I had never witnessed imprinting firsthand. I mean, technically I did with my own imprinting...but that was different. That was feeling the world shift and watching the eyes of someone you had known for months suddenly change in your own eyes. But watching someone else imprint? Well, it was something completely different entirely.

Peter, Seth, and Greg came into the yard all still in their wolf forms.

And like a lightswitch being turned on, his eyes instantly fell on Maitlin, the love and awe radiating from his very being. She stared back just as intently, looking like he was her savior come to rescue her.

Since I was phased, I could hear what they were all thinking. As fearful as I was about him reacting the way that Sammy had towards me when he first imprinted, I knew that was not the case at all. He loved Maitlin already. Even though he didn't know her. He wanted the chance to prove it to her and have her accept him back. He was like a junkie in need of a fix, only worse because this was his first dose of her.

Name...name...what's her name? Need to know. So beautiful. Let me love you. Just tell me your name... Seth thought over and over in his mind.

Dude! That's awesome! You finally imprinted! Congrats! Peter exclaimed, happy for our Pack brother.

Greg looked like he was envious of the imprint. Which caught me off guard because I knew how much vampires bothered him. It wasn't Maitlin that Greg wanted, though. It was the imprint itself. The love and devotion and complete acceptance that was reflecting in both of their eyes.

Seth had been the youngest wolf when the original Pack took over. He had watched nearly every single one of his friends imprint and settle down and stop phasing. There wasn't a more deserving person on this planet than Seth. Big hearted, goofy, loveable Seth Clearwater imprinted on Maitlin, the quiet half-vampire half-sister of Nahuel.

Embry and Leah emerged from our little house, both with angry expressions on their faces. I couldn't help but notice that Embry looked like he was a little sad, though. I could only guess what their conversation had been about. I knew that it was difficult for him to accept that Leah just wasn't ready for a relationship. Though, after twenty years, you'd figure that she would also get it through her thick skull that not everyone imprints...well, that would have been a good point if the person who imprinted today wasn't her brother.

Leah noticed the change at about the same time that everyone else did.

"Oh, hell no." Leah said, throwing her hands up in defeat. "I give up!" She headed back in the direction of the small house where I knew she would lock herself in our shared room.

"Lee, this doesn't change anything." Embry said, looking a bit angry at his Packmate for imprinting and forever ruining his chances with Leah. I knew that he was glad that his best friend had found his own soul mate, but Embry had chosen his and he had enough trouble fighting for her without another wolf imprinting and throwing it back in his face that there was a small chance that he could, too.

"What's wrong with the she-wolf?" Sammy asked me quietly as Embry took off after her.

"Seth, Leah, and Embry were the only ones in the Pack that hadn't imprinted yet...and now that Seth has, the chances of imprinting being 'rare' are pretty much nonexistint." I explained, my eyes darting between all of them.

"At least he'll get to spend eternity with her." Sammy said quietly, looking me dead in the eyes, my breath catching in my throat.

"Wha-?" I asked, not able to shake the stare my imprint was giving me. "Do you think that he...that he could be okay with staying wolf?"

"Seth has always loved being a wolf." Sammy replied honestly. My heart sank. That was what I was afraid he would say. I knew that Sammy didn't want to keep phasing. Who would? Other than my dad, Seth was probably the only one who enjoyed being a wolf all of the time.

"And if he didn't?" I asked in a small voice, because I had to. Because I had to know where Sammy stood on this matter. Because it was all that really mattered. If I found out that I could live forever, I didn't want to keep Sammy with me unwillingly. It was one thing to be a hypothetical best friend forever. It was another to literally be together for eternity.

"I think that he's going to be happy spending every second of the rest of their lives together." Sammy said, his dark brown eyes soft as he spoke, never leaving mine for a second. "If it means staying wolf than I'm sure it'd be a sacrifice any wolf would make for someone that they lo-um, liked, a lot." His cheeks were flushed from the heat of the London air around us.

I nodded, trying to play it cool, as if that wasn't the single most important conversation we had ever had. I smiled inwardly, looking back at Seth and his new imprint. Even though they were twenty feet away from each other, standing on opposite sides of the practice field, it was obvious that they were the only people here...in their minds.

Seth wasn't noticing his sister freaking out or Embry trying to reassure her; he was staring at the short half-vamp with wonder in his brown eyes.

Leah wasn't the only sibling to notice the exchange. Nahuel noticed that and so did Ceciely. And judging by their expressions, they weren't happy about it. Nahuel understood imprints and the wolf bond more than his sisters did, but he still didn't look happy that his little sister had found her soul mate in a wolf. Ceciely, who didn't understand imprints at all, looked disgusted at her sister for staring at Seth.

"What is wrong with you?" Ceciely hissed at her sister.

"Maybe we should explain the wolves' culture..." Carlisle tried, but was interrupted.

"I think that Maitlin and Seth should be excused from this training session..." Edward suggested.

"No!" Nahuel and Ceciely said in unison.

"They need to talk..." Jasper, feeling everyone's emotions, argued. Alice only smiled, knowing what was going to happen next. With this many wolves and half-vampires around, her vision was blurred. But I could tell that she could sense that two of those blurs were about to leave the clearing.

"They can have nothing to talk about." Ceciely protested. Even though she didn't understand imprinting, she could see in the two minutes that we had been standing out here that her sister was no longer the person that she used to be.

Seth took a step forward, not paying any attention to the conversation around him.

"Stay back, mutt." Ceciely hissed threateningly. "One more step and I'll rip you to pieces."

Maitlin turned her gaze from Seth's for the first time since the imprint occured, her light brown eyes boring into her sister's. "You try to move towards my wolf and I'll rip you to pieces."

Ceciely gasped. "Maitilin? You can't be serious! I'm your sister! I helped keep you safe from Joham. You will not talk to me that way."

But the girl wasn't hearing her sister. Because Seth had finally learned his imprint's name.

Maitlin. Seth thought, carressing her name with such sweetness that I thought I might get sick.

Though he was still phased and hadn't said the word aloud, Maitlin's head snapped up to look at Seth again. It was almost as if she had heard him and was responding to her name being called. Seth tilted his head

"Maitlin, why don't you come into the house?" Nessie suggested. "Seth will change and join us all in the living room. There's a lot that needs to be explained to you and I don't think you should be left alone until you know everything."

"Seth..." Maitlin said, a smile crossing her lips for the first time since I had met her. "Yes, I will go if Seth will join us."

"I'm coming, too." Ceciely threw a fit and at last, all four of them were gone. I wanted to be nosy and listen to the rest of their chat, but we had training to do.