A/N:

And we're on to the final chapter! After this I'm going back to I'm Sorry Miss Jackson land (going to be revising the first few chapter so if you read that one expect some change there) and I'll probably be starting a new story pretty soon. Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope you guys enjoy :)!

***I edited but I'm sure there are some mishaps, so sorry about those.

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of the characters

At First Beach, the pack sits before Leah. Only the wolves she knows though and she's sure this was done on purpose. They are the ones who know what buttons to press in order to manipulate her. She's not for it today. Not at all.

"Fuck all of you."

"Leah I thou-."

"Shut the fuck up, Sam Uley!" Leah screeches at the top of her lungs, effectively silencing the alpha and any other wolf who thought he might dare interrupt her. "I don't care what the fuck you think or thought! I've already told you how I feel about your fucking request." She looked around at those in attendance. Jared, Paul, Quil and Embry. Emily and Rachel had joined as well.

"You're not going to be alpha?" Emily asked quietly. If looks could kill, the one Leah tossed in Emily's direction would have sent the other woman six feet under.

Leah and Rachel both rolled their eyes. Rachel didn't keep quiet though.

"Are you really that blind? Why the hell would she want to be alpha?" Emily rubbed her pregnant gently. "Are you serious? She should do you and Sam a favor now? I'm pretty sure she's done enough favors. Not to mention that she sucked it up and went to your wedding and played maid of honor. You know the wedding of the ex-boyfriend who left her for her cousin. Not to mention that this isn't just a fucking favor. It's not like you're asking her to babysit for a couple of hours while you go out and run errands. You're asking her to either force her family to make a huge life change which will more than likely be incredibly damaging or to give up that family if they refuse to accept this ridiculous demand. I mean what the fuck! Do you really think it's okay to ask her to sacrifice her family for yours? Do you?"

Everyone was staring at Rachel. Even Leah was giving her a face.

"What?" Rachel asked staring at Leah. "I was only trying to help you out."

If Leah wasn't still a bit worked up she would have laughed at the other woman's defensiveness. "It's not that. It's just that you just said my whole speech."

Rachel's lips instantly curved into a smile. "Not entirely, I wasn't finished. Will you do the honors?"

Leah smiled back. "Of course. As Rachel was saying, I'm not doing anymore favors for Sam and Emily. You made a kid knowing what the situation was. I don't owe you a quick fix to your problems especially not at the expense of my family. I've said it once before and I promise that this will be the last time that I say it: I do not want to be alpha. I am done sacrificing myself for this pack."

"So that's it?" Sam asks. "You're not even really going to consider it or give the idea a chance?"

"Oh my god!" Rachel groaned in the background.

Leah turned to Sam, trying to be as calm as possible. "Yes, Sam, and you knew that was it from the beginning."

"Come on, Leah!" Jared called out. "He and Emily are going to have a baby!"

"I'd have to be blind not to notice."

"What about Sue? The brother you just buried." Emily stated clutching her belly. "My baby and I? We're your family. We deserve to have you in our lives!" Emily looked incredibly upset; her eyes were wet with unshed tears and face was quickly turning red. Sam wrapped his arms around her and brought her close.

"Please, Leah." Sam begged.

In the background, again, was Rachel. "Oh come the fuck on!"

Leah almost felt bad for the two of them. Almost.

"No. My wife left because of all this shit today. It wasn't about me owing her, guilt or my 'duty'. It was because she didn't want to hurt me. That she wasn't worth me getting hurt." Leah looked as though she were perplexed by the very notion that someone could be unworthy of her, or that she had worth. "I choose her, someone who would rather hurt herself and her son because she thinks I'm worth not hurting." Leah knew that it had hurt Senalda to leave, no matter how strong the other woman had tried to be. "I choose her." She stated again, more firmly.

Leah looked around at the now silenced pack again, only throwing a smile in Rachel's direction, before turning and walking away from them.

"Leah!" Sam called as Leah walked away.

She did not turn around.

When Leah reached the Clearwater house, she was sweaty and disheveled. Her medium length, black hair stuck to her forehead and the navy sundress she worse clung to her body. Her feet also ached terribly after the barefoot walk home; she'd abandoned her flip flops at the end of First Beach.

However, all acknowledgement of her discomfort was abandoned when she looked up at the front porch and saw Senalda standing by the front door, staring at her with a hesitant smile on her face.

"Hey." Leah stated breathlessly, when she stood at the foot of the stairs. A ghost a smile was on her lips.

Senalda was no longer hesitant, her face broke out into a broad grin. "Hey."

"You're here."

Senalda shrugged. "I'm a cat so that makes me a selfish, asshole by nature. Even though I wanted to and planned to do the selfless thing, I seem to be completely incapable of it."

"Fuck the selfless thing. Let's get the hell out of here and go home." Leah was full on smiling now.

Leah walked up the porch steps and embraced Senalda, hugging the other's woman's body close to her own.

"Are you sure?" Senalda spoke into Leah's hair. She breathed her in, ignoring the scent of the male wolves and just enjoying the smell of the woman she loved.

"Yes."

"Well it's going to have to wait, Luca convinced your mother to make some peanut butter cookies with him."

Leah laughed. "Of course he did."

"So we'll stay for cookies?"

Leah nodded.

"And we'll come back?"

Leah pulled away from Senalda, looking into her eyes with a deeply confused expression on her face.

"What?"

"For Thanksgiving and Christmas? To visit Sue. Maybe she'll even come to visit us a week or two here and there."

"Really?"

"Of course. You don't have to lose your mother." Senalda gave Leah her best smile. "And I think she's okay."

Leah laughed again, remembering the earlier conversation she had, had with her mother. "She thinks you're okay too."

"Good."

Leah leaned in and captured Senalda's lips, kissing her softly. When Leah pulled away, she stared into Senalda's dark eyes and repeated her statement, "Good."

And then the two went into the house, hoping they still had a chance to enjoy the cookies that Sue and Luca had made.

The End.