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Pezzy stops in the hallway when he hears a faint sound, looking around for the source and straining to hear it again, feeling weirdly called by it. He recognizes it as chuffing when he hears it again a few seconds later and follows the sound until he comes to a stop in front of Rectrixx's room, the chuffing coming from behind the closed door.
He hesitates for a moment, the door is closed so maybe he wants privacy, maybe someone is already with him, but another chuff makes him open the door, the sweet scent of sugar hitting him in the face, more prominent than the lemon for a change. He is also greeted by an instant storm of happy chirps and a small little nest with Rectrixx in it, reaching for him and patting his nest, clearly delighted to see him.
Ohhh. Rec's first heat with them!
He steps closer and enters the nest without hesitation to the obvious joy of his fellow Omega, who cuddles up to him immediately, purring up a storm. Taking a deep breath in, he's never smelled Rec this happy before, Pezzy studies the nest. It's small, clearly only built with the stuff he already had in his room, which is not much considering that Rec is still shy about stealing clothes, having only one or two pieces of everyone. But it's cozy and well built for sure, not like his own messy nests.
Smiling he turns to fully embrace Rectrixx, who chirps again and starts rubbing their cheeks together. It's so nice to see him so happy and content.
It only takes a few minutes for someone to get lured in by the scent that now freely wafts through the house from the open door and Yumi stands in the doorway with wideblown pupils, “Goddamn. That's Rec?”
Rectrixx sits up, chuffing for Yumi to come in as well and he doesn't need to be told twice, crawling in and receiving the same elated greeting that Pezzy had. He pulls Rectrixx into his lap for a scenting session and Pezzy swears the sugar turns even sweeter while he leans into Yumi's hands.
Next is John, who briefly studies the already almost full nest and then promptly turns around, thankfully before Rectrixx could notice him, only for Smitty to take his place, looking into the room, unsure if he can come in. Normally an Omega would collect his Packmates one way or another instead of just sitting in his nest and they've been burned pretty badly with Puffer, so he doesn't want to assume.
Pezzy smiles and nudges Rec, who turns to him and then notices Smitty, another wave of chuffs and happy chirps following. The fit is tight with four people but they manage, Rec purring like he has never purred before while draped over their laps. Smitty’s smile is blinding as he exchanges nuzzles with him, “Dude, look at him! Is that really our Rec? I can't believe it.”
“Me neither.”, Matt says from the doorway and Rectrixx sits up, the predictable chuff thrown Matt's way. His good mood sours for the first time when Matt is directly in front of him, sadly looking at his too small nest, a sad tiny whine leaving his throat and his eyes turning wet as he looks back up at Matt.
“Aww no, Buddy. None of that.”, Matt coos at him, kneeling down to let Rectrixx scent him, “John and Droid are already getting you so much stuff to nest with. You're gonna have the best nest ever.”
“Hey.”, Smitty grumbles playfully and Matt sticks his tongue out at him, both giggling at each other. Rec continues scenting Matt but he still looks unhappy, occasionally picking at the edges of the nest.
Fortunately it doesn't take long for John to walk in, followed by Droid, both with various blankets and pieces of clothing in their arms, more than enough to build a nest big enough for the whole pack. Rectrixx chuffs when he sees them but immediately quiets down, once again looking at his nest with a sad face. He glances at the nesting materials that get dropped in front of him with clear longing but doesn't take any, looking a little lost at the edge of his own nest.
John and Matt frown at each other in confusion but Droid picks up one of the blankets and holds it out for Rec, who perks up, looking between Droid and the blanket a few times before taking it and rubbing his head under his chin in thanks, quickly turning to work it into his nest, back to happily purring and nuzzling against the ones already in it.
Droid senses the confused looks from his packmates and shrugs, “What? All of his nest stuff is stuff we gave him. He doesn't just take stuff by himself.” He holds out a sweatshirt from Grizzy next for Rectrixx to take, smiling at him when he buries his face in it to take a big inhale before placing it.
“Huh.”, John's eyes sweep over the nest, seeing that Droid is right and crouching down to offer one of his own shirts, “Would have never gotten that conclusion. Good job, Droid.” Droid silently preens at the praise from his Head Beta, proud he noticed something the other two didn't.
Rectrixx happily chuffs at them when the nest is big enough, beaming when all the Betas join them at once, purring back full force with the occasional chirp while he gets his fill of cuddles.
After about half an hour Rec is once again curled up in Yumi's lap, lazily exchanging scentings with Smitty when he suddenly sits up, studying the nest and then looking to the door, chuffing once more. He repeats the chuff in intervals while looking at the open door.
Yumi pulls him back against his chest, “Rec, Grizzy and Puffer are out right now. But they will be here soon, ok? They turned around as soon as they knew.”
Rectrixx nuzzles his face against Yumi's chin, relaxing again with a little chirp but the chuffs don't stop, no matter what they try to reassure him.
“Why is he chuffing at nothing? No one's here to chuff at.”, Smitty frowns and Pezzy shrugs, “I found him alone in his nest, chuffing at the closed door.”
“He didn't get you? I thought he got you and we just came across you before he could come for us.”, John asks with a brow furrowed in concern and Pezzy shakes his head, “No. He was in his nest waiting for someone to come to him. I think that's why he was so ecstatic when we all showed up.”
“That's so sad.”, Droid whines and rolls over to press his face against Rec's side, making pleased noises for him when he starts petting his hair, “His previous heats must have been so sad.”
“Maybe someone was always already with him so he didn't need to go looking?”, Yumi weakly tries lifting the mood but even he himself doesn't buy it. That sounds way too happy for their anxiety riddled, always trying to stay out of the way Omega.
“When will they be back?”, Smitty asks instead of answering Yumi and John looks at his phone at the group chat, “They said half an hour about half an hour ago.”
“They should hurry the fuck up.”, Droid grumbles, rubbing his face further into Rec's side when he chuffs again.
“You should shut the fuck up.”, Puffer's voice deadpans through the room and everyones gaze snaps to him and Grizzy, Rec chuffing again and chirping with pure happiness when Puffer sits down in the nest, leaving Yumi's lap to plop down on his instead. He greets Grizzy by rubbing their wrists together.
“Are we sure that this is Rec? Maybe he got replaced while we weren't looking?”, Puffer jokes, already busy exchanging scentings with the purring Omega that nestles against him.
“That's what I said!”, Smitty laughs, the mood lifting again now that everyone is there.
The pack makes themselves comfortable, looking forward to what the next day will bring.
Nesting with Rec is so easy, the small Omega not demanding at all, seemingly just needing their presence to be happy. He chirps a lot, doesn't refuse offered food or drinks, doesn't make a fuss. He's just a content little ball of purrs.
When someone leaves he looks after them but never stops them. The only thing that slightly dampens the mood is how he chuffs when that someone is gone longer than 15 minutes, not stopping until that someone comes back and greeting them just as happily as the first time, so glad that they have actually came back.
Around midday the next day the pack is relaxed, sleepy, idly chatting with each other. Rectrixx is laying on top of John, the two in the middle of the nest, eyes half lidded as John glides his fingers through his hair. John twitches a bit in surprise when he starts experimentally nibbling at the Packbond Mark on the side of his neck but quickly relaxes again, tilting his head to give him more space, humming a pleased note at the intimacy.
Encouraged by this Rectrixx grows a bit more confident, lightly pressing his teeth into the mark. He croons when John just hums again and everyone twitches when the bond flares up as he goes for the full bite. There's no time to dwell on the bold move from the normally so shy Omega when said Omega trills, pressing his face fully into John's neck.
Everyone is suddenly wide awake as electricity surges through them.
“Did he just…?”, Puffer asks wide eyed and Matt nods, his mouth dropped open in shock, “Trill? Yes he did.”
“Oh my god!”, Smitty whisper yells with pure excitement, “His first heat with us and we already made him trill!”
“Hell yeah!”, Droid high fives Smitty, “We're so awesome!”
Rectrixx looks up with a confused noise at the commotion and then yelps when John flips them over, briefly pressing his nose into Rec's neck to inhale the sugary lemon scent before glancing up to smirk at Grizzy, tilting Rec's head to present his own bond mark to their Pack Alpha, “Let's make him trill again.”
Grizzy giggles giddily, leaning down, and everyone tenses in anticipation only to cheer loudly when Rectrixx trills again when the bond flares up.
Pezzy silently beams amidst the chaos, truly happy for Rectrixx.
His first heat with them couldn't have gone better!