Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Alpha and Omega, I just own my O/C, Armstrong.

Alpha and Omega: The Outcast

Candu's POV

Empty, that's what I felt like, just an empty carcass that isn't dead yet and just waiting for the time to come. Without Armstrong I just don't know what to do with myself, ever sense that wonderful day that I gained feelings for him he's been the thing that I hope to wake up and see next to me, the thing that brought joy to my world. But now that he's gone and possibly dead, I have no reason to live. The only things keeping me going are the memories that we shared and the hope that I'll see him again and hold him into my arms once more, possibly as mates.

But until then I won't speak, I want the next words I say to be directed at Armstrong and him alone. I look at myself in the water in the water hoping to see his reflection just pop up behind me and say some kind of cheesy sentence of his, that I found adorable, and we'll be together once again. Until then I dream about the same thing every night, Armstrong and I watching the Northern Lights, that I was planning to bring him to, as mate's, his head on my shoulder and mine on his. But the dream always ends up in the same way, I'm standing over Armstrong's body, the bullet wound still leaking blood, and his lifeless body not moving and not responding to my touch, then, as my tears fall, my heart stops just as Armstrong's does and I am in incredible pain. I wake up from that nightmare almost every night, clenching my hurting heart and screaming. I thought and thought about all of my conditions and finally came up with the problem.

I needed Armstrong to keep on living.

Thankfully Leon came up with an idea to help me, once Hutch and the other Alpha's leave to hunt Leon and I will go to the ranger's station and I might be able to see Armstrong,my life,my love,my...mate.

"Candu wake up!"

I quickly opened my eye's and saw Leon standing in front of me and doing that infamous grin of his

"Come on Hutch and the other Alpha's went out to hunt, we don't have much time so if were going to do this, you coming?" Leon asked, cocking an eyebrow

I nodded and stood up before leading the way out of the cave and to the ranger station. The first time we followed Humphrey to it I made sure to memorize the way to it, for future problems. But as we made our way to the station Leon spoke up.

"Were being followed" he whispered, then suddenly stopping in his tracks and as did I

"Who ever you are, we know your there so come out now" Leon growled

For a moment nothing moved, everything was silent, but as time passed we heard rustling in the nearby bushes, and out popped Humphrey and the other three Omega's.

"Uh what are you four doing here?" Leon whined, rolling his eye's

"We know were you guys are going, and we want in" Salty spoke up, getting nods from the other three

"No, go home, this is between me, Candu and Armstrong" Leon ordered

"I'm sorry but are you an Alpha of this pack?" Shakey asked

"No"

"Then we don't have to take order's from you" Shakey continued, grinning

"What? Candu tell them they can't come, they'll only slow us down" Leon said

Truth be told, I didn't care if they came or not, all that mattered was that I saw Armstrong again.

So, I shrugged my shoulders and turned the direction we were heading and continued on.

Leon's POV

What? What was Candu's answer? Uh if I don't hurry up and follow him, I lose him and I already know he'll continue with out me.

"Uh fine, but you guy's better not slow us down" I said

"Don't worry about us, we've been keeping up with you guys this whole time" Humphrey insisted

I rolled my eyes and followed Candu also being followed by the four Omega's behind me.

Once I arrived I saw Candu staring at the ranger station with both anticipation and sadness, he must have been remembering when we dropped Armstrong off, but at the same time wanting to see him.

"Back here again huh?" Humphrey asked, he must have been thinking the same thing

"Yeah..." I said letting my voice drop

"How are we doing this?" Mooch asked, looking at me

"We need to cause some kind of distraction..."

"We got that covered, we are Omega's after all" Humphrey said, apparently speaking up for the rest of the Omega's

"Okay, meanwhile Candu and I will go in and try to find Armstrong, and hopefully get him out" I said, I turned to Candu who was just staring at the building.

"Then it's settled, Omega's it's time for a distraction" Humphrey announced, gaining grins from all of the other Omega's, which I found kinda scary.

The Omega's went around the building and for a while nothing happened, but in a few minutes I heard the breaking of glass, followed by some kind of alarm from the inside of the station, soon the humans came out and went around the building to find out what the disturbance was.

"That's our que" I announced

Candu and I went threw the open doors and found ourselves looking at a human counter which lead down a huge hallway with many doors on either side of it.

"I'll take the left side, you take the right, and call out if you find anything" I ordered, Candu nodded

I went to the first door and found nothing inside except for a few maps and other papers, the second was a human bathroom, however the third I found a steel table in the middle of the room and a counter with many utensils and things that humans use for there surgery, but the scent on the table was what caught my me. It was Armstrong's and it was new!

"Candu over here I found something"

In a second Candu was by my side and already sniffing the table.

"It's Armstrong's scent isn't it" I asked

Candu nodded with his tail wagging and a slight smile on his face

"Keep looking, he's here somewhere" I said

We continued to look for my younger brother, but at the last door I only found a kennel with a few animals inside some porcupines,big predatory birds and such, none of them were Armstrong.

"Hey you"

I turned my head to a fox inside a cage who was staring at me with a grin, it appeared to be a female.

"How did you get out?" she asked

"I was never in" I answered

"Then what are you doing here?" she asked, cocking an eyebrow

"I'm looking for my younger brother have you seen him?"

"What does he look like?" she asked

"He has all black fur, shorter than me, and probably a scar in the middle of his chest" I answered.

The fox's smile disappeared and went to a questioning look

"Does this brother of yours have blue eye's?"

"YES!"

"Is his name Armstrong?"

"YES! You know him, where is he?" I asked

The fox's questioned look went away and her ears went at the back of her head

"He's dead..."

I swear my heart dropped when she said that, Armstrong...

"What...?"

"The humans brought him into the room and...he was put down because of the wound in his chest, it was to painful for him and they apparently put him out of his misery"

"No...when?"

"This morning, he was a really nice guy, always kind, I'm sorry..." she said when her head looked past me

I turned around and saw Candu standing there and he was shaking. His eye's were filled with tears and staring wide at me and the fox

"Candu I..." I started but was interrupted when a human walked in.

"HEY, SOME ANIMALS GOT OUT OF THERE CAGES"

I quickly grabbed Candu,put him on my back, and pulled him out of the room and into the hallway where we were greeted by some humans with net's and tranquilizer guns. I looked around and saw a window in the room on the opposite side of the hallway and quickly ran up and out of the window, making glass shatter everywhere.

I ran and ran with Candu on my back all the way towards the brush where the Omega's were waiting for us inside of the covering.

"Hey where's Armstrong?" Humphrey asked

I looked down at my feet, I shaking as well. I found tears hit the ground that I was staring at, how was I going to go back to my parents and tell them Armstrong was dead, better yet how was I going to deal with it...or Candu?

"He's not coming back...ever" I cried

"What do you mean?" Humphrey asked, in a shaking tone

"Armstrong's...dead" I answered, feeling Candu shake uncontrollably on my back at the word.

"No...he can't be" Shakey cried

I nodded my head, not wanting to believe it myself, I couldn't even fathom what Candu was thinking right now.

"Come on, we have to get back before the Alpha's notice" I insisted walking back to the pack.

The whole time we walked back there was silence, except for Candu, he was crying uncontrollably into my shoulder, muttering some stuff that wasn't audible to our ears and shaking like there was no tomorrow.

It wasn't that long before we reached Candu's and Armstr... I mean Candu's den and we laid Candu down on the floor. We stood outside the cave of the door listening to Candu weep, also weeping ourselves.

"Hey guys what's the matter?"

I looked up to see Kate,Garth, and Hutch walking up. I ran up and started to cry into Hutch's chest. He wrapped his arms around me in a comforting fashion.

"What happened?" Hutch asked

"Let's go somewhere else and talk about this" I suggested, taking everyone to the stream.

Candu's POV

I was broken, my entire being was broken, I couldn't even process what that fox said I just was hoping all that I heard was a lie! A huge lie, that I would see Armstrong again, that he would be in my arms when I woke up.

I looked over at the little watering hole in the back of the cave and ran up to it. I looked down at my reflection, I was crying my eye's out letting the tears hit the water and causing the reflection to become distorted and unclear, I was looking down at myself, an empty void that has no meaning of existence now, no reason to live, no reason to continue on with life.

I closed my eye's at my reflection and thought about what I should do now, knowing there wasn't anything to do except end it all.

'Yeah, that's what I should do' I thought

Just end it all and then I'll be with Armstrong forever. I was thinking about how I was going to do it when a pair of warm arms wrapped around my neck,a tail was put over mine, and a body pressed up against mine followed my a lick on both of my cheeks, clearing the tears from them.

"Why are you crying honey?"

Honey? Honey? Only one person called me honey and that was was...

I opened my eye's and saw the reflection in the water with me still in it looking as pathetic as I was a second ago, but something was added. As the rippling stopped I got a clear picture of my reflection. Around my neck were a pair of black furred arms and black furred tail was on my grey one, a body was over mine which was also covered in black fur and next to my face was another with black fur and...blue eye's.

"Did you miss me?"

Until Next Time