Summary: When Jacob left, Leah gave up. She stopped being angry, stopped directing her anger at the pack. But she fell into the background and began to just exist. By the time the pack realizes something is seriously wrong, will they be too late to bring her spark back? JacobxLeah, no Renesmee imprint

Disclaimer: I do not own any rights to the Twilight Saga. I am not intent on sticking to every detail. I plan to make this story my own. The story is rated M for language and sexual content. Will contain a lot of wolf pack tendencies. Don't expect a lot of Bella or the Vampires…I think Leah deserves a little attention!

Calm the Storm- Chapter 1

Numb. Leah felt very numb. That's how she had felt for the past year since Jacob left; her True Alpha. She just went through the motions of pack life now. She still took her patrol shift with whomever she was assigned to, but she didn't seem to have the energy to argue or insult any of her pack mates. She only spoke when spoken to, preferring to spend any free time she had now alone.

Often, that time was spent thinking of Jacob. Just before he left, right before the leach married the leach lover, she had finally looked Jacob dead in the eyes (which she now realized had been the first time she even bothered doing so) to tell him that girl wasn't worth it, all the pain he was feeling, to let him know he deserved way better…. then it happened. The damn thing she swore she would never let happen happened to her. She had imprinted.

When Leah had shifted for the first time, she had felt a distinctly strong attachment to Jake, something she had shrugged off after finding out that he was meant to be the true leader of the pack, but after the moment she confronted him, she now knew it was because he was meant for her. It took a while for her to come to turn to terms with the imprint, but by the time she did, he was long gone.

No one had heard from him. The only hope she held onto was that the pack could still 'feel' him, that they could still feel the connection of their pack mate when they were in their wolf form. His mind had changed, though. In the first weeks after he had left, everyone had begged and pleaded for him to return, telling him that they could work this out, make it better. No one ever heard a response, just felt a constant thrum of red hot anger. Leah had even considered at one point telling him about the imprint, but the caring side of her, the one she denied often, couldn't possibly try and make him feel guilty about leaving her. So they waited, and they hoped, still feeling the constant hum of Jacob's shifter mind, but no sign of the human Jacob. And as time went on, Leah became numb. More and more numb.

"Hey, have you noticed anything off about Leah?" Quil asked the pack, minus Leah and Seth who were on patrol, as they ate some delicious food Emily made. They sat at a large table in a house on the edge of the reservation that they had deemed "the Den". Not long after Jacob left, the elders had decided that a communal house for the pack would help develop closer bonds within the pack, hopefully avoiding another "Jacob situation".

Paul snorted. "You mean besides actually being tolerable?" "She's just been really quite," Quil added, "Too quiet. I almost miss her insults, at least she was a little more 'there'." Around him the pack stopped eating and stared at the table.

"Well what do you expect," Sam said solemnly. "This is what happens when your Imprint is gone." "I can't believe Jake," Embry said. "He HAS to know what this is doing to her-" "Unless he doesn't know," Jared interrupted quietly. The pack all looked at him in surprise. "You don't think…." "No, no way!" "Whatever Jared."

"Seriously, guys. When do you think she would tell him? She's not exactly lovey-dovey kind….At least I don't think she is."

Just then Seth burst through the door, Leah hanging from his arms. "Help! Someone help!" Sam jumped up. "What happened," Sam demanded. "She just collapsed," Seth said quickly. "She had mentioned having a headache, but she was quiet like usual so I didn… I I didn't know!" He glanced in distress at his sister.

"Paul! Go get Sue. Quickly. Brady and Collin, head out on patrol in Leah and Seth's places. Quil, help me get her to a couch. Embry, Jared, I need a bottle of water, a wet wash cloth, and some blankets. GO."

Seth rung his now empty hands together. 'It's the imprint. It HAS to be,' he thought. He hadn't told the guys, but each time she and he were out on patrol, they would both spend a few minutes feeding Jacob images of the pack missing him, needing him to come back. They would plead and plead, then give up when they heard no response. After this time, though, Leah just suddenly lost consciousness.

'Please be okay Sis.'

Had the pack been in their wolf forms, they would've known they had all thought this at the same time.