AN: I am SO Super-Duper sorry this took so long, summer school and a supervillian size case of writers block has been chasing me all around my brain and i have been losing the battle! without further ado! chapter 10!

EPOV

I could hear Bella's laugh almost my entire walk home, well, probably because once I couldn't hear it anymore I blinked home the rest of the way so I wouldn't have to walk without that beautiful sound to keep me company. I had no intention on spending the night hanging out with Bella's mom playing some stupid board game; I hate parents, mine, Jaspers, everyone's. The only adult that I have ever really looked up to was Mr. Hale, Rosalie's father, Juggernaut.

Yes, Rosalie's father is one of us, well, at least he was. He is the one who basically trained me when I got my powers. I had never had a good relationship with my parents since it was no secret that I was the accident that ruined their young lives. They housed me but pretty much lived their own lives alongside mine instead of connected to it. I spent most of my time with Jasper pretending I was part of his family. When his mom married Mr. Hale my world changed. I was nine when they got married, that same year I noticed that I could hear people's thoughts. Mr. Hale was the first person to notice. He told me about his life with his powers.

Mr. Hale was the Juggernaut, he had strength that was unrivaled by anyone on this earth, he so strong that he was self sufficient, he didn't need to eat, drink, sleep. At first he didn't do much with his abilities, but he had fallen in love with this woman, Rosalie's mother and this man killed her. When the police deemed the case unsolvable and gave up Mr. Hale went mad. He was left in mourning with a new born child and was told that they were giving up trying to find the killer of the love of his life. He decided there was no justice in the world, no good, so he might as well be the evil that rules the world.

The Juggernaut killed and terrorized, did as he pleased with barely any resistance. One day, a couple of years before he married Ms. Whitlock, the Juggernaut picked a fight with the wrong person. He saw a man attacking a woman, it brought up the painful memory of his lost wife and he tried to intervene. This man he picked a fight with was The Tracker. The Tracker attacked him and before he knew what hit him Mr. Hale was laying on the ground next to this poor crying woman while this malicious man was sinking his teeth into his neck draining him of all of his strength, his endurance, his power. The Tracker got off him and finished sucking the life out of the woman and Mr. Hale laid there too weak to move. Eventually he crawled home, where he had to re-learn how to live, he now had to sleep, he had to eat, his body looked different, he was weak, puny. Sometimes when The Tracker takes your powers you are able to eventually get them back, you grow into them again, but this wasn't possible for Mr. Hale, he had taken too much, there was nothing left.

Mr. Hale taught me, how cruel this world is and how I should use my powers to get back at the world for cursing me with parents who wish I had never been born, and for all of the other injustices in the world. "Good isn't worth fighting for because it will only lead to your downfall," he told me. And he was the living proof of that. He was the reason I was how I was, who I was…he helped me use my bad experiences as fuel for taking revenge out on the world, and my worst experiences were with my parents.

Regardless of my hatred for parents, it was endearing seeing and hearing how Esme Cullen wanted Bella and me to have a good time while not leaving us alone. She kept telling herself to be cool, not to sound too old. What made me really have a surprisingly good time was seeing how happy Bella seemed, she laughed and smiled, she just…shined. I couldn't help myself when she walked me to the door, I needed to kiss her, I needed to feel her lips pressed against mine, and the feeling when I finally did…

I was lost in my thoughts about Bella while aimlessly tossing stuff around my room to organize it better. The last time I had been in here I had thrown a bit of a fit and made a mess, after my run in with Hourglass, which I would prefer to correct before heading to bed. While I was doing this my door opened up and in the frame of it stood Jasper, and if Bella shined with happiness earlier in the evening, Jasper shined with anger now.

"Where the hell were you tonight Masen?"

I knew I couldn't just tell him that I went to see Bella, he already hated her, "I decided to take the night off to re-think some plans."

"You were re-thinking some plans?" he asked in a mocking tone? "What plans? Plans on how you can win over that girl?" he was disgusted with me.

"No," I said trying to sound strong, "I have been trying to get back at The Golden Swan but I know that as long as I plan to do so they aren't going to send her after me, I'm going to have to have a better plan to get her or else I'm never going to get the chance." I realized as I said it that I wasn't lying, I did need a plan, whether it was possible was another story.

Jasper stepped in front of me and got in my face hatred practically pouring out of him, "If this is what you have been doing all night then why have you been emoting the feelings of a love struck teenage girl since you popped back into your house?" I had no excuses, no smart ass comments, Jasper gave me a hard stare, "You are destroying yourself."

"You have no idea what you're talking about," I argued.

"I don't? You are just going to give up everything you are for this girl? You are going to stop and live life by the law and the rules now?"

"I never said that," I cut in but he started again.

"Do you really think she will want to be with you if she knew who you really were? If she knew you were a killer?"

"She doesn't have to know." I challenged, instead of the hateful look on his face a smirk grew,

"What happens when the people you are killing happen to be people she knows and care about? Are you willing to sit there and watch her cry about how terrible and horrible someone has to be to murder someone when you know you did it?" I thought about her parents and how The Tracker killed them, could I really be the monster who killed someone else she cared about? As long as she was safe it didn't matter who else died. I wouldn't target her family though.

"I would do what was necessary," I knew it would never be necessary to purposely kill someone Bella loved unless they found out who I was or were after Bella.

Jasper gave me destructive look, "Prove it."

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BPOV

Carlisle was not pleased that we had a guest when I was grounded, especially since the guest was the boy I was with when I spent the entire night out. Esme, as promised, was able to calm him down when she convinced him that she was the one that invited him in without my knowledge and was with us the entire time. What didn't help however was Emmett going ballistic.

"Are you trying to tell me that Edward Masen, the biggest prick at Forks High School was in MY house, in MY kitchen, playing MY game with MY mother, eating MY cake?" he asked looking angry. Leave it to Emmett to be angry about the cake.

"Technically Emmett the cake was made for me," I pointed out to him.

"You," he pointed his finger in my face, "do not deserve cake, you broke the television! And why are you spending time with that asshole anyway? I thought you hated him for making you get detention."

"Emmett, watch your language and you know how I feel about speaking ill about people you don't even know." Esme warned. "And your father fixed the television so there is no reason, according to your argument, that Bella doesn't deserve cake. I am the one who decides who gets to eat the cake and I decided that Bella could have some and Edward could also have some." Emmett had no rebuttal.

Emmett and Carlisle were finishing the cake that Esme made when Alice whirled into the kitchen. "Hailstorm, The Black Rose and Master Mind are about to abduct the chief of police and the governor or Washington. We have to get to the top of the space needle in Seattle that's where they are taking them."

In seconds the three of them were on their feet ready to go back out to fight. I wondered why they would try something twice in one night. Usually it was one fight per night but maybe they think that they are weak or something. I was going to offer to go but I knew that a. I was still grounded, and b. it was Seattle so they really wouldn't let me go since the Tracker would be there or nearby. Carlisle and Emmett held on to Alice's shoulders and together they whirled out of the kitchen, and once again Esme and I were alone.

I decided to wash some dishes while Esme cleaned up the board game. I was scrubbing some frosting off the white plate Emmett had been using when it happened. I was asking Esme how someone her size could ever give birth to someone as massive as Emmett, when she didn't respond I looked up at her and he had her, Master Mind had grabbed her, he had one hand around her mouth and one was holding tightly around her body. Esme wasn't fighting and I couldn't guess for the life of me why. Then someone grabbed me, holding me similarly to how Esme was being held except my mouth wasn't covered, instead something was pressed near my neck, I guess it was a knife.

"Now Isabella, you and mommy are going to play nice and come with us now, ok?" It was Hailstorm. What were they doing here? How could Alice have seen this wrong? I wanted nothing more than to throw these two into the knife Esme used to cut the cake but then I would have been exposed and would possibly put Esme in more danger. "If you don't agree with me darling, I am going to have to kill her, slowly." I just nodded my head. Hailstorm pushed me toward Esme and Mastermind, and once we connected we were out of the kitchen.

It was dark but I knew where we ended up, they took us to the Coulee Corridor, Alice sometimes whirled me here when I wanted to sit and be alone or read or just site see. It used to be a huge waterfall but now it was all dried up. Why wasn't Alice here waiting for us?

Hailstorm pushed me to the ground. Mastermind seemed to be watching his every move but then he slowly started moving himself pushing Esme along with him toward the edge of the falls. I tried to jump up to stop him but Hailstorm slammed me back down, clicking his tongue at me. He crouched over on top of me while I was on my stomach, lifted me up by my hair and held his blade to my throat again.

"Isabella, you are going to lie here and play nice, aren't you sweetheart?" he asked in my ear.

"Please," I begged, I hadn't even realized that I had been crying until I spoke, "Please don't hurt her. You said you wouldn't if we played nice and came with you."

Hailstorm laughed, "Aww, that's sweet, but I said that if YOU didn't I would kill her SLOWLY, not that I wouldn't kill her. And they said you were smart." I began to sob. "Come on," he whispered into my ear almost consolingly, "you should be used to losing parents by now, you've had enough practice." He moved the knife and threw my head down to the rock below that I was laying on. It wasn't the pain that hurt; it was the helplessness I was feeling. I was about to lie here and watch them kill Esme and there was nothing I could do about it.

Hailstorm tied up my hands and feet, just for good measure he assured me, as Master Mind circled Esme. God only knows what he was saying to her. I was willing her to be strong in my head; I wish she could hear me. She kept her chin up; fighting him every step of the way as far as her posture was showing. When her head fell…so did my heart. "Esme, don't listen to him!" I yelled, and struggled to get free from the restraints, I decided to fight back without my powers. Hailstorm was wrestling me back into submission but Esme caught my eye and shook her head. She didn't want me to fight. Didn't she understand that I couldn't watch her die? I couldn't just sit here while they killed her. I had the power to stop this. I know they would rather kill me than her.

Hailstorm finally had me back in a strong hold. "Just do it already!" He yelled at Master Mind who jerked his head in our direction. Esme also looked toward us; she gave me a sad smile.

"Don't watch Bells." She whispered.

"Oh no, no, no, no, please do watch" Hailstorm grabbed my hair and pulled it back so I was facing Esme and Mastermind, "You are going to watch the whole thing." He pressed the knife harder against my throat.

Where was Alice or Emmett or Jacob or Carlisle? Why weren't they stopping this? They had to know that it was a trick; they had to know by now we were missing. They can't let Esme die. I tried to use my power buy my hands were tied to tightly. I was useless…the one time I needed them to save someone I really cared about and I was useless.

Tears were streaming down my face, I was begging them to stop, praying for Esme to be ok, praying that someone would show up. Instead of waiting for Esme to give in Master Mind gave in and threw her off the falls…I was waiting to wake up…it had to be a dream….her scream told me it wasn't.

The end.....

AN: muahahahahah jk..scroll down there is a little more

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When the screaming stopped so did my heart. I wanted to die. As far as I was concerned I deserved to die. I wanted them to kill me, but neither of them moved a muscle. Maybe they expected me to fight back or something...but I had nothing left to fight for…I if I couldn't save my mother what good was I?

Suddenly something moving at the edge of the falls, I raised my head, though all I could think was…too late. I could not believe what I saw. It was Emmett, well The Protector, and he was flying…Emmett could fly? But more importantly he had Esme! I couldn't breathe I was so happy I struggled to get up but Hailstorm kicked me down really hard just as Alice, Jacob and Carlisle showed up dressed and ready to fight. Hailstorm growled in anger at the sight before him then slit my throat.

I couldn't breathe. I couldn't scream, I couldn't cry out. I could barely see what was going on. I heard a scream, a crash then everything went dark.

AN: Again I am SOOOOO sorry that this took SO LONG and that i replied after posting the chapter, I really didn't mean to take so long. I have had some serious writer's block latley, I still have some, but at least I know where next chapter picks up right? ha ha. If there are any typos just let me know, I read over it but i could have missed some.

I hope you enjoyed! i am not going to lie I cried a little bit when typing this chapter but I have been a little emotional latley so that might just be me...

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