*This one I had a dream about last night so I wanted to get it down. It's a Paul/OC flick. Set somewhere around the time right after Jake phased and before Bella found out in New moon. The pack run across two men assaulting a young blonde girl in the woods. They save the girl and Paul imprints on the damaged girl.*

Paul POV

Do you here that? Sam ask in our minds as we showed Jake how patrols work. He had just phased yesterday and so far the baby Alpha was catching on quickly.

Stopping we listened carefully and that's when the rest of us heard the muffled cries for help way off in the distance. Running full sprint Sam, Jake Embry and I started heading for the cries while Jared and Quil stayed near the Rex in case we needed anything or in case there was danger headed towards our lands.

Sounds like a women. I said when the pleas for help and stop became louder. Sliding to a stop what we saw made us all sick. Two men had a blonde women bound and were ripping at her clothes. We could tell she had already taken a beaten from them and they were gagging her as we watched.

Sam let out a loud, vicious growl that had the men jumping up and turning towards us. I mirrored his growl when one of the men bent down to pick the girl up and take her with them but at my growl they dropped her almost lifeless body to the ground and took off running like the filthy cowards they were.

What kind of man does shit like this. Embry ask and I gave a shrug as we slowly walked closer towards the bound, half naked figure on the ground.

Jared, tell Emily to Call Sue and have her come to our house and bring us some clothes for her. Sam ordered and we felt Jared Phase human to do when Sam said.

Let's try to get some of these ropes off her and see how bad she's hurt, then one of us will need to phase to carry her back. Sam said and we nodded in agreement. Sam and Embry worked to try and bite through the ropes while I nudged the girl and licked her face to try and see if she would respond. Jake stood guard just in case those men tried to return.

Giving a whimper as I pulled the gag off carefully with my teeth she blinked a few times before opening her stunningly beautiful ocean blue eyes. When my eyes locked with hers I gasp. All the ties holding me to the world were now cut and the only one linking me here now was her. My Imprint.

Holy shit. Embry said and that pulled me away from staring at the beautiful broke girl on the floor and my wolf rose to the surface, pissed. Giving a growl the others backed away as I curled my body protectively around hers, shielding her nakedness from their view and licking her wounds to heal them.

Paul? Jake ask walking towards me but I growled warningly at him and Sam ordered everyone to stay back. I felt Jared Phase and he too saw what was going on.

You Imprint? Congrats man. My best friend said but I didn't respond. I just kept licking and nuzzling the girl until she started responding. She shifting closer to me and I purred when I felt her fingers run through my hair. Looking back into her eyes I saw that she held no fear for me at all.

"So pretty. My wolf." She whispered before passing out again and I tensed in worry.

Relax Paul. She's just exhausted man. Phase back and put some clothes on. Jared's almost here and we can cover her up and carry her to my place. Emily and Sue will make sure she's ok. He told me. I growled not wanting to move or leave her so exposed and the others rolled their eyes at me before turning around to give us privacy. I phased back and slipped my shorts on and turned when Jared tossed one of Sam's shirts at my feet. Sliding it over her small frame I pulled her to my chest and picked her up bridal style and ran as fast as I could without moving her to much back to Sam's where Emily and Sue could check her over.

I took deep breathes of her scent trying to calm the raging wolf inside. I couldn't get the imagine of her broken and being attacked out of my head and it was driving me to want to hurt someone.

When I arrived all the others were already phased back human and waiting on the porch for me to arrive. Leading me inside Emily had me place her in their spare room and shooed me into the hall while she and Sue worked in private to insure my mates health. I went to work on pacing a hole in there hallway floor while the others stood around the living room waiting and not wanting to anger me future.

An hour later the girls came out of the room.

"She is going to be ok. Nothing looks broken, she's bruised and has some cuts, she'll be sore for a while. She doesn't appear to have been raped. We cleaned her up and she's resting now. We'll be able to find out more when she wakes." Sue told us and I nodded before walking past them and sitting on the floor of the room and waited for my imprint to wake up so I could assure myself she was ok.

I stayed by her bedside all night. No one bothered to try and tell me to move, knowing with my temper it wouldn't end well. I could hear them all talking about her and about me and our imprint but I ignored in and focused on her smell and breathing and the beat of her heart. Anything to give me a sign she was ok.

Finally when the sun started to rise I saw her shifting and watched as her eyes blinked open again, and again captivated me with their beauty.

Gasping she sat up in the bed and stared at me.

"It's ok. You're safe now. I promise." I told her and didn't move from my place on the floor. She looked at me for a long time for smiling.

"My wolf?" she ask and I smiled at her and nodded. How the hell did she know?

"How can you tell?" I ask getting to my knees and moving towards the bed.

Raising a hand she placed them on my cheek and I closed my eyes for a moment at her touch before looking at her again.

"Your eyes. There the same as the wolfs. How is that possible? Was I dreaming?" she ask and I shook my head.

I launched into the story about the pack, who we are and why. I told her about how we found her and about her being my imprint. She took it all in very, very well surprisingly.

"Wow." Was all she said when I was done.

"You're taking this very well. Better than any of the other women did." I told her and she shrugged.

"I guess after the life I've had when something good comes along you don't question it. My mother died when I was 10 and my father took his anger out on me until social services took me to live with my grandmother. She use to tell me all kinds of stories, myths and things that she believed in. Wolfs were one of them. I use to dream that they were real and that the world was better then what I had lived through. One of the men you found with me was my ex I was running from. When my grandmother died I didn't have any other family and he took advantage of that. I was totally dependent on him and he use to hurt me worse then my father ever did. I finally had enough and ran. He tracked me down to Port Angelas where he and his friend knocked me out and I woke up bound in the woods right before you showed up. I'm sorry your being saddled with someone broken like me." She said and I growled lowly before holding her hand in mine.

"Don't ever say shit like that. If anything your being saddled with me. I'm a hot tempted wolf with a bad reputation. My mother died when I was young too and my father was a bastard. I lived most of my teen years with my friend Jared and spent it getting in trouble with the cops and sleeping with whatever one night stand I could find, never remembering who they were the next morning. When I became a wolf through I finally had a family and a purpose and I no longer had to run from my past. I have wished for an imprint since I found out what they were and now that I have you I am finally complete." I told her and she cried silent tears before nodding.

"Ok, so will both overlook each other's past and start fresh then." She ask and I nodded before kissing her hand.

"Yes and if I ever find that bastard alive again I promise you he'll wish he was dead." I told her with a growl and she chuckled and smiled at me.

"Will you. Um, Can you be patient with me?" she ask and I nodded quickly.

"Yes. I'll be whatever you need me to be. Your mine and I'm yours forever. No one else matters to me anymore." I told her and she nodded. We talked for a little bit more before the other girls came in to check on her and give her some clothes to change into.

After her shower I led her nervously to meet the rest of the pack. They were very cautious with her but she seemed to relax around them after a while. Sam and Emily offered her there spare room until she was ready to move in with me and she graciously accepted.

She fit in well with the rest of us. She may look completely out of place with her small, petite frame, ocean blue eyes, pale skin and platinum long blonde wavy hair but everyone that had met her loved her. Ava Cooper was her name we found out that first day she woke. Ava and Emily spent most of their days cooking for all of us. Apparently she was a great cook and had actually wanted to cook and bake for a living before her ex forced her to stop. Now she spends most of her days in the kitchen with Emily or out walking the Rez with me.

The guys look at her like there little sister even if a few of them leer at her when they think I'm not looking. But a warning growl from me buts a stop to that shit real quick.

Having an imprint has calmed me down a lot but my temper is still there, especially when it comes to protecting my angel.

She really had come out of her shell in the weeks she had been with us. She was no longer shy around us, if new people came around she shied away or stayed with one of us she trusted but around the pack she was full of energy. She had a quick funny whit about her and was quick to put the guys in there place. She no longer flinched when I touched her and we had moved from just small touches to hand holding and kissing.

Kissing her was like a freaking dream. I could become filled with so much passion with just one small kiss from her then I ever had with any other girl I had been with. I can't even remember their faces now that I know what pure heaven is like.

So far everything with the Pack was quite. The leeches had left months ago and no other vampires where scented in the area. The only pack problems we had was the drama with Leah and Sam now that she phased and the freaking leech lover swan bugging the shit out of Jake now that he cut ties with her when he phased. She was relentless through and we had to hear the whining all day long.

Fuck you Paul. Jake hissed when he caught my train of thoughts. Snorting out a laugh I rolled my eyes.

Bring it baby Alpha. I told him and before we could start arguing like we normally did Sam called us off.

"Hey Angel." I said wrapping my arms around her waist from where she was standing in the kitchen with Emily backing pies. Smiling she turned around and allowed me the pleasure of a kiss before pulling back.

"How was patrol My wolf?" she ask relaxing back into my hold as I watch her roll out dough from over her shoulder.

"Good besides Jake's constant whining." I told her and Sam snorted from where he sat on the bar stool watching Emily take cookies out of the oven.

"Why was he whining?" Emily ask turning towards us.

"Still bitching because Sam won't let him see the leech lover." I said shrugging before kissing the side of Ava's neck. I chuckled when I felt her shiver in response.

"Why do you all call her a leech lover? I never did ask?" Ava ask me and I groaned.

"Because she is in love with one of the Cullen's before they left town. Now she's stuck on the dead fucker and Leading Jake along." I replied and Jumped when Ava elbowed me for cussing but she laughed anyways.

"Well, she sounds like a waste of his time anyways." Ava shrugged before handing off the pie for Emily to put in the oven. She washed her hands before letting me lead her outside for one of our many daily walks.

"Can I ask you something?" Ava said as we sat in the woods overlooking the beach. She was sitting between my legs with my arms wrapped securely around her body.

"You can ask me anything Angel." I told her and she smiled. She loved the nick name I made for her.

"Are you bored with me yet?" she ask, her old insecurities peeking through. Frowning I turned her face to the side so I could look at her.

"Hell no. Why do you ask?" I said and she shrugged.

"Everything just seems to perfect and I'm just waiting for the bottom to fall out I guess. Waiting for you to get tired to waiting on me." she said and I shook my head.

"I've been nothing but happy since we met. I don't feel like I waiting for anything. So don't worry your pretty little head about it, ok."I told her and she nodded before scraping her nails into my scalp and pulling me into a deeper kiss. When I felt her tongue trace my bottom lip I growled in response as I opened my mouth and purred in happiness when I was able to taste her for the first time. Her flavor exploded in my mouth and I knew I'd never find a better tasting treat then my imprint.

"I don't think you'll have to wait much longer. It's getting hard and hard for me to pull away." She whispered and I groaned.

"Whenever you're ready angel. No rush." I told her and she nodded before we went back to that fantastic kissing again.

A few days later that leech loving bitch had the nerve to show up to Jakes and slap me. I instantly phased in front of her blowing our secret wide open and getting into a fight with Jake.

When I walked back into Sam and Emily's later after Jake and I worked out of tension I saw my angel glaring down the leech lover.

"Hey Angel." I said, ignoring the looks Bella gave us as I wrapped my arms around Ava and kissed her deeply. She blushed before checking my face and I knew she knew about the slap. When she saw I had no marks she nodded before casting another glare back over towards Bella before Jake pulled her outside for a walk. Ava went with Emily after that to finish lunch.

"What did I miss?" I ask Jared and Embry who were snickering to themselves.

"Oh your little blonde spitfire gave Bella Swan the verbal beat down when she heard she slapped you." Jared told me and I was curious now.

"Phase so I can see." I told them and they nodded before we headed outside and phased in the woods and Jared replayed everything that happened from the time they brought Bella to the house.

"This is Sam, Emily and Ava's place." Jared told Bella.

"Whose Emily and Ava?" the nosey bitch ask.

"Emily's Sam's imprint and Ava's Paul's." Embry told her and she nodded.

"Don't um, Don't stare at Emily to much. Sam gets mad and don't touch Ava either, you don't want to piss Paul off anymore then you already did." Jared told her. She was confused but nodded anyways.

Once they got inside Emily and Ava were setting Muffins on the table when they came in. Bella saw Emily's face and casted her eyes to Ava to avoid staring.

"Don't eat them all you pigs. Save some for you brothers." Ava said slapping Jared over the head with a rolled up newspaper.

"Whose this?" Emily ask jerking her head at Bella who was standing by the stairs.

"Jake's Bella. Paul phased in front of her." Embry said and Ava gasp.

"He did what. Why? Where is he now?" Ava ask and I cringed at how worried she was for me. I had felt that when I was fighting with Jake.

"Him and Jake are working out there issues in the woods right now. And he phased after Bella slapped him in the face and accused us of hurting Jake."Jared told her and I could see the protectiveness flash in Ava's eyes and she stepped closer to Bella. When Embry went to stop her by laying his hand on her arm she flinched and glared at him causing him to drop his hand and Ava made her way over towards Bella, who had now backed into the wall.

"You did what?" she ask in a deadly whisper.

"I. I didn't mean to. I was just so mad and it just happened. It didn't even hurt him." Bella said and Ava scoffed.

"I honestly don't give a shit whether it didn't hurt or not. The point is you put your hands on him. I don't know you at all but from what I've heard you're not someone I want to get to know better with the way you string Jake along while pinning for your undead freak but let me make myself perfectly clear Bella. If you ever in any way put your hands on Paul again, I don't give a damn about the reason I will fuck you up. Are we clear?" she hissed and Bella's eyes widened and she nodded quickly.

"Crystal." Bella told her and Ava nodded.

"Paul is mine. Don't forget that. He may be too much of a gentleman to lay his hands on a women but I'm not." Ava snapped before turning around and striding to the other side of the room and sitting at the table next to Jared who held out a chair for her. He was smirking so freaking wide that I through his face would crack.

Phasing back we all laughed as I replayed how feisty my angel was over and over in my head as I head back inside. Bella and Jake had returned and so had Leah. Ava and Leah took to glaring at Bella who turned to look at us as we came inside.

Smirking at the leech lover I made my way over towards Ava and kissed her.

"I saw what happened. I love you so much girl." I whispered in her ear and she gasp quietly. It was the first time I ever said that and I could see the happy tears in her eyes.

"Love you too." She whispered back and I kissed her again before sitting her in my lap. We listened to Bella tell us about the redheaded leech we had been spotting lately and now we knew why she kept coming back. She wanted Bella and since the Cullen's were gone we had to up patrols to keep her safe.

"Not you." Ava said as we were dividing up patrols. She was glaring at Sam who was about to tell me I would be the main one watching Bella's house with Jake.

"Ava." Sam said and she waved her hand to cut him off. Everyone knew Sam had a soft spot to Ava as his little sister he never had and she knew she got away with more then any other imprint besides his own did.

"I don't want Paul that far away and I deffiently don't want him having to play lap dog to the bitch that just slapped him. Put someone else on patrol of I'm going to be taking my ass to Forks to keep my eyes on that bitch." Ava said sneering towards Bella who blushed. Jake was about to say something but Ava's glare held enough venom that he didn't dare. Sighing Sam looked to me and I shrugged.

"I don't care. I don't want Ava off the rez and I don't particularly want to be lying outside Bella's house all night. I'll take more shifts around here." I said and Sam nodded and swapped my Bella watch shift with Jared. He was more than happy to do that for Ava to be comfortable.

After that was done Ava slipped out of the room and went to hers while Jake took Bella home. I slipped inside her room to see her sitting on the bed staring out the window.

"I'm sorry about before. I shouldn't have undermined you in front of everyone. Or Sam." She said and I could smell her tears and hear the worry in her voice.

"Don't be sorry angel. I'm not mad. I'm glad you got me out of it. I don't want to be away from you that long either. I can't stand that girl. I'm not your Ex Ava I want you to stand up for what you believe in. Don't be afraid to tell me what you think even if it's to cuss me out." I told her, pulling her down on the bed next to me. She smiled and allowed me to kiss for until we feel asleep where I had been staying for the last few days.

A couple weeks later Jake brought Bella to one of the bon fires so she could hear all the stories of our tribe. We all thought he was nuts but he wanted Bella to be his imprint so bad it was sad to watch him fall for a girl that wanted nothing but friendship with him.

"Ava." Bella said and I turned to see Bella block Ava as she walked back towards me with out drinks in her hand.

"Yes." Ava said with no real emotion on her face and Bella blushed.

"I wanted to apologize for how we got off on the wrong foot. I know you're mad because I slapped Paul and I'm sorry for that. I thought maybe we could start over." Bella said and Ava sighed.

"Look Bella. I don't hate you. Yes I'm mad you think it's ok to go around slapping people you don't like and the way you lead Jake on but that's none of my business. I have been through way to much in my life to be bothered by the issues of other people. The pack are my family now and Paul is mine. I love him and I don't like that fact that because of you he and the others could get hurt because you seem to attract a lot of un wanted attention from our enemies. I don't know what happened with you and the Vampires and I don't care. If your dumb enough to hang around with them then you shouldn't be surprised with the messes you seem to get yourself in and others have to risk their lives to get you out of it. You need to start thinking about something other than yourself for a while. You're just not someone I want to call a friend Bella. I don't hate you but there's a lot about you I don't really like. I'm sorry that's just the way it is." Ava told her before walking around Bella and coming to my side. I was proud of her. She was completely out of her shell now and I love getting to know the real Ava.

That night we found out some of the Cullen's had returned and Bella ran off with one of them to save her Ex and now we had to pull back our patrols off of Cullen land.

"So what happens now?" Ava ask one night when we were laying in my bed at my house. She had started slowly getting use to staying with me and hopefully soon she'd move in and I'd have her here all the time.

"From what I got from Jake's mind she's back with the Leech and we worked out a deal that we could help them keep watch over Bella. Well, not me but the others will rotate until we catch this chick." I told her and she nodded.

"Will they be coming here too then?" she ask.

"Hell no." I told her and she nodded before snuggling down into me and falling asleep.

The weeks went by leading up to Bella's graduation with little sightings from the Red head. Jake was determined to win Bella over from the mind reader but we all knew he was just going to end up hurt in the end. Bella had already made her choice.

"Where are you going?" Ava ask me when I climbed out of bed after getting a call from Sam.

"The pixie Vampire saw the red head creating an army of Newborn Vampires that she plans to unleash on the towns around here. Were apparently teaming up with the Cullen's to take them out in a few days. We have to meet them at the halfway point for training at midnight." I told her and then frowned when she got up and started changing. I tried to ignore the way my body responded to how comfortable she was becoming around me and I loved the little flashes of her body I got to see.

"What are you doing angel?" I ask her when she pulled a jacket on.

"Coming with you of course." She said and I growled.

"No. I forbid you from being around the vampires." I told her and she turned and leveled me with a look that meant I better think long a hard before I piss her off.

"I beg your pardon my wolf. Did you just say you forbid me to do something." She ask and I cringed.

"I didn't mean it like that." I told her and she snorted.

"I refuse to be with someone that forbids me to do anything. I won't live like that again Paul." She said and I nodded.

"I don't want you in danger." I told her and she sighed.

"It's just training and I want to go. It's not like I'm asking to go to the fight I just want to be there to support you, please." She said and I sighed. I couldn't say no to her for nothing.

I phased outside and allowed Ava to climb on my back and I ran to meet the others. When I arrived the Cullen's and the rest of the pack was arriving and looked at me confused and I just shrugged.

"I made him bring me." Ava said and the pack all chuckled and nodded not one of them saying anything against her being there. She sat on the ground on our side of the line and I curled around her protectively as we waited for the Cullen's to begin.

"Care to introduce us to the human?" Alice the pixie ask and I growled at her when she walked over towards the line and smiled at Ava.

"Her name's Ava and she's Paul's imprint." Edward told his sister and Ava rolled her eyes.

"That is so annoying. I can speak for myself." She told him and his family chuckled when he looked shocked she stood up for herself. They didn't know my feisty mate.

"Well it's nice to meet you." Alice said holding out her hand and I stood and hissed at her.

"Sorry but I don't allow many people to touch me and Paul would defiantly be uncomfortable if I left his side. But it's nice to meet you too." She said and Alice nodded before speeding back over towards the others while I listened to Edward whisper to his family what he saw in her head about her past. They shot my mate a look of pity and I narrowed my eyes at them and they finally stopped and began with the training.

"She's very pretty." I heard the mother of the vampires say to her husband the next night when I brought Ava back with me. Ava couldn't hear what they were saying, she just sat on the ground with me and watched as the Cullen's continued to practice.

"Yes she is. Sad about her past through. Looks like Paul handles it well." I heard doctor leech say and I ignored them. They didn't know shit about me or Ava.

The night after the fight when I made it back to my house where I knew Ava would be waiting I almost ran into the house and was assaulted by Ava jumping into my arms, happy to see me. I had felt her worry all day and I knew I had to get back to her. It had been a close one, Jake had been hurt and we almost lost Seth and Leah but we all were ok and now the newborns were all gone.

"You're ok." She cried and I nodded before carrying her to my room and laying her on the bed.

"Of course. I told you'd I'd always come back to you. Don't ever doubt that." I told her and she nodded. That night was the first night we made love and it was also the night she agreed to move in with me. She finally was able to put her past behind her and embrace our future together.

When she told me three months later she was pregnant I couldn't be happier. No matter what the pack faced in the future I always had my mate to keep me coming back home.