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LAST CHAPTER--

There was a ferocious growl, and Emmett let me go. In the doorway there was a wolf. A big, snarling, sandy brown wolf.

My wolf.

THIS CHAPTER--

He growled and showed his sharp teeth. Emmett pushed me behind him, and settled into a crouch.

Every thing seemed to be moving in slow motion. Seth tensed, and I imagined what would happen if he attacked Emmett. He was greatly outnumbered, and he would probably be killed in front of my very eyes.

I ran around Emmett, and towards Seth.

He jumped.

His paws hit my shoulders, knocking me to the floor. He stepped off me, standing in front of me, and still growling at the vampires. I could smell the forest on him, and there was something strapped to his back leg.

I jumped up, and stood in front of Seth. He growled at me, and shook his head at me. I got the feeling that if we got out of this alive, he wouldn't be very happy with me.

"Seth." I said slowly, "its okay. They're..." I looked at them over my shoulder. "They're my friends."

His eyes moved to the vampires standing behind me, and then back to me. He stared at me with his big, wolfy eyes, as if to say 'if you say so.'

I turned to look at the vampire's reactions. Carlisle's face was impassive, as was Esme's. Edward and Jasper were looking at us with badly withheld disgust. Emmett still looked like he was about to attack Seth, and Bella…Bella was looking at us with longing in her eyes.

When I turned back to Seth, he was there in human form, in cutoff jeans. That's probably what was strapped to his leg, I thought to myself.

He grabbed my hand, and dragged me towards the door. "Let's get out of here" he growled.

I tugged at my hand, trying to get free. "Seth, they're having problems finding the thing as well, if you guys would work together…"

"Work together?" he interrupted me. "With them? You must be joking." He saw my face and realized that there was no way I was joking. "They're vampires Katie. Bloodsuckers. Leeches. They'll drink your blood, and then you'll die." He said with a pained look on his face.

"They haven't done anything to me!" I protested.

"Not yet." He retorted.

"If I might interrupt." Called a polite voice.

"No." Seth growled back. "We're leaving."

I glared at Seth, and turned around. Carlisle looked at me "We don't drink human blood."

I glanced back at Seth as Carlisle continued. "We only drink animal blood. Drinking human blood is unethical."

Seth nodded in Bella's direction. "She was only turned a little while ago. What's to say she won't lose control?"

Bella wrinkled her nose. "You smell bad." She said to me.

"You smell like werewolf." Carlisle clarified. "As long as you smell like that, we'll stay as far away as possible."

"I won't!" called Emmett. Seth turned his menacing glare on him. "I like Katie." Emmett added. His eyes narrowed at Seth. "You're scary though. I don't like you."

Edward rolled his eyes at Emmett's behavior, and moved closer to Bella. She broke away from him and walked towards me. Edward's eyes followed her as she crossed the room.

She stopped in front of me and looked between Seth and me. "You're his imprint, aren't you?"

There was that word again…I looked at Seth. He nodded grimly. She smiled at us, and said "You can go if you want, but come over anytime."

That was all Seth needed. He practically dragged me outside. We walked in silence for 5 minutes, then he stopped. He put his warm hands on my shoulders and looked at me.

"Are you alright?"

I looked at him. His face showed no emotion. "I'm fine."

He looked at me for a second, and pulled me close to him. I felt safe with his arms around me.

"Never." His voice was low and husky. "Never do that to me again." His arms tightened around me. "When I found your car…with the blood over the road…and the reek of leech all over…" his voice broke. "I thought I would never see you again."

Why was he telling me this? "Seth…"

I heard him laugh bitterly. "I'm scaring you aren't I?"

"No…" I hesitated. "Something's been bothering me…"

He held me even tighter. "Please." He whispered. "Don't…don't say…goodbye."

"Seth…"

He moved back, keeping his arms around me, and looked into my eyes. "Katie…I…"

I smiled at him, looking back at him. "There's nothing wrong.'

He looked at me, trying to see if I was lying. I could never lie to him, if only he knew….

"I was just wondering what 'imprint' means."

He let out the breath he had been holding in, and smiled back at me.

"It's just… Sam said it before, and now Bella said it…"

"I'll tell you later."

He smiled, and continued walking, but he didn't let go of me. His hand was gripping mine as we walked to my house. We must have walked for more than an hour, but it seemed like a minute. We didn't talk, but we didn't need to.

We walked up to my front door, and I fished the key out of my pocket.

"I guess I should leave."

He looked so sad I couldn't help making fun of him

"You could always guard my house if you want…I've always wanted a dog…"

He smiled at me, and stepped back off my porch. "Good night." The shadows swallowed him.

"Seth!" I called into the darkness.

His face appeared in the gloom. I ran to him and hugged him. "Good night." I whispered.

He smiled at me. "It's hard to say goodbye…"

I smiled back, "Yeah, it is."

I walked back to my porch, and opened the door. As I closed it behind me, I thought I heard Seth say something.

"Seth?" I called. There was no answer. As I walked up the stairs I thought about what I thought I had heard. I didn't catch all of it, but it had sounded something like 'saying goodbye…difficult….more than just an imprint…'

I went to sleep, and dreamed about Seth.

The next morning I woke up, dressed and showered, and realized that I had no way to get to school. My car was still somewhere in the forest where Emmett had totaled it.

Just as I was walking to the phone to call someone so they could pick me up, I heard a car horn beep outside. I went to see who it was. When I opened the door, Alice, the vampire from last night, was leaning against my mustang, completely repaired.

My eyes wide, I walked up to her.

She smiled at me. "We fixed it for you. Well, Rose did most of it, but the rest of us helped."

"How did you finish it so fast?" I asked, totally in awe.

"We were going to buy you a new one, but this one was your dad's, so we thought you would prefer this one fixed."

"How did you know it was my dad's?" these vampires were confusing and strange.

"Oh, Edward reads minds."

"He what?"

"He reads minds. Don't worry, you get used to it after a while."

"…if he reads minds…what do you do?"

"I can see the future sometimes."

"…Wow…" that was pretty cool.

"Well, I just wanted to bring your car back. And about catching that thing that's loose around here… I think we should work together too. Come over later and we can talk about it some more."

She moved forwards, and almost hugged me, but at the last moment she pulled away.

"You still don't smell so good." She smiled. "I'll see you later!" and she ran off.

I grabbed my bag from inside and looked closely at my mustang. The paint job had been renewed, and the interior had been replaced with exact replicas of what it used to be.

I got in and as soon as I began driving, I noticed the power. They had probably replaced my engine. I was pushing 120 easily…I was going to enjoy this…

The drive to school was much too short for my liking. The sun had peeked out of the clouds, and I had put down the top. I hadn't had that much fun in ages.

I got out of the car, and put the top back down. It was probably going to rain later today… I headed toward my homeroom class, not happy about having to part with my newly repaired mustang.

Right before I entered the class, I felt someone grab me by the waist and lift me off the floor. I squealed, surprised. When I was put down, I turned, expecting to see Seth. It was André.

"André! What was that for?"

"No reason." His eyes were a strange color. They had always been watery blue, but now they were verging on purple.

"What's with your eyes?"

"I'm…wearing contacts. Like them?"

"Yeah," I answered. "I suppose they look okay…"

He suddenly lurched forward and hugged me. His hand slid down to my butt, and he squeezed.

"André! Get off!" he was holding me really tight, in possibly the least comfortable hug of my entire life.

That's when I saw Seth come around the corner. He took one look at André, and walked up to us. He picked André off the ground by his collar, and André let me go.

"If I ever see you touch her like that again," Seth growled "I will chop off your body parts and make you eat them."

Seth let him go, and he fell to the floor. He scrambled to get up, and ran away down the hallway.

He looked at me. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah." I smiled at him. "Thanks for saving me."

He grinned back "Any time."

A thought suddenly occurred to me. "Why are you here? Shouldn't you be doing something….useful?"

"While you were at school yesterday, I enrolled here."

"What?"

People were starting to crowd around, trying to squeeze past me into the classroom.

"You're blocking the way to my homeroom."

The rest of the school day was uneventful, until lunch. Somehow, Seth managed to be in every one of my classes, and then at lunch, he disappeared. Someone had seen him running out of the school like he was in a hurry. No one knew where he had gone too.

Without Seth, the day seemed to drag on. As soon as my last class finished, I went to my car, and drove to his place. When I got there only Embry was home.

"Hey Embry…where's everyone?"

"Quil is with Claire, and Leah, Sam, and Seth are out hunting."

"Hunting?" that didn't sound so good…

"Yeah, Seth got a lead about the thing, he said they were going to where your car got totaled last night."

"But…" I said "That's vampire territory…"

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