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Chapter 13

Edward POV-

I smile as I watch Seth crawl into my bed and smell my sheets.

"Sleep now my little pup." I whisper as I allow my hand to brush through his hair, before departing.

I stood outside my door for a few minutes before descending the stairs to join the conversation that Carlisle and Sam were having.

"We haven't found any true proof of there being more to the trio we encountered." I say, as I jump into the conversation they were having only minutes ago. Sam just nods and it is at that time I could see how young and tired he actually looked.

"Seems as if Seth is not the only one not exactly taking care of himself." Carlisle notes at Sam's tiredness.

"Yeah, guess you could say that. But it comes with being a new father, you know how it is." Sam said before he catches what had slipped out of his mouth. "Oh, um, sorry, I um."
I couldn't contain my laughter as I waited for Sam to figure out how to cover up his mistake.

"Don't worry about it Sam, I know exactly what you mean." Carlisle says looking at me.

"Hey, I was not that bad." I say faking hurt. "Anyway I was nothing compared to how bad Rosalie was."

It only takes her half a second to stop her chatter to Alice mid sentence and send me a death glare, while Emmett laughed, earning him a slap in the head from her.

"I would like to tell you it gets easier," Esme says sitting next to Emily. "However, some children don't grow up."

"She's talking about you Emmett." Jasper laughs out.

They're acting like the pack does, like a family. Sam thought as he watched my family throw insults around.

"That's because we are a family." I whisper to Sam catching him off guard.

"Sorry, I always seem to forget about your ability." I could tell he's embarrassed.

"It's because I normally don't call people out on what they are thinking." I add as I join in with my siblings who were now messing with Alice.

It was late by the time the pack announces they were leaving.

"Sam, may I have a word?" I ask as Emily bundled their children up.

"Sure, what's up?" He asks his thoughts going into overdrive on what was going on.

"Seth's finally peacefully asleep; I would hate to wake him. May he stay here tonight? I had also hoped to spend time with him tomorrow; I'm wondering if that is why he's sick. Imprints aren't meant to be separated long." I could tell Sam wasn't a fan of leaving Seth; he was very protective of the pup. But the alpha could also see my reasoning in the words I was saying. He knew there was a possibility I was correct, that Seth needed his imprint, needed me.

"I think that will be fine, though make sure he eats when he awakens." Sam says as he helpe Emily with their children and head out the door.

"Well that was great fun, but I'm afraid we had a long trip here and are near exhausted." Sophia says as soon as the pack leaves.

"The guest rooms are all ready for you." Alice says as she shows the sisters to their rooms.

"Em, Jazz, make sure to keep the noise down with Seth and the sisters sleeping." I remind my brothers as I read their thoughts about wrestling and such.

They grumble an ok before taking off into the woods to get away from the house, where they can be loud; my brothers are soon followed by their mates.

While Carlisle and Esme settle down to read a book on the couch I make my way upstairs to check on Seth.

I had barely hit the stairs when I hear the faint sounds of Seth crying out and in that moment I lost it as I raced upstairs to my pup who was in the middle of a nightmare.

"No please, hurts." Seth begged as he relived the fight that almost claimed his life.

"Seth, pup?" I whisper as I make my way towards the bedside. "Seth, wake up it's just a nightmare."

"Please, too young, no…" His begging continued.

"Seth wake up please, I need you to wake up." I finally say, praying that the imprint will make him wake, since I needed him to. Imprinters are whoever their imprints need them to be.

A few more whimpers escaped his lips before his eyes slowly blinked open, fresh unshed tears visible.

"Edward?" His voice cracks as he sees me. "I was having a nightmare, I was dying and alone, and I was so scared."

I can't help myself as I crawl on top of the covers to that I could gather Seth into my arms.

"I'm sorry Seth, you're safe. I promise you, I won't let anyone hurt you again." I promise as sleep once again overtakes my pup and he falls into a dreamless sleep.

I sit there all night holding Seth as I let my mind wonder.

I didn't have a clue what our future held. I was trapped being 17 forever and Seth would one day have to make a choice. A choice that couldn't be made easily, if he was to stay a shifter his life would sooner or later be ended. But to go through the change, such as the one I had endured, it's a pain I would never ask for him to go through. I loved him; I knew I did, though I also knew our relationship had a lot to grow into. He was only 14 and while he contained hormones like all other young males, I had to be the strong one and make sure our relationship allowed for him to stay his age as long as possible, even though I had to give up my youth early I wanted to make sure that Seth was able to live as a teen for as long as possible.

Edward the morning will be perfectly sunny. Alice informs me as my siblings arrive home an hour before dawn. I look at Seth's sleeping form once more before gently moving him and getting off the bed, missing his warmth instantly. Carefully and with Esme's supervision I made a picnic breakfast & lunch for Seth and packed it with a blanked and placed them by the back door.

It was 8:30 when I went to wake Seth up.

Though the surprise was on me when I noticed him already awake.

"Good morning Seth." I say, though my smile quickly fades when I see one tear rolling silently down his cheek as he looks at me.

"I though you had left." He explains to me. "I woke up and you weren't here anymore."

"I'm sorry Seth, I went to prepare stuff for today, the two of us are heading out of here. I've already talked to Sam, he's fine with it. So get up and do what a human does in the morning and meet me down stairs." I say before I leave the room to give Seth privacy to have his human moments.

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