First Imprint Sam's Story.

Chapter 14: Interruption

A/N - Be advised - Adult Content in this chapter.

Chapter 14 - Interruption

Sam's POV

The early morning light woke me up. I rolled on my side and looked at the woman beside me. She was on her stomach with her head towards me, her scarred side facing up. She never looked more beautiful to me than she did in that moment.

I heard birds singing outside and chuckled quietly, rolling on my back and putting my hands behind my head. The whole world seemed to be singing. God, I was turning into a sap. But hell, I felt like singing myself I was so happy. My body tingled all over as I remembered the night before. Everything had been so incredible. I heard a soft laugh and looked over to see Emily's dancing eyes looking back at me.

"Well, you're looking pretty pleased with yourself." Emily said, smiling widely.

"I am pleased. Last night was great." I replied, rolling over on my side again. "What about for you?"

"It was fine," she answered, before putting her head into the pillow, giggling.

"Fine...Fine!" I growled, before grabbing her and rolling her on her back so that I could lean over her.

"Alright, it was wonderful, stupendous, magnificent. Is that good enough?"

"Better, much better." I laughed, then looked down at her flushed face and asked, "It wasn't too hot for you, was it?"

Emily's eyes widened in disbelief and I quickly explained what I meant.

"I mean, with my body temperature being what it is, it wasn't uncomfortable or anything, was it?"

"It was perfect," she whispered, reaching up to grab my neck, bringing my mouth down to her lips.

I gently pressed my body against hers, my mouth briefly touching her lips, before moving down to nibble on her neck. She threw her head back and I felt one of her legs begin to wrap around my thigh.

"Sam?" A male voice called out.

I jumped and Emily looked back at me with horror dawning in her eyes.

"Sam" It was Jared. I sighed as I leaned down next to Emily so that my forehead was on the pillow next to her ear.

"I can't believe this," I whispered and she giggled.

Just then, Jared burst into the room. Emily shrieked and quickly drew the sheet over her head as I jerked away from her. If it weren't for the fact that I was naked and not in the position to jump out of bed, I would have cheerfully throttled Jared.

"Haven't you ever heard of knocking?" I yelled. Jared looked at me and blinked. He looked like he was on something. I frowned and asked, "Are you high?"

It took him a moment to focus on my face, before shaking his head as though he were trying to snap out of whatever was wrong with him.

"I don't know what happened to me. I broke up with Shelley last night at the bonfire. She got really drunk and started making out with this guy. I told her we were through and I moved to the bonfire down at the beach and that was when I saw her and Sam, I think I'm in love."

"Jared, you're in love with a new girl every week," I replied sarcastically and heard a snicker from beneath the sheet next to me. So did Jared, who frowned in that direction. It was in that moment that Emily poked her head out to see Jared before covering herself again.

"Oh...hey Emily." Jared said, still looking bewildered.

"Hi Jared," came the muffled response.

"Look, why don't you go into the living room and I'll be out in a minute." I instructed.

"Okay...I hope you practiced safe sex," Jared said, slowly walking out of the room. I leaned over on the side of the bed and grabbed my shoe, throwing it at his retreating back. It made a satisfying crack as it made impact.

"Of course we did, now get the hell out of here and shut the door."

"Okay, okay, I'm going." Jared replied, rubbing his shoulder where the shoe hit, before shutting the door behind him. Emily removed her cover and looked at me in horror.

"Well, he would have known if we practiced safe sex or not without me telling him verbally." I said defensively.

"Ugh, the whole pack is going to know what happened." Emily groaned throwing the sheet over her head again.

"It serves them right too. After all the crap they've given me over the past two months while I've been completely sexually frustrated," I said and heard a soft laugh in response.

I reached over and pulled the sheet from her embarrassed face. "I promise I'll try very hard not to think about last night when I'm with the pack."

She leaned up and kissed me, before climbing out of the bed to wrap herself in her robe.

"I'll make some pancakes. You deal with Jared."

"Going by the stupid look on his face, I'd say he imprinted." I mumbled while reaching for some shorts. "Thank God I didn't act like a moron when I imprinted."

I said it loudly so that it would shout in Jared's sensitive ears. Emily snorted. I ran over to her and picked her up, kissing her hard on the mouth. By the time we parted, we were both breathless.

"I'll get the pancakes going, you take care of him." Emily said, moving her head in the direction of the living room. I let her down and she opened the door and walked out.

"Jared, do you want pancakes?" Emily asked as she walked into the hallway.

"Thanks Emily, that'd be great."

I followed her out and went into the living room. Jared was standing in the middle of the room staring into space.

"All right," I said, "Let's have it."

"Her name is Kim. I had a couple of classes with her last year. I never even looked at her until last night and then when I did, the world seemed to suddenly revolve around her. Does that make sense?"

"Yeah, you imprinted. Congratulations." I said dryly.

"Oh...oh yeah, I remember you told me about that, but you said it was rare." He looked dumbfounded.

"Hmm, two out of the three of us. I wonder how accurate the legend of imprinting really is." I wondered aloud.

Suddenly the smell of pancakes hit us and we both headed towards the kitchen. Emily was just putting the pancakes on the table when we walked in. We sat down and began to eat. Both Jared and I finished off most of the meal within a couple of minutes.

"So Jared, tell us about this girl." Emily said as we lingered over coffee.

"Kim is beautiful and wonderful. We stayed up all night talking at the beach and we watched the sunrise before the clouds came in and it started to rain. And then I walked her home. Aww crap, I didn't ask her out," Jared finished with a groan. Emily reached over and patted him on the hand reassuringly.

"I'm sure if you ask her out, she'll say yes," Emily said. "After all, it's tough to resist your imprint, no matter how much you might try."

I looked at her and raised an eyebrow. Her shoulders started to shake with silent laughter. Just then the phone rang and Emily got up to answer it. I was talking to Jared about ways for him to ask Kim out, all the while keeping an eye on Emily. Something in the way her shoulders dropped made me turn my head and stop speaking mid-flow. I immediately jumped up from the table and put my arms around her.

"What's wrong?" I asked, rubbing a hand soothingly down her back.

"That was Harry. He told me he's been having some discomfort in his chest so he's going to see his doctor today. He said not to worry, but he wanted to let me know."

"I'm sure he'll be okay," I said, hugging her close.

But I thought about how Harry had been looking lately and I was worried too. He always seemed so exhausted and he sometimes seemed to have trouble catching his breath. Harry and Emily were extremely close, and I had begun to rely on Harry's counsel and presence. I didn't want to ask for trouble by thinking negative, but in the back of my mind I heard a little voice say, What would we do without Harry?