Just a teensy bit of sugar
Can make the medicine
go up and down!
Kuya used to sing this song to me every time I get sick and refuse to drink my medicine – and I was always getting sick. I was a frail kid who gets feverish just by getting scared or agitated. Now, I sing the same song to remember him by whenever I think of a new formula to work on.
"In the most remarkable way!"
I open the door to my secret chamber and disinfect myself before entering the storage area. I need some ingredients for my latest experiment.
Aahmes was right.
My DOME's pheromones differ greatly from his own. It is stronger, more concentrated, and has a more toxic effect on alphas. Thus, it is more ideal to use for my current experiment.
Aahmes' pheromones, on the other hand, have a milder, calming effect.
Well, pheromones are unique, after all. It is like a fingerprint, not one is exactly the same as another. Take Aahmes' calming pheromone, for example. It is much more potent than my DOME's, to the point that even a beta like me can be affected by its soothing property.
But I'm not working on a calming formula.
Just the other day, the Spider called to warn me. He told me that Dome had returned to the Philippines for some reason or another. He warned me not to approach him or even dare to contact him since the military was keeping their eye on him.
As if I'd ever want to contact him, when I know what they are capable of doing to my family and I. Besides, I've already moved on. I'm well content with my life with Habibi by my side.
Anyway, I decided to work on this project with him in mind. It's a secret for now, but I plan to make a suppressant for alphas. Not just any suppressant, mind you, but one that can bring even a dominant alpha to their knees.
Aahmes once told me that he has never been able to knock an alpha unconscious using his pheromones. The most he could do is attract alphas and send them into a rut. As a matter of fact he was surprised when he found out how deadly my DOME's pheromones were.
Well, most dominant alphas use their pheromones much the same way – that is, to attract omegas and fight with other alphas.
They act like dogs in heat, fighting over a mate, using their strong scent to win in battle. There are even cases where regular alphas have seizures after being hit by a dominant alpha's superior pheromones. In fact, I call it a cock fight, for idiots who think with their cocks.
Let the stinkiest man win!
Any way, my DOME can do the same thing, and since omega pheromones are stronger than alpha pheromones, the effects are much stronger as well.
It could actually send an alpha into a coma, and even cause instant death by overdosing the hippocampus with enough stimuli to fry the brain or cause a heart attack.
Think of it as dying in ecstasy.
In fact, the look on his victims' faces still haunt me to this day – their eyes, wide and dilated, big grins, salivating, and their cocks as hard as steel.
Mind you, I have no plans of killing the perverted bastards. I just want a tranquilizer to knock them out in case of emergencies. Particularly the pesky ones buzzing around my Habibi.
It will be the ultimate omega self-defense tool, but only if I could replicate my DOME's pheromones. I hope I can finish it in time for Aahmes' birthday on August.
He's really cute whenever he sees my new breakthroughs, just like a child opening a present on Christmas morning. I guess he just can't get enough of me.
This will be perfect for him, since he's too cute for his own good. I know he's more than capable of defending himself, what with his own assassins and all, but you could never be too careful when it comes to those alpha bastards. He can't just use his omega pheromones, after all. There's always the risk of being caught, particularly now that there's news afloat about dominant omegas.
"Hmph... Just where did Nat-Nat hear about that?"
Did he read it somewhere? Some kind of science fiction comic book? Since he hardly reads his schoolbooks, it's bound to be some fictional story he found somewhere.
Well, wherever he read or heard it from, it's best to develop the anti-alpha formula for Aahmes and make sure that they trace it to me, since I have a connection to the DOME project and its research. That way, I can safely cover for Aahmes, should anything happen that could reveal his real identity.
I have no plans of losing him, after all.
No way I'm losing my faithful assistant and coffee maker!
I arranged the things on my table.
I have listed down my theories one by one, took note of every reaction in my experimentation.
I was in the middle of my 5th reaction when the door to my office flew open.
I nearly jumped out of my skin!
Aahmes stood by the doorway, wearing a white robe with his fists on his hips and frowning at me!
"You snuck out of bed again!" said he.
"Ah! Ha-ha, I woke up in the middle of the night and can't go back to sleep, so I decided to spend some time here in the lab `till I get sleepy again!"
"Hmph, knowing you, you probably snuck out of bed as soon as I fell asleep!" Aahmes came closer and stared at the test tubes in front of me. Good thing I didn't label them.
"What are you working on? I can smell your DOME's pheromones."
Damn.
I forgot how annoyingly accurate his nose is.
"Ah, eh, I'm just working on the new suppressant I mentioned to you recently..."
"Suppressant? Then why are you using an omega's pheromone?"
"J-just checking its reaction against a dominant omega's pheromone." I hurriedly cleared the table.
"Hurry up and get back to bed," Aahmes insisted. It's a good he didn't notice!
"Just a minute, Habibi, can you make me some co–"
"No coffee." He glared at me and proceeded to drag me back to our room. "Now, go to sleep, or I won't let you meet your niece later."
We went back to bed. Aahmes placed his arms around my waist to make sure I don't slip out again. I close my eyes and escape into my mind, thinking of possible mixtures and solutions and their effects, until I heard our alarm sound off!
I quickly reached out to turn it off, but Aahmes moaned when I moved and tightened his grip on me.
"No coffee..." he mumbled.
I reached out for the alarm once more and turned it off. I was about to take a nap when I turned around and saw Aahmes staring at me.
"Good morning," he stifled a yawn, "did you get some sleep?"
"But of course!" I grin at him.
His forehead creased as he glared at me.
"I told you to sleep!"
"What? I did get some sleep!"
"No, you didn't! Your eyes are telling me the truth!" he nagged at me.
"I can't help it! I've got so much in my head that I couldn't sleep a wink!"
"That's it, I'm going to cancel your meeting with bebe Meme!"
"Uy! Why would you do that? We haven't seen each other in two months! I couldn't even make it to her school's event last Valentine's Day!"
"That's because one of our main sponsors had an event on the same day, and they wanted to meet you in person."
"Ugh... the old geezer just wanted to introduce me to his daughter." I tried to stop myself from laughing. "Can you believe how fat she was? I thought he caught a hippo from his trip abroad!" I snorted. "I should have gone to Bebe Meme's school event instead. I've been her Valentine since she was in 1st grade, you know!?"
Aahmes glared at me with a pout, as if he was trying hard not to swear at me.
"O, why are you looking at me like that?" I asked, but he simply looked away and got out of bed.
"Nothing. Hurry up, I have a meeting at seven," he said instead, "which should be attended by you."
"I know you can handle that, Habibi, just let me sleep for 5 minutes..."
"No. It would be better for you to wake up now. Just take a nap in the car, on the way to the office," he replied.
"Hay... as you wish..."
I raise myself and embrace him from behind.
"Professor, you're heavy."
"Are you going to take a bath?"
"Yes, and you're not invited."
"Ha? Why not? And here I was, planning to ask you to wash my back!" I said, laughing.
Aahmes ignored me and went straight to the bathroom. Well, old folks did say it's not good to bathe when you lack sleep, and I already had a shower last night. I decided to go back to bed to get some shut eye instead.
"I told you to get up already," I was mercilessly shaken by an irate Aahmes later. "Put on your work clothes, I'm going to make breakfast downstairs."
"Hmm..." I held his hand and pulled him back to bed. "My Habibi smells so good, how about a kiss?"
"Ghabi!" [idiot!] he pinched my waist. "Hurry up, I need to get to the office before 7!"