For Merry. Hoping it brings a smile to your face :)

Disclaimer: Nothing in my room says " I do NOT own Twilight" more than all the pictures of Alex Meraz and Taylor Lautner hanging on the wall. If I owned it, I would have enough money to Clone Alex and have him all to my own. What is Ms. Meyer doing with all that money anyways?

Jake Always Knew

Jacob Black had a very rich heritage; he had his ancestors' wolf gene, his grandfathers "Alpha" status, his father's sense of humor and most of all, his mother's heart. All the girls in the reservation drooled over him. They actually drooled over the entire pack. Some loved Paul because not only was he a sexy bad boy, but he knew how to please a girl, others fell for Embry's sensitive side, Jared was a gentleman, Quil was the funny guy and Seth was like a ray of sunshine. But Jake, well Jake was all of those things wrapped up in one single man. Maybe that's what the alpha was supposed to be, "the whole package". He wasn't even arrogant, he was confident.

After Isabella Swan had broken his heart he was sure that nothing would ever break him down like that, but no matter how strong a heritage he had, no matter how many girls swoon over him, and no matter how he had already gone through a terrible disappointment he wasn't expecting Leah to run off like this.

Right now he didn't know what to do; he'd always known how to deal with Leah.

He knew that he had to let go of his teenage fantasies the minute he saw her holding hands with Sam during lunch break in the cafeteria room in school and that she needed space when Sam broke up with her out of the blue. He was sure that all she was doing was trying to get rid of the pain in her heart when she made those nasty remarks after she phased. He knew that it was destroying her to "be the bigger person" and stand next to Emily at their wedding.

Jake had always known Leah was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, the day he met her, but had "messed things up" between them at the tender age of 7. Quil, Embry and Jacob were playing with paint at the Clearwater's with Seth and when she walked in, he spilled all the red paint on the carpet. Seth panicked thinking his mom was gonna ground him again for being so messy, and when 9 year old Leah saw the paint she ran with all her might to tell her parents.

She was such a "big sister"; she was always standing up for her baby brother when all the other boys bothered him. Leah threw the best punches and kicks any girl could throw and she never failed to say "The only person in this whole entire universe that can pick on him and make him cry is me! Got that!" and she always came through with that promise. Now she says that she was "building him character" but Jake knew she felt bad for bullying her baby bro.; he always reassured her by reminding her of all the times she actually defended and protected him, and she felt better afterwards.

After Sue Clearwater came into the room and saw the red mess she was surprised to see Jacob cleaning it with his hand. Actually, no, he wasn't cleaning it at all he was drawing with it, making the red stain a lot bigger.

"What on earth are you doing Jacob?" She was trying not to scream because Sue knew they were just children but she was really upset.

"oh! I'm just showing Lee-lah how big my heart grows when I see her, but this room doesn't have enough space." Jacob called Leah "Lee-Lah" because when he was a baby he couldn't pronounce her name properly and it stuck. The 7 year old was so confident when he said it that Sue's heart warmed up and decided she could deal with the whole hour it would take to actually remove the red blotch from the carpet.

Leah on the other hand was fuming, not only did they not get grounded but now all the boys where laughing at her and teasing her.

"Jacob and Leah sitting on a tree.." they started singing.

"First comes, ME PULLING YOUR HAIR you dummy! Then I will kick you so hard you won't be able to ride your bicycle and lastly I will hate you forever!" She screamed and stormed out to her room.

Little Jacob didn't know what to do, he thought he was doing something nice, just like His dad did for his mom. He thought she'd be happy because his mom always had a huge smile on her face after Billy told her how much he loved her. Boy was he wrong.

Years passed by and Jake always knew that as much as he had loved Isabella, his heart had truly started beating in a reasonable way on Leah's sweet sixteen birthday party. There she was the one girl all guys wanted to date, the girl that some girls hated and others admired for the same reason. She was beautiful and "hot" but she was also kind, loving, funny and smart. She was both a "girl's girl" and a "guys girl". She was there for her friends when they needed it, her girl friends always knew that Leah would stop everything she was doing if they needed her and the guys knew they would have fun with her when she showed up at they're "x-box" marathons.

Oh, how Jake wanted to be the one dancing with her, he wanted to be the one making her smile but the job had already been taken and as far as he could see Sam was doing a pretty decent job, so he decided he would be happy for her and let it go. It was her birthday and she deserved to be happy; he turned around and concentrated on the 15 year old pale skinned girl with brown wavy hair known as Isabella Swan. She was there because her father was good friends with both Billy Black and Harry Clearwater, but she didn't know anybody there and well, Jake being the warm soul that he was decided to talk to her.

Sometimes he wished that he'd picked a fight with Sam over Leah instead of walking away and talking to Isabella, but then again, you can't turn back time and he wasn't bitter about her breaking his heart anymore.

After Sam dumped Leah, Jacob knew she wanted to be left alone but his desire to let her know how much he cared was strong. Strong enough to muster the courage to drop by her house with a bouquet of yellow roses and tell her everything would be fine. What he did NOT know was that Leah would unleash hell on him and scream how much she didn't " care if everything will be fine! I don't care what the future brings with its future bright sun and future singing birds. I want to be fine RIGHT NOW! I want to be happy RIGHT NOW!"

Jake had never seen Leah act this way, well he actually had with the whole "red paint-heart" debacle, but back then Leah seemed angry and embarrassed, right now she was hurt and in pain, she was suffering.

It seemed every time Jake tried to make Leah feel loved she took it as the entire opposite. So he gave her the space she needed and wanted. As he walked through the door he couldn't help but smile when he heard her whisper "thanks though, they're beautiful". Yes, the real Leah Clearwater was still there, she just needed time to heal. There was still hope.

With all the knowledge he had on Leah, her behavior, and her way of thinking, when to walk away and when to hold her, Jacob was sure he had it down to an art when he decided it was time for him to say those three crazy little words.

They had been a couple for six months, and even thought it hadn't been easy, he couldn't deny it had been fun. Not fun as in "this is a game" but fun because Leah challenged him, he had to always figure out ways to break down the walls she insisted on putting up.

Becoming Alpha of the pack had given him confidence and had erased the insecurities he once felt because he thought he wasn't "good enough" for her. He was ready to put everything aside and be the guy she needed.

So there he was six months after he asked her to "be his girl", in the middle of the forest clearing that had shared their intimacy with them so many times. But right this second he stood alone.

"Wha- What the hell just happened?" Jacob asked himself.

Not two minutes ago they had been kissing, caressing each other's body, sharing they're warmth in only a way they could do when they were alone. They were wrapped up in each other when Jacob, once again decided he would do something he was sure would make Ms. Clearwater's heart skip a beat. She'd be so happy; she would finally know that she deserved everything Jake was willing to give to her. He knew that Leah felt the same way; he knew that she would have a huge smile on her face, and she would look just as beautiful as his mom did whenever Billy spoke those words to her. Boy was he wrong.

"Baby?" he whispered.

She smiled softly, and opened her eyes to meet his, "Tell me".

"I just wanted you to know that, I LOVE YOU. I've always loved you, even when I didn't even know the real definition of the word, even when my brain didn't know it was called love, my heart felt it. Lee-Lah, baby, I love you." Jacob's happiness radiated from his body, Leah could even feel how much warmer his skin had become.

Hadn't they been through this a couple of times before? Why did Jake have to spoil her fun or in other cases her misery by saying or doing lovely things for her? She couldn't understand why he'd do this over and over again. She squinted her eyes and let go of him, she loosened his grip around her body and stood up. Without saying a word she phased and ran away, luckily she wasn't wearing any clothes because ripping them would only add to her anger.

-/-

"Sssup Jake?" Embry asked.

"Yeah Jake, I haven't seen you around all day what have you and my sister been doing? Or wait, no, don't answer that, forget it" Quil and Embry started laughing at Seth after he realized some of the options he could get as answers.

They were hanging around at the beach, Quil was looking out for a 5 year old, really pretty Claire and the other two had tagged along to "Scam on girls". What best way to do it then acting like the "older cousins babysitting their beautiful little cousin Claire, right?" surprisingly enough it worked. At first Quil got annoyed by the fact they were using his imprint for their benefit but when they started taking different girls to Emily's for a quick bite, every time Claire wanted to go to the beach, she quickly caught on and refused to give Seth and Embry dinner. Quil would much rather enjoy watching them starve than kick their asses. Envy over Quil eating was more painful than a wound that would heal in 5 seconds.

"Oh nothing" Jake said trying to sound nonchalant "I just told your sister I was in love with her, that's all"

"Holy shit! No way man! That's great! It was about time!" Wow! Seth was excited. Maybe Jake should've told Him instead of Leah, at least he had gotten the reaction Jacob was expecting from her.

"Uhm, dude, shouldn't you be happy? I mean, it's been a long time coming right? You look like shit" Embry, always so wise, always the first one to point the obvious. Sarcasm fully intended.

"Well, it was great, I mean, it felt great when I was saying it. What was horrible was when she stood up and left. She didn't say anything, she just phased. I don't understand, I think I blew it." There was pain in his words, and he didn't care that his best friends could feel it. He wasn't trying to act like an Alpha, he was just being honest.

Ohhh, Poor Jakey-boy, you know what would make him happy?

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