sadder than he ever had felt before.
"Humphrey, wait." Kate called after him, "please don't go, I don't want you to." She had tears in her eyes as she begged him to stay.
"Kate, I can't stay here anymore. Every day that I would spend here would be complete torture now." Humphrey replied.
"Why?" Kate asked incredulously, "What could be so bad that you can no longer live here?"
"You wouldn't understand, it's complicated." Humphrey turned to leave.
"I'm listening, Humphrey. You can tell me anything." Kate said.
Humphrey spun to face her, "No, you aren't listening. You never did!" Kate saw tears well up in his eyes as he screamed at her. "Even on the train, you left before I could tell you what I wanted to tell you for years," he stopped to take a shaky breath. "I love you, Kate. I could never stay here and see you with him every day, it would tear me apart from the inside out."
Kate took a step back, "This can't be right. It's against pack law for an Omega to love an Alpha."
"That's why I'm leaving. It's against the law for me to see you, since I love you so." Humphrey turned away from her again, "I hope you are happy with him, if only one of us could be happy, I hope that it's you."He ran from her before she could reply.
Humphrey had almost made it out of the territory when he was stopped by Winston, "What did you say to my daughter?" he asked, "You left her crying, on her wedding day no less!"
"Sir, I am leaving the pack. I confessed that to her, along with the fact that... I love her."
Humphrey fell to the ground and began to cry, "Why did I have to fall for her? Why not another one?"
When Humphrey had finished crying, Winston said "I won't try to stop you from leaving, Humphrey; but at least stay until after the ceremony. Do it for me, a last request before you leave."
"Okay, I will stay. When the ceremony is over, I will probably never come back, though."...
The wedding passed without incident, Humphrey standing at the farthest edge of the group.
Over the course of the ceremony, all of the wolves heard a slight buzzing in their ears; they could not identify the noise so settled for ignoring it. As soon as Garth and Kate rubbed their noses together, the noise intensified and was recognized as a deep, rage-filled growl. All eyes turned towards the source, which was recognized as Humphrey.
Eve rushed over to Humphrey, enraged that he would try to ruin her daughter's wedding day like this. She was prepared to tear him apart as she spun him around to face her; but when she saw the look of cold fury in his eyes, she put her tail between her legs and backed away from him slowly.
"Do not try that again." he ordered the powerful she-wolf, "I am not in the mood for you or anybody else!" his voice dropped to little more than a whisper. "Do you understand me?"
Eve nodded slowly and backed away faster.
Kate watched as Humphrey left Jasper in a fit of rage and thought, 'What happened to him to make him this way?'...
Humphrey had almost reached the train tracks when his journey was interrupted by a wolf that he was not eager to see, it was Kate. "You think that you can act like that and then just leave?" she demanded.
"Kate," Humphrey warned, "I am in a very bad mood right now. I don't want to hurt you, but if you do not get out of my way, I will make you move."
Kate's eyes widened at his statement and then began to fill with tears, "Why are you being this way, did you really think that I wanted to marry Garth? I've got news for you, Humphrey, I wanted this even less than you did. Who is going to be there for me if you leave?"
Humphrey's eyes softened slightly, "Kate, you can't play the guilt card on me anymore. I have received too much pain from emotions, so I am going to leave them here. Remember this though, you will always have my heart." and with that he left.
Kate stood by and watched him pad down the tracks, 'I will have more than that'...