A/N - After a long, long break from FF for personal reasons, I am back. :) With more Seth imprint stories cause writing these things is like taking drug... so addictive! I highly doubt any of my old reviewers will remember me... but if you do, that's lovely! :)
If you were/are a fan of my unfinished story 'Love Me Dead', I'm hoping to pick that one up again sometime in the future, so keep on the lookout. :)
Enjoy this story, thanks for checking it out! :)
I feel the steady beat of my paws hitting the ground. The wind blows through my thick, shaggy, black fur and the gently falling snow gets caught in my eyelashes.
Almost home. It's been a long, boring day. Just patrolling the boundaries of our territory. Nothing even remotely exciting happened. I saw a rabbit. That's about it. I feel another presence enter my mind.
Hey Shania, you're off. It was the voice of my Alpha, Isaiah. Anything interesting happen? I laughed internally.
Not unless you count the first snowfall of the season.
I felt Isaiah chuckle.
Alright, see you later, Shi.
I ran to the stop where I'd phased, and found my flimsy dress and underwear exactly where I had left them, thankfully. The boys just thought it was SO funny to take my clothes. Assholes.
I phased back into my human form and quickly dressed myself. It was so much easier for the guys; they only had to wear shorts.
Despite the fact it was snowing, I was toasty warm. A plus side of being a shape shifter. I run barefoot back to my humble home, a small cabin in the middle of the southern Canadian woods where I live with my mother.
I walk through my front door and smell dinner. Mmm, chicken.
"Hello, dear," my mom says as I walk in and grab a chicken leg, and start to devour it in a very unladylike manner. My mom laughs at me. "Nice, Shania. Do you even chew?"
"I'm hungry! I can't help it!" I say as pieces of food fly out of my mouth.
"I sure hope you don't act like that on a date!" She says jokingly. She and I both know that I do not date.
"Yeah, cause I go on so many dates. The guys are just lining up behind me!"
"Yeah… I just don't care that much." I say as I shrug my shoulders and take another disgustingly large bite of chicken. "If someone wants to date me, he'll have to accept my gross eating habits and tangled hair. "
"It's a wonder I could still make out what you were saying with all that food in your mouth!"
I grin sheepishly, swallow and finish off the chicken leg on just my third bite. If I was really hungry, I could have done it in two. Just then, I hear a loud howl from outside. I sigh.
"You just got finished!" My mom groans. "What could he possibly want?"
I shrug, quickly devour a second chicken leg, and head out the door.
Once I'm in the trees, I strip and phase. Then, the voices erupt.
God, Isaiah, what now? Ash said, thoroughly annoyed.
This is BULL. Drew contributed, temperamental as ever.
This better be good, I thought. I was in the middle of dinner.
Shut up, all three of you! You'll never believe what just happened!
Just tell us, oh Alpha. Drew said, sarcastically. We all love each other, but we like to joke around, too.
There's another pack out there. Well, two, technically, but they know each other. They're from the La Push tribe, like, fifty miles south from here!
What? How did you find this out? I mentally ask him.
One of them, the Alpha of the larger pack, was following one of our scents and we ran into each other. I was freaked at first, but then we both phased and he invited us over to meet the rest of them. Apparently there's like, fifteen of them down there. Crazy, huh?
Shit, fifteen? Ever think that they're planning an attack?
Ash has a point, I say/think, how do you know they are friendly?
He seemed really genuine. Just as intrigued as I was. I think this is for real, guy. And we are going. Tomorrow at three we are all running down there.
Aye, aye, Alpha. Ash chimes in.
At two the next day, I run over to Ash's house. The four of us decided to have a brief meeting before we headed over to La Push.
I walk right into Ash's front door. We don't bother with knocking or anything like that anymore.
"Hey, Shi." Ash says when I walk in, smiling at me. "Food?"
He gestures to the sandwiches on the table.
"Always." I say as I grab one. I yell into the kitchen "Thanks Mrs. B!"
"No problem, dear!" She calls back, and I dig into the sandwich. It doesn't matter that I just ate back at home. I am always hungry, all the time.
"So, what do you think about these new guys?" He asks, also eating a sandwich. "Think they'll be a threat?"
"Nah," I said, shaking my head. "Isaiah is usually so…. Overly cautious. If he says they're okay, then they're okay."
Drew and Isaiah walk into the house together, making our four man wolf pack complete.
Isaiah is our leader, and it is obvious. He's the tallest, 6'7" and the oldest, being twenty years old.
Drew would be considered our "Beta", I guess. Technically, I should be Beta, by bloodline, but I'm a girl, so I'm automatically at the bottom of the totem poll. Drew is eighteen and 6'5".
Then comes Ash, my best friend. I love all my 'brothers', as I call them, but Ash and I have been best friend even before we phased. He's my age, sixteen, and 6'4".
And then there's me. Littlest wolf and the only girl shape shifter, possibly ever. I'm pretty tall for a girl, being 5'10". And I have a very muscular build. I have the classic Native American looks, darker skin, long, black hair, with bangs, and brown eyes.
"Okay," Isaiah says, "If this is a sort of trick, which I don't think it is, then you guys know what to do. We've been outnumbered before, and we know how to handle ourselves. But, again, I highly doubt they'll turn on us."
"You said there's fifteen of them?" I ask "Any girls?"
"Sorry, Shi," Isaiah says, "I didn't get a chance to ask. There might be, we'll find out."
I nod and finish off my sandwich.
"Ready to head out?" Drew says, standing up. The rest of us get up, and we head outside. I go to one side of the house, and they go to the other. I strip and secure my clothes to my leg with rope before I shift into my massive wolf form.
Finally ready, there, Shi? Ash jokes with me.
Shut up, I have more clothes than you!
They all laugh at me and we begin our run.
Race you there, ShiShi? I heard Ash ask playfully.
Oh, you are so on. I'm the fastest. No one can beat me!
I've gotten faster! You'd be surprised!
Where are we headed, Alpha, dear? I ask Isaiah.
To that creek a few miles north of the American border.
Eat my dust, Ashy! And the two of us take off running at full speed. I am the fastest wolf, because I am the smallest. I always beat the boys by at least half a mile, but Ash is constantly trying to beat me. Which he never will.
Don't sound so confident, Shi! I'm right on your tail!
I start to speed up, and I hear Ash sigh. Yep, that's right, I can go faster. I start to hear Ash's thoughts wonder to me… and how he feels about me. This is the thing I hate most about being a wolf.
I know exactly how Ash feels about me. I've known for a long time. He's head over heels in love with me. Although he tries to hide his thoughts, they aren't hidden from me, and I know everything. And he knows I know. And he knows that I'm confused.
Ash has been my best friend since forever. Dating him would be… weird. Besides, I don't want to date anyone! I'm a 'lone wolf' as I like to call myself. I don't need anyone taking care of me, nor do I want to have to take care of anyone.
Ash's thoughts indicate that he doesn't need taking care of, and that he knows he won't have to take care of me. I try to focus my thoughts on something else. The trees passing, the beat of my paws hitting the earth, anything rather than this. I can even feel the awkward tension between Isaiah and Drew, too.
The funny thing is, Ash and I have never even talked about our feelings in person, it's all exchanged through thoughts…
Maybe we should talk sometime then…
Ash…
Alright, the meeting place is right up ahead. Let's phase. We're here a little early. Isaiah makes his thoughts loud and prevalent.
Should we all phase? What if it's an attack?
Okay, Drew, fine. Ash and Shi, you guys stay wolves, and Drew and I will shift and do the talking.
They just wanted to be free of the awkward exchange of thoughts.
Their thoughts fade away as they become humans again. They clothe themselves and step in front of us and sit and wait.
"They should be here any minute." Isaiah says aloud.
A/N - This idea was always floating around in my brain... people have probably done something like it before, but this is my take. Review/Favorite/Alert or whatever! I love feedback :)