Leah did not want their naked weekend to end. She loved watching Bella's nude form move around their home, grabbing her butt, gripping her hips, grinding together whenever one of them felt the desire. It was amazing, and it was coming to an end.

"Don't be sad, baby. We can do this every weekend." Bella suggested.

"But that's so far away."

"I know, but every night is like a mini weekend with you."

"That's so romantic, baby."

"It's true though, we can get naked at five and not get dressed until 8:30. It's more than twelve hours!"

"Yeah, but we need to sleep for eight of them."

"Let's make good use of the three hours we have left this morning, ok?"

o.~*~.o

Once again, the whole pack was there when Leah and Bella entered the library. Bella brought down Jen's journal to give to Angela. Billy and Old Quil were translating with Embry and his imprint. Jared was working with Jake. Rachel started the Quileute lesson as soon as Bella settled down.

"Thank you all for coming. I'll be back this afternoon." Leah hustled to the van and got to the station in record time.

When she got to her desk, there was a young man sitting in her chair. "Can I help you?" she said, with no intention of helping him unless it was absolutely necessary.

He swiveled the chair around. It was one of the young officers that she had heard making lewd comments about her body when Charlie couldn't hear. "I think you can." The officer said.

"Listen, I have work to do." She stated plainly Do you have a report to file? A question about a previously filed report? Get to the point so that I can get to work."

"I haven't been able to get you off my mind since you started here but you never give me a chance." He said, his voice smooth and probably attractive to some women.

"I'm not interested in whatever you're offering. Please leave my workstation." Leah spoke firmly with no friendliness in her voice. She wanted this encounter over.

"Hun, why won't you give me a chance? You'll enjoy the ride, I promise." He made a lewd gesture with his hips a few times a mm.

That was all she needed. She walked away and came back with Charlie.

"Officer Bradford, can I help you with something?" Charlie asked.

"I was just having a friendly chat with Leah here." Officer Bradford said smugly.

"He was making unwelcome sexual advances, Charlie. And I've heard him make other sexual references to my body that make me feel uncomfortable in the workplace. I was thinking, we could handle this one of two ways. One, we could fill out a report. It would be a lot of paperwork for you and it would be a headache all around. Or two," she whispered loud enough so that only chair and Bradford could hear her, "I could reach down his pants and rip off his scrotum. It would take me fifteen seconds, tops, and he would be the only one to suffer."

Officer Bradford looked terrified but didn't want to run away because he knew the other guys were watching.

"Leah, you can't just say stuff like that." Charlie said, shocked.

"But he can say that he wants to ride my tits all night long and that gets a pass? He can say he wants me to do the splits on his cock and no one says a word? He can say that he'd like to choke me out while fucking me and no one cares? I don't think that's fair, Charlie."

Charlie looked at Officer Bradford who was white as a sheet. "How did you.. I was nowhere near you when I said any of that."

"I'm a full blooded Quileute, a Native American, Officer Bradford. I can move silently. You have no idea where I am unless your eyes are on me." She gave him a cunning grin.

Charlie thought about that. He knew that Billy and Harry and Sue and Tiff did not move silently. He also knew that both Leah and Jake had snuck up on him a bunch of times and he had good hearing. He also realized that Officer Bradford had just admitted to the harassment, which meant a lot of paperwork for him, as well as the headache that would come if Bella found out.

"Officer Bradford, go home. You just admitted to saying all that. She's right. That's a lot of paperwork. Maybe next time we'll go with your idea, Leah." He winked at her. He said that all very loudly, knowing that there was an audience.

Leah grinned at Charlie as Officer Bradford walked away, covering his groin protectively.

Charlie continued loudly. "I'll get started on the paperwork now. If any witnesses want to come forward, It's possible that Leah here will forget the things that such witnesses have said about her. I would also be grateful for witnesses. Such honesty will be considered during annual reviews coming up."

Leah got started with her work with an ear out for the progress of the paperwork. Two of the other guys did come forward as witnesses. They did not confess to what they said about her but did corroborate the accusations against Officer Bradford.

After Leah had gotten through half the stack from the weekend, she went to talk to Charlie. "Do you need me to make a statement?"

"No, the conversation we had was a statement enough. If I need more from you, I'll let you know. Does Bella know that this has been going on?"

"No, and I really wanted to keep it that way, but now I think I need to tell her."

Charlie groaned. "Understood. So Bradford will get a few days off, hopefully without pay, and a write up. Then he'll be back. I think he's terrified of you now, so it shouldn't happen again."

"I'm not in any danger from any of these men, Charlie. The training we do for security on the rez has ensured that I can defend myself from physical assault, even from an armed attacker."

"Christ, Leah! I truly hope that none of my men would put you in a position where you would need to use that training. Why didn't you come to me sooner?"

"It was all watercooler talk until this morning. He was in my seat and wouldn't leave. How do you want me to handle it with the other guys who say that kind of stuff?"

"So there are others?"

"Of course, your two witnesses and two others that I've heard. Do you want me to write a list of all the things they've said?"

"Eh, no! That will also be a ton of paperwork and I'd lose half the force overnight. Let's hope that your little scrotum threat works as a deterrent and if not, we'll take them out one by one."

"At what point would an officer be fired?"

"Either if they're a bigger liability than they're worth, or after three strikes. This is only strike one for Bradford."

"Maybe that policy should be clearly stated in a memo or on a billboard or something."

"Good idea. Have you considered adding an engagement ring or wedding ring to your work clothes? It might deter some of them."

She clucked her tongue. "I'd have to talk to Bella about that one but I'll think about it. Ok, I'm going to get back to work."

"One more thing," Charlie added, looking Leah in the eye, "You say you walk silently but I never see you leave your seat."

"Huh," was all Leah could say to that. Leah silently returned to her seat to demonstrate. Leah left as soon as she was done with her stack of work. She ate her lunch in the car while driving. This way, she would be home around the same time as she would have without the Officer Bradford incident.

o.~*~.o

Leah arrived at the library just as the pack was trickling back from lunch. Bella was already back and working in the office. She popped in and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek.

"What was that for?"

"I've just been missing you."

"You too, baby." Bella stood to kiss her properly, but quickly because she didn't want to get in trouble with Old Quil.

Leah looked around the translation tables and didn't see her journals. Jared was working with Quil and they had Jared's journals. Embry was with Jake. Maybe Billy had her journals again. Leah meandered into the children's room. Billy had several of her journals open as well as her imprint journal which he must have taken from Sam and Emily. He was taking notes furiously, but not translating.

She walked silently to the table and sat down. He jumped, startled at her presence. "Leah! Make some noise sometimes. You wolves and you're sneaking…"

"What are you investigating?"

"Well, I found the second mark in the imprint journal and I'm trying-" The room was suddenly so loud that Leah honestly could not hear what Billy was saying. Leah turned around to address the loud pack.

Then the door opened. A Quileute woman and two small children were there.

"Hush." Leah alpha commanded, then clarified, "not you, Bella."

Bella came out and welcomed the small family.

"Sorry, we didn't mean to interrupt a meeting." The mother looked a little intimidated by the overgrown teenagers in the room but her children were not.

"No, no, you didn't. These guys just like hanging out at the library and sometimes forget to use their library voices. Can I help you find anything? Or can I get Mr. Ateara for you?"

"We're just going to look around a minute." The kids took their time in the children's section. "Hello, Chief Black." The mother said, amused to see the chief hanging out with a bunch of rowdy teenagers, but she was pretty sure two of them were his kids.

"Hello Elizabeth!" Billy greeted the woman kindly.

Each child picked out a book and brought it to Bella, who had to go to Old Quil because he had never taught her the system of checking out books. He walked her through it, and that was how Bella checked out her first books as a librarian. It was an epic moment for her, truly a dream come true.

When the patrons left, Leah lifted the alpha order, thanking the imprints for remaining silent.

"I couldn't talk," Rachel said. "I was trying."

"Oh no, I'm so sorry, girls." Leah said quickly. "I wasn't thinking. I should have known. I think my alpha orders work on marked imprints too. Bella felt compelled to follow my order after her mark. That might be true for the rest of you marked imprints too. Shit! I will be more careful in the future. Angela, thank you for remaining quiet on your own willpower."

Angela nodded in acknowledgement.

"Does that mean I can order Rachel around?" Paul asked with a disgusted look on his face.

"Yeah, I think so, but I wouldn't. When I discovered that I could order Bella around, it made me feel sick."

"I believe it." Paul said..

"We could still try it." Rachel whispered to him.

He growled at her. "You'd like that, huh?" She nodded. Everyone tried to ignore them.

Leah asked, "Was all that racket for the double mark or did I miss something else?"

"We were excited about the double mark." Sam said. "We were translating Ohle's journal earlier and found the first mark mentioned and brought it to Billy, who was translating your journals. He's been engrossed ever since. He barely broke for lunch, just spent two minutes scarfing down a sandwich then returned to work. We've all been waiting for him to find something but I didn't expect it to be this soon."

"Billy, what can you tell me about the double mark?" Leah asked. Old Quil came and sat down, eager to hear about it too.

"Not much, this doesn't give me enough information about the timing of the marks to be able to easily find it in Paltima's journals. The marks themselves have each been referenced though, but not the act of marking. They also had a private and public mark, one on the thigh and one on the shoulder, just like Bella."

Old Quil thought aloud, "I wonder if this is an alpha thing or a lesbian thing. I feel like we'd need to survey all childless wolves to see if more are lesbians."

"A lot of assumptions have been made and never questioned until now. I think we might find straight women and gay men if we look with a critical eye."

"Let's put that investigation on the to-do list for after the translations." Old Quil suggested. "Tell me Leah, what has changed with the second mark?"

"The second mark is a second erogenous zone, with equal intensity as the original, as far as I can tell, but I think you have to ask Bella. And our emotional connection is cranked way up."

"So now we have confirmed that there is precedent and that it is harmless. I think that's good enough for now. If we find more about it in Paltima's and Ohle's journals, that will be a bonus."

"I'm on the same page as you there." Leah assured them. "It wasn't even something I was worried about, honestly. I felt supremely confident in my wolf's decision to double mark."

By the time five rolled around, Leah and her wolf were jumping out of their skin. She had been translating with Bella, reaching over to touch her frequently, playing footsies under the table, just wanting her.

o.~*~.o

At exactly five, she hoisted Bella over her shoulder, hastily dismissed the pack and ran up the stairs. Most of the pack was still in the library tidying up when they heard the first squeal from upstairs.

"God, Leah, this is so good!" Bella moaned as Leah ground her into the wall right next to the door. Bella was reaching under Leah's shirt to touch her breasts. Leah was in such a rush she only removed their pants and panties. They were both dressed like Winnie the Pooh, fucking on the wall. Leah was sucking Bella's mark on the neck while rubbing her thigh mark.

Every few seconds, Leah would growl "mine."

Bella instinctively replied every time with "I'm yours, only yours."

After fifteen minutes of grinding and back to back orgasms that they didn't bother to try to count, Leah rested her forehead on the wall next to Bella's temple.

"Baby, we've got to talk." Leah said with steel in her voice.

Bella's stomach dropped. This did not sound like good news. "What is it?" Bella squeaked.

Leah immediately felt Bella's fear and insecurity overwhelm her. "Honey, it's okay, it's okay. It's just about something that happened at work. No vampires or anything serious like that, ok?" Bella nodded as Leah carried her to the couch to snuggle on her lap.

"What is it?" Bella asked, always in awe looking at her beautiful lover's face.

Leah lifted Bella's chin. "I'm sorry baby, I shouldn't have fucked you like that before we talked. There's been problems at work, at the station, sexual harassment. I didn't want to tell you about it because it wasn't a big deal and I didn't want to worry you and I was hoping that it would go away if I ignored it, but it didn't and today I had to get Charlie involved."

"Oh. Are you okay? What happened?"

Leah relayed the story, emphasizing how great Charlie had handled it.

"And why didn't you tell me about this sooner?"

"Because I honestly didn't give half a shit about those dickwads. When you ask me how my day is, I don't even think about them. I wasn't trying to hide it, it just wasn't significant until today. That guy was blocking me from my work, blocking me from getting back to you as soon as I could. Today, I viewed him as a threat to you for the first time ever and I really was prepared to rip off that man's scrotum. I hate being away from you, baby, and that threat is why I had to fuck you like that. Is that ok?"

Bella leaned in and kissed Leah deeply, not letting her go, forgetting the question in the process. When she pulled away, Leah's eyes were searching her own for some confirmation.

"I love you, Leah Clearwater."

"I love you too, babygirl.' Leah's stomach rumbled. Bella could feel the rumble with their bodies pressed so close together and it tickled just enough to make her giggle.

o.~*~.o

After supper, the girls went to the cliffs for the first time to try to contact the Cullens. Leah waited in the van but she had begged Bella to stay at least one yard away from the edge of the cliff.

Bella spoke aloud, hoping that the thoughts would carry further. "I've changed my mind. I want to speak to Edward. I want to speak to Alice. I need to see you. I need to speak to you. I've decided to visit you at your house, to meet you there. I have decided that I want you to meet me there." She repeated all of this several times, meaning it each time.

Bella walked back to the minivan, sat in the passenger's seat and buckled up. Leah watched her, waiting.

"I sent my message. I don't know when or if they will get it. So maybe we can check their house tomorrow and I'll keep repeating the message like this until they come."

Leah nodded. She leaned over and gave Bella a short but meaningful kiss. They drove home and hopped into bed.

o.~*~.o

Alice saw Bella in her visions for the first time in weeks. With her visions, she was able to see many potential outcomes, but with Bella, they were all coming up black for months now. In the one vision that slipped through the sea of blackness, she could see the yard behind the Cullen house in Forks. There were dark splotches to the vision, so the wolves must be close. Bella was afraid. Edward was there, embracing her, comforting her, protecting her. He was going to change her… or drink her, Alice couldn't tell.

"Edward, no! We can't go." She screamed.

"We must, Alice. The wolves are terrorizing her. She was terrified. She needs us." Edward was gathering the meager possessions that he would need for the journey.

"If she needs us, we should help her." Carlisle agreed, trusting his first son's judgment.

"The vision isn't clear enough. We don't know what she's scared of." Alice pleaded.

"I'm with Alice, for once." Roslie interjected. "Leave that girl alone."

"None of you have to come." Edward declared. "I was the only one there in the vision. I will go alone."

"Aw hell no, bro." Emmet said. "We'll go, won't we, Rose." Emmett's face was trying to portray to Rose the need to keep Edward sane, to rein him in, but it seemed like Emmett forgot that Edward was a mind reader.

"You will not stop me!" Edward screamed. "If she needs to be changed to keep her safe from those mutts, I will do it. She is my mate and of no concern to any of you." Edward still had not decided if he would change her or drink her. He'd decide when he saw her. He didn't want Alice interfering either way.

Edward ran out the door, alone, and swiftly disappeared into the dark forest near the Cullens' new home.

"We need to stop him!" Rosalie insisted.

"I can't see him. His future is black." Alice's voice was frantic.

"Let's wait for Esme, then we'll decide. She won't be long in town." Carlisle said, always the sensible one, never too hasty.