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i apologize for the wait and the shortness of this chapter, i wanted to make it longer but i didn't want to keep you waiting any longer than you already had.

so we have embry imprinting on ellie...hmmm interesting? where will this take us? thats for me to know and you to find out...enjoy(:

disclaimer: i swear i am not stephanie meyer.


~TO THE CLIFFS~


"Aunt Ellie," A tiny voice spoke from Quil's lap in the living room.

"Yes baby?" Ellie responded interrupting her conversation with Kim.

"Can you help me draw a picture for Qwil?" She asked smiling sweetly; Quil had her dressed in her nightgown already. Ellie smiled at the people sitting at the table with her: Emily, Sam, Kim, Jared, Leah, Jake, Paul and Embry Call. Embry Call was definitely the most attractive of the bunch, but she couldn't let herself like him…she had enough to worry about as it was in the love department. But she couldn't shake that growing urge in the pit of her stomach and the blush that crawled up her neck when he looked at her.

"Duty calls," Ellie laughed smiling, stretching up as she stood lifting some of her shirt to reveal a flat stomach but still soft, she noticed Embry staring. She smiled at him and he blushed knowing he had been caught and she was glad he noticed. She felt her blood flowing faster at the thought and her cheeks redden.

"Hey, hey," Sam said jokingly serious, Ellie raised her eyebrow at her future brother-in-law challenging him, "We're like the Taliban in this house…you keep your body a secret…except you get to read books and go to school." Everyone laughed including Ellie, who rolled her blue eyes.

"Yeah, yeah, I'll walk around with a burqua just for you, Sammy Boy," She teased him, he smiled. She adored the way he doted over her sister it was adorable. It was the same with Jared and Kim. Ellie had come to really like Kim, she was sweet, easy-going and down to earth, and Ellie could tell they would become good friends during her summer long visit. "Now, if you'll excuse me, Osama, I have a child to attend to," They all laughed, including Embry. Who she could feel was staring at her as she walked into the other room and she felt the all too familiar blush crawl up her cheeks.

Claire was waiting patiently for her; Quil was facing the other way with his eyes closed as Seth, Collin and Brady were watching the baseball game. Claire smiled brightly when her Aunt walked in. She handed her youngest aunt a piece of paper and a pencil, Ellie smiled taking it gratefully.

"Now, Aunt Ellie," Claire said very particularly, like she was the boss. Ellie smiled at her beautiful little niece; she had Elizabeth's bone structure and skin tone but John's grey eyes and black curls. Her nightgown flowed around her cutely; it was soft pink with Disney princesses on it. "You draw a picture for Qwil, and I'll draw a picture for Qwil, but Qwilly can't look!" She scolded Quil who was peeking, he laughed heartily at her. He was at least nineteen but he seemed to really care for the four year old. Ellie had never seen that before, he'd make a wonderful father. Claire had already started drawing, blobs that were supposed to look like Quil and her on the beach. Ellie began to draw her baby cousin, who was so intently drawing her picture. Ellie was very artistic more so than any of her other sisters or brother. She loved sketching the most and the way the light was hitting Claire…it was perfect, she was positive Quil would love the picture.

Ten minutes later, Claire announced her final project and some of the others began to drift in, namely Embry, which Ellie noticed with a blush. She could smell him from here, he was intoxicating. She needed to stop… right now.

"Look Qwil," She said to him, he smiled at her, "That's you," She indicated to the big blob holding the little blobs hand, "And that's me!" She showed the little blob.

"I love it Claire," He said with a smile as he took the picture, he seemed to really have loved it. That was odd but it didn't seem to faze Ellie.

"Okay Aunt Ellie," Claire said putting her hands on her hips, Ellie was finishing up some last minute details and she wouldn't let anyone see the picture from her area on the floor. "Show Qwil the picture!" Ellie quickly signed her name in the bottom right corner and dated it.

"Here Quil," She said with a smile, and Quil's jaw dropped when he saw the picture, he looked from it to Ellie. It was a sketch of Claire lying on the floor, her tongue sticking out slightly, nose scrunched up perfectly, marker in hand.

"This looks like a picture," Quil said in awe, Ellie blushed slightly noticing everyone staring at the exchange now.

"Let me see," Seth said smiling, Ellie and Seth had always been close especially when they were little… always competing. "Wow, Elle, I may have beaten you in everything else but you can definitely kick my ass in drawing."

"It's nothing really," She smiled at Quil, who grinned back, "And Seth, please, let's not even go there because who always wins at swimming out further?"

"I get cramps!" He complained like a girl. She rolled her eyes at her cousin, everyone was laughing.

"Oh, don't you just hate those period cramps Seth? And who always won at who ate more cookies," Seth opened his mouth to protest, "Yeah, yeah that's what I thought Sethhy," She stuck her tongue out at him which he returned.

"But-" He tried desperately again,

"You're beat."

"Ellie-"

"Seth, no more defending yourself, you can't beat my record of 34 cookies in 15 minutes." Ellie smiled at him, Leah laughed out loud.

"Then you promptly proceeded to hurl all over the kitchen," Leah started to laugh at the memory, "And on Seth." Seth made a face at the memory.

"I didn't say anything about what happened after I defeated Seth." She smiled, Seth ran over picked her up, with Ellie still laughing giddily, Seth started for the door. She looked to Embry who smiled at her but she could tell there was something behind those dark eyes of his…another emotion. She never felt this feeling before this… extreme want for someone. She wanted him to hold her, to love her, to touch her in all the places that would make her tingle with excitement.

"Alright to the cliffs with you," Seth's voice woke her from her daydream of Embry Call. She began to realize where Seth was taking her and she immediately began to kick.

"Seth! Stop! Seth put me down!" Ellie began to beg her older cousin of five months, Jake, Paul Jared Kim Embry Emily Leah and Sam followed the two of them, "SETH!" Luckily, Sam and Emily lived a block away from the cliffs which the teenagers jumped and today was a perfect day to jump. "SETH JAMES CLEARWATER! STOP THIS INSTANT." She screamed, Seth paused for a moment, he was holding her dead man's lift style.

"Yes, oh whiney one," Seth teased her, Paul and Jared began to bet on who would push each other off first. Paul bet Ellie would push Seth off, and Jared bet Seth would throw Ellie off.

"My phone!" She said urgently, "I have my phone in my back pocket," Seth promptly grabbed the phone out her pocket and threw it to Embry who caught it with ease, "SETH CLEARWATER, I HATE YOU. GODDAMNIT SETH!" They were at the edge of the cliff and the wind whipped into her curls into her face. Seth put her down but still held her arm so she couldn't run back to the house. She began to try and squirm her way out of his extremely tight, extremely hot hold. Does he have a fever?

Sam, Jared, and Paul ripped their shirts off and jumped off screaming incoherent words followed by three big splashes. Kim and Emily laughed; Ellie looked over the edge and saw that the three boys resurfaced, "Is it cold?" She called to them, she felt Seth begin to grab her waist and she squirmed out of his grip and crawled threw his spread legs. She couldn't go around him he was too big.

"Not at all Elle," Paul's voice floated up to her, Good then Seth won't be too cold. Not like it would make a difference, his burning up anyways.

"Don't be a chicken!" Jared said laughing, she and Seth were still struggling, by now Leah and Jake had jumped off together leaving Emily, Kim, Seth, Ellie and Embry atop the cliff.

Ellie managed to get behind Seth and she tried to push him off but he was like a rock, the dark depths below didn't seem too appetizing to Ellie who was already cold as it was. She managed to push Seth off but at the last minute he grabbed her hand trying to pull her with him, she felt her body surge forward along with Seth's weight, only to be brought back upright by two strong arms that had snaked around her waist. Those muscular, scorching arms pulled her into a standing position she quickly brushed her curls away from her face only to be met with the Goose bump inducing stare that belonged to Embry Call.

"Thanks," She said breathlessly, smiling at him, he smiled back she felt her knees go weak, he was so hot…temperature wise that was, she was freezing seconds ago and now she felt a warmth spread across her body raising a new kind of Goosebumps. But she wasn't sure if those were just from his body heat... she felt that hazy feeling come across her body and she felt her blood rush to the juncture of her legs, her heart rate increased as did her breathing…he was intoxicating her, Embry Call had her heart thumping with a single touch. She observed him from up close… short crow black hair, dark eyes that still had that hidden emotion behind them, and perfect russet skin, with these lips that made her want to jump on him and kiss him senseless. She would have done it but then she thought of the ring back in the house, and how she needed to clean up that mess first.

"No problem, you could have gotten hurt," He said releasing his arms from her waist; he took his shirt off handing his phone and hers to Emily.

"You're hot," She commented in her daze of his godliness, he smirked at her. God, that smirk is sexy.

"I know right?" He waggled his eyebrows suggestively; she playfully hit his scalding arm. But he froze in place when she began to take her shirt and shorts off. Embry stared at her in all her undergarment glory. She was absolutely breath-taking, flat toned stomach, tiny waist, perfect sized breasts that almost spilled over in her black bra and those black lace boy shorts that hugged her hips perfectly made him want to fuck-no, not fuck- make love to her right there on the spot but he tried to control the blood that began to flow to his nether regions and think about how her hair flowed perfectly around her shoulders. Oh, god there it was again… the blood flowing.

"Well, quit staring and let's go," She laughed at him, blushing putting her arms around herself as if covering her body. Embry refused to allow this, not allowing her to hide her beautiful body. He quickly grabbed her and threw her over his shoulder and he jumped off. She screamed excitedly and Embry loved the sound, she giggled right before they hit the water and slipped out of Embry's arms. A fact that deeply upset him, Embry resurfaced quickly and looked franticly around for his imprint. She popped up next to him water rolling off her face; she smiled at him making his dick jump. He loved this girl, this sexy beautiful little girl that he hardly knew. He watched her as she swam-no, not swam…glided- over to Seth gave him an impish smile and promptly dunked him. She started to laugh with Paul when she was pulled under abruptly, her beautiful smile changing to horror as she was pulled under by Seth. Embry dove under and swam to her, they both resurfaced together.

"Seth!" She slapped his shoulder, he rolled his eyes at her, and she floated a few yards away from the pack with that adorable impish smile. Embry could tell she was mature but in those few moments she was childish and he loved that. "Race you to the shore," She dove under and began to swim. The pack followed, and Seth beat her by grabbing her leg as she climb on the shore and threw her back in. Embry couldn't help but smile at this playful beautiful creature who was his, solely, to adore. He hoped she'd accept him.

"SETH YOU CHEATER!" She jumped on Seth's back as Embry reached the beach; Embry saw the Goosebumps sparkle up over her skin. He rushed to her grabbing his shirt from Kim with a thanks. She slipped her sorry excuse for shorts over her legs and her thin shirt on, and began the walk back, Ellie was quietly talking with Kim shivering as she did so. Embry, who was walking next to Paul and Jake who were talking a conversation that sounded foreign to his ears all he could focus on was this little tiny being in front of him. Embry walked up behind Ellie and placed his scalding hand on her shoulder. He noticed her body's reaction to his touch, the way she shivered more violently and the smile that graced her lovely features as if it was a natural reflex, Embry smirked knowing he had a hold over her. She turned to face him, when she realized it was him her smile seemed to brighten a fact that made Embry's heart melt.

"You look cold," He spoke the smirk still gracing his feature and the hand on her shoulder smoothly slipped to her hand, holding it felt so natural even if her petite hand felt like ice. "Take my shirt," Embry smiled as she gently took it from his hands and slowly put it on. By now the group was several paces away from them.

"Thank you," She spoke softly, he loved the sound, he didn't release her hand a fact that didn't seem to bother her. "Your hands are so warm,"

"It's a genetic thing," He said with a crooked smile, looking at his feet chuckling a little bit, when he looked back up Embry was surprised to see that she was staring at him as if studying him. A little crease on her forehead was apparent and she bit her gorgeous lip, she was thinking about something.

"Genetic, huh?" Ellie asked smiling as she did so. Embry loved that smile, it lit up her blue eyes and her whole face. "I know a thing or two about freaky genes." She chuckled to herself as if enjoying some personal joke and Embry couldn't help but to want to be in on that. He was observing her as she spoke and he concluded that she was perfect in every way. The way she gently blew a curl from her face, the way she walked…so softly and gracefully as if she was a feather gently being blown by the wind, and most importantly the way she gripped his hand tighter when a strong wind began to blow.

"Do you?" Embry challenged with a smirk, she doesn't even know the half of it, what does she know, "Care to share?" She gave a little giggle at his rhyme, looking up at him. The intensity of her blue eyes was mesmerizing they were a prefect royal blue with flecks of ice blue sprinkled in, he had never seen anything so beautiful before in his life.

"It's kind of a long story," Ellie said tearing her gaze from him, looking at her feet, "Have you ever seen the rest of my siblings?" She looked up at him again, he stared back down.

"Only in pictures," He said truthfully and honestly they were all beautiful, even her brother (in a completely non-homosexual way) was very handsome. He had only begun to see that she was the prettiest.

"Well, my brother and sisters are all pretty tall, with either dark brown eyes, light brown eyes or in Evelyn's case hazel. My mother has brown eyes and my dad has hazel according to genetics I should have had brown eyes and stood at least 5" 7'. But I was born with completely different features petite, blue eyes and that's only the beginning. Apparently somewhere in the process of my… creation," She visibly cringed thinking about her parents making her. Embry smiled at her adorableness, "Something went wrong and I was born different…small, blue eyes, always getting sick…when I was younger at least, and I'm a scientific wonder." She didn't say the last part as if she was bragging she said it as if she was almost sad about it. Embry's brows crunched together in thought puzzled at her words. She noticed this, letting out a small, bitter chuckle…it didn't sound right coming from her pretty lips. "I was born with 24 chromosomes." Embry's hard began to beat faster in his ears, What does this mean? Do all the imprints have this? Is she special? "My extra X chromosome is completely unique it matches none of the other pairs, scientists have studied my blood since I was three and studied me as well. That was, until my parents put my foot down when I began to go into puberty. Now only a handful of doctors are privileged enough to watch over me…and the effects of my extra DNA." Embry was completely absorbed in her story, still trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together in his head. His head snapped up to look at her as she solemnly looked at him, studying him the way the scientists studied her.

"Has anything…unusual ever happened to you?" Embry asked picking his words carefully, curious…maybe he imprinted on another wolf.

"No, nothing out of the ordinary…no tail or gills for me," She smiled sweetly, but then her facial expression changed rather quickly from a smile to a puzzled frown. "Although, recently I've had some very strange dreams," By now Embry's heartbeat was thumping so fast he could hardly hear her speak but he managed.

"Dreams? What sort of dreams?" He asked shakily, gripping her hand tight in his own, What does this all mean? His head was spinning with questions trying to make sense of her words.

"Please don't tell anyone," She asked quietly her blue eyes looking up at him, he stared back down at this beautiful creature that suddenly looked very afraid. "Promise me, Embry Call, that you shall not speak a word of this to anyone…especially not Sam or Emily." His face hardened keeping something from his Alpha would not be easy but he would have to keep the promise to his imprint.

"I promise," Embry said his face serious, his brown eyes still staring into the depths of her blue eyes as he slowly raised their conjoined hands and kissed their intertwined fingers to seal the promise. He wished he could've kissed her lips instead. They were in front of Sam and Emily's house now; everyone had already gone inside and was probably expecting them.

Embry's heart pounded faster with every word she spoke. "In my dreams there are these huge creatures…they're tall maybe as big as a horse, and their eyes are so…human-like you'd think there was a man trapped inside them. Call me crazy…but I think they're wolves."


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