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Leah and I were walking side by side along the sandy shores of First Beach. Since Seth imprinted on Renesmee the treaty had become void. We were aloud on the shifters land and them on ours. Sam Uley may not be happy about it, but there really isn't much he can do about it considering Jacob Black had broken off on his own and Seth was technically in Jacob's back along with Leah. The two packs had to respect the imprints of the other and my daughter was Seth's imprint and they had no choice other than to accept her and the rest of my family along with her.

The silence never usually bothered me, but considering I knew there was something on her mind I knew that I could not leave the silence undisturbed. The she-wolf was doing an excellent job of trying to conceal her thoughts from me. I had been working with her on that because I knew how much Leah craved privacy especially since she had to share her thoughts on a regular basis due to the mind link the pack shared. It was at times like this I regretted offering to teach her how to conceal her thoughts. I never expected she would use it against me then again I probably should have taken it in to consideration because she was Leah Clearwater and she used everything against everyone if she felt the need to do so.

Turning my body so that I was now walking backwards and in front of her I crossed my arms over my chest and did my best to give her a look stating she had no other choice than to open up to me. I had all the time in the world to waste and I could literally do this forever if I had to and I would because that is just how I am. "Talk."

"Bite me." She snapped and side stepped around me in order to keep walking.

I smirked and sped ahead of her to block her path once again. My speed had annoyed ever since she learned that while she may be the faster shifter she was nowhere near the same league when it came to me and my vampire speed. After losing four races in a row she declared that I must have somehow cheated. I called her a sore loser and she smacked me upside the head before making it down we were to never talk about it again. Leah really hated it when someone was better at something than her. "Is that an invitation?"

A hint of a smile appeared before she quickly replaced it with a scowl. I secretly had this theory that Leah Clearwater never smiled because she feared it would take away from her tough woman reputation. I would love to see her wearing a real smile just once. I would love to be able she kept hidden so well. I knew from Seth's mind she used to smile a lot before. Before her life had changed before her eyes and there had been nothings could do to stop it from changing. "You wish."

"Well if I am not getting a free meal then you better start talking because you made me hungry." I warned teasingly even though we both knew that I would never bite her no matter how hungry I was.

After a second I came to the conclusion that Leah would not open up to me until she was relaxed and I only knew of one way to relax the she-wolf. Well two ways if you counted food, but since I did not have any food with me I would have to rely on the second method. Taking a step closer to the Quilette shifter I placed one hand on her hip and used my left hand to take hers in mine as we started to waltz in a small circle. I had learned a while ago that Leah loved to dance though I am probably the only one other than her brother who knew this. She had admitted to me that she wasn't much for dancing in public and usually kept it to the privacy of her room.

After I felt her mental shield begin to crumble and her body relax I thought I may have a chance of getting her to open up now. I hardly even noticed the light rain which had started to fall as we started dancing. Was it a bad omen? I would have thought so had it not always been raining in Forks and La Push. "So are you going to talk now or am I going to have to eat you because as stated before you made me hungry with your 'bite me' talk."

At first she was silent and I feared I may actually be unable to get her to open up and that would bad be since it could do her no good to keep her feelings all bottled in like this. She had to know I would not judge her like others in the past had done. She had been there for me when I needed someone the most and I would be there for her just the same. She should know this. If she did not then I was somehow doing my job as friend all wrong.

"You have no idea how many times I have wished I could imprint on someone. Anyone would do really as long as I imprinted at all." Her voice was shaky as she finally answered my badgering questions of what was wrong. "I just want to be able to be happy for once. I remember what it was like to be happy and I miss it. I want to be happy Edward that is all I want."

"And I want you to be happy as well I hope that you know that Leah." I told her as we continued to dance in the rain. It was ironic that I would be dancing in the rain with the Quilette woman and yet I wouldn't change it. I would not change the events which had brought her in to my life even if the events had caused me to lose Bella. Leaving had been her choice and not mine. "I know this is not what you want to hear, but for what it is worth I think you are amazing. I am not sure where Renesmee and I would be without you and honestly I do not want to find out. You have helped us more than I think you realize."

Leah pulled and let herself fall in to a sitting position on the wet sand. I mimicked her position and sat across from her. I was surprised to see her crying. I had seen many sides of the female shape shifter and yet tears had not been one of those many sides. "Please don't act like I am a great person who deserves happy because we both know that I am not. If Jacob and Seth hadn't broken off and away from Sam's pack we both know that I would have killed you and most likely your daughter and not only because I had no choice. I would have liked it because them someone would have been hurting as much as I do on a daily basis."

"The point is that you didn't Leah." I told her as I reached out to take her hands in mine. "I cannot blame you for what you may have done because we did not know each other then as well as we know each other now. Also, you don't really want to imprint Leah. You are just feeling left out because everyone around you as seemed to do it. Personally I think it is a testament of how strong you are. I think the only reason you have not yet imprinted is because of the fact you are too strong to be tamed and in a way isn't that what imprinting is?"

The girl shifter shrugged, though I could tell that she was beginning to see the point I was trying so hard to get across. "I guess you could see it that way. You can't be strong and imprint at the same time. I still envy them sometimes though you know? They have it so easy because they know what they are supposed to do and who they are supposed to end up with. It has to be nice to just be able to look at someone and then have your whole life figured out for you. I mean look at Seth, he is just a kid and yet he knows where his life is taking him and with who he will be sharing said life. I never thought there would be a time when I envied my baby brother."

I cleared my throat since the topic of imprinting had never made me very comfortable considering the situation my daughter found herself in were imprinting happened to be concerned. "Now do not take this the wrong way since you know I like your brother just fine, but sometimes I wish he had not imprinted on Renesmee because while I am glad she has someone who is going to look out for her and be there for her for the rest of her life I do wish she had the chance to make her own choices when it came to this sort of thing. I know that Seth would never pressure her to do anything when she is older and yet I know they are going to end up together and I don't need Alice's newfound ability to see the Clearwater wolves to tell me that. My daughter adores him and I think if she understood imprinting and she had the ability that she would imprint on him. I want your happiness Leah, but I want you to be able to find your own happy and find it your own way. You will never truly be happy if something is forced on you and I know you well enough to know this to be the truth."

She nodded with the shadow of a smile again. "You're right about me needing to find my own happiness and I plan to do that. First I think we need to head back to your place because as much faith as I have in Seth and as much as I know he loves Ness, I also know that is probably way out of his league right now. I bet she is screaming her head off because you know how he doesn't like to feed her blood and I told him he would have to get used to it, but the little twerp assured me she would grow to love that baby formula crap. He has hope for something that is not going to happen. I gave up trying to feed her a regular bottle around the twentieth time she threw it back at me. Seth has far more patience than I do."

I laughed at out lout at the mental picture of young Seth Clearwater covered in baby formula. Leah was right about my daughter being stubborn when it came to the stuff. She refused to eat anything that was not blood unless we forced and boy did she put her tiny little set of lungs to work if you tried to force her. "Well we better get going so that we can be there to rescue him or well better you so you can be there to rescue him. She listens to you more than she listens to me nowadays anyways."

A laugh burst out of her mouth and I could tell it to be a sarcastic one. "Well she is a woman and we women have to stick together. Wait, that can't be right because that means she would listen to you as well."

" Oh ha ha you are so cute." Rolling my eyes I bent over so she could climb on my back. "Hop on spider wolf it is faster this way. We all know I am the fastest out of the two of us and I do not need you to be slowing us down."

"Eat me." I heard her reply before she climbed on my back.

"Again with the dinner invites?" I joked before taking off as fast as I could and leaving everything behind in a blur. "It seems you really do have a death wish."

TBC…

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"Hey are you alright?" "Your kid just took her first steps so shouldn't you be jumping for joy or doing some crazy happy dance?"

"She should be here for this." "Why didn't she want to be here for this?"

"Well if you want my opinion it is because she is a skanky ho." "I know it doesn't make up for it, but I am here and I always will be for as long as you and Ness want me here. I don't plan on going anywhere."

"Thank you for being here. You have no idea how much it means to me and to Renesmee as well."

"Don't get all mushy on me now copper head."