Chapter 11:

I slowly open my eyes, that's the best night's sleep I've ever had. I look over my shoulder to see kate not there. Where is she? I ask myself. She must just be getting breakfast. I had a hard time remembering what happened yesterday. I remember we were relocated to Idaho, we met two birds, Marcel and Paddy, but after that, i can't remember anything.

I decided that it would be best to get up and go help Kate. I started to walk out of the den, but I felt a small pain in my leg and I collapsed.

"Woah, Woah, Woah. Hold it, Humphrey." I hear paddy say as he lands in front of me. "I don't know where you think you're going with that leg." He says. I look at my leg to see it all bandaged up with leaves and such.

"What happened?" I asked.

"Don't you remember? You tried to jump off a cliff to impress your lady friend and you fractured your leg." He said as it all came back to me.

"Oh yeah, but hey, i told her i couldn't make that jump," I said.

"Then why did you jump?" He asked.

"I... I don't know." I said.

"Exactly. Oh, and while you were asleep, I and Kate found you some numbing berry for your leg. We also washed it and right now Marcel is going to find some sticks and vines to help too." Paddy says.

"Ah, well thank you," I say.

"Hey, it's no problem, But, don't do anything crazy, like try to walk, because it will hurt like fire when the berry wears off." He warns me.

"Ok, but, where's Kate?" I asked him.

"She's out looking for food. She should be back at any moment."

"I still can't believe I jumped off that cliff. I passed out after that, do you know where we are?" I ask him.

"Sure, we are still in Idaho. Kate said that you two will be leaving in a day or two, pretty much when you can lean against your leg with support. Look, there's Marcel now." He says as he points to a bird in the air.

"Paddy! Is our friend awake?" He asked.

"Yes, now you should hurry up and fix up his leg before the berry effect runs off." Said Paddy.

"Ok." He stretched out my leg as i tried not to holler in pain. He placed the stickup and down my leg and wrapped the vine around the stick and my leg. I now have a sort of cast made out of 4 sticks and 1 long vine.

"Ok, now try to walk," Marcel said but paddy quickly denied it.

"No! You need to leave it like that and let it heal. Try tomorrow though. You should be able to apply light pressure to it." He says

"To what?" We hear a voice outside the den call out.

"Kate! What did you catch?" I asked her.

"Just some rabbits. So..." She places down the rabbits, "how's your leg doing?" She asked.

"It's doing good. We could probably leave tomorrow." I tell her.

"That's good, we want to get to the pack before war breaks out." She says.

"Yeah," I reply, but I kind of enjoyed it here. Other than a shattering my leg, this has been nice. Omegas don't leave the pack much so this was all new to me. But I'm not an omega, I'm an alpha! I look up at Kate to see her enjoying her meal...

"Are you going to eat?" She says with a full mouth. I just nodded and I thought, does she know what I am? I'm starting to realize that I don't even know what i am. Last week, i was an omega now I'm an alpha, i just don't know anymore. I dug in and started eating. I realized I haven't eaten in two or three days and neither has kate. We picked them clean to the bone in minutes.

"Wow, that was good!" Kate says.

"Yeah," I reply.

"It was like my mother always said, 'it tastes better when you catch it yourself.'" She said.

"I didn't catch and i still liked it," I told her.

"That's 'cause you're an omega and not used to getting the good parts of the meat. Alphas eat the good stuff and omegas go what's left." She replied, i knew she was wrong but i didn't want to correct her.

"Your probably right." Was all i said, i then got to thinking. If i am an alpha who never got alpha training, what does that make me? Now that i think of it, when kate left, i used her future den to build muscle in, but does that count?

"Well Humphrey, the best thing for you to do is to get some sleep. You need that leg to heal. Tomorrow, i get up early and find us some more food so we can eat, then we will find those birds to tell us where to go. They already told me the train will be here not to long after the sunrise here of we miss it, we will have to wait another week or two to leave." She said.

"Ok, sounds good to me," I told her as i lead down. I watched her leave my den and when i did that, i felt something in my stomach, something new, it was a good feeling towards Kate, but it kind of hurt. I just ignored it and I laid down and went to sleep.

The next morning, Kate's POV:

I had just caught some more rabbits and i was heading back to the den when i woke up Humphrey was really still. I paid no attention to it. When i left though, i felt this pain in my stomach. It was a bad feeling, i was worried for Humphrey, which doesn't seem like a bad thing but alphas sent supposed to let there worry stop them, but it kind of did during my hunt. I also felt bad, he wouldn't be like this if i didn't push him off that cliff, this was all-cause of my need to get home. We could just wait another week before we leave, but the war, the pack, i needed to get home. I was trained not to long ago not to let these thoughts or feelings impact my mission. I just did what i was trained, i pushed my worry and guilt deep inside me, Humphrey would be fine, all we have to do is get on a train. We do that, we can just ride it home. BOOM, done. I just hope we can get up that mountain in one piece, forget the mountain, can i even get him out of the den.

Speaking of the den, i was here, i walked in to see Humphrey still lying in the same position from when i left. "Humphrey?" I say i wanted to wake him up easy. But he didn't get up.

"Hey Humphrey, get up," I tell him, he still didn't respond.

"Humphrey?" I nudged him with my nose, "Wake up." He didn't move, at all and now i was starting to worry again.

"Humphrey!" I say as i put my nose near his, no air, he wasn't breathing. "Humphrey!" I shout as i start to freak out, i had no clue what to do, this is my mother's sort of thing. The first thing i did was went to find the birds.

Humphreys POV:

I wake up to a dark room, "Where am i?" I ask myself.

"Hey Humphrey, remember me?" I hear a voice say.

"Yeah, i guess, but if I'm going to keep seeing you, what is your name.

"When I was alive, i was called Kail, just call me that," Kail said.

"Ok, but why am i here again?" I ask him.

"You are not here for your amnesia problem, not this time, but, for something else. You see Humphrey, I have certain powers, some of which can heal you. You are leaving for jasper today, that is correct? But your journey will hit a fork in the road once up the mountain, and you will surely die with your leg." He says.

"What?!" I shout at him.

"Woah, calm down. I can heal you. Your leg will be better when you wake." He says.

"You can do that?" I ask.

"Oh, sure. But listen, my powers have limits. If you do this again tomorrow i can not help you."

"Well thanks," I say.

"I wouldn't thank me yet, it takes a while to heal your leg, about another minute. You've already been here too long and your breathing has stopped."

"Wait, what?!" I asked as i started to feel. light-headed.

"Yeah, you're not breathing. Your girlfriend out there things your dead and it really funny." He says.

"She's not my girl... just bring me back!" I shout at him."

"Ooo, 30 more seconds." He says. I was starting to get weak legs.

"Leave my leg alone, i would rather love than have a better leg!" I shout at him.

"You're going to be fine, 10 seconds." He said i was really on edge here. Funny how i can walk here but not in reality. "5, 4, 3, 2, and bye." He says as he starts to fade and the room turns into my den again.

Reality:

I shoot up and look around, "Kate!" I shout, but she wasn't here. I run outside.

"Oh crap, i can walk, Kate!" I shout as i look around, but she wasn't here. I decided to walk inside. Did she leave without me? She couldn't have, there are some rabbits on the floor. But maybe she did, i just played down and went to sleep some more.

How do you like this one? Is it good, the only ready i hurt but then healed Humphrey was to show you the powers Kail has. Leave what you think in the comments. Have a wonderful rest of your day and...

Piece!