A/N - Huge thanks as always to those who read, alerted, favourited or reviewed. Especially those who reviewed and let me know what they thought :D.

A/N 2 - What did everyone think of New Moon? I thought it was great. The wolf pack were so much better than I thought they would be! Can't wait for the next movie :D.


Chapter 10

Family Argument

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"Seth?" I woke suddenly as Bella gently shook my shoulder. Looking around, I saw that we had driven all the way to La Push, and I slept through all of it.

"Sorry," I said, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. Bella shrugged.

"You were attacked by a vampire earlier today, Seth, I think you deserved the rest," she replied, small smile crossing her face. She looked down at her hands, clearing her throat before looking back up at me.

"Have … do you know where he is?" she asked quietly, pain filling her brown eyes. Sighing, I ran a hand through my hair.

"No, not yet," I replied. "The others might know more though."

She nodded and pushed her hair back from her face.

"I never meant for this to happen," she whispered, turning her face towards my house.

"I know, Bella," I said, reaching over and giving her hand a squeeze.

"I hurt him," she replied, resting her head back on the head rest, frowning.

"Yeah, you did," I said, not wanting to lie to her. "But, Bella, there wasn't any way around that. Not unless you were going to pick him over Edward. And by the sounds of it, you made it pretty clear to him who you were going to choose when Edward came back."

She turned her head on the head rest and looked at me, frown morphing into a small grin.

"Tell it like it is, huh, Seth?" she asked. I grinned and shrugged. Looking out the front windscreen, I saw a dark shape stalk out of the woods, before turning around and heading back into the woods.

"Ah, thanks for the lift, Bella. I think you better go," I said hurriedly, opening the door and quickly jumping out, ignoring her confused look. I groaned as a sharp burst of pain lanced up my leg, reminding me of how I got into this situation.

Ignoring the pain, I shut the door, limping quickly towards the area where I had seen the shape stalk off.

"What the hell is she doing here?" Leah snarled angrily, stalking out from behind a tree. I grabbed her arm, as we were lit up by Bella's headlights, pulling her towards the house, as Bella pulled away from it.

"Answer me, Seth" she growled, ripping her arm out of my grip and shoving me away, hard. I whimpered as I lost my balance, grabbing my leg and taking deep breaths in through my nose.

"She was giving me a lift," I answered, as the pain passed, and I was able to sit up and look at her. She looked at me in concern, reaching a hand down to help me up. I looked at her hand for a few minutes, before rolling my eyes and grabbing it, pulling myself up, before leaning back against the porch railings.

"What happened to you?" she asked. To anyone else, all they would've heard was the annoyance, but I knew Leah well enough to hear the worry in the question.

"Vampire," I said, turning and using the railings to pull myself up the steps.

"Those dirty blood-suckers did this to you!" she cried, body starting to shake. "I'll kill them."

"No," I snapped, the annoyance and anger of the day finally catching up to me. I knew that she was talking about the Cullens and I was too tired and sore to care about the way I was speaking. "The Cullens, which is their name by the way, saved me. The vampires that attacked me, were stragglers from the group of leeches we fought before."

She snorted and rolled her eyes.

"Whatever. So what's wrong with you?" she asked, walking up the stairs behind me.

"Broken leg," I said, grimacing as I finally got to the top of the stairs, leaning back against the beam, I closed my eyes as my leg throbbed, breaths coming out in pants. I caught the flash of concern cross Leah's face, as I opened my eyes, before it was hidden. Yawning, I hobbled towards the door, feeling grateful when Leah grabbed my arm, helping me into the house.

"Shouldn't it have healed when you phased back?" she asked, as I sat gingerly on the couch.

"Carlisle said it should be alright in a day or two." I froze as what I said caught up with me, looking at Leah, I saw her eyes narrow, an eyebrow raising.

"Carlisle?" she mocked. "You let that filthy leech near you and then you let that little leech-lover bring you home?"

Rolling my eyes, I pushed myself off the couch, hobbling towards my room. I growled as Leah grabbed my arm.

"Let. Go." I said.

"Not until you tell me what happened today," she replied. "And why you insist being buddies with those-"

"Enough!" I snapped, closing the small distance between us, until I was in her face. "I get it okay. You hate them. You all hate them. But today, they were there, they saved my life. And I'm tired and hurt, and I just want to go to bed."

"What is going on in here?"

Leah continued to glare as she took a step back, leaning against the wall and crossing her arms over her chest.

"Well?" Mom said, walking in and putting a bag of groceries down.

"Seth's been hanging out with his new best friends," Leah said, looking off to the side.

"Is that true, Seth?" mom asked, picking up exactly what was going on from Leah's one little sentence, her eyes conveying her worry.

"They saved my life!" I said in exasperation, turning and walking into my room. Lying down on my bed, I threw my arm over my eyes, sighing as I felt the bed dip.

"Are you okay, honey?"

Taking my arm away, I stared up at the ceiling, wishing this day over with.

"I'm okay," I sighed, trying to ignore the pain throbbing in my leg. I felt her move forward and wasn't surprised to see her head appear in my line of vision. She studied my face for a few minutes, eyes narrowed, before she nodded.

"We'll talk about his later, kiddo. Get some sleep, the rest of the pack is coming over for dinner," she said, patting my leg. I gritted my teeth, as the pain arced up my leg, not able to stop a small whimper from escaping.

"Seth?" mom asked, I could tell by her tone that she wanted an answer now.

"When I went to cool off this afternoon, I ran into a few stragglers from the fight. One of them hurt my leg and was about to finish me off, luckily Edward and his brother were around. They stopped them, took me to Dr. Cullen. He said that my leg should be okay in a day or two," I said. I sighed as I felt fingers run through my hair.

"So they saved your life?" she asked. I nodded, smothering a yawn with my hand. "Okay, well then, I guess that's one good thing about them. We'll talk about this later, get some sleep, hon."

Closing my eyes, I didn't hear her leave the room, already drifting off to sleep.

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A/N - So not a lot happened in this chapter. It was originally tacked onto the next chapter, but it just got a bit big. So I split them and added more to this chapter. Let me know what you thought :D.