AN: Sorry for the delay. I'm a new teacher and still in Graduate school. Things are a bit tight. This is unedited, and I hope to have a beta soon, but i'm unsure how that all works.

3rd Person

Bella reached over and flicked off her alarm. Swiping on her phone she saw the text from Neil saying he landed safely while she was downstairs making cookies. She was thankful she remembered to plug her phone in before she began baking.

Bella stood up quickly and caught herself on Leah's bed when she felt the blood rush around her body. "Ugh" She knew she should of had more sleep, but looking at the flour on the bedsheets and the disarray of her clothes, she knew it was a fitful sleep. Going over to Leah's dresser she pulled out a pair of sweats underneath shorts and camis. She contemplated taking a pair of underwear, and knew Leah's bras wouldn't fit her.

She quickly found the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror. After relieving herself, she spotted a towel, rag, and extra toothbrush set out for her. Bella smiled, assuming Sue was thinking of her. She took the quickest shower of her life and dove into Leah's clothing. Sniffing herself as she went down the stairs when she couldn't find Seth in his bedroom. She checked the time on her cellphone once more when she saw his sleeping body overtaking the couch. 8:17 am and Leah still wasn't home.

Bella took a deep breath and tried to wake Seth up. She shook him, jabed him, talked softly then loud to him, but he wasn't waking up. Deciding enough was enough, she took to the kitchen. Cooking up a few, okay 12, eggs woke him up. She held the plate in her hand as he went to grab it. "Where is Sam's?"

Seth froze for a second before giving her directions. His eyes never left the plate.

"Thanks." Bella answered him, putting the plate on the table and going to the door to pull on her shoes.

Unfortunately Bella had to stop a few times when she got turned around. She could give directions really well, but following Seth's tired and hungry directions was getting frustrating.

After a while she started again but a large man jogged up to meet her from out of the woods. "He left for work." The man said.

"What?" Bella's face was confused and anguished.

"But Emily Clearwater, his imprint, is still at home." He gave a wolfy grin.

"Thanks… um…"

"Paul."

"Thanks Paul. Are you patrolling right now?" Bella fidgeted from foot to foot.

"Not officially." He wiggled his eyebrows at her.

"Wait, Clearwater?" Bella turned to fully face him.

"Yup." Paul shrugged.

"But didn't… Sam was in a lot of pictures with Leah. They dated." Bella's forehead creased.

"Yup." Paul's voice dropped.

"He imprinted on Emily?"

"Yup."

"Was he still with Leah?"

"Yup."

"That all you're going to tell me?"

"You seem smart. You'll figure it out." He shrugged one shoulder.

"You just don't want to be the one to tell me."

He nodded back to her in confirmation, "You also seem like you got mean claws when you need them."

"Oh okay. Would. Would you mind helping me get to Sam and Emily's? I feel turned around." Bella turned her body as if to say she didn't know which direction to go.

"Sure, sure." Paul motioned in the direction she was originally heading in. "Didn't get good sleep?" Paul questioned seeing her shoulders drop.

"Is it that obvious?" Bella bit her lip as she tried to keep up with his strides. She heard his double meaning in his voice, but as a wolf, he would probably know Leah wasn't home last night.

"To a wolf, yes. Human, maybe not. But Emily will be able to see it."

"Oh," Bella looked at the gravel.

"I say use it. Sam's order wasn't fair. We all know it." Paul's jaw was tight. They walked in silence for a while. Paul trying to think of a way to talk to her without flirting, and Bella enjoying the silence and thinking of the words she wanted to say to Emily.

"Thanks." Bella said when they reached the small cottage home.

"No. Thank you, Bella. I'm not sure how much you know about wolves, but we can hear each other when phased, and Leah isn't as painful to listen to anymore."

Bella got angry at first until she saw his eyebrows move up and down again. She was sure he was a player.

"Well enjoy the free show while you can big guy. Cause that's all you're ever going to see. Her thoughts." Bella smiled as she turned away from him and climbed up the three stairs to the porch, "Oh and Paul?"

An open mouthed Paul was looking at her when she turned back to face him.

"Trust me when I say, I have a much better view in real life than you ever will have in her thoughts." Bella smiled wickedly, unsure where the confidence came from.

"Pff.." Paul made a sound.

"You can 'Pff…' all you want. You know I'm right." Bella smirked before swinging back and knocking on the door.

"Yeah, I wish I had both views." Paul mumbled behind her loud enough for her to hear before he left.

"On my way!" a muffled voice called from inside.

Less than a minute later the door opened. A beautiful native woman with claw marks down the side of her face greeted Bella. "Hello. How can I help you?"

"Are you the Alpha's imprint?" Bella casually asked.

Emily stared at her like a deer in headlights.

"Sorry, I'll rephrase. You're Emily Clearwater. I know because Paul helped me find your home." Bella gestured to the woods where Paul left. "I was recently imprinted on and would like to talk to you. Do you have a moment?"

Emily nodded, smiled, and showed Bella in. "Umm. Who imprinted on you?"Emily offered Bella a seat and offered her tea. All of which Bella accepted.

"We'll get to that. First, can you explain to me why an Alpha would purposefully order a wolf to patrol past the point of exhaustion because he didn't like their thoughts?"

"What? I'm sure there was a misunderstanding…" Emily tried to placate Bella.

"No. There was no misunderstanding. My wolf thought something, and your wolf ordered them to stay awake more than 48 hours." Emily tried to talk, but Bella continued, "Then after imprinting, my wolf got less than four hours of sleep, less than a full meal for a wolf, and was back out for an 8 hour patrol. And if I understand right, is currently watching to see if another wolf might phase, when other wolfs haven't ran patrol in the last 36 hours. All because Sam didn't like my wolf's thoughts!" Bella was standing now and tugging on her hair with one hand, her other hand was rubbing viciously at her chest.

Emily sat dumbfounded, "I don't understand. What thoughts could be that bad?"

"None. The answer is none." Bella paced the kitchen floor, "And I understand Sam's pack doesn't agree with him, but NO…. out all night, barely any sleep, and vampires are real!"

A howl sounded outside of the cabin, while Emily tried to calm Bella down. "Shh. Shh. Breathe with me, your wolf can probably feel you freaking out. Calm your breathing with me." Emily made a big production of her inhaling and exhaling.

A wolf whined outside and Emily looked over Bella's shoulder to see Leah's grey fur. "Leah!" Emily squeaked.

Bella nodded.

"No, Leah." Emily motioned behind Bella and Bella turned to see her wolf. Bella broke out of Emily's grasp. Ignoring Emily's warnings Bella launched herself outside and ran to her wolf.

"I'm sorry Leah. I got really worked up." Bella buried her hands in Leah's fur.

"Bella! Back away from her." Emily called out in fear.

Bella hugged Leah's wolf neck and felt her vibrate between her arms. "Sorry I got worked up." Bella spoke into her fur.

Emily stayed on the porch trying to get Bella away from Leah.

"It's been 12 hour," Bella said back to Emily, "12 hours since she has been home and had food or slept. There are no thoughts worth this punishment. Because that's what it is, a punishment."

Leah's from whined. Her body moving without choice, pulling in a direction away from Bella's hold.

"Don't fight it Leah. Don't fight it. I'll take care of it." Bella released Leah and watched as Leah tried to dig her claws in to stay.

"I.. I…"

"Do you know what this is doing to her? What this could do to our imprint?" Bella spoke in a broken voice as she watched Leah be pushed by an invisible force away from her.

Emily watched on shocked, "Lee-lee imprinted on you?" Tears we in her eyes.

"I need Sam to remove that order, and I need him to do it… like yesterday!" Bella shouted halfway across the yard as she stalked towards Emily after Leah's wolf was gone.