Thanks for all of the wonderful reviews! I am glad you are liking the story so far. Here is ch. 2

BPOV

When we got to Carlisle's house Edward, Emmett, Jasper and Seth were already there waiting for us. Seth had come to join our little group a few months after Jacob Black, my best male friend, died while saving me from the Tracker. Seth was a light spirited kid who made me worry about him constantly. He was too much like Jake for his own good. He often took foolish risks because either a. he thought it would be fun, or b. he thought he could handle it. One thing that really reminded me of Jake that Seth has in common was his smile, Seth's smile lights up anyone he is around. You just can't be in a bad mood around Seth. Seth was a shape shifter, also like Jacob, and I had to admit, he was good at what he did, he took his job very seriously.

Rosalie came as well even though Emmett and Carlisle refused to let her participate in any fighting for the baby's sake. I don't think she minded much; she spent the extra time pampering herself, which Carlisle convinced me she deserved after making me watch numerous videos about pregnancy and birth. I think it was his way of giving me the "talk", though it was a little late, and trying to convince me to wait on having kids. It worked.

Once everyone was here and settled Alice shared her vision and what she suggested our plan of action to be. "Ok," she started, "Checkmate, that ridiculously ingenious guy with really bad fashion sense is planning on corrupting a large number of tourists in Seattle and wreaking havoc on the town. If you remember from last time this guy was in town, he brainwashes his victims to help him in the destruction so his little minions are actually people we are aiming to save, not destroy…got that Edward and Jasper, we are not killing the brainwashed people this time." There may have been an incident where some of us went after the wrong people…but they shouldn't be blamed 100%, I mean, they were still fairly new at the job, right?

"Checkmate can brainwash anyone into losing their loyalty and fighting for him, I want EVERYONE to be super careful around him. Edward Seth and Jasper, I want you two to try and take him down. You guys can get inside his head and mess with him and tear him to pieces. Bella, Emmett and I will handle all of his little minions, we are to try to reason or restrain with minimal damage."

Judging from how Alice was talking about this I started thinking that Jasper had her hooked on his war documentaries, she was talking war strategies and it cracked me up. I let out a chuckle and imagined Alice in an army uniform responding to my outburst: 'Do you think this is funny, Swan? These are people's lives at stake and you are standing there chucking? Drop and give me 500 pushups you maggot!' Edward laughed at this idea as well. I asked him if he thought she spoke like that to Jasper in bed, I am pretty sure he asked Jasper because he turned his head and gave a mischievous smirk our way. Alice seemed to notice something was going on and glared at me and Edward.

Alice gave us our final orders, 'don't take any prisoners, and don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes.' I chuckled again at my seemingly clever thoughts that turned a simple glare into a death stare from Sergeant Alice. "Sorry sir…I mean ma'am, I mean…Alice." I said trying to hold back my laughter. Edward wrapped his arms around me and whispered in my ear to stop being a trouble maker. We all got ourselves ready and headed out to work.

After Alice whirled, that is what she calls her convenient little transportation power since she doesn't like to call it 'transporting', us to Seattle I got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. Seattle always reminds me of the Tracker and my entire involvement with him almost ruined my life beyond repair. I always have a bad feeling being here, I just hope I am worrying over nothing.

It didn't take long for us to pick out the poor people who Checkmate had under his power. It was difficult for Emmett and I to try and restrain them without hurting them, our powers are much better for hurting/defending people opposed to Alice' s that lets her freeze them. We decided that we would try to get as many of them frozen as possible, even if that meant throwing them across the block to get within Alice's reach, so be it. The main thing was to try to stop them before they killed someone or it was nearly impossible to get them back to a normal state of mind, we didn't want a new generation of villains being born right in front of us and we didn't want anyone dying. Edward always thought it was strange that we never really tried to kill anyone including any of the villains. We always believe that people can change, they just need some help doing so sometimes (Carlisle's belief mainly), and that killing them is the same as killing an innocent person. Now in the Tracker's case, he was a lost cause.

I was struggling to contain 5 of the brainwashed and get them to Alice when I saw that Checkmate had Edward in his grasp and Edward wasn't blinking away from him. He looked like he was listening intently to this maniac who, as Alice mentioned earlier, had one of the worst costumes ever, even by my fashion standards. He wore a black and white checkered suit that puffed out at the arms and legs and a black mask with stripes on it. Just looking at him gave me a headache and made me hate clowns.

I used my power to push against the ground shooting me over to where checkmate was. I quickly pulled Edward out of his grasp and threw him to the ground as gently as I could.

"Interesting," was all that mis-matched criminal had to say before Edward grabbed me. I thought he was trying to pull me out of the way but instead he wrestled me to the ground trying to fight me. Shit, I thought, why is ALWAYS Edward?

I threw Edward as hard as I could away from me but he blinked and appeared right in front of me with his hands around my throat. I might as well give up, there is no way I can beat him. Edward must be using his powers, its times like these that I tried really hard to get my brain block back. I tried ignoring his implanted thoughts and he squeezed tighter around my neck. I tried throwing him off me again but he pulled me along by the throat because he was holding on so tight. Edward, I thought you have to fight this, please. His grasp was unyielding. With all my strength I pulled his hands from my neck but it was futile, I really hope this doesn't become the reason we never have kids I thought right before I did what I promised never to do to him. I kneed Edward in the groin and threw him as hard as possible into a tree knocking him out.

"Very interesting," Checkmate repeated looking at me curiously before he vanished with a smirk on his face. With him gone, and Edward no longer attacking me, I could see that Jasper had been knocked out and Seth was being piled on by a bunch of the programmed people. With Checkmate gone from, well hopefully town, the spell began to break and people were coming around and it seemed like no one had killed anyone so our mission was accomplished. Alice appeared at Jasper's side tending to him. I needed some breathing time before I checked on Edward.

I felt a hand on my shoulder and knew immediately that it was Carlisle, even before he spoke, "It's not his fault," he told me. Sometimes I swore that he could read my mind too. "He is your husband and you know he loves you. He would never have done that if he was in his right state of mind." He continued. I gave him an unbelieving look since this is not quite the first time Edward has tried to kill me. "That was before he knew who you were. Your husband needs you; he is going to feel terrible about his actions tonight." Carlisle was right, but it still made me uneasy how easily Edward was swayed to turn back to his old self. Carlisle gave me a quick hug then I made my way over to Edward.

Carlisle had healed his head from where it hit the tree and he was sitting at the base of the tree studying the ground…or I assumed he was. He never did change his suit so I still couldn't see what his face was doing. I didn't quite know what to say. I knew I shouldn't be mad, but how could you not be a little upset when your own husband tries to murder you?

"Ask Alice or Emmett to take you home, I need some time to think." He said to me without looking up. I said nothing and walked over to Alice.

I was laying in bed thinking about all of the events of the day and how a blissful morning could end up so sucky. It was already 3am and I hadn't heard from Edward, not that I had anything to say just yet but I was worried. I figured he would be back latest 1am or at least before my hair dried from the shower I took. I couldn't help but thinking that maybe he had been changed back to his evil self but my heart was telling me that it was impossible. He had changed. He had changed. He had changed…right?

I heard the bedroom door open and knew that Edward was home, I felt relief but it didn't last long because I still was a little upset. I closed my eyes pretending to be asleep, though I knew he would know I wasn't.

"Bella?" He called softly, I ignored him. The bed shifted a bit as he climbed into bed and I took that opportunity to turn and lay on my side facing away from him. He let out a hard sigh. I felt his fingers lightly touch my arm. I really don't want to do this right now. I thought, hoping he would just let me get over it. "Bella please, can we talk about this?" I didn't respond. I was uncomfortable with this, maybe it was just too soon to have him around other villains, I mean, if he was so willingly brainwa…

"Is that what you think?" Edward asked me angrily, "You think that I wanted that to happen tonight? Do you think I enjoy hurting you and that I would do it willingly?"

"Edward I…"

"Save it," he snapped, he looked furious, "I'm sorry I'm such a hopeless case, I'll be sure not to ruin your life any further."

"Edward, I never…" I started but he was gone. I felt awful. I never meant to hurt him, I really didn't. I am just worried. I felt a pain of loneliness in my stomach and tears filled my vision. Way to go Bella, you sure know how to 'be there' for someone. I chided myself before crying myself to sleep.

Goodness...

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