The day that Quil imprinted on Claire was the best and most confusing day of his life. Quil couldn't help but wonder if god was playing some sick joke on him? How come when the rest of the pack imprinted, they also fell in love? Quil is not in love with Claire, at least not now, come on, she's only two. Instead he feels that he got the sister he never had, and didn't know he wanted, until that one day.
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"Quil hurry up, Emily wants us to stop by and see her nieces." Embry and I had just gotten off of patrol, and were starving.
"I'm the one waiting on you! It took you an hour just to take a shower, come on Em!" I was becoming impatient as I sat on coach, if I didn't have to give Embry a ride, I would have left ions ago.
Finally after much more "hurry ups" and "I'm leaving without yous" I got Embry in the car and we were just pulling into Sam and Emily's house. We walked up to the front door, and walked right in, the pack is family, so, we don't treat each other as guests. If you did knock you would find yourself standing outside for a very long time.
"Hey, guys," Sam called to us from the living room couch. "Emily, Quil and Embry are FINALLY! Here."
"Sorry man, Quil here had to make sure his make-up was done right!" Embry had said to Sam sarcastically, and then I had punched him hard in the gut, Embry went breathless. "you deserved every bit of that!" Sam just watched us with an amused expression.
"Oh, great!" Emily walked out with two little girls on her hips, "Boys meet my nieces Lizzie and Claire." I first smiled at Lizzie, and then turned to Claire, and the world disappeared, besides her. I walked up to Claire and touched her face, I wasn't sure why but this little girl held all the answers for me. I turned towards Emily and stretched out my arms and asked if I could hold her, she looked a little confused, but, shook her head yes and handed her over with the one arm that had Claire around the waist. I reached and picked her up, she looked at me with the biggest, brightest eyes I had ever seen. She pointed over to the corner of the house with all the toys. I practically ran her over there and we sat and played for what seem to be hours.
As we sat on the floor and played with the few selected toys around her, I couldn't help but feel nothing but satisfaction to make her smile. Sam came up behind me and tapped my shoulder hard enough that if it was any "normal" person, their arm would have broke.
"What's up, Sam?" I asked him a little distracted.
"It's time for Claire's nap, Lizzie's already upstairs."
"Oh, ok umm.." I felt a hole grow in my chest.
"Are you ready to go upstairs Claire?" Sam seemed to have already scooped her up and headed to the stairs.
"WAIT!! WAIT!! I'll take her!" I was already picking up Claire when Sam pulled her back. "No man, it's ok I got her."
"But I want to, I mean if that's alright with you?" I was hesitant not to make Sam angry, he didn't seem to mind though.
As I took Claire into the guest room, and laid her down on the bed, I stuffed pillows next to her so she wouldn't roll off. Emily had not left the room, and was quite amused at how overprotective I was of her.
"Quil, it's ok, she'll be fine!" Emily had stated and pushed me out the door, after Claire was asleep. We walked down to where Sam was sitting and at that point I was mumbling about safety and worrying.
"Sam. I think we have a pure baby lover in the pack!" Emily nudged Sam and smiled.
"Ya, it's like Claire is the only thing in ….OH MY GOD!!" Sam quickly turned to me and bombarded me with questions.
"Quil, did you imprint on CLAIRE?" Sam was shocked and Emily was the same.
"WHAT? NO!! I don't think so…. what does that feel like?" I wasn't sure, that was impossible, I mean she's just a baby, and whoever you imprint on you are linked romantically with, right? Wasn't imprinting supposed to be rare, as of now, it seems all of the pack was imprinted with someone.
"Imprinting feels like the world means nothing unless you are with that someone, either protecting them, being there for them, or just loving them." Sam quickly took Emily's hand, as he said the last part.
"Well, Claire is the most important person to me, I want to be there for her. OH!! I did imprint huh?" I starred at both of them hoping they'd confirm otherwise, but no luck they just shook their heads yes.
"So, what happens now?" I was sure this could be fixed, with glue or something.
"We have a meeting, we need to discuss this as a pack!" Damn, why did Sam always have to include everyone on EVERYTHING. I was never going to live this down!!
OK so this is just the beginning of my story, I plan to write this in both perspectives as it progresses, and show Claire growing up with Quil. I plan to show how hard it can be to have someone you've known as your best friend, grow into something more, even the age difference. Sorry, beginning isn't very good, I'm working up to the good stuff.