Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

For God And Country

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 05:

Garrett POV

“Garrett huh? Bella, you didn’t mention you had a boyfriend.” Charlie said leaving my hand hanging in the air.

“Dad, you think maybe you could shake his hand? It’s kind of rude to leave him hanging.” Bella told him, staring at me with eyes that said she would shoot me again at the first chance she got.

Charlie however, seemed to shake out of it and sheepishly smiled. He shook my hand.

“Of course Garrett. I apologize. I wasn’t… Bella never mentioned… fiancé? Really?”

“We are a long way from that, Dad. Garrett is however, my boyfriend. Now you two big strong men help unload the bags.”

She said I was her boyfriend. I glanced over at her and she winked at me. Yes, definite progress. Maybe she wouldn’t shoot me again.

Charlie and I began to unload the bags from the trunk. Until we got to the black box of death.

“I got that one, dad.”

“You sure Bella? It looks kind of heavy. What the hell kind of lock is that?”

“Oh, it’s just work stuff. But I have to keep it locked for obvious reasons. National security and all.” She replied smiling. Okay. So she didn’t lie.

“They let you take national security stuff home?”

“You know how it is, Dad. Sometimes it seems like you can’t leave the job. It just follows you everywhere.”

“That’s true. My little girl. The female James Bond.” Charlie was smiling. So proud of his little killer.

“Dad, I’m just a low level security analyst. Let’s not go crazy.” She smiled at him. Okay. That was definitely a lie. She says it with such humility. She really is a good liar. Is that a blush? Can she blush on demand?

We took all the bags to her old room. I could see her here, lying on the bed, listening to music, reading a book by the window in that rocking chair.

Walking downstairs Charlie sat down in a recliner and Bella and I took the couch. I was a little shocked when she reached over and took my hand.

“So Bella. How is work?”

“Good Dad. Same old stuff. Kind of boring. Not much to talk about.”

“Don’t be ridiculous. My little girl in the Army and working at the Pentagon of all places. Everyone in Forks knows what my Bella does for a living.”

I had to laugh. Oh, was that out loud?

They were both glaring at me now.

“So Garrett. What do you do for a living?” Charlie asked trying to sound casual.

“Well I…”

“Garrett is a political lobbyist for PETA.” Bella helpfully put in. Oh shit.

“PETA?”

“Yes PETA, Dad. He is also a complete vegan. He doesn’t consume animals or animal byproducts.”

Charlie looked at me like I was from another planet. Bella was smiling at him and rubbing my hand.

“A vegan? You don’t like fish, Garrett?”

“I…”

“Garrett has a very special diet Dad. He is so passionate about his work. He is constantly lobbying for the protection of all animals.”

“You mean, like, you try to convince Congressmen to outlaw hunting and fishing?” Charlie was full on glaring. Bella was barely holding in her laughter.

“Uh, no… not really…”

Bella started laughing.

“Dad, I’m just messing with you. Garrett works for the DEA. He’s not a vegan.”

Charlie visibly relaxed.

“Oh thank God.” He whispered. “That wasn’t funny, Bella.”

“Oh come on Dad. You should have seen your face.”

Charlie smiled a little.

“Okay. Maybe it was a little funny. So Garrett you work undercover? That why you got long hair?”

“Yes Charlie. I do work undercover occasionally. I was recently in Juarez, Mexico investigating the Cortez Cartel.” Bella just stiffened. Hah!

“Yeah, I heard that Cortez got killed? Was that you?” He asked raising an eyebrow.

“Oh no, Charlie. I just simply investigate. We are still trying to figure out who did that. I can tell you this though. Whoever did it was a cold blooded bastard. Took out half his guard and escaped all on his or her own without a trace.” Yep Bella was definitely glaring at me now. I could feel the death stare without even looking at her.

“Yeah, well, whoever killed him did the world a favor.”

Bella relaxed. A little. I guess every little girl wanted their Daddy’s approval.

“So Bella, how did you two meet?”

“Garrett is actually my neighbor, Dad. He lives across the hall from me.”

“Oh, so you two aren’t… living together?”

“Not yet.” I replied before I could shut my mouth. Bella dropped her head. It looks like she has a headache.

“I see. So you two must be pretty serious.” Charlie commented.

“Dad, how have you been? Tell me what’s been going on. You seeing anybody?”

“Nope. You know me Bella. The perennial bachelor.” He smiled.

“So how has everyone been in Forks? How is Billy?”

“Uh, we don’t actually talk much anymore.” Charlie said, suddenly uncomfortable.

“What happened Dad?” Bella asked quietly.

“We… well it really pissed me off the way he acted about Jake telling you he didn’t want to be friends any longer. He acted like it was your fault. After you left Forks he tried to be friends again and I told him to fuck off.”

“You told him to fuck off Dad?” Bella asked, disbelieving.

“Yes, Bella. I literally told him to fuck off.” Charlie confirmed.

“So have you spoken to him since?”

“Yeah, here and there. It hasn’t been the same. I wouldn’t call us exactly friends. He really pissed me off. He invited me to some stupid bonfire party they are having at First Beach tonight. Apparently Jake is engaged and they are celebrating. I’m not planning on going. Especially now that you are here.”

“Jake still hanging out with Sam Uley and his thugs or did he grow out of it?” Bella asked. She had told me a bit about this gang on our date.

“Yeah. It’s actually gotten worse. These guys do nothing. They just hang out together. None of them have really done anything with their lives. Jake is working on cars part time for money and living with Billy, still. I guess he is going to have his new wife living with Billy as well.” Charlie apparently was not impressed with young Jacob.

“Dad, why don’t we all go to this bonfire and make an appearance. We can go early and say hi and then leave. I would love to see how different Jake looks now. It’s not right that you and Billy threw away years of friendship over a teenage spat between your daughter and his son.”

“I didn’t throw away anything Bella. He did by his actions and words. But still, I wouldn’t mind taking you and Garrett and showing you off. Show him you didn’t need his dumbass son’s friendship.”

“Dad, I don’t really think what I do is a big deal.” Bella replied. It was time to set her straight.

“Don’t be ridiculous Bella. You are excellent at what you do.” I figured it was time to help her self-esteem out a little bit. “The word around the Capitol, Charlie, is that Bella is going places. She really has that killer instinct that it takes to succeed in government.”

“That’s great, Bella.” Charlie beamed with pride.

“Garrett is over exaggerating Dad. When it comes to killer instinct I can’t possibly compete with him.” She said giving me a not so nice look. At least she was still holding my hand. Try to help a girl out and give her a compliment.

“I suppose it wouldn’t kill us to make an appearance tonight.” I told Charlie and Bella. Charlie didn’t look convinced. He finally shrugged his shoulders.

“Yeah, I guess so, if you really want to Bells. It’s up to you.”

“Yeah sure Dad. We can go early and come back and watch some sort of sports or something. I can cook for you.”

“That sounds great Bella.” Charlie smiled. “Hey Garrett, do you need some eye drops or something? Your eyes are very red.”

“No Charlie. My eyes are always red because of a side effect of a medication I took once.” Who’s the better liar now Bella? I just made that up on the spot.

“What did you have, that you were taking that strong of a medication?” Charlie asked.

“Didn’t you tell me it was syphilis, dear?” Bella asked, smiling and now holding my hand with both her hands.

“No Bella. It wasn’t syphilis.” I responded. Bitch. Cute bitch but still a bitch.

“So what did you have Garrett?” Charlie asked, suddenly suspicious.

“It was a rare blood disease I contracted a long time ago. It’s why I have circulation problems now. It is nearly impossible for me to get a tan and my skin always seems cold.”

Bella was smiling. Yep. I’m still the better liar. So maybe that wasn’t exactly a lie.

“Oh I was wondering about that. You sort of reminded me of the Cullens for a while. Weird family.”

Four hours later we were preparing to go to First Beach for a bonfire. This should be fun. I was in Bella’s room watching her get ready. I first thought she wanted to go to try to make this Jake boy jealous. Then I saw how she was dressed. Casual loose jeans and a tee shirt with a denim short jacket over it. She was wearing track shoes. She walked over to the black box of death. After entering the combination the fingerprint pad lit up and she placed her index finger on it. The locks popped and the lid finally opened. Holy shit.

On top were at least 6 handguns of various calibers and fully loaded clips for each of them. Strapped to the lid on the underside were at 6 knives. Long knives. Looked like the type you could throw. She lifted the top and I saw a bottom layer.

“Are those fucking grenades?”

“Yes. They are fucking grenades.” She rolled her eyes. The ten grenades were circling her special sniper rifle that was in parts.

She took two of the handguns and placed them in both shoulder holsters under her jacket. She placed extra clips in the side pockets of the holsters. Placing her jacket over the holsters you would never guess she was packing heat. She placed a 5 inch blade on her right ankle and a smaller handgun on her left ankle. She grabbed her purse and placed 4 grenades inside and another handgun plus two extra clips.

“I’m sorry dear. I was under the impression we were going to a social gathering to celebrate a marriage engagement. What war are we going to fight?”

“I already had to kill one guy today Garrett. I like to be prepared. It makes me feel comfortable.”

“Grenades, Bella?” Talk about overkill.

“Sweetie, do you know how many times in my life I wished I didn’t have grenades? Zero. But there have been a lot of times I wish I had grenades. There is never a bad time for grenades.”

It was hard to argue with her point. I looked out and the sun was setting. Charlie had already left a few minutes ago. Bella told him we would be taking the rental so I wouldn’t have to ride in the back of his patrol car. I still think she is overreacting. It’s a simple beach party at an Indian reservation. What could possibly happen?

BPOV

We pulled up to the beach parking lot and I could see the fire already. I got out of the car and Garrett walked on my side. I grabbed his hand and he smiled. I have to say I was loving this time with him. He has been so much fun. The real reason I wanted to come to this thing was to show him off. Childish? Absolutely. I didn’t care. It wouldn’t kill me to act like a child occasionally. Garrett brought it out in me. I slung my bag over my shoulder. A girl needs her accessories.

Garrett stiffened as we approached. I quickly scanned the surrounding area for targets. It’s a habit.

“What?” I asked him.

“I smell something strange. Smells like wet dog. A lot of wet dogs. Smells horrible. I’ve never smelt anything like it.”

“Weird. Keep your nose open.” I told him. He laughed.

“That is hard to do. Let’s not stay long. This place stinks.”

We walked to the fire. I saw Charlie motioning us over to Billy who was sitting in his chair next to a very big guy. Holy crap, that’s Jacob Black. The little girl next to him must be his fiancée.

Garrett and I walked over to Charlie.

“Billy, this is Garrett, Bella’s boyfriend.”

Garrett nodded but his face was still strange. I guess the smell hadn’t gone away. He didn’t offer to shake Billy’s hand. Garrett always tries to shake hands. Something was wrong. I was suddenly glad I brought grenades. Jake was glaring at me. No he was glaring at Garrett. Now he was glaring at me. His fiancée just got pulled away by another female with a scar on the right side of her face. Strange group of people.

“It’s… nice to meet you Garrett.” Billy finally said.

“So Jake, I hear congratulations are in order. Where is the lucky girl?”

“Busy.” He replied tersely. Charlie instantly went to Def Con 4.

“You don’t have to be rude Jake. What the hell is wrong with your son Billy? You invited us to this damn thing and now he is looking at Bella like she kicked his dog.” Charlie commented. He was already pissed. We should probably leave.

“Charlie… perhaps it is best if you and Bella leave.”

Whoa. What the fuck did I ever do to these people?

“You are damn right it’s for the best. Don’t you ever talk to me again you son of a bitch. Jake, go fuck yourself. A little free advice. You should probably lay off the steroids. I hear it makes your dick not work so well. Considering your fiancée is going to be living with a bum you should at least try to make her happy in one area. Let’s go Bella, Garrett.” Charlie stomped off. I glared at Jake and turned to follow. Garrett was still staring at Billy and now Jake. I grabbed his hand and tried to pull. Was Garrett growling?

“Garrett! Let’s go!”

He finally followed me. I have never seen Garrett looking so intense. This was a new side of him. He looked like he was ready to kill. As we left I noticed Sam Uley and a pack of other big guys glaring at us. What the hell are these guys’ problems? We reached the parking lot and Garrett was still looking back.

Charlie spoke to us from his patrol car. “Bella, I am going to the dinner to pick up some steak and potatoes for us. I will meet you two at home.”

I nodded, relieved he was leaving so I could find out what the fuck was going on. Charlie drove off and I looked at Garrett.

“What the fuck is going on Garrett?”

“Get in the car Bella. We need to go. Now.”

Never seeing this side of Garrett, I figured it would be best to do as he says. I slid into the driver’s seat and he got into the passenger’s seat quickly.

“Drive. I will explain when we get to your father’s house.”

“Is it that smell? What is the smell Garrett?”

“I don’t know but I don’t like it. Let’s go.”

I backed out of the spot and headed for the exit. We turned onto beach road and I slammed on the brakes.

“What the fuck is that?” I whispered.

A big damn black wolf was standing in the middle of the road. I looked in the mirror to back up and saw 4 more behind us. These wolves were bigger than horses and a whole lot thicker. Two more showed up in front of us.

“Werewolves. Big fucking werewolves.” Garrett whispered. I looked out the window and two more were on my side moving close to the car.

“Should I run them over?” I asked.

“No. We will just crash the car. I am going to have to fight our way out. Get in my lap. I am going to open the door and run us out of here.”

Okay. I slid my purse over my neck and scooted into his lap straddling him. If it wasn’t for the situation this would have been a pretty hot position. Who am I kidding? This was a hot position. Judging by what I was currently sitting on, he thought so as well. He smiled at me.

“No matter what, keep your legs wrapped around my waist and arms around my neck. I will have us home before you know it.”

I kissed him. I couldn’t help myself. I meant it to be quick. But he tasted so good. I had my hands in his hair and his were in mind and then his tongue was in my mouth and I was drawing it deeper.

Then we heard the roar. Oh yeah. Werewolves.

“We are definitely continuing that when we get home.”

I thought I wasn’t going to fall in love with him. I am so screwed.

He kicked the door and we were running. The trees were flashing by and I was looking behind us, curled into the front of him. Damn he felt good… Holy shit! Those bastards were right behind us.

“Garrett, they are right behind us!”

“I was afraid of this. They are fast. Very damn fast. Hold on.”

We weren’t losing them. It was time to get involved in this.

“Are they invincible?” I asked.

“How the hell should I know? I’ve never seen them before!”

I tightened my legs around his waist ignoring the fact that I was incredibly turned on at the moment.

“Bella don’t let go of my neck!”

“No worries. I got you with my legs. Try to run as straight as you can.”

I pulled my handguns from the holsters. I didn’t want to fire until I had a clear shot. There. The black one jumped right behind us, ten yards away. I fired. He turned at the last second and I got him in the chest. Not a head shot but I would take it. Guess they aren’t invincible after all. That meant their asses were mine. One stopped to check on the black one, two more were right behind me. I fired twice, missing both. Two more shots and one was hit in the front leg and the other took one in the side. They both went down. Three down. One stopped chasing. Four to go. Two were on both our sides keeping pace. I waived both my arms to the sides and fired. I heard squealing and they both fell onto the ground rolling into trees. Two more. They were crisscrossing. There was the one who stopped. Looked russet colored. I fired twice missing. They backed up some though.

“Garrett, head back to the car.” I felt him turn and we changed direction running towards them. I leaned back on his waist to the front so I could see what was coming. Upside down, mind you, but I was pretty fair at shooting from different positions. This was twice today my back had to be bent backwards at an unnatural angel. I’m going to need a chiropractor soon. I opened fire and the ones following jumped to the side. We ran right past them. I couldn’t see the ones I shot first so I guess Garrett was taking us at a different angle. The three wolves were not far behind now. I holstered my weapons and threw my bag to the front. Damn my legs were getting sore. I grabbed a grenade, pulled the pin and tossed it. Two of the wolves stopped and stared at it. Then it blew. Fur flew everywhere. One wolf left. I grabbed another grenade and tossed it at the ground right behind us. He was on it in a second and it detonated under him.

“Okay they are all down. How far to the car?”

“We’re here.”

Garrett slid me in the passenger seat. Since the door was already open. He turned to go back to the forest.

“Get out of here, Bella. I will catch up. I need to finish them.”

“No! Get your ass into this car now!”

“Bella, they most likely heal fairly quickly. I can take them out for good. Go!”

“No! Get your ass in this car so we can regroup. Now Garrett!”

He stopped and turned. The next thing I knew he was in the driver’s seat and tires were squealing. He took us back to Charlie’s at a very high rate of speed.

Charlie was waiting for us as we pulled up.

“Hey guys. I was worried. I thought your food might get cold. Everything good?”

“Yeah Dad. We had… car trouble.” I told him.

“Dammit I knew I should have waited for you.” Charlie said.

“It’s no problem Charlie. I am handy with cars. It was just a spark plug that came loose.” Garrett smiled.

“Great. Well come on in. Garrett you are going to love this steak. I can’t wait for you to taste it. Come on and eat and you can tell me about your DEA adventures.”

“Sounds… great Charlie.” Poor man. He does so much for me. God, I love him.

Oh my God.

I love him.

GPOV

“Psst. Bella.”

She rolled in her bed towards me.

“Hey stranger.” She smiled. “Daddy asleep?”

“Yes. The man snores like lumberjack.”

“Come here.” She lifted her covers.

She didn’t have to ask me twice. I had already puked up the steak and was feeling much better.

I got under the covers with her and she leaned into me. She was so warm.

“Garrett?”

“Yes, Bella?”

“I want to be honest with you.”

“Okay.”

“I realized tonight that I love you.”

About fucking time.

“I love you too Bella.”

“I know you do. I just wanted you to know how I feel. I don’t know where this is going to go but I know I don’t want to lose you.”

“You won’t lose me Bella.”

“I’ve never had a serious adult relationship. I don’t really know what I am doing here.”

“I haven’t either. We will figure it out together.”

“How old were you when you were turned?” she asked me quietly.

“I was 28.”

“If I’m still alive on my 28th birthday, you have my permission to change me.”

“Thank you.” I whispered in her hair.

“And if something happens to me before then. If you can, if you are around, go ahead and do it then too. I may not know what I am doing here, but I won’t take myself away from you, if I don’t have too. I’m going all out here. Garrett. I’m going to give this everything I can.”

“Thank you.” Finally. Who says patience, persistence and stalking doesn’t pay off?

“So let’s talk about tonight.” She whispered.

“You mean tonight while I scarfed down a steak or tonight where you slaughtered 8 werewolves?”

“You think they are dead?”

“No. They are probably wishing they were but they are not dead.”

“Do you know where they came from? Why they were after us?”

That wasn’t hard to figure out.

“They came from the bonfire at La Push. They were after us because I was a vampire. The smell of wet dog when we got there? It surrounded us at the gathering. The large men must have been werewolves. I’ve never heard of wolves that big. Most of them used to be in Europe. Not many exist over there any longer though. I suppose they recognized I was a vampire at the party and decided to take me out.”

“You mean Jacob Black? Sam Uley? Those guys?”

“Yeah. Those guys. We should probably get out of the area Bella if we want to avoid a fight.”

“I don’t want to leave. We just got here.”

“Okay. But they will come again. We need to be ready.” I told her. I needed to be ready. Now that I knew what I was dealing with I would not be taken by surprise again. I knew their moves. I would defeat them when they came.

“No.” Bella whispered and got up from the bed.

“No? No what?”

“We aren’t going to wait for them to attack us. They tried to kill us tonight. We know who they are. We know where they live. We know they are wounded at least.”

“What are you talking about?” I asked her as she dragged out the black box of death.

“Simple. They attacked us. In my world that means they declared war. It’s time to finish them. Now.”

Bella took her sniper rifle. Out and began assembling it. She reloaded her weapons she had used tonight. She was wearing some really small tight shorts and her ass looked incredible. Her rifle put together she turned to me and smiled.

“You ready?”