Sibling Talks and WTH?! BECK SLAP?!
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The sun's warm rays creep in through the blinds slowly warming Seth's already heated body. With a deep growl Seth rolls over trying to escape the warmth succeeding in rolling off his bed and landing on the ground with loud thud. "Bitch!" Seth hisses as he rubs his head and pushes himself off the floor. Looking at his bed he notices the sunlight and smiles jumping up. "Lee!" But he quickly quiets down remembering that his sister isn't at home or even conscious to enjoy the rare sunny day in La Push. On sunny days the Clearwater siblings always headed to the beach either to hang out or just go surfing – it was their sibling bonding time. Seth's shoulders slump as he fights back a bout of tears remembering how close he came to losing his sister. "It won't happen ever again." Seth mumbles promising to never let anyone or anything hurt his sister. Sitting back down on his bed Seth thinks back over the last six months and even the last two years.
Two years after the Clearwater family trip to Los Angeles to visit one of Mom's other cousins – she's got family everywhere it seems like. We were only gone for about two weeks and once we got back things suddenly changed between Jake and Leah. He was suddenly always close…closer to her? I mean we were only gone for two weeks and the guy acted like he hadn't seen Leah for years. At the small party he sat as close to her as he possibly could without Leah either lashing out at him or sitting her in his lap. I think Jake even tried the ol' stretch and yawn reach-a-round trick to put his arm behind her. From there Jake became an almost permanent fixture at home in that when I woke up he was there and when I went to bed the same. I had to get up extra early just to make sure that he wasn't spending the night. Then again I do think that he may have spent the night a few times but I have no proof. Man, how and why does this kind of stuff keep happening to my sister? First, Sam imprints and leaves her like a drowned rat. Then for a second it seems like something was happening between her and Jake but when he imprinted that was it. Then he left and we all missed him; did Leah miss him more? But after Jake left suddenly it was Embry forever over and hanging around Leah. On the one hand Jake claims to have broken his imprint meaning he's free to love whomever he wants. But, Embry hasn't imprinted yet and I've been in his head. He's not bothered hiding his love for Leah. But what is it about wolves that she seems to just draw them in. This is just too much to deal with.
Grabbing a pair of jeans and a shirt he walks out of his room heading to the bathroom but stops as he picks up the sound of a strong heartbeat. Standing still he strains his hearing trying to pinpoint the exact location of the sound and hears a loud snore…coming from Leah's room? "What the hell?" Seth whispers as he heads down the hall and opens Leah's door. Seth's eyes widen as he sees his Alpha, rather former Alpha, sleeping in his sister's bed and snoring rather loudly.
Taking a step into the room Seth groans as the phone rings and quickly steps out to answer the phone. "Hello?" Seth growls out the annoyance of finding a male in his sister's bed seeping out. "Oh, no, I'm sorry Mom. How's Leah? Did she wake up?" Seth asks excitedly as he silently begins nodding his head listening to his mother. "She did what? Is she supposed to remove the tube from her throat?" Another nod. "Well, yea, then it wouldn't be Leah. Meet at Sam and Emily's? Are you serious? Is she okay with this?" More silence. "Okay, yea, I'll let Quil and Embry know. Oh, Jake? Don't worry I think I can find him." Seth says leaning over to see the sleeping man down the hall. "I'll tell him that Billy is looking for him. Well let me know if you need any help getting her out. Right, bye Mom." Seth says smiling as he hangs up the phone.
Walking back down the hall he opens the door and looks down at the sleeping Jacob. "Jake. Wake up man." Seth calls roughly shaking Jake's shoulder.
"Go away." Jake growls as he hugs Leah's pillow tightly. Seth has to bite down on the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing as he shakes him again.
"Wake the hell up, man." Seth orders coldly. Jake opens one eye and looks at Seth confused. Seth gives Jake his coldest, hardest look allowing an annoyed growl to escape his lips. "What you doing in my sister's bed?" Seth demands his arms crossed tightly across his chest as Jake quickly sits up and looks around nervously.
"Uh, well, I, you see," Jake starts stuttering trying to find the right words.
"Well? I'm waiting?" Seth demands while using the same tone that Leah would've used with him.
"Look, don't take that tone with me." Jake snaps narrowing his eyes. "Only your sister can do that. I couldn't sleep in my room last night and came here."
"What was wrong with your room?" Seth asks now interested in what led his friend here.
"I, I, uh, missed her scent." Jake mumbles out quickly as he stands up and proceeds cracking his neck.
"Missed her scent? Well I don't think she's going to appreciate the fact you 'covered' up her scent with your eau de Black-Cullen aroma." Seth teases as a look of horror crosses Jake's face and he turns to look at Leah's bed.
"Shit." He growls out and quickly snatches off the sheets as Seth walks out laughing.
"I really wouldn't bother. Either way she's going to be pissed. Pissed that her bed smells like leeches or pissed that someone changed her sheets without her knowing. And believe me - she'll know." Seth adds with a knowing smile as Jake runs a nervous hand through his hair trying to make a decision.
"Damned if I do and damned if I don't...again." Jake mumbles to himself letting out a defeated smile. "Do you think telling her 'love you' will keep my ass out the fire?" Jake asks turning around to assess Seth's expression. Jake raises an eyebrow as Seth frowns at him.
"Do you really love her, Jake? Seriously love her?" Seth asks leaning against the door frame staring Jake in the eyes.
"Yea, yea I do." Jake admits nodding his head. "She keeps me grounded and yet at the same time I feel a sense of freedom with her. She reminds of what's really important. Honestly, before I left I never pictured my life without her and when I finally did…it was hell. Sure she's not my 'supposed' perfect match but when I'm with her it feels like every moment is perfect. Whether we're arguing, yelling, laughing, talking or just whatever. I'd give anything to have Leah in my life and not just as a friend – not anymore. She means more to me than anyone else, Seth. I love her and just wish I had said so sooner." Jake answers honestly.
"Alright. But you know this isn't going to be easy, right?" Seth asks as he walks off heading towards the bathroom.
"You mean Embry, right?" Jake asks narrowing his eyes.
"Yea, he was there after you left. He loves her too, you know that, right?" Seth asks and begins brushing his teeth. Jake only nods his head going into a deep thought. "The fight seems to have strengthened his feelings for her. But I think now everyone realizes how much we love her."
"What do you think I should do about Embry?" Jake asks looking up at Seth with a hard frown.
"I think you need to talk to him." Seth says truthfully. "You two have been friends since he moved here and honestly, again, I don't think you should throw your friendship away over a girl." Seth raises his hand to interrupt Jake who is getting ready to protest. "And I know this is my sister and that she's special. But she'd also agree that no guy or girl is worth losing a friendship over. But you know she'd make the sacrifice of not being with either of you if it's for the good of the pack." Seth finishes up and Jacob sighs deeply nodding his head in agreement. Seth only shrugs his shoulders and continues brushing giving his friend time to think over the matter. "Can you get that?" Seth asks snapping Jake out of his thoughts as there is a knock at the door. Nodding his head Jake heads down the hall and down the stairs expecting to find some nosy neighbor seeking information on Leah. Stopping at the second to last stair Jake freezes as he watches Embry walk into the house. The two freeze and glare darkly at one another the tension building.
"Jake." Embry greets dryly.
"Embry." Jake returns narrowing his eyes. Neither are aware of how long they stand glaring at one another willing the other to break eye contact first.
"Jake." Quil greets seriously stepping out from behind Embry. "Embry." Quil says turning his attention back to Embry. Both men look at Quil in surprise neither one aware that he was standing there. "Hey Quil, how's it going?" Quil continues on after rolling his eyes. "Ah, man, nothing. Claire made me a dream catcher at day camp. Then her parents are riding me about going to college." Quil continues on holding a one-sided conversation.
"Oh, found an apartment." Embry adds trying to ease one of Quil's possibly long list of woes.
"You did? That's great! Where is it? Is it big enough? How far away is it?" Quil asks quickly.
"Yes, oh man it's awesome. It's a 2-family that's been converted into just a huge house. It's got 4-bedrooms, 2 baths, only about a 2-hr drive from here meaning just a run down to the corner in wolf form. Plenty of woods in the backyard and the kitchen is huge." Embry states with a proud smile. "Ready for the best part? The rent is cheaper then we even expected."
"Awesome." Quil says smiling. "So, uh, Jake? Now that you're back what are you gonna do?" Quil asks smiling up at Jake, who despite his aggression towards a rival, couldn't help but smile at the carefree conversation.
"Don't know. I did just get back yesterday and Leah's still in the hospital."
"She woke up." Seth states as he comes bouncing down the stairs smiling. "Mom called not too long ago and says that she's up, alert and ready to come home."
"That's great!" Quil says matching Seth's smile.
"Does she need a ride?" Both Jake and Embry ask in unison but quickly glare at one another.
"Nope." Seth states as he pushes past Jake. "In fact we are all supposed to meet up over at Sam and Emily's. Believe it or not she's agreed to a 'welcome home' party." Seth says with a shrug. "Yea, I know and I questioned my Mom about it as well. Apparently, Leah realizes that no matter what she says there's going to be a lot of people around and just decided to let Mom and Emily do their thing."
"Well I guess it is best to go ahead and get the wolf bonding out the way." Quil adds as he follows Seth into the kitchen.
"Yea and it's great that you guys showed up here because it means part of my job is done." Seth continues leaving Jake and Embry standing alone in the living room.
"Look, Jake, I," Embry says with a heavy sigh but is cut off by Jake.
"I need to go home, get a shower and change my clothes." Jake says quickly interrupting Embry. "Tell Seth and Quil I'll catch up with them at Sam and Emily's." Jake states as he quickly heads out the door shutting it behind him.
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La Push always has been and always will be my home. It's hard to believe that years ago I ran from home and promised myself that I would never come back and yet…here I am again for the second time. The first time I came back was to celebrate Rachel's union to Paul Meraz and well…that was to say the most interesting week I've ever spent. Found out that my brother and his friends can actually transform into giant wolves along with my childhood best friend, Leah Clearwater. Which leads to my only second visit back; Rachel called me and told me while in hysterics that Leah had been bitten by a vampire. I'm not even sure if you can legally have that kind of conversation over the phone – I mean isn't Homeland Security always listening in to our phone conversations? Ugh, Rob and his conspiracy theories have me totally freaking out. But after lying to my boss telling him my sister was seriously hurt, because childhood friend or my little's brother love interest isn't considered close enough to warrant an excused approved absence. But anyway I packed up Rob along with the twins and here we are sitting inside my childhood home waiting on my wayward little brother to make his appearance. "Rebecca calm down, Hun." Robert says from the couch.
Yea, easy for him to say. Rob is an only child, the lucky, handsome bastard and so he has no idea what it's like to worry about a sibling. I mean I finally arrive first thing this morning and Dad tells me that Jacob's in his room sleeping after catching a flight from 'nowhere' Alaska to Seattle and then apparently ran from Seattle to La Push. All for his 'Beautiful Beta' Leah but when I go into his room he's nowhere to be seen. Which mean the lil' oversized punk ran off somewhere – oh! If I find out that he went back to his supposed 'precious' imprint I'll hurl. I told the idiot during my last visit that he needed to ditch the cold ones and stick with something a bit more down-to-earth, alive and hot – Leah Clearwater. I spent my entire life, up until when I left, trying to hook my best friend and little brother up but no Leah had to fall for Sam 'wanna-be poster boy' Uley instead of giving my little the brother the time of day. I mean, yea, okay she's three years older than him and he would be jailbait after her 18th birthday but a smile price to pay for love, right? And I mean when Jacob's finally turned 18 and I try to get him to just ask her out for a date or something. But no he sits up mumbling and whining about his imprint, the Loch Ness Monster. It was clearly obvious that he wanted Leah and he was so jealous to see her dancing with every guy with the cajones big enough to ask her. When he walks in through that door I swear I'm going to give him a serious 'Beck Slap'.
The door opens and Rebecca turns to the door with a hard scowl on her face but sighs in frustration to see her brother-in-law, Paul, walking in. "Am I late? I didn't miss any of the action, did I?" Paul asks excitedly smiling at Rebecca.
"UNCLE PAUL!" Amy and Adam, Rebecca's 4-year old twins greet excitedly.
"AMY! ADAM!" Paul greets back easily grabbing one child in each arm and tossing them up in the air. "Has your Uncle Jake shown up yet?"
"No." The twins answer shaking their heads and laughing.
"Awesome. I missed the last 'Beck Slap' session and I won't miss this one." Paul states while winking at Rebecca as he takes a seat next to Robert. The door opens again and in trudges none other than Jacob Black.
"I'm home." Jacob greets shutting the door behind and looking up to see a frowning…Rachel? 'No…her hair is different.' Jacob assesses narrowing his eyes at the woman in front of him. "REBECCA!" Jacob greets excitedly as he snatches his sister up in a tight bear hug. "I haven't seen you in what? Almost two years? What are you doing here? When did you get her? Did you bring the kids?" Jacob asks spinning Rebecca around laughing.
"Yes, it's me Jacob. Who else would it be? I mean I am the prettier twin." Rebecca adds snidely. "And it was at the wedding. I got here earlier this morning. The twins are sitting on the couch with Rob and I'm here because some Alpha wolf failed to keep his sorry ass at home to look out for my SISTER!" Rebecca states angrily.
"But Rachel's okay and that sounds like a personal issue between you, Sam and Paul." Jacob answers of matter-of-factly pointing at said wolf.
"No, no, no. Rachel's not the sister she's talking about and you damn well know it." Paul states with a smug grin on his face.
"Leah's alright." Jacob states in his defense.
"Yea, she's only OK because THANK GOD! She's immune to vampire venom." Rebecca adds as her body begins to shake with rage.
"Are you shitting me?" Paul asks looking up surprised.
"Later Paul." Rebecca and Jacob say in unison before turning their attention back at one another.
"I'm sorry, Beck, but I had to go with my imprint. Rather, I thought I had to go with my imprint." Jacob says with a heavy sigh.
"DIDN'T I TELL YOU NOT TO WASTE YOUR TIME ON THE CULLEN LEECH?" Rebecca demands angrily.
"Yes." Jacob answers with a frown.
"And so why are you back?" Rebecca asks cutting her eyes at Jacob and crossing her arms across her chest.
"I'm back because…because IloveLeah." Jacob rattles off quickly looking away with a blush.
"What? What was that? I didn't catch it." Rebecca says coldly as Rachel and Billy come into the living room smiling at the sibling exchange.
"I said I came back because," Jacob responds back raising his voice. ".Leah." Jacob states with overly exaggerated hand motions.
"And what did I tell you?" Rebecca asks smiling smugly.
"That I loved Leah and I should just marry her already." Jacob says leaning his head back to look at the ceiling.
"Meaning what?"
"Meaning that I was wrong and you were right." Jacob states with a heavy sigh as his jaw clenches and he takes a deep breath.
"And?" Rebecca asks nodding her head.
"And it means that I get a mutha-fuckin'," Jacob grumbles out through clenched teeth but is interrupted by a hard slap to the back of his head.
"BECK SLAP!" Rebecca shouts and slaps Jacob earning a boisterous laugh from Paul sitting on the couch.
"Awesome! Fuckin' awesome!" Paul says laughing with tears in his eyes. "It's not often you get to see an Alpha get slapped around. Gawd, Beck I wish you guys would just move back home." Paul says wiping his eyes.
"Maybe I will if my little brother doesn't just grow a pair and marry Leah." Rebecca states seriously glaring at an annoyed and highly embarrassed Jacob Black.
"Shut up, Paul." Jacob growls out reaching out a hand to slap Paul but misses. "Look I'm here now and I'll see Leah in a couple of hours. I'll make things right." Jacob says as he walks past Rebecca. With a heavy sigh Rebecca turns around to follow Jacob towards his room.
"Jacob?" Rebecca calls as she follows her brother into his tiny room and closes the door behind her.
"Don't Beck Slap me again." Jacob orders while shaking his head. The infamous Beck Slap was Rebecca's way of disciplining her brother when he was younger and it pretty much was a bitch slap. Only immediate family members knew that the 6'7" true Alpha of La Push used to get slapped around as a kid, then as an 18-year old and now at the age of 20. But now that Paul knew he'd never live it down.
"Don't worry I won't." Rebecca says sitting down on Jacob's bed. "She could've died, you know that right?" Rebecca whispers as she looks up at Jacob with sad tear-filled eyes.
"Yea, I know." Jacob admits sitting down next to Rebecca and throwing an arm around her shoulders. "Believe me I know."
"Neither of us would've been there for her last moments." Jacob tenses and feels his throat tightens at Rebecca's words. Since getting his phone back many different fears, scenarios and regrets have run through Jacob's head. The fact that his and Leah's last moments together could've been about what kind of bastard he was didn't sit well with him. "We would've missed out on our chance to say good-bye." Rebecca whispers as tears start to fall.
"Beck, it's okay. She's alright and that's all that matters." Jacob whispers pulling his sister close to him. "We'll both see her in about an hour and we can tell her how much we love her and how much she means to us." Jacob says encouragingly.
"But, it'd, it'd be just like Mom all over again." Jacob freezes as his sister's words hit an old wound. Jacob bites his bottom lip thinking back on the pain, sorrow and regret that the Black children had to deal with over the sudden death of their mother. Their mother's death had hit Rebecca the most since she was the closest to her.
"Listen Beck." Jacob says sternly with a heavy sigh. "It's alright to miss Mom. And I do realize how close I came to losing the woman I love without ever telling her. But, we've both been given a second chance to make things right. I promise you I'm going to tell Leah that I love her and will go from there."
"I'm moving back to La Push." Rebecca whispers with a small smile surprising her brother.
"Are, are you serious?" Jacob asks as Rebecca only nods her head. "That's great! Does Dad know? Leah's going to freak." Jacob says excitedly as Rebecca shushes him.
"I haven't told anyone else yet. Rob and I were already discussing it after we found out that Rachel was pregnant. I'm sick of missing of our family moments and I no longer blame Daddy for the accident." Rebecca states with a proud smile. "But getting back on track with this whole 'Leah' situation. What are you going to do with Embry?"
"You know about that?" Jacob asks with a frown and a sigh.
"Yea, well Rachel did marry Paul and seems to somehow stay on top of all the pack gossip. I swear you give that guy a print press or a computer with paper and ink. He'll write up a paper." Rebecca says laughing while shaking her head.
"What do you think I should do?" Jacob asks while rubbing the back of his head. A smile from Rebecca puts Jacob at ease because if there's anyone that knows Leah better than himself it's either Rosalie or Rebecca.
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Well here goes the latest chapter. Sorry it's taken so long to update but work and home life has just been draining the inspiration juices. Mom wants to bond and crap. Pfft, which is fine but not when I'm tired or right after work. But anyway to be honest sorry this chapter sucks but it was better than the other dribble I had typed up earlier. Say does anyone think the Cullens should show up at the party? Or should they be a no-show? Let me know. Thanks for all the reviews especially to chelley0207 who just found my story and still reviewed every individual chapter. WOO! Love to see that number go up but thanks too all my loyal readers especially ItsCuzOfTheFame because she helps me stay on top of my Taylor news and just Taylor hotness in general.
Plus I'm on to you and your love for Paul and Jacob. You can't have both! You are entitled to one wolf and one wolf only. Who's it going to be? Jacob or Paul?
Also while I'm at it if you haven't already you just gotta check out 'Sapphire Moon' by claritysmiles. This is an awesome Blackwater fic with a great storyline and Leah is totally badass in it. This is a great story that definitely deserves more reviews so please just go check it out. Next chapter Jacob and Embry will finally sit down and have their talk. Leah, Rebecca and Rachel reunite! And Jake hears some big, BIG news from the wolf pack's own gossip, Paul. ^-^