Ryoga was first to wake up and took in the site of frost covering Kai and Reita's bodies. He slowly sat up looking up at the sun shining through the tree branches above them. He shook his body, knocking the frost off his fur in the process. Ryoga let out a loud breath as he dropped his head to go back to sleep when the sound of something moving nearby alerted him. Ryoga was quick to jump to his feet, but whimpered putting pressure on his injured paw. He lifted his front left paw as he growled out at the moving bush in front of him. Ryoga's ears perked as another bush rustled to his right.

He watched as two cougars walked out of the bushes letting out low growls. Ryoga slowly backed up, using his body as a shield for the injured wolves behind him. The one cougar on the right charged forward as the other one did the same. Ryoga looked between them with his ears dropping. The cougar straight ahead jumped in the air to attack as the second kept charging from the ground. Ryoga got ready for the impact, but was surprised when a lightly tanned wolf collided in the air with the cougar. A grey wolf jumped over Ryoga's body to attack the second big cat. A black wolf, brown wolf, and grey wolf moved in to help push the cougars back. The two felines were quick to pull back and run with their tails between their legs.

Ryoga huffed before falling to his side and changing into his human form. Tsuzuku ran to his mate, changing into his human form to lift the alpha up in his arms. The blonde gave a small smile and the omega was quick to kiss Ryoga on the lips. Melody remained in her wolf form as Kyo, Kaoru, and Hiroto joined Tsuzuku and checking on the injured wolves. Hiroto knelt beside them to make sure they were even alive and was relieved to feel their pulses.

"We have to get them inside and warmed up." Hiroto said. "I can't do a full physical on them out here either."

Kaoru nodded and moved to grab Reita first. He pulled the blonde up and moved his right arm. Reita's eyes shot open and he let out bloodcurdling scream. He whimpered pulling away from the cause of his pain. Kai was alerted as he sat up, but gripped his forehead as he squeezed his eyes shut. Kai blindly reached his arm out to grab his mate, but he fell to the side into Hiroto's arms. The alpha groaned before vomiting on himself and the omega.

"Reita hurt his arm." Ryoga groaned. "Kai has a head injury."

"And all three of you are freezing." Kyo stated. "We're moving out."

Kaoru warned Reita before moving both of the omega's arms onto his stomach so the alpha could pick him up. Reita whimpered out before coughing out and he buried his face into Kaoru's chest to cover his mouth. Kyo helped Kai up to his feet along with Hiroto to drag him along. Tsuzuku helped support Ryoga as they stood and began walking as Melody kept a steady look out for any dangers as they moved out of the area.

Lamps were spaced around the room to light up the area so they could at least see what they were doing. Shinya swiped Aoi's wet hair out of his face before wiping his warm skin with a cool wet rag. The beta carefully wiped down the omega trying to cool him off. Within one night Aoi's fever became worse and it was only a matter of days before they lose him. Without any medicine, there was nothing Shinya could to help him. They wouldn't be able to move him at this point and even if they did, he wouldn't survive a day outside. Aoi whimpered out again as Shinya worked on cleaning the infected area.

After Shinya was done, he waved for Hitsugi and Shou to redress Aoi as he moved to make sure IV and Koichi set up everything needed for the others' return. Additional pallets were made and scrubs were sat out for them as well as extra blankets. Shinya looked over the last of the bandages that they had and bit his lip before setting them back in the bag with the few supplies they had left. He jumped hearing the doors open and running footsteps coming closer.

"Shinya! Byou!" Hiroto shouted and the two doctors walked towards the hallway where the group was coming in. Kaoru was carrying Reita tightly in his arms followed by the rest of them. Hiroto told them about the injuries as Reita and Kai were laid beside their pallets. Byou worked on Kai with Hiroto as Shinya looked over Reita with Shou. Ryoga sat nearby with Tsuzuku telling them he could wait until the other two were treated.

Shinya had Shou hold Reita up as the beta worked on pulling the omega's shirt off. It took them a few seconds to carefully work it off Reita's arm, but he finally managed to do it. Shinya studied the blue and purple swollen shoulder. He observed the odd lump then patted Reita's face to get his attention.

"Reita, your shoulder is dislocated. I have to reset, it's going to hurt so I need to be as relaxed as possible. I'm going to work it back in okay?" Shinya said rubbing the blonde's arm gently and Reita nodded letting out a few coughs in the process. Shinya placed one hand on the bruised shoulder and the other on Reita's upper up. Shiny nodded to Shou to hold him tightly then he started to slowly roll his arm and push at it. Reita clenched his teeth as his arm was moved in a circular motion until suddenly the shoulder popped back into place. Reita cried out before his eyes rolled back and his body went limp into Shou's arms. Shinya nodded and the blonde was laid down so they could remove the rest of his clothes.

"Rei…"Kai whispered reaching out to his mate, but his vision blurred into darkness.

Shiny worked on cleaning up Reita's hand, but he didn't have enough bandages to wrap it up so he let it air out instead. They put a pair of scrub pants on him, then used a pillow case for a makeshift sling. Shou carefully tied it around Reita's neck before placing his arm on it, then the two moved him onto the pallet to cover him in blankets. Hiroto held Kai's body up as Byou wiped the alpha's head wound off. He carefully worked on stitching the gash up as it started bleeding out again. Once he was finished, he used the last of the bandages to wrap up Kai's head before laying him onto the pallet next to Reita. Shinya rubbed their foreheads, and found them both with fevers. He looked worriedly at Kyo. Kai and Reita both needed medicine.

Die sniffed the ground and moved quietly through the trees as he spotted his prey nibbling on some sprouting grass. A young fawn with its mother nearby was grazing in an opening. The buck wasn't anywhere to be seen so Die took this chance to run in. He ran towards the fawn and its mother jumped in front of it kicking her hooves at Die. But the wolf jumped up and bit into her neck tearing into it. She kicked and let out a groan as the fawn ran into the trees. Die shook his head back and forth until the deer's neck broke.

Die dragged his kill towards the lab and walked passed the chain-link fence where he dropped the deer next to the four rabbits, two ducks, and four silver fish from a nearby river. Toshiya and Miyavi were sitting by a couple of fires cooking some of the meats the wolf had already caught that morning. Toshiya one of which was used to make some soup in a pot they found in the break room.

"Thank you Die." Toshiya said. "Why don't you sit down and take a break? We'll have some breakfast done soon. Besides we found plenty of food inside that's still good."

Die glared at the building then shook his head and took off back into the woods to hunt some more. Miyavi started skinning the next rabbit and smirked. "Your boyfriend is acting pretty weird."

"He's not my boyfriend." The alpha mumbled stirring the soup. "It's done. I'm going to take in for them to eat. Come in once you're done with that."

When Toshiya brought in the soup, Hitsugi gladly prepared bowls for everyone in the room. Shinya took two bowls, one for himself and the other for Kyo who was sitting alone against the far wall looking out at everyone. Shinya offered him a bowl before sitting next to him. Hitsugi sat two bowls by Kaoru and Aoi, but the alpha didn't acknowledge him. He only stared at his dying omega. Koichi, Tsuzuku and Ryoga were a few feet from them chatting as they ate. Tsuzuku had ripped one of the unused scrubs to wrap up Ryoga's wrist. It was better than nothing at least.

Ruki gently woke Uruha up to eat and the omega was relieved to see that his friends returned home. Ruki waited for him to eat and lay back down before even touching his own bowl. Byou and Shou ate as they stayed by Reita and Kai watching over them. The two didn't show any signs of waking up, but that didn't stop Hitsugi from making them bowls as well. Everyone was quiet as they ate or watched others eat. They were appreciating the moment of peace while they had it.

Kaoru sighed rubbing his hand against Aoi's sweaty face as he continued his restless sleep. Kaoru dropped his head in defeat even when his longtime friend sat next to him. Kyo rubbed Kaoru's back as they looked down at the pale omega gasping for air.

"I must be cursed." Kaoru whispered. "First my family, then my pack, my home, and now…Aoi. I seem to always lose everything dear to me."

"He'll recover." Kyo said trying to make his friend feel better, but they both knew it was useless. Aoi was in bad shape. A sudden cough startled them, but it didn't come from Aoi, it came from across the room. Reita let out a few wet sounding coughs before Byou made his way to the blonde to help him sit up. They watched as Shinya made it to Reita's side and placed his ear to the blonde's back. Reita was told to breath, but he coughed a couple a time before he could do long enough for Shinya to hear him. They laid him back down covered him up. Shinya rubbed Reita's face as he coughed some more.

Kyo sighed. "Looks like he's sick again."

Ryoga and Tsuzuku were startled hearing Reita's cough. Not able to just sit by and watch the blonde struggle to sleep they decided to search the lab some more. Ryoga took a lantern and followed Tsuzuku down the different hallways. They went through all the rooms again, trying to find any medicine that could help. The pack had already striped all the rooms clean so they weren't finding all that much. They walked down the final hall with the elevator at the end. Ryoga went through the two rooms as Tsuzuku walked closer to the lift. When Ryoga walked back he noticed his mate down the hall.

"What's up?"

"It's an elevator." Tsuzuku stated.

"I see that, but without electricity we can't use it. It's too dangerous to climb down the cables since we don't know how many floors this building has below us. Not like Die is talking about anything either."

"What idiot designs a building with an elevator, but no stairs?" Tsuzuku said.

Ryoga handed the lamp over to Tsuzuku and started pushing against the walls, then sniffing them until he stopped on the right wall. Tsuzuku watched as the blonde's hand rubbed greyish metal wall and his mate suddenly hummed feeling a strange crack. Tsuzuku brought the lamp up so they could see. Ryoga pushed his fingers directly on it, pushing it in creating a handle. He moved his fingers around feeling inside to find a trigger like switch. He pushed on it and a loud click sounded before Ryoga started pulling the large block of wall in his direction. It opened up to reveal the pitch dark so Tsuzuku brought the lamp up to show stairs leading down.

"In your defense," Ryoga said, "you were all probably tired and not thinking straight."

"Shut up." Tsuzuku laughed. "That was some spy movie shit right there." They laughed as they started going down the stairs together.

They carefully made it down the flight of stairs to the metal door at the bottom and Ryoga opened it up. They were surprised it wasn't locked or anything, but figured since the electricity was out the locks were too. The first thing they noticed was that there was a single hall so they walked down it to an opened area. There were barred cages that lined up against the walls and at the end was another doorway. Tsuzuku whimpered out seeing the cages and Ryoga quickly hugged him to block his sight.

"Let's get back upstairs." Ryoga whispered, pushing the omega back. "Come on."

Ryoga practically dragged his mate up all while he started crying. They made it to the top and Ryoga sat the lamp down to carry Tsuzuku to the open the area with the rest of the pack. They were startled seeing the omega crying and Byou was by their side as Ryoga laid him down on a pallet.

"He's not hurt, just shaken up." Ryoga said. "We found the stairs to the lower floor. It was a hidden door, but…"

"But?" Kyo asked walked up to them.

"There's cages down there." Ryoga said before tending back to his mate. Kyo waved for others to follow with lamps and they all started down the hall to the stairs. Kyo lead Shinya, Toshiya, Shou, and Hitsugi down the staircase and to the lower the floor. They spotted the cages, but moved passed them to the next room. Shinya shivered seeing the gurneys and hospitals beds set up around them like a mini infirmary. To the left were offices were they started looking through them. Shinya was about to go to one when a metal door at the head of the room caught his attention.

Shinya walked to it and opened it up to look inside. It was a large surgical room with one metal table in the center. Shinya felt odd being in there but began searching through the cabinets to find a lot medical supplies like bandages, syringes and so on. When he was going through the stuff, he spotted another door to the side and went to it. Opening it up, he stepped into a walk in closet sized room filled shelves of medicine bottles. Shinya grabbed one and shook it, hearing the pills move inside. He quickly started looking for a particular medicine.

"Shinya?" Kyo called.

"In here!" He shouted. "I found medicine!"

He moved around the room looking around until he found some in glass bottles. He heard his mate walking in, but he was busy reading the bottles. He smiled as he grabbed one with 'penicillin' written on it.

Shinya told Shou to start going through the medicine as he ran up to the main area with the pack. He ran straight to Kaoru and Aoi where he dropped to his knees. He was quick to lift up Aoi's arm and tap on his inner elbow to get a vein to pop up. Kaoru watched as Shinya unwrapped a syringe and poked it into the glass bottle to drain out some liquid.

"What is that?"

"Penicillin. It'll help get rid of his infection." Shinya said pulling the needle out. He tapped the vein some more before pushing the needle inside and injecting the antibiotic. Shinya rubbed Aoi's sweaty face a looked Kaoru in the eye. "He'll be okay. It'll take a few days, but this medicine will help."

Kaoru dropped his head and squeezed Aoi's hand in his own. The alpha let out a shaky voice. "Thank you."

Shinya saw water dripping onto Aoi's arm and he patted Kaoru's head. "I wasn't going to let him die. I wasn't going to let you suffer again."

Kaoru sniffled as he nodded whispering another thank you to his friend.

Toshiya had made his way into one of the offices and this one had five filing cabinets lined against each other. He started rummaging through the desk and the stuff on top of it, but quickly became bored with that. He spun in the office chair and rolled to the filing cabinets to start going through them. He slid open one of the doors and picked a random file to look at. The first thing he saw was the photo of a young girl. There was a name: Asuka Minori, then below was a number: 11436, and a line below that that said 'Experiment: Senses Analysis'. He looked at the number and saw the file was labeled that same number on the tab too. He looked back at the paragraph written about having her sight and sense of touch removed.

Ryoga threw the file on the desk not wanting to read anymore, but he stared at it. Looking at the number at the tab then he looked back the files in the cabinet. 11437, 11438…and so on, but he saw separators with numbers: 114, 115, and the numbers kept rising. He started grabbing random files and glancing at the experiment names. 114s were about senses, 115s were about amputations. Toshiya stood up to go to another cabinet and swung it open looking at the numbers on the tabs. 158, 159, 160… Toshiya closed it and leaned against the desk. He flipped through Asuka's file and saw the pictures of her being experimented on. He flipped the papers back to the front page and noticed a second photo being hidden by a sticky note. He pulled the yellow paper off to see the photo of her naked back with a barcode tattooed on it. 11436 was printed under the code.

Toshiya stared at it for a moment and it dawned on him when he realized he'd seen a tattoo like that before. He rubbed his head picturing Die walking in his towel back in Ravenstone City and the barcode on his upper back. Toshiya jumped to his feet. He gasped as he hesitated to open up more doors, but he did. He read up the numbers until he reached the 200s. Toshiya thought for a moment trying to remember what numbers were on Die's back. He knew it started with a 20, but he couldn't remember the digits that followed. He just started pulling out files and opening them, then throwing them to the side.

With each file he tossed, he got more and more aggravated. Seeing all these faces, these wolves that were experimented on. More like tortured in some cases. Toshiya didn't waste too much time reading but a few sentences of some and most he didn't even bother. 20189, 20190, 20191, 20192, 20193. Toshiya gasped looking as three photos on the top page. One was of a young boy with sad eyes, the second was a teenager with red hair, and the third was an older man with long hair that had a streak of red in it. Chop all the hair of and he's look like the Die Toshiya knew. The alpha sat down in the office chair staring at the file. He realized it was thicker than most of the ones he held. He took a deep breath and started reading over it.

"Andou Daisuke. 20193. Experiment: Genetic Status Alteration. Subject 20193 was officially identified as an omega at the age of seven. First set of injections were given July sixteenth…"

Toshiya stomped passed the pack members with red eyes, but he waved them off as he moved towards the exit. He stepped outside were Die was by the fence skinning the deer he had caught earlier that day when he noticed the alpha standing beside him. He looked up at Toshiya with a raised eyebrow, but then noticed the file he was hold. Die's shoulders dropped and he looked away.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Toshiya whispered.

"Let me guess, Kyo's kicking me out."

"I haven't told him. I haven't told anyone, but they wouldn't hate for this. Die, this secret is too much for you to handle alone."

"Don't pull this shit!" Die growled standing up. "Don't be all sympathetic. I don't want yours or anybody else's pity."

"I'm not pitying you, I'm trying to understand you. Trying to understand why you're so secretive and distant from us. A strong pack means trust between all of us and asking for help. Tell us the past that's hurting you so much so we can help you."

"Shut up!" Die yelled glaring at Toshiya. "I don't need your help! I never needed anybody's help. I've always gotten by on my own."

Toshiya gently grabbed Die's shoulder. "But you're not alone. Not anymore."

Die glared at him again, but this time his eyes were watery. "Don't…please don't…"

"You were never meant to be an alpha." Toshiya whispered holding the file up.

"I was never meant to be born." Die sighed sitting down on the ground. Toshiya sat next to him, waiting for him to talk and the other finally gave in. "My mother was taken from her pack and raped by a scientist. She eventually got pregnant with me. But that asshole, he started his experiment on me before I was even out of her. He genetically altered me to come out a male omega. Of course it wasn't until I was seven that they started the real experiments."

"They wanted to see if they could turn an omega into an alpha." Toshiya said and Die nodded.

"They succeeded. That's why omegas don't affect me." He sighed. "I knew I would be alone for the rest of my life because I lost my ability to connect to anybody."

"Die…" Toshiya whispered and Die looked at him. The alpha moved in to press a soft kiss on Die's lips.

He pulled away with a scowl. "Why did you do that?"

"To see if you felt anything. Did you?" Toshiya asked.

Die shook his head and stood up. "No I didn't. Don't do that. Don't try and…and"

"Connect with you?" The alpha stood up. "What's so bad about that?"

"I can't feel connections!" Die yelled. "I can't. I've already tried."

"You don't search for connections, Die. They appear when you're ready for them. Don't give up hope okay? You'll find someone eventually. We all do."

"Don't give up? Toshiya, I don't even know what I am! How the hell do I find someone to be with? Who says I'm even meant to be with someone? I was never meant to exist in the first place." Die snapped and started walking away.

"Die…" He called, but the wolf kept walking away. "Please come back."

Toshiya sighed looking down at the file in his hands. He walked to the fire still going and threw the manila folder into it. He watched as it burned into smoke before walking back inside.