Chapter 26 Imprinting

AN: I know I dint update when I said I would, it's been a crazy few months and I finally was able to catch my breath enough for inspiration to hit. Reviews and thoughts, whether good are bad, are welcome! Let me know if it's getting boring or too much. Or any of your favorite scenes from the TV series or movie series.

Some of you may be bummed that Bella is not going to make an appearance in this story, but if you look into the story you'll see a few Bella themed actions and scenes.

I own nothing; the characters and everything are under the ownership of Stephanie Meyer, and Kyle XY Creators

Eric Bress, and J. Mackye Gruber

Italics are thoughts

Italics and bold are Kyle's thoughts

I expect a lot of criticism. This chapter was a bit hard for me to not good with emotional moments.

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At an alarming rate, the light scent of Kyle's blood filled the air. All the vampires stiffened and his scent and looked towards Kyle. Jacob and Sam crouched at the ready to protect Kyle. With the only one with his wits still about him,

"All of you!" Carlisle commanded. "Leave now!" still looking at Kyle lying on the ground with his face covered in blood, they all hesitated to follow Carlisle's order. After a split second they all released any air that was in their lungs and retreated. Emmett, Rosalie, Edward and Jasper quickly filled Emmett's jeep and Sped off as fast as the jeep could take them; while Alice and Esme ran on foot back to the house so Carlisle could take the car.

Carlisle went to tend to Kyles wounds with Jacob and Sam watching his every move as he took Kyles jacket to stop the blood flow. From the asphalt Leah was also watching Carlisle as he stood over her mate who was shaking in pain. She howled in agony at the sight. She had harmed her mate. Her imprint. Without her knowing, she had transformed back into her human form and lay down in pain. Sam turned towards her howling,

"Get Leah back to her house." Sam ordered to Jacob. Jacob nodded to Sam. He sprinted over to Leah on the ground, picked her up, and ran her over to the tree line where the other wolves were watching. Jared and Seth Followed Jacob to Leah's home.

The jacket wasn't absorbing enough of the blood to stop the blood flow, and Carlisle switched to his sweater and pressed it hard against Kyle's face; which only cause Kyle to scream even more.

"I'm sorry, but I have to stop the bleeding." Carlisle said hating that it was necessary to cause his grandson this pain.

"Carlisle…" Billy started sympathetically, but stopped as Carlisle picked up Kyle.

"We'll talk about this later Billy." Carlisle answered with a level voice to stay composed. He needed to stay focused and take care of Kyle instead of screaming about this breach in the treaty. Carlisle ran at vampire speed to his car and laid Kyle in the backseat. He went into the driver's seat and sped off in the opposite direction of the concerned Quelettes. "Hold on son." Carlisle said in a calming voice to Kyle. Kyle was in the backseat barely hearing Carlisle. He was taking deep breaths to try to control his pain. It wasn't working very well, and was mostly trying to keep himself from screaming.

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Carlisle admitted Kyle into Forks Hospital under the ruse of Kyle being attacked by a was both fortunate and unfortunate that Carlisle wasn't allowed to be the doctor to perform Kyle's surgery due to him being a close relative. They had allowed it before because his seizure was a small matter, but they couldn't make an exception twice. Carlisle was glad for this. While he was waiting during Kyle's surgery, Carlisle was unable to keep his hands from shaking., he would have done more harm than good. Once again Carlisle felt like a normal human. All he could do was sit and wait, and he had to do it alone. Everyone in his family had felt their bloodlust and hesitated to leave back at the treaty line. Even though Alice said in her vision that everyone would be fine at the hospital, Carlisle didn't want to risk it and ordered his family to hunt and then remain home until further notice. It had been a while since he had pulled rank on them, but none of them argued his decision.

The comfort Carlisle had during his wait was that Dr. Price was his performing surgeon. He was almost as good a surgeon as Carlisle. He had been a plastic surgeon before he came here and could reconstruct the facial muscles and tissue very cleanly. Also everyone at the hospital knew and liked him, and would sit and wait with him on their breaks to support him as he waited through the hours that Kyle was in surgery. When Carlisle waiting was over, the hospital bed passed by the waiting room as he was being admitted into a private room with half of Kyles face in bandages.

At about five in the afternoon Kyle began to wake up.

Kyles POV

When my eyes opened I dint know where I was at first.; everything was blurry and the side if my face and my wrist was throbbing.

'Her!' I remembered a girl. When I had looked into her eyes as she stared at me, I felt a pull to be near her. My vision was slowly clearing to see an n empty room. A hospital room by the looks of it. 'Where is everyone, and how did I get here?' The throbbing on my face was becoming more obvious and I had to reach up to my face to rub it. 'Bandages?'

"Kyle!" Carlisle came in with relief to see me. "I heard you wake up . How do you feel?" he sat next to my bed and examined the right side of my face.

"What happened, why am I all bandaged up?" I asked. Carlisle looked uneasy.

"At the boundary line, with the Quelettes, one of the wolves lost their temper and shifted. You were to close to her and she caught her claws onto the right side of your face. You lost a lot of blood and had to have surgery on your face." Carlisle explained. I had remembered some of what he had said. "What do you remember last.?" I thought back for a second.

"We rode to La Push, I got out of the car and sopped in front of the girl that was there…" she was the one who scratched me "Who is she?"

"I'll tell you later. Keep going."

"Then Mom started yelling at her. I became worried for the girl and didn't want them to start fighting. Then I got hit in the face, and you rushed me here." I finished.

"That's good. You remember basically everything." Carlisle breathed a sigh of relief with a smile.

"Why are you so relieved? Did I hit my head as well?"

"No son. You just have a history of suppressing traumatic memories. I'm just happy that you're able to deal with this." For a moment I was confused, but remembered the lie that I needed to keep to protect Adam, and didn't say anything else about it.

"Who was that girl?" I thought that moment of when I first saw her again. She was the most beautiful girl in the world. Whatever she was she was an imprint. Whatever that is. It must mean someone who is very alluring, and the very air around them is intoxicating. "When I saw her I just had to get near her."

"What do you mean?'

"It felt as if my feet were controlling themselves, and made me walk to her."

"That was Leah."

"Leah." Her name felt heavenly on my lips. Then I remembered that Rosalie's yells. "Why does mom dislike her? I thought they had never met before?" Carlisle gave Kyle a sympathetic smile.

"Wolves and vampires are natural enemies. Rosalie and Leah just automatically don't like each other. It's going to be tough to get them to get along. Especially after this."

"But you and Sam get along."

"Yes we do," Carlisle nodded," but it took a long time to gain …an understanding with each other."

'So mother wouldn't accept her right away, but she would eventually! If I could just get her to try… wait! Why do I want her to get along with my mother so badly? I've only met her for two seconds."

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"Kyle!" Carlisle shouted, bringing Kyle out of his thoughts. "You should rest now." Bringing his voice down again.

"What's an imprint? That's what Edward had called her before Rosalie and Leah started fighting. He said 'Leah imprinted.'"

"Hmmm." Carlisle leaned back in his chair. This is something that Emmett and Rosalie should be explaining to him, but Carlisle knew that Kyle was still very impressionable and didn't know anything about werewolves or imprinting. Whatever Rosalie said he would believe without question, and she would use Kyle's injury to help convince Kyle to reject Leah. 'It may already be too late. Kyle can already feel the bond between him and Leah.' As he was thinking of how to explain Imprinting to Kyle, Carlisle's phone buzzed in his pocket. As he suspected when he looked at the screen it was an angry text message from Rosalie.

HE'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE NEAR THAT DO AGAIN. I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU TELL HIM! –Rosalie

Alice seems to have told the family Kyle is awake and that I'm eventually explaining to him that they will become mates. Carlisle thought and answered her text.

We will talk about this later.-Carlisle

He quickly put his phone away to turn his attention back to Kyle who was still waiting on his answer. "An imprint is something like a mate. For vampires it usually happens gradually over time that they realized there is an attraction between the two of them and it develops over time, but for wolves it happens instantly. Ephrium, the wolf we had originally made the treaty with, told me all about it after we became closer to being friends, and I saw his mate from a distance." Kyle sat back in bed to think over what this means for him, and rubbed his face where the bandages were.

"But if I'm her imprint isn't she supposed to love me like you are with Esme, right?"

"Yes something like that, but sometimes if the imprint is married or in another relationship at the time, then the feelings for each other can change to a love of friendship. It complely up to you Kyle. So don't feel pressured to fall in love. Leah will adapt to you. She will just be a friend, a sister, or your lover if you like.

"That doesn't seem fair." Kyle spoke "she has no say in whether or not to stay with me. What if she doesn't like, but she will still love me."

"Oh no Kyle. Leah also has the choice to ignore the imprint. It will be hard at first, but instead of love it can change to friendship."

"And if I reject her?"

"Then she will have to accept your decision, but she will never have another imprint." Carlisle leaned forward in his chair. He wanted to emphasize to Kyle that this was completely his decision before anyone else gave him their opinion. "Kyle you have to make your own choices when it comes to this relationship that will occur between you and Leah. Don't let anything I say or anyone else sway you from your choice."

"Do I have to choose now?" Kyle's eyes widened slightly. This was too confusing. A person I had never met before has fallen in love with me, she's my families natural enemy, I was instantly attracted to her as well, still attracted to her even though she attacked me, and now I have to choose whether to build a relationship with her or not.

"No no no, you only need to think about it" Carlisle answered quickly. "I only want to give you a little information to think it over before you get home."

"But if she loves me, why did she hurt me?" Carlisle bit his lip and sighed,

"I don't know Kyle. Wolves protect their imprints, and can't consciously harm them. That is something you'll have to ask her yourself."

Kyle sat back in his pillows on the hospital bed and fidgeted. As usual it was near impossible for Kyle to get comfortable in anything but his tub at home.

"How long do I have to stay here? I'm not going to get any sleep in this thing." Carlisle chuckled at his grandson squirming and his opinions of comfort towards an actual bed.

"I'm not your doctor so I'm not allowed to release you."

"Can't I switch my doctor to you?"

"You could, but I still would make you stay for at least another day. Don't forget you did lose a fair amount of blood, and had to have some surgery today." Carlisle smiled as Kyle pursed his lips then continued to toss as turn on the bed to get comfortable.

"Grandpa look at me. You know I can't sleep on a bed like this. Even at Adams house I slept in the tub." Kyle's eyes widened and Carlisle raised an eyebrow at this revelation. Kyle had forgotten that he wasn't supposed to mention Adam, and he wasn't sure if Carlisle was suspicious that he mentioned living with Adam instead of his 'real parents'

"Really?" Carlisle put his eyebrows back in place to make his usual kind expression. "Is that where you picked up that habit?" his voice was being careful. "Maybe it'll be good for you to try sleeping on a mattress every now and again."

"No." Kyle kept his voice quiet with a little shame. Carlisle thought he was still living under some of the influence of his kidnapper when in truth Adam was a caring father. "I slept in the tub even at the Bishops. They told me I had the habit even as a kid." Kyle was lying and Carlisle knew it. Kyle wouldn't look him in the eyes, his ears were turning light pink, and his heart was beginning to beat faster. Carlisle took Kyles cover up as an act of regression the work he had done during therapy. He wasn't having that wanted Kyle to tell the truth.

"Kyle don't lie to me. I know you are." Carlisle whispered to keep Kyle from thinking he was insulted. That didn't help though. Even with small lies the pressure of guilt quickly built within him. This had been a lie that he had been keeping for weeks, and it hadn't gotten easier. Kyle's heart was beginning to thunder.

"I can't tell you."

"Kyle, just say it. It'll be ok. I and the rest of the family will still love you."

"No you won't." Carlisle stepped from his chair to hold Kyle by the shoulders, placed his hands on Kyles face to make Kyle look him in the eyes.

"Brian Taylor told us everything about Adam Baylin the night he brought you back. It's ok to say it Kyle. I know everything." Kyle couldn't hold back his the panic in his voice. I was close to breaking his will to keep his secret.

"What you know is a lie." Kyle whispered. Carlisle didn't say anything, but only waited for Kyle to continue. "I can't tell you everything, but what you know about my past is a lie." Carlisle only continued to stare at him. He knew Kyle was telling the truth. He waited for Kyle to calm down to continue, but it never came. Kyles breathing evened out, but he didn't continue speaking.

"Then tell me what the truth is."

"I can't." Kyle whispered, "It's the only reason he let me come back."

"Who?"

"I can't tell you." He repeated and pleaded with his eyes for Carlisle to stop asking him. I've never lied to the whole family like this before. They're going to see this as a betrayal. They'll never trust me again. The stress from the guilt was piling up as Kyle remained silent as Carlisle waited for an answer. Tears were beginning to fall from his Kyles eyes and they burned like acid into Kyle's cuts. Carlisle wipes the tears from Kyle's uninjured eyes.

The moment was broken Carlisle's phone buzzed in his pocket again. He kissed Kyles forehead before taking out his phone.

Edward and I already know about it. We don't know everything, but some details we can tell you when you come back. We can't tell the rest of the family yet.-Alice.

Carlisle pocketed his phone again to face Kyle. He whispered with a little hurt in his voice,

"Edward and Alice know but you can't tell me." Kyle looked up quickly, pleading with his eyes for Carlisle to understand that it wasn't a matter of trust that he didn't tell him.

"I didn't tell them either." Kyle said quickly. His breathing was beginning to quicken bordering on panic. "Edward read Brian Taylors mind and knew it was all a lie, and Alice saw that in the future that would tell you all the truth eventually." His breathing was becoming shallower. Soon Kyle's monitors would be setting off alarms to the nurse's office. Carlisle took Kyles face in his hands again.

"Kyle, you need to calm down."

"Please don't hate me for lying."

'What?' "I'm not going to hate you. I never could. Now breath with me." Carlisle demonstrated by slowly breathing in and out until Kyle mimicked him. He listed for Kyle's heartrate to settle back into its normal pace then slowly laid Kyle down in the hospital bed.

Carlisle then wiped his hand across Kyle's brow and shushed him to stay quiet for a while. Questioning him now wouldn't get him any information tonight. "We'll talk about this later. The only thing we need to focus on now is getting you better. "He smiled down at his shaken grandson.

"You know I won't Carlisle."

"I could get you a sedative."

"It's still afternoon. I'd just wake up in the middle of the night."

"I'll still be here. I'm not going to leave you. "Grandpa Carlisle was beginning to come back as he whispered his assurance with the promise of protection.

"I don't want to sleep yet. Not knowing that you know, but that I'm not telling you the truth either. I can see the questions you want to ask in your eyes. "It was true. Normally Carlisle had the patience of Job, but there were a lot of unanswered questions; though this was not the time to ask Kyle in this state.

"Kyle you need to relax."

"I can't, I really want to tell you, but I can't at the same time."

"How about this. I'll ask simple questions that will put us both at east, but you won't give me too much information." Kyle thought it over for a moment and gave a nod in agreement. "Let's start from the beginning. Just try answering yes or no." Kyle nodded again. "Are the Bishops your real family?"

"No." Kyle answered quickly to get it over with.

"Okay. Did you know that when you left with them?"

"Yes." Carlisle had to hide his shock at this point. Didn't Kyle know how dangerous it was to leave with complete strangers that took them to who knows where? He didn't say this to Kyle and just moved on for now.

"Was any of the stories about Adam Baylin true."

"Not really."

"Well there's a relief." Carlisle sighed." You weren't actually kidnapped. Is Adam Baylin even a real person?"

"Yes. He's the one who sent Mellissa and Jacob. He wanted to see me, but he has to stay in hiding." Kyle was getting nervous again. He was already giving away too much information.

"Why couldn't he come and get you himself. What's he in hiding for?" Kyle hesitated. That was definitely going too far.

"You're not asking yes or no questions."

"I know, but this situation seems to be too complicated already to stay at just yes or no questions." Kyle looked as if he didn't want to continue anymore. His eyes were getting red and tired as the stress of the day, and the revelation to his grandfather was beginning to get to him. Carlisle knew Kyle was fatigued and about to reach his limit. With another sigh he resigned, "ok last question. How long has this been a lie?" Kyle looked at him with confusion. "I mean when we found you in the woods were you faking then." Kyle looked at him with fear and confusion. Carlisle saw his error and recognized that his voice was one of accusation.

"I wasn't lying then. I really didn't know anything." Kyle answered quickly to assure him. Carlisle put his hands up.

"I know. I'm sorry Kyle. That was unfair. I know you're a good boy." Carlisle took Kyles hand in his and gave him a smile. "I do still trust you Kyle. I know you will tell us the whole truth when you can." Even with his grandfather's assurance, the stress was too much for him to stay awake. With his grandfather smiling at him Kyle gave into his body of escaping the stress of the last few hours.

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In the woods of the La Push reservation, a large pure white wolf lay in anguish on the leafy ground. Her pack surrounded her attempting to her for the last few hours.

'I killed him! My own mate! I killed him!' Leah chanted to herself as she cried. In her despair she was unable to phase back to her human form.

'Leah its okay…' Jacob tried to tell her.

'NO TS NOT!' she snapped 'HOW IS ME KILLING MY IMPRINT OK.'

'Because he's not dead!' Jacob tried to yell over her. 'You only swiped his face. Sam is talking to the leech doctor right now.' Leah's emotions switched from depression to elation. 'Really. Where is Sam I want to talk to him?' Without waiting for an answer she bolted into the forest. Quickly taking a whiff of the air as she ran, she followed Sam's scent to his house. She shifted back into human form behind a tree and changed into some shorts and a t-shirt she had hidden there. Without bothering to knock, she opened the front door and walked into the kitchen to see Sam at the Kitchen table with the phone. Sam turned to Leah with a sympathetic look in his eyes.

"Leah, I'm on the Phone with Carlisle." He saw the worried and anxious look on her face, "Kyle is fine and he just woke up again about 20 minutes ago." He assured her carefully. Leah let out the breath she was holding and smiled a little. Sam held out the phone to her,

"Kyle!" Leah spoke quickly. "Are you ok?"

"This is Carlisle, Kyle's grandfather, and yes he's ok." Carlisle answered sternly.

"Oh thanks." The disappointment at hearing Carlisle instead of her imprint was obvious to Carlisle. Carlisle was an understanding man and knew Leah was eager to talk to her imprint, but he was still a little angry at Leah for attacking his family and wanted answers before he handed the phone over to Kyle like he knew Leah wanted.

"Where's Kyle?" Carlisle glanced at his right to Kyle in his hospital bed.

"He's right here beside me."

"Who's that?" Kyle whispered but Leah still heard his voice as she waited on her end.

"It's Leah." Kyles heart lept at knowing that Leah was checking up on him. Carlisle saw Kyle's reaction and took not at how quickly this bond was forming. Even in mates that have been together for years didn't forgive this quickly when one has greatly harmed the other.

"Can I talk to her?" It was Leah's turn to have her hear skip a beat. 'He still wants to speak to me!'

Carlisle wasn't sure what to do for a moment. When he looked at the right side of Kyles face and saw the bandages he wanted to forbid Leah from ever seeing Kyle again and hang up the phone. The left side of Kyles face, however, portrayed Kyles want to hear Leah's voice again. It came down to which side Carlisle wanted to satisfy more.

"Hello." Kyle spoke nervously into the receiver.

"Hi. " Leah answered with a smile. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah I think so. Carlisle said the surgery went smoothly.

'Surgery! Jacob said that I only swiped him.'

"Surgery…What kind of surgery?" she stuttered.

"The doctors had to fix some of the muscle tissue." Leah wanted to go back into the woods and continue crying, and would have fallen to the floor if Sam hadn't caught her. Her mate would be scarred for life because of her.

"I am so sorry." She whispered in between her tears. "I didn't mean to hit you."

"I've been wondering that. Why did you attack me?" Kyle didn't mean to sound accusing, but that's the one thing about this whole situation that dint make any sense to him.

"I didn't purposely do it." She whispered. Sam was still holding her and rubbing circles on Leah's back. "At first it was because I was so mad at the blonde lee…girl…that wanted to keep you away from me. I tried to keep my temper under control, but then she grabbed your arm and she hurt you. I just lost it. I wasn't going for you though. You have to believe me. Hurting you is the last thing I would ever want to do." She pleaded for Kyle to understand this.

"It's ok. Calm Down." Kyle whispered. Carlisle could be heard over the phone whispering,

"No it's not." Kyle didn't hear this but Sam and Leah did." I think its time for you to go back and rest Kyle. It's late!" recognizing the tone in Carlisle's voice, Kyle knew there was no arguing with him.

"I have to go. Carlisle says it's time for me to rest again." Leah wanted to protest, and was about to when Sam took the receiver from her.

"Alright Kyle we'll let you rest."

"Give him my phone number." Leah thought quickly in between growling at Sam for taking away the phone. Again she didn't wait for his response and spoke loud enough for Carlisle to hear and memorize for Kyle. No need though Kyle was able to memorize it himself.

"Bye." Sam ended the conversation and pressed the end button on the phone.

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"Well that changed my perspective of Leah a bit." Carlisle said as he looked over Kyles readings from his monitor. He was preparing Kyle to sleep through the night.

"What was your perspective before?" Kyle asked. Wishing that he could have woken up to the news that he could leave the hospital, but Kyle wouldn't budge on him staying until the doctor had released him.

"Initially I thought her attack was purely a primal reaction to Rosalie being near her and the atmosphere of our meeting. Though she could have handled it better, Leah only attacked to protect you." Carlisle answered as he modified Kyle's sedative to make him drowsy enough to go to sleep on his own.

"So you're not upset with her anymore?" Kyle wanted peace to be made between Leah and his family as quickly as possible. Carlisle didn't answer him right away.

"I have more of an understanding. She is still a new wolf and Rosalie did get in her face."

"Mom's never going to be accepting of her is she?" Kyle began to slump in his covers again.

"Don't sell you mother short." Carlisle smiled and ran his hand through Kyle's hair. "Give her time. Your mother loves you and they'll get along to make you happy." Kyle smiled back and closed his eyes as the sedative took effect.

AN: Sorry again it took so long to repost. It had serious writers block. Can't promise when I'll post again, but in the next chapter the bandages come off; Kyle gets to leave the hospital, and Leah and Kyle see each other again.

Also the Poll for whether Kyle becomes a vampire or not is still up. Hope to post again soon.