Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

A Fresh Start

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 06:

Charlie POV

“Chief Swan, you mind if you leave your gun out here?” Agent
Tunney asked me.

I nodded. I said I wouldn’t kill the guy yet. I would have my chance.

I walked into the room where Reggie Cobb sat at a plain brown table tapping on the surface. He smiled at me. He had yellow, crooked teeth.

He was skinny. About 6’2, maybe 150 pounds. 30 years old
according to Agent Tunney. Dirty blonde long shaggy hair. Crooked smile. I was being watched by 6 FBI agents on the other side of the glass. They didn’t have to let me do this. But I could do what they couldn’t. If all of them happened to take a coffee break at the same time and Mr. Cobb fell out of his chair, those were the breaks of life.

So far Mr. Cobb had confessed to 80 rapes. He wasn’t worried. He
figured as long as they didn’t prove he killed any of them, he couldn’t get the death penalty.

He was right. Legally he couldn’t get the death penalty.

“Good afternoon Agent. Or is it morning? Or dark? I seemed to have lost track of time while sitting here, reliving the glory days.”

“I’m not an agent.”

“Then who might you be?”

“I’m the guy they send in to castrate rapists.”

That caught his attention.

“I doubt that is a standard practice of the FBI.” He said, finding his
smile again.

“I told you I am not an agent.”

“What are you then?”

“A father. You touched my baby.”

“I’ve touched a lot of Daddy’s babies. You are going to have to be
more specific.”

“Maybe. But this is the one that is going to be the end of you. The
one that got away.”

“Oh. Yes. The police chief’s daughter. My congratulations, Chief
Swan. She was a particularly fine piece of ass. You and your wife did well.”

I looked at the observation window and nodded. The recording light in the corner of the wall went from green to red. Guess it was time for a FBI coffee break.

I stood up and pulled the Taser from my pocket. He stood up. He
wasn’t handcuffed to the chair. I didn’t want him to be. He stuck his hands out and I brushed them aside and grabbed his throat.

“Keep your seat boy.”

He sat back in the seat and I kicked his legs apart. I stuck the Taser
in his balls and fired. He would never rape another woman.

The screams were loud. Music to my ears.

“Like I said. Electrical castration. Want to do it again?”

“Please no.” he whimpered.

“Good choice. Let’s talk about my daughter.”

“I don’t remember much.”

“You had her for what? Two? Three days? You remember plenty. You are going to tell me everything. If at any point I think you are lying or holding back I am sticking this Taser up your ass next.”

“What do you want to know?” he whispered. Not much of a tough
guy when he isn’t beating on and raping small girls.

“Let’s start with how you saw her.”

“She stopped at a gas station in Indiana. She was distracted. She
looked worried. She was alone. Her truck looked like it would break down any second. She put the gas pump into her truck and walked inside. I slid under and her truck and cut the fuel line. I waited. I followed her when she left. She ran out of gas twenty miles down the road.”

“Go on.”

I pulled up behind her and pulled my gun on her. She was scared.
She was angry too. I wasn’t used to seeing that. She was a fighter. I
walked her over to my car and chloroformed her. Threw her in the
trunk, took the license plates, lit the truck on fire and I drove off.”

“Okay. What happened next?”

“I took some uppers and hit the road. I drove southeast. I didn’t have a specific direction. I figured I would starve her a couple days and then fuck the hell out of her and leave her. Simple. I stopped a few times and tied her up and let her ride in the back. She just lay there not saying anything. Finally she started cursing at me so I put her back in the trunk.”

I clenched my fists. I looked up and saw that the green light was
back on.

“Next.”

“What? I drove. It’s what I did. I got tired of waiting. I ran out of pills. I pulled over on the side of the road and pulled her out of the trunk. I tried to fuck her. She kicked me. She clawed me. She gave me a scar. She was screaming about surviving fucking vampires and how she wasn’t going to be killed by me. Just between you and me, I think the girl had some emotional problems.” He chuckled. He’s a psychopath. Why am I surprised? Of course he is.

I gripped my chair. Not until you find out what you want to know,
Charlie.

“Next.” I gritted out between my teeth.

“I was bleeding. She hurt me. I took a small lead pipe, I kept in the
glove compartment and hit her over her head. I dragged her skinny ass out into the woods. I got ready to pull her jeans down when some cars came driving by. I got scared. I left her and drove off. That’s it.”

“Where… were… you?”

“I don’t know Daddy. I had been driving for 72 hours straight. I know I was in Texas somewhere. Or maybe Oklahoma. Could have been Northern Louisiana. I am pretty sure it was Texas though.”

“North Texas?”

“I don’t know.”

“East Texas?”

“I don’t know!”

“What sort of woods did you leave her in?” I asked him.

“What do you mean?”

“What sort of trees were there?”

“Fuck if I know. I’m no tree doctor.”

“Think real hard.” I lifted the Taser and fired it, letting him see the
little thin arc of electricity that would soon be roasting his tiny
chestnuts.

“Look man, it smelled like an air freshener out there. I remember
that.”

“Air freshener?”

“Yeah like those little tree things you hang on the mirror?”

“Pine?”

“Yeah! Pine trees! That’s what it was.”

“What city did you stop in next?”

“I’m not sure. I remember driving through Shreveport but I couldn’t tell you how long it was since I dropped her. I was really in the mood though. I would have gone back and gotten her ass. Fucked her up real good. But I couldn’t remember where I left her. I found a girl in Louisiana on the other side of Shreveport shortly after that. You want to hear about her? I fucked the hell out of her.” Sick fucker was smiling again.

“She just curled up and cried while I nailed her from behind. Your
daughter would have eventually too. They all cry eventually.”
I looked at the corner and saw the red light was on again. I decided I had all I was going to get from him.

“You realize you are going to die right?”

“You can’t get the death penalty for rape.” He looked scared though.

“No. The government can’t punish you like that. But I have friends. It may be me waiting for you when you are transferred between
prisons. You may have a failed escape attempt. You may be sleeping in your cell when two guys I pay in cigarettes rape you to death. Either way you will die. I promise you, that you will not suffer long in prison. You are officially on death row as of right now. Only there won’t be any appeals. There won’t be any delays that last years. There won’t be any re trials. Just know that when you die, whether you are getting gang raped and strangled in prison or dying in the dirt from a gunshot wound to your stomach burning your guts up, it will be me that caused your death.”

I stood up and walked towards him. He didn’t move this time. He just whimpered.

“What did you say? They all cry eventually? Let’s see how long it
takes you to cry.”

I electrocuted his testicles till he couldn’t cry anymore. When smoke started rising from his jeans, I stopped. He finally vomited on the floor and passed out. I walked out of the room and saw Agent Tunney there.

“Have a nice coffee break?”

“Yeah. Have a nice chat?” he smiled.

“Nope. I was never here. I would have had to be here to have a chat
with someone.”

“That’s true. It was nice not meeting you Chief Swan.”

“Nice not meeting you Agent Tunney.”

“If you need help on your search, you let me know.” He handed me
his card with a number written on the back.

“Thanks.” I nodded.

“Start in East Texas.”

“What? Do you know something?”

“No. I don’t know anything that you don’t. But I served some time in the Dallas office. East Texas pines. Starts around the Kilgore, Tyler and continues to Huntsville, kind of the whole border of East Texas next to Louisiana. A lot of pine trees, a lot of territory. A lot of small towns. But it’s the only place I can imagine he would have dropped her. Start with the local PDs in the big cities. Dallas, Fort Worth, Tyler, Huntsville, Nacogdoches. Pass her picture around. Somebody has seen her Charlie. She sounds like a fighter. She isn’t dead.” I nodded. He was right. It was time I stopped acting like she was dead.

“Thank you, Albert.”

“Don’t thank me. We never met and you were never here.”

Jake POV

We stood in the clearing, waiting for the Cullens to strike first. We
could hear the footsteps of the oncoming vampires. We were tense
but ready. The Cullens were in the clearing. We saw them rush the
newborns. Must have been twenty newborns. We attacked.
The newborns fought hard. But we didn’t see the one we were after.

Not until Edward Cullen left. He took off like a bolt of lightning
running away from the battle. I thought he was running away at first because he was scared but then I remembered. He wanted to die.

Sam and Leah took down the last newborn. I ran after Cullen. I
heard Emmett Cullen following behind me. We came up to a cliff face and saw him. Victoria and another male vampire had his arms
pinned behind his back.

Fuck no.

He didn’t get off that easy.

I took the red head and Emmett took the male. Edward screamed at us. Victoria fought well. She was fast, she was strong. She was
vicious.

She was no fucking match for me.

I couldn’t save Bella from these creatures ruining her life. But I could do this. I tore the bitch to shreds. I phased human to burn the bitch and saw Emmett Cullen walking up with body parts. Edward was still lying on the ground. Looked like he was crying.

“Why? Why didn’t you let her kill me?” He yelled at me.

“You fucking coward. You pathetic boy.” I whispered.

“You should want me dead!”

“No! If I thought she was alive, I would have let that bitch kill you and you would be burning beside her. But she is dead. So you don’t get to go where she is. I’m not taking the chance that you might slip into Heaven. Not like that. Not that easy. You are going to live with what you did to her!”

“Edward. Alice texted me. We have to go. The Volturi are here. Not
Aro. Just the guard. They want to speak to you.” Emmett said quietly from the side. Edward had a gleam in his eyes. He ran off.

“Don’t let them kill him, Emmett.”

“Don’t worry Jake. I won’t.”

Emmett Cullen was gone. I needed to check on my pack.

I ran back and saw everyone in the tree line watching. I looked and
saw four strange robed vampires talking to the Cullens. Edward tried to attack the big one. He was stopped by Emmett and Jasper. Then he dropped on the ground rolling in pain. I thought at first he was being a drama queen but saw Esme was begging the little girl to stop. I looked at Sam who nodded. Vampire power.

These were the Italian leeches that had Bella in their hands?
I felt tears in my eyes. Poor Bella. Why did you have to be so fucking stupid? Why couldn’t you ever see he wasn’t worth it? A fucking coward. He didn’t deserve you. Why didn’t you come to me? Why run Bella? I could have protected you. All of us. Every member of the pack would have protected you.

It wasn’t enough. She thought she had to leave to protect us. We left when they did. I walked into my house and saw Dad on the phone.

“I will let him know, Charlie. Yes, he will be there. Good luck friend. I hope the Spirits bless your journey and you bring her back home to us.”

Dad hung up and turned towards me.

“Everyone safe?”

“Yes. We won.”

“Good. Sit down.”

I remained standing.

“Charlie okay, Dad?”

“Jake sit down. Charlie found some things out. He found out what
happened to Bella. He spoke to the… man… who took her.”

I think my heart just stopped.

“So someone did take her.” I whispered. I mean I knew it… but
Charlie talked to him?

“Jake sit down son. This is going to be a lot to take but you need to
know. Then you need to go to Sea Tac. Charlie has a plane ticket
waiting for you. You are going to Dallas, Texas. You are going to help him find Bella.”

“He thinks Bella is alive?”

“There is a good possibility. The man who took her was a… rapist.
But Charlie says he didn’t get to rape her. Supposedly this guy
knocked her out and left her on the side of the road somewhere
between Dallas Texas and Shreveport, Louisiana.”

“Why hasn’t any one found her?” I whispered. Rapist? Oh God…
only Bella.

“He doesn’t know son. But he needs your help searching. I would go but I would only slow him down.”

“Of course Dad. Tell me everything while I pack.”

Could it be possible? It was better than nothing. I would say nothing. To anyone. I couldn’t take the chance of the Cullens finding out she might be alive. I couldn’t take the chance of one of the Pack being close enough to let him.

I picked up the phone.

“Sam?”

“Jake.”

“I have to go away for a while. I don’t know how long. A few weeks
maybe. Maybe longer. Sam I can’t tell you why.”

“Jake we just defeated one army but you saw those Italians. We
have no way of knowing if they are going to be back. What the fuck is so important that you have to leave now?”

“Sam… as a Pack brother, I need you to trust me. I can’t tell you. If
the Cullens were gone…”

“My thoughts aren’t safe.” He said, understanding.

“No. I have to leave.”

“Does this have to do… nevermind. I don’t want to know. I will call
you when they are gone. Will you tell me then?”

“Yes. And don’t ask Dad. He knows. Sam, it’s important.”

“I understand, Jake. Do what it is you have to do. I will be here to
make sure the Cullens leave.”

I ended the call while packing my bag.

“What time does my flight leave?”

“Five hours son. Sue is giving you a ride. She doesn’t trust your
Rabbit to make it. She just doesn’t want any chances taken that you might miss your flight. Bring her home, son.”

I nodded my head and ran to Sue’s house, bag in hand. She was
already in the car.

The odds of Bella surviving an attack by a serial rapist and being left on the side of the road with a head injury were slim. But she always beat the odds. She probably woke up and decided to keep hiding. That’s why she didn’t contact us.

Wherever she was though, she had to be miserable. Alone. Scared.
The thought broke my heart.

BPOV

“Oh fuck yes, right there Bo!”

I was currently bent over my desk in the shed. His hands were
wrapped around my waist nearly touching each other. For a while I
was so tight it hurt a little every time we made love. But we had…
molded to each other, I guess you could say.

“Play with my… Oh yes there it is….” I whispered when his right
hand left my waist and went straight for my clit. Oh good lord I love sex. I can’t believe I waited so long for this. I’m glad I did though. I was horrible at first at giving him a blowjob. I guess I had never done that before either. But I got better. My girlfriends gave me tips. This was worth it though. I don’t know what I felt before but I felt so complete when he was in me, touching me. I got hit by an orgasm out of nowhere when he pinched my clit and hit my favorite spot at the same time. I guess it was too much for him and he came too. Damn that was going to be a mess. I just showered, to get ready for the day and he ambushes me at the work place.

“Mary you… I’m sorry. You walked out and the sun hit your hair and your waist was swiveling in those low cut jeans and I just kinda lost it.”

“Don’t you ever apologize for that.” I whispered, kissing him while
pulling up my jeans. I sat down at my desk and tried to organize the order forms and bills that we had just knocked all over the place. Bo was about to start the power drill. I was going to put my ear plugs in because I can’t stand that whiny screeching noise it makes when I heard it. A knock at the door. Steph was at work and Hunter was staying with a friend.

“Bo, you hear that?”

“Yeah. Let me go check it out. Probably one of our idiot friends. We
ought to start hanging out with a higher class of people, ya know?”

He was smiling. We both loved our friends. They were like family to him and were quickly becoming family to me.

I followed him around the front to see Fred Bronkowski standing at our door. My heart stopped.

I was actually afraid he may have found something. It was
unreasonable of course but things were going so well. I didn’t need
this or want this now. If anybody was looking for me they would have seen my face and fingerprints on the missing person’s database a long time ago. Fred told me so.

Bo tensed up too.

“Mornin Fred.”

“Bo! Mary!”

“Hi Fred.”

“I probably don’t want to know how you got that ID do I?” Fred
smiled.

“Nope.” I replied smiling back.

“Well you two seem happy. When I saw Bo with you in the hospital I knew you two were made for each other.”

“What can we do for you Fred?” Bo asked. He was smiling but it
wasn’t real. I walked up and wrapped my arm around his waist. I
hated seeing him tense.

“I actually just came to let you know that I am retiring. Tomorrow is my last day. Movin to San Marcus. Got a teaching job up there at
Texas State and its closer to my kids.”

“Congratulations.” I told him.

“You came out here to invite us to your retirement party Fred?” Bo
laughed. It still didn’t sound genuine.

“No. I actually wanted to know if your Mary here wanted to take
some fresh photos and fingerprints for the database? Since it has
been a while the case is going to be closed. I thought maybe she
might want to give it one more try. Maybe the fingerprints smudged or we can try a face that didn’t just come out of the woods and see if the facial recognition software may pick up something new.”

Bo looked down at me but I already knew the answer.

“No.” I told him.

“No?”

“No. I’m happy. You really think the picture or the fingerprints was the problem?”

Fred took a deep breath.

“No. I thought for sure when Bo found you that we would have your identity cleared up in no time. I gave your picture and prints to the technician that day and just sat back and waited for a hit. Nothing ever came up. I thought for sure it would.”

“It wasn’t your fault Fred. I don’t care who I was. I’m happy with who I am. Let’s just leave it alone.” I told him.

“Okay Mary. Bo, you are a lucky guy. You make an honest woman
out of her.”

Bo nodded. “I plan to do just that. You send me you address and you will get an invite to the wedding. You were there when this started. It’s only right that you are there when we get married Fred.”

Fred nodded his head, shook Bo’s hand, hugged me, and drove off.

turned to Bo who was finally smiling a genuine smile.

“It’s over. Actually over. You don’t have to worry anymore.”

“I wasn’t worried.” Sure he wasn’t.

“Now what is this about a wedding?” I asked. We hadn’t really talked about it. I figured he would bring it up when he was ready. Honestly I thought of us as a married couple already. A ring didn’t matter.

I mean it would be nice.

But it wasn’t important.

Yeah. It kind of was.

I mean I slept with him, I washed his clothes, I did his books. Hell, I even helped him sand his furniture and deliver it.

He better be planning on marrying me.

It was important.

“Well, come inside. I got something to show you.” He grabbed my
hand and pulled me inside.

“I wanted to do this at a fancy restaurant or maybe the Rose
Gardens in Tyler. But since you brought it up.”

He pulled a box out of the cabinet. His cabinet. Where he kept all his junk.

“Bo, did you?”

“Yeah, I did.”

“When?” I asked, my breath catching a little in my chest.

“About three months ago.”

“You’ve had it for three months?”

“I was waiting for the right time. But since you brought it up, you
think you can be quiet long enough for me to get on one knee and
ask you proper like?”

I was already tearing up. This was going to be bad. I would be
babbling.

“What makes you think I will say yes?”

“I don’t know. I guess I will just have to take a chance won’t I?”

He got on one knee and opened the box. Oh my God it was
beautiful.

“Marianne, will you marry me?”

I was crying. I couldn’t help it.

“Y.y. .”

He slipped the ring on my finger.

“We aren’t getting any work done today are we?” I asked, already
knowing the answer.

“Hell no. We are going to make love all afternoon then we have a
party to plan tonight.”

“A party?”

“Hell yeah. An engagement party. You call everybody and I will be in bed getting naked.”

“Why do I have to call everybody?” That didn’t seem right.

“They like you better. Tell you what, I’ll call my boys and you call your girls.”

“We really need to get some work done today.” I reminded him. I felt I should remind him. It was the responsible thing to do.

“Yeah. You go run that power drill and I am going to be in the
bedroom waiting on you when you are done.”

“Fine. Let me make the calls.”

I woke up the next morning with my legs on the bed and my face an inch from the floor. My head was killing me. I dragged the rest of my body up on the bed. I realized I was completely butt naked and was very glad the door to our room was closed. I saw a gleam on my hand and looked at my ring. A single solitary setting on a gold band.

It was so beautiful. And big. I think I liked big. What the hell
happened last night?

Bo was snoring. My panties were wrapped around his head. One of
his arms was tied to the bed post with my red bra. My head felt… oh God, my head felt horrible. He had lip stick around his… I ran to the bathroom and was relieved to see it was the same shade I had on.

I threw on a pair of shorts and a t shirt. I thought about taking my bra from around Bo’s arm but he looked so cute lying there. I did take a picture of him on the I phone he got me. Just from the waist up. That was going on the greeting table at our wedding reception.
I walked into the living room on my way to the kitchen to grab
Tylenol. I needed Tylenol and water. Lots and lots of water. Then I
would puke and drink more water. I didn’t drink a lot of alcohol. But I had been known to pray to the porcelain god on occasion. Usually with Bo holding my hair and laughing his ass off while I swore never to drink alcohol again.

Holy shit.

It looked like a massacre without the blood. Bodies everywhere. Tina was laid out on the coffee table in her bra and panties. Troy was laid out on the floor next to her. He was in boxers and had a poker dealers visor on with a card stuck in the band. Beer bottles were everywhere. Steph was on the couch with Todd on top of her. The rest of the girls all had their clothes on. No wait. Those weren’t their clothes. I remembered. They switched clothes last night for some damn reason. It seemed funny at the time. There was a bra hanging from the ceiling fan. Ribbons were all over the place. I grabbed some Tylenol and a large glass of ice water and walked out to the back porch. There was a big blow up swimming pool on the slab. What the fuck? I walked up to it and screamed. I peered over again and realized someone had put a stuffed deer head into the pool. It was floating. I looked farther out in the yard and saw a tarp and our water hose running over it. At the end of the tarp was a body. Looked like Chris. I ran to where he was lying on the ground. Apparently he had made a home made slip and slide. He must have been the last one down. He was naked. His shirt was next to him so I draped his shirt over his, yeah… God I’m a lucky girl judging by that. Something was on his head.

Someone wrote ‘I love dick’ on his forehead with a sharpie.
Someone also put lip stick and eyeliner on his face. That’s gonna be hard to clean off.

The back door slid opened and Bo walked out. He had put his
boxers on. My panties were still on his head. He sort of looked
around and shrugged his shoulders.

He walked up and kissed me.

“Wow. Things kind of escalated quickly last night, huh?”

“Yes. Yes they did.” I replied. Bo looked down at Chris.

“Chris wound up on the naked slip and slide again. What a dumbass. He knows he always passes out on the naked slip and slide and he knows Adrian always writes ‘I love dick’ on his forehead. Some dumb asses never learn.”

“Bo, there is a deer head in that pool on the porch.”

“Yeah, that’s Marvin. He belongs to Kevin.”

“Oh. Okay.”

Bo stretched his arms over his head.

“What do you say you get some breakfast started and I will get to
work?”

“Work?”

“Yeah. Can’t party all the time Mary. We got to be responsible.” He
winked at me and started walking to the shed.

“Bo, you are in your boxers. You can’t work in your boxers.”

“Won’t be the first time.”

“My panties are still on your head!”

“Yeah, I like them there.” He replied still walking to the shed.
I didn’t want to know. But I had to know.

“Bo did I do anything stupid last night?”

He finally stopped walking. He turned around and smiled.

“Define stupid.”