So, due to all the hardcore responses I got on my update yesterday, I'm updating again! Right now! Woohoo! Warning: this chapter is a tad bit depressing, but fear not, there will hopefully be at least a somewhat happy ending to this story, whenever I decide to end it.

Chapter Ten

Leah began shaking wildly, practically convulsing in the middle of the movie theater.

"Leah, calm down. You don't want to phase here." Edward murmured. She took a deep breath and tried to relax, failing miserably. Her hands were clenched into tight fists at her sides and her eyes were squeezed shut. She had never wanted to transform into werewolf more than she did in that moment. "Get out of here!" Edward finally told her-not out of rudeness, but for hers and everyone else's protection. She nodded, wrenched herself away from Edward and barely made it to the cover of trees before exploding into her wolf form. And then she was running, faster and harder than she had in her life.

Leah, is that you? What happened? It was Sam. Leah felt a tear roll down her cheek.

I was so stupid. I thought I actually deserved to be happy! She replied sadly.

Oh, Lee-Lee, you do!

Save it, Sam Uley! I'm ending this.

Ending what?

Ending all of it. This eternal heartbreak and despair. I'm going to kill myself, Sam.

Oh, the Committee. The poor, confused Committee. They were arguing, yet again.

"Oh, Aeri, how could you?" Rainy cried. "Look how unhappy Leah is now!"

The Forger merely shrugged nonchalantly while the Choosers fluttered about like livid hummingbirds on a caffeine high.

"You told me to choose someone else for Jacob, and I did." She reminded them.

"But you shouldn't have done it after Jacob and Leah realized they were in love!" Marlene told her.

"I wanted to keep them as imprints, in case you've forgotten. But no, they 'hated' each other. If you want to blame anyone, blame yourselves!" Aeri turned away from them, folding her arms across her chest in a pouty manner.

"Fine then!" Rainy threw her arms up in frustration. "It's all our fault! There, you have it. Now fix this before Leah does something truly stupid!" The Forger gasped.

"I had never used this bottle before Leah and Jake." She held up the small vile. "I hardly had any to start with. There is no way I am using more of this on the same people, let alone in the same week!" she dropped it carefully into her flowy, oversized robes. "I'm sorry, Choosers. But I will not do it." She left the room, closing the matter. Rainy sank into a plush chair and began to cry.

"I've never felt so dearly for two people in my life," she sobbed. Marlene patted her back gently.

"There, there. Hush now, Rainy. I have a plan."

Jacob looked at Bella with a funny smile on his face. It wasn't his usual smile. It looked as if he was a different person.

"I love you, Jake." Bella said out of nowhere. She then looked down at herself in confusion. She didn't understand why she had said that all of a sudden. She looked back up at Jacob. "I'm so confused."

"Well, I'm not. I love you, too. You wanna see a movie?"

"Sure!" Bella shouted, a little too eager. Jake handed her the ticket originally intended for Leah, and they walked hand in hand into an auditorium. Just as the previews started, Jacob felt his phone vibrate in his pocket.

"I'm gonna get some popcorn, I'll be right back." He lied to Bella and then slipped out quickly before she could say anything.

"Hello?" he muttered into the phone, very clearly annoyed.

"Jacob? It's Sam."

"Well, hello Sam. Just why are you interrupting my date?"

This response threw Sam for a loop. "Date? With who?"

"Bella," Jake replied in a bored tone, as if it should have been obvious. Sam gasped.

"Jacob, you need to leave now. Leah is about to kill herself."

"What?" He was too caught up in his thoughts of Bella to pay attention.

"I said that your girlfriend is about to commit suicide!" Sam screamed. Jake held the phone away from his ear until he was done.

"My girlfriend is in the movie theater."

"Not Bella, you moron, Leah!"

"Oh. Well, just tell her not to do it in your alpha voice or whatever. This isn't my problem."

Sam sighed. "I tried that, but she's overriding it somehow. I think it's because her feelings are too powerful and my voice isn't strong enough, seeing as I'm not the rightful alpha…," he tipped the end of his sentence up, obviously suggesting something.

"What are you saying?" Jacob asked through clenched teeth.

"I'm saying that you have to do it, Jake. You're the true alpha. You're the only one capable of saving Leah." Jake hesitated and thought for a moment.

"Fine then. If I have to." He slammed his phone shut and stormed back into the theater. "Bells, I'm sorry but I have some…business that I have to take care of."He scanned her eyes in the darkness to see if she was angry. To his relief, she smiled.

"Okay. I'll see you later then. Love you!"

Jacob sighed. "Yeah, I love you too." And he tore out of the theater. He reached the trees and shifted immediately, picking up Leah's scent and following it. It was strangely silent in his head. He was used to there always being another werewolf around, but he guessed they were all out trying to coax Leah into giving up this desperate cry for attention. He pushed himself faster, knowing he would never hear the end of it if he let Leah kill herself. It was strange, though…as he was thinking these things, he felt something pushing forward in his memory. He remembered spending the day with Leah and how magical it was. He remembered years and years of being in love with her, and forcing himself to love Bella instead. But he laughed at himself, pinning it all to an over reactive imagination. He had never and would never be in love with Leah.

"Leah, please get down."

"No."

"Please?"

"No." Leah teetered on the rail of the La Push South bridge, a small bridge that covered a river coming off of the ocean. Sure, it wasn't a very creative way to die, but hey, Leah wasn't feeling very creative at the moment. Seth, Sam, and Embry were gathered a few feet away from where Leah was. They were all frightened to go to her, because whenever they took a step she would let herself lean forward a bit farther, making it seem as if she were about to fall. None of the boys wanted that. Seth was currently trying to urge her down, to no avail.

"Leah, what am I going to do without you?" Seth whimpered seriously. He was in no way acting-despite her flaws, he loved his sister.

"You'll live. You have mom and dad." She answered coldly. Sam put a hand on Seth's shoulder, signaling him to stop talking.

"Lee-Lee, you don't want to do this." he told her. Leah closed her eyes angrily.

"Don't tell me what I do or don't want to do…and stop calling me Lee-Lee. I'm not yours anymore." She replied.

"But Lee-Lee, I love you!" Sam protested.

"No, you love Emily!" she spat the name out like it was venom on her tongue. Sam sighed and looked at the ground.

"I do." He agreed. "But I never stopped loving you, Leah."

"Well, what do you expect me to do with that?" she hissed. Sam looked back up and shrugged.

"I don't know. Keep living." He said honestly.

"Sorry to burst your bubble, Sam, but I stopped relying on your love to live a long time ago. It's going to take more than that."

"What about me then?" Everyone looked around for the owner of the voice and saw Jacob walking toward s them. Jake, who still couldn't figure out why he had this weird urge to hug Leah, had decided to put his whole heart into helping her survive.

"What about you?" Leah felt herself begin to cry again. She couldn't handle this. It would kill her more painfully than she could kill herself.

"I love you, Leah." Jake told her. He shrugged with his hands in his pockets and looked out at the water. "I don't know how or why. But I do."

"Oh? And what about your oh so precious imprint Isabella?" It was clear to everyone that Leah held no feeling aside from pure hatred towards Bella.

"Well, I'm going to date her. You and me can be friends, though." Whoa. Way wrong thing to say.

"Friends?! Friends, Jacob Black?" She shook her head furiously. "No way. I could never be friends with you. I can hardly stand to see your face!" she shrieked. She was now sobbing relentlessly. Her life was too messed up to continue. She had to finish this and finish it quickly.

"Guys," she sniffled, addressing Seth, Sam, and Embry. "I love you all and I'm sorry for the burden my life has caused you." She hurried on before they could attempt to contradict her. She turned to Jacob. "And Jake, I think I've always been in love with you, I just hid it from myself too well. But it's too late for that now. You destroyed me."

It was around this moment of staring into Leah's eyes that Jacob realized why he had been in love with stubborn, bitter, hard-headed Leah Clearwater. He knew that Bella was still his imprint, he could feel that, but he no longer felt an undying urge to go back to her. He knew that Leah was right for him. Sure, he wasn't exactly following the rules of imprinting…but when did werewolves, namely Jacob, follow the rules?

He lurched forward to tell Leah that he had remembered everything, that he had finally come to his senses. She noticed the movement and shook her head with a sad smile. They weren't supposed to come near her. Just as Sam shouted,

"Jake, don't!", Leah released her grip on the rail and let herself fall backwards, to her certain death. Jake sprinted the rest of the way to the ledge and gripped it tightly, crying,

"No!" with all his might.

You never know what you've got until it's gone.

Yes, I know I've used that ending for a chapter twice. I just liked it and thought it was a tad bit ironic. They both realize their feelings for each other at the worst possible time, huh? R&R and I'll update faster (: