Chapter 3

Failure

I woke up this morning with the same amazing feeling I had been having for the last 2 weeks. The astounding feeling of happiness and contentment. I felt great, and this feeling kept getting better by the day.

I had finally transformed from my old, hard bitter self to a new Leah who appreciated everything life had to offer. Although I wasn't quite the same person I was before Sam and I broke up, although I liked this new Leah a lot better.

I wasn't the only person who had discovered my amazing turn around in attitude. Sue, Jacob, Seth and even Chris said I was getting happier every single day. I sighed in contentment. Yes, my beautiful boyfriend Chris was the best thing that had every happened to me, and I wasn't just imprinted on him but he was imprinted on me to. A double imprinting, that's probably why it was so much harder for me to be away from him then it, was for the others.

Chris had been living in the woods with his 'sister' Lira for five years, yet he still managed to look beautiful, so he didn't have a real home so I made a deal with Jacob. If Chris was allowed to stay at his house I would have to babysit Rudy more often.

I as much as I really did hate Rudy I couldn't have Chris sleep in the woods, so I reluctantly agreed. But that arrangement turned out better for everyone seeing that Jacob and Chris have grown to be best friends. Everyone seemed so grateful that Chris had shown up and changed my life around.

Well almost everyone, Edward had been sulking ever since that day when Chris revealed that he was unaffected by Bella's shield. When Chris wasn't with Carlisle training not to eat humans, Bella was desperately trying to perfect her shield although nothing worked.

Although Edward wasn't the only vampire who hated Chris. Chris had become friends with Jasper, Emmet and even Alice but Rosalie always had trouble accepting the fact that more and more people knew that they where vampires.

She believed that the werewolves where enemies to vampires and none of them could ever change. That made me upset although I learned not to notice the bloodsucker, I never really like Rosalie in the first place, not saying I liked any of them.

I got dressed and brushed through my short brown hair and pranced happily down the stairs after another great nights sleep.

Sue looked up from the stove and smiled happily in my direction. Sue had absolutely fallen for Chris as well. She told me she had never seen me this happy in years and for that she owed Chris everything.

Sue flipped another pancake and set on the table in the middle of Seth and I.

I wore a wide smile until my mom asked "Are you going over to see Christopher today?"

My heart sank and my smile faded,

Sue looked confused "What's wrong did you two have a fight?"

I looked at the calendar and sighed unhappily, yes two weeks had gone passed and it was time for another full moon. Chris had insisted that he spends his whole day getting as far away from Forks or La Push for my own safety.

He also said he needed to track down Lira, the last full moon was the first that they had stood alone to fight off Terah, Terah caught up with Chris the last full moon but this time Lira and Chris would stay together just in case he came again and so that they wont risk anymore media exposure like last time.

At first I was jealous that he was leaving me to go find Lira, but after 3 hours of convincing I finally agreed.

"No its just that…he has to go visit some people today" I lied

Seth shot me a glance and pushed the morning paper into my hands.

Test results unknown.

The blood test from the recent animal attack appears unknown to any scientific records. The blood left scientists believing that there may be a new breed of bear or on a larger scale, a new breed of animal altogether. This theory was supported by further investigation of the prints left at the crime scenes. They appeared to be large paw prints but after a second and third examination they discovered that half of what seemed to be paws turned out to large hand prints with large talons. Scientist are digging through extinct animal files to seek possibilities of what this mighty beast may be although nothing has appeared so far. Police recommends that citizens of La Push and Forks remain inside there house until police captures the animal. If you sight the beast please call the police immediately and lock all your windows and doors. For further instructions and information log onto our website at…

Icicles shot through my heart as I looked up from the paper, I didn't need to read anymore. Chris was being hunted and if they found him who knows what would happen.

"Don't worry Leah, he will be fine" Seth chimed in his happy voice "I went over to Jacob's place and Chris hadn't left, he told me to tell you not to come after him and he would see you tomorrow" Seth whispered to softly for Sue to hear.

He looked like he was hiding something, something that he wanted to tell me "then he talked to Jacob and said something about how mad Lira was about the newspaper and about something I didn't quite understand"

I got up quickly and ran to the backyard. There was something that Jacob knew and I had to find out what it was. I dashed behind a tree and tied my jeans and shirt to my leg. My whole body quivered and then exploded into a giant grey wolf.

I hadn't gotten far from my house when I felt Seth entire my mind although he didn't say anything, he was just listening to my thoughts and following me. I didn't really mind although I sped.

I felt horrible, to me it felt like I didn't trust Chris enough just to go along with what he said and let his explain tomorrow. The reason behind this curiosity and worry was the fact that after many years of depression and bitterness after being dumped by my love, at the time, had changed me into someone so paranoid that I would just take of running to Jacobs's house to find out something that may not really be anything.

I felt Seth agree. I never really noticed until now, probably because I never thought I would love anyone as much, or more, then I loved Sam.

I didn't get to think of this subject for very long because I had already arrived at Jacob's.

I phased and put on my clothes. I sniffed the air, something was different. Along with the original cocktail of scents including Jacob, Billy, Chris, Rachel, Paul, Charlie and a little bit of Rudy there was a way to familiar smell, one I hadn't smelled for a while. Sam.

Great what was he doing here? Honestly he was the last person I wanted to see now. Oh well, I was really here to see Jacob, although I would be lucky if he was here and not at Bella and Edwards house, not Sam and now that I had a boyfriend I felt a whole lot more comfortable around Sam then I did before.

I walked in the front door and sure enough Jacob was lying over the whole couch, feet propped up on the couch arm. He turned around to look at me.

"Oh hey Leah" He said happily "Sorry you missed Chris, he left really early"

"I know" I said trying to sound cheerful although he picked up on that instantly "I wanted to see you"

His happy tone faded although he still half smiled, he put his feet down "good timing I was just about to go to Bella's place" He paused "so Seth told you?"

"No it's what Seth didn't tell me" I said walking closer to Jacob.

Talking of Seth raised an unnecessary thought. Wasn't Seth following me like 2 minutes ago? Oh well he probably lost interest when I phased and went to Phoebe's.

"He said that Chris started talking to you but he didn't hear properly" my voice was shaky no matter how much I tried to keep it stable.

Jacob shrugged "he was being paranoid; He was with Bella one day trying to perfect her shield, when he was scanning her thoughts he saw the whole thing with Victoria trying to kill her" Jacob smiled again turning off the TV.

I sat next to him "So what does that got to do with…anything?" I asked really confused now, what did any of this have to do with Bella?

"Well Chris thought Terah was pretty similar to Victoria and if he found out about you he might try and kill you, so he tried to wash off all your scent and leave early so you wouldn't have a chance to visit"

Chris was trying to protect me? On one hand I could take care of myself but on the other I had never seen what a real werewolf looked like let alone fight one. Sam emerged from the back door. I scanned his hard face for any emotions. Worry, concern, disappointment, stress but nothing else. He approached us and put his heavy hand on my shoulder, what was he doing?

"Can I speak to you for a moment?" He asked me his expression not changing

Jacob stood up feeling like a third wheel "hey I will see you later Leah, im headed over to visit Renesmee, can you tell Billy I left?"

I nodded, was he seriously leaving me alone with Sam? No way, I thought I could handle it but now I was struggling to keep my breathing evenly.

Once Jacob left Sam sat down in Jacobs place.

"Listen Leah, I'm going to sound like a complete jerk and a hypocrite but I don't think you should go out with Chris"

My heart burned with rage, how dare he, he dumped me because he couldn't stop loving his wife and my cousin Emily which put me through living hell and now that I'm finally happy he wants to put me back into depression by ripping me away form Chris.

My teeth ground together as I snarled the word "What?"

"Please don't get mad, I mean I know what happened between us was because I couldn't walk away from Emily but please understand, to me you have always been apart of my family, even thought it has been hard Emily and I would be very upset if something happened to you" Sam defended, standing up. About two weeks ago Sam saying he would be upset if something happened to me would have made me leap for joy, although now the words came out as sharp razor blades of pain each stabbing me and slowly twisting around inside my heart.

"Why?" was all that came out of my clenched teeth.

"Because I looked up the Children of the Moon on the internet and it says they are very dangerous on a full moon because they totally lose control"

The hypocrisy spilled over the edges of his lips as he continued to inform me on the possible dangers that Chris might inflict on me and my family if I didn't get away from him. Although he tried to help me see reason all his words made them more tempted to rip his eyes out, right now it seemed like Sam's goal in life was to watch me suffer in eternal misery. I finally snapped.

"So your calling Chris dangerous aren't you Sam? Well to let you know I'm not just a defenseless human, ok, I can take care of myself! If you really want to see danger just look at yourself and then at Emily, sure everyone in the pack can get mad but at least they don't rip there 'truly beloveds' face off!" I yelled forgetting how painful that was for Sam. At that moment I wished I could swallow all my words "Sam, I'm so sorry" I whispered touching him on the back.

Sam just shook his head, his face colored with every shade of sadness and depression there was "no" he whispered "you're right Leah, I'm sorry"

Sam plodded slowly eyes glistening from the overflow of liquid they where receiving. I had never experienced Sam crying, it was absolutely horrible and for that whole second I felt like that bitter, horrible and mean Leah I used to be. He phased into a great black wolf, not bothering to take off his clothes, and ran off.