Title: Bella's Bodyguard

Author: Lazalot_Anreads

Beta: None

Characters/Pairings: Bella/Jacob

Rating: NC-17

Challenge: None

Summary: Charlie goes away for three weeks and Bella starts receiving creepy notes and gifts. She asks Jacob to stay with her, and when he agrees, the stalker gets violent.

Notes: AH AU, New Moon AU

Chapter 006

After what seemed like a really long time to Jacob and Charlie, the back up arrived and quietly surrounded Mike's grandparents' house. There was no chance that the young man would escape, which was a relief, but they'd run into a different problem. How could they draw the boy out of the house without getting Bella hurt, or worse, killed?

"Let me go in alone." Jacob was ready to get on his hands and knees and beg if Charlie didn't finally see reason. "He'll think I found him on my own somehow - he'll believe I didn't bring the police, because after all, I didn't before. Anyway, while he's distracted by me, you can get the jump on him and arrest the son of a bitch."

"You're a civilian, not to mention that you're only seventeen years old. Billy would DIE if anything happened to you." Charlie shook his head. "I'm sorry, son, but we need to think of some other way."

Jacob narrowed his eyes and then did the only thing he could; he ran. He knew the cops would be forced to follow through with his plan if he had already set it in motion. He was right; he heard Charlie cursing his back, but nobody followed him.

Jacob decided to go the direct route. He pounded on the door as hard as he could. "Let me in, damn you! Where is she?" He was yelling at the top of his lungs. If there had been neighbors, he surely would have woken them up. Jacob pounded on the door one more time and then stepped back. Lifting his leg, he swiftly and gracefully kicked the door open and charged into the house.

Mike was just coming down the stairs. He had a gun, which he pointed directly at Jacob's heart. "You ARE an idiot, aren't you? Coming here alone … where's your survival instinct?"

Jacob raised his hands, but kept backing away as Mike came down the stairs. He kept baking up until he had maneuvered Mike so that the kidnapper's back was to the door.

That's when Charlie struck. He came from behind, shoving Mike's gun arm up and tackling him all at the same time. "You have the right to remain silent!" As Charlie read Mike his rights, Jacob raced up the stairs.

He searched every room, hollering Bella's name as he did so, but there was no reply and she was nowhere to be seen. "BELLA!" He yelled again, more than a little desperately.

There! A thump from above. She was in the attic! As soon as he located the string to pull the ladder down, he pulled it down and climbed up as fast as he could. He spotted Bella immediately, and rage burned his heart.

She was bound to a chair with a sex toy lodged in her mouth, holding it open. It had a hole he assumed was meant to welcome someone's cock. God, had Mike done anything to her?

He sped over, nearly tripping once over one of the piles of junk, and immediately figured out how to get the gag out of her mouth. He did so very carefully, throwing it aside when he was done and rubbing her jaws tenderly. He hated the fear in his eyes and did his best to sooth it. "It's okay, baby. Your Dad just put Mike under arrest, and I'm here now. I'm here for you," he said as he used his Swiss army knife to cut the ropes binding her. When he was done, he put the knife away and held his arms open. "Come here."

Bella all but leapt into his arms, nearly knocking him over with her enthusiasm. She buried her face in his chest and sobbed as he wrapped her tight in his arms. "G-God, I'm SO glad you're here!"

"Did he hurt you, baby?" Jacob rocked her in his arms and tried to ignore his own growing rage at Mike. "Did he - did he TOUCH you?" He swallowed hard.

"No," Bella was quick to reassure him, pushing the urge to keep crying away, "he didn't get the chance. I was just really, REALLY scared, Jake."

"Oh, thank God," Jacob breathed. He squeezed her even more tightly. "God, I thought I'd lost you. I love you SO much, Bella. I can't live without you."

"Don't say that!" Bella was horrified. "Let's not talk about losing each other, Jake. We're here and we're together NOW, that's all that matters at the moment."

Jacob didn't want to upset her. He decided to keep his emotions at bay until she was feeling better. To lighten the mood, he commented, "I got the condoms."

Instead of laughing, Bella's breath caught. She ground her hips against his, making him instantly hard. "GOOD," she moaned. "We'll be needing them. Mm …"

Just then, Charlie climbed into the attic. He jerked Bella right out of Jacob's grasp, hugging her so tightly that she couldn't breath for a minute. Then he released her and grabbed her shoulders, shaking her. "Don't you ever do that to me again, you understand?"

"Sorry, Dad," Bella said meekly. Then she asked the question that had been burning in the back of her mind since she'd been taken. "How's Angela? Is she going to be okay?"

"Oh, honey." Jacob stood up and pulled her back into his arms, ignoring Charlie's raised eyebrow. "She didn't make it, Bells. I'm sorry."

Bella's heart sunk. She'd known, deep down, that Angela was gone; she just hadn't wanted to believe it. "Oh, no! It's all my FAULT …" Once again, she buried her face in Jacob's chest and sobbed. "I'm s-so SORRY!"

"It was not your fault!" Jacob's tone was fierce. "If anyone is to blame here, it's me. I'm the one that left you alone!"

"Only because I told you to! Don't you dare feel guilty for any of this, Jacob Black!" She banged her tiny fists against his chest as if she thought she could beat the guilt out of him.

"Nobody is at fault here," Charlie finally interjected. "Besides, it's over now. We can't change anything. What we CAN do is get out of this stuffy attic and go home. I know you both have to be exhausted."

It was true for both of them, but neither wanted to part just yet. "Dad, can Jake crash on our couch? PLEASE?" Bella begged.

Charlie rolled his eyes and started climbing down the ladder, Bella and Jacob right behind him. "Like I don't know that he's going to be in your bed as soon as I start snoring. Give me some credit, guys; I already found the condoms."

"WHAT?" Bella squeaked, and turned a glare on Jacob.

"Sorry, Bells," Jacob offered, truly contrite. "I dropped them on the floor when I found Angela. I kind of wasn't thinking straight - I just left them there. Your Dad must have found them when he was going over the crime scene."

"So the two of you ARE having sex." It was a statement. Charlie's lip curled. "At least you're being safe."

Bella and Jacob shared a pained glance, but neither said anything. It was better to let Charlie assume they weren't total idiots, even though they were. They would cross that bridge later if Bella did get pregnant.

Charlie went on. "As long as you don't do it while I'm sleeping under the same roof, then yes, Jacob can spend the night. You need to call your Dad first thing though, Jake … and don't think we aren't going to have a LONG talk about the stunt you pulled back there."

"What stunt?" Bella narrowed her eyes at Jacob.

"It worked, didn't it?" Jacob helped Bella into the backseat of Charlie's police cruiser and climbed in after her while Charlie got behind the wheel. "We got Bella back safe, didn't we?"

"WHAT stunt, Jacob?" Bella leaned away from her lover when he tried to pull her into his arms. "What did you do?"

It was Charlie who answered. "He took off into the house against my wishes while we were still strategizing. It's not that he didn't have a good plan, though; it's just that he's a civilian and I'm going to catch some serious shit from the higher ups for letting him get involved."

Jacob refused to feel bad. "We got her back. That's all that matters," he said stubbornly, sliding as close as he could get to Bella.

"I can't argue with that." Charlie actually smiled at him in the rearview mirror.

Bella wasn't so forgiving. Beating her little fists against his chest once again as he dragged her back into his arms, she frowned sternly at him. "Jacob Black! You could have been killed! Don't you ever, EVER do something like that again, not even for me! Promise me right now that you'll never so anything that stupid again!"

Jacob sighed. "I can't promise you that, Bells. When you're involved, I'll do ANYTHING. But if you try to stay out of dangerous situations, I promise to try to do the same."

Bella deflated like a balloon, sinking into his arms and inhaling his musky male scent deeply. "I just couldn't STAND for anything to happen to you, Jake."

By the time they got back to Bella's and Charlie's house, it was past one in the morning. All three of them agreed that all they wanted to do was brush their teeth and go to bed, so that's exactly what they did.

Jacob spooned behind Bella, wrapping his arms securely around her and rubbing her tummy gently. "I love you so, SO much, Bella Swan."

Bella smiled, her eyes already closed and on the edge of sleep. "Mm … love you, too, Jake … MY Jacob …"

He listened to her breathing even out and said a prayer of thanks right there. "God, if you're listening, I can never thank you enough. You saved her. You saved my Bella. God, thank you SO much!" He had tears of relief streaking his cheeks by the time he finished, but he didn't care. He just held Bella close and let them fall.

He didn't remember falling asleep. One minute he was bawling like a little bitch and in the next moment Charlie was shaking him awake. "What?" he mumbled sleepily, blinking up at Bella's Dad.

"I called Billy; he knows you're safe. I asked him if you could stay with Bella today and tomorrow while I wrap up this case, and he agreed, so you don't have to go home just yet." Charlie paused and took a deep breath, then set a very familiar brown sack on nightstand table. His face burned with a blush to rival his daughter's. "Um. Thought you might need these back." Then he rushed from the room, down the stairs and straight out of the house. A moment later Jacob heard the cruiser start and pull away.

Jesus. Charlie had practically told him to fuck his daughter - how insane was that? But Jacob wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth. As soon as Bella woke up, he was going to RAVAGE her.

He buried his nose in her hair and waited impatiently, his hard dick prodding her backside through his sweatpants and her panties. Part of him really wanted to wake her up, but he denied it. Bella HAD to be exhausted; she needed her rest more than he needed to get laid.

Eventually, though, her eyes did flutter open. Feeling his hard cock against her, she moaned. "Jake?"

"Yeah, baby, it's me," he whispered, and turned her to face him. He kissed her forehead, her eyelids, her cheeks, her nose, and finally caught her lips in a soulful kiss that rocked her world.