This is kind of a sequel to the not finished story A Lily For Esme, but my brain doesn't allow me to do anything if I don't write what's in my head. So... Here we go.

LPOV

I was panicking. I had been a vampire for three years, stuck in the body of a fifteen year old forever and something truly horrible had happened.

"Lily, wait!"

Seth called after me but I was already gone, running toward my home as fast as I could get away from him, which was much faster than him, at least in his human form.

We had only been home from Alaska for a couple months and this is what happens. I had seen him several times since he had turned, but he chose not to tell me. As I was drawing in the forest. I was on our land. I was doing nothing wrong when he walked toward me. I smiled at him and greeted him and we talked for a little while. Though he was a wolf, I had always like his kind heart. But this... it was too much.

Momma was sitting at the table playing a game of chess with Dad as I zoomed past them, slamming the door to my room behind me. I pressed my hand against my forehead and drug them down my face as I tried to process what had just happened, what Seth had just said.

"Shit..." I muttered, already getting a whiff of Edward's scent. He would have already heard my thoughts before I could even try and hide them.

Edward was through my door in a second, his eyes burning and face tight with emotion. Don't tell them, I silently plead as Momma and Dad also appeared, followed by Alice and Jasper. Great. Now we just needed Rosalie and Emmett to make it a family meeting.

"I could kill him," Edward hissed at me as my chin quivered. If there could have been tears, there would have been. He was so angry it was terrifying to me and his fears and desires at the moment were invading my mind.

"Please," I stutter, my voice barely a whisper. "He didn't do anything wrong."

EdPOV

I could hear her thoughts from a mile away. Her voice was clear in my head as her frantic thoughts froze me. It couldn't be true. It couldn't happen. It was impossible.

The moment I heard her door closed I was at it, throwing it open. Esme and Carlisle were there in an instant as well, staring between the two of us. They were concerned, the minds filled with worry about what was going on, and they had every right to be concerned. When they found out they would understand. Yet, through all their jumbled thoughts, one plead rang loud and clear.

Don't tell them.

I nearly rolled my eyes as I gritted my teeth and Alice and Jasper appeared in the doorway. How could she be so stupid. They needed to know. "I could kill him," I hissed at her through my gritted teeth.

Those once blue eyes, now completely golden, looked up at me in the way I can only say was the same as she did when she was a child. "Please," she pleaded desperately. "He didn't do anything wrong."

CPOV

Esme stiffened next to me, but I could also see what she was seeing. There was something different about our flower. Though I couldn't put my finger on it, there was something definitely different and it wasn't the fact she was actually showing fear toward her brother.

My heart broke for her as she stared at Edward, the mention of a he terrified him. A he meant a boy and a boy meant...

I swallowed hard. There was a boy in my daughter's life and I wasn't sure if I could handle that on top of everything else at the moment. Bella and Edward were enough. My sweet daughter was too young to find a mate. She was only eighteen. She had spent eighteen years on this earth, and now this.

"Lily..." Esme said softly, her eyes falling on our daughter. "Talk to me."

But even Jasper's attempts at calming everyone's nerves was in vain. Lily's own ability was invading her mind and she was struggling to process all the different things going on.

"It explains the blind spots in my visions," Alice said her voice concerned as she stepped toward her sister. "You just come and go sometimes."

Lily bit her lip and took a step away from them. "Please, just leave me alone."

Esme grabbed her arm just as she tried to run, looking into our child's sad eyes. "Lily, talk to me."

It was at times like these that the only person who could reel Lily back in was Esme. Sometimes I envied her ability to soothe our children. It was her gift, that was for certain. Love was a gift that Esme granted easily.

But this time, Lily was frightened. She stepped further away, but slid her hand into Esme's as she looked at her brother. I could only assume she was asking him not to follow them. "Not here, Momma."

Esme gave me one long look before moving with Lily toward the window. They were gone in an instant, leaving the four of us standing there and only one of us informed on what was going on. I turned to Edward who was still seething.

I didn't have to verbalize my question, he could hear it clearly in my mind.

"The wolf imprinted on her," he scoffed, completely disgusted.

My heart fell to my stomach. "Jacob?" I asked doing my best to keep an open mind. That would be... inconvenient.

Edward gave his head a half shake, obviously not letting go of his fury anytime soon. "Seth."

Though Alice and Jasper looked ready to vomit and Edward seemed to be fighting an internal battle of whether or not to kill the boy, I couldn't help but smile. The boy may have been a wolf, but he was one of the kindest people in this town, heart and mind. He would be very good to Lily, and honestly I couldn't think of someone who seemed to match her better.

"Don't say that Carlisle," Edward snapped, though the words never actually came out of my mouth. "Seth is a wolf-"

"And Bella is a human," I reminded him.

"She can be changed!"

"But you don't want her to." I looked at my son, trying to level with him. "You should know as well as the rest of us that love is not something we choose."

Edward shook his head and was gone, his anger controlling him and he was probably going to Bella's to rant and cool off. Alice just shook her head. "I don't like not seeing her," she said uneasily. "I can't see if she's safe."

"I believe it is safe to assume that she will be safe as long as Seth is near," I told them. "A wolf's imprint is a very sincere bond. He would protect her, though she can also protect herself."

"We may be able to trust Seth, but what about the other dog? They could hurt her and I would never see it coming," Alice complained.

"And she's already in love with him," Jasper added soberly. He expression tight as usual but his eyes showing just how much he felt for the girl, or her emotions may have been leaving a lasting effect. "And she's completely terrified."

I looked toward the window my wife and daughter leapt from. Terrified. That was a word I could relate to. That was my little girl.

EsPOV

Lily and I climbed as high up on the tree tops as the limbs would allow. That beautiful face was tormented as she looked at me. She was in my arms in a second, curled into my chest like she was a small child again. Her body was still smaller than the rest of us, even Alice. She was petite and young. Stuck forever as my baby.

"Flower," I cooed to her, using the term of endearment we had used since she was four years old. Their sweet, delicate flower. Her face was buried in my chest and I gently stroked her hair. "What's wrong?"

Lily sobbed and my heard wrenched. It was so hard for me to see her like this. It had been many years since she had been this broken, but I had always been the one to hold her. We were gifts to each other. All I had ever wanted was a child, and all Lily ever wanted was someone to love her. For people who don't believe in destiny and fate, I feel that I have enough experience with it to prove them wrong.

"Seth," she cried, clinging to my shirt.

Seth? Seth Clearwater? "One of the-"

She nodded. Her hands holding tighter in my shirt. "He imprinted on me."

If it was possible for my heart to be ripped out. It had been. A wolf of all things to stake claim on my baby. My heart was stuck in my throat as I held my daughter tighter to me. "And how do you feel?"

Those eyes looked back up at me. "Like... I could throw up? But not really in a bad way?" There was the smallest smile on her lips as she let out a nervous laugh. "Does that make sense?"

Any anger or sadness I had vanished because I could definitely relate. Carlisle still had a similar effect on me. It wasn't that I didn't want my daughter to be happy, I just wanted her to be mine for a little while longer. Just mine.

It had taken Edward over a hundred years on this Earth to find a mate and it took Lily eighteen.

My hand stroked her cheek. "It makes perfect sense."

She fell back into my chest and played with the ends of my hair, the same thing she had been doing since she was just a small child. "He's kind, Momma. Kind and caring, almost like Daddy." She places a hand over my heart. "His words are honest and kind, and he would never harm anyone."

Her insight to people's souls was a passive gift of hers. Her active ability sometimes concerned us. Her passive gift allowed her to see intentions, motives, as well as fear and desires. Her active gift was to disorient people with their fears. When she was first getting used to the power, she struggled to control it. There were many times I watched my family die at the hands of her gift, and sweet Lily couldn't forgive herself for the pain she caused her family because of her gift.

"Sounds like you have similar hearts," I told her, resting my head atop hers.

"My heart belongs to you and Daddy, Momma. How can it belong to this boy as well? And he's a wolf!"

Though she tried to sound disgusted, it failed a little. I knew my girl too well. "You have enough heart to go around, love. If anyone does, it is you."

It was true. Lily was not my blood, but she had definitely inherited my heart and her father's compassion.

"Rosalie is going to be so angry... She doesn't even like Bella and she's just a human... What if she hurts Seth?" Lily questioned.

I thought of my older children. Rosalie would most likely be the one who acted in set rage. At the moment, I saw it possible that she reacted with violence. Lily was special to all of us. We had all watched her grow from the most fragile form to what she was now. Rosalie was maybe the most outrageously protective one.

"She won't hurt Seth," I promised my darling girl. "I won't let her."

"What do I do, Momma?" Lily asked me, her voice soft.

I gave the girl one last squeeze before releasing her. "I think you already know."

SPOV

I sat at the edge of the water, my bare feet in the creek. She didn't want to be with me. How could she? Jacob had mentioned the story of the wolves that had nearly taken Lily as a child, it was one that was relayed from Bella that one of the Cullens must have shared. Even if those wolves were not from our clan, they still terrified her.

Plus, she's a vampire, a cold one. We were literally two different kinds of beings. Two different creatures.

I let my head fall in my hands with my elbows prompt against my knees. How could I have imprinted on her? She was different than other cold one's, even different from the Cullens. I liked the Cullens too. Any creature that fights against their own nature for the sake of humans was good in his mind.

And Lily...

"Hey Wolf Boy!"

My head shot up and I saw Lily standing on the edge of the cliff. It was as close as she could get because of the treaty. She sported a kind smile that sparkled with the smallest amount of mischief.

I was on my feet in a second, unable to keep the smile off my face.

"H-h-" Words were impossible to form even though I tried and that only made her grin brighter.

"Do you climb trees?" she called to me motioning toward her home.

Vampires move a lot faster than us in our human state, but I certainly couldn't climb trees as a wolf either. As I opened my mouth to reply, she jumped to a lower part of the cliff. "Let me rephrase, would you like to climb trees? I can help you."

Climb trees with Lily. I smiled brightly at her before glancing back at the pack I heard coming. They could wait. For a while...

I leapt from my spot on the water and ran to her. Before, even before I was a wolf, she would flinch anytime one of us approached her, but for the first time she didn't. We had met a couple times at different location, but as I looked at her it felt like I had spent every day of my life with her.

Her hand trembles as she reaches out to me and I don't understand why. Her hand slowly touched my face and I watched her eyes narrow quickly revealing her pain, but she didn't pull her hand away.

"You skin is like fire," she explained softly.

I stepped back, my eyes widened in fear and she just followed my step. The last thing I wanted to do was cause her pain. But her eyes were gentle as her hand raised again. "Please, don't. I want to get used to it."

Lily's icy hand touched my face again. It bothered me how comfortable her touch was to me while my touch caused her pain. She laughed a little as she finally removed her hand and smiled at me with such ease it made me want to move even closer to her. Every step she made, I wanted to follow her.

"I have a gift," she explained, her words soft as she tried to touch my arm this time, but stopped only a few millimeters away. It was as close to touching as someone could be without actually touching. "When I am near someone, I can see things about them. But with you, I have to touch you."

Her hand slid into mine and she closed her eyes. "It's so much more vivid with you. Like I can live inside of your mind."

That was because she already did. My entire world was held into place by this one girl. Yet, she wasn't just a girl.

My pack had no idea. It hadn't been long, but I was not looking forward to changing. The law prohibits them from hurting her, but I still wasn't sure what that meant for me. I was breaking the rules of nature, but I never meant to.

Yet, as I watched Lily smile as she used her gift. Her hand softly gripping mine and a gentle smile on her face. There was no one in this world I would have rather been with. She was special and I was hers. I was at her mercy and would do anything she asked of me. Dinner with a bunch of vampires. Sure, I could handle that.

She flinched slightly when she opened her eyes and glanced down at her hand like she was making sure it was still there.

"Please don't laugh," she said with a weary smile. "But I'm a little afraid your body is going to set me on fire. You're really hot."

"Take it slow, Lily. Don't hurt yourself," I told her, loosening my hold on her hand, but she only tightened hers.

"I want this, Seth." Then the weary smile vanished, and I caught a glimpse of Lily's true pain that she seemed to keep masked from the world. She always wore a smile and I knew her smiles, each and every kind, but I was unfamiliar with this look of shame. "I'm sorry I ran away from you."

She didn't want to hurt me, I could see it. She was just as scared and confused as I was. Luckily, much of her family was more understanding than mine, at least I hoped they would be.

"You don't need to apologize, I understand. It's not every day that a wolf falls for a vampire," I tried to seem light about it. It seemed to work at least a little as the faintest hint of a smile reappeared on her lips.

She grabbed my hand. "Now... don't let go."

In a second we were off. She held my hand as she halfway carried me deeper into the tree line. When we finally stopped, she looked up at a tree. "This one?"

I nodded. Her eyes flashed to mine. "Do you trust me?"

"Lily Cullen! Get your sorry-"

Both our heads turned to the sound. That smile faltered a little, but did not disappear. "Rosalie is angry," she said mentioning the far away voice in the forest. "I should go before she finds you."

My heart ached at the idea of leaving her, even for a moment. I touched her face without thinking, but she pressed her cheek into my palm. Her eyes fell closed for only a moment before they opened again. "I'm sure we'll see each other again."

And just like that, she was gone.

LPOV

As I raced home, I found myself glancing back, still seeing Seth standing in the very same spot I left him, looking in the direction I had taken off. He was so kind.

My lack of paying attention sent me tumbling over my own two feet and straight into the ground. My skidding halt found me just in front of the house with Momma standing at the window with a hand over her mouth trying not to laugh and Rosalie staring at me like I was an idiot.

"How did we end up with a clumsy vampire?" Emmett asked, glancing around at Alice and Jasper who were also snickering.

I often wondered that same thing myself. I wasn't exactly clumsy as a kid. Bella was certainly more clumsy than I was, but since my transformation I had become a little clumsy at times, especially when I had something on my mind.

I was far too used to my family to feel embarrassed and it wasn't like it really hurt, so I just picked myself up and jumped toward the open window.

Momma dusted me off as I tried to help. "You can sweep the floor too, dear," Momma told me with a gentle smile. I took it well.

"Sorry, Momma," I said with a small frown as she pulled a leaf out of my hair as well. She just laughed lightly before Dad came up behind her.

"How are you so clumsy? I pretty sure that's against our nature," he said ruffling my hair and another leaf falling out.

So is being imprinted by a wolf and loving every second of it, I thought, but definitely knew better than to say while Rosalie was glaring at me.

"You wreak of wolf," she snapped her face moving closer to me and grabbing my hands. "You hands even still have heat on them."

"Rose," I muttered pulling away from her. "Stop."

"He's a wolf!" she said incredulously. "He could kill you."

"And I could kill him, if I wanted. My power works on him unlike Alice. I can see everything."

And it made me feel like I was floating when his desires ran through my head. They were me. From the beginning to the end, his desires started and ended with me. We were complementary to each other. When I pulled myself out of my thoughts, Rosalie was glaring at me and I suddenly felt very small.

"She loves him!" she snapped. "It's written all over her face! She smells like a wolf even!"

I glared at her. "So?"

"You're a child!" she snapped. "You're fifteen!"

"No! I'm stuck at fifteen!" I shot at her. "All I will ever be is fifteen! Does that mean I'm not allowed to find someone?"

"You have forever to find someone and you settle with a wolf?" Rosalie was yelling and I was furious.

"Actually, I find it ironic," Emmett spoke up, not seeming to be on the same page as his wife.

"Ironic," Rosalie hissed. "That's a big word for you."

"I mean, all the years Lily was a human, she asked for a dog, a big dog like once a week." Emmett seemed to find this more hilarious than disturbing. "Now, she's gets one."

Dad gave him a pointed look, not seeming completely sure about anything. Momma was supportive and I could feel Dad's fear of losing me overcoming his normally sensibility. I had no doubt he would come around, but I had no idea where Jasper or Alice stood and I knew Edward was pissed. He had his own grudge against them thanks to Jacob.

"Please, I don't want to fight," I told them. "It's not something we can change."

"We could lock you in your room for a century and see how much you like him when you come out," Rose mumbled, earning a firm look from everyone.

There was a howl in the distance and my head jerked to the sound and I bit my lip. What if his pack hurt him? They would be furious. I looked at Momma. "What if they hurt him?" I whispered. "They'll be angry too."

Momma put her hands on my shoulders and pulled me closer. "I'm sure everything will be alright."

But I wasn't so sure...

"Let's go hunting," Momma said suddenly. "It'll help take the edge off and maybe we all can have a sensible conversation."

Dad smiled as he seemed to find this a little funny. Momma was always doing everything possible to keep the peace. Hunting usually did make us happy and it was something that no one could really refuse.

"So... bears?" Emmett asked, winking at me.

Mom rolled her eyes. "Fine," she said good naturedly. "But please try and stay clean... Lily."

I smiled with my tongue between my teeth. So I was a bit of a messy eater. I tended to still get a little bit of blood lust when I was hunting. Dad said I had good control, most of the time, but I was a completely different being when I was hunting.

"Wait!" Alice froze, earning all our attention. Slowly her eyes turned to us. "She's coming..."

We all stopped. "Victoria? She's coming here?" Rosalie asked, clarifying. It did sound a bit ridiculous that Victoria would make such a blunt attack, but Alice shook her head.

"She's coming through here. We have a chance to catch her."

Jasper looked at her. "Do we have time to hunt first. We need to be on top of our game."

Alice nodded. "That's a good idea."

*JPOV*

It was hard for Lily to stand still as we waited for Victoria, but the smallest sound could distract them. I could feel how uncomfortable she was becoming. Standing still meant she was unable to distract her mind from everyone else's fears and desires. I felt enough from Rosalie and Emmett that I certainly wouldn't want a visual of their desires in my mind.

She shot a glance at Esme and Carlisle and I almost snickered at her look. If it wasn't bad enough with her siblings, it had to be even worse with her parents. These "gifts" as people call them didn't always seem like a gift at all. Most times they caused us a fair amount of discomfort and thanks to my gift, if I didn't get enough of my own discomfort I got everyone else's too.

"She's coming," Alice repeated her words from earlier, glancing to one certain place in the forest. "Lily can you-"

"Only if I can catch her eye," she cut her off. "That's the only time I can do it."

We all were silent again, listening to the world around us. "She's almost here."

Carlisle shifted slightly, his body wanting to instinctively move to his mate and child. We were all his children in some forms of the word, but Lily was the closest thing to a real child he and Esme would ever have.

Alice's head turned sharply. "To your right!" she called.

We all were off, chasing after the blur of red hair. Lily and Emmett were in front. Emmett had strength, but Lily had speed and dexterity when she was focused. She was a natural hunting skills mixed with her ability to succeed at hide and seek as a human child in a house of vampires made her have several advantages.

I was at their heels.

Emmett moved closer, reaching out to get a hold of her, but Victoria's survival instincts were strong. Her hand latched onto his and she threw him over his shoulder, never missing a step. Lily leaped over him and used a tree as momentum to push off from and get a few paces closer. Esme's nerves were burning on my emotions, but I shoved them aside.

Victoria leapt across the treaty line and Carlisle barely grabbed Lily's collar in time to stop her before she followed.

"She's in their territory," he reminded us as Lily snarled.

The distinct smell of wolf took over my senses as we started running alongside her on our land.

"She's going to get away!" Esme called, unwilling to let any harm come to her family, including Bella.

"No. We won't!" I called back to her. Rosalie and Alice were right behind me as Carlisle and Esme stayed level with her. We tried to get a little bit ahead of her.

Two wolves were hot on Victoria's tale and there were more behind him. I could see Lily's eyes watch them, as she kept level with her parents. She could easily catch up with me if need be, but for the moment it was my turn to attack. We worked as a team.

Victoria jumped back over to our side and Emmett was nearly at her again until she propelled against trees, going high into the tree line.

He was strong, but I was more flexible. I followed her lead.

As soon as I dove her, she turned and I hit the ground in a tumble of leaves.

"Hey!" Lily called out.

I turned to her, but Victoria didn't. I knew she was trying to earn her eye contact. The fear would leave her indisposed and we could catch her, but Lily couldn't get her to look at her. Lily was past Emmett, reaching out to her, grabbing at her clothes, but knowing not to really reach until she was sure she could get a good hold.

I could hear Esme suck in a breath as Lily latched onto Victoria's shirt. Though Victoria pulled the same move on Lily that she did on Emmett, Lily's hold was firm and they tumbled over each other and off the side of the cliff and into the water, into wolf territory.

Since Lily landed on top, one of the dogs dove after her, knocking her off of Victoria and setting her free, while one of the wolves circled Lily growling viciously.

Before any of us could react, a sand colored wolf with paws that were just a little too big landed in front of her, baring its teeth at the others. The other wolves stopped and took a few steps back, staring the wolf protecting my sister.

Once it seemed safe, the sand colored wolf turned to Lily and nosed her hand and sniffed her face. Lily's big golden eyes looked at the wolf for a long time before she smiled and her hand ran through the fur. That feeling of love washed over me again and I knew it was Lily and the wolf. She placed her hands on the wolf's snout and gently kissed its nose.

"Lily!" Esme called out. She was still worried about her daughter. The wolves were still staring at my sister and it was nerve wracking.

"Lily, come on," I called to her, reaching my hand down to her, though I knew she didn't need assistance.

She glanced at us then back down at Seth. "Be safe." She had just whispered it in his ear before turning and jumping toward me, accepting my hand. It made me feel better to have her safe in my arms, but as she glanced at the boy again, I realized how true it was that she wasn't completely ours anymore.

"She got away," Alice mumbled, pulling us all from our thoughts.

All our eyes turned toward the La Push. Victoria had gotten away.

SPOV

They were all yelling in my head. Leah was the loudest of all of them. I had waited until the last minute to change, but when Lily was being taunted by Paul.

I couldn't even keep myself from phasing. In an instant I was running toward her ready to kill my own pack member to save her from harm. Then when she looked at me, she wasn't afraid. She knew it was me and I nosed her, wishing she could understand my concern for her. As her hands ran over my fur and nose, she smiled at me and then kissed my nose .

Be safe.

"She'll be the end of us!"

"It's unnatural!"

"You're a traitor!"

No one could understand that it wasn't my fault. I couldn't help it. Lily was beyond a choice for me.

"We can't hurt her! She's imprinted. It's law."

My head turned and I looked at Jacob painfully moving toward me. "He can't help who he chooses. Maybe it is some cosmic force, but Seth had Lily and Lily has chosen him in return. We cannot harm her."

"That doesn't mean we welcome her," Leah growled. "We cannot allow her at La Push. She cannot be on our land."

My heart wrenched at the idea of not being able to stay with my pack and my imprintee at the same time. "But I'll choose her." My thoughts were true. "I can't not choose her. She's-"

"She loves him and she has never harmed a human. Not in her entire life as a vampire. The Cullen's are not like most," Jacob reminded them. "They have protected Bella many times from their own kind."

"Enough!" Sam pulled our attention to him. "We cannot hurt one that is imprinted, but this is something for the counsel. We can't keep him from her either."

Leah paced, not happy about this at all. "We talk to the counsel as soon as possible."

I turned away from then and moved back toward the creek to find my clothes. I needed to get back to her. I was back to my human state before anyone could stop me and I walked toward my clothes laying in the rocks. Though the rain was pouring, I couldn't find it in myself to let go of her. I wanted to see her. Now.

I walked toward the Cullen house, despite the fact rain was pouring down on me as I did. I couldn't stay away from her. I had to see her.

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