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Leah stood outside the gates of the school yard waiting For Alex to come running out. It was what she did everyday at 2:30. Waiting until finally the school bell sounded and kids bounded out the front doors and down the white steps.

"Mommy" screamed a little boy with dark black hair that fell into his large brown eyes. He ran until he could jump into Leah's waiting open arms. "Look what I drew" he said as he held up a large piece of construction paper to show her his handiwork.

"Oh wow, it's Beautiful! Describe it to me." She asked as she walked with him back to her car on the corner.

He raised it in the air and pointed his green grubby finger to the large green spot on the paper, "that's our front yard, with you, me and daddy" he said pointing to 3 stick figures in the color of brown, "and that's Aunt Rose and Uncle Emmett and Aunt Alice and Uncle-"

"I get it sweetie, the gold people are all your uncle and aunts, but where is your Uncle Seth?" Leah asked as she settled him in the car seat of the backseat of the rabbit.

He pointed to a small spot in a dog house, "right there mommy, can't you see him?"

She looked closer and saw a brown shape inside the little door of the doghouse, "well why's he there and not out with the rest of us?"

"Because Aunt Nessie said that he was in the dog house until he learns that a massage at night is sometimes only a massage."

Leah was shocked for a moment and then started the car with a grin on her face, she couldn't wait to get home and tell Jacob her juicy gossip that their 4 year old son told her about.

Driving home, Alex spoke up with a question, "mommy, what else can a massage be?"

Turning red, she tried to think quickly for an answer other than the honest one. "Well…you see, um…ask your father when you get home, okay sweetie?"

He shrugged in the back seat and leaned back in his car seat to look out the window.

"So, are you excited about the bonfire tonight honey?"

"Yeah!"

"That's great; your Aunt Alice will be over soon to get us ready, so we look our best!"

He began groaning while she pulled into their garage and turned off the car, "Do I have to wear a tie again mommy?"

She laughed as she came around the rabbit to unbuckle his seat and take him inside, "we'll see what she has planned for you."

Walking up the front porch steps, Jacob walked out and met her half way and gave her a deep kiss as he grabbed their son, "yuck", he said as he leaned away from his parents.

Jacob looked down at his son and smiled, "yuck?" and started plastering kisses all around his face while Leah started giving him a raspberry on his small tummy!

Laughter drifted away from them as he screamed in short bursts with giggles for them to stop the fun torture. Leah looked at her family as they walked up the front porch steps of their little cottage style house and thought back when they almost weren't hers.

***Flashback***

"Leah" Jacob whispered her name like a prayer.

"Please Jacob; don't make it any harder, I need to leave. You've imprinted and I…I can't…do this" Leah struggled to say and get out the right words. He had chased her after the confrontation against the Volturi when she ran into the woods and didn't rejoin the pack in celebration. He left Nessie with Seth to find Leah crying her eyes out near a tree.

He stopped at her last sentence, "what do you mean? You can't do what Leah?"

She looked up at him and looked so broken, so alone and vulnerable that he knelt next to her a gathered her in his strong arms. "Tell me Leah, how can I fix this?"

"I just feel so lonely that now I can't have…"

He lifted her chin in his large hand to make her eyes meet his, "can't have what?" he asked softly.

She said it in the barest of whispers, he wasn't sure he heard her right, "what?"

She took a ragged breath and looked deep into his large brown eyes that were rimmed with the largest lashes she's ever seen, "can't have…you"

He wasn't quite sure why he felt elated for her to say that, he's imprinted, he should only think of Nessie right? But for some reason after she said those three words, he wanted to desperately prove her wrong. Tilting his head to the side and lowering his face to hers he whispered, "I'll always be yours" and then his head descended to place his soft warm lips upon her gentle ones. The kiss deepened to something more intense and they both felt that the world was spinning, until with a gasp, Jacob leaned away a clutched his chest in pain.

"Jacob? What's happening? What's wrong?!" she began to ask and panic.

He stumbled away, gasping for breath, "I'm not…ugh…sure"

"Leah, please hold me, I need your warmth"

She crawled over to where he stumbled and held him in her arms rocking back and forth, silent tears running down her face. His large palm reached up to touch her cheek. His smile on his face grew more and more as he felt the pain easing and his strength returning.

"Wh-what happened?" she asked confused.

He leaned up a kissed her again with a more demanding need. He leaned back holding her face with both hands, "the imprint is gone" he said.

"What? Just from a kiss?"

"No, I think we had to truly love each other in order for that to work, and fate let us have it." He answered and continued to kiss her everywhere, her brow, nose, ear, neck and lips, even while she continued to talk.

"Wait, you loved me?"

He nodded and kissed her ear.

"You wanted to be with me?"

He nodded again and kissed her nose.

"Are you sure you broke the imprint?"

He sighed and sat back, "yes, because before, my body was torn from wanting to hold you and having to see Nessie, and now it's gone, I have no desire except the one I have right now for you and only…you" he said and ended with a kiss on the lips.

She sighed into his kiss, "I love you too"

He chuckled at that, "I know, otherwise I don't think this would have worked."

***End Flashback***

She followed to pair into the kitchen; it was the first place all the men in her family went when they entered the house. The phone began to ring and she picked up recognizing the caller I.D. as the Cullen's.

"Road kill buffet, you kill it, we grill it" she answered.

"Leah, is that you?"

"Dr. Cullen?" her cheek turned scarlet red, because she expected it to be Rose, she was the only one who called usually. "Um, sorry about that, thought you were Rose. Is everything okay?"

"That's fine Leah, I was just curious if you were still feeling unwell?"

She thought about it and remembered she went to see the doc when she kept throwing up, however since her visit; she's been back to normal.

"Nope, feel right as rain"

"Okay that's good. Well I want you to come in so we can discuss your test results."

She began to get nervous when he used his doctor voice on her, she knew she couldn't be pregnant, because he told her there was damage from her pregnancy with Alex, so what could it be?

"Is everything okay?"

"Just come on in tomorrow morning and I'll explain my theory. Okay?"

"Sure, Jacob and I can be there after 9."

"Great Leah, see you then." With goodbyes on each end, they hung up the phone.

She was in shock and a little nervous at what he was going to tell her. She looked at her husband and son making a bologna and cheese sandwich.

I can't lose them, I don't want to ruin this peace we have, and please god don't take this away from us.

***~alright this was my first Twilight FanFic, please leave comments and let me know what you think! I know the chapter was long, please forgive, let me know if you prefer that or if you want them shorter~***