A/N: Hey everyone!!! This is just a little something I came up with while writing my other fiction - I always felt kinda sorry for Leah and thougt she should get over Sam and find happiness... I hope you'll enjoy it!!! :D
Disclaimer: I don't own Leah (she's all Stephanie Meyer's) and the guys just popped into my head begging to meet her... ;)
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LEAH
They say you imprint by looking into your soulmates' eyes. In order to never imprint she kept her own locked on the ground wherever she went. Leah Clearwater hated what imprinting did to a werewolf. She wanted to have the choice, the choice whom to love, whom to be with until the end. The choice if she wanted to share her life with someone or not - and right now, she did not. There was no way she would allow herself to imprint on anyone.
Sam, her former alpha, had been of the opinion that werwolfs imprinted to pass on the wolfgenes in the best possible way. But even if this was the case for the other shapeshifters, it would probably be different for her, the first female werwolf known. She was no longer able fall in love with some random guy neither to give birth to a new generation of shapeshifters, let alone did she wish for it. Never would she pass on this cruel destiny to anyone. Especially not to those she would love.
Everything was different for her than for the others. She had noone she could talk to about her problems as in all the world there was no such thing as a second female werwolf. While many girls dreamed of being that unique, for Leah it meant being locked in her personal hell on earth.
When she used to still phase into that huge wolf, she hated it to death. Hearing Sam's thoughts, feeling his and the other pack member's emotions made her go up the walls. With joining Jacob's pack, it got easier but was still not very pleasant. After all the vampires had left again, for the battle against the Volturi had been won, there was no longer a need for Leah to stay in the area either. She took off on her own. Jacob had been opposed to it at first but would not order her to stay using his alpha voice.
Finally able to leave the place that used to be her home for the passed twenty years, Leah started running until she reached the border to Canada. There she slowed down a bit, phasing back to her human form from time to time in order to get proper food into her stomach. She was disgused by wolf food and would never get used to it. Strolling about she eventually reached the Rocky mountins. Near a little village, she phased back into a woman for what she planned to be the last time – no more shapeshifting, no more eating raw meat, no more pack mind, no more having no choice. Leah Clearwater was done. She would start over completely. Nothing could stop her.
ooOoo
Well, that was nearly six months ago. She had begun her new life living in the small village up in the Rockys. The people there thought she was a bit strange as she refused having any contact with them exept for her weekly purchase of food. Right in the begining she had isolated herself from everyone, just being on her own, dwelling in selfpity at first, then just not bothering to change things.
Leah loved lingering about the snowy countryside where noone would disturb her by accident. One time when she was wandering around outside, she suddenly felt the mountin beneath her tremble faintly. Without phasing, her senses were returning to normal, no supernatural hearing, seeing or smelling anymore. But this tremor was strong enough to jerk her out of her deep thoughts.
There must be an avalanche going down. With her mind lingering about this possibility, she abruptly realized how close by it was happening. Turning around she could see the lawine rolling towards her suddenly endangering a child that was playing not too far away. It must have strolled there while Leah had been caught up in her memories of happier days with Sam. Those always used to make her bitter. But it didn't matter now, the kid was in danger – if she didn't act, it would die.
Fear, helplessness and finally anger rippled down her spin until the feelings overwhelmed her. She couldn't help it but phase into the detested form of a slender wolf. Racing towards the child she did not care who might see her.
Leah reached the toddler and sought shelter last minute before the avalanche would burry both, the little kid and the wolf, beneath it. Shielding the frightened girl, she passed out from the amount of emotions and strength it had cost her to phase and run after the long pause.
"Leah? Leah is that you, sis? LEAH!!!" a voice screamed in her mind without being noticed by the unconcious she-wolf.
ooOoo
Lying there like this, she was eventually found. Leah still had not phased back to her human form when the snow was removed from her body... the three tall, muscular, bare chested men couldn't believe what they saw... a huge wolf crouched on the ground and a small girl sitting next to it her big brown eyes confused and frightened.
"Matt, what does this mean?" the quite lean guy tried to phrase his thoughts. He was completely caught off guard, not understanding what had just happened.
"I honnestly don't know, buddy... But before we figure it out, we have to get the child out of here, the search party will be looking for her soon enough..." The man who seemed to be the leader turned to the third, the shortest guy, "bring the girl down to the village, pretend to have found her somewhere else, and not burried by the avalanche, ok?"
"Will do", scooping up said toddler he left off running.
"But what will we do now?", the first one asked again. He seemed to be absolutly overstrained with the situation.
"Calm down, man, we'll take him to the cave, all right?!"
"So, you don't think it's a normal... you mean, it's like us?"
"Just look at him, he's way too large for being a common wolf. Give me a hand here, will ya?"
"But not as large as we are..." he kept doubting but obeyed quickly when he saw his friend's annoyed expression on his face.
With combined powers they lifted her in the air and carried her carefully to a near by cave where they rested her on animal coats and fures.
"Now, all we can do is wait for him to wake up..."
ooOoo
A little later Leah regained consciousness almost immediatly phasing back into her human self. What had just happened? Moreover, where the heck was she? She warily rolled onto her back, stretching her body when she noticed she wasn't even dressed. Abruptly everything came back to her: she had phased! All her caution throughout the last few months had been made invalid in one tiny moment, one wrong reflexive choice... why did she have to try rescueing that child she didnt even know?
"Oh, for crying out loud!" she cursed lowly but soulfully.
"Hey, Matt, I think it woke!" When she heard the deep voice from somewhere behind her, Leah unintentionally cringed and pulled the blanket lying next to her up to her chin.
She slowly turned around, just in time to see two huge men enter the room-like cave. One was smaller and slightly broader than the other who had an air about him that seemed painfully familiar to Leah. His curly hair was cropped and therefore barely touched his shoulders. He wasn't wearing a shirt, only cut offs that scarcely covered anything displaying his hard six pack, muscular tights and strong arms. Leah was shocked by how fast her heart had started pounting, by the mere notion of these things she had seen so often in her pack time before but had never looked twice at. Following her rehearsed habit she locked her eyes on the ground.
Having phased that recently had the major impact of improving her senses into the extraordinary again. This way she could clearly hear the deep intake of breath by the two men but before she could mouth her questions, her feelings, her confusion, they were joined by another guy, mutually huge and muscular. He immediately froze when his eyes detected the young woman on the animal furs.
"Is this...? A woman...?" his voice trailed off. His eyes scooted back and forth between his mates and the beauty on the ground looking completely dumbfouded.
After a wary pause the leader's rusky voice that sounded like sandpaper adressed Leah herself.
"Who are you, woman?" He could have called her a freak or any other name it would not have hurt the tiniest bit more than the accusion that swung in the word "woman".
"I'm Leah... who are you?" For the first time in her entire time she felt her own, usually so sarcastic voice tremble.
"Leah..." it seemed as if he was tasting the sound of her name in his mouth, " nice to meet you. I'm Matt, these are Ryan" he pointed at the lean man on his right without taking his eyes off her partially covered body, " and Brendan" he repeated the motion towards the short one who was just after arriving.
"I have to ask you this, Leah, what are you?" he continued again seeming insecure and vulnerable. Even if she had tried, Leah would not have been able to answer this question. She simply could not admit what she was, she could not say out loud that she was what she hated, what she had been trying to eliminate out of her mind.
When she stayed silent, the man that had introduced himself as Matt crossed the small cave with two big strikes, knelt down in front of her and lifted her chin so she would look him into the eyes. His eyes were like nothing Leah had ever seen before. They weren't just plain brown but a deep amber with golden sparkles and grey spirals in it.
To her it seemed like her entire world was breaking apart. She felt herself being disconnected from the ground, from reality, from time and space, like she was about to float away into the air but was held by a new power. A power that was stronger than steal cables, stronger than anything else that existed. For Leah the univers with all its turns and spins suddenly seemed clear, its symmetry perfectly plain – it all made sense now. She had found her personal centre of the univers.
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Umm, what do you think? Is it worth to be continued? Please, let me know!!!
Happy New Year to everyone!!! :D