Lunar Eclipse

Prologue

Imprinting.

A rare thing that happens to wolves. Not much is known about the phenomenon, but I have to say - it's a force of nature. There are theories surrounding it. Sam thinks its nature's way of finding the perfect mate to help carry the shifter-gene onto the next generation. Legends say it is the binding of two souls meeting, finding each other. I'm not sure what to believe anymore.

Imprinting is love at first sight. The imprint becomes your world, you would do anything, become anything to keep them happy. Whether that be friend, brother, protector or lover. They are the gravity that keeps you grounded to this world.

I've felt the imprint through the pack-mind, felt the undying devotion. I despised it. It wasn't your true self, it wasn't real. You didn't fall in love on your own, you were forced, manipulated into it. I never wanted to imprint. But nature never takes our wishes into effect. I never understood, the thrall, or the pull of the imprint until it happened to me.

No one has ever denied the imprint, to do so would bring dire consequences. I was stupid and foolish, I kept it hidden - I wasted away, knowing the one my wolf longed for belonged to someone else, was marrying someone else. If you know me, like the pack thinks they do, if they knew I imprinted, but not who, my devotion to my friendship with Bella would be mistaken for more - I know it would. For they think I was in love with her. Perhaps, I thought I was.

But I see now, I enjoyed the idea of being in love. But it wasn't her my mind thought of at night as I languished in the pain of a denied imprint. Bella wasn't the one I was tearing my soul apart for.

For my love is unnatural in it's greatest sense, a contradiction of nature. To imprint on the enemy. On a Cullen. On Edward Cullen, who hated him, who was marrying Bella, the love of his immortal existence.

I may not know a lot about imprinting, but I do know this.

Nature is cruel.