Title: Pieces Of A Puzzle

Rating: T

Pairing: Leah/Edward and mentions of a Seth/Nessie imprinting

Summary: After Bella leaves Edward two months after Nessie is born, he is left to pick up the pieces. Will Leah Clearwater be able to help him put his family back together? Can he heal her pain in the process?

Disclaimer: I do not own anyone or anything from Twilight!

Two months is all it took for my wife to realize that this life, the life of a vegetarian vampire was not one she wanted. Oh she still wanted to be a vampire, but she just did not want to be a vampire who fed off of animals, had a husband, and who was a mother to a beautiful baby girl. It seemed she wanted to make up for lost time or that is what she told me the day she left.

"Edward I love you, but I can't be chained down right now. For the first time in my life I feel like living. I want to explore the world and try new things. I want to be able to experience the things I chose to give up for you. I thought I wanted it at the time, I honestly believed I would never want anyone or anything as much as I did you, but I was wrong." My beautiful wife slipped up in to one of her human habits and placed her hair behind her ear. I think she would have been blushing if she still had the ability to do so. "I need this Edward and I know you love me enough to want me to do what makes me happy. You can give our daughter the life she deserves. I need time to be who I want without feeling trapped and I am sure one day I will come back to you."

I opened and closed my mouth a few times in order to get my words out. I felt as if my throat were closing and my stone heart shattering. "You expect me to wait for you? You think that things will be the same when and if you ever decide to come back?"

Picking up her one suitcase she turned to smile at me as she entered the doorway getting ready to leave the life we had planned together behind. "Of course you will be waiting for me. What else are you going to do? You told me yourself you waited over eighty years to find me and I don't think a century or two more is going to hurt you one bit. You have nothing else to live for and I know you will be here with open arms when I come back and I will come back one day. It probably won't be in a year or even ten, but it will happen one day and then we can have the life you always wanted. I am sure by then I will have had all the fun I feel I am missing right now."

Two months since she had walked out that door and never looked back. I had not received one phone call or a letter. Did she not care about her daughter? Did she not miss Renesmee at all? How could she let go of her daughter so easily? How could she let go of me so easily after everything we had done to stay together? Did she not understand how she was tearing my family apart? Being a father had never been a part of my plans and being a single father had never even crossed my mind when Bella had decided to keep the baby against my wishes.

I would not change the fact Renesmee was born for anything in the world now that I had her, but when I first learned of her existence I had not wanted her since I thought she would take Bella away from me. Now I realized that Bella never really wanted to stay anyways. Even if she had not gotten pregnant I believe she would have left. Alice had been unable to see it coming since Bella apparently had been working on her power even as a human. She had known she was a shield after we had been in Italy and since thing she had got in to contact with other humans who claimed to have 'special powers' so she could learn to control her power. There had been so many things she was keeping from everyone.

Suddenly a tiny hand touched my face and I saw a picture of Leah Clearwater enter my head. I smiled and looked down at my little girl who was not actually quite so little anymore. "She will be here soon sweetheart and so will Seth. They had a joint pack meeting today and they called to let me know they would be a little late arriving."

My two month old daughter who looked to be around eight or nine months now pouted cutely. Yes, my little girl actually pouted when she learned her imprinter and his sister would be arriving later than usual. It was ironic that the two people I never would have expected to stick around and be my main support other than my family turned out to be Leah and Seth Clearwater. Seth I could understand considering he had imprinted on my little girl, but Leah Clearwater was another story. It was plain to everyone around her that she hated vampires and here she was spending all of her free time with a family of them. At first I had thought she wanted to keep an eye on her brother and maybe that is what had been at the very beginning, but then she started hanging around when Seth was in school or patrolling.

I had to admit I was unsure about her presence at first. She is not exactly the perfect example for a young and impressionable child. I feared she may try to instill some bad habits on my perfect little darling, but to my surprise she had been a great influence so far. When Renesmee accidently bit her because apparently Leah smells different to her than she does to the rest of us, Leah did not phase and tear her head off as I would have expected her to try and do. What she did do was set my little girl down on the couch and explained to her in a calm and rational voice, (a voice I never would have guessed even existed inside of the female shifter) why it was not okay to bite people. To my surprise and astonishment Renesmee had not bitten anyone since. Everyone in my family had been surprised considering we had given the talk to my daughter numerous times and she had never listen and yet for some reason she listened to Leah.

Leah had also been good for me as well. If you could take the time to get past her rather rough personality you would see she is a very smart woman. I have for in common with the female wolf than I would have guessed. We had the same taste in books and much to my amazement she actually liked classical music as well. She was not a hardcore fan like me, but she knew a lot more about that genre of music than any woman I knew. Plus when I finally managed to get her to open up I saw that she was actually a kindred soul to mine. Hard to believe I know and yet it was the truth. After taking the time to get and know her I realized Leah Clearwater and I were more alike than either of could have ever realized. Insanely enough she had kept me sane when I needed it the most and I would never be able to thank her enough.

The door opening snapped me out of my thoughts and I smiled as the female shifter walked in followed by Seth who immediately came to me and grabbed Renesmee out of my arms. Leah wore a scowl and flopped down on the couch and I frowned. "What's up wolf girl?"

Seth answered for her since she was too busy scowling to look in my direction. "She's just cranky because Jacob imprinted today and that means she is the only who has not imprinted considering Embry last month on that vamp girl Tanya from Alaska."

I nodded in understanding and offered my hand to her. I planned to take her for a walk so we could talk and she just glanced at my hand before looking at my face. "Not in the mood to dance thank you very much. I want to sit here and wallow in my self-pity. You can join me if you want, but you are not allowed to try and make me feel better. I do not want to feel better is that understood?"

"Well too bad because you are going to feel better. I will not allow someone to be unhappy today. I declare today to be happy day and you too will be happy Leah Clearwater." I rolled my eyes as she puffed out her cheeks and before sticking her tongue out stubbornly. I sighed and picked her up throwing her over my shoulder. It looks like we would have to do this the hard way then. "Seth I expect you to watch over Renesmee while we are gone. I have my cell if you need me for anything and Rosalie is upstairs with Alice, Jasper, and Emmett. Come on wolf girl I am going to cheer you up."

"Put me down you bronze haired stink bomb!" She screeched as we headed out the door. "This is manhandling and I won't be manhandled damn it! Put me down!"

I turned in the door way to wave at my daughter with one hand. "Be a good girl baby and I will be back with a much happier aunt Leah in a couple of hours."

TBC…

AN: I know I should not have started another story, but I couldn't write anything else with this stupid idea in my head. I knew if I did not write than nothing else would ever get written as well. Breaking Dawn inspired this and so I do hope that you all like it. Also, I thought it would be better for Seth to have imprinted on Nessie since that is how I think it should have happened anyways. Haven't decided on who Jake imprinted on yet so if you have ideas then feel free to let me know. This is basically the introduction and so I am going to try to make every chapter after this at least two thousand words.

Please R&R like always!

Preview for the next chapter:

"Talk."

"Bite me."

"Is that an invitation?"

"You wish."

"Well if I am not getting a free meal then you better start talking because you made me hungry."