A/N: Welcome back! Today I learned that a real-life friend of mine has been reading this fic and it threw me for a whole loop because I forgot she was following my account. Did she catch me SLIPPING? Yes. Am I SHOOK? Yes. Will I stop writing now that I've been found out? Probably not lol. Here's your update Tina, this one's for you pal.

Last I checked I was a 22-year-old, Black, struggling college student. Since this doesn't fit the description of SMeyer, Twilight couldn't possibly be mine.


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My eyes stayed shut. I couldn't tell you why. I was the one who asked for this after all, but something was stopping me from seeing. I felt something soft brush against my arm and though I was startled I didn't jerk away.

I opened my eyes slowly until I was able to see what was in front of me; A giant, sand-colored wolf stood nearly face to face with me. It was massive! My first instinct obviously should've been to run but as I looked into the eyes of this wolf I knew I had nothing to fear.

"It's you isn't it Seth?" I asked and the beast nodded and smiled. At least I think it was a smile, it was kind of hard to tell. "May I?" I held out my hand in question and the wolf settled his head beneath my palm. As I stroked his soft fur I couldn't help but grin.

"It really is you, isn't it? This is amazing!" Both of my hands were now buried in his fur scratching him gently. "How long has this been happening? Did someone warn you? Were you just blindsided? Leah's a wolf? I thought only men could shift? Shit if you're a wolf does that mean Cold Ones are real?" The wolf exhaled loudly and I took a step back. "Oh, I guess it would be easier to talk if you were human again huh? Okay get to it, I need answers!"

Suddenly the air started to shimmer again and then boom there was Seth standing before me, naked as the day he was born.

"Shit!" I shouted and turned around quickly. "I am so sorry, I completely forgot you were naked!"

I could hear him chuckling behind me. "Its fine, Lex. You can turn around now." So I did, right as he was pulling the shirt over his head, leaving me with just a glimpse of his abs. "To answer your questions, it's been about two years since I started shifting. No, I wasn't warned in fact, I got really angry one day over the smallest thing and accidentally phased for the first time in my living room. Leah saw that and out of shock she also phased. These events ended up causing my dad to have a heart attack which he eventually died from." He said somewhat nonchalantly.

"That's what happened to Harry?! Oh my goodness Seth, I am so sorry." Tears started running down my face and I reached out to hug him.

"It's alright. Truly, you don't have to worry about it. It was obviously really difficult and it still is sometimes but everyone's moving on. Mom's even got a new boyfriend if you can believe it." I felt him chuckle.

"Anyone I would know?" I asked.

"The Chief of Police in Forks actually, Charlie Swan?" He said.

"Billy's friend? No way!" I exclaimed.

"Yeah it's actually a really sweet and kinda funny story..." he started.

"Wait, wait, wait, stop. This isn't answering any of my questions we'll have to get back to this later. Now more wolf stuff please." I cut him off completely. We were getting nowhere in our conversation if we continued on this tangent.

"Sure sure." He said "Uhm the next question I believe was about how a woman could shift. We still have no clue. All of the confusion surrounding it really messed with Leah's head especially on top of suddenly being in the mind of your ex-fiance who left you unexpectedly for your cousin. Which I'm still not completely over in all honesty. Oh, and yes Cold Ones, or vampires, are real."

"Wow. Really wow. This is all so much to take in." I sighed. He rubbed his hands up and down my back and I felt his fingertips graze a bit of my exposed skin which sent a shiver down my back. I was snapped right back to the reason we had come out here in the first place. As I thought about the tension back at my brother's house I looked up into Seth's eyes.

"What does any of this have to do with what happened back at the house? What happened between us? Why am I so comfortable being in your arms this way for so long even though we haven't seen each other in years?" I asked.

"There's another legend about the wolves Lexi. A legend about imprinting. A moment where a wolf looks into the eyes of another person and is suddenly anchored to them in a completely soul binding way. The wolf will do anything, be anything, for them. It's supposedly how we find our mates. Though if you ask me, that's not entirely true. The wolf and this person are tied together for eternity to be whatever the imprintee needs of them." Seth stopped talking after that and took a few deep breaths, waiting for me to respond.

"I'm...I'm your imprint aren't I?" I asked.

"Yes...what do you think? About all this I mean." He said.

"Why are you asking me? I have gained someone whose sole purpose is to make sure I'm happy. This must suck for you! It sounds like you're supposed to be my slave?!" I was completely baffled at the fact this happened. How could the spirits even allow it? "Then to top it all off you got me! We haven't seen or spoken to each other in almost 7 years! You don't know me anymore and I don't know you. You've probably got some amazing girlfriend who's about to get totally jilted because of this and that's gotta hurt you."

"Okay now take a deep breath Lexi. First of all, I need you to stop with the whole we don't know each other thing, because no matter how far away we were from each other and no matter how long it's been since we last spoke, you will always be my friend. I doubt it would've taken any time at all for us to fall back into the camaraderie we were used to. This imprint just speeds things up a bit." His smile was so comforting that I began to do what he said. I breathed deeply to calm my racing heart.

"I'm gonna be completely honest with you now. In spite of my feelings on imprinting, I've wanted to since the first time I heard about it. The connection that it brings for the individuals involved is earth-shattering as cheesy as it sounds. I'm so glad that I can have that...especially since it's with you." He blushed a bit at that.

"You're...glad? You're glad you imprinted on me? I don't get it." I said.

"If the spirits ordained it then it must be right. Even though we haven't spoken in a while I do believe that at least at the core you're still the same girl who kissed me on the nose when I was 10, which means that you'd always have my best interests at heart and wouldn't use this connection to take advantage of me. I trust you and like I said before, nothing between us has to be anything you don't want it to be, but I will say that I really hope you aren't looking for a brother." I laughed at that and shoved him playfully.

"Real smooth casanova. Considering I used to doodle about you in notebooks and daydream about kissing you when I was 10, I don't think I could ever look at you as a brother. That would be too weird." I blushed.

"Awww you doodled about me? That's adorable." He hugged me tight as he laughed and placed a soft kiss on my forehead. I let go of him and took a few steps back.

"So maybe we'll start as friends? We can see where that goes." I told him.

He smiled brightly at that. "That sounds fantastic."

"Okay, so now that that's out of the way, what was all that stuff about Leah and my brother? What happened between them? I would assume that's where your semi-bitter opinion of imprinting stems from." I asked.

"Actually I think that might be enough for tonight. We've been out here for quite some time and I think they might start to get a little worried about us. Besides, you've been given a lot of information tonight all at once and even though you took it like a champ, I'm sure you're a bit overwhelmed." He deflected my questions with a swiftness but I decided he was at least right about how late it was, and like it or not I was getting pretty hungry. Then my stomach growled.

"Come on now, I can't let my imprint starve to death on the first day." He chuckled as he slung an arm around my shoulder and led me back to my brother's place.

We entered the house through the back door expecting to see everyone, but the only person there was my brother.

"Sam." Seth nodded.

"I need to be alone with my sister." He remained stony.

"I guess I'll see you tomorrow sweetheart." Seth kissed my forehead and hugged me tightly.

"Goodnight." I blushed and gave him a wave on his way out the door. Turned to my brother as soon as the door shut behind Seth. "Why are you acting this way?"

"Sit down, Lexi. We need to talk about some things." He said. So I sat at the table across from him and kept my expression as stern as his.

"Where did everyone go? Where's Emily?" I asked.

"I sent them home. Emily is asleep upstairs."

"It's only 7:30! What is she, geriatric?" I rolled my eyes. "And why did you send them home? I wasn't done catching up."

"You should've thought about that before you ran off with Seth." He shot back.

"Okay hold up, let's cut the crap Sam. What's the real issue? Cause I know you're not mad about Seth, the literal sweetest human in La Push. So are you mad that I'm part of this now? What is it?"

"You were never meant to get involved. This is the last thing I wanted for you." He said solemnly.

"So you were just planning on keeping this from me? This huge aspect of your life? Well, perhaps YOU should've thought of that before you asked me to move here with you. How exactly did you mean to hide it from me?"

"That's beside the point. I just - I never wanted this life for you." The look he gave me now was a complete turn around from the anger he'd exhibited before. His eyes were glassy and sorrowful. "I never wanted your choices to be taken from you the way mine were taken from me. Maybe it was crazy to think I could have you back in my life, that I could have the normalcy of being around my baby sister with this part of my world slipping into our relationship. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry."

"Sam, I don't feel that way. I feel the opposite actually, it's like a whole new door has appeared before me adding yet another possibility to the many ahead of me before. Why do you struggle with this so much?"

The air around my brother and I was heavy. He could barely even look at me, so he didn't.

"Why do you struggle with this so much?" I asked him. He focused his gaze on something behind me and just when I thought he would say anything he started to speak.

"You know I don't play ball anymore right? That I turned down my scholarship for college?"

This new angle he was taking only served to confuse me, but it didn't take long after for me to understand.

"Sam...don't tell me you-"

"Yes, Lexi. As honorable as it is to be chosen by the spirits, to be a protector of this land, it made me miserable. I lost everything I had worked so hard for because of this gift." He spat. "It chained me to this reservation. The things I loved most were stripped from me. I wanted to go to college, get a degree, maybe even go pro. I was ENGAGED to a woman I loved so much, a woman I still love. Its easier now though, to move on. Ever since Jake split the pack I haven't had to share a mind link with her and I think its better for her to not have to see me with Emily."

"I'm sorry Sam. I never knew things had gotten so difficult for you." I touched his hand and held onto it.

"The point of this conversation isn't to make you feel sorry for me. Its to make you understand that you are now in the same boat as I am. Chained to the reservation. Seth isn't an alpha so he has a bit more leeway, but he's still stuck. If you're thinking about college, you might as well get anything further than U-dub out of your mind. Seth won't be able to be that far away from you, or you him, for that long and since he can't be too far away from the reservation in case we need him he can't go further than that. You're gonna be here for the rest of your life whether you like it or not. You're gonna raise your kids here one day. You and Seth. Do you understand?"

"Understand perfectly Sam. I don't mind being chained to this reservation. When I moved back I moved for good. I want to be here with my people, my family." I squeezed his hand and smiled. "As far as college goes, I don't mind U-dub. I've actually already started researching it in case I decide I do want to go to college. As for me and Seth, well, we're just friends. This imprint didn't thrust us into anything romantic and we might not ever have a romantic relationship at all. We haven't spoken in 7 years, I barely know him anymore so friends is all we'll be for a while. The imprint is about what I need after all and I don't need that from him right now. He did express that he'd like to see us go in a more romantic direction eventually but that isn't what I want just yet. I also don't want him jumping into anything with me so soon, he doesn't know me either. Also, I'm not totally sold on the idea that he hasn't been interested in anyone at school or anything. I want him to explore his options. The imprint doesn't mean we have to end up together it just means we can."

He gave me a skeptical look then. "Okay Lexi. If you're sure then I'll be okay. I'll support you as an older brother should, and if Seth breaks your heart I'll kick his ass." He smirked and bumped my shoulder. "Now let's get some rest. Your room is up the stairs, second door on the right. I already took your things up."

"Thanks big bro, goodnight." I walked quietly up the stairs as to not wake Emily. As I walked down the hall I noticed that the bathroom was the door right next to mine and decided to take a shower.

As I washed up, I thought about everything that had happened today. If my first day back is anything to go by then I'm gonna have one hell of a time living in La Push again.


A/N: Thanks for reading folks! I just wanna let you guys know btw that there is no real update schedule for this fic. I won't let it be more than a week without one but the chapters are just gonna come as they're completed. Please write a review and tell me how I'm doing I'd appreciate the feedback.

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