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Buck felt like his entire world had collapsed underneath him when the entrance to the well had caved in.
Almost immediately he pounced for the entrance and started hacking away at the ever filling hole of mud. He could feel the rain soak his face and the wind whistling in his ears, but none of that mattered because he needed to get Eddie out of that well yesterday.
Buck could feel his claws ripping from his nail beds, and the dirt caking underneath them. He could only just see past the whirl of rain and wind, and his eyes felt like they were burning as they ignited a ruby red. The more mud he scrapped away, the more slunk into it's place.
He had to get to Eddie. To his Omega.
Unknowingly, a frantic roar erupted from his throat the longer it took for Buck to get to Eddie.
Bobby had crashed onto his knee's next to him, barking out his name as the alpha's arms scooped uselessly at the mud under them.
The older Omega stared in a mix of fear and worry as he watched the Alpha, his Cub, drive himself feral in his efforts to get to the younger Omega currently 10 feet under.
He ignored the resounding growl as he wrapped his arms around Buck's left, and pulled with all of his weight. When he ended up on his back with a warbling alpha in his lap, Bobby roughly cradled Buck's torso similarly to how he used to hold Brook and Bobby Jr. whenever they had gotten into a fight, forcing a crackly coo from his throat in an effort to calm Buck down.
After a few minutes, Buck's warbling soon turned into broken sobs, and his arms wrapped tightly around Bobby's neck as he tried to gulp in air between rib rattling cries.
Hen and Chim stand awkwardly behind them, unsure what to do since they've never seen an Alpha react the way Buck is. Bobby just ignores them for now and pulls Buck away from the collapsed entrance.
Everyone on scene felt the effects of an Alpha's grief when the rope line erupted from the mud shredded at one end.
When Eddie suddenly lost all communication with his team the second he managed to get the cub to grab his hand, he knew immediately that something bad had happened.
He pulled the cub closer to him, cooing and trilling like he does with Christopher when the cub whined in distress. He wraps his arm around the cub and tuck's his head in his neck, trying to exude calming pheromones because the last thing Eddie needed right now was a frantic and scared pup potentially making the situation worse.
As he cranes his head up to the hole he'd just come down to assess the damage, Eddie can feel his chest start throb in retaliation of the cub's distress. HE tries to ignore it because now was not the time to aptly soothe the cub the way he wanted to, because from what he could see the mud had collapsed into the previously occupied space, and they couldn't stay where they were because they only had a limited time frame before they were buried alive.
He dripped the metallic rope that acted as his last connection to the real world and tugged halfheartedly on it, frowning at how taught the line was. He groped the sides of his legs until he found the serrated knife, sliding the handle up his arm until he was able to grip it tightly.
He raises it above his head, carefully avoiding the cubs body, and starts hacking away at the rope, having to duck his head on top of the cubs to protect him from the iron shavings flinging around the enclosed space.
He could see that he was one more stroke away from plunging them deeper down the well, so he took a deep breath before re angling his head so that he could see the Cubs face. "OK, so in just a minute the rope above us is gonna break, and were gonna fall really fast into some water. What I need you to do, is hold on as tight as you can and do not let go."
Eddie smiled as warmly as he could, plating a soothing kiss on his forehead when the cub nodded tearfully. He counted to three under his breath, tightening his grip on the cub before slicing through the last strand of the rope, taking a large gulp of breath just before the two crash into the well's water.
He clamped the cubs head into his neck as they were hurled through the surprising current at the base of the well. When they start to slow down Eddie risks opening his eyes and is shocked to find a more spacious alcove that has a large enough relatively dry space to hold both Omega and cub.
He paddles to the semi-heightened surface, thrusting the cub up first before dragging himself out of the water like a wet dog. He reaches for a flare in a pocket of his wet-suit and strikes it a lit, the alcove now bathed in a fuchsia light.
Eddie rips of his gloves and wipes the cub's face of any muck that landed during their makeshift water-slide ride, continuing his cooing.
The omega fumbles with the zip of the suit, silently grateful that it's on his torso and not on his back, and pulls it down enough to expose his chest. He practically rips open the damp uniform button down, opening it wide enough to show his pecs, making sure that his nipples were out in the open.
He continues his cooing as he slowly convinces the cub into an easy cradling position, gently stroking his face into relaxation when the cub latches onto his left nipple.
Technically, feeding another's cub was seen as a taboo because of the risk that the cub would bond with the other Omega/Beta woman, but Eddie wasn't going to focus on that right now. All that mattered was bringing the cub into a sense of calm so that when they started moving again he wouldn't have to worry about a skittish cub running away.
As the cub's weak suckles slowly become more confident, Eddie looks around the alcove to see if there was anything that could be considered an exit. Just as he was about to resign himself to plunging back into the cold water, he saw an archway with a silvery light beaming through.
Jesus Christ on a stick, there was an exit!
Eddie snapped his attention back onto the still feeding pup. The exit wasn't connected to any water, and at the rate that the cub was feeding he was on the verge of nodding of into a milk drunk nap. He waited a few minutes, gently lifting his slightly leaking nipple from the pups mouth once he went lax.
He did up a few buttons to have some modesty, and leaves the wet-suit hanging at his sides. He maneuvers the cub's head back on to his shoulder, carrying him on his hip as he walked to the tunnel.
It was a slight struggle since the tunnel was on a semi-steep hill, but when Eddie had appeared from the mouth and onto a small field he remembered seeing on the way to the scene, he almost burst into tears at the sight of the moon.
The rubber of the wet-suit sloshed at his hips when Eddie carried on his trek back to his team. He had removed his button up and wrapped it around the cub when he started shivering, so the chill of the whistling wind around him had his teeth chattering.
Still, he carried on, because he needed to get back to his pack, to make sure that they and the cub were safe.
They had to give Buck a low alpha grade sedative to prevent him going even more feral.
Bobby was trying to figure out a safe plan of evacuation to get both Eddie and the cub out of the well, but at the moment they were stuck on how to reach them because of the increasing wind pressure. While the rain had died down and was now just a light sprinkle, the wind had picked up so they couldn't risk using any heavy machinery should it be flung onto an unsuspecting person.
They'd just finishing weighing down the flood lights to make sure they don't get flung away when Buck smells it.
Warm chocolate and Cayenne pepper.
Eddie.
Ignoring Hen's and Chim's orders for him to sit down, Buck leaps from the ambulance ledge he was sat on in towards the inciting scent.
He could feel his eyes ignite into a stronger red shine as he gets closer to Eddie. Just as he consider's going beyond the safety net that was the flood lights, Buck see's him, in all of his tantalizing glory.
Eddie's carrying the cub in his arms, exhausted determination showing on his face once he clocks Buck in front of him. The chill of the wind on Eddie's body is evident by the near full body shakes.
Oh thank god, he's here.
His Omega is here.
Eddie walks faster now that he see's the entrance of the well illuminated by blinding flood lights.
He speeds up his stumble in to a shaky jog, no doubt annoying the cub as he wakes up with a grumble. But at this moment he couldn't really care if the cub hated him or not because he'd made it back, and he could see his pack!
More importantly Buck.
Bobby approaches them first, only just managing to lift the cub out of Eddie's arms before he's flung into the air by Buck, who quickly latches onto his nipples and sucks.
Eddie threads his fingers through Buck's hair and tugs at the strands in rhythm with Buck's sucking, not even bothering to try and mute his trills and moans at finally being reunited with his alpha. He could smell Buck's fear and relief pouring out of him as his sucking grows frantic, and Eddie would rather deal with an achy and dry pair of nipples then never have buck feed from him again.
He could faintly hear the usual chatter between paramedics around him, but the fuzziness in his mind made it sound like it was miles away.
It wasn't until he felt someone's (Chim's) hands wrap around his waist just above his Alpha's arms and tug did he realize that the chatter wasn't about the Cub he'd rescued, but about him and Buck.
Immediately, Eddie whined in distress, tightening his grip around Buck, going as far as to wrap his legs around the blond's lower torso to make it harder for him to be taken away. Buck's previously pleased and slowly calming scent was now angry and stay-the-fuck-away, a low and deep growl rising from the Alpha's throat.
In his anger, Buck had stopped suckling, so Eddie's nipple was just stuck in his slightly open mouth. His milk was still leaking from his nipple, so when it started trickling out of his mouth Eddie warbled.
Was it not good enough for Alpha?
He reluctantly removed one of his hands form Buck's hair and squeezed his pec as the other still in his hair pushed Buck's head further into his chest in an effort to get him to start feeding again.
Eddie could hear the angry bark of a fellow Omega, the sense of familiarity emitting from the older Omega clocking as Bobby in his head. The same thing must've happened in Buck's head because as soon as the hands wrapped around them slowly removed themselves, the alpha closed his mouth around his nipple and gulped down the previously neglected milk.
Eddie moaned loudly in joy now that his alpha was feeding from him again. His hand no longer was squeezing his nipple, and was now tracing the frown lines of his alpha's face as the other continued to press Buck's head to his chest.
The omega sensed Bobby approaching again, and unlike before where he couldn't discern who or what was being spoken, Eddie could here his voice almost clearly.
"How about you sit in the ambo, and we can check up on your Omega to make sure he's OK?" the question was aimed at Buck, and the alpha must've made something akin to an affirmation because Eddie could feel the alpha move them to the ambulance.
Eddie's body was slowly sliding down, and he would've started whining again had he not felt Buck's arms slowly shift to carry him in a more comfortable hold.
Once Buck as at down, Bobby set about starting an IV line with a heating agent. Hen and Chimney should be doing these tasks as that was their primary job, but based on his and Buck's reactions Bobby was probably trying to lessen any chances of Buck retaliating against their pack.
Once the line was safely secured into his hand, Bobby ripped open the packaging on the heating pads/blankets and started wrapping them around Eddie. While Buck was a near 24/7 furnace, the chill from the wind and the well had settled deep into Eddie's bones, so he didn't try and fling them off.
Buck had just finished licking the nipple dry of any stray tears of milk and was about to start feasting on the other when the doors to the ambulance slammed shut and the truck started moving.
As the 118 made their way to the hospital, Eddie was content to be back in his alpha's arms. And he could tell based on the pheromones Buck was gratuitously emitting, that he was pleased that the Omega was back in his arms too.
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