A/N: So... about that sequel...

The first chapter has been posted, and can be found through my profile. It's called The Way We Get By, and follows the Pack and their families as they learn to live without Sam and Emily.

(It's been a while. Thank you for the best reviews! I love ya.)


The Way We Get By: A Preview


one.

Before (Sam)


When Sam eventually stepped down, entrusting the only family he'd ever truly known to the new Chief Jacob, Emily cried.

"I hope this isn't you trying to let me down gently," he said, trying to make a joke over the crippling alarm he felt. "We're supposed to be getting married tomorrow."

Emily hardly ever cried. Only twice before had he witnessed her tears. The first time, when he'd turned up on her doorstep and begged and begged and begged, and the second when Harry had died.

Emily sobbed harder, which only increased his heart rate. And then she said through gasping breaths, "I'm not going to see her again, am I?"

"Oh."

The penny had dropped then. Both times, Emily had been crying about Leah – not because of him, and not because of Harry. She had cried because Leah's heart had been broken, and then because it had been broken again. And now, because Sam had stepped down as Alpha and Emily thought that Leah had no reason to come by the house anymore. Emily thought that she would not see her again.

It didn't matter that Leah hated them. It didn't matter that, sometimes, Emily couldn't sleep because Leah had said something so horrible earlier that day. It didn't matter, because Emily loved her just the same as she always had.

"You're going to see her tomorrow," he tried to reassure.

"She won't come. If I were her, I wouldn't come."

Sam smoothed Emily's damp hair away from her face, leaving a kiss along every inch of skin his fingers hadn't touched. "So make it happen."

And so before Emily's tears had completely dried she'd gotten into their car and he hadn't seen her for three hours.

When she came home, she was smiling.