Hope you're all enjoying this series!
Fari30 - Thank you for your review! And don't worry, I'm not a fan on imprint = instant love stories either, so Paul is going to have to fight to by Sully's side. And he's going to have to watch his step with Embry, and it seems it's not just Embry he has on his back at the moment either.
SugarishFreak - Yea, he definitely didn't think he was going to imprint and he's definitely not happy about it! I'm glad you're enjoying it, and I will keep on posting, I just don't know about time periods between the chapters. And don't worry, they won't be falling for each other straight away. Despite this being an imprint story, I don't care for stories in which they imprint and are together like that *clicks fingers* It was even shown in the Twilight series that it isn't instant love. Apparently both the imprinter and imprintee feel the pull, and Emily rejected it at first.
Sarahmichellegellerfan1 - Thank you for the very short review! Glad you like it. Yes, Sully. Is something wrong with her name; and yes it is short for something.
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So when I started writing this on the 26th I was watching a film called Mine Games, and you know when you're watching something and reconize someone? That happened, it wasn't until I watched a little more of it that I realise it was Alex Meraz! Lucky me, I was writing a fanfiction about the lovely boy, and there he was! If you like thriller films, I recommend you look it up!
Also I suggest you check out Good things start small (Embry/OC) by Fari30 and Pepperoni Love (Paul/OC) by SugarishFreak. Two very good stories by two of my reviewers, which I will be leaving a review of my own on both stories, as well as Fave and following!
Sully woke up late the next morning, and for minutes she just lay in bed staring at the orange wall. Sully had forgotten where she was to start with, and then everything had crashed down onto her. Her mother had died and now she was living with her Godmother Tiffany Call and her son Embry Call, they were in La Push in the Rez. Sully was in the guest room, well it was her room now. Embry had decorated it for her but it was the room she and her Mother would share when they visited. Sully wanted to get up, she really did but she just couldn't find the strength, she curled up in a all on her side.
"Sully, it'll be okay. You don't have to worry."
"It's not going to be okay. You're dying!"
"I know, my sweet. But I'll always be here for you."
"Don't start any of that 'I will always be in your heart' shit." Sully said, Madeleine laughed at her girl, "Next you'll be a star, with the great kings of the past, looking down on us!"
"Quoting the Lion king, now are we?"
"It's a good film!"
Madeleine laughed. They knew she didn't have long left and it seemed her last weeks would be in the hospital. Madeleine, despite wanting to spend as much time as she could with her daughter, hated Sully being in the hospital. Sully sat on the edge of the bed, holding her mothers hand. At the start, Sully would lie with her mothers head in her lap and she would stroke Madeleine's hair, now she couldn't do that. Madeleine had lost her hair with the chemo, which had upset Sully at first; Sully could remember times when she was younger. Whole afternoons spent braiding her mothers hair, and now that was all gone. Now it was Madeleine's turn, now she would sit behind Sully and play with her hair.
"Mum?"
"Yea, baby?"
"I..I love you."
Madeleine watched her daughter closely, it wasn't unlike Sully to say that. Sully could be a very affectionate person, especially to Madeleine. Growing up with her mother and no father, had made Sully extremely close to her mother. It was the crack in her girls voice, hearing her little girl break in front of her. Sure, sully had been upset about of of this, but she had expressed it all in different ways, rarely crying...at least in front of her mother. Madeleine watched as her little girl dipped her head and broke down in front of her. Madeleine was up like a shot and took Sully in her arms, cradling her like she had when Sully had been a little girl.
"I love you Sully. Don't you ever forget that, ever." Madeleine said in the strongest voice she could. "Sully, you listen to me, there will always be someone there for you. I might not be.."
"Don't."
"Sully."
"Don't. Not now, please."
Madeleine stopped talking, there was no point in trying to continue the conversation. She knew Sully wouldn't listen. Madeleine fell back onto the bed, taking Sully with her; and the two lay there as Sully sobbed her heart out. It had occurred to her, just really hit her hard that this could be one of her last moments with her mother and everything, everything that had happened just built up and all spilt out.
"I don't know what I'll do without you."
"I do."
Sniffing, Sully looked up at her mother.
"You'll be sad, but just for a little bit. Then you'll get on with your life, you'll live it. You'll grow up to be a fantastic woman. What do we say?"
"Live. Laugh. Love."
"That's right baby."
Madeleine continued to hold onto Sully, cuddling her. It wasn't long before Madeleine heard the even breathes of Sully, she had fallen asleep. Madeleine stroked Sully's hair, as Sully would with her at the start of her treatment. This was going to be one of the last times she would ever get to hold Sully like this and she wanted to savour every moment.
"You'll be fine baby. Live. Laugh. Love."
Embry hung up the phone and walked back inside Sam's house. Sam, Quil and Seth sat round the table and looked up as he walked back in; from hearing him answer, all they knew was that it was his mom on the phone, after that Embry had walked outside to talk. They could all guess what was said on the phone, they couldn't turn off their wolf senses, just chose not to listen and Sam had turned to Seth asking how his mother was. Yes, he had just seen her last night, but he wanted to give Embry privacy. Sam smiled at Embry as he sat down, waiting for him to speak. When Paul had left last night, he had phased back and told the rest of the guys not to push things, unless Embry started the conversation about his present situation first.
"That was mom. She was just letting me know that Sully has just woke up."
"Jeez, and I thought we could sleep in." Seth joked.
"Yea, she asked if it was alright if she dropped Sully off here," Embry looked at Sam, "I said it was okay..."
"Of course it's fine Embry. As long as she doesn't mind the noise, 'cause the rest of the pack will be here soon."
"I'm sure she won't, mom said Sully was in the shower, so they'll be here in about half an hour." Embry looked at Quil and let out an airy laugh, "Get your mind out the gutter."
Quil laughed, "I don't know what you mean!"
"Please, mention and the word shower and you're all over it!"
"That's how it may have been, but I have Claire."
"Claire's not of age yet. You need something to get off with."
"Now who's mind is in the gutter."
Seth laughed at the two and Sam stood to get them another can of soda each. He took his phone out and thought about sending a text to Paul to tell him Sully was coming here, but he had agreed to only get involved if absolutely necessary. Sam put the cans on the kitchen island for the guys to take when he noticed Embry spot his phone, Sam held it up for the other two to see and said,
"I was just gunna tell Emily she'll have another mouth to feed."
The guys grinned at him, well, Seth and Quil did. Embry was still a little suspicious. Sam had to push it back, he knew that Embry thought he was going to text Paul, so instead of texting Emily, he made a small phone call to her. He watched Quil nudge Embry and the two ran outside, grabbing the football on the porch, and ran to the beach, with Seth following. It was good to see Embry blow some steam, he'd been a bit uptight since finding out about Sully's mother and Sully coming to live with them. Sam knew, he was thrilled and excited at the thought and now that she was here, Embry knew it was going to be okay. As long as Paul both kept his distance and temper. Sam grabbed his can of soda and walked out onto the porch sitting down on the steps.
"Hey."
"Hi, Sam. You don't mind Sully being here, do you?"
"The more the merrier."
Tiffany kissed Sully on the cheek, "I'll see you later."
The blonde teen walked over to Sam and sat on the porch steps with him as Tiffany drove away. Sully glanced at Sam, it was pretty breezy today and not particularly warm and the guy had no top on! Sully watched him, he was a very calm guy and it was easy to catch onto his vibe. Sully let out a breathy laugh, her mum used to talk like that. That people let off certain vibes, Sam looked at her.
"Sorry. I didn't think I'd feel quite so at ease."
"Sorry we're so scary." Sam laughed, "How are things?"
"Fine. I'm not much of a talker."
"You were with Emily."
"She reminds me a lot of my mum."
"I think she'll be thrilled to hear that."
"Really?"
"Yea, she know how much she think of your mum. She'll be over the moon to hear that." Sam smiled, it was true. Emily had loved speaking with Sully, and she was glad to her some more female company. "And Emily wants a child, to say she's like your mum...will back her case."
"You don't want a kid?"
"Not yet. I don't think I'm ready."
"I'm sure you'd be a great dad."
"I wouldn't know what they're like, mine wasn't great."
"Least you had one."
"Sorry."
"It's okay." Sully said, and let the conversation lie. "That was pretty personal. Sorry. So, Tiff said there'd be the guys here from last night."
"Yea, they're on their way over, you don't mind the company."
"Nah, it's cool by me. they all seem..-"
"SAM!"
Sam and Sully looked over to the road where Jared, Paul and Jake were. The three of them raced up the road coming to a stop at the porch. Jake and Jared ran straight into the house after saying hello to Sully and Sam. Paul hesitated after saying hello, he wanted to stay because of the imprint but he wanted to go. He was not about to allow the imprint to rule his life. He stood by the door, half in and half out, looking into the house. He watched Jake and Jared fight over the T.V remote, but his attention was on Sully. Sam stood, Emily would be home soon and he wanted Quil, Embry and Seth to clean their mess up before she got in. He looked down at Sully and told her he was just going to get the boys at the beach, Sully stood and asked if it was okay that she went instead of him. Sam was unsure whether to let her go, but it wasn't like she could really go far. He didn't think Sully would just take off, and there wasn't anywhere else to go but the beach which was only five minutes away so Sam let her. He told her just about where they would be and walked into the house, and he felt Paul leave him, Jared and Jake.
Paul followed Sully down to the beach and watched as she stopped when she stepped on the sand. She looked up and down the beach for them. Paul walked up next to her and pointed to her right, saying that there was a cave down there that they sometimes went to, and the two made their way down. Halfway down, they met Seth, Quil and Embry.
"Hey! Sam want's you three back to tidy your mess up!" Paul shouted.
Quil laughed as he pushed Seth over and running from the younger boy before taking off towards the house with Seth chasing him. Embry looked at Sully, who had walked to the waters edge and looked out at the sea. Embry glared at Paul, Why did it have to be Paul? Of all his brothers, it had to be Paul to imprint on her. Embry told Sully he would meet her at the house, knowing that she wanted to be alone with her thoughts, and walked into Paul as he passed. "Take care of her." Embry mumbled at Paul. Embry knew that Paul wouldn't leave her here by herself and as much he didn't want to leave her with Paul, he didn't want to feel the wrath of Emily either. Paul and Sully stood in silence for over twenty minutes before Sully looked over her shoulder at him. Yes, she had felt his presence behind her but she was still very surprised that he had stayed with her all this time. He hadn't said a word either, which she was kind of grateful for because everyone else would have asked how she was, which she was getting sick of now; but something she had picked up about Paul was that he seemed very sure of himself and at times, he appeared to be very smug. Something Sully hated, she hated to be the one to make assumptions but smug people, particularly boys, were arrogant.
"Why are you here?"
"Emily's cooking."
There it was, the arrogance.
"No, I mean here, at the beach. You didn't have to come with me. It isn't a complicated walk."
"Who said I'm here for you?" Paul said rather forcefully before walking up to her with that same smug smirk plastered on his face as he spoke to her again in a softer, almost teasing voice. "I'm just here for the view."
"You don't strike me as the type of guy to take in the scenery."
"Nah, just if you're the subject."
Sully rolled her eyes, she had met guys like Paul before. The only difference was that she knew she would be seeing Paul at lot more then those other guys she'd known. As she looked out at the almost grey sea she could feel Paul's eyes on her, as he had taken the opportunity to look her over. Sure, he thought she was pretty but he also thought that he thought that just because of the imprint, if he was destined to be with this girl in whatever way, he might as well see if she was a sight for sore eyes. She was slightly tanned, not very tanned but there was a pale glow to her. She had blonde hair which reached just below her shoulder blades, she had no fringe just two bangs at either side of her face. One of them was dyed a rosy pink colour, her hair was wavy. Paul, from the first time he had seen her, had been taken back from her eyes. It had been then, when he had looked into her green eyes that he had imprinted. Paul scoffed at himself, god he sounded like something from one of those corny romance novels that his mom reads. She wore black jeans and orange converse, a white t-shirt and a purple hoodie with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows. She was definitely not his usual type of girl, quite the opposite; in fact had he been in school the same time as her, he probably would have taken the mick out of her. He found it funny, that she was really the type of person that Jared used to hang out with at school and he had seen enough to know that the two didn't get on, not to say that he got on with her. She seemed ready to hate him, and whilst he was fighting the imprint, he was also ready to take on the challenge of getting Sully to like him. Even if they didn't end up like Emily and Sam or Jared and Kim, it would be nice for his imprint to at least like him instead of hating his guts.
"You didn't strike me as a pink type of girl."
Sully walked past him, her bare arm brushing up against his. "I'm not."
"So what's with this?" Paul asked, taking hold of the pink bang before letting it slide out of his fingers.
"It's..er..." Sully was unsure. She had at first wanted to hit him for touching her, yes, she could be affectionate, but that was only when she showed a fondness for the person.
"Personal?"
"Kinda. My mum died."
Paul already knew this, but the imprinting wolf was telling his smart arse to be quiet. She was opening up to him and he had better keep his mouth shut, the snarky teen that was fighting the imprint was dying to make some sarcastic comment at that, he already knew this else she wouldn't be here now. But the Imprinting wolf was stronger right now, and he wanted her to continue.
"She had cancer, we have pink ribbon badge things to support people with cancer. I didn't want a pink badge or ribbon so..."
"You dyed your hair. And after...she..."
"I just kept dying it. It reminds me of her."
Sully smiled thinking of her mum, it was just a small smile which barely graced her lips; but Paul saw it, and when he did, the small part of him which accepted the imprint smiled. The larger bit which was trying to fight the imprint, also softened at her smile and he looked at her, he was happy that he had brought some form of inner peace to her. The two walked the rest of the way back to the house in silence, and he, the teen not the wolf, felt immense jealousy as he watched her walk even a larger smile into the house and hugged Jake, Quil, Embry and Seth. He even felt a little jealous when she and Emily embraced, it was then that the jealous teen growled and the imprinted wolf laughed,
So much for that fight, kid.
There you are, chapter three! I hope you all liked it. I got this up a lot quicker then I thought, but I wrote this relatively quickly. It didn't quite turn out how I thought it would but I still like it.
I'm sorry if some of the characters have OOCness, and don't worry, although Paul is falling her a bit, I think he will still try to fight the imprint. I don't mean for it to be a kind of split personality thing, but I kind of imagine that the wolf side of him would accept the Imprint and it would be human side of him that would fight it. He knows that he will be something to her, but he doesn't want to be ruled by the force of the Imprint.
I'd love to know what you all think but no flames please!
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