Thank you to my beta and prereader hmmille and EmilyMasen. This is my first fic so enjoy and let me know what you think.

The original story belongs to SM. Just borrowed her characters for some fun.

Warning: There is mild violence in this story. It does not take up this story but thought you should be forewarned.

"Bella, where the hell is my blue suit?" James yells before she even makes it through the front door.

"I packed it already, why?" Bella asks him.

"Are you stupid? I need that suit for my flight over. Now it's going to be wrinkled and I need to leave for the airport soon," he scolds her.

"I'm sorry," she starts.

"Yes, you are sorry. How could you do this to me? You are so useless sometimes. You would think you'd know by now." James keeps talking but Bella is lost in her own thoughts. She is seeing that maybe Rosalie was right after all.

Bella walks away from James because she doesn't know what to do next. As she goes to the kitchen for a drink of water, something slams against the cabinet, shattering right next to her head. Bella's head whips around to see James and he is seething mad.

"How dare you walk away from me while I'm talking to you?" he yells.

Her feet froze in place from the shock of what she saw before her. This is not something that was ever expected to happen in her life. Their relationship was always in a good place, or so she thought.

"Are you fucking listening to me?" James yells at Bella again, this time walking towards her threateningly.

Warning bells blare in Bella's head. Since she grew up with a father who was Chief of Police and a brother that was as big as a bear, she learned at an early age how to defend herself. She never thought that play fighting with Emmett or boxing with her dad would ever come in handy until now. When James reaches out to grab Bella roughly, something came over her. She had no idea where this rage and strength came from, but she embraced it quickly. Before James could make his move, Bella kneed him in his junk, which pissed him off. Bella knew she needed to get away, but James was bent over coughing and blocking her way out. He began to stand and swings out wildly, hitting Bella in the face. Her eye starts to swell but she didn't fall to the ground. As she defends herself, she really lets him have it. While swinging with all of her strength and making contact, she causes more damage than he ever thought she could.

"How dare you yell at me like that and treat me with such disrespect?" At this point Bella is standing over James' bruised body and letting him know that she is done with his crap. While stuck on the floor, he glares up at her in a feeble attempt to shut her up. "I defended you and always stood by you. And this is how you treat me? Well, you can go to hell, James. I'm leaving you," Bella screams through her tears that are now flowing freely.

"Fuck you, bitch. You aren't going anywhere," James says with a grin. "You have nothing without me. No one will ever love you like I have," James laughs, thinking he has won again.

Bella leaves before the guilt and regret settle in. In the back of her mind, she knows that without him the luxuries she has experienced are gone. Shaking her head to focus on getting the hell out of the house before James could launch another attack, she runs out the door with nothing but the clothes on her back and reaches the one place she knows she can go. She knocks on the door and waits outside of her friend's house, desperately hoping someone is home.

"Bella what happened? Come in," Rosalie says, letting her in. She can see that Bella has been through something terrible. Terrified for her friend and not knowing what has occurred, she brings her into the living room to sit and talk about what has happened.

"What the hell, Bells? What did that fucker do to you?" Emmett is furious that his sister has a black eye and is crying. Her brother is a no-shit-taking kind of guy. He has seen what abuse can do to a person and he will not tolerate it from anyone, especially a douche like James.

How did he know it was James? Bella wondered. She didn't want her brother to get involved, but he is her big brother and she needs him. While she relays the events of the night and past week to her brother and friend, she makes sure to apologize to Rosalie for her behavior earlier that day. Emmett hugs his sister and assures her that everything will be okay. Rosalie holds Bella while she cries, remembering her own tragedy that occurred not so long ago.

"What the hell, bitch? You think that you can just do what you want and not pay the consequences?" Royce yelled at a trembling Rosalie.

"I… I'm ssssorry. I was only trying to," before Rosalie could finish Royce slapped her across her face.

"You should feel lucky that I don't kill you right now. People think you are trash, you know that? You need to stay here and stop going out with those girls. I forbid you to see them." Royce is so mad his body is shaking and he can't see straight.

Rosalie was used to this behavior, but this time he was worse because he had been drinking. Royce was the type of man that everyone knew, big family, big money, and an equally big ego. Royce was never faithful to Rosalie, but she never cheated or even thought about it. As Rosalie lay on the floor bleeding, Royce decided that a slap was not enough punishment and beat her until she was like a limp noodle on the floor. He spit on her and left their house. She crawled very slowly to her phone and called her two best friends. This is how she met Emmett, who was with Bella when she got the call. They rushed over and got Rosalie, packed up her stuff, and left. When Royce found out she had left, he tried to go after her but Emmett let him have it. Royce was locked up for battery and some other charges that were on his record, and that kept him there for a long time.

Rosalie comes back to the present and helps Bella to the guest room. She knows that her friend is going to be hurting in the morning and wants her to sleep comfortably.

But Bella didn't sleep well while tossing and turning. She began to dream, but it was more of a nightmare to her.

"I told you, you'd be back," James says, laughing at her. "You're mine and that is how it will stay."

This played in her mind through the night, until her dream changed to a shadowed figure standing in front of her. She woke up, jolting upright in bed trying to figure out if her dream was real or not. As she caught her breath and realized she was in the guest room at her brother's house, her breathing slowly became normal. Not really wanting to go back to sleep, Bella got up and went to the living room to watch television.

Earlier, Emmett was furious that another woman he knows was hurt. He didn't want Rosalie to hear his plan, so he kissed her and quietly slipped out. He knows that if something happens, Rosalie will stand by him even if it's something stupid. Emmet thinks about what his plan of action will be. He is either going to storm the gates or just wait until James comes out of the house. He decides that waiting will take too long, so storming the gates will have to work. He begins to make one of two calls. He wants to have back up ready when he confronts James and he knows that his two best friends will have his back, even with such short notice.

Ring, Ring, Ring

"Hello-"

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