Becoming the Luna

"All good things I hope?" Dream mutters under his breath.

Yanis makes a face, remembering how dangerous Hayden had said he was, he had to say he wasn't expecting the adorable young man standing in front of him.

The impertinence glinting off his blue-grey eyes though we're a dead giveaway.

"You could say that." He shrugs.

Hayden's eyes light up at their conversation, he appreciated when his friends made an effort to be nice to each other, although getting Virgil and Yanis to do that wasn't always easy.

"Hey, Dream you could eat with us, it would be like a big family dinner." Hayden suggest, lights coming back go his previously empty eyes.

Dream already has a negative retort brimming on the tip of his tongue because he wasn't ready to share the same space with Darian again so soon but one look at Hayden's glassy, expectant eyes and he was a goner.

"Sure, I had made plans to cook but what do you know, I'm exhausted, that would mean Dale would tag along too." He adds skeptically, remembering when he had told the Alpha that dinner was on him.

Hayden beams at this, his tears drying up. "Even better! The more the merrier." 

Dream would have balked at this, averse to Hayden pushing aside his problems to take care of others as a coping mechanism if he didn't see the odd glint in his friend's eyes.

Hayden had gone from sad to mad, he was livid and Dream didn't want to be in the other Omega's mate's shoes.

Another knock raps on the door at this point, Jaxon's familiar voice calling from the other side.

"Hay? Did you fall asleep?..." He trails off at this point, fiddling with the door knob after knocking again.

"Shouldn't we tell him to come in?" Hayden whispers to Dream eyes wide as the fiddling with the door continues.

"I don't know." Dream shrugs, eyes wide. "It's your house." He reminds the other.

Yanis just listens to their back and forth in confusion, eventually the person on the other side of the door comes and and his eyes go wide, his legs unconsciously lifting him from the floor.

He knows he's staring but he can't help it because he's really starting to consider, maybe he wasn't as straight as he thought after all.

"Oh!" Jaxon exclaims when he comes in to more people than he had been expecting. "Um, hello." He greets nervously, nodding to Dream and passing his eyes over the other stranger in the room.

His wandering eyes however settle on Hayden, the soft scent of wet roses breaching his nose, he quickly scans the Luna's face, a frown becoming prominent in his face when he takes it in that Hayden had been crying.

"Alright, who's responsible?" He demands immediately, eyeing up the other two in the room.

"Is what I would like to know." Yanis pipes in.

Dream makes a zipping motion of his lips. "It's not my place to say."

Jaxon seems to catch on to this and it only serves go get Yanis even more upset but he says nothing, preferring instead to observe.

"Well…" Jaxon mutters, a little nervous. "I was sent to come get you for dinner."

"Oh!" Hayden exclaims. "It's time already?"

"Yes." Jaxon smiles fondly at the other's excitement. "I'll wait for you then." He says, making himself scarce.

He wasn't sure what had happened with Hayden but he was ready to chew his Alpha's head out and from the looks of it, a lot of people wanted to do that as well, maybe he should just warn Virgil instead? Heavens knew the Alpha would need it.

Yanis too makes a move to leave. "Dinner is on the third floor right?" He confirms, leaning forward to kiss Hayden's hair.

"Yes but…"

"Don't worry." Yanis quietens down his friend's worrying, "I know how to ask questions, see you later, Dream." He waves the other, going out.

"Well I should also go see about getting Dale informed about dinner." Dream sighs, pushing his hair backwards so he could see better.

"Will you be okay?" He asks Hayden, doubts clouding his tone, his friend was withdrawn and distracted and he didn't really fancy leaving him alone just then.

"Yes of course." Hayden smiles at him eyes distant and this time Dream can see that his smile is painfully forced.

"I'll just wash up and come down really quick." He continues, already getting up to do as he had said.

Dream acquiesces with great difficulty, he has his doubts but he knows better than to say them out to Hayden seeing how fragile the Omega's emotional state currently was.

It meant two things, either Hayden had truly conceived and lost the baby before it could even begin to form or it was a symptom of his incoming heat.

It was honestly too early for a heat, even if he was by all means a late bloomer so only the first seemed more plausible.

He didn't like to think about it.

He makes his way to his apartment distracted and out of it and it's a good thing the hallways are empty or he would have bumped into a good deal of people.

It's a miracle he even remembers to check in on Dale, somehow guessing that the Alpha would still be at his desk.

He's so distracted that he doesn't even knock before swinging open the door, Dale had been on his way out and without thinking pins the intruder up against the wall.

"Are you selectively blind?" Dream hisses up at him when Dale still doesn't let him go even after a while.

Dale panicks at this, scrambling backwards from Dream and dropping the Omega like hot iron, his brain had flatlined at the very moment he had Dream up against the wall.

It seemed almost impossible that the one person that had been flitting unbidden through his mind all day would come in through his door at the moment he least expected it.

"I'm sorry." He apologizes blankly, hands out to try and placate the other. "I thought you weren't coming back." He admits forlornly, face gaunt.