Hey everyone! This is my first-ever fanfic and I hope that you like it!

Chapter 1:

Humphrey's POV

I couldn't believe it! I just howled with Kate! Oh, her howl was so beautiful and it mixed perfectly with mine. I turned my head to look at her, she was sitting next to me and she was really close I could feel her fur touching me. Then something unexpected happen, she leaned her head against me and sighed. I was really surprised but maybe she had feelings towards me after all? I loved her more than anything and I knew that now was my chance to confess my feelings towards her. I wrapped my tail around her as we sat silently admiring the beautiful scenery in front of us, only noise was made by the train where we sat.

"There's something I need to tell you." We both said in unison.

"Please, you first." I said wondering what she wanted to tell me. Kate lifted her head from me and looked in my eyes. Her amber eyes were locked in my eyes as we stared each other for a short moment, though it felt like a lifetime.

"Humphrey...These few days have been fun and...you have been...well, kind of fun...and..." She said and looked away shyly. I could tell that she was nervous about something and that she wanted to say something more. I decided that it was now or never if I wanted to tell her that I love her.

"Kate, I have really enjoyed these few days that we spent together and I have wanted to say this to for a long time, Kate I lo..." I was interrupted when she screamed and jumped out of the train car. Then I saw what she had seen and I jumped out of the train car also.

Kate's POV

Damn! I wanted to tell Humphrey that I love him but I just didn't have the courage to do it. He was going to say something to me but before he could finish I saw our pack and eastern pack in a brink of war. My instincts take the better of me and I jumped out of the train. I was running as fast as my legs let me go towards the two arguing packs. I looked over my shoulder and saw Humphrey running behind me. I was surprised that he managed to run same pace as I. As we got closer I heard Tony shout to my dad something which sounded like "Your daughter run away from her responsibilities!"

"I didn't run away!" I shouted as me and Humphrey run down a slope and towards the other wolves. As we reached the bottom of the valley Lilly and my mom both run to me and hugged me.

"We were so worried about you! Where you were?" Mom asked as she hugged me tightly.

"We were in Idaho." I answered when she released me from the hug.

"What did you do in Idaho?" Dad asked me as he walked closer.

"Humans take us there and we were supposed to repopulate." Humphrey said. In a split second my mom pinned him on the ground and began to choke him.

"If you mated with my daughter I'm gonna kill you!" She growled as she continued to choke him and banging his head on the ground.

"Mom stop! We didn't do it! Humphrey helped me to get back home!" I shouted. After hearing this my mom let go and patted Humphrey's head.

"Good boy." She said sweetly. I turned to face my dad I needed to tell him that I can't marry Garth.

"Dad, I came ba-" I said before I was interrupted.

"You came back to marry my son, Garth." I heard someone say and turned around to see Tony walking towards us, Garth behind him.

'No! I don't want to marry Garth!' I screamed inside my head. I was going to tell my dad that I can't marry Garth because I love Humphrey...but it's my duty to marry Garth and unite the packs. Besides if I don't marry him it would mean war and that would cause misery to all of us.

"Yes! Unite the packs! " I shouted after a short moment of silence, at that moment I felt my heart shatter to pieces. I was doomed to live my life with a wolf whom I didn't love.

Humphrey's POV

I felt my heart shatter in a million pieces when Kate said that she would marry Barf. So, this was the reason why she wanted to get back to Jasper fast. I just stood still and watched as wolves from both sides gathered in the middle of the valley to celebrate the union of two packs. I was on the verge of tears, the love of my life was going to marry someone who she barely knew. I felt betrayed, she never told me about this.

"You are going to get married?" I asked still fighting back tears. Kate turned her head and looked at me, for a moment it looked like she was sad, but then she smiled widely.

"Yeah! Isn't it great! No more fighting for a food, no war. This is best for the both of the packs." She said happily.

"But-" I was cut off by her friends who came to congratulate her. All of the wolves began to walk out of the valley clearly happy that the packs would unite. I stood alone before my friends Salty, Shakey and Mooch jumped on top of me shouting "Wolf pile!" It was nice to see that they had missed me but all I wanted to do right now was be alone and cry. I get up and began to walk away without saying anything to them.

"Humphrey are you okay?" I heard Shakey ask.

"Yeah, I'm fine just little tired." I said. They didn't seem to believe me.

"Are you sure? I mean, you look quite upset." Mooch said.

"I'm fine, see you guys later." I said and walked towards my den at fast pace.

When I finally reached it I walked inside and sat down. I lost control of my emotions and began to cry uncontrollably. I loved Kate more than anything and the fact that she would marry someone else just made me feel so miserable. I had fallen in love with her when we were just pups and I had learned at very young age that there was no change us to be together because of that stupid law. My friends kept reminding me about that every time when I spoke about Kate, but that didn't stop me to love her and I always told myself that we would be together someday. During our adventure it had looked like that she had feelings towards me but I guess that I just imagined it. Probably the only reason why she had howled with me was because she felt pity for me.

How stupid I was? How could she ever love someone like me? I was a weak omega who couldn't hunt or do anything useful. I hit my paw on ground and growled. Why no one could love me? My parents had abandoned me when I was barely a month old. I didn't know why they had done it but probably because I was weak. I could feel something which I hadn't feel in a long time, anger and hate.

"What is wrong with me!? Why no one can love me!?" I screamed and banged my head against the dirt wall of my den.

"I hate my parents! I hate Barf! I hate Ka-" I stopped, no I didn't hate Kate, I loved her. I closed my eyes and tried to relax. The anger inside me began to fade. I lie down and began to cry again. I cried god knows how long and when I finally stopped crying I realized how selfish I had been. I loved Kate but I couldn't force her to love me if she only wanted to be my friend.

"What should I do?" I sighed to myself. I couldn't stay here and watch love of my life to marry someone else, but I didn't want to leave because all my friends were here and I liked to live in here besides if I leave how should I fend myself? I was an omega, I had no clue how to hunt or fight.

My thoughts were interrupted when I heard someone enter in my den. I lifted my head and saw Winston standing at the entrance of my den. My eyes were still wet from tears but luckily it was rather dark so he couldn't see that.

"Hi Winston, what brings you here?" I asked as I stood up. I tried to hide my sadness and be the normal happy and easygoing me.

"Well, we asked Kate to tell about your adventure and she said that she wanted to tell it with you, so I promised to find you and ask if you want to come and tell the story with her." Winston said. Small smile crept on my face it was nice that she wanted to tell it with me.

"Well let's go, it's a long story and it's already late." I said. We began to walk towards the den of Winston and Eve. We walked in silence before Winston broke it.

"Humphrey?" He said and looked at me.

"Yeah?"

"Thanks for looking after Kate. She told us that without you she wouldn't have find the way back home." He said smiling.

My eyes went wide, did she really appreciate my help that much? Winston's words made me feel better, maybe I wasn't that weak and useless after all, I mean I had saved her life few times during our trip.

"She's my friend, I will never let anything bad happen to her." I stated simply trying to play it cool that he wouldn't suspect that I had feelings towards her daughter.

Winston just smiled and the rest of the walk was done in a silence.

Kate's POV

I was sad, very sad. I didn't want to marry Garth. I mean his not a bad wolf, but I didn't love him. I was now sitting inside my parents den with mom and Lilly we were waiting for dad to return with Humphrey. I wanted to tell our story with him and after that talk to him privately. It was already night but I wasn't tired at all. As we waited dad and Humphrey I noticed that Lilly seemed to be upset, she was quiet and just stared blankly at the entrance of den. She looked like she would burst into tears at any minute. Before I could ask what was wrong with her I heard paw steps and soon dad walked inside Humphrey behind him.

"Humphrey!" I shouted and ran over to him and gave him a tight hug. As soon as I hugged him I realized what I had done, my parents looked me with a surprised expressions on their faces. Humphrey also seemed to be surprised but he had small smile on his face, I think that he liked it.

I cleared my throat awkwardly.

"Umh...nice to see you." Was all I managed to say and immediately I realized how stupid it sounded, it was just an hour when I last saw him.

"Yeah, long time no see." He joked. I laughed at this his jokes always cheered me.

"So, are you ready to tell about our little adventure?" I asked. Humphrey just nodded and we sat in front of my parents and Lilly. My mom gave me a disapproving look, I guess that she didn't like that I hugged Humphrey. I just ignored it and we began to tell our story. First it was mostly me who did all the talking, but soon I noticed that we both were telling the story and we were laughing and having a good time. When we came that part where we slept night in a same den my mom interrupted us.

"If I find out that you tried to do something with Kate I'm gonna rip you to pieces slowly and painfully!" She growled. It was pretty clear that she didn't like Humphrey and that annoyed me a lot.

"Mom! Nothing happened! Humphrey isn't that kind of wolf! He respects me!" I shouted to her.

"Okay! I just wanted to be sure." She said a bit ashamed. I gave a smile to Humphrey who seemed to be little shocked about my mom's outburst. We continued to tell our story. The only thing we didn't tell to them was that we had howled the moon together. It took almost an hour to tell the whole story to them.

"Well, that was amazing story." My dad said when we finished telling our story.

"Yeah, that was pretty amazing adventure." I said. After that we all sat there in silence, my family was clearly astonished about how much me and Humphrey had gone thru on our adventure.

"Umh...I guess that I leave now." Humphrey said breaking the awkward silence and stood up.

"Okay, see you tomorrow at the wedding." Dad said to him. Humphrey nodded quickly and began to walk out.

"Wait!" I shouted and rushed to him. "Would you like to take a walk with me?" I asked. I already knew that my mom didn't like what I said, but to be honest I didn't give a damn about it. Humphrey looked surprised but then a wide smile appeared on his face.

"Of course!" He said.

"Well let's go then!" I said excited and with that we began to walk out of the den.