The cold air kissed Elleina's cheek as she got off the plane that had brought her from California to Seattle.

It had been four years since she had been anywhere near La Push or Forks and she regretted it immensely.

She wondered idly if the weather would let up and chuckled to herself, retrieving her three large bags and trudging over to the car rental services.

She got a car and prepared for the hour drive back to La Push. She called her brother at his house and got his wife, Emily.

"Hello?"

"Emily? Its Elleina..." Elleina said, honking at a guy in a Mercedes that overtook her.

"Elle! Honey, when are you getting here? These men are driving me crazy!" Elleina laughed and heard someone protest in the background.

"I just landed in Seattle, love, I'll be there in an hour. Tell Sam I'm going to kick his butt because he wasn't here to pick me up... I had to rent a car." Elleina said.

"I was busy, Elle!" She heard from behind Emily, she could practically heard him grit his teeth.

"Whatever." Elleina smiled. "See you later."

"Hurry." Was the last thing Emily said before the line died.

Paul paced in front of the river, his anger had gotten the best of him - again. Rachel had been nagging him all day about his patrol,s even though she knew he could do nothing, so he snapped and yelled at her to never come back to him again.

They had been together for almost two years before this but he had been feeling less and less every minute. Sam said it was because she wasn't his imprintee.

Paul thought that imprinting was a load of bull. Why would he want to walk around acting like a lovesick idiot for the rest of his life...?

"You okay?" Leah's voice rang out behind him, causing him to turn and sneer at her.

"What are you doing here Leah?" He snapped.

"Jacob came to see Elleina... Seth dragged me along and Embry told me that you were mad at Rachel." Leah explained, planting her butt on a soft patch of leaves.

"Elleina's back home?" Paul frowned, looking back to the water.

"Yeah... She graduated last week. She came back to work with the nice doctor in Forks." Leah said sarcastically.

"She hasn't been home in four years... Why didn't she just stay in California?" Paul asked.

"She came home that first year... I guess she misses Sam and Allison." Leah sighed, closing her eyes. "She asked about you yesterday."

"Really? What?" Paul turned, gazing at Leah quizzically.

"She just asked where you were... Sam told her that you were patrolling." Leah said casually, picking at a leaf next to her.

"Oh." Paul said. He'd forgotten that Elleina found out about the whole Werewolf thing.

She was out in the woods studying leaves for a project in Biology - she was an infernal nerd - when she saw Sam phase a little ways away. He hadn't noticed her until she gasped and took off screaming.

After a week of ignoring her brother, Jared and himself she came around and asked a lot of questions - that mostly Jared answered.

Two weeks later, she shipped off to University at the tender age of fifteen and they never saw her again. They did hear from Sam and Allison about her progress now and again but with all that had happened in the past four years, Elleina Uley faded into a background noise.

They heard a distant howl - Sam's - and both sighed, Leah got up and they jogged off into the woods.

When they got to the little house that Sam and Emily shared and saw Embry, Jared, Quill and Brady tensed and waiting.

"What's up?" Leah asked, looking at Kevin as he was the only one in a state to answer.

"Leech... It's different from the Cullen's so Sam went to check it out before we did anything else." He said tersely.

Leah and Paul looked around instantly, trying to pick up the scent. It hit them faintly and they both stiffened.

Sam came back a few minutes later, looking slightly angry, "The Cullen's have a guests. Senna and Safrina came up to see Renesmee."

"Damn Amazons!" Leah spat, narrowing her eyes. "Where's Jacob?"

"He headed back about twenty minutes ago." Emily answered, walking out with a big tray of muffins and Elleina at her side - who had her nose buried in a book.

"I better be off then..." Leah said, smiling at Emily before sprinting off into the woods again and phasing.

"You feeling better about yourself now, Paul?" Embry asked playfully.

Elleina looked up at the mention of his name, watching him growl at Embry before storming past her without a second look.

"What's got his tail in a twist?" She asked softly, closing the book and looking at Emily.

"He and Rachel had a fight." The woman answered, patting her belly gently where a small bump was protruding. "This baby is going to push itself through my stomach if it keeps doing that."

"I was the same, Em, don't worry about it." Sam laughed, kissing her cheek. "Let's eat."

Everyone cheered but Elleina shook her head, "I ate this morning, thanks very much. I couldn't handle more food right now..."

"Girls." Kevin said. "Can't handle anything."

"Well, sorry Mr. Puppy Paws..." Elleina said smartly, stomping into the house with a flick of her hair.

She turned a corner and ran straight into a warm body, ricocheting and falling flat on her butt with a grunt. Elleina closed her eyes and inhaled to control her temper.

Two warm hands instantly tugged her up, "You okay?"

She nodded and looked up at Paul. Her hazel eyes gazed into his black ones and saw them melt and glaze over as he stiffened. Paul's one-oh-eight temperature sky-rocketed and his knees buckled, but he didn't let go of Elleina once.

"P-Paul?" Elleina whispered as she sank down with him, not being able to stop herself because of his strength. "Are you all right?"

He didn't answer, he just kept staring at her like she was the only thing he could see. He was looking at her like-

"I-I have to go." He said, letting go quickly as she stared at his retreating back in awe.

"It's not the earth holding you here anymore, she does..."

Paul went over Sam's words in his head over and over, not wanting to believe it. He felt another ripple of pain shoot through his body and kicked himself for leaving her.

He needed her right now like he needed air. It was irrational and stupid, but it felt so good to have her clouding his brain. To have her there, when he closed his eyes, smiling at him.

He needed her. Paul Lahote was sure that his heart belonged to Elleina Uley now.