Chapter 10
Second Wind
Leah's POV
"Why don't you go ahead and hunt I'll wait around for awhile." I say to the pack and the Cullen's.
"You shouldn't be alone. I'll wait with you." Sam proposes.
"I'd rather stay with the mind rapist." I snarl at Sam my eyes narrowing.
"I should take that as a compliment coming from you Leah." Edward says.
"Honestly, I'd much rather be alone for a minute. Everything will be fine just go." I urged them again.
"What if it is a trap to split us up?" Seth says.
"Okay, Sam you can stay." I yell out of frustration.
"Stay wolf so we will be linked." Seth orders.
We have switched positions with Seth now as acting beta and I'm Alpha. He's grown in the few days we have been searching for his best friend our true leader. The pack's world will falter if we lose Jacob.
"Fine, I will." I say with a defeated tone.
We all phase back I watch the pack and the Cullens sprint towards the woods. I put my block up so no one can hear what I'm thinking.
Why are you blocking us out Leah? Sam asks and I can hear the frown in his voice.
Because I want to keep what I'm thinking to myself Sam!
Maybe it would help if we talked about it.
Sam ya'know what would help? If the leeches who took Jacob returned him so I can go home and get away from this SHIT!
Leah it's who we are whether we like it or not.
I know who I am; I know it's who we are but Sam if you were smart you would take little Sam and run as far as you can from this life.
I don't want to run. I've accepted that this is why I'm alive and as much as I hate it I've accepted it and you haven't Leah. That's what it comes down to. Ever since we were children you've wanted to run away and be somewhere else but sometimes you have to accept the life you were given.
I will not accept anything.
I phase out; this is why I wanted to be alone so that I could think by myself. Sam doesn't follow closely behind me but I know he is in the trees following me. I sit on the ground naked in the snow and it's so cold but my body is so hot. I pick up a snow ball and it starts to melt right away in my hand. This is my life and maybe one day I will learn to accept it but right now I don't want to.
I lay on the ground so I can think peacefully but Jacob's scent suddenly hits me and I get up and run. I don't stop to phase and I don't think I just run. I hear Sam in the woods matching my strides.
The closer we get I can hear him and a woman talking about something. Then I see a leech with a huge tree branch in her hand she swings it hitting him with it.
I push harder and I jump to attack her phasing in midair clawing her face. She screeches loudly and falls backwards as I see Sam running up the rear grabbing her upper body shaking it viciously. The rest of pack and the Cullens arrive shortly after. I walk over to Jacob and he's breathing but bleeding very badly, I lick his head wound and his chest. After his wounds are clean I phase back to wake him up.
"Jacob, wake up." I say and he opens his eyes.
"Leah." He says.
"Yes it's me." I say.
Then I smell the blonde bitch come behind me.
"You stupid mutts." She snaps angrily. "Why did you two kill the only link to we had to finding my niece?" She bellows over me.
I stand up and I'm looking at her eyes they're blazing with fire, "For once in your life care about someone besides your fucking self. You're worse than Bella and her selfishness. So for the rest of the fucking day – oh, wait I have something better. How about for the rest of your unnatural fucking life don't part your lips to say anything to me or I will kill you." I yell back at her.
The blonde hisses at me but she doesn't say anything.
"That's a little unfair. You shouldn't have reacted you should have waited on us." Bella shouts.
"I couldn't control what was happening to me." I say.
"I know you have a problem with self-control but if you would have tried you could have done it." Bella says.
"No, I couldn't." I say quietly before turning my attention back to Jacob.
"Bella, Leah is telling the truth. We are going to have to wait until Jacob wakes up before we know what actually happened." Edward says while standing over the dull fire that the leech continues to burn in.
"We need to head back so that when Jacob wakes up he can be treated properly." I say calmly.
"Are we going back to Forks or are we going back to your place?" Embry asks me and I notice the happy glint in his eyes at the prospect of seeing Kayla again.
"We should go to Forks. We need to call Carlisle." I answer feeling slightly bad as he frowns.
"What about Renesmee? Aren't you going to help us find her?" Bella asks me pulling on my tank top.
I look at her wanting to say no but the look in her eye is the fear of a mother that may never see her child again. I can't find it in my heart to tell her no like I want to do so badly.
"Yes we still help you, but I think the first thing we need to do is get Jacob better so that we can find out more about what happened." I say quietly while removing her hand from my shirt.
"Don't worry Bella we will find her." Edward says while resting his chin on the top of her head.
Sam and Embry help carry Jacob back to the gas station where we left the cars. We arrive in Forks with Esme and Alice greeting us at the door.
"I won't be able to see anything with you guys here." Alice says placing her hands on her temple.
Jacob is placed in the 'unofficial' operating room. Carlisle runs some tests to make sure that there is no permanent damage done. He found traces of the tranquilizers in his system but Jacob has no brain damage but he won't wake up again. Carlisle thinks that Jacob is just exhausted from the last couple of days. So I sit in the room with him quietly waiting for him to wake. He says things in his sleep but nothing that I can understand.
"He's dreaming of you." Edward says appearing in the door way. I'm sitting by Jacob's bedside just picking at my fingernails when Edward makes his little statement.
Using my left hand I push the hair out of my face and look at Edward with a confused frown. "Why would he do that?" I ask.
"Because it's you he loves; not my daughter." Edwards says moving closer by my side.
"Why would he do a foolish thing like that?" I asked him.
"Because we don't have a choice when it comes to love."
"I wish that we did." I say quietly.
Jacob's POV
I hear Leah's voice and my eyes start to flutter open. I move my hands to my eyes and rub them letting out a huge yawn. I roll over to my side and she is here, "So, it wasn't a nightmare." I say with a raspy voice.
"What?" She says quietly
"Where I was it really happened." I say to Leah
"Jacob, I'm glad your okay but we need to find out where my daughter is." Edward says forcefully.
I look down and I push the hair out of my face I look at Leah and then back at Edward, "She left me there." For the first time I realized that she left me there and I was happy that she let me go. But she left me there and she was under the impression that they would kill me. So she left me there to die. A sharp pain shoots through my heart that I can't bear. How she could do something like that when all her life I protected her?
"Jacob, I highly doubt she meant for you to die." Edward says.
"What would be the only other reason?" I ask him looking in to his eyes.
"It's simple Jacob, she can't help it. Selfishness runs through their family bloodline. While we were taught to share they were only taught to receive." Leah says with a smug smile on her face.
"Leah that's hardly true. There has to be a good reason she would do something like that and we're very generous to your family." Edward says.
"Yes, you are but only because you have to be. Jacob can you tell him what happened so I can get back to my life." Leah asks.
"I'll go down stairs and tell everyone at one time. Then I would like to go to the Rez for awhile to see my family." I say.
Leah smiles and we walk downstairs. I already know everyone has heard our conversation. When I get to the last step Bella crashes her cold hard body into mine and she is hugging me tightly dry sobbing telling me she is glad I'm alive. After a few attempts of pushing her off of me. She finally gets the hint, drops her head and hands and she walks slowly over to her husband embarrassed by her actions.
I go over the story.
"I told you, you shouldn't have killed her." Rosalie hisses before disappearing outside.
"I'm sorry Jacob she was attacking you with a tree branch when we saw you." Sam says.
"Understandable she wasn't totally innocent she was willing to wreck another life for her on selfish reasons." I say staring at Bella and Edward.
"Jake you can't think Renesmee meant the things she said, right? I'm sure she was only trying to keep you both alive."
"Bella that's bull shit, she came to me and told me that I was free from the imprint. That I wasn't the man she thought I was. First I thought maybe she wanted to let me be free and I was happy. But she left me there she didn't whisper 'Jake trust me'. She told me I would have made a terrible mate. Now if you're done justifying your daughter's actions I would really like to go eat, shower then lay down because I was the one chained naked in a fucking cell being watched and humiliated. Edward you saw my thoughts you know what he looks like and you know where I was so go there and start from there." I yell.
I went to open the door and Bella flashed in front of me.
"Jacob let me get that for you." She says.
"Bella I am capable of opening the door for myself." I yell at her.
"Jacob." She whines
"Bella." I whine back mockingly.
She opens the door and his scent burns my nose as I quickly shut it back.
"Jake what's wrong with you?" Bella asks.
"He is here." Edward answers her question.
"Does he have Renesmee with him?" Bella asks.
"He wants to tell us he found her like Jacob said he would." Edward answers with a deep frown.
"What's the plan?" Leah asks standing behind me.
"Jacob, go to the kitchen I don't know if he can recognize your scent but I want to see what type of story he comes up with." Edward orders. I go into the kitchen and sit at the island. The doorbell rings and Alice opens the door.
"Nessie." Alice screeches.
"Who is with you Renesmee?" Edward asks coldly.
"Father, this is Pete he found me." She says and then I hear Leah growl.
I walk towards the door and peep out trying to get a look at what is going on. I see that Nessie grab her father's hand. She is telling him what happen.
"Hello, I'm Pete and I'm afraid I have come bearing bad news as well as good." He says politely as possible.
"Why don't you tell us the bad news first." Leah demands and Seth step on her foot.
"I'm afraid your friend Jacob has been killed." Pete says.
Leah starts to laugh obnoxiously as Nessie walks over to her and hugs her and says, "Leah I am sorry."
"Get off of me." Leah screeches. Nessie moves swiftly.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean too."
"It's okay, Nessie. Give them time their friend died." Pete says rubbing Nessie's shoulders.
"Pete, I want you to meet our friend." Bella says angrily.
I walk out the kitchen and when I see him he quickly tries to retreat out the front door flashing before my eyes but Edward catches him.
"Jacob." Nessie yells running towards me but she is quickly stopped by Seth and Bella.
I phase in the Cullens living room jumping across the sofa and attacking Pete as Edward tosses him towards me. He manages to grab my muzzle stopping my teeth from tearing at his head. He pushes my muzzle back causing me to skid across the room slamming into the entertainment system I feel the flat screen fall on top of my head. I quickly get up pushing the pain aside. I'm feeling animalistic everything turns primal and my thoughts are focused solely on killing. I want to kill the thing that has caused me pain and I will get what I want after all I am the true alpha.
The front door is missing and I see Emmett, Edward, and Jasper flying out the door. I follow quickly behind and they have him surrounded in a small clearing outside the house so he can't get out. Carlisle follows suit after me along with Seth, Embry and Leah in tow. Jasper is hissing wildly like a mad cat while Emmett is tightening his fist. Edward is staring the thing down most likely listening to a private thought. I jump in the circle and shred him to pieces. As I tear into his skin he is trying to knock my legs out from under me. I stand up on my hind legs and use my paws to rip his head off.
After he is burned properly I phase back. It was almost as I was afraid he would come back and I would be stuck fighting for my life again. Carlisle has me upstairs looking at my now healed broken leg. He re-breaks my bones and tapes my ribs. He instructs me to get some rest. He offers for me to stay there but I choose to go home. Right now I feel that I've spent too much time with the leeches. While I am getting dressed I hear a light tap at the door and can't help the smile when I see it's Leah.
"Hey I'm taking off after we get you back to the Rez." She says to me.
"What if I'm not ready for you to leave?" I ask.
"I would still go; I have responsibilities there now." She says. I don't say anything else mostly because I'm tired. I want to rest for a couple of days.
Leah helps me stand while she stares at me. We don't say anything we just look at each other and it reminds me of the time in the woods when I realized who I not only needed to be with but wanted to be with.
I cup her face lightly and she mimicks my moves. She has silent tears coming from her eyes, "I missed you so much and I was scared I wouldn't see you again." She says dropping her hands.
"I missed you too." I say back with my voice nearly breaking. Seeing her cry makes my heart break because I don't want her to be in pain. I work up enough courage and finally decide to kiss her. I lean down slightly and she moves her face to the side of my cheek and she's trying to fight it. "Leah, don't fight me please." I beg.
"Jake, I have a boyfriend." She blurts out.
"What?" I say.
Just then Nessie burst through the door yelling, "Jacob I'm sorry I didn't mean- oops sorry."
"We were done." Leah says walking towards the door.
"Jacob, you've got to believe me I didn't think he would kill you." Nessie says quickly as Leah walks out the door.
"You didn't think he would kill me? Then why did you leave me chained in a room?" I ask angrily.
"Because he said he would kill me and I didn't want to die." She says frightened.
I didn't say anything else – I couldn't say anything else. I move towards the door and she doesn't even try to follow me. I walked outside and find Leah standing next to the Rabbit, "Seth drove it over." She says opening the passenger door.
"I can drive." I say
I drive slowly back to the Rez and we don't say anything to one another – we're just silent.
"How long have you had a boyfriend?" I ask finally breaking the silence.
"A while." She says quietly.
"Do you love him?" I ask.
"No, Jake I absolutely loathe him." She says sarcastically with a playful smile on her lips.
I stop the car and pull over on the side of the road.
"Jake, what are you doing?" Leah asks confused as I turn to look at her. I don't say anything but just look at her for a long time.
"Do you love him more than you love me?"
"Jake-." She stutters out looking away from me.
"Do you love him more than you love me?" I demand grabbing her face forcing her to look at me. I need to know her answer – I need the truth. She looks down hesitating as she opens her mouth and closes it again. She continues avoiding eye contact with me as she bites her bottom lips and then suddenly she kisses me. Her mouth is hot, wet and inviting. How she's managed to still smell like cinnamon though she has been with leeches all day I will never know. But our kiss breaks all too soon.
"I will never love anyone the way that I loved you." Leah says looking me straight in my eyes. I feel my heart swell and before I know what happens next she bolts from the car phasing in the woods.
A/N: Thank you for reviewing! I have a lot of new readers and reviewers I'm grateful for that I hope you enjoyed this chapter as well as the last!
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