I first of all wanted to thank Gordon Pasha, my fellow author in this project. Thank you all my readers, reviewers, fav's and follows. Disclaimer: Alpha and Omega is copyrighted by Lionsgate and Crest Animation Studios. I claim no ownership on the characters portrayed in the film, only my O/C's.


Alpha & Omega

:Follow the Leader:

It was just past mid-day when Lilly proposed her idea. Garth, Kate, and Humphrey sat around her in a circle to listen to her idea.

"Somewhere as a group, huh?" Kate spoke out first. She hadn't known Lilly to be adventurous, and even less so outgoing. Lilly was always sheltered, but now Kate couldn't help but think otherwise.

Had Kate not heard it from Garth herself, she wouldn't have believed that Lilly even went near their packs' borders.

Garth, on the other hand, was thinking something completely different. He wanted Lilly to be happy, and not have Eve at his neck again.

Knowing that things wouldn't get any better without him working with Lilly, Garth only took a moment to think of his answer.

"Sounds great," he answered with a half forced grin.

Upon hearing his answer, Lilly turned to face him with a wide and cheerful smile; even Garth himself couldn't help but turn his fake grin into a smile as well.

As he smiled he knew there was still the problem at hand. He had to try to get Humphrey to see things eye to eye. Though he truly wanted to go with Lilly, he couldn't help but feel as though Humphrey would try to pull some kind of prank on him.

"Well, I could use a field trip, how about you, Kate?" Humphrey said to them as he scratched the back of his ear with one of his legs.

Kate looked on at Humphrey and laughed at his actions, she always thought it was funny when he did something out-of-place for his new status.

"Sure," she giggled in response.

Garth, however, could only watch on in disbelief.

'How can she stand him when he does that?' He thought. Being an alpha, and always having been told how to act well-mannered around others, he didn't just think that it was not funny, but he also thought it was downright out-of-place for his new status.

"So where did you have in mind?" Humphrey asked, breaking Garth away from his train of thought once again.

Hearing everyone agree, Lilly perked her ears up; she didn't expect anyone to take her idea into consideration so quickly.

She giggled slightly and tapped one of her paws against her forehead to think.

"Um." She said aloud while everyone watched on in anticipation.

Wanting to help his mate think of a great place to go, Garth thought of the first place in his mind.

"Well, there's the lake?" He said and gestured towards where he and Humphrey had just come from. "It was empty by the time we left."

Just when he thought Lilly was on the verge of saying something, he heard someone laugh instead.

"Ha, yeah." Humphrey scoffed and managed to catch a glimpse of Garth eyeing him menacingly. Humphrey continued to smile and point down the path "Eve's that way too."

At the mention of this, Garth abandoned his glare and then replaced it with a nervous grin. "Oh, right," he said almost apologetically.

"What about the valley?" Humphrey said back to them "We could do some log-sledding."

He thought his idea would pass, at least with Kate; she had taken a liking to the sport, and hoped Lilly and Garth would want in too.

"Not a good idea," Garth said grimly, and caught a glimpse of Humphrey rolling his eyes in disgust. Though he sighed at the gesture, Garth knew he had to say what was right. "They're probably hunting now."

"Ah, alright then." Humphrey acknowledged quickly, he realized his flaw in the timing and abandoned the idea.

Kate sighed seeing that they were getting nowhere fast, they were burning daylight and she wanted this over.

"Any place in mind, Lilly?" She asked.

Kate, for one didn't particularly have any idea in mind; what she wanted honestly was to put her plan in motion, all she needed was the perfect spot.

Lilly smiled when she heard Kate ask her this. She had an idea in motion, and hoped for the best.

"I was thinking we could go and watch the sunset." Lilly said as loud as she could, though it was only loud enough to barely be heard throughout their group.

Voicing her idea, she received a cheeky grin from Garth, Humphrey seemed to ponder the idea, and Kate stared at her with disbelief.

"Watch the sunset?" Garth responded excitedly, he thought the idea was just perfect as he wanted an excuse to spend more time with Lilly.

"Can't we just do that here?" Kate added despondently, she wanted to find the best way to tackle things with her own style, but she knew it would make things more difficult.

"We've always seen the sunset from here," Humphrey exclaimed. He wanted to go somewhere special with Kate, and thought that this would be a great way to get her to unwind from all the stress of her alpha duties.

Lilly knew that the decision had to be unanimous for everyone to have a great time, so she thought of the one place she could take them.

She smiled and lifted her paw to point at one of the park's mountains. "I wanted to see if we could watch it set from there." Lilly said enthusiastically.

The group traced where she was pointing and soon enough she heard gasps all around.

Lilly had pointed to a mountain that wasn't too far away, but just far enough for them to be able to make it to in a relatively short time.

Thanks to the spring air, the mountain's usually snowy cap now lay mostly empty and with the sun barely just past high noon it shimmered brightly enough to invite them for a climb.

"Up there?" Garth admitted quietly. He hadn't ever considered climbing a mountain for a relaxing afternoon, but now he was intrigued as to why Lilly wanted to.

More so dumbfounded than excited, Kate turned to her sister with a very concerned look. "Lilly, you've never been up there," she said flatly.

Lilly knew that this was true, she had never been somewhere like this before, but she had her reasons. She had the perfect place for them to go and was anxious to see if it were true.

"I know," Lilly quickly and sheepishly said back. "But have you?"

Seeing her sister act so boldly, Kate wanted to know what she had in mind. It was crazy for Lilly to suggest something like this, she was definitely hiding something.

"No," Kate said defensively and looked towards the mountains peak. "But how do you know anything's up there?"

Lilly almost couldn't contain her smile with what she was about to say, the only thing that gave her away was how fast she was wagging her tail.

"Well, mom told me that she and dad went there once!" Lilly said so in a way so giddily that the others thought she was going to explode. "She said there's a good spot to see anything from."

Hearing the rest of the story and no-longer believing that their most joyful member would blow up from excitement, Kate Humphrey, and Garth all glanced at each other.

Lilly noticed that not a single member of their group acknowledged the idea. She felt as though she had missed something, or worse, nobody thought it was good.

"Y-you don't like it?" She asked them shyly and feared the worst.

Garth, having heard this immediately turned to face Lilly with a smile wider than he thought possible.

"Great," he said though he knew that wasn't the word for it. "It'll be perfect!"

"Yeah," Humphrey replied, "I'm up for it."

"Actually, that sounds nice," Kate responded. She meant it, and felt that this would give her the time she needed to set things in motion.

Lilly was happy that everyone agreed on something, she knew she could do this now, she could get Humphrey and Garth to be friends.

However, in Kate's mind, there was something different going on.

'I can't believe they actually agree on something.' Kate thought, she was losing her grip on the situation, but it was still too early to be sure. She still had time, but she'd have to do this by the time they got to this 'special' place on the mountain.

"So when do we leave?" Humphrey asked cheerfully, this idea was so great to him that he couldn't wait to go.

Lilly didn't know how to respond to this. She knew of the place, and that they were given the day off, but she had no idea of how long it should take them to get there.

"Well, um." She stammered to find the words.

Garth, sensing Lilly's apprehension to the subject looked towards where the sun was and how far away their destination was.

"Its noon now," he addressed, pointing his paw toward the sky and drawing a line toward the mountain peak "So if we leave now, we should be back by night."

Lilly silently thanked him for the help; she couldn't have guessed that no matter how hard she tried.

Having everyone on the same page, and seeing no complaints or protests, Lilly stood up and faced a straight path towards the base of the mountain.

"Lets go, then." She said, gesturing for them to join her.

All at once the three stood up and walked toward her. They had only the day to get there and back, and they knew that it was going to be fun.


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