Longings

Leah had locked herself up in her room, refusing to open the door for anyone. Seth and Jacob were waiting outside and the whole family was worried sick about her with the only exception of Sam who thought it was either puberty or maybe she was on her periods. Jacob and Sam knew it wasn't because of having come so close to a vampire. She was young and had never met one before, but there was no way she would have been afraid of one especially to this extent.

"All right, last chance Leah! If you are not opening this door, I am taking it down." Jacob made it clear

"Are you trying to scare her? Have you any idea what is going in her head right now?"

"I was not talking to you Seth, so back off. I am coming in Leah in one, two, thr…" before Jacob could say three, Leah opened the door. Jacob and Seth had never seen Leah so sad. Her face looked as if she was crying this whole time.

"Were you crying Leah? What is the matter? If there is something, you know you can tell us!" Jacob said.

"What do you want me tell you? It is the end of all. It is an abomination. It should never have had happened." With that, Leah started crying all over again.

"Hey Leah! You know we are here to help you. So please tell us what is the matter and why are you crying?" Seth demanded.

"I imprinted Seth! I imprinted on him."

Seth wondered if she meant the cold one, but knew that could not be. Werewolves and Vampires were sworn enemies. There was no way she could have imprinted on him.

"Who did you imprint on Leah?" Jacob wanted the answer.

"I imprinted on the vampire from the forest. This should never have had happened. Sam is going to kill me."

Jacob was dumbfounded on hearing this. He could not believe his ears.

"Are you sure it was a 'leech'?"

"I am sure Jacob. While we turned around to run to this place, my hands accidentally brushed against his. It was abnormally cold. It was colder than ice." Leah said and closed her room once again and started crying.

Jacob's mind was blank. He could not think of anything. Seth too was too dumbfounded to think or say anything.

After waiting for a few minutes outside the door, Jacob finally had an idea.

"I am going to the Cullen's. Maybe they know about this bloodsucker. I want you to look after Leah and stop her from doing anything stupid."

Seth just silently nodded as he watched Jacob walk away.

Meanwhile at Cullen Mansion.

Loki was in the room the Cullen's had provided him with, lost in his thoughts. Carlisle came in and tried to talk with him but was finding it difficult to gain his attention.

"Are you following me Loki? So this is how I came to subsist on animal blood and how the rest of them joined me."

"Yeah… Interesting story."

"Listen I might have a favor to ask of you. It might be odd, but if you allow, it will help me a great deal in understanding you."

Loki just stared at Carlisle without speaking anything. Carlisle had the idea that Loki heard him but wasn't much interested for his mind was clearly somewhere else. He continued

"I need a sample of your blood. I am a doctor and a geneticist and observing the DNA of a frost giant will give me some new insights. It is all for research purposes only as you know we only hunt animals. We do not hunt humans or….gods."

Loki understood what he meant and complied

"Whatever you need." Loki said non chalantly.

Carlisle brought his injection and tried to take Loki's blood but to his dismay the needle just broke off.

"What the hell?"

"Here, this might help. It is made of Asgardian metal." Loki took out a dagger from his pocket and offered it to Carlisle. As he was about to take the dagger from Loki, Loki withdrew his hand much to the disappointment and surprise of Carlisle. Loki then brought the dagger to the index finger of his other hand and made a small incision. The blood oozed out from Loki's finger. Carlisle however did not have any equipment to store it. He made a quick visit to his medical it and brought a small vial in the blink of eye. He carefully collected the blood oozing out from the god's hand and sealed the mouth of the vial.

"So what is your story Loki? How did you come to earth? Was it a spaceship and how old exactly are you?" Carlisle asked curiously

Loki got up from his seat wondering something before looking at Carlisle and saying

"If you excuse me, I have somewhere to be." Loki made to the door of his room before looking at Carlisle once again

"and by the way, Loki-the god of mischief is about 200000 years old by your earth standards, roughly the same time your Homo Sapiens species came into existence. This incarnation, however, is about 1100 years old. By our standards I am exactly 30 years old." Said Loki before exiting the room and the Cullen Mansion. He headed off into the night, after something or someone who was calling out to him, reaching the deepest part of his being.