I go next door and knock on the door. I know Benjamin will not be as nice as Peter but I am a little caught off guard by what I see when he opens the door.
Benjamin had opened the door with his left hand because his right was swollen and purple. “Jesus, Beta what happened to you?” I don’t even try to hide the shock on my face.
He grunts and opens the door for me. “I’ll heal.”
“Yeah, but if it isn’t set right you might not be able to use that hand right.” I glare at his hand. Stupid stubborn man, doesn’t he know anything.
He looks a little shocked at my reply. Then he looks at his hand. “Do you think I need to have it looked at?” I can’t believe this thought never came to him. As I look at the hand there is no way that it isn’t broken.
“Give me your hand, I will look at it and tell you.” I hand out my hand to take his.
He looks at me like I’m joking. “How would you know Omega?” He sneers at me. I mean here I am trying to be helpful and he looks at me with disgust.
“I am smarter than I look. OK, will you just give me your hand. What do I have to gain to leave you fucked up? It’s not like you would hurt me even less. You would probably hurt me more.” I try to make logical sense to him so he won’t refuse. Not that I really want to be the one to look at his hand.
He shrugs seeing my point. Then places his hand in mine. I take a look at his hand. There is definitely a bone that is not set right. I look at him with a sigh.
“I think this project is going to have to wait a night. You are going to have to have that bone reset. It is in the wrong place and already starting to heal. It will need to be re-broken and pushed back in.” I know this is not what he wants to hear. He will have to explain to someone else what he did to his hand.
He grins at me. “Then break it. Fix it.”
I am shocked and silent for a moment. Then I regain my voice. “What? Why me?”
“Like you said what do you have to gain if you fuck up? You’ll do it right. That is if you can break my bone.” He meant it as a challenge. He doesn’t think I am strong enough to break his bones.
That earned a glare from me. He is thinking that I will back down. Little does he know me. I push him over to the couch. “Where is a first aid kit around here?”
“Hall closet.” He looks shocked that I am even asking for one. He expected me to back down I can tell.
I head to the hall and on the second try find the door to the hall closet. There is the first aid kit sitting on the third shelf. I take it out and examine the contents to see if there is a wrap for his hand after I break it again. There is. All that is left for me to do is break this asshole’s hand. I guess I will enjoy this a little. When I return to the couch he is looking at me curiously.
“You are actually going to do this.” I can see the shock on his face.
“Challenge accepted. I will fix your hand.” I sit on the couch in front of him and place his hand on my knee. “OK, this is going to hurt a little.” He actually scoffs at me, like there is no way that I can break his hand. I grin up at him and apply the necessary pressure to his hand. “Crack.” I see his eyes open in shock as he grunts in pain. “Now, there is going to be a bit more pain while I push the bone back into place.” This time I watch his hand as I apply the pressure to make sure that I don’t fuck it up. It would just hurt me more in the end if I do, we both know it.
“How did you do this to your hand anyway?” I figure making small talk might distract him enough to not want to kick my ass.
He gives me a small growl. “What do you care, Omega?”
“I don’t really, I just thought you might want to get it off your chest.” I shrug like it is no big deal to me. Really I was curious. I can live without the knowledge.
He grunts. “I hit a wall.”
“Why would you do a stupid thing like that?” I start to wrap his hand while it is still there on my lap. I am not looking at his face so I am going to need to use his voice to know if he is getting pissed at my questions.
“Because I was pissed that you were my partner. I can’t have my grades suffer.” He is blunt. I don’t mind that. What I mind is the assumption that I am not able to keep up my end of the grades.
“Well, surprise, surprise, I can’t either. I think I have more to prove than you.” I finish the last clasp on his wrap. “It should heal by the end of the day tomorrow with your rate of healing. Now we can get to the project?” I keep my eyes on his hand. I don’t want him to see how irritated I am. I know if he wanted to know he could smell it on me.
“Um, yeah. Thanks, it is feeling a bit better now that it is in the right place.” He lifts up his hand and wiggles his fingers.
“It should. So I was thinking we could do the rogue attacks from the 1980’s. The first part of the project is kind of an independent part. As we need to give our pack’s perception of the events and not the documented version. So, we can meet later and combine and contract versions later.” I am packing up the first aid kit and keeping myself busy so he won’t think I am in any way trying to conflict with him.
“Fine with me. I will have my part done by tomorrow by the same time if you want to meet then?” He doesn’t seem to be irritated that I picked the option. I think I even hear a little bit of relief in his voice.
“Are you actually offering me an option?” This shocked me, he didn’t give me an option last time.
“Ha, I figured you fixed my hand so you deserved the consideration. I can take it back.” He has a slight chuckle in his voice.
“No, I will be in the neighborhood around then. I can do that.” I get up to leave.
“Olivia,” That gives me enough pause. He actually used my name. “I just want to say that I am sorry. I shouldn’t have hurt your leg. You didn’t really do anything to deserve that.” He sounds ashamed of himself. I almost scoff at this, almost.
I shrug it off. “It’s not the first time that it has happened. It probably won’t be the last. After all I am just the Omega who is stepping out of her station and demanding more. What right do I have to do that?” I turned to walk back out. “I will see you tomorrow.”
I stepped outside and left for the night. At least it wasn’t as bad as I thought. I let out a huge sigh of relief. Too bad I have to do it again tomorrow.