A/N: I'm am not a Twilight fan (but sadly I have read all of the books and watched every single movie, thanks sis! /sarcasm) so I am not very sympathetic to many aspects and themes of the stories. I'm writing this because I'm very much into corrective fiction and well I really disliked imprinting. This is my story to show exactly how I feel about the topic. I'm not the greatest writer of all time (and not really a good one by any means either) but I think most people will get what I am trying to convey. So if you don't want to read a story that is anti-imprinting with some slight Emily, Sam, Quil, and Jacob bashing then I suggest you do not read.
This will probably be my first and last Twilight story and it will be (like most of my stories) pretty short. I expect this story to be between 6-10 chapters.
Thanks for your time and I hope everybody enjoys reading :)!
-Huck
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight or any of the characters.
As soon as Leah Clearwater stepped into William Fairchild International Airport she wanted to turn around and book the next flight back to Jamaica.
It's a funny thing.
Clearwater wanting to go back to Black River.
Leah just knows that this little "trip" home is going to be hell.
Beside her she hears a chuckle.
"What?" Leah growls out as she turns to the girl standing to the left of her.
The girl, brown skinned with long black kinky hair and bright brown eyes, breaks out into full laughter.
Leah rolls her eyes and states in the sternest voice she can muster, "What Davina?"
Davina looks to Leah with the most amused expression on her face and snorts, Leah's tone having no effect on her. "You just look so pissed right now."
"I am pissed." Leah states before turning away from the girl and back towards the baggage claim carousel.
Leah and Davina have been waiting for their luggage for almost thirty minutes. Leah is filled with relief by this as well as dread. From the moment she agreed to take this trip home and the weeks preceding the trip she's been filled with dread at having to spend any time in La Push with her former pack mates and family. But even though the impending trip scared her she hoped that it would come quickly so that it would end just as soon as it began. Waiting for the luggage is like this.
"There!"
Davina states as she spots their luggage and immediately rushes through the crowd of people milling around the baggage claim carousel. Leah watches in amusement as Davina struggles to pull Leah's large black suitcase off of the conveyor belt after retrieving her own much smaller purple one. When Davina finally manages to remove the suitcase, she comes tumbling down on her rear causing Leah to laugh.
When Leah finally makes her way over to the girl, she holds her hand out and looks down at Davina with a huge smirk on her face.
"Need a hand?"
Davina glares up at Leah and grumbles out, "Now you decide to help me." Before taking Leah's hand and allowing herself to be lifted onto her feet.
"You seemed so determined to get the luggage on your own though." Leah challenges.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah!"
Again Leah rolls her eyes at the girl. "Come on," She states as she grabs her black suitcase. "Let's go find ourselves a rental car." Then Leah, a grin painting her lips, purposefully begins to stride quickly away from the baggage carousel.
"Wait up!" Davina calls out as she scrambles to grab her suitcase off of the ground. "You better not leave me Lee!"
Leah just laughs before stopping and turning towards Davina, waiting for the girl to catch up. Leah smiles as she watches the girl run towards her, content with the any small amount of enjoyment she can get out of this trip.
By the time Leah and Davina pull into the driveway of the Swan-Clearwater house it is a little after 7 pm. The two do not waste any time in getting out of the car and gathering their luggage.
"I know you love mama but please be on your best behavior while we are guests here." Leah lectures as the two stand before the front door.
Davina rolls her eyes.
"I mean it Davina." Leah states sternly.
Davina groans. "Okay, okay! I gotcha."
Leah smiles at the girl and states, "Good." Before turning to the front door and knocking.
From inside of the house, Leah and Davina can hear a woman's voice yell, "Be there in a minute!"
Shortly after the yell is heard, the front door is opened to reveal an older woman with long black hair speckled with bits of gray and kind dark eyes.
"Mama!" Leah yells as she embraces her mother.
Leah!" Sue Clearwater calls back as she hugs her daughter back tightly.
Even though Leah really does not want to be home she is very happy about being able to see and spend time with her mother. Their relationship had been a little rocky when Leah had first left to Jamaica but it did not take long for mother and daughter to recover.
When the two finally back out of the hug, they step back and just stare at each other with identical beaming smiles spread across their faces.
"Ahem."
Both women turn to look at a pouting Davina.
"No love for me Mama Clearwater?" Davina asks before exaggerating her pout.
Sue laughs before opening her arms and beckoning the girl to her. Davina happily jumps into her arms, hugging the older Clearwater close.
Davina had gotten to know Sue and Charlie from their skype calls with Leah and their two week summer trips to Black River to visit her. Overtime she had grown to love them and viewed them as extra grandparents.
"Oh it's good to see you too honey." Sue states when the two finished hugging. "Now come inside it's late and I'm sure you girls are starving."
Leah and Davina both nod and follow Sue into the house.
After storing their luggage in the guest room (formerly Bella's barely used bedroom) and washing up, Leah and Davina sit down to dinner with Sue.
The three are seated at a tiny wooden table in the center of the medium sized eat in kitchen. They eat a meal consisting of trout, corn on the cob and mashed potatoes. It needed to be reheated since Sue had made the meal hours before and since Leah and Davina had arrived later than expected.
"So what took you girls so long? I thought your flight arrived at 4, and I know traffic shouldn't have been that bad." Sue asks as she cuts a piece of trout, her fork making a scraping sound against the white plate as she does so.
"Well," Leah began as she aims a pointed look in Davina, who looks down at her food with a guilty look on her face. "Someone thought it would be a good idea to argue with me about the rental car choice."
Sue chuckles and then smiles at Davina. "Didn't end well for ya, huh?"
Davina looks up at the older Clearwater, offering her a small smile as she shakes her head. "Of course not."
Sue playfully wags a finger at Leah. "You never let this young one have any fun."
Leah grins. "Nope, never! Especially not when it involves me driving a top down sports car around Forks/"
"Oh you would have loved it!" Davina argues.
"Nope."
"Ya huh!"
"Nunca!"
Sue smiles at the two fondly before breaking into their "bickering". "So were you two going to make a quick trip to La Push before settling down for the night?"
Leah visibly tenses. "Uh…no, I hadn't planned on it. Probably just going to head to bed."
Before Sue could question Leah's reluctance a groan sounds from Davina.
"We can't even shift and wrestle in the backyard before bed?"
"That's definitely a no."
"Aww come on Leah!"
"I'm going to have to agree with Leah on this one Davina. Letting the wolf out in this part of town is probably not the best of ideas."
"Fine." Davina grumbles unhappily before continuing to eat her meal.
Leah and Sue chuckle and then do the same.
Soon the kitchen is filled with the sounds of scraping forks and idle chit chat here and there.
When dinner is over, Leah and Davina head upstairs to prepare for bed. Davina is the first one to head into the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face. She strips in the guest room and changes into a pair of purple shorts and a purple t-shirt before climbing into bed and curling up in the center.
After Leah is finished in the bathroom she heads into the bedroom and does the same as Davina. She strips and changes into a pair of blue pajama shorts and a white t-shirt. It doesn't take her long to feel a bit chilly.
"I'm thinking we should have went shopping Dav. Most of what we got isn't too great for Forks' weather." Leah states as she climbs into the full sized bed and crawls close to the half-asleep Davina.
"Yeah I realized." Davina answers sleepily.
Davina moves so that her body is pressed up against Leah's and Leah wraps her arms around the girl before she begins to rub circles on her back absentmindedly.
"Story?" Davina murmurs as she snuggles even further into Leah's chest.
Leah can feel Davina's lips move slowly as she speaks and she can feel soft vibrations against her chest.
"Once there was a small girl named Davina," Davina snorts and then yelps when she feels an elbow hit her side. "and she climbed into a big white hammock on the beach. Soon she fell asleep and stopped bugging Leah for a story. The end."
Leah feels a jab against her ribs.
"Story!"
Leah rolls her eyes.
"Do you want to know why Anancy the spider couldn't sleep?"
She really needn't ask; time has already given her the answer over and over again.
"Why couldn't Anancy sleep?" Davina asks before letting out a long yawn.
Leah smiles to herself, it was only a matter of time before the girl would fall asleep. "Well you see Anancy's neighbor Brother Li-"
"Bredda." Davina interrupts.
Leah rolls her eyes again. "Bredda Lion found that after eating he could belch really loud, in fact it was the loudest in the whole village."
Against her chest, Leah can feel Davina's heart beat and breathing begin to slow.
"Bredda Lion would belch all night keeping up Anancy. This made Anancy very angry."
"Why?" Davina asks before yawning again.
"Because after eating sleep was the most important thing to Anancy. Anyways, because Anancy was so upset he went to speak to Bredda Rabbit who told him to buy earmuffs from the shops in town. Bredda Snake had told Bredda Rabbit to do so when he had mentioned having trouble sleeping because of Bredda Lion's belching."
Davina closes her eyes slowly and her body begins to slump against Leah's. "But the earmuffs didn't help Anancy, did they?"
"No," Leah began softly. "The earmuffs could cover Anancy's ears but they could not cover his spider senses. So unlike Bredda Rabbit and Bredda Snake he could not just use earmuffs to block out the sound of Bredda Lion's loud bel-."
Leah pauses when she hears Davin's light snoring and then she smiles down at the girl.
"Goodnight Davina." Leah whispers quietly before wrapping her arms tightly around Davina, kissing her forehead and then burying her chin into the younger girl's hair.
Before closing her eyes and falling into a peaceful sleep, Leah silently hopes that the trip to La Push the next day will be quick and painless.
A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed reading and please review :)!
-Also for Davina I'm not going to be writing in a Jamaican accent, it's just to be assumed that she does have one. I'm not really going at writing accents and I don't want things to get confusing. I might mention words in patois (kind of like when she corrects Leah during the story) to be playful at times but that's about it.