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Embry Call x Reader
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The first inkling that you had of Embry being okay was when you were sat in Sue Clearwater's backyard with Charlie, Sue, Emily and Kim. You'd made polite conversation for a little while, most of it surrounding your promise ring, until you'd fallen into a silence that none of you had the strength to fight.
You sat on a deck chair watching the wind tease the trees at the edge of the garden and pushed your promise ring around your finger with your thumb. Hearing a noise, you attempted to turn to look behind you but where knocked off the chair and held straight up into the air. With a yelp you hit downwards at your assailant with your fist, your mind full of Italian vampires. Your fist hit the bouncing mop of your boyfriend's hair as he grinned up at you.
"Embry! I know you could do it." You squealed and threw your arms around his bare shoulders.
"Punching me in me in the head? Way to welcome me back babe." He teased and rubbed his large hand up and down your back, "I'm sure Sam and Jared didn't get punched."
"Shut up!" You told him, your grin threatened to tear your cheeks and you held Embry as close as you could and pulled in to you for a searing kiss.
He pulled away dumbfounded, his cheeks burning and blinked twice, "Okay, that was a better welcome."
"Now that you're alright, I guess I have to take this off." You mumbled and moved to take off the promise ring.
His large hands covered yours and his forehead rested on yours like it had the night before, "Why? I meant everything I said. Did you just say yes because I might have died?"
"Of course not!" You snapped incredulously.
"Then why take it off?" He whispered and kissed the tip of your nose, "I meant it, it's you and me against the world babe."
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"Embry I know you're excited for Y/N to come back from their first day of college classes but if you don't calm down I'm going to kick your ass!" Leah chastised and threw the paint roller that she'd just cleaned at him.
"No I'll kick your ass because I don't want Leah and my baby to tire themselves out dealing with your stupid ass." Cade told Embry as he came up behind Leah and wrapped his arms around her to rest his big hands on her swollen belly. Her pregnancy had come as a shock to them all, especially since the first indication of her being pregnant was when she failed to phase. A few days later when her temperature dropped to that of a normal person and she had failed to phase a dozen times, Cade took her to Dr Cullen. The whole pack had been terrified that Leah could have been seriously ill but your fear had washed away when she rushed back into Sam and Emily's with her face splitting with a grin.
Luckily Leah and Cade had already moved into their own place and the pack quickly set about turning their spare room into a nursery. Dr Cullen couldn't speculate on if Leah's ability to phase would come back once the baby was born but she said she didn't give one solitary fuck as long as her baby was healthy. His speculation was that her temperature dropping and the phasing inability was her body was adapting to protect her child so he couldn't foresee any issue.
You and Embry had moved into a little rundown mess of a house near Leah and Cade's place and spent your time between his job at the mechanic's and your college classes fixing it up - with a lot of help from the pack. You only had the master bedroom done and today Embry had enlisted the help of the pack to get the rest of your little home finished as a surprise but he couldn't keep his excitement under control.
"Dude, calm down. Just looking at you bouncing around is wearing me out." Quill nudged Embry with his shoulder.
"Shut up." Embry grinned and pushed him back, "I just want it to be ready for when she gets back."
"Hm, sure." Jacob said and narrowed his eyes, "C'mon what's really going on?"
Embry pulled an innocent face and shook his head, "Dunno what you mean dude."
"Jake, Jared hold him down!" Quill instructed and started to move toward Embry armed with a paintbrush.
Paul pushed Quill lightly, "Leave him alone, he's just excited."
The pack stopped to stare at Paul and Jacob pointed at him, "You know why he's excited, don't you?!"
"Don't know what you're on about." Paul insisted and tried to go back to painting the feature wall.
"There's nothing going on guys." Embry insisted.
Seth turned to his sister, "Do you know why he's so wired? Well, I mean weirder."
"Of course I do." She smirked.
"You're not going to tell us, are you?" Jared asked.
"Nope." Leah said satisfied and sat down on the bed and rubbed her pregnant belly. There wasn't much left to do now to finish the house but she was almost sad that she'd miss your reaction when you came home.
When you came back from your college classes and narrowed your eyes at everyone cars parked outside your house. As much as you loved them all after a long day at college you didn't have much energy to socialise before you knew that you'd have to start a long shift of renovating the house with Embry. You just had to remember that it would all be worth it in the end. As thought they'd read your mind the pack piled out of your house as you were walking up the path.
"Hey Y/N, good day?" Paul grinned as he rushed at you and pulled you into a bear hug.
"It was until I came home and saw all of you here, are you lot causing trouble again?" You joked and poked at his head from your position high up in his arms.
"I take a great deal of offence to that!" Paul objected and shook you a little before setting you down.
"C'mon Paul, it's not like Y/N isn't right. You're usually up to no good." Quill laughed and came up to pinch your cheeks, "Did our little Y/N learn a lot today?"
You batted his hands away, "You learn to stop that. Next time I'll bite you." You laughed. Leah rolled her eyes and came up to give you an awkward hug with her large baby belly in the way.
"I'll speak to you tomorrow Y/N, the baby wants pickles and bed." She patted her bump and gave you a wink, "Have a good night."
She ushered the pack into their respective cars and sent them on their way leaving you at your front door alone. What the hell was all that about?
The door was yanked open before you could reach for the handle and Embry stood in the doorway in his best dress shirt with a wry smile. He took your hand and pulled you into the house, "I've got a surprise for you babe."
The house was immaculate.
Decorated and renovated beyond what you and Embry had planned.
Your hands flew to your face, "Embry it's all so wonderful. Oh gosh! What – how—why?"
He grinned and took your face in his large hands so that he could hold you still as he kissed you. He pulled back, his russet skin glowed with a blush, "I wanted a surprise for you, so that we could talk about us and life."
You offered him a nervous laugh, "Well, that sounds worrying."
"It's not!" He promised and twirled you in his arms before hooking on arm under your knees and lifting you up into his arms. He kissed away your questions as he carried you up to the bedroom and sat you down on the edge of your bed. He sat beside you and took your hands in his.
"Do you remember a couple of years ago, when you were worried a couple of leech kings could kill someone as epic as me?" He asked and rubbed your hands with his thumbs.
"What the day that I was terrified that you would be killed? Yeah, gee how could I forget?" You smiled at him.
He poked the end of your nose, "Okay, don't kill my mood now. So, you know how much I love you?"
You narrowed your eyes at him, "I knew that there must be a reason for you to have gotten the house finished. What have you broken?"
"I've not broken anything!" He gave an indignant squeak, "I'm trying to set a mood here, will you just let me be romantic?"
"Sorry, go ahead." You grinned at him and leaned forward to give him a chaste kiss that he grinned into.
"Thank you, you're so gracious." He grinned, "Look, I thought about a million different ways to do this but in the end, I thought that I might just start as we mean to go on. I was going to get doves released and spend a tonne of money on decorations but that's not really us, is it? So, I got everyone to help decorate our house—our home- because I want us to make a life together."
"We are making a life together Embry." You assured him and reached up to pinch his cheek, "Wanna tell me why you're being so adorable?
"I want your promise ring back." He blurted out and you dropped your hand.
You felt your eyes well, "Why-"
He interrupted you, his hands flailing around, "No, no. I didn't mean it like that! Oh God, why am I such an idiot. I just want to swap it; I want to swap it for this!" He rummaged around in his pocket before he pulled out a small box and dropped off the bed and onto one knee in front of you before he opened it.
He held the ring in the box out towards you.
"Y/N L/N, I've messed up every bit of this so far but I think we're good at shambling through things together. I want you to wear this engagement ring because you're my imprint, my biggest supporter and I love you so much. Will you marry me?"
You tackled him back to the floor of your bedroom and peppered his face with kisses, "Embry you scared me! I love you, of course. I love you."
Laughing he rolled you both over until he was above you and leaned down to kiss you softly, "Is that a yes?"
"Yes!" You grinned as he held your hand up and slipped your engagement ring on above where your promise ring sat. He gave a yap of excitement when you took his shirt in both hands and yanked him back down to kiss you.
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"C'mon you bastards, tell me. I bet she looks amazing." Embry said, he was struggling to keep still and face the front of the altar in excitement.
Beside him Quill teased, "Patience is a virtue."
"Jake please. You two are supposed to be my best men!" He whined and Jacob discreetly elbowed Quill for his teasing. Logically, Embry knew that he'd see you in just a moment when he'd marry you in front of your family and friends but he wanted nothing more than to turn around to tackle you in a hug. Maybe picking Jacob and Quill as best men wasn't the best plan if he wanted comforting. Jacob discreetly glanced back to where you were coming up the aisle with your arm in Paul's.
After an argument with your family about your boyfriend coming from that 'no good lot' you'd chosen Embry your mate and the family that you'd made with the pack. He'd kill you if you told anyone but Paul had cried when you'd asked him to give you away. You smiled at Jacob when he turned back to look at you and knew that he would be reporting back to Embry.
You squeezed the life out of Paul's arms as nerves clawed at you. Paul squeezed back and leaned down to whisper, "You know, there's still time to get out of here if you wanna run for the hills."
You playfully swatted his arm, "Stop it, you know Embry's got wolf hearing, you'll drive him mad."
"Seriously though," Leah started from behind you, "I can have Cade go start a car if you want a quick escape."
You looked back Leah, in her bridesmaids' dress and carrying her new-born daughter Harriet, named after Leah's late father Harry, in an adorable lace dress, she was the picture of serenity. It was hard to remember the young woman who hated her cursed existence and you were glad that the pack had realised that they needed to make amends for how'd they'd treated her. A few weeks after having Harriet Leah had been able to phase again, she hadn't exactly been happy about it because she didn't want her daughter in danger but Cade had proudly reminded her that no one in the world would dare harm a little cub with such a fierce mother wolf.
You could have lost Leah from your life when Cade first appeared, and then again when the packs split and when they went to fight the Leeches over Nessie, "Leah I'm so happy that you're here with me."
She blinked once in confusion and stroked Harriet's cheek, "Where else would I be?"
"But I'm still your favourite, right?" Paul asked.
You grinned and the nerves of your wedding dissolved away, "Not this old argument you two!" You whispered but before Paul could respond you had reached the altar. Paul left you with Embry and then took Harriet from Leah and took the baby back to Cade who was sat on the front row so that Leah could focus on being a bridesmaid. Harriet grizzled at being taken away from her mother and Cade tried to comfort her softly, "Now I know you love Mummy look, I'm warm too."
Cade cupped her head in one large hand and Harriet settled. "Are you ready for this?" Embry whispered to you and took both of your hands.
"I've been ready since you beat Emmett Cullen up." You answered and he leaned down to kiss you deeply.
"I think you guys missed a step there, like, ya know, the vows." Quil quipped beside Embry.
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"I feel like I've not seen you all in forever!" Emily squealed when she came into Sue's café and threw her arms around Leah in hug, something that a few years ago you never would have though could happen. Then she gave you and Kim hugs in turn.
You snuggled down into a booth together and all ordered a drink. Kim asked, "When was the last time that we got to hang out like this?"
Leah pursed her lips in thought before jutting her thumb towards you, "Probably when this one tried to throttle Bella at that music festival."
You groaned, "C'mon! That was years ago!" They all laughed at the memory.
That night only felt like yesterday but in the years since you'd graduated both high school and college, landed an amazing career that you could do from Forks and married the love of your life. Kim and Jared were just a few short weeks from their wedding day. Leah's little girl Harriet was nearly two and she was pregnant with her and Cade's second child – she'd struggled to sit in the booth with her bump. Emily and Sam had finally gotten married and their little boy, Sam Jr was six months old so Emily barely got any rest.
You spent the whole afternoon in the café reminiscing and making plans for future meetups before you decided to all head back towards Sam and Emily's because that's where all the guys would be anyway.
You arrived before the other women and walked into the front room and stopped short when you caught Embry, Cade and Sam sat on play matt on the floor with Harriet and Sam Jr. Cade and Sam chatted idly while tickling and playing with Sam Jr and Embry with his back rested against the couch with Harriet sat on his knees. She reached down beside Embry's knees and scooped another cubby, baby handful of face paint and smashed it into Embry's cheek.
"Well yellow has always been my colour, thank you Hattie but I think that I should share." He told her before leaning down and rubbing his paint splattered face against her chubby toddler cheeks while tickling her until she squealed and laughed.
At the squealing Cade glanced up to watch his daughter pushing more face paint into Embry's hair, "Don't worry, it's all non-toxic organic stuff that we researched, it'll come right out."
Embry shook his head, "I don't want it to come out, I look beautiful." He laughed and blew a raspberry against Harriet's cheek.
Embry was always soft and loving with everything that he did but seeing him so attentive with your God Daughter made your heart melt. Finally having noticing that you were in the doorway Harriet giggled in delight and threw her arms up and down in your direction.
"Hey Hattie!" You coo'd and blew a kiss to her that Embry pretended to catch and push to her cheek. Harriet giggled and squirmed off Embry's knees to toddle over to her dad.
Embry jumped up and stretched out his legs before coming over to you and planting a face painted kiss on your cheeks. He pulled back at grinned from behind a layer of pink and yellow face paint, "Like my make over?"
"Gorgeous as always Em." You teased and rubbed some of the paint off his lips with you thumb so that you could kiss him again.
"She's a real character isn't she?" Embry asked and pulled faces at Harriet where she sat in her dad's lap. She waved back at him and Embry's face dissolved into love and paint.
"Embry, you're so good with her." You told him and tucked yourself against his side with his arm over your shoulders.
"Well she is our Goddaughter, I don't want to let her down." He kissed the top of her head, "In fairness, she makes it easy. Hattie is just too cute."
You kissed his grizzly jawbone and rubbed his back idly with one hand as you watched Hattie trying to sneak at peak at Sam Jr in Sam's arms.
Embry squeezed your shoulders with his arm and somehow you knew what was coming and you already knew your answer.
"Y/N?" Embry started. You hummed and he continued, "Do you want to try to for a baby?"
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"Paul stop being a baby!" You chastised.
Paul, a fully-grown man with teenage twin girls, sat with his arms folded at your kitchen table and a pout reigning his features.
"I'm not being a baby." He grumbled.
You rolled your eyes and went back to icing Embry's birthday cake. In all the years that you'd known the pack and even longer since Paul had been acting like your brother, you never thought that they'd still be acting the same when they were parents and grown.
It had taken a little while for you and Embry to fall pregnant but finally you welcomed your son, Lyall, into the world and the pack. Only a few years later he was joined by his sister, Odette.
Raising children while balancing both of your and Embry's jobs and the pack and the various threats that came with that had been tough but you wouldn't have changed a damn thing. Lyall was seventeen now but one of the hardest moments of raising him had been when he told Embry that he hated him.
All Lyall saw was you busting your hump to provide for your family and raise him and his sister while Embry continued to disappear at strange times of the night, sometimes for days on ends with his friends – Lyall's pseudo-uncles.
Of course, your son didn't know that the pack legends were true. He thought that you deserved better than Embry leaving for nights and missing important events with no explanation and he wasn't afraid to tell his dad as much.
Embry was distraught but he couldn't tell your son the truth and chasm grew between them.
It wasn't until Dr. Cullen was passing through Forks that Lyall learned the truth. The Cullens had moved away some years ago to avoid suspicion about their aging, Jake going with them and Nessie had been the hardest thing for the pack. Through the grapevine Dr Cullen learnt of a Vampire trying to make Forks it's hunting grounds and came to warn the pack.
At the proximity to a vampire Lyall phased and finally learnt the truth about the pack and the bridges between your son and Embry were repaired, soon after Harriet and Sam Jr phased.
Harriet imprinted on your daughter which made you, Embry, Cade and Leah ecstatic – now you'd finally be properly related! Harriet had teased her dad, saying she'd done just as he'd asked and not gotten a boyfriend. Lyall imprinted on one of Paul's twin daughters.
Hence, the pouting.
"Paul when Embry imprinted on me I was terrified, remember?" You asked him, "It was you that convinced me that I would always be safe and loved with Embry. You kept your imprint safe and loved so stop being a mardy baby."
"But it's my daughter." He growled.
"And my son, so watch your mouth." You warned him and pointed the icing covered spatula at him. He held his hands up in defeat as your front door banged and Odette skipped into the kitchen with her bag hanging from one shoulder.
"Hey mum, hey uncle Paul!" She cheered.
"Hey beautiful, good day at school?" Paul asked her as your daughter came around the table to kiss his cheek and then came to kiss yours.
You put down your icing and narrowed your eyes at her, "What are you hiding?"
She avoided your gaze and shrugged.
Paul laughed, "Ooo, that's gotta be bad grades."
"I'm a solid A student I'll have you know!" She squeaked and pushed her uncles arm, "Dad and Ly may have gotten into one of Dad's birthday presents."
You rolled your eyes, even after all these years Embry had to go hunting his birthday presents before his birthday, that man was a menace. Paul, Odette and You all followed the sound of shouting until you were outside.
Embry and Lyall were each crouched on opposite sides of Embry's truck armed with water guns. Paul leaned down to you, "Got another couple of those?"
"Oh course, they're in the garage." You laughed as he ran arm in arm with your daughter to the garage. Embry caught your eye and ran over to you, his clothes and hair dripping with water.
"So, I know this looks bad but I'm prepared to throw our son under the bus and say that Lyall found these and ruined my birthday surprise." Embry grinned.
You wrapped your arms around his neck, uncaring that he was wet through, "Hm, is that right? And if I don't believe you?"
"Then I'll simply have to kiss away your suspicions, Mrs Call." He teased.
"I can deal with that Mr Call."
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