As soon as she touches his face, he nuzzles into her hand with eyes that close tight and teeth clenched beneath her fingers. This is a dark, familiar feeling, when his emotion threatens to rise over him like a tidal wave, wiping out everything else in its path. But she keeps him above water. She is his. Omega catches her hand and holds it to his face, fingers curling tight around her palm.

When she takes his hand in turn, he gives it to her willingly. Anywhere she goes, anywhere she wants him to go... but to his surprise, she's guiding him to touch her, and Omega almost freezes against her hold -- not to resist her, but out of fear of what will happen if he does this. God, he wouldn't resist, he wants to touch her so bad. But what if it hurts her...?

Oh. The scar.

He didn't know what the surgery was for but Dr. Gwen said it was urgent. Blue was already in bad shape, and Omega trusted the doctor to do the right thing to help, and it had never occurred to him afterward to ask. Because what did it matter? But now his fingers slip gently over it, the first time she's let him touch it when she's only very recently let him touch her at all... it twists his heart in anger that InGen left scars on his mate too.

But that's not what she says. She says 'him'. Not them. Him. There are only so many things she could mean by that, pressing his fingers to an abdominal scar, and it could mean the torture that he put her through, but different pieces fall into place and Omega's eyes turn wide and sharp and cold.

"He did this to you?" Omega whispers, in a voice gone dangerously soft.