The Brother I Never Knew

The Brother I Never Knew

Chapter 33

fusedtwilight: Here is a new chapter, things really begin to heat up now.

Leah P.O.V

Seth was a dead man.

After Charlies we headed for the Cullen's. I needed to talk to Carisle about helping Jamie. Seth tagged along but I figured he wanted to hang out with the Cullen's as usual. He was still mad at me, he never spoke a word as we drove over. I didn't try and talk to him, I would let him blow off some steam as we drove there.

We got there and Seth ignored me and headed inside. I let him do his thing and looked for Carisle, I found him in his study going over some papers.

I told him about Jamie and his condition and all the rules he had broken. Carilse being the doctor he was, was fascinated with the concept of a sociopathic werewolf. We talked for like an hour. We discussed the best way to deal with him. Carisle wanted to save the medication for last.

He thought Jasper and Edward would be our best bets at tackling the issue. I wasn't sure if Jamie would be willing to talk to so many people about his condition. But I had to try. Maybe we could come to some kind of compromise.

But I thought Jamie would go for it, there was something about him that struck me as having a curious nature, I noticed he would get this looking his eye. If he found something that interested him he would study it, observe it. I saw he did it with people, like he was studying there habits, trying to learn something from them.

Of course vampires would be interesting to him, something knew to learn and dissect. I can so totally see him and Carisle hanging out in a lab as research buddy's. I wonder what his plans for the future are? Just because he's a wolf doesn't mean he can't have a carrier. I think his cold demeanor would help make him a good doctor in a way.

After I talked to Carisle I decided to find Jake. But I didn't have to go far, he came to me.

I was walking out of Carisle's study, wondering how I was going to convince Sam to let Jamie see vampires for help when Jake came walking towards me. He looked pissed.

Great what did I do this time? I haven't said or done anything to piss anyone off lately...I think.

"Leah, whats this I hear off you deciding to go vigilante?" Jake asked.

I was puzzled for a moment then I realized he was talking about my deal with Jamie. There was only one person who could have told him.

"SETH!"

Sam P.O.V

I was at home with Alex and Ashley.

Alex was now a female werewolf, Leah was no longer the only one. The day after she was attacked she phased. I was surprised, we all were. There was no records of someone phasing from a blood transfusion.

But lately there were all kinds of records being made for the tribe. Our unusual numbers, Leah, the pups, Jamie, now Alex.

She was no different from the rest of us, except she was going through some growing pains right now, the growth increase we get over time was happening quickly for her. Her body was growing faster then she could handle so she was in quiet a bit of pain.

Ashley was still a bit traumatized from the whole incident, but with our help she had recovered nicely. She was still shaky about the whole wolf situation. Emily and the other imprints have been helping her adjust.

Emily had to go to Port Angeles to inspect some potential bride's maids dresses at a shop there. They cost a pretty penny. But the pack had chipped in to help pay, so it was all okay. Jamie went with her, he was still grounded but Emily might need a hand lifting some things. Three other of my pack brothers went with.

They were some of the younger wolves who phased when the Cullen's had there vampire friends over to help with those Italian vampires. The thought we allowed such a large number of human eating vampires in Forks and let them all go still makes me sick. Especially knowing we had to allow them to go out and kill to sate their thirst. The thought of all the humans who were lost still haunts me.

I was surprised Bobby and the others wanted to go help Emily. They were boys and young, they didn't strike me as the type to want to go look at dresses. I figured they wanted to go to Port Angeles and decided to hitch a ride with Em. I wasn't bothered, the more wolves she had to protect her the better.

"Damn it Sam!" Alex cursed.

"Is it your bones?" I asked her.

"Yeah, I can't take any pills for it because this freaky new metabolism makes me resistant to medication. Feels like my muscles are on fire."

"I'm sorry, if I had known this would happen I would have had someone else give blood to you," I said.

"Don't be," She said patting my hand, her temperature wasn't as hot as ours yet, but it was getting there. "I needed blood then and there, besides once I'm fully settled into this thing I'm sure I'll stop bitching about it."

I smiled. I could count on Alex to be strong, growing up together she had always been tough, a bit pushy, but a good person.

"Now tell me more about your new bro," She said.

Ashley flinched at the mention of Jamie. She was still quit fearful of him, something about him scared her, I don't blame her for being scared. I wish Jamie would just give in to the imprint, they would both be so much happier.

"I told you, my father had an affair with another woman, got her pregnant and dumped her with him. Then sixteen years later she leaves him on his own and he tracks me down to live with. I never knew I had a brother, I sometimes wondered, Joshua was known to sleep around and I sometimes wondered if he ever knocked someone up, guess I was right."

Alex made a disgusted face. "I never did like him, why your mom, my aunt ever hooked up with that dick is beyond me, all he ever did was sit on his ass, get drunk and treat her like property while he slept with other women. Now your stuck with this little freak and he goes and disses you after you let him stay in your home." She shook her head.

"Jamie is...difficult yes, but he didn't have a stable life, I want to help him but I am afraid he may be to far gone for that. I can't get through to him," I said.

"How about a nice kick to the ass?" She suggested and I smiled.

"He can't be all bad," Ashley said. "Maybe he just needs a friend."

"More like a bottle of pills to fix him in the head," Alex muttered.

"Or he needs to accept his imprint," I said.

"No, I don't want him anywhere near Ashley," Alex said with a growl.

"There isn't a lot of choice in the matter Alex, Jamie has imprinted on her and weather he likes it or not he has a responsibility to her now. Jamie must accept it," I said.

"And what about Ashley? You think she wants to be stuck with him for the rest of her life?"

"Just because she has been imprinted on doesn't mean she doesn't have a choice. And imprinter will be what ever their imprint wants, a lover, a brother, a friend. I believe if we can get Jamie to stop fighting it he will be much happier. Imprinting can do that, it makes everyone happier."

"Even if I allow this to happen how are you going to get that to happen?" She asked.

"Leave that to me, please Alex, he's my brother, I have to help him."

She thought for a second, her face set in a frown. "What does Emily think?"

"Me and Emily have discussed this a lot, but she doesn't want top force him into anything. She thinks if he has a choice he should be allowed to choose."

"Isn't that the right thing?"

"Not when it's hurting him. He fights it every day Alex. Sometimes I see him and I see he gets this pained expression on his face, he turns pale, he sweats a little. Fighting the imprint is supposed to be impossible, but his condition complicates things. It's taking it's tool on him, and I fear what it could do to him both physically and mentally if he continues putting so much energy into fighting it."

"What do you think?" Alex asked Ashley.

Ashley looked nervous, we were asking her to do a lot. She was afraid of Jamie but she wanted to help. "I don't know about this imprinting thing, but if I can help then I will," She said.

"Thank you, both of you," I said.

Leah P.O.V

"What the hell are you thinking Leah?" Jake asked.

We were out in the woods, Jake had decided we needed to talk in private away from prying ears.

"First you make a deal with Jamie who was using drugs, then you abuse your authority by ordering Seth to not tell Charlie, and you lied to him just to protect Jamie. Give me a good reason why I shouldn't demote you right now?"

"Because I haven't done anything wrong, and if you give me a moment I will explain," I said.

"Explain then," He said crossing his arms.

"Jamie agreed to help me get names of the drug dealers and get professional help from Carisle for his condition, I first asked Seth not to tell Charlie about Jamie, but when Charlie started to throw a bitch fit about me not telling him about who my informant was Seth tried to spill the beans, ordering him was the only choice I had. If Jamie found out that Charlie knew he took drugs he would have never told me who the dealers were and we never would have found them. I'm sure he told you about the party last night?"

"Yes he did."

"Then you should understand the importance of this Jake, how long before that shit came to La Push? I made a deal with Jamie and he has kept his part of it, he is finding out the names and the locations and telling me so I can tell Charlie so he can handle it, and Seth almost ruined it because he doesn't like him."

"Regardless you shouldn't even be working with him, you should be working with us, your pack."

"And what are we going to do? If we start asking those kids were they got the drugs they won't tell us, Jamie is the only one who can find out for us quick enough so we can nail those bastards. He has agreed to no longer take drugs and see's Carisle, what have I done wrong Jake? I'm trying to help the kid because he needs a ton of it, I'm trying to keep the drugs away from our home, so yes I made a deal, yes I should have come to you first but I felt I could handle it and I was planing on telling you because I will need your help in convincing Sam to let the Cullen's help with Jamie, and yes I had to use my power as beta to keep Seth from fucking everything up."

We said nothing. Jake closed his eyes, I had no idea what he was thinking. Finally he opened his eyes and they were the same kind of eyes Billy gets when he goes all wise and chief like.

"I don't blame you for doing what you did Leah, but you should have let me now, you should have told Sam. Jamie is his responsibility and if he is doing drugs and breaking curfew then Sam needs to know. And as for this deal you made with Jamie it wasn't very smart, he's a sociopath Leah, what do you think he is going to do to get this information?"

"He said he wasn't going to torture anyone," I said.

"Was he specific? Did he say he wouldn't torture anyone or someone specific?"

"...Someone specific."

"A man was found in the woods today, he had been badly beaten. He said four men from La Push beat the hell out of him, broken ribs, broken leg, broken wrist. When he was asked why they did it he wouldn't say. Turns out the man has a history of dealing drugs. Tell me Leah who do you think did that?" He asked.

I was frozen in shock. I remember the call Jamie made when I was at Charlies. Was he then torturing some guy just to get info for me?

"We both know it was Jamie Leah, and what's worse is he wasn't alone, he had three others with him, they had to have been from Sam's pack. We now have renegade wolves running around and torturing people."

I rubbed my head with my hand. Shit he was right, only Jamie would do something like that, only Jamie could convince others to help him in his quest, he could be very persuasive. And it was all my fault, I trusted him to do things simple and clean, instead he was making a royal mess and getting others involved with it too.

"Fuck!" I shouted.

I grabbed my cell phone and dialed his number.

"Who are you calling?" Jake asked.

"Jamie who else."

The phone rang four times before he answered. "Hell-

"You little shit! When I get my hands on you I'm gonna kill you!"

"What did I do this time?" He asked.

I told him about the man being found in the woods, I told him Jake knew everything.

"Hmm, so he made it out alive?"

"You ass! I stick my neck out for you and I stick it far and this is what you do?"

"I was trying to get you your names as per our deal Leah," He said calmly.

"You had three other wolves help you, three others to help you torture a man."

"Actually they didn't help they just watched, they didn't have the stomach for it I'm afraid. But they are more then helpful when it comes to tracking."

I froze. "What does that mean?"

"I am in Port Angeles with Emily, those three offered to come to help Emily carry her bags and she allowed them to come. I convinced her I was trying to make friends, which is technically true, hunting down criminals is good male bonding."

"Don't you involve her with this you psycho!" I seethed. I wouldn't be able to bear it if anything happened to Emily. There was s till a part of me that cared for her after all.

"Oh yes like I'm going to use Emily to fight crime, maybe while were at the bridal shop we'll see if they make superhero costumes and get one for Emily, make our own team of heroes. Please Leah don't be overly dramatic. I'm with Emily while she picks out the brides maid gowns, the other three are hunting down the dealers in port and are going to convince them to leave the area. I'm sure they won't torture them, maybe rough them up but nothing more."

"Brides gowns?" I asked confused.

"I didn't want to tell you, I knew the reminder your going to be the maid of honor would still sting, but if I'm going to catch shit for the job you sent me to do then forget it."

I felt that familiar anger begin to course it's way through my body. I wasn't mad at him, I was mad at myself, he was right, I'm the one who unleashed him. It was my fault that man was hurt, he may have been a drug dealer but torture isn't what we do. Were not monsters, for the most part.

I put the phone on loud speaker so Jake could join.

"Jamie this is Jacob Black."

"Hello Jacob, I am sorry if my activities have put a strain between you and Leah," Jamie said smoothly.

"I want you to stop what your doing Jamie now."

"Your not my Alpha Jake, I don't take orders from you," Jamie said coldly.

"Watch it kid, stop what your doing now," Jake said firmly.

"Or else what? You'll tell Sam. I'll make you a deal, you say you won't tell Sam about my drugs or the torture bit and I'll call the three off right now."

"No deal, you have over stepped your bounds, you are supposed to protect La Push."

"I am protecting La Push, by taking care of the dealers I keep their drugs away from the tribe."

"Let the police deal with it this is a human matter, let humans deal with it."

Jamie said nothing for a few seconds. "I'm willing to make a deal, I give you the names I have learned and I won't seek them out myself or with the others, that way you can give the names to Chief Swan and let humans deal with it. And in return you do not tell Sam."

"And why shouldn't we?" I asked.

"So nice to hear you again Leah, and the answer is without the names you have dick."

"We'll tell Sam everything," I threatened.

"And you still won't have the names."

"You selfish bastard, what about all the lives that will be ruined? All the people who will become addicted, or die by overdosing!"

"Not my problem, it's their own fault for doing it in the first p;ace, they know the risks and yet they still do it."

"But can you live knowing you could have helped save lives but didn't?" Jake asked.

"Yes." The answer was simple. No emotion, no signs of deceit.

"I never should have trusted you," I growled.

"I kept my word Leah, I did what I had to in order to stop the drugs. So what if I scare a few dealers, their like vampires in a way, they feed of the lives of their customers, taking their lives without thought or care."

"We kill vampires Jamie but we don't torture," Jake said.

"Regardless, I can live without giving you the names. And if you tell Sam then you have nothing to use against me. The question is can you live knowing you could have made a deal with me and got the names? Whats a little silence worth to human life?"

Damn this bastard! He knew we wanted those names.

I looked at Jake and he looked angry, he knew Jamie had us by the balls. We needed those names, we were playing poker and we had no face or cards. The ball was in his court.

"Leah what do you think?" Jake asked.

"I think I should have turned you into Sam last night!" I said to the phone.

Jamie said nothing at first, I thought he had hanged up after a while. "I don't do this because I enjoy it Leah, I did it because I wanted to help. I just wasn't squeamish with doing some dirty work is all."

I looked at Jake. "Can I make a deal with him?"

He nodded.

"Alright here it is, give us the names of the dealers, but don't hurt them. We are going to tell Charlie, then we tell Sam to keep an eye out for drugs. You will see Carisle for help, anything he says you do got it?"

"Sure."

"I mean it, if he tells you to talk you talk, I want to see you put some effort into this Jamie, you screwed me over once already. And if you ever pull any shit like this again I will not hesitate to tell Sam, you got me?"

"I agree to your terms. I will get a hold of the others and call them off, I wonder though how will you convince Sam to let the vampires examine me?"

"You leave that to me."

Very well, oh and Leah by the way, I think the dress Emily picked for you will match your eyes wonderfully." He hanged up.

"MOTHERFUCKER!" I yelled.

I threw my phone at a tree and it smashed into a dozen pieces.

"I trusted him! I thought he would just get some names, not go all vigilante, damn it!"

Jake put an arm on my shoulder to calm me down. "At least we stopped him before he could do any more damage."

"I made a fool out of myself Jake, and I put people in danger. You should demote me, I don't deserve to be the beta," I said.

"You made a mistake Leah, a big one, but as long as you learned from it then it is okay. At least we can give the names to Charlie."

Some victory. But he was right about one thing, I did learn from this. I learned to never ever trust a Uley again for as long as I live.

There all nothing but a bunch of lying, deceitful bastards. Like father, like brother, like son.

Fusedtwilight: What will happen next? Keep an eye on Alex is all i'm going to say, please review.