A/N: Okay, one thing you all need to know is that I'm not a Twilight fan. I really didn't like the series. Please don't flame me because of this. One thing that always bugged me was that Leah Clearwater was called a harpy and an interfering, bitter hag, when she had every right to be. Come on, people, look at her! She's happily engaged to a man who loves her… then, her cousin, who fell in love with her fiancé after hearing only descriptions of him, comes over to her house, and Sam sees Emily and imprints. Sam literally tries to rip Emily's face off! Emily, whether out of fear or not, accepts Sam, leaving Leah in the background.

Let's take a look at Emily's perspective for a moment.

So your cousin's fiancé proclaims that he loves you, and when you reject him, he tries to kill you, mauling you so badly that you have to say a bear did it. You wake up in the hospital, and the same man is there, and he claims he never meant to hurt you. You, perhaps out of fear, accept him. I say out of fear because if the last time you rejected him he mauled you, who knows what he'll do this time? Kill you? And he would be loose in a hospital full of innocents, and I bet Emily didn't want them to be hurt.

Either way, the man Leah loved and the girl who was like a sister to her got together, not for one second sympathizing with Leah. How do you think she felt? And then, not long after, she turns into a wolf, and her father dies. Perhaps she felt guilty about his death, seeing her phase gave him a heart attack, and maybe Leah blamed herself, though it wasn't her fault. Then, she has to join Sam's pack, and listen to him think about how he wishes she wasn't there, and the other pack members hate her, probably because she doesn't like Sam and Emily, and the Elders say that imprinting is a good thing – or at least not a bad thing. This is mental abuse! And THEN, Leah tries to break away from Sam, and finally get some peace, but she ends up tied to Jacob. Then, Jacob makes her work for the vampires, even though she hates them. People often forget that most vampires do eat people, and that the wolves are perfectly justified on hating them, having been victims of brutal vampire attacks in the past. Jacob and Leah get closer, and maybe Leah think that Jacob understands her pain, and then Jacob goes and imprints. And, to add insult to injury, he imprints on a vampire/human hybrid thingy that shouldn't (biologically speaking) exist. And Jacob, under influence of the imprint, reduces his pack to guard dogs for the Cullens – the very creatures they were created to kill! I know the Cullens didn't eat humans, but they allowed the witnesses to eat humans. I do NOT call that compassionate. Again, Leah had to stand by while the humans she is bound to protect are murdered. She probably felt guilty about that, too, but she couldn't challenge the Alpha. This is about the end, but my point is, look at all the utter SHITE Leah's been through! Appreciate the sheer badassery that is Leah Clearwater.

This was a very long author's note/angry rant, sorry, but I've been wanting to say that for forever.

Remember

Chapter 1

The Car Crash

Pain.

It was all pain and noise and blood.

He gave one, brutal, pain-filled scream before falling silent, blood trickling down his forehead and into his eyes.

Sam Uley heard, in the moments between consciousness and unconsciousness, the sirens wailing, coming closer, and he sank into a deep, deep coma.

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It was a good three months before he woke.

There were several things he noticed. One, he was in the hospital, the too-white walls nearly blinding him. Two, he didn't know how he had gotten there. He strained his memory, but all he could remember, the very last thing, was Leah's voice: I love you.

Three, there was a stranger holding his hand and crying. She looked a bit like Leah, but had horrific scars marring her otherwise pretty face.

"What happened?" he croaked, his voice rusty from lack of use.

The woman looked up. She seemed happy.

"You're awake!" she nearly yelled, barely remembering to keep her voice down. She continued, in a mercifully softer voice, "there was a car crash, Sam, you were unconscious for three months."

He licked his lips, and then moved on to more pressing matters.

"Who are you?"

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