Thank you everyone for your reviews, I will be continuing this story. The next couple of chapters are pretty much back story as well as set up to the main story line. I probably wont write the future chapters as long as this one, but we will see.
disclaimer: I do not own anything except the plot and my original characters.
After a few minutes of standing there kissing each other I heard a throat clear. Rose and I pulled apart to see who had interrupted us.
Rose slide down my body until she was standing back on her own feet again. Her arm wrapped around my waist tightly and I placed my arm across her shoulders.
There in front of us was an older man, with greying hair and a beer belly, he had a scowl on his face as he looked at both of us with disapproval, but I noticed he also had disgust in his eyes.
It was that emotion that triggered my training. I straightened my back standing tall with my free hand behind my back and looked him squarely in the eye even if I was wearing sunglasses. I felt Rose tense under my arm as he started to talk.
"this is a school. We don't allow any form of PDA on the grounds even if it is after teaching hours. I would like you two to refrain from doing it here. That kind of behavior should stay in private, you shouldn't be doing it where everyone can see." He said with the same scowl.
Throughout his speech I felt Rosalie tensing until she was softly growling at him. My training kicked in and my senses heightened taking in every possible threat as my arm tightened around Rose restraining her from leaping at the man. I finally had enough control to bite out, "Yes sir, sorry sir, won't happen again." I heard Rose whisper "yeah right. We will just be more discreet next time." To herself. I had to fight to keep my face serious. The man nodded curtly before turning on his ankle sharply and walking back inside the building.
After I was sure he was gone I turned to Rose with a bewildered look, "Who the hell was that?"
She frowned, "that was the principle, a bigoted asshole named Mr. Collins." she told me. I nodded and pulled her back into my arms.
"so you want to go home so we can catch up?" I asked with a smile as I looked into her inchor colored eyes. She nodded smiling back at me. I turned and straddled my bike, waiting for her arms to wrap around my waist before I took off down the road.
I followed her instructions to their new home easily as she whispered the directions into my ear. I smiled as I felt her fingers go under my shirt trailing circles over my stomach. She was purring contently when we pulled up the driveway.
"damn Rose, Esme didn't hold back did she?" I asked as I stared up at the three story behemoth in front of me. I heard her chuckle as she got off the bike.
"when has Esme ever held back?" she asked with a smile as I picked up my duffle bag and threw it over my shoulder. "True." I said with a shrug as I took her hand and lead me inside.
The first thing I noticed when I walked in behind Rose was that the entire back wall of the house was glass, creating a great view of the forest that surrounded the house. The second thing I noticed was Rosalie's family waiting for us.
Jasper and Emmet were the first to greet me.
"WELCOME HOME BELLA!" Emmet boomed before sweeping me up into the air. He hugged me tightly, though I was relieved that I didn't lose my breath. "Emmet, good to see you again!" I said hugging him around the neck, as he sat me down Jasper stepped forward.
He stood straight and gave me a salute, I copied him with my own. We stood there standing perfectly still with serious expressions on both our faces for several minutes until I couldn't keep my lip from twitching up. And I saw her lip curve into a smile. I finally let my grin out as I hugged him. "Congrats Bella, I'm proud of you." He whispered to in my ear. "Thanks Jay" I whispered back before pulling back and walking back over to rose, who took my hand once again.
I nodded to the rest of the family, I was never close to the others, they were just too self-righteous for me.
They nodded back to me silently before I noticed a new person hiding slightly behind Edward. I looked her over and noticed she was still human, with black hair and glasses. She was giving me a confused look, but in her eyes I could see the jealousy burning there, she stayed quiet. I raised my eyebrow challenging her to voice her thoughts, she just kept giving me a look like she was trying to figure out who I was and what kind of relationship I had with the family.
Edward was the one to speak next. "Isabella, this is my mate Angela Weber, Angela, this is Isabella Swan." He said. I had to fight down the sneer that wanted to appear at the use of my full name, but I wasn't his friend and never would be so I bit it back. The girl. Angela, nodded stiffly but didn't say anything. I followed her lead and nodded silently.
"come on Bells, I'll show you our room." Rose cut through the tension easily. I nodded with a smile, "sure." She pulled on my hand, leading me up the stairs.
She leads me to the third story, at the end of the hall. She opened the door and stepped back letting me go through. I dropped my bag as I looked around.
To my left was the glass wall looking out into the forest, the bed was in front of me slightly to left to make room for two arm chairs in the corner, king sized with sheets that were to the bed green and blue stripes. To the right against the wall were two doors I assumed lead to the closet and bathroom. A bookshelf was placed on the same wall as the door to my right. I stepped further in and turned facing the door and noticed the mural on the wall.
Across from the bed spanning most of the wall, excluding the bookcase was a large mural that I assumed rose painted. It was of a forest similar to the forest outside the window, but the difference was that while here everything was green with grey skies, the mural depicted the same amount of green, but it also had the pure white of the snow blanketing the ground and trees, with a brilliant blue sky over the tops of the trees.
I felt cold arms wrap around my waist as I looked at the mural. "What do you think?" Rose asked softly, her chin resting on my shoulder. "I love it Rose, It's perfect." I whisper turning in her arms.
I rested my forehead against hers, just soaking in the feeling of having my arms around her. She slowly stepped back leading me with her. "I missed you," I whispered softly, knowing she would her me. "so much, it almost killed me at times, but I thought of seeing you again kept me going Rose. I'm sorry I had to go, but I had to." I said as she pulled me down onto the bed. "I know you did and I don't blame you, I could never blame you. You are here now and that's all that matters." She said kissing my cheek. It was only then that I realized a tear fell, and after the first I couldn't get stop them. They just kept coming. She pulled me into her arms, running her fingers through my hair as she hummed to me. She didn't say anything knowing I would tell her eventually. When I calmed down and the tears finally subsided I sat back some so my forehead was rested on her shoulder so that she could hear me clearly.
"Do you want to know what happened?" I finally asked quietly. She nodded softly before speaking "but only if you want to and you are ready." She said. I nodded taking a deep breath.
"the first six months I spent in training, boot camp we called it, anyways, it was tough in the beginning because the drill sergeant knew that my father was a lifer, so he just assumed I was this Army brat that just assumed because of my father I expected special treatment. I quickly learned to shut my mouth and do as I was told, no questions asked. I worked my way to the top of the class, working harder than the rest because the drill pushed me harder, I sp3ent most of that time proving to that man that I had what it took, to be taken seriously. I worked for everything I got, I never expected things I didn't earn, and I didn't complain like some of the other recruits I earned his respect before any of the others and I'm proud of that. The rest of the time I spent honing my skills, shooting further, running faster, hitting harder. They pushed me to my limits and then kept pushing to see if I would snap. When I was finally sent into active duty I was already on par with a corporal, so it was no surprise that when I kept improving and completing my missions I was promoted to Sergeant. I was put in charge of a fire team, they called it, I was in charge of four other people. Bree was a sharpshooter, or weapons specialist, Chris was an explosives expert, kind of a pyro/ arsonist to be honest, Adam was an electronic expert, could be a hacker now that we are home, then William was a hand to hand specialist, I was the strategist and I kept them all in line.
"We were often sent into the thick of it. We did well, we got in and got out quickly. Never had any problems. Because of that about six months ago the high ups came to me offering me a promotion to Staff Sergeant which would have been fine, but they wanted to re-station me, and that meant I would have had to leave my team. I felt like I couldn't do that though, we had accomplished so much together, been through so much together and I couldn't do that to them, leave them to someone who didn't care about them, so I said no." I sighed taking a breath to get my bearings, "Everything was fine you know? They weren't happy for any means. But it looked like they understood my reasons. Then two months ago the guys and I got a new mission.
There was this terrorist group that were using this building as a safe house or a meeting point of some sort and the higher ups wanted us to gather information on them, they said it was an information gathering mission only no killing or anything we didn't need to interrogate anyone, just sit on a roof all day and listen to the bugs. We didn't know anything going in, who these people were or what was inside the building, nothing. So we scout the place out for a few weeks and nothing really happens and the higher ups gave us explicit instruction to not call in unless something major was going on, so we didn't. nothing happened, except that this group of guys would meet up everyday and sit around playing cards talking about what ever came to mind. So we stayed radio silent, I guess someone somewhere thought that this terrorist group we were watching had grabbed us and were torturing us for information. So they sent in the big guns, missiles. They didn't even try to contact us they just went straight for the trigger. Bree was the one that probably saved our lives, she saw it coming about five seconds before it hit us, just enough time to drop and cover. But we were on the roof of the next building over, so the best we could do was cover our heads with our arms as the missile landed. We were all injured but we had survived by some miracle. So finally a week ago we were able to make it back to base. They were shocked and not in the good way. Turns out some of the higher ups thought that if I didn't want to advance and be a 'bigger help' then they would use us as martyrs for the war. They were quick to ship us back home, stating that due to a bombing of a terrorist group we were injured and could no longer serve. Bunch of bullshit really, but my unit is happy they got to go home finally so I guess it worked out fine." I tried to lighten the mood towards the end, I knew it wouldn't work, but I felt like I had to try.
Rose was growling darkly. "they tried to kill you because you didn't want to leave your squad?" she hissed. I nodded squeezing her tightly to let her know that I was fine and was here with her again. "don't worry so much Rose. If they try something to "clean up their mess" I can have the unit out here with in two hours, plus I know for a fact that Jasper Emmet and you wouldn't let anything happen to me." I reassured her. She relaxed some muttering a "Damn Right" I smiled softly up at her, "That's my girl" I said kissing her cheek.
"now then what happened with you? And who the hell is that Angela Chick? She did not look happy when she learned about me." I laughed sitting cross-legged facing Rose. She laughed and nodded "Well after you left..."
hope you enjoyed it, i'll finish with the backstories in the next chapter should be up sometime today.
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