Introduction
No one really had any love for the female wolf. They found her to be a bitter “drag” to be around. So they left her in her hell to mourn the life she should have had. Should have had Sam but fate deemed her cousin a better wife for him. Her father should be alive but fate took him away from her far too soon.
She constantly felt she had to prove herself that’s what made her take on the last newborn during battle. Only one wolf tried to help her, Jacob, but he was too late. The sad thing was that even though Jacob tried to save Leah, his actions were more to spare Sue the hurt; it wasn’t because he remotely liked Leah at all. So when he saw the newborn crushed her cranium against a boulder and rendered her unconscious, he like most of the others were shocked but indifferent in regards to her well being. Leah’s body instantly went back to its human form and Emmett and Rosalie finished off the newborn. Alice covered the female shifters body and tried to revive her. Nothing, I heard nothing from her thoughts. I only saw blackness. We all would have thought she was dead if it wasn’t for her heartbeat. That faint little thumb that was so weak that I was sure she was giving up.
“The Volturi, she needs to be removed before their arrival. I will come to her after we are finished,” Carlisle said in hushed and rushed tones before rejoining with Esme to address Aro.
The pack removed her …
Chapter 1: Comatose
Sue leaned over her daughter crying. “Oh God what happened?” Sue cried, “Who is responsible for this!” Carlisle brought me along with him to see if there was any mental activity going on inside of her, but right now Leah Clearwater’s mind remained a lifeless tomb. The whole pack stood around her.
“She should have listened.” Sam said quietly. He forced himself to feel no regret but in the back of his mind he remembered laughing and chasing Leah in a sundress up a hill when they were younger. He had loved her and part of him remembered that love, but he felt to acknowledge that feeling for Leah would be disrespect for her current fiancée. “Always so stubborn,” I felt the tension and ache in his throat as he masked his concern for the sake of his new fiancé. I looked on Leah’s face she seemed at peace, it wasn’t as if she was dreaming, or more appropriately it seemed like her slate had been wiped clean.
“All of that doesn’t matter now. All that matters is that my sister wakes up.” Seth stood by the doors frame while all of this transpired. He was the one person that felt the appropriate hurt. He felt like he was quickly losing everyone that he loved. Leah had never been the bitter bitch to him that all of his pack makes saw her as. She was a warm a protective sister.
“That’s what I’m working on.” Carlisle looked at me and I shook my head, there was nothing going on upstairs. He sighed and covered Leah with the blanket and asked everyone to exit the room. Everyone looked at my father waiting for a response. “I don’t know what information I can give you. She’s in a coma … the bump on her head should be healed by morning. However, that doesn’t guarantee that she will awaken by then.” Her mother began to cry. Emily tried to comfort her but she really wasn’t having it. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed that my Bella had pulled Jacob to the side and was talking to him. My skin boiled, I couldn’t believe that she was pissed at me because I let it be known that we planned to be married. Her focus seemed to be on comforting him but his focus was on what was going on with Leah. Now that Jacob knew that Leah could die he was concerned, he had known her since he was little. It would be odd to not have her around. He knew from now on he would be happy to have the harpy be a nag around him.
“How long could she be out of it like this,” Sue looked up at Carlisle looked pleadingly.
“Comas could last a couple days, weeks, months …” Then we saw her inch her way into the living room. She held the wall with one hand and her head with the other. She looked around the room wide eyed and alarmed.
“Oh my God Leah you had us all worried sick!” Her mother rushed to her and embraced her and Leah flinched away she looked at her mother as if she were somebody foreign. Actually she was looking at everyone and everything that way.
“Leah who is hugging you right now?” I asked and Sue looked at her at me confused and then looked back at her daughter.
“My … mom?” Sue smiled; she didn’t realize that Leah was asking not answering the question. She searched both Sue and my expression for validity or her deduction.
“Do you know your last name?” I asked and everybody started to catch on. I heard someone in the background gasp and Emily say oh no. Leah looked around embarrassed by her lack of familiarity and then tears welled up and then ran down her cheeks as she shook her head. Carlisle stood in front of her trying to block everybody in the room, so that their stares and presence wasn’t so overwhelming. “Tell me what going on in your head Leah.”
“I’m confused and scared … I didn’t know my first name before she … my mom … said it.” She sighed. “My head hurts really badly.”
“You should probably lay back down and rest.” Carlisle tried to escort her back to the room so she could have the quiet she needed to remember everything.
“But …,” she stalled, “I really wanted to see my face.” He smiled sadly at her. He gave her pity and empathy because that’s what she needed.
“Of course young one,” he took her to mirror in the living room beside the front door and she looked at herself mesmerized.
“That’s me … Leah.” She sighed deeply and another tear rolled down her face. I think she hoped actually seeing her face would bring back some memories of something but she didn’t receive anything not for lack of trying. She continued to stare in silence and with a shaky hand touched some of the features of her face. I look a lot older than I feel, she thought.
“You don’t want to strain for memories Leah, they will come naturally, I promise to do everything I can to help you.” Carlisle placed his hand on her shoulder and she embraced him. It was the first time I’d ever witnessed Leah actually be nice to one of our kind and think on them with positivity.
“I really hope you can.” She said between sobs as she continued to cling to him.
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