Disclaimer: Twilight belongs to Stephenie Meyer. She messed up the story when she made Jake imprint on Nessie. Fortunately for us there's always the world of fanfictions.

Author/Note: This is a Leah/Jacob story with all the normal pairings and the events in Breaking Dawn never happened, because just like my cousin said, Breaking Dawn shouldn't even be considered a book.

Translation to English of O Nosso Amanhecer 2. This version was subjected to a few changes from the original in Portuguese.

This translation was a request by FantasyLover74.

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Alert: the characters in this story curse a lot.

Our Dawn

Part II

Leah Clearwater

16. Training

I was still shocked with my own thoughts when I felt someone touching my hand.

"Leah…can you bring Jacob home please?" Billy asked me.

"What?" Why was Billy asking me that?

"He probably needs some time alone." Sam said.

"But I want to speak to him. Please…Leah?" Billy squeezed my hand again.

I wanted to be alone too. I had just realised I was in love with Jacob. I mean, I knew for quite a while now that my feelings towards him were a little bit more intense than a normal friendship, but I had never actually thought about the "L" word. I was hoping that one day I would realise it was just gratitude, it was just me needing a friend and nothing else.

But it wasn't. My heart had been trying to warn me and I hadn't been listening and now things were getting complicated.

"Leah? Do what Billy asked, alright?" My mother whispered pushing me slowly towards the door.

I couldn't say no.

I left and followed his scent through the forest. I knew he hadn't phased so I kept my human form too. Jacob was angry and I would probably have to convince him to go talk to his father even though he was as stubborn as a mule.

"So…you found a new enemy, huh?" I asked when I joined him.

He looked at me with an angry expression but then he softened up a bit and let go of the tree he was punching.

"What's their fucking problem?" He asked furiously. His anger was back again. If I didn't know him better I would certainly think he was bipolar.

"They're just worried about the Volturi coming here." I tried.

"Ephraim this, Ephraim that…" He faked Old Quil's voice. "You're Ephraim's descendent, you need to be responsible, you have to imprint..."

I laughed at his little outburst.

"As if I wanted to have this stupid wolf gene! As if I wanted to walk around morphing into a fucking giant dog tracking down stupid leeches, having all my clothes ruined! As if I need magic to find the girl I love!"

He was really pissed off. I had never seen him act like that, not even when Bella chose the mind rapist over him.

"Jacob…I understand what you're feeling but…"

"I'm sick of this crap!" He complained cutting me off.

"It could be worse."

"Really? How?"

"They could've given the alpha position to Sam again."

Jacob looked at me and sighed. He knew I never enjoyed to follow Sam's orders.

"I guess…" He mumbled. "We were just having some fun. So what if we ended up drinking too much? No one died."

"My mother clearly overreacted. She's just a bit overprotective when it comes to my brother."

"I thought she was going to kill me."

We laughed a bit and I decided not to tell Jacob that if Seth ended up in the Hospital, my mother would have killed him for sure. No one messed up with her baby.

"I think you should go home and have a word with Billy." I said.

"I don't want to talk to him now. I know what he's going to tell me."

I arched my eyebrows with curiosity. Who was he? Alice Cullen?

"What will he tell you?" I asked.

"He's going to give me the same lame talk he gave Quil and Paul when they imprinted. He's going to tell me that I have to be responsible because I am a protector and I need to think about the future and my children will carry the gene and all that bullshit. I'm fucking seventeen years old for crying out loud!"

He really had his mind set. He didn't want to imprint and I just didn't know why because imprinting, although it took away all your choices, could indeed make him happy. Was it because he didn't like the concept of losing his free will to choose his love? Or was it because he wanted to stay by Bella's side and never forget they could've been together? For some stupid reason my stomach flipped thinking about Jacob still being in love with that ungrateful leech.

"I'm not going to imprint and that's final!" He continued. "I don't need magic tricks to find the one I love. Plus I don't need children…I just need someone who can understand me and love me always."

I thought I saw a shade of red coming to his face but the shadows in the forest didn't allow me to be sure. Then he looked at me and my eyes went to the ground not wanting to face him directly. I was afraid my eyes would give away my true feelings.

"They want a responsible alpha, right?" Jacob asked suddenly.

I nodded.

He grabbed my hand and pulled me with him.

"We're having a pack meeting in your house." He announced.

It took us an hour and a half to reunite all the wolves in my house. Seth was feeling much better and all the other kids, even Shane, were alright. Paul was the only one complaining about the meeting because he was still too sleepy.

"Whatever you guys decide…You'll have to repeat it to me later because right now I'm too tired to think straight." He said crashing on the couch.

"Since when do you think?" Jared laughed and the others supported him.

Paul gave him the middle finger and a few seconds later he was snoring.

"The Council wants us to be responsible and since School is over we're going to start a new routine. We're going to train with the Cullens. If we're going to fight against special vampires we need the Cullen's assistance." Jacob said.

"What do you mean about a new routine?" Quil asked. "I need to have some time off to be with Claire."

"There's no time off Quil." Jacob declared.

"Why not?" Quil whined.

"Because we need to focus." Sam announced.

"Exactly. There will be four groups with five members each. I'm going to ask the Cullens to start training us tomorrow at dawn."

"At dawn? But we're on vacations…" Rick complained.

"There's a vampire's army coming here. This is our priority now." Sam said.

"Name the groups, Jacob." I elbowed Jacob to continue with his plan.

"Sam you take Jason, Collin, Martin and Shane." Jacob started. "And you two better solve your problems or Sam will do it for you in the old fashioned way. Got that?" He turned to Martin and Shane who almost turned green with his death glares.

"Yes, sir." They both said.

"Embry and Quil will take Justin, Ethan and Clayton. Paul and Jared will take Caleb, Sullivan and Rick. Leah and Seth will take the rest."

"What about you?" Sam asked.

"I'll run patrols and supervise."

"Don't you think that's a bit too much for one person?" I asked. I felt Sam's eyes piercing my whole body when I he realised I was worried about Jacob. Fortunately no one else noticed.

"I'll handle it." Jacob assured me.

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The Cullens accepted to help in our trainings. Sam's group was being assisted by Carlisle, Embry's by Emmett, Paul's by Jasper and mine by the mind rapist. Edward had been acting weird lately but that was fine by me. He had always been weird.

Our training sessions were quite enjoyable for me and Seth because we already knew the tricks to fight a vampire. Fortunately Denis, Gary and Brady were fast learners too.

When we were about to leave our house that morning to meet Edward in the forest for another training session we felt Jacob approaching. He phased back behind a tree and reached us.

"Seth you go ahead…" I said. My brother left and Jacob smiled at me taking out a white envelope from his back pocket.

"What are you doing here Jacob? Shouldn't you be on patrol?" I asked. I really didn't want the Council to scold him again.

"Yeah, but I wanted to show you this first."

"What's that?"

"My School report's card."

"Did you pass?" I asked curiously.

"I don't know yet…"

"What are you waiting for?"

Jacob opened up the envelope and we both read it. He had passed all the exams. His grades weren't that good but it was enough. Jacob had won at least five hundred dollars with his bet. He had been quite smart by placing bets with the Cullens.

"Congratulations." I offered him my hand for a handshake but he refused it and hugged me tightly.

I stopped breathing momentarily and I tried to convince myself that my sudden difficulty in getting an air supply was the consequence of Jacob's strength, but I was only lying to myself. To be so close to him was having the strangest effects on me. Things that I'd never dreamed on feeling again.

When Jacob finally let me go I could hardly have a coherent thought.

"We should celebrate…We could go out and…"

"I think you've celebrated enough Jacob." I cut him off.

"I meant just the both of us…" He said almost in a whisper.

I was speechless again. That sounded too much like a date and I needed to pretend that I wasn't having feelings for my seventeen year old alpha.

Fortunately I was saved by the stench of a leech coming in our direction and I knew exactly who she was.

"Good morning." Bella greeted. "I've been calling you…" She glared at Jacob.

"I left my cell phone at home. I'm on patrol."

"Fine…Well…Can we talk? I mean am I interrupting?"

"No." I lied.

Jacob turned to Bella to show her his report card.

"I passed! Your fucking husband owes me four hundred dollars and Emmett owes me two hundred dollars and Blondie owes me…"

"I'm really glad Jake…but I need to talk to you about something really important." Bella announced. "Can you excuse us Leah?"

"Sure."

I had never been so curious in my life. I should go to the forest and give them privacy to talk about whatever Bella wanted to talk about, but then again it wasn't my fault that I had super hearing powers, right?

I walked slowly towards the trees and when I realised they weren't paying attention to me anymore I stopped to hear their conversation.

"You have to help me Jake, please." Bella was begging.

"I'm sorry but I can't. It could ruin our alliance with the Cullens." Jacob said. "Ask Jasper or Emmett."

"They are loyal to Edward."

"I would like to help you but I think you better talk to your husband."

"I already did that. He doesn't want me to learn how to fight!" She exploded.

So Bella didn't know how to fight? But wasn't she a vampire? I thought all the vampires knew the moves, well apparently not.

"You're not like him Jake. You let Leah fight along with you and I want to do the same. I just need to learn the basics."

"I don't want any troubles with Edward."

"He won't know."

"He reads minds."

"Not mine."

"Look…if he says he'll protect you just…"

"I don't want to be protected! I want to fight with you guys! I will not be the weakest link again! Esme, Rose and Alice learned out to fight. Why can't I learn too?"

I hated Bella. I hated the way she had chosen to live her life. She had the opportunity to choose between a normal and happy life and a life trapped in a bizarre reality and stupidly she had chosen the last one. She had picked a vampire over Jacob. She had chosen to be dead, cold and forever young instead of a full and beautiful life with children and a successful career. She was an idiot but this time I was on her side. It was pretty nasty to think I agreed with Bella Cullen but if all the others knew how to fight, why not her?

Bella wanted to fight to help the ones she loved and even if they were just a bunch of vampires, she should be given that chance. Besides we had all protected her ass more than once so it was only fair that now she could do the same for us.

Although it was bugging me that she had come to ask Jacob for help, if he didn't accept to train her, I would. And if Edward found out and didn't allow it I would kick his sparkling ass.

"Jake please! I don't want to feel useless again. I want to help!" She made a sad face and I knew she had won. "Edward had to protect me from James, you and the pack had to protect me from Laurent, Seth had to protect me from Riley, even Leah protected me from Irina…I'm sick of being the victim."

"Alright! Fine!" Jacob finally gave in.

Bella smiled triumphantly.

"Can we start today?" She asked.

"Whatever but if he finds out I'm going to tell him this is all your fault!"

"Sure. Come on Jake. I know the perfect place for us."

I went back to join my group and to my surprise it wasn't the mind rapist who was with Seth and the pups, it was Blondie.

"What's wrong with the mind rapist?" I asked.

"I'm touched by your concern with my brother, bitch…" Rosalie half smiled. "He had businesses to attend in Canada…if you know what I mean."

"What happened?"

"Nothing that my family can't handle it. You'll know soon enough."

Great, now I had to put up with the Ice Queen for who knows how long. Fuck I was missing the mind rapist already.

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I sincerely thought that Jacob would teach Bella the basic moves for her to defend herself during the battle and then he would keep patrolling and do his job. I was wrong. Since Bella had begged him to help her a week ago, Jacob had been spending time with her every day. It was a good thing that Edward wasn't around.

I had spied on them a couple of times and I did feel bad about it but I just couldn't stop myself. I kept telling to myself that I wasn't jealous I was just curious about Bella's trainings. I mean why would I be jealous? Bella was married to the mind rapist and he was back from Canada since last night. Besides she was just training.

I was wondering what Edward would say if he knew that his wife was coming over to La Push every fucking day to be with Jacob. I was hiding behind a tree watching Bella trying to avoid Jacob's punches when suddenly his right fist collided with her beautiful face.

"I'm sorry Bella. Are you alright?" Jacob said.

Bella smiled at him.

"I'm not so fragile anymore Jake. Don't worry about me…worry about you." She pointed to his fist and there was blood coming out of his knuckles.

"I guess I really have to watch out." He told her.

Bella walked over to him and took his injured hand to inspect. They looked at each other for a few seconds and my heart was assaulted by a strange agony I wasn't used to anymore. Maybe I was a bit jealous.

I had to get out of there before I started shaking and Jacob and Bella would notice I was there. I turned around slowly and left. I had only walked a few miles when my self control slipped and I phased. I was angry at myself because I had allowed my heart to feel jealousy when I had no right to have feelings for Jacob Black. I had never wanted to love him.

I was also angry at Jacob because he was letting Bella to enter his life again. He was dangerously slipping away and I didn't want him to give in to her because she had always hurt him too much. I was almost leaving the forest when I ran into the only vampire that would actually allow me to have Jacob back: Edward Cullen.

I knew I was being selfish but Jacob hadn't given me any other option. At the sight of Edward I replayed Jacob and Bella's sweet moment and the mind rapist ran up to me and made me stop on my tracks.

"Phase back, Leah. We need to have a talk." He said softly.

I did what he asked me to and faced him.

"So you know where my wife is." It wasn't a question.

"She's with Jacob."

"So I see…They're…Training…" He picked up my thoughts and he didn't seem pleased.

"This would never happen if you had accepted to train her." I accused him.

"By this you mean…them being together? They are friends, you know?"

He knew perfectly well what I was referring to. I guess he trusted his wife and my vivid image of Jacob and Bella holding hands wasn't enough to make him jealous the way I wanted him to feel.

"You should control your wife better, mind rapist. The ring on her finger doesn't give her the right to act as she pleases."

"Bella's not in love with Jacob." He stated.

"You can't read her mind, leech...and she loved him once."

Edward crossed his arms and looked at me in the eyes. He was a bit amused by my behaviour but he was also tempted to go and check for himself what was happening between his wife and her friend.

"I never thought you'd be so…possessive."

I gasped. The fucking leech was absolutely demented. I did not own Jacob Black. He could be with whoever he wanted. Actually I didn't even care he was with Bella.

"Stop lying to yourself…" Edward muttered and left.

"Get out of my head!" I yelled following him.

"If only I could…"

I was so distracted and focused on throwing him insults with my thoughts that I didn't realise he was walking over to Jacob and Bella who were now having a little nice chat sitting down on the ground side by side.

Jacob's hand was already healed and when they both saw us I almost freaked out.

"You should've told me where you were Bella." Edward said. "Why did you do this behind my back?"

"Don't start Edward. You made me come to Jake." Bella almost shrieked.

"You don't have to fight, Bella. I'm going to protect you like before."

"I'm not the same Bella, Edward. I'm stronger now."

"You're my wife."

"And that's why I asked you in the first place to train me. I need you to understand. I love the way you protected me, but right now I need to be able to help you when the Volturi come."

"Why are you helping Bella, Jacob?" Edward asked and Jacob didn't know what to answer.

"He didn't help me." Bella said quickly.

"Why are you here then?" Edward inquired.

"I asked Jake to train me and he declined." She was lying.

Edward couldn't read her mind but he would certainly read mine and Jacob's. Game over.

"You two weren't training?" Edward asked suspiciously looking quite confused.

Jacob nodded negatively but he wasn't too convincing.

"They weren't training." Edward turned to me with a "I-told-you-so" look.

I was too fucking confused to talk. Had the mind rapist lost his powers all of a sudden? He just had to read my thoughts or Jacob's and he would see everything that had happened for the last week. Was he faking?

Jacob was also confused but Bella was smiling.

"I tried to convince Jake…" She insisted.

"I bet you did. Thanks for not helping her, Jacob." Edward raised his hand to his wife, she took it and they soon left.

A few minutes later we snapped out of our confusion and Jacob glared at me. He didn't have to be a mind reader to know what had happened and how Edward had known about them.

"You sure have some explanations to do, Clearwater." He spat. "Why did you tell him?"

"I didn't. He reads minds, remember?" I retorted.

"You did it on purpose. I know you Leah."

"I did you a favour, Black. You were letting Bella get back in your life again. You're lucky that Edward seems to have lost his powers."

"That's none of your business!" He yelled with his eyes red with fury.

"She's married."

"I was trying to solve the problem!"

"You were just trying to revive your lovey-dovey past!"

"I don't love Bella anymore!"

Our screams were now echoing and soon we would attract vampires, wolves and all the fucking creatures living in the forest. I wouldn't be surprised if elves and gnomes suddenly appeared behind the trees.

"You know what, Black? I'm not sorry he found out. He's her husband. He had the right to know."

"I thought you had changed."

"Go to hell Jacob. You and your precious leech." I turned around and phased again. This time he didn't follow me.

A/Note (2): Thanks a lot for the feedback. I'm really glad everyone is happy with the story. Don't worry it might take a while but Jake and Leah will definitely stay together.

Karisan