Ch38: Fab Four & Bella Cleanse

Leah walked down the steps to the kitchen. She stood next to the kitchen sink and examined what was going on in the room. Collin was right Brady was eating like he hadn't been fed in months. It was pretty disgusting.

Claire was in her high chair trying to feed herself but she seemed to be missing her mouth because half the green goo they called food was on her bib and the other half was on her face or on Collin. Whenever Collin tried to take the spoon from her she would scream "No! Mine." and he would give it back to her all for her to throw it back at him and giggle.

"How Quil puts up with this on a daily basis, I have no idea." Collin whined giving up handing the spoon over to Leah's mom.

"Qwil is mine." Claire clapped her hands as Sue cleaned her up.

Leah laughed well that brightened up her mood a lot.

Kim, Rachel and Angela were in the living room laughing, Leah guessed that they decided reality TV shows won because that was what they were watching at the time.

Collin wiped his face. "Hey Leah you feel better now?"

"A bit." Leah shrugged.

Brady looked up from his plate of food. "Where's Emily?"

Collin panicked, dropping the towel on the floor. "You finally killed her?" He began pacing. "Sam is going to kill me. I was the last one to see her alive and then Jake will kill me when you go to jail. Oh no!"

Leah rolled her eyes. "Are you done with the dramatics yet?" Leah asked and Collin swallowed and bobbed his head up and down. "I didn't kill her, I just told her some things she obviously needed but didn't want to hear. She came in my room and said we needed to talk. I warned her I wasn't in the mood. I made her cry. Fuck I care though she asked for it."

"Watch that mouth we have children in the room!" Sue covered Claire's ears with her hands. Leah needed to clean her mouth if she was planning on having kids but that was going to be really hard.

"Sorry ma." Leah pushed herself up so she could sit on the counter next to the sink.

"Getting pudgy there Leah." Rachel laughed as she came into the kitchen and tapped Leah's stomach softly. It suddenly seemed like the room was looking at her. Including her mom. Leah wasn't ready to tell anyone yet. Especially not her mom!

Leah tugged at Seth's shirt and jumped off the counter. "Uh, I guess I been eating a lot lately. That reminds me I should be making a plate right now! Yup that's what I'm going to do. Make a nice delicious plate of my mother's food." Leah pushed her hair that fell in her eyes back where it belonged.

"I was just kidding." Rachel laughed nervously as she grabbed a drink from the refrigerator.

Leah walked to the stove and began making a plate. She probably should have kicked Emily out and stayed up in her room. She wouldn't have been caught in this awkward situation. It seemed like since she knew she was pregnant now, her favorite meal of wild rice and cranberries was already making her nauseous. How was she supposed to eat this without her mom looking at her funny? Leah groaned, she really was hungry but she didn't want this, so she sat her plate back on the counter next to the stove.

"Uh, never mind." Leah stepped back from the stove and took a breath to keep the queasy feeling from coming back.

Sue put her hand on Leah's elbow and turned Leah so she could face her. "Are you okay?"

"Fine mom, just fine." Leah nodded her head.

Sue narrowed her eyes at Leah as she really looked at her. Leah felt like she was naked as her heartbeat spiked. Leah thought Sue had realized but her mother just shook her head. "Sorry sweetie, go sit down in the living room with the rest of the girls. I know this is your favorite so I'll save you a plate okay?"

Leah swallowed and almost thought of running out the room but that would only make her mother more suspicious. So she walked as fast as she could. She thought about sitting in the living room but everything felt so confined and restricted. So she went outside and sat on the porch swing she spent hours with Seth and her dad building.

It still had her sea shells she collected glued on the top of it. Leah ran her finger along the top before looking out into the forest, she wondered what her boys were doing, and if Jake was okay. All their emotions were mixing together so Leah had no idea who was feeling what.

The front door opened. "She couldn't have gone far." Kim said putting on her jacket already half way off the porch.

"I was just kidding... she's so skinny I didn't think she would take offense to it." Rachel frowned raising her hand to her forehead so she could see against the glare of the sun that was going down.

Angela saw Leah but she didn't say anything as she closed the front door behind her. Angela sat next to Leah and patted her knee.

Kim and Rachel were midway down the walk way, before they turned around to see if Angela was with them. When they saw both girls on the porch Rachel looked like she sighed in relief. They walked back up the porch. Angela scooted over to give them room to sit down. Rachel sat on the other side of Leah and Kim sat on the other side of Angela.

"You guys were going to try and find me?" Leah was shocked.

"Well yeah, I didn't mean to hurt you with what I said." Rachel grabbed Leah's hand and squeezed it.

"You didn't hurt me Rach I just have a lot on my mind." Leah said watching as the sun began to disappear behind the trees.

"Which is why we couldn't let you just wander off on your own. What are friends for?" Kim placed her hand on top of Leah's and Rachel's clasped hand.

"Besides you're like our best girlfriend now. Well mine at least since I can only speak for myself." Angela put her hand on top of theirs.

"You actually get my sarcastic jokes. So me too! Me too!" Rachel declared.

"The fab four, causing mayhem to our wolves." Kim grinned and they all began laughing as the tears began falling down Leah's eyes. She never had anything like that in her life, not even pre-phase days, but she did now and she would do anything to keep it.

"Come on man why did my sis have to leave?" Seth was smiling until he thought about it. "Wait no, she wouldn't have just left, and I'm pretty sure everyone heard her scream in the forest it was louder than a car alarm. Did you Alpha command my sister Jake?" Seth asked but his tone held a bit of accusation to it already. Embry grabbed Seth's shoulder comfortingly but Seth waved his hand off.

Jake closed his eyes to clear his mind but didn't say anything.

"I don't think we should be focused on that right now. We need to find Bella, remember?" Alice looked like she wanted to say something else but she didn't. She took her iPad and Jasper over to Carlisle and left Embry and Seth next to him.

"I didn't want her here." Jake answered vaguely.

"But why?" Seth stepped in front of Jake's face. Jake really didn't feel like answering him. He just wanted to get this over with so he could get home to Leah and grovel until she took him back. And she was going to take him back. He wanted to be a part of every single thing with her.

"Fuck, Seth not right now." Jake was just Alpha commanding out the ass today with the Clearwater's it seemed. Seth's whole body was vibrating as he backed off. Jake had to ignore him. He would talk to Seth later. Jake walked to Edward and stood in front of him.

"Emmett hit him hard as you can. Everyone else think Bella is dead like right now. Gruesome death." Jake looked at Edward who hadn't even blinked, Jake didn't want to damage his hand trying to hit the idiot. But they needed him. And he wasn't much of a help to Bella just sitting there like a piece of furniture.

Emmett's laugh rang throughout the house. "Something I can do, easily."

Esme buried her face into Carlisle's chest. Rosalie was watching nearby. Alice looked up from her iPad as Jasper pulled her behind him.

Emmett closed his hands into fists but before he could even bring his hands up to actually hit Edward.

Edward jumped up. "Stop that, stop it now please. You guys are sick." He began shaking his head, and covering his ears.

"Okay stop guys." Jake grinned wolfishly and hit Edward on the shoulder a few times. "Welcome back Cullen. Now let's get your girl back so I can go get mine."

The plan was simple, Jake kept Jared and Sam patrolling La Push, Bella wasn't worth leaving his town unprotected. Especially since he left the love of his life with Collin and Brady if anything wrong were to happen. Jake couldn't have that, since Leah couldn't really protect herself since she couldn't phase. That seemed to be his main concern even though it probably should have been for everyone else's safey.

Jake closed off his mind as he was running along the forest with his pack brothers. Seth was still upset and if he saw what was in Jake's mind there would be no saving Bella. Sam, Paul, Quil, Jared, and Embry were all too worried about their imprints to even focus in on Jake's inner monologue and he was glad for that.

They reached the edge of town and had to phase back in order to walk to the abandoned building. All of the Cullen's met up with them after the wolves all got redressed.

"So how is this supposed to work?" Jake asked keeping his voice down.

"They keep changing their mind, but their moving her to the alley so they can prepare to leave, I think one of them will bite her there. So we need to get her like right before they leave the alley." Edward was finally talking out of his stupor. Jake kind of wished he was back in it. Edward hadn't stop putting in his two cents since they left. Edward glared at Jake and Jake shrugged. Stop listening to my thoughts then!

"We distract who we can, once we get past the guards we should be okay. You guys need to take Bella and keep her in La Push for a few days until we make sure everything is calm." Alice was talking low also, Edward snarled.

"I agree with Edward, we're already putting too much on the line right now. She's yours once we get her." Embry said before Jake could agree.

"Took the words right out of my mouth Em." Jake punched Embry in the arm playfully. "If push comes to shove we'll take her day but that's it. Leah might kill her though."

Quil grinned. "She probably already killed Emily. Her list of killings get longer every second."

" Everyone is expecting her to do it but all she has to do is Alpha command one of you to do it for her. Give my sister some credit guys." Seth laughed evilly at Paul, Quil and Embry.

"Whoa can she really do that?" Paul asked.

Seth's quiet laughter was his only response. Jake chuckled too, Leah was smart like that.

"Hello saving Bella is what we're here for." Edward waved his hand in front of the group. The wolves growled lowly and he moved away a bit.

"Hey guys look at me." Jake waited until they were looking at him. "If anything looks funny or suspicious get the fuck out of here. Don't try to be the hero." Jake looked at Paul pointedly. Everyone nodded. "Alright let's do this."

Jake and his pack phased back and stayed back as the Cullen's went first, Jake had to make sure his pack stayed hidden, no one could know about them. Everything seemed to happen so fast. Vampires seemed to be everywhere, and the sick odor that Jake had smelled earlier when he had Leah in his arms returned.

Jake saw Paul ripping through something and Quil padded over to help him. Edward was trying to get to Bella, but she was just cowering by the trashcan. No vampires were near her, all she had to do was casually walk or run or do something!

She wasn't even hiding correctly anything could plainly see her if Jake could. Jake groaned, looked back at his pack before phasing and pulling on his shorts. He jumped the small brick fence and and flipped on the ground, scanning to see if he was in the clear, before putting his back to the wall trying to stay invisible. But a six foot seven man could never stay invisible for too long.

A vampire that stunk so bad grabbed at Jake's neck but his smell was so revolting that Jake was glad that it was cutting off his air supply. Jake couldn't do too much in human form, before breathing started becoming a problem Emmett pulled the vampire back. Jake coughed for a second before scurrying over near the dark trashcan, grabbing Bella as Esme jumped on the vampire that was getting to close to them ripping off their head.

"Oh Jake, thank god! I was so stupid and I didn't think it through-" Bella began her rambling.

"Shut up. Just shut up and hold the fuck on. We aren't in the clear yet." Jake threw her on his back and hoped she held on. They only had one shot at this. He could see the dark forest ahead and a fire already starting. Jake began his duck and dodge moves, but found it unecessary because the fight was done. He sat Bella down on her feet as Edward came over.

There was a soft wolf call, and Jake ran over to his pack, they were all dressed again standing in a circle. Jake saw Embry, Paul, and Quil were fine it was Seth. Leah was defintely going to kill him.

Carlisle came over, as Seth sat up grinning. "It's no biggie just a messed up arm. It looks worse than it feels."

"That it does." Quil never liked seeing things like that, his face seemed like it was tinging green.

"I'm going to have to rebreak or it will heal the wrong way. I have some things at the house." Carlisle offered

"We have to get back home the cops will be here soon, and we don't have any reasons to be here after midnight with everything closed and the street so dark. They might let the leechs go but they'll arrest us and ask questions way later." Paul said.

"You're right." Jake was surprised, Paul had been saying some helpful things recently. "You guys can go home." Jake said to his pack smiling. "Great job guys."

Seth got up holding his bad arm with his good one. Paul, Embry and Quil decided to stay with them even though Jake insisted they go home. The whole pack walked with Seth the twenty miles it took to get to the Cullen's house in human form cracking jokes along the way. It was the only thing that half way kept Jake's mind off what Leah would think, maybe Seth would heal the right way on the way home and they could hide that he ever was hurt.

As soon as Seth walked through the door he was taken upstairs with Carlisle. Jake told his pack to get their women and go home. They all looked exhausted and from checking on in their feelings his suspicions were confirmed. He was pretty tired himself but he couldn't go to Leah without Seth she would freak. She was going to already freak he didn't want to give her another reason to.

Jake waited downstairs on the couch that was more for looks than comfort. "I thought you said the Volturi has more powers. The vamps you guys fought against tonight smelled absolutely horrible but they didn't have any powers."

"They were apart of the guard, the 'new guard' that the Volturi was willing to sacrafice had everything not worked out as planned." Alice said sitting on Jasper's lap.

"So how do you know the strong part of the Volturi won't come after you guys now?" Jake asked.

"We'll cross that bridge when we get there. Alice is watching out for them." Edward said.

"Wow." Jake didn't have anything else to say to that. They were relying to much on Alice's visions that weren't ever concrete and what if they used what they knew about their coven against them? Jake cleared his head. That was something he wasn't willing to think on too long. It wasn't his family so he shouldn't care. Jake thought about Leah and how much he missed her, he couldn't wait to see her even if she was going to kick him out the moment she saw him. At least before she kicked him out he would see her beautiful face. She really didn't like sleeping without him so maybe he could use that as a leverage.

Bella was looking at him, "Why do you look so worried?" she asked. Edward seemed to be glued to her side. Jake knew now that Edward wasn't going to let her out of his sight even if it killed the poor guy.

"Leah is going to be pissed." Jake rubbed his forehead. "And I miss her."

"I don't know how you could be with something like that for the rest of your life." Bella said playing in her hair.

"She's far less of a danger magnet than you are." Jake was tired of her talking down about Leah. She didn't know Leah from a can of paint!

"That may be so but you continually choose me over her and she's a bit—." Bella stated.

"Bella my love..." Edward interrupted her.

"No, he needs to hear this. He's just settling because he can't have me. He never has had me, never will." she snuggled her head into Edward's shoulder. Edward read Jake's thoughts before he spoke them and was shaking his head warningly.

"She's not the only one that gets to voice things here. I was trying to be nice but you seem to be taking that for granted so let's try some truth for tonight. I don't care about you anymore.I haven't cared for you in a long time. I don't love you at all not even as a friend. You don't seem to understand that. Leah is a million times better than you. She may get angry about a few things but it shows she cares and that she is passionate about what she believes in. And you want to know something? " Jake got up and made sure he towered over her as he looked into her brown eyes, he once believed he lived for, "She is the only reason I even thought about saving you today."

"B-b-but..."Bella's sputtered before she cut herself off by a round of fresh tears. He was done saving her, done helping her, definitely done caring. He was going to go on a complete Bella cleanse where she was just a few paragraphs in his book instead of a whole chapter.

Jake looked up the staircase as he heard the door slam upstairs. Jake wasn't paying any attention as Edward glared at his back trying to sooth his wife. Seth was coming down the steps in a cast. So much from hiding this from Leah. She was definitely going to notice the neon blue cast that Seth was sporting. Leah was going to kill Jake for so many things, he didn't even know where he should start when he saw her again. Her brother getting hurt was probably going to top the list of Alpha commanding her, hopefully she forgot about that. Ah, who was he kidding he was completely fucked!

I suck at writing fight scenes between vamps and our fantastical WILFS I really don't know why I tried so if this chapter is really choppy sorry lovies!

Jake and Leah time next chapter ( a wholeeee lot easier to write ) woot woot

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