deliver some Grave Tidings©, Rachel arrives and easily mops the floor with Snowbird, Shaman and Heather, wife of the recently deceased Guardian/Vindicator. (A character I only know to be an asshole. Northstar tends to hate him, so I will do so too.) Aurora tries to turn the tide but…

Either Claremont wrote Rachel to be a grade A bitch here, or he has no idea how to write DID. Or both. Either way, not a great look for either of them. (X-Men and Alpha Flight 1)

Like Legion, Aurora has an interesting (if problematic) history in regards to her disorder and mental health. Unlike Legion, who has been allowed to flourish as a character since his inception and whose autism evolved together with our society’s understanding of it, Aurora tends to be defined almost solely by her dissociative identity disorder, which doctors these days aren’t sure even exists. While her history of abuse in a Catholic orphanage rings painfully real, the way her character tends to be portrayed as a vehicle for DID and little else is a disservice to such a promising character. (Read more here.) I’m glad that these days, she’s getting some love and agency in X-Factor and Marauders. (Even though I don’t understand one iota of the current Marauders run, but what the hey.)

Anyway, while I don’t love what Rachel is doing to Aurora here, I do feel that her mopping the floor with half of Alpha Flight is correct. Rogue swoops in after her to clean up the stragglers and she deals with Northstar by kissing him.

Hmmm. I wonder what secrets she possibly could have plucked from his head?

Anyway, after Rachel has calmed down, Shaman explains he had nothing to do with the freak storm and Xavier has been a hypocrite, the groups decide to join forces and find Scott, Madelyne and the missing crew. Let’s go, telepathy!

We then cut to Loki petitioning some shady old gods for power. However, in order to win their boon, he must give humanity a gift. A proper gift, freely given and willingly accepted. Hmmmm…

The X-Men and Alpha Flight fly off to a desolate mountain range – Kurt gets to wear a dashing hat! Jean-Paul and Rogue scout ahead and bond, which is my favorite character beat in this story. The two biggest misfits of these teams, it makes sense that they would be able to relate.

If only this had not been a case of Incompatible Orientation, perhaps some other French-speaking outcast mutant could have stolen Rogue’s heart. (X-Men and Alpha Flight 1)

In a field that is way too verdant for how high up they are, they stumble into a mysterious castle where they are greeted by Scott. He tells them everything is better than fine. They’re forced to believe him, because they can look him straight in his baby-blues! Scott is cured and can control his eyebeams!

See, all humans on board of the aircraft got imbued with super powers! Madelyne got transformed into Anodyne, and another into Cornucopia, capable of creating food, and others into evocative names like Lord of the Plants and Pathfinder. Madelyne immediately sets to work, curing Puck.

I don´t know if Madelyne´s powers made her taller or if she always was the size of a baby giraffe, but damn. Goblyn Queen got legs. (X-Men and Alpha Flight 1)

Madelyne also cures Rogue, although it’s a little unclear if her mutant powers are removed or if she can just control them. In any case, what follows is another cute moment between Jean-Paul and Rogue, where he willingly offers himself up as a guinea-pig for her to test her lack of powers on. She knows how much of a sacrifice that is for him, potentially opening up like that, and yet he follows through anyway.

It's adorable and I wonder if there´s such a thing as shipping but for friends, because I’m hardcore shipping Rogue/Northstar right about now.

Xavier pulls his usual bullshit when he reveals publicly that he senses another mind in Madelyne, forcing her to admit that she’s pregnant. (Boundaries, of course, only apply to people other than Professor X. God, sometimes you just want to bash him in his spherical head.)

Don’t run away, Rachel! This is the perfect soap opera-esque moment to scream out that you are the daughter they will never have! (X-Men and Alpha Flight 1)

Did… did the eighties really have leg warmers that came up all the way to your thighs?

While Kitty and Talisman follow Rachel after her self-imposed time-out, a powerless Heather takes a little dip in the magical fountain and gains powers (the aforementioned Pathfinder). At the same time, Shaman’s magical pouch gravely injures its owner, seemingly turning against him. What is going on?

Talisman and Kitty follow Rachel and discover an ancient Viking village hidden underneath the tundra. There, they try to talk the redheaded stepchild from the ledge: Rachel is out of her wits, realizing that her father getting a boy means that she will never exist. Kitty points out the inherent paradox in that statement, but then the village starts to collapse. They flee, but Kitty deduces someone is trying to hide something from her. She’s beginning to doubt this utopia.

When they return, they bear witness to Madelyne burning out Wolverine’s berserker rage. Kitty points out that she wouldn’t have survived Ogun without Logan’s berserker side, which is a fair point. (When does it stop being a cure and start being a catch-all for everything in the world you don’t like? Also, I bet she’s aching to get her hands on Aurora…) Kitty then presses that Wolverine go check on Snowbird, who is withering away. Wolverine, who is besties with Narya (who wouldn’t be? She’s arguably the best member of Alpha Flight), thinks that it isn’t a coincidence that both Shaman and Snowbird – magical creatures – are affected. Maybe there’s something rotten in paradise, after all.

Rogue, on the other hand, is enjoying the fuck out of it.

I don’t blame you, Rogue. I would also pick the haughty Quebecois over any of the other bozos on this trip. (Kurt’s the sole exemption, but you two are sort of related.) (X-Men and Alpha Flight 2)

Wolverine crashes the party and reveals that this utopia has a steep price: the extinguishing of all magic and their magical friends. (Which is an odd way to describe Snowbird, but in some ways, you could view her as a magical woodland creature. In any case.) The group splits down the middle, with most X-Men taking the stance that an utopia can’t be bought in blood and and most Alpha Flighters agreeing that the ends justify the means. (Yes, they are the worst.) Interestingly, Rogue, Cyclops and Northstar side with the X-Men, while Colossus, Rachel and Madelyne side with the Alphans.

You’d think this rift would maybe amount to something, but it’s quickly under rug swept. Sad. They could have done a Superhero Exchange Program and swapped Colossus in for Northstar.

Anyway, the obligatory fight erupts, until a few of the people on the Alphans side realize they’ve also been rendered creatively sterile. (The cook-turned-Cornucopia can’t think of new recipes, the architect-turned-Master Builder can’t dream up new buildings, etc.) That’s when Loki appears, all: “nbd, you’ll be as gods!” When the superpowered humans disagree – killing all magic is fine, but they draw the line at being robbed of their imagination – Loki gets angry and tries to force these ungrateful wretches to accept his gift.

That doesn’t go well for him.

They Who Live Above: “Swear you won’t harm these people! Swear on the dad you hate!” Loki: “...kay.” (X-Men and Alpha Flight 2)

Loki reverses everything, because Status-Quo is quite literally God, and Madelyne is stripped of her powers and Rogue and Cyclops are back to being not in control of their powers again. Also, Rachel still doesn’t tell Cyclops he’s actually her dad, so Loki’s new vendetta against the X-Men is literally the only thing of consequence in this godawful crossover.

Well, other than Kurt’s snazzy hat. (X-Men and Alpha Flight 1)

Loki’s vendetta carries us through to the New Mutants Annual, where the Lord of Lies is admiring Ororo through a mystical TiVo. He wonders what she would do to get her powers back and orders the Enchantress to fetch him Ororo.

After rescuing Karma from being possessed by the Shadow King, Ororo and the New Mutants end up on a Greek island to take a deserved holiday. While all of the New Mutants are hanging out on the beach, Karma is hiding out inside, afraid to face the world. Not only does she have to deal with all the evil things the Shadow King did while using her body, she also has to deal with the way the Shadow King abused her body.

While it’s not the tac I would’ve chosen, you could do a worse “reason to live” than spite. (New Mutants Special ‘85)

There’s an opportunity here for a storyline, one where Karma either has to work hard to go back to where she was or has to work hard to accept her new self. How cool would it be to have a fat superhero in a comic populated by people with idealized bodies? That’s not what we’ll be getting: instead, Karma will be shedding the extra pounds quicker than she did the Shadow King: I think it’s gone before the end of the issue.

Not begrudging anyone their body, thin or thick, but I do resent the implication that she was only fat because she was possessed by evil.

Anyway, all the skinny New Mutants are at the beach and Warlock is trying on bathing suits for size.

Warlock is reenacting that video where the model dresses in swimwear through the ages, going from the swimsuits of the 30’s to the oversized shorts of the 90’s to (hopefully) the men’s swimwear of 2023. (New Mutants Special ‘85)

Then, a cloud of darkness whisks them away to Asgard! Loki gives Ororo an avian makeover while he scatters the New Mutants, who go off on their own little side quests. Seriously, check them out, it’s like a DM took a chance on a Random Make-Your-Own-Adventure table.

Magik gets chained to a rock while the Enchantress, Loki’s sexy crony, tries to tempt out her wicked side.

Karma gets stuck in a desert and saves a kid from a Shai-Hulud. Apparently, a grueling trek through an inhospitable landscape is just the regimen she needed, because this is how she gets skinny again (fully off-panel).

Cypher becomes a serf in a mead hall. Next!

Wolfsbane falls in love with a wolf prince but then runs away from him, afraid of her feelings. It’s very furry avant la lettre.

Warlock breaks out of Hel and goes off to find his friends.

Roberto becomes embroiled in a bar inn brawl and is then hired as a glorified security guard. He’s treated as a big strong hero and is not-so-secretly loving it.

Magma is adopted by the fae, who get her drunk on their mead. This turns her into a pointy-eared fae as well. Whoops!

Cannonball saves a wench from dwarves and gets promptly adopted by them. His last name does not become Ironfoundersson.

Danielle saves a pegasus, rolls a natural twenty on her Wild Empathy check and adopts it. She names it Brightwind, not understanding that mounting her My Little Pony means she’s become a Valkyrie. Whoops!

Never figured that Danielle Moonstar, of all people, would become a horse girl. (New Mutants Special ‘85)

Loki orders the dwarves to make him a new hammer for a new thunder god. He’s barely gone before they start gossipping, saying his new falcon familiar is an enchanted one. Sam quickly deduces that it had to be Storm, because of the interesting colouring of the falcon’s feathers. (Not the MOHAWK? dafuqyousay)

The Enchantress manages to distill Magik’s Darkchylde out of Illyana and sends her out into Asgard. Evilyanna manages to recruit Wolfsbane, Sunspot and a fae-corrupted Magma, while Warlock (the only one who’s got his eyes on the plot) saves Doug and picks up Karma, Dani and Sam. The group then finally reunites and Karma makes quick work of the Enchantress’ hold on Illyana. In retribution, Magik sends a manacled Enchantress to Limbo as a gift to S’ym. (S’ym is not to harm her, which sidesteps some unfortunate implications. Phew!)

Sam cautions them to get the X-Men, but since they all have unfinished business on Asgard and want to screw things up for themselves, the New Mutants decide to save Ororo all on their own! Claremont thinks differently, however, deciding to add yet another team to this already bloated cast.

See, apparently, Kitty and Illyana now have a psychic link, despite neither of them being telepathically inclined. Kitty dreams of Asgard and sees a Thorified Storm fighting the Darkchylde, because apparently this connection is interdimensional! This is enough to convince the X-Men to go to Asgard and save the New Mutants! And they will travel to this otherworldly realm using the magical thunderbolts that some C-lister villain left behind three annuals ago!

Yeah, Claremont is definitely taking a few narrative shortcuts here. But who cares! It’s time to suit up!

This is about the least subtle DUN DUN DUN I’ve ever seen, and I watch daytime soap operas. Oh, Maddie. (X-Men Annual ‘85)

While I get that the Phoenix makes for a cool style guide, Rachel, you’re kind of dressing as the thing that killed Cyclops’ wife. And even if he’s not on the team, you’re also kind of dressed as the thing that killed Wolverine and Colossus’ friend, so…

Like I said, narrative shortcuts.

Also, we’re at the point where Rachel told the X-Men Cyclops is her dad, but not Cyclops himself. Cyclops, on the other hand, suspects but is unwilling to ask. ffs

In the grand style of villains everywhere, Loki reveals his masterplan to his pet bird: he plans to groom her as the new God of Thunder, replacing Thor and making him the ruler of Asgard! Evil! Feminist, but evil. He also reveals Storm is under his magical thrall: for example, he is turning her desire to get her powers back against her. Meanwhile, the New Mutants are following Loki until he suddenly shoots them down! (It doesn’t help that they’re riding in Warlock, who’s transformed in an airplane, which are decidedly not native to Asgard.) Once again, the New Mutants are split up. Most importantly, Douglas and Warlock are separated from the rest and they use that opportunity to have sex for the first time.

There is (once again) no heterosexual explanation for this. (X-Men Annual ‘85)

The X-Men, meanwhile, save the wolf prince that’s simply smitten with Rahne from some trolls. As Hela comes to collect the souls of the trolls, she commends Phoenix for being the new, well, Phoenix! (Which is perhaps a clue that your choice is slightly problematic.) The wolf admits to tracking Rahne and the X-Men follow him until they run into the City of Asgard. Here, they split up: Kitty, Rachel and Wolverine infiltrate the city while Rogue, Nightcrawler and Cyclops follow the wolf. But first… Rogue gets them some outfits, so they can blend in.

I’m assuming Rogue raided either a temple or a brothel. (X-Men Annual ‘85)

In the City, these three reunite with Roberto, who does not want to go home. He is blinded by the glory of being a beloved hero in Asgard, plus he’s on the outs with his parents, especially his dad. Wolverine’s pep-talk is interrupted by aggressive rock trolls and though they emerge victorious from this battle – thanks in part because of the melded Douglas/Warlock – Wolverine ends up horribly poisoned! Oh no! (This was before Wolverine’s healing factor gave him basic immortality, so there’s actual stakes.)

The other three chase the wolf and run into Rahne, Karma and Illyana, just as she’s doing a locator spell on Loki. (My God, this recap would be six times shorters if all these people just fucking stuck together in cohesive groups.) Loki plays a reverse Uno, using Magik’s spell to teleport to them and, together with an enthralled Storm, he captures them all.

Dani, meanwhile, sees a death omen around Wolverine and finally realizes she’s a Valkyrie. Don’t look a winged horse in the mouth, etc.

Loki throws a banquet to commemorate the deification of Storm! That’s when the X-Men and the New Mutants attack! (All of them! Some are disguised as Vikings; the others just escaped from Loki’s cell.) Despite the X-Men trying to stop her, Storm still grabs Loki’s big hammer.

Fair’s fair, this would have been a great way for Claremont to give Storm her powers back. Besides, this look is dope enough to warrant a shift in status-quo. (X-Men Annual ‘85)

Wolverine begs Storm to see reason, but then he keels over due to the poison. Hel, always a professional, appears, comes to claim Logan’s soul. This causes Storm to snap out of her enthrallment and together with Phoenix, Cyclops, Dani and Dani’s new sisters, they chase off Hel and Wolverine survives.

Kitty, meanwhile, indulges in her favourite hobby: shouting at people in authority. She tells Loki off, informing him that he can’t hope to stop them all. What’s worse, they’ll spread the truth about Loki’s perfidy throughout Asgard – which, if my Norse mythology serves me well, they should already be aware of, but whatever – which will endanger his plans of Asgardian domination.

Loki, who’s finally had enough of this storyline – as have I – relents and gives them one rule: either they all go, or none of them go. And they have to forfeit everything they got in this land, including Rahne’s wolf lover (aw!) and Amara’s elf form (yay!). In order to prevent this storyline from being completely useless, Karma keeps her physique and Dani keeps her new horse. Yeah, even Loki doesn’t give a fuck anymore about the rules he established two panels ago.

He offers Storm godhood one last time and this time, at her full wits, she denies him again. She’d love to fly again, but not at the expense of helping Loki. (It’s a nice narrative trick, because at this point, the audience is also rooting for Storm to get her powers back and this would be the perfect way to do so.)

Loki falls in love with Storm because she tells him no, presumably providing some keen insight into the hearts of men both mortal and divine, and then clicks his heels three times to send them home. They disappear and this finally, finally, ends Loki’s interest in our merry mutants.

DONE!

Fine, two more highlights. Here’s Warlock saving the day as the Enterprise:

And here’s Warlock, proving he’s watched more Star Trek than Vikings:

My God, this plotline dragged on so long, it took me a year to write this.

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valkyrieofsmut · 3 years

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At Your Service, Alpha 9

Alpha!Kurt Wagner (Nightcrawler) x omega!Reader

Descriptions: (Y/n) finally starts to figure her shit out! Alex tries to be helpful... but maybe it’s a bit much...?

A/n- Not much to say, just enjoy, I guess! And, feel free to like, comment, reblog... y’know, whatever.

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Story!

(Y/n) woke up, stretching and turning off her alarm, pausing as she took a deep breath through her nose, an enormous grin growing over her face as she realized that she didn't feel the way the back of her sinuses pressed against her throat, making it so that air couldn't get through.

(Y/n) took a deep breath again, feeling how easy the air came through her nose.

She jumped from her bed and ran to the door, yanking it open and taking a deep breath.

(Y/n)'s face fell when she smelled nothing. She pressed her nose against the jamb, breathing as deeply as she could.

Nothing, no scent, no smell, as though it had been recently cleaned.

Pain tore at her heart.

It was gone.

She closed the door and leaned back against it.

A dejected feeling grew in her chest as she got ready for work.

Where was her wonderful scent?

Tears grew in her eyes as she walked to the café.

The flowers were in bloom, and the trees, they smelled wonderful, beautiful- but they were dull and uninteresting to her; they weren't the one scent she was longing for.

She trudged in through the door of the café and made her way to where her apron was hanging.

“(Y/n)?” Alex asked, stunned by her behaviour. “What's wrong? Did someone hurt you? Do you need me to get Jared?”

(Y/n) shook her head silently, tying the apron around herself.

“What's wrong?”

“The smell…”

“(Y/n)! Your sinuses are clear!”

(Y/n) looked up at her in surprise at her exclamation. “Yeah…”

“You don't have that weird hollow sound in your voice!” She teased, trying to cheer her up.

“Ha ha ha,” (Y/n) mocked.

“You don't sound like a duck!”

“Shut up!” She snapped playfully and Alex grinned at her.

“What's wrong?” She asked, now that (Y/n) had finally opened up and relaxed a tiny bit.

“That smell, the scent that was on my door…”

Alex nodded.

“It’s gone…”

Her friend shrugged. “So?”

“It- Alex, I think it was- him…”

“Him? Him who?” She asked at her nod.

“Him; my alpha- my one true alpha,” (Y/n) told her, her voice showing her frustration.

“Oh… Oh, (Y/n), but… the scent is gone?” Her pity was visible on her face.

(Y/n) nodded and Alex walked around the counter toward her.

She wrapped her arms around (Y/n) and her omega scent calmed her; it was like a comforting blanket. The cooks in the back were more relaxed as well. “Maybe he’ll come back-”

“I- I thought I smelled him yesterday, but…”

“Here?”

(Y/n) nodded.

“But?”

“Not today…”

“Why don’t you take the table settings out and sniff around, maybe you’ll smell it again.”

(Y/n) nodded and filled the tray with table settings, walking outside and slowly setting them.

Customers came, and she still couldn’t smell the scent, anywhere.

Tears and pain filled her belly and heart.

She filled her tray with a coffee pot and cups and accompaniments enough for the three tables that had ordered coffee, resting the edge of the heavy tray on her shoulder as she carried it out.

(Y/n)'s eyes were focused at about knee level as she made her way between the tables, her nose still sniffing, hoping to catch a whiff of that amazingly wonderful scent.

The breeze changed direction, blowing from the side, left to right, to behind her slightly, and she froze, her nose perking up a scent.

The scent- it was the scent.

The alpha- maybe her alpha.

(Y/n)'s chin snapped up, and her eyes darted around, looking for the source, focusing toward the edge of the trees, where a figure was moving toward her.

The breeze shifted again, blowing her hair around her face and into her eyes.

(Y/n) pulled it out of the way with her free hand, cursing that she had felt too emotionally pained to bother with it that morning.

When she got control of it and managed to get it tamed enough out of her face that she could see, she looked up at the figure walking toward her.

Kurt.

It was Kurt.

(Y/n)'s heart sped up as she looked at him, tears of happiness, relief, and joy stinging at her ducts.

Her jaw went a little slack as her bottom lip trembled, and she stared longingly at him as he grew closer.

Her hand dropped to her side, the tray holding all of the dishes and coffee things crashing to the ground, the sound of shattering dishes filling the air.

Kurt looked more alert, hurrying to (Y/n), and she stepped forward. “(Y/n), don't, you'll get hurt-" He tried to stop her from walking through the broken ceramic and glass, but she didn't listen, running to him and throwing her arms around his neck, burying her nose in the scent gland there.

Kurt's arms wrapped around her, and she could feel his uncertainty. “Liebling?” He asked.

“Alpha,” she whispered. (Y/n) felt his shoulders relax.

“You started taking your allergy medicine,” he said, a statement of fact, not a question.

“Yes. And I'm never going to stop taking them again.”

Kurt chuckled, burying his nose against her neck and starting to scent her.

(Y/n) scented him back, the both of them nipping and licking at the tender flesh of their scent glands.

(Y/n) let out a whimper, feeling a wave of slick start to grow between her thighs, and Kurt let out a bit of a feral growl, nipping a bit harder, making another whimper leave her lips.

Alex slowly walked toward the two of them, alerted by one of the café patrons that something was happening outside. “(Y/n)?” She asked, keeping alert.

(Y/n) turned to look at her, her pupils a little dilated.

Kurt pulled her closer against his chest, but didn't stop Alex from making her way forward, probably only because she was an omega, and therefore not a risk to her.

“Alex… it's him…” (Y/n) told her.

She bowed her head to Kurt to show her respect, and he let his arms loosen a little, feeling more at ease at the show of respect. “It's him?”

(Y/n) nodded, laying her head against his shoulder so she could still see her.

“(Y/n), are you ok?” She asked, sniffing to assure herself that no fear or discomfort pheromones were in the air.

“I feel weird, like I've got a heat coming on- but I just had one, like, two weeks ago,” she admitted.

“I'm about to start a rut,” Kurt supplied.

Alex nodded. “How long?”

“No telling. I thought within the next two days, but now,” he nuzzled into (Y/n)’s shoulder, giving a lick over her scent gland again. “Who knows.”

“Can you- I mean, I would appreciate it if you could do me the favor of letting her finish the day, and I'll find a replacement for the next week,” she asked.

There was a nearly silent, low rumble in Kurt's throat, and (Y/n) could tell he wasn't a fan of the idea.

She pulled back and looked up at him. “Alpha,” she chided, putting her hands on her hips. “You don't think you're going to make me quit my job, do you? Make me stay at home?”

He smiled at the defiant look in her eyes. “I've come to accept that I can't make you do anything you don't want to, omega,” he told her, and she felt another trickle of slick at him calling her by her presentation.

He sniffed and she knew that he could smell it from the dark look that came over his eyes. He let her go, but still held her hand, leading her to his usual table and sitting down, giving her a smile. “I'll wait for you to come to me here, Liebling, same as always.”

(Y/n) felt her cheeks heat, and her lips turned up in a smile.

Kurt held watch over (Y/n) all shift, as she now realized he had been doing all along, only now he wasn't completely holding back the warning growls to the other alphas when they tried to get too close to her.

“(Y/n), I have to talk to you,” Alex said as she motioned (Y/n) closer near the end of her shift.

(Y/n) walked closer, throwing a glance at Kurt outside. “About what?” She asked.

“Well, it's going to be your first time, right?”

(Y/n) blushed and nodded.

“So, has anyone ever given you the talk?”

(Y/n) shook her head, uncertain of exactly what talk she was talking about, after all, she wasn't a pup, she wasn't stupid, and she had been through a heat before.

“Ok, so… it's going to get a bit weird…”

(Y/n) raised her eyebrows. “Weird?”

Alex looked around to make sure the cooks weren't listening, but decided to pull her back to the office for more privacy.

“Ok, imagine an alpha, being completely alpha-" (Y/n) nodded, nonplussed. “-and then holding you down… not letting you leave the nest, scent marking everything, biting you all over, following you around everywhere naked, pressed against your back with his arms around you so that you can hardly walk…”

(Y/n)'s eyes widened a bit.

“Wanting to shove every part of them possible into you, trying to freaking drink your slick, and not even letting you lay on your stomach because “it might hurt the pups" even though that would be impossible so soon, even if you did conceive,” she said, taking in the stricken look on her face.

“Holy shit,” (Y/n) murmured.

“Ok. So there's that. Alphas also tend to get a bit focused, like, when you're in heat and your brain gets a little fuzzy, but instead they get focused and really, really are all about filling you up with pups, but it's the same as us, they may not actually want them yet, but it is definitely on their mind. You may have to remind them that food, water, and sleep are things that exist.”

(Y/n) bit her lip as nervousness filled her. “Um… Alex, when you said “shove every part possible” wh-what did you mean?”

Her friend gave her a pitying look, her lips pressing into a line. “He has a tail, right?”

(Y/n) nodded, her hands fidgeting with each other.

“You may soon be intimately acquainted with it.”

(Y/n)’s face heated, and she could tell that Alex was trying not to laugh at her.

“As well as his fingers, his tongue, his knot, of course, really, anything they can try to get in there… Lord knows why…”

(Y/n) nodded, though she wasn't really able to pay much attention to what Alex was saying.

When she felt like she'd give as information as she could, Alex put a hand on her friend's shoulder and walked her back to the front of the café.

(Y/n) looked up as she passed through the door, seeing Kurt waiting for her, standing across the seating area, looking calm and confident.

She looked behind her to Alex as she passed through the tables, and saw her friend give her an encouraging smile and a thumbs up.

(Y/n) turned back to Kurt, taking a breath and pushing away her nervousness.

She could do this.

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