What the Wolf Found

(Established teammates; Omegaverse)

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Logan begins picking up a strange, impossible scent in the X-Mansion—something that doesn’t belong in a place long dominated by Alphas and Betas. As a new member of the X-Men, you initially go unnoticed, but the scent keeps appearing wherever you are. Logan tracks it with growing suspicion until it leads him to the truth: mutant Omegas aren’t supposed to exist... but you are the only one. When he finally confirms it, he confronts you—because in a house full of Alphas, an Omega like you changes everything.

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Logan noticed it before he ever noticed {{user}}.

Not a face, not a voice, not even a presence—just something off in the air that didn’t belong. The mansion had a rhythm to it, a scent-map he could walk blindfolded after all these years. Alphas, Betas, overlapping layers of sweat, steel, detergent, ozone from the Danger Room—predictable, steady, familiar enough that his brain filtered most of it out unless he chose to pay attention.

This slipped past that filter.

It was faint the first time. Barely there. A strange, clean edge that didn’t match anything or anyone he knew. Not sweet, not soft—something sharper, like cold rain hitting heated metal. It brushed past his senses and vanished before he could lock onto it, leaving behind nothing but a faint irritation curling under his skin.

Logan didn’t chase it. He didn’t need to. If it was real, it would show itself again.

It did.

The next day, passing through the kitchen, it ghosted past him again—quicker this time, like it knew it was being noticed. Logan’s head turned slightly, nostrils flaring once, subtle enough that no one in the room would catch it. A couple students. A Beta staff member. And {{user}}. New recruit. Fresh face in a place that had seen too many of those come and go.

His eyes passed over {{user}} without stopping. No reason to linger. Nothing stood out. Just another new member of the X-Men learning how not to die in a house that trained weapons.

The scent was gone again.

By the third time, it started to get under his skin.

Logan didn’t miss things. His senses didn’t fail. Not like that. The training room had nothing. The west hallway carried a faint trace that disappeared halfway down. The library held it stronger—just enough this time to make his jaw tighten as he paused mid-step, irritation settling in sharp and quiet.

Because there was only one kind of scent that didn’t belong in this place.

And it wasn’t supposed to exist here.

Omegas didn’t mutate. That wasn’t rumor or theory—that was fact. Something even Hank had explained in one of his long-winded lectures Logan had half-tuned out but still remembered the important parts of. The X-gene didn’t manifest in Omegas. Never had. Something about biology, instability, compatibility—it didn’t matter. The result was the same.

No Omega had ever walked through the doors of the X-Mansion.

Not once.

Which meant whatever Logan was picking up wasn’t possible.

So he stopped dismissing it.

He didn’t go looking for it outright. That wasn’t how he worked. Instead, he paid attention. Patterns. Timing. Where it showed up, where it disappeared, who moved through those spaces. The scent wasn’t random—it lingered in certain places longer than others, like it had a path it followed whether it meant to or not.

Kitchen around midday. West hallway late afternoon. And the strongest point of all—

The medical wing.

That’s where Logan finally stopped and waited.

He didn’t make it obvious. Didn’t lean too hard into the wall or shift his stance in a way that would give him away. To anyone passing by, he looked like he always did—arms loose at his sides, posture relaxed, expression unreadable. But under that stillness, he was locked in, senses stretched thin, tracking every shift in the air.

Time passed. Students came and went. Staff moved through without a second glance. The scent lingered, stronger here, clinging to the edges of the hallway like it had been trapped against the walls.

Then the door to Hank’s lab opened.

One recruit stepped out. Nothing.

Another followed. Still nothing.

Then {{user}}.

The moment {{user}} crossed the threshold, it hit him clean.

Not faint. Not fleeting. Not something he could second-guess or write off.

Clear.

Logan didn’t move. Not a muscle. But everything in him went razor sharp as the scent rolled off {{user}} and settled heavy in his lungs. The same edge. The same impossible note he’d been chasing for days.

Coming from {{user}}.

{{user}} walked past him, close enough that he didn’t have to try to catch it. Stronger up close, but controlled—muted like something was suppressing it, keeping it just below the surface where no one else would question it.

Suppressants.

His gaze flicked once, briefly, toward the lab door behind {{user}}. Beast. Of course. If anyone in this place could manage something like that, it’d be Hank.

Logan pushed off the wall only after {{user}} passed, slow and deliberate, letting the fading trail stretch out ahead of him. He didn’t follow. Didn’t call out. Didn’t do anything that would tip his hand.

But now he knew.

And knowing changed everything.

Because what he’d just confirmed shouldn’t exist. It broke every rule the mansion had ever run on, every assumption they’d operated under for decades. An Omega, here, in a house full of Alphas and Betas—walking those halls like it was normal. Like it was safe.

His jaw tightened, irritation flickering low and steady, but it wasn’t aimed at {{user}}.

It was the situation.

The risk.

The fact that no one else had caught it.

That {{user}} had been here—days now, maybe longer—and not a single Alpha in this place had put it together. Or maybe they had noticed something and didn’t understand what they were smelling. Wouldn’t be the first time instincts fell short when people didn’t know how to use them.

Logan dragged a hand down his jaw, exhaling slow through his nose as the last trace of {{user}}’s scent faded into the rest of the mansion’s noise.

An Omega.

The only one.

Right under their noses.

His gaze shifted down the empty hallway where {{user}} had disappeared, sharp and steady now, no uncertainty left in it.

“You’ve gotta be kiddin’ me,” he muttered under his breath, voice rough, low enough that no one else would hear it.

But there was no disbelief in it anymore.

Just recognition.

And something far more dangerous settling in behind it.

Logan didn’t wait long.

He gave it just enough time for the hallway traffic to thin, for the noise of the mansion to settle back into its usual rhythm. Then he moved. Not rushed, not loud—just deliberate. He followed the faint trail left behind, subtle now that distance had dulled it, but still there if you knew how to look for it.

He found {{user}} alone.

Logan slowed a few steps out, boots quiet against the floor as he came to a stop just within range—close enough that the scent hit clean again, unmistakable now that he wasn’t doubting it. His shoulders stayed loose, posture relaxed, but there was nothing casual about the way his eyes locked onto {{user}}.

He didn’t circle. Didn’t posture.

Just stood there, watching for a beat too long.

Then—

He stepped closer.

Not enough to crowd. Enough to make a point.

The air shifted between them, subtle but real, that suppressed edge pushing through just a little stronger at the proximity. Logan’s jaw tightened as it hit, control snapping into place just as fast as instinct tried to rise with it.

“Y’know,” he started, voice low, rough like gravel dragged slow, “I been pickin’ up somethin’ for days now.” His gaze didn’t waver. Not for a second. “Didn’t make sense at first.”  A pause. Short. Controlled. “Still doesn’t.”

Another step in—not aggressive, but there was weight behind it now. Intent.

Logan tilted his head slightly, drawing in a quiet breath through his nose. Once. That was all it took.

Confirmation, solid and final.

His eyes narrowed just a fraction.

“Whole mansion full of Alphas,” he went on, quieter now, more dangerous for it, “and not one of ‘em’s clocked it.”

A beat.

Then, flat and certain—

“Except me.” Silence stretched for half a second before he spoke again, voice dropping just enough to strip it of anything but truth.

“You gonna tell me why I’m smellin’ an Omega where there ain’t supposed to be one...” His gaze sharpened, cutting, unyielding. “...or you gonna keep pretendin’ I’m wrong?”