AN: I'm fairly certain a lot of you guys are gonna shoot me for this chapter; but don't worry because the next one that'll be out on monday or tuesday is the one you've all been waiting for :) I'm sorry this one's 2 days late, my beta's been sick. But she's good to go now so don't worry about it :) I would like to thank the two of them as always, who offer a ton of insightful criticism :D It's fun to hear about your story from someone else's perspective lol. But for now enjoy chapter 14! :D
The seven of them fled Sue's house with such urgency that they didn't even shut the door behind them.
Pavement blurred into smudgy grey as they phased on the run, black and rust and brown and tan all beating feet across the thin La Push road. Lights came on in porches; normal dogs barked. But the boys were flying down that pass so unbelievably fast that a normal person wouldn't of even had the time to make it to their door to see what the fuss was about.
Besides, attracting attention was the very last thing on their minds.
The pack's thoughts joined up in unison, all members so goddamn angry and infuriated that they could hardly process the fact that they finally had a clue; an inkling to where their missing sister might be.
'We should get the Cullens!,' Jake thought, branching off from his pack brothers to head in the west direction toward the vampire manor. 'We're gonna need all the help we can get!'
Sam snarled out a word, barely sounding like 'fine' and ground to a stop so Jake could grab their allies.
'I fucking knew it! I knew I didn't like the way they were looking at my sister!' Seth growled, so much ferocity in his curled back lips and bared teeth that he looked rabid. 'I'm gonna kill 'em. I'm gonna fuckin' tear 'em apart-'
'Me and you both.' Paul growled out, a hideous bark escaping into the night air. Speaking of, as Paul's eyes went skyward he snarled again. Snowflakes began to fall to the ground, a mist easily seen over a long distance had suddenly settled into La Push. Paul and the pack's hearts dropped. 'Seriously? It's starting again now?!'
Other noses turned skyward and they hissed and clawed at the ground as the cool flakes landed on their wet noses and in their eyes.
'We don't have a lot of time. The wind's gonna pick up again soon, I can feel it.' Jared growled, hackles rising threateningly.
No one else had the chance to utter a word before Jacob burst through the trees with the coven of vampires on his tail, all of them except for Bella and Renesmee. Esme and Emmett had backpacks on their shoulders, as did Carlisle but they flew as if they were weightless.
"Let's take care of this." Edward snarled, eyes roaming immediately to Sam's. The Alpha just barked a loud boom, tail swishing and paws leaving harsh indents in the ground as he turned to run.
"Sam!"
The only voice that could stop him in his tracks. The ebony wolf swung around as did the others and he.. He growled.
Emily stepped back with a gasp. "Sammy..? Where are you going!?"
"Not now Emily. We might know where Leah is, this is important." Rosalie hissed, the dark of the night failing to hide the disgusted sneer that turned the corners of her pretty mouth. Emily gulped.
"Well... Not all of you need to go I'm sure! Sam, please!... I haven't seen you in days..." Her russet face scarred for life tilted downwards. But shot back up quickly when a grisly snarl cut through the silence. Sam stared at her, teeth bared and eyes liquid rage.
"...He says he has no time for you. I'm sorry, Emily." Edward muttered.
With that they turned their backs and disappeared into the blackness of the night; proudly enough a rescue mission this time, instead of a search party.
'How do we know she's even alive!?' Quil mumbled as they raced over boulders and trees and rocks and stumps. 'What if they did something to her!?'
'Well then we're gonna do it back just a hundred times worse!' Paul screamed right back.
'Those cock-sucking bastards,' Embry quipped, 'they had the goddamn balls to lie right to our faces!'
'They're not gonna have faces once I'm through with 'em!' Jacob growled, his rusty fur a streak of lightning in the fastly falling snow. Wind wasn't far off; the scent of the air had changed, and not just that cool hint from the snow. It was desperation; like the party couldn't run fast enough, like the wind couldn't blow strong enough.
Jasper soaked in the emotion around him from the seething wolves; oddly, he felt no need to calm them. It was a new revelation for the 'walking chill pill' as Leah had so accurately named him months before. Instead, as Alice took his hand and they sped along with the others, Jasper let the boiling rage fill him from the inside out and over-sweep any mercy he might've felt for that traitorious pack. His speed intensified, and he felt Alice smirk and pound the forest floor faster beside him.
'If they hurt her, I swear to god-' Jared seethed, spit dripped from his bared fangs and disappearing behind him as the brown wolf ran, skimming over the ground like he had wings. 'I need something to calm me down, at least until we get there. Like fuck! ...Sam man. You and Emily, are you guys okay?' Jared thought, needing something, anything to keep him from tipping over the edge of madness and way down into insanity.
As Jared mentioned the girl Sam left behind in the dust, the pain-.. The pain; holy fuck, it disappeared!
'No... No. Me and Emily, we're done.' The agony was gone. It was over and the last frayed edges of the imprint, Sam felt slip away.
'..............' "........." Silence overtook the pack and Edward, the lot of them screeching to a halt and barking questions.
'Sam, man... Are you serious?!' Jacob questioned. 'How are you even still breathing dude!?'
'I don't fucking know and I don't fucking care, keep running!' Sam's growl was domineering and overtly frightening even. 'She's not pregnant anyway, it doesn't matter.' He snarled.
Edward's fist clenched. "Samuel,.. I'm proud of you."
Then the cold-blooded Cullen began to run along with the Alpha once again.
'What do you mean she's not pregnant!?' Paul yelled as he ran to catch up. 'She said she was the day-...' Paul still couldn't bring himself to finish the sentence; it didn't help that Sam shot his packmate a vicious grumble. But he still answered the man's question.
'It was bogus, a false alarm. Now forget Emily!' His last thought was controlled; but by how rough and angry the words came out a bystander wouldn't of known it. Instead, pictures of Leah and memories were fuelling Sam's mind, the pack and Edward watching amazed. Next memories of Sam just hanging up on Emily; ignoring her pleas to come home and just pushing the scarred up girl to the back of his mind.
The imprint was no more.
'Holy fuck... It's possible...' Embry muttered, running now like the others who had stopped. 'Sam dude... Does this mean... Leah..?'
Sam never answered him. He had effectively barred the offending language from the rest of his pack's minds. He must've temporarily forgotten about Edward, because the mind-reading vampire heard the words very clearly though Sam's brothers could not;
'I'm going to find you, Leah. I'm gonna make sure you're okay. I know you're alive, I can feel you and it's pulling me. I Love You, Leah Clearwater. I always have.'
Edward's eyes widened; the others failed to notice.
The pictorials in Sam's head, however, were more than enough evidence that Sam's statement was true.
He yawned. He was so tired. She looked down at him, his head in her lap. "Sam, you look so worn out..."
He forced a weak smile back up at her; she cared about him so much. "Nah babe, I just haven't had much time to rest since I've been back.. Am I hurting you?" Sam asked her, his heavy head (seems as the first phase added a whole lot of weight to you along with height) resting on her thin, bronze legs. She giggled.
"No idiot, go to sleep. ...I'm just happy to have you back." He smiled; felt his eyes going heavy and buried his face into her stomach, into the soft fleece of Leah's sweater.
"I'm so glad I'm home too.. I missed you." His last words came out hushed, and he fell asleep.
Sam continued to be silent; Edward continued to watch as he felt his heart break even more with each new memory. If they didn't find Leah, alive and well... They would lose two friends, not just one.
"What do yah think of the future, Sam?" She asked, looking up at the passing clouds. She laid entirely on his chest, his strong hot arms locked around her naked waist.
"I don't know... I see a house." She tilted her head further back to look at him, since his back was rested against a sun warmed rock on the beach.
"A house?"
"Yeah. ..And two kids."
"Two kids?" fourteen year-old Leah's face lit up in a smile and Sam grinned. "What are their names?" Sam chuckled.
"Bonnie and Clyde." She laughed and he did too. "Partners in crime and in life. Just like me and you."
Rosalie understood Leah. That was why she was out here beating across the forest floor with the rest of them, running like the wind that was whipping her blonde locks. She knew Leah understood her; and for some reason, she guessed that Leah would look if it was her who'd been missing. Hell; Leah even understood Bella's desire to save her child. She remembered her mind-obsessive brother telling her that. Two girls in the same boat; Leah Clearwater and Rosalie Hale-Cullen.
She felt her diamond-hard teeth clench together and she bypassed Edward running.
Sam coughed and sputtered, causing her to gulp and press the cold rag to his burning forehead; well, hotter moreso than usual he guessed.
"Leah really.. You.. You don't need to do this.. You haven't slept, I know it.." He murmured, coughing again against what he assumed was another glob of congealed blood in his throat. "I'm gon-gonna be.. Fine.."
"Shhhh." It was just the softest whisper between her lilac lips, her soft hand caressing the scratched flesh of his fiery cheek. "Stupid cliffs.. I always knew you were gonna get hurt, diving off those..." (Oh yeah.. It had been a 'cliff-diving accident' that he'd told her, wasn't it?.. The first time he came home beat up from a rogue bloodsucker.)
'I wish I could tell you.' ...."Don't worry about me baby.. I'll be fine. How could I.. Not be, when you take such good care of me?.." She climbed over him in bed, causing the barest of brushes against his fevered flesh and settled down to lie, curled into his side. His arm automatically extended, her head rested on it and she buried her face into the crook of his neck.
"Sam... Don't ever leave me, please..?" He turned his head, looked at her with those beautiful eyes and plump lips and he smiled; knew he would always be okay when he was with her; knew (THOUGHT) he'd never leave her.
"No baby... I promise; ..I'm not ever gonna leave you." He kissed her.
Edward knew Sam would've winced had he not been so deeply buried in the memories, the only reminders he had of Leah until he found her. Edward tried to keep his favorites, actually; hours passed with the pack not stopping, the Cullens either. Sam was reminiscing the whole time.
Edward saw Leah and Jacob as youngsters playing football and Jacob always letting her win because Sam and Jake knew it would make her happy. He saw bonfires at Harry's and Billy's and Harry playing a guitar that apparently was now in Leah's room.
...Heard the most amazing, beautiful voice in the silence of Leah's abandoned room and Sam imagined Leah plucking the guitar's delicate strings as she sang, on a bench at night, on the beach by her friends and family. Edward really liked that one; thought maybe he'd try to con her into it if they found her safe and well.
He kept watching; but then Edward saw flashes of random acts happening; things that he couldn't connect to Leah or Sam. He saw a snowglobe falling to the floor and smashing, the words unidentifiable inside as the glass and white specks of glitter that flooded out blurred the image. Edward watched as a door slammed shut. He saw the red and blue lights of an ambulance and police car, blaring in the night. He saw Leah's necklace on the cold hard floor alone. He saw nurses and doctors running down a corridor of the hospital where his father worked. Edward witnessed the bright flames of a fire tilting and flickering as they were moved by a breeze or the wind. Edward saw rain hitting the pavement hard. Fog so thick it was impossible to see through, ocean waves crashing hard against the shore as an overcast sky turned to snow.
His eyes narrowed as he ran; Edward tried hard, but he still could not find sense in Sam's jumbled up thoughts at all.
All of a sudden then, Sam's mind shut off the flow of pictures and memories, and was replaced with the harsh feeling of pure fear; raw fright and worry personified in Sam's quivering body as he ran.
Jasper felt regret, shame, fear, shock, and denial rush through him so fast the vampire nearly tripped. It was a surprise, to say the least.
Edward didn't understand; but it brought him out of his own world and back into his surroundings. On either side of him were his family, in front and behind were the pack; all running like their lives depended on it.
But as Edward watched Sam in the lead, paws pounding desperately across the forest floor, he knew sadly that Leah's did; as well as Sam's.
AN: IMPORTANT MESSAGE GUYS. I'm probably going to be changing my username soon; so don't freak if you can't find the story or me because this is your heads up. I was thinking something like SeaStarofSongs or some other gayla shit :p hahaha. Wait and see :)