Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

The Human Strikes Back

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 14:

JPOV

“Hey Charlie I need to holler at ya in private.”

“Yes.”

“Yes?”

“Yes you can marry my daughter. That’s what you were gonna ask right? I know you don’t have to ask. I appreciate the respect you’ve given me by asking but we both know the two of you are going to do whatever you want. I’m just saving us an awkward conversation. I know you can support her and you may be the only entirely human man who could ever take care of her considering the shit she gets herself in, so yes.”

I nodded.”Appreciate it Charlie.”

“When you asking her?”

“Tonight”.

“Can’t wait to hear her answer son” Charlie said. “Did Bella ever mention to you that she hates the idea of marriage?”

“No”

“Hmmm must never have come up. Good luck son.”

That old sumbitch was smiling as he walked away. Was he jacking with me or was he for real? She wouldn’t say no would she? She never told me about hating marriage. She never brought marriage up either but I just assumed….

BPOV

After the meeting broke up I saw Jason run to catch up with my dad. I walked over to Jake.

“Hey how ya doing? You know I’m not sure since you’ve been avoiding me for two years.”

“You wanted to go on with your life and you did. I’m going on with mine.”

“So the other pack members can go on with their lives and still be friends with me. You don’t want to be friends?”

“I don’t see you as a friend Bella. I’m sorry you could never put me in the neat little best friend package you wanted me in.”

“You know what? Fine, you can’t fuck me so you don’t want to be friends then you don’t deserve my friendship.” Seeing his eyes widen almost made this conversation bearable. Almost.

“I’m not the same little needy girl who left two years ago. I’m an adult and if you can’t figure out how to be one too then we can’t be friends anyway.”

“I LOVED YOU BELLA!”

“AND I LOVED YOU TOO JAKE. It just wasn’t the love you wanted and I’m sorry. But if your giving me the choice between being your girlfriend or nothing then the answer is nothing. See you around Black.”

I walked away at a steady pace. I know every wolf heard that conversation. It was a long time coming. If I had any balls I would have had it with him 2 years ago. I knew I loved him but the fact that I didn’t love him more than Edward should have shown me it wasn’t romantic feelings. And Edward. I figured out after I was away, that without his dazzling I don’t know if I loved him or who I thought he was. This ideal man. He wasn’t ideal. He was as flawed as everybody else.

Jason was flawed but he seemed to love his flaws. He never took anything seriously until he did. At the Cullens was the first time I saw him in warrior mode and I have to say it showed me a side to him I loved. He showed me the side that would protect our children one day and would protect me with the same intensity.

He knew my flaws. He seemed to love that he knew them. He didn’t judge me. Ever. He didn’t hold me back. He fought with me and he loved with me and it was real and human and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Seeing Jake pouting in a corner made me question what would have happened if I had been in a relationship with him. Would it have been constant work keeping him happy? Being his Bells? Not gonna happen now. Tonight is Christmas Eve. I plan on going to Charlie’s and relaxing with Sue, Leah Seth and Jason and my dad. Tomorrow the pack comes to Charlie’s. Christmas Eve is for families. And this Christmas Eve we have the biggest family we have ever had. I’m so excited.

JPOV

Christmas Eve night

“Hey darling you mind if I invite my team over in the morning. They were just gonna hang out together but I thought since you know about them now would be a good time to get introduced and given them a little family time for the Holiday.

“Sounds like a great idea baby. I’m interested to meet this Serenity. Deadliest woman you have ever met huh? Is she like a major bitch?”

I had to laugh at that. “Darlin Sere is the happiest girl I have ever met. But there are some things you have to know about her. She can be a might strange to those who don’t know much about her. She is 20 years old. When she was 10 her parents started noticing that Sere could read stray thoughts. She also had this uncanny ability to see the future at times. She could read emotions of people at times to and tell when they were lying. Think about Nostradamus, GQ and male Blondie all in one. The problem is her parents freaked. They contacted a family friend who contacted an independent lab. This lab was under CIA contract and they were recruiting young kids with Sere’s ability to become remote viewers. Basically the CIA wanted these kids trained to spy from a distance. This was all well and good until a rogue scientist got in and started his own experiments. All of the children went insane eventually and killed themselves or each other. Except Sere. By the time the CIA figured out what was going on and had lost their entire project it was too late. Sere killed the scientist that had been experimenting on her. You see he wasn’t just making better psychics, he was making perfect assassins. This happened when Sere was 16. She was in the project for 5 years. She became a ward of the government since she had nowhere to go. Her talents were evaluated and she was deemed stable considering what she went through. But she has to be watched. She lives between all of the guys on the team now. She volunteered to be on our team because she wanted to do something and it was thought her abilities could aid us. The problem is she kinda gets overwhelmed at times. She’s a genius, a mind reader, and psychic and isn’t in total control of any of these abilities. She is not actively doing any of them all the time. It just comes and goes. What doesn’t come and go is her combat ability. She’s small but she moves with the grace of a dancer. She is skilled with any type of blade but the Katana is her favorite. She is a better shot long or short range than anyone on the team. She also sometimes speaks of herself in the third person so don’t let it freak you out.”

Bella seemed to be absorbing this.”She likes swords?”

“Yep”

“Can she teach me?”

“Funny you mentioned this because I’m gonna have you train with her. You two are built the same. I’ve trained you to defend yourself against someone of any size. But now that you know about Sere its time you learned to attack someone while being your size. Plus Sere has been getting tired of cleaning up after Animal and Joker at the apartment they share. She has been wanting to talk to me about moving in. She kinda sees me as her big brother more than her boss. But I told her I had to talk to you first and I wasn’t sure how I was going to do that since you didn’t know about the teams.”

“Well let me meet her and then we can go from there.”

“Great I will let the boys know to drop in tomorrow.

“One other thing before I get to cooking dinner.” I told her.

“Whats that baby?”

“I want you to marry me”

BPOV

I turned around at those words and saw Jason who I thought had been following me out of the kitchen on a knee with a ring box in his hand. I was not expecting this. I figured we would get married one day but it had never been big on my list and he had never mentioned it. Honestly I figured he wasn’t in any hurry to get married either. But there he was. A sneak attack. No romantic spot, no soft music, no candlelight dinner or drinking champaigne with a sparkly ring in the bottom of the glass. Just Jason, dropping to a knee and offering me a choice in the simplest manner I could think of. It occurred to me this was the first time I had ever seen Jason nervous. He just asked me to marry him. In the kitchen on one knee. Remember your promise Bella. Live life. And I would. With him.

“Yes.”