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Tom Kazansky hated Pete Mitchell since their first meeting as plebes in the Naval Academy.
He hated him because he was a short cocksure male Alpha, so it didn't matter that he was the son of the Beta traitor.
Somehow, there were only six Alphas in their year, so nobody dared to question his place in Annapolis. Especially since four of those other Alphas were females (One was Penny Benjamin, and since Tom kind of knew her from before USNA, because she was also a Navy brat like him, he couldn't bring himself to hate her. Even if she and Mitchell were actually inseparable for those four years.), and the only other male Alpha was black, so he somehow actually had some other problems due to a few old racist Professors and Instructors.
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Male Alpha's were on the top of genders chain, so they could get away with so much more, then everyone else. And since Duke Mitchell was a male Beta, a lot of people would agree that "you can't blame poor Alpha for what his Beta father did".
Tom was a male Omega, so it didn't matter that his father was a respected Navy Admiral Alpha.
Everyone was still questioning even allowing male Omegas in Annapolis, so it really didn't matter how perfect Tom was and how good his every score or grade was.
He was an Omega first, and why was he even there, instead of looking for some Alpha or Beta to marry and knock him down, like good Omega should?
Male Omegas were on the bottom, usually even after female Omegas. They were often considered freaks of nature since they were a rather rare mix of genders (most of Omegas were females), and had both a dick and a clit. So people would say "can't praise son Omega for his Alpha father's achievements." Or "Poor Admiral Thomas Sr. Kazansky, naming his first born son after himself only for him to turn out to be Omega, how embarrassing!"
(And okay fine, female Omegas didn't always have it better, like for example female Omegas weren't allowed to USNA until 1985, and fine, some people will say that female Alphas are unnatural freaks too for having both dick and a clit too, but they were still Alphas, so usually only ones daring to voice it were male Alphas, or some brave male Betas.)
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Despite Tom being three years older, he and Mitchell ended up starting the same year, because they didn't even allow male Omegas before 1979. (Since that was the first year they allowed male Omegas, they started with twelve of them, but due to extreme hazing only he ended up graduating, and the year below him only Nathan Machado lasted until graduation. Thankfully the year below Machado two male Omegas lasted!)
They fucking allowed females Alphas to get in since 1962 and even fucking female Betas were allowed get in three years before male Omegas were! And Tom was "lucky" to be a rare male Omega...
Tom hated that they called it secondary gender, when everyone knew it was a more important one. Obviously he understood it was called secondary, because you didn't know who you were before presenting around 16 years old.
Tom also hated that presenting as male Omega (or female Alpha) was the most painful one.
He thought he was dying for those three weeks his body was changing, and part of him wanted to die it was so painful, and he was "lucky" because change taking three weeks was considered a very long one.
Obliviously presenting as an male Alpha was the most painless one, he wondered if Mitchell even had to spend one day in bed.
Part of him knew he could be a little unreasonable against male Alphas, because he spent the first sixteen years of his life expecting to be one.
(Everyone always said he displayed typical Alphas behaviors.)
(And when he turned out to be Omega he might as well stop existing to his father.)
So yeah, Tom Kazansky hated Pete Mitchell for almost all four years of their time together in Annapolis, so much that he seriously considered going to the Marine Corps just so he would never have to deal with him anymore!
Then Mitchell ended up killing Professor Hereward to save Tom's life, and Tom ended up going in stress induced heat.
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A few weeks leading to the graduation the general atmosphere was getting more nervous in Annapolis, or maybe it just felt like that to Tom.
Omega hazing started to get worse, because those who expected and hoped Omegas wouldn't last, suddenly realized that he, Thomas Junior Kazansky, was actually going to be the first male Omega to graduate from USNA!
Tom felt so bad for those few Omegas Plebes, who got caught by surprise by how badly it suddenly got. Since by the point they showed up, he and Machado tried so hard to make the situation better for Omegas that came after them, it actually did get a bit better.
"Tom please, be careful." Nathan Machado told him a few days before IT happened.
"Don't worry, I'm always careful." He replied.
He wasn't going to let anything stop him from graduating.
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Looking back Tom will realize that there were a lot of warning signs about Professor Hereward.
(Not to mention Betas who were prejudiced against Alphas, were usually also prejudiced against Omegas.)
But Tom was young and Professor Ruaidrí Hereward was very popular among the midshipmen and even considered "too progressive" by most of the older faculty, so he ignored every single one of those warning signs.
(Especially since Hereward was a very tall and handsome male Beta Professor, only a few years older than Tom, so yes, he had a crush on him. And yes, he spent more than a few nights with his hands between his legs thinking of him.)
So while Tom thought it was a little weird when Hereward invited him for a hike that day, he was stupidly thinking more with his pussy, than a brain, and didn't even consider that he shouldn't have agreed.
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Hereward took him to Shenandoah National Park.
Tom even considered going on the pill after he got invited, but he didn't want to actually have sex with his Professor before graduation, and he was so close to graduation! He was sure Hereward would understand that, if he actually wanted to do something with Tom.
Besides that he figured out a more likely scenario was that Hereward actually wanted to give him a short break from Annapolis, like he said, and it wasn't just an excuse to get Tom alone to seduce him, like Tom was both hoping and daring it was ...
Tom ended up being partially right. Hereward's offer to take Tom hiking was an excuse to get them alone away from civilization.
Only Hereward didn't want to seduce him.
He wanted to kill him.
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"Tom, you sure you want to graduate? I know things got hard again. Nobody would blame you for changing your mind." Professor Hereward said kindly after they had been hiking for a while.
"Others male Omegas would blame him. His father would blame him, and consider him even more of a failure." Tom thought, but he doubted male Beta could understand that. Besides that he wasn't actually doing it for other male Omegas, he was doing it because he wanted to fly (and he wanted to prove to his father that he was wrong about him).
"Yes." Tom said firmly, but he was touched by Hereward worrying about him.
"Because I fear things are going to get much harder for you once you're officially the first Omega to graduate from USNA." Professor Hereward said quietly.
Tom knew he was right, but he didn't care! He was the only Omega that didn't quit USNA from that insane hazing from their class, because that was the first year they allowed Omegas in. He wouldn't quit now!
"It's not late yet, to fix it." Professor Hereward said it in a weird voice. "Tom, I'm seriously worried about what will happen if you don't quit. I don't want you to get hurt, I think you should quit for your own safety." Professor Hereward started to smell a little weird too. His usual sweet milk coffee smell turned a bit sour.
Tom's Omega instinct started to go crazy suddenly screaming at Tom to run, but he decided to ignore it.
Tom knew Professor Hereward for four years by then.
Tom trusted Profesor Hereward, and almost everyone always says that unlike with Alpha's instinct you can't trust Omega's instinct, because Omegas are overemotional and then to overreact....
(Tom was always getting the best grades in all Hereward's classes, even though some people dared to say Mitchell was actually better than him in mathematics, and he should have been the first one, and Tom probably got first place by using his Omega clit! And okay fine, yes maybe Tom wanted Hereward to take his virginity! And yes, fine maybe Hereward was one of those few faculty members actually a little prejudiced against Mitchell! But he earned that first place fair and square! Tom knew that he and Mitchell were sadly equally smart, but Hereward told him that Mitchell actually usually half-assed his work, and that he was sure he probably expected to get away with it since he was male Alpha!)
Tom decided that he was probably paranoid from all the recent hazing.
"I won't quit. I'll graduate." Tom said quietly.
"Okay Tom, I understand. Just remember that I warned you." Hereward said and Tom didn't know why as soon as he heard it, he felt like he wanted to cry or wet himself like a scared little Omega. Hereward suddenly stopped, and he even started smelling 'sad'? Tom was confused. "I was really hoping it wouldn't come to this." He just sighed.
And suddenly Tom realized he didn't remember last time they saw other people, since Hereward said that they should ditch the official trail, because he knew the place with an amazing view.
"I think we should go back." Tom whispered, and started to backup from Hereward. He wanted to scream for help but they were deep into the forest.
"It's too late for that. I really hoped you would finally realize on your own, USNA isn't a place for Omegas, like all those other Omegas did. It's better when Omegas think it's their own decisions. But you're a spoiled little Omega bitch, that's too stupid to know what's good for her. Now I'm going to have to be a killer because of you, to fix USNA!"
Tom actually did wet himself like a scared Omega bitch, before he started running.
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Hereward caught him pretty fast, and it shouldn't be possible because Tom was younger and faster! And despite most of Betas liking pretending otherwise, physically only Alphas were simply stronger and faster than the other two second genders.
"You even fucking drug me!" Tom suddenly realized. Hereward said he would take care of water, and Tom should prepare sandwiches. Then he insisted on giving Tom a green bottle, because he joked it matched his eyes. The real reason he did it must have been because he clearly added something to water in the green bottle! Tom realized he was starting to feel even more weak and drunk.
He doesn't know why he's even surprised at this point.
Hereward planned to kill him, if he didn't agree to quit last minute, and he wasn't stupid! Of fucking course he would drug Tom to make it easier!
"I'll give you that bitch, you're truly stubborn. You shouldn't even have been able to run that fast with what I gave you." Hereward huffed clearly he was pissed that he had to chase after Tom.
"Please, you don't have to do this! I won't tell anyone if you just let me go." Tom begged from the ground after getting backhanded by Hereward extremely hard. He didn't have the strength to get up anymore.
"As if you wouldn't go crying to your Admiral Daddy the second you got out!" Hereward laughed ugly, then he seemed to realize something. "You won't even say you would quit, to try and save your own life?"
"No!" Tom managed to scream, part of him realized already he most likely wouldn't be leaving Shenandoah National Park alive, but he wasn't going to give Hereward that satisfaction. "And I won't tell him, and he wouldn't care anyway! You don't have to worry about him, I swear I'll forget it even happened if you just walk away now."
Tom suddenly wondered if his Dad would be secretly relieved when his first born Omega son will disappear. Sarah and Chris were Betas, so it was perfectly normal. Bruce recently turned out to be Male Alpha like Dad, so it was even better than perfectly normal. Stevie and Jean were girls, so even if they turned out to be Omegas like him, it wouldn't be a real problem.
"Damn, you truly believe that." Hereward laughed even louder. "I guess I can still teach you something dumb bitch." He chuckled. "You're actually the main reason why they decided to start letting female Betas and male Omegas in Annapolis. I don't know how many fucking people your Alpha Daddy bribed or threaten, but before you presented there was no talk of starting letting Omegas or even female Betas in! Almost everyone agreed that it was bad enough that we were already letting fucking females in only because they are Alphas! But some stupid Alpha Admiral's spoiled little bitch Omega wants to get in? Let's change everything to make her happy!"
Tom doesn't know why, but that piece of information, that he didn't actually stop mattering to his Dad even after turning out to be Omega, actually made him start screaming for help.
He thought it was pointless of course, not even counting that they were far from the official trail, the weather wasn't even that nice that day for hiking.
It was a bit windy and cloudy, like it could start raining any minute. So even before they left the official trail, they haven't actually passed by that many people.
(Tom was actually stupidly worried Hereward might change his mind about the hike, because of the weather when he woke up that day!)
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"Fucking shut up, you stupid bitch!" Hereward screamed at him, before he put some piece of clothing in his mouth.
Then he actually started to choke Tom.
It was slow and painful.
Tom didn't want to die, but if he had to, he regretted it was in such a slow and painful way.
(Funny enough for a second he thought that this forest was actually an okay place to die. It was green and beautiful like his mother's eyes.)
But why did it have to hurt so badly?
He started to wish that Hereward had brought a gun or anything else that would make this quick and painless.
Before he knew he was ugly crying and could feel himself losing consciousness.
"I'm sorry, Daddy. I let you down, even after you haven't actually let me down. At least I'll see Mommy now." Was his last thought before he lost consciousness, for what he thought was the last time in his life.
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