This chapter is definitely for the Leah fans. The beginning has a flashback so be sure to watch out for it! Keep the awesome reviews coming! Plus many of you have given me some suggestions for future chapters and situations so if you have any be sure to send them my way!
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Evil Ways
Leah POV
*Flashback*
Sitting here at the table and trying to eat breakfast and listening to mom yell for Seth to get up is just the thing I want to hear when I just woke up and realized I have to meet Jacob in wolf form soon. Don't get me wrong, being in Jacob's pack is so much better than being in a pack with Sam, but since it's only three of us there are definitely longer hours. Those hours are included in the daytime. "Seth Clearwater! Wake up!"
Of course I can't just get up and break Seth's door down right in front of mom. I think that would make her a little suspicious. I mean he's a teenage boy. How long could it possibly take to get up and get ready? "That boy better get up soon," she says after she places two pieces of toast on my plate, "I have to take Billy to the doctor in fifteen minutes." "Let me try mom," I say after taking a bite of my toast.
He probably won't listen to me since mom is still here but I think I can put enough anger behind my words to get him out of that room. I walk down the hallway and stand in front of Seth's door. "Seth! Come on my mom as to leave! She can't wait on a fourteen year old girl!" I slam my fist into the door hard enough so he can get the point but not so hard that it would break the door.
After a couple of seconds, I realize this isn't going to work. I turn my head back towards the kitchen and say, "Mom don't worry. Go ahead and go. I'll make sure Seth gets to school." All of a sudden I hear rustling on the other side of the door. Clearly he knows what's about to happen. "Alright sweetheart. I guess I can't wait for him. Be sure he gets up Leah." I hear her put pots and plates into the sink and grab the keys off the counter. "Don't worry mom," I say with a smirk on my face as I face the door, "I'll get him up." "Thanks Leah. See you later."
With that she closed the front door and I prepared my stance. I gave Seth a few more seconds before I yelled, "Seth wake up!" and pushed my foot as hard as I could against the door causing it to quickly fly open. "Gosh Leah you didn't have to break…," he said before I interrupted him by sitting right on top of him. "Get up!" I yell. "Okay just get off of me you cow!" he says before pushing me onto the floor. I quickly get up and brush my hair out of my face and see Seth searching through his closet for a shirt. "Seth it doesn't matter what shirt you wear," I say ripping a shirt off the hanger and shoving it into his hands, "Put this on, go in the bathroom, brush your teeth, and get in the truck." "Why are you so mean to me?" he says before he walks out of his room. "I'm not mean," I say with a big fake smile knowing fully in my mind that I am. "Yeah whatever," he says before leaving the room. After he went into the bathroom, I went into the living room waiting for him by the door when I heard the sound I've been dreading all morning. The sound of a wolf howling.
I swear Seth has the hardest time getting up. He kind of had an excuse when we were still wolves because on most nights he would be out until the early hours of the morning, but now not so much. "Seth come on!" I say standing next to his door, "I have to take you to school today!" Not a sound comes from the room and I decide to use a threat, "Seth don't make me break down the door! We all know how hard it was not having a door for a week!" I told mom Seth was wrestling with one of the boys in the hallway and they accidentally ran into the door. She bought the story when I told her it was Paul he was wrestling with.
Just then the door knob turned and Seth stepped out into the hallway. "You know you can't use that line anymore Leah. You couldn't break down a door if you tried now." Damn I forgot about that which is amazing since it's been the only thing I've been thinking about for weeks. I'm not a wolf anymore. Sometimes I think the whole experience of losing my wolf abilities was a dream. It's nice waking up and realizing it's reality and not a dream. "Well you no longer have an excuse to take forever to get ready," I say pushing him towards the front door, "Come on lets go." Seth grabbed his back pack and I closed the front door behind us.
"This is weird isn't it?" Seth says from the passenger seat of the truck, "You know. Not being a wolf. Not having to think about stuff other people have nightmares about?" I look over at Seth and see him staring directly at me with serious eyes. At that moment I felt sorry for Seth. All of this started when Seth was so young. It was just a kid. Shit he's still a kid. It's sad to think that his childhood was basically stolen from him. Yeah I lost a lot too but at least I had some fun as a teenager. He had a world of responsibility on his shoulders. He was a wolf for goodness sake! But the really sad thing is that that world is all he's ever known. Taking orders, patrolling, and killing vampires is the world is used to living in. Now that that world is gone it seems as though Seth doesn't know what to do with his life. I don't know the exact details of how he is feeling because we have yet to talk about everything that has happened.
"Yeah it is weird," is all can say. We're almost to school and I don't want to get into a deep conversation with him. "I think everything's going to be alright," he says turning his attention through the windshield. Seth was always the positive optimistic one.
After I dropped Seth off at school, I went home and did the ordinary chores. I finished the laundry, washed the dirty dishes, and dusted the house. As I finish dusting the last picture frame, I start thinking about all the changes that have and will occur. I think I've already changed as a person. I almost wanted to cry the day when Emily noticed I got my period. Of course I didn't act like it was a big deal in front of her and the boys. But when I got home, I fell into my bed and cried tears of happiness for the first time in years. The bitterness and the resentment just didn't seem to matter anymore. I had my life back. It was something I definitely took for granted before I turned into a wolf.
For some reason every time I see one of the boys or even Seth, I see this huge question mark above their heads. I'm pretty sure that question mark represents the question of Sam and I. I know the imprints broke. You can almost see the light drained out of Sam, Paul, Jared, and Quil. I think everyone believes that Sam and I will just leap back into each others arms and everything will be as it was before. But believe me or not, I refuse for things to go that way.
That thought is foreign to my brain though. In the past I would have given everything for Sam to look at me the way he used to, but now not so much. This whole situation happening represents the start of a new life for me. I have the power to do whatever I want to do now. I'm not limited by a blood responsibility to my people. And most primarily the limitation of morphing into a giant dog. Sam represents a past that I just don't have any interest of being a part of. When I look at him, I still see the man that broke my heart and shattered my soul into a million pieces. The man that preferred my cousin over me. I just can't go there again. I won't allow myself to.
Sitting here in this quiet lonesome house is starting to get to me. Lately I've done nothing but sit in this house all day after I bring Seth to school. Then I wait for mom to get home because Seth usually gets a ride home from school from one of his friends. Today just feels like a good day. A good day to visit an old friend. A friend that allowed himself to look past my hard exterior and see me. My old alpha. Jacob Black.
Hope you enjoyed the chapter! I really wanted to focus on Seth and Leah's relationship. It seemed throughout the entire saga that Leah always had Seth's back. So I hope you felt their sibling chemistry. I know I kind of left it at a cliff hanger but I wanted this chapter to be about Seth and Leah not Jacob and Leah. Sorry about that Blackwater fans!
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