Title: Another one.

Genre: Humor

Rating: T

Pairing: Embry/Rachel

Prompt #9: "Here we go again."

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We thought things couldn't get any crazier around the Rez or we figured it couldn't. After finding out my dad was Paul's dad, learning that Leah had phased when girls weren't supposed to, and fighting an army of newborn vampires we thought nothing could surprise us.

Ha!

After Jake recovered from his injuries and he guilted Bella into thinking twice about her marriage, we went back to regular patrols. Simple, right? Wrong. Now we had to not only worry about the rez, but we had to worry about Forks. We all knew the vamps weren't done with Bella yet, and I don't think they ever would be. Edward wanted her all for himself, and the Volturi wanted her dead or changed.

We had added two more wolves during the Newborn Battle, Brady and Collin, the youngest pups and what we were hoping would be the last to phase. We continued our training sessions too. It was pretty fun. Everyone was still a bit tense and half annoyed with Leah, but that was remedied a few weeks later when Quil decided to 'help' her out.

Needless to say, the images on the -how- he helped her were shown to me on our next patrol together. I'd thought Quil was insane to attempt to get Leah to submit in anyway, but from the memories he was good at getting her to shut up. Leah still tried to put up a tough front but we all knew Quil was working magic when she started to genuinely laugh with us.

A few weeks after that Jake's sister came down for a visit. Rachel Black, had been living in Seattle for the last couple of years. Jake had called to check on her when Alice said that the newborns were in Seattle, of course, he didn't say anything to Rachel and wanted to keep her in the dark. I wondered if that was the best idea and if Jake should have told her to go to Hawaii to visit Rebecca.

Rachel did the opposite and as soon as all of her classes ended for the summer she drove down to the rez to visit Jake and his dad. She'd gone out for a walk on the beach one day and that was the day my life had changed forever. I knew the minute I locked eyes with her that she was the one I'd spent the rest of my life with. I talked to her for a while, she remembered me from when she was living her on the rez.

When Jake found out he was pissed, and decided that punching me would be a great idea. Rachel came rushing out of Jake's house screaming at Jacob to back of and telling him that I hadn't done anything wrong. When Jake started shouting at her that I'd done the worst thing a best friend could, Rach got angry.

Well beyond angry. She was so livid that she phased there in the back yard. Jake and I were so shocked that we didn't know what to do. When the shocked had ebbed I said the first four words that came to mind, "Here we go again."

I threw myself down on my bed, letting my head hang over the edge. Those four words were probably the worse thing I could have said that day, but it turned into the best day of my life. I had been so scared that Rachel wouldn't accept me or the imprint, but she decided to answer all of our questions when we all realized she's imprinted on me too.

Rachel phasing answered a lot of questions Leah had when she phased. And it was also easier to get Rachel used to the pack when Leah could be there to help.

I shift the wedding band on my left ring finger and I couldn't be happier with how my life had turned out, but five years ago I never thought I'd have a beautiful wife and a baby on the way.

"Em?" Her soft voice calls from the doorway to the bathroom. "You ready?"

I roll over onto my stomach and push myself off of the bed and quickly make my way over to Rachel. A grin slips onto my face as I place my hand on her swollen belly and kiss her cheek. "Yeah, I'll be ready in five."