The Twilight Twenty-Five ( )
Prompt: #22 Homecoming
Pen Name: Maddie-the-Muse
Pairing/Character(s): Leah Clearwater (Seth Clearwater)
Rating: K
Word Count: 337
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There were very few things that could bring Leah Clearwater back to La Push. She deemed only family funerals and weddings as possible reasons she would consider making the journey back to the reservation she'd left nearly ten years before. With both her mom and brother alive and well, that left only a wedding. Not just any wedding either, because let's face it, she hadn't made the trip home for any of the other pack weddings. This wedding was a different story. This was her little brother's wedding, and there was no way she was going to miss that.
A wave of nostalgia swept over her as she turned onto the 110, on her final lag of her drive from the city. It had been a long time since she'd been in the woods surrounding La Push, but the sense of calm the forest always brought her flooded in. The sun was filtering through the trees, which was a rare treat for the soggy North West, and Leah remembered the days like this she'd spent running patrol with her pack brothers.
Leaving La Push had been a difficult choice, but one she didn't regret making. She needed to get away from there to find herself and finally live her life. She knew that it hadn't been easy on the pack to let her go, but was grateful that they had let her make a clean break.
As she got within a few miles of the reservation, a shadow in the trees caught her eye. If she didn't know better, she would have passed it off as a play of light and not the wolf escort she knew it to be. She slowed down enough to allow Seth to run alongside the car at a comfortable pace, and waited on the back steps of the house once she had pulled into the driveway of their house.
"Thanks for coming home, Leah," Seth said as he came bounding out of the trees and wrapped her in a huge hug.