Play the Fox

Chapter Two – Wondering About Her

With foxes, we must play the fox. – Thomas Fuller

"Your imprint?" Rosalie was the first to speak up after I had dropped that little piece of information. The others had just frozen, their thoughts practically going blank with both confusion and disbelief. As all of this was happening, I had returned my gaze to the perfect creature in my arms, drinking in her appearance and her scent.

"Yes, Rosalie; I have imprinted on her." I smiled again, as my answer reminded me that I had, indeed, finally found my soul mate. I will admit that she wasn't exactly quite what I had been looking for, but who was I to complain? She was completely perfect the way she was. As if she could hear what I was thinking, she twirled her tail up around my neck, causing another whiff of her delicious scent to waft into my face – now, instead of feeling thirst, I felt only contentment. Her scent meant that she was close, and safe.

"But... how?" Jasper asked; I could hear that he was testing my emotions, and his thoughts did indeed conclude that I felt the same way towards 'the fox' as he did towards Alice or the others for their imprints. His thoughts were as confused as everyone else – though Alice could probably top them all, searching desperately in the future and wondering why she hadn't seen this.

"I don't know, but I really don't care." I said, rubbing my face against her neck.

"She's a fox, Edward." Emmett pointed out.

"I know."

"Uh, a fox is an animal." Again, Emmett pointed out.

"I am well aware, Emmett."

"I've never heard of anything like this. Carlisle, have you?" Esme turned towards him, looking for the answers; I was confused, too, but I suppose it would be a little more shocking for them. I was too busy soaking up the presence of my imprint to notice.

"No, I haven't." He answered, and he was indeed, searching his memory for anything like this. "Aro never spoke of something like this when telling me about imprinting, so I doubt he has, either."

"It makes no sense; how can a vampire imprint with an animal?" Rosalie wondered out loud. Whoever was going to answer didn't get the chance, though, as the wind picked up and blew the scent of a heard of deer our way. Immediately, Jasper and Emmett took off in the direction, and Alice and Rosalie followed. Esme was a little slower, waiting for Carlisle.

"We'll talk about this later, son." He told me, and I nodded.

The scent had also caused me to thirst for the blood, and I knew I needed to hunt since I was going to be spending quite some time with a fox from now on.

"Sweetheart?" I asked, somehow knowing that she would be able to understand me. "I want you to stay right here, alright? Don't move; I'll be back in ten minutes." Her eyes peered into mine, and if I hadn't imprinted on her, I probably would have been shocked when she nodded her head slightly, jumping down from my arm and settling into the grass beside a tree.

I smiled, before taking a brief look around the area, judging if there were any predators that might decide a fox would make a lovely meal – they wouldn't live very long if they dared to hurt her. I leaned down and brushed my fingers over her soft fur, before turning around and following after my family.

Luckily, they had known that I wouldn't be far behind, and had had enough sense to save two does for me. I drained them quickly, my heart aching for me to return to the side of my imprint, and my mind constantly worrying that something might sneak up on her and try to hurt her. I kept my ears focused in the clearing that was about eight miles away, trying to listen for any danger.

Though they were all still confused, I did notice that both Emmett and Rosalie rolled their eyes as I hurriedly buried the deer, and ran off quickly, figuratively itching to have her in my arms again. When I arrived, I let out the breath I hadn't noticed I was holding, noticing that she was safe and in the same position I had left her.

Entering the clearing, I noticed her ears perk up and she looked towards me, quickly getting up as she recognized me and running – quite gracefully – in my direction. When she was right beside me, she stood up on her back legs and rested her front paws lightly against my own leg, her eyes asking me silently to lift her up. And I did just that.

I could hear the thoughts of my family, and that Jasper and Emmett still needed to feed a little more. The others decided to stay with them, as well, and I noticed that they had come across a wolf pack. My throat ached a little at the thought of draining a carnivore – the deer had hardly been fulfilling – but I knew that I couldn't leave her, especially since my fear of carnivores being around had now been confirmed. I knew, logically, that my family and the wolves were almost ten miles away, but that was still too close for my liking – a wolf could easily hurt my imprint if I wasn't around.

I heard them join together soon enough, and listened to the approaching footsteps. The beauty in my arms didn't tense or fidget, but she did look towards where they were coming when they were close enough to hear. I got the feeling that she trusted me to protect her, and so she didn't feel afraid at the unknown creatures that were approaching, either that or she had already recognized them as the people who were with me earlier. I wanted it to be that she just trusted me, though.

"Now, I suppose we have some things to talk about." Carlisle spoke as he and the others returned to the clearing. They had decided while they were still hunting that instead of taking an extended hunting trip, we would head home and learn all we could about this, and how it would work.

"Yes, I suppose we do." I said, turning and leading the way back home with my destiny sitting comfortably in my arms.

Another chapter and it's about the same length as the first one, too. Again, I would like to remind you that there will be no bestiality of any kind in this story – and, actually, for those of you who are not completely sure what that means, it means that there will be no human/animal sex. Edward will not be 'doing a fox'. Now, on with less embarrassing things to talk about...

Review, please; I really want to see what everybody thinks about this story. I know it's not really 'normal', in a loose term of the word, and so I want to know how you guys are taking it. Hopefully, there won't be too many bad opinions on it.

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