Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

The Human Strikes Back

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 34:

Peter POV

This fucking idiot. Any damn one of us could have killed Cullen with two arms much less one but no he has to be the one to do it and nearly get his ass blown up in the process. His heart rate was slow and faint. Maybe what Carlisle said about internal injury was true. The armor protected him again the shrapnel and fire but not the impact. I doubt anything is designed for that. It doesn’t have to be. Because who the fuck would think about blowing up a grenade within inches of your body? This dumbass, that’s who.

I didn’t slow until I got to the hospital in Seattle. Carlisle walked in a few seconds behind me. He gave out his credential and explained that Jason was in a high impact car crash and a room was needed ASAP. Carlisle began examining him and I walked out to the waiting room. After an hour I debated whether I should call Bella. I’m sure someone already has.

BPOV

Something is wrong. I can feel it. “Rose have you heard anything yet?”

“No Bella.”

“This should have been over by now right?”

Emmett tried to comfort me.”Bella chill, I’m sure these things take time. They are probably busy with cleanup or something.”

“No Jason said he would call as soon as it was over. He wouldn’t lie to me. He knows how worried I get.”

“Bel…” Rose turned towards the door and growled. Not again. This time though there came a knock on the door. Rose opened the door with Emmett behind her.

“Mrs. Connolly?”

“I’m Mrs. Connolly” I told him pushing in front of Rose.

“Ma’am I’m Agent Gray with the FBI. I have been ordered by my superiors to accompany you in a chopper to Seattle General Hospital. It appears your husband has been in some sort of accident. That’s all I was told.”

“She goes nowhere without us. We are her bodyguards and have been ordered to stay with her at all times.” Rose helpfully put in.

“I understand ma’am. Plenty of room on the chopper.”

An accident. I called Sam and received no answer. I called Serenity and she picked up. She had been crying.

“Serenity what is wrong with Jason baby girl?”

“He’s asleep and won’t wake up. The doctors say he has internal injuries but they aren’t sure what they are yet. They thing his brain is swelling.”

“What happened?”

“He stuffed a grenade in Edwin’s mouth! And it went off! With big brother right there!”

“Serenity I am on my way, I will be there in an hour or less.”

He stuffed a grenade in Edward’s mouth causing it to blow up with him right next to Edward. Can the suits even take that kind of damage? I don’t suppose anybody has ever been dumb enough to try. God he better be okay. I’m going to kill him. He promised me nothing stupid.

Peter POV

“Char did you call Bells?”

“No I thought you would.”

“Sam did you call Bells?”

“Uhh no, I thought we wanted to find out more first.”

“Oh shit, she is gonna skin us alive for not telling her immediately. Who is gonna make the call? It has to be now.”

“Don’t worry about it, I called the boss and the boss is sending a helicopter for her to come up here.” Animal said.

“Is that even safe for her to be flying pregnant?” I ask.

“It’s fine, moron” I hear Serenity say. Weird chick that one.

“What the FUCK!” None of you assholes thought to call and tell me my husband was in the hospital?”

“Hello Bella”

BPOV

I arrive to find the pack, the team and Peter and Char in the waiting room. Not one of these numb nuts has thought to call me and only Serenity picked up the phone.

“Where is Jason?

“Carlisle is with him” Petey says.

“How bad is it?”

“No idea Bella. Not sure even Carlisle knows how bad it is.”

“Where are Alice and Jasper?” Rose asks.

Sam cleared his throat. “They stayed on the mountain to burn Edward’s body and pray over it. Alice was pretty upset.”

“Alice was upset? That motherfucker tried to kidnap me, kill my loved ones, had Rose attacked and she is pretty upset?”

“Bella you got to calm down. It’s not good for the baby. ” Emmett whispered to her.

“Get me to my husband Em.”

I walked through the hall way and entered the observation room to see Carlisle standing over Jason. I have never seen Jason look so helpless.

“How bad is it Carlisle?”

“Bella I am fairly certain he is going to live. He has a bruised sternum and a mild concussion. He has some fingers that needed to be set in both hands but nothing shattered. He has a dislocated shoulder but that’s been popped back in. I am basically hoping for him to wake up on his own rather than having to use smelling salts to wake him up.”

“Carlisle give me the smelling salts.”

“Yes Bella.”

I placed the fowl smelling substance under his nose and saw him begin to twitch. He opened one eye and then the other. He adjusted his eyes to the light and looked over at me.

“Baby what’s wrong? Did somebody get hurt?”

“You did you asshole. You’ve been out for two and a half hours and you had me so scared.”

“Darlin I told you. If I get taken out its not gonna be by a stupid shiny Volvo owner.”

I laughed. Not because it was that funny but more from relief. No brain damage apparently.

No more than normal.

“Darling why did you stick a grenade in Edward’s mouth?”

” I didn’t have my gun and he was about to say you were his and you know how much that pisses me off so his mouth was open and I had a grenade and one thing led to another and his head blew up. You gotta understand darlin, these things happen.”

“I understand baby. How do you feel?”

“Like, like….pretty fucking bad.”

“Good, remember this next time you think of doing something stupid.”

“How’s little one doing?”

“Besides making me vomit every couple hours she is happy as can be.”

“She?”

“Some things a mother knows.”

“Yeah I think so to.”

JPOV.

I was released the next day and we headed back to Forks for debriefing. As long as I kept taking Tylenol extra strength and nobody touched my upper body and I didn’t move my shoulder or fingers I was not in pain. So I had that going for me, which is nice.

Debriefing was not pleasant. The mission went according to plan except for the part about the mission leader splitting forces so he could take out one vampire by himself and then nearly got himself killed in the process. Between Bella and the Boss I’m surprised I didn’t have to write ‘I won’t be a dumb fucker’ one hundred times on the chalk board.

We were told there had been no unusual movement from the Romanian Siberia compound in response to our destruction of the Olympus compound. A cynical part of me that I always listen to made me think that they placed so few assets there to appease Cullen and test our strength. I mentioned this and it was agreed that from this point on that the enemy knows what we could potentially hit them with.

We were ordered to stay in Forks for the time being. Island life was going to wait a little longer. I swear the Boss is in on it with Bella to keep me here. It’s starting to grow on me though.

Charlie was especially nice to me. Killing Edward Cullen had been a dream of his for a long time and I got to live the dream. Bella went from clinging to me like my life depended on it and being pissed at me for being stupid.

“Baby I’m sorry. I swear never to do it again.”

“But you might do something else stupid Jason. It’s a dangerous game we are playing and what did you tell me? We have to keep the baby in mind now. She is going to need both of us.”

“Your right sweetie and after this Romanian thing has died down I will quit, I promise.”

“You would do that for us?”

“Baby there isn’t anything in the world I wouldn’t do for you. You and our baby are my life.”

She ran up to me and hugged me. I could feel her slight baby bump against my waist and I would be lying if I said it didn’t turn me on. We made love and talked into the night till she fell asleep in my arms.

The next morning we made breakfast together. I was determined to run today but the idea of laying in bed with her and then eating breakfast together was too much to pass up. Maybe it was time to move on anyways. I was quickly losing motivation for the job. But I still had a bunch of pissed off vampires after me and couldn’t just quit now. Me and Bells and the kid would always be looking over our shoulders. I don’t want to live like that.

I got a call from the Boss that morning. Apparently the Romanian leaders had sent a video to the head of the CIA who showed it to the President. He forwarded the video to me. I watched it on my laptop with Bella on my lap. Two Count Chocula looking dudes were in a room with a dark background. I’ve seen student films better than this. In the video they stated that they planned to set up a vampire government to rule vampires in America and keep them under control. For this service the United States would promise not to become involved with Vampires in anyway. This included stopping vampires from feeding on humans as we were part of the natural food chain and should know our place. They went on like this for a while and finally ended it by turning into bats and flying off. Just kidding they didn’t turn into bats.

The President was not amused by this video and has issued an executive order that any and all hostile vampires on U.S. soil posing a danger to humans were to be considered a clear and present danger to national security and were to be exterminated. I was then ordered to report to Langley Virginia to go over the new weapons developed for killing vampires.

The Boss informed me that we would be receiving new recruits in the next couple weeks. It has been decided to let the team have more men and more suits were being built. The Boss also understood that I would be looking to get out soon. I explained to him that I would keep at it until the Romanians were gone. He reminded me this could take years. Definitely something I would have to talk to Bells about.