A/N: Sooo I decided to be nice and post another chapter before the week was up. I was going to do it last night but the site was down... for like a long ass time and it's taken me till now to post cause the site was down for so long. Any who before it fucking goes down again here's chapter 2! Enjoy!

Chapter 2: Lunch Date

Axel's POV

"You have a meeting with Sephiroth's Pack at one today. Ok?" Leon reminded me over breakfast. Sephiroth... he was the most vain wolf I had ever met in my entire life.

Sexy, arrogant and most of all a total pussy. He had somehow become the Alpha of one of the most known Packs in The Pride Lands.

"Axel!" Leon called kicking my shin under the table. Cloud snorted as he bit into a piece of bacon, looking away.

"Yes I'm listening damnit!" I cried grabbing a piece of toast and angrily taking a bite.

"Don't use that language with me young man1 I'll bend you over my knee if I have to and spank you!" Leon cried narrowing his eyes at me.

Cloud's face was as red as my hair at this point as he tried choking down the bacon. "You can bend me over your knee if you'd like." He muttered huskily nipping at Leon's ear.

"I... no! I... mean... you... you know what I meant!" He spluttered standing up and stalking off.

Snickering Cloud and I exchanged knowing glances as we finished eating breakfast. "Your father means well Axel. He just wants you to be successful when you become Alpha."

Leon loved being called father while Cloud wanting nothing more than to be called dad. So I humored them both and called them what they wanted me to. I loved both of them unconditionally. They had taken me in when my own Pack had kicked me out.

"Father!" I called. "We still love you!"

"No you don't! You're both out of the will, and don't forget Axel, Pack meeting with Sephiroth at one!"

Shaking my head I laughed and polished off my plate before announcing I was going on a run. It didn't bother me to be naked but out of courtesy for Cloud who was still eating I went into the living room and undressed.

Bones cracked and popped as they reshifted themselves so that I was no longer on two legs but instead four. Fur grew all over my body and my mouth elongated so that it became a muzzle, my nose was black and wet, my teeth became like a canines and my nails turned into sharp talons. A tail quickly formed and was covered by thick fur, my ears were now resting atop my head instead of on the sides.

Yawning I stretched flexing my paws and wagging my new appendage. Bounding into the kitchen I let my tongue loll out and waited as Cloud stood up and opened the door for me. "Have fun Axel." He said patting my head affectionately.

Quickly I bounded into the forest going as deep as I possibly could before a howl ripped its way out of my throat. There was no moon but that didn't matter, that was the first thing we did every time we shifted, we howled. I didn't need a full moon to change, I could change anytime I wanted. Changing also helped when getting sick, there were a few diseases that both wolves and humans could share but if we changed within a few hours we were better.

The land was abundant with wildlife and teeming with rivers filled with fresh fish. The grass was still a pretty green and the trees had all but shed their leaves. There were still some berries that were pretty ripe this season and snow was expected to blanket the area pretty soon. A few of the wolves were expecting pups soon so we always had that to look forward to.

Placing my nose near the ground I sniffed out a few rabbits and headed down a small trail following their scent. I made sure not to step on any twigs and to avoid as many dead leaves as I could.

I found them in a small clearing there were two of them. Brown with white cotton ball tails and giant ears and oh god they looked so good! I was drooling as I slowly slunk forward. There ears were up and they were rigid and alert sniffing the air as they tried to smell for danger.

Just a few steps more... and... I jumped one quickly crushing its neck with my powerful jaws. The second one was already bounding off but in two quick strides I had him by the throat and I crushed it as well. Carrying it to the other rabbit I set them down and bit into the small creatures. The human inside me craved food, anything cooked while the wolf inside me craved fresh meat. It wanted to kill things every so often as if reminding me that I wasn't fully human. I enjoyed stalking my prey, snapping their necks and digging into the fresh meat they provided.

The blood was warm as I lapped it up and started ripping chunks of flesh and fur off.

I had just finished eating and was about to run when I heard the howl. Leon was calling me back home. I hated Pack meetings, they were nothing but kissing ass and politics. Our Pack was also pretty well known and was one of the strongest Packs out there. We worked hard to gain our allies favor and we worked hard to keep them happy and in our favor.

This meeting was probably another way for us to kiss Sephiroth's ass. He was one of our allies no matter how weak his Pack was we still had to keep in good standing with them. Even if we were stronger and could kick his ass anytime and anyday we wanted.

There hadn't been any Wars in a very long time but it was almost like a tradition that a new Alpha had to go to these Pack meetings. I hated it with every fiber of my being but I knew if I didn't attend then Leon was going to have my hide and Cloud would let him. We didn't often get new Alphas for the simple fact we lived for so long but when we did we had to have another stupid meeting just to meet the new Alphas.

Like I said kissing ass and politics oh joy.

Hurriedly I made my way back home after finishing my meal of course. The door opened just as I reached the house and I skidded in.

"Axel!" Leon screeched and I pinned my ears back whining at the loud noise. "What the hell? You have to be there in twenty minutes and you've got blood on your muzzle!"

I whimpered again rubbing my face on Leon's pant leg. He pulled back in disgust. "No! Don't you dare think you can get out of this one! Go wash your muzzle in the stream and head straight to Sephiroth's you understand?" He growled tapping his foot.

I nodded and waited as Leon gathered my clothes and some twine. After tying them to my back I dashed off to the city. The stream wasn't to far away and I hurriedly dipped my muzzle in drinking some of the bloody water because it tasted delicious and headed straight for Sephiroth's.

He owned a giant advertising company and I stopped in the brush when I got there with five minutes to spare to change clothes. Ever since Cloud and Leon had decided that I should learn what it's like to be Alpha I had been going to these Pack meetings that were boring as shit and made me want to claw my eyes out.

Dressing myself I hurried straight inside the company taking the elevator until I reached the tenth floor. The elevator dinged and the doors slid open revealing a ton of computers and even more humans bustling about.

The sounds of computer keys clicking filled my ears, the coffee pot was gurgling as coffee spilled in the glass container. But all of the chatter and feet scuffing on carpet drowned out when I saw him. Blond hair and sapphire blue eyes trained on the computer afforded me enough time to stare at him. His fingers flew over the keyboard and he barely looked down, only long enough to seek out his coffee cup and take a huge swallow.

I could have sworn I knew him. Was he one of my conquests? I somehow remembered a late night staggering home with a blond haired cutie hanging off my arm. We were in a bar... or was it a club? I couldn't remember that much. He had been wearing a halter top it was an emerald green color and a pair of black skinny jeans.

I bought him a drink, I think it was a Sex on the Beach, he was either a light weight or he had been drinking a lot that night. Then again I had to. Kisses were exchanged that night and clothes were quickly shed, I remembered sucking him off and pale hands reaching out to pull my hair. I left him alone later that night sleeping in what I thought was a shitty ass apartment... but what if it wasn't him?

I was surprised to hear my inner wolf screaming at me a few minutes later.

Mate! Mate! Mate! Mate! My wolf growled. Closing my eyes I concentrated on not trying to shift. If I shifted now then Sephiroth sure as hell wasn't going to save my ass!

Mate! Mate! No! I wasn't going to Mate with the poor kid! Besides I had other things to worry about. He probably wasn't even the one I slept with anyway! Even if he was he didn't know that I was a wolf and I was going to keep it that way. The less people that knew who weren't in our circle of wolves the better.

I took a tentative step forward and Blondie didn't seem to see me or if he did he paid me no mind. So I took another step forward until I finally made my way to the front standing in front of him.

"Your Sephiroth's one o'clock correct?" He asked his eyes never moving from the computer.

MATE! MATE! MATE! MATE! My head was pounding as I tried to concentrate on the question that Blondie asked me. Dumbly I nodded not sure if he saw me I decided to answer, "Um... yes. Axel Flurry." I responded.

Reaching over he pushed a button and spoke into it. "Mr. Gold your one o'clock is here." He waited for less than ten seconds before sapphire eyes met mine. "Go on in."

"Um... Ok thanks." I said head pounding as I pushed the heavy metal doors open. Inside sat Sephiroth, his face betrayed the fact that he had been listening in.

I think you forgot to ask him to dinner." Sephiroth chuckled. Narrowing my eyes I growled. "Easy Pup."

"Name's Axel. Got it memorized?" I asked tapping my temple and smirking as he narrowed his eyes at me. "What did you call this meeting for? I don't think it was to talk about the hottie you have working for you." I said winking.

The meeting was long and boring... I don't really know what he said something about some Packs from the North coming down for something. I was more focused on the cutie working on the computers. My back was turned on him and as Sephiroth droned on I wondered if I had really slept with him.

His scent though was odd, now that I had time to reflect on it. It smelled human like all the others but at the same time there was a hint of wolf. Even now if I breathed in deeply past Sephiroth's scent I could still smell him. He must have been in here sometime this morning, the scent wasn't entirely cold.

I also smelled fear that was lingering had that been there when I talked to him? What did he have to fear? Was it Sephiroth? But he also wore this cool exterior as if nothing seemed to bother him. I would stop by his desk again before I left. It wasn't uncommon to smell a wolf on someone that was a shifter or if they had been having sex with one but this... this was all him it was a scent that I recognized. I would come back tomorrow to see if he had that same scent.

"... do you understand?" Sephiroth concluded and I hastily nodded pretending that I had heard every word.

After a few more minutes he dismissed me and I headed out of the door. I took another long whiff of the air sorting out the human scents until I found his. Wolf... it was more potent now. Human was mixed in along with it but why? It was his scent but the human scent seemed to be covering the wolf... why would he do that?

With a Wolf Shifter you could see the human on the outside but what you smelled was the wolf on the inside. That was how we knew we were dealing with Shifters. But this one... I smelled a wolf and I smelled human... it was confusing. Was he a human that was sexually involved with a wolf? Or was he wolf masking his scent?

Looking over at the computer I watched as he typed filling out application after application. Right in front of the boss to. This kid had some serious balls or he was really stupid. I was about to comment when he spoke up instead his voice full of confidence while his scent betrayed his nerves.

"Mr. Gold dismissed you, you are no longer required to stay." He said his eyes never leaving the computer screen.

"I was curious..." I started waiting patiently until he finally stopped typing and looked at me. "Would you like to go out for lunch tomorrow? Just the two of us." I amended when he raised his eyebrow.

"I don't know..." He looked nervous now. Had he never been asked out to lunch before?

"I don't bite." I chuckled, "Much."

That caused him to smile as he ran his fingers through his hair. "Ok. My lunch is around two."

After a few more pleasantries we exchanged numbers and I told him I would pick him up tomorrow at two. After having easily scored a date I walked out of the office a lot happier. My inner wolf had finally calmed down only whimpering out that one stupid word every few minutes.

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The day passed by quickly, I had told Leon and Cloud of the boy I met and after promising them that I would be careful I was off. I was taking one the many cars that we had in the garage, it was a nice black number a brand new Mustang.

Fiddling with the air conditioning I tried to give my hands something to do besides sticking my head out of the window. I was part wolf and wolves were part of the canine group... and every time I rode in the car I had the urge to stick my head out of the window and let my tongue loll out.

I arrived at the building just as the doors opened and Roxas stepped out. He smiled when he saw me and I rolled down the window leaning out. "Hey cutie need a ride?" I asked.

He giggled as I unlocked the doors allowing him to hop inside. "Where are we going to?" He questioned getting inside the car and staring at me eyes glittering.

"Where ever you want." I responded pulling out of the parking space as soon as the door closed. I tried to be as discreet as possible as I sniffed the air and smelled a human. There was not a wolf smell at all. Something wasn't right. If he would have had any sexual encounter with human or wolf I would have known. I would have smelled it, instead of the wavering wolf/human smell, I just smelled a human this time.

I took him to a small restaurant that wasn't to fancy but it was still nice. After parking the car I told him to wait a moment while I went over to the passenger side of the car. Opening the door I reached my hand in and helped him out of the car. Giggling he wrapped his arm around mine as I led him inside.

"Is this a date?" He asked cocking his head to the side.

"Only if you want it to be." I whispered huskily as we made our way to the hostess. I guess she hadn't seen many couples like us before because her mouth flew open and her eyes were practically bugging out of her head.

Nuzzling my neck he brought me down for a quick kiss as I tried to tell her we needed a table for two. Clearing her throat she nodded instead of speaking gesturing her hand for us to follow her. "Your waitress will be here shortly." She stated before speeding off.

"By the way I never got your name." I said folding my hands together.

"Roxas, my name is Roxas Strife. I put it in your phone." He reminded me.

Chuckling I nodded, "I know I just wanted to hear you say it. That such a bad thing?"

I didn't expect him to start laughing. It was a nice sound though, warm a rich tenor. His eyes were closed as he continued giggling and it wasn't long before our waitress arrived.

We were quiet as we quickly looked over the menu and ordered our lunch. The steak here was great so I asked them to make it extra rare, I loved it when the blood was still dripping.

We were silent as the waitress came back with our drinks. After taking a long sip of my soda I looked back at the silent blond.

"Can I tell you a secret." He whispered his voice low as he leaned over the table. Looking around the small restaurant I nodded leaning closer to him. "I hate my job."

A smile spread across his face as I laughed. "Aw how bad can it be?" I teased leaning my chin on my propped up hands.

"He flirts with me all the time! Tries to get me into his office for sex, gross by the way because although I'm gay I wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole, then he's always giving me extra work so that I have to stay behind with him! I fill out applications for other jobs all the time but so far no one seems to be hiring." He grumbled the last part.

"Sephiroth usually pays his employees very well I heard." I commented. "I mean I'm not trying to butt into your personal life I'm sorry."

"No its ok, he pays me about as much as the janitors and that's not very much. I think its because I keep turning him down, I used to make pretty well until then." He sighed.

By the time our food came we still laughing and talking. My inner wolf had calmed down some but was growling out Mate every few minutes. I watched him brush away a stray piece of hair, how his eyes crinkled when he laughed and how he would fidget when he caught me staring. Slowly I reached my hand out inching towards his until I finally clasped it in my own.

Face turning a bright red he tried to hide the smile that was creeping up. I was determined after the end of our lunch date to ask him out on a real one. Complete with flowers and a nice night out on the town. Roxas lunch hour passed by rather quickly and it wasn't long before we were heading outside.

"Get in the car I'll give you a lift back to work." I offered.

He thought about it for a long second before nodding. Opening the doors I waited until he was seated before closing the door behind him. Once I was seated I opened and closed my mouth a few times before starting the car and heading back to Roxas' work.

"So about a second date?" Roxas whispered quietly. My hearing was sensitive but I was still able to pick the barely there question that was asked.

"When and where?" I asked grinning as Roxas face turned an even darker shade of red.

"You really mean it?" He questioned looking over at me his face filled with disbelief.

Nodding he giggled before trying to compose himself so that I wouldn't see. Dropping him off back at work I promised him that I'd call or text him soon to arrange our second date. When I got back home I was practically jumping for joy. Man or wolf I didn't care I was going on a second date and I was pretty sure that I had found my Mate!

Was it even possible for humans and wolves to Mate? I would have to ask Cloud and Leon later tonight. I had never heard of it happening because with all Wolf Shifters there was a Bond that choose your Mate for you. It was an indescribable bond, once you met your destined one the Mates instantly fell in love. There were rumors of wolves falling in love with humans but I didn't really know anybody.

It had happened with everyone in our Pack. They said there was never just one destined one because the world was so vast, but once you met one then the Bond with the others simply just went away. Unnoticed like the sands of time.

Cloud and Leon though believed that there were was one Mate for every person. Cloud would have killed anybody that ever tried to be with Leon and the same went for Leon they were crazy about each other!

The first place I went was straight to Cloud's. I wanted to talk to them more about Roxas. I should have probably knocked because when I walked into the living room Leon was sitting on the couch with Cloud perched in his lap. If that wasn't bad enough they were grinding against each other and moaning helplessly.

Clearing my throat I watched as they jumped apart as if they were teenagers and had been caught by their parents.

"It's just Axel." Cloud practically purred nuzzling Leon's neck affectionately.

I had to watch (well ok I didn't have to watch but damn it I needed some help here!) as Leon trailed his fingers up Cloud's shirt. Shivering he leaned back in to capture my dad's lips in another kiss. "Guys I'm not going anywhere."

Groaning in unison Cloud made no move to roll off of Leon instead they sat there waiting for me to talk.

Rolling my eyes I padded over to one of the chairs and plopped down. "So I took Roxas out on a lunch date, and I even asked him out for another date. But there's something that concerns me..." I said.

"What's that?" Leon asked eyebrows raised.

"My wolf. The whole time I was talking to Roxas my wolf kept screaming Mate over and over. Is it... is it possible that humans and Shifters could Mate?" I asked.

Leon looked to Cloud for this one his eyebrows raised. Cloud was quiet for a long time before he finally spoke up.

"That would be impossible... Axel are you sure that Roxas is a human?"

"Yeah, his scent was definitely human." I wasn't going to mention the slight wolf that I smelled just in case there was another wolf banging the kid. If I even so much as mentioned it they would tell me to back off immediately just in case he was with another wolf.

We were very territorial. If someone so much as even mentioned our Mates in a bad way or the person that we were with we fought. There had been some Shifters who had denounced their wolf side and lived out their lives as humans and even marrying them. While others denounced their human side and lived their lives as wolves. Then there was us, the ones who embraced not only our wolves but our human sides as well.

Cloud looked at me for a few moments more before shaking his head. "That's impossible... there are no records... we'll check into it further and get back to you. Now if you'll excuse us I have something very important to get back to." Cloud growled before nipping Leon's exposed throat.

Normally Cloud was very submissive to Leon but every once in a while the roles would get switched. But not for very long.

Disgusted I stood up and quickly made my exit as Leon let out a gurttal moan. I was going to go for a run but I decided against it and instead made my way back home. Once there I turned the TV on popped open a can of beer and debated on what to text Roxas or even if I should text Roxas.

A/N: *Gasp* What's going to happen? Hmmm? Who knows but you'll find out more in chapter 3! For those who have already reviewed, favorited and are following the story you guys are amazing and I love you! Cookies for all! Anyway I still need more girl names and thank you to those who have contributed. Umm yeah well I hope you enjoyed chapter 2! So leave me a review and let me know what you think. Oh and I'll say it again this is an Mpreg so if you don't like those stories get the fuck out! I don't tolerate asshole comments because I will delete them! Any questions? No, good! Review and let me know what you think!

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