A/N Okay so first off you have to know that I have changed some things. Bella never became good friends with Jacob when Edward left, in my fic Bella met Leah a few months after he left and sharing stories of their heartbreak they became fast friends, mainly by getting stone cold drunk and cursing out their exes. Leah became a wolf a month or so after she became friends with Bella, around February time after she saw Sam and Emily together on Valentine's day being all lovey-dovey. She phased in the woods on her own, Embry, Jacob and Quil had already phased as well as the others, but Seth hadn't and hasn't at the beginning of this fic. Harry Clearwater isn't dead, Edward was just stupid and didn't call for confirmation of Bella's death before running off on his suicide mission. The Cullen's came back like normal and Edward is his controlling self. Bella never met all the other wolves, her and Leah's friendship stayed away from the pack since Leah spends as little time with them as possible although Bella still figured out that Leah and the rest are Shapeshifters.

If you are an Edward fan, you really won't like this fic. If you are a fan of witches and don't really give a shit about Edward, read on my friends, read on.

Any questions feel free to review or PM me.

Chapter 1

"Oh come on Leah, don't be such a bitch!" I say as I beg my best friend, who, at my words, turns around and gives me one of her meanest glares, which in all honesty, doesn't even bother me anymore.

"I'm not being a bitch I just don't want to hang out with some pale face human from Forks." I glare right back at her because she just described me.

"Seriously, you just described me more than Angela since Ange isn't even pale. Come on Leah, I know you're going nuts hanging out with just the pack all the time, and Angela has to be the nicest, sweetest person in the world, plus she recently went through a pretty bad break up and she needs this as much as you do, I think you could really like her, just give her a chance." Leah huffs because we both know I'm right, but she's still intent on fighting this.

"Who said I even want to hang out with you Swan? You ditched me the second the leaches came back, I have seen you literally once since you got back from Italy, once in two months Swan and I'm meant to be your best friend, what the fuck is that about?" She asks, crossing her arms tightly over her chest and turning her face away from me to glare out into the forest. And I feel so guilty because I can hear the pain in her voice and see the hurt and anger in her eyes and most of all because she's right. I did ditch her once the Cullen's came back, but not because I wanted to.

"Leah I am so sorry about that, I have wanted to see you all the time, I've been trying to see you but they've been keeping me so busy and I didn't know how to get away and Edwards been saying that your too dangerous, and I know that's bullshit but he has the ways and means to keep me away from you, but this is my chance to make it up to you and I really, really, really want to. Please, Leah, I've missed you so much." I feel like a babbling idiot and it's taking all of my emotional willpower to not become a blubbering idiot; I feel like I'm about to cry.

"Why don't you just have your leaches over?" She asks, her tone cold and biting.

"Because I'm damn well sick of them and I don't want to see them I want to see you." I tell her and her entire demeanour changes. She uncrosses her arms and grins at me, pulling me into a hug, which she pulls away from quickly since she's not much of a hugger.

"That's all I wanted to hear, let me just go pack a bag." I jump up and down and squeal in a very un-me like way and follow Leah into her house. The only way I'd even been able to get out to La Push is by coming along with my dad at the very last minute so then Alice couldn't see me do it and Edward couldn't stop me, like he'd been doing a lot lately when I'd wanted to visit Leah.

"Hey Bella, long time no see, I was starting to think you'd gotten bored of us." Leah's little brother, Seth greets me with a massive smile on his face. I'm shocked to see that he's grown at least three inches in the last few months and put on an impressive amount of muscle.

"Hey Seth, I could never get bored of you, just been rushed off my feet is all, how've you been?" I ask him and his grin gets even wider.

"I've been good, I had a growth spurt, can you tell?" He asks and I grin at him with a nod.

"Are you kidding? Of course I can tell, you've got to be what 5'11 by now, you're just barely smaller than Leah now."

"I know, it's great, there's no one else in my year at school that's as tall as me now, it's awesome." Leah comes bounding downstairs with a duffle bag over her shoulder as Seth's chest puffs out with pride.

"Okay, I'm ready let's go." Leah says and Seth's face falls.

"You're going already?" He asks.

"Yeah, I'm staying at Bella's tonight while Charlie's fishing with Dad and Billy."

"And we have to get back there before Angela turns up." Leah shouts goodbye to her mum and then leads the way out the door. "I promise I'll be around more Seth." I say, give him a quick hug and then follow Leah out the door.

"I'm holding you to that Bella." Seth shouts after us, then waves from their front door as we climb in Leah's car and she drives us off the reservation and into Forks.

"You're just lucky I have the night off patrol, you know that Swan?" Leah says as she pushes her car to its absolute limit, speeding her way to my house.

"Yeah, I know." I say then close my eyes for the rest of the trip since I know from previous experience that, no matter how many times I ask her, she won't slow down how fast she's going and there's no way I could watch all the trees blur past the car without vomiting.

Thanks to Leah's ridiculous speeding we're back at my house in no time and we get straight to setting up the living room with mattresses, blankets, pillows, lots of junk food and DVD's and such. Within half an hour of us being back at my house there's a knock on the front door and I rush to answer it with a big smile on my face. Expecting to see Angela on the other side of the door my smile falls away when I open it only to find Edward glaring at me from the porch.

"What the hell is that dog doing here Bella?" Edward demands and Leah comes around the corner from the kitchen growling.

"Don't call her that Edward she's my best friend, the better question is what are you doing here? You knew I was busy tonight and you know you're not supposed to come to the house without Charlie here." Edward very clearly ignored most of what I say as he glares right back at Leah.

"Alice is your best friend." He tells me, as if it's his decision who I like and trust more.

"No she's not Edward, Leah and Angela are the only best friends I have, not that that's actually any of your business, you're my boyfriend not my master for crying out loud now you have to leave." I tell him and he turns his glare to me. And then the glare suddenly falls off his face and he's giving me that lovely crooked smile I love.

"I was coming over here to spend the night with you since your father isn't here to stop me from coming in, you can always change your plans Bella." His honey sweet voice is like magic to my ears and as I stare into his eyes I start to think that it would be okay for me to change my plans, I can always hang out with Leah and Angela another time, Edward and I should spend this time together. I am literally seconds away from asking Leah to leave when she scoffs from behind me. Edward glances up, glaring ferociously at her. I decide I want my girls night, I'd spent all my time with Edward since he got back, I wanted some time with my other friends, so I steel my resolve and when he looks back down at me I know he can see what I've decided.

"I want to spend time with my friends Edward, we can't spend every moment together, so please, leave."

"But Love-" He starts in that smooth voice but I put my hand up before he can continue.

"No Edward, please just go, I'll talk to you some time tomorrow." His face falls into a calm mask and he takes a step back.

"If that's what you want Bella, I will see you tomorrow." And he walks back to his car.

"Talk!" I shout after him. "We will talk tomorrow!" He turns around, gives me a very slight nod, then climbs in his Volvo and leaves.

Uch, that stupid Volvo.

Anywhoo…

"What a douche." Leah says after a moment of silence and I laugh, because, she's kinda right.

"Yeah." I say and she gives me this stunned look because I've never said bad things about Edward before except when I'm drunk and I'm clearly not drunk right now. "What?" I ask once her staring starts to creep me out a little.

"You agree that your creepy vampire boyfriend is a douche?" She asks and I nod.

"Yeah, well, he was being a bit of a douche just then."

"A bit?" Leah questions and as I roll my eyes there's another knock on the door. "That better not be another leach." Leah says and then walks back into the kitchen to make a sandwich as I open the door.

"Hey Ange." I greet my other best friend and pull her into the house to give her a hug, as relieved as Leah that it wasn't another vampire.

"Hey Bella, I brought over some snacks." We pull away from the hug and she brandishes a plastic bag with a bucket load of chocolate and candy and Doritos.

"Awesome thanks Ange, come meet Leah." I pull Angela into the living room with me and grab her bags, dumping them onto the couch next to where Leah is lounging with her sandwich.

"It's nice to meet you Leah." Angela says. Leah gives her a long, hard look.

"Bella told me you just went through a bad break-up." When Ange nods Leah continues. "What happened?"

"He cheated on me with a girl that was supposed to be one of my best friends."

"What did you do about it?" Leah asks.

"I punched her in the face and kicked him in the balls." Angela answers and I can't help but grin because, even though violence is so not-Angela, I absolutely loved it when she did that. Leah gives Angela a slow smile then stands up.

"I think we're going to get along just fine Angela." Leah says which makes me squeal just a little tiny bit, which also earns me an eye roll from Leah.

"I knew it." I say then, to avoid awkwardness I change the subject. "So, Chinese or pizza?" I ask them. Once we agree on what we want to eat (three 16 inch pizzas all with different toppings and all toppings that Leah likes so she can eat as much as she wants, that wolf metabolism, I'm telling you), we put on our pj's, crack open a bottle of vodka, put on a film and start our night.

Four hours, three pizzas, two bottles of vodka and a hell of a lot of chocolate and Doritos later and we're all very happy. Angela and Leah are getting on fantastically and since Leah's drank most of the vodka Ange and I aren't all that drunk and Leah is actually feeling a little bit tipsy.

We quit watching films after a chick flick and a comedy and for the last hour have been watching a TV show that it turns out, is a favourite of all of ours.

Charmed.

If you haven't heard of it, it's about three sisters that are witches and fight demons and shit while trying to lead normal lives. It's awesome, you should definitely watch it. That was how I had the best idea of my lifetime, well, at least that's what I thought it was at the time.

"We should cast a spell." I say to them after we're all done comparing things we hate about one of the original main characters.

"That's a brilliant idea." Ange says grinning as Leah says;

"That's a stupid idea."

"It will be awesome Lee, we can write it ourselves and then light some candles and say it." Leah gives me a sceptical look, like I'm some kind of idiot, which, I might be.

"We can say a spell like in the first episode of Charmed to give us powers. It'll never work but it'll be a laugh." Angela says and we both give Leah puppy dog eyes and pleading smiles because, we both really want to do this.

"Please Lee, it'll be no fun without you." I say and Leah sighs.

"Fine." She says and Ange and I hug her while squealing. "But no more of that damn squealing."

"Okay, I'll get what we need." I say. I jump up and run to my room to get some tea light candles, a lighter and a pen and paper while Leah and Ange brainstorm about the spell. I can only find three tea lights but it's one each so it's enough. I run back down stairs, tripping over myself a few times in my partially drunken and just general clumsy state but I make it back to the girls all in one piece. I sit back down on the mattresses and dump everything I collected in the middle of our triangle and Leah grabs the pen and paper.

"Okay so Ange has apparently watched Charmed way too much and she thinks we should start with the lines, 'hear these words, hear our cry'. What do you think?" Leah says, all the while writing those two lines down. I think about them for a second and then mutter them out loud.

"Hear these words, hear our cry." As I say them aloud the next line pops into my head. "Spirits from the Quileute tribe. Does that fit?" I ask and Ange grins at me.

"Yeah, it sounds good and it honours Leah." Leah grimaces but writes it down. Angela seems to be mulling it over for a moment and then she grins. "The next lines have to state what we want so how about, plain and simple, 'give us powers, bless us three', we'd just need one more line to finish it off." I grin back at her and Leah writes it down.

"What do you think of the last line being 'bless us for eternity'?" Leah asks and I nod enthusiastically.

"It rhymes just right." I say and Ange giggles.

"I can't believe we just wrote a spell." She says with another giggle, which makes me giggle.

"Well if we're going to say the spell then I think we should get off the mattress before lighting the candles." Leah says, so we move off the mattress and onto the kitchen floor. It's cold and we giggle a little more at the feeling of the coldness on our skin. Okay, so maybe we were more drunk than I first thought.

We sit in a circle and Leah's about to light her candle when I stop her.

"They always burn it."

"What?" Ange and Lee ask me, both confused.

"The spell, the written copy of the spell." They still have no idea what I'm talking about and I wonder for a brief moment if they're simple, because I think it's obvious what I'm talking about, but apparently not, so I elaborate. "In Charmed when they write their own spells they burn the written copy to give the spell more power."

"That's a great idea!" Angela exclaims and she jumps up to grab a bowl from a cupboard. She sits back down in her place in our triangle and puts the bowl in the very middle of us, with each of our tea lights directly in front of each of us.

"I think if we've all got a candle each then we should all have our own copy to burn." Leah says, so I write the spell onto a piece of paper and Ange writes the spell onto a piece of paper and Leah goes to light her candle again.

"Wait." Ange stops her which makes Leah roll her eyes at being stopped again. "Maybe we should have a practice round of saying it, to get into rhythm with each other."

"We should definitely do that." I say, nodding my head enthusiastically, and even though she doesn't want to, Leah agrees. We try it out once and we're really out of sync with each other so we do it again and even though it's still bad Leah's clearly getting annoyed so we agree to just do it.

Leah lights her candle, then I do and then Angela does and once the candles are lit the whole atmosphere changes. I can't explain it, we just all got really serious and with a deep breath each and no real indication from anyone, we all starting chanting perfectly in sync.

"Hear these words,
Hear our cry,
Spirits from the Quileute Tribe,
Give us powers,
Bless us three,
Bless us for eternity."

With the last line we all put our paper over our candles and they caught fire. We put them each into the bowl and they burnt out faster than I thought was possible. When the last piece of paper was burnt a gust of wind blew through the room, blowing the candles out and all the lights in the house flickered for a moment before going out.

I jumped at the sudden darkness, even the TV had turned off. Ange let out a nervous giggle as I gripped for the lighter to try and light the tea lights again.

"Probably just the fuses." Leah speaks, totally unbothered by the darkness, stupid wolf eyesight, as she gets up and goes to check the fuse box. Somehow even in complete darkness I manage to get my tea light lit again.

We stay quiet for the next few moments and breathe a sigh of relief as all the lights and the TV flick back on and Leah comes out of the basement.

"Like I said, just the fuses." I nod and we all laugh.

"That was crazy timing though." Angela says and we all share another laugh.

"Yeah, really crazy timing."

We clear away the candles and the bowl with the remains of the paper and I put the pen and the rest of the paper into a kitchen junk draw and we go back to watching Charmed and drinking vodka, although it's not long before we're all falling asleep with magic and spells and witchcraft on our minds.

That was the first chapter of The Witches, let me know what you think!

GB!