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Chapter 3
Leah was pissed. He could feel it, he couldn't blame her though, the only friend that she had that wasn't pack and her brother probably just imprinted on her. He couldn't think of anything else that would cause his Beta to pass out like a girl, Jake was almost sure that Seth had imprinted but he couldn't be certain until the Seth finally woke up.
When he arrived at the Clearwater's Leah and her friend had already left, leaving a very unconscious Seth alone on the ground in his bedroom. Jake tried unsuccessfully to wake the younger wolf up and after yelling at him for ten minutes straight he decided to try a different tactic. Unfortunately for the unconscious Clearwater it involved a bucket full of icy cold water. He wasn't gunna lie; he was actually looking forward to this. He sighed happily, giving his friend one more gentle kick in the shoulder before dumping the entire bucket over Seth's face.
And as soon as the freezing water hit his face Seth jolted awake with a squeal. To be fair it was a very manly squeal, but manly or not, it was still a squeal, and real men didn't squeal. He looked at his Alpha, who was currently rolling around on the floor in hysterics, and glared at him as he tried to wipe some of the water off his face.
"What the hell man?" he yelled at Jake angrily, "My Mom's going to kill you and I'm not cleaning this shit up".
Jake, who had mostly managed to stop laughing looked up at him and smiled cheerfully "It was worth it, you squealed like a girl dude. You sounded more girly than Claire does when Quil doesn't want to play Barbie's with her ", the memory off this embarrassingly girly squeal caused Jake to burst out laughing again, tears rolling down his cheeks as he fell to the ground once more.
Seth was mildly offended that his alpha was getting so much enjoyment out of his pain, he would have thought that as his best friend and alpha he would have a certain amount of sympathy for his situation. His mom was going to kill him for the head sized dint he created in the door frame when he'd fallen, not only that Leah was going to be pissed when she got home. Seth may be the Beta now but Leah was still his big sister and when she wanted to be she was scary as hell. It didn't take much to get Leah to that level of angry, after all she had always been a bit of a hot head, Seth was sure that imprinting on her only non pack friend would take her to this level and way beyond. He froze as his fuzzy memories became clearer, wait a minute. He'd imprinted. He Seth Clearwater had imprinted. He looked at Jake in panic. "I imprinted... Jake ... I imprinted", he said, his voice raising as his situation started to sink in.
"I thought so... Man, Leah's gunna kill you", Jake said starting to sound more like his Alpha again as he stopped laughing and stood up off the ground, his voice becoming serious once more.
"I know", Seth groaned out as he rubbed his hand through is short hair. "Where are they?" He asked cocking his head and listening for anyone else in the house. He knew, even without listening, that she wasn't in the house anymore. She wasn't far away though, still on the reservation, it was the only reason he wasn't panicking yet. He may not know her very well, at all actually, but that didn't mean he wanted her to run off before he even got to officially met her, to get a chance with his imprint.
Imprinting was different for every wolf. For Jared and Kim it was love at first sight, all rainbows and buttercups, Jake thought that it could have something to do with the fact that when Jared imprinted, Kim was already in love with him and had been for awhile. It hadn't been as easy for Sam and Emily, Sam was unstable and a lone wolf and when he imprinted it gave him something to hope for, someone to treasure, but it had definitely not been easy for him to gain Emily's trust and win her heart. Quil and Claire had had it relatively easy so far, they were best friends and Quil was like a older brother to her, Embry always found great amusement in the fact that Quil was willing to do almost anything to keep the bubbly little girl happy, including playing with dolls for hours and wearing all sorts of ridiculous outfits and brightly coloured make up.
It wasn't love at first sight for Seth; he couldn't love someone he knew absolutely nothing about. For Seth it was more like something was gently pulling him in her direction like a cord attached the two, and if he concentrated enough on the spot within him that was joined to her, that had become hers the moment his wolf chosen her as their mate, then he could feel the gentle swirl of her emotions. Seth knew from his pack brothers who'd already imprinted that as the pair grew closer the bond between them would strengthen allowing him to feel his imprints emotions more clearly. Right now she felt uneasy like she was worried about something and that fact annoyed him more than he was willing to admit.
"I wouldn't know. They're not far, so maybe over at her house", Jake suggested as he started to head towards the Clearwater kitchen to search for some Sues famous baking. "If I was you I wouldn't go over there right now, I haven't felt Leah this angry in a while", he added casually as he rummaged through the cabinets where Sue usually hid her baking, making a happy noise in his throat when he found a container hidden in the far corner of the cupboard. The Alpha wiggled his eyebrows at the Beta as he peeled back the lid revealing his favourite chocolate chip cookies. He smiled happily to himself before inhaling half of the chocolate chip cookies, Seth demolishing the other half. He figured his mom was going to be mad at him anyway so he might as well get some cookies out of it.
Jake sighed contentedly before standing and heading towards the door, he was the Alpha after all and he had stuff to do, he was supposed to be over at Pauls ten minutes ago to reorganise the patrol schedule. School was starting up again soon and Jake wanted the pups to pass, God knows that Sue Clearwater would skin Seth alive if he failed. He gave the Beta a small wave and told him he'd see him tonight for patrol before running off into the forest behind the house to phase.
Seth sighed tiredly and wondered back over to the couch to plan out his next move, picking up the now melted tub of ice-cream on the floor as he slouched down onto the welcoming cushions. Jake was right about Leah, she was going to murder him and dump his mangled corpse somewhere up in the mountains where nobody would ever find him. He shuddered at the thought as he attempted to spoon the ice-cream into his mouth, setting it down after several attempts with a frustrated growl. Unfortunately for the ice-cream Seth Clearwater was not one to give up easily and after contemplating the situation he came up with a brilliant idea, sometimes he was pretty sure he was a genius. After several moments of figuring out the dynamics of his plan he brought the container up to his mouth, tipping it back and draining it completely before setting it back on the ground beside him. Now if he could only figure out what to do about his other problem.
He had absolutely no idea what to do. He had to imprint on the only girl Leah had befriended in years. The entire pack new Leah's feeling on imprinting she hated everything about it and Seth couldn't blame her, his sister had had it rough when it came to imprinting. When the packs had rejoined again Leah had had to get over her hostility to Sam, it had taken her a while but eventually her bitter attitude mostly vanished and even though she and Emily weren't as close as they'd used to be, the two were back on talking terms. Seth however had always wanted an imprint, it was supposed to be a rare occurrence, but he'd always been scared that once he decided to settle down and got married, he'd imprint and he never wanted to do that to anyone. His sister had taken years to recover, she'd been so broken after Sam had left her, she spent months in her room, crying herself to sleep at nights and when she'd finally emerged, she was a shell of her former self. He was relieved that it'd finally happened for him. Now he just had to convince Leah that this was a good thing but that was a job easier said than done.
Mac loved scary movies, she thought they were hilarious. There was something about fake blood and crappy costumes that cracked her up. It's just after some of the things she'd seen, and the bloody nightmares she had to live through every night, things that used to scare her seemed a little pathetic. Leah was thrilled that she had finally found someone who shared her passion for horror films, the she wolf loved them. Werewolf movies were a personal favourite of hers; much to her disappointment none of the other pack members would watch them with her. Even though they weren't really werewolves, they still found it mildly offensive. Leah on the other hand thought they were absolutely uproarious and they never failed to cheer her up when she was in a foul mood.
There were very few things that a horror movie marathon couldn't fix for Leah, but unfortunately this was one of them. She'd finally found a friend that had nothing to do with anything pack and her brother had to go fricken imprint on her. The only good thing she could think of was that at least it wasn't Embry. She loved Em, like she loved all of her pack brothers, but Embry was a bit of a ladies' man. She'd patrolled with him a couple of weeks ago and since then she'd made a point not to think about Mac while patrolling, there were just some things one didn't need to see. Leah had liked having someone to be normal with, more normal than exploding into a giant fur ball on a regular basis anyway. She had liked having someone to talk about normal girly things with, things that didn't involve patrols and leeches breaking the boarder. Sometimes even Leah Clearwater wanted to feel girly.
She had wanted to keep her only non pack friend exactly that, non pack. So much for that idea.
When Leah had stalled as long as she could, she sighed unhappily and threw a piece of popcorn at Mac's currently upside down head as she lay draped across the couch her feet on the head rest and her head on the floor.
"Ouch", Mac groaned, as the offending popcorn connected with the end of her slightly red nose. People weren't meant to be upside down for extended periods of time, hence Mac's unusually red face.
"Time to go Mac, Mom will kill us if we're late", she said as she hauled herself off her couch and headed towards the door.
"Yeah' I'm coming. Give me a minute", Mac yelled from her spot on the couch.
Leah paused and watched in amusement as Mac stretched her tongue out towards the piece of popcorn that was sitting on the ground in front of her ever reddening face. It took her three minutes and a lot of stretching but eventually her tongue reached the popcorn and dragged it into her mouth with a satisfying crunch. Her revenge complete she rolled off the couch with a thud, she grinned up at Leah who was still watching her from her spot near the door.
"Ew Mac, floor popcorn" Leah said, her tone mildly disgusted.
"Three minute rule Leah", she smiled at the older girl and dusted herself off as she stood up.
"It's three seconds Mac..."
"Huh", Mac smiled awkwardly as she followed Leah out of the house. "Who knew?"
"Everyone", Leah answered shaking her head in amusement. "Apparently not you though", she said as she hopped into her car. Needless to say the short drive to the Clearwater's house was spent in near silence.
When Mac walked into the Clearwater house for the second time today she was unprepared for the motherly greeting Sue gave her, big bear hugs included. Sue Clearwater was small but damn that woman was strong. After the hug Mac had been dragged into the living room and told to sit down, where she was properly introduced to Seth. Mac had been wrong earlier, this was the most awkward moment of her life. It was promptly followed by the most awkward conversation of her life.
"I'm Seth", he said sticking out his hand to her. "We kinda met earlier, but you might not recognise me, ya know with my shirt on and all" he added grinning hugely at her as her cheeks to blushed a flaming red colour.
"Well I'm McKenna", she replied taking his hand in her own and shaking it gently. His hand was roasting hot and she wondered if he was sick. If so she didn't want his nasty sick germs. "And I remember you but I'm surprised you recognise me, what with the last time we met you eating floor and cracking your head something brilliant. I thought you might have forgotten, hard knocks to the head do that to people you know".
This time it was Seth's turn to blush, he was a little embarrassed about looking like such a girl in front of his imprint He doubted Jake would ever let him live this down. He smiled at her, noticing the suspicious look she was shooting his hand. "It's a genetic condition, a lot of us on the rez have it. It's nothing to worry about".
"Oh... I see", Mac said uncomfortably, still blushing slightly. Mac was thankful that Leah chose that moment to strut into the lounge. The She wolf made her way over to the couch where the two were sitting giving her brother a meaningful look before wriggling in between them, earning herself an annoyed look and a light growl from Seth and an appreciative look from Mac who'd been hoping that the floor might get hungry and decide to swallow her up, saving her from anymore humiliation.
"So little brother, how was your day?" Leah asked nonchalantly, kicking her feet up onto the coffee table.
Seth gave his sister a cool look before answering. "Fine, confusing, definitely not what I thought it was gunna be. It wasn't really my fault, I didn't ask for it to happen". Seth turned his gaze to Mac, his eyes lingering on her meaningfully before returning to his sister.
Mac felt like she was missing something, Leah was really mad at Seth but she had no idea why. And the way Seth's gaze kept flickering to her made her feel more than a little uncomfortable. Mac absolutely hated not knowing what was going on. She sighed irritably and tried to ignore the bickering siblings beside her, instead focusing her attention on the watching the TV, Sponge Bob Square Pants was on and after ten minutes of watching the show Mac was sure that the little yellow sponge's creepy little laugh would haunt her nightmares for the rest of her life.
Seth and Leah were continuing their glaring match at the dinner table. Mac still wasn't sure why they were glaring at each other, but she could tell that Leah was kicking her brothers but down town and back. He didn't have a very good glare; Leah on the other hand had one of the most truly terrifying glares Mac had even seen. It was so impressive that it rivalled Annabeth's glare that she saved up for special Mac telling off occasions, she'd only seen it twice and as far as she was concerned that was enough to last her a life time. Poor Seth had obviously not inherited the same glaring gene as Leah and if Mac had to guess, she was willing to bet that Sue Clearwater's glare would best both of the siblings combined. Mac was impressed that despite the fact that neither of the siblings had broken eye contact since they sat down at the dinner table ten minutes ago, they were both still able to destroy the food in front of them in record time.
"So Mac, how do you like La Push so far?" Sue asked, managing to sound pleasant despite the warning look she was shooting her oblivious children.
"Well it's better than the last place I lived, that's for sure", Mac replied wrinkling her nose as she thought of the run down little house she'd lived in with Annabeth and Oscar before they decided to ditch her here. "It's pretty I guess, nice and green", she added giving Sue a small smile before scooping another forkful of lasagne into her mouth and turning her attention back to the Clearwater death match she was sure that was brewing.
Sue sighed audibly before growling out a threat to both of her children that if they didn't stop this nonsense right now she was withholding all baked goods for two months. She didn't know what their problem was but they had a guest and she had raised them to be more polite than this. Mac pouted sadly as Seth and Leah both dropped their eyes to their nearly empty plates, Leah muttering quietly under her breath.
Mac had never been one to think before she spoke, if people didn't like what she had to say, they could stick it. Right now, she was seriously regretting that motto.
"I don't mind", Mac chirped happily, swallowing her mouthful of lasagne. "I thought it was mighty entertaining, I had my money on Leah. I was kinda hoping for a little more action though, I'm all for impromptu death matches. They're very entertaining. I don't think it would have lasted very long, because if Seth's fighting abilities are anything like his glare then Leah would've eaten him for breakfast".
Leah grinned at her, Seth pouted sadly, obviously hurt that his imprint thought that he would fight like a girl and Sue gave her a look that caused her to shut her mouth and lower her eyes to the table
"... No death match then." Mac told her lasagne sadly, picking up her fork and finishing her food quickly.
It was that exact moment Macs phone decided to go off. Mac was pretty sure Sue wouldn't want her over for dinner again anytime soon. That was a real shame, normal food tasted so much better than instant noodles. Not only had Mac just broken Sues number one dinner time rule, no cell phones at the table, the fact that her new ring tone was My Humps by the Black Eyed Peas and was blasting at full volume for fifteen seconds before Mac managed it rip it from her pocket and excuse herself from the table. Everyone in the room now knew exactly what Fergie was going to do with all that ass.
"Oscar, this really isn't a good time, so this better be important", she hissed into the phone, feeling Sues gaze on the back of her head as she spoke.
"I'm offended Mac, time spent talking to me, the most awesome person to ever walk the earth, should always be considered important", Mac was pretty sure he was smirking right now, he loved to annoy her. No one could make her as mad as Oscar could and he took great delight in this fact, using it to his advantage whenever possible. "Why's it not a good time?" he asked happily. He was defiantly smirking.
"Because I'm not at home right now. I'm doing exactly what you told me to do, I'm attempting to make friends and you mister just made an already awkward situation a whole lot worse, so thanks a bunch", Mac snapped irritably.
"I missed you and that temper of yours kid", He chuckled happily from the other end of the line.
"Whatever you do a-hole. You were glad you got rid of me so you could get your freak on with Annabeth, and don't you Kid me old man I'm nineteen not six", Mac said, trying to hold her angry tone despite the small smile playing on her lips.
"Ouch Mac, your words hurt me. I'm not that old and I think that nineteen is still an appropriate age to be called a kid, when you reach twenty one then we'll talk. And unfortunately Annabeth isn't very receptive, we don't really have much time for getting our freak on anyway", he said sighing sadly.
"Man that sucks" Mac replied merrily, "now, I got things to see people to do, so I'll catch you later. Give me a jingle in a couple of hours and we'll chat then".
He snorted, "if you're lucky. I'm a busy guy you know, but for you, I'll try", he said and with that he hung up before she could. Jerk.
Mac glared at the phone a bit before the itching on the back of her head reminded her that she was in fact supposed to be at the dinner table. She spun around and shot Sue a disarming smile, "sorry, apparently he doesn't understand the concept of busy", she said, taking her place at the table once more.
"So, that your boyfriend Mac?" Leah asked happily, wiggling her eyebrows.
The question caused everyone at the table to look at her expectantly. Leah was still smirking at her sardonically. Mac couldn't help the snorts of laughter that escaped. The idea of her and Oscar together actually grossed her out a little, besides she knew the poor guy had the hots for Annabeth, you'd have to be blind not to notice. "Ew no. Definitely not my boyfriend, we're just friends", she said, wrinkling up her nose. "Sometimes we're mortal enemies, he can be very annoying", she added matter of factly.
Leah chuckled, "mortal enemies huh?"
Mac nodded vigorously, "Yup, sometimes, when he annoys me enough, I throw various objects at him for the hell of it. I haven't actually managed to hit him yet... But when I do, it'll be a good day for sure".
Seth was starting to think he might have imprinted on a crazy person, strangely he'd be ok with this. His imprint was oddly amusing, emphasis on the odd. Leah was making this situation a lot harder than it had to be. She had been muttering curses at him right through dinner, his mom and Mac couldn't hear the constant string of threats and cusses that his sister was directing at him, but with his wolfy hearing he could hear them in perfect clarity. He was pretty sure that he had a bruise on his shin from where Leah had been kicking him every time he looked in Macs direction or tried to start a conversation with her. He didn't blame Leah for being annoyed but he thought she was being slightly immature about the whole situation. Seth sighed mournfully before leaning back in his chair, balancing on two legs, he had patrol in an hour but there was no way he was leaving without dessert which was currently baking in the oven.
"Seth!" his mother's angry voice brought him from his thoughts, "A chair has four legs for a reason". She scolded. People swinging on their chairs was Sues pet hate, she didn't know why but it really annoyed her especially at the dinner table.
"Yeah Seth, jeez", Mac said under her breath, shooting him a matching disapproving look. Luckily for her Sue didn't hear her sarcastic remark, Seth and Leah on the other hand did. Seth gave her a small smile and a wink, causing her to blush, Leah just shook her head, Mac of course, didn't see the swift kick Seth's shin received in retribution.
The rest of the dinner went relatively smoothly. Everyone demolished their dessert, especially Mac, what with her sweet tooth and all. Seth had been surprised that she'd nearly beaten Leah and him finished, when he'd told her so she'd laughed and admitted to having a bit of a sweet tooth.
Leah thought that was a bit of an under exaggeration considering every time Leah saw Mac she was usually eating some kind of candy. So what? Maybe Mac did have a mild addiction to all things sugary and sweet, everyone should just be glad that it was only sweets that she was addicted to because she was pretty sure the world couldn't handle a constantly high Mac. Leah agreed, that was one scary thought and she was weird enough as it was she didn't need any drugs to fuel the situation, that's for sure.
When it was time to leave for patrol Seth sighed and put the dish towel down on the bench. It was his turn to dry the dishes and Leah was washing, Mac had offered to do them but Sue had informed her that as the guest she was forbidden from participating, so as the two Clearwater's cleaned Mac had sat watching happily from her perch on the bench. She was chatting away to Leah about her favourite movies of all time, apparently she was a horror fan. Seth was starting to see why she got on so well with Leah. He wasn't sure if that was a good thing or something to be worried about. He was leaning towards the something to be worried about theory.
Over the course of dinner Seth had developed a game plan. Mac was Leah's friend but Seth's imprint and as far as he was concerned imprint trumped friend any day. He was going to give Leah some time and space, a lot of space actually, to get used to the fact that Seth had in fact imprinted on her friend, he knew that Leah had wanted to keep her away from pack but it was a bit late for that now. He'd leave her alone for now, which was hard for him being a newly imprinted wolf, he wanted to learn as much about her as he could, but soon Leah was going to have to get over it and learn to share.
"I'm... Ah.. Going over to Jakes, I'll be back later", Seth informed the room. "It was nice to meet you Mac", he said, winking at her as he ruffled Leah's hair. He dodged the punch that she aimed at him and slipped out the door, giving them a little wave as he did.
Seth grinned to himself as he headed to the woods behind his house to phase. He was enjoying annoying his sister more than he would've thought. She better get over this soon though, because it was turning out to be much harder to stay away from his imprint than he'd ever imagined.
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