Impossibly Possible: Leah's Octuplets.
Chapter 21
Author's note: I don't own anything except for my OC's; Terrance Cullen- Leah's imprint, and Leah's children, Adrian Emmett Cullen, Carlos Edward Cullen, Maya Alice Cullen, Sophie Terra Cullen, Henry Seth Cullen, Isabell Esme Cullen, William Jasper Cullen, and Lily Rosalie Cullen.
Emily awakened to feeling strong and muscular arms around her waist. At first, she wanted to panic, but then she remembered the events of the previous night. She sits up in bed, pulled the covers up to her chest, and observed the sleeping boy next to her. His hair was tossled, mouth slightly open, and was snoring slightly. She couldn't help but feel adoration for him.
Last night was pretty crazy, she had never expected that she would end up in this position. Embry had been so sweet and so shy and the thought of her being the first woman he had actually slept with made her blush like crazy. There was no doubt in her mind that she was falling for him.
Soon her thoughts were interrupted by loud talking in the hallway.
Quil's POV
Paul, Jared, and I had been looking for Embry everywhere. The last time we all saw him was last night and he just seemed to have disappeared. The cottage was huge and there were so many rooms that he could be anywhere.
I really hope we can find him before Claire wakes up. I promised her I would take her out for ice cream and the park. Unfortunately Collin, Brady, and Seth wanted to tag along, so Sam ordered that I take all of them out along with Nessie for a day of fun. Great just what I needed-to be a chaperone of freaking children! I had Claire, that was all I needed.
We soon came to hallway that we have never explored before.
"Dude, I wonder where this leads to?" Jared asks.
"Maybe a grave yard of some sort" Paul replies with a snicker.
"Oh come on, that's not funny!"
"I mean this house was purchased for Clearwater, correct? I wouldn't be surprised if they built a grave for her to put all the dead bodies of people she kills. She is after all one crazy bitch!"
For some reason, his comment irrated me, so I turned to him "Look, she's been through enough! You don't always have to insult her every chance you get!"
"Woah! Woah! Calm the hell down! It's all in good fun!" Paul says raising his hands. I was surprised he didn't get pissed off at that statement and offer to fight me. Soon Jared stops walking.
"Do you guys smell that?" he asks.
"What?"
I knew what he was referring to-Embry's scent was very pravelent in the hallway, but the strange thing was that Emily's scent was present as well. What was Emily doing with Embry and why was their scent so strong?
We continued walking down the hallway, until we stop at a door.
"The scent ends here." We looked at the knob for awhile before Paul starts to twist the knob. The door was locked, so he opted for banging on the door.
"YO EMBRY! GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE RIGHT NOW! WE KNOW YOUR IN THERE! YOUR SCENT REEKED UP THIS WHOLE ENTIRE HALLWAY! OH AND DO YOU KNOW WHERE EMILY IS?"
Soon we heard some shuffling from within the room and some hushed whispers. We knew Embry was there, but was he in there with Emily? And if so, what the hell were they doing?
Embry's POV
Loud knocking woke me up from our slumber. When I sat up in bed, I saw Emily frozen in fear.
"Oh God, Embry! What do we do! Paul, Jared, and Quil are all outside."
"I know." I say quietly, "we got to put our clothes on!" Before I could get out of the bed, Emily grabbed my arm.
"We can't go out there!"
"But we can't stay in here either!"
"Yeah—but-but they will know."
"Better for them to know than for the whole house to find out. We got to go out there and face the music."
"But, Embry, I am so afraid." Emily crosses her arms over her chest as silent tears escaped her eyes. Her long hair was sticking out all over the place. I couldn't help, but pull her into my arms and give her a quick kiss. As I cup my large hands around her face, her face turned a bright red.
"You won't have to face this alone. I will be with you-"
I was cut off by Paul screaming screaming hysterically. "OPEN THIS FUCKING DOOR BEFORE WE FUCKING BREAK IT DOWN!"
Emily and I scurried to get our clothes on and then proceeded to towards the banging door. Emily hid behind me with her small hands gripping the back of my shirt. Soon we threw open the door to see the surprised faces of Paul, Jared, and Quil. There was an awkward silence that followed that seemed to take an eternity.
"Oh you have got to be FUCKING KIDDING ME!" Paul exclaims breaking the silence.
Emily comes up from behind me to confront Paul. "I know this looks bad, but-but-we didn't plan for this to go this far-and—" the look Paul gave to Emily made her shut her mouth really quick. Paul looked beyond furious-almost murderous. He began to shake violently, so I gently pushed Emily behind me shielding her.
"This looks more than just bad! THIS IS FUCKED UP! YOU ARE FUCKING ENGAGED! AND YOU?" he turns towards me, "What the hell is wrong with you, kid! DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOU SLEPT WITH A WOMAN WHO IS ABOUT TO BE FUCKING MARRIED! WHAT THE HELL?"
Quil and Jared came up behind Paul to restrain him.
"I'm sure Embry and Emily have a perfectly reasonable explaination for all of this, right you guys?" Quil says looking at us uneasily.
"Oh yeah and what the hell is that? There is no reason for it at all. When Sam finds out—"
"NO!" We all exclaim at the same time.
"Sam doesn't have to know…..I mean doesn't he have to shack up with Leah anyways. So that's like the same thing if not worse." Jared says.
"Uhhhmmm I don't know what the hell you guys have been smoking, but of course he has to know and no that isn't the same thing! He was ORDERED to mate with Leah. Not the same thing! NOT AT ALL!"
"Please Paul. I beg of you. Please don't tell Sam. At least not now. I will tell him when I am ready to." Emily begs raising her arms in the air by this time, tears are cascading down her face. After seeing her tear stricken face, Paul's reaction softens.
"Ok, fine. I WON'T tell Sam. NONE of us will, BUT you have to PROMISE to tell him yourself, understood?"
Emily doesn't say a word, but nods her head silently.
"In the mean time, we got to get this room cleaned up! This REEKS of FUCKING sex!"
Neutral POV
The group proceed to go back into the room to strip the sheets, but before they could continue cleaning, Emily stops them and decides to explain everything to them including her plan to get Sam and Leah back together. After she was done explaining, all four of them were in complete shock.
"So let me get this straight…..you have been slowly letting go of Sam so that he can be with Leah?" Jared asks incredulously.
"Yes."
"And you and Embry like each other?" Quil states shaking his head.
"Yes."
"Oh and you guys forgot to mention the fact that the two people who she is trying to set up are ordered to mate, but NOT engage to EACH other. Both have imprints. One imprint fucking sleeps with a CHILD and the other one-the smelly leech is in love with Leah or so it seems. Man, this whole thing is MESSED up!"
All wince at Paul's words as they know what he said is true.
"I kind of like the whole idea of forbidden love. I mean everyone in the situation should be happy right? And it seems like Leah and Sam still have feelings for each other even though they are both too stubborn to admit to it. I am going to help you, Emily." Quil says.
"Me too." Jared agrees nodding his head.
"Are you guys out of your DAMN mind! What the hell!"
"I guess we are!"
"Oh wow…this is just great!" Paul mutters and begins pacing the room furiously as they all watch. Soon he stops as he realizes that he is being watched. "Well what the hell are you guys looking at! Do you really expect me to be a part of this MESSED up plan? There is no FUCKING way that I will agree to do this!"
They all look at each other with a smile and then back at Paul.
Fast Forwards to later on in day….
The five of them were standing in the living room with everyone else. The babies were downstairs along with Leah, Sam, Jacob, Seth, and the Cullens.
"I can't believe I agreed to this!" Paul says smacking his forehead.
"Well you wouldn't want Rachel finding out you still look at _, now do you?" Emily askes sweetly.
"No….."
"Ok then."
"I mean it's not like things could get even worse than this."
As Sam was about to discuss patrolling for the day, there was a knock on the door. Seth rushes to open door revealing the Old Quil, Billy, and the rest of the council. Their mere presence brought some tension in the they strode in, everyone made some room for all of them to sit on the sofas in the living room.
"Good afternoon. We came by to congratulate the new parents and see the children." Old Quil spoke with authority as he looked at everyone in the room, in particular Leah and Sam who were standing off to the side. Leah looked furious as she crossed her arms over her chest. What else did they want? Surely that wasn't the only reason why they stopped by. Wordlessly, the members of the pack and the imprints brought the children before the council.
They all stared at the children in awe. "Simply magnificent! They all appear to be healthy and strong! Have they started phasing yet?" Old Quil directs the question to Leah and Sam.
"Well-" Sam started to say, but was cut off by Leah.
"What the HELL do you think? They were born yesterday! They are FUCKING children for goodness sakes!"
"No need to be angry Miss Clearwater. We simply asked a question. We speculate that they will phase earlier than many of the wolves here. Perhaps during their infancy or early childhood. They are after all full blooded wolves."
"What is it that you want?"
"Oh you are a very smart woman. We have several matters to discuss. I would like it if the Cullens were escorted from the cottage while we discuss. Seth, Embry, Quil, Collin, and Brady you will do that for me and will keep a careful eye on them."
All look like they were about to protest, but the look Old Quil gave them told them otherwise. With frustrated sighs, the youngest members of the pack escorted the Cullens out of the cottage. Only Leah, Sam, Jacob, Jared, Paul, Rachel, Kim, Emily, and the council remained.
"Now, I would like for the rest of you to be seated with the children." They all sat down looking completely bewildered by what was to happen next. Would the council get rid of the degree, would they summon the children to be taken away after perceiving them as potential threats? None of them knew. Before any of them could voice their concerns, Old Quil began to talk again.
"The mating decree still remains. Leah and Sam, you both know that you will have more children for our tribe. After some careful discussion between the elders, we realize that the circumstances under which the decree was made were a bit unusual. We decided to add an additional clause to the decree that will fix that problem."
"What do you mean?" Leah asked in confusion.
"What we mean is that it is seemed rather unfit for a woman to mate with a man who is not her husband. While in recent past, it was customary for men to have multiple wives, that tradition now simply doesn't exist like it did many many years ago. Now a days, men marry and mate with only one woman for life."
The wheels in everyone's minds began to turn. Were the council really implying what they thought they were. As if to confirm their suspicions, Old Quil states exactly why they are here,
"Leah and Sam, you are not only to mate with each other and provide more offspring to the tribe, but you are to get married as well."
"What?" they both exclaim at the same time.
"But Sam is engaged to be married to Emily! Emily is his imprint. You can't do that to her! " Leah exclaims in anger.
"Sam may be imprinted with Emily, but he didn't get her pregnant. He got you pregnant. In the past, a man who gets a woman pregnant out of wedlock would have married her and fulfilled his duties as not only a father, but the head of the household. Plus the woman would have been unfit to marry someone else seeing as another man has touched her."
"Oh great! So just because you don't want to the whole tribe to see me as some brooding mare, you order that Sam and I get married! How very considerate of you! Maybe you should have thought about that before making such ridiculous decrees!"
"Yes."
"But, you can't do this!"
"The elders have spoken! You and Sam are to marry. Whatever engagement Sam had with Emily does not matter. You are unfit to marry someone else and Emily is unfit to wed seeing as she is barren!" At this statement, tears sprung up to Emily's eyes. She wordlessly places one of the children in Jared's arms and runs out of the room.
"How can you be so insensitive to say something like that! I can't deal with this now!"
"Here Leah, I will take the other baby." Jake murmurs softly. Leah gives him a small smile and places the child in Jake's other arm as he was now carrying two children.
"Wait, Leah." Sam says grabbing her hand. She struggled against him, but he was too strong for her and after awhile she gave up. Sam stood up still holding Leah's hand and looked at the elders.
"You cannot force Leah and I to marry. I will not force her to marry me if she doesn't want to. Don't you think you are already adding more stress onto her? She just gave birth for goodness sake!"
"Sam, its ok." Leah whispers. "There is nothing we can do about it. Just leave it be." She gives him a sad smile.
"What are you saying, Leah? I—uh-I don't want to hurt you anymore. Jake was right. I was being selfish bastard. You don't have to do this…" She silences him with a finger.
"I will mate with you and I will marry you. I have made up my mind." Before Sam could protest more, she turns towards the council. Although she felt defeat, she didn't appear to be that way. She appeared strong and confident. "When are we to marry?"
"In a month." There was silence as everyone let the words sink in. As Leah leaves the room, everybody couldn't help but pity her. Jake knew that Sam was trying to do the right thing by standing up for Leah and that he loved her. This wasn't the way for him to win her back-he knew that-Sam knew that.
He knew he had to do something. There was another way. It didn't have to be like this. He would fight for Leah at all cost. He was sure that Sam and the other boys felt the same way. He couldn't help but think how the Cullens would react to this news. More importantly, how Terrance would react. He already knew Terrance was angry. This could be the very thing that would push him over the edge. The last thing they needed was a vampire that was hell bent on revenge, but Terrance wasn't like that or so he hoped.