A/N For every chapter I didn't do this, I don't own the Twilight saga, or any of the characters, or anything else Stephanie Meyer created.

Leah POV

"Hey Leah." Embry rubbed one arm with his other hand, half crossing his arms. I was sitting on the porch steps of my house.

"Hi Embry." I looked at him, then at his face. I sighed. "What do you want?"

"Who says I wanted anything?" He retorted defensively.

"I did. What do you want?"

"I need you to go patrolling with me. Another wolf to be on duty."

"Wasn't Jared supposed to do it with you?"

"He's with Kim."

"What about Seth?" He sighed.

"He has homework. Sam is making him do it."

"Anybody else Embry? Alpha Almighty himself maybe?"

"No."

"Embry." I stood up. "I don't have a mind link. What good is that?"

"You don't need a mind link to run circles!"

"It helps. Y'know. If one of us, say you, is in mortal peril."

"Wolf senses should be enough." Embry practically growled. "What's with you? You're a wolf Leah. You're supposed to be patrolling."

"I wasn't supposed to be a wolf Embry." I hissed.

"A few hours Leah. That's it! Think of Sue, Billy, Charlie, I don't care who, just think about protecting them, which you do by running patrols!" I glared. He just stared back unemotionally. I muttered some choice curse words at him before pushing past him.

"No looking kid!" I went under the dark shade of the trees, stripping down and stuffing my clothes in a tree trunk. I phased, feeling the slight uncomfortable feeling of phasing after not having done so in a few days. I peeked out toward my house, giving a bark to Embry. Minutes later, he was jogging next to me, his tongue hanging out of his mouth.

I stopped in my tracks, giving him a look, trying to tell him to run the other way. He just wolf-smirked and shook his head. I sighed. We kept a steady pace, running the perimeter in silence. Until I could smell it.

The sickly sweet smell of...a leech. I growled, flattening my ears. Embry just looked at me, confused. I jerked my head in the direction of the trail, but he just kept giving me that 'You're being paranoid' look.

Ignoring him, I ran after the scent. It was still fresh. I followed it to make sure it wasn't in the boundaries of La Push, and Embry howled to signal Jake before he ran after me. I could hear him whine a little, almost like he was asking me to slow down.

Like hell I am.

All of the sudden, the stench almost ripped my nose off. I whined, long and low, as I couldn't even distinguish any other scent. It was familiar though. I wracked my brain as I burst into a clearing. The smell was dreadful, like every sort of flower bottled up in a perfume bottle.

"Hello, my darling." My hair stood on end, my heckles raised. The voice was silky, sickly sweet. Like he was mocking me. I turned around and growled, just as Embry burst into the clearing, panting.

"Well, well. I see you brought a friend." Embry immediately became alert, growling. Then I saw him.

He was a big one. Stocky, and muscular. His jet black hair contrasted with his pale glittering skin.

"Let's get down to business shall we, Leah?" Embry shot a confused look in my direction, but I was busy staring at the vampire. I growled, and got ready to spring at him. One.

"Why so hostile, dear? You don't remember me?" I growled menacingly. Two. I crouched lower.

"It seems not. Pity, you don't even know the father of your poor mother-deprived children." Three. What he said had me frozen for a second, but then I sprang. I landed on top of him, snapping at his neck, trying to rip it off. Embry circled me, ready to be my back up. He tore off the leech's arm, and he screamed in agony. Without notice, I felt myself being flung off of him. I landed on my side, and with a painful wince I knew I bruised something. I howled again. Where was the god damn protector pack when you needed help? I tried to get up, but I just collapsed. I head the cracking of a tree branch, and I knew Embry got thrown into a tree. Winded and panting, I glared, growling at him.

"Now that we got that out of our system, Leah, dear, will you come with me?" Hell no.

"What about your children Leah? Our children?" I gave him the fiercest glare I could muster, as Embry tried to howl again.

"Pity. You don't remember? Why don't I just-" He looked at me, and I cringed. It was like he was looking into my mind. Suddenly, pain shot through me. I growled, then winced. I felt as if something had lifted off of my brain, like a sheet had been covering up most of my head. He smiled.

"We mated Leah. You loved me. You don't remember? You ran away for five months last year, and I took you under my wing." Embry scoffed, as he tried to get up. He stood on his feet. I whined, trying to do the same, this time, succeeding, though a shot of pain rose up in my shoulder.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." He warned. "Your children miss you Leah. Your twins." I just growled, trying to walk now. No such luck. He sighed dramatically.

"They're coming along quite well." My head was hurting now, too. "They've grown. But I suppose I'll have to come back and convince you. When you get all your memories back." He smirked, and then took off running, north of La Push. I tried to run after him, ignoring the pain in my shoulder, but when I got to the edge of a cliff, he was gone. Vanished. Embry came after me. He nudged my shoulder so I was facing La Push, and started running faster than I had ever seen him before. I followed angrily.

I hated letting that leech get away. But I had questions. My head hurt, and I had an uneasy feeling about him. And twins? Children. I couldn't have children. I-I-Shit. I pushed myself faster, feeling safer around the borders of La Push. I connected the vision and the dream, and then the man and the kids, looking for similarities. I remembered his smell, it was the smell in my room. Shit shit shit. I met Embry and we ran full force to Sam's house. I could see everyone in the small house.

"Leah wait! We need to tell this to Jake in some way that's not-" I growled.

"No. We're going to go in there and see why no one answered our fucking call for help." I wrenched open the door stomping inside. Everyone went silent. Jake opened his mouth as I stomped toward him.

"Leah thanks for patrolling with-"

"Why the fuck didn't you come and help take down the fucking leech! I howled I don't know how many times! What good is a fucking pack of wolves if no one is going to fucking come god damn it! We could have taken him down with help but no! What the hell were all of you assholes doing?" I screeched at the top of my lungs. I was suddenly tired, cranky, and bad tempered. My head suddenly felt loaded with too much stuff, like too many things were going on. I could barely focus, and I was still jumpy form the leech run in. I glared at Jacob, as he changed his sentence.

"What howl?" I slapped him.