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Tristan

Damn it, damn all of it. Leah was in love with me? This was probably not going to be good, since what spare little detail Lupe told me seemed to signify that Shapeshifters preferred mating for life. But when I was with her in the car that first day, I felt something inside her that I hadn't felt from anyone else. Not from any of my Children of Moon siblings, from her pack, from the vampires.

I had felt how her mind was at ease finally. Being surrounded by so many emotions constantly had been the reason I had gone through the most vicious shift from human to Werewolf, it was the reason I had headaches the first few years of my new life. It had changed eventually, when Lupe and the Romanian coven struck their deal.

After that, she found Ross and me, from the woods we had claimed, where we hunted humans. Her deep crimson eyes reflected in ours and the fact that we were forced to obey her was enough proof that she was our creator. It was really a pity that we had to follow her command- I'd have ripper her to shreds if I didn't.

Lupe had learned many things while she was gone- and one was how much easier control became once we reverted our diet to purely animal flesh. No more human warmth was indeed not so satisfying, but even I had to admit that my headaches had subsided and I kept my own direction as a wolf. We could even tolerate vampires, though before we would attack without even realizing it.

And then we had been given assignment to spy. And then I had seen Leah. Her emotions were strong- aw, who am I kidding? When I was there at the airport, she was the only one who was screaming murder fucking bloody murder and from there, I'd tried to stay with her all the time- keeping my distance but being there. I was even the one who drugged her at the café.

Her brokenness automatically attracted me. Yeah, maybe that makes me something of a masochist since I felt what she felt, but I had a feeling it'd change eventually. Which it did when she met my eyes. And hell, after that day, I wasn't comfortable with anyone else at all.

Leah had peace at last and since it was directed at me, I felt fucking grand. But since I'd met her, I hadn't bonded with anyone else. Of course I wasn't a virgin- no Werewolf can be for very long, its part of our nature. We found humans to bond with, we had sex, and we hoped to never see our ex-bonds again. And we didn't most of the time because we ate them later.

Kinky? Not really, most of the time nasty. But I had no part in my actions- that's just how I was. I thought I was a monster. Leah had changed that, she loved me. But shit- love? Not my thing. I just didn't realize that's what it was on her part.

And I guess I was the one who took it too far by trying to have sex with her in her room. I had felt air rushing up my way as the ground neared. That was the best part about being a beast. Right before I turned, I was invincible. Yeah, tomorrow morning I'd feel like shit, but right then I was buzzed to high heaven. And that's when it hit me- Leah needs me but who says I need her?

The entire night I hunted and ran with the other Werewolves in the empty woods and I thought that it was time to end the charade going on between me and the Shapeshifter girl. If she wouldn't fuck me, I found it useless to continue and indulge her in my company.

And I guess I made the biggest fucking mistake of my life the next morning.

And now here I am.

Leah doesn't talk to me anymore. She hasn't in nearly two whole weeks. I wish she's turn my way when I enter the room, wink when she met my eyes, take my hand when I sit next to her… but no. She walks out if I walk in, she passes right over my gaze like I'm made of fucking glass, and if I sit next to her, she shoots up like I just stuck hot pins under her nails.

I hadn't imagined it'd wound so much. Zaara and Jareth, two more Children of Moon created by Lupe, had just finished their bond cycle but I saw them together all the time. I was shocked it hadn't ended at the end of their cycle- but then again, neither of them was dead. They still fucked at night, they still stayed with each other.

And another thing that hurt- Leah wasn't so bright anymore. Whereas she used to shine from the others, now it was just nothing. She didn't hate me- and that was something else that sucked. She wasn't pining for me? What the Hell? She just seemed to stop caring.

When I saw her walking outside one night, heading into the woods, I jumped down from the window I was standing before and went after her. "Leah?" I called and I saw her stop.

"Yes?" Her voice was steady, absolutely devoid of emotion.

Damn it, fucking smile for me. "Will you please talk to me?"

"I'm talking."

"Bullshit, Leah! I thought you imprinted with me."

She flinched when I said that, and I saw her shrink away, whirling around and beginning to run away. No, no, I couldn't fucking let her get away. I hated myself for doing this to her. This was her reaction every time I approached her. Either that or her asshole Alpha would take her arm and whisk her away. What the fuck was with him?

She was getting lost in the woods. Maybe a week from now if I was closer to turning, I could've run circles around her, but I was a little more than tired now. I couldn't keep up. I stopped and punched a tree. It creaked and my fist split open. I gazed morosely at the puncture. It'd be fine within the minute, I knew. If only I could do something about the hurt inside.

Why did that even happen? I didn't worry for people, what the hell was wrong with me? That girl, Leah? She could leave and I wouldn't give a shit.

(But I did.)

I cared for her and now she wasn't reacting at all. And I wanted her to. So when I heard her Alpha's voice a slight distance away from me, I started in his direction. He could read her mind when she turned- phased. He could tell me what was going on.

Jacob, that's his name, was talking to a member of his pack I didn't recognize. "Hey," I greeted them both. He tensed and coolly nodded in reply. "Listen, man, can I talk to you?"

"About what?"

"Leah. About her imprinting on me."

The kid next to Jake widened his eyes and began, "Jake? What-"

"Seth, shut up. Go on ahead. I'll catch up with you."

"But, Jake. I think I should know about my own…"

Jacob cut him off again, "I said go. Don't make me, because I swear to God I will." The kids eyes darted from Jake to me to his Alpha again before he left, taking quick steps. Once he was out of earshot, Jake regarded me with icy eyes. "What do you want?"

"Why won't she talk to me anymore?"

Jake laughed a dry and bitter sound without humor. "Is that all you need to know? Go fuck yourself."

"Listen, okay? I just wanna know why she stopped caring."

"We don't have anything to talk about. And now you better open your ears and listen to me, you son of a bitch. If you ever- ever - touch or hurt or even try to talk to Leah again, I'll find a way to kill you, I don't care how I do it, I don't care what I have to do, but I will kill you." Jacob showed me his back and turned to leave.

"No- wait! She was imprinted on me and she just stopped? I'm not an expert on Shapeshifters, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't work like that." I insisted, a part of me telling me to drop it, that I was just making trouble, but another part of me wanting to know, to know bad.

Inside me, I felt Jacob's fury begin to grow. That should've been my hint. It wasn't. He twisted slowly, and began to speak, "You wanna know why she doesn't love you? You wanna know whats wrong? Well, I'll tell you- not because I feel sorry for you or want to help you, but so you understand how serious I am about my threat. I grew up with Leah, I knew since we were both in fucking diapers. She's my little sister. If there's any person I love more than I love Renesmee, it's her.

"When the first guy broke her heart, I couldn't do anything about it because he was my Alpha. Do you know how long she carried that pain inside her? Do you know how it tore her apart to have to live with that anger and ache stinging her every time she looked at him? Do you know how I felt, knowing she fell apart every night, the guilt that haunted me? She ran away from her home, from all her friends because of it."

Jacob was closing the distance between us looming over me, his rage now nearly peaking. "When she found you, I didn't trust you. Hell, I can't trust anyone with her anymore- she doesn't deserve any of you. But I put up with it because imprinting wasn't something she could choose. And when you broke up with her, you fucking cocksucker, I wanted to kill you. I wanted to take a knife and turn you into mincemeat and burn anything that was left.

"But I didn't, and you know why? 'Cause Leah wouldn't like that and I couldn't stand to see her hurting even more. I saw everything that happened through her eyes- the kisses, the last night in her bed, the scene in the stairwell. So you know what I did instead? I forbid her from loving you. As her Alpha, I took you from her heart and forced it to stop. No more you, no more love, no more sorrow. And if you try anything ever again…"

By this point, Jacob's anger was too much for me to bear without feeling it myself. And I was feeling it, and I expressed it, "You stopped her from loving me?" I demanded, pissed off he would rob me of her love, and shoved Jacob back.

Almost like a rubber band snapping back, Jacob rebounded and punched me in the jaw. I felt it dislocate near immediately, and I called the power inside me. I couldn't turn, but the Children of the Moon were not completely defenseless. My nails and fangs sprouted, ripping the skin under and over them, sharper than any knife and stronger than any diamond.

It was said- though I'd never tried- that a single Wolf could cut through a Vampire and single-handedly destroy them. I didn't know how it would go for the Shapeshifter baby in front of me, but in my wrath, I knew one thing: Only one of us would leave this alive.