A/N Battles, Alice, Jasper, and Agent Jane. I love Agent Jane actually. O.N. Labbit and I thank you for reading and hope you enjoy this action-packed chapter! Thanks and enjoy.

The Wolf Descends on a Vamp A**

I sat in the back of the streamlined, small black helicopter. I'd never ridden in a helicopter before and it looked like in the movies. There was the back seat, where I sat, watching the vampire in the front seat carefully as he sat beside Alice. We all wore headphones, and I listened to them talk.

"I think you have quite the wonderful gift, Alice. You say you are a Brandon?"

"Yes, from Mississippi."

"I knew a Brandon from Mississippi back in 1861. He was quiet and his mother was a seamstress. He handled the needle and thread quite well and patched up our clothing and shoes."

"Oh how fun. I offered to make an outfit for Leah but she pretty much doesn't need one."

"Oh yes, she's a wolf. I suppose she could wear a cape or something like that."

"Oh," Alice squealed, "maybe a little hat or bowtie collar, like those cute doggie outfits."

"Oh yes, I saw a Batman T-shirt on a Yorkie once."

"There was a sparkling disco outfit on a Chihuahua – that was cute. I think Leah would look cute with sparkles."

"Okay," I broke in, "what the hell?!"

I could hear them both laughing like crazy.

And then Jasper said, "You were right, Alice, that was a fun joke."

"Fuck both of you." I turned off my headphones, and then leaned back on the seat with my arms crossed, deciding to close my eyes. I wore a cotton dress and some flip flops - items that could easily be disposed of when I changed. I couldn't believe these two were trying to be funny.

Alice's hands were moving as she spoke to Jasper, and then it looked like she was holding the controls. If I didn't know any better I'd think Alice was flying the helicopter. That couldn't be possible – could it? No, I think Jasper was teaching her how to fly. There was no way she was going to learn in one lesson.

I watched Jasper and Alice and they were scooting closer and closer to one another in the front. They seemed to be getting along really well. That worried me. Alice needed to stay away from the vamp. And then his hand held over hers, landing and then staying on top of her hand.

I leapt in between, "HEY!"

Alice turned back to me, pointing to the headphones, and telling me to turn them on. Oh that's right. I turned back on the headphones.

Jasper turned to me. "Yes, was there something you wanted Leah?"

Alice turned to me smiling in that effervescently positive way. They both looked like nothing had been going on and so I finally just asked, "How much longer until we get to the vamps?"

"In just a moment," Jasper stated and then pointed to the desert below.

What I saw in the near distance was the landscape looking like there were random pockets of sparkling gems. It was like we were flying over a diamond mine. No wait that was vampire skin. I knew it sparkled – craziest thing.

There were more vamps than I fought. They'd grown in number. All around the brush and rocks, as the sun teased on the horizon, giving just enough light to brighten up the vamps' skin. It would be dark in the next half hour.

And then I saw the FBI agents. What the hell? They were tied X-shaped onto the desert floor like the vamps were having a cookout before eating them. I was pretty sure they preferred their human's raw.

Jasper turned to me. "When we pass you jump out and try to take the group to the north. I will jump out and look for the leader and the group to the south."

It suddenly dawned on me that it was just us three, "Wait – who's going to fly the helicopter? There must be at least ten vamps down there too. Have you really thought this through Jasper?"

I began to wonder if this was a trap. I'd come to a trap set up by this vampire.

"I'll fly," Alice gave a thumb up. "And you need to not worry about Jasper. He's one of the good vamps. There are good ones and bad ones."

"I think they're all bad."

"Then we'll have to work on your thinking."

Jasper was flying the helicopter as I stared at Alice. There was something about her that I just didn't understand since the moment I first saw her at my motel. I didn't doubt she could see things, but I had to question her judgment. She was giving this vampire too much of the benefit of doubt.

I looked to Alice. "You can't fly a helicopter!"

"Yes I can," she told me. "Once you both secure the ground below I'll land and we can get those two agents. They don't have much longer."

I was impressed, "you are full of surprises Al."

"Thanks." She giggled, and then took my hand, "Trust me."

"I'm still pissed about the joke – but for now, I'll trust you."

"You need to lighten up Leah," she winked at me, "it's going to get very hard from here and it would be best for you to lighten up."

I looked at her, trying to decipher what that meant. She probably 'saw' something again. My gut was telling me to take her and get as far as possible from this vampire and this place.

"Alice is truly full of surprises," Jasper smiled, looking to her and again I wanted to bite him. He was an old vamp for goodness sake, and he was eyeing a young 19-year-old kid. That was just sick.

"Leah," Alice turned to me, her headset on and holding to the joystick, "I'm quite capable and I'm nineteen. You have to stop thinking of me as a little girl. I know it's only because you care."

"Well yeah, and you look really small." I didn't know what to say. She had me on the spot. "Um… well… just watch out for the vamps. If you fly too low they can jump this high. You have to be careful."

"This baby has firepower," Alice laughed, sounding a little maniacal and too anxious to try out that firepower.

Man, I had totally underestimated little Alice.

"You have the controls, Alice?"

Whenever Jasper said her name it sounded like he was holding it and making love to it.

"Yes Jasper."

Oh my goodness, she was saying his name with the same lilt. I wanted to jump out of the helicopter, if for no other reason, to get away from these two.

"Time to go, Leah – as you say, let's kick some vampy ass!" Jasper pulled off his headset. I did the same. How'd he know my rallying cry? He totally flubbed it with his accent.

He leapt out of the helicopter and I did the same. I phased while jumping onto the vampire closest to me. I viciously tore at his neck, ripping the head off in one fluid motion. Take that. I whirled around to see Victoria beside the FBI agents on the ground. The woman was blonde and looked dead, but the man was still alive, watching me with wide eyes.

I howled and then went after Victoria as she hopped toward her boyfriend, James. He was hissing at me. The pansy could hiss all he wanted; I was going to destroy him and his one legged girlfriend. I lunged for them, my jaws snapping when suddenly I was blindsided by two vamps, one at my head and one at my hind legs.

I flipped hard, kicking the one by my legs and then spun on the other, my claws removing an arm from his shoulder and then finished him off with my teeth.

I was actually feeling pretty good, as I leapt toward another that was making his move toward the big FBI agent. I caught him in the air and tumbled down the side of the hill, through scrub brush and down to the river. I left him with no legs this time, dragging his torso in my teeth and back up the hill.

I saw James and Victoria in the distance. Those are the two I wanted.

Suddenly there was a flash of blonde hair and James was pummeled into the ground. Jasper was standing above him threateningly before Jasper hauled James to his feet and did some sort of karate kick to his chest flinging him backwards. Wow, Jasper could fight.

James jumped to his feet, staring Jasper down and then they flew at each other in a flurry of limbs. Jasper and James were punching and kicking, dust flying around them, I would have liked to study Jasper's fighting style more but Victoria grabbed my hind leg and swung me into the dirt – ouch.

That was the same maneuver she did last time, but this time she had only one leg. But then another female vamp came to help her and this one wasn't handicapped, so she was slightly faster. I quickly leapt up, and landed on the vamp, my claws digging into her upper half, warning her that she'd be in pieces in a second. There weren't a lot of moves in my arsenal as a wolf. It was pretty much leap, bite, and rip apart.

I focused, snarling and growling, at the female vampire on the ground.

"Please," she suddenly spoke, "please don't hurt me. I'll leave. You can just let me leave."

She looked around shiftily, frightened. She was inexperienced, sucks to be her. I didn't show mercy to vampires.

"I… don't want to do this any more. I used to be a teacher," She whispered. "Please…."

What the hell was wrong with me? I was feeling compassion for a freakin' vampire. She had strawberry blonde hair and large eyes, extremely beautiful. All these creatures were beautiful and so deadly.

I looked up, hearing the helicopter close by. Alice was flying too low, looking like she wanted to land and help out the FBI agents, who I'd forgotten about. Two vampires were leaping to the bottom runners of the chopper. I growled once more at the female vamp, leaving her, and then took off for the helicopter.

I'd never moved this fast and began to wonder if Jasper's healing juice didn't have a little extra kick of something. I was in the air within an instant, howling to warn Alice what was coming after her, and swiped at one vampire, my teeth at his lower limbs, pulling him down with me.

I rolled on the ground, flipping with vampire legs in my teeth and when I looked up I heard gunfire. Alice was shooting those vampire piercing weapons at the one vamp, and another that was going to take advantage of the FBI agents all alone. He was falling to the ground, his body in pieces, as was the other vampire.

Damn. When did Alice learn to shoot like that?

I then turned my attention back to Victoria, but James gave up fighting Jasper and scooped up Victoria before racing off into the distance. I moved to go after them but Jasper held me back. I flinched from his cold touch.

"Not yet wolf, we will catch them soon," Jasper assured me staring at their retreating forms. "Those agents need our help right now. We need to start a fire and get the parts taken care of."

I nodded in my wolf form, and hurried to pick up pieces of vampires. We'd killed around a dozen today between the three of us.

Jasper started the bonfire and once it was burning nice and hot he helped me gather the remaining body parts and we had our vamp cookout, as the sun lowered. It was still fairly bright on the desert floor, but the helicopter's head lamps brightened where Alice was landing, near the FBI agents.

Alice landed and I phased back and walked up to the door, grabbing the dress I left on the flooring in the back, and then threw it over me.

Alice yelled from inside the helicopter, "You did great!" She looked so elated, and then her eyes went wide and blank, like she was having some sort of vision.

"Alice? What's wrong?"

And then we heard vehicles driving up. It was a convoy of black vehicles coming up the road we were near. And up in the sky were two helicopters. All had bright lights and were dotting the area like some clandestine special forces that you see in movies by Spielberg and them coming to take over an alien spacecraft.

We were suddenly being swarmed by military-looking personnel. I was ready to shift back when Jasper told me. "This is the back up. They're here to take the agents for medical attention. They called me."

"Who called you?" I asked with a bite in my voice, suspicious.

"I'll let them tell you." Jasper walked up to Alice and the helicopter shut off. Alice climbed out of the helicopter and stood beside me.

"Leah, you have to trust Jasper."

"I wish you'd stop saying that because frankly, I'm really beginning to trust him less and less."

I didn't like all this secrecy. Another helicopter landed and a tall, thin man in a suit, definitely a federal agent, walked toward us. As he approached what looked like a medical team disembarked from behind him in the helicopter and headed toward the agents.

"I'd really like to know what's going on Jasper," I growled, "because I'm about to phase into a wolf and bite someone."

"I wouldn't if I were you, Leah. You will not stand a chance."

"I knew this was a set up. I should have known." I was shaking my head, "I can't believe I trusted you."

"I'm sorry – but I had nothing to do with this." Jasper had a very dour look on his face and he looked to Alice who actually looked like she was trying to comfort him.

"Ms. Leah Clearwater, shape-shifter," the man said as he walked up to me. He had sunglasses on and it was dark out. "You have been making appearances all over the southwest and caught some attention."

"Yeah?" I was ready to shift. "So?"

"You are to come with us." He then looked to Alice and Jasper, "We would like you both to join us as well. Our organization will be taking over now. I'm Agent Ben Cheney and I'm overseeing your transport to meet Agent Jane." He looked to me, "she wants to speak with you especially."

"Jane? I understand," Jasper cut in, sounding upset. "Are we being arrested?"

"Only being brought in to be briefed and questioned. PI sent me."

"Whoa – wait," I interrupted, "what are you talking about? Who's PI? And who the hell is Jane?"

"Ms. Clearwater, you will be briefed later. It stands for Paranormal Investigations. We already have Ms. Swan and Mr. Cullen ready for transport with you three."

"You mean the Bella gal? And Edward?"

"I suppose - yes."

He turned and I looked in the direction he was looking. "Good, Agent's McCarty and Hale have been taken care of in the medical helicopter. They'll be transported ahead. It looks like they were still alive." He actually looked relieved.

The agent, looking more reposed and relieved, said, "Please follow me Mr. Whitlock, Ms. Brandon, and Ms. Clearwater, to the helicopter."

Jasper took Alice's hand. "We should go."

Alice looked to me her eyes looking large and winsome, and then she took my hand. "Come on Leah. We'll get to see Bella again."

"And that is good news, why?" I asked.

She only did that silly little giggle.

We were soon flown to a military base and once off the helicopter the three of us were escorted to a building beside a transport plane.

The agent, Ben Cheney, seemed pleasant enough. He was approached by a military man who gave him a note. He looked it over and then told me. "Ms. Clearwater, it seems you've not been cleared quite yet. Can you please have a seat and wait just a moment."

"Why?" I asked.

"It has to do with your brother, I think. Agent Jane will speak to you shortly. She can inform you of the reasoning."

He pointed to a room. "Please wait in here. I'll take these two to the plane."

Alice waved to me. "I'll be okay – Jasper will take care of me."

I waved back to her, hoping I could trust Jasper. Something wasn't right. If I left now, however, I could be leaving Alice, Bella and that Edward guy stuck. I had to stay around until I knew they were safe. I also needed to know why they mentioned my brother. Something was definitely very wrong.

I walked into the room and sat. Instantly two military men with automatic rifles came inside and stood by the door. They wore flak jackets and were dressed to like they were ready for battle.

I swallowed wondering what would happen. The door opened again and in stepped a short, blonde-haired woman. No – not a woman – a vampire.

I wanted to shift but felt I couldn't again. I could feel it inside. How did Jasper do this to me again?

"Don't fret, Ms. Clearwater," the woman told me. She had a British accent and was small like Alice, but with the most platinum head of hair. She also wore sunglasses.

"I'm Agent Jane of the Paranormal Investigations International branch. We've taken over for the most part. You, Ms. Clearwater, are a wolf who thinks you can randomly go about hunting vampires with no consequence."

"Am I being arrested then?"

"Oh no," she laughed, "Quite the contrary. You're being recruited."

"What if I don't want to be recruited?"

"Then I'm afraid your shape-shifting brother, Seth, and all the other wolves will be arrested for taking the law into their own hands in Washington."

"They haven't hurt anyone."

"Oh… does that really matter?" She pulled down her sunglasses so that I could see her large, dark eyes. She was deadly and serious.

"If you don't comply I will make sure that little Alice Brandon goes to prison for the rest of her life. She escaped from a mental institution three years ago. She'll be locked up until she really does become crazy – placed in a little square padded room."

"You bitch!" I leapt at the woman and the military men shot at me with electronic tasers, knocking me to the ground. They came at me from both sides.

"You have a nasty temper, wolf girl."

I lay on the ground, voltage still charging through me, staring up at the fastidious and evil little vampire.

"Enough," she waved her hand and they finally stopped. "Put her back on the chair."

They went down, lifting me to a chair, sitting me down. I couldn't move as my muscles had been hammered by the electrical shock. I was barely conscious.

"Now listen to me. I can't stand your smell. I can't stand that I have to work with a creature like you." She leaned in close to my face, as I sat slumped in the chair, wishing I could move. "You're going to do everything we ask of you or I assure you my threats are not empty. Now," she pulled a syringe with a big, boring needle in it, out from her jacket. She looked it over, tapping the air bubbles out. "This is a little chip – wonderful nanotechnology – that I will inject into you. Its how we keep tabs on you."

"Don't," I forced out from me.

"You have no say in the matter - because frankly, if you don't do what we want and start working for us, rather than for yourself and your little pathetic vigilante crusade, you will be arrested. You will never shape shift again. And you will most assuredly disappear with Alice and your brother. Do you understand that?"

I was breathing hard, watching her and then I slowly lowered my head, nodding slowly. "Yeah," came out quickly.

"Good."

She went around to the back of my neck and stabbed me with the needle. It stung at first, but then she pulled it out.

"There," she chimed, "that wasn't so bad, was it?"

"Fuuu-ck you," I squeezed out.

"Could you men help Leah Clearwater to her friends? She looks like she might have a little trouble walking."

The two men lifted me under my armpits and my legs worked slightly as they lifted me. Agent Jane looked into my eyes. "You understand our deal? You don't need to tell anyone about our little discussion, do you?"

I shook my head, as much as that was possible.

"I'll let you know when we're going to need you. You be sure and come when I call," she patted my shoulder, "that's a good little dog."

My teeth were clenched. I was making very canine sounds, as I wanted to change and bite her so badly. The two men hauled me to the airplane, my feet dragging along the tarmac, as I was walked up and into the plane.

They placed me in a seat, placing a seat belt over me, and all eyes were on me. Bella asked first, "What happened to you?"

Edward answered for me. "She can't talk yet. It seems there was a problem and she was tasered."

"Tasered?" Alice shrieked, and then she undid her seatbelt and ran up to grab me, and look at my face. She was much too worried over me, and I knew I didn't want this innocent and kind little person to be stuck in a rubber room for the rest of her life. I couldn't allow them to do that to her.

You reading my mind? I asked Edward, turning my head to him, because he was watching me intently and I realized he knew I was tasered.

He gave me a quick nod.

Then read this, I told him in my head, be quiet and don't tell them anything else and let me sleep this off. And stop reading my thoughts.

Bella was suddenly next to Alice and she was checking my pulse. I finally was able to move my mouth, thank goodness for healing and I told them. "I'm okay. I… smelled that vampire gal and started to phase and they were just worried I was going to hurt their boss. That's all - they just tasered me – no big deal. I'm already recovering with my healing."

"Oh wow," Bella was feeling my forehead. I slapped her hand away, but gently.

"Please Bella," I looked up and into her big brown eyes. I didn't even want them to take her and put her in prison, despite her being a bit of a pest. "I'm okay. I'm just going to rest a little bit. I've had a long day."

She smiled at me, and then nodded, "sure" and sat back down.

It was dark outside and I was tired. I wasn't lying. I felt like calling my little brother, lowering my head and closing my eyes, wanting to sleep. I had this nano-chip in the back of my neck and they would always be able to find me. I belonged to some secret government agency, like I was their pet wolf.

A/N Woo, another chapter of LKA. We promise this is going to start getting good. If you're wondering what Agent Jane and PII are really up to, please read the Rose POV, "FPI: Superhero Saga; Stage Three," and to find out how Bella and Edward came to be transported, that's in the Bella POV, "Sidekick Registry: Superhero Saga; Stage Two." You'll get much more info on what's going on with this secret government agency in the next chapter of Rose's POV. ;) I really love Agent Jane, more of her in chapter 2 of Rose's POV!

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