Emily's Point of View

A/N: I know Quil will get some slack for "snitching" but my reasoning for this was in the pack of "renegades" run by Jacob and Leah, Quil is the only other one who has imprinted. He and Jake had similar situations in that it was on babies. While Nessie is maturing quickly, Quil is still waiting for Claire to mature.

I could see Quil beginning to panic if he saw Jacob starting to think about another woman when he has lost all of his desires. He is beginning to question the legitimacy of imprinting.

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"You've been awfully quiet," I murmur as in the side view mirror, I watch my dress hanging up in the backseat sway with the wind of the open window. His suit hangs behind him, reflecting parallels of royal blue- Rachel's wedding color.

"Have I?" Sam says, glancing at me with a small smile from behind the wheel as we twist down the forest roads to the La Push Tribal Center, the largest room on the Rez that wasn't in the high school, and the site of many Quileute weddings.

"Yes," I say quietly, examining his profile and debating how I want to approach this subject.

"I'm sorry. My mind's just far away," he says honestly.

"On Leah?" I ask, my heart beating because I don't really want to know the answer but I have to know the answer. I can see his knuckles tighten around the steering wheel. He's says nothing for a long moment, just clenches and unclenches his jaw as his thinks about what he wants to say to me.

"I need to talk to Billy. He has to tell his son that this behavior is not appropriate for Alpha, let alone someone who has an imprint. I don't want her to get hurt again," he finally told me in a hard voice.

"Are you sure this really concerns you?"

"Of course it does!" He demands, looking at me with shocked eyes. "I….. She…er….I cannot let the rightful Alpha…. he can't mess around with her. That's going against his destiny and he will only end up hurting a member of his pack."

"Are you sure about that? From what Quil was saying last night-" I began but he interrupted me.

"Quil isn't thinking straight. He is probably just mad that Jacob doesn't have to wait as long as he does for Claire to grow up since Nessie matured so quickly."

"But Jacob doesn't want to be with Nessie. You said so yourself- he isn't romantically involved with her," I reminded him.

"Yet," he said with a strong confirmation and I knew he wasn't going to let the subject continue as he pulled up to the Tribal Center that was still quiet but getting prepared for the ceremony to take place that afternoon. Sam put the car in park, shut off the engine and removed his seatbelt but made no move to get out of the car yet.

Leah has always been a touchy subject between the two of us as well with every single resident of La Push. I know my image to those outside of the secret- I'm a homewrecker and Sam is a cheating bastard. That's not hard to understand. But what I can't understand is why he can't talk to me about Leah. He tells me all about every single member of the pack, their imprints and families, all of La Push….. but he won't talk to me about Leah. He basically refuses to to discuss anything about her with me.

"Look. It's a beautiful summer day and our good friends are getting married today. Let's focus on that," He smiled at me, leaning over the center console to kiss my cheek and then busied himself with getting our outfits out of the back of the car.

While all the girls fluttered around, doing hair and makeup while oohing and ahhing over Rachel, I observed Leah.

At my wedding, almost a year ago, she was sulky. She didn't talk anyone, didn't participate in all the wedding hubbub she's partaking in showed up, already ready, walked the aisle and stood up during the ceremony but as soon as it ended, she disappeared with Jacob.

Rachel and Rebecca were always her best friends (excluding me when we were younger) and the three of them are inseparable in all of the current wedding preparations.

Leah cracks a joke about Paul; they still butt heads often but they both make an effort for Rachel's sake.

She looks absolutely, drop-dead gorgeous in her blue bridesmaid dress. Her hair is longer that it's been since she chopped her butt length shiny black hair after she first phased; it now reaches her collarbones but it's pulled up into a curl up-do for the wedding.

She has tattoos that you can see peek-a-booing from the dress: her pack tattoo on her right upper arm, her arrow along the length of her left forearm to her wrist, a crescent moon (a joke to the legend of the shapeshifters) on the back of her neck now visible with her hair up. Her most recent one, the black shadow of a pine tree sits on her hip, concealed by satin.

She's rebellious, beautiful, outgoing, courageous, strong. Sometimes, I honestly don't know how Taha Aki paired me with Sam. Those two could probably have the most amazing cubs. But so could her and Jacob, if she could have kids.

When I think about her, as a wolf in the forest with the rest of the boys, my heart hurts. I took away myself and Sam when we sealed the imprint and I decided I wanted him back. The universe took her dad. Taha Aki took away her womanhood, her life, any dream she had of leaving La Push, and her fertility.

Personally, if this twisted universe could extract Jake out of his imprint and just his imprint and gave him to Leah, I don't see that as a bad thing.