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Chapter 6
Sam POV- Later that night
Seth was sleeping as I made my way to the elders.
"Samuel, what news did you bring us?" Billy Black asks as I enter the counsel room.
"Have the Cullen's broken the treaty?" Mr. Clearwater, Leah's father asks. He seemed almost hopeful at this.
"No they haven't." I say knowing they are still angry with me allowing Edward onto our land. "I bring news about Edward Cullen, news that may change things around here." I wait until I am prompted to continue by Quil's mom. "Edward is not only a vampire he is also a cheetah shifter." I inform the group. It's so quiet you could hear a pen drop.
"Are you sure?" Mr. Clearwater demands, not happy at all about this and for a moment I wondered what he would say once he found out that his nephew Seth had imprinted on Edward Cullen.
"Positive, I've seen it with my own eyes." I say waiting for the elders to make a decision.
"I don't like it. Billy, I'm with you on this." Linda Quils mom speaks up. "Sam, I say run those filthy bloodsuckers out of here. We should have nothing to do with them." I take a deep breath before spilling the why of why I won't do that.
"We can't." I say as all eyes turn towards me. "Seth imprinted on one of them." Ok I know I should have just told them who and stop beating around the bush but I really didn't want to upset the elders.
"Who did he imprint on?" Harry Clearwater asks.
"Edward Cullen." I say barley above a whisper.
"WHAT!" Harry yells.
"Seth has imprinted on Edward Cullen the vampire and shifter." I say, spelling it out for them.
I'm ignored for half an hour as the elders try to decide how to deal with this new bit of information.
It is well after midnight by the time I get home, I'm tired and exhausted as I enter my house and all I can think about is going to bed.
"How did the meeting with the elders go?" Emily asks as she feeds Anthony. I smile as I kiss her forehead.
"Went ok, they are not too pleased but have invited Edward to come and listen to the bonfires tomorrow night. I need to talk to Seth in the morning, so that he'll invite Edward." I'm about to fall asleep, though I play with the idea of staying up and helping Emily.
"Go to bed Sam, there's not much you can help with right now." She gives me a soft kiss and I head towards our room, I'm asleep by the time my head hits the pillow.
Seth POV-
I wake up at ten and all but run to the shower, not even caring that the guys were eating all of the breakfast. In only two hours I will be hanging out with Edward. Suddenly my heart skips a beat, was this like I date? I can't help but wonder, suddenly making myself nervous.
Ten minutes later I am standing in my room wrapped in a towel trying to find something to wear. Which is proving to be a difficult task since being a shifter is so hard on my clothes. I finally settle for faded black jeans that didn't look half bad and a t-shirt that almost fit and had yet to rip.
"Hey kid." Paul says as I enter the kitchen.
"Seth I need to talk to you." Sam says just as I'm about to put a muffin into my mouth. Shrugging I shove the entire muffin into my mouth and follow Sam outside.
"I have spoken with the elders." He begins and I can't help the small animal like whine that escapes me as I look at him, fearful of the news. "They don't like it, but they have agreed to invite Edward to our bonfire tonight. That is if you want him to come." I can't help at how surprised I am when he tells me this. I was worried something bad would happen and I would be kicked off the rez or something. Finally when the muffin is gone and I can speak again I look into Sam's eyes.
"Are you ok with this?" I ask though I don't know yet what this is. He said he imprinted on me, but I have to wonder does it mean the same to him as it does to me.
"Seth, you know I am no fan of bloodsuckers. But the Cullen's are different, Edward's different than the leeches we have faced before. I'm more worried about if you are ok with it. Seth he'll never age, can you live with that?" His question strikes me full on, I hadn't thought of the never aging part and truthfully I didn't know what I would do about it.
"He's my soul mate. I've wanted one for so long Sam." I practically whisper as he hugs me.
"Sometimes I forget just how young you are." He says though I'm not sure if I was meant to hear it.
The morning goes by slowly as I wait till it was time to leave and meet Edward at the border. I couldn't wait to see what he had in mind. I hope it was somewhere we could talk because I have many things I wanted to talk to him about. I made myself wait till it was 11:30 before I left the house and started towards the border, it was a twenty minute walk, though I made it there in ten, leaving me a lot of time to worry about whether he'll show or not. I couldn't help looking at my cell and checking the time every few minutes.
11:45, I have been waiting for five minutes now…
11:50, What if he doesn't show, what if this is some joke and the pack's waiting for me to come home so they could laugh at me?
11:57, He's not late yet, he'll be here, he said he would.
A flashy blue sports car pulls up to me just as I was about to check the time again.
Edward was smiling in the driver's seat as the passenger side window rolls down.
"Hello Seth, hop in." He says and I waste no time as I open the door and get inside.
"What kind of car is this?" I say before I realize how rude I sounded.
"It's the new 2011 Lexus LF-A Sports." I can't help but wonder how rich these Cullen's actually are.
"So Edward what do you have planed for us today?" I ask as I watch the trees as we speed by.
"I was thinking alone the lines of showing you a spot that I like to go to, I think we have a lot of talking to do today." Once he mentions talking I quickly open my mouth before I forget.
"The elders would like for you to join us at the bonfire meeting tonight. Will you come?" I can't help the fear I feel as I ask.
"What were the elders told about this situation?" He asks after a moment of silence. Sounding like he had thought carful about what he was going to say.
"Sam talked to them last night. I guess he explained to them that you are a shifter and a vampire. The elders got really mad at that and wanted to run your family out of town, until Sam told them about the imprint. Now they want to meet you, I don't know what they have planed tonight." I was slightly rambling and my face became red as I noticed how close Edwards face had gotten to mine. I hadn't even realized that we had pulled over onto the side of the road.
"Do you want me to go tonight?" He asks, his hand brushing the side of my face and effectively pushing my hair out of my face. My breath catches in my throat at his touch and I could have sworn I felt electricity shoot through my body.
"I would love to spend as much time as I can with you Edward." I say before I can stop myself.
With that being said he turns back towards the road and we speed off towards our destination. We drive as the CD player, plays some random classical music. Even though it's silent throughout the drive it's not an awkward silence. The drive takes half an hour. Once we are parked Edward informs me that we have about an hour walk into the woods.
The forest is beautiful as we walk and I can't help the feeling of wanting to shift and run. I was also noticing that Edward didn't smell like a vampire to me, he smelled almost like the forest or freedom… I don't know I can't describe it, but his smell drew me in and called to me.
"Seth we're here." He said, the sound of his voice making my heart skip a beat. I looked around the small meadow and gasped when I noticed a small cottage and sun shining all around. "Seth, do you like it?" Edwards's velvety voice sounded unsure of himself as he asked.
"Edward it's beautiful. Whose cottage is it?" I couldn't help the excitement I felt knowing I was alone with my imprint.
"It's mine, for when I need to be alone." His voice was like velvet and I couldn't help the thought of wanting to listen to it all day.
Edward POV-
I couldn't help but smile as I watched my young pup look around the meadow that surrounded my little cottage. The cottage was a gift from my family, mostly Alice who had seen a vision of me leaving and wanted to guarantee that I stay, so she came up with a plan to get me my own place, somewhere I could be alone. None of them come here and I don't bring anyone here.
Having Seth next to me made me feel like my dead heart was alive again. His thoughts are so pure and untainted, which is a blessing in itself since he's in a pack and shares thoughts with the others.
"Seth, would you like to run with me?" I ask knowing earlier that he had wanted to shift, though unsure if he wanted to shift with me.
"Um yeah," He says as he starts to look around. Where can I change? I hear him ask himself though I am unable to contain my laugh, earning me a weird look from him.
"Guess I forgot to mention I can read minds. We can change in the house, that way we can leave our clothes inside." I say as I walk towards the house, leaving Seth with his mouth hanging open.
"You can read my mind? Like all the time?" I could help but laugh at the way he was so in awe about it.
"Yes Seth all the time, I actually can't turn it off." My statement earns me a nod as I instruct Seth that he can change in the bathroom.
My shift is fast and grasful, hardly taking any effort at all. Seth I notice takes a little longer but still fairly fast as I am soon joined by the wolf.
Ready to run Seth? I say to him in a playful tone.
Yep! My pup happy says as I take off running.
Catch me if you can! And with that I take off out of the house. I make sure not to use all my speed as I run. Knowing Seth's wolf would never be a match for my cheetah. After running for an hour I loop back and tackle him gently to the ground. Looks like I caught you. I say giving him a grin.
He doesn't reply with words, though his laughter is obvious as we roll in the soft grass for a time.
Tell me about yourself. Seth demands as we lay in the sun facing each other. I want to know everything.
I was happy to comply with telling my imprint about myself.
As I've already told you I was born a shifter in 1884, I was 17 when I became a vampire and I haven't aged since 1901… I've always been gay, so imprinting on a guy was no surprise for me. I have waited to find you for so long Seth. While I was a young vampire I found out I had the ability to read the thoughts of the people around me, this ability took many years of practice to get use to it. It's like with your pack how loud and crazy everyone's thought are, but for me it's everyone all the time, there is no off button. I've traveled all over; I've been to high school more times than I want to admit. I hold multiple college degrees some as a doctrine others as a musician. I have very few friends out of the family and like others of my kind I try to avoid making friends with humans. What about you Seth what interest you?
He stares at me for a moment as he gathers his thoughts to tell me about himself.
Well I'm 14 I've been shifting since I was 10. My parents are both deceased and I live with my cousin Sam and his family. I'm the youngest in the pack, though I was the second to shift. I think I also have the most control over shifting, since the others are always getting mad and blowing up. I love cars, like most of my pack brothers. I'm in high school but I hope to go to college and get a degree as a therapist or something that I can help people with. I haven't dating much, living in a small town and being gay isn't really easy.
We lay there together as we ask random questions back and forth…
If you're coming to the bonfire I guess we better get going. Seth finally said as the sun started to go down.
Then let's go change pup. I say though I am not looking forward to putting up with his entire pack and the elders who all call my kind leeches and bloodsuckers.
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