A/N: I think this is my best chapter yet. It was one of my favorites to write any way.

Warning it gets a little steamy.

Thanks to all the people who review it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

Disclaimer: Thomas is the only character i have any claim on as i created him.

Everything else is Stephanie Meyer's i just borrow it.

Chapter 11

Flowers

Leah

"Thomas," I called sleepily as I stretched. I blinked sleep from my eyes finally seeing him walking towards me. That was strange I remember falling asleep on his shoulder after we had talked. I sat up and looked around seeing we were still outside.

"Good morning," he said smiling as he came to sit beside me. When I finally looked at him I noticed his shirt was missing. I looked away and felt my face flush. I'd already seen him without a shirt mostly from the back. I never noticed the scars marring his sculpted abs and chest. I resisted the urge to shudder when I saw they were bite scars. His question brought me back to the current conversation.

"Does this bother you," he asked I could hear the amusement at my shyness and I looked up at him chuckling. "Can I have my shirt then?"

I realized I had his shirt and had been using it as a pillow. I handed it to him and looked up when it covered his head. I drank in the way his muscles moved in harmony even performing a simple task before looking away again.

"Where did you go?" I was curious where he had gone off to while I slept.

"I needed to hunt," he explained a frown creasing his features as he looked at the ground. "I didn't want to wake you"

I had hoped that we could eat breakfast and I could show him my place. He looked up through his eyelashes and I decided to voice my thoughts.

"Oh, I was hoping you would want to have breakfast at my place." Thomas seemed to think about it for a moment before he responded.

"I need to check in with the Cullens," he began, my face fell at his rejection of my offer, "but I would love to come to your place and have lunch."

A smile replaced my frown immediately he just needed to let the Cullens know he was alright. That was fine I needed some time to get ready and figure out what to cook him.

"That's perfect," I exclaimed, my excitement seemed to make him feel better about turning me down for breakfast. He looked at the perpetually overcast sky and seemed to calculate something.

"How does around one sound." I nodded my agreement and kept the excited smile on my face. We stood and looked at each other. I hoped that he would kiss me like he had the first time. He seemed to be torn with how to say goodbye. I tried to tell him with my eyes that a kiss was perfectly acceptable, the incident yesterday was the last thing on my mind.

He finally stepped closer to me. I tilted my face up to meet his lips as he placed a sweet and gentle kiss on my lips. The moment our lips touched shivers shot up and down my back. He stepped away and looked deep into my eyes. I smiled it was a kiss not the one I was hoping for but it was still very good.

"I'll see you later." He turned and disappeared like a ghost into the trees that surrounded us. The smile never left my face.

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I phased to make it home faster. The forest became a green and brown blur as I ran towards home. Jared, Embry, Paul, and Jacob were running patrol. The kiss I had shared with Thomas was less than pleasant for them.

Oh for the love of god, I have to see you kissing your imprints and I don't like it either. So deal with it. I snapped at them in my mind. That was never going to get easy. Since the last major crisis with the Volturi we'd only had a random nomad vampire to deal with. Everyone had gotten complacent patrolling out of habit more than necessity. As a result our minds tended to wander when we were wolves. The ones with imprints had precious little else on their minds and things slipped through.

Leah is right we need to focus. Jacob said he didn't use the Alpha voice, he rarely did or had to, despite his insecurities about leadership he was a natural leader. Thanks Leah.

It's true Jake. We all felt that way every pack member trusted Jake to do the right thing and so far he had never let us down.

That's what happened. Jake's mind roared at me when he saw why Thomas had run out two days ago. His anger was uncomfortable for all of us.

Jake chill out bro. Embry and Jared thought at the same time. Embry saw fit to expand on the thought. It's not like Nessie never bites you.

Nessie isn't venomous and his bite could have killed her. I regretted letting him see that. I tried to explain but Jacob wasn't hearing any of it.

I don't give a damn if he is your imprint if he hurts you his ass is mine. The tension was getting unbearable. I'm going to get Quil to take over for me so I can cool off. Another good thing about Jacob is that he didn't like to cause the pack dis-comfort.

I was getting close to home, which always felt strange since mom had married Charlie Swan after dad had passed. She decided to move in with him and they were really happy together. Seth and I still missed her though we saw her every chance we got. We especially missed her cooking, Seth and I weren't the best in the kitchen. Seth snuck over to the Cullens' place a lot. Despite being a vampire and not eating normal food, Esme and Bella were both excellent cooks.

My house came into view through the trees. It looked a lot like the other houses on the reservation. I phased back as soon as I was at the back door making a bee-line for my room, not bothering to put my shorts and shirt on. Thankfully Seth was in the living room watching television and from the sound of it talking on the phone.

"Hello," he said. He must have just picked up. I went to my room still listening to Seth's end of the conversation.

"She just got in can I ask whose calling." A pause as the caller answered.

"Oh Thomas," Seth's tone became more interested. "I'm her brother Seth."

I grabbed my bathrobe and rushed out to the living room and just faintly heard Thomas ask a very strange question.

"Seth do you know what kind of flowers are Leah's favorites."

"Tulips I think, do you want me to ask her." I moved so he could see me and nodded emphatically to let him know he was correct. My very favorite flowers were roses but I liked tulips too.

"No that's alright, I'll see you later."

"Alright bye," Seth said as he hung up the phone. I was practically hopping up and down which was very out of character.

"Leah take a breath," Seth said looking disturbed by my excitement.

"You're not planning on wearing that are you?" I looked down at my old bathrobe and darted back to my room to pick out something to wear. My wardrobe was limited because to me it just did not make sense to have nice clothes when you were a werewolf that could change at a moment's notice. I chose one of my newer shirts and a khaki skirt I only wore on special occasions. I looked in my mirror and decided a shower was in order. The hot water helped to calm me. After the shower I ran a comb through my hair. It was too short to really do anything with, I had let it grow some, but I still kept it short enough that it wouldn't make me very shaggy in wolf form.

The kitchen was very bare. The only things I had were a jar of peanut butter, a gallon of milk and half a loaf of bread. We didn't even have anything frozen. I checked my watch.

"Shit," I cursed realizing it was noon. Thomas would be here in about an hour.

"Do you kiss our mother with that mouth," Seth teased from his place in the living room. I grabbed a plastic cup and leaned entry way of the kitchen so I could see his head. When I did I threw the cup so hard it broke when it made contact.

"What the hell was that for," he complained.

"That was for eating all the food."

"Hey I have help," he protested.

"Whatever, Thomas is coming for lunch and we have nothing to serve him."

"There should still be some stuff for P, B and J," he offered.

"Thanks Seth you are so helpful," I said sarcasm dripping in my tone. The sound of a motorcycle pulling into our driveway made Seth jump up to see who it was. I was hoping for Bella or Jasper but I knew they were still at school. Crap he was here. I needed to shoo Seth out but a knock at the door had him rushing to answer it. I already knew by his scent which I had caught as soon as he stepped to the door.

"Hey you must be Thomas," Seth said greeting him.

"That makes you Seth, I presume."

"Leah, Thomas is here," Seth yelled and I thought I would die of embarrassment. He yelled like I was on the other side of the state. I listened to their conversation as I tried to get a hold of myself. What was wrong with me I hadn't even acted like this when I first met Sam.

"So you're a hybrid like Ness?" Seth had heard all that in my mind while we were patrolling yesterday.

"Yeah, who is Ness," Thomas asked.

"She's Edward and Bella's daughter." I decided to make an appearance because all the deep breathing was not helping. My entrance made Thomas look at me and he stood when he did.

"Hey sis there you are." I barely heard Seth I only had eyes for Thomas. He was wearing what looked and smelled like new clothes. The riding jacket especially set off his blue eyes. His smile lit up his handsome face and I smiled in return. Seth looked between us for a moment before deciding that his mental health required a hasty retreat. I couldn't blame him all the other pack members that had imprints made me feel the same way before Thomas, now I understood.

"I'm going to the Cullens to see Esme," he said as he left. "Good to meet you Thomas." Thomas shook his head slightly as if to clear it.

"Yeah you too," he replied not breaking eye contact. Seth walked out the door shaking his head. I felt bad that he hadn't imprinted. One day hopefully he would understand. Thomas and I stared into each other's eyes for a long time not speaking. I finally broke the silence.

"We don't have much for lunch," I started and then condemned myself for saying something that sounded so silly.

"Whatever you have is fine." I smiled and went into the kitchen to fix some sandwiches. I hummed to myself as I grabbed the peanut butter and bread and jelly. His voice coming from behind me made me jump.

"Sorry I didn't mean to startle you." I turned to see him standing close to me. "Can I help?"

His scent filled my senses. It was musky and rich, I couldn't help it I dropped the jars I was holding and wrapped my arms around his neck. A small part of me wondered how he had gotten close enough for this. Also, why weren't his arms around me as well? I broke the kiss long enough to see he had caught the falling jars one in each hand.

"Fast hands," I mused as he placed the jars safely on the counter behind me before returning the embrace. I returned my lips to his as his arms wrapped around his waist.

Our lips moved in harmony as I tried to pull him closer. His tongue parted my lips and explored the inside of my mouth. I executed a little hop and wrapped my legs around his waist. He didn't even seem to notice the added waist. He carried me into the living room with ease and we collapsed onto the couch. He leaned back and I grabbed the front of his jacket and jerked it away from his shoulders. The removal of his hands from their exploration of my body made me frown. Thomas finished removing his jacket and cupped my face in both of his hands. Gently he brushed them down my arms to my hands that were unfastening his shirt buttons.

He took both my hands in his and kissed my finger tips. His hands slid gently back down my arms. My fingers tangled in his reddish blonde hair and I pulled my lips back to his deepening the kiss. His hands continued to brush against me, one of them trailed down my side and up the thigh that was still hitched around his hip. It brushed to my knee and then traced back down my bare leg leaving jolts of electricity in his fingertips passing.

I leaned my head back and sighed as he traced down the side of my neck with his tongue.

"I love you," I sighed which caused him to stop what he was doing and look into my eyes. Even though I had blurted it out I hoped he could see in my eyes that I meant it. His smile melted my heart and he brought his lips to mine again. He hadn't said anything in response but I got the impression that he felt the same way.

We continued to kiss and caress each other. I traced the scar on his shoulder after I removed his shirt. He had undone the buttons to my shirt and slid his hands underneath my shirt. I struggled for a moment to remove my shirt before he lifted me so I could more easily remove the garment.

More electricity followed the movements of his hands on my back.

"Thomas," I sighed again. A strange muffled buzzing noise was invading the moment. After a few minutes it disappeared. I chose to ignore it and focus on Thomas's body. My fingers trailed up and down his back just barely touching him.

"Leah," he groaned in pleasure. I smiled as he busied himself kissing my collar bone. The blaring of the house phone ringing made us both jump.

"Do you want to get that," he said breathlessly. I shook my head.

"It's probably just Seth checking in." He began to lean back into a kiss when his head snapped up and looked at the door. I was about to protest when the cold burning scent of vampire stink filled my nose. It was a scent I did not recognize but Thomas did as he whispered a name, "Goliath." As soon as the name left the front door to my house exploded inward. A vampire easily twice the size of Emmett shouldered his way in and turned his blood-red eyes to consider Thomas and me.

"There you are little murderer."

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