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Chapter Twelve

(Nadi's POV)

Sam and I left Harry's hospital room in a daze. I had killed vampires before, but it was a different feeling to see someone you had known for so long die in front of you. I hadn't been that close to Harry when I knew him so many years ago. I had met him a few times when he was a teenager and I remember he flirted with me quite a bit. The last time I had seen him was at Levi's funeral; that was also the last time I had seen Billy and Quil Ateara, Senior.

When we reached the waiting room, Sue took one look at our faces and broke down again in Charlie's arms. She was past the point of hysterical. The boys understood Sam's grief-stricken look, but they didn't understand mine. I had known Harry before even Sue or Charlie. Maybe even before Billy.

I noticed Leah and Seth in the corner. Leah was glaring at me. I smiled sadly at her, and her fiery glare turned ice cold. "Who are you?" She demanded. I didn't know what to say to her, so I answered with the truth.

"Nadi Cullen." My voice was soft and cautious. I remember the reaction Quil Jr. had when I told him my last name.

Her flawless face twisted into a grimace. "The Cullen's aren't allowed on the reservation. So leave." She said.

Billy spoke up, "Leah, she's with me."

This didn't calm her down. She ignored Billy and said, "What did my father say to you?"

Oh, he only said to keep an eye on Seth once he turns into a giant wolf and joins Sam's pack. And for me to befriend you, even though I can tell you don't want me anywhere in your life. He knows he can trust me since I've known him since he was seventeen, but I can't tell you that just yet, now can I? I couldn't tell her my thoughts, so I said, "Just that he loves you guys more than anything and he wants you to know he'll always be watching you."

For some reason, this did not comfort Leah. "What's so special about you?" Huh? What the hell is she talking about?

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"What's so special about you that my dad told you that? Why did you get to see my father's final moments?" She asked with an edge to her voice.

Sue interrupted before I could answer, "Sam was in there, too, Leah." Her voice was calm and even, despite the tears still pouring from her eyes.

Leah stood up. "Dad asked for Sam. Not her." She began to shake. Wait a minute, shake? She's going to phase, oh my god she's going to phase! I'm not the only female wolf! I'm not a freak! I almost did a happy dance in my head until I realized that Seth was shaking too. I didn't answer Leah's tirade against me, just poked Sam in the side and nodded towards Seth and Leah.

He silently gasped and walked over to Seth. He put his hand on Seth's shoulder and looked back at me. Our eyes locked and he nodded towards Leah. I slowly walked to her. "Leah, can we take this outside please? You're upsetting your mother."

Leah shook harder, "Who are you to tell me what to do?! My father just died and here you come out of nowhere, I've never even seen you before and you're ordering me to go outside!"

I sighed. Enough was enough. She didn't have to be so difficult about it. I understand she's upset about her dad's passing, but all I asked was to take it outside. When this girl phases, she will feel the power Sam and I have over her. Sam of course, has his Alpha power, Jacob has his Beta power and I have my mama wolf power. Not as powerful as an Alpha command, I can't order them to do anything in such a way that they can't refuse, I just hold that motherly connection with each one. And Leah is in major trouble with the big mama wolf.

Ignoring her refusal, I picked Leah up and carried her over my shoulder out of the hospital. I could hear Sam and Seth following. Leah fought with me the whole way, but she couldn't fight me.

I carried Leah into the woods, her shaking was getting worse. Just a little more and she would phase, but I wasn't waiting all night for her to do so. I wanted to get this over with as soon as possible. So, I dropped her onto the forest floor. Hard.

"Hey! What is your problem? You carry me out of the hospital then drop me somewhere in the woods!" Leah screamed at me.

I smiled at her. "Yep. What are you going to do about it?" I asked with amusement seeping into my voice. She jumped up and phased right there. I phased in front of her.

'What the hell just happened? Oh my god? Am I…. am I a dog?' Leah's thoughts were panicky.

'We prefer the term werewolf.' I thought softly.

'I can hear you, but where are you?' Leah asked.

'I'm right in front of you. I'm the white wolf you see in front of you.' I told her softly. I didn't want to scare anymore than she already was.

'What is happening to me?' She was close to tears. I wondered briefly if wolves could cry, but then I snapped back to the situation at hand.

'Leah, the legends of the Quileutes are true. You and I are the only female werewolves. Sam is our Alpha. Jake is our Beta. Jared, Paul and Embry are in the pack also.' I told her.

She sniffled in her thoughts. 'What is your name?' She asked.

I chuckled in my thoughts. All this and she didn't even know my name. 'Nadi. My name is Nadi. And there's something you should know about me.' I told her.

She looked at me through her wolf eyes and asked, 'What is it?'

'My life story.' I whispered.

'Huh?' I could feel her confusion, so I showed her in my thoughts everything that had happened to me over the past five hundred years. When I finished she was quiet.

'So you are five hundred years old?' She asked.

I nodded my massive white head. Her thoughts were jumbled and sympathetic towards me. Then she started thinking about her dad, and I tried to stay out of her head. Until she asked about being a werewolf and I explained more about the pack, imprinting and who had imprinted.

Then Leah asked, 'So, why do I feel a connection to you? If Sam is our Alpha, Jacob is Beta, what are you?'

'Well, I am much, much older than all of you. I seem to have taken on the pack mother role. The boys have taken to referring to me as Mama Nadi or Mama Wolf in their thoughts. They try to hide it from me, but I catch them saying it all the time.'

She laughed and I could see her thoughts agreeing with the boys. Then I asked her a sad question. 'Leah, would you like to see your father's last moments?'

She looked down but then answered quietly, 'Yes.' So I replayed the scene in Harry's hospital room.

I felt pain in my heart, but it wasn't my own. It was Leah's and…Seth's. He and Sam had phased before I started replaying the scene for Leah. Seth had seen it all.

Sam and I spent the next few hours calming Seth and Leah down enough to phase back, then told them they couldn't return home because they were unstable. Billy was explaining everything to Sue so she wouldn't be worried. Sam ran back to my house to get some clothes for Leah and me.

She was almost my size. She was tall, six feet tall to be exact. Still four inches shorter than me, but at least I wouldn't be the only giant native girl walking around in as little clothes as possible in the dead of winter.

Sam brought us clothes and we phased back. We were behind the hospital again so I could drive my car home. Seth rode with Sam in his truck and Leah with me in my Maserati.

"Whoa. Nice car, Mama." She said then froze. I laughed. She had only been a wolf for five hours and here she was calling me mama already. I unlocked the doors and we got in. Sam had left before us, but we passed by him and arrived at the Cullen's before him.

Leah and I walked into the house and sat down on the couch in silence. Leah spoke first.

"I'm sorry I was such a bitch to you in the hospital. You know Sam's ex-girlfriend, Emily?" I nodded. "Well, she's my cousin. We're really close though, like sisters." Crap. I gulped and Leah continued.

"Emily called me and told me Sam broke up with her for some whore who'd just moved here and stole him right out from under her. In the hospital, when I saw you with Sam, I knew you were the 'whore who stole Sam'" She used air quotations to let me see her point of view on the whole debacle.

I smiled at her. She went on, "When we were in the woods, you explained imprinting to me. Is that what happened?" She asked cautiously.

Nodding, I answered her question. "Yeah. I've been alone for five hundred years, then that day we saved Bella from Laurent, I looked into Sam's eyes and I knew I had found him. Five hundred years, I waited, even looked for my imprint. Then there he was, right in front of me. When I heard he was with Emily, I didn't want to give him up to her because he was hers first, but I have waited too long to just give him up. I didn't want to hurt Emily, but once you imprint you'll understand the pull. It's impossible to resist."

Leah looked thoughtful. "Do you think I'll imprint?" She asked quietly. I shrugged.

"Everyone thought it was rare, but me, Sam, Jake and Jared have all imprinted. Embry and Paul were outnumbered, but now that you and Seth have phased, we're even. By the way, I should warn you, you know we can hear each other's thoughts when in wolf form. Well, Jake, Sam and I are good at controlling our thoughts so that it doesn't bother Embry or Paul that we think lovey thoughts all during patrol. Jared, however, is a different story. He's the most whipped of us all. So when you're in wolf form with him, be prepared to hear about Kim, Kim, Kim, Kim, Kim. She's a great girl, don't get me wrong. Once you've seen her through Jared's eyes, though…" I trailed off, not wanting to finish my own sentence. I shuddered, causing Leah to laugh loudly.

She wasn't so bad. Actually I liked her a lot. It would be nice to have another girl in the pack. We chattered on a bit more until Sam and Seth walked into the house. Seth said he was tired so I sent him to Carlisle's room to go to sleep. I sent Leah to Alice's room and I sat down on the couch with Sam. It was just after three in the afternoon on Sunday.

Sam and I had only had our first date last night, but now it seemed so far away with everything that was happening. We sat in silence, just leaning on each other, enjoying the other's company.

I knew Sam was upset about Harry's death and so was I, which is why I think we were so quiet. We just needed each other's solace. We needed a safe haven, and we were each other's.

Around six, I got up from the couch and went into the kitchen to cook something to eat. Sam told me Jared and Paul were on patrol right now, and I knew they would be hungry. Jake and Embry were on right after them and they would want something to eat.

Jared and Paul were the two worst to put together on patrol. Jared ONLY thought about Kim, and Paul got mad extremely easy. I don't know whom I felt more sorry for, Paul for having to endure Jared's lovey thoughts on Kim, or Jared for having to endure Paul's wrath.

Sam followed me into the kitchen and we began to cook. I felt bad knowing what Paul had to go through on patrol with Jared, since Paul could only cause Jared bodily harm that would heal quickly, Paul was scarred for life by Jared's thoughts. So I thought I'd make Paul's favorite meal, breakfast. It would work out nicely for when Leah and Seth got up to eat.

I made a large pan of eggs, a huge plate of bacon, an equally large plate of sausage, (some of the boys don't eat one or the other) and a mountain of biscuits. I set two plates aside for Seth and Leah and his them in the oven. Then Sam and I sat down to eat as Jared, Paul, Jake and Embry walked in the backdoor and started getting food without acknowledging Sam or I.

They sat down at the table and finally said muffled hellos to us. I laughed at the silly wolf boys. Seth and Leah came into the kitchen then and I thought Seth was going to cry when he saw the food was gone. I finished my food then, so I opened the oven as I placed my plate in the sink. I handed Seth and Leah theirs and I started to clean up.

After everyone ate, Embry and Jake went out on patrol, so Sam took Seth and Leah into the living room for a talk. I stayed in the kitchen, struggling to keep Paul and Jared entertained.

The boys sat at the table arguing about who could fight better. I ignored them and tried to keep from hurting them both. After about twenty minutes of their arguing, I had had enough.

"BOYS! ENOUGH!" I yelled. They looked at me shocked I had raised my voice, but they were quiet. Then Paul whispered, "He started it."

To which Jared replied, "You started it." And another argument ensued.

I gave them a deadly glare and sent them to the woods to patrol as punishment. "We just finished patrolling, though." Jared whined. I sighed and pointed to the back door.

"Well, you should have thought about that before you argued after I told you to shut it. Now, go." I demanded. The boys walked out grumbling as Sam walked into the kitchen.

"Where are they going?" He inquired. I shook my head.

"They were being childish, so I sent them to patrol." I told him. He laughed.

Seth appeared behind Sam. "You really are Mama Wolf aren't you?" He said, chuckling. Sam nodded and replied, "Yeah she is."

Sam and Seth joined Leah in the living room so I went outside and phased.

'Jared, Paul, go home. Next time you'll listen to me when I say stop won't you?' I asked in my thoughts.

'Yes ma'am.' Jared replied.

Then I remembered it was Sunday, we all had school tomorrow. So I said, 'Embry, Jake, you boys go home, too. I know your shift doesn't end until late, but I won't have you boys going to school and sleeping in class or not going at all because you're too tired. So go, I'll send Sam out with one of the Clearwater's.' I told them.

All four boys thanked me and I felt them phase back. I followed suit, got dressed and went inside. Now I have to deal with Sam.

I walked into the living room and said, "Sam, I sent the boys home. Someone needs to patrol." I looked pointedly at him.

He groaned. "Why did you send them home?"

"They have school tomorrow." I said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "You can take Seth or Leah with you. I'll see you tomorrow after school."

He stood up and pulled me into a hug. He looked deep into my eyes and said, "Okay. I'll take Seth with me. Come on, Seth." Sam kissed my lips sweetly and walked to the back door.

Seth grinned and jumped up, happily following Sam out the back door. I turned to Leah. "Are you okay, Leah?" I asked.

She shrugged. "I guess so. Today has been so crazy though." She mused. I know what she meant, so much had happened today. Her father died and she and her brother had phased into giant wolves and been taught about vampires.

I nodded slowly. "Yeah. Things will get better though. I promise."

Leah looked down, then back at me and smiled. "You know," she started, her voice now filled with curiosity, "I bet since you're half a century old, you've never had a girls' night have you?" She asked. I shook my head.

She smiled bigger and jumped off the couch. She grabbed my hand and pulled me up the stairs and into Alice's room. "I saw her bathroom when I was sleeping in her earlier. Since she's not here, we are going to take full advantage of it." Leah said. I was a bit afraid now. I remembered all the things Bella told me about Alice dressing her up. I knew Leah needed a friend right now, and I was happy to have her find that friend in myself.

We reached Alice's room and went straight into her bathroom. Leah and I spent an hour in Alice's bathroom, doing each other's hair and make up. Then we went into my room and played in my closet. Alice had sent me a bunch of high fashion clothes for Christmas, I hadn't had a chance to wear any of it, but they were getting its use now with Leah and me.

Around eleven thirty, I told Leah I had to go to sleep for school the next day. She looked sad, but agreed and went to Alice's room so she could sleep some more. I could feel a bond forming between Leah and me. We were already pack sisters, and I had this odd motherly bond with all my young wolves, save for Sam, but I wanted Leah to be my friend on her own. She was really the only one who had a choice. Sam was bound to me by imprinting, Jacob, Jared, Paul, Embry and Seth were bound by this motherly pack thing, and Leah seemed only slightly effected by it, but she got to choose whether or not she wanted to be my friend.


A/N: So, this is the first chapter I've written where I'm actually not that happy with it. I got stuck in the middle and just tried to find a place to end it. I'm really not happy about that, I feel like I'm writing blind or something. I will try and fix whatever damage I've caused in this chapter, so it may be a bit before I update again. Don't worry, I'm just trying to figure things out.

Thanks to CoolCat98, Curtis, xxcharlie93xx, xDanax13, Aya163, and Rachel2w2 for reviewing last chapter. Thanks to AllytheVampChick for being the coolest person ever. By the way, I forgot to tell you this, I had that Blackwater dream again. Only it was slightly different, the guy hit me for it instead of yelling like he did last time! So weird! ~Ever Uley~