AN: SM owns Twilight, I own all of my mistakes.
Chapter ten. Bear gets a facial.
"Focus on your breathing...now hit me as hard as you can."
"No."
"Yes you can and you will."
"No I won't." Bella crossed her arms and smiled at the scowling grumpy Bear.
"Bella, just do it!"
"No, never."She smirked at him, making him get all worked up.
It looked to Bella, like he was bored with sitting inside and that he couldn't seem to pass up an opportunity to annoy her.
Bear seemed to want to pick a fight with her, the silly, silly big hairy man.
Today he even looked more like a bear than normal, it was weird!
"C'mon, what are you afraid of? It's not like you'll ever hurt me Bella. I bet that you punch just like a little girl, I probably won't feel a single thing!"
"Grrr, that's because I am a girl... you clueless idiot!" she hated when he acted like a big meat-head.
She suddenly turned around, with her back to Bear. Ha... she'd show him!
...
Bear stood there, all big and puffed up, attempting to goad Bella into action, she wasn't cooperating at all, she just preferred peace and quiet... and all of that other pacifist crap she went on about... like meditation...what kind of hardened soldier did meditation and thought peaceful thoughts and all of the girly bull shit!
He just wasn't getting through to her.
He so wanted a good muddy rumble and wrestle to use up all of his excess energy.
He huffed, how was he ever going to get her to learn how to throw a punch?
Bear knew that the Major wanted to train Bella personally, but he was feeling so insanely bored and was frustrated at the slow pace that the Major was training her. She'd never learn anything at the rate he was going...at a snail's pace...Bella needed to be thrown right in the deep end and shown how real men fight...yeah!
Bear wanted to get stuck in and give her a lesson in how to fight.
He loved fighting and scrapping. He enjoyed using his big body for something other than sitting quietly, listening to the virtually silent intel...there'd been nothing for weeks now, he didn't like all of the waiting around, it was driving him crazy.
Bear looked around to see what had happened to Bella, she'd disappeared!
He didn't see her walk off anywhere, it was strange...he looked around further into the distance, it was beginning to scare him, and she couldn't have gotten very far.
He kept scanning around the landscape, damn!
She'd escaped his notice, and he really wanted to give her a lesson in making a man cry in pain...not him naturally, just some other guy. He'd thought he'd just show her the ropes.
...
So he got the shock of his life... when he got a sharp, painful kick into the back of his knees.
It made his legs almost collapse, but he whipped himself around, there was no one there behind him, ...a mysterious silent invisible person who had delivered the painful kick.
Heh?
He turned his head back and was suddenly hit in the solar plexus, with a quick sharp fist which caught him by surprise, taking the wind out of his lungs and doubling him over.
Ughh...
He still couldn't get a visual on his opponent; it must be the Major messing with him, there was no one else who could catch him unaware like that.
He received a deep blow to the shoulder blades; as a larger object flew into his back, forcing him forward... he found himself planted face down in the muddy grass.
Girly laughter rang out.
Bella was sitting right on his back, cackling and crowing.
How mortifying!
How did this little scrap of a girl get him so easily, without him even seeing anything that she did?
Damn the Major must have been showing her some of his weird ninja shit!
And her training must have been coming along at quite a pace for her to have gotten so good!
Oh man, it looks like he and Bella had an audience, his superiors had just watched Bella thrash his ass!
Crap!
Now he was going to have to somehow make it up to her, for his serious underestimation of her skills and whatever incredible seriously crazy techniques the Major had shown her.
The other guys would be giving him some serious stick over this complete thrashing, from now until the day he died.
Oh my... he could just imagine all of the crazy things that they were going to hassle him with.
"So Bella... you ended up schooling Bear eh? I'm impressed, he didn't even get to touch you and you managed to disable him in less than five seconds, well done my little grasshopper." The Major smiled, like a cat who'd gotten all the cream.
"Thanks Maj...or." she couldn't stop laughing, as her chuckles turned to guffaws.
She was still sitting on his back manically laughing her head off. The crazy girl!
He was still face down in the mud.
It was just too good!
Bear's face looked up at her, he was covered in so much mud, he looked utterly ridiculous.
"Now Bear, I'm hoping you'll stop underestimating our sweet little Bella from now on." Doc said, raising his eyebrows.
"Mnnnmph." Bear grunted.
"Sorry? I didn't quite catch that, what was that you were mumbling?" Doc asked.
Doc stood side by side with Major, each smiling their heads off, but at least having the good sense to try and not laugh at Bear, their strongest and most persistently dedicated fighter in hand to hand combat.
"Bella, why don't you have another go at doing your...er ... thing with Bear, I'd like Doc to see how you handle yourself." The Major asked.
She got off Bear's back and offered him a hand to get up off the wet grass.
Bear mumbled some more and rose up on his own, not willing to take Bella's little hand with his big paw. She might try something sneaky again.
"Damn Bella, you are spooky with all of that strange ninja shit you do. What the hell was that you just pulled on me?"
"Oh Bear, it's not anything you need to worry about, I am just a little girl after all..." she said sarcastically as she batted her lashes and smiled at him, trying to look all innocent.
"Tell me Bear, how did you miss noticing Bella? I was watching her and she hadn't gotten any further than five feet away from you. But it looked to me like she somehow disappeared from your view. How did that happen, to someone as experienced in fighting as you?" Doc quizzed Bear, and poor Bear had not one single sensible answer for him.
It was a mystery, an embarrassing mystery to which he'd never ever manage to live down.
Bear looked around, suddenly unable to see Bella again, where the hell had she gotten to now?
She had disappeared off his radar, it was spooky.
He couldn't hear her or sense her at all; he ranged his mind out, like he had trained to do under the Major. No nothing! She'd completely disappeared.
His left earlobe was pulled hard and he reached out, but couldn't feel her.
Bear swung around and got the hair on the back of his head yanked sharply.
Man! He still couldn't feel hear or see her, she was like the wind.
His little finger on his right hand got pulled up hard sharply, towards his back...hurting him like it was going to be snapped right off.
His arm was now bent right back along with his little finger... behind him and he was kicked in the back... again and he collapsed forward into the mud...again.
Man! Not again! That little miss ninja was fricking lethal!
Doc and Major guffawed loudly, making Bear's frustration grow.
But as he lay there... trying not to breathe in the mud, he started to feel a small amount of pride and admiration for the girl, who must have weighed a third of his body weight and who was a foot and a half shorter than him, with hardly any experience or training.
"Bear? How are you big ol' boofer?" she laughed, tears running down her face.
Bear got up off the grass and grinned at Bella.
She chuckled and wiped her eyes, from laughing so hard.
Bear stuck his arm out and she scooted under it for a sideways hug holding his tummy and back with her small arms. She was a cute little thing, but thoroughly wild and dangerous.
He was never going to under estimate this little wildcat again!
"Did I hurt you Bear?"
"No, the only thing you hurt was my pride. I used to think I was a good fighter, but man...you've got a whole world of sneaky moves on me! What the hell did you do to her Major? It's sort of freaky... trying to find you, when I couldn't see, hear or sense you. You must have a strange sort of cloaking thing going on, kinda like what your Dad used when we were in Che.."
"So Bella, how about we go and find Sue for a cup of something?" The Major interrupted, he glared at Bear and Doc shook his head.
"Err, ummm sorry Major..."
"Come on Champ, let's go and relax in the kitchen and you can share with Sue... the story of how you taught Bear... to use mud packs on his face."
"Yeah cool." Bella giggled.
I enjoyed messing with Bear aka Emmett. Please send me some feedback!