Name of Story: Alpha's Mate Crystal

Rating: Rated T

Word Count: 1,412 Words

"Sam!" Paul shouted again still in alarm.

"What?" Sam yelled back, clearly slightly annoyed at the interruption.

"There are bloodsuckers at the treaty line asking for Crystal!" He responded urgently.

Sam started growling, pulling me behind him as if to protect me from any threats. He scanned the area with his eyes and senses looking for any bloodsuckers before determining that there were none in the immediate surrounding area.

He turned to me with an urgency in his eyes. "Do you know any vampires?" He asked.

I thought long and hard for a moment, considering I only just found out that all of these myths were indeed true. I couldn't think of any red eyed, pale beings that I've met, and I've only just met two of the Cullen's that are said to live in the Olympic Peninsula. I've never met any other pale golden eyed beings either, so I think it was safe to say that I couldn't imagine what vampires would be asking for me.

"No," I answered shaking my head slowly.

"Fine," he growled, clearly trying to regain his composure. "Let's go and see what they want, then."

He scooped me up into his arms and slowly jogged out the front door and into the surrounding forests.

I sighed, shaking my head in exasperation upon realizing that he wasn't going nearly as fast as I knew that he was capable of.

"Sam, going slower will only prolong the suspense and won't make this meeting pass by any faster," I scolded, thinking that he was acting incredibly childish.

He grunted before picking up the pace and jogging at his full speed. I wrapped my arms tighter around his shoulders. I could instantly feel how tense he was, regardless of the flexing of his muscles as he ran.

I pulled back slightly so that I could see his face and put my hand on his jaw, making him look at me. He slowed down before coming to a complete stop, just out of hearing distance of the vampires.

"Sam, it's okay. Nothing is gonna happen to me, alright baby?" I insisted, trying to coax him into relaxing.

It had the opposite effect as he held me tighter to his chest.

"What if they want to take you away from me?" He asked with worry and concern evident in his every expression.

"They won't be able to," I responded immediately. "I won't let them."

"Promise?" He asked pressing his forehead against mine as he dropped me on to the tips of my toes.

"I promise." I whispered and placed a quick kiss to his warm lips.

We began to walk toward the tree line. I felt his hand grip mine tighter as we neared the trees and walked out in to a small clearing with a miniature river that seemed to be in the center of a mall ravine that they used as the treaty line.

A bunch of golden-eyed vampires were on the other end of the gully waiting for us to arrive. Looking over each of their faces, I came to the conclusion that they did look familiar, but that wasn't what had surprised me. What surprised me was when I looked into a blond man's eyes I could almost see a part of myself. I had curly honey blonde hair that looked just like his, as well as a threatening aurora surrounding me when I was mad, as he did. His emotions read clear as day on his face.

"Let's get this party started," said a burly man with short brown hair and had a body similar to a body builder.

I giggled at his antics while a blond woman smacked him upside the back of his head. Pouted and rubbed the back of it as he looked over and her with mock innocence.

I noticed that the blond male was still looking at me and it was starting to make me rather uncomfortable.

Sam noticed and decided to get the ball rolling as he announced, "Time to get started. What is it you want with myCrystal?"

The blond male, still unnamed, growled and snarled his response, "She's not yourCrystal!"

Sam crossed his arms and leveled a glare at him. "She is my Crystal according to tribal law! She's my imprint! I don't know what seems to be setting you off but you need to back off. You have no claim over her!"

The blond male snorted. "Just because you imprinted doesn't mean that you get to have some sort of wolfy claim over her!"

"She loves me and I love her!" Sam snapped, balling his fist that wasn't in my hand at his side. "She's mine and I'm hers, just as it's supposed to be! Get that through your thick skull, Cullen!" Sam started shaking as tremors rolled through his body. The vampire immediately noticed as he took a step forward closer to the treat line, angry waves seemed to be rolling off of him along with what appeared to be worry and concern?

He tried once again to have Sam removed from my side.

"Get away from my sister-"

"Your sister?" Jared smirked with anger backing his tone. "She doesn't have a human family alive, less likely a bloodsucker family!"

Sam was shaking uncontrollably now at the image that Jared instilled in his head. I did the only thing that I thought I could do to calm him as put my hand on his jaw once again, forcing his eyes on mine. Immediately, the shaking stopped and he started to lean down toward me. I thought he was about kiss me, but I realized that I thought wrong as he by passed my lips, continuing onward. Instead, he went for my neck and softly inhaled my scent, placing a gentle kiss on my skin.

I could tell that my scent had drastically calmed him, so I let him continue to take in my essence, even with the group of vampires and wolves watching us. He growled softly into my neck before he took off and ran in the direction we came from towards his house.

"That will be all for now." Jake announced to the confused vampires across the way. "We will continue this at another time."

I turned with the rest of the pack, Paul lifting me into his arms causing me to squeal in surprise as he ran me back toward the house.

Breaking through the tree line a few feet from where Paul left me, I discovered Sam sitting on the porch steps to the house.

He saw me and immediately stood, running over to meet me half way and scooped me once again into his arms. He took large steps as he walked us back toward the house and kicked the front door open and in the process, I'm sure he broke the lock. He clearly didn't want to put me down.

I knew that he wasn't being careful when we were out in the woods.

I could tell, because when I got my first look at myself from the mirror near the front door I could see that my hair had twigs and leaves sticking up all over the place, looking like a place where chickens or birds would nest. My clothes were also covered in a thick layer of dirt and grime.

The journey to his room was a blur, but I soon found myself in his room on the bed. I could feel his weight on my body as he climbed on top of me.

He whimpered and curled himself around my body, as if protecting me from any threats that might jump out of the wood work and try to steal me away from him.

"Don't worry," I told him as I ran my fingers over his scalp. "No one can ever take me away from you."

He seemed to be comforted by this notion as he put his head on the top of my own and in return I tucked my head in the crook of his neck under his chin. I drifted off to a blissful sleep as I listened to the sound of his heartbeat.