Hey guys! This is my first time posting anything so please be kind ¨̮ I’ve written a few chapters, but I wanted to post the first one to see if anyone was interested in reading the rest of it. Enjoy ♡
•Paul Lahote x Fem Reader || NSFW•
[Aged up!!! Reader:21 Paul & Jared:22 Sam & Leah:23]
Paul always had shitty luck. His family was broken. His anger issues caused too many problems to count. And he had been in love with you since the day he met you. To top it all off you were Jared’s girlfriend. Pretty unlucky, right?
After another turn of fate, the universe curses Paul with the spirit of a wolf. Maybe this time lady luck will bless him with you as his imprint.
Is fate finally on his side?
[nsfw, kinda slow burn bc i can’t stfu]
Paul POV
God she’s beautiful he thought to himself.
Watching your eyes shine in the fluorescent diner lights as laughter fell effortlessly from your lips was like torture for Paul. Hearing your voice was even more painful, knowing he would be hanging onto every word. And to make matters even worse, daydreaming about you was his favorite pastime - you were a masterpiece and Paul couldn’t get enough.
Maybe I could ask her to come to our next soccer game, he thought as images of you in his soccer jersey filled his mind.
Paul snapped back to reality as your lips pressed against the cheek of his best friend, and in that moment he felt white hot jealousy ripple through his chest. 10 months of sitting on the sidelines, whilst Jared Cameron lived the life he wanted, was really taking a toll on him.
“Paul, did you hear me?” You called out to him. His head spun across the table to meet your waiting eyes. His heart was jumping as you spoke his name but he had to play it cool.
I’m Paul fucking Lahote, i can handle a little crush.
“What do you want, Y/N?” he asked in a rough tone, trying to hide his embarrassment.
Heat flushed your face and your eyes fell to the floor. Paul instantly knew he’d upset you.
Real Smooth, Lahote, he chastised himself.
“I… I was just asking what you want me to bring for the bonfire tomorrow, since i’m on cooking duty” you said, twisting your hands in your lap. Jared wrapped a comforting arm around you and shot daggers at Paul over your slumped shoulders.
He knew Jared would give him shit later for upsetting you, but Paul would beat himself up far worse than anything Jared could do.
“Jeez Paul, who spat in your milkshake?” Leah snickered and flicked a fry at him across the table. Sam shook his head but continued eating his burger.
Paul shot an angry expression at Leah and turned back to you, trying his best to look uninterested.
“Whatever you want I don’t care” He spat out quickly and stood to leave. “See you guys tomorrow”, he muttered over his shoulder before anyone could speak.
Your quiet laughter filled the space behind his retreating figure and Paul’s heart ached knowing that you felt better in his absence.
Reader POV
After dinner at the diner Jared drove you home, one hand on the wheel and the other wrapped around your thigh.
Staring out the window, thoughts of tomorrow’s bonfire were swimming through your head. Your friends were planning to meet up at La Push for a bonfire, some swimming and whatever fun outdoor activities they could think of. It had been a while since the last one so you wanted to impress with your cooking skills.
Leah promised to come over early to pick your outfit and ‘help’ you cook the snacks you’d need to bring. As pushy and snarky as she was, you were grateful. She always had your back, and at the end of the day, she really was a good friend. Thinking of her had your mind drifting over the rest of your group.
Sam was easy going and supportive of you and Jared. You saw him as an older brother you could lean on. Paul however, was a complete mystery to you. He was always lingering on the edges - cocky, distant, and ignoring your existence. You didn’t know what you’d done for him to hate you so much, but you did your best to make up for it. He had been Jared’s best friend since the day they were born and you felt like you needed Paul’s approval.
Pulling up in your driveway, Jared turned to you with a worried expression on his face. “Y/N, you doing ok, sweetheart? You’re not still thinking about what Paul said are you?” He placed your chin in his hand and smoothed his fingers along your cheek. “He’s just a bit of an asshole, don’t let him get you down”, Jared cooed at you.
“I’m ok Jar, really, just tired and thinking about what to cook for tomorrow.” You gave him a reassuring smile and kiss his parted lips before getting out of the car.
Over the last 10 months, Paul’s dislike for you had slowly chipped away at your confidence but you couldn’t tell Jared. You would never want to cause issues between your boyfriend and his best friend.
Maybe tomorrow I can get Paul to talk to me, you thought to yourself as you turned over in bed that night. A smile crept onto your face as you tried your best to drift off to sleep.
Paul POV
Slamming through the front door, Paul felt right at home in the sticky and dimly lit bar. Everyone knew his name, every bartender knew his order, and every girl knew his number by heart.
A tall blonde leaning against the bar adjusted her push up bra and gave him a smile she must have thought was attractive.
Which one is that? Fuck… Joanna? Rachel? Ah, who gives a shit he thought as he sat and ordered four shots of whiskey. Today was rough and he’d do anything to forget for a while.
“Hey baby, why haven’t you returned my calls?”, the blonde whispered in his ear. She smelt like dollar store body spray and cheap white wine but Paul was happy to entertain her.
Downing his last shot he turned to her and smirked, “Sorry sugar, I’ve been busy. Is there any way I can make it up to you?” He wrapped his arm around her waist and pushed his hand a few inches up the back of her pink tank top.
She giggled and placed both hands on his chest,“My cars out back, maybe you can help me pump the tires?”
Swallowing the sick feeling in his throat, Paul landed a sloppy kiss on her lips and pulled her through the doors to the parking lot. If he had to fuck the first girl he saw, he would do it. Anything was better than thinking of how you sat in Jared’s lap earlier today.
His hands traveled over her hard nipples and down to her wet folds as she straddled him in the back seat of her Mercedes. Grabbing his throbbing member he guided her down in a practiced motion. Paul never bothered with foreplay or taking it slow. He let the alcohol do the talking.
“Fuck Pauly, take me hard!” she screamed in a whiny voice that made him want to roll his eyes. He hated that nickname and he hated himself for not pushing her off and leaving.
As they both reached closer to climax, he did his best to get it over with. Dropping his head back, he grabbed her tight ass as she slammed down on his girth. At this point he knew what was coming next - it was starting to become a part of his usual hookup routine.
Paul’s most prized fantasy of you, whimpering and stretched around his cock, flashed behind his closed eyelids. Y/N look what you do to me, he groaned to himself. Imagining your voice crying out his name sent him over the edge. Fuck.
Walking home tipsy later that night, he fought off the memories of your sad face from dinner. He did his best to keep his distance from you, but the look of innocence and sadness in your beautiful eyes made him want to drop to his knees and beg your forgiveness.
As much as he craved to hear your laugh and be the man making you smile, Paul knew he had nothing to offer you. Nothing he could give you would ever be better than Jared.
Jared had family, a steady career and a promising future. Paul had a deadbeat dad, a crappy construction job, and barely had a 6 month plan for his life.
Reality sucked and he knew he would never be worthy of your time - a fact that burnt the inside of his brain and made him furious.
There’s no point in apologising, he tried to reason with himself, It’s better if she thinks i hate her… right?
Sam: Brings the water bottles and makes everyone use tracker apps because most of them have a terrible sense of direction when they're in human form. He drinks a lot of fruity cocktails and starts dancing on table tops while the pack films him.
Jacob: Keeps looking for good Pride merch for Billy because Billy wants to fit in with the cool kids. Finds Edward walking by and instinctively chucks a snowcone at him. Edward dodges, but then Jake calls Bella and asks why her boyfriend is at Pride without her. She simply responds that Edward's gay but she supports his lifestyle and hangs up.
Embry: Meets a cute trans girl and almosts fumbles because the boys keep embarrassing him so he takes her out on a mini date. She wins him a big wolf plushie and he instantly melts. They end up going out and the pack tease him about it endlessly for months.
Paul: Has to be physically restrained from turning to a wolf because he wants to fit in with the furries. He yaps with the gay muscle daddies over bodybuilding and gets invited to join their gym group, which he's excited about because the pack couldn't care less about his workout advice.
Leah: Immediately ditches the guys and meets the online sapphic group she found last year. She brings friendship bracelets she made out of leather to give to her friends. She pretends not to know the rowdy boys wearing jorts doing a backflip competition in the middle of the street.
Quil: Comes across an eccentric nonbinary indigenous individual and assumes they're a trickster god, but obviously can't prove it. Suspicions aside, he does receive good advice that will help him with his own gender identity journey, but since there was no one else around, he's not sure if that interaction was real. Then he sees the person later doing body shots with femme lesbians and it makes him feel better.
Jared: Gets in trouble with kinksters almost immediately and has to lay low for the rest of the day. The boys keep putting accessories on him to give him a disguise and while some people compliment him on his style, other people assume he's on molly and asks him where the plug is.
Seth: Is adopted by the drag queens, gets a makeover, and does competitive voguing, something he always wanted to try after watching Rupaul's Drag Race. He came home wearing a wig and high heels, but it wasn't the first or even second time he did that so it went without comment.
As something fun, I decided to see how closely Twilight characters with Bible names relate to their Scriptural counterparts. Given that Stephenie Meyer is Mormon and Twilight is filled with Mormon themes, I assume that a lot of these parallels were intentional or that she at least was aware of them.
Jacob Black. In Genesis, Jacob was the son of Isaac (and therefore grandson of Abraham). He usurped his older brother, Esau, for his birthright and the blessing, and he became the ancestor of all the Israelites. Jacob usurped Sam as leader of the pack and became the alpha. Pretty good parallel.
Sam Uley. I’m connecting Sam here to Samuel, even though we’re never told that Sam is named Samuel (at least I don’t think so). In the Bible, Samuel was the last judge of Israel. The Israelites chose to have a king rule over them instead. Sam Uley was originally the alpha of the pack, but Jacob ultimately took his rightful place and usurped him. Decent parallel.
Ephraim Black. Ephraim was one of Joseph’s sons in Genesis. We’re not given enough information about him or Ephraim Black to judge if it’s a good parallel.
Levi Uley. Levi was one of Jacob’s sons in Genesis, and his descendants, the Levites, eventually make up the priesthood of Israel. However, if you move forward to the New Testament, Paul says that the Levitical priesthood is beneath the priesthood of Melchizedek, of which Jesus is in the order of. Levi Uley’s descendant, Sam, was alpha of the pack, but he was ultimately beneath Jacob. Good parallel, but you have to know more about Scripture to see it, which deducts some points.
Seth Clearwater. In Genesis, Seth is the third son of Adam and Eve. He was born after the death of Abel and the marking of Cain. I don’t think this is connected to Seth Clearwater at all.
Leah Clearwater. In Genesis, Leah is one of Jacob’s wives, but Jacob prefers Leah’s sister, Rachel, his other wife. Leah Clearwater was with Sam and planning a future with him, but Sam ended up imprinting on her cousin, meaning Sam ended up preferring Emily over her. I think this is probably the best parallel between one of the characters and their Biblical namesake (and thinking about this parallel is what inspired this post).
Rachel Black. In Genesis, Rachel was the wife Jacob was actually in love with. This parallel makes more sense when taken with Leah’s parallel. Leah wasn’t imprinted on, but Rachel was. Even though it’s not the same wolf involved, the parallel is still there. I also think it’s interesting that Rachel in the Bible is described as having bright eyes (if I remember correctly), but Leah doesn’t, and imprinting happens by looking in the imprintee’s eyes. Decent parallel. Points deducted because you have to kind of squint to see it.
Rebecca Black. In Genesis, Rebecca was the wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau. I don’t think this connects to Rebecca Black at all.
Paul Lahote. In the New Testament, Paul was originally named Saul and was a persecutor of Christians (the first Christian martyr, Stephen, was martyred under his observation). While traveling to Damascus, he was knocked off his horse and became blind. He had an encounter of Jesus, was healed, and converted to Christianity. He then spent a lot of time preaching to the Gentiles and changed his name to Paul (to reflect the Gentiles more). This parallel makes more sense if we compare Paul Lahote to Saul. Saul was a persecutor of Christians, and Paul Lahote is very hot headed. It’s an okay parallel. I’m deducting a lot of points because the parallel only works when they don’t share the same name.
James. There were two apostles named James. Neither of them share similarities with James though.
Sarah Black. In Genesis, Sarah was the wife of Abraham who miraculously gave birth to Isaac in her old age. I don’t think this relates to Sarah Black at all.
Let me know if I missed anyone! These were just the ones I could think of off the top of my head.
divider by: @cafekitsune & @strangergraphics
word count: 7.6k
synopsis: Paul Lahote was born to hate vampires. Unfortunately for him, the universe had other plans.
a/n: I have finally wrote something after over a month! A little different from my usual fandoms but I've been feeling nostalgic lately.
You always found the steady drizzle of the Pacific Northwest to be comforting. But after three centuries of wandering the earth as a nomad, a quiet exhaustion had settled deep into your cold bones. Lately, life had become entirely lacklustre. Staring out at the monotonous, heavy grey skies and the permanently drenched terrain, the magic of the endless forest had faded. Everything mostly just felt damp and dreary.
As a nomadic vampire, you didn't belong to a coven. You preferred the absolute freedom of the open road, answering to no one but yourself, though you shared the strict "vegetarian" lifestyle of your "cousins," the Cullens and the Denalis. Because you chose to abstain from human blood, you occasionally dropped by the rainy town of Forks to hunt the abundant wildlife and exchange pleasantries with Carlisle and Esme, who always welcomed you with open arms.
But even a welcome guest had to respect the rules. Because of the ancient treaty established between the Cullens and the local shape-shifters, you knew the exact layout of the boundary lines down to the millimetre. You stayed strictly on the Cullen side of the Hoh River whenever you came to visit, and you never tried to push your luck. You had lived for three hundred years by being smart, and poking a pack of giant wolves was never on your itinerary.
Until this particular grey afternoon.
You had been tracking a particularly meaty mountain lion for miles, the thrill of the chase briefly cutting through your dark, existential boredom. The large cat was fast, and the adrenaline of the hunt sent you tearing through the brush, matching its speed stride for stride. But your excitement had made you careless. The chase pushed you entirely too close to the treaty line, and just as you braced your legs to spring and make the kill, the mountain lion panicked. It bolted straight across the invisible border line, disappearing into the forbidden Quileute territory.
You skidded to a sudden halt right at the edge of the tree line, the damp earth groaning under the sudden force of your boots. Your bright topaz eyes, glowing with the hunger of a vegetarian vampire who hadn't fed in days, tracked your escaped meal as it vanished completely into the dense, foggy thicket of the reservation.
You let out a long, irritated sigh, crossing your arms tightly over your chest. As hungry as you were, you weren't about to instigate a problem over a snack. Carlisle would be disappointed, and honestly, you just didn't want to deal with the headache of fighting off a pack of wolves.
But just as you turned on your heel, preparing to leap back into the mossy canopy and find another trail, the heavy air shifted.
The wind blew from the west, and a sudden, overwhelming scent hit you like a physical blow. It was thick, intoxicating blend of woodsmoke, crushed cedar, and the distinct, muskiness of a wet dog. It was a smell so strong, it was nearly overwhelming, making your long dead heart give a strange, phantom twitch.
Before your brain could even fully process the frantic, heavy snapping of thick branches, the underbrush exploded.
A massive, silver-grey wolf burst from the thicket, its colossal paws tearing up the damp earth as it skidded to a violent halt just feet away from you, right at the precipice of the treaty line. The beast was easily the size of a horse, its powerful muscles bunching beneath a thick coat of silver fur. Its dark lips were pulled back in a vicious, terrifying snarl, exposing a row of razor-sharp, dagger-like teeth. A lethal, vibrating growl rumbled deep within its chest, a sound so low and resonant that it caused the small pebbles by your boots to tremble against the dirt.
You didn't flinch or stumble back, like most would when faced with such a creature. You were a three-hundred-year-old vampire; fear wasn't really a concept that existed in your emotional vocabulary anymore. Instead of fleeing, you merely tilted your head to the side, your bright topaz eyes sweeping over the creature with genuine, unbothered fascination.
So, the shape-shifter legends Carlisle mentioned are actually real, you thought to yourself, a spark of true interest finally breaking through the dull boredom that had plagued you for years.
You knew, conceptually, that beneath the wild, predatory exterior of the animal laid a human man. But looking at the wolf before you, you couldn't deny that he was truly majestic, a perfect specimen of raw nature and power. As your awe-struck, curious gaze lifted to meet his, you watched a sudden, inexplicable shift overtake the beast.
The wolf froze instantly, locking up as if he had been turned to solid stone.
The low, menacing growl died abruptly in his throat, cutting off into a sudden silence. The fierce, dark eyes dilated so completely that the irises nearly swallowed the whites. The massive beast stumbled backward a step, his front legs buckling slightly beneath his weight as if he had just taken a physical, crushing blow directly to the center of his chest. He stared at you, his chest heaving with shallow, ragged breaths. Even trapped in a wolf's form, he was particularly expressive, and you watched in utter fascination as the blinding, lethal hostility completely melted away, replaced by a look of profound, paralyzed shock.
You raised a single, perfect eyebrow, entirely unaware of the ancient, cosmic magic taking place right in front of you. You had no idea that the universe had just snapped its fingers, or that this boy’s entire world had just re-centered itself around the very breath in your lungs. You just thought he looked incredibly confused.
"Did I break a rule just by looking across the river, puppy?" you asked, breaking the heavy silence. Your voice came out as a smooth, melodic, if not slightly taunting purr, that rang clearly through the damp forest air.
The sound of your voice seemed to snap the wolf out of his trance instantly. A violent, chaotic shudder ripped through his massive frame from head to tail, his fur bristling in a sudden panic. He gave you one final, deeply conflicted glare before he whirled around with a desperate burst of speed, tearing back into the deep woods and vanishing into the fog as quickly as he had arrived.
You stood alone at the riverbank for a moment, listening to the distant, frantic thudding of his heavy paws fading into the distance.
"Well," you muttered softly to yourself, a slow, entertained smirk finally tugging at the corners of your cold lips as you looked back toward the empty tree line. "That was interesting."
The moment Paul’s paws hit the damp earth in a frantic, desperate sprint, his mind exploded.
He was running blind, tearing through the thick underbrush of the Quileute forest, his powerful chest heaving as he tried to put as much distance as humanly possible between himself and the treaty line. Between himself and you.
But he couldn't run from his own head. The second his focus cracked, the pack telepathy slammed back into his consciousness, loud and overwhelming and too chaotic for Sam and Jared to make of.
“Paul?! What the hell is going on? Paul, answer me!” Jared’s voice echoed in his mind, sharp with sudden panic.
Paul didn't answer. He couldn't. His thoughts were a chaotic, swirling vortex of images he couldn't control, and because of the pack bond, Sam and Jared were seeing every single one of them.
Through Paul’s eyes, they saw the flash of flawless skin. They saw the curtain of hair catching the dim forest light, the impossibly graceful tilt of a head, and worst of all, the striking, brilliant glow of topaz eyes.
“Is that... a leech?!” Jared shouted mentally, his thoughts recoiling in disgust. “Paul, did a bloodsucker cross the line? Did you fight—?”
“No!” Paul roared back in his mind, a deafening, mental snarl that made Jared wince within the bond.
“Then why does your head feel like it’s imploding? Let me see, Paul,” Sam commanded, pushing past Paul’s chaotic mental walls.
Sam didn't just see the memory; he felt the echo of what had happened to Paul the exact millisecond his eyes had locked onto the vampire. The sudden shift of Paul's universe. The way the gravity of the earth had suddenly detached from the center of the world and re-anchored itself entirely to a beautiful, cold monster standing across the river.
The telepathic link went dead silent.
“Oh shit,” Jared breathed, his voice dropping into a shocked, hushed whisper. “Oh, man. No way. Paul…”
“It’s not happening!” Paul screamed internally, his paws digging viciously into the mud as he pushed himself to run faster, trying to outrun the literal laws of physics. “It’s a mistake! She’s a parasite! She’s dead! I don't—I don't feel anything!”
But he was lying, and the pack knew it. They could feel the terrifying, absolute devotion that had just taken root in Paul's soul. They could hear the echo of her voice ringing in his head like a beautiful chime, “Did I break a rule just by looking across the river, puppy?” and they could feel the agonizing, furious heat of Paul’s humiliation and desire.
“Paul, calm down. Come to the clearing by the old mill,” Sam ordered, his mental voice surprisingly gentle now, filled with a heavy sympathy that only made Paul angrier. “We need to talk about this.”
“Get out of my head!” Paul snarled mentally, severing his conscious thoughts from them as best as he could, locking himself behind a wall of pure, unadulterated rage.
He didn't go to the mill. Instead, he tore toward a secluded, deeply wooded ravine near his house where he knew he’d be alone. His silver-grey form was a blur of frantic motion until he finally collapsed into a dense thicket of ferns, his massive body trembling violently.
A choked, human sound forced its way out of the wolf’s throat. With a horrific, echoing crack of shifting bones, Paul forced himself to change back—a feat that nearly surprised him considering how volatile his emotions currently were. His body convulsed, muscles snapping and reshaping, fur retreating into skin until he was lying face-down in the wet dirt, entirely human, gasping for air as if he had been drowning.
He dragged himself up against the trunk of a massive cedar tree, still shivering—not from the cold, but from the raw, terrifying power of the imprint. He reached into a hollow in the tree roots, pulling out a pair of beaten-up denim shorts he kept cached there, shaking as he pulled them on.
His skin was burning hot, a fever pitching through his blood. He buried his face in his hands, his fingers gripping his short, dark hair so tightly his scalp ached.
He could still smell you. Even miles away, the scent of the forest seemed completely devoid of meaning compared to the memory of her. He could still see her perfect, mocking smile, could still hear that slightly taunting purr that had completely dismantled his entire existence in a matter of seconds.
"Damn it," Paul choked out into the empty forest, his voice shaking with a mix of fury and absolute helplessness. He slammed his fist into the dirt, leaving a deep crater. "Damn it, no."
He was a protector of his tribe. He was meant to hunt the cold ones, to rip them to shreds and burn the pieces. He was Paul Lahote, the pack's muscle, the one who hated them most.
And now, by some sick, cosmic joke, his soul belonged to a leech.
Two days later, you found yourself lounging on a thick, mossy branch near the treaty line, idly tossing a pinecone up and down in your pale hand. Ever since you had encountered the massive silver wolf, you had been dying to see him again. The lingering curiosity had been humming beneath your skin for forty-eight hours, until finally, the temptation was simply too much to resist.
You had only been waiting for about ten minutes when the sharp sound of approaching footsteps reached your ears. They were human steps, not the heavy, padded thuds of a four-legged beast, but the scent cutting through the rain was unmistakably the same—that scorching, intoxicating blend of woodsmoke, cedar and wet dog.
A few moments later, a tall, powerfully muscular boy stormed through the trees. He was wearing nothing but a pair of torn denim shorts despite the chilly Pacific Northwest rain, his bronze skin radiating a visible steam, due to his abnormally high internal temperature. His chest was heaving with erratic breaths, and his jaw was clenched so tight you could literally hear the bone grinding from twenty yards away.
Your head tilted much like it had the first time you saw him, but this time, you were studying his human form. He was remarkably handsome—not like vampires, who possessed a flawless, frozen perfection, but in a way that was entirely wild and rugged.
He stopped dead at the edge of the treaty line, glaring up at you in your tree with dark eyes full of fire.
"You," he spat, his voice dropping an octave into a gravelly, dangerous threat. "Leech."
The corners of your lips twitched into the ghost of a smirk, instantly amused by his explosive temper. "You must be the dramatic puppy from Tuesday," you said, your voice a smooth, melodic purr that drifted down from the canopy. "Are we jumping straight to pet names, or shall we make a proper introduction?"
He looked like he wanted to rip your head off right then and there, but beneath the mask of his fury, there was a bizarre, frantic desperation bleeding into his eyes that completely contradicted his aggressive posture.
"You need to leave," he commanded, his voice shaking with a strange, ragged intensity. "Leave Forks, leave Washington. Get out."
You leaned forward and leapt down from the branch, dropping through the damp air with absolute weightlessness. You landed soundlessly on your feet just inches away from him, separated only by the invisible boundary of the treaty line. Cocking your head, you met his blazing stare with an unbothered, glittering gaze.
"Why?" you asked, your tone light and conversational. "As far as I can see, I'm breaking no laws. I haven't hunted on your side, and Carlisle says I'm perfectly within my rights to be here."
"I don't care what Carlisle says!" he growled, the words tearing out of his throat.
A sudden tremor ran through his broad shoulders, and you felt the temperature in the small clearing instantly spike. The air around him grew incredibly hot, heavy with the suffocating warmth of a furnace as his body vibrated on the verge of a physical shift.
"You're a monster," he hissed, his chest heaving as he fought a losing battle against his own skin. "A parasite. You shouldn't exist, and you damn sure shouldn't be... shouldn't be doing this to me!"
Your brows furrowed slightly as you tried to piece together exactly what you could have done to him. Yet, absolutely nothing came to the forefront of your mind. He was the one who had hunted you down, after all. But naturally, seeing how easily he was unraveling, you decided to push his buttons.
“Well, that’s a little rude," you murmured, adjusting your stance and letting your lips form a perfect, exaggerated pout. "And here I thought this modern age was all about acceptance and inclusivity. Where are the manners, puppy?"
"Shut up!" he barked, the sound echoing like a gunshot through the quiet woods. His hands curled into tight, white-knuckled fists at his sides.
A dangerous, rhythmic ripple passed directly under his skin—the telltale sign of a shape-shifter on the precipice of exploding into a giant beast. The sheer heat radiating off him was making the damp mist around his bare chest evaporate into wisps of steam.
"Don't tempt me, leech," he threatened, his jaw locking so hard a muscle jumped in his cheek. "I'll tear you to pieces, treaty or no treaty."
"I'd love to see you try," you dared softly, stepping a fraction of an inch closer to the invisible boundary line.
You flashed him a dazzling, flawless vampire smile, your perfect teeth glinting like polished porcelain in the dim, grey light of the forest canopy. You let your eyes trail slowly down his trembling, muscular frame before bringing your gaze back up to lock with his burning stare.
"I haven’t had a good tussle in a while," you purred, a wicked, teasing spark igniting in your topaz eyes. "And you know, they say hate sex is particularly appealing after a brawl. I’d be more than interested to try it if you are. Being mortal, biological enemies would certainly make it an interesting night to remember, don't you think?"
Paul choked on his own breath, the dark bronze of his skin rapidly darkening into a furious, deep crimson at your shameless offer but unlike him you were centuries old, shame was also another thing no longer in your emotional vocabulary.
"You—you fucking psycho," Paul stammered, his gravelly voice cracking under the sheer weight of his humiliation. He stared at you, his eyes wide and completely unhinged by your shameless teasing. "You think this is a joke?"
"Oh, come now," you laughed, the sound a bright, chiming cadence that mocked the heavy gloom of the forest. You shifted your weight, leaning hip-first against a massive, moss-covered boulder right at the water's edge, entirely comfortable in your own skin. "Don't tell me a big, bad wolf is afraid of a little experimentation. I'm just offering a creative solution to all that pent-up aggression you're carrying around. If you’re gonna hate me, we might as well make it fun with some benefits.”
"Get bent," he spat, though his eyes involuntarily flicked down to your lips before snapping back up to your eyes with a look of pure self-loathing. He took a sharp step backward, away from the tempting, intoxicating scent of your proximity. "I'd rather eat glass, leech. Keep your disgusting, cold mouth away from me."
"Your loss, puppy," you chirped, giving him a little wave of your fingers. "But if you change your mind, you know exactly where to find me. Clearly."
Paul let out a final, furious yell of pure frustration, turned on his heel, and stormed back into the dense foliage. He kicked a rotting fir log so hard the damp wood exploded into a shower of splinters and moss, his heavy, angry stomps echoing through the valley until he finally phased somewhere deep in the reservation.
You leaned your back against a cedar tree, a breathless, musical laugh escaping your chest. He was a puzzle, an explosive, dangerously hot puzzle, and for the first time in three centuries, you found yourself entirely cured of your boredom.
Oh, yes. Poking the wolf was going to be an exceptional way to pass the time.
Over the next three weeks, your little routine escalated into what could be considered an art form.
You quickly learned that Paul Lahote—the name belonging to your delightfully angry wolf—possessed the shortest fuse of anyone you had ever encountered in your three hundred years of existence, with the singular, spine-chilling exception of Caius Volturi himself. But unlike the ancient, genocidal Italian ruler, Paul’s wrath was loud, expressive, and incredibly fun to provoke. You made it your personal mission to light that fuse as often as humanly possible, finding a wicked thrill in watching how quickly his composure could disintegrate under the weight of a single, well-placed taunt.
As the days blurred together, you weren't the only ones attending these strange, borderline theatrical standoffs. The other wolves—the stoic, deeply burdened Alpha, Sam Uley, and the taller, lankier one you’d come to know as Jared—started showing up in the brush occasionally. They never crossed the line, and they never spoke a single word to you, keeping their distance. Instead, they would stand just inside the Quileute tree line, watching Paul's explosive, vein-popping tantrums with expressions of deep, utterly exhausted sympathy. They looked at Paul the exact way a tired parent looks at a toddler having a meltdown in the middle of a crowded grocery store. More than once, as Paul's body would begin to violently blur on the precipice of an involuntary phase, Sam would step forward, placing a heavy, grounding hand on Paul's shaking shoulder. You could practically feel the invisible weight of the Alpha's command cutting through the air, forcing the younger boy to forcibly calm his racing blood before he caused a catastrophic, treaty-breaking international incident.
And then, of course, there was Paul himself.
Despite his endless growling for you to leave, his colourful vocabulary, and his daily, incredibly detailed promises to rip you to shreds and burn the pieces, he never missed a single day. Not once. You started testing him, purposely showing up ten or fifteen minutes late to your usual spot on the riverbank just to see what would happen. Without fail, every single time you delayed, you would find him already there, pacing the muddy bank of the opposite side like a caged wolf. His dark, wild eyes would be scanning the high mossy canopy with a frantic, almost desperate urgency, his chest heaving as if he were physically suffocating.
But the exact millisecond your feet touched the branch, the very moment his eyes locked onto yours, the change was staggering. The borderline manic panic tightly gripping his chest would visibly ease, his shoulders dropping a fraction of an inch as a heavy wave of relief washed over his features. A beat later, he would remember himself, instantly settling back into his usual, comfortable mask of defensive rage and snap an insult across the water to cover up his slip.
You weren't stupid. You were an old, highly perceptive predator who had survived three centuries by reading the hidden motives of both humans and monsters alike. You knew with absolute certainty that whatever was truly happening between the two of you, it wasn't just simple, straightforward hatred. There was a tether. A thick, invisible cord pulled completely taut across the rushing waters of the Hoh River, binding your cold, unmoving, timeless existence directly to his scorching, vibrant, and fiercely chaotic life force. You weren’t entirely sure of the exact terminology or the ancient magic behind it, but you knew with a supernatural certainty that it had everything to do with the nature of the wolf beneath his skin.
You probably could’ve asked Carlisle for some clarity, but Edward was currently throwing a massive fit because some human girl in town happened to be his bloodsinger. The whole ordeal was causing an absurd amount of tension throughout the entire Cullen house, so you had been giving them a wide berth while they sorted out their dramatic coven issues.
"You know, for someone who hates me, you sure spend a lot of time staring at my mouth," you teased one evening, sitting gracefully on a moss-covered boulder right at the edge of the river.
Paul, who had been pacing like a caged animal on the opposite bank, froze dead in his tracks. In the dimming twilight, you watched the dark bronze of his face flush a deep, dark red. "I'm watching your fangs, monster," he snapped, his voice rough and defensive. "Making sure you don't try anything."
"Mhm. Sure," you murmured, a playful hum vibrating in your throat. "But there's just one little problem with that, puppy. We don’t actually have fangs. As someone who hunts vampires, shouldn’t that be a fairly crucial detail for you to know?"
You teased him ruthlessly, shifting your weight to slide down from the boulder and move even closer toward the invisible boundary line. Your eyes locked onto the rhythmic trembling of his broad shoulders. "You're shivering, Paul. And definitely not from the cold."
"I don't get cold," he growled, though his chest gave a heavy heave as his breathing suddenly became shallow and restricted.
You tilted your head, looking at him properly this time. Really looking at him. Beneath the layers of explosive anger, the harsh, venomous words, and the desperate masculine bravado, you could see the sheer, crushing exhaustion etched into every line of his face.
The relentless desire to poke the wolf suddenly evaporated, completely replaced by a strange, foreign pang of genuine concern deep inside your cold, unbeating heart.
“Are you alright?” you asked softly.
Paul blinked, completely caught off guard by your sudden, drastic change in tone. The venom vanished from his eyes for a split second, and he looked down at the rushing water separating the two of you, his rigid shoulders sagging just a fraction before he caught himself. His jaw tensed immediately. “I’m fine.”
“I’m over three hundred years old, darling. I’m filled with life experiences," you scoffed playfully, trying to ease the heavy, suffocating tension that had settled over him. "I’m practically offering you free therapy right now."
Paul let out a sharp, bitter breath that wasn't quite a laugh, but it lacked his usual venom. He didn't look back up at you, keeping his eyes firmly glued to the swirling eddies of the river.
"I don't think you have a license for that," he muttered, his voice barely carrying over the sound of the water.
You watched him silently, your supernatural vision effortlessly picking up the subtle, persistent tremor in his hands and the way the muscles in his neck were strained to the point of snapping. The teasing, lighthearted facade you usually wore around him began to feel inappropriate, slipping away to reveal the ancient, deeply observant creature beneath. You stepped right up to the very edge of the riverbank, the damp earth shifting slightly under your weight, your perfect posture loosening into something genuinely receptive.
"No license, but I have an infinite amount of time on my hands," you said softly, your voice cutting through the damp forest air like a soothing melody. "Come on, Lahote. What's eating you? Besides me, obviously."
Paul's jaw worked. For a tense second, you thought he was going to turn on his heel, shatter another log, and storm away into the fog like he usually did when his emotions overwhelmed him.
"I don't need therapy from a leech," he grumbled, though the insult felt half-hearted, lacking any real sting. It was an instinctual shield, a habit he was clinging to because he didn't know what else to do.
"Suit yourself," you said, crossing your arms and leaning your hip against a sturdy birch tree. "But 'fine' doesn't usually involve looking like you haven't slept since the turn of the century."
He lifted his head, his dark eyes burning into yours with a sudden intensity that made your playful banter die instantly on your tongue. The defensive anger was still there, but it was incredibly thin, cracking open right before your eyes to reveal the staggering weight he was carrying underneath.
The truth was, Paul’s life was a chaotic storm, and he was completely drowning in it.
When the shape-shifter gene had finally activated in his blood a few months ago, it had felt like an explosion. Out of the three shifters currently running the forests of La Push, Paul had supposedly taken to the wolf the easiest. Where Sam and Jared had deeply struggled with having to abruptly cut off and ignore the people in their lives to keep the tribal secret, Paul didn’t have that struggle. Phasing into a massive, silver-grey beast felt almost natural to him because he had spent his entire life carrying a baseline of nuclear-level rage. To Sam and Jared, he appeared to effortlessly embrace the unbridled, primal power of the spirit-warrior.
But the reality was a living nightmare. He was a teenage boy who had been abruptly stripped of his normalcy, forced into a supernatural pack bond that offered absolutely zero privacy. Every dark thought, every flash of insecurity, and every bitter memory of his failures was broadcast directly into the minds of his pack mates whenever they were in wolf form.
In truth, inheriting a sacred tribal legacy didn't magically erase the wreckage of his human life. It only magnified it.
His home life was its own quiet, miserable war zone. His father was a deeply bitter, abusive drunk—a man who spent his days drowning his own failures in cheap whiskey and his nights taking his frustrations out on whatever, or whoever, was within arm's reach. Before Paul phased, he had spent years taking those hits, absorbing the venom and building up a dark reservoir of hatred that threatened to swallow him whole. Now that he was a protector, now that he possessed the supernatural strength to tear a car in half with his bare hands, the dynamic at home had become a precarious tightrope. Every time his father stumbled home, slurring and swinging, Paul had to physically lock his entire body down. He would grip the edges of the kitchen counter until the wood threatened to snap beneath his fingers, utterly terrified that if he lost his temper for even a fraction of a second, he would accidentally murder his own father.
Because of that suffocating terror, he barely spent any time at home anymore. He practically lived on the run from his own house, taking refuge at Sam and Emily's place just to have a safe haven. On the nights when the shame and embarrassment of overstaying his welcome grew too heavy, he wouldn't even stay in a house at all; he would sleep out in the dirt and the damp woods as a wolf, letting the wild weather numb him.
He was entirely, utterly exhausted. He was so tired of the total lack of privacy between him and the pack, so tired of the lingering trauma of his childhood, and deeply weary of carrying the thankless burden of protecting a tribe that ultimately viewed him and the other boys as nothing but delinquent, good-for-nothings. He was a walking powder keg, and his hair-trigger temper felt like a bomb ticking away in his chest, waiting for the spark that would blow his entire world to pieces.
And then, to make a total mockery of his entire existence... there was you.
Paul ran a rough hand over his face, pushing his damp, dark hair away from his forehead. He looked at you—at your perfect face, the gentle curve of your mouth, and the bright gold of your eyes. He stared at how you seemed to stand so peacefully across the river, utterly unaffected by the biting rain, the freezing cold, or the crushing misery of the modern world. You were a creature of frozen grace, a timeless masterpiece carving a quiet space into his chaotic nightmare.
He hated how much he needed to be near you. He loathed the primal desperation that gripped his throat every single hour he spent away from this riverbank. But more than anything, he hated the terrifying truth that the endless, agonizing thoughts in his head—the fury at his father, the pack's telepathic intrusion, the burden of the tribal legacy— completely stopped the moment he was right here, standing across a river from a creature he had been born to kill. Your presence was an oasis of escape in his loud, violent world.
"You don't get it," he muttered, his jaw tightening so hard the bone beneath his bronze skin looked sharp enough to cut. He looked down at his own trembling hands, watching them clench and unclench into tight fists as if he were trying to physically hold his sanity together.
"I'm supposed to hate you," he whispered, his voice cracking violently under the staggering weight of the confession. He didn't look up, his gaze glued to his hands. "I try so hard to hate you. I can't sleep. I can't think. Every time I close my eyes, my head is full of your voice, your face, your stupid, mocking smile. I’m supposed to want to rip you to pieces. I’m supposed to want to kill you. Instead, I’m spending every single second of my day fighting my own body, making sure I don't cross this goddamn river just to be near you. It's making me lose my mind."
You stared at him, your ancient mind rapidly recontextualizing every single interaction you’d had over the last three weeks. The pacing, the panic when you were late, the heavy, sympathetic looks from Sam and Jared. You knew there was some kind of bond, but you didn’t realize how hard it had been on him. You didn’t know it was an all consuming need that his biology had forced upon him, and he was tearing himself apart trying to fight it.
A heavy, suffocating silence descended on the riverbank, save for the wild, rushing water churning over the jagged rocks below. For the first time in three hundred years of wandering the earth, through every empire you had seen fall and every coven you had seen break, you felt completely, utterly speechless. The wit that usually defined you, the clever, taunting armour you wore to keep the lacklustre world at bay, dissolved into nothingness.
"Paul..." you started, your voice barely louder than a whisper, stripped entirely of its usual taunting edge.
"Don't," he choked out, his fists clenching tight at his sides. He looked at you one last time, a look of profound defeat and agonizing longing warring on his rugged features, before he turned sharply and vanished back into the shadows of the Quileute woods.
You stood entirely frozen, staring at the empty tree line as the first heavy droplets of a gathering storm began to fall through the canopy, the cold rain washing over you as the echo of his confession rang in your ears.
"Paul..." you started, your voice barely louder than a whisper, carrying a soft, aching weight you hadn't felt in centuries.
"Don't," he choked out, his fists clenching so tight that his entire body began to tremble with that dangerous, pre-shifting heat. He lifted his head and looked at you one last time—a look of profound defeat, raw exposure, and agonizing, heartbreaking longing warring on his rugged features—before he turned sharply on his heel. With a desperate burst of speed, he vanished back into the deep, unforgiving shadows of the Quileute woods.
You stood entirely frozen, your immortal body locking into the stillness of stone as you stared at the empty tree line. The silence of the forest rushed back to fill the void he left behind, and the first heavy, freezing droplets of a gathering storm began to pierce through the high canopy, splashing unnoticed against your cold skin.
The turning point came on a night when the storm was loud enough to drown out the very sound of the forest. Thunder clapped in deafening, rolling waves, and the rain fell in thick sheets, blurring the world into a chaotic haze of grey and green. You were hunting a few miles out, tracking a deer, when the air suddenly carried something that made your entire body lock up—blood. Intoxicating, heavy, human blood, followed instantly by the sweet scent of a rogue vampire having moved through the area.
Your predatory instincts flared, but it wasn't hunger that seized you despite how tempting the human blood smelled. It was a cold, paralyzing jolt of panic. As you tore through the woods, tracking the fast-moving scent trail, you realized with growing horror that the vampire had already went straight across the Hoh River. The nomad had most likely attacked the hiker directly onto Quileute land.
And your very first, consuming thought went to Paul.
You crossed the river without a second thought, your feet barely skimming the rushing water as you launched yourself deep into the forbidden territory, driven by a desperate, frantic need to ensure he was safe.
By the time you burst into the hidden clearing, the brutal reality of the hunt was already unfolding. The human hiker was gone, likely fled or worse, but the clearing was a battleground. A massive, silver-grey wolf was locked in a horrific, snarling grapple with the red-eyed nomad. They were a blur of teeth and claws, tearing up the mud, but the rogue had gained the upper hand, pinning the giant wolf beneath his weight. In his pale, stone-like hand, the nomad gripped a heavy, jagged rock, raising it high and aiming it straight for the wolf's eye with lethal force.
A primal, deafening screech tore from your throat. You didn't think. You just launched your body across the clearing, tackling the rogue vampire off of Paul a split second before the rock could descend. The blinding velocity of your collision threw the nomad violently through the air, sending him crashing into a massive, ancient cedar tree with a force that cracked the thick trunk right down the middle.
Before the nomad could even hit the ground, you dropped into a low, lethal crouch directly in front of Paul. Your clothes were soaked, your posture was entirely feral, and your topaz eyes seemed to shine in the darkness as you shielded the silver wolf with your own body.
"Don't touch him," you hissed, the words vibrating with a venomous, unyielding threat that rang clearer than the storm.
The nomad scrambled to his feet, rubbing his chest where you had struck him. He straightened up to his full height, his dark crimson eyes darting from your protective stance to the panting, bleeding wolf behind you. A look of profound, sickening disgust contorted his pale features.
“You’re defending a mutt from your own kind?” he spat, his voice laced with utter disbelief.
Behind you, Paul let out a low, ragged rumble. He was struggling to push himself up, his heavy paws slipping in the slick, blood-stained grass. You could feel the intense, furnace-like heat radiating from his massive body, practically baking the skin of your back. Even injured, his instinct was to push past you, to put himself between the danger and his imprint. But you didn't give him an inch. You stood like a wall of solid marble, unyielding and fierce.
The rogue nomad narrowed his red eyes, assessing the situation. He looked at the cracked cedar tree, then at your lethal posture, and finally at the massive silver-grey beast snarling behind you. He was fast, but he wasn't stupid. He was outnumbered, outmatched, and facing a vampire who looked entirely ready to tear him limb from limb.
“Disgusting parasite,” the nomad hissed, backing up a step into the shadows of the ferns. “You’re a disgrace to our kind.”
With a sudden, fluid movement, the rogue whirled around and launched himself high into the canopy, vanishing into the blinding sheets of rain as he fled, tearing away from the reservation.
You pulled your phone out of your pocket, your cold fingers moving with supernatural speed to send a quick text to Jasper. You gave him a brief heads-up on the runner's description and where he seemed to be headed, knowing with absolute certainty that the Cullens would handle the rest. They wouldn’t want dangerous rogues hunting anywhere near their territory and drawing unnecessary human attention.
Silence descended on the woods, save for the heavy, laboured panting of the giant wolf behind you.
You turned around slowly, your vampire grace suddenly feeling incredibly clumsy. Paul was already shifting back, the gruesome, rapid sound of cracking bones echoing in the quiet night. He quickly pulled a pair of shorts from a hidden cache in a hollow tree and stepped into them.
You waited for him to yell at you. Your cold muscles tensed as you stood your ground, bracing for the inevitable explosion. You had broken the treaty. You had crossed the river. By all rights and laws of his tribe, he could try to kill you right now.
Instead, Paul walked right up to you. The anger that usually defined him was completely gone, replaced by a fierce, burning intensity. He stopped inches from you, his body heat radiating off him like a furnace, pushing away the damp chill of the night.
"You crossed the line," he whispered.
"He was going to take your eye out, Paul," you said defensively, crossing your arms over your chest as your chin tilted up to meet his gaze. "I couldn't just stand across the river and watch."
You looked at him, truly looked at him, and for the first time in three centuries, you felt a lump form in your throat. You swallowed hard, a purely human reflex that you hadn't needed in a regular conversation for a very long time, and shifted your gaze away from his. You couldn't bear the raw, bleeding exposure in his eyes. There was something about this shape-shifter, something about the searing warmth of his presence and the terrifying depth of his devotion, that made you feel human again. It was a feeling you had thought lost to time, a dangerous, beautiful spark breaking through the timeless numbness of your nomadic life.
“I broke your law," you murmured quietly, the words feeling heavy and hollow on your tongue. "If you want me to leave Forks and never come back… I will.”
It was all he’d been yelling at you to do since the exact moment you two had met. For three weeks, he had growled, demanded, and threatened you to disappear, and you were finally offering him exactly what he wanted on a silver platter. You figured that maybe with you gone, he might finally get some peace of mind.
The silence that followed your offer was deafening, stretching out between you even as the thunder rumbled overhead and the heavy rain continued to batter the ancient canopy. You kept your eyes trained on the muddy ground, watching the steam rise off his bare feet where they sank into the earth. You were bracing for the relief you expected to feel from him, the agreement that he wanted you gone.
But the relief never came. Instead, the air between you grew impossibly hotter, thick with a sudden, sharp spike of panic that was so potent you could practically taste it.
Paul felt his chest gave a sharp, violent heave, a ragged breath tearing out of his throat as if your words had physically struck him.
Instead, what you expected never came, he reached out. His large hand was trembling slightly, as he slowly, hesitatingly, rested his warm, calloused palm directly against your cold, wet cheek.
You gasped, a phantom shudder ripping through your unmoving veins. Your eyes snapped back up to his, wide and startled. His skin felt like liquid fire against your ice, a contrast so sharp, it nearly felt as if you were being burned, but it didn't hurt. In fact, it made you feel undeniably, beautifully alive. For three hundred years, you had walked the earth feeling nothing but the same boring cycle of a world that couldn't touch you. But right now, under the pressure of his hand, your entire universe shrank down to the singular point of his warmth.
“No. I’ve been an asshole to you," Paul muttered, his voice cracking as he forced the words past the tight knot in his throat. His dark eyes searched yours with an open, bleeding sincerity that laid him entirely bare. His thumb moved slowly, gently tracing the smooth, porcelain line of your cheekbone, wiping away the cold raindrops. "Every single day since I met you, I've done nothing but scream at you. I called you a monster. I called you a leech. And you just crossed the treaty line and risked your life to save mine."
Looking up at him now—completely exposed, completely stripped of the defensive, hot-headed bravado he used to shield himself from the wreckage of his life—the familiar, playful spark finally flickered back into your topaz eyes. You couldn't help it. The wit was your defence mechanism, your own way of handling the terrifying weight of what seemed to be blooming between you two.
"I told you before, Lahote," you whispered, your voice a soft, melodic purr that leaned into his warm touch just a fraction of an inch. "I like poking the wolf. I can't exactly let a rogue nomad break my favourite toy."
A breathless, genuine laugh broke from Paul's lips—the first real, untainted sound of amusement you had ever heard from him. It made his eyes crinkle at the corners, the harsh, severe lines of his face softening into something so breathtakingly handsome it made your dead heart ache.
"You are infuriating, you know that?" he murmured, the corners of his mouth lifting into a small, wry smile as he leaned his head down, resting his forehead gently against yours. Ice met fire in the middle of the dark, rain-slicked forest, and for the first time, there was no war.
"I've been told I have a certain charm," you replied softly, your pale, slender hands tentatively rising to rest against his bare, broad chest. Beneath your palms, you could feel the frantic, heavy thumping of his heart, a rapid, fiercely alive rhythm that seemed to echo in the empty space of your own chest.
"Yeah," Paul sighed, closing his eyes as he finally let go of the anger, the guilt, and the fear that had been tearing him apart for weeks. He wrapped his strong, trembling arms securely around your waist, pulling your cold body flush against his furnace-warm chest and you couldn’t help but relax into him. He held you like you were the only solid thing left in a world that was constantly shifting beneath his feet. "Maybe you do."
The storm raged on around you, the thunder shaking the earth and the rain washing the blood from the clearing, but as you stood there in the forbidden territory, wrapped in the arms of the boy who had been born to kill you, the dull grey of the world finally began to fade away.
I’m so deeply between a twilight or tvd fanfic after I finish my hotd one…. Like either a Bella Swan x Sam Uley or Paul Lahote or a Elena Gilbert x Niklaus Mikaelson
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Sam Uley:
I didn’t believe it at first… Imprinting wasn’t supposed to feel like this. It was supposed to be clear, instant, right. Not… wrong. But the second I saw her, standing at the edge of the clearing, pale skin catching the light like it didn’t belong in this world, everything in me snapped into place anyway. It was like the universe didn’t care about the rules. A vampire… Out of everything it could’ve been… it had to be a vampire. My chest tightened, instincts screaming two different things at once: protect her and tear her apart. It made my head spin.
She didn’t move, didn’t attack, just stood there watching me like she felt it too. That was the worst part because I knew she did. The pull was undeniable. Unbreakable. Permanent.
“You’ve gotta be kidding me….” I muttered under my breath, dragging a hand over my face.
Of all the people in the world, it had to be here. A vampire. My imprint. I let out a shaky breath, meeting her eyes again despite every instinct telling me not to. It didn’t matter, didn’t change anything. Because she was it… and somehow… I wasn’t walking away.
Jared Cameron:
I knew the feeling the second it hit. I heard Sam describe it before, how the world narrows, how everything just locks into place. I just never thought it would feel like this. Never thought it would feel so… wrong. Standing across from me wasn’t just anyone, it was a vampire. Cold. Still. Too perfect in a way that made every instinct in me bristle. Every part of me screamed enemy. And yet, I couldn’t move. Couldn’t breathe.
My chest tightened, heart hammering like it was trying to break out of me as something deeper, older, more powerful snapped into place. Mine. The thought hit harder, automatic, undeniable. I let out a sharp, disbelieving laugh, dragging a hand through my hair.
“Are you serious?” I muttered.
A vampire. The very thing I was supposed to hate. Fight. Kill. And now? Now she was the center of everything. I clenched my jaw, staring at her like if I looked hard enough, it might undo it. It didn’t. It wouldn’t. Because imprinting didn’t care about logic. Didn’t care about sides. Didn’t care that this broke every rule I’d ever lived by. All it cared about was her. I exhaled slowly, the fight draining out of my shoulders as acceptance crept in whether I wanted it or not.
“This is gonna be a problem…” I said under my breath. But even as I said it, I was already stepping closer.
Paul Lahote:
It hit me like a punch to the chest. One second, I’m pacing, already irritated about something stupid, heat crawling under my skin like I’m two seconds from phasing, and the next? Everything just… stops. Locks. Focuses. Her. I blink, hard, like that’s gonna fix it. It doesn’t. Because standing across from me, too still, too pale, too wrong, is a vampire. My brain just short-circuits.
“Nah…” I scoff under my breath, shaking my head. “Nope. Not happening.”
Except it is. I can feel it. That pull everyone talks about, strong, unbreakable, and absolute. It slams into me so hard it almost knocks the air out of my lungs. And I hated it. Every instinct I’ve got is screaming: enemy, threat, rip her apart. But something deeper? Something that doesn’t give a damn about instincts? It’s louder. Her. I drag a hand down my face, letting out a sharp laugh that’s way too close to losing it.
“You’ve gotta be shitting me.” I mutter.
It just had to be a vampire. My temper spikes, familiar and fast, heat flaring in my chest… but it doesn’t explode. Doesn’t push me over the edge like it usually does. And that? That freaks me out more than anything. Because the only thing holding it back is her. I look at her again, really look this time. She watching me, cautious, ready, like she knows exactly what I am. It’s like she's waiting for me to lose it. I huff, rolling my shoulders, trying to shake off the tension.
“This is messed up.” I say, louder now. “Like, seriously messed up.”
No response. Just those red eyes on me, and I can’t look away. I run my tongue over my teeth, exhaling slowly, forcing myself to stay human, stay in control for once.
“Great…” I mutter. “Just great…”
A vampire. My imprint. That’s gonna go over real well. But even as I’m standing there, annoyed, pissed, and completely thrown. I’m already shifting my stance. Putting myself between her and anything that might come near. Automatic. Instinct. Protective. I noticed it and I groan, tipping my head back slightly.
“Unbelievable.” But when I look at her again, I don’t step away. Don’t break it. Because no matter how much I want to fight it, I already know. She’s it. And apparently? I’m stuck with her.
Embry Call:
I don’t realize what’s happening at first. It just feels like everything… slows. Like the noise in my head, the usual hum of the pack, the tension, the constant awareness of everything around me, just fades out. And then there’s only one thing left.
Her.
I blink, frowning slightly, trying to figure out why I can’t look away. Why my chest suddenly feels tight and light at the same time. She’s standing a few yards away, perfectly still. Too still. Pale. Beautiful in a way that doesn’t make sense. Then it clicks. My stomach drops.
“Oh…” I breathe.
A vampire. Because apparently that’s how my luck works. I let out a quiet, almost nervous laugh, rubbing the back of my neck as I try to process it.
“This is… new.”
Every instinct I have is telling me to be careful. To keep my distance. To remember what she is. What she could do. But none of that matters, not really. Because underneath all of that, there’s something stronger. Something steady. Something that feels… right. I shift my weight a little, glancing down for a second before looking back at her. She’s watching me. Not attacking. Not moving. Just… waiting. It’s like she’s unsure too. That makes something in my chest soften.
“Hey…” I said quietly, offering a small, almost shy smile.
Yeah, she a vampire. Yeah, this is probably going to complicate… everything. But imprinting doesn’t make mistakes. And I trust that. Even if I don’t fully understand it yet. I take a slow step forward, hands relaxed at my sides, giving her space, but not walking away.
“I’m Embry.” I add, a little awkwardly. Because somehow, introductions feel important. Especially now. Because no matter what she is, she’s mine, and I’m not going anywhere.
Quill Ateara V:
At first, I think I’m imagining it. Because there’s no way, no way, this is actually happening to me. One second I’m joking around, half paying attention, the next? Everything just… snaps. Like someone flipped a switch in my head. The world narrows, sharp and clear, and suddenly there’s only one thing that matters. Her.
I blink, grin still halfway on my face, until I actually see her. And yeah, that grin drops real quick.
“Oh come on…” I breathe, half laughing, half in disbelief. Because standing right there, looking like she stepped out of some kind of frozen nightmare, is a vampire. Figures. I drag a hand through my hair, letting out a short, incredulous laugh.
“Seriously? That’s what we’re doing today?”
But even as I say it, I can feel it. That pull. That connection. Strong, solid, and unbreakable and weirdly? Not scary. Confusing, yeah. A little insane? Definitely. But not wrong. I tilt my head slightly, studying her, curiosity starting to outweigh the shock. She’s watching me too, tense, like she’s expecting me to bolt or attack. Yeah… can’t blame her for that. I huff a small breath, shoulders relaxing as I shake my head.
“Well…” I say, a crooked smile creeping back in despite everything. “...this is gonna make pack meetings real interesting.”
No reaction. Just those sharp eyes locked on me. I take a step forward anyway, easy and unthreatening.
“Hey.” I add, tone lighter now, like I’m trying to take the edge off the whole… supernatural destiny thing.
“I’m Quil.”
Because honestly? What else am I supposed to do, not introduce myself? Yeah, she’s a vampire. Yeah, this complicates literally everything. But imprinting’s imprinting. And if this is mine? Then I’m not gonna freak out about it. I’m gonna roll with it. I flash her a small, reassuring smile.
“Guess we’re a thing now.” I shrug lightly. And somehow, I’m okay with that.
Jacob Black:
It feels wrong before I even understand it. Like my instincts slam on the brakes and the gas at the same time. One second I’m tracking, focused, the familiar burn of a vampire’s scent already crawling up my nose, and the next? Everything snaps. Hard. The world narrows, sharp and unforgiving, until there’s only one thing in it. Her. I freeze.
“No…” I mutter immediately, shaking my head like I can knock it loose.
“Nope. Not happening.”
Because I know what this is. I’ve seen it happen. Imprinting. And there’s no way, no way, this is happening. Not like this. Not with her. Because she’s standing there, too still, too pale, eyes locked on me with that guarded, calculating look I know too well. A vampire. Of course, it’s a damn vampire.
My stomach twists, a low growl building in my chest out of pure reflex. Every instinct is screaming, enemy, threat, wrong. But it doesn’t matter. Because underneath all of that, there’s something stronger. Something that doesn’t care about what she is. Just that she is.
“Unbelievable…” I huff, dragging a hand through my hair, pacing once like I need to burn it off.
“This is… this is messed up!”
I shoot her a look again, half expecting her to bolt or attack. She doesn’t. Just watches me, careful. Like she’s waiting to see which side of me wins. Yeah, I’d like to know that too. I exhale slowly, forcing the tension out of my shoulders, even as it fights me every step of the way.
“Okay.” I mutter, more to myself than to her. “Okay, think about this…”
Imprinting isn’t random. It’s not a mistake. It’s supposed to me… right. Even when it doesn’t make sense. I’ve seen that firsthand. Doesn’t mean I have to like it. I stop pacing, planting my feet, staring at her again, really looking this time. Not just as a vampire. Not just as something I’ve been raised to hate. But as… her. The pull is there. That certainty. Unbreakable. I let out a long breath, some of the fight draining out of me whether I want it to or not.
“Great… just great.” I muttered dryly.
A vampire. My imprint. That’s gonna go over real well with everyone. I huff a quiet laugh, shaking my head.
“Figures.” I add under my breath. But even as I stand there, annoyed, conflicted, completely thrown, I don’t step back. Don’t put distance between us. If anything, I step closer. Slow. Deliberate. Because no matter how much I argue with it, this? This is happening. And if there’s one thing I know about imprinting? It’s that once it’s there, you don’t walk away. I meet her eyes again, jaw still tight, but steadier now.
“Guess we’re doing this…” I say, half-resigned, half-defiant. Because yeah, I don’t like it. I don’t understand it. But that doesn’t change the fact that she’s mine. And whether I like it or not? I’m not letting anything happen to her.
Leah Clearwater:
It feels like a damn joke. A really, really bad one. One second I’m running, focused, enjoying the one thing about this whole wolf thing that doesn’t completely suck, the speed, the control, the silence, and the next? Everything crashes to a stop. It’s like I hit a wall I didn’t see coming. I shift back before I even realize I’ve done it, breath coming faster as I stare at him.
“You’ve gotta be kidding me.”
Because of course it would be a vampire. Tall. Pale. Too still. That perfect, unnatural kind of face that makes my skin crawl on instinct. Everything about him screams wrong. And yet… I can’t look away. My chest tightens, something sharp and unfamiliar twisting right under my ribs, and I hate it. I hate how fast it settles in. How absolute it feels.
“No.” I say, louder this time, shaking my head like I could undo it.
“Nope. Not doing this.”
Imprinting? Seriously? After everything? After Sam, after the whole soulmate, destined, can’t-escape-it garbage? This what I get? I let out a harsh laugh, crossing my arms like that’s going to put distance between us.
“Wow. Universe really outdid itself this time.”
He doesn’t move, just watches me. Cautious. Like he knows I might bolt or attack. Honestly? Haven’t decided yet. Every instinct I have is screaming at me to run. Or fight. Or both. But underneath that? There’s that pull. Steady and relentless. Annoyingly calm compared to the storm in my head. I press my lips together, glaring at him like this is somehow his fault.
“Just so we’re clear, I don’t like vampires.” I say, voice sharp and defensive.
No reaction.
Great.
Fantastic.
I drop my gaze for half a second, dragging in a slow breath, trying, really trying, to get control of myself. Because the worst part? This doesn’t feel like Sam. It doesn’t feel like being dragged into something I didn’t choose. It feels… quiet. Certain. Like something I could actually walk toward instead of being pulled. And that? That messes with me more than anything. I huff out a breath, uncrossing my arms, shoulders still tense but not as rigid.
“This is insane…” I mutter.
Yeah, it is. A vampire as my imprint. Exactly what I didn’t want. Exactly what I didn’t need. And yet, I take a step forward. Just one. Testing it. Testing myself.
“Don’t get used to this.” I add quickly, like I need to reestablish some kind of control.
“I’m not suddenly gonna be okay with all of this.”
But I don’t step back. Don’t run. Because no matter how much I want to fight it, I already know. He’s it. And for the first time in a long time? That doesn’t feel like something breaking me. It feels like something I might actually choose.
Seth Clearwater:
Okay… Yeah… This is… new. I don’t even notice the exact second it happens, just that everything suddenly feels sharper. Clearer. Like someone tuned the world into focus. And then I see her. And that’s it. Everything else? Gone.
“Whoa…” I breathe, blinking like I’m trying to reset my brain. Because she’s standing there, still, pale, definitely a vampire, and I can already feel it. That pull. That click. I’ve heard about it, obviously. Seen it happen. But feeling it? That’s… a lot. I rub the back of my neck, half laughing, half stunned.
“Okay. Didn’t see that coming.”
Yeah, she’s a vampire. Yeah, I should be freaking out more. I mean, technically, this is the exact kind of situation we’re supposed to be on guard for, right? But honestly? I’m not scared. Not really. There’s that instinctive thing, sure, the smell, the awareness, but it’s not overwhelming. Not like it should be. Because underneath it, there’s something way stronger. Something… good. I glance at her again, noticing how tense she is, like she’s waiting for me to react badly. That makes me feel kinda bad, actually.
“Hey, it’s okay.” I say quickly, lifting my hands a little, not surrendering, just… showing I’m not about to jump her.
“I’m not gonna, you know, attack you or anything.”
Smooth, Seth. Real smooth. I wince slightly at myself, then grin a little, because honestly, what else am I supposed to do?
“This is probably super weird for you too, huh?” I add.
She doesn’t answer. Still watching me carefully. Yeah, fair. I take a small step closer, slow and easy, giving her plenty of space.
“I’m Seth.” I say, a little more gently this time. “Seth Clearwater.”
Because I feel like I should introduce myself. Because she’s important, I can already tel. And yeah, okay, she’s a vampire. But I’ve met vampires before. Some of them are… good. Different. People. So why wouldn’t she be? I shrug a little, a soft smile slipping through.
“Guess this is a thing now.” I say, almost to myself.
And weirdly? I’m kind of okay with it. Actually, I’m more than okay with it. Because if imprinting’s about finding the person you’re supposed to be there for? Then yeah, I’ve got this. No question.
Sorry for disappearing been working for a year and had alot of things happen. Anyways there’s something new coming and perhaps you may even find out who appeared at the end of chapter four
