Well...it's been a long time since I've done a HHaW fic and by the request of my awesome friend, vampire1031...it's finally here! So we all know the pack, right? vampire thought it'd be an interesting way to say what if one member's loyalty was tested? That's where this comes in. So...I hope you like it!

F.U.S.E. (Forever United Saved Eternally)

by: Terrell James

Chapter 1: Busy Life

It was a cool afternoon in Whoville and in the pack's house, there was only Zeke, Dustin, Ryan, Casper and Justin in the house, just bored out of their minds while everyone else is busy with work and such and at some point, it all seems to affect both Ryan and Casper because they felt like they're less part of a unity that they have together and it bugs them to a point where it's like there's nothing else left to do.

Zeke lays down on the couch, looking at the ceiling and sighing heavily and said, "Man, I'm so (bleep)ing bored."

"Who are you telling?" asked Dustin.

Ryan bit his bottom lip and he just felt like he's nervous about something, but isn't quite sure if he's ready to share it with the rest of the pack yet. One one hand, he knows that they'll understand and support him all the way, but on the other hand...he's had to struggle with this and wasn't quite sure to even bring it up to question. Justin looks over at Ryan and he saw him fidgeting his fingers a little bit and he asked, "You okay, Ryan?"

Ryan sighed heavily in response and he just placed his hand over his head and replied, "Yeah, I'm okay."

Justin can tell that he's not really doing okay and that something deep inside of him is bugging him to death and he asked, "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure." Ryan replied, a little irritated.

"You know you can always talk to me or us if something's bothering you." Justin added.

"Nothing is bothering me, all right? I can handle this problem myself." Ryan replied, his voice getting higher.

That literally surprised Dustin and Zeke the most because normally, Ryan would just be open to anyway amongst the pack members...but now he's starting to push them away and block them in a wall and they don't even know why. Ryan sighed heavily and just removed himself from the others and said, "I'll be upstairs."

Ryan left the living room and headed upstairs to his room and that definitely concerned Dustin, Justin and Zeke the most and they've never seen Ryan this way before and Zeke said, "Man...that's rough."

Just then, Brutus came downstairs with just his shorts and came to the other members and he asked, "What's wrong with Ryan?"

"We don't know. We tried to figure it out, but it's like he doesn't even want to talk to us." Justin answered.

"I think because everyone else has jobs and tried to keep paying the bills in this house, everything kinda changed within the pack. Most of us are questioning our loyalty to them and I'm starting to get scared." Brutus answered, sitting down.

"We barely see everyone around here...except for Marcus, Jojo and Mana." Casper added.

Justin turned to Casper and stroked his hair a little bit and he looked at him in the eye and said, "You know, you've been keeping a distance from me and the others lately. Was it something I did or the others did?"

"It's got nothing to do with you at all. let's just leave it at that, Justin." Casper said, looking at him.

Justin blinked his eye a few times and just froze for a second on Casper's reaction and he said, "Casper..."

Casper sighed deeply and just left the room, frustrated and sorrowful as he walked upstairs and made his way up there and he didn't see Diego, Mike, Cody, Frankie and Max come in the house and Diego was the only one that saw Casper storm upstairs and he asked the others, "What's up with Casper?"

"He's just upset, that's all." Justin replied.

Diego sighed heavily and planted himself on the couch and wanted to unwind himself with a little TV and Zeke said, "You look exhausted."

"What do you think? Between school and my job at this high-end Italian restaurant, I can barely sleep." Diego answered.

"Any mail came in?" asked Cody.

Dustin brought in just a few bills right in front of them and Mike asked, "How many is it this time?"

"6 bills...including a credit card notice for Frankie." Dustin replied.

Now that really caught Frankie's attention and he received the letter and when he opened it up and saw the bill, he was freaking shocked at it and he said, "I already paid the (bleep)ing credit card company twice last week. Now they wanna pay me three times that? The economy's (bleep)ed up already and now it's (bleep)ing up with my paycheck."

"Maybe you should stop overusing your card." Max suggested.

Frankie looked at Max in the eye with this glare from him and said, "When have I overused my card?"

"When you use Whomazon a lot." Diego pointed out.

Frankie rolled his eyes and he said, "Man, I can't believe I'm gonna pay up $250 on this overused credit card."

Diego went channel surfing for a second and he stumbled across the last 20 seconds of a rock video and let it stay there, only to find that it's reaching the end of the video and he groaned at this and said, "Man, this is messed up. I miss all the good rock videos and they end up with a (bleep)tty pop song."

"Maybe this next video's different." Justin added.

Diego kept his hopes steady, but as the next video surfaces...in comes a setting in a carousel and six girls come by; each of them wearing matching private school outfits with crazy hairstyles and as they started singing, it started grating on Diego's nerves and he groaned loudly and said, "Another (bleep)ing boy band video?! And I thought listening to all this (bleep)ing pop music in the restaurant was bad enough."

"Those guys look pretty cool though." Frankie pointed out.

"Yeah, they are...but they're pop stars. I hate pop stars with a passion." Diego said, looking at them.

"Especially boy bands?" asked Justin.

"I'd stick my foot under each boy band member's ass if they get in my face one day." Diego said, with a scowl.

"Think I should check on Ryan?" asked Max.

Dustin clears his throat and he replied, "I think it's best we leave him alone and give him time to cool off. He'll come to us when he's ready."

Now that is drama! Stay tuned to see how Ryan is doing!