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Epilogue
CPOV
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My parents lived for each other. They were hardly apart for more than a few hours at a time in the years they were together. When I grew older I learnt about imprinting and soulmates although everyone agreed Mom and Dad were even more than imprints they were two halves of a whole. I have to say they kind of ruined relationships for me, even at twenty years of age I hardly dated as I hadn't met anyone that seemed worth the effort, I too wanted to be looked at like Dad looked at Mom, someone I could lean on and always feel they had my back. My brothers certainly helped keeping me single being the overbearing over protective nosy parkers that they were! They were worse after they phased, my life was difficult after Billy and Paul grew fur and my twin Embry was worse, he turned into my shadow, being in the minds of other hormonal boys had him overreacting if a boy so much as glanced in my direction. It was completely unfair considering they dated every available girl on the reservation and I was expected to stay at home every Saturday night like some 1920's spinster sewing or knitting. Embry was in all my classes in school and then took the same courses as me in college, making sure no males got near me. My female friends were thrilled they got to spend many hours flirting with my stupid meathead over muscled brothers. Annoyingly my father fully encouraged them to keep me locked away from any snivelling boy. Luckily my mother was well able to control my father and brothers and she ensured I got away from them at least once a week.
As a little girl I would travel around on my Dads back when he was in wolf form and squeal when he ran through streams so I would get wet. Once my father became Chief of the tribe he ruled that no parent or child would be ignorant of the spirit warriors or what they did for the tribe. He loved to tell us children the stories of the wolves, starting with the story of Taha Aki and the third wife, he would then tell us about the cold ones, and the story about the Alpha and his Queen and how the Alpha went to save the Queen from the insane cold one but surprisingly it was the Queen that saved the Alpha. Another story we enjoy is about the brave wolf who fought his uncle and nearly died trying to protect his Queen, to be saved by a pale face and a beautiful cold one. My absolute favourite was the story of the sleeping wolf, very similar to sleeping beauty except the princess came to the sick sleeping wolf and with one kiss he woke up cured. I think this is every wolf's favourite story as they always request it, apart from Uncle Paul, he goes red and mutters to himself when that story is told at the bonfires while Aunt Lauren smirks happily beside him.
One night when I joined my family and the pack for a celebratory bonfire we were all gathered to celebrate Leah and Sam's eldest son's graduation. My father, under my mother's guidance insisted that all young wolves had the opportunity to go to college as there were plenty of wolves to protect the reservation. A scholarship had been set up years previously by friends of the pack Rosalie and Emmet for any Quileute who phased or is affected by phasing. Josh being the eldest of all the pack pups was the first to leave the reservation and go to medical school and has now come back to work in the La Push small family hospital. We all thought Leah and Sam would burst with pride as they hovered around the bonfire. The Uleys were very nearly as close as my Mom and Dad, rumour had it Sam nearly imprinted on Leah's clinically insane cousin who has been locked away in a mental hospital since well before I was born, it wasn't until one night during a blizzard he looked at Leah and fell to his knees with the force of the imprint, nobody knew what was wrong with him as all wolves usually imprint when they first look into the eyes of their soulmate, Sam and Leah had been together for ages before they imprinted, everyone was very relieved that it had finally happened for them. I believe they were married and pregnant within two months of the imprint they were so excited to start their new lives together.
I was sitting on the sand beside my twin looking around at the big gathering, wondering why I was the only girl, all my 'cousins' were boys. It would have been nice to have another girl around to talk to, another girl who knew the secret of the pack. My mom worried that it was to ensure that the pack continued to grow, the original pack was made up of seven, now there was nearly twenty five wolves in the pack and not all of my cousins had phased yet, some of the younger boys were showing the signs so it was probably all the males would be wolves before they were twenty. Except for Colin and Brady, they were pure human and didn't hold the wolf gene as Embry was not their biological father, but there was no doubt to the bond that was between him and his two step sons. They were a few years older than all the other boys but they were the tricksters of the pack. As they never had to worry about the pack mind they regularly concocted tricks and pranks on their cousins. I believe this pair will be tricking their own grandchildren in the future. Even as adults they kept Aunt Penni and Uncle Embry on their toes. When they got together with Uncle Quil and Aunt Claire's pups we were all in trouble.
Little did I know how my life was going to change that night, Josh was a few years older than me and had already finished high school before I started. Our parents were very close but due to my brothers protective crap and my father always treating me like his baby I never really got to know Josh or even speak to him, especially once he phased, my father would not let a newly phased wolf near his baby girl. But that night sitting in the sand while the waves lapped the shore I looked over the sparks of the driftwood bonfire and I met my destiny when I looked into his eyes, everything froze, the rest of the world receded into background noise, I have no idea how long we were trapped in that stare before my brother Paul noticed and jumped up to tackle Josh to the ground. It took Uncle Quil and Dad to pull him off Josh. Once the cat was out of the bag, Embry and Billy also tried to jump on Josh and Uncle Quil had to hold dad back from joining them.
Mom and my Aunts Lauren, Kim, Claire, Penni, Leah, and Lily brought me home while the men just shouted at each other, I didn't want to go but even Aunt Leah insisted I leave so that the boys could all calm down. When we arrived to our house Leah hugged me and told me how happy she was that I would be her daughter in law some day. This scared me and made me happy at the same time. My mom giggled that it made sense, the Clearwater, Black, Uley and Swan family were finally one, friends and brothers for years going back to my great papas generation.
The next day Josh came to my home to ask me if I would go for a walk with him. Inside I could hear my mom tell my brothers to sit down and leave me alone or she would ensure that when they met their imprints she would hang up on the wall every single picture she had of them as kids especially their baby bath pictures and show them to their imprints.
That walk was the start of the rest of my life.
Ours was the first imprint of the new generation, after us my brothers all imprinted, as did all my cousins. I finally got what I always wanted a girls who knew our secret that I could be myself around. Josh was my rock and we had a beautiful family, and they too had beautiful children. Only one girl was born to each generation and the rest were boys that phased. My father believed that it was Taha Aki's will that the wolf pack stay strong like the old days, prior to Ephraim's pack there was always wolves to protect the tribe from Cold Ones. Luckily we only ever had to worry about a few nomads wandering into our area who were easily vanquished by our huge wolf pack.
The only blip in my happy life was losing my Mom and Dad, but they were both in their ninety's when they passed with only a few weeks separating them, losing them was hard but they were together again and there was no way I ever wanted them to be apart.
CrÃochnaithe!
Fini!
The End!
Thanks everyone who stuck with me, I really enjoyed writing this story and I am sorry I didn't get to finish it sooner, hopefully I will be able to get back to writing some day but I think this is it for a while.
Big thanks to Niamhg for her friendly reminders and pre reading