Prologue: Hopeful

Seth

I had always loved La Push, I loved the people and the beach. I loved the life that grew everywhere around me. But, before leaving to Ontario with Jake, all I had wanted to do was get out. It seemed every pack member was imprinting...except me. Jacob had yet to imprint, and finally seemed to stop being upset over Bella Swan. I loved Bella, I loved her dad too. Charlie, who has been my step father for a couple years now, made my mother happier than I've ever seen her. But, I hated what Bella did to my friend.

Everyone knew she was stringing him along, and would chose Edward in the end. It would always be Edward, and we warned Jacob. Sam told Jacob to let her go, and he didn't. It was quite possibly, the biggest mistake he has ever made. Now, Jake's a pretty logical guy...but when it came to Bella? Dumb as a brick. It took him six year to forget about her.

I was estatic Jacob wanted me to come with him to Ontario, I thought I would maybe meet a girl, and possibly imprint. All hope for that died the day I walked into that high school pretending to be a student. Now, don't get me wrong - I would love to imprint, but seeing every girl in that school and realizing humanity was being ruined one fake teenage girl at a time really dampened my spirits.

And the one girl, who was quite possibly the only normal girl at that school...Jacob imprinted on.

Yep.

Him and I come to Canada, build a house, expect to meet women and throw ragers...and the first day we're at that fucking school Jacob Black imprints.

I was happy for him, ecstatic he had found his soul mate and could be happy. But, I was once again pissed at the the wolf spirits for cursing me with bad luck. I wanted a piece of that happiness my brothers who imprinted had. Everything in the world could go wrong, but their only thought would be about their imprint.

All seven years of being a wolf I had looked forward to the day I would meet my soul mate. The day I finally imprinted would be the best day of my life, because I could have that final piece of happiness my brothers explained as being the final puzzle piece. The first couple years, I waited. Hopeful I would see her. I looked at every woman that passed me, prayed time would freeze, gravity would cease and the feeling of fire running through my body pleasantly would happen and I would meet my soul mate.

It never did, so I stopped waiting. I began working, occupying my time with work constantly. If I ever imprinted, I wanted to be able to provide for her. I saved my money by living with Collin and Brady, until I left with Jacob.

But, here I am again. In La Push. Doing exactly what I was doing for the last three years; working. I wished I could just leave sometimes, travel to every city in the world, meet every woman in hopes she would be the one. But, with being in a pack I have duties. I have responsibilities. I felt like I would soon become a nicer form of my sister. Bitter about love, thinking imprinting was bullshit.

But, there was still some hope left in me.

My mother always taught me to see the brighter side of life, and to always have hope. I'm a positive person, I probably always will be...even if everything is wrong in my life, I think it could still go right. But, every year I didn't imprint the harder I found it to want to be positive. I knew I would never be a negative person, just a less hopeful man.

I had faith in my ancestors that they wouldn't let me down. I knew she was coming eventually, but I wanted her now. I pinned for the feelings my brothers shared of their imprints. I wanted to have her on my mind at all times, I wanted to worry about her well being and I wanted to obsessively wonder if she wondered about me. I just wanted a her, like my brothers had.

It was a never ending cycle of constant thoughts, constant scenarios, constant hopes of an imprint. I always wondered what she would look like. Would she be Quileuet? How beautiful would she be? Well, I knew to me she would be the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, but I still wondered. I wanted to know the color of her skin, I wanted to memorize the touch of her hands and the softness of her lips. I just wanted what my brothers had, and that was happiness.

Constant happiness. I would treat my imprint like the amazing woman I know she would be. I learned all the angles to work from my brothers, I knew how I could make her happy, and how to make her feel worthy. I knew so many things, but I had no imprint to show my talents too. It was a downer, knowing she was walking the same Earth as me...but had no idea I existed.

She was out there, though, somewhere. Maybe waiting for me like I was waiting for her, hopefully.

Maybe I would be 90 years old, still phasing, still hopeful...maybe that's when I would meet her.

Damn, that would suck A voice popped into my head, someone had decided to join me on my patrol. Yeah, well can't leave you hanging Brady replied to my thought, he began to buzz about Collin's sister coming into town. He kept picturing all the magazines she's been on.

That's Collin's sister? I asked, picking at his mind to find out more about her. She intrigued me. Her beauty was evident, and she was easily the most beautiful woman I had seen. Suddenly, something triggered a memory. It was faint, but I remembered it. She was two years older, a Junior. I was a freshman, just about to phase any day; constantly on edge. I was in the lunch line, when Paul and his girlfriend suddenly appeared next to me.

"Hey, Clearwater. Whatcha up to?" Paul asked, ruffling my long hair.

I narrowed my eyes at him and balled my fists, but the dazzling girl hanging onto his arm distracted me. She was beautiful. Dark, jet black hair that came to her naval. Flawless copper skin and the most interesting blue eyes I've ever looked into were framed by long, thick black lashes. She gave me small smile but turned her attention back to Paul.

It kind of upset me now that I thought about it. She didn't look at me again, or ever for that matter. Within that week, I phased, and soon a newborn army was threatening the Cullen's. That was when Paul's sister went missing, and the dazzling girl was gone from La Push. We all knew a vampire was in the area the girls were in when Paul's sister disappeared, except Cora Littlesea. She left, thinking everyone blamed her for the disappearance of Kelly Lahote.

Cora, I thought. Her name was beautiful.


A/N: Second installment to my Imprint Series (the series is still titleless, sigh), eeeep. Spin off of Outcast. I couldn't wait any longer to introduce it to you guys. READ AND REVIEW