Chapter 287: Trying to make a game plan
Once Andrew finally emerged from the storage room, he was ambushed by Dr. Cox and Dr. Piper. It was only fair. They had probably worried themselves to death about the current situation.
Andrew couldn’t blame them. He would have worried too if he had been left in the dark. Andrew did feel a little bad about that. Dr. Piper was a bit more excitable, as she always had been. Rushing Andrew, pestering him with questions now that Maxwell was gone. Dr. Cox hung back, her expression just as concerned, but her attitude completely different.
She was ringing her hands, just as worried, but her questions were a volley thrown at his face. They were thought out, careful. It was interesting to see the contrast between these two women, and how they got along so well.
Especially after Dr. Piper stopped seeing that person she had been. Andrew could tell because of her changed, back to normal attitude. He would have to ask Dr. Cox about that at a later date. He had a feeling he wouldn’t have time today.
Between the actual work that they had to get done that day, and all of their questions, they had to set a timer to order food for lunch. They then chatted through lunch about what they were going to do about Richard and his manifestation.
Thankfully, because most of the workers in the lower levels were omegas, the girls were quite familiar with the practises in place and helped Andrew understand them as well. They all avoided the main topic.
When Richard would be coming back, and if he was even coming back to their department. Depending on how he reacted and how he manifested, there was a chance that he could be overly sensitive to pheromones.
It was even more likely for someone who had manifested late. There was a reason Maxwell and Michael had been so worried about Andrew and it wasn’t like Andrew didn’t know that from the support group he was still in, but rarely visited anymore.
It was a slight disservice to Richard that he had manifested as an omega since most of his education was in alpha related issues. It would be devastating if he wasn’t able to do his work anymore, especially if he wasn’t able to do it in person.
Andrew was already worried about how the alphas of their studies would treat him once they realised he was an omega. Most alphas did treat omegas differently than betas and other alphas.
It had a chance to be a gong show. Just a true nightmare for everyone involved, and Andrew could tell that the other women also had that worry as well. But none of them spoke of it. Richard wasn’t even awake yet. It was too soon to let this worry consume them. They would have plenty of time to be panicking about it later.