Chapter Sixteen

Crazy Teenage Werewolves

Sam

I got back from patrol and let myself into the house, I already heard Collin snoring, it was a bit unnerving that he was more protective of my daughter then I was. The rescent events had shown me how much destiny didn't have a part to play in anything. So yes I loved Emily with all my heart, I was just one of the lucky ones that she loved me back. Who knows what will happen to Claire or Nessie or even Kim in a few years. Nessie seems to have left Jacob behind, even though she knows she is the only woman that will ever be for him she still is going to marry another guy.

So how much is truly destiny and how much is wishful thinking, I have to be strong but even I am uncertain. The two people before me won't have to worry about confusion or other desires, he's hers and she's his as simple as that. I found myself to be overjoyed for my daughter that she will never suffer uncertainty on who she loves and who loves her. Collin practically screams it when we are on patrol and I feel as though Sammy feels the same. I know that they will be married one day and that I have eighteen years to get used to that fact, but watching them sleep it seems so purely innocent. My little girl wrapped in his arms it seems as though this was the way it was meant to be.

I hear a car pulling into the driveway and see that Emily's home. I try not to rush to the door and walk at a more sedate pace but fail. She laughs when she sees me eagerly waiting. "Hi Sam, could you help me get the groceries in?" She asks me and like so often before I am stunned by her beauty and by my terrible deed, her wonderful face forever scared.

"Sure Emily." I reply and go to the car, I bring back the groceries and set them down on the kitchen table for her. She's in the living room watching Sammy sleep. I put an arm around her shoulders and realize that she is crying. "Em its alright."

"I don't want this for her." She said and I heard a note of anger in her voice. "Your life was basically ruined when you were transformed, I don't want her to worry about hurting someone she cares about. I don't want her to worry about hiding herself away, I want her to be happy." That was my Emily always caring about others, putting them before herself.

"She is Emily, I am as long as your with me. I can never forgive myself for scaring you but you stayed with me. You told me that it was alright that I wasn't a monster, you helped me to understand myself. What our daughter is, is what I am and what our future children may be. She is strong vibrant and beautiful. You can already tell she has an incredible strength to her, my Mother named me that because she thought it was a strong name and we named our daughter Sammeth because it sounded both beautiful and strong."

"I know its just so hard." Emily said. "I thought that maybe in a few years but not right away. I mean she was barely out of me before Collin imprinted on her."

"Emily I told you that might happen to my daughter, I thought you had gotten over the fear of it, that's why I agreed to have her in the first place." I told her and she smiled.

"No I didn't get over the fear, but I realized that there are some things worth the fear to get. I always wanted children even when I was a child myself, I suppose in the years before I had Sammeth the pack became my children." I smiled at her and she hugged me. "I love you even though you can be moody and impossible at times, your my wolf man and my best friend, lover, husband and father to our child." I felt a slight sting to my eyes and realized to my shame that I was crying. She gently wiped away the tear as I tried to compose myself. "Its alright Sam you don't have to be strong all the time."

I let her hold me close to her as I cried, not knowing what brought this on or why. She smiled at me and gently stroked my hair and I smiled back. "I love you Em."

"Love you too Sam." She said and took me into the room. "However you need to rest you have been patrolling too much lately, and I have missed you." I nodded anyone else and I would feel like a child but with Emily I could admit weakness and become simply Sam.

I allowed my eyes to close for a moment and the next thing I knew I was smelling dinner. I got up and went into the kitchen wrapping my arms around Emily as she finished cooking dinner. Collin was playing with Sammy in the corner taking out blocks and stacking them up for her delight. Her leg was spread out as he half held her in her lap. I smiled and took a plate to Collin with a few crackers for Sammy. She looked at the cracker and looked up at me.

"That's for you Sammy." I told her and she held it up to me and I took a bite. "Its tasty try it you'll like it." She nodded and half chewed half sucked on it while Collin demolished his food. I took his plate and got him seconds, slightly alarmed when Sammy stuck her hand in the food and started to eat it.

"Well I suppose this means your ready for more then crackers." Collin said and I smiled seeing intense love in his gaze, I knew that he would make sure that my daughter never came to any harm. She nodded and I smiled taking a small plate to her. She ate with her fingers, getting them coated in Emily's lasanya. I smiled and got myself a helping before the pack arrived, they were already starting to trickle in and I find myself surprised yet again at how young they were becoming. Thirteen year old Charles was talking with Johnathan between bites of food. Fredric lounged against a chair almost casually surveying his surroundings. Fredric was the type to act cool but once you got past the exterior he was a jerk. I couldn't handle him and never patrolled with him if I could help it. He badly needed an imprint or something to stop that cocky cooler then you attitude, his mind was even like that after so long of pretending.

"Hey Sam my main man, give me some grese." Why do the younger generation persist in making me feel ancient, especially Todd I think its a hobby for him.

"You need to tone that down." I told him and he nodded.

"Whatever you say Sman, your the boss." He replied and I sighed hopefully they would grow up before I let the leeches end my existence. If it wasn't for Emily I would say being dead was preferable to trying to get something like order into their brains. This was only four of the seven I thankfully have the other three on patrol or else I would get in danger of having a gigantic headache, not to mention that Matt hates Fredric and vice versa, lately I have felt as though I was inside some teen drama.

"Don't any of you forget it either now I suppose it would be alright for you to eat now." Johnathan and Charles looked guilty. Emily was putting a second lasanya for the older generation, Jared and Brady liked these guys as much as I did.

"Hey Collin how is the pedophile fetish going?" Todd practically yells into the living room and Collin starts to tremble.

"Wait until you imprint." I told him grabbing him by the collar realizing that I was also shaking. "Then you'll see we don't joke about things like this."

"But Brady does all the time." Todd protested and I sighed, of all the guys in the world I had to have one who didn't get social relationships. Like body gestures were completely beyond this guy.

"Brady has been Collin's best friend since preschool, you do not joke about imprinting got it? If or when it happens to you which I am beginning to think is more and more likely you will understand. Until then however you can mock anything else, just don't mock my imprint or any ones for that matter or you'll have to train a lot more then you are already. I don't threaten but this goes for all of you when I say this, make fun of imprinting and you will face a fist fight."

"Then just order us not to, be the big man. Not dependent on your little woman." Fredric said and I growled.

"You want to fight then lets fight, you however are never to call Emily little got it?" I asked him and he nodded, the kid was all bravado and no show. I hit him a few times to make sure. "I said have you got it?" He nodded again whimpering, honestly this guy was a werewolf but he was more likely to run from the vampire then attack it. "Good. Now I am going to bed and its time for you to get out of here! Go somewhere else, bother someone else with your patheticness." I said becoming the ticked off Alfa and leaving Sam behind. They nodded and I cleared the kitchen in about ten minutes.

"Would you like me to go as well Sam?" Collin asked and I shook my head.

"They drive me crazy." I admitted and he laughed.

"It makes me miss the old days when Leah was being a bitch and Jake was arguing all the time." Collin said and I smiled.

"Me too, I actually thought I had it hard back then, I wish I could slap my past self in the face." I told him. "For more reasons then one."

"Actually I do too, if we could go back in time I would tell you not to tick Jake off." He said and I shrugged.

"Well lets leave the past to the past and the present to the present." I said sitting next to him. He smiled and shifted Sammy in his arms, she had somehow managed to fall asleep during my loss of temper. I smiled down at her my little girl. "Take good care of her Collin."

"I will sir, she is everything to me."

"I couldn't think of someone I would want more as a son one day." We both blushed and looked away at that comment it was too sentimental. "If you hurt her..." I smiled when Collin sighed in relief.

"That's more like you Sam." He said and I cuffed him lightly over the head.

"Just because your my daughter's imprint doesn't mean I can't kick your ass." I said and he smiled.

"You can try Sam, you can try." I laughed and we settled down. Emily stopped cooking and sat next to me, I loved her smell I loved everything about her. I could hear the sounds of Brady and Jared eating in the kitchen this is where I belonged. Emily leaned against me and I put an arm around her.

"Come to bed with me." She said and I nodded helping her up and we went to bed together. I fell asleep to listening to her even breathing, yes beyond a doubt this was where I belonged