A/N: Still putting out daily updates! Here's chapter six.
Humphrey's POV
Kate and I walked together following the two leaders of the Willmore Pack, listening as they told us about their pack. "I'm not sure if Cyrus told you anything but our pack only has twelve wolves including us. Eight alphas and four omegas, however our omegas were allowed to learn hunting if they so desired." Jake said as we passed by a few dens. "Why not just make them alphas?" Kate asked, I was curious about that as well. "When you run a small pack it helps to have most of your members able to do hunting in case something happens to the alphas. It's just something to fall back on, we don't put then in hunting parties unless they feel like hunting." He responded. "Interesting, you got this down to a science." She said
"Thank you, we try our best to keep our members happy." He said smiling from her compliment. We were now out of the den grounds and coming up to the river bank. "This is our river, it's nothing much but gives us water and a place to bathe in." Susan said "We also get fish to eat from it" Jake added. Fishing wolves, what kind of place is this? I thought to myself looking at the water, but I could see what they mean, fish were just swimming by every now and then. "You trained your wolves to fish?" Kate asked "Yes, but it's very hard to do so not many of us spend time doing it." He said.
The more we heard about this pack the odder and interesting it became, whoever heard of a pack that had little wolves but were trained how to fish and omegas could hunt. "What do you hunt as basic food?" I asked joining the conversation. "We hunt squirrels, deer and caribou, but mostly just deer." He replied. I wasn't sure what Kate was thinking but I liked this pack, it was small, friendly and I could still learn how to hunt or even become an alpha. That's when I realized a big problem with us joining, we were mate's different ranks. We might not be able to join because of that if they have a law against cross pairing, most pack had that law. I decided to save the question for last once we were done being showed around.
"We do our hunting on the opposite end of the meadow since most deer eat the grass there." Susan said pointing across the river to the rest of the meadow. "Luckily there's a fallen tree not too far upriver that we cross." I remembered seeing a large log acting as a bridge while Cyrus led us over here. We were all sitting on the soft dirt that lined the river side; I was occupied looking around at the view. Across the river the meadow soon ended turning back into forest before hitting snow caped mountains. The mountains wrapped all the way around in three directions, looking down the river lead into a much larger valley where you could barely see very distant mountains. It was a beautiful place, but Jasper had so much more and I didn't think anything could beat it.
"Well that's pretty much all we have here, our territory doesn't stretch far, just enough to claim all the meadow as ours." Jake said "Have any questions before we leave you two to decide?" Susan asked looking at Kate and I. "Yes, what are your laws?" Kate asked, I knew she had the same question on her mind as I did. "All the basic laws to keep things in order except the law keeping omegas from hunting, and there's no law against alphas and omegas being mates." He replied. What he said came as music to my ears, this meant we could join this pack with no problems at all. Kate and I looked at each other after he said this and smiled "I'm taking a guess that law is good news for you two" Susan said calmly. "Yes I'm an alpha and Humphrey is an omega." Kate said "Oh it makes since now, you two became lone wolves because going back to Jasper would mean separating." Jake said.
"Yes that's right" I said and Kate nodded next to me, "That's great, but I bet you miss home though." Susan said. "Yeah we both do, but I guess this is just how it's so post to be. We can visit though, there's nothing against that" Kate said. It was unfortunate but she was right we couldn't go home because of the law making us lone wolves by staying together. "Well we'll be in our den, come and tell us when you come up with a decision about joining." Jake said before he and his mate got up and began walking to the den grounds. Once they were out of earshot I decided to tell Kate what I think. After hearing what they said about there not being an alpha and omega couple law I came up with an idea for when we headed to Jasper to visit in a few days. If this pack could get rid of the law then why couldn't our old pack do the same? As much as I wanted to call this new pack home, if we could be accepted as a couple in Jasper then that would be WAY better. "So what are you thinking honey?" Kate asked looking at me. I couldn't help but smile, not just at the idea I had but also the fact she just called me honey for the first time. She returned the smile "I would like to join this pack, however I have a better idea and it concerns Jasper." I said. "You mean you want to go home and see if my parents would abolish the alpha and omega law?" She asked already knowing my idea somehow "Yes, you were thinking the same thing?" I asked.
"Yeah, I'm not sure if it would work but it's worth a shot since we'll be there soon." She said "And if it doesn't work then we can just come back here." I added. "Now you're thinking like an alpha" She said laughing, "What can I say, we can learn a lot from each other" I said laughing as well. "That's true" She said agreeing. The sun was beginning to set now as I looked over and could see a lot more wolves at the feeding grounds grabbing food for themselves. "So we join this pack for three days then we'll head for Jasper, sound good?" Kate said making a decision. "Sounds great to me" I replied excited that we just may be able to go back to Jasper. "Alright, come on let's go talk the Jake and Susan about it, I'm sure they will agree." She said.
We walked from the river and over to the leaders den where we found the two of them sitting outside, watching over their pack. "Good timing, dinner was just starting" Jake said pointing at all the wolves sitting down a few hundred feet away. "So what did you decide on?" "We decided that we want to join your pack, however it will only be for three days." Kate said. "And why's that?" He asked "Well after hearing that you abolished the alpha and omega rule it gave us an idea." I said "We wanted to try and get our pack back in Jasper to do the same thing so we could live together there." Kate said "And if it doesn't work out we would come back here and be a part of the pack full time." I finished.
"Alright that's fine, family always come first, and if it doesn't work out then of course you're allowed to come back. Welcome to the pack" He said. "Thanks again, it'll be much easier on us since were not on our own." Kate said. "Anytime, now let's introduce you to the rest of the pack." Susan said as they got up and walked over to the feeding grounds with us following. All the wolves were looking at Kate and I as we walked up and stopped. They were all in a semi-circle and were all talking amongst each other until we walked up.
"Everyone this is Kate and Humphrey, they will be staying with us for the next few days until they will move on to get to their former pack. They come from the western pack in Jasper as I'm sure you've all heard of, so please welcome them in over dinner." Jake said. All the wolves said hello to us, the only wolf I recognized was Cyrus who was sitting in the middle. We said hello back before we grabbed some food to eat. We walked back over to the group and sat with the other wolves who were all giving their attention their leader. I listened in on what he was talking about as did Kate "As for a schedule of tomorrows duty's it will be the same as today's was. Two hunting party's will go out at different times, a patrol party will go around as well. If any of you omegas want to hunt tomorrow then please speak to hunting leaders. As for you Kate and Humphrey feel free to help out where you see fit, but you don't have to if you so choose." Jake said looking at the two of us when he mentioned us.
We both nodded before I began to eat my dinner which was just a squirrel since I already had enough food for one day. All the pack wolves went back to talking to each other while they ate as well. Kate and I talked to ourselves during this "Life feels like it going so fast ever since we left Jasper" I said striking a conversation. "Yeah, once we get back home and talk to my parents about our love and abolishing the law life will slow down to normal." She said. "Then we can just spend our lives together and having fun" I commented. She laughed "Of course" She said with a smile.
I smiled too, excited about our future together, and what things life will bring to us. "Do you still want to learn how to hunt if we return home?" She said in a more serious tone. If we did return to Jasper then I didn't have to do the training but I knew I still could and I still wanted to. "I would still like to train, maybe even become an alpha." I replied. "Alright we will talk to my parents about that also, I'm sure he'll allow me to train you." She said, I smiled and said "Good". We had finished our food and I looked around to see everyone else was doing the same. I watched Cyrus make his way out of the group and stand in front of us like Jake did about ten minutes ago. All the wolves looked at him like they knew why he was standing there, however I did not.
"Alright everyone, as you know it's that time of the week where I share some new jokes with you. But first I would just like to say welcome to the two new members." He said before looking at us. Some of the pack cheered for us before he continued "So I only got two jokes for you this week but if any of you omegas or even alphas got any, feel free to share too." He said, an omega doing standup during the pack dinner sounded like a cool idea. I sat eager to hear what kind of jokes he had "First one, what do you call an alpha who's lazy?" He said looking at the group, I've actually heard this one before surprisingly. I was expecting different packs to have different joke but I guess they spread through each other. The group all looking at each other seeing if someone knew but I think I was the only one but I didn't want to say I did. "An omega" He said (A/N: Bad jokes I know, I know) a few of the wolves laughed but not as many as I expected.
"No? Alright that one's scraped, next one, what do you call a lost wolf?" He said looking at the group again, I didn't know this one this time. "A where-wolf" He finished, a lot more wolves laughed this time including Kate and I. "Well that's all I've come up with this time, anyone got any they'd like to share with us?" He asked. No one spoke up but he did turn to me "How about you Humphrey, got any good western jokes you'd like to tell?" He asked me. I smiled "I suppose I got a few" I said getting up and joining by his side. The entire group looked at me eager to see what jokes I had to tell. I decided to tell the two good ones I knew for a while to satisfy them.
"Hello" I said looking back at the crowd, I've ever had this many wolves all wanting to hear my jokes at once. A few said hello back before I began the first joke. "So I have a question and maybe you could help me with it. I've always noticed that parties start at night and I was wondering why that was, do you guys know?" I said telling the first joke, I was expecting to get a whole bunch of answers but surprisingly they all waited for me to finish. "Well here's the answer, it's because they have a howling good time." I said and the group laugh 'Good they haven't heard that one before' I thought to myself. I already had the next joke ready to go in my head "How do wolves eat their food?" I asked looking at them. Once again they waited for me to finish "They wolf it down" I said. Again they laughed and I just smiled back before Cyrus spoke from next to me.
"Great jokes Humphrey, and that will conclude the joke telling for this week" He said before I walked back over to Kate hearing the group cheer. Kate was smiling at me before she spoke to me "Great job!" She said as I sat next to her. "It was nothing, telling jokes is just a part of my nature" I said. The group went back to talking and a few left to head to their dens but the two of us stayed and to each other. After a bit Jake walked up to us making us stop talking to see what he had to say. "I just wanted to tell you can sleep in the den at the end over there" He said pointing down the row of dens where I could the one he was pointing to. "Thank you" Kate said "Don't mention it, goodnight" He replied before turning and waking away.
"Goodnight" We said back "I suppose we should head to sleep as well huh?" I asked looking back at Kate "Alright" She said. We got up and walked over to the den, it was the same size as all the others and was big enough for more than just two wolves. We laid down together before falling asleep ready for the next days here in this pack.