"Jane, just cut it out!"

"But Maura I-"

"No Jane, you're starting to get on my nerves."

Frost, Korsak and Susie all simultaneously turned their heads as they heard everyone's favourite couple have yet another disagreement. They watched as the strongest and most fearless Alpha they had ever known trailed behind her bondmate with her tail between her legs.

"Being pregnant does not make me useless, Jane." The Omega growled as she stalked away from the dens and towards the small incline that led to Beacon Hill.

"Maura, I never said you're useless. I'm sorry I've upset you. Please come back Maur." Jane whimpered pitifully as she watched the Omega walk up the hill and away from her.

"You think there's trouble in paradise?" Frost asked as the three wolves all kept their eyes on Jane as she sat down and hung her head in shame.

"Must be, I've never seen Maura so wound up." Korsak replied, turning his attention to the figure growing smaller in the distance. The Omega's tail swished forcefully with every step, clearly showing just how angry she was.

"Normally I would suggest that one of us should go after Maura whilst the other two check on Jane, but right now I think it's probably best to give them some space." Susie determined as she noticed that Jane's expression had gone from shameful to glowering, probably because the Alpha had only just realised that she had an audience.

It was at that moment that Jane looked up at the three wolves. "What do you lot want?" She said with a scowl.

The three Betas shared a look with one another before they all gave a small nod in agreement. They gathered around the brooding Alpha and sat down next to her with sympathetic looks as they waited for the raven wolf to tell them of her problems.

They didn't have to wait long as after a few moments, Jane began her rant.

"I don't know what I did wrong! All I said was that now that Maura's with young I just thought that it would be best if she stayed in the den. She started to get defensive and asked why she shouldn't be allowed to hunt anymore, and I said that she wouldn't be as good as she was before." As soon as the words passed her lips, Jane could tell by the way her friends cringed that it was definitely the wrong thing to say. If only she had realised that in the moment, she probably would be cuddling up with Maura that very second. Her family always did tell her to watch her mouth. She should really stop laughing off their advice.

"After I said that, she got mad. She had this cold look in her eye that I've never seen before and I think we just had our first real fight. Or maybe not, it was very one-sided." Jane said as she squinted in thought, trying to recall what had just transpired between herself and her bondmate.


"Excuse me? What did you just say?"

Jane looked up just in time to receive Maura's death glare in all its terrifying glory.

"I, ah, I said t-that now that you're carrying our young, I just thought that it would be harder for you to hunt and you probably wouldn't be as good as you was before." Jane rambled as she glanced away from her bondmate's glare that only grew more menacing with every passing second.

The Alpha nearly jumped out of her fur when she heard a low growl coming from Maura's direction. She tilted her head up to find Maura baring her teeth in a snarl and her ears were pricked. She was pissed.

"I'm not sure if I heard you properly. Would you like to repeat yourself?"

Scratch that, she was extremely pissed.

"I said, repeat yourself." Maura snapped as she began to slowly approach Jane, who in turn backed away with her tail between her shaking legs.

Jane whimpered as she tried to shy away from Maura's unwavering stare. In all her years of living, Jane had never come across another wolf who could petrify her like only her mother could. Yet here she was, cowering before her Omega who looked like she was going to rip her to pieces. It would have been a turn on if it weren't for the genuine fear Jane felt in that moment.

Jane lowered herself to the floor and kept her eyes to the ground. To any other wolf, she would have gone toe to toe with them and fought them with all her strength. But this was Maura, and Jane couldn't bear the thought of hurting her in any way, which she unfortunately had just done. She didn't even think twice about how degrading it was for an Alpha to act so submissively – to an Omega no less – as she lowered herself close to the ground while arching her back so she could keep eye contact with the honey blonde wolf.

When she noticed that the Omega's hazel eyes were still bright with rage, she slowly extended her neck and gently licked the top of the Omega's paws in submission.

When nothing happened, Jane looked up and saw that Maura's anger had decreased, but was replaced with a look of shame and fear. It was as if the Omega was worried that Jane might suddenly snap out of her meek state and assert her dominance again.

Jane ignored the part of herself that demanded that she salvage her Alpha pride by putting the Omega in her place in a fight. She could never hurt her bondmate that way, or in any way for that matter.

While it was sort of tempting for Jane to assert her dominance in what she believed was a productive way – or rather a re-productive way – she was worried that having angry sex wouldn't a-mount to anything.

Jane really had to stop making sex puns in her head. Unfortunately, they just kept 'coming'.

Yeah, that's enough of that.

When Jane finally snapped out of her pun-induced daze, she noticed that Maura had started to make her way out of the den. The raven wolf wasn't completely sure, but Maura seemed upset and dejected. Whether she was sad about Jane's comment or her own violent outburst was unknown to the Alpha, but Jane was determined to put things right between them.

She quickly caught up with Maura, but the Omega was having none of it.

"Jane, just cut it out!"

"But Maura I-"

"No Jane, you're starting to get on my nerves."


Jane sighed as she came to the end of her story. Her friends were all giving her sad, sympathetic looks, well, two of her friends were. Frost still had a small smile on his face that grew after he heard the sex puns.

"I just don't want to fight with her. Ever. But especially not when she carrying our young. I have this need, this instinct to always be at her side, and not just until she whelps. Always. And how can I when we get into fights like this?" Jane said with a huff.

"Well, I'm no expert, but how about you tell her that you didn't mean to cause any harm in what you said and ask if she will forgive you for being an idiot." Korsak suggested with a shrug, while the two other wolves nodded their heads in agreement at the grey wolf's idea.

The raven furred Alpha looked between the three Betas before nodding her head in agreement. She had to apologise to her bondmate for what she said. It was the right thing to do.

After saying goodbye to her three friends, Jane made her way to Beacon Hill where she planned on apologising profusely to Maura. She was even prepared to beg and grovel for forgiveness if she had to.

The Alpha had just made her way to the entrance of the Beacon Hill when she heard faint whimpers coming from inside the den.

Jane's fur bristled when she instantly recognised the whimpers as Maura's and as memories of their first meeting flashed before her eyes, so did the anger at the thought of anyone hurting her Maura.

The Alpha charged into the den with her eyes flaring and teeth gleaming as she open her mouth to release a frightening snarl to scare off the threat that was apparently hurting her precious Omega.

As she reached the end of the short tunnel and entered the heart of the den, she quickly found the honey blonde wolf huddled in the far corner, her body jerking with every whimper.

Jane slowly approached Maura as though she was worried that the slightest of movement would scare the Omega away. It was at that moment that Maura looked over her shoulder and watched the Alpha carefully walk towards her. Just as Jane reached her, Maura turned back around and whimpered again as she tried to make herself as small as possible.

This only caused Jane to panic even more. She did a quick once over on Maura to ensure that the other wolf wasn't in any pain and when Jane failed to spot any injuries, she moved up to Maura's face.

"What's wrong Maur? Are you hurt? Did someone attack you? Cause I swear, if anyone has so much as-"

"No Jane," Maura cried, "no one has hurt me. But it is I who has hurt you."

Jane tilted her head in confusion. "What do you mean? Of course you haven't."

"No Jane, I have." Maura sighed as she turned around to face the Alpha. "What kind of cruel wolf treats their mate, their bondmate, as badly as I treated you?"

Jane let out a long sigh. She moved to lie down next to the Omega and pretended to have missed Maura flinch at their closeness.

"Oh Maur, I should be the one apologising. I was the one who said the rude comment about you not being as good at hunting as you was before I got you preggers."

"No Jane, you was just stating a fact. I was the one being rude and horrible and..."

"I still love you," Jane said as she nudged Maura's side with her snout, "and I know that you did nothing wrong. I said something out of order and you was defending yourself. That's all that matters."

Maura looked up at the Alpha before resting her head on her paws. "I still think that my actions were unacceptable." She muttered as Jane rested her head on Maura's neck.

"Don't worry gorgeous, you can make it up to me after we have a cuddle." Jane chuckled as she snuggled closer to Maura and her slightly more rounded belly. If this was the first step to parenthood, then it seemed that the pair was off to a good start. Sort of.