A/N: Thanks, folks, this is now my 5th story to pass the 10,000 hits mark xx Alexis


Bella

I know Jasper and Peter are in trouble, I can feel it! Not hurt, no definitely not hurt, but detained yes! But by who? He called before they went to see Maria, but I really don't think she's that stupid! No one who's lived that long would make such a rookie error. So I think a phone call might be in order, then we'll start from there. This should be enlightening, will she even talk to me? Well, I hope so, cause I'll visit if needs be! But I needn't have worried, Maria was more than helpful, she told me how their visit went, about informing him of the renegades and what Jasper had said when she asked him to stay, "Mi hermoso 'Dios de la Guerra', was correct, because I was the first place you checked!" she told me, I reminded her he was now my 'God of War', but yes he sure is beautiful!

They have been off the grid now for two days and I was ready to set out to find them, but Charlotte and Garrett said to wait just a little longer, even though Char too was getting antsy, we were pouring over a map of Mexico. Garrett had pinpointed the road they would have taken after leaving Maria's, also the last two location they were headed, so in that stretch was where they were waylaid. Char then pointed out that it would have to be an out of the way place and unknown to others so that also narrowed down the search area considerably, next they started to phone contacts and ask for Intel, this was when we hit pay dirt. With all the information we now had Emmett got to work and hacked into a weather satellite system, you know the Russian ones! Changed the co-ordinates and got us a visual, not great, but a visual of the area, including the camp.

You could just make out Jasper and Peter tied to posts quite a distance from the buildings, I was confused, until Char mentioned that he was probably messing with everyone's emotions and had been moved away from the soldiers, otherwise he'd have them all killing each other, plus if she knew Peter at all he would be taunting them as well. But what held a vampire? Shouldn't they be able to just break free? Thus began a lesson in all things venom, also all things werewolf, how traditionally their claws, teeth and blood are used to torture vampires. "They are gonna ransom them! Otherwise, they would have either dismembered or killed them already!" Garrett declared, "Expect a phone call soon, I suspect he was trying to weaken then first! But that would have gone badly! Starvin' the Major just pisses him off!"

If we were human it would be barbaric, their wrists were nailed to the posts, but the head of the nail was covered in werewolf blood, so they couldn't pull their wrists free without poisoning themselves. Teeth from the same species were embedded in the post to stop sideways movements too, it was a tried and tested method Garrett said and if it entered the venom stream would mean a slow painful death for our kind. So as I said barbaric but totally efficient especially for a gifted vampire like Jasper, who they needed to be contained but allowing them to stay away from him at the same time.

Jasper

We this was a shitty situation we were in, in hindsight I should have requested some of the guard for the first visits, but it was going so damn well, I didn't want them there to be intimadatin' everyone. I wanted to let them know we were capable and in control, but this new faction had thrown us through a loop! I was havin' an overwhelmin' feelin' of bein' watched! But how I had no idea, I knew Bella was out there watchin' me, Peter kept lookin' up and mumblin' "The eye in the sky, see's all!" So I guess it's satellite surveillance. I tipped my head back and looked up mouthin' "I love you, darlin'".

Peter and I weren't in any immediate danger, if I'd thought they would have killed us, we would have fought to the death. They just wanted freedom and who doesn't! but they need to change their ways of acheivin' it, no point if you're just gonna act like your oppressors! That's where we come in, they need a choice, at the moment they are all buzzin' with the fact that not only are they free, but they captured us. Shortly that'll wear off and they will begin to realise they just painted a large target on themselves and want rid of us as soon as they can. 'Speak of the devil!' I thought to myself as Alejandro swaggered towards us carryin' our cell phones.

"Eh! not such a big man now Major!" he said more to his men than me, they all laughed of course, but Peter answered him anyway "You had to use the blood of another species to hold him, you fool! so what kind of weaklin' does that make you!" He got a punch in the face and gut for that one but he made his point and there were mutterin's from the ranks. Just to enforce the point I dropped Alejandro to his knees and smiled like the devil himself, it made it look like I was here cause I wanted to be, not as a prisoner and they all took a few steps back, while their leader recovered himself. The cockiness was no longer there in his voice "Time to get some money for you, I think!"

He scrolled down my phone list and raisin' his eyebrow said "Bella?" I nodded and he pushes the button, what happened next was a shock to everyone, includin' me, but I hid it better. A phone could clearly be heard ringin' close by and then a clear and confident voice said "You rang? I won't waste the Major's money by answering!" Everyone spun around to see my beautiful mate standin' twenty feet away. Several guards rushed at her only to bounce off of what I presumed was her shield. "Tut! Tut! Is that any way to treat a lady? You called me remember!" she said sweetly, "Hi honey, you good?" she asked me and I laughed sayin' "Yeah darlin', I'm just fine!"

"Where are my manners, I'm Isabella Whitlock, the 'Major's' mate! This is Charlotte Whitlock, the 'Captain's' mate!" she said and Char stepped out from behind a hut, scars clearly on display and makin' their own point, "Hey Fucker, you okay?" she said and Peter straightened up saying "Am now Suga'!" I noticed how pleased he looked and knew this would be goin' our way soon. "Then we have the 'Patriot'!" out stepped Garrett in that damned long coat of his and he nodded to me, "Angela his mate!" Bella continued, she blew Peter and I a kiss, "Next we have Emmett McCarty!" The sheer size of Emmett made some of the men uneasy as he cracked his knuckles, "Lastly, his mate Rose McCarty" Rose stepped out completin' the loose circle around the rebels and even in this situation, some of the men were standin' with their mouths hangin' open starin' at her beautiful countenance.

"Your mate is a shield, Major?" Alejandro sounded defeated, "Sorry, did I not mention that?" I drawled as Angela stepped forward pulling the spikes out that held Peter and me, the men closest to us tried to stop her, only to hit Bella's shield and then jumped back as it pulsed sendin' a few flyin' towards their leader. As a well-oiled machine, our friends moved to allow Peter and me to join the circle. "I'll give you the same choice I gave the guards at the gate, surrender or die?" Bella said sweetly, "A few realised they had pressing engagements elsewhere, some not so much!" and she poured a bag of dust out behind her, threw a lighter at the dust and it burned bright and purple for a moment and was gone. 'Shit crushed to dust!' I thought and wished I'd seen that.

Panic ensued, they had nowhere to run, a few surrendered immediately, beggin' to leave, some stood behind their leaders and those would fight if need be. "Everyone ready?" Bella said and I watched as we all began to sparkle and the prisoners stopped, she had inverted her shield, it was like a large shimmerin' bubble around them. Out of nowhere one of the released men came runnin' back at Bella and she grabbed him with a separate piece of her shield and crushed him to death for all to see, picked up her lighter from before and lit him up. "Didn't know I could do that until today Jazz! Came as a bit of a shock! Still learning" she said and Alejandro signalled his men to sit.

Now came the diplomacy and sortin' out the mess, I wasn't gonna kill everyone just because they wanted to be free! 'Been there, done that!' But they had to learn a better way and that's when Angela had the most brilliant Idea! "Jasper, I was thinking! We will need guards and a training facility! Most of them only joined for the chance of a better life, so let's give it to them if the leaders will swear allegiance to you! Then they could work for the good of Mexico, not unsupervised of course in the beginning but eventually! The Volturi could send some guards, show them how it's done and we have an instant peacekeeping force! What do you think?" she asked tentatively. "Eventually, every country could send men, they serve for a length of time, then return home able to protect themselves better and even some here could do rotations in Volterra as well as Montana!"

We had retired inside one of the buildings to discuss logistics, everyone was agreed and we now had to wade through the men, some would agree then turn on us I'm not stupid, but if the leaders could be swayed then this could really work. We started with Alejandro, he was really surprised, I think he was sure we'd kill everyone for kidnappin' Peter and I. We tried to explain, that wasn't how the world worked, only the Mexican covens who lived in the past, we were not a war band but a peace keepin' force who would quell all and any that threatened to expose us to the humans. Then he told me only three of the other leaders were good, honest fightin' men, who only wanted out for a better life than the one they had. The fourth Juan would have had us killed at once, he did not want change or progress, he only wanted the largest army so he could steal the best territories from others, he wanted newborns to be made from the beginnin' but they had dissuaded him for now.

By the end of the day we had sorted out the really bad's from the not so bad's and Juan wanted to die by combat not executed he yelled out loud, then he demanded a fair fight so not me, I was gettin' pissed with him now," Okay, trial by combat, no cheatin'! You're up Suga'", he lasted about two minutes, by then Charlotte had taken an arm, both legs below the knees and his head, total humiliation, she didn't even have a new bite. Everyone was there to see it and I took that opportunity to speak "You all now owe me a 'Deuda de honor', I only ask you work hard, learn much and for this you will be paid, not in blood and sex, but money, so you can eventually have places of your own, respect and freedom!"

Alejandro declined to run things here, "I am not the leader they need now, I am ignorant of the ways of this new world and cannot give them what they need!" but said it was a good idea, he asked if he could go to Volterra, he had been a scholar as a human and wished to learn all about this alternative way of life and how the world had progressed since he left it, maybe one day to return, to help guide Mexico into the future. "If the 'God of War' can change then so to can 'Alejandro'!" I was happy to send him into the care of Marcus, himself a great scholar and warrior. Bella, Garrett, Angela and myself carried on to the last two covens, before returnin' to our new trainin' base to await the arrivals of some Volturi guards, who would start off the trainin' process.

This was not what I had meant to happen on this trip, but it was a good outcome and would help give us a solid base, also by word of mouth our deeds would be heard of and the knowledge that we dealt in much more than just death here in the 'America's'. Now I have a mate to apologise to and lavish with my love and adoration, I would also offer her my services to finish off her trainin', but I doubt there is much left to show her, she was magnificent and had not let her power go to her head, she was still my kind and considerate Isabella.


Mi hermoso 'Dios de la Guerra' = My beautiful 'God of War'

Deuda de honor= Debt of Honour