Love Knows No Sizes
By Humphrey Loves Kate
(Original Alpha and Omega storyline and characters were created by: Lionsgate)
Author's Note: Welcome to Love Knows No Sizes! Enjoy! This will be just a tad bit off my "usual" style as some of you have said before. (This is a rewritten story. The original one has been stored away in my personal computer documents. Mwhaha!)
Introduction
One midsummer up in Jasper Park, Canada, the newly founded United Pack was enjoying a spell of peace and happiness. The pack had actually been created by two wolves of different ranks, Garth and Lilly, joining together in marriage. This was an enormous matter because until now the United Pack had been two different packs: the Western Pack and the Eastern Pack. We could go into detail explaining how they came to but most readers here on FanFiction already know the story of Alpha and Omega so we won't repeat it. For now, just understand that it was against pack law for an alpha and an omega to do anything even sparsely close to something romantic and Garth and Lilly, along with another bi-rank couple named Humphrey and Kate, were responsible for the abolishment of this ridiculous law.
This story takes place in midsummer shortly after the historic wedding responsible for disposing of the above mentioned law.
Chapter One
Happy Newlyweds… Or Not?
Garth and Lilly were overjoyed that their pack leaders had abolished the social marriage laws of the packs. They were legally married because of this wonderful occurrence. However, Garth and Lilly both knew that if the leaders of their packs (Garth and Lilly were both the offspring of the pack leaders: Lilly from the Western and Garth from the Eastern) had decided to remain stubborn and not abolish the stupid laws, they would have eventually run away and gotten married on their own. More than likely, their independent marriage would have been illegal according to wolf pack law, but then again, they would have been lone wolves if they had left and lone wolves do not have any laws excepting some minor rules. On this particular day however, Garth and Lilly were spending time alone in their den talking about themselves and their futures.
"So Lilly, what's your favorite thing in the whole world?" Garth asked his mate even though he knew the answer.
Lilly rolled her eyes. "Garthy, I already told you that my favorite thing is just being around you."
"And I love it when you remind me that," Garth said.
Lilly sighed romantically as she lied down on the floor of the den. "And I never get tired of it," she answered him.
"Oh really?" Garth responded, but Lilly sensed something in his voice. Garth was using the same tone he used right before he surprised something or someone. With a smirk on his face, Garth moved closer towards Lilly.
"Garth..." Lilly began nervously as she moved away without getting up from the floor. "What are you doing?"
The moment Lilly asked Garth this, Garth pounced onto his mate and wrapped his paws around her. Lilly let out a startled yet happy scream. Rolling around the floor as he held Lilly, Garth finally said "I'm playing with my mate! What are you doing?"
Lilly was about to answer when she lost control of herself because Garth began to tickle her. "Garth, I…" Lilly laughed uncontrollably as she and Garth chased each other around the den.
Garth finally cornered Lilly and pounced on her again. "Well Lilly, tell me what you're doing," he said as he tickled her more than he ever had before. "Come on now, I told you what I was doing!"
Lilly continued to have a hysterical laughing fit as Garth continued to mess with her. "Okay, okay, YOU WIN!" she finally surrendered to Garth.
"Can I have that in writing?" Garth playfully said as he released his omega mate. "I might need it later."
"HA!" Lilly said, "Sure, whatever, Garth." She paused for a second as realization hit her. "We were flirting, weren't we?"
"Oh yes. Um-hm. Absolutely!" Garth winked at Lilly.
Not too far away in the United Pack's territory, Humphrey and Kate were also in their den enjoying their new marriage much like Garth and Lilly were.
"Okay, okay, Kate, just do it one more time. Just once!" Humphrey said to Kate.
"Aw, Humphrey, I just did it four times already," Kate complained.
"BUT IT'S SO FREAKING FUNNY!" Humphrey laughed. "Don't make me use my 'Omega Cute Eyes' on you." Humphrey acted like he was going to do his "Cute Eyes" for Kate.
"Oh, fine! Once more," Kate said holding up a wolf finger. Kate then looked Humphrey straight in his eye with all seriousness and simply made a strange, weird face right at Humphrey.
"HAHAHAHAHA!" Humphrey said losing control of himself. "That's awesome! Do it again!"
"No, we had a deal," Kate stated, "once and that was it."
"Oh darn," Humphrey began sarcastically, "I have a short memory and I can't remember if you really said that." Humphrey got a serious look from Kate. "Kate, I was kidding. Anyway, how come you never showed me that face before?"
"I don't know. I used to do it for Lilly all the time when we were pups," Kate answered.
"I guess Alpha School made you a dud for fun," Humphrey said.
"Humphrey! No it did not!"
"Hey, hey! I wasn't finished. But luckily, I'm rubbing off on you."
"And I actually thought you would be nice and say something good about me to redeem yourself."
"Nope! You know me, Kate. I'm a one of a kind hilarious person. I never do what you think I'm going to do."
"Well, what about that one time, when you…"
"Hold up! On second thought, make that 'I usually don't ever do what you think I will do.'" Humphrey said.
Kate paused and put her paw on her chin to think. "Hmmm… So I'm thinking that you are about to try and pin me to the ground. What are you really going to do?"
Humphrey took a step towards Kate. "Well, this is why I added 'usually' to the earlier statement about myself." Humphrey then pounced on Kate and pinned her to the ground. Before they had married, Humphrey could never have pinned Kate to the ground even if he tried all day. Now, however, Kate's "alpha moves" were rubbing off on him. Plus, Humphrey had been working out with Garth behind Kate's back, just to see if she would ever notice.
"Dang! You're getting good at this," Kate said as she tried to get out from under Humphrey.
"Nope!" Humphrey jerked Kate back down. "You have to do the "magic thing" before you can get up."
"Huh?" Kate asked.
Humphrey winked at Kate.
"Oh, right," Kate said. She leaned up to Humphrey and kissed him right on his wolf lips!
Humphrey appeared to be loopy or lovesick as he let Kate up. "Okay… You can go now," he sighed, "my angel."
Kate laughed when she saw his reaction to her. Realizing how strong Humphrey had been compared to her, however, she got curious. "Hey Humphrey, have you been working out with Garth?"
Humphrey's eyes grew wide when he heard what Kate said. He was really quite stunned. Kate nailed it right on! She had managed to guess exactly what Humphrey had been doing without any hints whatsoever, except the obvious increase in his strength and weight. "How'd you figure it out?" he finally asked her.
"Actually, that time it was entirely a guess," Kate responded. "Was I right?"
"Yeah, you freakin' nailed it!"
"Oh, well, then…"
"Yeah, I was gonna tell you eventually, but I wanted to see if it would become obvious and you would finally notice."
"Ha!" Kate laughed. "But you do know I could have figured it out if I wanted to, right?"
"Oh sure, sure," Humphrey said. "Of course you could have, Ms. Alpha."
"So, why did you do it?"
"Um, I was tired of getting creamed when we play fought."
Kate looked at Humphrey like she knew there was more.
"Right. No, I thought I should be a bit stronger for you and more able to protect you from whatever."
Kate's heart was touched when Humphrey said this. "Aw, Humphrey… Really?"
"Yes, really. I love you too much, Kate."
"Love is one thing you can never have too much of," Kate shook her head. "I love you too, Humphrey."
Humphrey rubbed noses with Kate and then pulled back to say, "But my second reason was that I was getting tired of you always winning the play fights."
"Oh, whatever," Kate said as she and Humphrey continued to mess with each other.
Back with Garth and Lilly, things were getting… "Personal."
"Garth…" Lilly began. "Can I ask you a serious question?"
Garth and Lilly were both lying down next to each other in their den. Garth answered Lilly, "Of course Lilly. You can ask me anything!"
"Well… um…" Lilly hesitated.
"Go ahead." Garth stroked Lilly's fur and placed part of it behind her ear.
"Do you think I'm fat or even 'wide' so to speak?"
Garth looked at Lilly strangely. "What do you mean Lilly? You're as thin as anything. And I love you just the way you are. Why do you ask?"
"I don't know," Lilly said. "I was looking at my reflection the other night and I swear my hips were bigger than they used to be. It looked like I ate too much too often. I looked like an overfed wolf."
"Lilly, you're not overfed and you are especially not overweight, or fat, or wide, or anything like that. You're perfect!"
Lilly decided that Garth was not going to change his mind, so she stood up. "Okay, well thanks. I'm gonna go… take a walk now."
"Alone?" Garth asked her.
"Yep. Just me, myself, and I. We's got some straightening out to do, ha ha!" Lilly laughed nervously like something was wrong.
"Well, alright. But are you sure you're alright?"
"I'm fine."
"Okay, bye. I love you."
"Kay, bye."
Lilly walked down to the valley in the United Pack's territory. She ran into Humphrey along the way.
"Hey, Lillsie," Humphrey said in a friendly tone. "Where're you headed?"
"I don't know," Lilly said sadly.
"Oh, well…. Okay. Can I come with you?"
"Look Humphrey, I just need to…" Lilly stopped when she saw how Humphrey was looking at her. He was using his "Cute Eyes" on Lilly. "Sure, why not? You'd make good company," Lilly surrendered.
"YEEESSS!" Humphrey said to himself while Lilly rolled her eyes.
Humphrey and Lilly walked together in an awkward silence for a little while. Finally, Humphrey spoke up. "So, um… How are things with you and Barfy?"
Lilly smiled weakly at this. It was cute how Humphrey had taken Lilly's nickname for Garth, "Garthy," and put it to his own personal use. "Oh… We're in love. We did the right thing getting married and all. How about you and Kate?"
Although he was curious as to why Lilly evaded the question so quickly, Humphrey decided to play along for now. "We're great! Everything's so smooth! We have so much fun together… And Kate's soooo HOT! And…"
Lilly sniffled as if she were silently crying to herself.
"Lilly, is something wrong?"
"Yes, Humphrey! Yes!" Lilly was breaking down now. "I feel really bad about my body image all of a sudden! It's just… Like my hips… And then I'm so wide… and the… Humphrey I can't describe it to you either!"
The two wolves stopped their slow walking pace and sat down. They were right beside a small cliff wall. "What do you mean, Lilly? Why can't you describe it to me?"
"I already tried to tell Garth," Lilly said. "And it's not his fault that he didn't get it. I just couldn't explain anything to him and I don't think he even knows something's wrong!"
Humphrey put his arm around Lilly. "Come on, Lillsie! Garth's smart! He'll see something is wrong, if he hasn't already. What makes you think he doesn't know?"
"Well," Lilly said as she began to clear up her tears. The fact that someone was trying to understand her emotional pain was making her feel better. And Humphrey's arm around her reminded her of Garth's sweetness. "Just a few minutes ago, I tried to tell him what I told you, and he played the classic 'You're skinny as anything' and 'You're perfect to me' trick."
Humphrey was confused. "Trick? He was just trying to make you feel better, wasn't he?"
"It's cliché! Overused! Less meaningful! Besides, he didn't try to stop me when I told him I was going for a walk by myself. I wanted him to come up to me and just step in and make it all better, I guess. Is that too much?"
"Um, Lilly, guys aren't mind readers. Neither are girls, come to think of it."
"I wish they were," Lilly said. "It sure would make things easier."
"Well, uh, if it makes you feel better," Humphrey began, "I don't feel perfectly content with my body image."
"What?!" Lilly said with her tears all dry now. "I thought that was just a girl's problem! I thought guys didn't care how they looked!
"HA! That's the biggest myth ever! We care how we look! Ask Garth that and he'll say he cares. If he didn't, then he wouldn't be so obsessed with fitness. Anyway, a while back I started feeling like I wasn't big enough or strong enough to still be with Kate. Believe me, it's embarrassing when you're a guy to repeatedly be creamed in play fights by your mate because she weighs more than you. Anyway, I started working out with Garth and I'm a lot better than I was. But I still feel like I'm not good enough. Like I'm too small compared to the other mates of alphas. In other words, I'm at the bottom of the physical heap and I don't like it. I'll never be as good as the others."
"But Humphrey," Lilly began, "you're You, and You is perfect." Lilly suddenly realized that she did the same thing Garth had done to her with the "You're perfect" phrase.
Humphrey nodded. "And that's exactly what Kate would say if I told her."
"Wait," Lilly questioned, "you haven't told Kate about this?"
"Nope! I didn't ever bother. I just asked Garth if he could help me start working out and he invited me to join him daily. You really do have a nice mate."
Lilly blushed at this. "Yeah, he's pretty HAWT!"
"Yeah, I'm not a girl, so I didn't mean it that way," Humphrey quickly responded.
"Oh. Right."
Humphrey and Lilly both laughed at this and continued walking.
Author's Note: Please review! You guys have no idea what's coming... ;-)
