Hey everyone. I have deleted my old stories as they were getting very little interest and I kind of lost faith in them. So I am having one last try and hope this gets a few more reviews than the last stories. Despite what it may seem in this chapter this is definitely a Paul imprint story, it is just going to take a few chapters to get there. This chapter is a reasonably short one filling in the timeline and the details of what the wolves have been up to since the Volturi left and setting up the important details for the story. The rest of the chapters will be longer.
I hope you like it and I would really like it if you review once finishing the chapter, otherwise I wont carry it on. 5 reviews will get the next chapter!
SAM'S POV"Hmmm yummy blueberry muffin's my favourite! You spoils me Ems!" I looked at my wife, Emily, with devotion. She really was too good to the pack and me. She was always making meals big enough to feed an entire army for us, and clean up our wounds and listen to our problems. She was the pack mother and she loved it. She loved caring for people; it was in her nature. It was one of the very many reasons that I loved her with all my being.
I was getting ready to go out on patrol again. And then we had a pack meeting of both the packs back at my house. It was nothing urgent, its just it was easier for myself and Jake to do these things together, saves repeating ourselves and it is easier to sort out the schedules that way.
It had been three reasonably quiet years since the altercation with the Volturi. The packs were getting restless. But I refused to let up on patrols. The moment we let up I knew those Italian leeches would be back. Them or others like them, there were always more.
I had a bed feeling, like something was coming. Like an instinct, Jacob felt the same. We had sat down and discussed it the other day. We came up with ideas as to what it could be but came out blank. We had only had the odd nomad vampire come through recently and the fortune telling pixie was always looking at what the Volturi were doing. Now they knew about us, we were always on guard and did not believe for one minute that they would leave us in peace.
Seth and myself were patrolling on out side of the border and the big leech and his wife were patrolling on their side tonight.
They were technically allowed on our side and us on theirs but for patrolling purposes and general everyday things we kept up with the lines. Dr Cullen came across providing a medical service for the wolves and Bella and Renesmee came and went freely just as Jacob did on theirs. Seth also crossed freely, being more comfortable round the bloodsuckers than the rest of us. We did not know how he could stand the smell but he said you got used to it after a while and he tended not to notice it any longer. Apparently the wolves' scents were becoming bearable to the leeches also. We were all able to spend much longer periods of time together more and more often. Not that all of us wanted to. Myself, and others included, still struggled to be around them. We considered them unnatural, dead men walking. The Cullens just made more of an effort; that did not mean that they were any more human.
The packs had both grown. Every time a nomad vampire came onto our territory a new wolf phased, and the Cullens not leaving had not helped. That had not been a fun meeting. Fists were thrown and a couple of the vampires had lost limbs. But their excuse was that they could still stay here a couple of years without raising suspicion and it would mean a couple more years that kept Renesmee here with Jacob, it was either that, separate the two of them which could cause them both harm, or Jacob leave with them. We agreed they could stay four more years and then a decision would have to be made. Jacob was the rightful Alpha; he could not just leave his pack. It could destroy the whole pack not having him there.
So now we had twenty-four wolves ranging from aged twelve to myself at twenty-nine. There were ten in Jacobs's pack and fourteen in mine. It was a lot of responsibility for both of us, especially with such young boys joining, and they were getting younger each time. We were trying to find a way to stop it, but as of yet there was nothing no matter what the doctor leech tried. It was infuriating. Even if we could just find a way to delay the changing for a couple more years it would be easier. The younger ones were difficult to train so we tended to keep them on guard duty than have them patrolling, it was easier to have them do that when they turned fifteen and were that little bit more mature.
I was busy showing my gorgeous wife just how much I loved her when I felt a tug on my trouser leg.
"Daddy! Daddy! Uncie Seth here! Uncie Seth!"
That was my two-year-old daughter Angel. We found out we were pregnant the day after the Volturi left. She was beautiful, dark skinned, gorgeous full head of black hair and the blackest eyes I had ever seen, along with ten fingers and ten toes. We were ecstatic. We got married a couple of weeks after finding out in a small private ceremony. No vampires.
"Okay pumpkin, I hear ya." I gave Emily one last kiss and stroked her growing bump, she was now six months along, and went into our living room where, sure enough Seth had turned up.
"Sorry, you were a little late so I came here to check everything was okay." He blushed a little. He may be eighteen but he still seemed like such a kid in certain ways. He had seen what imprinting does and so had made the decision not to date. He did not want to hurt anyone so he had never even kissed a girl; despite the rest of the guys trying to convince him it was okay to just kiss someone. It was hard to imagine a man who looked like he was twenty-seven never having been kissed, especially considering the number of girls who tried.
"That's okay Seth I am ready to head out now. We only have a two-hour shift tonight before the meeting. I want everyone there so the Cullens are going to cover us for the rest of the night."
Seth was technically in Jacobs pack but for some reason, because he was so close to both packs and did not like to pick sides, he ended up being able to hear both Jacob and myself, although he could only hear the rest of Jacob's pack, not mine. But it meant that we had another go-between for the packs.
I quickly stripped off, Seth doing the same and we both phased in my back garden and bolted into the cover of the woods. My garden was pretty secluded but I did not want to risk being spotted by the general public, a ten foot tall wolf might be a bit difficult to explain.
Seth was thinking about the girl at school that he had a crush on but was too afraid to even look at in the eye in case she was not the one. I tried explaining to him that he could not live his life like that, being afraid to look at anyone in case you imprinted. He could be missing out on his soul mate by living that way.
"I know that, Sam, but what if she's not. I really like her and I think that she might like me too but if she is not then I could hurt her."
I sighed and stopped to scratch my head. I could understand why the dude was confused as to what to do. I was confused and it was not my life.
"Okay, just look her in the eye one day when you are passing her in the corridor, if nothing happens then you move on and just admire her from afar."
"Sam, why could you not have had twin girls, then I could have imprinted on one like Collin did on Angel and then I would know where my life was headed. It is torture waiting like this. Not knowing if I will even imprint, never mind when. "
He was right. But in all likelihood he would imprint. Too many of the other wolves had done it for it to be considered a rarity, three quarters of the wolves had imprinted. We even had a gay imprint, which was a major shocker, which kind of made the idea that it was for genetic breeding purposes fly out the window pretty damn quick. But after the initial shock we were all cool with it. We occasionally teased them Andy and Mac but they knew it was in good humour, not malicious, and the fact that they were both wolves definitely made it easier on them. I think them being in different packs helped as well though as they both had a little bit of privacy from each other and could have their own thoughts.
Suddenly Seth caught scent of something on the wind. He had the best nose in either of the packs. He was still one of the smallest wolves but he was now one of the fastest and was definitely the best tracker on either pack.
"Fresh blood about two miles north east of here, into the woods. There is a lot of it too. "
"Animal?" I questioned, but I feared I already knew what the answer was.
"No, not an animal."
"Let's go then."
We took off at a blinding pace, Seth getting a lead on me within seconds. It only took us a couple of minutes to come across the scene we were looking for. The site was only about three minutes from the nearest road so we had to be careful and phased back and pulled on our shorts.
The big leech and his wife were already there and although I was concerned about them being around that much blood I knew that it was relatively safe for them, if the other blonde leech had been here, the empathy, it may have been more of an issue.
"Is she still alive?" Seth asked before I had a chance to.
"Yeah, just about. She has lost a lot of blood though and she has been banged up pretty bad. Is she one of yours?" Emmett asked me. His wife was sitting at the girl's head and stroking her head trying to provide her with some comfort. I had never seen the woman looking so soft; she almost looked human.
I took a look at the girl, she definitely had Quillette features but she was slightly paler than the norm and I did not recognise her. She was no one that I knew. Emmett was right though, she was very badly hurt, she had cuts and bruises covering her entire face and from the looks of it, the rest of her body as well. She could be one of us, but she was so badly deformed from swelling it was hard to tell.
"I'm not sure, lets take her back to my house. Can you two run and tell Carlisle to meet us there? This girl is going to need some patching up and we need to know what happened to her. I can't smell venom so it was not a vampire attack but it looks too brutal to be human."
The two vamps took off running and Seth picked up the girls backpack while I carried her at a gentle but fast pace back to the res.
It didn't take us too long to get back but I was worried as the girls breathing was becoming pretty shallow. I kicked the door open to my house, rushing in as soon as we got back, causing Emily to jump and Angel to wake up from her sleep.
I didn't have time to worry about putting Angel back to bed right now though.
"Ems, call Kim to come and get Angel, she won't get much sleep here tonight, we are going to have a house guest."
I ran the girl upstairs to the guestroom and placed her gently down on the bed. I heard Kim and Jared come in downstairs and knew that Angel would now be taken care of. Jared and Emily came rushing up stairs, Emily bringing the first aid kit and a bowl of warm water.
"What happened Sam?"
"We have no idea. Seth, look in her bag and see if she has any I.D. Dr Cullen should be here soon to see about fixing her up. Em, could you please do you best in getting some of this blood off her so he can see what he is working with."
I could hear the rest of the guys and Leah filtering in through the front door downstairs and immediately noticing the broken back door and trail of blood leading upstairs.
Leah was the first person to come barging in.
"What's happened, is it Emily, where is my cousin?" Despite our differences, Leah was still very protective over her cousin; they were like sisters.
"Emily is fine Leah, she is right here trying to clean up our house guest. We found her in the woods while on patrol. Jared, could you please go and see if the doc is here yet, Leah could you please get rid of the girls clothes and find a blanket to put over her.
The girls clothes were all bloody and shredded from the woods. The doc wouldn't be able to work with them on; I knew that. I turned round as the girl was gently stripped and covered up, trying to preserve her modesty.
Jared came back upstairs with the Doc trailing behind him carrying a medical bag.
"Thanks for coming doc, we don't know who the girl is yet or what happened but she is banged up pretty bad. I would have taken her to the hospital but we don't know who or what did this to her."
The doc nodded and got to work looking the girl over straight away. It was then that I noticed that Seth had not said anything in quite a while.
Seth was sitting on the floor with the bag emptied out in front of him and what looked like a passport, driving licence and birth certificate laid out in front of him. He looked kind of scared.
"wow, I guess you did find some, that girl obviously thought to carry all the essentials with her. So what's the verdict… is she Quillette?"
Seth nodded slowly then looked up at me straight in my eyes.
"You might want to sit down Sam."
"Why, what are you talking about? Who is she?"
He handed her birth certificate up to me and I immediately dropped it.
"Oh… shit".