Hello, everyone :D. It's a very fine day in southern Cali, yay :), but it's a little hot to go outside, so I'm just gonna write :). Thanks to TinyButDangerous and xYaar for commenting on chapter twelve :), I'm really hoping to get to at least thirty-five reviews this week. I really like reviews, guys. And if you'd like to see what Josephine looks like, I actually put a picture up on twitter MermaidofCali :)

On with the story.

~*Break*~

Seth P.O.V.

Josy had been out for hours. She was still in wolf form – we had another female wolf in the pack – and her dad had been out looking for her for a while now. I was sitting still on the forest floor, still human, just watching her and waiting for her to wake up.

Jos was even more beautiful in wolf form than she was as a human, she was almost solid white, with a dappling of gray on her muzzle and paws. None of us thought that the females could imprint, but if she did, would she imprint on me? Or would my imprint on her be fine? I shook the thoughts out of my head and just continued to watch over her in her sleep.

I was kind of like her gallowglass, I guess. I would protect her with my life, I would give up my existence to make sure she was safe. And I wouldn't regret one minute of it.

God, I loved her. I loved her more than life itself, which was a little weird. Because...I loved life, I got up every morning ready for a new adventure, waiting to see what would get thrown at me. But, loving someone more than what I loved most – besides my mom of course – was a completely new idea to me.

Josy's eyelids fluttered a little bit, giving out the signal that she was about to wake up. I jumped up and looked around for something to get Jake's attention with. Then I shook my head at myself and got out my phone. I punched in his number as fast as I could without breaking my phone and listened to it ring.

"Seth?" He asked from the other end.

"Josy's waking up," I heard him take in a large breath.

"Okay, I'm still with Leah, she's almost healed." I nodded.

"Alright, what do I do when she wakes up?" I had never been around when a younger wolf had shifted, Brady and Colin had shifted on their own and I don't remember anyone helping me. I had no idea how to help her or what to tell her.

"Just shift, tell her it's okay, you know, stuff that would help." I looked skyward and digested his vague idea of "help". "It would help her if you were in a form that she could talk to you in."

"Oh, that makes more sense," He snorted at me and I heard a whine coming from the background.

"I gotta go, your sister needs help." Jake and I said our goodbyes as I thought about helping Josephine through this. Your first phase could really hurt, and could also be more than traumatic. I started taking off my clothes, all I had on was a pair of shorts and some sandals, so that was easy. It would be a little awkward with another girl in the pack, especially because she was my imprint, I wasn't exactly raring for her to see me naked. And I didn't want to make her uncomfortable.

I focused my mind on what form I wanted to take, and I could almost immediately feel my joints expanding and my bones breaking to form different angles. I ground my teeth a little bit, but it didn't hurt as much as you'd think it would. I finally made it into wolf form and expected to hear or see her dreams. But I couldn't see or hear anything. I couldn't even feel sensations.

It was empty.

There was an empty space where her consciousness should be in the pack communications. What in the world was going on? I paced a little bit, and thought on it. As far as I knew, this had never happened in the history of our tribe before. I stared at her, hoping that, if I concentrated that I would be able to hear her.

I waited a minute or so and nothing happened, then all of a sudden her eyes snapped open and took my wolfy breath away.

Her eyes were green. But not just green, they were a foresty green, with golden flecks speckled around her irises, that seemed to cut through the depths of my soul. I stopped breathing and just stared into her eyes as she looked at me. I still couldn't hear her thoughts, so I sent out a thought to her, trying to be careful and cautious.

Good afternoon, sleeping beauty. I tried to sound happy. Or at least calm. But it came out more panicky than I had planned on. I mentally kicked myself as I waited for a response.

Who are you? What am I doing in this forest? She paused for a second and looked down at her paws. And why am I a dog? She sounded so incredulous that I just had to laugh.

You aren't a dog, you came to the forest yourself and stripped down to your birthday suit, I was a little hurt that she didn't recognize me, but she seemed a little disoriented, so I let it slide. You don't recognize me?

She made a very human gesture, and shook her head from side to side a bit. You're familiar, but I don't know.

My chest got tight as she said that. I couldn't think of anything more painful than her not knowing who I was.

Josy, it's Seth, She blinked and I could feel a little bit of emotion coming off of her. Her consciousness was finally becoming a little clearer to me. I only got a few tendrils of emotions she was feeling, but it wasn't enough to form a landscape of her thoughts.

I should have known that, and gave a little snort, it made me laugh (in my head of course). She was so cute when she was mad at herself. Even in wolf-form she was beautiful and just amazing. Her eyelashes were so long, she was looking down and they shaded her eyes a bit, fanning out, breaking up the green of her irises. What do I look like? She asked, it was easier for me to try and send her a picture through the bond, but if that didn't get through whatever barrier she had up, I would have to describe the wolf to her. That would be hard to get the right words out.

You're beautiful, I sent her an image of how I saw her. Her eyelashes fanned out, her fur rustling in the wind. It was so much longer than any of the other wolves, it was because of how long her lustrous, shiny, black hair was. I was just full of adjectives to describe her with.

Josy closed her eyes to concentrate on what I was sending her, and when she opened them, it seemed like she was smiling. Wolves couldn't smile, but that's what it looked like. She just defied all odds, especially with her eyes changing color with her first phase. All of that must have hurt.

I sighed as she just stared at me, I looked into her eyes, trying to find some understanding in them. They weren't as soft looking as her brown eyes, but they were beautiful nonetheless. She was so close to me, only a foot or so away, I could feel her breath on my face. That's how close she was. I stood up and stretched my neck out a little bit, I rubbed the side of my face on hers. It was just a way to express love, or fondness, as wolves.

She rubbed her muzzle into my neck and we stayed like that for minutes. It was amazing; it was the closest I had ever felt to her. I just hoped she felt the same.

"Two puppies," I heard an oily voice come from behind us. "Who knew it would be my lucky day?"

My heart sunk like a stone to the bottom of my stomach.