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In a typical Alpha/Beta/Omega world, the Alphas reign supreme as kings while the Omegas are treated nothing more than for breeding. Betas have it better but more often than not they are still treated as lesser than Alphas. Hey at least they aren't 2nd class citizens like Omegas right?

Anakin thinks, trying to be optimistic as he watches an omega get dragged away by a gang of Alphas because it is mating season and the Omega's pheromones have jump-started the Alpha's ruts.

Anakin sighed as he watched no one make a move to help the clearly screaming for help poor omega woman, everyone just passing by and not daring to give her a look at all. He grits his teeth in frustration as his nails bite into the meat of his skin.

He wants to help so badly but he can't.

The last time he tried he got arrested and now he's on probation, if he breaks the law once again, he'll lose Ahsoka. So he grits his teeth and bears the pain then walks away.

He can't help the poor omega woman, he doesn't have the power to. If only he were… but he's not.

Anakin sighs for what feels like forever as he heads for his shop, his little car shop that took him years of hard work to build so he and Ahsoka could have a place to stay and he could earn a living.

He focuses on that thought, on his future. On Ahsoka's future . His younger sister needed him to provide for her. Yes, the injustice still being allowed to happen to Omegas grates upon his nerves, but Ahsoka is more important.

This is his last chance.

He opens his shop and prepares to fix one of his best customer's car so he can call them up and they can drive it home. Anakin knows how much Plo needs his car in order to drive his many adopted children to school, so he makes haste in finishing it up.

Unfortunately for him, there's a sudden scuffle outside his shop and he peeks from the top of the car with a curl of his lips, an insult ready to fly off from his tongue, but before he could utter a single word, his window crashes in, shards of glass fly everywhere as a body lands not too far off from where he's at.

The man coughs up blood and seems to be half dressed, cuts and bruises line his body as he attempts to gingerly sit up from his prone place on the concrete floor.

"Well well well, who knew the great Kenobi is an Omega ? You had us fooled not gunna lie, but nothing can mask biology , Kenobi." A dark gruff voice mocked as several men started climbing in from the broken window.

Anakin snaps his attention to them, all of them Alphas and by the big bulge on their pants, they're all probably close to Rut themselves. He sneaks a glance back to this Kenobi guy and sees the man glare daggers of ice up at the Alphas, he still smells sweet even though it was clear that he is pissed.

An Omega in heat then.

And Anakin thought he could stop himself from getting into trouble, it seems trouble always has a plan of finding him wherever he goes. He can't just stand and watch this omega get raped in his shop.

This is his shop.

He stands abruptly and the clatter of noise from his sudden move collectively gathers the attention of all the Alphas and even the one Omega. He scowls at the Alphas, crossing his arms over his chest. "You are not doing your barbaric acts of torture here in my shop, scum. Shoo, go away. This is private property you're at." He even makes a motion to actually swat them away like a bunch of pests.

Oddly, despite the grim situation, the Omega bursts out laughing, startling Anakin who looked at the Omega in one part fascination and two parts astonishment.

"Well, you heard him, Maul. Go away now, shoo back to your precious master. Besides, your dick may be big, but I doubt you even know how to use it to pleasure me. Much less your goons. None of you deserve to fuck me." The Omega taunts back, unthreatened by the 20 plus Alphas in Anakin’s shop who all now growled at him in anger.

The air becomes suddenly too thick with the scent of bitter angry Alpha pheromones almost makes Anakin wanna puke. The only saving grace is the Omega's sweet scent, somehow still pleasantly wafting through the air and seeming to sharpen and become more potent.

Although Kenobi seems to be at the cusp of heat, he doesn't seem all that bothered at all. He remains calm and collected and even looks as if he is unbothered by the choking smell of angry Alphas or the fact that he is outnumbered.

Anakin’s impressed the man can even stand after all that bruising and the sickening odor. He, himself is having a hard time pacing his breaths to contain enough oxygen to his lungs. The smell is so foul it's very overwhelming.

" Kenobi !" Maul shouts and lunges forward, the rest of the Alphas also make a move to follow him too but Maul snaps at them. "Deal with the Beta, Kenobi is mine !" 

Then it was chaos, Anakin jumps over the car and throws a wrench at the nearest Alphas face, then grabs hold of his cellphone and starts calling the cops, this can save him from going to prison in the form of an alibi that they tried to fight in his shop.

Even the Hunt isn't protected by the Private Land Ownership Bill. If they wanna fuck an Omega, they gotta do it outside, in public.

So at least, Anakin has that reason to help him avoid jail time again. The familiar but frustrated voice of one Mace Windu is oddly a relief, because Anakin's running out of space to run to and things to throw as a distraction.

Sure he's good with defending himself, years spent in an orphanage and having to fend for himself has taught him some rough form of self defense, but he is outnumbered and these are Alphas in rut . He'd be lucky to even survive 5 mins against them!

"Ugh, Skywalker, what do you want now?!" Anakin yeets a particularly sharp screwdriver towards an Alpha and the resounding yowl as it pierces the Alpha's eye is almost satisfying if it weren't for the fact that now he's just made the other Alphas angrier.

"Uh, I need help, stat, in my shop, a couple of Alphas are fighting, something about a gang, I don't know but please come, there are only so many things I can throw at them, Mace!"

Mace hears the growling Alphas and the many threats they shout at Anakin and immediately goes to dispatch a team of police officers. "Hold on as much as you can, Skywalker, we're coming."

And the dialtone Anakin hears is his signal to start plotting a way to fight without fighting.

He swivels from his place by the locker cabinets and grabs hold of a mop and uses it as if it were a bo staff, starts whacking Alpha heads left and right.

"You little!" They try to advance upon him, but he is grateful that he managed to grab a mop and not a short weapon because they can't get near if they keep getting swatted away.

That is until they discovered his chainsaw and now he is truly screwed.

"You’re dead, bitch!"

"Oh fuck!" Anakin starts panicking, not knowing how he can possibly defend against a chainsaw when a black boot hits the top of the Alpha with the chainsaw's head, hard.

"Oi, baldy. I think you best let go of that chainsaw, yes? Unless you want me to kill your precious Alpha leader?" Came the posh Coruscanti accent.

Anakin and the Alphas all look at the Omega, who had managed to get Maul down, kneeling on the floor, face bloody and bruised with a knife so close upon the Alpha leader's neck. How the Omega managed to defeat the Alpha, Anakin will never know but he is nevertheless grateful when the Alpha pack starts backing away from him.

Kenobi smiles, all shark teeth and points a second bloody knife at the door. "Now, if you would please leave the premises? This is very uncivilized behavior, I expected better behavior over such so-called prime Alphas." The way the Omega just spit those last two words out, as if they were tainted with venom. Even his blue-green eyes were sharp and cold like the tall ice mountains of Ilum.

Strong and impenetrable.

The Alphas growled at being mocked but with their leader still held at knife point they can't do anything. So they all filled out one by one until they lurked outside, heated glares almost burning.

"Very good children, now run along and I swear I will let your Alpha leader go, otherwise, I will be forced to take him down like the mutt he is. Clear?"

And Anakin shivers at that commanding tone. Never had he in his whole life as a Beta ever heard of an Omega using an Alpha voice like that before. But this is proof that it could be possible,  because the whole pack of Alphas leave, grumbling and growling in anger, embarrassed and shamed by a single Omega.

Anakin looks back at Kenobi to see him grab Maul by the Alpha's neck and then roughly drag him out of the shop. 

"Tsk, look at the absolute mess you've made, Maul. Even involving a poor civilian bystander, tsk tsk tsk. So shameful and even then, what did that get you, darling? Nothing ."

As he said this he pushed Maul brutally out of the shop, through the same window Kenobi had come crashing through. The Alpha leader lands on his back hard and grunts as he attempts to stand up, now that Anakin can see him better, it would seem that the Omega had even managed to break the Alpha leader's arm. It hung limply as Maul used his left hand to stand up, glaring at Kenobi all the while.

"I'll be back for you, Kenobi! And now that I know of your secret, let's see just how much you can keep your empire strong when everyone finds out that you are nothing but an Omega whore ." Then he limps away.

Kenobi sighed watching his nemesis disappear through the messy streets of Tatooine. He starts dusting off his clearly tattered clothes and then faces Anakin who startles at the suddenly charming smile he is bestowed upon. The stark difference from that dangerous predator to a suddenly charming man so bewildering that Anakin was close to getting a whiplash.

"I apologize for that, mister…?"

"Skywalker… Anakin Skywalker." Anakin couldn't help but automatically answer.

Kenobi made a soft 'ah!' And nodded his head. "Mister Skywalker, I apologize for what has happened to your shop, I will pay for everything to be replaced, how much do you need?"

Anakin couldn't help it anymore, he gaped at the Omega, so unaffected by the assault he had to endure and the fight, he even managed to defeat a gang leader and now he's apologizing for the Alphas's sakes and even offering to pay ?!

What is happening?!

"Y-you… you… you want to pay?"

Kenobi nods his head and seems to be concerned now, brilliant blue-green eyes meeting Anakin's very blue ones head on, so very blasé and apathetic to everything, it was very weird!

"Yes, well. I am partly at fault for the awful state of your shop, even the car is damaged. I can't say the Koons will be too happy about that. I can, however, pay for everything to be replaced." Then an idea seemed to hit those beautiful blue-green orbs for they brightened even more. "Ah! Actually, I'll handle everything. What time do you usually open, mister Skywalker?"

Anakin is truly lost now. "Uh, seven thirty why?"

All he got was a cheeky wink and a wave goodbye as the Omega saunters his way out of his shop, this time using the door, the small chime from the bell rings loudly in his empty, very much a mess of a shop.

And Anakin, Anakin doesn't even know where he should start to unpack everything that happened here.

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In the end Windu came with two police cars and started questioning him about everything. Anakin of course answers everything to the best of his ability still, he has a hard time processing what happened himself.

At Windu's sigh Anakin glares at the officer. "Listen, I still need to clean this place up, if only you came faster then maybe you could have arrested them all, how was I supposed to know that I'm dealing with a pack turf war? I'm not even supposed to be involved in this shit, I'm a Beta!"

Windu's frustrated sigh is everything Anakin has heard before and more. "Skywalker, I understand that you're in shock, but the more we have information about this turf war, the better we can help the citizens, especially the Omegas. You know as much as I do how much we want to help but the Hunt is legal and we can't even arrest the gangs that keep forcing themselves upon the Omegas because it's legally binding."

Windu turns to look at him, and for once Anakin feels the weight of the officer's burden, of being a law officer but being helpless to help those that need it the most.

Anakin understands this the best out of everyone.

After all his own mother was a victim of the Hunt, it's why he ended up in the orphanage. Because a lot of the resulting Hunt Matings end in unwanted pregnancies, most Omegas who end up unbonded give up their pups to the orphanage, either due to family, societal or hierarchical pressure.

No Omega wants to be cast as a slut.

But Anakin's never met such an Omega before Kenobi. He feels special, someone Anakin feels like he's met before.

He feels like he knows the Omega already.

Still he is wary to even reveal anything about the Omega to the police. Something in him stops him everytime he tries to describe Kenobi or even to tell them of the Omega's rank as an Omega.

"All I know is they insulted each other and that they clearly referred to each other as gang leaders." Is all Anakin says in the end.

Mace sighs but nods his head and pats Anakin's shoulders. "Fine, then I'll instruct a couple of my team to help you clear up your shop. It really looks terrible here and I'm sorry about Koon's car, I know you were close to fixing it." He squeezed once and let go, barking orders upon his men.

Anakin looks back at his shop, it really does truly look a mess. He sighs and grips the mop he's been holding all the while and starts cleaning up his space, at least this time he's not alone, four officers arrive to help and by the time it's six pm they've mostly cleaned up the place.

The officers leave with a morose but hopeful 'Good luck, Skywalker!' Then he starts packing up and locking his shop to leave for home.

He doesn't know how he will break this news to Ahsoka.