Okay, so I'm going to try writing from a 3rd person pov, it seems like everyone else does it that way here. I was having trouble with my previous version of this story, and so I decided to attempt rewriting it. Hopefully more people actually like this one. Its set 5 years after Breaking Dawn, all canon events did happen, Embry is the only wolf left to imprint now. And he imprints on my original character Anna (if you're curious about her, i posted stuff about her on my profile?) when she moves back to Forks and moves in with her father Charlie. There won't be any other vamps present than the Cullens for now. And the Cullens won't be in that much either, given that I'm not crazy about vampires and this is supposed to be for Embry, my sexy wolf?
Everyone who added the old story to their alerts, I love you all so fucking much, it amazed me. I just want to try writing it this way, changing things up a bit. Hope you guys like it.
PROLOGUE ONE
No Longer The Last Wolf Standing
The scent was far off, but not so far off that it wasn't sort of taunting and teasing him, beckoning him to come to it, to follow it and to find it. Even with his keen wolf sense of smell, he couldn't quite make out what it was, he did however know that it was the sweetest and most seductive scent he'd ever smelled in his whole life.
Then again, last week he'd thought the woman down at the frozen yogurt stand was his imprint or something, he was that sick of being alone, that bitter, that hopeless as of late. Everyone else, Leah included, had found their imprints. To this date he remained the last wolf standing. The only one out of all of them that hadn't imprinted.
And he was getting sick of it, the pitying looks, the way his fellow pack mates just looked at him as if he'd crack or go crazy or something. He'd started to contemplate lately, just letting the damn wolf take over. Obviously, there was something so wrong with him that he couldn't imprint.. Because he'd tried so many times by now to do that very thing.
The scent tickled his nose again, he took a sharp left and ran through a bush full of brambles and thorns, swearing mentally the entire time. 'This better not be a fucking false alarm.' he thought to himself as the scent all at once hit him like a punch to the face.
He stepped out, through the bushes and when he saw her, it felt like a punch to the stomach. He was floored. Everything about her stood out, it was sharper, more defined, more clear and visible than everything around her was. It seemed like his vision was tunneling.
Her tongue trailed slowly over full ruby red lips as she pretended to hide her face in her hands so that Jacob's imprint, Renesmee, could run and hide. Her long dark hair blew lightly in the late afternoon fall breeze and the light bronze tan of her skin stood out against the black Ramones t shirt she wore. His eyes wandered over her slowly, learning her, taking in this girl that the wolf had finally chosen to be it's mate, it's other half.
He hadn't ever met her before and he found himself wondering how the hell she knew Bella Swan Cullen and Renesmee Cullen.
The answer came when Renesmee called out loud, "Aunt Anna! Mommy said I can stay tonight!" from the doorway of Charlie's house.
Her name was Anna and she belonged to him now. If everything he'd just seen moments before was true, she was his imprint, she was his to love and protect, to have a life with.
His tongue danced over the wolf's lips as he watched them a little longer, from the bushes. From the looks of things, Anna was building some kind of tree house in the back yard of Charlie's house.
He heard Charlie yelling out the back door, "Are you seriously recording CSI over the football game?"
"It's a new one, Dad."
"I have to see that enough at work every day though, Anna. And when you start working there, you will too."
"But I like crime shows."
"Okay, alright.. This time.. You two don't stay out here too long.. I think maybe you two should hold off sleeping in the tree fort until it's warmer.. Don't want Nessie getting a cold or something, all things considered."
Renesmee pouted. But she caught sight of a movement in the bushes and smiled to herself as she saw one of the pack standing there, watching her aunt as her aunt worked on finishing the tree fort she'd started building for Renesmee to play in earlier.
"Nessie, hand me those nails, would ya?" Anna called out, looking over her shoulder at Renesmee who was staring out of the hole in the wall that served as a window. "What's that?"
"Come look, Aunt Anna, it's a wolf!"
Anna made her way over to the window of the tree fort and gaped as she said "It's.. Holy hell it's huge, isn't it?"
"They're all that big." Renesmee mumbled quietly as she thought about Jacob, her friend.
"Yeah, well.. So, do you think you'll like your tree fort, kiddo?"
"Mhmm.. Mommy said she hopes this one doesn't do what the last one you and her tried to build does."
"Hey... My side stayed together. Her side fell. She kept whacking her fingers with the hammer though." Anna admitted, laughing a little.
The two girls got out of the platform with 3 walls and climbed down, running into the house. Anna froze about halfway and for whatever reason, she just watched the large dark gray and black spotted wolf as it watched her.
Her hand drifted upward to her hair and she muttered quietly, "it's kinda weird.. I mean it's eyes.. They look sort of human." before going into her father's house, shutting the door behind the two of them, leaving Embry to stand there, stunned by what just happened.
And curious, very curious..
He had to figure out some way to meet her face to face. The problem with this lie in that he was awkward, shy and lately, he was a bit of a downer, he'd definitely had a spike in temper problems and accidental phases..
Then again, when you're the last wolf standing, it does make you a little bitter watching everyone else around you being happy, building lives, moving on with their lives.
He howled one time and took off for the reservation, wasting no time in phasing and going to Jacob's house.
"I imprinted tonight."
"Really? That's awesome.. On who?" Jacob asked as he turned in the garage, put down his wrench and looked at Embry.
"Her name is Anna.. She's Renesmee's aunt or something."
"You imprinted on Anna? How? I mean she hasn't been to Forks since Bella moved here, she didn't even come for the wedding.."
"Yeah, well, apparently, every single time I've smelled marshmellow lately, Jacob, she's been nearby. And she is there now, I saw her." Embry insisted as he asked, "What's she like?"
"She's pretty cool. She was always a closer friend to me than Bella was.. She's basically the opposite of Bella." Jacob said vaguely as he sipped a beer and then added, "But you'll know soon enough."
"I'm.. How? I'm me, I don't see it going well."
"Embry, damn it, trust me.. If you imprinted on her, it will work out."
"There is a chance, Jacob, that the imprint rejects.. What then?"
"It won't, Embry, trust me."
Embry eyed Jacob warily and then asked "And how the hell am I going to meet her?"
"I'll figure something out.. Or Seth.. Charlie's dating Sue."
Seth stepped into the garage and then asked, "So, did it really happen?"
"It did. And he imprinted on Anna."
"Sweet.. So.. When are we going to throw them together?" Seth asked, bouncing around eagerly.
"I'm.."
"Don't start that crap man.. One way or another, you two are going to meet." Jacob stated firmly as Seth nodded and then added with a bright smile, "Would you relax, Embry?"
Embry shook his head, still worried that just because he'd imprinted, that didn't guarantee him finally getting the happy ending he craved, the happy ending that he'd been waiting so long for.
She could, after all, hate him on sight.
"She's not going to hate you."
"What's that look for?"
"Oh nothing." Seth said as he thought about the sketches of Anna's 'dream man' he'd seen in her room when he passed by it in the hallway while he was at Charlie's with his mom and Leah earlier in the week.. The dream man who just happened to look almost identical to Embry.
And then there was the conversation Anna and Leah had about the dream guy and the recurring dreams.
Suffice to say, he thought Embry might just be pleasantly surprised this time. Things were finally going to get better for his friend.
