I'm so sorry that this has taken so long! I have no excuses and give you full permission to reprimand me in any way you see fit.

Well it was fun talking like that. Anyways, onto the story of Collin and Ellie. This is going to start a little bit further back to give Collin a bit of a back-story.

Collin P.O.V

I had a secret. I had a crush. I had a crush on the school reject. The girl that's been bullied since 3rd grade.

I had a crush on Ellie Rodriguez.

She sat next to me in English. Always quiet and I always paid no attention to her, or at least not when she was looking. When her attention was on her work I just watched her. I watched as she brushed her dark brown waves out of her face, tucking them behind her ear or when she bit her lip in concentration.

That's probably why I was failing English.

But I couldn't stop thinking about her. It was ridiculous.

Anyways there I was, walking into the cafeteria when I saw these guys push her into the lockers. They laughed and high-fived and I was about five-seconds away from going all psycho on their asses when out of nowhere Paul and Jared showed up and dragged me out the door and into the forest.

I could feel myself shaking. I hurt everywhere but I couldn't stop thinking about those guys that had hurt Ellie. I started shaking harder and harder and then suddenly, I exploded.

It felt like my back split open and scalding heat went rushing through my veins. When the pain finally ended I was lying on the ground panting.

"'Sup Newbie!"

Shit that was Paul's voice. What the fuck is Paul doing in my head! I'm going crazy aren't I. Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fu-

"Collin you aren't going crazy. Just look down at your feet for me okay?"

That was Jared. I slowly looked down to my... PAWS!

I stared at the fur covered... things on my legs and then started twisting and angling my body, trying to see if I had a tail or some shit.

"I think I'm gonna like this kid." Paul said, for the first time sounding sincere.

Once they'd managed to calm me down they explained what we were. Wolves, shape-shifters and protectors of La Push. They explained imprinting and vampires to me.

I had trouble phasing back. It took me a week and after I'd finally managed to do that Sam Uley, who was the alpha, started training me to phase on command. The rest, he said, will come by instinct.

This all led up to today.

I was on my way home for the first time in three weeks when I came across a group of guys harassing some girl. It pissed me off.

Before the main guy had managed to punch her I grabbed his wrist and threw him away from her. I glared coldly at the other guys and felt a sick satisfaction at watching them run away.

I turned towards the girl to find out if she was okay.

Before the sentence was even fully out of my mouth I looked into her eyes and my world changed forever. Her gorgeous grey eyes sucked me in. This girl became my everything within a second. She was short, only coming up to my chest but had a tiny waist and a killer rack. I looked back up to her gorgeous face and almost yelled in happiness.

My imprint was Ellie Rodriguez!

"I'm fine. Thank you so much for helping me Collin; I don't know what they would have done." I couldn't help my body's reaction to her saying me name but I snapped out of it quickly enough to answer, "No problem."

I heard her heartbeat speed up and grinned widely, "Do you want me to walk you home?

She looked up at me, obviously still shaken and my entire being ached with the need to comfort her. I gave in and pulled her close into a tight hug. I felt her stiffen before she relaxed and wrapped her arms around my neck. I could feel her tears hitting my neck and the light tremors as she sobbed and continued to hold her, murmuring sweet nothings into her ear.

"I-I was s-so s-scared," she whimpered, burrowing her face even further into my neck. I responded by holding her impossibly closer and continuing to coo softly into her ear.

"It's alright sweetheart, I'll take care of you. I promise." I could feel the tremors slowing until they completely stopped and she stepped away, wiping her eyes and looking down as if she was embarrassed. I stepped forward and pulled her hands away from her face.

"Don't ever be ashamed of yourself. You just had a bad experience. I'm pretty sure that merits a good sob session." I beamed when she giggled slightly.

"Thank you Collin. Could you please take me home now?" she asked, smiling sweetly up at me.

I grinned back and offered my arm, which she laughingly accepted, and we headed off to her house.

Ellie P.O.V

Collin was honestly the sweetest guy I knew. As we walked towards my house we talked, mostly about what he'd missed at school but he managed to avoid answering why he was away in the first place, claiming that he'd tell me, "When the time is right."

When we got to my door he pulled me into another amazingly warm hug and then left with a final touch to my cheek. I couldn't contain my grin as I opened the door and went inside.

The smile quickly slid off my face when I entered the living room. My father was there, pocket-watch in hand, and he sneered at me when I walked in.

"Where the fuck have you been? Probably off fucking someone. Whore. I don't know why I let you stay here." He pushed up off the couch and in one quick movement had made it across to my side of the room and smacked me across the face, sending me flying into the wall. I slid to the floor, grasping my head in pain. But he didn't stop. He came at me again, this time kicking me viciously in the ribs before moving to my legs. I bit my lip to hold in the screams that were longing to escape as he hit and scratched my legs.

He slammed his boot into my ribs one more time and then suddenly he was gone.

I looked up, and holding him by the throat was...

Ooooh I'm cruel. Making you wait so long and then giving you a cliffy.

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