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Focused Madness
Chapter 12

Fusedtwilight: Thanks to my beta animegirlkiki and thanks to the reviewers. Last chapter Matthew and Leah settle in top a new home. This chapter their location is in risk when they meet a vampire who is prowling the area for food. What happens when he finds them? Or should I say what happens when they find him?

Leah P.O.V
A month went by and it went smooth, I hadn't found a job yet, I still had plenty of money from Edward's nice card so a job really wasn't that important. Plus I still had the money I got when dad died so we still had a long while to go before money became an issue.
We made some new friends, our neighbors (do they count as neighbors if they live more than two miles away?) visited plenty of times. They even had a small picnic party to welcome us. I was pleased at how well Matthew behaved, he really didn't talk much, and he was very shy to meet so many people.
Plenty of the ladies cooed over him, giving him hugs and pinching his cheeks. Poor kid.
I had called home a few times, each one more tearful and heartfelt than the last call. I talked to Seth. He missed me and was wishing I was home. I missed him too. I missed his smile, I missed his laughter, I missed his humor, and I missed his cheery outlook on life.
I missed everyone back home, my pack, Sam's pack, mom everyone. I missed being a part of a pack, I felt so lonely when I phased, though it was nice to think whatever I wanted and not having to worry about pissing someone off.
I was in the kitchen right now, getting ready to make a call. Matthew was in the living room watching T.V. Normally I was no fan of sponge bob square pants but when it was on Matthew was like a zombie.
I dialed the home number and waited. Three rings later I heard someone pick up the phone. “Mom?”
No answer.
“Seth?”
What was going on? I heard someone, someone manish. Was it Charlie? Was he feeling awkward for picking up?
“Leah?”
I froze. I know that voice.
“Sam?”
“Lee-Lee. Are you okay? Where are you”
I was frozen. My throat felt tight and like something was wrapped around it. I could not speak, my eyes began to blur with tears.
“Leah? What is being wrong?”
Matthew must have sensed what I was going through; even the power of sponge bob could not distract him from my inner turmoil.
“Is that him?” Sam asked. I flinched when he said him. It was full of venom and scorn.
“Matthew, go watch T.V, I'm having a grown up conversation.”
He stood there; I could see the conflict on his face. I was about to tell him to go again when he turned and went back to watching T.V, but I could see he was no longer listening.
“Lee-Lee are you okay? Are you in danger?”
“Stop fucking calling me that!” I hissed.
A tear dropped from my eye and I angrily wiped it away. Fuck why was I feeling like this, I was feeling angry and guilty and relieved all at once. I knew Sam was okay, it took him a bit longer to heal than Jake took because he was hurt worse than Jake had been.
But to actually hear him, to know from his voice he was not angry at me. It made me feel so good.
“I am fine, perfectly fine, safe and sound.”
“Thank God,” he said sounding relieved.
“What are you doing at my place?” I asked.
“Waiting for you to call, Sue hoped if you talked to me I could convince you to come back.”
“Why would I come back?”
“Because this is your home, we are your family, everyone misses you Lee.”
“I doubt that.”
“It's true, I miss you, Emily misses you, your mom, Seth, your pack, hell even the other imprints are worried about you. Sue's friends are always asking her where you are. Paul and Jared are still out looking for you, trying to find some trace of where you went.”
“They won't find anything, might as well tell them to stop.”
“Do I need to tell you what everyone is saying? What they told me to tell you when you call? 'Tell that girl she needs to come home, tell her she needs to be with her family.' that was Billy. 'Tell Leah we miss her, La Push isn't the same without her to patrol with,' that was Paul. 'Please come home Leah we are not mad at you, we want you back with us, we want to know you are safe,' that was Emily. Do I need to go on?”
I blinked tears from my eyes. I was touched, the fact people were so desperate to have me back home made me feel so happy.
“I miss home too Sam, believe me.”
“Then come home.”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Sam....things are going good for me right now. I have....something of a normal life right now. No vampires, no phasing. I have my own place; I am looking for a job. I have settled into my new place. I would like to come back, but I have a good thing going for me right now.”
“A good thing? A good thing? Leah you're stuck babysitting a hybrid who is more dangerous than an entire coven of vampires!”
“He is mine Sam, mine to care for, mine to protect. I won't give him up, not after....what happened.”
“I forgive you Leah, I know it wasn't you're fault. There is no need to take on some absurd penance.”
“This is more than a penance Sam. If I give him to the Cullens they will have to leave, I know you won't allow him back.”
“Damn right.”
“Exactly, they leave they take Nessie and Jake has to make a choice that no one should have to make.”
“So you have to suffer to make everyone happy?”
“Wouldn't be the first time,” I said.
“Leah-”
“No Sam, this is a good thing, someone can watch over him, make sure he stays out of trouble, and I can work out my life, get back on track. I was considering leaving anyway, but I always found some excuse to stay, this helped give me the kick in the ass I needed. This is all for the best Sam.”
“What if he bites you Leah? What if he goes berserk and tries to attack a human? You saw what he did to all of us, if Bella hadn't used her shield Emily would be-” he didn't say the words. His voice raised in anger at the memory of what happened, of what could have happened.
“There are risks Sam I know. But things are going good, there have been no incidents. I handle him very well.”
We said nothing for a while. Then he spoke. “I won't stop looking for you Leah.”
“I know, and I will never stop running. It's what I am best at remember?”
“How could I forget? I won't stop until you are back home where you belong Leah, this is your home, you belong with us, not with that thing.”
“That thing has a name. And I will protect him, for as long as he needs me.”
“Leah this is insane, you can't spend the rest of your life protecting him.”
“Watch me.”
I hanged up. The phone rang a few more times but I did not have an answering machine yet so I was not worried about him leaving some heartfelt message.
Finally after a while it stopped ringing and I could no longer hold back the tears.
“Leah?” Matthew was by my side, Sponge Bob square pants forgotten. “It was him wasn't it?”
I looked at him surprised. When he said him it was like when Sam said it on the phone, it did not have the level of scorn Sam's had, but it was the closest I have heard him come to expressing something with extreme distaste.
“Don't be sad Leah, he is stupid. He make you sad, he is stupid, me wish he was dead! Me should have bit him when he was bleeding and human! I hate hims, he hurt you and makes you crys!”
His body shook in anger, for one wild moment I thought he was about to phase, but then he burst into tears.
“Matthew?” I asked confused.
“Me sorry Leah, Matthew knows you love him still, Matthew knows he make you hurt him, but Matthew was afraid he was going to hurt you. Matthew wasn't wanting you to get hurt because of him and-”
I wrapped my arms around him, hugging him close. “Oh Matthew. You shouldn't hate someone or want them dead, especially just because he made me cry.”
“But me not like it when you cry Leah. When someone makes you cry me want to hurt them.”
“That's what everyone feels when someone they love Matthew, when they love someone and the person gets hurt they want to hurt the one who hurt them back.”
“Thank me want to hurt me because me hurt you by making you hurt that dark wolfie.”
“His name is Sam, and I know you don't like him but Sam and me have....history. We have been through a lot together and I got hurt but he did not mean to hurt me. Sometimes we hurt people and not mean to, and that is what happened with us. I still care for him.”
“Me is knowing. He is still caring for you to. Matthew saw its when you fighting. That what make me so angry, he still care for you but he still going to hurts yous, you not hurts ones you loves.”
“The only reason he came for me was because I wouldn't step aside so he could kill you. Remember you attacked his imprint, you were going to kill her and would have had we not stopped you.”
“She did have good smelling blood.”
His eyes began to glaze over and that familiar primal instinct began to return.
“But,” I said loudly getting his attention back. “It still would hurt a lot of people if she was killed, me one of them.”
That was true; I had a few nightmares of Emily's corpse with Matthew standing over her, blood dripping from his mouth.
“Sam had every right to go after you Matthew, but I would not let him and although it pained him to do so he fought me to get to you. Think, if someone tried to hurt me you would want to hurt them back right?”
He nodded.
“And wouldn't you go through anyone who stood in your way?”
He nodded again.
“Well that's what Sam was doing, protecting his loved one from someone who tried to hurt you.”
“Then why did you protect me?”
“Because I know it was not your fault, because I feel we made an error in letting you be around humans that they should not have been there. Because I think with enough time and patience you can be around humans and not have to be watched.”
He hugged me. “I love you Leah,” he said.
“I love you too.”
I meant it. I was a little surprised but there was no denying it. I had grown to love the little freak. In this month he had slept in my bed every day. He had his own room which he rarely used. But it was always with me he spent his nights with. We hunted together, we ate together, we watched TV together, we went for walks around the woods together, I told him the legends of the tribe, the ones we told to outsiders, the ones we kept hidden. I cooked for him, I cleaned for him, I was trying to get him to clean himself in the bathroom.
I woke up in the morning to him, held close and tight in my arms. He slept better if I was with him; it helped keep the nightmares at bay.
I realized than the full responsibility I had. I was doing more than protecting him....I was raising him. Didn't I just have a parent/child talk with him just know? Didn't I teach him right from wrong? Didn't I try and mold him into something that could meet the world head on and survive it?
And so the she-wolf became a mother to the lion cub....fuck that sounds like a saying from a lame novel.
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Matthew P.O.V
Me and Leah sleeping again. Well she sleeping, me is watching her sleep again. Me put up web again so no one is finding us. Me take it down in morning, me not tell her. Me is knowing she not like it when I stay up late. But me like watching her sleep, me is liking protecting her, makes me feel useful.
Nothing had come near us, even the animals stayed clear of our house, this is making me happy, me is doing something right.
Me talk to Cullens today, Leah called them on the phone thing and me talk to Ness-Ness. Me miss Ness-Ness, me miss others too. Big brother Nahuel left to go to his home and he is having no phone so me is not able to talk to me now.
Me is hoping he is safe, me not wanting to lose another sibling.
Then something comes across my field, I recognized the taste of it in my head. Vampire. It not taste like Cullens or Denali coven. This was someone new. It was a boy, his glowy stuff tastes male. But....there was something odd about this one. He was special, like Ed-Ed special or Alice special. I tried to focus more of my power on him, gets a better reads on him but it was like something about him repelled my senses.
I than realized with a start he got through my shield! How is he getting through shield, he should not be doing that! Me try and focus on him but the more me try and do it the more I felt sick. It like mind and senses know he is there but not wanting to know he is there. Stomach start to hurt with disgust so me do only thing me can do now.
“Leah! Leah wakes ups!”
“Huh, what’s wrong?” Leah asked dark purple spots in her aura. Dark purple is tired.
“Vampire is coming!”
She woke up, dark purple vanished. “What where?”
“He get past shield and is coming here!”
“Shit, where is he?”
“Me not know, me just sense him get past web, me not know where he is now.”
“Web, what web?”
There be sound in the woods, we both hear it. Shuffling of feet on ground, someone walking towards us. Acting quick me radiate panic, fear, uncertainty, and focus on where the thing is coming from. Me feel the strands wrap around him, me feel the panic, fear and uncertainty wrap around him and me feel it take root and force him to flee.
“It okay, me make him go away,” me said.
“Stay here,” she said.
She got up and left me in her room, me listen to her walk outside and into the woods. Me hear her sniffing the air. Than me hear her come back inside and into the room. “He got close to the house. Matthew what was this about a web?”
Me looked down guiltily.
“Well me want to protect you at night like how you protect me in the day so when you sleep me make web of emotions to keep people from finding us.”
“You can do that? Cloak an entire area?”
“Me not make it too big, just one mile around house, even animals avoid us, you not notice no birds or crickets or other animals?”
“Now that you mention it...but then why did this vampire get through?”
She not chastise me for staying up so me not going to give her chance too.
“Well he is special like some of the Cullens. He is being like Jasper and me....but...he has very specific flavor.”
“What do you mean?”
“Jasper and me work with many flavors of emotions. But this one he only use one in particular, one strong emotion.”
“What emotion?”
“Repulsion.”
“Repulsion?”
“That how he got through, web made to repulse things, but his power repulse too.”
“So it's like two magnets with the same polarity, they repulse one another. So maybe his power and your...web canceled one another out.”
Me not knowing what polarities are, but if it help her understand okay.
“He really strong Leah. Me tried to focus on him but his power...it made me not want to. It was like the more I tried to focus on him the more it made me physically ill. It like he have aura that makes you repulsed just to be near him.”
She sat down on the bed and put an arm around me. Me lean in close to her, taking comfort in her touch.
“Can you modify your web to counteract his power?”
“Yes, me know flavor of repulsion he is having, me know recipe to make him stay away.”
“Good, I want you to do it. Right now.”
I did as she wanted; I focus on web and add a little stronger does of fear and doubt and much more dose of apathy. That should be keeping him away.
“It is being done,” I said.
“Good.” she look at clock and groaned. “Five in the morning. Might as well get up. Now we are going to have a little talk later about you staying up all night later young man.”
darns it, me hoping she forget.
We got up and got our showers. I kept the web up a little longer than I usually do, keeping watchful eye for anything that try and get close in case vampire man comes back.
We not hear or see anything about vampire man. Me not to worried about him, what me able to sense from him me know he not being a threat, he was being curious. Me not know what he curious about. But somehow we drew his attention, me wonder how.
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Leah P.O.V
My nerves are shot. Some Leech is prowling around and had it not been for Matthew I would not have known it.
I was glad I learned about this web thing he can do, that will make things so much easier in the future.
I was watching the morning news when I got a hint about the said vampire.
“Another missing persons case has been reported, this brings the total people to have disappeared from Riley park to a total of five. Authorities have not released any news of suspects or any other info about the investigation. For the past two years the once peaceful Riley park has become a place of dread for the locals due to the alarming increased rate of disappearances.”
Riley Park? That is like forty-five minutes from here.
“Matthew, let’s go to the park.”
I dressed in a pair of jeans and a white shirt and dressed Matthew up. I brought a small ball and we drove over to the park. It seemed to be too coincidental. Disappearances increase and the night before a vampire comes close to my house. Very coincidental indeed.
The park was like any other. I found a parking spot and we got out and the sun was out. Matthew's skin glowed. I could notice it more than a human because my eyes were much better than a human’s. Matthew held the ball, slightly tossing it in the air then catching it.
We were trying to blend in, a mother taking her son out for a nice walk in the park.
We walked around for little more than an hour, I was beginning to think there was no connection between the vampire from last night and these disappearances. Then I caught it. The scent of vampire. It was hours old but it was there and it was the same one from last night.
“Leah, I am smelling vampire,” Mathew said sniffing the air.
“Me too, it is the one from last night.”
“We are being followed.”
“What? I don't smell anyone.”
“Because you don't want to smell anyone Leah.”
“What?”
“Leah remember when Matthew said he has the power to repulse?”
“Yeah.”
“Well he can make you repulsed by the idea of him. He can make himself invisible because he makes himself so repulsive the senses just glaze over him.”
A horrible thought crossed my mind. “Matthew....is he watching us now?”
“Yes.”
Shit!
“Me notice him a while ago. Me sense him, me remember his taste.”
I looked around, there were a lot of trees but they weren't to close to one another. Plus the sun was out and if he was in the sunlight surely I would notice him sparkling. But Matthew said he can make himself so repulsive the senses just go right over him. Could he be in the sunlight behind us right now and his power keeps me from seeing him?
Could he be walking up to me right now ready to snap my neck?
I quickly looked behind and saw nothing. Is this how he got his victims, made them not see him before he plunged his teeth into they're necks.
“Leah be calm, he is not meaning harm.”
“I thought you had trouble sensing him?” I asked.
“Me do, but I can study him for a few seconds, than me look away.”
“What do you mean he is not meaning harm?”
“From what me see he is curious, cautious, watchful. He is studying us. But I sense no intent to harm or hurt. He knows of us and he wishes to learn more about us.”
“He must have caught our scent in the woods,” I said.
We would go out in the woods sometimes. Just to walk or to hunt animals. I helped Matthew hunt but I did not partake in the kill, I had the money for nice normal human food. This vamp must have been passing through one night and caught our scents. We did go for a little hunt earlier that night so it was possible he caught our scents when they were still fresh.
“Leah, human is coming from the front.”
I could hear the human. I caught sight of him; he looked like a park ranger.
“Quick, toss me the ball,” I said.
We spaced out from one another and began to toss the ball. The ranger got closer and I saw we caught his attention. “Excuse me,” he called.
We stopped playing and turned to the ranger. “Yes, is something the matter?” I asked.
He walked up to us and looked at the both of us. “I hate to be a bother but you should not be alone.”
“Why?”
“Are you new to the area?”
“Yes.”
“Well I am afraid there have been some disappearances around the park as of late. You should have another with you, it is not safe for a woman and her...son?” he made it a question.
“Son,” I said.
“Yes a woman and her son to be all alone in the park, even during the day.”
I smiled flirtatiously at him. “And you figured a nice young strapping young man like yourself would help keep an eye on us?”
He blushed a little and he smiled. “Well there world is a dangerous place, especially for a pretty woman.”
Matthew growled low in his throat and glared at the man. I got a little worried then, the hair on the back of my neck stood up at that sound. It was the sound of a predator.
The ranger ruffled Matthew's hair affectionately unaware of the danger he was in. Matthew did not look impressed about the hair ruffling.
“And what is your name son?”
“Me is being called Matthew and me is not being your son. Me is thinking you have duties to perform and you should leave us alone and go do them nows.”
The ranger got a glazed over look in his eyes. “You are right, pleasure to meet you both, carry on.”
He turned and walked away. I waited until he was out of ear shot before I turned on Matthew. “That was not right Matthew,” I said sternly.
“Me not like him, he getting soft pink feelings for you. We are having no time for soft pink, we have vampire following us to worry abouts.”
It sounded logical, but I could not help but notice the slight tinge of jealousy in his voice.
“Where is he?” I asked
He closed his eyes and focused. “Behind us, he is keeping his distance.” he got this disgusted look on his face. “Makes me sick trying to focus on him.”
I tried to think of what to do. The vampire knew about us and was now following us. It didn't matter where we went he would follow. Plus he was the one going around and killing people. Both my human instincts and my wolf instincts agreed on one thing. He had to die.
He was a threat to both us and the humans in the area. I may not be a part of a pack anymore but I am still a werewolf and my nature demands I end any vampire who was a threat.
This was duty, this was survival. But I was all alone, I had no idea how I was going to kill this fucker, had I had help, another wolf or two I had a better chance. Killing a newborn was easy, they were wild, unfocused, controlled by their emotions. Easy to kill if you are an experienced wolf.
But for all I knew this leech was years old and experienced, plus add in his repulsive power and I was in for a world of hurt. Should I call Jake and the others? But if I did that I would reveal our hiding place and we would have to run again. Jake wouldn't tell but Seth would know and I didn't want him to know because he would think about me and then Quil and Embry would know and sooner or later someone would slip and Sam would find out.
Plus if Seth knew where I was and mom found out...I did not want Seth watching mom mope about me being gone knowing he knew where I was, that would be cruel.
But I was not alone...I had Matthew. I have seen Matthew's power, he brought two covens and two packs down with a single twitch of his eye. Surely he could make a vampire paralyzed long enough for me to finish him off.
But my conscious kicked in. He was just a child; I was trying to teach him to be more civilized and what not. I doubt having him help me kill someone even if it was a vampire.
“I think we should kill him Leah,” Matthew said.
His response was so sudden and in tune with what I was thinking it startled me.
“What?”
He looked at me as if we were disusing who would win the next football game. “Let's kill him, I will draw him out with my power than freeze him and you can finish him off tonight.”
“Matthew...that is a good idea but...I mean.”
It was a very good idea, yet it seemed so wrong to use him to help me kill. I know he has killed before but still.
“Leah he is a danger, dangers must be eliminated. But me is having a request.”
“Okay. What?”
“Before we kill him...can we talk to him?”
“What?”
“Well he seem nice, he not try and hurt us, he just watch us, I sense his curiosity, he is also cautious, tinge of worried too. He is a little threatened by us.”
“You sense this?”
“When I look at him yes. Me know he not bad, or liking hurted people. He curious about us and worries we might hurt him so he follows and watches. Me sense he not bad so me not feeling right about killing him out right. Me want talk first, see if we work out understanding, he stay on his side, we stay on our side.”
“Matthew, he is killing people, I kill vampires who kill people, it is in my nature.”
He looked at the ground, his face dropped a little. “You not kill me when me attack scar face.”
Scar face? He must mean Emily. Well shit he had me there, plus he had killed a load of other people.
“You are different, you only drink animal blood now.”
“Please Leah, me hide you and draw him out, you watch and listen he try and hurted me we kill him. Plus we can show him animal blood is good for us too. We can make him yellow like Cullens and Alaskans. Plus he could be a useful friend. You make treaties with Cullens and they turn out useful and nice.”
Okay, he may have a dozen screws loose but obviously he has a sharp mind. His plan was perfect. Plus he was giving me the puppy dog look, fuck I hate that look.
“Okay,” I said.
“Yippe!” he said throwing his arms in the air.
“But we have to wait until it is dark out, that way no humans can see us or interrupt us,” I said.
“Okay.”
“But if he even so much as bares his teeth at you he is dead, agreed?”
“Agreed.”
“Okay, so since we have eight hours to kill let’s play some more ball.”
We played ball a few hours, than we took a little walk, than we rested under some trees. I told him some more stories. We met a few more guards and Matthew used his power to make them go away. Normally I did not like that but I did not want any distractions. Soon night began to fall and we watched the setting sun.
I was nervous, Matthew I knew could tell I was nervous but made no comment. Soon the stars began to appear, and the sun set and the moon came out in half her glory.
“Ready?” I asked.
“Ready,” he said.
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Matthew P.O.V
We go deep in park, where we least likely to be seen.
Matthew sense vampire on edge of mind. Vampire must not knowing me is knowing he is here. Me sense hims still following us. Me not able to pay attention to him for long, then me feel yucky.
He keep distance though, not to close, but close enough he can follow us.
We go over plan few more times and Leah head of. Me feel her phase, feel the anger at core of her being flow out. Me know she hiding in the dark, me know she is keeping watch. Me think sound of beating heart will distract vampire from sound of hers.
Me weave web and cloak us so no humans interfere. Like with home they subconsciously avoid certain area, not paying it no mind. Not needing or wanting to know.
Me focus and reach around vampire, this really tough, his power makes me ill. Me want gag on taste of power. But that is what it is, it repels. Me think it good shield, you so repulsed by disgust you keep away, you not want to even think about. Me make sure to make notes on exact recipe of this repulsion. It sure come in handy.
Me focus on vampire and increase curiosity and desire to learn more, me squish fear and caution and add courage. It work, me feel him coming. Me stand ready and waiting.
Vampire appear. Me not able to look at him, me look away, he be disgusting for me to look at. But me know it his power. It make him seem repulsive, it illusion of mind. You think it there but it not. The more me try to notice the more disgust grow so me just kind of stare at his feet and disgust slowly fade.
Me know he can increase disgust. He can make me so disgusted me run and hide, me sensing he that strong.
“Hello, me is being Matthew, who you being?” I asked.
He say nothing at first, me sense tension and unease, and curiousness, he is sensing something is wrong. He must be wondering where Leah is.
Finally he answer me, giving his name. “Fred, my name is Fred.”

Fusedtwilight: HA HA HA HA HA, I bet none of you saw that coming. That's right people, freaky Fred is in the house! I never intended to have him in the story until I read the short second life of bree tanner, I just had to have him in a story of mine. After I post this fic I will post the story under the Fred category. So how will things work out with Fred? Will he be a blessing? Or a curse?
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