Chapter 1 Where are we?

A/N: This is my second story and I am hoping it does well. This story takes place in the truck crates on their way to Sawtooth.

Humphrey's POV:
"Uhh where am I?" I said. I had woken up and it was dark cold and a bit wet. "Humphrey is that you?" I heard a familiar and frightened voice. "Kate are you there?" I said in a panicky voice. "Yes it's me." She said in a less frantic voice. "Where are we?" I asked. "I don't know." "Maybe were dead." I said as the truck hit a bump and we both flew up and hit each others cage. "Nope defiantly not dead." I said afterwards. I felt something wet by my foot and assumed it was water. "Well at least they left us some water." I leaned down to take a drink. "What you got water." I lapped some up and found out something right away. "Nope defiantly not water." I said spitting out my own piss. About an hour later the truck stopped. Then Kate got worried again. Humans were surrounding the truck. "We stopped Humphrey, what's happening." She said back to her frantic voice. "I don't know, but at least we have each other, we can make it out hopefully." I said. I could tell she was more calm now because her breathing had started to slow down a bit. Then the men around the truck picked up our cages and put them on the ground. "When he opens the cages we run for it." Kate said. "Alright." I said as the cage for was opened and we took of before it was halfway open. We didn't care, just ran and ran.

We stopped after a couple miles. "I think we lost them." I was overjoyed to hear this, I couldn't take another step, and fell to the ground. "Tired are we." Kate said. "Ye-yeah." I said panting and wheezing, trying to catch my breath. I had never run so much in my life, but she hadn't broken a sweat. "Oh come on, a little exercise is good for you." Kate said mockingly. "This…is…your…idea…of…a little…exercise." I said still out of breath. She giggled and looked over a near by cliff. "Well we sure aren't in Jasper any more." She said. Kate turned to Humphrey and said. "So what should we do. Then Humphrey looks at her with his eyes wide and said. "Your coming to me for information?" "Ugh im just really stressed out right now because of the whole getting married thing and-" Kate started but was interrupted. "Getting married? your getting married wha-who- I don't understand." "Wait you didn't know I am getting married to garth." Kate said. "what?" "Yeah to unite the packs I, I kinda have to do this." I could now tell that she didn't want to do it. I fought back a growl as I thought how cruel is this world where she is forced to give up her love life for the good of the packs. "H-how could you not have mentioned this on the hour long truck ride we had here?" I began to yell. "Well I assumed you knew." She said. "But for the entire ride you didn't even think of saying oh by the way I'm getting married." She started crying. "Don't yell at me." She said as she ran off. I ran through the forest after her. I looked for a good 10 minutes before I got to her, but u wasn't the first. She laid on the ground pinned down by a dark brown wolf. Too scared to even move. Then he spoke. "The humans took me here to repopulate, so that's what I'm going to do." He said with a grin but before He could get any further a I was upon the brown wolf with my jaws around his neck biting down hard and I pryed the wolf off. Kate jumped on me crying and soon found herself clutching my for dear life. I offered as much comfort as I could, I lightly stroked back her fur and told her it would be alright. She stopped awhile later and looked at me. "Come on fallow me." Kate still leaning on my shoulder and sniffling. I led her to the small den I found while looking for Kate and went in. I laid down, Kate laid in a corner and said, "Thanks for um comforting me." I said "No its ok you had a rough time just rest ok." "Alright thank you, goodnight Humphrey." she said. Then I went into the opposite corner and closed my eyes.

I was awoken in the middle of the night to Kate. I opened my eyes to see her shivering and her hair was a bit on end. "H-h-humph-ery could I sle-ep with you to-too night." She managed to stutter out. "Sure you can." I said. "Th-thanks." She curled her self around me to gain warmth. She still shivered but I had an idea. I put my paws around her waist and flipped her over so her back was on the wall and mine was facing the wind. She was surprised at first but after a minute she stopped shivering. "Better." I asked. "Very." She said. I kissed her fore head and said. "Goodnight." I said with her still in my embrace

Kate's POV:
Humphrey had let me sleep with him so I curled around him trying to get as much warmth as possible from him. But he put his arms he flipped me over so he was on the outside. I immediately felt warm in his embrace. I didn't know what it was about him, but something about this said, your safe now, no one will hurt you. "Better?" He asked. "Very was all I could say. But then kissed my forehead. My head raced at that. Was it a friendly kiss or a I like you kinda kiss. "Good night." He said. I noticed it was still in his embrace when I borrowed my face into his fur. He didn't seem to mind so I kept my head where it was in his soft fur and fell asleep.