Hey guys, lanelane2 here with just a quick little question. Now as I'm sure you've noticed is that I've been writing Kate's POVs shorter than Humphrey's. That's because she's a girl, and due to the fact that I'm a guy I'm not 100% sure as to what Kate would think about a certain situation. But, if you guys want to see my write a little more for Kate I will gladly do so. Let me know in the reviews what you think. Thanks again for all the support.

Until next chapter-lanelane2

Humphrey's POV

Humphrey sat on his stone roof, with Lucky by his side, thinking. After his little run in with Kate's parents, he had offered them dinner and they had accepted. They had all the rest of the caribou that he had and most of Lucky's Raccoon. After that Eve had set to work tending to her daughters paw, and with Kate in no position to walk home, she had Winston bring all of her herbs and whatnot to his den.

"We going hunting tomorrow?" Lucky asked him. The pup didn't even glance in his direction; instead he continued to stare forward.

"Yup," Humphrey answered in the same fashion. The two fell into silence.

On his face, Humphrey did his best to look like he was enjoying sitting there, but on the inside, it was hectic! His two sides, back to bickering after Kate kissed him. The kiss…after so long of being alone it had been the best thing ever…he had wanted to kiss her back but his hurt side continued to hold him back, still not willing to let go of what had happened. He was getting so tired of listening to them. His hurt side was holding him back, but yet he didn't want to let it go, because for as many negative thoughts that his hurt side brought up it also brought up some good…like how much he wanted to be alone.

"What's the plan?" Lucky said breaking the silence.

Humphrey looked at him, confused. "What?"

"What are you going to do about this?" Lucky said motioning to the den beneath them.

Humphrey though…what was he going to do about this. "I don't know." He said sighing.

The pup went silent for a moment, his eyes in deep thought. "Well, the way I see it, there are two options."

Humphrey almost laughed, this pup, who had never gone through anything close to what he had gone through, was going to give him advice. Then again, he had no idea what he was doing so what the heck? "I'm listening."

"You could, A. Run away…again." Lucky said. At first, Humphrey thought this was the worst idea he could imagine, but as he thought some more he realized it actually didn't sound to bad. The voices in his head would shut up, Lucky would be plenty company and best of all, he could have the silence that he sometimes craved for. His face lightened as he imagined going back to his old life.

"Or…" Lucky said, after he had caught the look on his face. "You can stay, face your…um…fear of Kate." He said. Humphrey jumped up defensively.

"I am NOT afraid of Kate!"

Lucky looked at him, with the most serious face Humphrey had ever seen, he raised an eyebrow. "Oh really? Why did you say you ran away again?"

"Because Kate broke my heart, she didn't sneak up on me and yell "Boo"!" He said.

Lucky now smiled, "No, not that kind of scared. I meant that you're scared of your feelings for her. You're holding onto the past, because you feel that if you don't, you'll let yourself fall in love with her again, and you fear that she'll turn around and break your heart again."

Humphrey's jaw dropped. This kid, just read his mind. "How did you…am I adopting the Messiah or something?"

Lucky started laughing so hard that he fell onto the ground while Humphrey still stood dumbfounded. Eventually Lucky recomposed himself, "I'm an Omega, not god! You though I came up with that?"

Humphrey was still confused. "Well if you didn't, who did?"

"I did," said Winston trotting up onto the slab. Humphrey turned to stare at him, but caught sight of Lucky slipping down the rock face and walking back into his den.

"How…" Humphrey started but Winston raised his paw.

"Humphrey, I've know you since you were a pup, and I knew you're parents before you were born." He said in his deep tone.

"What do my parents have to do with this?" He asked.

He smiled. "Everything…did I ever tell you about them?" He asked

"Yeah, you told me how they met," He said thinking about how that story went. His father was from the Southern pack and his mother, the Western. The two had met when his father had been leading a small hunting group outside the territory and had gotten lost. His group had been attacked by a bear, one of the group died and he and two others were wounded. Humphrey's mother had found them, and helped them to recover and had fallen in love and had Humphrey.

"Did I tell you that you're mother had affairs with other wolves?" He said. Humphrey was stunned into silence.

"She did?"

"Oh yes…at least twice." Winston said, looking off into the sky as if in thought. He let that sentence hang in the air for a few moments. "But you know what you're mother did? She forgave him, even though she had been betrayed…twice. She stayed with you're father until the moment they died."

Humphrey lowered his head, he knew what Winston was getting at. Winston looked at him, "You have kindness and forgiveness in you're blood, use it." He said, sounding more like the father that Humphrey wished he had had.

"But, i…" Winston cut him off.

"Did you know that Kate cried and cried after left, and searched well into a month for you? She will give herself to you, the only question is, will you give yourself to her?" Winston finished. After a few seconds, he jumped of the ledge of the rock and walked back inside. Leaving Humphrey to answer his question.

A question…he didn't know how to answer

Kate's POV

Kate woke with a yawn and stretched all of her good limbs, making sure that she didn't move her wounded paw, as was enforced by her mother. She had fallen asleep right after her mother had bandaged it up and apparently, had slept through the whole night because everyone else was still sound asleep.

After a few moments, Kate realized that she was thirsty. She didn't want to wake her parents up to ask them to get her some, or Humphrey for that matter. She quickly made sure her mother was still asleep before using her three good legs to balance. She stumbled about for a fair bit before gaining her balance, making sure to lean extra far to the right to compensate for her paw.

She limped her way back to the puddle she had drank from yesterday but stumbled on a rock and fell face first into it. Well, She though, you said you wanted water! She let her head rest in the cool water, the she had splashed so much of it out that she could now lay her chin in it and still be able to breathe.

"Now begins the journey back," said a voice. She turned her head just slightly and caught sight of Humphrey leaning on the edge of his den.

Kate laughed, "Come on Humphrey, you wouldn't let a lady drowned would you?" She asked.

Humphrey smiled; there was something about him this morning, in both his tone and face. He seemed…happier, as if a burden had been lifted from his shoulders. Probably the burden of having to take care of me. "In a river or lake, no, but in a puddle…what the heck?" He said shrugging.

"Come on Humphrey, I've had my fair share of water for the day." She said trying to stand on her three legs, but without having the walls of the den to help her first balance she stumbled to the left. Humphrey ran over and caught her.

"And, evidently, walking!" he said helping her back to her spot inside, Humphrey sat next to her. The two sat in silence for a moment.

"So why are you so cheerful this morning," She asked.

He laughed and his eyes shinned even brighter, "Funny story that…" He was interrupted as Lucky ran over.

"Hey dad, we need to go. We got fish to catch and logs to lift and yards to sprint." Lucky said pushing him towards the door desperately. Kate smiled, this pup was interesting, and cute.

"Well good morning Lucky." She said kindly. He looked up at her, propping his back against Humphrey and trying to push him that way.

"Good morning Mrs. Kate, how's the paw?" He asked motioning to it.

"Its fine, how did you sleep last night?"

"Good to here, and I slept fine thank you." Lucky finished just as he pushed his Humphrey out the threshold of the den.

"Well I guess I'll talk to you later Kate," Humphrey called back

"See you later you to," Kate said, resting her head on the ground. She couldn't go back to sleep, because she wasn't tired. She glance out the front of the den to see Lucky and Humphrey doing log squats down the path a ways, in a heated argument. She only caught fragments of the conversation like, "Not time," and "…a plan." Though she wasn't the least bit curious as to what they were talking about. She was to busy marveling at Humphrey.

His tone figure, his nice features all bristling as he squatted over and over again. Though her paw throbbed and her shoulders ached as she sure they would all day, she thought that maybe, just maybe today wouldn't be so bad.