After Leiner came to see Fae, I started the process to let Fae live with me once his therapy was done. It was actually a longer process than I thought it would be.

Because Fae doesn't have any legal guardians, I had to do a ton of paperwork for the center to prove that I could help him however he needed to if he lived with me. Especially now that he's been diagnosed epileptic and anorexic. I was given a whole pamphlet of stuff I needed to read and sign about him being epileptic, then another one about him being anorexic.

I did most of the paperwork at the center when I was visiting Fae, because he was sleeping a lot more now with the new epilepsy meds they put him on. I was in the cafeteria finishing reading the epilepsy pamphlet and eating lunch when Marie suddenly ran over to me.

"I think Fae just got his heat," she said quickly. I immediately stood up.

"What?? Now??" I felt panic rise in my chest. I grabbed the paperwork and went to go to his room but she stopped me.

"No, you can't see him," she said. "Do you know what smelling his pheromones will do?"

"I can control myself," I said, a little offended.

"Not with that you can't." She said. "His pheromones are extremely strong, especially because he's unmated and this is his first heat. The scent of his pheromones will override your self control and you will do something you would regret."

I bit my tongue to refrain from talking back again. "Well then what are you going to do?"

"We gave him suppressants, he can't feel the heat right now but we can still smell it," Marie said. "None of us have been in there with him after we gave him the suppressants, we've been keeping the other people admitted here away from his room to prevent any accidents."

I sighed, sitting back down again. "Do you know how long this will take?"

"The suppressants won't stop the pheromones until a few hours after we gave him the medicine," Marie said. "We can't go in there until the pheromones stop."

I nodded. I hated this, I wanted to help Fae, but behind my saltiness that she was telling me what to do, I knew that she was right. I know that heats are basically just mating periods, so the only way to help him would be to give him suppressants or to fuck him. One of my friends had dated an Elf before, and the heats don't stop until the body one who's in heat decides that the probability of them getting pregnant was high. Which meant, they had to be ejaculated inside of and usually several times for it to stop. For Fae, he wouldn't be able to get pregnant so it wouldn't be as dangerous for him in that sense, but he's so delicate that it would be dangerous for his body. And he just got out of the sex trade months ago, so even if we were in that kind of relationship, I'd feel bad ravaging him just because his body decided that he needed some sex.

I decided to go back to the pamphlet, reading through it more. Marie waited with me, only leaving to get a muffin before coming back. She called Leiner as well, but he told us to do what we had already done. I eventually got over my saltiness about her doing her job and protecting Fae and asked her to help me clarify some things in the pamphlet. So she ended up reading through it with me, for the next hour and a half until one of the staff that had been keeping people away from Fae's room came down and told us the pheromones had stopped.

Marie and I then went up to see him. He was awake when we came in, and he grinned when he saw me and made grabby hands at me like a little kid. He looked exhausted, and so fucking cute. I smiled back at him when he made grabby hands at me, gently picking him up and holding him in my lap. I sat down on the bed and rubbed his back gently. He purred softly into me, his little hands gently gripping my shirt.

"M' feel hot," he mumbled into me a little bit, not taking his face out of my shirt. I nodded, rubbing his back more.

"It's okay," I said. He was obviously out of it, I wasn't sure if it was the suppressants or his heat itself that was making him like that. I figured him feeling hot was the heat though; I mean, it's in the name.

Fae eventually fell asleep on me, but his grip was surprisingly strong when he was asleep. He clearly didn't want me to leave him while he was asleep.

Marie chuckled when she noticed that he was clinging to me. "He probably sees you as a mate figure, that might be why he won't let go. We've had younger people that go into premature heats that have mates or certain people that they really like, and most of them have gotten really clingy and affectionate when their heats are suppressed."

"What will that feeling affect later on though?" I asked. "If and/or when he gets a romantic partner."

"Nothing will be affected," Marie said. "Its his body's way of making sure he will be safe when he's in heat, because he's so vulnerable when he's like this. It just means that his body and mind decided that you were trustworthy and that he could feel safe around you in his very vulnerable state."

I nodded again. "Ohh," I said. "Okay." That made me feel a little good, to hear that he considers me someone that close to him.

I sat with Fae for the rest of his heat period that day, and it lasted a surprising amount of time. He slept for most of it, but it lasted the next four hours. I couldn't imagine what would have happened with him if he hadn't been given suppressants and had just been quarantined for that time period.

Marie had said that he may be extra susceptible to seizures during his heat period, so the light was kept off and I only used my phone's flashlight to light the room so that there wasn't a chance it would flicker and set him off. He was also acting pretty childlike after his heat ended too, which Marie took an interest in. So she decided to research it a little more, I just hung out with him during that time.