Hi so here is another chapter, i apologise for the lateness but we do cover one of the more important topics in this chapter so enjoy...

Only a couple of chapters left and then this story is wrapped up.

Disclaimer-Nothing is mine just Shay, the seven little wolves and the imprints mentioned below.

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I Would For You

Paul/Rachel Fanfiction: When Rachel Black left La Push nearly four years ago to go to college, she was carrying a secret. When she returns to help pick up the pieces in the aftermath of her brother's disappearance, she has no idea of what fate has in store for her and the effect it has on her life. Mature Themes, Please Read and Review.

Chapter 18-Double Edged Truth

Paul's Point of View

I froze. There was a roaring in my ears that I couldn't hear over the litany of swear words running through my mind. I hadn't planned for this conversation at all.

Well that was a lie, I had, it just hadn't involved dealing with the sleeping child upstairs at the time. All of the conversations I had imagined when it had come to this had been off me and Rachel sitting down and talking like two mature adults not like two parents who were overly emotional at best. Hell I had no idea what Shay would say if she found out I was dating her Mom.

But that was being presumptuous.

First I had to get to that part.

"Imprinting is a wolf thing" I said finally.

The look on Rachel's face told me she had surmised as much for herself. I swallowed.

"It's…" oh to hell with it. "It's like when you find your soul mate, when a wolf, like me, Sam, Jared, Quill, Jake, Andrew, Rory, Jamie" I listed the names of the wolves. "You look at this person and….and they make you complete" I finished softly.

"Jesus Christ" Rachel said finally reaching for the first alcoholic bottle I could find. She didn't throw it at me, so I supposed I was doing ok.

"Yeah" I said shortly.

"Sam and Emily" Rachel said finally looking at me her dark eyes wide with understanding. "He loved Leah, he would have never left her without a reason and certainly not for her best friend, not for family" I nodded.

"Jared imprinted on Kim three weeks later" I confessed. "She was just this girl that sat next to him and one day he looked up and there she was…"

Rachel sat down at the table looking confused.

"Jamie" I ploughed on deciding it would be best to leave out the bombshells that were Claire and Nessie Cullen for the time being, "Imprinted on a girl, Morag in the cafeteria. She just opened the door and he looked up…good thing Seth managed to get him out before he could do any more damage, Rory imprinted on Ella while she was out taking a run, she decked him and then fainted when he transformed so he freaked out that was right around the time Shay…" I gestured and Rachel nodded.

"And then there was Andrew, he met Luna at the library, just dragged her back to Sam and got him to explain everything" the sad thing was Luna at the tender age of eleven had taken the news better than the rest of the 'Pack Girls' (named by Ella) combined.

Rachel rubbed her hand over her face.

"Jake" she said finally. "It's Bella's girl isn't it?"

I was so shocked she figured it out that I just nodded.

"Edward Cullen" I ploughed on before she could jump to any conclusions. "Wouldn't let your brother around unless his thoughts were anything less than perfectly perfect. Jake thinks of her as a sister right now and when she's older and legal there'll take it from there"

Rachel carefully considered that.

"And…Bella…she's alright with this?"

"She tried to kill him when she found out" I said bluntly referring to what was commonly known as Bella Swan's best moment. "But now she seems ok with it, we had a problem a year ok and Jake really stepped up"

Yeah, that was one way to describe certain and imamate death all right.

"And Quill?"

"Much the same thing…Claire she's…err…turning four this year"

Rachel's reaction was much as I had expected.

She spat a mouthful of her drink across the room spluttering. I knew enough to know not to touch her when she got like this so I let her swear a blue streak a mile long and tried not to fall even more in love with her while she did it.

"Four" she gasped when she was done. "I mean, Nessie….Jake told me that she ages quicker than most and will be mature in what a few years? Nevertheless, four? How…how the hell does Quill get away with it?"

"He doesn't…" oh, I knew this was going to be awkward. Trust Quill to be difficult. "Rach it's like how it is with Jacob he doesn't see Claire as anything but some kid that he plays with. He is like a devoted big brother and nothing more. Jesus the kids' Emily's niece do you really think Sam would let him live if there was any other thoughts in his head? Do you think the Cullen's would let Jacob? It is how it is for the younger three as well they consider their imprints friends, hell I don't think they've done anything more than smile at each other and the occasional hand hold. This is not something sick and twisted. Hell maybe Claire and Quill would have found each other eventually. God knows he's not gonna get any younger"

"Are you?" Rachel asked watching me carefully. I paused. God yeah I did. I wanted to grow old with Rachel and Shay and start a family with her. I wanted to be normal.

"Yeah" I said finally. "It's gonna take some time. I don't pretend to be an expert on it. I do have a temper but…." I gestured between the two of us.

Something in Rachel's expression seemed to solidify.

"Who's yours then?"

"What?" I blinked.

"You said you had also imprinted. Who's yours?"

She was kidding right.

"Your shitting me right?" I asked bluntly. Rachel shot me a withering look.

"You" I said finally. Rachel blinked and I realised that she had truly not been expecting it to be her. Silly girl, I thought fondly. As if there had been anyone else. Ever.

"God Rach, it has always been you, even before the imprint and the wolves and the vampires, before Shay, during Shay, after Shay. God I have been in love with since I was fourteen, probably before that"

Rachel was still watching me before she ducked her head down her hair hiding her face. Nevertheless, not before I saw the small smile grace her features.

"Hey" I said standing in front of her and lifting her hair back so I could see her face. "No more secrets"

Rachel's eyes searched my face carefully.

"I can't have any more children," she said finally. "Those scars. There from the C-Section I had when I was pregnant with Shay. I was in an accident when I was seven months or so along and a piece of glass…" she touched the piece of skin hidden by her jumper and my eyes followed her.

"It makes conceiving and carrying to term, complicated" she said her tone taking on a mocking brutal edge "I could do it but the chances of a baby brought to term" she shrugged her voice trailing into the distance as I realised what that meant.

It was a blow. I had missed a lot with Shay and while I still had a lot to move forward I could not help but miss the moments like her first smile, word, first steps and so forth. I did not want to dwell on the past but I still had held out hope that more children were on the horizon.

Nevertheless, this was Rachel Black and this was my daughter and I could be happy with that. Hell, I was happy with that.

I would always be happy with that.

"Don't say you don't care" Rachel said shaking her head. I shook my head in response. "I do," I said finally. "But it's you and Shay and me and if that's it then I don't care, not really. I would be with you over anyone who could give me twelve children. I told you, even before the transformation that it was you"

Rachel stared for a long time her face as blank as marble before her face broke into a smile. It was the real one this time, the one I had fallen in love with all those years ago, the one I would never stop looking for.

"Ok then" she said curling one hand around my neck and the other one in my hair pulling me so our hips were bumping against each other. "I love you," she said finally and I laughed at the words that I had waited a damn long time to hear.

"I love you too," I said finally. There was a second where we both just stood there and then Rachel giggled. "I didn't see it ending like this," she said finally. "I'm your goddamn soulmate"

"Yeah" I said finally "But I'm still gonna choose to believe that my wolf was confirming what the man already knew"

Rachel rolled her eyes.

"Of course you are," she said grinning.

"So what do we do now?" she said finally. I stared at her and then thought of the empty bed in my thankfully empty house. I thought of Billy and Shay asleep upstairs completely unaware of what had just taken place between the two of us.

"My place" I said grinning.

"You drive" Rachel said grinning back.

And when we left that house we were both holding hands for the first time in a long time.

And I felt complete.

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Next Chapter as always will be in Rachel's point of view.