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DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Alpha and Omega film franchise. Nor do I own the intellectual property contained within it. This story is purely fiction set after the events of the first film for entertainment purposes only. Rated M as this story will include a wide range of themes - so please read at your own risk.

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Chapter 1 - A Midsummer Night's Dream

Night had descended upon Jasper Park. The picturesque surroundings were illuminated by the crisp white light of the full moon, penetrating through the clear night sky. The moon, an ever-shining ember in place of the demon of a sun, which had plagued the valley that day with its seething gaze. Almost as if the sight wasn't enough, the light proceeded to dance off the stream near the horizon, giving it an almost glassy appearance. A low lying fog had descended in most of the Valley as there was no wind on this night, perhaps as if it was intimidated by the moons presence.

Humphrey pondered about this for a moment as he shivered, letting his mind idle. he took slight pleasure in the majestic architecture surrounding him on this unusually quiet mid-summers night. Humphrey's mind however was not at ease and he knew it. Silence ensued. There was not a howl to be heard on this full moon, nor a birds chirp or even the sound of the Canadian express asserting its dominance through the trees like a man made scar. Any of these sounds would have been comforting distraction, as his mind slowly reverted back to his situation. As his unease increased, he rubbed his eyes with his paws letting out a discontented growl as he almost playfully lolled his head on the frigid ground of his den. In a way he amazed himself that he had the tenacity to muck about and draw pictures on the den floor when his situation was so dire.

Humphrey accepted himself as an Omega wolf, he recognized this as an important complement to a pack which was dominated by stubborn and aggressive Alphas. What he could not fathom however was how he managed to ruin everything. As his torn; aching body began to fall limp, his mind began falling into a deep slumber. Humphrey's dreams were usually his haven where he could escape the constraints of his limiting physical body - a place he could truly be happy. But no ease came to Humphrey on this night, not even in his sleep. As he tossed and turned, sweating on the den floor; He vividly replayed the day's events. If he weren't sleeping and had the cognitive ability, he would have felt almost violated by this. Much like a wolf deciding to mark his territory in your den. Unfortunately for the Omega Humphrey however, a dream is something you are forced to endure.

-Humphrey's dream-

There she was. Her fur so golden, reflecting the moonlight in a way which looked like the sun itself. Throughout his life, Humphrey hadn't had much in the way of luck. He had never known his parents, however what he did know about them was that he was taken in by the Western pack as an orphan as he was apparently a result of an 'accident' between two young wolves from the Eastern and Western pack. Winston of course had to break this into him slowly, with Humphrey being as young as he was. This time however fate had dealt him better cards. Humphrey fully intended to play them to his advantage.

He proceeded to look at the beautiful golden Alpha in front of him. Her scent, features; Voice were all so alluring to him. The noise in the train car was almost deafening for a creature with sensitive hearing like a wolf, yet he found himself staring at her incomprehensibly, mesmerized as if in the presence of an angel. This female had to be the only wolf he every truly loved which had made life difficult for Humphrey. Especially over the last 2 days that he had spent in Idaho with her. Humans had relocated them to Sawtooth National Forrest to repopulate, and he had to admit, during his trip he had replayed fantasies in his head of doing exactly that.

Snapping back to reality his anxiousness returned... Quite rightly so. He realized the audacity of what he was about to do, and the possible implications of how she would react. Despite this he also realized that this was perhaps his only chance to tell her the huge secret he had been keeping locked away in his heart since he was a pup.

"Kate.." Humphrey whispered gently towards her. Kate's ears flickered to the stimulation but to no avail.

"Kaaate" He said somewhat more forcefully.

"Ugh.. What is it Humphrey, you woke me up."

Kate, being an Alpha growled in frustration and immediately stood on the train car floor. Not before stretching her forelegs and cracking her back, which reminded Humphrey of something that Tony would do.

"We're in Jasper Kate..." Humphrey Paused.

" I told you we make a pretty good team."

Kate let out a small yawn, making Humphrey chuckle.

"Yeah Humph, we sure do..."

She said this somewhat sarcastically, however Humphrey was too focused on the nickname she had adopted for him over the last 2 days to pay attention to this. Did this mean she felt the same way perhaps?

"What are you thinking about Humphrey?" Interjected Kate.

"Kate, I've been needing to tell you this. I have felt this way all my life. And over the last few days, it's made me believe it even more... You were always the one Kate, I love you with all my heart."

Kate stared at Humphrey blankly, making him even more nervous than he was. As his heart rate picked up, he shuffled his paws on the wooden car floor.

"I need you Kate, more than you ever know. We can make this work. I know I'm an Omega and you're an Alpha, but you know me... We can figure something out. Will you be my mate?"

"I already know Humph.."

Kate proceeded to sigh and tilt her head towards Humphrey with an exasperated look.

"You're kind of cute Humph, and we will always be friends. But... You need to know that I'm getting married to Garth though. I'm not going against pack law, and let's face it. You can't even hunt. How would you provide for me when I am pregnant with your pups?"

Humphrey had no answer to this as he started at the ground. He couldn't help but let a tear escape his eye and drip off his nose, creating a small splash on the wooden planks of the train car. However what Kate would say next would take all the air from his lungs.

"I don't like you in that way anyway. All You have time for is games. Responsibilities come first Humph and you need to realize this. I'm getting married to Garth and uniting the packs. I need a real wolf. As the future leader of the pack my pups must be fast, strong and smart. Don't take this the wrong way Humph, but you're none of these".

Kate shook her head in frustration and launched herself from the train car with the precision and skill of an Alpha. This left Humphrey inside it staring blankly at the moon. Mooch was right. He shouldn't have let an idea so abstract like being with Kate enter his head in the first place. His logical reasoning did nothing to sooth him however as his tears began to fall, whilst he slowly stumbled towards the door and prepared to leap.

Without a doubt, this had to have been the biggest blow he had ever suffered. He felt incomplete. He never deserved this come to think of it. All he ever wanted was to be accepted and find true happiness.

The couple walked towards the head Alpha den in silence. The moon was high in the sky, the sun a mere remnant of what was the day. Humphrey refused to look at Kate for the entire journey. He would usually consider this type of behavior quite childish, however given the circumstances he needed time to regain his composure.

Kate sniffed at the ground for a scent to ascertain the direction of the pack. Being downwind this was fairly easy for an Alpha, so she simply cocked her head towards the direction they needed to go. As they approached the perimeter of the territory, passing through miles of tall Redwood trees they eventually came into a clearing. Laughing and splashing could be heard from the nearby watering hole. This was a lake which was fed by the cleanest river water originating in the nearby mountains. Kate lowered herself to the ground as Humphrey peaked past the brushes and shrubs. This revealed Reba and Janice, the vegetarians bathing and having a game of 'berry ball' in the water.

"HAHA I got you first!" exclaimed Reba.

"Don't get cocky sister, you just took a berry to the face. You'd better get those stains cleaned out for the howl tonight, or no guy will fancy you." Replied Janice.

"Oh really? Salty didn't seem to think so. In fact he was drooling over me bathing the other day. I love teasing him."

Humphrey chuckled to himself lightly, this sounded like his friends. Oh how glad he was to be home.

"Reba, stop it seriously you know I'm taking him to the moonlight how..." Janice broke off and looked around.

"Who..who's there!?" Janice shouted.

"What is it?" Reba chimed in.

"Someone is watching us..."

Kate thought this an appropriate time to make her presence known. She prodded Humphrey with her paw and signaled for them to emerge from cover.

"Ow. Why so hard?" Humphrey whined.

Kate was tired from her 2 day ordeal and losing her patience.

"Grow up you silly Omega" she barked back with an extremely snotty attitude.

If words could kill... Humphrey found this extremely rude and hurtful, not the way you would talk even to a friend. Humphrey had had enough. The old Kate had gone forever. Alpha School had replaced her as a cold hearted bitch, a mere shell of what she once was. An oyster without a pearl Humphrey mused.

"Well fuck you then" Humphrey replied slowly and methodically. He knew however that he had hit a serious nerve.

Kate ignored this and walked out of the bushes where they were hiding, Humphrey trailing behind her.

"Hey girls what's up?" Kate addressed Reba and Janice.

Reba was initially taken aback by the golden she wolf standing in front of her.

"OH. MY GOD... Look who it is!" She exclaimed to Janice.

Janice scampered out of the lake with a start, happy to see her friend after she feared the worst must have happened.

"Kate are you alright!?" Piped Janice.

"Of course I am. I'm the top Alpha in the pack after all..." Kate replied self assured and was bombarded by an onslaught of questions regarding her absence, then proceeding to giggle with the girls.

Reba's attention then turned to Humphrey who stood immediately behind Kate.

"Oh my god it's you!" Reba shouted. Humphrey smiled, happy to see his friend. Over the years growing up as an orphan, Reba and Humphrey had formed a strong almost brother-sister bond. Perhaps because they had so much in common. Reba and Janice were both vegetarians all their life and Omegas, so they commanded the lowest social ranking in the pack. Other than Kate, Lilly and Some of the other Omegas, wolves refused to even talk to them. Alphas such as Claws and Scar often spat at them, even sometimes attacking them when they suggested bitter berries as an alternative to caribou due to the relative scarcity.

Humphrey opened his paws to welcome Reba into a hug. Reba approached in a flash. Oddly Humphrey never recalled them making contact. The next thing he remembered was waking up on the ground, a numb, throbbing yet stinging sensation in his face. Raising his paws to feel at his face, he opened his eyes to reveal the wet sticky sensation was in fact blood.

"Uuuuuuugh" Humphrey groaned. His own voice echoed inside his head, almost as if he was delirious.

Humphrey slowly opened his eyes to see Reba lowering down to face him, her paw all bloody from where she had decided to claw his face. Janice was stood behind her in shock; And Kate was stood next to Janice with a smug look on her face.

"You disgust me Humphrey, after all we have been through tell my it's not true!" Reba yelled.

Janice's initial shock was replaced by anger and she couldn't help but chime in.

"Yeah Humphrey, we actually thought you were a decent guy, and pretty hot too..." She trailed off.

This was confusing Humphrey more, as if the recent blow to the head wasn't enough.

"Crap. Reba. What is your problem?" Humphrey managed to straggle out in raspy breaths.

"Don't give me that attitude darling, or should I say pervert. You know exactly what you've done."

Janice decided to take over.

"Yeah Humphrey, when we first heard about it we didn't believe it was true. But Eve was right. We all thought she was a highly strung paranoid wolf scared of her daughters disappearance. I'm just ashamed I didn't take her advice on board. It was no wonder you wanted to abduct Kate, you've had a crush on her all your life. You even told me." Janice said with temper.

Like any duo, Reba had to finish her sentence.

"Yeah! so you abducted her to rape her... Oooh and so now what? Kate turns up again alive and well so we thought it was all lies. That was until Kate confirmed Eve's suspicions!"

Humphrey was in a state of total shock, never before had such a fabrication been made up about him.

"Yeah, Humphrey was staring at my ass the whole journey" Kate added, which wasn't a total lie.

"The bastard broke me off from the moonlight howl with Garth because he was jealous and he knew those humans would be there to take us to Idaho. The whiny shit raped me in my sleep. The only reason I didn't kill him off is because I'm better than that..." Kate lied and trailed off.

The vegetarians had obviously had enough, and could no longer face Humphrey. Humphrey managed to stumble to his paws, his consciousness fading and blood dripping from the gashes on his face. Reba turned around one last time.

"STAY AWAY FROM ME PERVERT" She yelled and she proceeded to walk away from the lake.

Humphrey began to cry, a never ending flow of saline tears flowed down his cuts, stinging them as if purging him for a sin he never committed. Kate turned to Humphrey one last time and sinisterly whispered in his ear.

"Shouldn't have pissed me off... Humph."

"FUCK FUCKING YOU!" Humphrey exclaimed with ferocity

"You'll never get away with this you could heartless cow." He mumbled.

"I'm the pack leaders daughter. And besides sweetie, I'm heading to the head Alpha den to tell mother exactly what's happened. Guess she was right all along, HAH Humph!?"

Humphrey had no real comeback to this.

"You're crazy Kate"

Kate ignored this and turned around

"Clocks ticking Humphrey" She said as she ran off to the den.

Humphrey had no energy to run nor fight. He just sat there and watched as the last hint of daylight had completely disappeared from the sky. A worn tangled cut-up mess of nerves and hormones. His brain could not compute as salinated blood dripped from his face, staining the sand a brown colour. He would keep his moral high ground however and he still loved Kate. His Kate. Despite having deserved it, he couldn't help but feel guilty for calling her a heartless cow. He sobbed wondering what he had done to deserve this life as nothing had ever gone his way. Numb, almost automated he moved towards the crystal clear spring, turning the water a slight crimson colour. The cool water relaxed his nerves, as he greedily lapped it up. A long overdue refreshment. At this point he wanted nothing more than to go to his den and hide away from the world.

Laying in the sand, staring up at the stars, Humphrey pondered what his life should and could have been, his bleeding tired body shaking from the onset of hypothermia. He growled softly as a commotion interrupted his train of thought.

"YOUUUU!" Bellowed a feminine, yet terribly deep voice.

Humphrey pounced to his feet as if following basic instinct. not 100 feet away stood the last wolf anybody wanted to see, especially on a day as bad as this. Eve. She scared Humphrey to the core. Kate somehow managed to take the best traits from Eve and leave the 'killer' behind. Though today, Humphrey was beginning to doubt the validity of that. Following behind her was an old grey wolf, Winston with the majority of the Eastern and Western pack. Some had speculated that Humphrey was Winston's son from a previous mate as their appearance was very similar, but the pack leader was too ashamed to admit it.

Humphrey was cut off from these thoughts. He was a dead wolf and he knew it.

"YOU..." Eve repeated somewhat haphazardly, obviously going through some internal dilemma.

"YOU DISGUSTING PIECE OF SHIT! I WILL SKIN YOU AND USE YOU AS A DOOR FLAP."

Winston interjected

"Normally Humphrey I would hold back my wife, but today I'm not going to. Nobody rapes my daughter and gets away with it. I don't even know why I had anything to do with a disgusting orphaned pup like yourself, I should have left you to the bears..."

This destroyed Humphrey. As if he could even be further broken. Winston continued.

"I banish you from the Jasper Park United pack. And yes, Kate is getting married so it is no longer east and west. Oh and Humphrey, never talk to, or come close to me or any of the pack again."

as the angry growling pack of over 50 wolves advanced on him, Humphrey closed his eyes.

Broken and bleeding, practically undead, Humphrey dragged himself towards his only haven he had. His home away from home. He left a trail of blood in his struggle which he knew he would attract apex predators. he pulled himself through the shallow rapids of a small stream, hoping to disperse his scent. Upon arrival Humphrey collapsed giving up. Part of him doubted he would even survive the night and yet he didn't even care anymore. Staring out from his den away from home, he looked at the moon. His one and only true friend he mused deliriously.

His mind restless he began drawing on the den floor, his paw dripping in blood. Hypothermia had fully set in and he was delirious to the point that he questioned his own sanity. As his unease increased, he rubbed his eyes with his paws letting out a discontented growl. As his torn; aching body began to fall limp, his mind began falling into a deep slumber. Humphrey's dreams were usually his haven where he could escape the constraints of his limiting physical body - a place he could truly be happy. Unfortunately for the Omega Humphrey however, a dream is something you are forced to endure.