Title: Legendary Travesty

Fandom: Twilight

Pairing: Leah/Esme (Lesme) , established Bella/Alice (Bellice)

Author: Mirandyscrow

Rating: R

Summary: AU Leah imprints in Eclipse. We follow her as she deals with the consequences that this extraordinary event causes. This story take place about a month before the beginning of Eclipse and will be a femslash pairing. If you don't like it then don't read it. Thanks!

Spoilers: Let's say everything up until Eclipse is fair game, but I'm twisting a lot of facts and timelines to suit my story.

Archive: Sure if you really want it. Lol, it would be a surprise to me, just ask my permission first. (It's nice when people ask)

Disclaimer: Did Bella and Alice hook up in New Moon? No? Well I guess that means Twilight isn't mine. Twilight belongs to Stephanie Meyer. Any and all other brand names belong to their respective owners. I do not make any money on this story. Please don't sue; I only have a box of Easy Mac as collateral. BTW Easy Mac is the property of Kraft. :P

Author's Note: I don't have a clue where this idea came from. I was actually focusing on going to sleep and this plus five other prompts popped into my head and played around in my skull until I wrote them down and attempted to give them a fair shot at being written. Now here we are.

Author's Note #2: I am aware that some of the events don't exactly travel the exact same timeline of the book and/or movie. Please know that it is entirely on purpose to fit the story. So please no comments about, 'how it didn't happen that way' because I'm sure I've messed up the timeline by simply having one of the pairing(s) Bella and Alice, lol.

Big, big thanks to faithlessfate for being a great beta and making this story worth reading.

Special thanks to Bablefisk for being my first beta!

Chapter 1: Cosmic Love

Leah flopped down onto her bed. She couldn't understand why there needed to be a damn bonfire every other week. She didn't want to be sociable these days and everyone knew why. The last thing she wanted to watch was Sam and Emily drooling over each other next to a warm fire with the same 'fascinating' tribe legends she had heard more times than she could count.

"Ah, Leah give it a rest!" Paul cried through the pack's mental link.

"Yeah, no one cares about your wrecked love life," a second voice sounded.

Leah rolled her eyes, "You're one to talk, Jake!" she sniped back mentally. Leah erected the mental barrier she'd been trying to perfect for the past few months. It was flimsy, but it would give her a bit of privacy for a few hours.

"Don't mind them, Lee," Seth called from his room.

Leah chuckled. "I don't let those assholes bother me anymore, Seth!" she shouted back to her sweet, although sometimes annoying brother.

"Leah!"

The female wolf cringed. "Sorry, Ma!"

"Leah, come here!" Her mother called out again.

Leah got off her bed and trudged downstairs into the kitchen. "Ma, I said I was sorry."

"Leah, I need you to go to the store for the Peterman's cinnamon," her mother replied, ignoring her previous statement. "I can't believe I forgot it when I went to the store earlier," Sue continued, talking mostly to herself.

Leah wanted to decline, to say that she had something better to do. All in all, she really wanted to go back upstairs and pretend to be ill until the bonfire was long over. But what really came out of her mouth was, "Is there anything else I need to grab while I'm out?"

-x-

Leah parked the truck and walked into the general store. She greeted the owner with a nod and walked straight to the familiar spice aisle. She could not comprehend how of all the ingredients that her mother could have forgotten, she forgot to buy the cinnamon. It was one of the main ingredients of the cake and she'd made it a million and one times before. Leah found the slot that held the spice. It was surprisingly vacant. She saw a few bottles of other cinnamon brands on either side of the empty space and considered just grabbing another brand for a split second. She shook her head at the thought. Her mother would have her hide if she came back with anything but the specified brand.

Leah really didn't want to travel into Forks. It was out of the way and anytime she needed to go into the town, she had the bad luck to run into Isabella Swan, but she knew she could not return home without the cinnamon. She walked up to the owner behind the counter, "Hey Mr. Will. Do you have anymore Peterman's Cinnamon in the back?" she asked hopefully.

The graying man looked apologetic. "Oh no, Leah. I sold the very last bit earlier today. I'm sorry."

Leah nodded, "Okay thanks." Her cell phone began to ring.

"Do you have it?" Leah heard before she could greet her caller.

"No, Ma." Leah waved a goodbye to Mr. Will and walked outside, "I'm going to have to go into Forks. They don't have anymore of Peterman's cinnamon in the general store."

"Hurry back, Leah. I can't leave the batter sitting for too long."

"I will," Leah said before ending the call. Almost immediately, her phone started ringing again. She glanced at the display and smiled, "Yeah, Seth?"

"Hey, while you're out, can you grab me a box of Frosted Flakes?" Seth asked.

Leah rolled her eyes, "Why didn't you just ask while mom was talking to me or better yet while I was still in the house?"

"I didn't think about it until just now. Come on, Lee," the young boy pleaded.

"Fine. But I'll expect payment," Leah said with an exaggerated sigh.

"All funds will be wired into your account at midnight," Seth replied in a very businesslike tone. He was silent for a few seconds before laughing.

Leah laughed with him. "Bye, you goof." She finished the call with a shake of her head. Leave it to Seth to make her day seem just a bit brighter. As she climbed into the truck and closed the door, she could smell the fading scent of her father inside the truck, and her eyes got watery. When she turned the key in the ignition, the tears let go as her father's favorite song, "God's Gonna Cut You Down" by Johnny Cash filtered through the speakers. After a few seconds, she wiped away them away angrily, and violently jabbed the button on the radio, changing the channel. She was relieved as the song changed to another, faster pop song, and she leaned back into the car seat with a sigh.

Almost too quickly, Leah arrived at the supermarket in Forks. As she exited the truck, locked it, and slipped the keys into her pocket, a smell reached her. It was sweet and faint. The scent wasn't nauseatingly overpowering, but she recognized it at once as a leech. She went on alert; her eyes flitted back and forth quickly while she took deeper breaths to decipher the type of leech that was lurking close by. After a few seconds she calmed, the smell was at least a few minutes old. Whoever was here had moved from the area already.

The female wolf continued into the store. She distractedly began her search for the specific cinnamon her mom requested. She mumbled the brand under her breath as she looked for the seemingly elusive bottle of cinnamon. She finally located the bottle when a pale hand took it from the shelf and Leah grabbed the hand in a vice grip, halting the movement. The icy skin made the wolf let go, as if she was stunned. She jerked her eyes up to meet startled gold ones that she easily recognized and Leah forgot to breathe.

The vampire in front of her had a heart-shaped face framed by soft, brown hair that appeared to be highlighted with an otherworldly caramel shade. Her full lips that were usually curled up into a compassionate smile, were drawn in a thin line of confusion. She had the same liquid gold eyes as the mind reader that Leah had met a few times, but instead of the hostility that could be found in his eyes, her orbs always seemed to hold a kindness that showed through. Leah struggled to look away and pulled some much needed oxygen in her lungs, inhaling deeply.

Big mistake.

Leah's head started to swim. The vampire's scent was enthralling. It was a merge of stargazer lilies, nutmeg, and a fresh snowfall. The wolf also detected another scent mingling with her mate's smell. The very thought angered her and Leah felt the intense need to mark her mate flow through her body. The female wolf began to tremble as she felt the bond beginning to pulse between her and the vampire ahead of her. Leah knew from this moment on that the vampire would be her reason for living, her reason for dying and everything in between.

A tentative, cool hand reached forward, sliding across Leah's cheek. She smelled the light cinnamon fragrance as she noticed the vampire had yet to let go of the spice. The wolf once again caught the hand, using it to pull the vampire flush against her body, her own frame still shivering. Leah looked into the rapidly darkening eyes in front of her. It was obvious that the vampire felt the connection as well. Leah leaned forward; their lips were just a minuscule distance apart.

"Price check on Nature's Own wheat bread. Price check for wheat bread." The store's PA system sounded above and just like that the spell was broken.

Leah shook her head lightly and cleared her throat. "You have my cinnamon," she said, surprised to find her voice husky. She trailed her fingertips across the other woman's palm, grabbing the spice before all but sprinting to the checkout counter. Seconds later, she felt a breeze that she knew was the vampire dashing out. The sudden smell of lilies confirmed her suspicions. Leah was grateful there were hardly any people in the store that day. The last thing she needed was the news of her attempt at ravishing of another woman in the spice aisle of the grocery store making it back to her mother, the pack, and the rest of La Push. Never mind the fact that the other woman in question was a vampire.

Leah paid for the cinnamon and left the store as quickly as possible. She promised herself that she would just grab Seth's cereal from the general store on the way back home. She wanted to stay far away from this store for a long time.

-x-

As soon as Esme settled inside the Mercedes, she received several frantic texts from Alice about her well being. Esme pressed a couple of buttons on her phone and held the phone to her ear.

"Esme, thank goodness!" Alice's relieved voice chirped through the phone, "I couldn't see you. You were there one minute and the next…"

Esme realized Alice was not going to continue, "Alice?"

"I'll meet you in the meadow after you hunt, Esme. Goodbye," Alice replied with an odd tone and ended the call.

-x-

Alice was sitting on fallen log, motionless when Esme approached. Alice continued staring into the distance when Esme sat beside her. They sat in a comfortable silence for several minutes before the peace was finally broken.

Alice turned to face the elder vampire. "What happened, Esme?"

"You saw what I was going to say?" Esme inquired.

Alice nodded, "I need to hear you say it, Esme." She looked at her mother with unusually cheerless eyes.

Esme took an unneeded breath and began recounting the incident at the store, "I was on my way back home when you texted me the other ingredients for the cookies Bella likes, so I turned around, going back to the store. A small, insistent feeling pulled me back there, even as I passed a convenience store where I could have easily gotten the ingredients."

Esme eyes became a little unfocused as she looked at some unseen point in the distance and continued. "Once I got out of my car I smelled a scent that had risen above the others. I had a small feeling of bloodlust, but more to drown in that scent." She paused, inhaling an unneeded breath as if to bring the scent back to her. "Fresh green apple and spicy pine needles. I stopped breathing and moved quickly to get the rest of the ingredients. The only thing left was the vanilla extract. Once I reached the aisle, I found a young woman looking for a specific brand of cinnamon. She happened to finally find the spice at the same time I reached out to hand it to her. Our eyes met, and my heart skipped a beat. M-my dead heart literally fluttered in my chest."

"Oh Esme," Alice gasped, eyes wide.

Esme nodded. "It was terrifying and exhilarating all at the same time. I know I'm connected to her. Even now it feels like the other part of my soul is just out of my reach and it hurts." Esme bowed her head, "I'm not really sure what to do from here, Alice."

Alice froze beside her, pulled into another vision, "Esme, you have to tell Carlisle. Things like this tend to come out, especially with a mind reader and an empath in the house."

"I don't want to hurt him, Alice," The caramel haired vampire whispered, venom pooled in her eyes, glistening against the setting sun. Alice's face immediately crumpled at the sight. She pulled her mother into an embrace. The beautiful sunset went unappreciated as the two vampires clung to each other, both lost in their own thoughts.

-End of chapter One-

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