Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Spy Games

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 22:

Ugh.

Did I get drunk last night? God, I feel horrible. My head hurt, I was groggy and I had a horrible taste in my mouth.

A taste that was moving.

My eyes popped open and Alice’s Cullen’s cold fingers were in my mouth.

I jerked my head back, nearly chipping a tooth.

“Bitch, what the fuck are you doing!?”

“Oh, sorry Bella. I was just trying to get that metal out of your… it must hurt.”

“You wouldn’t believe how good it feels.” on the women I deem to bless with my attention. Wait a minute, where the fuck am I?

“Number one keep your hands off of me and number two where the fuck are we?”

A quick glance around and it became obvious to me we were in a very nice private jet.

“This is Carlisle’s jet he keeps in Port Angeles. We are on our way to Italy. Try not to worry too much, have faith that Edward will be fine. We will get to him in time, Bella.”

Holy shit, I realize I have taken some head shots over the past few hours but it was all coming back to me.

“You whore! You kidnapped me?!”

“I didn’t kidnap you, Bella. You weren’t in your right mind and I decided for us. You are obviously distraught being away from your mate. I told Edward this separation would only hurt both of you.”

“How long have I been out?”

“Just long enough for me to get us to the airport and into the jet. We left a few hours ago.”

“What the hell did you do to me? Why was I out that long?”

“Carlisle had some sedatives in his medical bag in the car. I thought it best to keep you calm so you didn’t panic.”

“You fucking kidnapped and drugged me? I thought you were my friend?” my fake friend at least.

“You will thank me later. Also, could you please stop cursing? I realize you have been through a traumatic period that has caused temporary changes to your personality but cursing is not becoming. What is with this paint all over your body?” she asked.

“It’s a spray tan, idiot.”

“Bella!”

“Where the fuck is your husband?”

“I am not sure. After we left you, he told me he needed time alone and left to see his friend Peter and Peter’s mate Charlotte. I have barely received any visions of him. It is frustrating. He calls often but I have not seen him. He feels so much guilt over what happened Bella.”

Thankfully Arial’s voice popped into my head. “Bella listen to me. Dad has you on GPS. He couldn’t stop her before she got to the airport. The fucking plane was waiting on her already fueled up. He was afraid if he shot the tires out, Alice would hurt you. He is following behind you. Actually he and the team will be landing in Italy before you do. Just relax and wait until you arrive in Volterra. There is a festival planned today and you should get there just before noon. I think he has a plan to help you escape. Just relax and try not to piss off the psychotic kidnapping corpse.”

Fuck me. Of course Arial couldn’t stop with the bad news.

“By the way, Angela has been texting you a lot, she seems frantic. She keeps saying she can’t stay away and she needs you and is begging you to take her back.”

What? But what would have changed? I hadn’t spoken to her; she hadn’t spoken to me at all. Not since our conversation when I told her about my childhood.

“Do you want me to text her back? Cough if you do.”

Did I? Did I not have enough to deal with? But still she wants me. Nothing has changed though. She will get tired of living a secret life and I will be hurt again. Did I want that? Did I deserve that?

No I didn’t. I deserved better. Being with her had shown me what I wanted. Meaningless sex was not what I needed in my life. I wanted someone to love. Someone who wasn’t ashamed to be with me. Someone who was as brave as I was.

But I did love her.

No. No she hurt me. I could have gone to Seattle every weekend and had a blast. Seduced, been seduced, lost myself in ecstasy every single weekend. I didn’t. I gave that up to be with her. I gave her everything I could and now out of the blue she wants more?

“I am assuming by your lack of a cough that you do not want me to respond. Last chance to cough.”

No. My throat felt fine. Plus I was in the middle of a kidnapping and really didn’t have time to deal with my love life.

“Okay, I will text her from my phone and tell her you are out of town for Spring Break and forgot I had your phone with me. I’ll tell her you are in Florida, hanging out with your Mom’s gay neighbor Candy. I even have her photo here on your phone. Renee was so nice to send it to you.”

I coughed. I coughed loudly.

“You don’t want her to think you are ignoring her, do you Bella?”

Oh this bitch.

“It would be rude. Look, you concentrate on escaping the fairy and I will have Angela wanting to lick your feet by the time you return. You can leave her on the ground begging in the school parking lot. I feel she deserves that, don’t you?”

I coughed again.

“You didn’t really think I was going to let her dump you and just get away with it? Finally she is exactly where I want her. I could tell by her face it was killing her to be near you every day. I knew she would crack and I am going to make damn sure she pays for it.”

I coughed loudly. Alice patted me on the back.

“Are you okay, Bella?”

“Yeah. I just have a little congestion.” I was going to kill Arial. She did not need to fuck with Angela. Just leave her alone. Leave it alone and let it die.

“You will feel better when you are back in Edward’s arms. This whole thing has gotten beyond ridiculous.”

“What do you mean?” I agreed, but I had a feeling our reasons were very different.

“I told Edward he could not fight fate. He can be so stubborn.”

Fate?

“Uh Alice, do you still see me becoming a vampire?”

“I have thought of just turning you myself. He can be so hard headed.” I stood up and walked past her to the back of the jet, only stumbling a bit due to the effects of whatever drug this bitch gave me.

Of course she came back to sit with me.

“It will be fine Bella. It will all work out, I promise. We have nine hours before we land. Why don’t you try to sleep a bit more?”

Why? So you can bite me and I wake up in extreme pain? I don’t think so…

I felt a sharp pinch in my ass and before I could figure out where it came from, I was out.

The next thing I could make out through the haze in my vision was stumbling down some stairs. I heard Alice explain to someone that I had too much to drink on the flight.

Then I was sitting.

Arial kept screaming in my ear.

“What?!”

“Are you finally awake? That bitch keeps drugging you!”

“Yeah, I’m good.”

“Oh, Bella you are talking to yourself now. Please try to hold it together. We don’t have much time. I have seen the Volturi refusing to kill Edward but he plans to expose himself to the humans in St. Marcus Square at noon. We have to hurry!”

That sentence woke me up. No human should ever be subjected to Edward Cullen exposing himself.

“Where are we?”

“Italy.”

“What are… where did you get this car?”

A yellow Porsche? God, she had such bad taste. A Porsche should always be red or at least black. I could see silver in some instances depending on the personality of the person driving, maybe a James Bond type.

“I arranged for it to be waiting at the airport for us. How are you holding up?”

“What am I wearing? What are you wearing!?”

She was dressed in some hideous white outfit I wouldn’t be caught dead in.

“Is that what is important now? It is sunny and I need my skin covered. As far as what you are wearing, I took a pair of jeans and a simple tee from your room. Finding a tee shirt that didn’t make you look like a complete floozy was not easy Bella. I am sorry for what we did by leaving you but did you have to take it to this extreme?”

“Did you undress me?”

“Yes.”

“Did you… touch me… anywhere special?” because I hoped I would have been awake for that. Molesting me while drugged is rape but if I had been awake, I may not have minded. Sure she is a psychotic kidnapping bitch but she was cute, despite what she had on. She kind of reminded me of Ashley Greene if Ashley Greene decided to murder her gorgeous long hair. Angela had gorgeous hair if she would just let it down occasionally. I loved running my fingers through it when she let it down.

“Bella, can you please focus on escape?” Arial’s voice cut my thoughts of Angela off. “Dad, Sasha and Dante are already in the city square waiting on you. Ty and Connolly are about to enter the city. When you get the chance run. I will tell you where to go.”

I could do that.

“No, I didn’t touch you anywhere special Bella. Why do you ask? But now that you mention it, when did you begin wearing thongs?”

When I was 15, bitch.

“Not that I’m complaining. If Edward ever loosens up, I think he would love them on you.”

Of course he would. He probably wears them himself to keep that iron rod securely up his ass.

“We will only have minutes to spare when we arrive, Bella. He will be under a large clock tower attached to the castle in the center of the city. I see a festival going on so the square will be crowded. We will have to hurry.”

“What if we don’t make it in time? Can we turn around and go home?”

“Let’s not think of that Bella. Just relax and focus on Edward. The two of you will be together soon.”

“Could I call Jasper? To forgive him and everything?”

To curse his name and wish every horrible thing that could possibly happen to a sparkly corpse to happen to him. If he had been around to control this bitch none of this would be happening. Instead he is probably hanging out with his two buds telling them everything he learned.

“No time. He would be very upset if he knew I was coming here.”

“What about the others?”

“What others?”

“Uh… Carlisle, Esme. Rosalie, Emmett? Are they going to meet us there?”

“No. There was no time for them to make it.”

“We have traveled from Washington to Italy. They didn’t have time? They couldn’t even try? Have any of them even thought of maybe getting on a plane?”

“You are freaking out again Bella and I do not have time to help you. I need you lucid, so please try to keep it together okay?”

I didn’t say a word. I did not need this bitch knocking me out again. We sat in silence for the remainder of the drive. She hit around 120 if my kilometers to miles calculations were correct. Eleanor would smoke this fiberglass toy. A little weird being on the wrong side of the car and road for that matter but that’s Europe for you. Wow. I’ve never been to Europe. As far as kidnapping destinations this isn’t bad. The country side was lovely. Maybe if I escape and the Volturi kills Eddie I can check out the Coliseum? That would be so cool. Oh the temples and the catacombs would be awesome too. I mean as long as I was here, Arial could be here in less than 24 hours. Sasha was already here. This could work out.

“If your ex gets turned to dust maybe she will too for trying to save him. If that happens, we are so partying our asses off in Rome.”

At times I swear Arial and I shared a brain.

“By the way there have been some developments here. Jake tracked my scent here, which is freaky. Hawk is stressed so he was lifting weights in the garage and I was in my room thinking about Connolly and well, let’s just say he may have smelt something rather embarrassing.”

Get to the point, Arial.

“Dad said not to tell Jake you had been kidnapped because he didn’t want a war started between the wolves and the Cullens until this Victoria situation has been sorted out so I told him you left with Alice to go get Eddie. You should have seen his face. He was so pissed. Hawk had to ask him to leave in his normal polite manner.”

Great.

“Charlie is freaking out of course. He hasn’t even mentioned his dead friend. I swear you would think he didn’t give a damn at all.”

Huh. Maybe he was having an affair with the guy’s wife. Don’t be ridiculous, Bella. Dad having an affair. Sure, the next thing you know they will be out in public together before the guy’s body has cooled. What a stupid thought. Concentrate on what’s important here.

“Oh and Angela is freaking out. I sent her the pic of Candy and told her that you had taken it with Renee’s phone and sent it to me. She is so pissed, wanting to know the girl’s last name and Renee’s phone number. I told her she had hurt you enough and to leave it alone. Now she is blowing up my phone. Do you know she actually threatened me? Me! Hawk even laughed about it and he is in a horrible mood with you being kidnapped and all. He also isn’t happy that you left your little dog whistle with me. Said you were an ignorant brat. His words, not mine. It’s just how he shows he loves you. He has called me an ignorant brat so many times, I get warm and fuzzies now when he says it. I love my Hawk.”

It must be nice having a pet. I thought of it once but it would only cramp my style. Caring for some other living thing who relied on me for food, water, shelter and love? Not in my wheelhouse.

“Oh and before all this happened Sasha told me quietly, she thinks she might be pregnant. How gross is that? I get that she isn’t old but still, I’m 18. Freaky right?”

Sasha pregnant? I would kill Jack.

“Anyway GPS shows you are almost there. Get it together Phoenix, time to make your great escape.”

“We are almost there, Bella.” Alice told me, bringing me out of my musings and reminding me she was indeed here.

We drove through a very old gate and holy shit.

There were thousands of people here and everyone was wearing a red robe with a hood.

“The street is closed for the celebration!” Alice shouted.

What? You didn’t see this coming?

She also didn’t see with her gift what I saw with my eyes.

Even covered by a hood I would recognize those eyes anywhere.

Sasha.

She smiled at me and Alice screamed.

I guess the whistle works.

“Jane is nearby. Run Bella! Get to Edward!”

Needing no further encouragement I opened the door and ran. Sasha had disappeared back into the crowd.

“Okay Bells, keep running straight ahead. Connolly has a getaway vehicle ready to the South.”

“Which way is South?”

“Straight ahead!”

I started pushing my way through. One guy wouldn’t move so I reached around and hit him in his dick. He jumped and I slid past him. People were pressed together like this was some sort of outdoor rave club. I had never seen so much red.

There. A fountain and the crowd looked a bit thinned out on the other side. I ran through the fountain hoping I would be arrested. This place was like Bourbon Street without the drag queens, voodoo priestesses and alcohol. God, Renee took me on the best trips.

“You are off course! Run to the East!”

“East?”

“To your left!”

I turned, got bumped and kept running.

“Your other left, you fucking idiot!”

“I am getting out of this crowd. Tell Connolly my coordinates so he can meet me there. I see a building with some sort of cover. I think if I can take the back exit I can get out of the main square and figure a way around these walls!”

“No! Do not go that way!”

I took a glance around. People were moving towards me from my left. It would be like swimming a river upstream. Doable but slow.

Fuck it, the building it was.

I hit an open space and took off. Before I reached the building, I chanced a look back to see if Alice was chasing me.

Then I hit a brick wall.

No, I hit a person.

“Move it asshole! Get back!”

“Bella?”

I looked up at the person’s face and realized I had run right into Edward fucking Cullen.

Fuck my life. This has to be a joke, right?

“They work fast. Carlisle was right, there is a Heaven… what happened to your hair?”

I stepped back quickly into the sun. He had to stay in the shadows, right?

“I can’t believe this shit.” Arial whispered. “Dad and Sasha are trying to make their way to you. Distract him.”

I didn’t have the chance. He reached out and pulled me into the shade with him.

“Bella! Are you truly alive? What happened to your eyes?”

I was about to respond and try to pry myself from his cold, dead very strong arms when a second voice fucked that plan up.

“Edward? Aro would like to speak to you again.”

“Felix, Demetri. Please tell Aro that I no longer need his services.”

“It wasn’t a request.”

I peered around Edward and saw a big motherfucker. This bitch was four or five inches taller than Hawk. Some skinny little blonde guy was next to him. I briefly wondered if they were lovers. Anything is possible, especially for vampires.

“Fine, I will be along shortly.”

“Now. The girl comes as well.”

“Me? Why me? I don’t even know this guy. I just ran into him looking for a bathroom. Speaking of, do you guys happen to know where one is because I really have to go. Big time emergency, I drank the water.”

They would buy that right?

“She is not coming inside.” until Edward blew it with his mouth.

“We could take her.” the skinny little bitch said. I would love to see him try if he wasn’t a vampire. I would own his ass.

Edward growled.

Ever consider attacking without the growling? Maybe not give them a heads up? It’s called surprise. Connolly never growls. He just strikes and you find yourself on your ass. I know from experience. Sparring with him sucked.

“Boys we don’t really want to fight do we?”

Fuck. Alice caught up. Now I had four sparklers to get away from.

“Master Aro sent me to see what is taking so long.”

Make that five.

“Jane.” Edward whispered. He didn’t growl. This couldn’t be good.

“Follow me.”

And just like that I was being dragged along by Edward. No growling. no fighting, no whining? Thanks Ed.

I walked into a dark tunnel and saw a few vampires standing against the wall. This must be what they do with eternity. Stand against a wall. How fun.

A female voice ahead. She was sitting at a desk talking on the phone. She looked…

“Is she human?” I whispered to myself, forgetting that everyone can hear everything for a moment.

“Yes. The Volturi employ humans for tasks they cannot complete themselves.” Ed explained.

“Does she know what they are?”

“Yes. One day she will be turned or…”

Oh well. That’s what you get, you fucking traitor.

“Bella, it looks like you are being led to some sort of large room under the castle. Satellites are having trouble mapping the underground portion but Dad and Connolly are right above it. Dante and Sasha took out the security guards and Ty is wiring one big ass sonic bomb. Stay to the back of the room. The team is blowing holes in the roof and rappelling down. Ty will drop them and you grab a rope and climb out. Once you are all out, Sasha is blowing the rest of the top floor sending it on their fucking heads. It won’t kill them but should buy enough time.”

Okay…

“Dad said they have done this before, with people, not vampires of course. Don’t worry. Okay worry but be ready. They kind of have you on GPS so the initial entry won’t fall on you. I can’t believe you don’t know your left from your right. God, you can be an ignorant brat. I don’t mean that as a term of endearment either.”

We walked into this big room and I instantly got a chill. Not from the temperature either. There were a lot of vampires here. I counted six plus the three we came in with and three weird guys sitting in thrones. One looked like he wanted to be anywhere else but alive, one was not happy, looking at me like I farted in his face and the other was… creepy. He was smiling and wearing a suit and that made it worse. He looked like a psycho. His skin was paler than the other vampires I had met and his eyes duller but it was his fucked up smile that bothered me the most.

He looked like a cheerful axe murderer.

“Jane, I asked you to bring one back and you have brought three. How wonderful! Oh my… Edward is this the lovely Isabella? Not dead after all! How wonderful for you! She does smell divine.”

“You have no idea.” I told him.

“Shut up Bella!” Arial told me.

“You don’t appear… the same. I recognize your scent from Edward’s memories. How you resisted her blood is a true testament to your control, Edward. Carlisle should be proud.”

“What is it I can do for you Aro? I would like to take Bella home.”

“Yes, I can see that. I had hoped to encourage you once again to reconsider your actions and consider joining us. I can see that will no longer be a problem. Isabella, I understand Edward cannot read your mind. Would you mind terribly if I attempted to see our thoughts?”

I glanced at Edward for an explanation.

“Aro can see every thought you have ever had by touching you.”

That can’t happen. He will know everything we know.

Before I could come up with a good reason for him not to touch me my hand was in his. Gross, he was cold, colder than Edward and his hand felt like old paper.

“Interesting. Remarkable! I see nothing! I wonder if you are immune to all gifts. Jane, if you would?”

“No!” Edward lunged for the tiny blonde only to hit the ground at her feet.

Eddie was screaming. Alice yelled from somewhere behind me.

I couldn’t take my eyes off Edward and Janet. I mean Jane. She was doing this. Wow. I so wanted to be her right now. I would even dress like a blonde Wednesday Adams if that’s what it took.

“What are you doing to him?” I asked, really, really wanting to know and hoping I could do it someday if it were a trick live people could pull off.

“Enough Jane.” Aro told her and like that Eddie stopped screaming like a pussy. Maybe Jane had an electronic dog whistle?

“Jane has the gift of causing an illusion of extreme pain Bella. I had her use it on myself once because I was curious. It is quite painful I assure you.” Aro explained. “Jane, if you would.”

Jane stared at me with a cute little evil smirk.

“Come on kid. Let’s see what you got.” I told her.

No way she sends me to the ground. I had an extremely high tolerance for pain. Ask James.

Nothing happened. Jane was no longer smirking.

“Anytime now. Give me your best.” I encouraged her. “C’mon girl, you can do it.”

Now she growled. At least I know she will attack in ten to thirty seconds. Vampire growls are like air raid sirens.

Aro placed a hand on her shoulder.

“Calm down, Jane. She confounds us all. This is wonderful!”

“Glad you’re impressed Happy. Now can I go?” I asked hopefully.

“There is still the matter of the law being broken, unfortunately.”

Edward was on his feet pushing me behind him.

“No.”

“You know the law, Edward. No human is allowed to live with knowledge of our kind. Unless you plan to turn her into an immortal?”

Okay Ed, lie your ass off.

Eddie said nothing. This fucking bastard! I get kidnapped to save his ass and he can’t even fucking lie?

“Edward? Tell the nice man you plan to turn me into a vampire when we get home. He’s waiting to hear it.” I prompted.

“I see.” Aro whispered. “Felix?”

I looked for Felix but Edward attacked him before I could see him coming.

Edward tried to attack him. Edward was tossed in the air and then the big guy had him by the neck and slammed him to the ground before Ed could even land. Now Felix had his hands on Edward’s head. He was about to kill him.

“Back up Bella! We are coming in.” Jack said calmly.

Coming in? No, Edward was about to be killed! Give me a few seconds!

“No!” I screamed at Jack. Please let Edward die first.

“Felix stop! Bella, are you willing to die for one of us? A soulless undead creature?” Aro asked.

Willing to die?

“That’s not what I said. If it’s a choice between him or me you should defintely kill him.”

“She will be one of us! I have seen it!”

Oh yeah. I forgot the bitch that got me into this mess was here.

Thank God, one vampire could lie.

“I will do it myself.”

Somebody just became a higher priority target than Edward Cullen.

Alice reached out and Aro took her hand.

“Yes… yes, it is certain. Bella will be one of us!”

Uh, I hate to burst your happy bubble but I don’t give a damn what the fortune teller says. Unless it happens in the next thirty seconds her visions aren’t exactly helpful or accurate.

“Bella, is he going to bite you? We need to act now kid.” Jack told me, no longer sounding so calm.

“Relax.” I whispered. They couldn’t come down here. Alice would see it and if Jack spoke any louder the vampires could probably hear it even through the big ass stone ceiling above us. Plus I doubted I could get to the back in time and really didn’t want to be crushed. I knew he was desperate if this is the best plan he had. At least it was a plan though.

“May we leave now? Carlisle will be expecting us.” Alice asked.

“Of course, dear Alice. You, Edward and his lovely Isabella may leave. I expect a visit after Isabella has been turned. I am excited about her possibilities. Perhaps she may decide to join us?”

“We will be leaving now, Aro.” Edward told him, trying his best to sound tough after just getting his ass handed to him.

“Please remember it is daytime, Edward.”

“Of course Aro.”

Once again Ed’s arm grabbed mine and I was dragged along past the vampires, one of whom, the big guy, winked at me. I winked back at him and grinned, causing him to show a bit of surprise. He had kicked Edward’s ass worse than James did. He deserved some recognition. Yeah, he was going to kill me but what vampire hasn’t kidnapped me or wanted to kill me lately? It was becoming the status quo so I may as well go with it.

As we were walking out a tour group was being led in by a really hot vampire.

“Uh… what’s going on?”

“That is Heidi. She has the ability to draw humans in and follow her.”

“I can see why.” I would follow her. She had an awesome Euro vibe going on. She seemed like the type to whisper Italian right next to your clit just to drive you crazy.

“So why does she bring humans…” oh wait. Yeah that makes sense.

“They are dinner, Bella.”

Great. We sat down next to the desk where Gianna no longer sat. I suppose she hid during dinner time. Unfortunately, I could hear every scream that drifted down the hall.

It made me want to kill these bastards even more than I already did. I think at that moment it hit home for me. I knew these fuckers were a threat to my kind but listening to it…

Finally the screams were over. After a couple hours I suppose the sun went down because Edward grabbed my hand and I jerked back. He looked a bit hurt. Good, fuck him.

“Bella, it will be fine. We will be home soon.” Alice tried.

“You kidnapped me you fucking bitch!”

“Bella you were distraught. I knew you would never be able to live with yourself if something happened to Edward.”

“Stay the fuck away from me.” I told her coldly. “Both of you go back to where you were hiding and stay there. I will handle this Victoria situation myself and then figure out what to do about these vampires. Thanks for that by the way.”

“What Victoria situation? You have seen Victoria?” Edward sounded like he cared. Should have taken her out when you had the chance, bitch.

“Is that why the wolf was with you Bella? Are they protecting you from her?”

Why did I open my mouth?

“You… a wolf?!”

“Yes Edward, Jacob Black. Apparently, he and Bella have spent quite a bit of time together since you have been gone.”

“Bella?”

“What!?”

“Is this true? You promised you wouldn’t do anything reckless. Spending time with a young werewolf is very dangerous!”

“Number one, I didn’t promise shit to you. Number two, Victoria would have gutted me a dozen times by now if not for those young werewolves. They saved me from Laurent! Remember him? Gay house boy Jamaican motherfucker?”

“Bella! Language! What happened to your beautiful hair? Your deep, gorgeous chocolate eyes?”

“I needed a change. I’ve made several since you have been gone. I will make several after I am gone from here. I need to go.”

“Bella, don’t be ridiculous. We will take you home.”

“Why Alice? So you can bite me on the plane? I don’t think so.”

“Bella will not be a vampire Alice. We will return to Forks. I will deal with Victoria and Bella and I can… I can help her. I know this isn’t her.”

“Excuse me? I’m sitting right here! Don’t talk about me like I’m not here.”

“Ty is just outside Bella. Say the word. Your call kid. With us or with them you are getting the fuck out of Italy.”

“I’m good. Stay back.” I told him, no longer giving a fuck if Eddie or his psycho sister heard me.

“Bella, I swear you will not be harmed. I thought you were dead. Please do not ask me to stay back. I won’t hurt you.”

“Tell him to go fuck himself.” Arial suggested.

That seemed like a golden idea.

“Go fuck yourself, Edward. Get me out of here and leave me the hell alone.”

I walked outside into the dark where Alice had apparently had her Porsche parked very closely. Ty was off in the distance, mixed in with the lingering party crowd no doubt focusing his thoughts on pussy. He did have my favorite iPod in his hand. I lifted my hand slightly, calling him off. No reason to show our cards yet.

I didn’t speak on the flight home. Despite being drugged for most of the last 24 hours I was exhausted. Alice and Edward were doing that speed talking thing they love to do, arguing from the looks on their pretty faces.

Me? I couldn’t help but think about Angela. Why did she decide… what could have happened?

I had to find out. I needed to get to my phone.

What else? Edward would move back to Forks now that he knew about Victoria. They all would. Angela would not be able to keep her thoughts to herself. Arial was not going to finish school at home.

Fuck it. Maybe it was time to lay my cards on the table. No one else would suffer because of Edward Cullen. I didn’t give a damn if I had to have a dog whistle app installed on my phone and kept one running continuously.

I drifted off, somehow sleeping despite the fear of nightmares caused by the screams I heard.

Instead I dreamed about Angela. Her beautiful naturally tan legs were so smooth. I could kill Arial for making her so jealous. I know why she did it but still…

I woke when we landed and Edward was sitting next to me.

“Didn’t I tell you to stay the fuck away from me?”

“Please stop cursing, Bella.”

“You haven’t heard anything yet motherfucker.”

The damn family was waiting for us at the airport. They could fly from New York to Washington but not to Italy? God, I hated vampires.

Speaking of, there was my former favorite vampire. He met my eyes and I shot the finger at him. He looked away.

Esme tried to hug me and I put my hands to her chest to stop her, copping a feel and disappointed to find out vampire breasts were as hard as the rest of their bodies.

Before I was awake enough to know what was going on, Edward had me in a fucking Volvo. How did it get here so fast? Did they ship the fucker from New York by air or did they actually buy this brat a new one while I was nearly killed in Italy. Glad Carl has his priorities straight.

“Bella, you should know I lied to you when I left. I wanted you to move on so I said those foul words to…”

“Stop! Nobody says foul! If you are going to talk at least talk like you were born in the last two decades!”

I was cranky.

“I apologize. When you were walking off the plane, I couldn’t help but notice your shirt raised up a bit in the back and…”

“You were looking at my ass and saw my tattoo peeking out?”

“I was not looking at your… your…”

“Then you are gay. My ass is amazing.”

“Bella! What has gotten into you? Wait, who is at your house? Do you… is that Jacob Black’s car?”

“No, she is mine.” Arial brought Eleanor over. Thank God. I needed to see my baby.

“Bella that is a dangerous car.”

“You have no idea.” I admitted. Dangerous, sleek and all mine… and Arial’s.

Edward parked and Charlie was waiting outside. I ran into his arms. For a while I never thought I would see him again.

“Chief Swan…”

“Get the fuck out of here.”

“Chief this was all a misunderstanding…”

“Your sister kidnapped my daughter!”

“I’m sure if you ask Bella you will find that isn’t true.”

“She kidnapped me Dad! Arrest her ass.”

“Bella!”

“Leave Edward. Leave now and never come here again.” Charlie was pissed. Thank God my fake cooking probably helped lower his blood pressure in the past year.

Edward looked at me and I shrugged my shoulders.

“You heard the man. Leave and never come back. I’m filing charges against your sister.”

He gritted his teeth but walked to his car and drove off.

A Jeep and a Chevy Truck pulled up after a few minutes. I was ripped from Charlie’s arms by Jack who was actually crying. Hawk did not look pleased. Arial wrapped her arms around me while Jack was still holding me. Sasha joined in.

“I am so sorry, Bella.” Jack whispered.

“You couldn’t have stopped her. She was determined and nothing was going to stop her.”

“I shouldn’t have forgotten that I had your…”

“Arial just stop. Its fine, I survived and I have a pretty good layout of that place, at least from what I saw inside. Did you hear those screams, Jack?”

“Yeah, we heard them. We all heard them.” Connolly told me. I had never seen him look as angry as he was right now.

“Don’t worry, Bella. They are all going down. Every fucking one of them, including Jasper Whitlock. Our deal ended when his fucking wife kidnapped you.”

“We still need him, Jack. Think big picture. He wasn’t there when she left. He probably would have stopped her.”

“Regardless I think it is time Jasper and I had a face to face meeting.”

“Look, I really need to get some sleep. I’m exhausted and really, really want my bed.”

“No problem.” Connolly agreed. “Me and Ty have a lot of paperwork to handle tomorrow. We made your next door neighbor an offer she couldn’t refuse on her house. Think of us as your fast response team from now on.”

I would be lying if I didn’t feel a little bit of relief. I would take all the help I could get at this point.

“Thanks Jason.”

“No problem, Charlie.”

Jack, Sasha and Arial gave me a last hug and headed home. Arial offered to stay but I had no idea where Edward was and didn’t want her thoughts picked up just yet.

I found out where Edward was when I reached my room.

“Bella.”

“Didn’t I tell you to leave me the hell alone? You want to add breaking and entering to your family’s list of crimes as well?”

“Bella, please let me apologize. I am so sorry. I never wanted to leave you.”

“And now I have the Volturi watching me. Thanks Ed.”

“Ed?”

“You prefer motherfucker?” I was open to either.

“What has gotten into you? Bella, you are my mate. Being away from each other for so long has hurt both of us but I promise I am not going anywhere.”

“Yes you are! You are leaving! I don’t want you here and I don’t need you here.”

“I understand. I did it to well didn’t I?”

“I doubt there is anything you can do too well besides fuck up. Now leave. I have Victoria to figure out and now these Italian fuckers wanting me to turn into a vampire and…”

“Bella do not worry about the Volturi. I will hide you. I will take you someplace they can never find us.”

Excuse me?

“Excuse him?” Sasha agreed. “This has gotten beyond ridiculous Bella. Time for a meeting with his coven. I know you are tired but this needs to happen now.”

“Fine.”

“Fine? You will let me hide you?”

“No, we are going to have a meeting with your family. Right now.”

“Bella it is three AM. I doubt your father will let you leave.”

I walked over and opened my door.

“Hey Dad, me and the gang have something to take care of at the Cullens. Be back by sun up.”

“Can I come?” Dad hollered from downstairs.

“No worries. We got this.”

I turned back to Edward’s astonished face.

“I will see you there.”

“I can give you a ride.”

“I’ll take my car, alone.”

I walked out and started Eleanor up. A flash from the corner of my eye gave me just enough warning to know Eddie was going to get into the passenger seat. I hit the button on my toy.

Edward dropped.

Ty was right. This was pretty funny. He was squealing worse than when Janey hit him.

“No one touches my car, Edward. Take the Volvo, pussy!”

Eleanor was in a bitchy mood and wouldn’t let me go slower than 95 tonight. It didn’t matter, the faster this was done the better. I needed to concentrate on other things.

Like Angela.

My phone was on the seat. I pulled into the Cullen drive and took my time. I knew Eddie would be a while.

I scrolled through the messages.

Please tell her I can’t be away from her any longer.

She is with Candy. You fucked up.

I need to talk to her. Just give me her mother’s number.

No

You hate me

Yep

Is that her?

Yep Bella just sent me pic from Renee’s phone. Hot, isn’t she? She is under Bella right now. Could have been u. So sad.

I am begging you please give me number.

Go

To

Hell

Yeah Arial was a bit mad not that I thought she would be any different.

Edward pulled up behind me.

“What was that?” he asked when I exited my baby.

“What was what?”

“That noise? It felt like a knife had been stabbed into my ear!”

“I have no idea what you are talking about. I heard nothing. We going to do this or not?”

I walked inside not bothering to knock. The collective was waiting for me of course.

“Bella, it is so good to see you again.”

“Go to hell Carlisle. Hey there Jasper, old buddy. How ya been?”

“Bella.”

“Don’t Bella me! Your wife kidnapped me and now Eddie wants to run off with me to keep the Italian fucks from killing me.”

“I didn’t know!”

“Maybe if you had kept in contact you could have warned us! We had a fucking deal.”

“Careful Bella.” Jasper warned.

“Fuck you Whitlock!”

“Bella, we voted as a family while Edward was with you. I’m sorry Edward but if you won’t live without her then… how did you know Jasper’s true last name Bella?”

“Jasper and I are good friends aren’t we Jasper? At least I thought we were.”

The door was kicked open. I suppose my peeps decided to join the party.

“Oh this just gets better and better.”

Jacob fucking Black was in the house.

“What the hell are you doing here, dog?” Edward practically snarled, making me wonder who the dog was.

“Yeah Jake, what are you doing here? We are kind of in the middle of something.”

“So that’s it Bella? They are back? You run off with the little leech and bring him back? After he hurt you, you just let him back in your life.”

Edward was in front of me, pushing me away from Jake.

“Stay away from her. Thank you for protecting her from Victoria but we are back and she no longer needs you or your friends.”

“I think I will let Bella tell me that. What about it Bella? You blowing us off for these blood suckers?”

“Stay away from her! I will kill you; treaty be damned!”

Edward and Jacob were inches from each other.

Fuck it. I stepped around Edward and tried to squeeze my way in between them before I was caught in a werewolf vampire battle in a living room that suddenly seemed very small.

“Would you two cut it out? I’m gay, okay!?”

Wow.

A moment ago I couldn’t hear myself think. Now you could hear a rose petal drop.

Edward and Jacob were both looking at me. I couldn’t actually read their faces. Kinda reminded me of the facial expression I used to wear on a 24/7 basis.

“I’m sorry, did you say you were gay?”

Surprisingly it was Rose who asked.

“Yep.”

“But you love Edward. You want to be a vampire and be with him for eternity.”

“No I don’t and no I didn’t. I won’t be a vampire. Ever. I would rather be dead than be a damn vampire.”

“Bella?”

“Yes Jake?”

“You are… gay?”

“Yep, big time.”

“Does Charlie know?”

“Yep.”

“That isn’t true Bella. We are mates. Why would you pretend to be gay? You love me! You don’t have to lie to get Jacob to leave you alone.”

“I don’t know what the fuck you are talking about with this mate crap! I’m not mates or anything else with anybody. I’m not lying to Jake. I am gay. I always have been.”

“But why would you have been with Edward, Bella?” Carly asked.

“Nothing, I can get into right now. I want you all to leave. I will handle Victoria and I will handle the Volturi.”

Edward stepped away. Jake did as well.

“Bella that simply isn’t an option anymore. If you aren’t turned then the Volturi will consider us in violation of the law.” Carly explained.

“That sounds like your fucking problem.”

“Oh, this is great.” Rose was actually laughing. I have never heard her laugh before.

“So how many women have you been with Bella?” Emmett asked.

“A lot Emmett. However many you have in mind, it’s probably more.”

“That is so hot. I love your hair by the way.”

“Thank you, Emmett.”

“Bella, this is impossible. The first time I touched you… did you not feel the spark?”

“Yeah Edward. You were wearing a wool turtleneck sweater. It’s called static electricity. Maybe you studied it in all those high school science classes you have taken.”

“If you are gay why were you involved with Edward to begin with?” Carlisle yelled. He no longer seemed like the cool, compassionate doctor.

“Want to tell him Jasper?”

“Jasper? You knew about this? No!”

I suppose Jasper couldn’t keep his thoughts to himself any longer. Eddie just got clued in.

“We are coming in. Get rid of Black. He doesn’t need to know about this right now.” Jack told me.

“Jake, you need to go home. I will come by tomorrow and explain. Right now isn’t the time. I have to deal with Edward. Please leave.”

“I am not leaving you with…”

“Do as I fucking say now!” I screamed. It was 4 AM and I was fucking tired. Jake did leave at least. I think he was still a little shocked by my revelation.

I sat down on the couch and started reading a magazine. No one else in the room moved.

“Okay, Dante says Black turned wolf and ran off. We are coming in.”

The door was kicked in.

Hello gang. Fuck Arial was here. What the hell Jack? Vampires no problem, teenage boys and she has to stay away.

Arial sat next to me.

“Who are you girl?” Alice asked, flashing in front of us.

“This is Arial, my bestie. Arial meet Alice, the bitch who drugged and kidnapped me.”

“A pleasure.”

“Alice, back away from her.” Jasper whispered, flashing up behind her.

“Who are you and what are you doing in my house?”

“My name is Jack Webb, Dr, Cullen. Don’t bother running background checks. No one in this room besides Bella and Arial exist officially. I have as many identities as you do. At least in the last ten years. This is my wife Sasha, the lovely young lady on the couch next to my niece is my daughter Arial. The large gentlemen who wants to kill every vampire in this room is Dan Hawk. The tall gentleman behind me is Ty Gavin and the cowboy is Jason Connolly. Don’t bother with introductions. We know every one of you and everything about you.”

“Is that so? I suppose Bella told you?” Carlisle asked, back to being cool and collected.

“She didn’t have to. We have been listening to everything she has said and heard since she entered Forks.”

“Ty, Dr. Cullen is thinking of attacking us. Would you show him why that is not a good idea?” Sasha asked.

Ty hit the button I suppose, because every vampire in the room bent over trying to cover their ears. It wouldn’t help them.

Jasper was glaring at Jack who winked at him.

The noise stopped I guess because they all relaxed on the ground.

“What was that? You said my family would not be harmed!”

“They’re are alive, aren’t they?” I mentioned.

“You said you would protect my niece and your crazy fucking wife kidnapped her!” Jack yelled back. It was a fair point.

“You may have your little tricks Webb but you still can’t kill us. I would be careful how you speak to me.”

“Funny you mention that Whitlock. We had a package waiting for us when we returned from Italy that delayed our arrival.” Connolly told him. He then pulled a handgun from his back and fired at Edward. The sound didn’t even make me jump. I can’t say the same for the other undead bastards in the room.

Edward hit the ground, crystal shards surrounding him. There was a hole in his thigh. A big fucking hole.

“That was just the metal. It hurts doesn’t it Eddie. Wait until you feel the ammo Sasha has. A small electrical device that ignites on impact. It doesn’t take much to start your insides burning does it?”

Jasper moved for Connolly’s gun.

Holy shit. Sasha was in front of him before I could blink. She had the barrel of her handgun pressed against Jasper’s forehead.

“You may outrun me but never make the mistake of thinking you are quicker than I am.” she told him in a very calm, deadly tone.

“I see I may have underestimated you.” Jasper whispered and backed up.

“You have been holding back on me Sasha.” I told her, never more turned on in my life. She winked at me. God, she was so hot.

“Who are you people?” Esme asked.

“Majestic 12. We usually investigate aliens but things change. Everyone who matters knows about vampires and we know how to hurt and kill you. At this moment the US defense department is building weapons from a new top secret material, even missiles. Your son Jasper made a deal with us. We don’t go after you and he kept Bella’s secret. I considered that deal null and void when his wife kidnapped my niece but I am willing to stick to it under a few conditions.”

“What conditions?” Carl asked, still calm. It didn’t matter. I saw what he was. We all did with his little outburst.

“You are going to stick around and help catch and kill this red headed bitch.”

“No problem.” Alice said, glaring at me.

“Wrong red headed bitch, pixie.” I told her quickly.

“You are also going to help us solve this Volturi problem and then you are going to leave. I don’t give a damn where you go, just leave and never bother Bella again. You do this and you will be considered safe from any hunting parties that may take place. Whether you kill us all or not someone else will replace us. You can’t hide forever. You won’t be able to hide at all. You really want to be on our good side. Do we have a deal?” Uncle Jack asked.

“Or does Ty knock your asses down and I start killing each of you execution style?”

Connolly had a valid question. I hope the answer was yes.

“Of course we will work with you. I would do anything to ensure my family’s safety.”

“Glad to hear it, Dr. Cullen.”

“How do you plan to solve the Volturi problem?” Carly asked.

“We plan to kill them all.” Jack told him.

“It’s kind of what we do.” Hawk agreed. “We destroy.”

“Destroy what?” Rose asked.

“Anything we want to.”

Ty walked up to Eddie on the ground and patted his cheek.

“It’s a whole new world now ain’t it bitch? Think of it like a lunar phase. This is a new moon and it’s gonna be dark as fuck. Now you behave yourself. I hear about you snffin my girl’s panties anymore and you gonna get a visit from Uncle Ty. I’m bettin your doctor daddy can put those shards back on your leg. I promise you when I fire, he ain’t gonna be able to fix it. Later playa.”

We all walked out. I was nearly last, except for Sasha who wouldn’t take her eyes off the Cullens.

“It was nice to meet you Bella!” Rose of all undead creatures said.

“You had your chance, Rose. I’m over it.”

We walked to our vehicles but before I could get into Eleanor, Hawk’s big hand was on my shoulder.

“Yeah?”

I was worried about you kid. I got you a little something.”

He handed me a small black box with a switch.

“What is this?”

“Just flip the switch.”

Why not? I flipped the switch down and damn near pissed my pants.

Edward Cullen’s Volvo was twenty feet in the air on fire.

I started laughing. Arial was laughing.

I fell on my knees I was laughing so hard. I had tears in my eyes.

“Let’s go home Bella.” Arial told me wiping her eyes.

It was sun up when we arrived at Dad’s. He was of course waiting for us. Connolly handed him a gun and Charlie understood immediately, judging by how his eyes lit up.

We all sat on the front porch filling in Charlie on what had gone down. He was so upset he missed it but still had a good laugh.

Then she arrived in her little Honda.

“Angela?”

“Hey. I thought I would try to catch your Dad before work to see if I could get your mother’s number. You’re back.”

“I’m back.” No use denying it.

“Can I talk to you? Alone?”

“No.”

That caught her by surprise. It caught me by surprise as well.

“Please?”

“Anything you have to say you can say in front of my family.”

“Fine.” she sighed and was silent for a moment. It had to have been awkward. Maybe I should take her inside.

I looked at Ty.

“Fuck no, I ain’t leavin. This shit ought to be good.”

Angela’s shoulders dropped.

“I’m sorry I didn’t stand up for you before. I should have and I was a coward. I know I hurt you. You took a chance on me and I never really took one on you.”

“You haven’t told me anything I don’t know.”

“You are going to have to do better than that kid.” Hawk agreed.

“Last night I told my dad I was gay and in love with you.”

Holy shit.

“That’s pretty fucking good.” Connolly admitted.

“I knew this was gonna be some good shit.”

“Shut up Ty! Why did you do that Angela?”

“Because I would rather graduate high school being honest about who I am and with the one I love than live a lie any longer.”

“What… what did he say?”

“He told me to pack my bags and get out. I’m supposed to drop my car off today. I stayed with Jessica last night. I didn’t tell her what happened. I wasn’t sure if you would want me to or not. So I was wondering if you knew of any place I could crash for a couple months?”

“Holy shit.” Dad whispered.

“Yep.” I whispered back.

“You can stay with us.” Sasha told her.

“I don’t think that’s a good idea.” Angela and Arial said at the same time.

“It will be fine. I have gotten Arial out of enough trouble lately that I’m sure she can return the favor by being a gracious hostess. Besides we have two bedrooms that just opened up. We will be glad to have you.”

“Thanks.” Angela told her, but never took her eyes off me.

I walked up to her slowly and gently kissed her. It felt so good. We were in the open and I didn’t give a damn who saw us.

“Bella?”

“Yeah, Uncle Jack?”

“If she is going to be around, she is going to need a new iPod. Let’s get her settled and you get some sleep. Then we are going to have to go over a lot of paperwork with Angela and explain a lot of things. Don’t you agree?”

“Yeah. Yeah I do.” I kissed her again. Her arms wrapped around me and I felt like I would cry.