Title: Silent Ripples in Clear Water
Author: lily
Pairings: Leah/Sam, Sam/Emily and slight, implied Bella/Jacob
Rating: PG13
Spoilers: using details learned from Eclipse but set during Twilight, when the Cullens first arrived and Sam transformed for the first time.
Summary: Time had never been their problem, it was always about space. Like the space between them that grew too large until his affections shifted irrevocably. Then it wasn’t about anything anymore.Word Count: 2,200+
Author's Notes: Dudes, I love Leah, wholly and unabashedly. She's the most tragic figure ever and gets the worst rap in the whole series. She's painted by a gossip-happy Edward and a mourning Jacob to be evil, but neither of these character depictions is given to us by a narrator with a clear, un-biased mind. The idea of female werewolves as better trackers/heightened senses of smells is stolen from "Bitten" by Kelly Armstrong which beats the pants off Twilight (except in the love-triangle-angst-of-d00m department) and everyone should READ IT.
( They stared at each other until her body betrayed her with a shiver and he turned to return noiselessly to his own burden of guilt - the two women he had ripped to shreds with his inhumanity. )