Please note that even though La Push is in the United States and the Reserved of the Indian Quileute abide by the different structure of laws. I believe it not that much different from the Canadian Indian Reserved but I based the poverty, issues and conflict with the Quileute people as if they live in Canada. - I haven't realized it cause confusion!
*Claire is a cousin to Emily Young.* UNEDITED
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Embry was the last one to imprint, currently, and the most recent one. Fannaya may know all about their secret and participate throughout multiple gathering at Emily and Sam, hosted by Emily, listen to the bonfires. Nonetheless, she was also someone who gave him the most open-minded and very liberalism ideas. Freedom was something important, and she was searching for a way to break that bond so she could freely fight together for their love. Her open-mind, let the bond be the least restrictive than her brothers' imprint bond. He was forever grateful for that. Embry had met his imprint, in Port Angeles, while getting a gift for Quil's birthday and that's where they met. While he would have babble immediately and have the eyes and the head in stars, the imprint bond made him keep all his head to win her heart. They work on a few dates; he wasn't overly-obsessive because Fannaya manipulated the bond to be just that someone she just want to meet and see if it's working out.
It took a month or two, but he finally got the courage to tell her everything, the truth before alerting the council of his imprint. Surprisingly, Leah helped him a lot and gave him tips and had secretly, her scent couldn't escape Embry's noise, followed them. She helped him explained the situation and offered to speak to her in a girl-to-girl conversation, whatever they told her, had changed the imprint bond, she wanted to be casual friends maybe a couple which it happens later on, but she understood how her influence was effective on him.
Embry couldn't be lucky more than that, but as he faced her, he worried about what will happen. He didn't want to think of side, but he knew that Rachel was definitely level-headed to be Leah side, Kim was a lovesick puppy on Emily and Jared, Claire would follow her cousin Emily because she believed in a fairytale, but for Fannaya, he had no idea how everything affected her. He let her speak because he wanted to have her opinion.
"As much as we are a couple and we have a great time with the others, I think they are right to let us go back home. This isn't a place for me to be in a war or I would be useless. I can't decide for you and forced you to come with me while all your friends are fighting, that would be unwolfy of me," (inhuman) - but Embry got the pun intended as a joke to alleviated the heavy atmosphere, " I told you when we began our relationship that I need to work out there and see the world whether its with you or not. I haven't got many contacts with my family, and unlike the other girlfriends, I live in a big city, and I have more modern and liberal needs. It's like the reversed gender and I don't hate it but I didn't want it for any sane woman out there, but I can't stay stuck in your village, " She never liked the words 'Reserved, Reservation' to talk about the place they were, Embry thought. "I don't want to be a snitch, but Emily has deep trust issues that are getting my nerves, Kim and Claire are in the back just listening having no life backbone, they are quite dependent on everyone in here, from Emily and their boyfriends, "Imprintee and imprint" were not favourite words of his Fannaya. "I told my parents, I was going on a sabbatical year, but it's soon ending and I start looking to go back to university after a year break, I'm hoping you would let me go finish my schooling."
"You want to finish your degree in Design Interior?" He remembered her mentioned.
"Yes,"
"You were always the one who keeps me open-mind other than Leah and here with all this imprints and old style, we didn't have the opportunities, to well... you know to be modern, but I appreciate that you understand every crazy supernatural thing happening and I support you in everything, even if you go to the Middle East to travel. I might not visit you every time or you that want me to visit but a long term relationship can work because you are not obsessive to have me glued to your side 24/7."
He was free to be against other girls' (imprintee's) influence, she gave him the power to be whole and to be who he was even if he played videos games late at night. They have different styles of life but they also didn't live in the same place, so the distance wasn't so sudden and because she gave him the reign to be who he was. He was ready to fight and make their love relationship work because he wanted to not because he needed to.
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Claire had heard from Emily how wondering imprinting was (yes, Emily let her into the secret before she imprint) not being shy to tell her how Sam who was their second degree's fiancé, in a snap, fall for her. She decided to visit her and maybe be have the opportunity to imprint on one of the guys and it happens with Quil. For two years, she was living a fairytale with and Emily told her all the tricks, she needed to know, she appreciates the other imprints but didn't have the greatest relationship with her second-degree cousin or whatever in the genealogical three, they were.
"I want you to come back with me, Quil," in a firm but gentle voice. She didn't want her Quil to participate in the war. Not again, she wasn't there when the newborns battle happen, but Emily had given the details of it because Quil was afraid to scare her off, that she gets unsettle and didn't like to talk about it
"What!" he exclaimed looking at her like she was crazy," you want me to leave behind my pack brothers to be with you?"
"Yes, and you won't be alone Sam will be there for Emily! And I know that Kim would do her very best to have Jared changed his mind and follow us back home."
"Have you hit your head earlier, Claire! Jared's considered your cousins as his little siblings. He won't have them go in that threat without him. He assured Maura and Qi, that he would take care of them and keep an eye on them. You know Maura and Qi, your cousin Emily older sibling? Sam is an Alpha, and he will get skinned alive by Sue if he doesn't bring them alive! He's an Alpha and won't coward to run away, he has responsibilities," not mentioning to her that Sam, ALWAYS had feelings for Leah, and he got very desperate when she left for Jacob's Pack, they saw him guarding the Clearwater's house or always thinking of her when he didn't wince from pain or pushed himself through the pain. " I was just thinking you could go to the Makah's land and help your cousins and help Emily, but there's no way I'm backing down."
"Quil! Don't be like that, " she tried to shush him, she knew from Emily's discussion how hard sometimes their men could be. Emily had a hard time controlling Sam, after three years, Emily had told her how a child and a wedding would settle Sam down.
Quil winced feeling the pain in his chest starting from the left where his heart was then spreading everyone in his chest area, filling the burning sensation - smoke filling his lungs, no wonder Sam hard a hard time to fight it and he knew Sam was the fighter for Leah and himself's sake. He never shares his pain but damm went he got deep like that and started thinking about Leah and that the imprint knows (female intuition). It was H.E.L.L. It was clear that Claire knew that he was pulling from the bond, from her, and was putting keeping the leash short on him, not trying to strangle him but a very unconformable feeling. Like he had cheated on her with his response or thoughts. The pain was unbearable for a small no or raising his voice which he never did before. He could understand pain from Sam and dilemma to nearly died from trying to be with Leah or to stay alive and see Leah blossomed or/and not lose him for trying to be with her? The pain from refusing Claire to back down, but this place inspired to fight back against his bond, to be himself. To be equal.
He never explicitly told her that it was fucked up, how they were all cousins to each other and just had intertwined destinies. But that's how it works in their Reserved, the young couple who didn't think of having a future get pregnant; do drugs and alcohol. It used to circulate a lot less with the wolve's phenomenon, huge struggle to be interesting to finish high school and let's not talk that a few wedding happens between cousins to keep bloodline and everyone was in love with everyone. This was their life and having the Young in the Reserved was not new blood because the Young came from the previous generation.
"My decision is final, Quil, you will come with me because as your imprint, I want you to," baffled from Quil refusal.
"I have a role as a pack member and ties with my brothers, I thought you can understand that."
"I know but we can both be in the Makah's land and have our time to meet my parents, and you learned more about me. We can start a family, I'm twenty-three years old, people had my age had two - three kids, I want that with you!"
"Claire," Quil never begged, this was a nightmare, he passed his right hand in his hair, how could Claire be selfish, even Leah wasn't that selfish, okay maybe on Seth because she considered him as her young very young (like Seth was still ten years when he was twenty years old) brother. " I don't want to be mean, but I got to stick with my family."
"I AM NOT YOUR FAMILY?" she shrieked, Emily was right, this place was not good for her Quil, she needed to make him understand that it was not healthy to stay here.
"Of...of...course..not..not," Quil stuttered suddenly afraid by her vocal reaction. "But, you will be safe at the Quileute or Makah lands with no problem, and they say that people would check on you. On the hand, waiting anxiously and pacing in the house while I wait for months with nothing to do, is that what you want?"
"Quil," didn't he heard her? At all. "You won't be doing nothing you will meet my parents, she explained slowly like he was a child of five years," we can live and have sex either on the Quileute or Makah lands and..."
"Children! You are thinking of children while a war is over our heads?" his eye widened like Claire really lost her mind," You want to bring a child. Meanwhile, there's a threat, and this is a planned pregnancy, Claire, and it's not similar to Harry Potter, but still is when we can both avoid that fate for our child."
"But you won't go to war, you will be with me!" she said, why did Quil struggle suddenly to understand, it must be this place reeking from a perfume that let him be not her Quil.
"Sorry, Claire, I have to leave! This is just not reasonable from you, I will let the people in here to get your things and get you back there."
Quil never thought he would be able to turn around from a dispute, his first dispute with Claire and leave. Each step was giving him a burning making his heart beat faster, he felt his members trembled uncontrollably because Claire had a hold on him, she was the one in power of the couple's decision. His pain diminished as he thought how his decision to protect her from getting her hurt, to be safe as it was The Motto, of an imprint, but he kept walking to his future with his pack sister and brothers.
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I never saw Claire being mean to anyone! In any fanfic, I have read, so some may not like it, but I thought it would be refreshing and surprising. Next stop Emily P.O.V. completely and then how to prepare to war. There's a lot of chapters lefts minimum 12. And a sequel, I have the sequel plan, I just have to take time to finish this story and continued on my personal writing for school, but I update a bit faster. I really want to go on the sequel, thought sexuality will be included, and it will definitely be Rated M.
Do any of you read these author notes? Or you just skip them? What did you think of these two imprintees? Do you like the story, I know you want me to update but I wonder if you enjoy or you just wished to see Leah and Sam together?