Two Months Later
"Again?" Bobby says coming into his living room to find her finishing her yoga routine.
"It helps with my balance and is something that I can do anywhere." she says grabbing her water bottle off the floor and taking a sip.
"You also seem to do it when you are stressed." he says sitting down.
She takes a deep breath. Who wouldn't be stressed after having a lifetime of hunter training down in two months, re-learning how to use a gun and memorizing exorcisms in Latin. "It's been a couple weeks since their last call. They said they were on the way back."
"With the way Dean gets distracted by pie..." Bobby tries to joke.
"They probably stopped at every roadside cafe he could find." she agrees with a laugh.
"They would call if something held them up."
She nods knowing and hoping that he was right. "I'm going to shower and go get some shopping done afterwards. You want anything special for supper tonight?"
"No...maybe some lasagna?" he asks looking hopeful.
She laughs and nods. "What are you going to do when I leave?"
"Starve or order out. Haven't decided yet." he tells her with a smile as she heads upstairs.
She pulls into the driveway and smiles when she sees Dean's car. About damn time. She reaches in to pull out her bag and the few grocery bags.
"Bella." she freezes and clenches her jaw. She reaches into her bag and wraps her hands around the handle of her gun.
"Jacob." she says turning to face the shifter."What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to bring you home, Bells. I forgive you for leaving after Charlie passed away." Jacob said boxing her in. "I know you didn't mean it."
Pulling the gun out she aims it at his dick and presses it right against him. "Back up or I'll shoot your dick off." she snarls.
"I would listen to her mutt." Dean says coming up beside them, Sam and Bobby not that far behind. All of them pointing guns at Jacob.
"She belongs with me." Jacob snarls placing his hand on her wrist and squeezing. She winched slightly but was damned if she was going to let him see it.
"JACOB!" voices call from behind her. She doesn't bother to turn, she knows who it is.
"Company's coming." Dean snarks.
Sam, Paul, Leah, Seth and Embry burst out of the trees, all in their human form quickly putting on clothes.
"I order you to get away from her Jacob." Sam orders.
"I'm my own Alpha, Sam. I don't take orders from you any longer. Bella is my mate and she is coming home with me."
"Never." she snarls and shoots her gun.
Jacob starts screaming as he falls to the ground, holding himself.
"Don't worry, you'll heal but it will be a long time before you can have sex again." she says stepping around him.
"What the hell did you shoot him with?!" Embry yells as he and the others come towards them.
"Stay put." Bobby says pointing his shotgun at them.
Dean pulls her close to him the instant she gets near him. He can feel her shaking. "You okay?" he whispers.
She just whimpers softly and buries her face in the crook of his neck.
"What ammo did you use?" Sam asks watching Jacob withers on the ground.
"Silver." she says softly.
"Silver! That's what happens when we get shot with a silver fucking bullet!" Paul yells.
Leah just starts laughing.
"Leah!" Uley yells at her.
"Oh, come on. It serves him right. She been with hunters for months. Of course she's gonna know how to protect herself." Seth says looking at Jacob.
"Take your wolf and get out of here." Bobby says lowering his gun.
Uley and Embry come forward and help Jacob to his feet.
"Why?" Jacob whimpers looking at Bella still in Dean's arms.
She turns slowly. "I don't belong to you and I never will. I told you to get away from me." she tells him as Dean and Sam come wrap their arms around her.
"I warned you mutt. Come near her again and you'll be going home in a body bag." Dean says as the three of them head to the house.
Bobby watches as three of the wolves disappear into the woods nearby.
"I tried to cover our trail but if the cold ones were watching him it's only a matter of time before they show up looking for her." the girl, Leah tells him.
Bobby nods.
"We'll keep away no matter what. She belongs with you guys...Keep her safe, please." the youngest one says before following the others.
He waits until he is sure they are out of sight before grabbing the bags out of the car.
"You okay?" he asks finding the three of them sitting on the couch.
"Shooting targets is a lot different then shooting a person." she says still shaking slightly.
"He's a shifter not a person." Sam says holding her hand.
"And he wanted to bring you back to Forks to be his 'mate'." Dean says rubbing her back.
"I know all of that. It's just..."
"He use to be a friend." Bobby says grabbing some beers and handing them to the boys.
"Yeah." she says softly.
"The three of you need to leave." Bobby says after taking a sip of his beer.
"What? Why?" Sam asks confused.
"If the cold ones were watching that boy, it's only a matter of time before the show up."
"Fuck!" Dean mutters.
"After supper..." she says softly.
"No kiddo. Now." he says hoarsely.
She nods and leaves the room to go get her stuff.
"She trained?" Dean asks taking a swig of his beer.
"As much as she can be just staying here. She'll be a help not a hindrance. Keep her safe. I'm going to run to the store so I don't know where you go." Bobby says standing up and leaving.
Two Hours Later
He comes home to a quiet house. He heads to the kitchen to grab a beer out of the fridge, and finds a note on how to make lasagna.
Opening the fridge he finds a dishpan all ready to go into the oven. Turning on the stove, he puts the dish into the stove and goes to sit down a watch something on TV until it is ready.
He is just about to sit down when there is a knock on his door. Looking out the window he sees a short girl with dark hair and a guy that looks like a linebacker.
"Can I help you?" he asks opening the door.
"I hope so. A friend of ours told us that our friend Bella had moved here." the girl says to him.
"Hate to tell you this but no one named Bella lives here." he tells them looking past he notices that there are two people sitting in the car, both blond.
The girl looks back at the car with a smirk. "Are you sure? Jacob was positive that she was here."
He smirks, "Even if Bella lived here I sure as hell wouldn't tell you."
The big guy growls and steps forward, the girl places a hand on him and he backs up. She looks back at the car and a guy gets out and comes towards them. For some reason he steps back, afraid all of a sudden.
"Where is Bella?" The blond guy asks when he reaches the girl.
Clenching his jaw, he refuses to answer.
"I can make him leave, all you have to do is tell me where she is." the girl says.
"Alice Cullen, Emmett Cullen, Jasper Hale and in the car must be Rosalie." he smirks even though he is shaking with fear. "Bella wants nothing to do with you."
"We will see. She belongs with us." Alice said before turning and walking back to the car.
"Wrong. She is a Hunter by blood. She'll never be one of you." he says as things start to go black.
Jasper catches the man just before he falls to the floor. Carrying the man inside he places him on the couch. "She was here." he tells Emmett as the sniff the air.
Emmett looks around the room, which is covered with information about demons, vampires, werewolves, shifters and other things that go bump in the night. "Belly is a hunter?"
"If she is, she is protected but he is right she'll never be one of us." Jasper says going into the kitchen and turning off the stove.
"Alice is wrong, isn't she?" Emmett asks.
"Yeah..." Jasper says pulling him out of the house and back to their mates.
Miles Away in A Motel Room Hours Later
She does another yoga routine under Dean's watchful eyes.
"When did you start the yoga?" he asks.
"About a week after you guys left. It's helped with my balance. I'm not trippin' on air all the time." she says slowly as she moves into a different position.
Dean tries to keep his eyes off her ass but the position she just went put it right in his view. Taking a swig of his beer he looks at the TV, anywhere but her ass.
"Think the Cullens will show up at Bobby's?" Sam asks coming out of the bathroom, drying his hair.
"Knowing the pixie, yup." she tells them. "He'll be fine though. He knows everything about them that I know."
"Which isn't much." Dean remarks as she finishes and grabs a water.
She glares at him, grabs her bag and heads into the bathroom to take a shower.
Sam throws his towel at his head when he notices that Dean was staring at her ass. "Dude, she's like our little sister."
"You think I don't know that." he scoffs.
"Okay. Why were you staring at her ass?"
He laughs. "Cause I'm a guy and dammit when the hell did she get that body."
"Hate to tell you, she's had it for a few years. You just didn't notice, hell I didn't even notice until it was brought to my attention."
"Jess?"
"Yeah.. I had this photo of the two of us from a few summers ago. Bella was wearing a pair of shorts and a tank top. Jess went off..that the 'little sister' I call all the time and chick in the photo were one and the same. I didn't see it, to me it was Bella."
"I know what you mean. Whose sleepin' where?" he asks tying not to think of it.
"I'll share with Bella tonight."
He nods and fully dressed crashes on the bed.
"We sharing?" Bella asks softly when she comes into the darkened room, only they light from the TV kept it from being pitch black.
"Yeah." Sam says and without another word, she crawls into bed. Soon only the sound of the TV and all of them sleeping deeply fill the room.
"Sam...Sam." she shakes him trying to wake him up from his nightmare.
"Son of a bitch." Sam mutters sitting up.
"Nightmare?" she says softly, hopeful that they hadn't woken up Dean.
"Not sure."
"Premonition?" she asks.
"I don't know..." he says.
"Try to get some more." she says pushing him to lay back down. She sits watching him relax, softly running her fingers through his hair. Once he is finally asleep, she relax enough to lay back down next to him and falls to sleep herself.
"Okay...I think I might have some ideas where to go next." Dean says looking up from the computer. He's slightly annoyed because Sam is drawing in a sketch pad and Bella is once again reading the journals. "Am I boring you?"
"Listening." Bella says without looking up.
"What you find?" Sam asks looking up from the pad.
"Okay...A crew of fishermen disappeared off the coast in Cali, cattle mutilations in Texas and look a guy in Sacramento shot himself in the head." he looks up to see that Sam is just staring at whatever he had drawn, ignoring everything that he just said. "Sammy!"
Bella looks up as Dean throws a balled up piece of paper at Sam's head.
"I know this." Sam mutters looking up at the two of them.
"Know what?" Dean asks as Sam gets up and starts digging through his bag.
"We need to go back home." Sam says looking at Dean. Bella raises to her knees and takes the drawing and photo out of Sam's hands. He had drawn the tree in the photo.
"Home?"
"Kansas."
"Why?"
Bella looks up at him and nods, hopeful that he's about to come clean.
Sighing, "This photo was taken in front of our old house, the one mom died in."
"I know that." Dean growls.
"It got rebuilt, right?"
"Yeah, Sam where the hell you going with this?"
"Give him a minute and he'll tell you." she says standing and places a hand on Sam's back to show him that she is there if needed.
"The people living there, they need our help."
"And you know this how?"
"Dean.." she hisses, glaring at him.
"I've been having these nightmares...that come true."
Dean just stares at him in shock.
"I dreamt about about Jess days before it happened."
"Coincidence." Dean snarks.
"No...I saw the blood dripping, her pinned to the ceiling, the fire. I didn't do anything cause I was sure it was just in my head. Now, I'm seeing this tree, our old house and a woman screaming for help. All this started there...maybe it's connected?"
"You knew?" he asks staring at her.
"Somehow I heard Mary..."
"You never told her the truth. Who you really were. But it's more than that, isn't it?" Sam's distorted voice says. "Those nightmares you've been having? Of Jessica dying? Screaming, burning? You had them for days before she died. Didn't you? You were so desperate to be normal. To believe they were just dreams. How could you ignore them like that? How could you leave her alone to die? You dreamt it would happen!"
She shivers slightly remembering. "I heard her blaming him for ignoring the warnings."
"I'm not sure..."
"Dean! This woman might be in danger. What if it's the same thing that killed mom and Jess!"
"Give me a minute, would you!?" he says standing. "Suddenly you've become a physic..and you tell me that I've gotta go back to that house." he runs a hand over his face.
"Dean...we need to check it out." Bella says.
"I know." Dean says. "Dammit."
