Oh I forgot to mention in the previous chapter that all the characters (with the exception of Kate) aren't mine and all that stuff you guys already knew. By the way Claire is 18 and Quil is 24.

Quil

I'm not really entirely sure about how I ended up in this position. I'm sitting in the car waiting, while nearly everyone else on the reservation gets to greet her off the plane? How did this even happen? Where does she get off telling me what to do anyhow?

"Go park the car" I mocked, agitated I drummed my fingers against the steering wheel. "Patience is a virtue." I reminded myself quickly.

After all, I am capable of seeing Emily's side of this. Every second of every day we're capable of losing control. Claire is her niece after all. I pressed my cheek against the side of the window. The cool glass calmed my nerves for only a minute. Only my nerves could say such things about Emily.

I've tried time and time again to picture what she would look like now, the last time I saw her she was only twelve. Six whole years ago and I can still remember it, she was cheeky and outspoken. Crushing on every single one of the pack, they loved every moment of it, never wasting a single one to joke about stealing her right from under my nose. I got my turn too. I don't understand what Emily and Sam think I wanted with her exactly it wasn't anything like that then. She was twelve and I was eighteen, nothing would have happened aside from a gentle and polite rejection if it ever even got that far. You would think they had it in their head that I was a pedophile.

So lost in my thoughts at this point that I jumped so high when the door opened and my head collided with the roof, white spots of light freckled my vision before I could clearly see Jared's mate.

"Oh calm down for heavens sake" Kim spouted at me, climbing into he back seat.

"Did you see her?" I demanded, I didn't want to play games with her or anyone else today, tense as I was.

"Yeah, they're getting her bags."

"Well?"

"Jeez Quil, What do you want me to say? She's a drop dead gorgeous Jessica Alba clone?"

"Is she?" I laughed at this one. I had been driving everyone nuts. But I told them it would be this way, as far as I'm concerned if you give someone proper notice it evens the playing field a bit.

"She's pretty" she admitted, purposely withholding information from me. If looks could kill Kim would be cold hard stone. "Straight black hair and green eyes, Satisfied?"

"Never," I only speak the truth.

"Well you will be soon because there they are"

My neck snapped so quickly in the direction of Kim's I knew I would be paying for it later. It didn't take my anytime at all to pick her out, Emily had one arm around her. And suddenly that was all I could see. This stunning girl, at which Kim's description of her did no justice. She was on the shorter side, maybe 5'4 with hair that set just a few inches below her shoulders and side swept bangs. Her eye's we're the most curious, most of us had darker eyes but hers were an emerald color, sticking out against her tan skin and dark hair.

Claire

It was a little surprising and embarrassing to meet Jared and his wife at the airport along with my aunt and uncle. Jared was ONE of the many boys I crushed on at my last visit but maybe I was just making too much of it. Then Aunt Emily told my Quil was in the car, another knot hit my stomach… I was hoping I would have time to prepare before I saw everyone again, but here I go making a mountain out of a mole hill again.

Emily wrapped her shoulder around me, it wasn't hard to notice she was feeling tense, her hand gripped my shoulder a little harder then it should, she barked out Jared and Sam to grab my bags, Kim rushed ahead to meet us in the car.

My first Washington greeting was an icy blast of air not so different from the cold that I left in Boston, weren't people supposed to go to Florida on winter vacations? It wouldn't matter in a manner of seconds anyway when I felt Quil's stare I could have suffered a heat stroke from the temperature rise, I pulled myself as far back as the van would allow.

I apologize for the short chapter, I didn't have much time to write today and I figured I should at least post something!

Enjoy )