Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight.

AN: This is one of my favorite pairings. It just works for me.

(Leah - POV)

***Dream***

"Sam, please!" I pled as tears streamed down my battered face.

The howls of the pack filled my ears. Snarls came from the giant black wolf standing over me. I could see the tribe standing behind the wolf pack. Their black eyes and russet skin stark to my eyes. I closed my painful eyes.

"Sam, let her speak, please." Emily, my cousin, pled to her Alpha mate.

Sam huffed. I felt the wolves holding me down shift off of me. I moved to my knees. My arms cradling my stomach. I was in pain and was afraid. Most of all I was pissed the fuck off. How dare they?! I have sacrificed a lot for this tribe. My life, my freedom, my dad, and for what?

"Leah!" Emily said as she rushed over to me.

Emily and I used to have some bad blood between us, but we have since worked it out. She was my best friend again. She cupped my face and then pulled me in a hug. She stroked my back and then pulled away. She placed her hand on my belly and made a relieved face.

"Emily." I said to her, and she helped me stand.

It was awkward to stand with as heavy as I was. I leaned on her a bit. I looked to Sam. His black fur glistening in the fire light and the beginnings of a misting rain. I could see the disappointment in his eyes. I knew he would have this look. It did not bother me like it would have once upon a time. But I have moved on. I have a child coming. I could not dwell on the looks of others. I did not care to.

"Let me leave, Sam. I cannot stay here. I know you are going to exile me. Just let me go then. I have nothing here anymore. My life is elsewhere." I spoke with a quiver, I was cold, strange.

"Leah." a voice I did not know came to my ears.

That was strange. The voice made me comforted. I looked to the edge of the woods. The shadow covered the man who spoke. All I could see was bright red eyes.

***Dream End***

I woke with a startled almost strangled gasp. I sat up and wiped my face and grabbed the bottle of water that I kept on my nightstand. My head was pounding. I opened the nightstand drawer and popped me a couple Advil. I sat on the side of my bed. This had been odd. I have been having these dreams ever since Sam and I broke up. And... and he got together with my cousin Emily. No explanation. I sighed heavily.

The dreams had started to slowly make sense. Sam and Emily together and Sam being a wolf. He was and that was how he got together with Emily. The imprint. The shift changed us. I didn't understand until I shifted. I had shifted suddenly when Dad had returned home. I was so hurt and angry that no one seemed to care how I felt after the breakup. I was so happy then my life had been shaken up and no one wanted to be around me.

Things had been so hard, and I was changing. I suddenly jumped from my small height of 5'4" to now I'm 5'10". I started running a really high fever one evening. When Dad came back from the council, he was telling mom that he had spoken with Sam. Sam and Emily were getting married. I just lost it. I was crying and no one seemed to really care. It was almost like they were so detached to how I felt. I got really angry then. I started shaking, I got so hot, and then I was looking over my father's fallen body. Mom was screaming and crying, cradling my father.

I could suddenly hear several voices in my head. All of them being so negative and hostile. Then I heard Seth's voice rip through all the noise. I looked towards my brother who had just come through the door from school. He was shouting and then it happened. He burst out of his skin and a large sandy colored wolf. I yelped and I realized that was not what my voice normally sounded like. Then I heard Sam's voice.

"Leah, Seth, calm down. Calm down." he said and made a calming gesture.

The tone he used, the body language, I could feel my body and heart calming. I had suddenly snarled at him. I didn't want to calm down, I wanted to hurt him like he had hurt me. His voice had changed then. He ordered me, demanded that I obey him. That had just made me angrier. I snapped at him. When I snapped at him, I realized that my body was different. I looked around to the hall mirror and saw a large gray wolf standing there. I quickly realized that the wolf was me. I yelped out in startlement and panic. Sam's voice came back to me, telling me to calm down. His tone calmer and soothing.

I looked to him and then watched as Seth shifted back into his human self. I breathed deeply to force myself to calm. I needed to calm down. I told myself that and then I felt myself shift back. I was naked and confused. Sam had taken Seth and I with him. He called Billy and Old Quill, telling them what had happened to my dad and that Seth, and I shifted. They were confused and in disbelief that I, a young woman, had shifted. It had never happened before. It has always been just the men of the tribe. Never in any of the stories had there ever been a female.

Billy and Old Quill had called Charlie and told him about my dad. That he'd had a heart attack. Charlie had come to the reservation to help Mom with all of the arrangements. Seth and I were being kept away under the guise that dad's death had been too hard for us. In reality we were being integrated into the pack. Well, Seth was. I had been bombarded with all sorts of negativeness about my shift. I hadn't asked for this. I didn't know why. I learned very quickly how to shut the other's out of my mind. I did not wish for them to hear anything in my head. My heart ache and the guilt over my dad hurt me enough.

I did my best to stay by myself. But the guilt I would feel over Seth being with the group without my support would gnaw at me. Then of course there was the fact that Sam was always Alpha ordering me to be where the pack was. I didn't give a shit about the pack. I cared about protecting the tribe from the Cold Ones and the Cullens. The pack didn't really care about me either. Well, sort of. They begrudgingly tolerated me. Sam felt guilt every time he looked at me because of how we fell apart and of course Seth actually wanted me there.

But I, myself, never wanted to be there. This whole wolf thing had torn my life apart. I had been accepted to college in Seattle. I had dreams of travelling the world. I wanted to see Paris, London, Rome, Athens, Malta, Egypt, etcetera. I wanted to see it all but now... Now I was a protector of the tribe that could not do for herself anymore. Her life was to be devoted to the tribe. I was not Leah anymore. I was the unwanted pack wolf girl who would never be allowed to live her dreams.