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A/N: Thanks for all the lovely reviews, I'm glad you guys are reading along. Here's the next little bit, but I'm sorry for any typos! Didn't have enough time to re-read it too much but I'm hoping you'll take it as is, because I won't have time to proof for a while.

Have a great, great weekend.

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-S

Miss Imprint

Chapter 17: Favors


I was standing outside school, shivering slightly in the wind as I waited for Seth to reappear. He'd had to skip class to take over patrol for Jacob who'd decided to go MIA over some white chick from forks.

Bella.

What the hell was she? A French poodle?

Then again, I couldn't really talk. But whatever. If I had kids one day, they were going to get awesome names.

"Hey you." Seth wrapped his arms around me from behind and through the cotton of my jacket I could feel his bare chest pressing against me.

"Jeez, put on a shirt."

He chuckled. "That's not what you said last night." He pinched me.

I rolled my eyes before turning in his arms. "Wow, how long have you been waiting to use that one?"

"Pretty much since we've started dating."

He leaned down and had just pressed his lips to mine when he tensed and suddenly I was behind him.

"What's up?"

"I thought I smelled…"He trailed off and then he relaxed completely. "A Cullen." He grinned down at me. "Ready to meet some monsters?"

"I am not a monster. " A soft, musical voice came disdainfully. I looked up to see the owner of the voice and she was unexpectedly small. Her skin was pale—like white—like white, white. She had an awesome thing going with her hair though, it was crazy choppy and it was almost like she'd hacked it off herself and then styled it but it was probably just an expensive hair cut. Her jacket was gorgeous channel navy and a dazzling diamond ring adorned her index finger. "Hello Cassandra." She said.

I backed into Seth, bewildered. "How does she know my name?"

He laughed at that. "Alice knows all."

"What am I doing tonight?" I fired at her.

She closed her eyes serenely. "Dinner at Soretto's with your father."

"Holy shit. You're like for real aren't you?" I exclaimed in surprise. Girl was mad. But in a good way.

She smirked. "I suppose I am."

"Seth—your friends are awesome."

He pulled me a little closer. "Damn straight."

I felt my cheeks heat up a little. I slipped my hand into his and entwined our fingers.

"So—what's crackin'?" Seth probed, pulling me closer to him as he felt me shiver.

Alice ran her eyes over him demurely, skirting the bottom of his neck and focusing on his eyes. "I had a vision."

"And?"

She just shook her head before tilting her head towards me.

"It was about me?" I asked, now more curious than ever.

"I was wondering if I could steal Cassandra for a moment." She asked politely, but I had a feeling she would have gotten me alone regardless.

Seth tensed slightly, but before he could respond, I cut through. "Sure thing, Alice, but call me Cassie, please. Cassandra makes me sound old." I paused for a second and mentally slapped myself on the forehead. "No offense."

She grinned. "None taken, Cassie." She beckoned me forward, extending a pale white hand. "We won't be long."

I hesitated at leaving Seth's side completely. She was a vampire after all. "Um, Seth…?"

He must have known what I was thinking, because instantly I felt the burning heat of him pressed against my back as he slowly slipped a hand behind me to turn my chin towards him. "You're safe with Alice. "

"Right. I knew that." I smiled at him. It's not like she could kill me or anything.

Alice drew me into the woods, her small fingers on my wrist, impressively hard and cold. I followed her a little ways until we were surrounded by the wood and she seemed to relax.

"I'm sorry for making you move but I was sort of riding a technicality where I was." She smiled sheepishly.

I raised an eyebrow (oh yeah, I can do that), "what do you mean?"

She laughed. "You really just found out, huh?" She shook her head in amusement before continuing. "Well, I'm sure Seth will explain completely, but my kind aren't allowed past the boundary lines that mark Quileute property."

"So then school was on the line?"

She nodded. "Exactly, we're a bit further into my side now."

I took a step back from her. "Does it work both ways?" I stepped back again. If it did, then Seth wouldn't be allowed to come get me if anything happened.

"You're safe with me Cassie," she allowed, looking resigned. "If it makes you feel better, Seth is allowed past the line but only in human form."

I felt guilt coagulate in my throat, and no matter how hard I swallowed it refused to leave. "I'm sorry."

She looked at me in surprise. "For…?"

"This is just new—I didn't mean to imply you couldn't control yourself."

She smiled fully, her spectacular teeth glinting wildly in the sunlight. "I accept."

She pulled me to a log and pushed me down to sit and then sat down a little ways down from me. "Seth has not imprinted on you."

I shook my head. "How did you know?"

She grinned again, "I have my ways." She paused as if considering her words carefully. "I need to ask a favor of you."

"Sure."

She smiled, satisfied, before getting up and walking away. What? Where was she going? Crazy. I thought she was going to ask me a question. I wonder if she'd done some crazy mind trick and already predicted what I was going to say and so she didn't even have to ask.

"Wait!" I darted after her before she pulled a Dumbledore and flashed away. "I thought you wanted something." Even if she knew, I still wanted to know what I was going to say. That wasn't fair.

"I do." She volleyed back over her shoulder.

"What?" I called out.

But only her tinkering laugher met my ears. I kicked the leaves in front of me lightly.

"Stupid, cryptic vampires."

"They're not that bad." Seth said from behind me.

I yelped in shock. "When did you get here?"

He wrapped his arms around me, tugging me into him and I sunk gratefully into the heat that his bare skin provided. "Just now." He nuzzled his lips into the back of my neck before turning me around and walking me backwards. I felt a tree bark against my back.

"What do you think you're doing sailor?" I asked coyly, wrapping my arms around his neck and pulling him down to me.

"Pillaging." He replied with a wink, and then bent down the last few inches between us. His lips were soft and so incredibly warm as they pressed against my own. He tugged on my bottom lip with his teeth when I didn't open my mouth immediately and I felt my knees soften and I leaned on him.

I think he had some idea of what he was doing to me because in the next instant I was up against the tree and his hips were holding me in place. I wrapped my legs around his waist, drawing him even further into me and arched against him when he brushed his lips against my collarbone.

I felt my vision blur as he made his way across my neck, kissing around the tip of my shirt. My breaths were coming hard and I was incredibly wired, it was like every single nerve ending was standing at attention, ready to fire on his command.

I pulled him back up to me, pressing my lips against him hard before slipping my tongue into his mouth. And God did he taste good. It was somewhere between mint and the apple he'd had for lunch and it was absolutely delicious. He growled deep in his throat as I clenched my legs tighter, pulling him hard against me. One of his hands dropped from my waist, tracing my leg from my hip to my knee and back.

And then suddenly it was passing higher, across my abdomen until the tips of his fingers brushed the bottom of my bra and I tensed.

I didn't know why and I tried to push his hands back so that he would keep going because there was no reason to freak out, I mean this was Seth. But he was lightening his kisses and then his forehead rested on mine and he called my name.

"Cassie." He nuzzled my nose as he said it.

"Hi." I replied, feeling suddenly shy, which was ridiculous considering I'd just had his tongue in my mouth. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to…" I trailed off, unsure of how to word what had happened.

"It's fine." He cupped my cheek with one of his hands, the other pressed firmly at my waist, holding me in place. "I promise."

I smiled up at him, before unraveling my legs and dropping to the ground. He slung an arm around me and then pulled me against him.

"So what did Alice want?"

"That is none of your business." I grinned up at him before wriggling away. "Race you to Bruce?"

"I'll give you a head start." He pushed me lightly and I took off, giggling. Life didn't get much better than this.