Edward

Walking the city streets at night always used to relax me which is why I sometimes do the night watch. But tonight I was just frustrated. I had to talk to Bella. I never hesitated taking a girl to bed but with Bella I wanted to go at her pace. I ran my hand through my hair frustrated. I sounded like a fucking chick.

I walked in our building and sat down looking at my phone. She should be coming soon.

So many things were running through my mind. I was still nervous about bringing Bella to my family but there was something about her and with our family history I wasn't taking any chances of losing the love of my life.

Carlisle & Esme

Seven years ago: Rome, Italy

"Scusi, dov'è il bango?" Esme asked the waiter.

He pointed towards the back of the exclusive Italian restaurant. She got up fixing her dress and turned only to be stopped by a man. He was turned the opposite way. His broad shoulders reached the top of her head. She tapped his shoulder trying to get passed him but he ignored her. Being a lady, she cleared her throat but he still ignored her.

Now she was pissed.

She lightly elbowed him out the way and proceeded to the bathroom.

On her way back she was stopped by a strong hand on her arm. She turned to see an extremely handsome, almost otherworldly handsome man behind her. She smiled and asked, "Posso aiutarla?"

"Io parlo inglese, e tu?" he asked, his voice deep, dark, sultry.

She nodded.

"I'd like an apology."

Her mouth dropped open, "Excuse me?"

"You rudely shoved me out your way to go to the bathroom. I understand if it was an emergency but that's still no excuse."

She blushed, embarrassed, "It wasn't an emergency, and you kept ignoring me! What was I supposed to do sit down until you finished with your conversation and moved on?"

"Exactly, now where's that apology?" he teased with an unbelievably sexy smirk.

At that moment she said something that she had always heard but never even dreamed of saying, "Up your ass and around the corner." She stormed off back to her seat near the huge bay window that the restaurant was famous for.

She wanted to look back to see if he was as stunned as she was. She was raised as a lady and to never even think off saying that to a gentlemen but her aunt was a little on the rough side. When Esme would spend time with her she always heard her saying things of that nature and one stuck. She had never even entertained the thought of using such language but she had to admit the rush of standing up for herself was thrilling.

"Up your ass and around the corner!" she said in an appropriate tone before storming off back to her table, the best one in the restauraunt.

Carlisle smiled and walked over the maître d', "scusi, Cosi è quella giovane donna di nome?" he pointed over to her.

"Ah, Il suo nome è Esme Anne Platt, signore Cullen."

He thanked him and proceeded out the restaurant towards his car.

One Year Later: United States of America

Blood, nothing but blood filled all my senses. I heard it, I smelled it, I tasted… I saw it.

In the midst of a war between two mercenary groups, mine was slowly dying. The man over us couldn't fight his way out of a fucking paper bag let alone organize us to fight for him.

We slowly went down, one by one. After a while I switched from offense to defense trying to help save some of my men from death.

We were in the middle of a city in some part of the United States. I had no idea where. We were simply dropped off in the middle by trucks and told to fight. A genius plan, I know.

I pulled one man with a wounded leg out the way and that's when I saw her. A flash of white caught my eyes. She was on the floor, fighting off three guys at once. They were obviously trying to drag her away and possibly rape her. After I saw that everything was as safe as could be, I sprinted over to her throwing my body on all three sweeping us all away from her. Quickly getting up, she ran over to me and we both sprinted to an empty building.

Her arms were shaking and her breath was ragged. She snuck a glance at me then looked down in thought. I went over to the window to see if the cost was clear when I suddenly felt a slap on my arm. I looked over to see her. She was seething.

"You!"

I smiled, "Hello Ms. Platt."

She smirked, "It's Mrs. Evenson now."

My smile dropped, she was married?

Her smile dropped, "Well, I used to be."

I looked at her in confusion. She sighed, "He died in a raid three days ago."

"You have my condolences."

She looked at me, her eyes showed nothing but fury, "Even when I was married! You were all I could think about!" she hissed and hit me again.

"I'm sorry?" I said but it sounded more like question then a statement.

She growled, "You pig-headed, egotistical son of a-"

With a roll of my eyes, I kissed her.

And just like that time froze for us. We hardly knew each other but I was already in love with her.

~.~

Emmett and Rosalie

United States of America: New York

Vroom Vroom

"It sounds perfect. Can you tell me again why you brought your car into my shop?"

He grinned, "Maybe I just wanted a chance to talk to you."

"Well I don't really have the time nor do I want to talk to someone like you."

His eyebrows rose, "Like me? And exactly what category do I fall in?"

I rolled my eyes, "Muscle bound freaks who think they can get a girl in their bed in a blink of an eye."

"Whoa, are you a mind reader or something?" he asked with a little too much enthusiasm.

I handed him his keys and crossed my arms, "There is nothing wrong with your car, have a nice day."

I turned to leave but he caught my arm, "Actually the only noise is when you drive it."

"I have a machine that can do that." I grabbed for the keys but he held them above us out of my reach.

"Actually I was thinking we could take it around the block, see it in action."

I smirked, "That's against the garage's policy." I pointed up to a huge sign the owner made of all the can's and can not's.

He shrugged, "Well, you know what they say, rules are made to be broken."

I smiled, that's what I usually say to others who were sticklers to the rules.

I looked around to see the rest of the customers were all taken care of. I gave him a 'fine but no nonsense' look and walked over to the passenger seat of his car.

He happily jogged over to the driver side unlocked the car. We both go in and he slowly back out of the garage before quickly merging into traffic. I grabbed the dashboard and the side of the seat, freaking out.

"Would you slow down?!" he laughed and decreased his speed about five miles per hour. I listened for any noises but I wasn't shocked that I didn't hear anything. I turned in my seat to glare at him, "I hear nothing."

He laugh loudly which was dangerous in the enclosed car, "Of course not, I just bought this car, Rosalie Lillian Hale."

I gasped, "How do you know my name?" My nametag I wore in the garage only read 'Rose'.

He smiled, "I'm not a stalker or something, I just had you looked into."

"Yeah, not stalker-ish at all." I said with a roll of my eyes, "Why?"

He simply looked at my.

No!

I was so careful. There was no way he could know about that!

"If you're trying to figure out how I know all about you and the black market, well, let's just say you may cover your tracks well but your partner Royce King II doesn't.

I growled, that imbecile! I knew I should have never let him in on my secret. Even after I broke off the engagement I should have up and moved so he couldn't find me and couldn't inform the authorities and rat me out without proof.

I started to hyperventilate, this was it, I was going to prison!

He quickly looked over at me with a shocked expression, "Calm down, I'm not with the police!"

I instantly froze, if he wasn't with the police than how did he have the resources to know what I do?

"I'm with a group of people that… like to do certain jobs for a huge fee."

"What kind of job?" I asked suddenly interested.

"We kill people."

"What the hell! How can you ask me to be a part of people that kill other for money, that's sick?"

He chuckled, "So you can make weapons for terrorist but we can't kill, hypocrite much." He scoffed.

Well, I guess he was right. "How much does it pay you?"

"Let's just say with the first job I had, I bought this baby." He said running his hand along the dashboard of the car. I had to admit it was nice. It was 2014 Range Rover Sport. "Cash upfront"

My mouth dropped, "When can I start?"

He smiled, "You already did. You'll get all the information later."

By now we had circled around back to the garage, I had forgotten all about it. I got out and walked around to the driver side.

He stuck his hand out for me to shake, "It was nice to meet you Rosalie, I'm Emmett McCarty. I hope we meet again."

Alice and Jasper

Two years ago

"Check this out darlin'." My partner said smiling down to a cute blonde who looked up at him in awe.

He swung his gun around in a sort of ROTC fashion then ended up pointing it at me.

I rolled my eyes, "Knock it off! We ain't got no time to be dilly-dallying." I said jumping off the hood of the jeep I was given to go on patrol.

"Aw, well maybe I'll see ya later baby cakes." He said with a flick of his finger to her chin. He got in the driver's side and I jumped in the passenger.

"The lieutenant will have our hide if we come late again." I said holding onto the outer frame of the jeep as he speed through the deserted cities.

"Jasper, you need to calm down. What can he do, we'll just tell him that it took longer than necessary to go through and see if there were any more rogues."

"We had to search a three by four block radius in a neighborhood, I seriously doubt it will take," I looked down at my watch," three hours and forty-five minutes." I growled.

He shrugged, "It's not like he can check on us anymore. We broadened our search area."

"Look, just keep ya flirtin' to a minimum or I'll-" that's when my eye caught the smallest ruffle of brunette hair, "Stop the car!"

He jammed on his breaks looking around, "What is it?"

Before he could ask again I quickly got out and sprinted over the area. I woman head popped up. She probably heard my approaching foot falls. Her eyes widened and she to go up quickly started to sprint away.

What the hell?!

I picked up my speed and quickly overtook her. I tackled her down and we both hit the ground hard. I twisted our bodies so I would land on the ground first and I would somewhat cushion the fall. She groaned and held her head. She rolled off me and started to crawl away.

I grabbed her ankle and pulled her back to me, "What in Sam hell do you think you're doing?"

"Get off!" she tried to shake m off of her but it didn't work, if anything I just tightened my grip.

"We're trying to help you!"

She laughed harshly, yeah right! Just like the other soldiers that came and destroyed my town," her eyes started to water, "destroyed my family and friends."

"What are you talking about? We haven't been to this area yet."

She looked over at me with a frown, "Then what do you call those." She pointed behind me to see men dressed in camouflage riding horses getting closer and closer to my partner.

Before I could yell for him to watch out, one of the men took out a shot gun and shot him right between the eyes. A perfect shot.

I pulled the girl to me and ran behind an abandoned house.

I gripped her shoulders so she could see I was serious, "Those are not my men. They are rogues dressed up as us. I have to get back to base to warn the other troops before other towns start to mistake us for them."

She nodded, "How are we going to get back without them seeing us?"

I sighed, running a hand through my hair. This was going to be hard. Beyond the few houses was nothing but empty land and more empty land.

I looked down, "I gotta to ditch these clothes."

She looked down and saw that I was still in my military uniform.

She stared off into the distance for a second, then shook her head, "Don't, it'll come in handy."

"How do you-"

"Don't worry about it, let's go." She grabbed my hand and suddenly took off, dragging me behind her.

We ran for what felt like hours, wind and desert dust slapping my face. Training with the other troops really helped with my physique. But I could tell she was getting tired. I stopped after a while and made her sit down. I wish I had some water or something but everything I had was left in a bag in the jeep. I wish we could have used the jeep but I know that they would hear the engine and come firing at us.

I looked over at her. She was kind of… well beautiful. She had shirt black hair, her skin was pale but not a sickly pale I had been seeing for a while now. It was a creamy pale. She was small, but she had curves in all the right places so you would not mistake her for a little girl or boy. She laid down on the ground and I could see her breathing was getting back to normal.

"You want to start back up or wait a little bit longer.

She lazily rolled her head to the side to look at me, "I guess. How far are we away from wherever we have to go?"

"We've got to get back to base. It's about half a mile that way." I pointed to the east, the same direction we were heading.

She suddenly sat up, "Do you hear that?"

I listened for a while. The only thing I heard was the wind. I don't hear a thing.

"I don't hear anything." I turned to her.

She shook her head and frowned, "Never mind, let's just go."

I nodded and stood up.

We continued to walk for a while but before too long she leaned down and rubbed her ankles.

She looked up at me and smirked, "Sorry, I usually spend my days sitting."

"What do you do?" I asked suddenly interested.

She shook her head, "I'm not proud of it."

I remained quiet, hoping she would tell me the rest.

She looked at me and sighed, "I'm kind of a fort-"

Thump, Thump.

"Shh." I said, putting my hand up in a silencing fashion.

I listened, "There must be… horses? Two, maybe even three."

"Run!" she yelled, looking at me with horror in her eyes and started to pull on my arm.

"Wha-"

Pain

I looked down to see blood starting to seep in my clothes. A bullet must have went through.

I slumped forward but she caught me.

"Shit!" I mumbled feeling blood getting stuck in my throat. I coughed, spraying onto the desert floor.

"Jasper!" she buckled under my weight and we both fell to the floor. "No… it was not supposed to happen in this way!"

She covered the wound with her hand trying to make the bleeding stop the bleeding.

I looked up at her, "How'd you know my name?"

She laughed, tears rolled down her reddened cheeks.

"I'll tell you later." She looked towards the right to see about five jeeps coming. Three went off towards the rogues the others were coming towards us.

"I'll see you later." She said and gave me a peck on the cheek.

Darkness.

"Edward! What the hell!" Emmett yelled behind me. "You were supposed to report in an hour ago!"

I turned to see Emmett and Jasper running down the street towards me. I looked at my watch to see two hours had passed.

Damn.

When they finally caught up to me, I had sat on the bench and sighed.

"What's wrong?" Jasper asked.

I sighed again, "What the hell is she doing to me?"

Emmett laughed, "I'm still asking myself that."

Jasper nodded in agreement. "Hey, aren't you supposed to meet Bella soon?"

I looked at the time again.

"You know what, I don't know what the hell she is doing to me but I am going to find out." I said and walked off towards our meeting spot.

Happy Holidays!