AN: Hey guys, I apologise profusely for the uber late update but I was kinda busy with exams (which are now over thank god) and also, this chapter was kinda hard to write. Hopefully I have made up for it though because this chapter is really long, almost three times as long as any of my other chapters and I hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I have been too busy to devise a plan to steal the rights to Twilight so they do still belong to Stephenie Meyer. Who knows, maybe some day she'll read this fic and love it so much she wants to share the rights with me... Pffft, yeah right ^_^

Enjoy!

CHAPTER 9 (revelations)

SETH POV

After running home as fast as possible while in his human form Seth hesitated at his front door, too afraid of what would happen after he went inside.

After standing and staring at the door for so long he actually lost track of time Seth heard the phone ringing inside. There were quick footsteps and then his sister speaking, "Hello?"

Just the sound of Leah's voice put Seth at ease. After all, she was his sister and she loved him just as much as he loved her-the fact that he had imprinted on a vampire wasn't going to change that.

He heard Leah put the phone back down and walk further into the house. Pushing his fears to the back of his mind where he didn't have to listen to them Seth took a deep breath and quickly pushed the door open before he could change his mind.

The familiar feel of his home helped Seth calm down. His breathing slowed and his shoulders relaxed at the familiar smell of his Mum's cooking and Leah's flowery shampoo. To his surprise though, when he stepped into the kitchen it wasn't his mother who was cooking, but his sister.

She turned her head to look at him as he walked through the doorway and she smiled. An actual, genuine, happy smile. It shocked Seth so much that he couldn't speak. However, when she greeted him with bigger smile and a cheery "Hey Seth, welcome home," his mouth responded before his brain had time to catch up and he shot out a very surprised and probably Leah-good-mood-killing, "Why are you so happy?"

To Seth's eternal shock, Leah just laughed and added something to the pot on the stove, saying "Why wouldn't I be happy little brother? We're both alive and well, the scumbag vampires have left or are in the process of leaving and pretty soon the Cullen's will leave too and then we'll be leech free."

Seth's heart clenched as he was reminded of the hatred his sister had for the vampires. 'If she can't even accept the ones who have done nothing but help us then she'll never accept a vampire on the side that wants nothing more than to see us obliterated,' he thought.

Seth was an optimist at heart so the abnormally large number of negative thoughts that had been running through his head today had completely worn him out and he collapsed into one of the kitchen chairs with a pained sigh.

His unusual behaviour caused Leah to turn to him with a worried look, "Are you okay Seth?"

Seth sighed again, "Yeah, I'm fine. Could you just sit down for a minute please? There's something I need to talk to you about."

Worried look still in place Leah nodded and sat in the chair opposite Seth's, "What is it?" She asked.

Taking a deep breath to calm his raging nerves, Seth began. "Leah, you're my sister and I will love you forever, no matter what I will always accept and support you. You feel the same right?"

Still looking confused and now a little upset Leah replied, "Of course Seth, you're my brother and I love you with all of my heart, you shouldn't even have to ask me that."

"I know, I know" replied Seth. "It's just that this time it's a little different and I just wanted to be sure."

"Seth, what is going on? You're really worrying me now. Are you in some kind of trouble?" asked his sister, her voice becoming anxious.

"Well..." hesitated Seth. "You could say that, I suppose."

Seth could see Leah almost physically stopping herself from asking more questions, waiting for him to explain.

Sighing deeply yet again, Seth just blurted it out before he lost is nerve again, "Iimprintedonsomebody."

Leah opened her mouth to say something and then closed it again, furrowing her eyebrows in confusion before opening her mouth again, "What? Sorry Seth but I'm afraid I didn't quite catch that."

Working up the courage to say it again, Seth forced himself to speak slowly this time, "I...imprinted on...somebody."

Tensing up in anticipation of the explosion to come, Seth squeezed his eyes shut so at least he wouldn't have to see the shock and anger in Leah's eyes. Seth knew that her view on imprinting wasn't good after what had happened with Sam and Emily.

When the explosion he expected didn't immediately come Seth slowly opened his eyes, only to have his view taken over by his sister's hair as she stepped around the table and engulfed him in a tight hug.

"Seth, I'm so happy for you. Why were you so afraid to tell me?" She whispered into his hair. "I know I haven't reacted well to the others imprinting but that's just because-and if you ever tell anyone this I will kill you- I was jealous and upset that I wasn't good enough for Sam to imprint on. But my personal anger doesn't influence the way I feel about you Seth. You are my brother and I'm happy if you're happy because I love you."

Pulling slowly out of the hug Leah looked at him, eyes sparkling for once like a regular teenage girl, "So, who is she? Do I know her? And when did this happen?" She asked, barely pausing for breath. "You haven't exactly been surrounded by human company lately, what with all of our time being taken up with protecting the damn leeches. Did you meet her on your way home from the bloodsucker's house?"

Breathing in deeply through his nose, Seth expelled the air quickly from his mouth. This was going to be the hard bit.

Leah had surprised him with her easy acceptance that he had imprinted on someone but that wasn't what had had him so worried to tell her. It was the whole, my imprintee is one of those bloodsucking vampires that you hate with all of your being part that had him really concerned.

After convincing Leah to sit back down Seth reached across the table and grasped her hands with his own. "Please, please just promise to listen to the whole story before you judge me for yourself Leah."

Beginning to get impatient now, Leah just nodded. "Yes, I promise Seth. Now who is she?"

"Leah... It's not a she," he said.

A look of complete shock covered his sister's face and she began to speak, "But..."

However, Seth cut her off before she could properly begin, "No Leah, you promised to hear me out."

Leah looked affronted but she did close her mouth and nod once, indicating Seth to continue.

"I never expected to imprint on a boy but it didn't come as a complete shock to me. You know I've never really cared about people's gender because I've never understood why people insist that you are either straight or gay, you should be with whoever makes you happy, regardless of what they have in their pants-to put it crudely," Seth began.

"This is the bit you're not going to like Leah," he continued. "You remember that feeling of anticipation I had when we were facing the Volturi in the clearing? The one we thought was caused by one of the vampire's powers?"

Leah nodded in agreement, not wanting to interrupt Seth's tale by speaking out loud.

With Leah's confirmation Seth continued to talk, "Well it turns out we were only half right. The feeling was caused by one of the vampires but wasn't one of their conscious powers. It was me being drawn to them by the...power I guess...of imprinting."

Yet again Leah looked shocked...and then confused...and finally angry. "You're kidding right?" She practically yelled.

At Seth's slight shake of the head she became furious. "You expect me to believe that you imprinted on a vampire? A monstrous, bloodsucking, murdering leech?"

When all she received in return for her tirade was a small nod, Leah grew even more frustrated. Standing up violently from her chair she began pacing around the room, occasionally turning again to look at Seth as she tore him to pieces with her words. "That is disgusting! How dare you think that this would be okay! I wouldn't have cared if you imprinted on a regular, human guy. I mean, I wouldn't have liked it but I wouldn't have tried to stop you. But a vampire is a whole different thing!"

"What did you expect would come from this? From you telling me?" She asked, almost screaming in Seth's face at this point. "Did you think that I would just accept it? Just smile and wish you happiness in your future with a mass murderer?"

"Or worse," she stopped pacing and grew unusually quiet, almost whispering. "Did you think that because of what happened in my relationship with Sam I would understand?"

At this Seth finally spoke, "No Leah, I never expected for a second that you would understand. All I ask is that you accept it for what it is and move on."

His voice grew steadily louder as all of the pent-up frustration of the day poured out of him in a rush, "You have to understand that I didn't ask for any of this anymore than you did Leah, but it happened and now, knowing how it feels I wouldn't change it for the world. I know that it's going to be hard and I know that you really, really don't like vampires, but I do. They're some of my best friends, their skin doesn't feel uncomfortably cold to me, or unbearably hard and I have never once thought that their smell was repulsive. So unlike many, if not all other wolves, imprinting on a vampire isn't a complete tragedy for me."

Still looking disgusted, Leah came up with yet another argument. "But Seth, they're murderers. They kill people without a second thought and without feeling any kind of remorse. They're not human."

Rolling his eyes in exasperation Seth spoke in the most patronising tone he could muster, "Yes Leah, I am well aware that vampires are not completely human but then, neither are we."

Dropping the tone he continued, "I am also aware of their eating habits and while I am not in any way going to pretend that I like it, I can understand that they need blood to survive and that the vampires that were 'raised' by the Volturi don't know any different. That's what they've been taught ever since they were first changed and they have never known of the possibility of different food."

Seth could see Leah getting frustrated again and sure enough the next words out of her mouth were not nice ones. "You can spout your 'everyone's equal' and 'all people have the capacity for good' crap all you want Seth, I'm not buying it and I am never going to understand or condone whatever this infatuation is that you claim to have with a vampire."

It was the derogative tone she used to casually dismiss his feelings for Alec that finally undid Seth. He slumped back into his chair and covered his eyes so Leah didn't see the tears running thick and fast down his face.

Even with his face covered Leah could tell something she had crossed a line and now something was very wrong. While she was still too mad to comfort him properly, that didn't mean she liked seeing her little brother upset like this, so she tried to bring her point across more gently, "Seth, I understand that you have possibly imprinted on this vampire but what I don't understand is how you can accept it so readily or feel that it is in any way right."

Refusing to lift his face Seth spoke into his hands, which meant that Leah had to lean in close to hear his muffled words, "Like I said before Leah, I don't need you to understand. I just need you to accept that is a very real fact. You don't even have to like it, just don't make me choose between you and him because I can't do that, I just can't."

With this Seth finally looked up, showing Leah the torn and tortured look in his eyes. She instantly melted at the look, compassion welling in her heart for the pain her only sibling was feeling because of her.

Just as torn as Seth, Leah finally made up her mind and knelt on the floor next to her brother, placing her hand gently on is knee and whispering one word, "Okay."

Seth looked at her in shock, "What?"

Leah squeezed his leg gently and continued, "I understand what it feels like to be torn between people you love and I don't want to be the cause of you feeling that. While I still don't understand this, and I probably never will, I can accept it as something that is going to happen whether I approve or not. I would rather have you in a relationship with a vampire than lose you, which is what would happen in the end. I am an expert in what happens when you try and make someone chose between you and their imprint, last time I tried it did not end well for me at all and I don't want that to happen again, not with you. Just don't expect me to meet him and get all chummy. In fact, I would definitely prefer it if I never had to hear of this ever again."

Although this was not the best outcome Seth could have hoped for, it was one thousand times better than the worst he had considered.

Working up a watery smile and a small nod, Seth was desperately trying to think of something to say to break the awkward silence they had fallen into when a loud knock at the front door caused them both to jump.

"I'll get it." Said Leah, almost sprinting away to escape the awkwardness and the lingering anger and upset in the room.

As she left, Seth straightened himself in the chair and wiped his eyes, hoping that whoever came in wouldn't notice the tear tracks on his cheeks.

Luckily, when Jared stepped into the kitchen he seemed to be oblivious to the faint redness in Seth's eyes as well as Leah's tense stance.

He stopped in the doorway and spoke to Seth, "Hey Seth, sorry to do this to you when you've just got home kid but we need someone to go back to the Cullen's and just make sure that all of their little vamp friends leave without a fuss. We hate to ask you but you're the only one who can stand to be within a hundred yards of any of the bloodsuckers without either wanting to vomit or rip the leeches head off and burn it."

Jared laughed heartily and didn't seem to notice that Leah's laugh was darker than usual and Seth failed to laugh at all, simply nodding and replying with a curt "Happy to help."

"Good! So you won't mind if I stay here and eat your serve then," said Jared, indicating the pot on the stove with a greedy grin."

"Sure," answered Leah. "Help yourself, I'm just gonna walk Seth to the leech residence, I don't trust him not to get into trouble with all of these stray bloodsuckers wandering around."

Jared nodded absently as he ladled the contents of the pot into the biggest bowl he could find, not even looking up as they left the house, closing the front door behind them.

Most of the relatively short walk from the Clearwater's house to the Cullen's was spent in yet another awkward silence until they reached the beginning of the Cullen's long driveway and Leah stopped and turned to Seth, "I hope you're going to tell mum about this... this thing Seth."

Flinching at her tone, Seth shook his head. "No, not yet I'm not. Mum hates vampires even more than you do and you did not react well at all. I think it would be best if I waited a while before telling her."

"You can't do that Seth," said Leah. "She's our mother and you can't keep something like this from her."

"I don't want to Leah but I'm just not ready to tell her right now. I'm only just coming to terms with everything myself. I will tell her soon, I promise, just not yet. And you can't tell her either Leah, this is something I have to do myself, It will be better for all of us if it comes from me."

Glaring at him in frustration Leah huffed, "Whatever" before storming back the way they had come. Seth looked after her until she disappeared around a bend in the trees, before he finally turned and made his way down the long path to the Cullen's house.

'Thank you for accepting me, sister.'

LEAH'S POV

She was so angry, 'How could Seth do this to me? I can't keep something like this from mum, it just isn't right.'

Leah's thoughts continued along these lines as she walked home and she was still suffering from the same indecision as she pretended to listen to Jared talking while he scoffed most of the food.

When Jared finally left to go see Kim Leah barely noticed as she continued with her internal battle, trying to decide whether to keep the secret from her mother and thus keep her promise to Seth or to break the promise to her brother and possibly stop him from running away with a vampire and so making the biggest mistake of his life (as Leah saw it).

When her mother finally returned from Charlie's later that night, Leah still hadn't decided what she was going to do but when Sue asked her how she and Seth were doing and worried out loud about Seth being alone with only Jacob for protection in a house full of vampires, Leah became angry at her brother.

'She loves Seth so much and he wants to keep this a secret from her. Mum would never do anything to harm him; I can't just sit by and let her live her life oblivious to this while Seth runs around with his secret vampire boyfriend.'

Answering her mother's questions on autopilot, Leah was however still rather reluctant in betraying her brother's trust.

Sue seemed to sense Leah's inner turmoil, leaving her to her thoughts until just before she went to bed when she leaned down and gently kissed her on the forehead whispering, "You know I love you Leah?"

Feeling a sudden burst of love for her mother, Leah whispered "I love you too Mum."

Then, as her mother began to leave the room slowly Leah suddenly made her decision,

"Mum, there's something I need to tell you."

I know, I know, Leah is an evil monster... But I really needed one and poor Leah got the job :)
Do you guys think I got her POV okay? I really hope so because I always have trouble writing girls, which is kinda wierd since I am one...

PS: Does anyone else get angry when they review a story and the author doesn't even reply with so much as a thankyou? Because that really gets on my nerves... Authors are always going on about how it only takes a few minutes to write a review, well it only takes a few seconds to write a 'thankyou' or a 'glad you liked it'. I just think it's rude to ask people to read your story and then write a review, all to help you with your writing and then just ignore it... Sorry, I'm rambling again...

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