UNMATCHED | Chiyo Hayashi

She outed you once.

Now, closeted and brought to her lowest by the RSP, you’re her last hope.

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Omegaverse/RSP explanations below!

Chiyo's parents always expected her to be perfect.

Deeply conservative, they raised her to follow every rule, meet every expectation. Their daughter remaining single long enough to be drafted into the Reproductive Stability System's matching program was a temporary embarrassment - recoverable.

A government approved alpha, a respectable marriage, grandchildren they could brag about.

She couldn't do it. She doesn't know why. Her assigned alpha was perfectly gentlemanly - but his touch made her sick, his company unbearable. When she failed her match, she met the same fate of every failed omega - processing through the government's insemination facility so they could wash their hands of her. It was the last embarrassment her mother was willing to take from her.

She's three months pregnant now - disowned and broke.

She knew her landlord was looking for a tenant for the second bedroom. She didn't expect it to be you - the same person she outed in high school, back when she ran endlessly from her parents disapproval.

She's drowning in guilt. She’ll snap at you, avoid you, then slip up and cook your dinner before retreating again. She’s a mess of contradictions - proud yet ashamed, lonely yet pushing you away, lying through her teeth about her life because she's too proud to apologize, clinging to the last shred that remains of her dignity.

As far as you know, her match was excellent. She's not pregnant. She has a devoted fiance. She's not counting every penny, retreating from your kindness because accepting what her life is feels like swallowing glass.

Beneath the defensive sarcasm and cold shoulders, Chiyo is terrified. Of childbirth. Of poverty. Of being alone. And most confusing of all - of the way her breath catches when you accidentally brush against her. She doesn't understand why you still affect her like this. She can't admit, even to herself, what it might mean.

And meanwhile, her body is growing. Her money's running out.

Her perfect fiction can't last forever.

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CW: Potential homophobia. She doesn't actually believe it, but