Moonlight Sunrise

Pack Meeting

Seth’s POV

The pack/council meeting was to take place in Billy’s backyard. It was really late as me and Billy sat near a bonfire. My body was completely tense and stiff, awaiting for the others to come. I took several deep breaths to relax myself and stare blankly into the large crackling fire.

Billy seem to sensed my tension and places his hand on my shoulder.

“It’ll be alright, Seth.” said Billy, tying to comfort me. Honestly it didn’t help any at all. I rather have my dad helping me through this than Billy.

Howls erupted into the silence, a warning signs of the pack coming. Then I heard rustling in the bushes from behind us. I turned around seeing my Alpha Sam emerged first along with the second in command Paul, Jared, Embry, Quil, Collin, Brady, and sadly my sister Leah. The other Elders, my mom and Old Quil came a bit later. God, I felt like I was on trial, awaiting on my death sentence.

We all sat in a big circle with the bonfire in the middle. Mostly everyone had a look of confusion on their faces. We all heard the stories before this meeting. History of our tribes. How we all become part of the spirit warriors. The history of imprinting. Tonight I get to make another eventful history: first shifter in history to imprint on a vampire.

The last time we had a council meeting was back when Quil, Leah, and myself had first phased and Old Quil told us about our tribe’s history of shifters beginning with the first known spirit warrior Taha Aki.

The fire crackled, sending another explosion of sparks glittering up against the night. Billy cleared his throat, catching everyone’s attention.

“As you know,” he began. “Imprinting in this generation of the spirit warriors is fairly common. We don’t have a complete understanding or history of it or why it happens.”

Billy turns his attention to me. I chewed on my lower lip.

“Seth Clearwater has imprinted.”

I heard Jared and Paul scoffed under their breaths.

“You called a council meeting because little Seth imprinted?” Embry teases. “That’s nothing honestly.”

“Unless she’s baby.” chuckles Paul. Quil glares at him, hitting Paul on the arm with his elbow.

“It’s not like that.” Quil whispers angrily.

“Seth’s imprint is the ‘Cold One‘ of our history,” Billy breathes out, his eyes closed as if he was still trying to accept this new information. “One of the Cullens.”

Everyone eyes widen at the statement that was told. They all stare at each as I watched anxiously. I looked over to my mom. Her eyes were widen in terror and disbelief, I could feel than see the sadness in her eyes, not that I blame her. Her only son and youngest child has a vampire for a soul mate. The pack themselves thought it was some kind of sick joke.

“Are you kidding?” grits Leah. Her eyes filled with pure hatred, narrowing directly at me. She stood up and stomp her way towards me. “Seth, you can’t be serious? You gotta be sick! Look at what you’re doing to mom!” He pushes me against my chest, making me fall off the log.

“It’s not like I had a choice Leah!” I yelled at Leah, instinctively getting up on my feet. “You think I’ll joke about something serious as imprinting on a vampire?!”

I felt myself began to shake uncontrollably as anger consumed my mind. Knowing Leah she was probably very close to phasing and ripping my head off.

That’s if I let her.

“I knew he liked the Cullens too much.” mutter Paul.

“Leah. Seth. Calm down!” orders Sam, walking to me and Leah until he was standing in between us.

Leah glares at me and then look at Sam before walking back to sit down next to mom. She looks over our mother, making sure she wasn’t completely distraught over the news. She then looks at me like I done something wrong. Like I wanted this to happened. Like I wanted to hurt my mother more who was already dealing with the death of her husband and her children phasing into wolves.

Everyone was in complete silence.

“How is it possible to imprint on our own natural enemies?” Sam asks, looking at Old Quil.

“They can’t get pregnant.” said Embry. “Vampires are dead.”

Old Quil nods. “You’re right, Embry.”

“I thought imprinting was suppose to pass on the gene.” said Sam. I heard Leah scoffed when he said that.

It was Billy’s turn to speak now. “It is impossible for vampires to reproduce but there are other reasons for imprinting.”

“The question we should be asking is does the leech know?” Paul asks.

“No.” I gritted. “And don’t call her a leech.”

“Does the Cullens know?” Sam asks me.

I looked directly at the fire. “I don’t think so. I mean when I first imprinted on her…she was hunting along with Edward. He’s the mind reader so I guess he knows.”

“Can’t this imprint break?” Leah begs.

“You know that can never happen unless the imprinter or imprintee dies.” states Old Quil.

“She’s dead.” I heard Leah whisper under her breath. That sent me off the rails.

“Like hell you will!” I growl feeling myself beginning to shake.

Sam approaches Leah. “You know the laws Leah. You shall not kill another wolf’s imprint. You are not to harm your brother‘s imprint.”

Billy, Old Quil and mom agrees with Sam. If an imprintee is killed, the imprinter will never be able to forget or forgive the person responsible for her death. In the case of the killer being another pack member or possibly within the pack, whether purposefully or by accident, the inevitable result is a fight to the death. This is the strictly enforced laws of out tribe to avoid blood shed.

“She’s a bloodsucker.” Leah argues. “This shouldn’t apply to her.”

“Yes she is a vampire but she’s also a Cullen, meaning she only feeds off animal blood.” said Sam. “I say she’s not a danger until she breaks the treaty.

“It doesn’t change that fact that she’s one of them!” Leah yells, glaring at Sam.

“As far as I know she’s still his imprint and that applies to her as well.”

“Fine.” grits Leah, turning her back towards Sam as she took off running as fast as she can. Suddenly a blurry gray figure seemed to emerged in her place and ran even faster until she disappeared into the darkness of the forest.

I turn to look at Sam. “What should I do?”

“All you can do is tell her.” said Billy. “You can tell her tomorrow at Edward and Bella’s wedding.”

I mentally groaned. As if telling my pack wasn’t tortured enough, now I have to explain this to eight other vampires, including my imprint.

“Seth,” Old Quil said. “I’m sure the Cullens will understand.”

Of course they’ll understand. The thing I like about them is that they’re like regular people. That was not what I’m worried about. What scares me is if Bree gets angry at me and rejects me. I’m scared that I might lose control like Sam did when Emily tried to reject him.

I hope this will work out. For mines and Bree’s sake.