A story from my old account, which I wasn't really happy with so I changed it. Written because there aren't enough Leah & Benjamin fics out there.

It felt good to be back in La Push after months of reeking vampires, nice to breathe clean air. I couldn't remember the last time that I'd been vamp free, which was kind of scary. Course, it wasn't so good having to be back with Sam, especially since the whole two packs thing was sorted out and we could all communicate again. So now I've got two sets of voices in my head. One involves a loved up idiot and an annoying brother and the other, a whole bunch of loved up idiots and a very annoying Sam. I'm not really sure which one's worse. And then, just to add insult to injury, Jacob had told Sam everything I'd told him. It's not like he did it accidently either. The pack may be able to communicate again but now it's like talking. We choose what we want to say or want the others to know, it's not just a random blurt of thoughts.

Leah? Did you hear me? Sam's voice broke through my internal monologue.

Sorry, what?

I said I wanted to talk to you. About, you know...what Jacob told me.

Oh shit. He wanted to have 'the talk'. It's bad enough having to do that with any ex-boyfriend, let alone a wolf that majorly screwed up our relationship by imprinting on my second cousin who was practically my sister. Okay, so maybe that wasn't entirely fair, it's not like he could help it. But I still hated him for it, uncontrollably. And of course loved him. Not that I was about to go spreading that around although I was pretty sure the whole damn world already knew.

Look, can we do this some other time? I'm all out on the chick flick moments right now.

I could tell that he was about to protest, then something stopped him. I was going to asked what but thought better of it; he could change his mind at any moment. It was strange how comfortable I'd gotten patrolling with him again. Now that we could choose when to communicate, a silence settled over the both of us. Not exactly awkward yet definitely not comfortable.

Hey guys, what's going on? Great. Nobody told me Paul was patrolling today. There goes that beautiful moment of silence.

Leah, now Paul's here you don't have to patrol for the rest of the day. When Sam said that, I almost smashed into a tree with surprise. A whole afternoon of me? How long had it been since time was my own? You can go check up on Jacob instead, it shouldn't take long.

I stopped dead at that. Sam was assuming that I would use the afternoon off, the first afternoon off in God knows how long, to check up on how Jacob was doing? Yeah, we'd gotten close and maybe even bonded a little after that whole split into two packs thing but seriously.

You know what Sam? Jacob's a big boy, I'm sure that he can look after himself.

If you go check on him I'll give you tomorrow off Sam tried to bargain. I paused for a moment.

Make it the whole week and you've got a deal.

I was close enough to him now to hear the huff of breath that he let out, which I took to mean that we had a deal. After that I didn't waste time. Pushing off in the opposite direction that I'd originally been going in, I began to navigate my way through the trees towards the river that would bring me round to the Cullen's. I had always hated their house and not just because it stunk of leech and was full of the undead. No, it was just so impersonal. Stark white walls, thousand dollar price tag couches, a gleaming granite kitchen which was never used. Even the bedrooms (which I had Jacob sneak round before), which were apparently filled with hundreds of years worth of memorabilia seemed to be little more than a classy showroom.

I much preferred my own house, though it was tiny. Mom always seemed to be in the kitchen cooking dinner or baking something delicious with Seth sat at the table with all his schoolbooks propped around him, studying hard. I remember when I was younger and dad was still alive, playing in the backyard with him, having my favourite stories read and saying goodnight to a baby Seth. None of these things could've ever taken place in a house like the Cullen's, even if they had the possibility of kids.

I was quite far from the house when I began to slow down and phase back because with vampire senses, everyone can see everything going on when I'm changing. I certainly learnt that the hard way. Whilst tugging my pants on, my ears picked up the sound of footsteps, barely audible through the thick trees cocooning me accompanied by a sickly sweet smell.

"Hey Leah, I thought it was you out- WHOA!"

Emmett (you know it's bad when you start learning the damn things' names) had burst through a gap in the trees before grinding to a halt after seeing me. In beige pants and a bra. A black lacy bra.

"Dammit," I cursed, turning my back on his cocky grin and trying to put my shirt on quickly. "Think you could call something out next time?"

"Like what? Guy coming through, make sure you're fully dressed?" He smirked, clearly enjoying my discomfort.

"I was thinking more along the lines of 'bloodsucking demon' but yeah, either one works. What the hell are you doing out here anyway? Aren't you supposed to be handing out humans to your army?"

He laughed at that one. A proper booming laugh that made me question his sanity.

"Yeah he's just taking a break from all the evil things going on up at the house to round up the town's infants as a mid-afternoon snack," a voice sneered from just out of sight.

I knew immediately who it was. Rosalie, Emmett's eternal barbie doll, stepped through into the sunlight, throwing off light like a disco ball as she walked. Well, more like glided. The way they moved always freaked me out and I tried hard to suppress a shiver, opting for snarling at her instead. Emmett immediately stepped in front of her, obviously anticipating an attack but I didn't feel like fighting her just now. All I wanted to do was say hi to Jacob, go home, eat a months worth of food and sleep for the next couple of days. So I scowled darkly at the both of them and stalked off down the worn pathway to the house.

The patio doors to the back of the house were open, with a number of 'guests' spilling out into the back garden, murmuring in small groups. They all wrinkled there noses and stepped well out of my way as I passed, smirking at their obvious discomfort with my presence.

"What are you looking so happy about?" Jacob asked, coming from the kitchen with a plate piled high of salivating food.

I considered telling him but decided against it as he'd probably start bitching about how I should be more 'open-minded'. Our old diversity coordinator would've been proud although I doubt Ms Sandford ever predicted that the kind of advice needed would be about vampires and werewolves. I chose to tell a different truth instead.

"Sam gave me the rest of the week off. No patrols, no errands, nothing," I said, unable to keep a real smile off my face this time.

"Huh. Maybe I should go all Alpha on you and demand you work for me this week then," He smirked, offering me the plate of food. I shook my head at it, walking over to sit on one of the thousand dollar cream couches, making sure that my dirty feet were firmly tucked onto it. Jacob sighed. "Lee, why do you have to be so difficult?"

"That's a whole can of worms your opening up there Jake," I replied.

It was strange, how easily we'd fallen into this friendship over the past few months. Before all this baby stuff, Jake and I would've killed each other if we'd been stuck in the same room together for too long. Now, we were using nicknames and always seemed to be talking to each other.

"Hello, Earth to Leah!" Jake snapped his fingers in front of my face, pulling me from my thoughts. "When I lecture you, can't you at least pretend to listen?"

"No. You're like a broken bloody record with your lectures. 'Leah, don't talk to Carlisle like that. Stop looking so disgusted, it's just food. Why do you have to be difficult?'."

"Well maybe if you took some damn notice, I would stop! I do have better things to do you know."

"What like hanging out with the devil spawn?"

As soon as I said it, I wished I could take it back. Jake's face hardened immediately and when he spoke it was through clenched teeth.

"Don't. Call. Her. That." His voice sounded so dangerous that even if I wasn't already sorry, I would be now. Thankfully, the spawn in question saved me by walking in at that moment attached to Isabella Swan.

I stood up and turned to walk out when Swan called out to me. "Hello Leah. How are things on the reservation?"

I didn't even turn back to acknowledge her, just continued walking out of the house like I hadn't heard. She sighed behind me and Edward and Jacob jumped in quickly to reassure her that it was all my fault. Typical. Jake still treated Bella as if he was still in love with her, even though he had the spawn now. I was just heading towards the river, passing numerous vampires who were glimmering gently in the falling sunlight when it happened. There was a loud noise from the house followed by a scream and crying that sounding hauntingly like Bella and Renesmee. There was only two people in the world who could make both of them sound like that.

I was phasing before I knew it.

Now, bursting through a glass door in theory sounds dramatic and cool, like an action scene from a movie. Actually bursting through a glass door is not dramatic or cool and it's definitely nothing like an action scene from a movie. Especially when you expecting to swoop in and save the day and nothing is wrong in the first place. Except that a gigantic wolf just crashed through into the living room, creating one hell of a mess and a whole lot of chaos. Of course, all the vampires thought that they were under attack and immediately got ready to fight back, causing Jake to leap up to defend me. The rest of the Cullen's tried to calm everyone down, assuring them that nothing was wrong, that I was just one of the rez wolves. To try and make this easier for them, I phased.

I don't think that anyone has ever been in a situation where being naked has actually made it better, but this one was pretty unique anyway. How many people have crashed through a veggie vamp's patio as a wolf to save their wolf friend from non-veggie wolves? Exactly. Anyway, it was better for a couple of seconds as everyone shut up and calmed down. Then Emmett piped up.

"Geez, Leah this is the second time today I've seen you pretty much naked. Going for a record?"

Jake turned round to ask what the hell he was talking about, saw me naked and turned back around, shielding my body from the others for another reason.

"Why Jacob, have I made you blush?" I commented, unable to leave this perfect opportunity to embarrass him.

"Shouldn't you be more worried about your modesty right now? What the hell were you doing anyway?" He replied, attempting to change the subject. It worked.

"Um, could we possibly have this conversation when I'm not naked?"

So tell me what you think of this so far and the next chapter should be up here soon.