"Nhn..." I slowly opened my eyes, seeing strange mixes of dark colors that were nothing but a blur to me. It felt as though I was laying on something larg and fluffy, or furry...but wait, it also felt as though I was moving. "What's going on...?" I thought groggily as I shifted my vision down. It was all stilll one big blur, but from what I could make out of it I was laying on a large, dark brown and auburn furred animal as it walked through what seemed to be a deep, dark, heavily wooded forest. It also seemed to be late into the night by the darkness, and a soft yet chilled wind moved across me and through the trees, the rustling of leaves being the only other sound besides my soft breathing and the soft yet louder and slightly heavier breathing of the animal. But wait...where was Matt? And where did this animal come from? What animal is it, anyways? And then I knew. It looked back at me, its snout facing me now as its dark, shining emrald eyes looked into mine. "Wait a second...it seems so...familia-..." Suddenly a strong feeling of calmness and content overwhelmed me, and my eyes shut once again.

My eyes slowly started to open again, although not as blurry this time, and after a few moments of disoriontation I realized I was in a room. Was it all a dream...? A couple of minutes later I realized I wasn't in my room at the orphanage...I was laying on a couch, covered with a thin, soft, light pink blanket; from what I could tell the walls in the room were painted a very soft and faded, natural white-ish blue, and the floors were a glossy light colored wood. The only light in the room was coming from a dim lamp that sat on one of the end tables on the side of the couch, and I could only see several other pieces of furniture in the room; the couch I was on, two dark wood end tables on the sides of the couch, a low oval glass coffee table infront of the couch, a medium sized flat screen television hanging on the wall across from the couch, and several laptops and gaming systems scattered across the floor along with what seemed like millions of cords. My eyes shot open and I sat up quickly, clutching onto the blanket and completely freezing as I stared at what was now infront of me...a large brown and auburn wolf had just walked in through the doorway and was now standing there, looking right at me! It was strange though, larger than other wolves and...wait a second...those eyes. They were that dark, shiney emrald, and I immediatly felt content again as they looked into mine. They looked so familiar, but where had I seen them before? I slowly losened my grip, letting the blanket fall from my hands as I looked back into those oh so beautiful eyes. So beautiful, as beautiful as Matt's-...WAIT! I gasped and before I could say anything, the wolf was gone and replaced by Matt...a naked Matt! I quickly shielded my eyes with my hands, yelling in suprise, "Matt! W-wha...what the hell's going on?" I heard him laugh at my expense, followed by the soft sound of footsteps moving across the floor towards me before my hands were moved away from my eyes. I was now met with those oh so beautiful emerald eyes, the feeling washing over me once again as I sighed and spoke more calmly, "Matt...I-I don't understand..." He just smiled sweetly before putting up his index finger, motioning that he'd be back in a minute before he walked around the couch and left the room. It took a lot of my control, but I made sure to keep my eyes OFF of the places they shouldn't have been. He returned several moments later and sat on the couch next to me, now wearing a pair of loose fitting faded black jeans along with an open dark red button up shirt. "Ok, let me try to explain this a little..."

SEVERAL HOURS LATER

I just stared at him in disbelief, my mouth slightly agap at everything he'd told me. "So to finish it off, we're not those stupid stereotypes you see on tv and in movies; Mello's not a 'sparkley vampire' and I'm not a 'crazed werewolf'...he just happens to drink blood, and I just happen to turn into a big, wild dog, no big deal," He shruged as he finished speaking, smiling softly at me now. "So...y-you're a werewolf, and Mello's a vampire...?" I asked meekly, still in shock at everything he'd told me. He just chuckled and nodded, "Yeah...you ok? I mean...you probably think I'm crazy don't you.." After a few moments of just looking at eachother in silence, I slowly shook my head, "No, I don't...I believe you. I mean I kinda have no choice, I just saw you transform from a giant wolf into well...you. So is that why you guys were so strong when you faught earlier, and why Mello could jump out the window without getting hurt..?" He nodded now, smiling more at the realization I didn't think he was insane. "But...there's still one thing I'm confused about...what happened earlier, why were you guys fighting like that? And why was Mello getting so close like that, I mean I...I just don't understand, what happened?" He sighed and scratched the back of his head before speaking, "Ok, this is where it get's a bit difficult...you see, there's this thing called imprinting. However it's different than how it's portrayed on tv; both vampires and werewolves can do it, but it's done in completely different ways for each. With vampires, they have certain uhm...'gifts' I guess you could say, and they either have to bite and suck enough of your blood without killing you to imprint or use this thing I'm pretty sure's called 'Vampire's Gaze', where they look very deeply into your eyes in a certain way for a certain period of time. The first one, blood imprinting, is the strongest imprint a vampire can ever have with someone, but gaze imprinting is still REALLY strong. When a vampire's gaze imprinting on someone, I've heard that the person they're doing it to feels as though they're completely frozen and can't do ANYTHING except look back...of course I've never experienced it, but I've known people that have. After they do imprint, the person either stays completely still and won't say anything, almost as if they've gone into shock, or they'll pass out. That's why earlier I freaked out when you just stood there and didn't say anything...I also freaked when you passed out, but I could tell it wasn't from an imprint, so luckily I must've stoped him before he that certain amount of time was up.." I just looked at him in awe as he finished, completely ingrossed in everything he was telling me yet shocked at the same time, "But...what does imprinting do?"

"Well it's a little hard to explain," He started, "I guess I'll try to in the best way I can. It's kind of like falling in the deepest kind of love you could ever possibly be in in your entire life. Both people's emotions pretty much twist with the other's I guess you could say. You love that person more than anything, you can only think of that person, you want only to be with that person, you'll do anything for that person; if you're the one making the imprint you'll protect that person no matter what, everything will revolve around them, you can feel their emotions, you'll always know where they are and if they're in trouble, and sometimes if the imprint's strong enough you can read their thoughts...it's the strongest possible bond that can ever be made between two people."

"Oh my gosh...that's amazing..." I said in bewilderment, "I never knew anything like that could even exist...but I still don't understand, why would Mello want to imprint with me...?" He looked down now and scowled, "He was doing it to torture me. He could tell immediately by the way I looked at you that I-..." He froze mid-sentence, a pink-ish red starting to creep across his cheeks as he looked back up at me. "That you what...?" I looked at him curiously as I asked, smiling slightly at his blush. "Uh...Oh! I haven't told you about werewolf imprinting," He quickly changed the subject, but I allowed it...I was curious about wolf imprinting. "Ok, this is different from vampire imprinting. When werewolves do it, they do it with a kiss, but not just any kiss...from what I've heard it's considered the most amazing kiss in the world. It's a VERY deep, passionate kiss that, once again, I've heard holds the strongest emotions and feelings of love. But the BIGGEST difference in werewolf and vampire imprinting is vampires can imprint on anyone they want...but werewolves can only imprint if they are truely in love with the person. It's actually really rare for a werewolf to find the person they're destined to be with, that's why hardly any of them imprint. But...it's been said that when they first see the person they're suposed to imprint on, it feels like nothing they've ever felt before, aside from imprinting itself, of course. The other person won't feel anything, but the werewolf will feel as if their heart, along with the entire world, just completely stops.." His sentence drifted off as he slowly looked up into my eyes with a strange, knowing look. I just looked back, an idea forming in my mind, "Matt...h-have...have you found that special person...?" He just continued looking into my eyes, silence once again filling the room as I looked back, sighing in content at that oh so amazing feeling. Not a word was spoken, but the look in his eyes told me all I needed to know. "So...when a werewolf's found that person...the other person won't feel anything..? There's no way for them to know they're destined to be with the werewolf..? That they're destined to...imprint..?" I said, finally breaking the silence but not once breaking eye contact, not even to blink. "Well," He started, speaking softly, "There's a rumor..it's never been proven, but some say from the moment the two meet, everytime the human looks into the werewolf's eyes it'll be as if they immediatly get lost in them. They'll feel very good...happy, content, safe...loved. But like I said, it's never been proven...why?" I could tell he already knew why I had asked, so I didn't answer...just continued to look into those amazing eyes. "Near..." I don't remember when his hand found it's way to my cheek, beginning to pull me towards him. "Matt..." I don't remember when my eyes began to close, feeling him lean forward as well. We became closer and closer, the space between us growing smaller with every long second that passed by. And then...

"MATT!" I jumped in shock, jerking away as I turned my attention towards the now loud banging on the front door. He pulled away as well, growling and murmuring something incoherent under his breath before jumping off of the couch, making his way toward the door. "Near," He stopped, his hand hovering above the doorknob, "Crouch down behind the couch and don't make any noises until I say it's ok.." He didn't need to tell me twice. I jumped up, running around the couch and sitting on the floor behind it, hiding myself as I held my breath. I couldn't see what was going on, but I heard the door being opened before the loud sound of something being thrown to the floor, followed by an oh-so-familiar voice screaming, "Where the fuck is he?"

"I won't let you have him Mello..!" Matt's voice retorted before another loud slam on the wall and a pained groan. It then became silent aside from the loud, angered breathing of Mello as he spoke in a sickening sing-song voice, "Neear, where aaare yooouu~ ? I know you're in here, I can smell you.." I gasped, slapping my hand over my mouth in a desperate attempt to stay quiet. My eyes widened in horror at the realization of what had just happened...the two fought once again..but this time, Matt had lost. I closed my eyes, praying over and over in my head that he wouldn't find me, my breathing starting to become erratic with fear despite my attempts to calm myself. When I opened my eyes, I couldn't even scream as I was met with the cold, blue eye's of the exact person I was hiding from. He was RIGHT infront of me, only mere centimeters away as our eyes locked. I yelled, SCREAMED at myself to look away, do anything but stare back...but I couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. I was trapped in those eyes. I felt my hands fall to my sides, no longer covering my mouth which was now slightly agap. My breathing died down, my eyelids starting to grow heavier as the seconds passed by. His eyes suddenly shifted from mine, breaking the trance as he looked past me and the couch, glareing at something else. I heard another faint groan from the other side of the room, but before I could process what it was, his eyes met with mine again. "You're coming with me." I was suddenly lifted off the ground, strong arms holding me so I couldn't try to run. Things started to become blurry once again. I saw Matt on the floor, slowly attempting to push himself up and off the ground. He must of passed out, but as he looked up and saw the sight infront of him, his eyes widened in shock and horror. "Mello, no!" My eyes began to droop closed, and in one last desperate attempt I weakly stretched my arm towards the red-head, opening my hand, trying so hard to grab ahold of him. "Ma-.." I barely whispered, attempting to call his name. The last thing I remember seeing was him jumping up and lunging forward, and then everything went black.