A/N Hey guys, real sorry for the delay in update, but I just got a new job and have tried to settled in there and everything…. Well you know the distractions that keep you from writing. But I'm busy busy (actually busy with another story too, blackwater lol), so updates are coming. I hope the Reviews will keep coming too! Much love

Chapter 7 – The Fight

To my surprise I woke up the next morning in an unfamiliar bed, in an unfamiliar room. But the body pressed to mine was very familiar; long raven black hair was fanned out over my chest, an arm draped across my stomach and a leg was between mine. Leah Clearwater was curled up next to me, holding onto me in her sleep. Her breath tickled my skin.

I looked at her face and it was completely relaxed, she looked peaceful, her lips curled up in a tiny smile as if she was happy to be here with me. She looked utterly beautiful. My heard swelled; I knew I loved her in that moment. Not just liked her or thought she was hot, but actually loved her with everything in my being. I wanted to wrap my arms around her and keep her safe, to protect her from everything, to love her for an eternity.

That's when I remembered it. Today was the fight. My heard stopped at the thought of Leah fighting with us. I couldn't bear the thought of her hurt… or worse. No pack had ever fought against so many vampires as we would face today. The pack had never been this big or had the help of a vampire coven before. Okay, but still. Honestly, we didn't know what to expect and there was a small hint of fear in all of us. We just prayed we would all make it out okay.

Leah stirred and I stiffened beneath her. My hand had subconsciously moved to her hair, my fingers twirling the strands around them and I let go quickly. She let out a small yawn and licked her lips, her arm stretching before she stiffened too, apparently slowly figuring out where she was. Her eyes fluttered open and she lifted her head, looking at my chest. Her eyes travelled slowly up my body and stopped when she met my eyes.

She didn't bolt like I expected her to. She just stared at me like she was trying to make sense of what was going on.

'Good morning'

She nodded and slowly sat up, moving the sheets and saw that we were both still very naked. She grabbed it and held it to her chest.

'Uhm. Morning'

She looked at me again, like she was trying to figure something out. Her brow set in a frown. We both opened our mouths to speak when we suddenly heard a howl coming from the woods.

It made me jump from the bed, grabbing my shorts and put them on fast. Leah jumped too, she grabbed some clothes and dressed quickly. I couldn't help but stare.

'Get that grin off your face,' she smirked when she said it, so I smiled wider at her.

She rolled her eyes and bolted out of the room, I was right on her tail. The Clearwater house was one of the biggest on the rez and was right at the beach, but far from the forest. So we ran inhumanly fast toward the shelter of the trees. Luckily it was still early and nobody else was around.

She grabbed my arm when we ran past the first of the trees and spun me around to her.

'I still don't want anybody to know.'

I nodded, knowing she wanted last night to be a secret and that was fine with me.

'I don't want you to fight today.' I told her, I couldn't stop myself, I had to tell her that.

'Too bad. I am!'

She gave me a look I didn't understand before she ran off to phase. I took off my shorts and bound them to my ankle, phasing quickly. Running to where I saw the pack was, I could see through their eyes. My mind flooded with information. Seth had already took off toward Bella's campsite on the mountain, he was not happy but he was on his way. Collin and Brady were with the rest, also not happy because they were staying in La Push when the fighting would start. They would protect the village.

Jake was still up the mountain, but before I could talk to him he phased back, disappearing out of the pack mind.

I heard Quil laugh in his mind, our mind. He quickly thought about asking me why I didn't come home last night before he focused on something else. Unfortunately Leah caught his thought, she wondered briefly if he knew but stopped thinking about it before anybody had a chance to even wonder what was up.

Ah there the two of you are, now we are all here.

Sam was satisfied that we were all here.

The Cullens are gathering in the clearing, we can't meet them or our scents will block theirs. We should get in position.

Yes, we all thought at the same time

We all thought the same, the pack mind was ready, we were excited for the fight. Now that it was here we couldn't wait. It was our natural instinct, the need to protect the people, the need to take care of the threat.

We took off to where the future-seeing-vampire told us the leeches would separate and where we would ambush them. Brady and Collin walked back, moving closer to La Push. Seth reached the camp site and we could see Edward greeting him, but he couldn't see Jake or Bella.

We walked slowly, Jake phased back and joined the pack mind, he told us he was on his way…but that wasn't all. We could see images of him and Bella…kissing.

Wow

Bro, what happened?

Ewwwwwww, the vampire girl?

He replayed the whole thing with a satisfied feeling; Sam gave him his moment before he told us all to focus again. We all got caught up in the drama as Seth saw Bella and Edward reunite, Bella crying, Edward comforting her instead of being angry. Jake growled at the spectacle.

Seth, leave them, we don't need this. We need to focus.

Sam ordered and we spread out making an open circle, ready for the leeches. Paul paced back and forth. Sam stood tall, Leah looked anxious. Jake sped up to be here on time and I sat down next to Quil.

"When I'm human and I'm gonna be, I'm gonna tear it up like I did before, that's a royal guarantee."

I looked at Quil with big eyes

What the hell are you singing?

He chuckled; I watched 'the Princess and the Frog' like five times with Claire yesterday.

I nodded and grinned; sounds like fun

We could smell the Cullens coming into the clearing, it wouldn't be long now. Sam turned around.

Paul, Leah come with me, we'll meet Jake and head off the ambush party

They followed him quickly as he disappeared into the woods. We jumped up when we heard cries coming from the clearing.

It's started; we thought

We would stay put, they would come to us. We could see Sam run toward them.

There is one!

He's seen me!

Don't let him warn the others!

Leah growled and got him before he could even turn around, she tore his head from him and tossed it aside. Sam helped her by ripping off the arms. Burning it would have to wait.

We can hear Emmett

He's enjoying himself!

Guys, the second group is following our scent, it was Sam, we could see everything through his eyes.

They aren't paying attention. They haven't heard us yet!

There is one!

Jared growled as a lone newborn walked through the woods and saw him, Jared didn't think twice and he lunged at the vampire, grabbing onto his shoulder. Paul was closest, he ran through the rows of trees and jumped at Jared and the leech.

Rip him, rip, rip, rip him apart

I was crouched down, ready to get involved. Quil was crouching and growling beside me.

Stay out of the way, separate them- don't let them protect each other's backs.

Finally!

The leeches were here, Quil and I jumped up and each got one, grabbing their heads and tearing them from their bodies. The other leeches screamed and ran, we didn't wait, we ran after them.

That's better, drive them toward the clearing.

We reacted perfectly, Quil and I cut off their paths when they wanted to run deeper in the forest. Jared and Paul came from the right and Jake from the left. We encircled them so the only option left was to run toward the clearing.

And they did.

The leeches hesitated for just a second and the pack mind was silent, waiting, until Jake growled, which woke them up and they took off running.

Snarls erupted from all of our chests and we went after them. We jumped out into the clearing, the sounds were strange and overwhelming. Of course we knew the sound of ripping up a leech, but now we heard stone hitting stone. It was the weirdest hard, shrieking sound. Like banshees. We didn't linger on the thought and Sam jumped and grabbed a leech that was going for the Doc. He nodded in thanks and helped by ripping an arm off.

Quil and I went for two that were coming straight at us, we didn't need the telepathy; we knew exactly what we were doing. This was the fun part. We dodged them, going left and right, crashing them into each other at the same time, it was like watching two stones crumble in a million pieces. We stood and watched the small pile of rock before the big leech, Emmett started laughing.

'Look at their faces!'

We looked at him with a big grin when a leech jumped on his back from out of nowhere. We snarled and ran towards him. The big leech may have been an enemy but today he was on our side.

Quil tore the leech from his back and the three of us tore him up. Emmett nodded.

'Not as stupid as you look.' He muttered before he took off again after another that was threatening his mate.

We looked around, but slowly things were settling down, the open space was filled with marble body parts and another leech was currently being torn up by Blondie and the Big Guy. The Doc and his mate were watching a kid, we didn't care. I grinned at Quil, thinking that all had happened far too easily.

NO!

Quil and I turned our backs to each other and growled, our eyes moving quickly over the clearing, searching for the threat.

But nothing happened, yet our mind was in panic.

No…

What's going on?

What the hell?

Where is it?

Who's hurt?

We cringed. We felt pain. Leah whined. The leeches around us looked at us, searching for the cause of the distress in the pack. We couldn't communicate with them without phasing back; we wouldn't do that.

Finally the pack mind calmed down and the questions stopped. We calmed down and could see what was happening. Jake cursed.

Shouldn't have left!

Shut up!

Seth…

Seth was in trouble. The red head found Bella and Edward, and she wasn't alone.

A collective growl erupted from the pack. We weren't in the clearing anymore. We were watching through Seth's eyes and were all with him. We saw how Edward was talking to the new born leech, he wanted to turn him against the Red Head, make him see he didn't need to fight them.

We growled when the other leeched walked past where Seth was hiding, his back toward him. Collectively we encouraged our brother.

Now!

Seth lunged and Leah whined. I watched her and could feel her fear and concern for Seth. Her knees gave out and she let herself fall to the ground. The rest of us nodded in approval when Seth tore a piece of his arm off.

Leah was still on the ground in the middle of the clearing, and I slowly made my way to her. Quil, Jared and Paul all moved to her, showing unsaid support as we watched what happened up on the mountain.

The Cullens apparently decided that burning the newborns was more important, than trying to understand what was going on with the pack. They didn't see a threat. I could see them moving fast, starting a fire and the spread out all over the field, collecting various marble body parts. Sam and Jake helped, retrieving the pieces from the woods. Their minds were still with Seth.

Only the little future-seeing leech stood still. Her eyes sort of glazed over. I didn't pay attention to her, because up the mountain the leech had just jumped for Seth. Seth dodged him easily, getting the hell out of the way before turning around going at him.

The leech let himself fall back, his legs shooting out from under him toward Seth, and it had him flying through the air, he crashed into the rocks and landed on his side, whining softly.

We all growled and stomped our paws in frustration. One of us shouldn't fight alone. Sam and Jake both yelled.

Stay down!

Seth had stirred, convincing us and himself that he was okay and he tried to get up. But Sam and Jake were right.

Make him think you are hurt

Let him think you'll be easy to take down. Don't move

Sam's alpha command crept through his voice and Seth stayed put. Bella was talking to him quietly, urging him to get up. The distress in her voice helped Seth to convince the leech he was hurt.

Edward was fighting the Red Head, we could hear. The new born leech turned his back to Seth and jumped toward the fight, helping his mate.

Then everything happened at the same time. The Red Head and the new born leech overpowered Edward and were about to twist his neck when we smelled blood. The sharp salty scent invaded our nose.

Leeches don't bleed!

No shit!

Seth opened his eyes and saw the blood dripping down Bella's arm, he jumped up as the new born leech came flying. He jumped toward the leech and caught him mid-air before the newborn could get to Bella. Growling he bit him in the shoulder, slammed him against the rock. He tightened his grip on the leech and dragged him out of sight, away from Bella, the Red Head and Edward, who was yelling at her.

The new born leech was screaming for the Red Head too, he wanted her to help him but all her focus was with Edward. Seth's teeth left his shoulder and bore through his neck, silencing him effectively.

Growling, he started to rip the leech apart almost enjoying himself, we were all cheering him on.

Ok guys, back to work

Sam was resolute and we had to get up and go help the Cullens gather the pieces of leech to burn. Seth was busy and we were all still thinking off him and watching what was happening there, but there was no longer any danger as Edward dealt with the Red Head.

The fire was burning steadily, the smell absolutely horrible, but it was worth it. We had won, no one got killed, none even hurt. I grinned wide at Quil and Sam next to me and they grinned right back. We turned when Edward and Bella came back into the clearing with Seth, Quil and I ran toward Seth. Bumping our heads against his flank, congratulation him.

Nice!

You got your own!

Told you that you'd get action

We laughed.

Someone, one of us picked up a scent. Vampire. Non-Cullen. We were all suddenly aware, looking around when we heard Edward yell.

'Leah, behind you!'

Leah spun around and growled, gunning for the leech.

LEAH NO…

LoL – cliffhanger right. Who knows…I might change whatever happens, my FF after all. Thanks for reading. R&R