A/N: So this was my mistake. its a new chapter replacing the old one, which was actually chapter 21. So for those readers who have stuck with me, you will see this note repeatedly on this chapter, the next and chapter 22. Sorry for the confusion but i hope you enjoy and review.
P.S. Short Chapter sorry!

I was awoken by a huge sigh coming from the one I love. A small dip in the bed in an odd place made me wonder what was going on.

"Sam?" I asked, waking up a bit. Propping myself on my forearms, I lifted up the bunch of covers I had around me and tried to gather my bearings.

Not saying a word, he crawled over to me and held me close.

"What's going on?" I wondered as he just lay there holding me.

"Seth…" he spoke with some pain. Sucking in a breath, I knew the kid had found out. Snuggling closer to my mate, I wrapped my arms around his waist and tried to bring him as much comfort as I could.

He let out a harsh breath and just hugged me, every so often kissing my head.

"Are you okay?" I whispered after a while. His emotions and actions were worrying me a bit.

"I had to order him-…" Sam broke, "he was so mad and Leah she just…"

"Oh god, she had the meeting with his parents today," I groaned.

"Yea," he sighed.

"How did it go?" I wondered, hesitant on wanting to know the answer.

"Hard," he said, "they liked her, but when the situation of moving came in and the future discussion, she had a harder time to explain herself and meet the standards of what his parents wanted."

"Oh god," I said feeling horrible.

"She's okay though," he said nuzzling into me.

"And Seth with Billy? I'm sure he marched right over there," I said.

"That he did," Sam sighed again. Stretching my neck up to look at him, I slowly leaned forward and planted my lips to his.

"He went on a rampage Bella. I had never seen Seth so mad. Not only did I order him to stay away from Billy for the time being, but to get his act together and handle himself more maturely. I was harsh on the kid," he groaned. Feeling his guilt I kissed his bare chest and had him look at me.

"It's what you had to do. We may not agree with it fully but you needed to stop Seth from doing something stupid and protect Billy."

"I just-…you know," he said.

"I know," I repeated. He wanted the same thing as me. He wanted it to be different and let Leah tell Cole. We both wished it were easier on the two Clearwater's. It wasn't fair to them.

Lying with Sam, I stayed there trying to ease his pain.

"Do you ever think of our future?" Sam wondered, "I mean, do you ever think of it anymore?"

"Sometimes," I said hesitantly.

"What do you see?" he asked curiously.

"Why?"

"Well…we haven't really talked about the future since…you know," he reminded me. "Has anything changed for you? Have you wanted anything more?"

I furrowed my eyebrows a bit as I glanced up at him, "I've always wanted more, its just when the time was right, that was always the big deal for me," I said.

"So…marriage, kids, all that…it's in there for you right? The future I mean," he spoke.

"Yes," I said somewhat confused at what he was getting at.

"Can we talk about it, you know our future? Like maybe start planning it?" he asked hesitantly.

"Okay."

With a small kiss to my nose, he waited for me to start.

"Marriage would probably come first," I said snuggling in his side further.

"When?" he cut in. I raised my eyebrow, "when we're ready."

"You know I am, but are you?" he wondered to me. Sighing, I bit my lip and tried to come up with the best answer that would make us both feel comfortable. "If I said I was, you wouldn't go off by proposing to me tomorrow would you?"

He looked down at me surprised and pulled me closer. "Maybe not tomorrow, but certainly the next day," he grinned. Letting out a small laugh, I shook my head and glanced up at him. "I'd like to think I'm ready but I don't want to rush it ya know?" I said lightly.

"But you said yes," he grinned, leaning down to kiss me. Rolling my eyes I shrugged, "yea, I guess I did."

Sam hummed in content, knowing that I was ready to marry him.

"Where would you want our honeymoon to be?"

"Somewhere warm," I commented.

"Like Florida? Or back to see your Aunt Betty?"

"Maybe," I said drawing patterns on his chest.

"What about kids?" Sam wondered. "You want some right?" he asked.

"I guess so," I said trying to think about it.

"How many?" he inquired.

"Maybe 2 or 3?" I said with a shrug.

"Boys or girls?" he asked again.

"Sam," I giggled, while finding all of these questions crazy. Twisting a bit, I propped myself up and stared at him, "can we just think about marriage before kids or anything else? For right now, I just want to be with you. I don't care if our children will be boys or girls and I don't care where we go. All I need is you in my life and for our future kids to be happy and healthy."

"You wouldn't mind if they had the wolf gene?" he wondered.

I titled my head to the side, not really expecting that. Those thoughts never really crossed my mind. And now I was wondering if I really did want them to carry that.

"Bella?" he called at my pause.

I tried to give a smile, but I really hadn't thought of that variable in the future. What we were going through right now really made me not want them to carry the gene- to have to suffer through the possibility of imprinting and phasing into a wolf. Did I really want to bring a kid into this kind of world?

Before we could get any further with our conversation, Sam's cell phone rang, which had him huffing. Sliding away from him, I sat up and tugged my hands through my hair.

"Yea," he said gruffly. Not being able to hear a response, I pulled the covers off myself and padded to the bathroom.

Boys or girls, they would both carry the wolf gene. There would then be a 50/50 chance for them to turn, and that would be counted on if vampires showed up or not. Sighing, I grabbed my toothbrush and squirted some toothpaste on there.

I didn't like that thought; I didn't want them to have those genes. But it was in Sam and there was nothing I could do about that. Spiting out the foam, I rinsed my mouth out and wiped it clean.

"That was Jared. He said that maybe if we calmed down Leah it would help calm down Seth."

"In other words I should go over there?' I wondered to him in the mirror.

"I don't want you to," he said.

"But I need to," I commented, knowing how everything was falling into place.

"Yea, you should," he sighed. Leah and Seth were both somewhat dangerous with their haywire emotions, which had Sam very cautious. They could phase with anything that might set them off and that worried him.

Nodding, I tore my eyes away from his body behind me and grabbed my brush from the drawer. Leah was having a girl problem and she was closest to me out of all the girls. Even though I didn't know what she was going through, it was her that always came to talk it out with me.

"I want to finish our conversation," Sam said stopping me as I went to leave the room.

"We can if you want, but later okay? Leah needs us right now," I said gently.

"But what about us?" He called as I slipped away from him to go pick out an outfit for the day. "We still come first Bells, I wont let that change," he said coming to stand against the doorway of our closet.

"It's not," I said browsing through some clothes, "but Sam," I said finding him upset, "kids are still in the future, we'll deal with it then," I smiled, wrapping my arms around his waist.

Sighing, he held me tight and gave a long kiss to the top of my head. My stomach sank a bit and I tried to push it away.

"I love you," I mumbled into his bare chest.

"I love you too baby, so much," he murmured.

From there, we finally separated and got dressed. While putting on my things, Sam made sure to go over what I should and shouldn't do. Don't go too close, be careful of what you say, try not to get her upset, don't try and help her if she starts trembling, call for him if I need something or if something goes wrong.

"Sam, okay, relax," I said stopping at the end of the stairs as I found he was fretting for nothing. I trusted Leah. Yes she was upset, but she would never hurt me.

"I can't believe I'm letting you do this baby," he sighed, coming to wrap his arms around me again.

"It will be okay," I said with more effort this time as I pushed away, "you need to relax."

"Come here," he somewhat growled, pulling me closer to him. Raising an eyebrow at him, I noticed how worried and possessive he was actually being. Nuzzling into my neck, I let out a soft moan and ran my hands through his dark choppy hair.

"Relax," I whispered again as his muscles were still tense. Hearing a small sigh, I kissed what I could reach of him and waited till he would pull away.

"Be careful today okay?" he said catching my eye.

"Of course," I smiled kissing his perfect lips. Catching my hand in his, we swung it between us and hopped in the car.

We pulled up at the Clearwater's house in a matter of minutes. Sam had a partial death grip on the wheel, which made me slightly worried for his well being and the car's.

Covering my hand on his, I entwined our fingers and helped him relax. We slid out of the car together; Sam having a cautious eye on me.

"I love you," I announced, spinning around, stopping to face him as he followed me in the house.

"But this is where I leave right?" he said reading my face. We were just a few feet from Leah's room.

"Yea baby, it is. Girl time and all…no ears," I reminded. He let out a half huff half growl and pulled me to him. Kissing my lips hard and possessively, I felt a small spark of arousal. Sam let out a small growl and bowed his head to kiss my mark. Taking in a small gasp, I bit my lip and tried my hardest to keep my composure.

"We'll finish this later," Sam growled in my ear.

"Can't wait," I said breathless as he held my hips against his.

Feeling a small nipping sensation on my ear, I slowly pushed him away and watched to make sure he would be far enough to leave. We both knew if I was in real danger Sam would feel it. A benefit of the mark I guess. As he walked out the door, I spun on heel and knocked for Leah.

"Don't wanna talk," the girl said with a muffled voice.

"Well I'm coming in anyways," I said turning the knob of the door and finding it unlocked.

"Hey," I breathed. She was sitting on her window ledge, a pillow on her chest, hugging it like it was the world. Taking a seat on her bed, I folded my legs up and watched her.

Leah's eyes became watery and she let out a sniffle.

"Come here, let it out," I said opening my arms. She let out her cry and moved to come hug me. I held her in my arms for a while, letting her take out all of her sadness and frustration with her tears. She was so broken, I felt so bad.

"I don't want them to hate me, it's his family," she hiccupped.

"They don't understand Leah, they don't actually hate you. Cole loves you too much to do that sort of thing," I amended.

"He took my side. He stuck up to the own people who raised him. I don't think I could ever do that. H-h-h-e is to-o…g-oo-d," she cried.

"Nah, he is just perfect for you," I said squeezing her tightly. "You would surely do the same for the guy if you in that position. You may not think so, but I believe if it ever came to that, you would. You're strong, you know what you want…it would go down the same way," I spoke.

"I don't know if I can do it anymore Bella, maybe I shouldn't move with him," she said looking up at me with tear stained cheeks.

"You're halfway packed," I said taking notice to her room, "don't let him down. You guys just got past a bump in the road, it happens. And I know you want to do this, you like him. Throw that imprinting shit out the window," I guided.

"But…he won't-…we just can't Bella. What Billy said and the legends, he's right. And I-…"

"Okay, calm down," I said swaying a bit to get her to relax. She was trembling just the slightest.

"Leah, I'm telling you right now, as the Alpha's mate, you will move in with Cole. Take it as a request or an order- I can make it official with Sam if you want, but you are moving to Port Angeles. We will sort out how we are going to get him to figure you're a wolf later, right now, just please focus on what you have in front of you."

"It feels so unfair- to the boys and me," she complained.

"It is," I said truthfully, "It's unfair you can't tell your boyfriend your true self, and it's unfair that Seth is torn up about it with so much on his mind already. But as for the rest of the Pack…they get it. They can pick your shifts up for the time being Leah, it won't kill them and I know they won't mind. Sam and I will figure something out to make it fair and things will go back to running smoothly. All we need is a bit of time and confidence. You have to believe in that," I said rubbing her hair.

"I owe you all so much," she sniffled.

"You don't owe us anything. We are family, this is what we do," I smiled. She continued to lay with her head on my lap, thinking about everything. "He's a great guy," she whispered, talking about Cole after a while, " I could really see myself with him."

"That's why you are going to finish packing up everything and get to it. Call him, text him, I don't care. But I want you to get going with your life. It's all in front of you. Screw his parents, and screw all of this drama with being a wolf. Let me worry about the elders, you take care of Seth, yourself, and your boyfriend. That's all we can do for now," I said with positivity.

"His parents Bella," she groaned after being reminded. "They were ticked when we got on the future talk. I haven't finished college, don't know if I ever want kids, don't have a real job that I could explain to them except for helping out my mom, and the moving in situation? They were having a freak out when they found out."

"Maybe that's why Cole didn't tell them," I said thinking a bit, "he wanted to do something for himself. Maybe he knew his parents were going to be uptight about that."

"So…what? His intention was to hurt me with his parent's words and disproval?" she bit out with anger.

"No," I said calmly. "What I'm saying is maybe he wanted the two of you to work through it together- start bringing up the meaning of the future. You said it yourself, he wanted you to move in and meet his folks, maybe you two need to sit down and think about what you are going to do in a few years from now. I'm sure he didn't mean for you to witness his parent's whiplash. People act different on their emotions, he probably wasn't expecting words like that either."

"You're always right," she sniffled, getting up. "He hasn't talked to them since it's happened. And he was apologizing so much when he drove me back here."

"See," I smiled, looping an arm around her shoulders, "now pack up and go talk to your brother."

With a nod and a teary eyed smile, she cleaned up her face and stood up. "What do I say to Seth?" she wondered turning back around to me.

"Anything you want," I shrugged, "he just needs to make sure you're okay. You're his big sister and he cares."

She exhaled nervously and bit her lip.

"Go," I commanded, "it will turn out fine, just go be with him."

Leah's body was so tense I almost wondered if she was actually going to take my order into action. Slowly and surely, her arms and legs began to move and she left the room out of sight.

My job was done here. There was nothing more I could help with. Leah knew where to find me if she wanted to talk anymore and now I just needed to go see Sam. Finding my way through the house, I walked back outside with a small spring in my step. For some odd reason, I felt happy and light hearted. Something inside me knew everything was going to be okay, and with blind faith I believed in it.

My body guided me to my man. I found him standing on the beach facing the cold waters. "You look handsome," I murmured catching his waist in my arms. Kissing his bare back, I felt a small chuckle tremble against my lips.

"Everything go well?" he assumed with a questioning tone in his voice as he bent around his side to look at me.

"I'd like to think so," I chirped, moving to stand next to him.

"Good," he breathed, still hugging me tightly.

"You know…I'm glad we found each other," I admitted staring out into the waters.

"Hmm?" Sam questioned. Craning my head up to look at him, I shined him a bright smile, "We're lucky. Everything we have is perfect. I wouldn't have wished for anything more or less. Even though it was somewhat of a rough start to actually be with each other and figure things out, it all worked out in the end. I'm happy and glad it did; everything here is perfect."

Sam gave me a puzzled look and shifted his head to the side a little. It kind of reminded me of a dog trait. Holding back a small giggle, I reached up and kissed what I could of him. "Come on, lets go home and finish what we started at the Clearwater's earlier," I announced. His hand swung behind mine- laced fingers and all. With a low small growl, he had swung me up in his arms and took off to the car, me laughing all the way home.