Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

The Bodyguard

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 18:

Ty’s POV

Damn what a fuckin mess. Connolly stood in front of Garrett to protect I don’t even know who. Leah finally stopped turning doggy long enough to listen to reason. Sue stood on the porch stuttering. Charlie kept waving around his little .38 revolver, I mean who the fuck even carries those anymore? Bella was trying to grab my hand and Momma’s to pull us back to the car. Momma wanted to rush to help Garrett. Connolly threw his shirt over Leah and dragged her naked ass back onto the porch where Charlie pointed a gun at him and he quickly, I mean ninja like, took Charlie’s gun, emptied the chambers and handed it back to him with an annoyed look while Charlie stood there gawking.

I couldn’t help but laugh.

I mean this was some funny shit. Leah just threw the word imprint out and looked at Connolly who said nobody should go overboard with that shit. The half Indian half brotha on his team Dante and the boy next door, John, just stood next to the porch passin money back and forth while they made bets on the action.

It was a damn comedy of fuckin errors.

“Everybody inside now!” Charlie finally yelled. They all stood around lookin at each other and since nobody had a better idea we all walked inside.

“Dante, John watch the outside.” Connolly said off handed.

“For what? Neighbors I am going to have to explain a bear attack to?” Charlie asked a bit exasperated.

“Vampires mostly. But yeah they can shoot your neighbors too if that’s a problem.” Connolly responded. That shut Charlie up.

We all sat down. Myself, Momma and Bella on the couch. Charlie in his recliner. Sue apparently had her own recliner and Jason and Leah sat on a love seat. Gonna have to find out what happened there. Garrett just stood lookin quite pissed off.

“So anybody want to go first? Sue? Bella?” Charlie asked.

“Me? I just came over for a visit. I had nothing to do with this. I want an explanation too.” Bella told Charlie and crossed her arms.

“Cut the bullshit Bella.” Sue told her.

“Fuck you Sue. Control your daughter and maybe this wouldn’t be a problem.” Bella responded.

“She just imprinted! She is a little wired right now!”

“There ya go. First it was her cousin stealing her man then her dad dying now its imprinting. Are you ever going to run out of excuses for her? Wait… who did she imprint on?”

“Jason.” Leah said and pulled him closer.

“Let’s not go crazy. We have things to talk about…” Connolly tried.

“You are going to protect the one guy whose job is to kill vampires, from vampires? That makes a hell of a lot of sense.” Bella said.

“What vampires? Who is a vampire? I saw my step daughter turn into a giant wolf!” Charlie yelled.

“I’m a vampire actually. That’s why I came to talk to you.” Garrett added quietly.

“Vampire? It’s fucking daylight! What are you on? Acid?”

“I can prove…” Garrett started.

“Ask your daughter Charlie. She dated one. I hear he was in her bedroom every night.” Sue said cutting Garrett off.

Wow. Bitch just threw down with my boo. Stupid woman had no idea she couldn’t win this one.

“Really Sue? You’re the one who married my father and let two werewolves live under his roof.” Bella pointed out.

“Are you talking about Edward Cullen? Edward Cullen was a vampire and in your room every night, Bella?!”

“Yep. Leech lover.” Leah added.

“Fuck you bitch! Yeah he was and he did Dad. You could ground me if it was five years ago. Now I suppose you will have to deal with it.” Bella replied back, getting very pissed. She bout to let the bitch loose. I been there to see it and it ain’t pretty. Based on what she did to Jake it may not be good for everybody. I know it was her making him scream. I know Garrett had something to do with it.

“How long have you known about this Sue?” Charlie asked.

“Charlie, it’s… I mean you have to understand that this is a secret. Except once your daughter found out. Then she decided to run her mouth to her boyfriend…”

“Fiancé.” I corrected.

“Hey Jake is the one whole told me. Besides it’s not like it was a secret. There is a book about it. I bought it in Port Angeles! How big of a fucking secret could it be? Hell Jason knew about you and I didn’t even know him!” Bella said, pointing at Connolly.

“Don’t bring me into this shit.” Jason said throwing up his hands.

“How long has Leah been able to do that? I’m guessing Seth can as well.” Charlie asked.

“Since the night Harry died.” Sue admitted.

“You’ve known that long!”

“It was a secret!”

“A secret my daughter knew. You know I can keep secrets. I kept ours for years!”

“Charlie…” Sue started.

“What secret?” Leah asked.

“That they were having an affair before your father died Leah.” Bella said tiredly.

“Bullshit!”

“Use your head idiot! They got married less than a year after he died!”

“Mom tell her she is full of shit before I kill her!” Leah said standing up. I stood up but Bella was in front of me first, walking towards Leah.

“Yeah, lie to your daughter Sue, before this bitch steps up and I leave her screaming on the ground like I just left Jake!” Bella said and stood in front of Leah.

Nobody said a word. The others were waiting on Sue’s response. I wondered if Bella realized she just admitted that she fucked up Jake. I looked at Garrett and saw he caught it too.

“Mom?”

“What Leah?”

“You and Charlie?”

“Yeah Leah.” Sue sighed. Charlie wouldn’t look up.

“For how long?”

Silence again. I wanted to hear this shit. I noticed Momma was leaning forward too. She loved shit like this.

“A while.” Sue said. Uh uh.

“A while could be an hour or a couple decades. Speak woman. We gonna have a confessional here lets have it.” I suggested /demanded.

“About a year after Seth was born.” Sue informed us.

“Oh my God.” Leah whispered.

“Can we… can we get back to talking about vampires and werewolves and whatever the fuck an imprint is and why one just disabled my gun in one motion?” Charlie begged. He then looked at me.

“Who are you?”

Huh?

Oh yeah.

“This is my momma Donna, Charlie. She wanted to come meet you.”

“Oh God.” Charlie moaned. “I’m sorry you have to see this.”

“Don’t be. This is great. Ya’ll got any popcorn?” Momma asked. She did love her popcorn with her soaps.

“If everyone would be quiet for ten minutes I will explain everything.” Garrett offered.

“Ten minutes?” Bella asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Okay thirty minutes. Please? No interruptions or wolf attacks for thirty minutes?” Garrett looked at Leah when he said that. She nodded her head mutely, I suppose still in shock to find out that her mom was getting a mustache ride all these years on a back road in Andy Griffith’s car.

An hour and a half later Garrett finished up. He pretty much included Bella’s story with that fucker Cullen and Jasper comin back and Connolly stated that there was some possibility that he may be linked to Leah but no studies have confirmed this. Leah said he was hers and dragged him practically on her lap, mentioning a bite mark and makin the American Jedi look a bit uncomfortable.

“So that’s everything Charlie. We should probably leave now. I’m sure you have some things you want to discuss with your family and…”

“Hell no. You are my bodyguard. You aren’t going anywhere.” Bella told him.

“Yeah, besides I got some questions for you and Leah’s ‘imprint’. ” Charlie spoke up.

“Like what Charlie?” Garrett asked.

“Why in the hell are you here? Why not Houston?”

“The President felt Houston was too high profile.” Garrett explained.

“So he figured you should dump a vampire battle in my area? We don’t matter? Is that what he is saying? That it’s okay to lure a bunch of vampires to Washington but if they are in Houston Texas, get them away immediately?”

Neither Jason or Garrett seemed in the mood to answer this one so I took it.

“Yeah Charlie. That’s exactly what he is saying.”

“I can’t believe I voted for the son of a bitch.”

“Shoulda voted Democrat. All I’m sayin.” I said.

“Charlie, it is just felt we have a better chance of containing the existence of vampires in an area with a smaller population. It will also be easier to protect innocents with less people around.” Garrett explained.

“But they are going to feed somewhere. So you are trading vampires feeding on Texans for vampires feeding on Washingtonians?”

“Is that really a word?” Connolly asked.

“What word?” Charlie asked.

“Washingtonians? Why not just call yourselves Washingtons?”

“Because it sounds ridiculous.” Charlie replied. I kinda agreed. Besides I needed to get Charlie’s head in the right place.

“Yes, Charlie. That is what we are doing. But they want to eat your daughter the most so that should be what you are focused on.” Garrett explained.

“They could be exposed as easily here! I am responsible for protecting these people!”

“Actually Charlie a wolf and vampire pretty much went toe to toe in your front yard not two hours ago and nobody has come to check and see if everything is okay. People see bigfoots here all the time. Somebody says they saw a big wolf or a superhuman moving at unreal speeds the only media who will send a reporter to this corner of nowhere is the Weekly World News and honestly they will probably just make a phone call. I mean that whole episode kinda proved out point that this is a great place for this to go down.” Connolly pointed out.

“You need to take Bella somewhere else vampire. It isn’t the problem of the people of Forks that she decided to fuck a vampire.” Leah added.

“I didn’t fuck him!” Bella snapped back.

“So what was he doing in your room every night Bella?” Charlie asked. Mom turned to Bella, apparently interested in this as well.

“We… talked.” Bella sputtered out.

“You talked?” Charlie asked.

“Is that like thinkin?” Momma asked. I was kinda wonderin too. I mean she said she didn’t but…

“No it isn’t!” Bella yelled quickly.

“What is thinking supposed to mean?” Charlie asked.

“That’s their little code word for havin sex. All that thinkin got your little girl with my grandchild Chief.” Momma told Charlie with a smile and a wink.

“Don’t Donna. Seriously. Look Dad I never had sex with him. I wouldn’t lie to you about that.”

“No you would just lie about living with a guy and then bring a very large black man home at Christmas and announce you are pregnant and getting married. We have a real open, honest relationship don’t we daughter?” Charlie asked sarcastically.

“Why you gotta bring race into it?” Momma asked before I could.

“I didn’t mean it like that. I love Ty. But come on. Look at the two of them! You think that might be something a daughter gives a bit of warning to her father about? She did that shit on purpose because she gets a kick out of fucking with me. I’m thinking she is dating a frat boy. You saying there was no way she could have dropped in a simple, hey Dad you know the power forward on my school’s basketball team that’s on TV all the time? Yeah I’m dating him. It’s pretty serious. I’m going to bring him home for Christmas. Oh I think I might be pregnant.”

“I play shooting guard Charlie. I realize I’m built like a power forward but that’s the beauty of my game. Power combined with the speed and agility of a shooting guard who can hit deep and dominate the lane.” I clarified.

“I can see your point a bit Charlie. What do you think Bella?” Momma asked.

“I think I’m getting questioned about my honesty by a man who has had an affair with his best friend’s wife for over a decade. Plus considering you were around for about a year of my life plus a few weeks in the summer I didn’t really feel like I had to explain a damn thing to you, Dad.” Bella came back strong like she always does.

“My girl got you there Charlie.” Momma agreed.

“Billy is his best friend.” Sue said quickly. Bella jumped on that shit quick.

“Yeah? Well Billy knew too this whole time Dad. His son has been harassing me, hell trying to fuck me since I moved here. He say anything to you about it? I’m not the only one with secrets. That fucker Jake tried to hurt my dog before I came here. He tried to touch me without my permission. He tried to scare Ty on Christmas Eve in the backyard remember? I’m done with all this shit. We are here. We are going to be at the Cullen’s place since Esme is my favorite vampire ever. We are just giving you a heads up Dad. Sorry the Federal government thinks your rain soaked dump isn’t as important as just about anywhere else in the world. Sue, go fuck yourself. Garrett! Let’s get the fuck out of here. I’m stressed and it’s bad for the baby. I need my bodyguard. Connolly we will see you back at our base of operations if you are able to get off your leash.”

“That shits not funny.” Jason replied, standing up.

“Jay?”

“What Ty?”

“Try hand feeding her. It worked for us with Feather. Dog behaves like you wouldn’t believe my man. Does tricks and everything. Later playa.”

Bella POV

What a fucking day. I needed to relax. I fucked Tyler Crowley in Edward’s car so I can sure as hell fuck Ty in Edward’s bed. Not like he ever used it.

What if he did though? Like by himself? Oh God I need to vomit now. I ran to the bathroom as soon as we stepped inside. Letting out the little food in my stomach I rose to see Ty behind me and… fuck no. Not now.

“Can we talk, you two?”

“Go away little brotha.” Ty told him, helping me out.

“Fuck that. Your girl gonna tell me why she got me wrapped up in a horror movie.”

“I don’t have you wrapped up in a horror movie. You are in a very nice mansion when you should be at school. Why can’t you just look at this like an adventure?” I suggested.

“Bullshit. I like school. You know how damn cold it is outside? That damn vampire… I didn’t believe him when Momma told me so he grabbed me and jumped a hundred yards in the air with me. Then he tore a fuckin tree out of the ground. All because these supernatural fools want to get their freaks on with you.”

“Watch your mouth Jeff.” Ty warned him.

“No Ty. Let him get it out. Come on Jeff. I’ll sit here and you can yell as much as you want at me. I won’t say a word.”

“Say another word and you gonna need a new grill. I ain’t payin for it either. Your toothless ass can work at McDonalds to save up money for it.” Ty told him.

“You know this is a fuckin horror movie Ty. You tellin me you feel good about this? You know how black guys do in these types of movies.”

“Yeah black guys who ain’t star players. I’m a star player. You got a supportin role. Hell you’re even wearin a damn red shirt like those dead meat mothefuckas from Star Trek. You’re whining just like all those punks in those slasher movies right before they get axed. You may as well put on a turtle neck and a pair of eye glasses bitch. I’m feelin damn good about my chances.”

“This is your damn ASU Jersey!”

“Yep. I’d kiss your ass goodbye if I were you. You yell at my lady one more time you ain’t gonna have to wait for no vampire to take you out.”

“Seriously how long did you know about all this shit Ty?”

“He didn’t Jeff. I never wanted him or any of you to find out. I hoped it would go away if I ignored it. I made a mistake. I’m sorry.”

“You ain’t got to apol…”

“Yes I do Ty. Just let it go.” I told him.

Please let it go. Maybe Jeff will just go away.

I looked at Jeff and was surprised to see the anger gone from his face.

“Ya know don’t even sweat it sister. This ain’t shit compared to what we grew up with, right Ty? Got some undead mothafuckas after ya we just gonna have to make em dead again right?”

“You sound like a fuckin idiot when you try to talk street, little brotha.” Ty told him.

I walked up and wrapped my arms around Jeff. He brought me in close.

“You know what I’m thinkin right now Bells?” Jeff whispered in my ear.

“I don’t have a clue.” I told him honestly.

“I’m holdin you close and thinking your boobs are getting bigger. I bet after you have this baby you gonna be sportin puppies just like Renee got.”

I pushed him back with a laugh and was glad to see him smiling. Maybe it would be okay. If nothing else I was glad he could still laugh about it.

“Ty you got a moment?” Ty’s dad asked walking out of nowhere.

“Yeah. I guess so. Stay away from my woman’s tits little brotha. You gonna be alright boo?”

I nodded and watched Jeff, Ty and Ty’s Dad walk out of the room. Before I could enjoy any silence though he was there, closing the door behind me.

“Talk to me Bella.”

“Why don’t you talk to me Garrett? What the fuck did you do to my head?”

“Nothing!”

I stared at him. He broke eye contact first.

“Okay look we discovered you aren’t exactly a shield.”

“What exactly am I?”

“A sponge.”

That didn’t sound attractive.

“Explain please? A sink sponge? A contraceptive sponge? What the fuck do you mean by sponge?”

“Your mind doesn’t block the gifts of other vampires. It takes those gifts and makes them your own. You have never been able to do this because your human mind was not strong enough to assimilate them. You could block some, such as Cullen’s mind reading and as you have gotten older apparently, Alice must have trouble seeing you. Jasper cannot affect your emotions.

Despite this the human mind does not have the power to use these gifts with any regularity. Occasionally a human may exhibit gifts but not with any accuracy.

During the tests, the lab technician realized you were absorbing these powers. He got a tad excited and for lack of a better word bombarded you with brain waves of gifted vampires we have been able to copy. You successfully absorbed them but…”

“But?” I had a feeling I wasn’t going to like this but.

“Something happened. The techs are still trying to figure it out. Your brain defended itself and as a result used more electrical impulses than a normal human brain should be able to exhibit. It looks as though your brain assimilated these gifts and has figured out how to access them when needed. As a result you were able to cause Jacob Black great pain.”

“That is a gift? Causing pain?”

“Yes. One of the ten brain waves we were able to copy. A girl named Jane in Italy. She has the ability to make others feel incredible pain without touching them. It is an illusion of pain but very real to the victim.”

“What else?”

“Jasper’s gift.”

I nodded, already figuring as much.

“A tracker named Demetri. You will probably be able to find people very easily. A female vampire who can become invisible. I suppose a correct term would be she makes others not see her by bending what they see in their own minds.

An Irish vampire who is a perfect lie detector.

Another vampire who can place others in a type of limbo, where they can hear, see, feel and smell nothing.

An Amazonian vampire who can place others in visions that seem incredibly real.

One vampire who could move objects with his mind.

One who can control the weather to some extent and another.

One who could fly.”

“Fly?” I asked.

“Yes levitation, and…”

“And?”

“One who could somehow bend the minds of others to not see the vampire. In essence becoming invisible to others. It’s not a physical gift in that any change happens to you. You just effect the optical nerves of others and they don’t register you.”

“You blew up my fucking mind didn’t you?” I whispered, not believing this shit.

“Bella relax. It is doubtful you would be able to attain that type of energy required to perform any of these gifts.”

“I performed the pain one and I wasn’t even really trying. If Ty hadn’t stopped me how do I know I wouldn’t have killed Jake?”

“Bella I will fix this. I promise. Until then though perhaps we should work on perhaps controlling these gifts, should you come under extreme duress such as today.”

“Work with you? Work with you? You are supposed to protect me and you have turned me into a human vampire hybrid mental weapon of some sort. How are you going to fix this Garrett? It’s in me now. You can’t reverse my brain waves can you?”

The look on his face told me the answer.

“I can’t believe this shit.”

“Bella I don’t have to reverse your brain waves. I just have to figure out how we unlocked that many neurons in the first place and how we can prevent them from opening again.”

“But you want me to learn to use these gifts and then you think I can put a dampener of some sort on it?”

“Maybe not. Just do your best to stay relaxed and stress…”

I suppose he noticed the look on my face.

“Look it is doubtful that so long as Jake stays away you would have sufficient reason to access these powers.”

He smiled, satisfied with that answer.

“So if I were to look at that remote control and reach out to it, it wouldn’t fly to my hand simply because I wanted it to?”

“Exactly.”

I reached out my hand and with a bit of concentration I felt a jolt of electricity in my head. The remote control near the TV flew across the room into my hand.

“Tell me more of your doubts Garrett.”

The look on his face told me all I needed to know. He didn’t have a damn clue what he did or what would happen.

He shrugged his shoulders.

“At least no one dumped pig’s blood on you.”

“God you are an asshole. Have you heard from Jasper?”

“No, why?

“You don’t find that strange?”

“Yes, I do but my main concern is Maria and keeping you and Ty safe. I will worry about Jasper later.”

“What if she has him?”

“I doubt…”

He shut up when he saw the look on my face. Good decision. His phone buzzed.

“Wow, looks like our R&D guys will be dropping something off by air in the next few minutes. Special request and all because of the work you did Bella. I need to be there to catch it. Try to relax. I have complete confidence that everything will be fine.”

“Lie.”

The word left my mouth before I could stop it. Garrett looked as if he was going to say something and decided against it, running off to pick up his air drop.

Great.

That motherfucker blew up my brain.

Ty POV

“Dad why we gotta walk out here? You know how damn cold it is?”

“Yeah. Beautiful ain’t it son?”

“Cold. Damn river is near frozen.”

“I guess had just gotten so used to the idea that I would die with prison walls around me, the cold doesn’t affect me. I still can’t believe everything that has happened.”

I guess I really hadn’t given a lot of thought to what was going on with him.

“How are you doin?”

“I’m scared son.”

“Dad we survived and killed those fuckers in the Walls Unit when we were outnumbered. We got better back up now. We got this. Don’t worry bout it.”

“I ain’t scared of dyin son. I’m scared of you and your woman and your mother and brother dyin. Me? I think I’m more scared of livin. Your whole life Ty. Your whole life I knew what I would be doing with mine. Sittin in a damn cell. Now? I got no idea what I’m supposed to do.”

“Don’t worry bout it Dad. I got ya covered. I mean you can’t live with me and Bella cause you would be noticed but I’ll get ya set up. You won’t have to worry about money. I’m sure Garrett has some ID or something for you. The guy is like an instant black market. You’ll be able to see your grandbabies. Hell grow a beard or something and I can get you season tickets. You can see me play in person. Don’t worry. I know we ain’t got the best relationship but I’m gonna take care of you.”

“I don’t want to be taken care of. I don’t want your money Ty. I want to try to live life on my own. Problem is I was never that good at livin before. The couple years sober I had with your mama was the best ones I ever had and I fucked that up. I gotta wonder what is gonna be different this time. Ty, I’m pretty damn scared.”

I wasn’t sure exactly what to say. There was so much shit we needed to get through and get done. When Momma told me that the wedding was in less than four weeks, I thought that was a short amount of time. Now I’m wondering if it will ever get here. If I didn’t have any answers how the hell could I give him any?

“I wouldn’t worry about the future too much Mr. Gavin. For you or your boy.”

I turned around slowly, a sinking feeling in my gut.

Look whose back.

“Cletus. You missed roll call.”

Jasper was smiling. I didn’t like the smile on his face. I reached back for my gun and realized I left the damn thing in the car.

Stupid.

“Yeah I decided to stay back and see if I could do some scouting. I couldn’t quite figure how Maria had over twenty vampires loyal to her without some kind of extra hold. I figured it out though. See she got a new boyfriend. A play thing really but one who is very devoted to her because if he isn’t she will have his human family slaughtered by her sisters. Playing on weaknesses is Maria’s gift. He is gifted as well. He has the ability to control other’s minds. Sort of plants a seed and can influence them to do his bidding. Or Maria’s bidding as the case may be.”

“That right? Sounds fascinating. So what did he influence you to do Johnny Reb?”

“I’m afraid he didn’t have to work hard. Just asked me to do something I’ve been wanting to do since I first laid eyes on you touchin my mate. I’m gonna kill you, take Bella, turn her and she will be mine. As it is meant to be.”

“If Maria wants you then why would she want you to have Bella?” I asked him, hoping some reason could get through.

That seemed to cause him a bit of confusion.

“I’m waitin.”

He shook his head and looked me in the eyes. This boy bout to go buck wild. His eyes were buggin like a crack head needed a fix.

“Time for you to die Gavin.”

“Dad run.” I said.

“I ain’t goin a damn place.” The idiot said behind me.

“He wouldn’t get far Gavin.” Billy Bob said stepping forward.

“You expectin me to back up or run you in for a disappointment. Ty Gavin don’t back down to no one. Let’s roll bitch.”