Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

The Major And His Demon

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 09:

Closure

“Ms. Swan, where have you been since you left Forks?” Chief Perry asked, staring at the strange girl sitting across from him. She had dead eyes. She had nearly no identifiable facial reactions to anything he said, even while being arrested. She smiled and said hello when she first saw him and then painted a blank face that had remained in their time together.

“I’ve been all over. I went to New York City for a day. It was nice. I would like to go when I can spend more time there.”

“What happened the night of your father’s murder, Bella? Why did you run?”

She said nothing. She just sat staring at him with a blank look on her face. It was honestly starting to creep him out. This girl had always been strange.

“Okay. Do you know what happened to your father Bella?”

“Yes.” Flat voice. No reaction.

“Do you know who is responsible for your father’s death?”

“Yes.”

Finally he was getting somewhere. His heart began to race but he had to remain calm on the outside.

“Who is responsible for your father’s death Bella?”

“I am.”

Chief Perry inhaled a deep breath. He had suspected but he never really thought he would be able to find out. But there was no way she did this alone.

“And your mother?”

“I am responsible for her death as well.” She said in the same flat voice.

“You weren’t in Florida the night she was murdered Bella. We know that. You couldn’t have killed her. Did you have help? Did someone do it for you?”

“I am responsible for my mother and father’s deaths.”

“Who helped you Bella? There is no way a girl of your size could possibly do to your father what was done to him. Who helped you?”

“Edward Cullen is also responsible for my parent’s deaths.”

Now they were getting somewhere. The strange Cullen boy she had been hung up on so long. The one Charlie thought he would have to have her institutionalized over.

“How was Edward Cullen involved?”

“He is as responsible as I am.”

“Did he kill your mother and father?”

“He is as responsible as I am.”

Dammit, she shut down again. Time to try another route.

“Bella where is Edward Cullen right now?”

“I killed him.”

Chief Perry had not been expecting that.

“You killed him?”

Bella finally smiled for the first time since coming into the station.

“In a manner of speaking.”

“Okay. If you killed him where is his body?”

“I buried it.”

“Where did you bury Edward?”

The smile on her face was gone again. Chief Perry looked up and saw all the deputies in the station were listening to the strange girl sitting at his desk. The girl who was so sweet when they all first met her. Shy, innocent. What happened?

“Where his body is buried is my business. He won’t be around anymore. That’s all you need to know.”

“Why were you at the remains of your father’s house tonight, Bella?”

“I was waiting for you. I suppose I could have walked into the station but I wanted to say goodbye to him.”

“And why were you waiting for me?”

Bella stared into his eyes.

“You’re a good man Bill Perry. My dad really liked you and you genuinely liked him. You would have felt like you failed him if you didn’t find me. You needed closure. We both did.”

“I see. Bella you know I am going to have to charge you with murder right? Both you and Edward.”

“You will never find Edward. I killed him and buried his body. That was my closure. I am yours Chief Perry.”

Chief Perry didn’t really know what to make of this. He looked around at the deputies who were looking anywhere else except at him. But he knew they heard every word.

“What do you think is going to happen from this point on Bella?”

“It doesn’t really matter does it?”

“It should matter Bella. You are going to be charged as an accessory to your mother and father’s murder and with Edward Cullen’s murder.”

“You won’t charge me with Edward Cullen’s murder. You can’t have a murder without a body, and that’s one body that well never be found.” She smiled that creepy smile again. Apparently only the Cullen boy can bring it out in her.

Chief Perry sighed. He didn’t doubt that she was involved. He didn’t doubt that the Cullen boy was the other mysterious culprit. And he didn’t doubt one bit that the boy was in the ground somewhere and only the psychotic little lady in front of him knew where.

“Tim put her in a cell for tonight. We can have her arraigned in the morning and then transferred to the County Jail.”

Bella stood up and Tim walked over and grabbed her arm. She had been searched when she arrived and had nothing on her. No keys, no money, no ID, not anything. Tim watched her walk into the cell and sit on the bed, with a blank look on her face.

“Tim?”

“Yes Ms. Swan?”

“You’re a good man.”

Tim didn’t quite know what to make of this. She was the strangest girl he had ever met.

“Uh, thank you Ms. Swan.”

“Tim?”

“Yes?” Why did Tim suddenly want to get away from her so badly.

“You are a good man but your wife is a cheating whore. Ask the Chief to let you go home early tonight. The man she is having an affair with is over right now. They are about to have sex. They will be at it for a couple hours. Ask the chief if you can leave early.”

Tim was stunned. He didn’t know what to make of this. He had no reason to believe her but, lately… He had noticed that she seemed distant. They used to talk about having children but she hadn’t seemed interested in that lately either.

Not knowing what to say, he simply turned to walk out.

“Tim?”

Shit, he really did not want to turn around to see Bella Swan right now. He had a hollow feeling in his stomach. He knew she was telling the truth. He knew it in his soul.

“Yeah Bella?”

“Look at me.”

Despite his objections Tim found himself doing that exact thing. He saw her eyes weren’t as hollow as before. They were black.

“Tim you are a good man and that worthless slut is not worth ruining your life over. DO not kill her or her lover. Do you understand?”

Tim did understand. Those thoughts had been in the back of his mind as he had turned to leave. But she was right. Layla was not worth ruining his life over. He would go home, confront her and kick her ass out of his house. But he would not kill her.

“Thank you Bella.” He found himself saying.

She simply nodded and closed her eyes leaning her head against the concrete wall and sitting on the thin mattress with her legs crossed under her.

Once she was lone Bella opened her eyes and looked around. She hadn’t been alone in a while. This was nice. No noise, no vampires running around, no demonic sex. Okay she missed the demonic sex but other than that, the quiet was quite nice. She wished she could stay in jail a few days. The repressed violent of being around that many prisoners would taste so good. But Abe had reminded her they were on a time limit. Things to be done, vampires to be killed. A Mate to possibly claim and his wife to have some fun with. She had to convince Jasper to give up what he was and consider what he could be. She missed her brothers and sisters and dancing in the bar. Playing with Cindi. Being whipped by Abe and feeling the demon bursting free reveling in the pain.

Yes Bella Swan was a very busy girl. She sat for another two hours reveling in the silence. Finally the clock on the white concrete wall outside her cell showed 1 AM. Time to say her goodbyes.

Angela heard the knock on her door. It was so light of a knock she almost missed it. Looking at the clock she wondered why anybody would be knocking on her door at 1:15 AM. Her parents would most likely just come in. Maybe one of her brother’s had a nightmare?

She walked slowly to the door and opened it.

“Bella?”

“Angela.”

“Is this a dream?”

Bella pulled Angela into her arms and kissed her deeply.

“If it’s a dream I don’t want to wake up.”

“It’s not a dream Ang.”

“Are you back? For good?”

“No. I have come to say goodbye.”

“Bella no. I will go with you. Let me pack a bag and we can get out of this town and never come back.”

“No Angela. You need to move on with your life. I know you were going to come look for me when you graduate. Ang, you know I love you. I do. I love you so much. But our lives are going to go down different paths. You are going to be happy. You are going to find another girl. Or a guy. Whatever or whoever you want. You can’t come looking for me. I can never come back. And you have to go and be happy. One of us has too have a good life Angela. I can’t ruin your life like I have ruined everyone else’s I have touched. I will never forgive myself.”

Angela stared into her beautiful brown eyes. She knew Bella meant what she said.

“Why did you come back?”

“To say goodbye to you. To thank you for loving me. To tell you I love you. I wanted to say a proper goodbye. Those things are hard to come by, you know?”

“So you came all this way just to say goodbye?”

“No, I came to kiss you goodbye and set you free.”

Bella leaned over and kissed Angela gently on the lips. It didn’t last long enough.

“I love you Angela. Please go live the life I couldn’t. Be strong.”

Angela was crying. She noticed Bella was as well.

“Where will you go?”

“Where Fate takes me Ang. Listen to me. Tomorrow you are going to hear that I am dead. It is going to sound very convincing. No matter what you hear remember what I am telling you now. I will be okay. I will not be dead. No matter what you here remember that. I will be in the world. And so will you. And I will always love you. Do you understand?”

Angela nodded. She wiped her eyes and smiled at Bella one last time.

“Thank you for loving me Bella.”

“Thank you for loving me Angela.”

Bella turned and walked out of the room, closing the door gently behind her.

Angela stood staring at the door. She finally couldn’t help herself and opened it to find Bella was gone without a trace. But the taste of her lips was still on hers. She knew this was real. Her scent was still in the air. Angela turned around and crawled under her covers. She was determined. She would always be strong for her first love.

3:00 AM

A howl went over La Push. Most people slept on, oblivious to the sound. Five men and one woman however were up at the sound and running from their beds. Within minutes six wolves were running to their two brothers who had raised the alarm.

What is it Embry?

Just come Sam. Come to us. It’s… Its Bella. She wants to speak to us.

Bella? But surely Bella had a leech after her. She must have returned for protection, unless…

She is not a leech is she?”

“ No, she isn’t a leech. But man there is something wrong with her. Just get here.

The wolves arrived and phased to human. Embry and Quil did the same. Jake was the one to step forward and talk to her.

“Bells?”

“Jake.” Bella smiled and she seemed like the shy girl she had always been. The girl he had a crush on. The one girl he wanted to spend his life with. But Embry was right. Something was off. He sniffed and couldn’t tell anything different about her scent. Maybe a little… burnt? Almost like… sulfur?

“Bella what happened? Is the leech still after you?”

“No, she is dead.”

“You met other vampires? Was it the Cullens?” Sam asked walking up wondering how little Bella Swan killed a vampire and thinking he won’t like the answer.

“No it wasn’t other vampires. You really don’t want to know what it was. Just know that she is dead.”

Jake stepped forward with hope in his heart.

“So are you back now? You know, like to stay? You can stay with me Bella. Dad would love to have you.”

“Your father blames me for Charlie’s death. And he is right to do so. I am not back. I am actually coming to tell you all goodbye and to thank each of you for protecting me.”

“Bella, where are you going to go?” Jake asked, feeling his heart breaking all over again.

“I have things to do. I want you to know a couple things, though. One the Cullens are never coming back here. I will make sure of it. And two, no other vampires will come either. It’s going to take about a year to get everything accomplished that needs to be, but know this won’t last forever. You will be able to stop phasing. You will be able to grow old and have children. Even you Leah.” Bella said with a knowing look on her face. The female wolf was stunned, almost as if Bella had been reading her mind.

“How is this possible Bella? What could you possibly do?”

“Sam you asked me once to trust you. Trust me. Please?”

Sam stated at her. He didn’t know why but he believed her. Something was different about her. No one could put their finger on it but everyone felt it.

“I need to ask one more favor of you guys. It’s the last favor I will ever ask.”

“Anything Bella.” Jake answered without hesitation.

“I need you to believe that I cannot die and not ask questions and I need you to make a phone call.”

7:00 AM

“Somebody want to explain to me how a 19 year old girl just walked out of a cell? A locked cell? Then walked past two deputies in the front of a police station? And while doing this, she managed to screw up the entire video system of the station so we don’t even know how she did it?”

The two deputies who had been on duty looked at the ground. They had fallen asleep. They had never fallen asleep. Sworn to keep this secret to themselves they were shocked to see an empty cell, still locked when they went to check on Bella this morning. She was gone. A check of the video system showed the tapes were all scrambled. Not a thing could be seen besides static.

“Goddamit men! We finally got Charlie’s killer, his own fucking daughter and she escapes like Harry fucking Houdini?”

“Sir, she had nothing on her. She couldn’t have gotten far.”

“I fucking know that! I just want to know how the hell she did it!”

“Chief the cell was locked. The door to the holding unit was locked. She would have had to have gotten past both those doors. They were still locked this morning.”

“Well she got out some… Hello?” Chief Perry said answering the phone.

“Chief this is Sam Uley in La Push.”

“How you doing Sam? We kind of got a situation this morning. Can I get back to you?”

“Does your situation have to do with Bella Swan?”

Chief Perry was startled silent for a few seconds.

“How would you know that Sam?”

“Because she is in La Push and I am watching her sitting on the cliff facing First Beach as we speak. She is acting very strange. Just sitting there staring at the ocean. I was going to approach her but I know you have been looking for her so I thought I would call you first.”

“Sam do not approach her. We will be there in fifteen minutes. Do not approach unless she tries to get away. Then stop her and do whatever you have to do to hold her down.”

“Sounds good Chief. See you here. Hurry.”

Fifteen minutes to the minute Forks Police cars were pulling into the opening that led to the cliff. Chief Perry and threw deputies walked the path quietly to see Sam Uley standing by a tree. Sam saw them and without a word pointed to Bella who was now standing.

Chief Perry nodded at Sam and his men approached the base of the cliff. Bella was near the edge.

“Bella Swan, put your hands up girl.” Perry said raising his gun. His deputies did the same.

Bella turned around and smiled at Chief Perry.

“I’m sorry to do this to you Chief. But it’s the only way. Don’t worry. I forgive you.”

What the hell was she talking about?

“Bella there isn’t a reason for this. Just come on back to the station and we can work this all out.”

“I’m sorry Chief. I can’t do that. It has to be this way.”

Bella Swan reached under her coat. She pulled out something glinting in the sun.

“Bella don’t do that!”

Bella never took her eyes off the chief. She slowly pulled the gun from her blue jean coat and pointed it at him.

Chief Perry was stunned. Where did Bella get a gun? Where did she get a coat? She didn’t have one last night. These were the thoughts that went through his head as he stared at the pretty 19 year old girl who just pulled a gun on him and his men.

“Chief?” he heard his deputy say behind him.

He knew they wouldn’t fire. And looking in her eyes he knew she would. He saw her finger begin to pull the trigger. She had a dead look in her eyes again. She meant to kill them.

Chief Perry fired his duty weapon for the first time in his career. Into Bell Swan’s chest. He saw the blood and the pain in her eyes. She dropped the gun but it was too late. Spurred by the Chief’s action the two deputies began firing at her. Chief Perry saw her body jerking back and forth with each impact. He yelled to stop shooting but it was too late. In that moment once a man starts it is hard to stop. He watched the final shot hit her between her eyes. A small hole opened up in her forehead. Her shirt was torn to shreds. Her chest was torn to shreds. He thought he saw one wound in her belly. Bella looked at Chief Perry still standing with disbelief in her eyes. But her eyes were dead. The bullet to the brain had made sure of that. She fell backwards over the cliff.

Chief Perry ran to the edge of the cliff. He saw her body hit a rock next to the waves and the sound of her body smacking the stone was one he would never forget. A wave washed over her body and she was gone.

Chief Perry looked at the ground and saw her gun lying there on the ground. It was a revolver. A .38 police special. He had an idea of who it had belonged to. He checked the gun for bullets and was surprised to see it was unloaded. She never had any intention of killing them. She just wanted to die and knew she would be shot. Suicide by cop. He guessed she felt it was fitting. He turned and saw Sam Uley staring over the cliffs into the water. He had tears in his eyes.

“I uh, I didn’t have a choice Sam.”

Sam looked at the Chief with pity in his eyes.

“Chief sometimes I wonder if any of us ever had a choice in anything.”

A howl went up in the forest making Chief Perry turn, startled.

He didn’t see the pack of giant wolves who had been watching the drama unfold. And he didn’t know the immense grief one of the wolves in particular was feeling right now. Jacob Blacks childhood dreams had ended twice. The first time he had lit Bella’s house on fire and watched her drive off. The second time was this morning. He knew in his heart, he would never see Bella Swan again. He would do as she asked a few hours before. He would be strong for her. Because despite what they all just saw, they knew. Bella Swan was out there in the world somewhere. And she was their friend.

Sam watched the police boats circling the water. Divers searched for Bella’s body but the current’s around the cliff made it difficult. Eventually one diver found her blue jean jacket. Sam could see from the cliff it had multiple holes in it. And he also knew that the police would never find Bella’s body. Bella Swan would be legally declared dead. And the case of the murder of Chief Charlie Swan would be closed.

Five miles up the shore a wet thin girl walked form the waves. She was wearing a torn shirt and soaked blue jeans. Her hair was wet and she had dried blood on her forehead, even after her time in the water. She walked from the beach to the road and got into the passenger seat of the black car parked on the side of the road.

“So how was the swim, darlin?”

“Wet and cold Abe. And getting shot hurts like a bitch. I can’t believe that guy shot me in the head. I must have had 10 bullets in me. Not cool. I figured one chest shot, I fall and we are done. But nope.”

Bella was a bit annoyed.

“So where too now?”

“I’m done with Forks. Take me back to Oregon and let’s get this show on the road I suppose.”

“Fine. By the way I spoke to the Master last night at midnight.”

“And?” Bella’s heart was racing.

Abe turned to her with a sober look on his face.

“He wants Jasper Whitlock. For himself. It’s up to you to make this happen now.”

Bella nodded. She wasn’t sure how to feel about this. But she would do as she was told. And a part of her was glad. It was time.

Oregon the next day

Jasper and Carlisle were discussing Bella with Carlisle’s old friend. Father Thomas Carmatti had been flown here by Carlisle to discuss Bella’s case with Carlisle. He had known the priest for many years. The priest suspected something was wrong with Carlisle but by unspoken agreement they never discussed it. He knew Carlisle was a good, whatever he was. He would almost think the good doctor was a vampire except he had seen him out in the daylight. Perhaps he was an angel.

“Carlisle everything you have told me certainly seems to point to possession. I would like to meet with the young lady to make further determination. If after this I am satisfied as to her possession we can perform the Rite of Exorcism. Now she left you say? Why do you think she will come back?”

“She will come back.” Jasper responded.

“Okay son. If you say so. I can stay in the area for a week. If she isn’t back by then I have to go back.”

“If who isn’t back?”

Carlisle, Jasper and the Priest turned to see Bella coming out of the woods. The other Cullens and even Peter and Char were out hunting animals. They wanted to take advantage of the time Bella was away, not knowing what to expect when she returned.

“Bella.” Jasper whispered. His heart instantly felt better. She smiled at him radiantly.

“I told you I would be back in a few days. Here I am. Looks like we have a newcomer to the party.”

The Priest smiled.

“I am Father Thomas. A friend of Carlisle’s.” He said reaching out to shake her hand. Bella greeted him with a handshake and then looked at Carlisle.

“I’m confused Carlisle. What is a Priest doing here?” Bella asked.

“Father Thomas came to ask you some questions. He may be able to help with the problem you have been having.”

“Oh you mean the whole ancient evil demon inhabiting my soul thing?”

Father Thomas’s face went pale. Jasper and Carlisle stood there speechless.

“What would you like to talk to me about Father?”

“Uhm, Bella would you be willing to go inside the cabin? I have some personal questions I would like to ask you that you may not feel comfortable answering in front of your… family?”

“Father, I really don’t think that is a good idea.” Jasper responded.

“Don’t be silly Jasper. He came all this way to talk too little old me. He can do what he wants. I would be glad to go inside and answer your questions Father Thomas.”

“Thank you Bella.”

The two walked inside while Jasper and Carlisle stood outside, focusing on the inside of the cabin. There were no sounds coming from inside.

“You think he is going to be all right?” Jasper asked Carlisle.

“Let’s hope to God he is. Be ready to move in an instant if anything appears out of the ordinary.”

Jasper nodded. Ten minutes later the door opened. Father Thomas came out looking paler than Carlisle or Jasper.

“Father?” Carlisle asked, “Can you help?”

“Yes… Yes I am going to help you. I am going to give you both some good advice. Leave that girl. Get as far away from her as you can. And if you see her again run. I have to go.”

Jasper and Carlisle watched as the Priest got into the car and spun the tires down the dirt road leading to the cabin. They turned when Bella walked out. Her eyes were black. She looked at Carlisle and Jasper.

“If you boys are done fucking around now, call the rest of the coven. We have work to do, and I have no more time for games.”