SAM'S POV

My pack had been trailing Chris and his pack for a good 20 minutes when Chris' voice came into my head. "Sam, we are almost there. We are currently in the woods outside the city so we'll be there in the next five minutes." After that I started looking around. The forest was a lot different than La Push. You could tell that it did not rain as much in this part of California as it did in Washington, and the trees were not as tall as the ones back home by far. My pack was keeping a minimum of 10 feet between us and them, being that my pack did not exactly trust them.

"Sam do you think we will be able to trust them?" Paul was very doubtful of the new pack and not without reason. Here we were thinking we were the only ones and then all of a sudden we find out we had been uninformed for so long.

"Honestly Paul, I don't really know, but I do believe they will help us when they realize that vampires are planning a massive genocide against shape shifters." My explanation was not the best it could be, yet it was the only one I could get out, because in all reality I was almost as doubtful as Paul, seeing as they have not given us any reason to trust them, and at the same time they have not given us a reason to mistrust them either.

"Hey Leah maybe you'll find an imprint that will put up with you while we're here." Quil was laughing along with a couple others who found it funny, Leah was not one of them.

"Yeah Quil and maybe you'll find an imprint you can actually kiss while we are here." Everyone, but Quil was cracking up instead he was snarling at her. She snapped right back.

"Don't dish out what you can't take Quilly." Everyone was still cracking up when we saw the pack up ahead suddenly stop. And Chris' thoughts came back into my head. We had stopped in front of a house. The house was a little one story house, more accurately a cottage.

"Does your pack have clothes Sam?" "Yes we do." "Good you and your pack can go shift then just meet us inside the house the door is open." "Thank you we will be there soon."

With that my pack and I went and shifted back. We all met up and started walking back to what I assume is Chris' house. When we walked inside we found eight teenagers sitting in I suppose the living room laughing. When we walked in the room became eerily quiet. I looked around and saw faces that varied in looks. A man stood up he was about 6'5 and he looked somewhat Quilete with his russet skin, cropped black hair, and onyx eyes.

"Would you like to introduce your pack first?" Chris asked. "That is fine. My name is Sam, next to me is my beta Jared, then Paul, Embry, Quil, Leah, Seth, Jacob, Brady, and Collin." I looked over at my pack and they all looked semi-uncomfortable except for Leah, she had this look like she was deep in thought. Looking around the room I saw Chris with the same look and I immediately understood what had happened. Then all of a sudden he looked like he had realized something important. "I am a terrible host, please have a seat and we will continue." My pack and I found seats around the room, conveniently enough Leah found a seat next to Chris on the sofa.

Once we were all settled Chris decided to continue. "Well my name is Chris Morrow, and I'm the Alpha of this pack." Then a male sitting next to him spoke up, he was about the same height as his alpha with a similar buzz cut. "My name is Ransom, but you can call me sexy, and I'm the beta." "Ha sexy my ass, Hi I'm Dinah and I'm that little runt that Chris tried to protect earlier." The entire room busted out with laughter at the girl, she was only about 6'3 with short black hair and brown eyes. "Well then I guess it's my turn, the name is Bryce." The boy was 6'3, with brown eyes, and shaggy black hair that ended by his chin. You could tell by the spark in his eyes that he was the kind of guy that threw a party as soon as your parents are out the door. And curled up against him was a girl that looked only to be about 17, 5'5 with russet skin, long straight black hair, and dark grey eyes. You could tell they were in love. "And I am Charlotte, and Bryce is my imprint." You could tell she was proud from the smile that appeared on her lips and the glimmer that was evident in her eyes. "I'm Xander, so yeah that's it." He was average height for a werewolf, yet with the manner that he spoke you could tell that he was very modest and reserved. Bryce stood and slapped a guy that was in the corner of the room resulted in a growl. He was shorter than most of them with the same haircut and deep eyes. "My names mark." He stated still snarling. Lastly a guy with short brown hair and dark brown eyes spoke up. "Hey guys, I'm Walt." He kind of reminded me of Seth is the sense that he saw the good in people.

LEAH'S POV

The entire time introductions were going on all I could think about was how much my world had changed in such a small amount of time. When Sam was introducing us Chris' eyes seemed to stare into each of ours until they reached mine. Neither of us could look away, his light brown eyes that had specks of gold and green in them. I could stare into his eyes for hours it seemed and not get the least bit tired as it felt as if I was looking into his soul. And in that moment everything holding me on earth had disappeared and all strings were now attached to him. I would do whatever he wanted me to. I would be his sister, friend, or lover; it was his choice to make all I knew was that being in his presence gave me an odd feeling of wholeness.

After everyone had introduced themselves we got down to business. Sam explained to them our encounter with the female leech in La Push and the phone call to the unknown leech. He told them how he suspected that they were planning on wiping out the werewolf species.

"Sam we will fight with you. My pack and I will stay here and we will hunt with you when needed, but we will protect our people." He said this with such conviction you knew it was something he cared deeply about.

"Chris we would have it no other way than for you to defend your people." Sam and Chris quickly became friends talking about their alpha duties. While I took a very immediate liking to Dinah maybe it was the fact that she was another female shifter or the fact that she was not afraid to state how she felt either way I knew we would be friends. Somewhere along the conversation Chris mentioned he knew of another pack that may be able to help us, but he would have to see if he could get in contact with the alpha seeing as between practical jokes and dares he breaks his phone every couple of weeks and has to get a new number. Chris told us that he had sent the Alpha a text after introductions and was waiting on a reply.

A couple hours later it was time for us to go, seeing as many of us had parents that had no clue about us being shape shifters. I looked at Sam silently asking for a moment alone. He nodded and him and the guys ran off into the forest and phased waiting for me. Chris' pack stayed inside so it was only the two of us out here. I looked at him and got the feeling that I never wanted to look away.

"Leah, I would really like to get to know you, is there any way we could maybe meet up this weekend and just hang out getting to know each other?" his voice sounded like honey and my mind was going fuzzy just from hearing it.

"I'd really like that Chris! How about we meet up in Seattle on Saturday?" I knew that my voice sounded hopeful.

"I'd love that Leah." He grabbed my upper arms, leaned down and ever so gently pressed his lips to my cheek. It was as if a feather had passed over my cheek and left an inferno in its path, that same inferno started at my cheek and went to the tips of my toes. I couldn't help the smile that spread over my lips. I whispered a goodbye before backing away he waved goodbye and I was off. I raced behind a tree, stripped and joined my brothers in our journey back to La Push, anxiously waiting for Saturday to hurry up and get here, tomorrow was Monday, six days to go.


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