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"its just a slight sprain in the ankle so it should heal in a week or two" carlisle explained as he wrapped the girls ankle in bandages.

"thank you carlisle" calliope thanked, sitting up straight.

"are you sure your okay?" rosalie questioned and calliope nodded.

"i'm sure"

in walked bree and thalia along with alice and jasper. the pair had taken both girls out into the forest, getting them used to feeding on animal blood.

"w-we just want to thank you for sparing us and giving us a second chance" thalia bowed her head slightly.

"it was no problem, we are just glad you are safe now" esme reassured the two, gently rubbing bree's back.

"now has esme talked to you two about what you'd like to do?" carlisle asked and the two nodded.

esme had pulled the girls aside earlier and talked to them about whether they wanted to stay with the cullens or would prefer to stay else where.

"yes, and bree has expressed that she would feel more comfortable else where" esme stated and carlisle nodded.

"we understand, we can ask the denali's if they could spare a room" carlisle replied before turning to thalia.

"what about you thalia?"

the girl was quiet, unsure of what to think before speaking up.

"i would like to stay here...if it is alright with you all" she spoke and they all gave her a soft smile.

"it is completely fine, we can set a room up for you if you'd like"

after sorting everything out, alice and jasper decided to take bree to the denali's while the rest stayed back.

a few hours passed. calliope and thalia were getting to know each other when bella lightly knocked on calliopes bedroom door where the two were.

"hey um don't mean to interrupt but calliope...seths here" bella said and calliope almost beamed at his name.

"okay, i'll be right down"

thalia helped calliope to her feet and the two made their way down the steps.

as they walked down, calliope spotted her mate standing there talking with emmet. seth turned and he smiled brightly when meeting her eyes.

his eyes drifted down to the pale bandage wrapped around calliopes ankle and immediately rushed to her. seth picked her up by the waist and placed her down on the ground, keeping her from walking down the few steps she had left.

"are you okay?" he worried and calliope smiled softly at him.

"i'm fine seth" she gently held his bicep to keep herself steady.

seth let out a sigh before looking at thalia.

"who?" seth questioned and calliope turned.

"this is thalia, she's a newborn that the cullens took in" calliope introduced and seth nodded, i introducing himself to said newborn. 

seth faced carlisle.

"you don't mind if i take her outside foe a bit?" seth politely asked and carlisle nodded happily.

so hand in hand, the two went outside the front of the cullen house.

as they leaned against the railing, seth turned to calliope who was enjoying the light breeze. he glanced at the purple bruise that was fully formed on her forearm then at her ankle.

seth was disappointed in himself.
his job is to protect her and keep his imprint from getting her but standing before him was calliope, bruised and hurt.

calliope heard him groan and she watched as he ran his hand through his hair.

"what's wrong?" she questioned, her hand sliding across the metal railing and placing itself on his bicep. the contact of her skin calming him down.

"nothing..its just-" seth began and at this moment, calliope had moved to stand in close beside him with her hand carefully placed on his shoulders.

"its my job to protect you but i failed. your arm is bruised and your ankle is injured...i failed as your imprint" he sadly pouted and calliope sighed.

"no its not your fault seth. you can't be there to save me all the time and these-" calliope gestured to her injuries "these are nothing" she reassured him.

"i remember there was this one time while i was on the run, i hadn't been paying attention to where i was going-" calliope began to retell a memory and seth glanced over to her.

"and then i had ran right into a vampire. tall girl with long sharp nails, she got a grip of me and..." calliope proceeded to lift her sleeve up to show seth the clear scratches.

but those weren't the scratches seth saw. he gently grabbed her hand and turned it to where he could see her wrist.

"what about these scars? where did you get these ones from?" he quietly asked, making sure he didn't sound nosy.

calliope had gone silent, mindlessly staring at them.

"calliope?" seth called out and she snapped out of her trance.

"oh- um...these were from awhile a go. its- um- it was a dark time for me and.." calliope stuttered nervously.

she thought that because of these scars seth might look at her in a different way or maybe even say she was weak even though she knew he wasn't that type of boy.

all of those thoughts were dispersed when seth had brought her wrist up towards his face and placed a light kiss on each of them.

"im proud of you" he whispered with a smile.

"i'm glad that i got such a strong and independent imprint" seth carefully pulled her into him and wrapped his arms around her shoulders.

calliope was slightly surprised by his words but still smiled warmly and wrapped her own arms around his waist, lightly rubbing it.