Felicity

Whatever the Daughter of Athena had expected when she arrived in La Push, what actually happened definitely wasn't it. Perhaps she had expected her half-brother to welcome her, rather than his fiancee. But, if she was being honest, she'd decided that she definitely was happy that he hadn't been home.

It gave her more time to get to know the woman before other people she didn't know, as well as her brother, who admittedly she was terrified of seeing again, arrived. And Emily definitely knew how to put people at ease, the girl thought to herself.

The scars on Emily's face had intrigued her, though she didn't bother staring. It was only as she thought about it that she finally questioned where the woman had gotten the scar from. Had she been a demigod, the teenager wouldn't have been surprised. After all, she herself did have a large scar that stretched down her back from a hellhound. Felicity was pretty sure that the scar did have similar characteristics to Emily's, and she was all to happy that it wasn't at a location that it was too obvious.

"So you go to a boarding school on Long Island?" Emily asked as they walked down the beach, looking out at the waves. From Felicity's memory of the place, she felt lucky that it wasn't raining. She knew it had a tendency to rain a lot in this area.

"Uh… yeah basically," the teenager confirmed, smiling at Emily. "We call it camp, but it is a boarding school… a couple of my siblings actually are there as well."

"Siblings?" Emily asked, looking at the girl in confusion.

"Oh… yeah on mum's side, I have a couple of other brothers and sisters," the blonde answered with a shrug as they continued walking. Her eyes were drawn out to the sea. It was beautiful. If she were being honest, she'd always felt some kind of connection with the sea despite the history Poseidon and Athena had. It was something she would die before she admitted to anyone else. "So how did you meet my brother?"

"I was up visiting my cousins Leah and Seth, and when Sam and I met things just… clicked?" Emily offered the girl, though she was grateful that she remembered not to use the work imprint.

"So you're Leah's cousin? I'm guessing she didn't take that well…"

"She's… slowly getting used to it," Emily replied with a frown and a small shrug. "So what about you, any boyfriends that might show up looking for you?" the older woman teased with a smile, the teenager's face dropped though, eyes solemnly looking down at the sand. Emily immediately knew that something had gone wrong, and was about to change the topic when the teenager met her eyes again; grey eyes filled with pain and sorrow.

"I had one," she spoke softly, before her eyes once again dropped to the ground and she stopped moving. The next words were spoken so softly that Emily barely heard them, "He died last year."

Felicity's mind flashed back to the day. The Battle of the Labyrinth. She wasn't the only one that had suffered losses, some of her siblings, friends, and among them Lee. And she knew that she wasn't the only one who missed him. His siblings were just as broken by the loss as she was. In honesty she was glad that she'd had them during that time to keep her somewhat sane. If she had been just a bit quicker, perhaps he wouldn't have died. The blonde remembered trying to get to him after she saw he was injured, remembered shrieking his name as he was about to be hit by the giant, and remembered holding him as he died. Singing softly to him after she'd killed the giant with the help of another demigod. The son of Apollo had been optimistic until the moment he died. Optimistic, though he knew that he was going to die. She could remember his last words even now.

She'd almost been killed as well, because she had refused to leave his body; if it hadn't been for Malcolm then she definitely would have died that day.

She tried hard not to cry as she thought of the day. It was already over a year ago. In fact it was closer to two. In some ways she thought that maybe she had moved on, but then remembering what happened always managed to overwhelm her. The memory of the night, burning the golden shroud that her boyfriend was wrapped in as well as a number of friends.

When the unexpected arms of her brother's fiancee were around her she let out a sob that she didn't realise she was holding back. It was the first time since the night the funeral she allowed herself to cry… and within five minutes she'd pulled back, furiously wiping the tears from her face.

"I'm sorry," she said, with a bit of a laugh attached at the end. "It's a bit pathetic, isn't it?"

The older woman shook her head at what the teenager said, instead pulling her back into a hug in an attempt to comfort her. While the teenager didn't start crying again, she wrapped her arms around Emily and hugged her back tightly. She didn't let go for a few minutes.

Sam

While he was on patrol with Jared and Embry, Sam's thoughts went back to his fiancee. He was wondering whether his sister had shown up yet, and if she had, whether or not they were getting along.

He could sense the annoyance of his pack mates, though neither of them dared to voice it to their alpha. Sam felt that he probably should've put Seth on patrol with him, at least that kid was too optimistic to complain about Sam's worrying.

"What's got you so worked up Sam?" Jared finally asked, the question that had been on the back of the mind's of all the pack members. Since he'd found out his sister was coming back, their alpha had been quite tense. He seemed almost nervous at the idea of her return. He could feel his alphas regret the moment the question was asked. Suddenly, the two other wolves saw the memory that was replaying in their Alphas head.

Sam had entered the house, home after he'd been to football training. He wandered in to see his sister, sitting down at the dining table trying to do her homework. It didn't take him more than a second to see that she was frustrated at whatever she was trying to do.

"Is mum working?" he asked her softly, noticing her blonde jump slightly before she turned, grinning at Sam.

"Yeah, but she said she'd be back for dinner," the girl said as she stood up and ran, wrapping her arms around the teenager in a hug.

"Well you should try to finish up your homework so that we can relax and watch tv together after we finish dinner," he encouraged, ruffling the blondes hair.

He could hear the muffled laughter of Embry, who he could hear trying to analyse the girl. Sam wasn't surprised given that chances were that Embry was also his brother; and as such, also Felicity's brother. He almost winced as he thought of the next part of the memory.

It was already nighttime. His sister had already gone to bed, and he followed shortly afterwards. Spending a bit of extra time talking to his mum without his half sister. He could tell the pain that it sometimes put his mum through. She didn't look like them at all. Her features were completely foreign, meaning she definitely took after her mother.

He knew it hurt her to have the constant reminder that her husband had cheated on her. Now he also left.

A shriek pulled him out of the half asleep state that he was in. It was quickly followed by another one, and he launched himself out of bed, going into his sisters room.

As he turned the lights on he saw the blonde girl fall out of bed, sobbing as she scratched her arms.

"There were spiders everywhere Sam," she cried as he pulled her into his arms. He sighed in slight frustration. It wasn't the first night that this had happened and he was fed up with it by now.

"It was just a dream Fliss," he tried to say evenly, though the annoyance came through quite clearly.

"No it wasn't! I know it wasn't a dream!" she cried, struggling to get away from him as he picked her up. "I know it wasn't a dream! My other siblings told me so!" she cried as he dropped her onto her bed.

"In that case go back to them!" he said harshly to her. She didn't answer him, a look of hurt on her face as she sobbed. He still heard her sobs when he went back to bed. The next time she shrieked, he didn't respond.

"That was what, 10 years ago?" Jared commented. "I'm sure she's let it go by now."

"I haven't spoken to her much since… and we both kind of stopped around the time that I phased," he admitted in his thoughts quietly.

"Either way a lot of time's passed, I'm betting you guys will work it out," Embry commented sympathetically. "Besides, now she's got an awesome other brother here as well!"

Jared laughed mentally at that comment, directing the attention back to him quickly. "Yeah, let's see how long she hangs around now that she has you to deal with," he commented, directed at Embry, who laughed as well.

Sam was caught completely off guard when he returned from patrol and found his fiancee and sister giggling in the kitchen as they were cooking. The entire time he was so worried about this going wrong that the shapeshifter hadn't once really entertained the idea of the two actually getting along with one another.

Emily was the first to notice him, and immediately smiled, walking over and pressing a soft kiss to his lips. He couldn't help but grin at the gesture, pulling his imprint into a hug. Then his deep brown eyes turned to his sister, who stood, now a bit awkwardly, at the stove, her grey eyes hesitantly looking up at him.

Felicity's eyes widened in shock when she first took him in, however after a moment she seemed completely relaxed. As he moved forward, pulling his little sister into a hug, she finally let out another giggle and hugged him back.

"It's been a while," he said to her, after he pulled away. Both of the siblings looked somewhat guilty and apologetic at the comment, but he was surprised at how his sister shrugged.

"Better late than never right? I'm just happy that you guys welcomed me back," she answered, still bouncing up and down on her toes. He chuckled noticing she was as hyperactive as ever. Though the nerves probably added to it in her case. Sam turned his attention to Emily as she walked back towards to stove to check on something, not noticing the small, sad, smile that his sister had on her face as he watched his imprint.

"If you want you can have a quick shower before the boys all get here," Emily offered, turning to Felicity with a smile. The blonde paused for a moment, before she finally nodded.

"That's probably a good idea, I'll come back and help when I'm done," the teenager responded with a smile as she quickly left the kitchen, Sam could hear her going up the stairs two at a time. It was only when he heard her close the bathroom door and lock it that he turned to his imprint again.

"It's good to see you two are getting along," Sam reflected, pulling her into another embrace as he pressed a kiss to her forehead.

"She's really nice," Emily mused in response, happily wrapping her arms around the shape shifters waist. "But there's something about her…"

"What do you mean?" he asked pulling away to look at her as she spoke.

"Just… how she reacted to some things…" Emily answered.

"I'm sure it's nothing Em," he countered with a smile. And he had to say he was fairly sure.

"She didn't look twice at the scar, and no one warned her."

"Perhaps she knows someone else with a scar?" he offered. Though, he had to admit it was somewhat strange for someone who had never met Emily before. And someone who hadn't spoken to any of the pack members prior to meeting her.

"Maybe…"

A/N:

So here's Chapter 2, which is pretty cool considering I've managed this two days in a row! I hope you also like this chapter! And I want to say a massive thank you to the people that followed/favourited this story.

Also to the guest reviewer, I think that I'll go with your suggestion, especially given it was the only suggestion. And I think you have a good point. A really good point.

So the next chapter will feature Felicity meeting most of the pack, and will probably also feature the imprinting. Then things will be finalised.

Also I think throughout the story I'll be giving background on characters through flashbacks either in the style with Felicity at the beginning, or like Sam showing his memories to the pack. So I hope everyone enjoyed, and feedback is appreciated.

Ari Winters