Hey everyone this is my first A&O fanfic so please bare with me here. I have really fallen in love with this movie, it has a great balance of love, comedy, and seriousness throughout. I won't waste your time with disclaimers, due to the obvious fact that I don't own A&O or anything pertaining that subject.
Chapter 9: One's duty vs. Love
Days have passed since that moment in the valley, peace and happiness flowed throughout both packs. With Humphrey reclaiming his position as heir to both packs, he seems to have little time for anything but delegations and work. To Kate, Humphrey had become somewhat of a ghost. She rarely saw him anymore and more so than that, she was bored. Humphrey had taken over all her duties as an alpha; all she had left was to train pups in survival—which was boring in itself—but necessary. The situation all together was made worse with the incredible restlessness she was feeling.
Throughout her youth she was taught that the most important job she had as the alpha female was to find the most suitable mate and have plenty of pups. Kate knew what time of the year was upcoming, mating season. It had been arranged that Kate and Humphrey would wed at the start of mating season for the sole purpose of having pups. But unfortunately, the restlessness was the least of her problems...
It had seemed as if "The Ghost" aka Humphrey had been avoiding her this whole time. He would not even glance at her when she would call his name of if she "accidentally" bumped into him, instead he only reacted as if a gust of wind ran through his fur. Had she done something wrong? It was time for some answers and she knew exactly who to talk to, her parents.
Kate's POV
So I decided to go to my parents den, and see what they knew about what was going on with Humphrey.
When I got there though only my mom was there, talking to lily about something. Upon seeing Kate, Lily got up and left in a bit of a hurry. I turned to say something but let it slide when I was interrupted by my mom.
"Hey Kate honey what are you doing here?" she said to me with a comforting tone that always made me feel safe.
"Well mom remember how me and Humphrey got a den together?"
"Yes I remember that, I honestly thought you would never stop talking about it." She shot back
"Anyway, since then Humphrey has not stayed with me and I don't know where he goes or whats going on with him because neither will he look or talk to me and I don't know what to do anymore." I couldn't help but cry and mumble my words a bit.
"Kate, Kate, Kate, it's going to be okay. I'm sure he's just been really busy with everything that has been going on. Do you know where he is now?"
'sniffle' 'sniffle' "No, I haven't seen him since yesterday afternoon. Why is he doing this?"
"Just calm down Kate honey, it's going to be okay just go out for a little while and look for him and talk to him about it."
"Okay." I replied trying to draw my tears away from my face. I guess I should take her advice and confront him about it.
End of POV
It was about mid day and the sun shone bright in the blue open sky. The air was fresh and the air was quite warm, you could say it was the perfect summer day, but for Kate it was like a nightmare. She had been searching for Humphrey all morning but no clues to his whereabouts. Not one other wolf has seen him since the day before, though before all these things happened no one really payed attention to the lowly omega. A clue to where Humphrey might be came in the form of a giant mob of Eastern pack female wolves running in the direction of his favorite stream.
Kate knew how popular Humphrey was now with all the girls now that he showed his real self. Although he may have become a lot sexier to her, she wished he would have just stayed the loser he always pretended he was. If her anger with him had not been clearly apparent before, it was now due to her making fun of him, which she only did in anger.
Arriving at the bank of the stream, Kate ducked behind a bush so as not to be spotted by the large crowd or Humphrey. All the eastern pack wolves were in a form of trance watching Humphrey do some sort of exercise in the water.
Then it happened, as Humphrey burst through the surface of the water, shaking the water out of his fur, it was faster than a blink of an eye as the crowd pounced at Humphrey tackling him in the shallow water. As the mob was licking him all over and trying to have their way with him Kate heart began to fall.
Her heart fell like a sinking ship, it may not be sinking fast but will eventually hit the bottom and decay. She couldn't believe him, how could he tell her he loved her and then do this? Was telling her he loved her another way he was protecting her from something? But that would make no sense because in the end he would be hurting her. She knew now that she could not face him and if he was a true man he would man up and confront her himself. If he was going to forget about her and go do something like this then she would do the same.
Kate decided to leave, her new mission was to find the one wolf that she knew had a crush on her during her alpha training. Luckily his den was not too far away because she was still a little unstable from the sight she had just witnessed. But perhaps she should have stayed for just 5 more minutes...
With Humphrey
Humphrey had finally broken free on the crowd that had been stalking him all day. He felt metaphorically suffocated by the large crowd. He couldn't even go to the bathroom without half the mob wolf whistling at him. Honestly, he hated this attention, worst of all he had spent so much time trying to get away from them that he had neglected Kate and he felt horrible. It was about time that he took control of the situation with a little help from my three best friends Shaky, Mooch, and Salty.
His plan was simple, he would tell the girls that if the hung out with his lonely friends then he would do anything for them (even though he knew what they wanted), but the true trick was that he would not actually do anything for them. First, he would have to find them, that was the hardest part of the plan he thought.
As if on cue all three showed up which surprised the soaked and surrounded Humphrey.
"Hey guys!" screamed Humphrey "I got something I want to ask you three?"
"Anything for our favorite Alpha!" Replied all three
"Perfect!" Humphrey looked around at the mob around him "Hey girls, I got an idea, if you hang out with my three friends here then I will do ANYTHING for you, how does that sound?
All the girls eyes went wide and without even saying a word the ran straight at the three omega's and when they were out of sight Humphrey got out of the water and shook the water out of his fur for the last time. And finally it was time for him to go see Kate and apologize for his absence.
I think that this chapter came out pretty good in my opinion. Who is Kate going to see? and what the heck is a Jessica Alba? haha anyway, REVIEW!
