He's careful with Hayden, cleaning him up ever so gently, each relieved sigh that leaves the sleeping, new Werewolf a boost to his ego, chest puffed out in pride.
While he's drying Hayden up with a fluffy towel, he's pleasantly surprised when Hayden opens his eyes to look up at him.
He still looks out of it, eyes dazed and a soft amber as he reaches out blindly to grab onto Virgil.
Virgil stops what he's doing instantly to watch him. "Baby?" He says softly, grabbing Hayden's hands and taking it up to his face.
Hayden calms down at this, a soft smile on his face that shows off his very tiny, very cute, canines just peeking out.
Hayden pats his face softly, purring softly, a sound he's never heard from the other before.
Instinctively, his wolf let out an answering purr.
Hayden's eyes slip shut again like he had to check that Virgil was all okay before falling asleep again, no doubt exhausted.
He continues wiping him down, picking out another one of his sweaters to wear Hayden, pajamas bottoms to complete the comfortable look.
Now, it was time to face the others outside but he needed to take a quick shower so he carefully placed Hayden in the bed, after dealing with the sheets.
A quick, steamy shower later, he's pulling on another sweatpants, uninterested in wearing a shirt if the others didn't like that they could just leave.
He leans over Hayden who was still sleeping as peacefully as when he left him, he glances over at his bite mark, it still looked tender and he reaches out gently, feeling slightly guilty.
Hayden's response puts him straight with that though, a soft moan tumbling from his lips when Virgil brushes a thumb over his bite mark, lips parting.
Virgil nearly snatches his hand back, surprise etched on his face, face heating up and he has to grab him hand to stop himself from repeating the action.
He picks up Hayden and makes for the living room, planning to get the discussion over with so he could have some alone time with his mate.
Muted conversation floats over as he steps into the hallway.
"You're so awfully eager to bet on this." Ian was saying.
"That's because he's hoping to lose." Darian muttered.
Virgil walks out after that, putting an end to their heated argument.
"Holy shit! I won?" Leon exclaims as soon as he catches a whiff of Hayden's scent, a frown settling in his face. "That's not right, I'm not supposed to win." He groans.
"Whenever you're ready Jaxie, Darian and I will go antique shopping with you." Ian quips, uncaring of his twin brother's predicament.
They had been betting on what Hayden's status would be.
"This is even more reason to contact Hayden's dad." Jaxon says when Virgil settles down on a couch, Hayden sleeping peacefully in his arms. "The most likely possibility is that he is an Alpha, that would only explain how Hayden is an Omega."
"All that can wait till tomorrow." Virgil concludes, feeling a vague itch at the back of his mind. "It's too late to do any of that now and any new information can wait, we aren't receiving visitors for a while." He deadpans shamelessly, shooing them out.
He locks up the front door, true to his words and he tucks Hayden into bed while he tries to restore some semblance of order to the living room, relieved that his rut was calm at the moment, he hoped it would stay this way long enough for Hayden to recover.
He sure hasn't expected his night to turn out like this but they were going to get to sleep in... for like a couple days.
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Dale walks in the opposite direction from the others, heading back to his Pack House, their light squabble going over his head.
It was quite late, almost dawn and even though he hadn't caught a wink of sleep he didn't even feel the least bit tired.
Shock still thrumming through his bones, it was almost too much to believe, like he would wake up in a couple hours and find out that none of this even happened.
He hadn't been asleep when they had called him up, luckily so it didn't take long to haul ass over to the other Pack House.
He had been caught up analyzing what went wrong with Dream, they had gone back to the distant formality of the first day and it made Dale ache, it was like losing your grip close to the top of a mountain and falling right back to the ground.
That wasn't even his greatest worry, he needed to know what he had done wrong and most importantly if Dream was okay.
Dream's mom had been nice enough to him and he was relieved she didn't hate him.
He would definitely call up Shana and Mae and fuck them up with this information as well, if he couldn't sleep because somehow their only human friend after so many years turn out to be a male Omega, they were going to have to bear that too.
Shana is the one to pick up the call. "I swear, Dale if this is a prank call, your ass is dead." She growls into the phone immediately.
Dale had been expecting this so he doesn't even flinch. "Calm down, why would I call so early if it wasn't important?" He says seriously.
Shana sobers up quickly at this, slipping out of their bedroom so she didn't wake her girlfriend or their daughter. "Is something wrong?" She asks worriedly.
"Not particularly, I just came back from the Crimson Pack House..."
"Oh my God, is Hayden okay?" She interrupts immediately.
Dale makes a face. "Good to know you have your priorities in order."
"Just spill, Dale, it's too early for me to go through this kind of tension." She snaps but it comes out too lightly, concern softening her tone.
"Well, Virgil is in his rut..."
"Shit!" She curses, gripping the phone tighter.
"It's a long story which you'll get when you come over but Virgil marked him and now our best friend is a..."
"Shut the fuck up!" Shana half yells, slapping a hand over her mouth when she realizes she's a little too loud, putting two and two together.
"Yeah and guess his status?"
"Beta?"
"No, Omega."