Hi, so this is my first story for this pairing and I have to admit I am liking it so far so let's see where it goes! I hope you all enjoy this story and this chapter.

Leah is criminally underused and criminally treated. She's the Rosalie of the Wolf Pack. Seriously the shit that she goes through because she's not skipping at the idea of being Emily's maid of honour (and seriously what the fuck possessed Emily to ask that? Like seriously Stephanie). So this story is a love letter to Leah.

I also have a huge amount of respect for Embry's Mom. Not sorry. Also I know she has a different name in the books to here but here she is Layla and she was seventeen when she got pregnant.

Also on Embry's father...I know a lot people assume it is Joshua Uley but somehow that seems to nice and neat, I also think it's pretty ironic, that both Jacob and Quill end up being friends with a kid who might be their half brother. So my views on Embry's Dad is that is has to be one of them and I do tend to lead towards Billy just for reasons I can't name. The council bit deciding whose parents should know and who doesn't is my own and I know it does not correlate with the books but then again this whole story is AU so (shrugs), I just think it's a fun angle to explore that everyone is terrified with who Embry's father could be.

Again, all of this is my own design, the characters belong to someone else, I am just playing in my writers box.

Disclaimer-Nothing here is mine.

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And on a side note, I like so many other Fanfiction Authors no longer receive notifications via email about reviews/PMs etc. So if you do send any it might be a while, if ever before I get back to you. Please keep that in mind for it is not intentional-If anyone has a fix please let me know.

Also I do not do Private Messaging anymore, any questions stick them in a review and I will get back to you next chapter note.

Also on a separate note-I HATE Bella in this part of the book, she does genuinely gaslight Jacob and It's explained as it all being the baby's fault. I know that some of it is on Nessie but I do believe that Bella didn't care much about his feelings. She does seem to walk through the books thinking that she can have her cake and eat it and while I actually do sympathise with Edward on this one I notice that he never does anything to stop her which is pretty ironic considering he was lowkey abusing Bella in Eclipse.

So if you are looking for sympathy in the next couple of chapters for Bella Swan then skip em. Because both Leah and Embry are going to give her some much deserved home truths.

This chapter was accidentally written over with Chapter 7. This is the correct Chapter now. Apologies for my mistake.


A First Time For Everything

Chapter 9-Special Powers

Embry sees vampire life up close and personal and Jake reaches his breaking point. Incidentally so does Leah.


There was something to be said for the power of a hot shower Embry thought as he stepped under the spray. He had held out for as long as he could but after his daily phone call with his mother he had caved and asked Dr C for a shower and Dr C with a small smile had pointed him in the direction of a bathroom that hand to God was bigger than his entire front room and a hell of a lot cleaner. The shower had three different kinds of settings and one of them was a massager that Embry was quite prepared to steal should the situation arise.

He stepped out of the shower and looked almost longingly at the bath but decided against it. Outside he noticed were his shorts freshly laundered and though they stank of bleach they were soft and Embry wasn't too proud to beg at this point. He shoved them on, used a spare toothbrush to scrub at his teeth and then finally when he felt a little bit more human and a little bit less like a wolf he went downstairs.

"Thanks" he said in the direction of Mrs C who he was liking on instinct simply because she had one of those smiles that made the world seem right even though it was wrong. She smiled at him and he smiled back taking the plate of food that she offered because he was hungry and Emmett had the game on and Embry was a creature of habit and so he took the plate which included a western omelette, a heap of bacon so crispy you could die, buttered toast and a cinnamon swirl that was fresh baked and then the woman gave him a cup of coffee riddled with milk and sugar (which was how he liked it) and then patted him on the shoulder.

"Thought you were the mind reader?" he said to Edward as he swallowed down the hot food without a second thought. Damn it, it was good too. He didn't understand how it was this good? Wasn't the whole point of being a vampire that you didn't eat human food like the rest of the…well…humans?

"I am but Esme has always had the power to know things" Edward said cryptically. Bella was asleep against his chest and the…thing was ballooning outwards again. Embry didn't like to look at it. The only way he could sit here and eat was to pretend that the thing did not exist which was why Seth was usually on duty whenever Bella wanted warming up.

There was an understanding between Seth and Embry that they would try and keep Jake away from Bella. Embry didn't know what she was playing at but he knew it was harsh to expect Jake not to feel anything when Bella looked at him as if he hung the moon and the stars.

And he was not apologising for this thoughts either. He was being a lot tamer than he could have been and he knew that Edward knew that.

Bella woke up then looking around as if she had heard the thoughts of the people in the room with her and her eyes alighted on Embry and then dimmed a little and he bit back the retort that it was stereotype that they all looked alike.

Fuck.

He chewed his eggs silently.

"Is Jake coming today Embry?"

Fuck.

"Don't know" he said finally. "He's been busy. Plus the blood thing creeps us all out"

And that was not a lie because it did. Jake had let that slip in his thoughts the last couple of days and Embry had thought he was going to dry heave all down Seth's flank. Seth had made some bullshit excuse that what was good for Bella had to be good for the baby and maybe that would help but in Embry's opinion it was just sick. Bella had smiled at Jake just yesterday when he had come into the room and her teeth had been stained a little pink and he'd suddenly had to leave the room convinced he was going to transform there and then.

It was disgusting what she was doing.

And in more ways than one.

Bella hummed and took her sippy cup with grabby hands and Embry had a sudden thought of the baby or…well…whatever it was (Seth might be convinced that It was a baby inside of her but Embry damn well wasn't) doing the same thing from now with a human head.

"Not much blood in the human head" Edward said quietly and everyone turned to look at him. He shrugged in that horribly detached way.

"There isn't" he said finally. "If your going to think that way at least get your medical facts right"

"Well sorry" Embry muttered taking a gulp of coffee, "We all don't have the luxury of decades of schooling"

Edward's mouth twisted in what might have been a smile but it was too twisted to tell. With Edward now it was hard to tell. Embry didn't remember much of what he was like before but he was willing to bet it wasn't like this.

No wonder they were all worried about him. Man had a draining presence around him.

To be fair all the Cullen's did. The only two who had any kind of optimism about this whole thing was the blonde one and Bella, and blondie at least had the sense to hide it. Bella on the other hand was infectious and it was irritating beyond belief. If she brought about the baby catalogues then Embry was going to have to leave the room for the sake of his own temper.

He couldn't help it. He was Jake's friend and try all he wanted Jake was deeply, deeply hurt already and what was coming…well…Embry had a feeling that what was coming would finish him off completely.

"I doubt it" Edward muttered and Embry paused turning to look at Edward who was looking right back at him.

There was something here he could feel it. Some kind of backwards deal done between Jake and Edward and he was this close to figuring it out but he just couldn't see it. He knew what it looked like but he just…he couldn't see it happening. Not without speaking to Jake anyway.

And if he was right…

God help the pair of them that was all he was going to say and think right now.

"I should go" he said finally standing up and Bella slurped out some blood in a way that he thought was obscene.

"Tell Jake to come back" she ordered and Embry shook his head.

"Nah I aint gonna be your errand boy" he said feeling his temper resign. "Your married now Bella. You picked Edward. You don't get to have your cake and eat it"

And then he was outside the house before he could hear the tell tale sign of tears.


Jacob and Seth were running recon and so he decided to go for a walk, what he had said was too raw and too close to the truth for him to be in wolf form right now because Jacob was a danger to himself quite frankly and therefore unable to realise that what he was doing to himself and what Bella was doing to him was as close to abuse as humanly possible. It was odd really. He had looked at Bella and heard stories of Bella and Edward's relationship especially last year and he had thought that they were a cautionary tale to what cohesive control was and now he looked at Bella and thought that the tables had turned and she was gaslighting her oldest friend to spend time with her.

"How's the bitch? Still in pup?"

"Leah"

"What?"

He sighed leaning against a tree as Leah in her human form came around the side of the bank her feet bare in the grass to watch him.

"She wants Jake" he said finally. "She always wants Jake. I don't know why Edward doesn't call her out on it. He had no problem doing that last year"

"He didn't call her out on it last year he restricted her movements like a child last year" Leah said in that way that she did, accurate but crude. Embry thought that she would make a wonderful politician if there was someone dumb enough to elect her to office.

"I don't understand it" he said finally and Leah opened her mouth and then closed it again. "I don't understand it either" she said finally and Embry nodded closing his eyes and leaning against the tree and enjoying the warm sunlight on his face and the stillness of the air around him for as long as possible.

"Embry?"

"Hmm?"

"Why do you smell like Christian Dior?"

"Who?"

"Wh—never mind why do you smell like a hundred and ten bucks aftershave?"

"I took a shower"

"You took—of course you did"

"Nah Leah" he said opening his eyes and watching her and thinking like some lovesick twit that she was the most beautiful woman ever, it wasn't like he hadn't had those thoughts before it was just now he was showered and feeling more human and the sunlight was perfect and the sky was blue and the birds were singing in the trees like he was in the ending of that Jane Austen film that he had been forced to watch for English, and Leah was in some floaty dress.

He could admit to himself that she was beautiful because she was. She still had her hard edges but underneath he found that she was stunning in every way that a person could be stunning.

Christ he needed to get a grip. Not even Jake had been this bad.

Jake had just dreamed of the physical.

"Hey" Leah said tapping him on the shoulder and he opened his eyes and thought that he could just reach out and kiss her if he wanted too.

"You okay?"

"I think…I think I am having an revelation"

"A hot shower did that to you did it?"

"You should try it Leah, they have a massager and everything"

Leah rolled her eyes and then before she could stop herself with that mischievous twinkle in her eye that he knew meant nothing good she smiled deviously, a dark, devilish kind of smile.

"Nah Embry" she said so close that he could count every eyelash or near as damn it.

"I don't need a massager to get pleasure, I got two hands and ten fingers remember?"

And didn't that create an image. Leah on her bed with her hands…oh God and there was Embry in that image too, watching, waiting, ready to step in and help as she took herself to the edge over and over again and—

"You need help with that?" he croaked and he took a step forwards his hands coming to her waist that was hidden by her shorts and this time it was her turn to let her eyes dilute a little and it was such a perfect line up for a kiss that he knew would make his knees go week and then just as they were getting closer—

"Hey Guys"

It was Seth and Embry took a gasping breath as if coming up for air after a long spell underwater. Leah gasped as well rearing back as caught up in the moment as he had been and Seth who had just ran in human form to them looked between the two of them and then shot Embry a look that was not friendly. Not friendly at all.

"We have a problem" he said scowling.

"No kidding" Embry muttered feeling like he was going to die of a hard on.

Seth growled a little but otherwise let that one go.

"Jacob's just left"

The both turned to look at him in shock.

"What?"

"I don't know what's happened, he went up to the house to see Bella, apparently she had been asking for him all day and then he ran out, he went out in an Aston Martin Vanquish and just sped off and didn't look back"

"Wait as in an actual—"

"The grey one from Car and Driver"

"Fucking Hell" Embry said softly, "That's…wow"

"Can the two of you stop with the cars for a second" Leah said looking between them. "Please can you…why did he leave?"

"I don't know" Seth said, "I just know he has"

For a second the three of them stared at each other and then with one long fluid moment Leah ripped off her shirt and then her shorts and before Embry could get more than a second of Leah Clearwater as naked as the day was long she was gone.

Embry picked up her clothes and looked at Seth who looked as astounded as he felt.

He managed to sum up the words perfectly thought.

"Oh Fuck"


And there you go, I hope you enjoy.

Next Chapter-Bella gets some home truths Part 1. The Leah edition, then comes Part 2. The Embry version. Either way not pleasant and totally deserving maybe part one of a two part handler.