Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

The Human Strikes Back

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 07:

BPOV

The trip so far has been somewhat of a success. I slept great last night in the old room. I had to smile a little at breaking dad’s rule. I was worried about the noise but Jason assured me he was a trained operative used to operating efficiently while being completely silent. My silence was another issue but biting on a pillow helped. I had spent the morning grocery shopping with Sue to prepare for tonight’s bonfire.

I was a little nervous. What if Jacob was there? What would Jason think of my friends? What would the Pack think of Jason? What would the pack think of me? I knew I had changed in the past two years. Not just matured but physically changed. I felt good about my body and myself. I had confidence now. If Jacob was there I would just confront him with the same confidence I used when making cryptic remarks to my dad. That is a conversation that has yet to happen. I hope to talk to him this afternoon.

We drove up to the house and walked in to an interesting conversation.

“You can drive the Mustang if I can drive your patrol car and play with the siren.” I heard Jason say.

“It will have to be at night on a backroad” I heard Dad reply.

“Deal. Pleasure doing business with you Charlie. Now let’s get down to having some fun today. Where is the range?”

“What range?”

“The firing range of course. Don’t tell me your station doesn’t have one with all this open forest land around you.”

“We have a range behind the station. You up for a little shooting?” Dad asked.

“Charlie if you like my car, your gonna love the toys I have in the trunk. I am licensed to possess and carry fully automatic weapons you know.”

“SUE, we will see you girls later.” I heard Dad yell as he and Jason walked to the door. I got a kiss from my man before he walked out. He gave me that panty dropping grin that told me he had everything under control.

I took a deep breath. Sue chuckled at my current state. I looked at her and said “I’m gonna have his babies one day.” I had no idea where that came from.

Sue just looked at me and said “I know.”

“So Dad knows everything, huh?” I asked.

“Yep” Sue responded popping that famous P.

“How did he take it?

“He was upset after seeing Seth turn into a giant wolf after roughhousing with Leah. Billy had to explain the legends to him. That led to the Cullens and to you and the battle with the Newborns. He was not happy about your plans to run off and become a vampire. “

” No I don’t imagine he was. So how is he now? Why has he never mentioned this before?”

“Honestly your dad is proud you made the right choice and just wanted to move on. He understands you were young. I really don’t think he wants to talk about it now but probably will at some point with you.” Sue said.

I heard my phone ring and picked it up.

“Bella! It’s Alice! We are spending Christmas in Forks and wanted to see you and your new man!”

Ahh crap…..

JPOV

Shooting with Charlie was quite entertaining today. I held back a little but I believe he was still impressed. He got to play with some of my old toys. Too bad I couldn’t show him my “new” toys. Now me and Bella were heading to a bonfire on the La Push reservation where all her friends resided. From what I understand there isn’t much to do around here so I guess getting drunk around a large fire on the beach is as good as anything. I’ve done a few on Galveston Beach myself.

I was glad my team decided to take my trip to this area to discreetly check out the so called Black Hole. Vamps go in but they don’t come out. It’s like leech trap. I called Animal and told him of my findings of the giant wolf prints. He said they had seen similar prints and had been suited up since they figured even regular wolves must be able to smell pretty well. The weather around here made this a hotspot for vamp activity. All this damn cloud cover.

Satellites show vamps coming into the reservations and very high heat signatures attacking the absence of heat. The easiest way to see a vamp from the sky is to use infrared and look for the spots with no heat signature. Instant vamp ID. The problem now was figuring out what these heat signatures were. If we could figure it out it could potentially give us new ideas on killing vamps or it could be a bigger problem that we already have. Some of this stuff makes me miss overseas duty where I knew how to kill my enemy. Thank God for the suits. I wish I knew what they really were and where we got them but some questions are above my pay grade and it’s probably better I don’t know.

Besides just meeting Bella’s friends tonight I planned to keep an eye out for anything strange. My boys were out in the woods liking in the void and the least I can do is keep my eyes open. It’s too bad I can’t tell Bella about the team. I think she would get along pretty well with them.

We drove up to a red house and Bella told me we would be walking to the beach from here. We went through a path that cut through forest and arrived at the sound of crashing waves and the site of a rather large bonfire surrounded by logs. I looked around and saw several rather large body builder type Natives standing around the fire. None of them was wearing a shirt. They all turned to look at us at the same time. I don’t know how they knew we were here over the noise of the waves and voices but they did. I took a breath and decided when in Rome.

” So its that kind of party huh?” I asked and took my shirt off.