This is a request from alphaKATEomegaHUMPHREY, and I was more than happy to do it. And yes, this is rated M because it contains lemons. Don't judge me XP

We all know about Jasper National Park's two wolf packs, the Western and Eastern Packs right. However, what if I told you there was another pack to the far north: The Northern Pack. A pack that thrives on warfare, on barbarianism, and on bloodshed above all other things…

This is a story of not only that pack, but of Kate and Humphrey's journey to find a life for them, and to raise a family in their own home. But this journey will lead them to question the teachings of their own pack, and even uncover old family secrets better left untold…

The moon, hanging high over the mountain pass, took its half-state in the night sky, surrounded by bright stars in the inky blackness. The air was crisp and cool against the fur of the two wolves sitting on one of the many rock ledges that littered the pass.

Humphrey, the grey wolf, gave a casual whistle and out his foreleg over the tan wolf's shoulder, pulling her closer to him, which did not even seem possible with how close they currently were. These two, on the opposite end of the social order, so madly in love with each other, they were practically mates. And that's what was on Humphrey's mind now….

"You think you're so sneaky don't you?" Kate giggled getting closer to him herself.

"Sometimes, yeah I'd say I'm the ultimate sneakster, but it's cold; I need your warmth…" he nuzzled her affectionately with the side of his muzzle.

Kate closed her eyes and sighed softly, leaning against the bigger male. Humphrey, that Omega, how she just loved him. One who never took things to seriously like she did from time to time…sure he was a bit outspoken and…goofy, but who said those had to be negative traits?

"Kate, what's it like being an Alpha?" Humphrey asked.

"It's a lot harder than it looks…you have to do all the hunting to feed the entire pack…and you have to…keep the pack full." Humphrey smiled slightly his tail wagging back and forth. "Don't get any ideas." Kate teased swatting him gently.

Humphrey chuckled slyly. "Don't eliminate the possibility Kate. I mean, I love you and you love me. I think we'd make great parents."

"Just like you'd make a great Alpha." she said with a serious tone to show she wasn't joking.

Humphrey lifted his head to the dark sky. "Humphrey, Alpha Male…I like the sound of that."

The now-retired Alpha Winston kept his eye on them from the mouth of his family's den, watching from the darkness and obscurity of the cave. He knew what they were talking about; it didn't bother him much to a certain extent, but he still knew what the particular subject was. What else would two wolves in love talk about, with a certain season coming up?

"Winston, you've been standing there for ten minutes. Come to bed."

The old wolf tore his gaze from Kate and Humphrey to look at his mate. He gave a rough grunt and simply looked back to the duo without saying a single word to her.

Eve sighed and stood up. "Honey are you worried about Kate? She'll be just fine with Humphrey. Sure I wasn't too crazy about the whole idea at first, but he seems like a very nice boy."

Winston narrowed his hardened eyes. "It's not Humphrey I'm worried about." he said firmly yet with a hint of the said-worry on his voice.

"Then what are you worried about?"

He turned away from the mouth and went to the back of the den. "Pack law says with an Alpha already in control, Kate and Humphrey will move on and start their own pack."

Eve winced at the idea, which was what she did every time the mentioning of Kate and Humphrey having a family came up as a subject of discussion, but like Humphrey himself, she gradually got used to it. "I see… Winston don't tell me you're worried about…"

"The Northern Pack…" Winston growled, loathing the sound of the pack's title on the flow of his voice.

"I can understand you're worry, but we haven't seen or heard of Pontius-"

"Do not say his name in front of me!" Winston snapped, snarling at his mate. Eve staggered back at his sudden anger, sorry that she forgot how she felt about that wolf.

Winston looked away at a wall to avoid her eyes. "Pontius is a madwolf… I hate that bastard; I hate him with all my soul. I do not want him laying his slimy, bloody paws on my daughter!" he hissed pounding his paw against the ground.

Eve said nothing. How could she? Winston was nearly impossible to talk to once Pontius was brought up. Pontius was the Alpha of the Northern Pack, an independent and isolated pack further north in Jasper National Park. They had no relations at all with the Western or Eastern Packs, mainly because they were a society of war and bloodshed; destroy everything in their path. And if that wasn't already bad enough, their Alpha was insane. That wolf, Pontius – He was as old as the mountains themselves. His heart as cold as the ice he lived in and as black as the jet-black fur that covered his aged body.

"Winston, I hate Pontius just as much as you do – there has not been one moment that I haven't wanted to rip off his tail and shove it down his throat for what he did to Cyrus – but you can't keep Kate from leaving the pack and starting her own life; it's not fair to her, or Humphrey."

"I know Eve, I know." He sighed, knowing there was no way he could stop the chances of losing her from happening, like Cyrus… "But the fact that Pontius is still out there and killing others with that pack of his, with not a single care in this world…is what makes me sick to my stomach the most."

Humphrey let out a short sigh while keeping Kate next to him. "I love you Kate."

The tan wolf smiled up at him. "I love you Humphrey."

Each time they exchanged these words of affection, he wondered how he could have possibly gotten a girl as beautiful as her; sometimes he was even baffled himself. He wondered several times if he was dreaming this all up but several claw marks he gave himself told him this was all reality.

"Isn't the moon beautiful tonight?"

"The moon's always beautiful Humphrey. You're just now noticing this?" Kate teased him once more.

"Haha very funny Kate." Humphrey replied unable to keep himself from uttering an amused chuckle. "Kate, I want to ask you something. Something I've been thinking about for a while now…"

"Yes Humphrey?"

"Kate…will you um, will you-"

"Kate! It's getting late sweety. Time to come in." Eve called from the den.

Humphrey's face fell and his ears flattened against his head. No, this didn't happen; it couldn't of! "Time for me to go Humphrey. See you in the morning." Kate licked the side of his head and left his side slowly, brushing her tail against his face as she turned away.

It was as if something inside him died as her presence suddenly diminished. He didn't even get to finish what he was going to ask her, and she was getting further away; he couldn't see it but he knew it. However, it was then at that moment, a lever was pulled and his entire body and mind started working on its own mechanism. He spun around on his feet gracelessly, not even thinking about what he was doing or was going to do.

"Kate wait!" he exclaimed, his own voice sounding alien to him.

Kate looked back at him. "Whoa Humphrey what's the urgency? I guess its real important." she turned around to give him her full attention.

Humphrey swallowed nervously as he struggled to find the words in the darkest corners of his mind. Each word he collected carefully to put this as well as he could, the words making their way to his mouth as soon as he found them.

"Kate…I love you so very much, you know that right?" he said, getting control of the situation his body got him in.

"Of course, and I love you. What do you want to ask me?" she said, cocking her head slightly.

"Kate please be…honest with me when I ask you this…" he said nervously wiping his paw across the rock as if he stepped in a pile of caribou excrement.

"Okay, what is it?"

Humphrey took a deep breath as he re-gathered every word that scrambled all around his brain. He looked into Kat's golden eyes, which made him all the more nervous. "If you say no I will understand. Kate, will you…m-marry me?"

Kate felt a blast of intense heat attack her chest and her jaw fell open. Humphrey bit down on his tongue with fear; fear that she was shocked, and appalled, he would even ask this so soon. He told himself in his mind to accept the worst if she said no, but Humphrey was shooting himself down; telling himself that Kate wouldn't exactly love him to the magnitude he did. This was all part of the disbelief he had about what they could and would actually have.

Kate's minor frown immediately turned into a smile; a smile of complete and utter joy.

"Yes!" she blurted out happily, standing up suddenly and making Humphrey take a step back. "Y-Yes Humphrey! I'll be your mate!"

"Y-You will?" The grey wolf felt like he was close to either crying or having a massive heart attack. This feeling intensified when Kate came at him at top speed and the sky was suddenly in his view, Kate's weight pressing down on him when she tackled him to the rock and nuzzled his neck hard. Wow, was all Humphrey could muster in his mind; he was too happy to think of anything else.

From the mouth of the den Winston watched, his eyes not once leaving the two young wolves.

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