A/N: This is my first story, so I hope you guys enjoy. :)

Sam POV

I saw a small, black and gray bundle next to a tree. The bundle was actually a girl, a young teenager. In her hands was a small, dirty gym bag. I stopped immediately, hoping I wasn't noticed, but soon realized that it didn't matter. The girl was sleeping.

I phased out of my wolf form, pulled on my cut off shorts and quietly walked up to her. As soon as I reached out to wake her up, she screamed and jumped up.

"Sorry," I said calmly. "I'm—" before I could even get my name out, the girl ran past me. "Wait!" I yelled. She didn't stop or even look back. I quickly ran after her. The girl was a fast runner, but I caught up to her and grabbed her arm. She screamed again before she started thrashing around.

"Let me go!" She reached for her bag that fell to the moist ground.

"I'm not going to hurt you." I said, trying to get her to calm down. "My name is Sam Uley." The girl didn't listen. She thrashed around, making me lose my grip. She hit the ground with a thud. I held her down so she would stop throwing her arms around, but softly, not wanting to hurt her.

"What's your name?" I asked.

"Let me go. Please, stop it!" She started crying.

"I'm not going to hurt you," I said again. She ignored me.

"Let's get you home. Where do you live?"

"No! I'm not going back there. Get off me!" I sighed. She's a runaway I'm sure. It's not hard to tell that something bad had happened to her. There is no way I can bring her back home now. Not tonight anyway…

"How about you stay at my house for the night? I have to go do something but my fiancée, Emily, can get you something to eat and find you somewhere to sleep tonight. It'll be a lot safer than being out here."

"No!" She yelled before screaming again. She was still crying though, and I heard her heart speed up. She's scared, and I knew this would make her ten times more scared, but I gathered her in my arms and stood up.

"It'll be ok. I promise." I started walking, carrying the girl against my chest.

The walk to Emily's and my house is pretty short, but it seemed longer due to the fact that the girl kept fighting me, at least until we almost got there. She fell asleep toward the end of the walk.

Girl's POV

I screamed and pushed as hard as I could against Sam's chest. He's too strong for me. All I want is for him to let me go and let me run as far from here as I can but he won't. I keep trying to get away but I just get more and more tired the further he walks.

It's Sam I'm scared of right now. I hate him touching me. It freaks me out, I don't like it. But I've heard stories about him. About how he helps people around La Push and keeps it safe with his little 'gang' or whatever it is. William –I flinched from just thinking this name— would always complain about him, he hated Sam Uley. But he really can't be that bad, can he? I'm still scared.

I started falling asleep in Sam's arms, but I want to be awake when we get there… wherever he's taking me. And it's going to be hard to stay alert when I'm sleeping. I tried to open my closed eyes but it seemed impossible. I gave my last and best try at getting away from him before exhaustion came over me and I drifted into sleep.

"It's ok, I won't hurt you Riley." I looked into the man's eyes and saw lies.

"Yes…yes you will. Leave me alone. I hate you!"

"Now, that's not very nice." He walked up to me and put a hand on my shoulder. I pushed it away and hit him as hard as I could.

"You little shit." The tall man pulled a gun out and pointed it at me.

"No! No please don't. Don't shoot!" The gun went off and I screamed but never felt it.

I woke with a jolt, almost falling to the floor. My breath caught in my throat, and for a second I couldn't breathe. The room was dark, other than a small light coming from a hallway behind me. I took a deep breath and got my heart to calm down a little.

When my eyes finally adjusted to the darkness, I took in my surroundings. I'm on a plush couch with a very soft blanket over me. My bag is sitting next to the couch, near my head. A chair is across the room from me and at the end: a TV.

I didn't fall asleep the rest of the night, due to my nightmare. When footsteps came down the hall and light switches were flipped on, I feigned sleep. I heard the door open but by then, I was drifting back to real sleep.

Embry POV

When I walked into Sam and Emily's house I saw a girl I've never met, asleep on the couch. This girl is probably a year or two younger than me and she's beautiful. She has long, slightly messed up, wavy blonde hair, and she is wearing gray sweats and an old black t-shirt.

"Embry… did you…?" Sam said in a hushed tone, walking up to me. I easily completed his sentence in my head. Embry, did you imprint on her? I smiled to myself.

"Yeah, I did." I smiled even wider. "Who is she?" I whispered, remembering that the girl is asleep. Sam pulled me into the kitchen.

"I have no idea Embry. She was out in the forest and I brought her here."

"Why not home?" Not that I have anything against Sam bringing her here. If he didn't I wouldn't have imprinted on her.

"For a few reasons: one, she wouldn't tell me her name or where she lives. Two: she starting yelling and got scared when I said something about her going home. Three: I am pretty certain she is a runaway and something bad happened to her. I'm not going to think about bringing her home until I find out what happened."

"What if she never tells you?"

"You have a whole lot of questions don't you?" Sam said with a small smile. "Well, honestly I haven't figured out what to do yet."

"I want to meet her." I can't wait for her to wake up

"Just slow down Embry," Emily walked into the kitchen.

"Hey have you met that girl out there yet? What's she like?"

"I haven't met her Embry. Did you-"

"Imprint on her? Yes. Yes I did. She's so pretty Emily."

"Sam, what are we going to do?" Emily asked as the three of us sat at the table. "We can't just keep her here without the police knowing, that's illegal."

"I know. They would consider it kidnapping. It's even worse that she's a runaway but I don't want to turn her in." Sam has a good point but it doesn't stop what I say next.

"I'll take her in. She can come live with me. I just got my own house. It's small but two people can live there. I don't care about the law either. I'll take all the blame if the cops find out."

"Embry, no," Sam said with a sigh. "We'll just have to talk to her when she's up. She doesn't know you so I doubt she'll want to move in with you right away." I gave Sam a small frown but nodded.

"That doesn't mean she will never want to. You imprinted on her. If everything works out and she has the chance she'll want to sometime." Emily told me, with her comforting voice. I had to agree with this.

"I know. I shouldn't be worried about this right now anyway. I just want to help her."

"So do we. I have no idea what we're going to do. Right now we wait for her to get up and see if we can get some information out of her. And we do not call the police." I sighed with relief. I know Sam said he didn't want to turn her in but I was afraid him or Emily was going to anyway.

A/N: I won't be begging for reviews every chapter, but it's always nice to know what people think, especially on the first chapter. Let me know what you all think!