Hutch POV

We were walking towards the den that housed Kate and Humphrey, with me walking near Brendan. He was such an adorable wolf, I just needed to get another good look at him. Without Brendan noticing, I had looked his way, taking his beautiful features once again.

"Staring again?" I hear him ask. I quickly look away, blushing deeply. "It's like you haven't seen a new wolf before." He says, laughing a little at the end. Maybe this wasn't the guy I was supposed to end up with. Maybe he's straight… The letdown that would be.

"I've seen a new wolf before, just… not one like you before." I answer, looking in his direction. He raises an eyebrow at me, then slows down. I do the same.

"And what makes me so different?" He asks. I widen my eyes at his question, for I thought that he would just shrug it off and keep walking, like most did. I look towards him, glancing around me and my surroundings.

"Y-your fur c-color..." I answer, looking away and stuttering like an idiot. I then feel him stop, which makes me stop and walk back towards him.

"You o-" I was stopped midsentence by him putting his paw up, then pointing to the behind me. I follow to where he was pointing and saw a den, more importantly: Kate and Humphrey's den.

"Is this the place?" He asks me. I nod my head slowly, just taking it in that my alone time with this wolf was over with. He just smiles, and nods his head. He gets up and starts to head for the den, kind of slow if you ask me.

"Thank you…" He stops, looking like he's realized something. "I never got your name." He says, turning towards me.

"H-hutch…" is my only answer. I look up, seeing him smile a little.

"Well, Hutch, let me just say that it was a pleasure to meet you, and I hope to see you soon." He says, starting to walk away. I run up next to him, with him looking at me weird.

"What are you doing?" He asks. "Don't you have responsibilities to do?" I nod my head, but then look at him.

"If you go walking in there by yourself, I'll get into serious trouble with the Leaders." I answer him. He only nods his head, understanding what I meant by that. To tell the truth, though, I'm such good friends with them that they would probably let me off with a warning, then just smile and invite me over for dinner. (They were always doing that for some reason…)

Me and Brendan had gone walking in, with Humphrey, Kate, and Cando all talking to each other. They were all laughing and having a grand old time, making me feel uncomfortable and also making Brendan tense up. Me and Brendan looked at each other, before I cleared my throat. All three look this way, smiling at me then looking over at the new wolf standing beside me. Cando had this death glare, though, making me think that he doesn't like how close the two of us are… (Me and Brendan are standing pretty close to one another…)

"Hey Hutch! Who's this?" Humphrey asks, giving me a slight wink. I look towards Brendan, who just raises an eyebrow at how Humphrey said that. But, he seems to be blushing. The question is though: What does it mean?!

"Humphrey, Kate…" I looked over to Cando, seeing him glare at Brendan silently. "..Cando. This is Brendan. Brendan this is…" I one by one point out all three wolves, saying their names while I was at it. Brendan only waves his paw at the three.

"What brings you here, Brendan?" Kate asks. He looks up at the ceiling for a minute, before looking back at Kate.

"My pack needs help…" He says. Kate and Humphrey look at each other, before looking back at Brendan. "There is a civil war happening, and it needs to end. It's been going on for months, with lots of casualties, including my father…" He looks down at the ground, before looking up and continuing. "No one knows I'm here, and I'm hoping that they still don't know…" He looks to both of them. "Just… Please help…" He begs.

"Which pack would this be?" Kate asks. It takes a minute or two for Brendan to respond, but he eventually does.

"The Northern Pack." We all drop our jaw at this. Our closest ally is at war with themselves!?

"How long has this been going again? And, why didn't they send for help?" I ask. Brendan looks towards me for a second, before looking away.

"Like I said, it has been going on for months now, about 3 or 4, and they didn't want to get anyone else involved so no one lost more wolves than they needed to…" He answers. Before anyone could say anything, he continued. "I promised my father that I would end this war, even if it means breaking a few rules." He says, straightening his back, looking tough for all of us.

"We'll need to talk about this for a while, until then, you can stay with Hutch, until you are ready to leave." Humphrey says, smiling a little. I started to blush like crazy, but only nod my head in response. Brendan stands up, nodding his head and starts to head out.

"Wait," Kate says, sounding firm. "Who was your father…?" She asks. Brendan stops, turns his head to look at us, before answering.

"His name was Zach, leader of the Northern Pack." I look towards Kate, her going wide eyed then ushered us out, except Cando, and told us to leave and let them think about it. She quickly walked back into the den, with me looking towards Brendan, who just shrugged his shoulders.

"Where do you live, Hutch?" He asks, letting me take the lead.

"Follow me." Is all I can say. As I walk by Brendan, he quickly implants a kiss onto my cheek, making me stop in my tracks and quickly look at him. He only smiles.

"Oh come on, for someone as cute as you are, you're acting like you've never gotten a kiss from the same gender." He says. I can only stare for a few minutes, before answering.

"I haven't…" His smile goes from a small one to the largest one I've seen on him since I met him.

"Then you're in for a surprise with me!" He says, walking ahead of me, flicking his tail once again under my chin. I blush a deeper red, trying to process what he had done to me and got away with.

I ran after Brendan after what he did to me, a blush still implanted on my face. He had walked through some bushes, making me have to run faster to make sure that I caught up with him. Once I had caught up with him, he sees that I'm still blushing and starts to giggle. That only makes blush more, and then I try to hide it from him.

"Aw, don't be like that, Hutch!" He says, stopping and making me face him. "I love how cute you look when you blush!" My eyes widen at that, and I start to try and get away from his grasp.

"Let me go!" I cry out. Brendan then holds me firm, in place, making me look right into his eyes.

"What's wrong?" He asks me. I try to look away from him, but he holds his paws right on the edges of my muzzle. "What is wrong? Is someone bullying you?" He asks, getting a slight snarl going. I shake my head, trying my best to look away from him.

"Are you going to tell me?" I stare into his eyes, taking in the fact that one eye color is different from the other.

"It's just that…" I stop, why was I telling this wolf?! He won't care that I'm gay! And yet, I have this feeling of safety while in his arms, and a feeling that I should trust this wolf with all of my being. "It's just that I'm gay, and I can't find someone who is also like me…" I see that Brendan's eyes become wide, making me think that he was going to hit me or something. He moved one paw away from my muzzle, making me brace for impact. I closed my eyes, waiting for it to happen…

But nothing came…

"Hey, I'm not gonna hit you…" I open one of my eyes and looked at him. He's smiling. "There are those eyes I like so much…" I blushed hard because of what he said. He puts his paw behind my head, and starts to lightly push it forward, his head moving ever so slowly towards mine.

"What's happening…?" I ask him. Brendan just shrugs his shoulders, making me do the same. We move closer and closer to each other, our lips almost touching, when Cando comes running through the bushes, growling and snarling at Brendan.

"C-cando?" I say, stuttering from how surprised I was. He doesn't take his eyes off of Brendan.

"Hutch, what were you doing all of the way out of here with… him?" He asks me, saying 'him' like it was poison. I look toward Brendan, who was just raising an eyebrow at the two of us. Cando kept snarling at the two of us, until I piped up.

"Cando, what's wrong…?" I ask him. He looks over at me, then proceeds to answer.

"This guy just shows up out of the blue, and then asks us for our help in a war that shouldn't even have started and, yet, you're okay with him staying with you?! It's almost like you knew he was coming to begin with!" He answers, on the verge of screaming.

"Cando, you know that that is incorrect! I've been here, with you, Kate, and Humphrey for a long time. Not only that, but you can ask Garth where I have been all morning!" I tell him, standing up and getting into his face. He gets closer in my face, growling a little. That is, until Brendan had decided to push me aside, lightly I must add, and got into Cando's face.

"Now you listen here, you little twat! If Hutch says that this isn't true, and it isn't, then you have to listen to him! Take the time to actually get to know his side of the story, before you go and jump to conclusions like that!" Brendan had gained a snarl while saying that, and he wasn't backing down. "Besides, I'm not gonna sit back and watch two wolves fight."

"Why? Too chicken?" Cando asks. Brendan gets closer into Cando's face, making Cando start to back himself up. Brendan had backed up him into a tree, looking like he was gonna kill Cando.

"No, because I'm half omega, half alpha." He says, getting out of his face and walking over to me, looking worried.

"Are you okay?" He asks me, but I can't answer. He's half omega?! I mean, in this world, it's completely fine for an alpha and omega to be together, but… Not one this old, right?

I finally look at Brendan, seeing that he was staring at me, and blushed a little, which got a smile in return from him. "I'll take that as a yes." He says, laughing a little. I nod my head slowly, making sure not to look like a complete fool in front of this wolf. I look back at Cando, who's jaw was dropped to the ground, making me smile a little. He looked towards me and pointed to Brendan, jaw still dropped. I shrug my shoulders in response, giving him a slight wave, then looking back at Brendan.

"Shall we get going?" I ask him, looking into his eyes.

"Take me to your den…" He answers, winking at me when I stand up. I blush heavily from that, and Brendan just smiles and laughs a little. He starts to walk away, with me in tow. I look back at Cando, waving at him once again, before getting as close as I could to this wolf before he shoved me away from him.

"Off to your den, no?" I nod my head after he asked me that question, looking over at him, and, once again, feeling safe right next to him…

A/N: This was a different approach to a chapter than what I did with the other chapter. Mostly because it being longer. (This chapter alone has over 2000 words!) And, I decided to change this a little different, pacing wise.

Now, that little moment between Hutch and Brendan? Yea, that was actually added in post-production. I had the wonderful idea of doing that within this story, but maybe it was too soon? IDK, give me some feedback on that, please. (It was a touching moment though…)

This story, as you can tell, is one that I plan on having fun with, making it do certain things is a lifelong dream! Only certain writers gets this kind of feedback, which brings me to the comments:

Woah, Love how everthing starts and how these two met. I think this new guy definitely likes Hutch. Can't wait to read more. Thumbs up! :3

This was posted by the user TimberPaw. While I feel like I have read his stories before, he was one of the first to review this story, and gave me some kind of feedback as well. So, thanks dude!

Hey welcome to FF! And to the A and O archive. You said give your story a chance and I did. You got me hooked so far. Can't wait for a update.

-Mysterydude23

This was obviously posted by the user Mysterdude23. Again, gave me some kind of feedback and didn't do it negatively! And, this person even gave me a small welcome to both and the Alpha and Omega Archive, so thanks for that! (Even though I feel like it is dead, since Lionsgate isn't going to be making these movies anymore… that I know of…)

To anyone else who has reviewed, thanks! I would include all five of them, but this author's note has gone on for too long, and it's more author's note than anything else, really. I hope everyone loved the chapter, and thanks for giving me a chance. I hope I spark another start on this archive once again, because I miss some of the better writers from, like, the first movie days.

Thanks, and see you in the next chapter guys!