[fic] ashtraythief: Like a Bee on a Window
[ Themed: Dystopia ]
Title: Like a Bee on a Window
Writer: ashtraythief
Alternate links: AO3
Status of work: WIP: Chapters 7 of ? posted
Characters and/or pairings: J2, mentions of Jared/OFC and Jared/OMC
Rating: NC-17
Warnings, kinks & contents: [Click to Read]Dark!fic, non-con/dub-con, alpha!Jensen, omega!Jared, underage, abuse, age-gap (Jared is 16, Jensen is 31) angst, h/c, heats, knotting, mpreg, graphic birth, self-lubrication, institutionalized slavery
Length: 37,000 so far
Summary: Omegas are kept by Alpha/Beta couples to keep house and bear children. Jared was raised in a liberal family with only his alpha father and an omega mother, who were equals in their relationship, but they died when Jared was sixteen. Jared is placed with an alpha/beta couple but when he gets pregnant it’s the last straw to help him gather the courage to escape from his abusive alpha. He escapes only to run straight into alpha Jensen’s arms.
Reccer's notes: Okay, I'm as big a fan as anyone of Jensen swooping in to save the day, but this is not that fic! Jensen's not abusive like Jared's first alpha, and he certainly doesn't think of himself as cruel. However, he's incredibly obtuse, refusing to realize the truth that's right in front of him--that the government-issued propaganda about how omegas are lazy, needy, and stupid is a pack of lies. Jared's dreams of escaping to a more forward-thinking country are slowly quashed by the day-to-day monotony of keeping Jensen's house during the day and keeping Jensen's bed warm at night.
[Short excerpt]Jared had to bite his tongue so he wouldn’t tell Alpha that he didn’t have a brain the size of a peanut, because that would probably be a bad idea. With the way Alpha was always insinuating exactly how stupid omegas were in general and Jared in particular, he was having an increasingly hard time keeping his mouth shut. He feared that he would just explode one day.