Screw Worried Boyfriend, This is Worried Brother

I want Answers

'You're not?'

Jake shakes his head. 'You're going to have a little chat with Alice.'

'Alice?' I ask. I thought she couldn't see us.

'Yeah, Alice. The little Pixie knows something.' He replays Leah's rant in my head: "Alice is freaked out, and the fact that she can see me is freaking me out."

'You think that has something to do with what's happening to Leah?' I ask anxiously. I know she knows something about Leah, Jake definitely needs to go and find out just what it is.

'Well, you're going to go and figure that out, aren't ya?' he half jokes, half orders.

'I guess I am,' I nod before I run over to the Cullens'.

As soon as I feel Jake phase, I let all my emotions out. The panic and worry that I've been bottling up for Jake's sake, (the guy is s worrywart, and I didn't think that my worry would help him relax and not have a panic attack), is finally free. I can feel the adrenaline and pure freaking fear coursing through my veins.

Holy shit, what is wrong with Leah? Is she okay? What did Alice see? Is it something bad? Does Leah get hurt? Will she be okay? What does it have to do with Jake? And what the hell does she mean by parasite?

I'm not stupid. I know that there's something more to Leah's "condition" with this "parasite" and the Cullens know. They know and they aren't telling anyone. Not me, not Jake, not the pack. They're not telling her family.

I run faster and try to get to the Cullens' as quickly as I can. I need answers, and judging by the overwhelming panic and worry coming off in waves from Jake, (which just proves that if he doesn't calm down and relax for ten minutes that he'll just explode- not phase, but literally explode), he needs answers as well.

Phasing, I throw on my cutoffs and run into the house. "Leah!"

I run into the Cullens' house through the back door and run to the one place I know Leah will be: the kitchen. Running around, I search the huge kitchen, looking in cupboards and underneath stools, only to come up empty.

"LEAH!" I call again, trying to think of a room other than the kitchen, (and the fact that she's not in the kitchen scares the crap out of me. We wolves, screw it, we Clearwaters like to eat. A lot. Frequently. Especially Leah. In the past two weeks I'm pretty sure she's eaten more than Quil, Embry, and Paul- all bottomless pits- combined. She practically lives in our kitchen and she's not in there? Something has to be wrong), where she would hide.

"LE-AH!" I shout. I know she's here; I saw her car in the driveway.

Spinning around in the foyer, I try to get my bearings. Where could she be? She's not in the kitchen, maybe she's in the game room.

She's not here.

Oh my god.

Where is she?

Better yet, when the fuck did she become best friends with Carmen Sandiego and decide to disappear from the world?

Getting sick of this twisted version of hide and seek, (I'm pretty sure it's shaved off ten years of my could-be-if-I-decide-not-to-stop-phasing-and-being-immortal-life), I run over to the dining room and see if she's in there.

She's not.

Not in the kitchen, not in the dining room, she's gone. They're the only places that she would willingly stay in the "Brady Vamp's" house seeing as they are the only places where she could get food.

But she has to be here.

Even if she were hurt, in which case I would do everything in my power to make her feel better before I would kill her, the Cullens would take care of her. They would be compassionate and help her. Even if she kind of-sort of "stole" Jake from Nessie, they would help her, right? All of us in Jake's pack sacrificed our standing at home to help them when the Volturi came, so it would be like they were paying her back by helping her.

They wouldn't be upset about Jake leaving Nessie.

I mean, Nessie can now go out, live on her own, and find her own love and not be told that she has to marry Jake when she's older just because of the imprint. Just like Jake, Nessie's free of the imprint. She can do whatever she wants.

They should be happy, right? Well, I know Edward is happy that Nessie can choose how she wants to lead her life and who she wants to share it with.

Bella, on the other hand…

Not happy. Let's just say that she is "not happy."

But, she wouldn't be "not happy" enough to drug, torture, and kill Leah in revenge for her daughter's loss of Jake (and her loss of Jake, although she will deny it until the day she 'dies'), would she?

Given that she's a vampire and now has the strength and the power of her mind shield, she could very easily harm Leah. Plus, she has the motivation. Leah basically 'took' Jake away from her (from Nessie who I think doesn't care as long as Jake is happy), not to mention the insults and the chewing she gives Bella whenever she's annoyed or bored. I wouldn't be surprised if Bella just got fed up one day and just snapped, lunged at Leah, and killed her.

Knowing Leah, she would push Bella so far that murder would be the only option to deal with her.

And considering how I can't find her and neither Jake nor I have heard from her in the past couple of days, I wouldn't be surprised if this happened.

Shit.

Mum's going to blame me.

Jake's going to kill me.

Fuck.

Leah better be alive and in one piece, or I'll be dead.

Where is she?!

Freaking out, I yell one more time to see if she's conscious and able to answer me. "LE-AH!"

Suddenly I feel something soft being whipped at my head. "Shut up! We just got up to Season 5 in House!" Emmet hisses at me.

I walk into the living room and sit down on the couch next to Jasper, who's busy calming me, ready to ask them where my sister is. Just as I'm about to ask, I hear a familiar voice.

"For what reason do you think it's necessary to yell in a house full of supernatural beings that have a heightened sense of hearing, dweeb?" Leah questions while wiping her mouth.

I don't care that's she's insulted me, or has had me worrying, or has had Jake worrying, or that she smells funny, because she's here.

She's alive.

She's in one piece.

And she's insulting me.

She's definitely okay.

Oh thank God. I have never been happier to see her in my entire life.

Leah.

My Beta. My sister. My reason for almost having a panic attack.

Ha, I found Waldo.

Huh, this is actually going pretty well. My list is almost done:

Find Leah. Check.

Find out what's wrong with her and why she has been avoiding Jake (and me). Not check.

Bring her home. Not check.

Meh, one out of three so far, that's not bad.

Rushing over to Leah, I give her a huge hug. "Don't you ever scare the shit out of me like that ever again. I swear to God, if you do something like that one more time, Lee, I'll—" I pause and sniff her shoulder. God, she smells weird. Trying to put this delicately, I tell her cautiously, "Lee, you smell different."

She breaks away from me and glares, crossing her arms across her chest. "You don't smell like a bed of roses yourself, you little twerp."

Leah plops down onto the couch, resting her feet on Emmett's lap.

Following Leah's lead, I sit back down in my original place beside Jasper and try and watch House. Jasper and Emmett both chuckle at House and Wilson's witty dialogue while Leah smirks and Nessie just smiles and shakes her head. Unable to get into the show, I stare at Leah.

She looks fine. Nothing looks broken, scratched, maimed, torn, sprained, pulverized, bruised, or anything of the like. Leah looks like Leah. If she didn't, I would have to kick someone's ass, which would result in me getting my ass kicked, before going home and having Jake kick my ass, right before Mum verbally kicked my ass.

Smiling like an idiot, I just stare at Leah and think that checking off "Find out what's wrong with her and why she has been avoiding Jake (and me)" might not be that difficult. I mean, how bad could it be? She looks fine, she's acting like herself, it doesn't seem like there's anything wrong with her. Sure, she's been avoiding Jake and I, and then there is that whole thing with Jake and the fact that Alice can 'see' her is weird, but it's probably not that bad. There's probably a logical explanation for it.

Like, Leah felt that things between her and Jake were moving too fast and wanted a break. Maybe she wants to travel and restart fresh somewhere and actually be a human. Maybe that's why Alice could see her. Maybe she stopped phasing and decided to be human for a change. She could have decided to leave La Push, Sam and Emily, Dad, Mum, me, Jake, basically just leave everything to discover herself. Find out what she wants to be, what she wants to do, what she can do, everything that a twenty-something year old is supposed to do.

But that doesn't explain why Alice is freaked out. Surely she, Edward, Carlisle, and Rose could have put their heads together to come up with one plausible idea as to why Alice could see Leah. And even if they couldn't, I don't understand why she's so freaked out. When she could finally see Nessie's future, a result of Jake deciding to be with Leah, Alice didn't freak out when she could see her in some jungle with Nahuel. Well, she did freak out, but that was different. She was freaking out because she saw that Ness would have what appeared to be a relationship with Nahuel.

So why is she freaked about Leah? What could she have seen? It couldn't have been that bad. Could it? Could she be freaking out because she saw Leah with another guy? Could Alice have seen Leah get hurt? Or could she have seen the aftermath of something involving Leah?

Suddenly, I feel a sick, heavy feeling creeping into my stomach and making me feel sick. Now I get why Jake was so nervous: with Leah not phasing and the whole vision thing just looming around us we don't know anything. We just assume the worst. Since the only information we're getting is in clue form and we don't really have anyone telling us "No, no, it's not that bad. There's been worse. We'll all be fine" we freak out even more. Because things might not be fine. Things could be bad, very bad.

I stare at Leah, taking her in and trying to forget a single detail about my sister, because Taha Aki knows what the hell is going on with her.

After a few minutes of my staring, Leah grows uncomfortable and shouts, "WHAT?", shooting a venomous glare my way.

Shaking my head, I mumble, "Nothing."

What the hell can I tell her? "Oh hey sis, I was just trying to remember every detail about you because I think you might be dying?" Yeah, that will go over really well.

Leah lets out a huff and rearranges herself in an attempt to get comfortable on the couch and orders me to stop staring at her.

After the episode ends, Nessie, who is able to understand the serious tension between Leah and I, and Jasper, who can literally feel the tension between Leah and I, get up from their spots and "subtly" try to make their way out of the room with Emmett. It probably would have worked if Emmett hadn't whined and complained saying that he wants to watch one more episode and that he doesn't think it's fair how he's always kicked out of the room whenever something interesting might happen.

As soon as I can no longer hear their chattering, I turn to face Leah who, despite Emmett's fuss, didn't budge from her spot on the couch.

Sending her cautious glances, I try to talk to her. "Lee, are you okay?" I ask tentatively, aware of her mood swings.

"Define 'okay'," Leah half-jokes, half-asks. She sighs and waves her hand in a nonchalant manner. "Yeah, yeah, I just wanted to hang out with the Brady Leeches for a bit."

I feel my eyebrows hit my hairline. She wanted to hang out with cold, dead, sparkly, smelly (just stating facts, it doesn't mean I don't like them) vamps for two weeks instead of being all gross and lovey-dovey with Jake? Ha, like hell.

"For two weeks?" I arch a brow. I can see her hanging out with all of them except for one, Bella. She and Edward are here all the time and I highly doubt that Leah would stay less than a hundred feet from Bella out of her own free will.

"They're really fun?" Leah 'states' with a sheepish smile and a shrug.

Rolling my eyes at her, I'm struck with a thought. What if she wasn't here of her own free will? What if she was being kept here? Of course it would be way bigger than Bella trying to torture her, the whole house has to be in on it. You know what, this doesn't surprise me. Carlisle has been dying-err itching to run some tests on Leah. He hasn't had the chance since Leah refuses to be his "pet dog that he could just poke needles in" even though he swears it's for "the good of science."

Leaning in towards her, I look around the room and listen, trying to hear if any of the Cullens are nearby before I ask my question. Whispering, I ask her, "Lee, did they… did they do something to you? Did they drug you? You can tell me."

Leah just stares at me slack-jawed before answering, "…No."

The silence is all I need. Her expression says it all.

"Oh my god! They did, didn't they!" I shout. "Why didn't you tell me! Of course, you couldn't tell me, they'd know! Oh my God, I knew we should have listened to you. The pack should have made a safe word for these types of situations." I jump up from my seat and start to pace.

Sparing a glance at her, Leah looks stunned. She didn't think that I would get it, but that's okay, the only important thing is that I know and now I can help her. I can try to smuggle her out of the house.

I can smuggle her out of this drug slipping, kidnapping house full of vampires.

The bastards.

They drugged my sister.

Leah shakes her head before telling me, "Seth, I'm fine."

They could have threatened her that if she didn't tell me that that they would… well they would do something bad. Something worse than the drugs. But the slightly pissed off and tired look she has on her face says otherwise. It tells me that she's tired and that all she wants to do is rest. The question is: why?

Pushing the questions aside, I look at her with a worried face and ask, "Really?"

She gives me a tired smile and a nod. "Other than the fact that I'm having a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger, yeah, I'm just peachy."

Letting out a sigh, I plop down on the couch next to her, causing her to bump in the air. "Great. You had me worried there for a sec, Lee."

I just barely get that out before Leah runs to the kitchen and throws up in the sink.

Aw shit. She's definitely not fine.

Find out what's wrong with Leah.

Definitely not check.

Disclaimer: All of the characters, concepts, and anything affiliated with the Twilight saga belong to (their rightful owner) Stephanie Meyer. The rest of the work belongs to me and should not be copied in any way, including translations, without my explicit consent.

Major thanks to Flyaway Dove for Beta-ing this.