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Jim stopped by the river, and said his goodbyes. Naturally, they didn't want him to go, even though he told them it wouldn't be too long. "What the fuck am I doing?" was something Jim asked himself several times on that trip. Why he was doing what his father wanted, instead of what he wanted was beyond him. His whole life, everything he had done had been to appease his father, and what had that ever gotten him? He was on his way to Wolf Military School. After a good ten minutes of utter silence between the two, while the only sound was the soft padding of their feet touching the earth, Jim broke the silence.

"So," he said, drawing out the "O", "What's your name?" The female wolf said nothing.

"Seriously, I can't just keep walking next to you, if you don't tell me your name," the male wolf said, maneuvering himself around the female, trying to incite some sort of emotional response from her. He made faces, and shook his tail in her face; and yet, nothing. Finally, Jim turned around, and walked backwards, his muzzle a foot away from the female's. He stared at her, and she stared right back. "I'm telling you," he said, "If you don't tell me your name, I'm going to have to make one-"

"Are you serious!?" the female said, growling and snapping at Jim, who promptly backed up. "Are you really that immature? You act like an omega; you know that, right?" Jim stuck out his tongue at the crotchety female, and stopped dead, causing her to run into him.

"What's so wrong with being an omega?" Jim asked, genuinely upset.

"Nothing," the female said, "if you're okay with shirking responsibility, and making fun of everything, all the time. In that case, nothing at all!"

"Hey, let me tell you, oh almighty queen of the East," Jim growled. "I don't know how it is in your pack, but in my pack, everyone works. The omegas are just as useful as the betas, or the alpha, or the alpha in training, albeit in a different way. If it weren't for them, we would have long since torn each other apart by now."

"Well forgive me, oh mighty future-emporer of the West," she said, "but where I come from, we manage our pack well enough that we don't need the omegas to come running every time there's a scuffle. Maybe it's because the son of the head Alpha thinks he's an omega. I don't know, but if I had to determine the cause, I'd say that's it."

"You shut your muzzle," Jim replied, actually pissed now. "You have no idea what goes on in my pack. You wouldn't understand."

"Yeah?" she asked, sarcastically.

"Yeah!" Jim retorted.

"Fucking try me, wolfie," she replied, forcing Jim into a corner he hoped he wouldn't have to go.

"Yeah? You want to know?" Jim replied. "Right now, I'm on my way to who the hell knows where, to train to be a good Alpha, because my Dad told me to. I've had to leave every one of my friends behind, and I may never see them again."

"Been there, done that," the female said, rolling her eyes. "Got anything else?"

"Yeah," Jim replied, "I've got more. Additionally, I have no idea what I'm doing, and I'm going to fail miserably at being Alpha; and you want to know what really sucks? The fact that I don't even know how I feel right now, or how I should feel, because my whole fucking life, I've been doing my best to appease my father, and now I finally have a chance at some sort of freedom, and I'm just being a good little bitch and doing as I'm told. In fact, that's exactly how a good friend put it before I left; and I quote, 'what the fuck? You just went back like a little bitch? I would NEVER have gone back, I would have just left... and I'd just be... free...'"

"Then don't ever show up to school," the female replied. "Just fucking go off!"

"What would I do?" Jim asked. "I don't even know what I want to do..."

"Of course you do," the female replied. "You're a guy. There are three things a guy wants. Food, power, and pussy. Regardless of what you do, you'll probably get those things, so just fucking do something."

"Now hold on, now," Jim replied, shaking his head. "First off, those are not the only three things a guy wants. Yeah, they're high on the list, but we want other things, too. Like wanting our loved ones to be happy and secure, and the company of others. If I leave, I'd be all alone. I can't be all alone. It's not me!" the female smiled.

"Well, now that you've admitted your problem, I believe we can leave," she said.

"I don't have any problems!" Jim replied, barking out the last few words.

"You just practically admitted you're afraid of being alone, you're afraid of seeing your friends and family hurt, and you're still not sure what it is that you want," she explained. Jim thought about it for a minute, and realized what she said was fairly accurate.

"Damn you," Jim said, turning around and pouting. This caused the female to show the second emotion he had seen. She laughed at him.

"Heh," she said, smiling. "Kate... and yourself?"

"Jim..." the male replied.

"Jim?" she mused. "Hmm, Jim, well it looks like we might be getting to know each other pretty well in the next few months." This made Jim laugh slightly.

"Oh, grow up, and dream on, wolfie," she said, rolling her eyes. "I meant that we were the only two beta trainees this season, so we'd probably be spending a lot of time together."

"Yeah, I bet you did," Jim replied, grinning. "Never would cross your mind to think about my awesome body."

"Hah," Kate mused. "I prefer my men with a little more muscle then you. You're almost as muscular as a newborn pup!" Jim whined slightly. He worked out. Occasionally... He would have to hit the weights more often; like... every day. Jim set off in a southbound direction, climbing every rock, and taking every opportunity to show off his muscles. After about ten minutes, Kate caught on, and narrowed her eyes, until she got annoyed, and shouted at Jim to stop.

"Don't know... Ugh... what you're talking about," Jim grunted, sliding underneath a small fallen tree, which he tried to lift. Kate stepped on top of it, and her added weight, (as light as it was) was enough to push Jim back down to the ground. The way she was standing over him took about one grain of imagination on Jim's part to set in motion some biological reactions.

"Jim, stop showing off, or I will personally slash you to bits," Kate said, with a scowl.

"Um, Kate, now would be both a really good time, and a really bad time for you to get off me," Jim replied.

"Aww, is little wolfie trying to lift too much weight?" Kate asked, leaning forward so that more of her weight was pushing down on Jim's chest.

"Uh, not so much the weight thing, as the fact that you're currently practically laying on top of me, and I'm worried that if you get any closer, well... Uh oh," he said.

"What uh oh?" Kate said, before putting two and two together. "Oh hells no-"

"No, please don't move-" Jim began.

"Ew," Kate interjected, "you're such a perverted guy!" She moved, just as Jim got his next statement in.

"No, it's not that, it's just that if you move, you'll see..." Kate moved, and saw, "that." Jim sighed, and tried to cover up nature's ridiculous effect on guys when girls came around. The embarrassed male scrambled to get out from under the log, and when he did, he immediately began to walk, and didn't say anything until his problem had gone away. Kate walked up beside him. "Yeah, we don't say anything about that," Jim stated. "Not one thing. To anyone. EVER."

"Agreed," Kate said, with a sigh. They made the rest of the three hour journey in silence. Fortunately, Mark had been here before, with his father, so he knew what the dens of the southern wolf pack looked like.