chapter 1 ; lavender awakening

NOTE : this is not full omegavers story

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The scent of lavender pulled him from the dark. NOA blinked slowly the blur of his surrounding sharpening into soft morning light. He was lying on actual bed not the cold floor he'd grown used to. The sheets where warm, the blanket ticked around him, and the air smelled sweet. Not chemical or sharp... just lavender his breath hitched.

He said up too quickly. The unfamiliar room tilted for a moment, sunlight spilling through sheer white curtains, casting golden shapes over pale wooden floors. Everything was gentle, quiet. The room had soft corners, a chair with a cushion, A low table holding a steaming mug, and plants -real plant by the window there were no scent of fear.no collar around his neck, no walls, not the kind he remember.

" Where am I?"

Finger gripped the blanket, too clean warm, too safe." It couldn't be real" just then the door opened with a soft knock. NOA froze a man stepped inside - as stranger, tall and kind eyed, with hair the color of honey and a voice like sunlight. "Ah you awake"

NOA didn't move his heartbeat thundered. His body stayed curled ready to flee, but there was no command barked, no threat in the man's stance. Just ..... curiosity.

" I didn't mean to startle you" the man said softly.

"You were in the lavender. Do you remember?"

Noa's eyes flickered to him. He didn't. The man placed a hand over his chest almost sheepishly "I'm Ari. This is my home"

Noa didn't speak. The words felt heavy unless in his mouth he'd stopped using them long ago.

Ari smile didn't fade "you don't have to say anything. I just wanted you to know- you're safe here that word again safe. Noa wanted to laugh or scream instead his eyes burned. Ari didn't press him. He stepped back, letting the space breathe" there's warm tea if you like. I can give you some time alone".

noa throat ached. He managed the smallest nod and Ari true to his word give him space. The door clicked gently shut leaving behind silence and lavender sweet air.

Noa pulled the blanket lighter around himself, staring at the spot where Ari had stood. His wrists bare his scent gone

His eyes widened "gone"

The omega scent he'd been cursed with all his life - it was gone just like that. His body felt lighter, his soul-

Unfamiliar and for the first time in years NOA didn't know what he was anymore. Not omega, not property, not even himself just a boy wrapped in soft blanket, sitting in a strangers house, in a world that smelled like lavender a quiet world, a warm one, one that had n o idea who he was or what he had survived.

Tears slid down his cheeks before he could stop them. Silent, salted may be he was dreaming or may be by some twist of fate, he had fallen into a different world and may be he didn't have to go back.

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