Hey everyone and thanks for all the reviews :D

In the last chapter, someone reviewed telling me that Jacob and Bella were acting more like boyfriend and girlfriend then cousins. That was no where near my intention and I hope it didn't come off that way to too many people. To Bella, Jake is more like the twin brother she never had then a cousin and I just portrayed it the same way I am around my cousin who, because of my messed up family, is technically my soon-to-be step-brother anyway.

Anyhow… I hope that that made sense and that it wasn't just me rambling on.

On with the chapter!

Last Chapter:

"I'm glad that's sorted," Jake smiled as he swung an arm over my shoulder and walked with me back through the house and into the backyard.

You'll be whatever I Want?

We arrived back at the house to find the boys cleaning up the backyard and the table and chairs. They all looked up as we arrived before turning back to what they were doing – except for Sam.

He came towards us holding the plates of food Jake and I had grabbed earlier. He handed Jake's plate to him and I hesitantly took mine.

"Thanks," I smiled slightly at him.

His answering smile was breath taking, "No problem."

I nodded before turning around and heading into the dinning room to finish eating as the boys were packed up by now. Jake and I sat down at the table in a comfortable silence as we ate. Just as both Jake and I were about to finish, even though he'd originally had twice as much as I did, Sam appeared in the door way.

I looked up at him as he stared at me.

"You know," I spoke up, lowering my fork from my mouth. "It's really hard to eat comfortably with someone watching you."

He looked away sheepishly and said a quiet, "Sorry."

I didn't respond, instead I picked up both my and Jake's now clean plates and heading into the kitchen to clean them.

"Jake," I heard Sam stop Jake just as he was leaving the room. "Don't forget that you and Embry have patrol in half an hour."

"I know," Jake said as he left the room.

I stood in the kitchen as I washed the dishes but I could feel his eyes burning into my back, "Are you seriously going to just continue to stare at me?"

"No," he spoke softly as he walked towards me. "This is just so new to me. I told you before that my world now revolves around you and even being in a different room to you, makes it feel like something is missing."

I glanced at him as he lent against the counter next to me, "You think this is weird to you? Try being told that a werewolf, who you've never even met before, has to be around you 24/7 or they'll be in pain."

He stared at me as he answered, "I know that this whole thing will be hard on you but like Charlie said earlier – neither of us have a choice."

I sighed, "But why me? There are tones of other girls out there. Why did you imprint on me?"

"I don't know," he answered me truthfully. "But imprinting is about soul mates and reproduction."

I turned to stare at him with my eyebrows raised as I realized what he'd just said, "You think you imprinted on me because I'm the best candidate to make strong werewolf babies?"

He seemed to pale slightly at the look on my face, "No. No, that's not what I meant."

"Then what did you mean?" I asked him curiously.

"I meant that I'm the Alpha of the current wolf pack only because Jake didn't take it from me when he first phased. The Alpha position is in your bloodline, though, not mine. I think that I imprinted on you so that the next Alpha of the pack not only has the direct bloodline but also a father who was the Alpha before him," he quickly explained himself.

I absorbed that information for a moment, "So no matter whom I marry or have kids with, my sons would all be werewolves?"

He nodded.

"And what was that about the Alpha bloodline?" I asked.

"Your great-grandfather was the first Alpha werewolf. Like everything else about werewolves, it's genetic," he began to explain. "Your grandfather was his eldest son so he became the Alpha after his father stepped down. When it became time for your grandfather to do the same, your dad became Alpha as he was his eldest son. It would have then gone to Charlie's eldest son but he never had one. So, the position goes to the next person in the bloodline Billy, but he'd already stopped phasing so it went to his eldest son, Jake. However, if you have a son it will go directly to him, even if Jake is still phasing as his Alpha blood will be stronger then Jake's."

"But Jake didn't take the position," I stated rather then asked.

Sam shook his head, "No, he didn't. When Jake phased I was all ready to step down as Alpha and give him the position but he refused it. He said it didn't feel like it was his right to take it and that I should stay Alpha."

"What did Jake mean he didn't feel like it was his right to take it?" I asked.

"Usually," he said. "Shortly after an Alpha first phases, you see signs of their position. Like, they have the ability to order around any werewolf not higher then them in the bloodline or the fact that they're usually the first or second to phase in that generation. However, I was first to phase and Jake was the fifth and hasn't shown any signs of being able to give us an Alpha order."

"Which means what exactly?" I asked in confusion.

"It means he's not the rightful Alpha," Sam explained. "I only have the ability to be Alpha as I was the first to phase and the true Alpha hasn't appeared yet but once they do, I'll step down."

"But who else could it be?" I asked in confusion.

"Well," Sam said thoughtfully. "It has to be someone we don't know about. Either you have a long lost brother somewhere, or Jacob does, or even Billy and Charlie. Either way, somewhere out there, someone from your blood line is our Alpha and probably doesn't even know it."

Jared took that second, before I had a chance to respond, to walk into the kitchen. He froze when he saw us in the middle of a deep discussion and looked like he was going to walk back out when I stopped him.

"Hey Jared," I smiled at him. "Did you want something?"

"Uh…Yeah, I did actually," he said, still looking between the two of us. "I came to ask if I could invite Kim, my girlfriend, over so that she can meet another imprint her own age."

I picked up on what most people would have missed, "Another imprint her age? You mean more then just the two of you have imprinted? Jake told me it was just the two of you."

"Oh…uh," he glanced at Sam who sighed.

"Kim can come over," he stated. "And I'll explain the imprint thing to Bella."

Jared looked slightly relieved as he left the kitchen, almost as though he were happy to get away from the tension in the room.

I turned back to look at Sam questioningly.

"Quil and Seth have also imprinted," Sam told me.

"And why do you say that like you don't want to tell me?" I asked in confusion.

He hesitated slightly before answering, "Quil's imprint is two and Seth's is ten."

"Quil's in love with a two year old," I repeated slowly. "And Seth's in love with a ten year old."

Sam quickly shook his head, "Didn't Jake tell you that when you imprint it's not about being in love. We mould to fit whatever our imprint needs most. Quil will spend the next few years of his life as an older brother or almost father figure while Seth will most likely be somewhere between older brother and best friend. It depends on the imprint's age. Once they're old enough though, Quil and Seth will eventually fall in love with their imprints. Jared and I on the other hand are the same age as our imprints, meaning that the falling in love part happens pretty much straight away. However, it is essentially up to the imprint where the relationship goes."

I stared at him for a moment and he stared back, not breaking eye contact, "So you'll be whatever I want you to be?"

He nodded and smiled slightly, "Basically, it's impossible for me to say no to you."

"But," I started, beginning to realize just how strong this imprint thing was. "If I want to grow old and marry someone else, no matter how hard you try, you'll never be able to love someone enough to marry them?"

"No," he agreed softly. "I wouldn't. I already know that I won't even look at another girl twice now that I've imprinted. It happened to Quil. He had a girlfriend when he imprinted on Claire and all his feelings for her just disappeared and there was nothing he could do about it."

The doorbell rang then and I hurried out of the kitchen, and away from the tense conversation with Sam, to open it.

"Hey," a pretty but shy looking Quileute girl greeted me. "You must be Bella. I'm Kim."

I smiled at her, "Oh hey. Jared said you were coming. Come on in."

"Thanks," she said, returning my smile. Jared instantly appeared in the hall way and wrapped her up in his arms, kissing her with so much love that I had to look away.

I guess I had the strength of this whole imprinting thing completely wrong after all. It was going to be harder then I thought to resist it.

But, the question now was, did I really want to?

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