I really wanted to post this as soon as possible, though I've been really busy this past few months, I wanted to also say that I really was struggling with where this story was actually going, and I now think I know where it's actually headed. I hope everyone likes this chapter since I'm not really sure about… but I on my part love it and I'm already working on chapter 26 *grins*

Hope everyone had a great Christmas break and New Year's and thanks for everyone that reviewed and favorite/alerted this story, especially to ElizaDouglas and ALISON CHRISTINA127 for always reminding me to get my ass to write.

Sorry for the shortness but I wanted to post this ASAP! Next one will be as long as usual and this finally kick-starts Embry's fic *smirks* which I'm sure everyone is happy about.

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Chapter 25: As if Our Lives weren't Movie-Like enough.

Previously on chapter 24 of The Leah Chronicles:

Just as we were arriving the Cullen's house Leah's phone rang.

"Well, that's weird, who could be calling at this hour?" Leah said and got her phone out of her purse, "Oh its Dee," she looked worried now and quickly answered, "hello, Dee? What happened, slow down Dee, I can't make out your words."

I parked the car and listened intently to Dee's words over the line.

"Leah, something happened, ca- can you please come over? I'm scared."

And that was my cue to turn the car around.

Leah's POV:

I was instantly worried by Dee's voice, "Dee, please calm down, I'm already on my way, what happened, are you hurt?"

"Som- Someone broke into my house; I don't really know what happened, one minute I was in the kitchen making popcorn with Luke and the next this man came in, Luke is unconscious Leah! I don't know what to do!"

I could feel my hands start to quiver as Derek accelerated the Cayenne even more. Nessie growled in the backseat.

"Where is the man Dee? Did he hurt you? Is Luke hurt?"

I could hear Dee take a deep breath before she started talking again, "No, he pushed Luke against the wall and he lost consciousness but he's not hurt, he didn't even touch me, he- he just smelled me and said it wasn't time yet, I don't know what happened Leah."

I pointed to Derek the street where Dee's house was and he immediately turned, "There," I gestured towards her house and he parked behind Luke and Dee's cars, "I'm outside your house Dee, don't worry, we're here." I quickly shoved my phone in my pocket and got out of the car at the same time Derek, Jake and Ness did.

As soon as we opened the doors the scent assaulted us, "Vampire."

Derek growled and immediately came to my side, "He´s gone," I said but turned towards Jake.

Jake just nodded and started taking his clothes off walking towards the woods while the three of us made our way inside the house.

The door was opened and the first thing I saw after I made my way towards the kitchen was Dee with an unconscious Luke in her arms, she was shaking and clutching his body like a life line.

She jumped when she heard Jake's howl outside and Ness and I got on our knees, "It´s okay Dee, we're here, it's okay, you are safe now."

"Leah, I was so scared!" Dee finally let out a sob and Ness grabbed her in a half hug since she wasn't letting go of Luke.

Ness started making soothing sounds to Dee while I went to grab Luke, in that moment Derek came back to the kitchen, "A different vampire was in what I assume is her room, and nothing appears out of place." He said really low so Dee couldn't hear him.

"Vampire?" Dee gasped just as Luke's eyes began to open.

We all looked surprised at one another, a normal human shouldn't have been able to hear Derek, and damn, I had to strain my ears to listen to him.

"What is Derek talking about Leah?" Dee asked.

Before we could say anything else we heard Jake's shout outside the house "Embry stop!" just as Embry in his wolf form came barging in from the kitchen's back door.

It all happened so fast I'm not really sure what or how it happened. As soon as Embry came in I pushed Luke body back, and before I could even stand up Ness was pushed out of Dee's arms and into Derek's body.

Dee let out a blood curling scream as her body started changing in front of my eyes, it was like watching one of my brothers phase but much more slowly. I watched mesmerized as her face and jaw started adjusting to her new form, but instead of a wolf she got thicker and her snout shorter, and in seconds her body and clothes were replaced by the gigantic body of a jaguar. A fucking jaguar?

I gasped when the jaguar's bright hazel eyes locked with mine; the eyes immediately left mine when I heard Luke's gasped 'What the Fuck?' After that everything happened very quickly, the jaguar immediately turned towards Embry's giant form and lunged.

As soon as both their forms collided with each other they went tumbling out of the door, Derek quickly stood up and went running out the door, Ness and I quickly following him. Der phased as soon as he was out the door after taking his jeans off and joined Embry and Jacob. They had the jaguar, well, Dee corralled against the side of the house. I could see a gash of blood on Embry's neck and a similar one on Dee's yellow-brownish fur. Her teeth were bared ready to attack but I could see desperation in her unusual bright eyes.

"What do we do?" Ness murmured.

"I don't have a friggin' idea Ness, its apparent this is the first time she's phased but, I don't even know what to think, we know she's not Quileute but what about her mother?"

"I don't kn- what is Embry doing?"

"Uhh?" I turned towards the group and there was Embry, making soothing noises, his body was almost on the ground from crouching so much and he was slowly making his way towards Dee's trembling body.

As soon as his snout touched Dee's neck she let out a feline purr and her body started trembling even more, her body started slowly changing back to her naked human form, leaving her in the grass trembling, whimpering and crying. Before Ness and I could quickly approach her, Embry phased back and clutched her body to his, murmuring really low on her ear and caressing her hair in a soothing manner.

"What is that dude doing to my sister?" I heard Luke behind us but before he could even approach them I grabbed him by the front of his shirt and growled at him.

"You saw what happened, and I know you are freaking out but I need you to calm down and let us handle this, you could be seriously hurt."

Luke snorted and tried to push me away, "You're a girl; how does that make you more capable of taking care of my sister then me?"

"I'm sorry Luke," Ness said from behind me.

"Wha-" Ness quickly hit the side of his head and he was out like a light.

I couldn't help but snicker at Ness' mortified face. "Thanks, we have enough on our hands right now, no need for an overprotective brother."

"I can't believe I just did that."

"Me neither but its better this way," I answered her honestly while carrying Luke's body towards the house when I noticed the boys along with Dee weren't in the backyard with us anymore.

In the living room was an unconscious Dee on top of the couch, a blanket wrapped around her body and Derek and Jacob at both sides of the couch. I quickly placed Luke's body on the smaller couch, "Where's Embry? What was that all about?"

Jake gestured towards the kitchen and we all headed that way. "Damn, the kitchen is totally trashed."

"I know, we have to think of a way to explain this to a constructor," Ness said.

"Bear?" Derek said.

"Probably, it's the only animal around here that's big enough to do this kind of damage," Jake nodded, "Anyways, we're gonna have to take them both to the Cullen's house, call dad, see if he knows anything more about Dee's family."

"What about Luke? He saw you guys and his own sister phase into a gigantic jaguar!" Ness said, "I had to knock him out so we didn't have to deal with him right now, he's probably not going to be a happy camper when he wakes up."

Both Derek and Jake chuckled and I rolled my eyes, they would be chuckling about that right this moment.

"Can someone tell me where the fuck Embry is?" I asked.

Jake and Derek immediately sobered up, "I don't think Embry is coming back anytime soon," Jake said seriously.

"Why?" Ness asked.

Derek cleared his throat and looked at me "Because he imprinted on Dianna and apparently doesn't want anything to do with her."

"No fucking way!"

"What the hell happened here?" We turned around to find both Quil and Jared on the entrance of the kitchen, "It reeked of vamp in the front of the house but the trail disappeared."

I sighed and started walking towards the living room, "call a pack meeting with the wolves present, call Billy and we'll all meet at the Cullen's house, someone call Seth, no imprints though."

"You got it boss," Quil chuckled and went out the door, Jared right behind him.

I barked out a laugh and continued walking, "as if our lives weren't movie-like enough."

When Jake, Ness, Der and I got to the Cullen's with a still unconscious Luke and a sleeping –but dressed- Dee all the wolves minus Embry, Paul and Sam were there.

Once inside everybody settled where they could and Ness told and showed everyone what happened.

"Well, this is definitely unexpected and freaking cool," Yeah, Emmett had to be the excited one.

Rosalie rolled her eyes but tried not to smile at the buffoon of a husband she had, "It is unexpected, I'm guessing if her brother didn't phase the gene comes from her mom's side."

"Where was Dee's mom from?" asked Jared.

"When I spoke to dad he said he had some things to tell us, but that it had to wait till tomorrow; he said not to worry about Dee, she's not a danger to anyone and that her temper wasn't gonna be as volatile as ours when we first phased." Jake said.

I relaxed at his words but was immediately thrown off by Billy's knowledge about umm jaguar-shifters.

"I'm guessing she can stay at Leah's for the rest of the night and tomorrow morning we'll all meet at Billy's to discuss what this means for us now," Jake continued, "Leah you only need to reassure her when she wakes up that everything is alright and that tomorrow her questions about all this will probably be answered."

I nodded and Derek tucked me under his arm.

"What about Luke?" Seth asked, yeah good question.

"Do you think we can pull a 'you fainted and it's all in your imagination'?" Ness asked quietly, looking at Luke guiltily.

"We could try but I seriously don't think he's gonna fall for it…" Derek said.

I nodded, "He saw too much, though we can divert it to just Dee phasing and a normal assault, so at least the pack will still stay a secret."

Jared stood and looked at the pups, "since you guys are here, pick four of you and take turns patrolling tonight, we're not sure the vampires has really left and at least for tonight we should make sure."

Everyone nodded and started to get up.

"Are we done?" Aden and Victor said at the same time.

Jake looked at Jared and they both nodded at the same time.

Quil quickly stepped in the middle of the room and stopped us, "Wait, what about Embry?"

"What about him?" asked Collin.

Quil looked at him like he was dumb, "He imprinted on Dee, that's his soul mate right there," he pointed at the bundle in the corner sofa, "is he really gonna ignore her?"

Jake shrugged, "it's his choice man, there really is nothing we can do about it, we just hope when he realizes what she actually now means to him it isn't too late."

Quil nodded in understanding and started to head for the door, which made everyone start heading for the door too, "Tomorrow at 9 guys, I want everybody there, including Embry, find him and tell him he's still a part of the pack and he can't hide forever." Jake said.

Everyone responded in various 'sure, sure' and 'okays'.

When everyone left Derek lifted Luke over his shoulder and Jake carried Dee. "Wait for me home Nessie," Jake said softly to Ness and kissed her on her forehead.

Ness nodded and waved at us, "See you tomorrow guys, well, more like in a couple of hours." She chuckled.

We exchanged goodbyes and made our way to my little house.

"I'm kinda worried about what Billy's gonna say tomorrow, especially after we know the vampire was specifically looking forward to Dee's change," I commented.

Jake sighed, "Just when we thought life was starting to get normal again, add the fact that Luke will know and that Embry imprinted on her and you got yourselves a fucking best seller."

Derek snorted, "I seriously doubt any teenager would want to read something like our lives."

"True," both Jake and I shrugged smiling.

After we got home, Jake settled Dee in the guest bedroom and Derek dumped Luke in the large sofa I had in the TV room next to the bedrooms, making him groan.

"Shit you woke him up," I hissed at Der.

He looked at me innocently like it wasn't his fault and grinned when Luke opened his eyes.

"Holy fuck! Where am I? What have you done to my sister?" I rolled my eyes at his dramatics and pushed him to sit back in the sofa.

"Calm down Luke, your sister is fine; she's sleeping in the bedroom.

He looked at us suspiciously and crossed his arms, "I want to see her."

I shook my head, "She's asleep."

"But that doesn't mean I can't make sure that she's okay," he argued.

Jake quickly grabbed him by the back of his shirt and practically dragged him to the guest room, opening the door.

"Convinced enough?"

Luke quickly nodded and closed the door, "I want to know what happened tonight."

I quickly took the opportunity to see if we could actually pretend this really never happened.

"A guy entered your house tonight, knocked you out, but your sister was unharmed, to top it all a bear made it to your back door and pretty much trashed the kitchen." I said with the best poker face I could muster.

Luke's eyes popped out of his head like a cartoon character, "So the giant animal in the kitchen wasn't a dream?"

I internally sighed in relief, maybe we could actually turn this around, it would be better if he didn't know, he would safe.

"It wasn't a dream, we got there just in time to help, thankfully we were all together and we could distract him enough to get him out of the house," Jake said.

Luke nodded and rubbed his head, "That fucker really hit me hard, what did he want? Did Dee know?"

Derek shook his head, "we don't know, maybe money? Dee said he took her money from her purse but nothing else."

Luke grumbled, "motherfucker."

I smiled and placed my arm on his shoulder reassuringly, "Everything is okay now, you and your sister are safe now, and you guys are so fencing the back yard after this."

Luke smirked and winked at me, "whatever you say beautiful."

I rolled my eyes and Derek groaned while Jake chuckled.

"Get some sleep you twerp," I joked while grabbing a pillow and some blankets from the hall closet.

Luke grinned and took the pillow and blankets from me, "thanks guys, really."

I tried to hold my smile at the sincerity in his voice, "you are welcome, you guys are part of our little clan now, and we protect each other."

He nodded and took his shoes off, settling himself in the comfy chocolate couch.

Jake started to go downstairs and Derek into our room while I quickly checked on Dee one last time, she was curled up in a ball in the middle of the bed. I placed another blanket over her body and noticed her body was starting to warm up like mine.

I ran my head over her messy hair and murmured, "Guess the normalcy between is over Dee, but I'm kinda glad too."

She grumbled a little in her sleep and I smiled, quickly leaving a note on the nightstand saying to 'not freak-out and to look for me in the morning' I left her room quietly and heading to mine after turning off the lights in the hall.

When I entered my room Derek was waiting for me, sitting in the floor next to the bed.

He gave me a little smile and opened his arms; I quickly made my way towards him and let him engulf me in his warm embrace. I sighed contently and snuggled deeper into him.

"Wanna take a shower with me?" he asked with his face buried in my hair "I'm covered in mud and grass".

"Okay," we made our way towards the bathroom and slowly undressed.

When all of our clothes were off we entered the showered and quietly started washing each other. "Well, you can't say your brother's birthday was unmemorable."

I giggled a little and kissed Derek chastely, "I guess it was; I would be okay with this if it wasn't because of the vampire that checked on her, it makes me uneasy."

Der turned the shower off and started drying me with the towel which made me smile.

"Me too, I guess we're gonna have to keep an eye on her and Luke till we find out what really happened."

I nodded and started drying Der in return, "we should also think about training her, Jake and Jasper could help, I would be more comfortable if I knew that she could defend herself if something were to go wrong."

Derek nodded and grabbed the towel away from me tossing it in the hamper on the corner.

"Now that I remember you owe me for teasing me this morning before the party," I giggled and started making my way towards the bedroom.

"Is that so? I don't recall making any promises Der," I teased and climbed on the bed covering myself with a pillow.

Derek smirked which made me melt a little, "you didn't babes, but I have a very strong feeling you were thinking about it."

I grinned mischievously and pressed myself to the headboard when Derek climbed on the bed, "I don't remember really."

He quickly grabbed my ankle making me squeal and dragged me under his body.

He smiled and kissed my nose, cheeks and chin, "I love you Leels."

I kissed his lips chastely and smiled looking into his striking icy blue eyes, "I love you too Der, with all that I am."

"Good," he smirked and finally kissed me properly, showing me just how much he actually did.


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