You are a modern dog, and more connected to your dogness and also to peopleness. The modern dog does not necessarily think in terms of pack, since this is a social construct.

Both h/c (hurt/comfort stories, in which one or both members of a pair are injured in some way, creating emotional closeness) and AU (alternate universe stories, in which the characters are taken out of the source text and placed in a different time or place) are subgenres in their own right, but are also commonly found as elements in slash, het (heterosexual relationship), and gen (nonsexual, or general audience) stories.

Nov 10, 2006, yoko....@gmail.com, “survivalism for the suburbanite / citydweller”, in rec.martial-arts, Usenet, retrieved 2022-08-10:

Now the Grand High Witch removes her mask and wig: A hideous beak and a decrepit bodice of skin and bones, like the stone ceiling fanwork in a Gothic chamber, her blotchy scalp a moonscape fermenting cobwebs.