Heres the next chapter. I finished the end and decided to upload it ASAP. I'll start on the next one right away but it may not be up for a while. Oh, todays my mommas birthday. YAAY(:

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A week had passed and it was a day before the big fight. I hadn't really seen Embry or Jacob, from either throwing up, sleeping, school or their practices and patrols. I wasn't so lonely though seeing as I had Seth with me every other day. We had fun but the closer the day came the more worried I was for them.

"Seth, the fight is tomorrow. What if they get hurt? How am I supposed to deal with that if anyone in the pack gets hurt?" I asked.

"The pack, or Embry and Jacob?" He asked.

"Well Embry and Jacob. We've gotten so close and I can't live without them." I told him.

"Leiko, they will be fine. Trust me. No harm will come to them."

The next day Embry and Jacob left early to Sam's and Seth came over. He told me that he'd be leaving because he agreed to keep look out of the fight for Bella and Edward.

"I'm coming with you. If Bella can sit her ass there then I can too!" I told him.

"Fine Leiko." He agreed.

He left the house and I followed to the edge of the woods, waiting for him. He came back as a wolf and ran for a good ten minutes. We came to a hill top and I saw a tent there. Jacob, Bella, and Edward were standing outside the tent. It seemed like they were arguing but I wasn't sure. Seth walked up to them and Edward some said things Seth wanted them to know. He was the mind reader I'm guessing.

"You must be Leiko." He turned to me standing by a tree.

"Leiko? Leiko, what are you doing here?" Jacob asked.

"I'm not just going to sit by while you and Embry fight. I want to stay with Seth, to stay updated." I told him.

Jacob walked up to me. "This isn't a safe time to be out in the woods, Leiko." He told me.

"I know Jacob, but I have Seth, he'll protect me."

"Leiko, you need to go home."

"No Jacob. I will stay as long as you guys are fighting. I'd rather be here than at home, worrying my head off by myself. I will be fine. Plus, why can she be here but I can't?" I asked him.

"I don't want her to be here as much as I don't want you to be here. But since you two are both so hard headed, just be careful." He turned around. "Seth, look after her with your life." He said.

The wolf nodded and walked over to me.

I turned around to Seth.

"Is the fight about to start?" I asked.

He nodded and sat down.

"Hello, you must be Leiko." I heard from behind me.

I turned around to see Bella. I had never really gotten a good look at her. She had medium length brown hair. Her skin was pale white and she looked sick. She looked average, nothing really special about her. I don't see what Jacob saw in her, but it must be something.

"Yes, and you must be Bella." I said, obviously knowing she was Bella.

"It's nice to meet you. I'm guessing you're the one that lives with Jacob and Embry?" She asked.

"Yes, I do." I said, trying to be as tolerant as possible.

"Well, it must be very interesting living with them."

"Well, I never get bored that's for sure."

She laughed and Edward walked over.

"Hello, I'm Edward Cullen, the mind reader." He said, smirking.

"Hi, I'm Leiko." As if he didn't know already.

We talked for a little while getting to know each other but then I started feeling a little awkward. There was something about Bella that just made me want to stay away from her. Maybe it's the never ending urge to tell her to leave Jacob the fuck alone.

I walked over to Seth and sat on the rock next to him. He laid his head on my lap and huffed.

"I know. It's boring and it's really awkward being here. The fights begun hasn't it?" I asked.

He nodded his head a little and huffed again.

"I know, you want to be there but you're safe at least."

We sat for a little while, me talking to him. After a little while the snow was starting to make me cold, so I had to snuggle in Seth fur a little. Suddenly his head popped up and his ears were perked up. I heard a low growl coming from his chest. I looked and saw Bella and Edward were gone. He got up and let me get on his back. We ran for a little while and he stopped, dropping me off by a tree. He looked at me, his eyes telling me to stay there.

I was alone, in the woods. I crawled over to the tree and brought my knees to my chest. It was so cold without the warmth of a wolf. Where did Seth go and why did he leave me here alone?

Suddenly I heard a big ruckus. I heard growling, trees falling, braches breaking. I only heard Seth though, so I was guessing he was alone. I heard a loud whimper and I knew Seth was hurt. I forced myself to stay down knowing it would be best that I did. Nobody was going to get hurt my ass. I heard more noise and it was getting louder and louder. I covered my ears hoping to cover the noise. Suddenly it stopped. I waited a while to see what would happen but it was quiet. I got up and walked over to where the noise was coming from. I saw Seth limping over to me. I looked around and saw a red head lying on the floor, the body a few feet away from it. I could feel my eyes get wide with terror. Seth came to me and nudged me with his head and I looked at him.

"Seth are you okay? What just happened?" I asked.

He limped into the woods and came back as human Seth.

"Leiko, I'm fine. There were two vampires and Edward couldn't take them by himself." He told me.

"Oh my gosh. So she is a vampire?" I asked gesturing my head towards the red head.

"Yeah, she's the one that started all of it." He told me.

"Oh wow." I said.

"The fight is over Leiko, we need to go back." He went back and shifted.

He ran to the field that the battle went down in. There were dead vampires everywhere. We hadn't lost anyone, thankfully.

Suddenly, a vampire came out of nowhere. A light gray wolf charged but the chocolate brown one barked and went after it. The vampire grabbed the chocolate brown one and crushed its side. With a heartbreaking yelp, the wolf fell to the ground. The other wolves took out the vampire and went to the injured wolf. He phased back to human, and I saw it was Jacob. My heart ached as I saw him withering in pain; his side was twisting every which way. The pack went to him and picked him up, Sam yelling for them to take him home.

I rode back to the house on Seth. Everybody ran into the house, two of them carrying Jacob. They lay him in his bed and Sam ran out.

"Jake, I'm so sorry but I said I had him!" Leah said.

Jacob didn't reply. He just had his eyes closed and was trying not to focus on the pain. Leah walked out of the room looking down.

I walked in the room and sat in the chair next to him.

"Jacob. You're going to be okay right?"

He opened his eyes and looked at me.

"I sure do hope so." He said through gritted teeth.

"Carlisle is on his way, just try to breathe." I told him.

A few minutes later Carlisle rushed in and asked if I could step outside.

"What is he going to do?" I asked Embry.

"He has to reset all of his bones because they started healing already." He told me.

"He's going to break his bones again?"

"Yeah, that's the only way."

We waited a while then a horrible scream filled the air. It had begun, and I'm guessing it hurt like hell. He was screaming for a good 20 minutes and it still wasn't over. Finally it ended, I saw Bella pull up in her car.

Carlisle walked out and told Bella she could go in. This girl was seriously starting to piss me off. Did she think she could just get off treating Jacob like that? A few minutes later she came back out, crying apparently. But I didn't care, I hope Jacob made her cry, she deserved it.

"Embry, can I go see Jacob?" I asked.

"Sure you can." He said, just telling me to be quiet when I go in.

I walked in the house and to Jacobs's room. He was laying there, all bandaged up and broken.

"Hey Jacob, you okay?" I asked.

"Hey Leiko. Well, I've had better days but I'll live." He told me.

"I, uh, I saw that Bella was here."

"Yeah, she just told me that she chooses that blood sucker but she still loves me."

"But you're in love with her?" I asked.

"Head over heels in love with her." He said, not looking at me.

"Jacob, why do you love her? She only ever hurt you."

"But that's just it, she hasn't just hurt me. She's been my best friend; she's always there for me."

"So there's more to that plain girl than shows."

"There's a lot more."

"Jacob, I don't like seeing her hurt you. You're one of the people I care about most and I don't want to see you mope around heartbroken from some girl who knows she's hurting you." I told him.

"Leiko, I just can't help it. There's no way of living without her." He said, closing his eyes.

"Looks like I'll always have to worry about you then." I said leaning against the wall.

Once he was sleep I got up and walked to the room. I sat down on the bed and opened the window. I looked at the woods, wondering who was on patrol right now. How could I help Jacob if he's in love with that home wrecker? I let the cold wind sweep across my bare arms. I turned my body so it was facing the window, with my legs hanging out.

I heard the door open and Embry walked in. He came over and sat next to me, putting his arm around my shoulders. I took in all of his warmth barely noticing how cold it was.

"How's Jacob?" He asked.

"Well he's healing okay but he's in love with Bella, and she's tearing him apart."

"Leiko, Bella is really cool and she does care for Jacob but she can't return the feelings he has for her."

"Well then maybe she should just disappear. Just stay away from him and it would be fine."

"She's tried and so has he but they are best friends and they need each other." He said.

I just stared out the window, looking at the dark night. I care about Jacob so much and it sucks to see him like this. Maybe if I just went back to not caring about anyone things would be a lot better. I'm too far gone from that though, I'm in too deep with these people and they've taken a place I didn't know I had in my heart.

I sat with Embry for a long while in silence.

"Embry, what do you think about imprinting?" I asked, wanting to know more about it, and his thoughts.

"Well, I think it's a good thing. The only thing is, wolves live forever… our imprints don't. I don't want to live without the love of my life." He said, looking out the window.

"You can't stop aging ever? What about children?"

"It's a long shot. The reason we phase is because the gene is activated when vampires are nearby. With the Cullen's here, we won't even stop phasing. We can have children. It's actually better to have children because they may phase too." He told me.

"Do you think you'll ever imprint?" I asked.

"Yeah, I do." He said looking at me.

"What if you don't want to imprint? Can you stop it?" I asked.

"I don't think you would want to. It's probably very hard to stop the feelings you get for the person."

"Hmmm. It sounds so complicated to be a wolf. Some things people could only wish for, you guys have. But it doesn't seem so good once you actually have it."

"You're right. It's not as good, but it's nice to know that I'm the one that's protecting people, that I have a family that will always be there."

I thought about the end of that sentence. It brought back memories of my family. The good memories, when my sister and I used to get along. When she would braid my hair and we'd put moms make up on each other. When mom used to take us for walks, and buy us candy. I missed those days. Who knew a family could change so much suddenly. But then you look at the signs and see it was bound to happen. Mom would drink more and more when dad was gone. Dad would favor Maya so mom would favor me, slowing tearing us apart. Mom getting more and more angry when I would do something remotely wrong. The signs were all there, I was just too blind to see them.

I wonder if they even care that I'm gone. They probably think I killed myself by now. They probably all rejoice that I'm finally gone and they can be a big happy family with their perfect, only child, Maya. Did they even notice I was gone? Was there an ounce of worry about me? I may not want to live with them, but I want to know if they even have an ounce of care about me left over in there cold bodies. I know I still do. No matter how much they abused me, yelled at me, or whatever else they did, if they had chosen to go back to the way things were, I would've be happy. I would've stayed, I wouldn't have hurt myself.

I could feel myself getting sadder the more I thought about my family but the thoughts wouldn't go away. The thoughts about my father, what he's doing now. If he's angry that he can't get off any more. That I chose to leave when we barely move here. If he's upset that I may actually be happy now. He tried so hard to keep me miserable but relying on him. The more miserable the better to him. He thought I wouldn't make it easily out of the house, but boy was he wrong. Memories of him came flooding back all at once. I felt my heart get heavy at all of the thoughts of him that would not cease.

No one cared about me. I don't even understand why Embry or Jacob or Seth or any of them cared about me. I was just some girl with a bad temper. No one would have cared if I was dead in a river or in a ditch somewhere. So why did Embry, take the time to save me. He took me to Carlisle, he took me into his house, he defended me from his mom, he got me into school, he cares about my well-being, but why? I was some stranger, who could have been crazy. I didn't care for him when I first came here. I wanted him to leave me to die. So why would he try so hard to prove that he cared for me, to make it clear that he wasn't going to just abandon me.

I felt tears forming in my eyes and I cursed silently at the fact that this still got a rise out of me. I turned away from Embry so he wouldn't see me cry. I ferociously wiped at my eyes hoping to stop them, but they didn't. Embry turned me back towards him to see that I was crying.

"Leiko, whats wrong?" He asked, pulling me into his arms.

I sobbed into his chest for a while, still wishing I would stop crying. When I was done he moved back so he could see my face.

"Now do you want to tell me why you're crying?" He asked, wiping the tears from my face.

"I've just waited so long for someone to actually care about me and when I find a whole family who actually does, I get doubtful. I've always wanted my family to care about me. I told myself that they still loved me and this would stop soon. But it never did. When I found you guys and you tried so hard to make it clear that you cared about me, I don't know, I guess I got overwhelmed. After not being cared about for so long, I got used to not needing it. I wanted it, but I didn't need it. You guys, you all are so nice to me and I don't even know why. I'm a horrible person, who just attracts too much trouble. Sometimes I don't understand why you didn't just leave me to die. I don't deserve people like you to be so nice to me." I said, feeling the tears come again.

"Leiko, we care about you because you're different. I know how it feels to have a family who doesn't care about you. My mom hated me. She didn't know who my father was and she was an alcoholic. She hit me, she yelled at me, she left me to fend for myself and I dealt with it. Jacob and Quil didn't really know anything about my mother, even though we were best friends. I stayed at their houses when I could and when I couldn't I had to deal with my mother. I think that's why I tried so hard to help you, because I saw a torn girl who just needed help. I saw that you were miserable and knew those bruises were no accident. I wanted you to know that there was more to life than what you were living. When you told me what was actually happening at your house, I was angry. Leiko, I care about you too much to let anything like that happen to you anymore." He said pulling me closer.

"I know you say that and I trust you but there is still that voice telling me you're lying. That no one cared for me and they're just using me then they're going to dump me on the side of the road or something. I can't help that voice. It's always there and it's not leaving."

"Well next time that voice makes an unnecessary appearance, think of me and know that I am NEVER leaving you. You understand that? NEVER. So if there's ever a day that you wanna get rid of me, that sucks cause I ain't leaving." He smiled at me.

I smiled and hugged him. He hugged me tight and kissed the top of my head. But it wasn't awkward, nothing was with Embry. He was showing that he did in fact care about me, no matter what that voice said.

We sat together for a while, then he told me that we were going to Sam's tonight to talk about the fight. I got ready quickly and we were soon over there, without Jacob.

We sat around the table waiting for Sam to speak.

"The fight was a success, aside from a few unexpected injuries." He said.

"I told him sorry! I didn't mean for Jake to get hurt but I had him!" Leah said.

"Leah, that's enough!" Sam said, sternly.

She shut up instantly.

"The threat is over so patrols will go back to normal starting tonight. Collin and Brady are on patrol and regular shifts start back now." Sam said.

"Who is going to be taking Jacobs patrols?" Seth asked.

"It will just go in order, skipping Jacob."

They talked for a little while, somewhere in there Kim and I left to sit on the couch.

"This pack stuff is confusing huh?" I asked.

"Yeah, but you get used to it after a while." She smiled at me.

"Do you go to school on the Rez too cause I've never seen you there before?" I asked.

"Yeah but my classes are mostly in the back of the school. I don't even know why." She laughed.

"Oh , my classes are near the front. It comes in handy for trying to get out of the school faster." I smiled at her.

"Yeah, you're quite the talk around school still." She raised her eyebrows.

"I guess since I'm not Quileute they want me out of the school."

"Yeah, and Sabrina hate, for obvious reasons." She said, gesturing her head towards Embry, and laughing.

"It's not my fault he doesn't want anything to do with her. We aren't even dating, she's just crazy!" I laughed.

"She really is. So, what do you think of Embry?" She asked, her tone of voice changing.

"Um, he's nice and we're pretty close. Why?" I asked, confused.

"Do you like him?" She asked, nudging me.

"What? Like him as in have feelings for him?"

"No, like him as in want to do his homework; OF COURSE like him as in have feelings for him." She laughed.

"That first part didn't make sense."

"Don't change the subject!" She said.

"Well I mean…"

She got up and dragged me outside onto the porch.

"There, now you can tell me."

"Dude, it's freezing out here."

"Well, we aren't going back inside until you tell me!" She said persistently.

"Well, I guess, I kind of have a crush on him. Like a fifth grade, oh my gosh he's cute, crush."

"Oh come Leiko, I'm not dumb." He cocked an eyebrow at me.

I huffed. "Fine, I like him a lot. He's everything I would look for in a guy, but it would never work because he's like sixteen and I'm only fourteen." I blurt out.

"I knew it!" She squealed.

"Don't tell him Kim. He'd probably think I'm some weirdo little girl that has a crush on a sixteen year old."

"Don't worry. He probably likes you too; he speaks highly of you." She smiled at me.

I blushed. Damn my unwanted reactions.

"But what if he imprints and all of his feelings go away? Then what am I left with?" I asked.

She just looked at me and smiled. I had no idea why she was smiling but it was a reassuring smile. I think this was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

"Okay, can we go back inside now? I'm freezing."

There ya go. Next chapter yeah! So yes, Leiko has admittied her feelings for Embry. Everything shall start to fall together now(: We are getting into Breaking Dawn which mean I'm closer to publishing the first part of my next story. Yay! Okay, well review please(: And thank you too all who are adding this story to their story alerts. It's HIGHLY appreciated(: Have a nice day!

-Miranda