Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

The Human Strikes Back

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 36:

Jacob POV

We got the call at 5 AM from Charlie. Bella was going into labor and at the hospital. I got dad up and dressed and called Embry who would pass the message on. The first pack babies were about to be born. No Bella wasn’t Quileute and neither was Jason but over the past year they had become honorary pack members. We had killed vampires together. Jason had killed a Cullen. We were all a family in every way that counted. That made them pack. Plus Charlie had married Sue so technically Bella was the step daughter of an Elder.

Renee and Charlie were at the hospital when the waiting room filled with family. The past few months had been quiet. No major vamp activity. Jason stayed home with Bella and directed the hunting trips across the nation from the control room at Headquarters, which quickly became a haven for pack and Whitlock’s alike. At 5:05 PM, Sara Renee Connolly was born into this world. Emma Rose Connolly came at 5:07 PM. Identical in every way they both had Bella’s brown hair and Jason’s blue eyes. I was relieved when I looked at them that I didn’t do something stupid like imprint. I really didn’t feel like getting shot today by Bella, Jason or Charlie. Charlie and Renee held their grandbabies while Bella apologized for all the things she said to Jason over the past 12 hours.

I admit to being a little sad. I had always thought it would be Bella and I having children. But the look of joy on Bella’s face and the pride in Charlie and Renee’s faces wiped away any doubts I had that things were the way they were supposed to be. Embry and Quil, as if reading my mind walked up on either side of me and placed a hand on my shoulders.

Things were the way they were supposed to be. Everybody took turns holding the newborns. Sue had tears in her eyes. She considered Bella her daughter and Seth and Leah considered her their sister.

Charlie was even crying and Mr. Badass too cool for school Connolly was looking at his girls like he had seen the sun for the first time.

Something about babies makes the strong go to their knees.

JPOV

I can’t believe these two bundles are ours. They are so small. The doctor says they both weigh 6 pounds even but I doubt that. Me and Bella traded babies. I can’t believe I am a father and I have a family now. This is surreal. I never thought I would live long enough to have a family. My line of work doesn’t exactly give way to longevity. I had been running the teams from Headquarters. I had lain off going to the field wanting to be with Bella and take care of her. Plus our house has been going through renovation and I had to make sure the downstairs master bedroom and adjoining nursery were ready for the three greatest things to ever happen to me.

Serenity had moved in to the top floor, Bella’s old bedroom for extra security and to help with the baby. Also because she didn’t want to live with the guys anymore and Bella couldn’t turn her down. Another addition to the house that I was proud of was a fall back room. I don’t like to call it a panic room because we don’t panic in our home. But considering our lifestyle a reinforced solid steel walk 12 inches thick with a foot of concrete on both sides of the wall underneath the house seemed like a good idea. It could be reached from our master closet or the babies’ closet.

Peter walked up to me and congratulated me. Char congratulated Bella. Jasper wasn’t there. He was missing Alice. To his credit though he stayed true to his word. He gave us intel and went out with the teams. Rose would have been crying if she could and I think Emmett would have as well. Rose was overly emotional about Emma’s middle name being after her.

BPOV

I can’t believe my babies’ are here. They are so beautiful! Thank you God for giving me the three loves of my life. My two girls and Jason. Speaking of Jason, God do I hurt. I am never having sex again.

CPOV

Wow. Just Wow.

Two weeks later JPOV

I was once caught with my team in an ambush in Afghanistan in a valley while the enemy had the high ground. They kept trying to sneak into our position at night oblivious to our night vision. We had to stay up and take down any enemy coming our way. I got more sleep that night than I have in the past two weeks. Rose and Emmett offered to babysit at night since they don’t sleep. I am close to taking them up on it.

It was morning and Bella was up and at em in the kitchen. She was waiting to get the all clear to resume working out. I don’t know what her hurry was. She said after carrying two children around for 9 month she felt great now without the extra weight. I don’t know how she did it. She was running circles around me taking care of the girls, feeding them, cleaning them up. I was still trying to master getting a diaper on straight.

With all that though I was amazed at how my life changed. Serenity came down for breakfast and froze.

“Big brother, there are men in the forest behind the house. They have bad intentions.”

“Bella take the girls to the fall back room.”

Bella gave me a kiss and grabbed both girls and ran to the bedroom. I heard the closet open and instantly felt better. Nothing was going to get her or my girls there.

“Serenity, are they human?”

“Yes but they are thinking in Russian. I believe there are 6 of them.”

I called Joker.

“Sup boss?”

“Hostiles in forest behind my house. Packages are secure. 6 maybe more. Need backup Stat.

The dial tone indicated the call was finished and Serenity and I grabbed knives and handguns.

“What do you think? Russian mercs in the employ of the Romanians?” I asked her.

“Hard to tell. Time to play a game. Same game from that movie with the bald guy.”

“Whose the better killer?”

Serenity smirked. “That would be the game boss.” We both grabbed M -32 grenade launchers. Going out the back door we fired rounds into the trees. The resulting explosion should provide us with enough distraction to get into the forest line.

Once we reached the line and ducked behind a tree shots began to fire out. It appeared they were shooting at the house. I guess in the smoke and fire they didn’t see us run into the forest. Perfect.

“Serenity, left or right?”

“Right”

“Lets play.

Sam POV

I was finishing washing the dishes after lunch when I heard Leah howl. I ran out and phased. What I saw made my blood run cold. She was at the beach and watching what looked to be 20 vampires walking out of the water. I ordered Embry to phase back and call the Whitlocks and Jason and let them know what was going on. The rest of us ran towards the beach.

As we got to the beach they had all cleared the water. I knew there was no way that we could take them all. But they would not get to La Push.

Suddenly they looked afraid. I don’t know why. They had the numbers. Some of them were shaking. I found out a few seconds later when Major Jasper Whitlock descended from the trees. Peter, Charlotte, Rose and Emmett followed him. Embry phased back in and told me he had spoke to Animal and 6 humans were currently attempting to ambush Jason and Bella but they were taking care of it. I saw the Major walk up to the vamp in the lead.

“What is your business here?”

The vamp stopped trembling. I guess Jasper backed off the juice.

“We have come to kill the wolves of La Push. Stand back. This is not your concern.”

“I beg to differ. These men are my allies. If you face them you face me and my family.”

“You are a traitor to your true family, your mate and your kind.”

“So Tanya and Irina sent you, is that it?”

“Stand aside.”

“Sam?”

I nodded at him.

“This is your land, order the attack.” I gave the attack order as a missile came over the tree line towards the water line. An Apache helicopter rose from the trees. It’s good to have friends. With that distraction we made our move. The twenty vamps were down to 15 quickly as Peter and Jasper tore through 5 of them in seconds. I guess that story about Jasper being the most feared vampire alive (or undead) is true.

JPOV

I ran silently in a wide circle around the enemies’ position. I came up on one from behind and stabbed him in the spine and slit his throat. Yep I stabbed a man in the back. Not my fault he couldn’t hear me. I noticed he had a rocket launcher on him. Looked Russian. Glad I killed him. I don’t think home owners insurance covers explosions caused by RPGs. I ran around the next two trees and saw an enemy turn his weapon towards me. I flung my knife and it hit its mark in the man’s chest, buried up to the handle.

I kept running and grabbed my knife out of his chest and moved on to the next one. My next target was a sniper. He thought he was well concealed. He thought wrong. I whistled at him and when he turned I shot him in the head. I heard a scream in the forest farther down the line. Serenity was done with her three. She kills silently so if the guy is screaming it means he is the last one and she is making it count. She does not take kindly to people fucking with Bella or the babies.

Sam POV

The Apache hovered over the tree line. It’s main job now was to give battle intel to the controller at Headquarters and engage any vamps that got through. Myself and Leah took down a leech. There were still twelve whole vamps left and fighting. These were not newborns that I could tell from last time. They were calm and better fighters. I heard a howl and looked to see Quil go down with a broken leg. The leech was about to bite when Rosalie jumped on its back and bit through its neck. She picked Quil up and ran him to the tree line behind the battle and then quickly came back. Seth got thrown into the water and was jumped by two vamps. Paul and Jarrod joined in and Embry and Brady jumped in the water as well.

The vamps were quickly beheaded. I looked up and 6 were left. Jasper and I took down one. Jasper laid him out for me and I ran by taking his head. It was then that we saw her. A blonde came up from the water. I had a feeling this was Irina or Tanya. She ordered a retreat. The 5 remaining vamps ran into the water and the 6 disappeared. Like that it was over. I don’t know what the point of that was. I supposed they were meaning to take us out with numbers and had injured Quil and nearly injured Seth. But they lost 15 leeches.

JPOV

I met up with Serenity and forests edge. She had a smile on her face and a bloody sword. She froze again.

“Inside, three vampires. They don’t know where Bella is.”

We started walking back to the house. Neither of us had armor or rifles but the special ammo was in our handguns.

We knew they would hear us so there was no real reason for subterfuge. I motioned to Serenity to stay outside and wait for back up and then come and get me. Serenity motioned to me to stay back and wait for back up. A big part of me was very concerned with this plan. Although I knew the fallback room was as hidden and as safe as you could get from vamps I didn’t like the idea of my three girls being in there. I suddenly heard Serenity’s voice in my head.

/You promised Beall you would not do anything stupid./

I hate it when she does that. I looked over at her and stuck out my tongue. About that time I saw the three vampires walk out of the house through the back door. If it wasn’t my old friends Esme, Alice and some blonde I had never seen before. I bet this was Tanya.

Esme spoke first. “Hello Jason. We have Bella and the girls. Congratulations by the way.”

I knew this was bullshit when Sere looked at me with a roll of her eyes. They didn’t have Bella. But I would play along.

“What do I owe the pleasure of this visit Esme?”

“We are here to take care of some unfinished business. Mainly the death of my son by you and Laurent’s death by the pack.”

“Well the pack isn’t here as you can see.”

“Irina is taking care of them with friends of ours. This war you have on vampires is going to stop. My family will be back together. My son will be avenged. For this to happen you have to die. I hope you don’t take this personal Jason. As a professional soldier you understand how war is. Lay down your arms and I will kill you quickly and no harm will come to Bella.”

“My arms are kinda attached to my shoulders Esme. Can’t just lay them down.”

“I can arrange for them to be unattached if you want to go that route.” The blonde said.

“Tanya I presume?”

“Yes.”

“Alice can you see what I am about to do next?”

Alice looked worried for a second.

“No I just see you standing there.”

“That’s because I don’t plan to do anything. I don’t have to. By the way where did you find Bella and the girls. Bring her out so I can say goodbye.”

This time they all looked worried.

“Esme I am going to do you a favor. I’m going to do all of you a favor.”

“And what would that be?” Tanya sneered.

“I’m going to arrange it so you can see you Edward again.”

With that 24 Seals came out in full body armor holding rifles pointed at the vamps came out from the trees.

“Didn’t expect to get snuck up on did you?”

“Jason please stop!”

I looked up and saw Jasper running towards me.

“Jason don’t kill my mate.”

Well crap. He has been a good friend and a great ally.

“Fine Jasper but you better keep this woman under control. Esme, I understand you have issues with losing children but it doesn’t have to be this way. Go back to Alaska. Never come back here. Jasper were any of the wolves injured?”

“No and Irina escaped with 5 vamps who survived.”

“Tanya get your ass out of here too. Go back to Alaska. Don’t cross into Washington or leave the state again. AND DON”T YOU BITCHES EVER COME WITHIN A HUNDRED MILES OF MY WOMAN AND BABIES AGAIN, OR SO HELP ME GOD I WILL BURN EVERYONE YOU LOVE BEFORE YOUR EYES BEFORE I BURN YOU!

We understand each other or should I just kill you all now?”

Esme spoke. “I understand Jason. “

“Oh and don’t send Russian mercs to distract me anymore either. You claim to have valued human life. I can see by your gold eyes you still don’t drink from humans. But those men, as vile as they probably were had families. You sending them here to distract or kill me was sending them to their deaths.

By the way who is at the house in Denali?”

Tanya answered. “Our family remained there, three of them and Carlisle.”

I have two B 2 bombers that were dispatched with instructions to fly over your house in the event I or my family was ever attacked. If they didn’t hear from me within 20 minutes of the call going out they were to bomb the residence. Joker there made the call. I am going to call them now and call off the bombing. Understand I could have killed them today. My fight is with the Romanians, not you. But if you interfere again there will be no mercy. The only reason you are still alive is Jasper. Now get the fuck off my property.”

And with that they were gone.

BPOV

I sat in the fallback room and watched the whole exchange on TV. I understood why Jason let them go. It was a favor to Jasper and honestly I don’t think he saw them as much of a threat after today. From what it looks like Irina got her ass kicked and so did the three women upstairs. I don’t understand what there problem was. Or maybe I do.

They never held Edward responsible for anything. It was always somebody else’s fault. I don’t regret the hurt his death caused. Because if he hadn’t died Jason would be dead and that was just unacceptable. But I am sad that Esme, the most loving woman I had ever known until last year, has turned into such a bitter bitch. I know I will always keep my eye out for her. If I see her again I will kill her and Alice and anyone else is a threat to my family. I hope Jasper can keep these bitches in line.

Jasper POV

I can’t believe I almost lost Alice. I can’t believe the four of them attempted to attack not only Jason but the pack as well. This war is getting ridiculous. It is time to end this and I can start with my own family. I would accompany them back to Denali and we would get this straightened out.

JPOV

I ran into the house and into the bedroom. Bella was walking out of the closet with Emma and Sara. I hugged all three of them.

“Jason” Bella said, “This can’t keep happening. We need to find some sort of end game and bring this to a head. I don’t want our daughters growing up looking over their shoulders.”

“I know darlin. I will go speak to the Boss. It’s time to get this Romanian thing done and find out exactly who is on whose side. And I have a good idea how to do that.”