Author Note: This story is the sequel to THAT PULL. However if you haven't read it you may still enjoy it, you just might not know all the characters/references. and hell it was a great story so you may as well go read it lol. Anyway. this one is Brady and Kira centered. While there will be the whole pack just like last time, this will be more in their POV. This is NOT another Sophie story. while she will be in it a lot and it will be just as humorous please don't look for out and out Sam/Sophie shit.

Okay everyone...there will probably be a big author note at the end of this chapter because I wanted to keep rambling but read it and enjoy.

Thanks to pattyofurniture for being the awesome beta that she is!!!

Chapter One:

When Everything Changes (Brady POV)

I felt the rush of the wind on my face as I ran faster and faster through the forest surrounding La Push. I was still just as fast as I ever was even though I only phased once a week or so. There really was no need seeing as how there hadn't been a bloodsucker near our reservation since the night Kade died. But still here I was running around trying to drill up even a little bit of excitement or rush from the activity.

It's hard though, finding excitement in something you have to do out of obligation. Don't get me wrong, I didn't begrudge anyone for my lot in life but sometimes I just felt so…trapped. And cue the guilt, like clockwork any time I started to resent the hand that was dealt to me I start to feel guilty. I know I'm lucky, I have friends and family that love and support me but I also had burdens that no one could really understand.

For sixteen years I have watched my friends, my brothers grow old and settle down into their nice, normal existence. Perfect little families and jobs they went to regularly and lives they led without constant second guessing of why their destinies had been laid out like they had. I started to run faster and pant heavier until I could feel the burn in my legs.

"FUCK!!!!!!!!" I yelled in my head as a long howl escaped my body. Why did it have to be me? Why was I the one ruined by imprinting? Sam got what he wanted, Jake too, hell everyone except Collin but I was almost certain that was because he was gay. I chuckled to myself.

Hey man screw you, don't hate on me just because I have more style in my little pinky than you do in your entire body.

I came to a screeching halt. Dammit Collin what do you want? I was so busy having a pity party of one that I hadn't even heard him phase.

I came to tell you that they're almost home; you want to be there don't you? I sighed really deep and phased back slipping on my clothes and started walking back toward the Uley's house. Collin came out of the east side of the woods seconds later.

"What's your problem douche bag? Kira's coming home today aren't you the least bit happy?"

"Of course," I snapped, "but I'm just tired of it all Collin. I'm tired of this stand still that we've been living in. I don't know how you do it even if you don't have to."

"I do it because I promised my brother that I would phase along side of him until he stopped too. We're in it together man. Now tell me what's really wrong."

"I can't, I just. This summer, it was great. Like you and me, old times and I dated and I lived. I just…"

"That doesn't have to change Brady. Emo is not a good color on you so fucking snap out of it."

"But it will. I can't help it. She'll come back and my world will center around her happiness…the happiness of a girl that I don't even want…not like that anyway." I couldn't help the bitter tone rise from within my body somewhere.

"You still feel nothing for her? I thought a summer apart would make you, I don't know, shit like yearn for her or something."

"NO!" I shouted at him, mad at the inclination that I felt nothing for Kira. "I love her. I love being near her, protecting her, making her happy…"

"But that's it. "

"Yea." I knew part of me feeling that way was because I was supposed to be whatever she needed me to be. But that's where it went wrong. She felt the same exact way as me. She loved me, she told me as much, but like the way you love that goofy kid next door that you grew up with.

"It could change, she's still young," Colin said doing his best to help me see the bright side.

"She's almost 18, Claire was 15 when she and Quil moved on, Ephraim was 16…I just think we're destined to be friends. So why am I wasting my life? When do I get to move on?"

"Momma said…"

"I know was she said Collin, I was fucking right there when she said it. And I think it's time to take her up on her offer but I have to talk to Kira first."

"You mean finally let her know she's your imprint? I think she already knows dude the way you two are attached at the hip."

"No," I shook my head, "she sees us as best friends, that's it. And I'm good with that. To be honest the thought of making something more out of a relationship with a girl you watched grow up kind of creeps me out. I don't care what Leah and Quil say, about it all changing and forgetting about seeing them that way…it's still weird."

"So we're going to stop, me and you are done being wolves? Wow it seems so surreal to finally say it out loud."

"Yea," was all I said. Four months ago when Kira left for the summer to spend it in South Dakota with her uncle I felt a pain inside my chest watching her leave and wondered how she could walk away so easily. But then after a few days of not having my imprint around I was me again. It was me and Collin and I felt good, I missed that.

So I decided to stop phasing. At first that didn't go over to well with the mother of my imprint and my alpha. Momma and Leah each practically tore one of my balls off when I talked to them about it. Leah trying to tell me things take time and she and Ephraim finally made that jump. Momma saying and I quote, "You little shit-tard, you will not make any of these decisions until Kira gets home."

About a week later Sam came to see me at work. We talked for a very long time. I was shitting my pants afraid he was going to kill me, but he almost seemed relieved that things had gone as far as they would with me and Kira. That dick didn't care about this, he was glad his baby girl wasn't going to be "growing up" anytime soon. But he did talk to Momma for me, she held fast that I talk to Kira first before I made my final decision but said she would support it.

Kira knew about the wolves, knew about me, hell playing "fetch" was her favorite pastime until she was 12. As she got older she questioned why Collin and I still phased. She knew Leah was going until Ephraim was old enough but she didn't understand us. I played it off like we enjoyed it. I didn't want to tell a fourteen year old it was because she and I were destined to grow old together.

None of us knew what would happen to my feelings for her once I stopped phasing. Would the stay forever like they were now? That's what happened with everyone else, they stayed forever in love but the constant center of the universe yes ma'am shit weakened as the older wolves began to grow old. Would Kira stay forever my best friend? Would either of us be able to meet other people? Funny how the idea of her meeting someone else didn't bother me as long as she was happy and I still played a part in her life.

"Come to the light Carol Ann." I heard Collin cackling over and over again until I snapped out of my daydream. I swatted his hand away from my face and throat punched his ass. Take that bitch!

"Asshat!" he finally said after catching his breath. By now we had reached Casa de Uley up on the cliff. We were nearly in the driveway and I could smell her and didn't fight the large shit eating grin that came over my face at the mere scent of her. I picked up the pace and jogged to the house.

I stopped just outside; something was different, off about her smell. It was still little Kira. The scent of clover and fresh grass, I smiled again, no daughter spawned by the likes of hard ass Sophie and original Alpha male Sam would ever smell like strawberries or roses. My girl smelled like nature and springtime. What the fuck? MY girl?

I shook that thought off, yes she still smelled like this but something else, something that was…primal, ethereal and it was driving me insane. Get a fucking grip Brady Ozette; I bent over as a sharp urge of something sprang through my body.

"Hey, you okay dude, you don't look so hot."

"Yeah I don't feel so hot, I think whatever that scent is it's getting to my stomach."

"What scent?"

"You don't smell that?"

"I smell Sam, and Momma," he lifted his nose to the air, "Kira's in there with Sammy and the two little ones, nope nothing but the Uleys man."

"Right, yeah…well let's go." I kept walking up the porch almost deliberately slower.

I walked through the doors and was slammed into by Thing 1 and Thing 2 as I affectionately called them.

"Uncle RAID" they screamed and I rolled my eyes forever hating the nickname Kira gave me when she was little and couldn't say my name. James and Benjamin Uley ages 10 and 8 respectively were to put it nicely hell on wheels.

I tackled them to the floor and then pretended to let them both get the better of me pinning me to the ground. Then I heard it, the most beautiful sound on Earth, both familiar yet all together new and different and I couldn't help but smile wanting to hear that giggle forever.

"I see nothing's changed around here while I was gone." Kira? I got up off the ground and turned around to the stairwell, to the direction of the scent and giggle that were overloading my senses at that very moment. I froze as soon as I saw her, it was like, I don't know what it was like. It was seeing a long lost friend after years of being apart, but it was like seeing someone new for the first time…it was…home.

I audibly gulped and continued to stare at the beautiful woman before me. She was no longer the kid that I remembered, in fact; I could barely remember what she looked like before. It took me only two strides to meet her at the end of the stairs the pull coming from her became too hard to ignore.

I met her eyes and suddenly she blushed and looked away like I was making her nervous. Nervous? Why would she be nervous this was me…Brady…say something you idiot. I opened my mouth but nothing came out. What the hell, it was just Kira for crying out loud. But it wasn't, this wasn't the Kira I remembered this was…

"Hey what's up Stinkerbell, how was the badlands?" Collin jumped in basically saving my ass from looking like a big giant tool. She blinked her eyes and stuttered her head as she turned away from me. Great she thinks you went mental in her absence.

"I'm good Collie, South Dakota was fun. Uncle Ben says that you need to come out again soon." Collin chuckled and kept talking, the conversation between them flowed and I just stood there like a spectator. I watched them walk toward the living room, Kira eyeing me cautiously out of the corner of her eye before quickly turning away. I jumped nearly 5 feet in the air when I felt a large hand come down on my shoulder.

"Brady," I turned to see Sam standing there with a scowl on his face but a devilish smirk in his eyes. "What seems to be the problem, cat got your tongue?" Then I heard momma giggling behind him.

"Awe our little Raid is dumbstruck…I told you not to make any decisions before she got back. Now aren't you glad that even in my old age I still know how the mind of a teenage boy works?"

"What the hell are you talking about Momma?" That earned me a nice fucking swat on the back of the head with a wooden spoon.

"And I thought Sam used to be the emotional fucktard of the group." She said laughing gleefully at her own joke.

"Well baby, I think you know that's not true," Sam said as he started smooching on momma. Damn didn't that get old after all this time?

"Do you want me to throw up in your hallway?" I asked being totally dead honest. Being stuck at forever a teenager I really didn't want to see these old ass people making out.

"Well why don't you go in there and talk to Kiki then Brady? Too blue balled to get the words out?" I looked to see Sammy coming down the stairs smirking at me. As he had gotten older he started hanging with Collin and I more and we saw him as one of our brothers now, which meant he thought he could talk shit.

"Dammit Sammy, that's your sister you're talking about," Momma said and the realization dawned on him and he looked like he was going to join me in throwing up in the hallway.

"Besides douche bag, it's not like that." I added.

"Not what it looked like to me…" he trailed off walking into the living room.

I turned to Ma and Pa Kettle who were both watching me, Soph with love and tenderness, Sam with menace. "WHAT?!"

Momma came up and gave me a hug and kissed my cheek. "I think there may be something to what Sammy said darling. Maybe you need to open your eyes a little bit." And then she was gone followed closely by Sam who was ranting to her under her breath about birth control and castration.

I was still confused as hell, still crazy about the changes I was feeling, still standing in the hall like a tool. I walked toward the living room and stood in the doorway as I watched Kira go on and on to Collin about how great her summer was. I watched her bright brown eyes glitter with happiness and her 100 watt smile light up the room. How had I never noticed how beautiful she was?

How could I even be thinking like that about KIRA of all people…?

Author note part 2. Okay there it was. please tell me what you think.

So to fill in the blanks. It's almost 18 years after the Epilogue of THAT PULL. Kira will be entering her senior year of high school. Brady, Collin and Leah are the only ones still phasing. Leah is the alpha...more will come out on all that just wanted to make those things clear.

Sam and Sophie now have 4 children the twins Kira and Sammy (Sam Jr.) and the little ones "thing 1" James (after Sophie's dad) age 10 and "thing 2" Benjamin (after Sophie's brother) age 8.

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