Godric had been so busy taking on Danny to help her become more of an alpha, to be like her father and their father before them. He had taken some time to teach Ceal how to hunt properly without getting herself into the same situations she had told him she'd gotten into when hunting with Sleek and the others. He had taken time out for himself at a bare minimum, keeping the boarder patrols up, making sure to greet those that where new, to make time for friends had been nearly impossible over the past season. And it is with great regret that he hadn't spent alot of that time with Nikalie. But thus was the life of a second to any alpha. He had a job to do and he couldn't let it go to the side lest Alcide think differently of him. He had been quiet shocked to be offered such a position so early into his arrival here but it had seemed only proper, how he and Alcide had played games as pups in such a scenario that they thought they'd never be in. Heck, Godric had thought he'd have spent the rest of his life a loner after he'd left their parents pack, now here he was.

He was out on boarder patrol when he heard Nikalie's call, it sounded... apprehensive, as if she had something to tell him, he didn't faulter as he picked a different path down the mountain and to where he remembered her den to be. He had helped her pick it out, big enough for two (wink wink) but not to big to seem empty if she was alone. He'd taken quiet the shine to her and had made sure she had every thing she needed. When he made it to her den and smelled the blood and mucas of birth and became very much confused. Had she found another to be hers? he hadn't thought in the past 14 years that he would be able to help in the efforts of creating a litter, all the woman he'd been with since the day he was mature had never become pregnant and so he'd spent most of his life thinking that he couldn't have children. Sadness threw it's self around his heart like a soaking wet blanket and making it feel heavy within his chest. He had hope, a small incling of hope in that perhaps even if they couldn't have pups that they could still be together. That there could be something there to begin with. Perhaps she had grown impatient, choosen someone better than he. Was he that horrible? the not being able to have children, could that actually force a female to not want him? he was old, granted... much older than she, but did age have anything to do with it?

He had paused outside the den, his front foot attempting to take a step but pausing part way as if it dared not answer this call, as if perhaps that he could turn away and forget it had all happened in the first place, pretend that he had been out of the pack lands at the time, that his heart wasn't being wrenched from his chest with every painful beat. The wind whipped past him and right into the den, his heart sank even lower than it already had, she would have smelled him by now, it was pointless to turn away now. Maybe she was hurt? maybe the birth hadn't gone well for her, maybe she needed his help. He could heal. He knew more than most within Spirane but it wasn't his main focus. "Nikalie" his voice is tentative as he takes a few more steps closer to the dens mouth, sticking his nose in to see if he could see anything, anyone. There she lay, as beautiful as ever.. four pups strewn about her belly, wiggling and making noises of content as they snuggled in close to her after their first meal. "Their beautiful," he said softly, awe filtering into his anxious voice. He'd seen pups before, granted none of them had looked quiet like these ones. Each had it's own specific coloration. One of a dirty white, another of almost pure black like it's mother with a white muzzle, another of a light golden color almost a kin to his own with less black and no white muzzle, and a fourth that looked more black than grey.

"Do you require any healing?" he asked, inwardly slapping himself for not stopping by his own den to pick up a few things in case she needed them, he figured this was the reason for her call, that something had gone wrong and that he would need to help her out. He didn't know that all four of these little pups was of his own decent. Truthfully, only the one with the off-white face markings reminded him of himself. Without seeing their eyes at this young age he couldn't tell though and put it off to the father. Maybe it was Alcide... oh he hoped not, he truthfully hoped that because of Moonglow's long absence that he had grown restless and lonely, taking a female for himself. It would seem... like something he would do, love be damned, some times you just needed company and some times that company turned to more, but not Nikalie, please don't let him have choosen her to lay with him.

"talks like this"