Okay. My computer being annoying and won't let me attach files so here is the first chapter. I added a few things including a description of Alice. I hope it's okay.
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Chapter One
The brown haired beauty surveyed around the room, making sure no one was there to observe her actions. She smiled to herself before walking to her desk, which was her safe haven from those reporters and paparazzi who would always be at her tail end, each day, every day. She looked at her desk, scattered with paperwork everywhere. She wasn't known by the other agents in the bureau as a neat freak, and she wasn't very determined to change that. Ever since she moved to Washington D.C. from Forks, Washington, she had always thought that she was going to change her ways for the better. However, moving to the capital of the United States only made her more miserable.
She had an okay childhood. Her father, Charlie Swan, and mother, Renee, married at a very young age, only to divorce a few months later. Her mother, Renee, had taken her as an infant back to Phoenix because the rainy little town of Forks wasn't going to work for her. After that, it was only her and her mother before Phil Dwyer came along and captured her mother's heart. In order to give her newlywed couple privacy, she moved in with Charlie in Forks. She stayed there for her last two years in high school, never taking interest into the guys who wanted her. However, she had a strong friendship with Jacob Black, her father's friend's son. They were tight, but Bella had never thought of dating him, until he asked her out and she said yes. Afterwards, they were fine, until Jacob turned into a werewolf, and pushed her away. That was around the time when her father had met a beautiful, wonderful, and kind woman by the name of Alyssa Reed. She knew that her father needed time alone with his new found woman, and she needed to get away from Jacob, even though they were technically still dating. After finishing high school, she went to D.C. to go into college to become a FBI agent, and here she was, three years later, sitting in her very own seat as head deputy of the department.
The people she had met when she came to her new life were the most bizarre people she had met in her entire life. They were all related, well technically not by blood, but by law. They were all adopted children under the famous Dr. Carlisle Cullen and his wife, Esme. There were only two people she really hated out of the bunch: Rosalie Cullen—her best friend, Emmett's, wife—and Edward Cullen. When she thought of the incompetent fool, she couldn't believe that she had to work with him. She wanted to gag whenever she was around him. The fact that he was unbelievably beautiful did not help either.
Everyone in her department was beautiful in their own astounding way, but his beauty was something different. His skin was like marble-pale, but perfect and flawless. He had eyes that were wondrous, a deep emerald colour. The kind that you simply looked at and got lost in. His hair was a strange shade of silky reddish-brown and was always in "casual disarray." Edward stood at six feet two inches, his build was slender, yet still quite muscular.
Shaking her head, Bella Swan looked at the pile of paperwork on her desk and kept a pen in her mouth while trying to decipher her papers. Meanwhile another woman walked in the room with a tall man by her side. Bella looked up and smiled faintly when she saw her best friend and her husband, Alice and Jasper Cullen.
"Hey Bella!" chirped Alice as she went to talk to Bella. Jasper, on the other hand, went straight to his desk, pulled out a chair, and read some papers that were stacked on the desk.
"Hey Alice," Bella replied monotonously, as if she didn't care about anything in the world. Alice rolled her eyes and walked gracefully to her desk, not before pecking a kiss on her husband's cheek. Bella rolled her eyes at her best friend's public display of affection. Alice was one of those people that were carefree and hyperactive. Her personality fit her quite well, being that she was less than five feet tall and had incredibly short black hair that was spiked in all directions. Bella put her attention back to her paperwork and was concentrating on understanding it, when Emmett, Rosalie, and Edward came into the room. Bella's eyes shot up when she saw Edward and she growled internally. Edward supposedly caught this growled back at her. Bella sneered at him, and went back to her work. She looked at the newspaper which was now on her desk, the newspaper that Edward had literally smacked on her desk.
Glancing up, she found herself dazzled by the Cullen himself. She shook her head and growled, "What?"
He raised an eyebrow and growled back in an equally hostile tone, "Just read it." With that, he left her desk and walked over to his own to talk to Emmett.
Rolling her eyes, she put the other paperwork down and looked at the newspaper heading.
LIFE TOLL OF COUPLES INCREASES AT THE LONDON NYC
Who is the cause behind this catastrophe?
Bella continued to skim the newspaper which explained that in the past six months, seventeen couples staying at a hotel had been murdered in the same way: stabbed to death multiple of times. Bella's eyes widened at the familiarity of the event. She rummaged through some papers and finally found the one she was looking for. It was a case detailing two of the victims murdered, specifically a 'Marie and John Grayson'. Bella skimmed through the file and realized that it was still pending. Bella stood up, grabbed the case file and stomped out of the room. Edward at his desk smiled faintly as he watched Bella stomp her way out the door.
"What do you mean that this case has been brought down to low priority?" Bella yelled as she looked straight in the eye of her head of the department, Mr. Luke Harding.
"I'm sorry Miss Swan, but this case is already under the…" started Mr. Harding, but Bella interrupted.
"This is the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin! Unless we have another squad of this department out there finding out who is doing this to innocent couples, I do not think this is a low priority case!" Bella exclaimed. She stared into Mr. Harding's blue eyes just right to chill him down to the bone.
"Sir," Bella finally stated after minutes of silence, "it is our duty to the citizens of the United States to protect them from terrorist attack; protect the United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage, to protect the United States against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes; combat public corruption at all levels; protect civil rights; combat transnational/national criminal organizations and enterprises; combat major white-collar crime; combat significant violent crime; support federal, state, local and international partners; and upgrade technology for successful performance of the FBI's mission. And I believe we have the duty to protect our fellow citizens from crime and make this country a safer place to live in. This won't be a safer place for couples who want to have a romantic getaway unless we do something."
Mr. Harding was very impressed by Bella's intentions and facts she had collected over the past one year. He looked at the case which Bella had thrown at him and sighed deeply, "Very well, Bella; we can reopen this case."
Bella's growl turned into a calm smile, "Thank you sir. I will get on it right away."
When Bella was about to go out the door, Mr. Harding exclaimed, "Wait!" Bella turned around and looked at him, puzzled.
"Yes sir?" she asked as she turned around and walked slowly back towards him.
"If you want to accomplish this case, you are going to need to go undercover…as a couple," Mr. Harding replied.
Bella's eyes widened as she slowly began to comprehend what her boss was trying to say. "Excuse me?"
"Exactly what I said Special Agent Swan; you are going to have to go undercover as a couple if you want to solve this case. This hotel only allows couples in."
Bella slumped her shoulders as she fell into the chair in defeat, "Fine, anything to get this solved. But who is going to be my hubby?"
Mr. Harding, surprisingly, smiled at her question, "I was thinking of Special Agent Cullen…I mean Edward." He loved all his agents in the department, but it was so confusing when there were 5 Special Agent Cullen's.
Bella's eyes widened, "WHAT?"
As if on cue, Edward walked into the room and exclaimed his distress, "WHAT?"
Mr. Harding smiled slightly, clearly amused with his employees' reactions. "There is no one here but you two who are single and willing to work on this case."
Bella glanced at Edward, who didn't bother to look at her at all. She realized that that was the reason why he gave her the newspaper. "Arrogant fool," Bella muttered to herself.
Edward's eyes darted to her and he looked at her as if he was going to murder her right then and there. Mr. Harding smiled faintly again as he handed them both files. Bella snatched hers right away and her eyes widened when she looked at the names on the sheet. She was 'Roxanne Grayson, fiancée of Roy Harper'. She looked up and she saw Edward's mirrored expression. He must have had 'Roy Harper, fiancé of Roxanne Grayson'.
Mr. Harding said, "You two will be leaving tomorrow for New York as a newly engaged couple. Your other information is in the case file. You are both dismissed."
Bella and Edward turned around, looked at each other for two seconds, and then grunted to show they had heard. When they were about to go out, Mr. Harding yelled, "Oh, have a great romantic trip." Bella and Edward growled when their supervisor had wished them that.
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