AN - Hi guys and girls, Firstly I want to apologize for not updating or giving a reason to not updating. There isnt any excuse to not updating for sooo long.Secondly I wish to apologize for any mistakes in this chapter - I cant remember which chapter I had checked by my beta.Thirdly I want to say a massive thanks to the you the readers who read and enjoyed, I hope you forgive me for the lateness of this thank you for reviewing! I loved reading them and hope you carry on reviewing. :) Lastly I want to say a thanks to my friend and beta for putting up with me.
Previously
"Now Emmett I hear that you are Bella's Brother..."
Emmett POV
I looked up at the person speaking. It was at the end of the long table in the middle if they were in a straight line, he had ran down to the reception and took us up here. This guy was really weird too, I mean at reception he called all of us by our first names; asking how we were doing lately and I had no idea how the fuck it was. But he was waiting for a reply…
"Yes Sir. I am her brother." His smile grew; it reminded me of a Cheshire cat.
"Good, good. And this is Jasper your friend and Edward you adopted brother. It that correct?" he asked
"Sir, I see them both as my brothers." when I had finished speaking the crazy man started to clap his hands like a child.
Then the women at the end with blonde hair interrupted the clapping by saying
"Aro we do have other matters to settle so please stop with the trivial questions." So the crazy guy is Aro, Bella's boss.
"Yes, you're quite right Jane. We have no time to loose the more time spent talking the less time they have to prepare." Aro said in a professional voice.
"Well boy's I am not sure what Bella, Rosalie or Alice has said about our little business..." Aro was interrupted by Bella this time while he was talking.
"Aro we haven't said anything because we don't want you to include them in this." Aro turned to Bella and asked her,
"Bella, don't you want a relationship with your brother?" I waited; I waited for her to answer him 'No' with a cold, hard tone.
"Of course I do Aro, but not at the risk of his life and the lives of two people he considers family." Bella said harshly at him. My head shot up. I wasn't expecting her to want a relationship if with me. I was just hoping she'd go to dinner with me so I could apologise. I looked at Edward who was sitting on the other side of the table he was smirking as if to tell me 'what did we tell you.'
"Isabella, I honestly don't see a problem. You get a relationship with your brother; they get well paid and they get to do equally as dangerous things as they were doing before. "Jane the blonde women said in a calm voice.
"Being in the army is completely different Jane and you know it!" Bella exclaimed
"So you did talk while you were in New York that is excellent." Aro said this time; he looked as if he was going to win this argument.
Rosalie and Alice the two girls who had always had been with Bella looked strange. As if the didn't know what to say that would help Bella, but obviously Bella made a mistake because she never spoke to us, not even a hello and the people around the table didn't tell her we were in the army.
"No, we didn't talk to them." Aro's smile faulted when Rosalie said this. But he didn't look at her he turned to me and Jazz.
"Now boy's it is your decision weather or not you join Espirit de corps but I think it would be very good for you if you did." He handed out the stacks of paper between Me, Eddie and Jazz.
I took one look at it and saw it was a contract.
"It's a silence contract." Bella whispered in my ear and I jumped in my seat. I looked at her and whispered back,
"Why are they giving us a silence contract? Actually what is a silence contract?" before she could answer, Jane said,
"Isabella, why don't you explain to everyone what the contract is and why we have given it to them." Bella cleared her throat before saying
"A silence contract is like a work contract. It has the job description in it and then it has the actual job contract and …"
"…lastly there is a silence contract. The silence contract you have to sign whether you agree to do the job or not. It is a contract promising that you keep your mouth completely sealed until you die or you suffer the consequences."
No one spoke for a minute until Edward asked…
"What are the consequences?"
"Life time in jail without bail, the only way of getting out of jail would be in a coffin." Rosalie answered in a dull voice.
"So you don't kill people, you just let them rot in prison?" Jasper asked Aro. Aro smiled.
"There is a reason we are the most secret government spy agency in the world. We prefer for people to live their lives out in jail to prevent the suicidal ex-spies from shooting their mouths off," Aro responded. I looked at Bella and she shrugged.
"I'm in." I heard Edward and Jasper say at the same time. I looked up at Eddie and then at Jazz before I picked up a pen and signed on the dotted lines, I knew they were doing it for me but I felt bad for dragging them into this.
It took twenty minutes for the five bosses to explain that we would be working under Rosalie, Bella and Alice and that we would be getting paid the same as Bella and Rosalie. When Jazz asked why Alice was paid a different amount the bosses explained that Alice had training to get paid off but once she has completed her 20th mission alive she'd get the same amount as us. I caught on to the word alive and it had me worried. The five bosses also explained that we would not have to go through four years of training before going on any missions because we have amazing reports from the sergeant who was in charge of us most of our Army carer. And that was all they said, they told Bella, Rosalie and Alice to explain anything else to us and answer any questions.
So here we were at this posh hotel room that Alice had booked before we left New York, eating pizza. Bella had not spoken since yelling at our bosses and neither had Alice or Rosalie.
"Bella, why aren't you speaking to me?" I know I sounded whiney but I just wanted my sister back.
"Because you three were stupid enough to sign that contract." She replied. But Eddie got angry at her, which was weird because he never yelled at a woman before but I think my sister struck a nerve.
"If it is so dangerous then why are you a spy?" I saw Rosalie and Alice's faces behind a now standing Bella and they looked worried.
"I became a spy because I had no other choice at the time! But you three do, you have parents and a great fucking career from what I gathered and now all three of you are throwing it away. For what a decrease in your survival rates? People who go into the army are constantly worried that they'll die while they're in service right? But now you've got to worry about dying everyday whether you're working or not. Now can you see why I didn't want you three involved or do I have to wait until you're in over your head to get it into your skulls?" Bella shouted back at Eddie.
Alice wrapped her arms around Bella and Rosalie stood in between them. Rosalie turned towards Eddie and said,
"Here's an idea. Don't piss her off. Tomorrow me, Alice and Bella have to pretend to be prostitutes to het rid of a new mafia gang which is trying to start up and I'd prefer to get out of the club we will be in alive. if you don't mind."
"What are we meant to do tomorrow?" Jazzy asked from across the room.
"You have to make sure that all the doors are locked. Then phone Aro so he can get arresting officers." Alice told us.
"You three get some sleep. Tomorrow no more arguing," Rosalie said then turned to Bella. "They've already signed Bells, now there's no going back and you know it not for a while anyway." Bella nodded and mumbled,
"Standing in a dessert avoid bullets is hardly training." That reminded me.
"Bella, how did you know about us being in the army? I googled our names and on all the internet pages it never mentions the army."
"Really?" she asked. "Well that sucks, I was going to use that as my excuse," Rosalie and Alice started to laugh.
"Now we know what your fake reason to how you knew about our career, tell us the real reason." Eddie snapped.
"We saw you in Iraq." Bella said simply.
"That's not possible. No civilians allowed and I'm going for a wild guess and say you didn't dress up as reporter. Besides no one was arrested." Bella laughed and Eddie looked seriously pissed now.
"One Edward I don't arrest people, I have better things to do and second I think you'd remember our entrance seeing as it was an Iraq army plane being exploded right above a U.S army base. To bad people forgot about parachutes, we could have been anyone for all you knew and it took 20 minutes to form search parties and look for anyone that might have jumped. We were already in a different car from the SUV we stole and ditched by that time."
When Bella was finished I was in shock. My sister was right there a couple of months ago and I could have shot her by mistake, that's how close it was. But Eddie wasn't finished.
"What the hell were you doing in Iraq anyway?" he wasn't as angry anymore but curious. But Bella didn't answer it was Rosalie.
"We were in Iraq because Bella is an idiot and bought the wrong plane tickets out of France and then she ended up pissing off some high ranked army person. They pulled guns on us so we did the same. They arrested us saying something about us being in the U.S army and took us to their base. I think they wanted to hold us hostage but the guard was new and easily manipulated. We stole one of their planes and then ended up on the U.S army base."
One thing I didn't get how did it go boom it the middle of the air? I decided to ask.
"Why did it go boom in the middle of the air. It's not like it crashed?" I asked.
"Oh there was a bomb on the plane, I accidently knocked it and it started going off." Alice said in a small voice.
"Ok" Jazz said. "So which one of you was driving the plane?" Rosalie and Alice pointed at Bella and Bella pointed at herself.
"You know how to fly airplanes?" I asked in utter disbelief
"No I was learning. And not to sound bigheaded I did a great job."
"Are you being serious?" Jazz asked. "You were only learning to fly a plane, who seriously learns to fly a plane in a warzone while escaping from soldiers?" Alice and Rosalie both pointed at Bella.
"Of course I was learning. I didn't know how to fly a plane; I never needed to know before did I?" Bella told him as if it was the most logical explanation in the world, which it was in her mind I guess.
"So why did you try? Couldn't you just do what you did at our base?" Jazz asked in disbelief.
"No, we couldn't. The plane was our only option. All the soldiers at the Iraq army base were told to look out for three women trying to escape and we couldn't massacre all those soldiers could we? We weren't even meant to be anywhere near western Europe,"
Before the conversation could continue Rosalie's phone went off, she looked at the caller ID and ignored it.
"Aro?" Bella asked.
"Yeah most likely checking that we haven't killed our new co-workers." Bella nodded and yawned.
"I'm going to sleep, before I pass out." Then Bella walked out the room.
"She's not happy about this is she?" I asked no one in particular.
"No but it's not like she preferred you in the Army." Alice said, Rosalie was starring out at the lights of Chicago before she said good night and followed Bella out the room; Jazz was reading about the Civil war and Edward was listening to his iPod.
"Alice?" I asked when I was sure no one was listening to what I was saying.
"Yeah, Emmett."
"How pissed was Bella when she found out I was in the army?"
"She wasn't pissed off at you. She was sad and angry at herself and her foster parents for not letting you two stay in contact."
"Why was she angry at herself Alice? That doesn't make any sense."
"Emmett she was angry at herself because she never came looking for you, yeah she sent you a postcard or whatever but that was it. Rosalie told her years ago to try and contact you properly but she was worried about you having your life in danger because you never really know who wants to kill you or anyone close to you."
"So do you think 'we'" I said indicating to Jazz and Eddie "made the right choice,"
"I can't say Emmett; I haven't got as much experience to say as I've only finished training and one mission."
"But your psychic right, so you would know if we end up dead or not." Alice laughed.
"Emmett, I can only see the out come of a decision as the future can always be changed so you can never really know what will happen." I nodded. I know most people see me as stupid but I wasn't really.
"Earlier they said you'd get the same amount of pay as us if you complete 20 missions alive, what did that mean exactly?"
Alice sighed.
"It means most people don't get past their 20th mission. Right now I'm on the same amount of pay as a normal agent but when I hit my 20th mission I get the same pay as everyone else on this team. People in the same team as Bella and Rosalie always get paid more than everyone else for life endangerment. This of course meant that Tanya got a pay cut because of me but when I spoke to her she didn't seem to mind." Alice explained.
"Why it is Bella and Rosalie's team get paid more for life endangerment exactly? " I really had to ask, once the words left my mouth I really wanted them back in my mouth, this also got Jazz's attention as he put his book away and sat up causing Eddie to put his iPod off and sit up too.
Alice smiled, "Well Bella is what most people would call insane, no offence or anything. And Rose lets Bella do whatever she feels like as long as it doesn't kill her. So you can imagine how pissed Rose was when we were sitting on a plane with an activated bomb about to blow in a minute on the same plane we were while flying in a warzone with no where to land." I froze. One minute.
"But the plane was going up so who did you sacrifice to keep the plane up?" Eddie asked bitterly.
"No one smarty pants. Bella sacrificed my hair bands. While me and Rosalie were jumping Rosalie made me pray to whatever god I believed in that Bella would get off the fucking plane safely. I did and Bella landed on a jeep that I would later steal then ditch."
"Oh…" Eddie replied. I guess he didn't think it was possible.
"Is that actually possible?" I asked slightly awed.
"I didn't think so at the time and neither did Rose or Bella. I think Rose was praying and Bella was trying to recall it from a short film she saw when she was really bored."
"Alice, there isn't a film where the plane was kept up in the air with hair bands," Alice grinned when Jazz told her this.
"I know, it was a murder film and they put bricks on the gas pedal and twisted the key in the ignition. Really funny ending too, some women stole the car the guys killing all the people owned. It had all the bodies in it and everything. They probably should have put the murdered bodies in their own cars and then let it drive around in the dessert but whatever right?"
We laughed. I wanted to see that film now!
"About tomorrow, how dangerous is it?" Eddie asked. I swear he is always worried but then again I didn't really want Bella to act as a prostitute in the middle of a mafia ring.
"Errrm, I'm not to sure. But when I asked Bella she said it would be a piece of cake and Rosalie said it would be fine but she seemed nervous. Rose being nervous though probably had nothing to with the mission."
"What do you mean Rosalie being nervous probably hand nothing to do with the mission?" I asked, utterly confused.
Alice's face became like stone,
"I can't tell you that. "Was all that she said. There was a moment of silence that I used to try and work out what other sensible reason there was for Rosalie to be nervous that was not connected to the mission.
Before I could try and guess what Rosalie could be nervous about, Rosalie herself walked into the room.
"Alice are you coming to bed or not. its nine o'clock already and we have a lot of work to do before we go into the ring." Alice nodded.
"Yeah Bella must be so excited that we're taking her shopping." Alice laughed.
"Oh so that's why there's a massive whole in the wall." Rosalie said sarcastically. Wait what?
"There's a whole in the wall?" I asked. Rosalie looked at me before saying
"No but there will be once someone tells her that we need to go shopping for some clothes." Then Rosalie laughed and continued to say
"But you guys need to get some sleep so you are up at 4:30 am okay?"
"4:30? Why do we need to be up so early?" I asked. Getting up at 4:30 was worse that the army's 6:00 am wake up call but at least then I was working on my muscles by going on runs and practising different stuff. But 4:30 was just too early.
"For Bella to show you the weapons we'll be using, Guns, bombs, fire throwers ect and how to use them without getting hurt. For me to show you the blue prints of the buildings, exits, windows and secret entrances for you to find about four other ways to get out the building safely. Then obviously Alice needs to pick out the clothes for everyone. After we're dressed we need to eat and lastly we need to go shopping for the mission outfits."
"Don't you three have enough clothes? I mean Alice had four bags about three or four times her own size!" Eddie exclaimed.
"They're twice my size and they're my clothes. I am not chancing them to be destroyed they are for free time only! Besides none of them are revealing enough for a prostitute to wear even if they would fit Bella and Rosalie." Alice told him out straight.
Just then the door opened again, with a half asleep Bella walking through.
"Guy's its like half nine and we all need sleep. Especially Emmett cause he's a total bitch in the morning." Bella said just before yawning.
Her statement made Eddie and Jazz to laugh.
"Was he like that when he was younger too?" Jazz asked. And Bella nodded again from the door way.
"And me and Rose are bigger bitches so lets go." She said waving toward the door. Before they were out the room the all shouted goodnight to us and then shut the door leaving us to talk.
"You know you guys didn't have to sign that contract right you could have just signed the keep your mouth shut one." I told Jazz and Eddie.
"Em, we wanted to. I mean it's every young boys dream to be a spy with cool gadgets." Eddie replied.
"Which probably has a horrible end" I finished for him.
"Em, stop being such a pessimist would you. You're working with your sister who will have to eventually stop being a bitch to you. And you are also getting paid $4000 a month. I thought Eddie here was meant to be the pessimist." Jazz chipped in.
"Hey! Im not a pessimist," Eddie shouted.
"Jazz what the hell does Pessimist mean?" I asked ignoring Eddie's last comment.
"Pessimist means someone that looks at the bad side of everything."
"Oh" I sighed, they were right I was acting like a pessimist.
I started getting changed and ready for bed. I had a feeling that tomorrow would be a very long day.