Earth&Fire
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That night, she has nightmares and no one is there to console her when she awakes. Sue doesn't even live there anymore, as she's moved in with Charlie. Seth is usually there with her, crashing wherever he can get a bite to eat. Leah has never really minded. When her mom left her the house in Lapush, she was ecstatic. Now she's just lonely.
Leah jumps out of bed without a second thought. She can see the sun hasn't even risen yet and grimaces.
Leah stalks out of the house without even bothering to get dressed. She phases the second her feet touch the ground and doesn't even bother checking to see who's there with her. She's bounding towards the Cullen estate without a second thought.
She runs along the coast of the beach, kicking up sand and water and enjoying the smell of salt before the sugary sweet scent of the leches invade her nostrils and makes it hard to think.
She can see the sun rising just past the cliffs and wonders if she should stop to look at it for a while. She decides against it though, and continues her long trek to where she'd never willingly trespass.
She finds herself nearing Cullen land and pretends to be made of steel. She needs to be unbreakable. Her nose wrinkles in response to the vampires residing there and she grimaces. All she wants to do is speak with Jacob. She wants to rejoin his pack.
As she shuffles towards the house in her wolf form, she looks for clothes left behind from when the leech lover was pregnant. She doesn't want to get too close to the house, but she can't just walk up there naked. She also can't stay in wolf form for too long or Sam's pack will be notified of her absence.
She sniffs around the ground for a while before giving up and shoving her pride aside. Okay Edwardo. I know you can hear me. Can you please bring me some fuckin' clothes already?
Edward appears faster than she can blink, a smirk ever present on his lips. His scent is the grossest of all the vamps; so sugary that she thinks she'll never wanna digest sugar ever again.
"A pleasure as always, Leah." Edwards says, still smirking at her. She just growls at him.
Whatever, Eddie. Leah is all out of sarcastic comments and jibes to give the mind-reader. She's just so tired. Can you just get Jake for me or something?
"I suppose I can do that," The parasite answers. He tosses Leah some nasty smelling clothes, probably from the bitchy blonde since Alice had disappeared. "Meet him in the backyard."
Leah huffs. Like she wants to walk onto a Leech infested property full of human blood drinkers. She paws her face annoyed when she realizes that she'll have to get used to it if Jacob accepts her offer.
She quickly changes back into a human, and puts on the pair of black leggings and oversized hoodie Edward had left her. The sweatshirt even has a paw print on it. Haha, very funny, Edwardo. She rolls her eyes and starts towards the backyard.
Her back stiffens immediately and all her nightmares come back to her in a rush. Vampires are unnatural. Their skin has no hint of life, it is not browned and soft like a humans; like the earth. She clenches her teeth as she feels their gazes on her. They're staring and she knows it. She feels a dozen pair of eyes on her and wants to sink into the earth.
The female wolf attempts to keep her back straight and head up and heads straight over to Jake, holding the mutant child in his arms.
"Leah?!" Jake turns to her, alarmed. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Gee, thanks for the warm welcome Jake."
"It's not that I'm not happy that you're here but..." Jacob looks around, glancing at the vampires sending Leah cautious looks. He lowers his head, "It's not really the best environment over here."
"Yeah, I noticed." She feels shivers run up her spine from all the vampire glares on her unprotected back. Her heart does flip flops in her chest. "But...it's better here."
"Huh?" Jacob sets the little demon spawn onto the ground and tells her to go to Bella. "Leah, what exactly do you want?"
Leah shakes her head and grabs Jacob's meaty arm, dragging him over to the side. "Jake...I need to join your pack."
"There's not pack. It's just me. Just me." The Black replies, his eyebrows scrunch together and a whole lot of bullshit sprouts from his lips, "You know with all these vampires it's dangerous and-"
"Jacob, I just need one favor. I won't get in your way, I just-" She takes a deep breath. She doesn't want to think about Sam or Emily or anyone at the moment. She can't have a breakdown in front of Jacob. "I can't go back, you have to-" She cuts herself off. She sounds whiny and she hates herself for it. She runs her hand through silky black hair and rubs her forehead. She can't do this. She can't do anything.
"I don't want you here with all these vampires, you know?" His voice lowers and octave. " I'm protecting you. Plus you don't even like them, Leah. You being with Sam is the best option there is. He needs more help than I do anyway..." Jacob scratches his head and gives her a half smile. "Just stay with Sam for a little while...okay?"
She just can't can't can't go back to Sam. She can't. Her reason for wanting to stay with Jacob is selfish, but his reason for denying her is just as so..
She just can't do anything. She'll break down. She'll disappear. She almost crumbles in front of Jacob, in front of all of the bloodsuckers. She almost bites her lip off and let the water flow freely down her face. She digs her fingers into her palms and deals with it. Shut the fuck up, Leah, and get over it. Jake doesn't want me either. and it's fine. I'm okay, I'm fine. I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. It doesn't bother me, I won't let it bother me. I'm fine. I'm fine, fine, fine.
Jacob must notice something in her face because his eyes widen. He sees the great Leah Clearwater break a little more, and her eyes become more empty. She shakes and quakes like an angry Earth and turns away from him just as he's reaching for her.
The bloodsuckers stare.
She keeps walking. Then she's sprinting. And she won't phase because she doesn't want anyone to read her thoughts. She won't phase, as much as she wants to run through the woods on all fours, she can't. Her self control is slipping, but she won't fucking phase. If she has to stay with Sam, she will never phase again, and give up a part of her that connects them all.
She's running, and before she knows it, she's on the ground, staring at the pinkened sky and wishing to die more than she ever has before. She has knocked into piece of glistening porcelain, with eyes as red as the blood in her veins.
One of them growls at her, a sound played in her nightmares over and over. She sees olive skin in her peripheral vision and wonders if not all vampires are made of pure white marble.
"Amun," A quiet voice breaks through all the growling, "It's fine. It's my fault, really. I'm sure she meant no harm."
The voice is like the wind. It passes through her like summer, warm and engulfing. It touches her in places she never thought a voice could. How dare a vampire's voice mimic the Earth so beautifully? How dare it pretend to be the wind? How dare it kiss her skin just like the rain has?
This vampire must be more dangerous than the rest. One that can mimic the earth so easily cannot be safe. Vampires are unnatural; they contrast what is genuine and real. For him to mimic it that effortlessly, he must be dangerous.
"I'm sorry I ran into you, miss...?" The voice trails off, not knowing her name.
"Leah," She utters, eyes still closed. She doesn't know why she's answered; it's like his voice has compelled her to.
"...Leah." The soft voice continues, Leah get shivers for reasons she cannot fathom. "I'm Benjamin."
As if the voice has asked her to, she opens her eyes. When she does, she sees red. Piercing, unnatural red. A strangled scream makes it's way up her throat but she silences it. Leah's breath catches in her throat but her eyes can't leave his. She can barely take in brown skin and dark hair, let alone how long his eyelashes are. All she knows is that she feels like the ocean has just washed over her skin and the moon is dragging her in deeper, like she is the tide. She feels as if she was just jerked off of the earth and thrown into the stars. Orion is in her line of sight and the galaxy is spread through her. And then she sees the sun. The sun is through her and then it's in her-and for a second she is the sun...and then... and then the sun is above her. Next to her. Leaning over her. The sun has become those red eyes. The sun is looking down at her.
The sun is pulling towards her toward him; the leech, and suddenly, she's so so afraid. All she can think is Oh shit Oh shit and everything goes black.
AN. hello readers, I actually forgot to do an authors note on the last chapter...whoops. Um I really don't know how often I'll be updating because as of right now I don't even have a plot chart...hehe
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