Chapter I
'Young Quil' Aateara, the quileute medicine-man/priest, called a meeting of the tribal elders. The only pack-members invited to the meeting were Jacob and Sam.
Three days ago, young Quil had the same dream three times on the same night.
This was prophecy...
During his prayer/meditation time, later that same morning, the spirit had spoken more fully on the subject; showing him mind-pictures and giving him more details about what was coming...
These things would happen...no matter how anyone 'felt' about it.
And they'd thought Jacob and Nessie were the strangest couple, and their off-spring the most unexpected things they'd have to deal with...
'New wine into new wine-skins, of course!' Young Quil thought somewhat he believed he knew exactly how Jonah had felt!
That had never really made sense to him before...
He'd always thought a prophet should be glad of anything the lord wanted of him.
He had somehow never even imagined anything like this...
The tribe is pretty-much completely Christian now, but...
But...
A 'cold-one'...!?
And Seth Clearwater!?
The young boy, though not really that anymore (not with the changes that becoming a shape-shifter brought on) was simply the last person he would've expected to be the door to such changes.
Seth was so cheerful, open, so sure the world was a good, even wonderful place, and life full of wonderful things ...
The boy just seemed too innocent; too either unaware, or unprepared for the dark side of... well...just anything!
Now, he was about to Imprint...
On a...
Best not to think about it, just keep moving, just deal!
part B
For Seth, it started at the meeting...
They were going to meet the Cullens to 'learn' how to fight newly made Vampires...Newborns.
Jake called him the newest and slowest!
But Seth wasn't slow.
He was trusting and kind and very happy with his new life.
He loved being able to change into a wolf and run for miles without getting human-tired!
And the things he could learn with just his new more enhanced sense of smell were amazing!
When they got to the clearing, Seth being one of the smaller wolves didn't expect anyone to notice him especially, but that turned out not to be the case ...
The small dark-haired vampire...Alice Cullen, looked at him...
Like she'd been expecting him.
Like she knew him, or something about him.
The one standing next to her was looking at them all very seriously..
Like he was assessing their potential, their strength, the way they moved.
The blond-haired vampire had a rigid, almost military stance that Seth immediately liked, for some reason.
It made him want to stand as tall and...oh something.
Seth wanted...wanted him to...approve of him somehow.
Jasper.
That was his name.
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When it was over and they were leaving, Sam looked at Seth like he'd forgotten he was there when the young wolf said he'd stay and walk back with Jacob.
Seth's thoughts were full of everything Jasper had said...and a determination to learn it all and prove he could do the job well.
Sam snorted, thinking something derisive, and ugly about 'hero-worshiping' a cold-one.
Jasper, Emmet, Carlile, and Rosalie walked back together, though Jasper seemed to be deep in thought, his mood a little ...odd, considering what was going on.
Maybe he was just lost in the excitement of thinking of old battles, Emmet thought, after all, Jasper had been more than one kind of soldier.
Edward and Bella talked with Jacob for a while, then left together.
Alice went home with Esmee.
They ran with Esmee holding onto Alice like the smaller vampire might be...ill or something...
Alice had already told her adoptive 'mother' what she had 'seen'.
She had been trying to prepare herself for it for years; had begun to think it might never happen, but when she'd come back and found out about the wolves...
No, she wasn't Jasper's whole future, nor was he her only option, but she did love him, after all this time how could she not?
Esmee held Alice while she lay curled into a miserable ball, trembling and shaking.
The small vampires nails tore the couch-cushions to shreds...
She couldn't cry you see