Chapter Seven

Author's Note: HLK here again with another first person point of view chapter. Today we have Humphrey giving us an account of what it was like one day while he was… well, tiny. (Sorry Humphrey). Oh, one more thing… Humphrey and I had to stay up late to write this so we're both hyped up on caffeine right now. *Sees small Humphrey pacing back and forth on laptop* Humphrey! Just sit down a minute!

Humphrey's Note: I can't! There's like something in my blood now that makes me keep moving! Hey did you know I like your room? One time I found these bitter berries and named them after some of the wolves in the pack and then ate the ones I didn't like. Kate and I are a happy couple so far. Do you think you'll ever find a mate? I used to think that Kate would never be mine but now I see I was wrong. Sometimes at night I…

Author's Note: It would appear that Humphrey's attention span has been drastically shortened as well. I'm going to try to get through this while he's still full of energy at least. Here we go!

Oh! One more thing. A lot of you guys have been wondering just exactly how small the little omegas are. So with that question up, I will report that they are about *gets tape measure and measures Humphrey* well, right at two inches tall from paw to the tip of their ears.

(This chapter might not be that interesting at first but trust me, it picks up as you go.)

Humphrey's Point of View:

I woke up early in the morning just after sunrise to the feeling of something very warm and rather soft covering my entire body. It was a pleasant and securing feeling at first. Shortly thereafter, my eyes adjusted from sleep to reality and I discovered that it looked like the paw of a wolf… or the paw of a very large and gigantic wolf! Naturally startled and extremely confused by this, I tried to jump out from under whatever it was but soon found that the weight had me held fast in place. I was trapped under whatever this strange thing was! But the biggest question was, where had Kate gone?

Then the being that owned the paw began to stir, as if it were waking up from a good night's slumber. I still could not tell exactly what was going on, however, so my anxiety and fears of what it might be were peaked! Suddenly, the paw-like thing that I was helplessly trapped under tightened down on me, and I felt my body being squeezed as the being stretched and yawned. The paw wrapped tighter and tighter around me. If the paw had squeezed me any tighter I probably would have been severely injured. Fortunately, it soon released me entirely and I was free to roam where I chose! What a wondrous feeling!

The first thing I did in my freedom was run away from whatever had nearly crushed me, partly so that I could increase my safety and partly so that I could see what I was dealing with. With a substantial amount of distance between me and the being, I turned around to get a broader look. Instead of seeing some horrid creature, I saw the face of the most beautiful she-wolf that ever lived on earth: magnified! Kate was the one who had nearly crushed me in something as common as her routine morning stretch! Whoa! Talk about a wake-up call!

And at this time, my mind fully woke up and memories of the past two days seeped into my consciousness. I finally remembered that Lilly and I had been out talking about life and by some crazed accident had been shrunk down, now even smaller than a mouse or a rat. Unfortunately, sleep had applied its forgetful effects onto Kate just like it did to me, as she seemed to be wondering where I was.

"Humphrey? Where'd you go, my sweet omega?" she wondered as she glanced to and from around the den. I knew she had probably forgotten because her line of vision was pointed where you would expect a normal sized wolf to be, or about three and a half feet in the air. I guess you learn to be more observant when you're married to one of the top alphas in the pack. I still can't get over how lucky I am!

Oh right! Kate was still looking for me! I needed to grab her attention. But there were so many cool things I could say…. I guess I'll go with this one. "Down here my lovely alpha," I said flattering her.

Kate looked down at the level her paws were on and eventually found me. "Oh! Whoa!" she exclaimed putting the same paw that had nearly killed me up to her head. It seemed that the memories from the past day were just now coming through her mind. "Wow! I completely forgot you were so tiny!"

I have to confess that every time Kate used the words "tiny, small," or "shrink" that I felt really helpless and subject to the will of the normal sized wolves who seemed like giants to me. It really did not help that I was an omega and was usually bossed around by some of the alphas anyway. In fact that made it worse! I guess I went from "the useless omega" to the "tiny useless omega" in the eyes of the pack. Then again, so far the knowledge of my current state was limited to the pack leaders, Kate, Lilly, and Garth, and I knew I could trust them from spreading the word like a wildfire.

But I had to focus on the moment at paw right now. So I engaged in conversation with Kate… I love her so much! I turned my head up to the best she-wolf ever. "Hey, for a few minutes, I forgot too! I didn't know what the heck your paw was! And then you nearly crushed me when I got caught in your morning stretch…"

Maybe I should not have said that last part. Before I could object, Kate grabbed me by my torso and pulled me into a hug. "Humphrey! I'm so sorry!" she apologized. "I never meant to hurt you! You're my only love in the whole world!"

"It's fine!" I coughed from her death grip of love. If normal love is a battlefield, then what would this be called? Mine and Kate's conditions were definitely not normal.

So after a few seconds passed by, Kate finally let me go from her gigantic paw. I think I'll always be neutral on how she picks me up like that. I mean, how does one react to being picked up by a paw that's about two times as big as they are?! I would feel extremely helpless yet at the same time completely at peace anytime it happened. I could never explain the feeling to anyone ever. You would just have to live it to truly know what it's like. Fortunately, that probably won't ever happen to anyone but me and Lilly.

"Well now that that's over," Kate started as she straightened up and completely towered over me, "want to go get some breakfast?"

"Sure thing! I am starved!" I exclaimed. "Isn't today your day to hunt, though?"

"Well, it was," Kate explained, "but Mom said she'd fill in for me since there was this little accident. I can go next time. Today though, I get to eat with you!" Kate smiled at the last part. We did not really get to eat many breakfasts together due to her eating right after the hunt and me eating later in the morning. It was just one of those things you have to learn to live with in life as an omega that was married to an alpha. Sort of the sad reality. But today I was going to eat with my mate and we were going to kick off a great day, rather I was normal sized or not!

Later at the feeding grounds, Kate set me down in one of our favorite spots to sit and eat for the few times we did get to share a meal together. It was kind of under the shade of a tree, so we were shielded from the late summer sun.

"I'll be back in just a minute, Humphrey," the gorgeous Kate said. "Let me just go see what's left over from Eve and her hunting party." She ran off in the direction of where the meat was usually dropped off. The lead alphas and the ones that hunted always got first dibs on the food.

I shuddered when the thought of what Eve might be like when she was hunting came to mind. She was probably always going overboard in the mutilation of the kill and more than likely was imagining it was Garth… or even me! That would explain why she did not ever get too angry at seeing us around with her daughters.

I was still waiting for Kate to get back when the last wolf I wanted to run into came walking by… Ash! Ash was a jet black wolf with stunning yellow eyes, and as far as Kate and I were concerned, he was a total showoff and a complete jerk! Back in Alpha School, Kate had told me that he was the class bully, thinking he was tough if he pushed others out of his way. The worst part was that he wanted Kate to be his mate! The horror that he was dealt when he found Kate would marry me, a little omega, over him and his big jerk-self, was priceless! Unfortunately, not only did Ash still want Kate to be his mate, he wanted to make my life as miserable as possible in the process. If he caught me when I was this small, there was no telling what he would do to me! Why, he would basically be able to torture me in any way he thought suitable for himself! He might crush me and end it quickly… or he could decide to drop me off a cliff… or maybe he would just dig a really deep hole and bury me alive in it, saying that some hawk had carried me off and I was now dead, which would then allow him to become Kate's mate! But what was I doing thinking of what he could do if he caught me? I should be focusing on NOT being seen! I had to hide somewhere! Under a rock, in the grass, just somewhere where this jerk couldn't catch me. Without a second to lose, I darted behind a nearby rock and hoped he would not see the sudden movement.

I should have moved slower. Ash was a trained alpha and very good at what he did. Of course he saw the sudden movement! In a matter of seconds, he was on his way over to investigate, generating massive and extremely intimidating footsteps in the process. To be honest, I was scared! This wolf was a mutual enemy between me and Kate and once he saw me, he would harass one of us! What if he decided to go harass Kate without me around to help protect her? Now I just hoped he would mess with me and not her! I could stall him…

"I thought I saw some gray mouse or something over here," I heard him mutter as he approached me. From behind my rock shelter, I could hear the sounds of him sniffing around. Of course he'd catch my scent no matter how small it was! I was number one on his hated wolves list so he could recognize me anywhere!

"Is that Humphrey?" he said with rage beginning to seep into his heart. Everything was so tense that I could swear the entire world had slowed down to focus on the moment at paw! As fate would have it, his nose led him to me. I was caught… but maybe I still had a small chance to start running!

"Got ya!" he grinned evilly as he grabbed me by the tail using his sharp and wicked claws. He lifted me up to his eye level, observing me as I dangled from his grasp! "Well well well…" he mused. "How did Kate's oh so perfect mate get down to this pitiful size?"

"Put me down Ash!" I demanded. This wolf was messing with me, and I knew it was because of Kate. Therefore, I would not allow him to just "play" with me.

"Oooh! Aren't you a demanding omega!" Ash laughed. I wondered why he had not been banished from the pack or torn apart by Eve. Probably because Winston said there was not enough evidence to get him kicked out. "What are YOU going to do, little guy? Bite my finger with your puny teeth? Wait a second… there's hardly a difference since the last time I saw you! You're really no smaller!"

Ash always was bigger than me, but he was not gigantic… until now, that is. "SHUT UP ASH!" I yelled. "Now put me down!"

Ash held up a paw to his ear. "What's that? You'll have to excuse me, I just can't really hear your tiny pipsqueak of a voice!" He let out a nice, long evil laugh at his stupid joke here. "Now," he continued, "all the wonderful things I could do to you since you've been conveniently miniaturized! Oh this will be an effortless kill!"

"You're a real coward, Ash!" I concluded. "You never tried to kill me when I was my regular size."

"OW!" Ash exclaimed. "The anger is only fueled!" Then he thought of another joke relative to my size. "What's the matter… did your brain shrink too? I mean, if you were smart, you really would not want to make me any angrier now! AHAHAHAHA!" Ash laughed wickedly at this!

Now I had to resist every urge to whimper, for I knew that if I did Ash would only turn it into another one of his new round of "Humphrey the Shrunken Omega" jokes. I could not show it, but he really was hurting me emotionally. There was nothing I could do. I continued to hang by my tail from his devious claws, realizing that it was probably all over for me. If this is the end, good-by Kate, I thought. I love you… Ash was going to kill me for sure.

"Now let's see here. How can I make your death perfectly miserable! I could take you over to where you can see Kate and then snap your weak neck!"

I cringed at the thought of his enormous and disgusting claws snapping my neck!

"Or…" he continued. "I could just kill you now by squeezing the air out of you and saying that Kate is all mine once you're gone!" And then Ash mimicked the sound of a bell ringing like at a quiz show. "Ding ding! The answer is in and it looks like we will be going with choice number two: squeezing the life out of your pathetic little body!"

I would not have this! "NO! YOU CAN KILL ME AND MUTILATE MY BODY ALL YOU WANT! BUT DON'T EVER GO NEAR KATE! NEVER!" I shouted at Ash. The tears started to flow from my eyes as the horrid images of what he would do to Kate with me dead filled my mind! I could not take the images my mind was creating… he would abuse her for sure, most likely forcing her to mate with him! Then what would happen if Kate conceived? He would not treat her with any more respect if that happened! And what if Kate completed her pregnancy and gave birth? He would no doubt use the pups as his personal workout equipment! Maybe Eve would get to him before that happened, but he would have already gotten some abuse into her! What would happen with me dead and Kate vulnerable to Ash's wickedness?

Now Ash had turned me right-side-up and was beginning to push down on my throat with his claws. He was not trying to penetrate my skin, apparently. All he wanted to do was cut off the blood flow from my brain! "Kate's all mine!" he smiled as his claws tightened their death grip! I wanted to scream out against this, but I was already limited on oxygen. I felt my face turning purple and my eyes felt like they were begging for air. Slowly, my vision started to fade away as my eyes forced themselves shut. It was over…

SMACK! Something hit Ash over the back of his head and he fell to the ground unconscious, releasing his grip enough for me to stay alive yet not enough for me to escape his satanic paws! I could not believe it… I was still alive! Ash was unconscious and Kate, wherever she was, was safe! I wanted to scream for joy, but I knew that Kate would say I just needed to breathe if she was around. I postponed my exclamations of joy to a later date.

The next thing I could make out, a golden tan blur was coming up to me. I could barely see with my vision being blurred from almost suffocating! Seconds later, I felt myself being scooped up out of Ash's paws into what felt like a more "loving" paw. I coughed a few times to get my oxygen flowing again and then my vision cleared, revealing that Kate was holding me in her paws. And then she pulled me into another one of her death hugs. Although her "death hugs" as I called them were tight, they actually felt like life to me after almost suffocating. Still unable to say anything, I breathed heavily and absorbed myself in the moment. When Kate held me out in front of her, I was able to breathe better and started explaining…. Or maybe it was exclaiming.

"Kate…" I coughed out, "I almost died! Ash was going to do terrible things to you!"

"Humphrey, chill!" she said lovingly yet firmly. "Ash is unconscious. He is not going to do anything for a while now."

I looked into her lovely eyes and found peace. I breathed in and out as my previously high heart rate began to slow down. I was alive and Kate was unharmed. That was all that mattered right now. "I… I love you so much!" I finally exclaimed with tears starting to soak the fur on my face.

"I know Humphrey… It's okay… I love you too… just let the tears flow now and get everything out. I'm right here." Then Kate tightened her grip on me just a tad to reassure me that everything would be fine. When I had let all the emotions of everything that had just transpired flow out through my tears, I started regular conversation again.

"So, what did you hit him with?"

Kate looked over at Ash and then back at me. "Oh, our breakfast. That's all."

I couldn't help but chuckle as my tears stopped flowing. I think my fun-loving sense of humor might be rubbing off on her. I could see over to the side, right next to Ash's hideous head, there was a medium slab of caribou meat lying on the ground. "You know," I said, "I'm not even hungry anymore."

Kate laughed lightly at this. It was her lighthearted laugh that I thought was so cute. "You know what, neither am I."

Author's Note: Wow! Humphrey, I had no idea that ever happened to you guys!

Humphrey: Yep. Most people don't know! ;-)

Author's Note: Well guys, there you have it! Chapter Seven! And it seems that Humphrey may have given us a small glimpse into the future of Kate's Story… which I should update… very soon.

Humphrey: Don't use that word!

Author's Note: What word?

Humphrey: Small! Don't use it!

Author's Note: Oh yeah… right. Sorry Humphrey!

Humphrey: It's alright, I guess.

Author's Note: Thanks for reading guys! This is Humphrey Loves Kate signing off! And I'm sure you all hope like I do that we can get these omegas back to their normal size sooner or later! Thanks for reading! And don't forget to review! Let Humphrey and I know how we did! Thank you! It means a lot to us!