Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

The Human Strikes Back

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 05:

BPOV

Time to meet this little sumbitch. I watched my baby girl get out of a… okay I have to admit it is a cool car… and come running to the porch. I walked out and gave her a hug and stepped back to see her. “Glad your home Bells.”

Right then a 6’3 guy wearing blue jeans a white t shirt and a straw cowboy hat walked up and offered his hand.

“Chief Swan, it’s a pleasure. I’m Jason Connolly.” Okay so the handshake was solid. I knew this guy was military and a Marine so I was kind of expecting a Jarhead look. The cowboy look threw me slightly.

“Nice to meet you Jason. Please call me Charlie.” Sue insisted. I will admit Bella looked beautiful. She had shortened her hear to just below her ears. There were some type of blonde highlights in it. She had always been small and slender but seemed to have slight definition now where she didn’t before. I knew she and Jason worked out together. I was proud she learned to shoot and defend herself. But she had a confidence in the way she moved now. No more looking at the ground when she walked. No more slumping her shoulders.

“I appreciate you allowing me to intrude on your holiday sir. I look forward to getting to know you.”

“I’m sure we will have plenty of time for that. I’d love to hear about what you do for a living.” Hah, saw him flinch a little at that.

“I’m sure it wouldn’t interest you. It’s mostly consulting work on national security matters. But I would be glad to tell you about it sometime” Lie to me, he means.

“Sounds great Jason. National security fascinates me.”

JPOV

National security fascinates you? Yeah right. Old sumbitch is just digging. He really does not want to know what I do for a living. He does seem like a standup guy on first impression. Seems in decent shape and has a bitchin mustache. I would grow a mustache if I could have one that looked like that. Blond mustache’s just make you look like a porn star from the 70s. Black mustaches make you look like a fireman. Those are the cool mustaches. Anyway, focus Jason. Time to make small talk.

“So Bells tells me there is some great fishing around here.”

“You fish Jason?”

“Yes sir, I grew up fishing for large mouth bass and catfish. Now I mostly bay fish or fish off the pier for sand shark, or flounder or reds. It’s nice to relax and it’s always a fun time watching darlin here bait a hook with squid.”

“You fish Bells?”

“With Jason I do.”

“You never fished with me” I heard Charlie say.

“Will if you weren’t my dad, had 8 pack abs and muscles all over and fished with a shirt off I might have.”

That could have been an awkward moment until I heard laughter from behind. A Native woman was standing on the porch with a big smile and walked over to hug Bella.

“It’s good to see you Bella.”

“You too Sue.”

“If you boys are done sizing up your johnsons how bout we get out of the cold.”

And with that we were inside. I think that went rather well.

Sam POV

Bella Swan was back in Forks. I missed the heck out of her. Every Pack member did. We didn’t realize how much of a pack member she was until she was gone. The small things she did were missed. Cooking lunch for patrols that went through Forks, giving Paul as much hell as he gave her. Keeping Jacob happy. That last one was a big one. I understood why she did what she did. If I had been in her situation I would have done the same thing.

I phased and started patrol. Tomorrow night we were having a welcome back bonfire for Bella and she was bringing her boyfriend. All we knew was she had been living with him for a year which pissed Charlie off, that he was in the military, sort of, and according to Emily from what Bella told her, he was “Hot”. So naturally all the imprints were anxious to meet him. I hoped he didn’t turn out to be a dick. She deserves some happiness. The day she said she was not going to be a vampire was one of the happiest in my life. Probably for a lot of pack members too.

I felt Paul Phase in.

/Hey boss, have you seen him yet?/

/Who?/

/Swans man?/

/No from what I understand they were just driving in today/

/Damn, we need to meet this guy./

/Why the hurry Paul?/

/We have a poll going. We are betting on if the new guy is vampire, shape shifter or other./

/Nobody is considering that he might be a regular human guy?/

/Come on boss, this is Swan we are talking about./

He has a point. I wonder if Charlie has told her that he knows about us and the Cullens?

BPOV

I watched Jason take the bags upstairs. Charlie and him seem to have hit it off at first. I probably shouldn’t have made the comment about 8 pack abs. No reason to remind him that we were doing the dirty.

“Bella, can I ask you a question?” Charlie asked.

“Of course Dad.”

“When were you planning on telling me you were going to marry a vampire and hung out with oversized wolves?”

Uhhh….