Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Blood And Steel

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 15:

“So Jasper made the call?” Webb asked. The team was told to assemble thirty minutes before the scheduled meeting with the pack by Connolly. Most of the team was assembled. The two sword carrying super heroines were not present.

“Yeah he did. Edward Cullen has been notified that Bella is back in Forks.” Connolly confirmed. “Vivian traced the call to the Denali area of Alaska. According to Hale or Whitlock or whatever fucking name he is using this week, there is a coven of Succubi that Edward likes to visit. We have satellites tracking his progress now and Vivian hacked into the GPS in his car. He still drives a Volvo if you can believe that shit.”

“Where are Bella and Winter? Shouldn’t they be here?” Clive asked.

“Winter is desperately trying to track Leah Clearwater in the woods, who ran off apparently because of an imprint and Bella has decided to play mechanic with her old friend Jake.” Connolly said, a bit annoyed.

“You could have called them in.” Webb pointed out.

“They aren’t needed for this discussion.” Jason said shortly. He was more than a bit annoyed.

“Okay. So what is this discussion?” Clive asked.

“Webb has pointed out to me many times that there are too many alphas on this team. There is a reason for this. I was told by the President to not just assemble a team to fight abnormal enemies. I was also told to find men who could lead their own teams. We can’t rely on back up from shape shifting wolves and four vampires forever. Okay maybe the vampires forever but not the wolves.”

“So everyone here will have their own team?” Webb asked.

“Most of you. Clive will assemble a team in the UK of SAS soldiers he selects. Mina will be running an intelligence agency devoted to supernatural threats made up of those she selects from the CIA, Mossad and the UK Intelligence agencies including the NSA and British Signals agency to handle the technical aspects. Vampires will be hunted worldwide and destroyed. Any other enemies we find out about including Lycans in Europe and Asia will be dealt with as well. From what we learned at Groom they are tough bastards if they still exist. I believe they do. Looking at some of the losses we have sustained over the past ten years in the wilds of Siberia and the Ukraine, I am less convinced that those teams were lost and never seen again because of conventional enemies. Our job is to find any supernatural enemy in the world who present a danger to the US or our allies and exterminate them. I want each of you to begin thinking of personnel for your teams. I will make final decisions if some of you want the same guys. Look at recent graduates from Coronado and any other special forces, even Army, as well as experienced operators. We can’t gut the teams in the field completely and leave them without experienced leaders. Take a look at Army guys. If I can accept King and Brody the rest of us can as well.” Connolly finished with a wink.

“So Hawk is getting a team?” Dante asked.

“No.” Connolly said quickly.

“Why not?” Hawk asked.

“Because you’re insane.” Jason told him bluntly.

“Fair enough. I’m more interested in blowing shit up than managing the details anyway.”

“Also look for Marine snipers, and those with flight experience.” Connolly added on.

“Speaking of, you think we could get some help now?” Dante asked.

“Why? The less people that know about this unit the better, for the time being.”

Ty felt the need to speak at this time. “I hate to disagree with you Jay but he has a point. Brody only flew warthogs for a year. He sucks at flying the most technically advanced aircraft in human history.”

“Hey I got you here didn’t I?” Brody asked, offended. He then turned to Connolly. “He’s right though. I do suck.”

Dante also had problems with the current arrangement.

“Yeah I gotta agree, Connolly. I signed up to fight, not be a bus driver. Why don’t you go out to Miramar and find some Navy pilots? At least get some Marines who can fly harriers. Those damn things are beyond me and I have had the most time with them. You brought me here to fight on the ground. Let me fight on the ground.”

“What about Air force?” King asked.

The Seals in the group quickly disagreed. Ty explained the problem.

“No way man. We may need conventional fighters that can land on carriers. You ever seen an Air force pilot land on a carrier? Damn deck crew is scared to go out there. Navy pilots are the best in the world.”

“Bullshit.” King responded.

“Ty is right. The Navy is the best for what we are looking for. I will start looking at some recent Top Gun grads. See what we got.” Connolly told the team.

“That was a great fucking movie.” Brody admitted, hating to give the Navy any credit for anything, even a movie.

“Yeah but it I felt bad when Iceman died. Breakin your neck on a canopy has to suck.”

The team stared at Ty, except for Connolly who had his head in his hands.

“What?”

“That was Goose who broke his neck. Iceman was the one who won the Top Gun trophy.” Connolly clarified.

“You sure?”

A chorus of yes rose from the team.

“I knew that and I’m not even American.” Mina told Ty.

“Man fuck it. I stopped watchin that movie after they showed that gay porn scene where they played beach volleyball. Looked like they all wanted to lay up on each other and shit.”

“Know a lot about gay porn Gavin?” Hawk asked.

“I will remind you one more time, you are the stupid fucker who said and I quote, I like it here, when discussing prison. From hell? You from Cleveland bitch. Sides if we are gonna talk about corny ass movies from my toddler days let’s talk about Navy Seals. That was the shit.”

“Yeah, I guess that makes Connolly, Michael Biehn.” Webb said smiling at Connolly. “Wasn’t Biehn the one that fell in love with that half Lebanese chick?”

“Fuck no. Connolly is Charlie Sheen in that movie. It’s only a matter of time before he gets his black sidekick shot and killed by some third world shit head.” King pointed out.

“He got you there LT… wait, what black sidekick?” Ty asked, realizing what King said.

“Don’t look at me. I’m half Cherokee.” Dante pointed out to Ty.

“Yeah well it’s the half of your ass that is black that Connolly is gonna get shot off. I’m too damn pretty to die. God did not make this perfect body to see it go down in some desert shithole.” Ty argued.

“Can we get back to business please?’ Jason half ordered and half begged.

“Aren’t you a little concerned old boy?”

“About what Clive?”

“You sent your lovely lady over to have a talk with her werewolf about his jealousy and she is still over there. Has been all morning. How many satellites are watching that little house right now?”

“Only one and they aren’t in the house. They are in some unattached garage. There was only one satellite in the area that had thermal.”

That brought silence.

“I’m kidding guys!”

“I wonder if Bella is going to clean up or come to this little gathering covered in motor oil.” Webb asked with a grin.

“Bigger question is if Winter is gonna show up covered in fur.”

“Shut up Ty.”

“That is so fuckin hot.” Hawk murmured.

“Yeah we all heard your thoughts on the subject. Those tents aren’t soundproof Hawk.” Webb pointed out.

“Back to business guys! Now!” Connolly yelled. The entire team was silent.

Until Ty started giggling.

“You so cute when you try to act all authoritative.” he told Connolly causing him to smile and the rest of the team to break out in laughter.

“Fuck you guys. Somebody toss me a beer.”

The wolf pack walked in ten minutes later led by Sam. Bella and Winter followed. By the look on Winter’s face he guessed she didn’t find Leah.

Leah walked in five minutes later and sat across the room from Winter not meeting her eyes.

“Shut up Webb.”

“Didn’t say a thing sir.”

“You didn’t have to. Bella I couldn’t bring your sword since your buddy was hiking in the forest and none of us can lift the damn thing. We are doing drill after this. You gonna be able to join us or you got a transmission to work on?”

Bella said nothing but anger did cloud her face. Jake spoke first.

“You are Jason Connolly right? We met briefly last night but I didn’t catch your name until Bella brought it up about every 60 seconds today. We were catching up. No need to be sarcastic. You like cars? Maybe you can come over and help us.”

“The only thing I need to know about cars is how to wire the bomb into the ignition system.” Connolly told him, meeting Jake’s eyes with a look that indicated he knew just the car to blow up.

“I stopped by Sam’s and grabbed my katana. It’s outside in Jake’s car so why don’t you chill the fuck out?” Bella suggested. “We were just catching up.”

“Go easy on him Bella. He’s never had a romantic relationship with anything besides a gun in his life.” Ty told her, trying to help.

“Let’s get on point. Sam thanks for coming. All of you, thank you. As you know we are here for two reasons. One is to take out the Cullens. The other and primary objective is to take out the largest and most feared coven in the vampire world. We plan to use Bella to draw them in.”

“How will they know Bella is here?”

“We will make one of the Cullen vampires call them. If they don’t cooperate we will get one of our vampires to do it. I would rather they be assumed dead though, or at least in the background as much as possible. I have no idea if the Volturi has anyone watching Forks for Bella or even if they know she isn’t with the Cullens any longer. From telephone calls we have listened to from Emmett Cullen’s phone it appears Carlisle has been holding off Aro, making him believe they are postponing Bella’s turning into one of those fuckers. Aro however is losing his patience. That leads us to believe that Aro wants Bella for some plan he is cookin up. I am about to share everything we know with you. This is top secret stuff. If you tell anyone what I am about to tell you I will tell everyone you turn into big fuckin wolves. So you guys ready to hear this?”

The wolves nodded.

An hour later they sat in silence trying to digest everything.

It was Paul LaHote who broke the silence.

“I hate to be the ass here. I’m kidding, I actually love it. Why the fuck should we help you go against these guys? They don’t want La Push. Sam, how many wars are we going to fight for her?” Paul asked Sam pointing at Bella.

“Paul…” Sam started. Connolly interrupted Sam before he could complete a sentence.

“You have to.”

“Excuse me? The government comes in here and tells us what we have to do? We aren’t your fucking soldiers.”

“You’re right Paul. But I know quite a bit about your pack, especially how important your imprints are. Isn’t that one of your sacred laws?”

“Yeah. What the hell does that have to do with anything?”

“Winter is an imprint. She isn’t going to stay back and be protected. That means if you want to protect your imprint you are going to fight with us. If you want to survive this fight you are going to listen to us and do your job.”

The wolves said nothing. Winter looked at the floor. Bella looked at Connolly, thinking she had the perfect place to store her sword.

“Who imprinted on her?” Seth asked, looking at the male wolves around him.

“I did.” Leah said with a sigh.

More silence.

“What? None of you knew? I thought you said this morning you planned to tell them Sam.”

“No Jason, I planned on speaking to Leah and seeing how she wanted to handle sharing this with the pack so they weren’t caught by surprise when she phased with the rest of us, which she has been avoiding for the past two weeks.”

“Oh.”

“You can be such an insensitive ass.” Bella told him and placed an arm around Winter’s shoulders.

“You’re right, I can. But it’s best to get this shit out in the open. We are all a team now. We need to get this stowed away and dealt with so we can all focus on the mission.”

Quil raised his hand.

“Can I ask a question?”

“No!” Sam, Jake and Embry answered simultaneously.

“Go ahead Quil.” Taking a verbal beating from Bella in front of everyone, Connolly felt he had nothing to lose.

“You said that Lycans are real. Aliens too. Has the government ever ran across zombies?”

Despite the groans from the pack something clicked for Connolly. He looked up and saw Bella had the same thought. For a moment she met his eyes and didn’t seem like she wanted to kill him.

“No… not yet.” Connolly admitted. “Okay, meeting is over. Team assemble at forwarding base and get ready for drills. We need to become familiar with this terrain. Bella and Winter I would appreciate it if you would hold back. I need to talk to the two of you.”

Everyone left the hall except the three.

“Seriously, you fucking asshole? You thought this was the place to bring up the imprint?!” Bella shouted once everyone was gone. “And what is this jealousy bullshit?”

Connolly realized being around the guys had definitely improved her cussing skills.

“We can talk about that later…”

“If you want to get laid in the near future we are going to talk about it now! Don’t think you can just go off with another woman either because I will cut your dick off!”

“Okay. I guess we can talk about it now. Winter will you give us a moment?”

“Fuck you Connolly.”

“Okay I guess we will have this discussion with Winter here. What do you want me to say Bella? I asked you to go talk with Jake, not spend the fucking day with him.”

“I’ll talk to anyone I damn well please for as long as I want. I’m not a soldier you can order around. I love you but if you think for one second I am putting up with another boyfriend with control issues again in this lifetime you are very wrong. I talked with Jake. He took you apparently a lot better than you are taking him. He isn’t a threat. I love you even though you can be a fucking idiot. Get your shit together.”

Connolly took a deep breath. Yes her cussin skills had gotten a helluva lot better. He needed to assess this situation and proceed with caution. He realized only one tactic was available to him.

“I’m sorry.” he said quietly.

“What was that? I didn’t hear you.”

“I said I was sorry.” Connolly said louder this time.

“I realize this is new to you. I’ve never had a healthy relationship where two people love each other as equals either. I would like to have one with you. You never acted like this before but it was just us. You didn’t have any perceived threats around. If you had any faith in me, you would know there are no threats anywhere.”

“I know.” Jason mumbled looking at the table top.

“You are going to apologize to Leah and Winter.”

“Why… okay.” he agreed after looking at Bella once more. “Winter I’m sorry.”

“Yeah you are. You are going to find Leah before you run any fucking drills and apologize. She was the one who was hurt.” Winter told him.

“And you are going to apologize to Jake.” Bella added on.

“For what?!”

“Being an asshole. Another thing, stop talking about our sex life to my Dad! I’m getting tired of this, Bella I’ve never had a relationship thing. Any idiot knows you don’t talk to a father about his daughter’s sex life. Save that John Wayne bullshit for the field and your boys club if you feel the need to brag. Not with my family. Use some fucking tact. Think before you talk. You think about everything else. Start using your head. The one on top of your neck if you are confused.”

“Okay.” Connolly agreed.

Life was easier in the Middle East.

But he didn’t have her. He wouldn’t trade it. He thought he could handle this but she was right. He was jealous of her old best friend and he did let his nerves get the better of him when meeting her father, leading to a complete lack of a verbal filter. Connolly realized this must be how Ty feels every day and felt a chill go down his spine.

“Can we talk about the zombies now? I need to talk to Chris and I thought you two should be in here.”

“What zombies?” Winter asked.

“Maybe no zombies. I’m not even sure if it’s possible but considering I am here planning to kill my girlfriend’s vampire ex and have jealousy issues over her werewolf friend I am willing to buy anything at this point.”

Connolly pulled his com from his pocket and placed it in his ear.

“Vivian? Get me Chris Jennings on the phone and open the conversation to Bella and Winter’s coms on secure frequency 4.”

“Ten four sir. That was a great ass chewing your girlfriend just gave you by the way.”

“How the hell did you hear that? Our coms were supposed to be off.”

“Bella and Winters weren’t. It’s important to stay in contact with me. They understand that. You should be jealous though. I’m looking at Jake’s abs right now. Damn he is gorgeous.”

“Vivian please get me in contact with Chris Jennings and then go get another piercing or tattoo. I have a few suggestions on body parts you can get pierced.”

“Sounds good. I wouldn’t mind coming up to Washington and getting imprinted on a few times.”

“Chris now!”

Connolly heard the phone ring. Chris picked up on the third ring.

“Hello?”

“Chris this is Connolly. I have Winter and Bella with me. Where are you?”

“Staying with the priest in New York while he tries to find some information about these archives. So far nothing. We probably should have killed his vampire friend.”

“Have a little faith Chris. He was a Seal. He will find out what we need to know.”

“Yeah. Faith is all I have right now. What can I do for you Jason?”

“Chris these demons and lost souls you are afraid of breaking down these doors, what is the worst they could do if they do get to the physical world?”

“What do you mean? It would be hell on earth.”

“Why?”

“Why?”

“Yeah. You mentioned demons can come through portals at certain times or be attached to certain objects leading to cases of possession. But it seems a bit farfetched to think these souls and demons are going to all find humans to possess. What would be the point?”

“I don’t know but… what are you getting at Jason? You don’t think this is a major threat?”

“I think it is a very major threat. Answer this for me. Can demons and souls possess dead bodies and bring them back to life?”

“No. I mean… it’s never happened before. At least not that I know of. What, I mean where would there be millions of bodies for these souls? They aren’t going to reanimate dead tissues from graveyards. Souls or ghosts if you will can’t do that. Demons can’t even do that.”

“I don’t know about millions but I have an idea who probably has a couple hundred. What about frozen tissue? Dead bodies with no blood kept inside some sort of cryogenic chamber? Could demons and souls inhabit those and bring them to some sort of life, even without blood?”

“It wouldn’t last long. The bodies would start to decay. They would only have so much time to live.”

“You sure?”

“No. You are thinking of the Volturi not burning bodies right? You think for the past year they have been keeping them for some reason involving the netherworld.”

“Yep.”

“How would they even know about that? Let me talk to Francis. I will have to look into it. I understand what you are thinking though. At this point anything could happen. They wouldn’t have millions of bodies but they could easily have hundreds or even a thousand. We really need to get into that castle and I need to find those archives. Bella, Winter, how are you two doing? You haven’t called me since you arrived.”

“Sorry Chris. Just been catching up with my Dad and old friends.” Bella told him.

“Winter are you okay?” Chris asked.

“Yeah Chris. Why?”

“Just wondering. Checkin on my girls. Bella how did your Dad take meeting your boyfriend?”

“He took it well, all things considered. Jason is obviously still alive.”

“Glad to hear it. As soon as I get the information we need, and check on my kids I will be there. Edward Cullen fallin into the trap?”

“Yep.” Bella told him, grinning for the first time tonight.

“Good. Happy hunting you two. If you need me call me anytime. Just ask that sweet Vivian girl to get you in touch with me.”

“We will Chris. Be careful.” Winter told him and ended the call.

“Sweet Vivian?”

“I like him, Connolly.” The voice on the com responded.

“I will be off coms for a minute. Text me if you need me.”

“Take all the time in the world. I will try to survive without your soft, calming voice in my ear constantly asking me if Bella has left Jake’s garage yet. Did you know there is a couch inside that thing? Have fun groveling.”

Connolly turned his com off while Bella sat across from him with her arms folded.

“I hate that bitch.” he whispered.

“You can apologize to Jake first. Winter needs to talk to Leah. I will go with you so you don’t act like you couldn’t find the place even though I’m sure you have the latitude and longitude memorized. I need to get my katana. Leave it to Jake to forget he has a mystical sword in the back of his car.”

“Will you come with me to talk to Leah, Bella?”

“No. This is between the two of you. Relax, give her a chance and follow your heart. You will be fine. I will see you at base when you are done. Take all the time you need.”

Ten minutes later Bella grabbed her sword out of the back of Jake’s car and began walking away.

“Where are you going?”

“I have to train. Take care of business and get back to base. If you are good I might give you another story to not tell my Dad this time.”

Bella walked off and Connolly watched her ass in her tight blue jeans until she walked into the trees and ran.

Fucking Mina. Life was easier when Bella hadn’t known her.

Taking a deep breath he walked up to the garage. Jake was there with his back to him. Connolly briefly thought about shooting him but the idea of never having sex again with Bella took that thought out of his mind quickly.

“I can hear your heartbeat no matter how quiet you are. I know your scent as well. How you doing Jason? Come to kill me?”

“No I didn’t and wait till I suit up and get our scent blocker on. You won’t hear, smell or see me. I promise you.”

“I believe you. So if you aren’t here to kill me why are you here?”

“Uh… to apologize. For the… you know?”

“Being a possessive asshole?” Jake helped.

“Yeah. Sorry.”

“That had to have hurt.”

“You have no idea. My last mission before I got called up to battle the undead, I got shot in the lower leg. Bullet went clean through but it tore the muscle off the bone. I had to duct tape my calve muscle and basically run on bone, kill some guys and climb some stairs. On the second floor I took a shot in the vest that cracked a rib. Then I placed my 20 pound body armor on a hostage and carried her out of the building at a run. She maybe weighed 120 pounds but that seemed like a lot of weight at the time. Point being I was in a lot of fucking pain. This hurt worse.”

” Bella tell you I got half my body crushed by a vampire?” Jake asked, finally turning to take Connolly in.

“Yep. You guys did good. Took some balls to work with an enemy to protect one girl.”

“Yeah, having half of my body crushed and having to rely on a leech for medical care didn’t hurt nearly as much as seeing her get into Sam’s truck and disappear. As far as the broken bones, she is worth it. She has you turned all around doesn’t she?”

“Yep. Believe me I wouldn’t be here if she didn’t.”

“I don’t doubt it. I fought with everything I had to win her but I couldn’t do it. When she left I thought I would never see her again. She said she was a mess when Chris found her and she was still a mess when you took her.”

“She wasn’t a mess. She just needed a kick in the ass to show her who she really was. You should have seen her and Winter in Mexico. Surrounded by vampires, hardly any light. Fuckers were at full strength. Only real light was the vampires’ burning bodies in the pit below that me and Gavin managed to shoot. But that light was enough for me to see those two. Bella saved me and Ty from some gifted vampire. She sliced off their legs by throwing her sword at them. She had to rely on Winter to watch her back until that blade went back to her. It was like watching a ballet of death.”

“I wish I could have seen that.” Jake admitted.

“I have a feeling before this is over you will see her kill a lot of vampires.”

“You don’t need to apologize. I know what jealousy is like, especially when it comes to her. You don’t have to be jealous. I got her to love me enough to stay alive. But that was all I was going to get. I have come to peace with that. I knew that no matter what, she was out there and she was alive. I also know that she is in love with you. Not that drug addicted love she had with Cullen. I could tell by the way she talked about you today.”

“Oh yeah? I figure you guys just talked about cars.”

“Bella doesn’t know shit about cars. She needed a little familiarity. It’s important to her I guess. She has been gone so long, it probably just felt good for her to live a bit of her past. That’s all it was.”

“Yeah, that’s what I figured too.” Connolly lied.

“Good job outing Leah today. Bella bitch you out about that too?”

“Yep.” Connolly admitted.

“That’s what I’m talking about. The Bella I knew wouldn’t have said anything. She hated conflict. What did you do to her?”

“Let three of my friends torture her for a week and then I took her on a camping trip to Death Valley for a couple weeks.”

“That would do it.” Jake admitted. “Should have thought of that myself. You want a beer? Got some in that fridge. Grab me one.”

“I should probably get back. I’m supposed to be leading my guys in training. We need to practice with the terrain.”

“Something tells me you guys could kill anything anywhere. Grab a beer and show me how to wire a bomb to an ignition system. I always wondered if it was as easy as the movies make it seem.”

“It actually takes about five minutes.” Connolly told him and grabbed two beers. “I suppose Webb can lead the drills. Pop open the engine and let’s see what you got under this 67 Mustang.”

“Thought you didn’t know cars.” Jake mentioned casually.

“I know enough. Just didn’t want to admit it.”

“Lie about women all you want. Never lie about cars Jason.”

“So do you think Charlie likes me?”

“I think he has probably figured out he can’t kill you so he is making the best of it.”

“That bad?”

“Nah. You will be alright. Should probably keep the sexual innuendos to yourself though.”

“Good advice.”

“Just take him shooting and let him fire some automatic weapons and he will be putty in your hands. Now show me how to be a terrorist.”

Two days later. Forks Washington.

Edward Cullen doubted Jasper when he received the news. After two years of hiding why would Bella come back to her father’s house. She had to know he was looking and probably had Charlie’s home watched. Perhaps she thought it would be the last place he would look for her or the wolves would protect her. It didn’t matter. This had gone on long enough. He would drain her to the point of death and force her to drink his blood. She would be a vampire whether she wanted it or not. As her sire, she would be completely under his control, just as he, Rose, Emmett and Esme were in Carlisle’s control. Jasper and Alice were the only wild cards in Carlisle’s carefully conceived clan, but Carlisle needed them. He needed a warrior of Jasper’s skill and the benefit of Alice’s ability to see the future was too good an opportunity to pass up. Plus Jasper had broken his sire’s hold just as Garrett had over Carlisle’s hold long ago. Carlisle was still bitter about that. Losing Garrett was another reason Carlisle needed Jasper.

Carlisle, Esme, Rose and Alice were waiting at the mansion. Waiting for Bella to arrive in Edward’s arms, screaming. He would not disappoint Carlisle. He would not disappoint himself. Having her blood nightly was a dream come true. To have her as his slave would be too good an opportunity to pass up. His mouth was practically watering at the prospect of this last opportunity to taste her blood. Rosalie was right. It was like a drug to him. A drug he would sorely miss.

Climbing the tree with ease, confident in the night, he peered into the window and saw her brown hair, face buried in the pillow. Edward found this strange. She always slept on her back. He supposed he could forgive her a bit of change. Hiding from him for so long must have been stressful.

He gently lifted the window. As usual she left it unlocked. Some habits were hard to break, Edward supposed.

He walked to the bed softly. With luck he would have her nearly drained before she ever woke.

Reaching out to brush her hair aside and give him access to her neck he realized something was wrong. Her heart beat calmly but her scent was barely there. He should have been saturated with it, this close to her.

“You don’t want to do that. She is a powerful ugly woman.”

Edward turned quickly and saw a large bald black man sitting in the rocking chair by Bella’s window. He had a rifle pointed at Edward.

Edward could not understand how he did not hear this man’s heartbeat or smell him. He then noticed the body armor on the man.

“That hurts Ty. I’m going to leave you if you don’t start treating me better.”

Edward turned back to the bed and saw the body was not Bella. Instead it was a man in a wig pointing a rifle at his chest.

“My name is Connolly. I know what you are thinking vampire. No way this rifle can hurt you, right?”

Edward stood in shock and looked back at the rifle. It did not appear to be a normal rifle but some sort of modified M 4.

“Where is Bella?” he asked the man, feeling his anger building.

“You will see her soon enough. First there is someone who wants to say hello.”

The door to Bella’s room was kicked open and Edward was faced with Charlie Swan holding a shotgun.

The shotgun was at Charlie’s waist. Edward prepared to take the gun and kill everyone in this room until the shotgun blast erupted. He felt the slug strike his crotch and doubled over in pain. His body was in the air, flying out the open window.

He struck the tree outside and hit the ground. Immediately his hands grabbed what used to be his dick. He screamed in pain and rolled on the ground. Looking up he saw the faces of the black man, the wigged man, and the smiling face of Charlie Swan looking down from the window at him.

“Nice shot Charlie.” The white man told the Chief.

Edward was confused. Despite the pain in his crotch and the venom and blood from his last victim leaking out of his ruined pants, he managed to stand and run.

Until he saw Bella. Even in pain, Edward noticed the changes in her appearance. Especially the look of determination and anger in her eyes.

She wore black pants and a long sleeve black shirt. In her hands was a katana blade. She was turning the edge of the blade back and forth, the moonlight gleaming off the steel. Behind her was a thin brunette with short hair. She was as small as Bella and also had a katana in her hand.

“Hello Edward. I hear you have been looking for me. Here I am.”

Edward rushed her. He could still salvage this night by taking her. As he got closer though his world seemed to slow down. He saw Bella in the air twisting.

Three feet away her foot struck his jaw sending him flying back into the tree trunk.

Edward looked up and saw the tip of the blade. Bella’s strong arm tipped the sword up under Edwards chin, forcing him to meet her eyes.

“Guess what? Somebody isn’t weak anymore. Want to guess who?”

“What are you?” Edward asked, gasping through the pain. He thought his jaw might be broken.

“I’m a pissed off ex fiancée who takes issue with being enthralled by you.”

Bella kicked him in the ribs, causing him to flip over. He felt the blade on the back of his neck.

“I have good news for you. I’m not going to kill you yet. Though judging by the look of what Dad did to you, you might be wishing you were dead.”

Winter had been watching the exchange with a smile. At least until Summer spoke to her.

Winter turned at the approaching sound of the engine. Jumping over the small sports car as it sped under her, she yelled at Bella.

“Watch out Bella!”

Bella turned and dove to the side, a second before the red convertible would have crushed her against the tree. She saw Edward lift the front of the car off of himself and run. He reached his car with a limp and got inside starting the engine and driving off.

Bella screamed in frustration from the ground watching Edward Cullen drive off. Looking up at Connolly she shouted.

“Get that fucker! These bitches are mine.”

Bella stood quickly and Winter was by her side in an instant. The two girls met the smirking gazes of Alice Cullen and Rosalie Hale.

“My my. You have certainly changed Bella. How on earth did you get vampire strength and what exactly do you think you are going to do with that blade in your hands little girl?” Rosalie asked.

Bella struck her blade through Rosalie’s belly, causing the vampire’s eyes to open wide.

“I’m thinking of using it to cut you to pieces, while my friends track down my ex. How are you Alice?”

“I’m good Bella. I uh… I missed you?” Alice tried, staring in shock at the blade that just ran though her sister.

“Don’t you wish you could have seen this coming?”

Winter kicked Alice in the head. Bella pulled her blade out from Rose’s stomach and tossed it to the ground.

Rose lashed out and was surprised to find nothing but air. A small fist struck her nose and she felt the bone underneath crushing.

Rose swung again and saw Bella catch her arm and flip her over. She placed a boot on Rose’s shoulder and pulled. Rose screamed as her arm was ripped from her shoulder.

“Then again I may just tear you apart with my hands bitch.”

While Bella played with Rose, Winter delivered a series of kicks to Alice’s face. Alice attempted to jump over Winter only to have her ankle grabbed and her body crashed back into the ground.

A blade stabbed through Alice’s chest, pinning her to the ground. Winter smiled as she twisted the blade.

Alice screamed.

Rose turned towards Alice, ignoring the pain of her missing arm.

“Rose, look at me.”

Rose turned back to Bella, trying to sit up.

“You don’t want to miss this.” Bella told her and swung her katana, the blade slicing through Rosalie Hale’s neck. She felt her head hit the ground but could no longer feel her body. Her eyes saw the other girl dropping a lighter on Alice’s body while Alice’s head sat on the ground, her eyes still blinking.

Bella lifted Rosalie’s head and turned it towards her body which was twitching on the ground.

She saw a lighter dropping on the body she had used to get what she wanted and manipulate those around her for over one hundred years go up in flames. Her eyes widened as Bella tossed her head onto her body. She felt the flames. Trying to scream, Rose realized no sound came out.

Then she saw nothing but darkness as her conscious thoughts faded away in a cloud of searing pain.

Bella walked over to where Alice’s head lay. Winter stood over her body watching it burn. Bella lifted Alice’s head off the ground where it had fallen.

“Like I said Alice, you really could have seen this coming.”

Tossing Alice’s head onto the fire, Bella turned and looked at Jason. Opening her com she heard his voice.

“I want that fucker alive. Bring him back to camp. Make it happen guys.”

Edward drove in a panic. Had it not been for Rose and Alice he had no doubt he would be dead now. The thought of helping them never crossed his mind. Somehow Bella had changed. She had grown strong and fast, way to fast and strong for a human. How did Charlie Swan injure him with a simple shotgun?

Edward’s thoughts were interrupted by a man in the middle of the road holding what looked like a large mini gun that had six barrels in a cirlce. The kind of canon one would see on video games. He was smiling.

One hundred rounds of ammunition tore through the engine of his Volvo. Edward drove straight, watching the man dive out of the way. Edward swore he could see the man smiling.

He felt his engine losing power. Then he heard a thought from above him.

Got this fucker.

Who the hell was that?

Edward’s question was answered when a large black aircraft landed on top of his Volvo causing it to stop in the middle of the road. He burst through his door. Even with his injury he was certain he could outrun whoever the hell these humans were in the forest.

Edward was correct. He didn’t hear them following.

He should have been more focused. He never heard the savage thoughts until it was too late.

Edward was clotheslined and hit the ground hard. Standing above him were Jasper, Peter, Charlotte and Carlisle’s child Garrett. What was he doing here now? Foul scents invaded his sensitive nose and he noticed he was surrounded by wolves as well.

Jasper rolled him over, face first into the ground. His arms were forced behind his back and he felt cuffs going around his wrists. He tried to break the cuffs but the metal was too strong.

“Jasper? What are you doing?”

Jasper smiled.

“By the order of the President of the United States, you are under arrest for 262 counts of murder, 122 cases of breaking and entering Chief Swan’s home, 376 counts of the illegal hunting of animals out of season and tax evasion. Of course that is just in the past few years and only the ones I knew about.”

“Tax evasion?”

“It got Al Capone. Too bad you don’t have presidential pardons like we do.” Peter told Edward..

“Kill me.” Edward begged. Jasper refused.

“Nah. Think I’m gonna let you live without a dick for a while longer. Looks like it hurts. Besides Bella wants to talk to you. I think you have some explaining to do. I also have a couple questions for you. Actually only one. Not that I care that much because she was a lousy fuck but it’s more of a pride thing. Did you really think I wouldn’t know you were fucking my wife?”