Disclaimer: Stephenie Meyer created Twilight, I am not Stephenie Meyer. Therefore I did not create Twilight.

Disclaimer deuce: I think it's funny that all the characters I make you're made to hate.

Leah's POV

My mother wasn't home, Billy Black wasn't home. I headed over to Sam's house hoping they'd have a clue where some one was. Hasn't any one heard of a cell phone? Like you'd have their number. I thought it was ironic that I had planned on making my big entrance and everyone was gone already. I knocked on the door that once would have been mine. Emily answered it stepping out to hug me immediately, I used to just push her off, I didn't want her to hug me, but I figured I'd be nice. Woah, when did Leah Clearwater become nice? I thought frustrated Embry Call. At least I wouldn't have to deal with Embry or Jacob here, I could spend some time with the pack, explain why I left. Emily looked slightly conflicted.

"Well all the wolves went down to the park for some games." I nodded why did she look like there was something she wasn't telling me.

"Is Sam okay?" I asked wondering if something had been wrong with Sam lately she was acting off.

"No, but they are planning a whole Olympic Peninsula Games." She rolled her eyes.

"No imprints allowed." That was the part frustrated Emily, obviously. I laughed, it sounded like something Embry would make up. It was probably Seth, it's been too long since I've seen him, I came here to surprise him and the pack, plus since I know Embry's in Minnesota this won't be a deal.

"Thanks Emily." I said turning to leave, I had just phased and ran across the states over the last couple of days because I didn't need anything besides the clothes on my back, I had enough left at home. I turned and headed straight for the park. If the pack was there my family mom probably was there, or with Mr. Swan. I cringed internally. You need to get used to it, it might become more. I tried to jog at a human speed to the park. I was pushing it just a bit fast though. Glare was in my eyes from the sun, but I saw the pack on the basketball court.

"Need an extra player?" their eyes all turned to me. Most of their mouths were open, Seth's wasn't. He sprinted to me and gave me a big hug. The pack exchanged looks obviously not knowing what to think.

"We're not really playing what with the packs how they are." Jared said before Sam shut him up. I didn't like what was going on. My eyes turned to Seth.

"Where's mom?"

"She's at a meeting with the other elders, and Ms. Call." Sam shot Seth a look that didn't escape my notice. I didn't want to cause problems.

"Where are they?" Sam shifted uncomfortably.

"They're at the Calls." He answered reluctantly.

Embry's POV

We walked through the door at my house. The elders turned to us, their eyes widened unexpectedly, my mom was the first to react, running to my side.

"Mom, I told you I was coming home." I told her. I didn't tell her that my home was with the Cullens, there was no need to be cruel. Jacob picked his dad out of his wheel chair for a hug before setting him back in his wheelchair softly. I moved to Billy Black. Shaking his hand.

"Good to see you Dad." I said with an air of cockiness. He blushed red. Jacob back handed me and I laughed.

"Guess you never heard I'm an Alpha huh?" I turned to my mother who was giving me a very disappointed look. Sue Clearwater on the other hand found the whole thing slightly amusing. I rolled my eyes at my biological father.

"Oh come on Billy, you really thought that I magically became a werewolf? You know descendents are the only one who can phase." Sue Clearwater seemed to be enjoying this a bit too much.

"Well Sue it was your daughter who pointed it out." Sue's smirk disappeared instantly. It was my turn to smirk. Jacob pulled me to the couch hoping I'd done my damage for the day. I had restrained myself for the most part. Over the next hour we talked about everything, but mostly the Elders filled us in that nothing has really happened since we left. They didn't say it like that, but that's what it meant. We told them about how there were at least five times as many mosquitoes there. The door opened.

"Hey everyone I'm back" She's here? Why is she here? I hadn't turned around to confirm it was her but I didn't need to I heard her voice.

"Holy shit!" she said as I turned around and she saw Jacob and I. She turned and ran almost immediately. I stood up for a second to get her then my eyes turned to Sue Clearwater, as if asking for approval.

"Are you kidding? Get my daughter back!" she yelled at me. I hopped the couch and Jacob ran around it. We bounded out the door after her. I hoped she didn't make straight for the trees to phase, stopping her in form would be much harder. She hadn't. she was still running on the road. I caught up to her. We were running a lot faster then what was safe. I jumped and grabbed her around the waist falling to the pavement. In midair a spun so my back would get it and not her. I caught the pavement and her and I didn't move. Right now I was happy. I had my arms around her again. And for a short moment I could fool myself in to thinking she didn't want me far away from her. She turned her body to face me in my tight clutch of her. She was looking down at me trying to hold a stern look on her face, but she faltered laughing. The look she gave me was one that confused me. It looked like she wanted to kiss me but couldn't with Jacob next to me. I grinned, she slapped me. I stood up in pain. Leah released herself from me. She took a step behind me and gasped.

"Embry, we need to get you back to your house fast, my mom can help you she's a nurse." I didn't understand but my back hurt, so I guessed it had to do with the fact that my back was burning.

"What are you talking about?" I said not sure what happened. She stepped in front of me and pulled my shirt off me from the front, meaning the entire back of my shirt had been rubbed off on the pavement. I winced, Was it that bad?

"We better get moving before your skin heals over it…" Leah said rushing me to run. I followed her lead and Jacob fell behind me.

"Damn Embry, you really did take a bad spill." He said running at our side. She's right here. This might be a dream. I reached out and touched her arm. She turned to me questioningly.

"Nothing, just trying to figure something out." Did you just do that? You are such a idiot, if this was your dream you would be holding her, she'd love you. Yeah this wasn't a dream, this isn't how I'd want it. We were in front of my old home. Leah spun me around and showed my back, some people winced but Billy laughed.

"Looks like you really did a number on him Clearwater." Billy laughed.

"Leah, you're cleaning this out, for doing this to him." Leah protested but Quil senior laughed and interrupted.

"How did this happen?" Jacob smiled behind me and stepped in front of Leah and myself. I turned to face the elders.

"Well Leah was running really fast, and Embry dove, tackled her. Then spun in air so he'd catch all the ground and Leah wouldn't." Something in Leah's eye realized something, as if she hadn't noticed that last part. Sue eyed Leah and she disappeared in to a bathroom looking for something.

"Where do you keep your tweezers?" She said coming out of the bathroom. My mother answered her but that's not what was on my mind. Tweezers? I hate Tweezers, is there stuff embed in my back? Leah returned with a bottle of peroxide and tweezers. Fear was clear on my face. She grinned evilly and made her way to me.

"There isn't enough room to do this here, I'm taking him back to my house." Leah told the elders who were still talking. We sprinted out the door and ran to her house it'd been a while, I hadn't been here since the night before the werebears.

"So why couldn't we use your room?" She asked walking inside the door. I shrugged.

"My mom is renting it out to someone else, it helps pay the bills." I said as if defending her.

"Lay down on your stomach and try not to move." I did so, I almost asked her to be soft on me, but it would have been in vain, if she wanted to be hard on me she would be, whether I asked her to or not.

Leah's POV

I couldn't believe he was afraid of tweezers, he must be traumatized. That was pretty nice of him to take all the fall so you took none. Oh shut up already. Like you didn't bring him back to your house so you could be alone as you fixed him up. I grabbed the tweezers and pucked one piece of asphalt out of his lower back, he winced slightly. Oh, he's going to love this. I thought with a little vindictive pleasure pouring some hydrogen peroxide on his open cut. It fizzed up but he didn't even move, it seemed like it didn't cause him pain at all. My dark torturous side was slightly let down. I couldn't help but rub his back a little, I felt an immediate response, his body tensed for a second then relaxed.

I worked my way up his back pulling out each and every piece of asphalt and pouring peroxide on it. My hands ran up and down his back. He thought I was looking for stray pieces of gravel, I wasn't. I was enjoying this, no matter how short how little I got to, I would enjoy this moment. After about a minute of not finding anything in his back he came up to his elbows for a second. My arms rubbed between his shoulder blades on a thick knot. He groaned deeply and sighed dropping back to a completely relaxed position he was in before.

He was enjoying this as much as I was. Are you kidding, he ENJOYED getting his back torn apart to get his arms around you. That was really nice, kind of cute, very endearing, and exactly something Embry would do. I wrapped my arms around his midsection, who was I fooling? I need this guy. He turned in my hug and looked up at me. Confusion was in his eyes, a silent argument, he really thought way too much. He was struggling against his own demons. His hand met my face and I leaned in to it, it was like being warm for the first time in months. I knew that was a horrible analogy but my body missed his. He leaned up and kissed me. I reacted instinctively and responded but stopped short on the side of his body. There were marks. Those are scars from the werebears remember? I told myself. I looked down and Embry's face betrayed his true feelings. He looked ashamed of himself. He pushed out from under me, I was protesting rather fiercely. He scanned the room. His eyes turned to one window that was open. Oh great. I thought and before I could move to stop him he bounded out and smoothly jumped through the window.

Embry's POV

Embry you dumb ass why did you kiss her? didn't you see her reaction? You stupid idiot you knew she has a boy friend and you kissed her! I thought she wanted me to kiss her! I still thought what I did was logical but I didn't allow my thoughts to agree with what I did, it was despicable, wrong… but so right. I bounded back in to my house, my back all but a distant memory. Jacob saw the look in my eye, the look of a running man. He was at my side.

"What's going on." I gave him a look that shut him up. I ran out of the room to grab a blanket and pillow, there wasn't any room in this house anyway.

"Nothing, I just want to avoid her as long as possible." I said forgetting Sue Clearwater was in the room.

"What did Leah do?" Sue asked obviously angry.

"Nothing it's my fault I screwed up, well I'm going to be here tomorrow, I just need to get my mind cleared before tomorrow." Sue wasn't completely convinced but it wasn't up to her.

"What are the blanket and pillow for?" Quil senior asked. Apparently he was the only one looking at this logically.

"Sleeping, I'll see you all tomorrow." I bounded out the back and Jacob followed closely behind me.

"I need to grab a new shirt my stuff is still at the court." Jacob put a hand out to stop me.

"I'll grab it for you Embry, listen sleep at my house tonight." I shook my head.

"Are you kidding me? their is barely room for you there, I'm not going to fit there… listen Jacob I can handle sleeping outside, I brought the blanket and pillow because I prefer not to sleep in form. I'll be fine, I'm a big werewolf." He rolled his eyes.

"Is that why you're running from a girl?" laughed and rolled my eyes.

"That ain't just a girl, that's Leah Clearwater." As if it being her made all the difference in the world, to me it did. Jacob seemed to understand.

"I'll meet you at the cliff."

Leah's POV

I ran back to the Call's home, I knew that's where he'd run but when I got in the door I realized he wasn't there, and everyone was giving me a look. The worse look by far was my mothers.

"Leah Danielle Clearwater, what the hell did you do to that kid?" it'd been a LONG time since my mom called me by my middle name. The other elders shared her same sentiment but none of them said anything.

"Do you know where he went?" I said ignoring question my mom asked. None of them responded. Figures I thought, I walked through the house trying to pick up a scent. I smelt him here, but couldn't follow his scent.

I made my way back to the park, the old pack plus my brother was finishing up their basketball game and getting ready for supper, apparently they were grilling at Sam's house. Jacob's scent was stronger here, as if he'd just came by.

"Was Jacob just here?" I asked the pack.

"Yeah sis, he grabbed his and Embry's stuff" a basketball hit Seth in the back of the head.

"Wow, so much for 'we promise not to tell her.' Sam quoted angrily."

"Hey I didn't tell her where he went." Quil growled after Seth.

"Only because you don't know." He shook his head.

"No, Jacob said something about a cliff." Seth said proudly. Quil was now in front of my brother staring him down.

"Shut up now, Embry deserves his time if he wants it." Seth looked away ashamed. The cliff, he's at the cliff? Why didn't I think of that! I thought turning and running away.

Embry's POV

I was jogging to a place to sleep, I'd drop my stuff off in the forest, go hunting for dinner then nod off to sleep, I'll get to dealing with everything else tomorrow, but tonight I was going to find my own answers, by myself. My phone buzzed in my pocket, it was Jasper. I flipped it open.

"Hey what's up?" I said trying to act as if nothing was wrong, as if I wasn't running from her again.

"Alice is starting to see visions of you, nothing concrete by any means, but she said she saw you sleeping outside with a blanket and pillow."

"Really? Are you sure?"

"Yeah, well it was a bit unfocused, as if she couldn't quite see it, and she hasn't been able to see anything of Jacob's future yet, we're trying to figure that out." I nodded, I found this all extremely interesting.

"Wow, that's pretty interesting." I didn't want his questions to follow a certain line I was pretty sure they were about to cross.

"So, why are you sleeping outside tonight?" Jasper asked, amused more then concerned.

"Nothing really, there just isn't any room for me in the house, besides I'd rather sleep on grass then on wood floor." I lied smoothly, that was just an excuse, I didn't want to talk to any one, I just wanted tonight to think, and he wouldn't know any different.

"Okay, take care of yourself, if anything comes up you know I'll be on the next flight out." I smiled, that wasn't just an empty promise. He really meant it. I never understood what he said about being a horrible person. The guy had a heart of gold. A heart that's made of gold can't really beat at all. I said to myself thinking back 'Faust, Midas, and Me' by Switchfoot. His heart didn't beat either, so it could be that heart of gold.

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I'd gotten done eating so I might as well call it a night, I could get a couple extra hours of sleep, or tossing and turning, which ever one. I never slept well anymore. I haven't slept well since the day she left me. I adjusted myself under the stars looking up at them. The blanket was really just so I had something over me, not so much to keep me warm. I didn't know what to do anymore. I never had the answers… every thing seemed to be moving ahead of me, and now my one time to get away from her and she shows up. My mind was shot, I couldn't comprehend anymore, I didn't want to. I just wanted to sleep and let nightmares clear my mind of today's exploits. I closed my eyes and let myself drift in to the personal hell that would soon follow.

Leah's POV

"So why are we looking for Embry? If he wanted to talk to you he would come see you." I know Seth, but maybe he wouldn't, it's never that simple when it comes to guys.

"Because we've already called the rest of the pack, no one knows where he is, and I think he's sleeping outside." Seth shrugged spinning his flashlight in his hand.

"We've been out here for a couple hours and nothing, you really think you'll be able to pick up his scent in your human form?" Seth asked a good question. The smell hit me. For Seth it might not be as strong but for me, it was familiar, right… perfect. I stopped and turned off my flashlight, realizing now it was stupid to believe that I'd need it, or that my eyes would find him before my nose picked up his scent. He was in form near here… his smell was much stronger, I followed it and Seth ran quietly behind me. It was around eleven at night. I didn't know why I needed to find him. I didn't know why I needed to see him.

He runs away very fast, kind of cowardly. Maybe it's just the opposite, he runs for my sake, so I don't need to explain, to give me a chance to be without him. Maybe he runs when he's too weak to fight the emotional fight over you. I had never thought why he ran, I just never wanted him running from me, with the fear in his eyes I saw so clearly.

I turned past an opening and there he was. Laying with the blanket across his legs. There is no possible way he was this big before, he must be working out or something. Seth appeared next to me stopping my silent admiration of the man laying on the ground. Yes man, he's matured so much, he'll always be the same guy, but so much more. I thought to myself.

"What do we do now? Wake him up?" Seth asked removing me from my silent reverence. That's a good question what are you going to do now that you found him? I've got a couple ideas… I blushed and smiled.

"Seth pick him up let's bring him back to our house, he can sleep on the couch, I'll grab his stuff." It was obvious Seth wanted to ask why, but he didn't, he smiled. Seth can be the best younger brother ever, or the biggest pain in the ass, right now it was the first. He scooped up the nearly seven foot beast of an eighteen year old and walked next to me.

"Do I want to know why you're kidnapping your boyfriend?" I winced for a second but hid it before he could notice. No one here knows about Dave, I'm pretty sure my welcome will be worn out faster if they do. I shook my head in response to Seth's question.

"No you don't want to know." We had made our way back to my house I opened the door for Seth and he entered our living room. I cleaned off the couch as best I could, it wasn't big enough for Embry, but it might be better then sleeping outside, besides now I could watch him. You know how creepy that sounds? It didn't matter I'd sleep right here in front of him, I slept much lighter then he did. I watched him breathing in slowly, as if some how he'd managed to relax. I sat up watching him breathe, the changes in his breath, the way his shortened, I assumed he wasn't sleeping well. It was all I could do not move closer to him, I needed him, he needed me, but right now I didn't know what that meant. His lips moved slightly and he started to mumble.

"All the miles that separate." He managed to get out of his mouth, it wasn't the same romantic bull shit I was hoping for, but he mumbled, as if he was humming a tune. He was out. I was sure of it.

"We're together, if only in my dreams." He mumbled. I knelt by his side. Some tears streamed down my face.

Embry's POV

"I need you Embry." I felt different, but I couldn't open my eyes, maybe I was dreaming, but I didn't want to believe that. Open your eyes, before you fall asleep again and forget this! I was too late, I was already past waking up again.

Yeah I know it was weird to end there, but ehh, kind of wanted to throw a cliff hanger, what if Leah DIDN'T say that? what if she did? I don't know give me epic theories… what do you think? You know the deal, comments, rolls of twenty dollar bills, high fives, here in the review area.