Felicity

She was lying in bed when Sam and Emily returned home, she had been on the phone with Annabeth for over an hour and she had no doubt her brother had been busy talking things over with Paul. Felicity didn't really want to think about him, but both the conversation with him and the conversation she had with Annabeth were replaying in her mind over and over. It was like someone had filmed it and put it on loop inside her brain.

There was a soft knock on the door, and Felicity turned her head to look at the door. She doubted it was Sam. The demigod was certain her brother lacked the ability to knock that softly. What was left in question was would Emily walk inside if she didn't answer, or would she leave her alone?

"Fliss?" she heard Emily call through the door. Felicity paused for a second before sighing, pushing herself up and swinging her legs around to touch the floor.

"Yeah?" the blonde finally answered, watching the door slowly open to reveal her brothers girlfriend. Her brother's imprint. His soulmate. World, was the term that Paul had used. A term that had scared the demigod more than any fight or the idea of dying to protect her friends and family.

"Do you want a cup of cocoa?" the woman offered, two cups in her hands. Grey eyes were trained on the cups, and the blonde tilted her head to the side slightly.

"With marshmallows?" she asked, causing the woman to smile as she gave a nod, taking that as an invitation.

"Sam's still out so… if you want to talk about what happened we can," Emily offered, handing the hot chocolate over to the demigod in question. Felicity looked down for a moment, taking a sip of the cocoa.

"Did Paul say anything?" she asked softly, still feeling the lingering guilt and pain of what had occurred only about 2 hours prior.

"He phased, Sam and a few others went after him," Emily said softly, not intending to make the girl feel bad. In a way the demigod was grateful that Emily wasn't trying to lie to her. Perhaps in a way, she had already known. After all she had heard the howl that had seemed to echo around the woods while she spoke with her sister.

"I'm not scared," Felicity said suddenly, taking a sip of the cocoa before she looked up at Emily. Emily just stayed quiet, allowing the girl to continue. "I mean I'm not scared of them being werewolves, I'm alright with that… The imprint scares me," the halfblood admitted, which surprised her. She hadn't gone into details with her sister, but she had mentioned that worry to Annabeth.

"All you can do is love them as much as you can and hope for the best, Fliss. Love them for as long as you can" were the words her sister had said when she asked on relationship advice. But that was a lot easier said than done, she didn't want to hurt Paul in the same way Lee's death had hurt her.

In this situation, he was going to be hurt no matter what she did though.

"What do you mean?" Emily asked, genuinely curious as to how the teenager would respond.

"I don't want to hurt him Em…" she said softly, looking back into her cup of cocoa, plucking a marshmallow out with her fingers and quickly popping it into her mouth. "But that's inevitable I suppose."

Emily watched the teenager with concern filling her brown eyes. The two women were silent for a while, Felicity lost in thought while Emily considered what she could say to the girl.

"You don't know how things will end, Fliss. If you give him a chance you could have a wonderful life together," she offered, although she was shocked when the teenager gave a bitter laugh.

"I wish I could offer to be someone's partner, to have a long and happy life with them Emily, I really do," she said once her laughter subsided. "I know what Lee's death did to me, and that was a normal relationship, I loved him simply because I loved him. This imprinting thing is far deeper than that… and I can't love him and let him get hurt once we are that close."

Although she said it with a sense of finality, she was trying to convince herself that it was the right thing to do.

Still… Felicity had to admit that it didn't seem right.

Paul

Days had once again gotten worse, his temper showing itself more and more often. In fact, Paul had heard the concerns of the other werewolves. Worries that his temper was possibly more fragile than it had been before he had imprinted. Concern over the pain that he felt. Their confusion over the rejected imprint.

Unlike Emily, Felicity didn't have a reason to reject the imprint. At least none that he could think of. It wasn't that he was asking her to love him, just that he would be able to be around her. Just that she would allow him to take care of her.

Still it was a few days later that he was invited to go to Sam and Emily's for a barbecue. It no doubt meant rugby, something that he had always enjoyed. But more than that it gave him a chance to see his imprint. He hadn't actually been around her since the bonfire. He had seen her occasionally. It was mainly when he was on patrol, when he was in the area of Sam and Emily's he could sometimes hear her playing the guitar. He often found himself move closer and watch, as he had the first time she caught sight of his wolf. Or he saw her mornings when she went on a run. A 4 mile run was how she liked to start her mornings, it was a run that his wolf had followed often enough for it to probably be creepy. But it was what kept him going. Those occasional sighting of his imprint.

When he got to the barbecue, Embry was already messing around with Felicity. Since the bonfire they'd told her that it was likely that Embry was her half brother, and since that his imprint had gotten a lot closer to the other wolf. It seemed that she enjoyed having another family member, though she had made a couple of jokes about having too many siblings already.

He watched as Embry reached for her, intent on pulling her, in like he would some of the younger wolves, to ruffle her hair. What surprised him, and possibly those around them, was how the blonde anticipated the movement. She seemed to give in, but at the last moment launched herself to the side, placing another of the wolves between herself and Embry. Her laughter echoed at the stunned look on Embry's face. He couldn't help the smile that came to his face as he saw that expression.

Paul almost moved towards her, before berating himself and pulling back so he'd remain at the distance that he was. In some ways it hurt, to be so close to her and unable to go closer. But at least she was here.

"Paul!" Emily's voice was elevated, slightly stern and as he looked at her Paul immediately noticed the concerned look. "Are you alright?"

"Fine," he answered with a slight nod, Emily only raised an eyebrow at him.

"I don't know why, but she thinks that this is the way that she's going to hurt you the least," Emily told him, keeping her voice low as she also watched the girl. Paul shrugged slightly, and the woman sighed.

Neither of them knew how this would end. And neither of them were quite sure that they wanted to.

A/N:

Hey all, a slightly shorter filler chapter with characters trying to deal with the events of last chapter. Yes they will, probably sooner than later, find out what Felicity is. And I have a few dramatic and comical ideas for the next chapters. When those occur.

Winterlover6: I agree with you, I feel sorry for him, but at the same time I'm trying to keep things legitimate. Things will eventually look up for him though. I think….

Dally'sTUFF: Yes it does mean the Battle of Gaia and issues with Camp Jupiter are near, and to be really honest, I'm not too sure as to what's going to happen. Fliss will definitely return to protect her family and friends, the wolves… that is a possibility, but might not necessarily happen. Similarly the events of Eclipse are also upcoming, so I suppose integrating the two sets of events will be interesting.

Guest: No worries, I'm glad that you're enjoying the story, and as you asked, here's another update!