Love can make or break a person
Leah POV
I had been running for days now, letting the feeling of my muscles bunching the only thing I thought about, and keeping my thoughts empty when a mind connected with mine. I never realised just how strong the pack mind was until I ran for nearly 36 hours away from them and could still hear them as clear as if I was right next to them. "Leah come back please. Mum and I need you" begged Seth, his pain and worry leaking through to me. Many times I had debated just suffering through my pain to make sure Seth and mum stayed happy but I had never turned back. I had passed Alaska way back and I was striving to run to the furthest part of this country, run until I could run no more before I turned back. Seth heard this and without really thinking about it, sent me a picture of what the pack looked like now, all down trodden, nothing like the big proud wolves I had left behind. He flicked through their faces; finally landing on Sam's who looked to be the worst. His cheeks had sunken in, his eyes dull and lifeless and his whole body carrying the look of caving in on itself. Even Paul looked bad and he and I hated each other. Then Seth told me about what Emily had done and how she had left La Push and moved to Forks with a hot shot player. After running for a bit, Seth phased out to be replaced by Jacob. "Oh thank fuck I caught you Leah, you need to come home, the pack is falling apart. We need our favourite bitch to keep us together" he cried, desperation thick in his voice.
"Sorry Jake I can't, not now. I promise I will come back but at the moment it still hurts too much". With that I phased back, but not before I felt a wave of grief and despair wash over me from through the bond. What had I done?
Sam POV
I saw it now, too late maybe but I saw it. Emily may have been fate's idea of perfect but she wasn't mine. Leah was my ideal half and I had screwed it up by screwing her cousin before telling Leah about the change of events. I had screwed it up by not fighting the imprint, not trying. I had failed as a boyfriend and a lover. I had failed as a human being and it seemed my punishment was to be to never see my beautiful Leah every again. Strangely when Emily left I had felt a sense of freedom, the feeling of being let out of bonds to be free and to do my own thing. This was cut down by the fact that even if Emily was out of the way, I was never going to get Leah back. Slowly as the days went past my body began to show the signs of depression. It had begun at first only affecting me but had gradually spread to the rest of the pack. Many of my pack brothers came to visit make sure I was still alive and breathing when all I felt like doing was dying. That was the time I had figured out how hard it was to kill a shape-shifter as the wolf in me finally broke through and hunted, not acknowledging the voices in my head. After my hunger was sated, the next thing the wolf wanted was a mate. By now I had completely lost my mind with grief and allowed my inner animal to guide me away from my sorrows. It worked as every mile that passed beneath my flying feet seemed to drag a weight off my back, off my heart. I could feel the weight of the pack's mind on mine as they formed a formation around me, running like a true wolf pack for the first time. There was only one link missing and something told me we were going to go find it.
Seth POV
I felt more then saw the moment when Sam's mind seemed to become intent on finding my lost sister. The chase was on and the clock was ticking. From what we had seen in her mind, she was past Alaska and still running strong and fast. This was going to be a mission and a half trying to not only catch her but persuade her to come home. At the moment she was not in form so she hadn't heard of our motives but as soon as she did she was going to run faster than ever, pushing herself to the limit. I knew this because I knew her as did Sam yet he was yet to figure this out, his human mind left behind him as it struggled to catch up and tell him before his inner wolf did something they would regret later.
Leah POV
The first thing I heard when I phased back into wolf form was people yelling and Sam mentally cursing them all. "Leah where have you been? Where are you?" Sam practically screamed at me.
"Whoa hold on there, what right do you have to know anything? You left me for Emily REMEMBER?" I screamed back, not allowing my heart to hope.
"Leah please where are you" said Seth, his voice thick with emotion.
"Sorry Seth but that's for me to know and you to find out" I replied before phasing out, collapsing onto the floor and sobbing. I couldn't keep this up; I couldn't keep running because all I was doing was hurting the ones I cared about. All because of HIM, I was going to make him pay for what he did to me. With a growl I phased back and told the pack where to find me before again phasing back and constructing my plan. He hurt me and I was going to show him the pain I had felt all those years as Emily flaunted their relationship.
It took them 2 hours, 2 hours to finally manage to emerge into the clearing, directly under the tree I was hiding in ready to pounce. As soon as Sam stood just where the X made from sticks was I jumped, landing onto his shoulders and dragging him to the floor. Then I let my anger out, punching anywhere I could reach, over and over again. I beat into him the pain I had felt mentally, I made him feel half of the pain I had endured. After a couple of minutes, the pack snapped out their daze and grabbed onto me, dragging me back. Sam just lay there, like he knew he deserved it and he knew the whole intent behind. Slowly, very slowly, he rose onto his feet and stood there looking at me. That was when I realized that all I had on was a pair of boy shorts and a crop top. Yea I started to feel uncomfortable until I noticed that he wasn't looking at my boobs, he was looking at my face, looking like he was trying to memorize it. With a growl, I barred my heart and phased into a wolf, ready to go home but not ready to face the old feelings that had started to arise. I was not going to allow myself to feel something that would be crushed into oblivion as soon as we got back to La Push and Emily returned. I did the thing I had been doing for years, I ran away.
Getting back to La Push before the rest of the gang was easy as I was the fastest. Escaping Sam's thoughts on the other hand where not. Many of the pack had tried to do anything and everything to block out the thoughts pouring from Sam's mind.
Flash back
"Leah I will love you forever" said Sam with a solemn look on his face, leaning close to me as he stared into my eyes with intensity.
"I will always love you and you know that" i giggled as I taped him on the nose. We were one of those couples that would last forever.
"One day I will marry you and we will live in a house together and we will be together forever"
"Promise?"
"I swear, I promise, I am yours forever"
Of course it didn't last, I was just a stupid teenager that didn't understand life's punishment for those with all that they wanted, and needed in their life. Reality made sure I woke up though and wake up I did, I woke up to how nobody but me could be trusted not to break my heart. I learnt that if it looks too good to be true, it usually is. I had become contained, angry, jealous and all out violent to anyone who even looked at me wrong.
Getting back to La Push was easy; the hard part was getting past mum and into my room so I could properly sleep. This took an hour as she wanted to fuss over me and make me eat but for the first time in forever I was not hungry. I didn't feel like eating, socialising or even staying awake. I just wanted to be in bed by the time the rest of the pack came and tried to pull me out of my depression or Emily comes back hanging on the arm of a happy Sam. I wouldn't be able to handle that, not now anyway. I would sleep on it, wake up and be prepared for what life threw at me.
Sam POV
I knew I loved her now but how was I supposed to get her to believe me. Emily was now back but it felt like the imprint had disappeared like the cords that had tied me to her where just string and had snapped when placed up against the steel cords attaching me to Leah. I hadn't had the opportunity to display this to Leah as she had disappeared upon re-entering La Push and I had been refused entry to the house that she had not left for a week. The pack where starting to get worried that I would do something rash and Emily had started to hang around me like fly, never far and always trying to throw herself in between Leah and I. she wasn't helping the situation and she knew it, she knew that no matter what I did she could counter-strike it and bring any hopes of getting Leah back crashing down. The more days that passed, the less reason I had to get out of bed in the morning, to do the things I was meant to do as alpha.
Leah POV
A small knock at the door roused me from my deep slumber, Seth's shaggy blonde head sticking through the crack of the doorway. "Can I talk to you for a sec Lee?" he questioned quietly, almost as if raising his voice would send me running again. I smile before nodding and moving over for him to sit next to me on the bed. "You need to go speak to him Lee, he's leaving the house less and less and there is nothing we can do about it. Emily is back and trying to sink her claws into him again except this time she's being more persistent, pretty much exposing herself to him in front of everyone and its getting really gross". He pretty much said it all in one go, rushing it out and it took me a couple of seconds to listen to him and then slowly slow it down so I could understand it. Seth stood there the whole time looking really nervous and I couldn't blame him. A couple of the other guys had tried to tell me the same thing, worded differently but still the same thing and each guy I had growled and snarled at him until he left. But Seth was different because I cared for Seth; he was my baby brother after all. With a heaving sigh I got up and approached him, watching his face as he flinched with each step I made towards him. When I was a metre away from him, I looked him in the eyes to make sure he wasn't lying and then groaned as I finally accepted the fact that I would indeed have to go talk to Sam if the boys were to leave me alone.
Probably gonna only be one more chapter….any suggestions on what will happen will be taken into consideration and if they seem original and fit in with the story then I will use them but first I need the suggestions so pleeeaaasseeeeee review! =)