A/N - As everyone knows, Stephanie Meyers owns these characters. I just love them. This is my first story and I hope that you guys enjoy it. Let me know!
Chapter 1 – The Right Thing
Quil POV
She ran her brush one last time through her thick black hair. She looked into the mirror and sighed, looked out the window and smiled before she shut the light off.
She knew I was there. She has done this every night since she was two years old, and that was twenty years ago. That is how long I have loved her.
I also knew that as of tonight, even though it was going to be hard, I was making the right decision.
I took off at a dead run towards the beaches of La Push. I pushed my legs faster and harder, filling my lungs with the different scents that filled the chilling air. Even though it was dark, I knew where I was going. Having wolf night vision seemed to help with that. I ran through the giant trees of the ancient woods of my ancestors. On nights like this, it felt as if they were all around me. Their legends ran through my veins. Their songs played in my ears. Their spirits filled my heart. I knew that the magic of my shifting was a gift, a gift that my ancestors had given me. I knew that because of their gift I was able to live the way I did and to be in a pack with my brothers. It was also this gift that gave me her.
She has had my heart since she was two years old. The moment I saw her, it was all over. Everything I was and was ever going to be was because of her. Her little fingers had me wrapped around every single one of them. It wasn't the love that a man feels for a woman. It was the love that an older brother felt for the unexpected baby sister. But as the years have gone by, that love has become something different. With each milestone we reached, my love for her changed just a tiny bit until it was what I felt now. I loved her, more than I loved my family or my brothers. More than I loved the way my muscles stretched with my long wolf strides. More than I loved the way my heart beat fast with the hunt. She was my reason for everything, which is why I am running so hard tonight.
I reached the edge of the beach just as the moon cast the rocky island's shadow out in the ocean. The stars seemed brighter tonight, but maybe that's just because it's not cloudy tonight, or it maybe because my heart is aching with happiness and with hurt. I slowly made my way to the group of rocks that was always my packs meeting area when we had pack meetings. I smelled the smoke from a recent fire and I sat on the rock that always seemed to be mine when we came here.
I looked out into the ocean and felt my heart skip a beat. I knew this was the right decision. Some of my brothers had already made this decision. It was a decision to change their life, to accept the inevitable. Our time of need was long over. Things were quiet and safe here in La Push and in Forks. But that didn't make this decision easy.
I thought back to her smile as she shut the light off tonight. She knew I was always there to protect her. She knew that I would never let her fall. I hope she would remember that even after tonight. Tonight was the end of one chapter of our life and the beginning of a new one. I wasn't sure if she felt the same way, but I was ready to show her how much my feelings had changed for her. I was ready to love her, the way that I was meant to. This decision was for her, for us.
I lifted my head and let a long, deep howl out. My heart swelled inside me and felt heavy in my chest. I took one last look around the beach and felt my eyes mist over. I hope she knew what she meant to me. This was all for her. I smiled and felt the heat roll off my body. I felt my skin fall off and come back on again. I stood on my two human legs and pulled my shorts on as I looked out into the water.
This is what's right.
This is what's meant to be.
I turn away from the water and head back to my house.
I turn away from my life for the past twenty years.
I turn away from my pack and my brothers.
I turn toward my life with her.
This was the last night I would phase. I was ready for forever to begin. It begins with this.
It begins and ends with her.