Gavin Livingstone

Robert Livingstone (former)

Gordo Livingstone (half-brother)

**Gavin Livingstone**, formerly known simply as **the Timber wolf**, is a Beta werewolf who is a member of the Bennett pack. He is the son of Robert Livingstone and Wendy, making him the half-brother of Gordo Livingstone. He is also the mate of Carter Bennett.

 Biography

### Early Life

Gavin was born out of wedlock to Wendy and Robert in 1988. Because of the infidelity, Abel Bennet had the boy given to foster parents in Isabella, Minnesota. Growing up. The boy had difficulty adjusting to living, having trust difficulties and other fears.

At some point, Thomas Bennett went to visit Gavin. Trying to be friendly, Thomas opened up on the world of magic and werewolves, showing him his shift. This sparked interest in Gavin, and begged Thomas to take him with him. Thomas refused, saying it was for his own good to not get involved.

Gavin didn't accept the idea, and soon ran away to find out more. At one point, he came across an unknown Alpha, and after pestering, was given the bite to turn into a wolf. Unfortunately, the result was that the bite made the boy omega, and was not allowed to join the pack.

Ostracized, Gavin went on his own resulting in him staying as an omega. Unlike other omegas, he managed to maintain some self-control, and would run with other omegas to keep threads active.

### Events of *Wolfsong*

Soon, he and a group of werewolves came to contact with Richard Collins. Wanting to express their servitude to him, they decided to attack a town in the middle of Oregon to destroy the remains of a pack there.

They captured a girl and tried to draw out the remains of the pack, but a young man held back the attack, and forced Gavin and the others to flee, but not before glancing once more at the man, and then running off.

### Events of *Ravensong*

After escaping the failed attack, Gavin went on his own again. Wanting to avoid Richard, he continued to stay a lone wolf. However, at some point, he came to contact with a woman, and was soon tortured to submission. He was applied with silver to his talons and a silver chain embedded into his skin.

The head of group of hunters, Meredith King, soon orchestrated a shut down of Green Creek to kill of the Bennett Pack, as well as the town that did not follow their commands. While stationed, the hunters came to contact with the Bennet witch and a part of the bennett pack, of which Gavin was ordered to attack. However, Gavin came to recognize the witch's smell as being familiar, and while he wanted to destroy the source of the smell, he followed the witch to a bar, where he planned to kill him there.

Unexpectedly, a wolf came in front of him, and seemingly growing attached to the smell of the wolf, Gavin tried to take the wolf with him to take for himself. However, the man attached to wolf fought back, and soon Gavin began to follow the man around, while also trying his best to keep away the man and himself from the witch. When the pack reconnects with in the fight for Green Creek, Gavin is witness to Elijah's death and subsequent fight with the hunters. Rather than running off again, Gavin chose to stay with the pack and chase with Carter.

### Events of *Heartsong*

Gavin was with Carter during the capture of Robbie Fontaine, preferring to chase and stay close to Carter and not letting other wolves or the witch near him. Over the course of the stay to regain ties with the pack, Gavin went to enjoy the music that Elizabeth played, and was close at hand whenever there was a pack meeting. While with Carter, the man kept opening up to the wolf in the forest, growing annoyed whenever Carter opened up to his previous life history with women and not answering when (if he ever would) shift human. Gavin also began to connect with Robbie, having a kindredness with the man over the difficulty connecting with the Bennett Pack. He was in the meeting that made Robert Livingstone reveal that the Timber Wolf was his son Gavin, a fact that both drew Gavin to the computer and appear openly hostile to his father, as well as the choice to go and kill Robert.

During the battle, nearly the whole of the pack is left unconcious and Robert, having been shifted to a beast, intended to murder the pack. Forced to react to the situation, Gavin breaks his form, shifting to human form, and promises to leave with Robert with the pack being left alive. The Beast agrees, and they both flee into the forest, but not before Gavin turns back one more time before following his father.

### Events of *Brothersong*

Gavin went across America, trying to keep his father at bay from attacking others. Periodically, The Beast would drain Gavin of his life force, rendering him tired. He occasionally heard a ghost Carter speaking to him, both loving and hating the connection. When he noted that the real Carter began to look for him, he left responses urging the man to go back and to leave him behind. Carter, of course, did not listen and kept the search up. Eventually, the man cornered Gavin and Livingstone in Isabella, and after some hunters came after Carter, Gavin saved him and brought him into a cabin for safety. Their reconnecting was icy to begin, largely with the insistence of Carter that Gavin return with him to Green Creek. When the Bennett pack with contact again with Gavin, they pushed him to agree to a return to Green Creek, while also successfully trapping Robert in magic cage for a set period of time.

Upon returning to Green Creek, the pair seemingly return to the former status quo, with Gavin preferring to stay wolf form. Once he began to interact with the Green Creek community and the expectation to involve in a human form, Gavin began to stay more in his human form, opening up to his annoyance to hearing Carter's apparently loud heartbeat.He went to join the team working in the garage, and began to grow the bond that he had with both Gordo and with Carter.

Upon Robert's escape from the cage, Gavin took it upon himself to run off, hoping to sacrifice himself for the betterment of the Bennett Pack and to keep Carter safe. Carter, however, went after him to stop him, and after opening up more, they both mated and marked each other as mates. When the attack on Green Creek began, Carter and Gaving stayed close and fought together, but when Carter was once again nearly killed, Gaving fought to protect him. He was present when the group retreated to the Bennett House and later both the death of Robert Livingstone, as well as Joe's sacrifice of the Alpha of All for Ox's survival.

Later, once the dead were buried and time had passed, Gavin both showed Carter his affiliation with the Bennett pack and subsequent later pack-run into the forests of Green Creek, with Carter by his side.

## Physical description

*"A man stood before him, the white and gray and brown hair of a timber wolf receding from his neck and shoulders as he shifted toward human. He was almost as tall as Kelly, his dark hair long and ragged as it fell on his shoulders. The thin muscles in his arms and legs quivered. His face was twisted in fury. It took me a moment to realize what—who—this was. He looked like the man he held writhing in his grasp, like the witch lying on the ground next to me, albeit a younger version."*

In his human form, Gavin is described as tall and lanky, with long black hair and eyes similar to those of his mother Wendy. Due to malnutrition, his cheekbones were protruding shockingly, and near drained physique. He bore a scowl that was near identical to his half brother Gordo, much to Carter's annoyance and Mark's amusement. Once in Green Creek, Gavin soon went to get more healthy, loosing some of the protruding features and getting a new wardrobe and haircut that amused the pack but found cringes in Carter. Due to non usage, his speaking initially was limited, but soon it grew as he stayed more as a human.

As a wolf, he is nearly as tall as Ox and Joe, though more lanky in stature. Carter comically notes that the wolf form had near similar to his human features, especially his scowl, which made it more aware than with other wolves. His fur was a mix of grey belly and timber colored body. Due to extended stay as a wolf, his human shift was not accessible until the events of Caswell, and even then after near overstretched circumstances. As such, he learned to apply his body to perform human tendencies, such as opening and shutting doors with his legs and swaying to music. For a while, his eyes were violet on account of being an omega, but soon shifted to orange after mating with Carter.

## Relationships

Due to not being open to conversation, Gavin's full history of relationships is limited, though Carter guesses there were some due to Gavin's knowledge of stimulating him expertly, a fact that made Carter want to rip the previous experiences to pieces.

### Carter

Meeting in the events of Green Creek with the hunters, Gavin initially wanted to take Carter away from the others, and kept diligence of those who came close. This had the unexpected consequence of not giving Carter any personal space after, a fact that initially annoyed them both. Eventually, though, they came to enjoy their company, and that fact grew more as the time wore on.

Being the one that spoke more often, Carter told him of his past romances and things of his life, the former annoying Gavin to the point of acting as a buffer to other relationships. Carter would push Gavin to shift, but Gavin chose to remain wolf until Caswell, where Gavin pushed himself to his human form to talk his father out of killing the Bennetts in exchange for following him.

Following the Attack on Caswell, Carter went searching for Gavin, eventually finding him and forcefully taking him back to Green Creek. Intially trying to resume their lives like it did before, their bond kept growing until they both mated and went on to being together.

### Gordo

Gordo did not completely know of his brother's existence, and likewise Gavin did neither, on account of Abel Bennett making Wendy Walsh give up the child to adoptive parents. While under the hunters, Gavin nearly killed his brother, but the smell that was similar to his made him not want to kill the man, but he did make him threaten anytime Gordo came to close to him or Carter. Gavin later had mixed emotions over the revelation that Gordo was his brother, though he held some connection when he ran off with his father, leaving them behind

When reunited, both had difficulty accepting the fact that they were sibling, a feeling that Gordo was more acceptable than Gavin. When reconnecting, the two spoke of things and soon began to have a sibling connection, one that grew in time, and later became second nature.

### Bennett Siblings

Initially just seeing him as the Alpha, Gavin kept limited contact with Joe throughout the series. Once it became evident that Carter was attached to Gavin, both Joe and Kelly began to get more involved. Soon, they gave Gavin a present for both Carter and Gavin (a fact that Carter became emotionally disturbed by due the lack on conversation he had been having with the two).

### Garage Trio

Though limited in contact, Tanner, Chris, and Rico all were initially having little to deal with Gavin. Once he returned to Green Creek, they began to get him more involves in their shenanigans. Asking them for wardrobe advice, the three took Gavin out to shop in the nearby towns, getting him a new haircut and comfortable clothing. The three soon became friendly to each other, and went off to be a stronger pack, later joining in working with them in the garage.

## Appearances

* Wolfsong (mentinoed visually, though unknown)
* Ravensong (first appearance)
* Heartsong
* Feralsong
* Brothersong