Disclaimer - I don't own Twilight or any of her characters, I do own Adam, Serena and the plot of these here story.

ALEXANDER POV

The sun was just beginning to rise on a new day, and I found myself sitting on a log. It wasn't uncomfortable nor was it really comfortable. It served its purpose as I watched Jessica standing over beside the cliff face, she was watching the encampment below, I could hear the rustling in the tents that were set up behind me which alerted me to the fact that Bravo Team 6 was beginning to awaken. That's just one of the many problems with Humans, they required so much sleep. That was acceptable; it was useless to send the humans after wolves, especially during the full moon. Luckily the transformation back into their human forms drained a lot out of them, and gave us the advantage. I peered behind me to see the first man finally climb out of the tent and have to shield his eyes against the sun. Humans, so frail, the only good thing about them was how quickly they reproduce.

I turned my attention back to Jessica who hadn't moved a muscle. Despite the scent of that leech venom in her system, it did wonders for her in terms of both her beauty and her value. She is almost as deadly as I, she was the smartest individual in her year, when I discovered her hiding in a classroom in some town in Poland. She was cowering underneath her desk and most of her classmates lay dead. It was a shifter, he caught her scent and went looking, the rest of the class was collateral damage. The shifter was bearing down on her when I arrived; He thought turning into a bear would protect him.

August 14th, 1939. Danzig, Poland

There it was, the scent of a leech coming from this girl? She was only 12 years old.. and her outward appearance didn't seem like your standard leech. Her hair was light blonde and fell down past her shoulders. Her skin was tanned and her eyes a deep blue, the fear on her face told me she didn't have the slightest clue as to what was going on. The shifter standing over her however seemed to be more focused on her, than me. His back was to me and he had his hands on either side of the desk. My first Tendril shot out from the shadow and wrapped around the neck of the man. His struggle to break free intensified until he turned and faced me, then the struggle turned into a transformation. First his shoulders pushed outwards and he sprouted up two full feet.

The hair began to sprout all over his body and his hands expanded to twice their normal size. It didn't take long before his shifting was completed. I released my tendril, It had been years since I had a good fight. I cracked my knuckles and my neck and looked past the roaring bear to the girl still hiding under her desk.

"I would run now little girl," My polish was rusty but she got the hint and ran out of the room. "and now for you."

"After I kill you, whatever you are, I will enjoy my time with her." It was surprising to hear a bear speaking German, but that wasn't the first thing on my mind. Something told me to protect the girl. This had nothing to do with the hunt; this had to do with protecting her.

The bear charged at me and I shouldered it square in the center of its large frame. It didn't do as much damage as I hoped it would, and then I felt the powerful jaw of the bear clamp down on my left shoulder. I knew it wouldn't do any damage but he lifted me off the ground and next thing I knew, I crashed through the wall into an unused classroom. Just as I was climbing to my feet I watched the bear charge again so I pulled my fight hand back and connected with the jaw of the bear so hard, I felt it give out. He fell backwards roaring in pain so I walked forward and tried again but surprisingly he grabbed me around the tops of my arms in a powerful hug. He squeezed and began to head-butt me, over and over again

It happened so quickly that no human would have been able to follow it. There was a flash of motion and the sound of flesh being ripped. The girl had returned and jumped on the back of the bear, she was attempting to protect me. She bit into the neck of the bear and ripped out a large chunk of flesh. The bear released me and in that moment my left hand was a silver blade, and the heart of the bear was protruding from its back, and he was dead. The girl stood breathing heavily and her face was covered in blood. It was a sight to say the least. She was more focused on the bear as it morphed back into a human.

"What is your name?" I asked as I pushed the body off of my arm.

"Jessi" she replied, her eyes still trained on the body.

"Jessi. Where are your parents?" This question brought her eyes up to meet mine and I saw pain there. She was hesitant at first to reply but after looking down at the beast once again and up to me she spoke.

"I don't have parents; They died before I was born. I live with my aunt." She ran to me and put her arms around me. I didn't know what to do at first. But my usual instinct around leeches didn't kick in, I wanted to protect her.

Present day.

My attention was brought back to the present as Jessica sat down next to me around the remnants of the fire that was burning last night. It was just ashes now and one glance over my shoulder told me that the team was preparing to move out. Jessica was just looking at the ashes but I could tell she wanted to say something and she seemed anxious about it.

"Alex. Things aren't looking good down there." She wasn't looking at me, which usually meant something bad.

"There is what, 5 or 6 wolves down there? It won't be difficult. We heard them shifting last night and they changed back today. You know as well as I do the change takes a lot out of them..."

"I know, I know. It's not that." She looked up as the men finished putting the tents away. They were discussing something when she leaned forward so the humans wouldn't hear her. "I was counting the hostiles, 8 wolves and… I counted 4 vampires also."

That was an interesting development. Leeches and Mongrels hated one another so the fact that they were working together was a surprise. In response to the look I was getting from Jessica I held my arm out directly in front of me. I morphed it from a sword, to a bat, to a pick and to a hammer. It finally switched back to normal and after flexing my fingers I put my hand back down. She shook her head and continued to talk low.

"That's not it sir, these men will be slaughtered if they go in without knowing." She looked worried as the humans began checking weapons. I looked over at them also, but the world isn't fair and any day could be your last and these men knew that when the applied. They needed to be able to adapt to any situation at hand. I stood up and pulled off the vest, it wouldn't do anything when Leeches were involved.

"You don't breathe a word of this to anyone. They need to adapt. Understood?" As much as she didn't like it, Jessica knew better than to disobey an order. She sighed and nodded her head in agreement. I motioned for the leader of Bravo Team 6 to follow me and as we walked towards the cliff face, the only thought that crossed my mind was how fun this day was beginning to look.

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BELLA POV

For the first time in what felt like years, I managed to sleep through the entire night without waking up or even dreaming. Nothing I could remember anyways. The last thing I remembered before falling asleep was thinking of Alice and the next thing I know, I opened my eyes and I could see the sun beginning to rise over the tree line before I got out of bed however, it had disappeared behind a thick layer of clouds. I could hear Charlie leaving just as I was climbing out of bed, He didn't know I was getting up because I heard the door close without so much as a bye. He was okay with me not being in school yesterday although he made me promise to go to school, which for the most part was okay for me. He also seemed to be distracted by something for most of the night, anytime I brought it up though he just said it was work stuff and nothing after.

My day was looking up already as I heard a honk from outside and when I peered through the window I could see Alice pulling to the spot that Charlie usually parked, seeing her step out of the car made my heart race and it took more self-control then I had to stop myself from running out there but I was still wearing my pyjamas and, well… I don't think so. I climbed into the shower and let all other thoughts flow away.

I wasn't in the shower long and when I came out of the bathroom I was refreshed and looking forward to the day. I walked down the stairs as I pulled a dark brown sweater when my head appeared through the hole at the top I stopped dead when I saw Alice leaning against the counter. My breath caught in my throat and for a moment I forgot how to think, Alice was wearing a lime green dress, which on anyone else would have looked terrible but against her skin it worked. She crossed her arms across her chest and her left leg over her right; she looked from me and to the ground and it was about that moment I remembered how to breathe.

"Alice! How did you get in?" I walked past her and she didn't move to follow me, I could see a smile crossing her face but she didn't reply. I grabbed an apple off of the counter and ran it under the water from the tap in the sink. I turned around and Alice hadn't moved from the spot she stood except once again she was watching me and as usual, I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. I tried to hide it by biting into the apple and averting my eyes from her. We stood like this in an awkward way until I finally noticed the time.

"We have to get to school!" I said and this seemed to get her attention as she finally stood up straight.

"Well what are we waiting for?" She flashed a brilliant smile and walked over to me and put an arm around my shoulders, even though I could feel the coolness from her skin I don't think I've felt warmer in my life. I looked at the door as we walked towards it, there was no way she broke it or anything else for that matter, everything looked to be in the exact same place it should have been. We stepped outside and I stopped to make sure the door was locked, after that I hopped into her car and we were heading towards school, much quicker than we need to really.

"Do we have to go so fast?" I asked Alice and her only response was to roll her eyes at me. I looked over at the speedometer and noticed the needle falling slowly until it stopped and hovered around the 80mph mark, It didn't feel like we had slowed down much at all, but I had a feeling she wasn't too happy about even going this speed so I didn't press it any further. It wasn't long before we were pulling into the parking lot and into her spot which was next to the vehicles her family had brought to school. A large jeep was parked right next to them and on the other side was a red convertible.

I was just beginning to pull my seatbelt off when I saw movement out of the corner of my eye and watched as Alice opened my car door for me, I think she is just trying to show off for me and to be honest, I was impressed. I climbed out of the car and looked around, outside of her family, no one else was really here yet. Thoughts about what the other kids would think if they saw me began to swirl around in my head. The moment I began to feel nervous however, I felt Alices cool hand wrap around my own as if to say that no matter what happened, she wouldn't let anything happen and I stopped caring about what others thought.

There were more than a few curious glances in our direction as the parking lot began to fill up but only a couple of glares from Alice essentially shut down most questions. The morning classes were no problem and at lunch I was sitting at the Cullen table and to be honest I don't think I could have cared what others thought about me being here. Rose still didn't look happy with me being here but her attitude was cancelled out quite well by Emmett and Adam arguing about a baseball game but for the most part my attention was focused on Alice who was sitting next to me, her fingers absently tracing patterns on my arm. The bell for lunch rang way too fast for my liking and most of the lunch room had cleared out before I finally motioned for Alice and we went off to our classes.

First day being together at school and it went off without much fuss at all, Maybe kids at this school would be better accepting of a couple like ours. Then again however, they didn't know the truth about Alice or the rest of the Cullens but that was for the best I guess. Gym even went well for me, I didn't injure anyone or myself and we were playing basketball so I felt pretty good about the day overall. We were leaving school and I walked hand in hand with Alice towards the parking lot when I heard a voice call out.

"Freaks." It was a girl, Lauren her name was. Alice moved between myself and Lauren and stared her down; I could hear the low growl in her stomach, in a threatening manner.

"What did you say?" She asked through gritted teeth.

"You heard me Cullen," She spat that last word as if it was an insult. Many students in the hallway either tried to get out of there as fast as they could or stopped to watch but even out of those who stopped, they at least tried to appear as if they weren't focused on the situation that was now escalating. "You and she are Freaks. Walking around holding hands and being all over each other like you have been all day. I don't need to see that shit." She flipped her hair back out of her face.

I don't know how it happened but Alice launched herself at Lauren in one moment, and in the next she was being held at the waist by Serena and Rose who had come out of nowhere. Lauren kept up a brave face and tried to act tough but I noticed the waver in her conviction with this angry pixie in her face. Rose and Serena were holding back Alice but before Lauren walked away I walked up to her. I didn't know what I was going to do but I had to do something. No one talks to my Alice or me that way. I was about to focus on the thought of Alice and calling her mine, but that would have distracted me from my goal. Focus Bella.

"What do you want?" Lauren as she looked me over, her eyes appraising me as something less than her. "Come to tell me how you want me now too? I'm sorry lesbo, but I am not freak unlike that slut back there..." I don't even know what happened at that moment, my vision clouded over pretty quick but I all I could remember was Lauren talking then her falling backwards and what sounded like a cracking noise. Lauren was holding her face while sudden pain brought all of my attention back to normal, it was my wrist.

"Oh SNAP!" I heard yelled out by someone in the crowd, it sounded familiar to me and I watched as Emmett walked up to me, he looked down at Lauren and then to my wrist which I was pretty sure was broken. He had a big grin on his face as he put an arm around my shoulder. I began walking with him towards Alice and when I chanced a glance back at Lauren I could see she had tears welling up in her eyes and already the makings of a nice bruise on the left side of her face. Served the bitch right.

"Bella!" Alice called to me as she ran up and tenderly grabbed my arm as to not cause me more pain. I felt Emmett let go of my shoulders and quickly I felt the much tenderer grip of Alice wrap around my shoulders. "You didn't have to do that Bella." She spoke almost as if she was exasperated with my actions.

"She doesn't get to talk that way about my girlfriend," I said as I thought about what she said and I felt the anger again, but that disappeared almost instantly as I saw the smile on Alices face at what I had said. I hadn't even noticed the use of the word girlfriend, it seemed natural to me. She smiled wide still as we walked towards the car. Emmett had beat us there and was leaning against her car, Adam was half sitting in the jeep and standing. When we got close he turned and looked at me. Serena, Rosalie and Jasper had already left, or at least it seemed that way considering the third car was missing.

"That was awesome Bells." Emmett said and it was hard not to feel even more happy inside. I had never hit anyone before but I don't think I had it in me to do it again. That hurt. "You dropped her on her ass!"

"She deserved more than that!" Alice said bitterly as she helped me towards the door on the passenger side of the car. Emmett continued to beam down at me before he spoke to Alice.

"Maybe, but that was still awesome. The others left right after that, Adam and I have to hammer out a few details about the football game tomorrow," He leaned in towards Alice now, "If you wanted to give me a little inside information.."

"I heard that!" I heard Adam call from the jeep and Emmett just continued to grin.

"I wasn't trying to hide it." Emmett said before he reached in a mussed up Alices hair. "You should get her to see Carlisle; she may need a cast after that punch." He stepped back and hopped into the Jeep as Adam pulled out and tore off, leaving just me and Alice sitting in the car. Most of the students were watching us now and after a moment we joined the rest of the Cullens in getting out of there as quickly as possible. As we drove down the road, Alice looked conflicted. I could feel the throbbing in my wrist and I knew we were heading towards the hospital and we were moving fast but I couldn't care about that right now.

"What's wrong?" I asked looking at Alice. She looked over at me for a moment and I felt my heart swell up. The girl truly was beautiful and even though her eyes looked darker than they were at the start of the day, they were still a beautiful shade of brown. She sighed and grabbed my good hand.

"Nothing is wrong my dear Bella, I'm just sad you hurt yourself trying to protect me. I should be the one protecting you." She gave my hand a light squeeze and I smiled, that was no reason to look sad at all.

"Alice, look, I wasn't going to let her talk that way about either of us okay? And about my injury.." I held up my hand and I could feel a stabbing pain shoot up my arm. But I wasn't going to let her see that, "I am a clumsy individual remember? It was likely that I would have slipped down some stairs and done the same damage, I am glad I could do it to stand up for my girlfriend." I liked the sound of that word and it seemed like she did to as once again I could see the smile cross her face wide and that made me smile once again. We pulled into the parking lot at the hospital in record time, once again. She helped me out of the car once again and as we walked towards the entrance, I felt a shiver run up my spine. I felt like I was being watched.

What Bella didn't know was how true that was. Sitting in a car at the parking lot, a man sat with his phone in his hand. Sitting on the dashboard of the car was a picture of Bella Swan. The man watched as Bella and Alice made their way into the hospital when the voice of a man on the other end of the line picked up.

"What do you want?"

"Target is in sight. She is travelling with a vampire though. That wasn't part of the deal."

"Fine, more money will be transferred. Just remember, I want her dead. I don't care how, but there has to be as little collateral as possible."

"It will be done."

Nothing else was said as the man hung up the phone. He reached into the backseat of the car and pulled out a black duffle bag. He opened the bag up and pulled out a dagger that was covered in a sort of silvery liquid. He stuck the dagger on the inside of his jacket and rummaged once more into the bag and pulled out a small pendant that was attached to a plain black rope. He pulled it around his neck before tossing the bag back into the back of the car and revving the engine.

His mission would be completed one way or another. He just needed to pick the spot.

A/N - For everyone who has waited patiently, I want to apologize for the long delay. I could go on about how life has changed for me the last few months and everything I have had to do, but thats not fair. I just havent been able to sit down and write but now I can so I hope i can take this to its conclusion. Thanks again to everyone who has tuned in and all the positive feedback I've gotten, I enjoy writing and was glad when i finally sat down and started writing again, returning to this world I got a fresh perspective and I am sure it will be smooth sailing from here on out. Thanks again, and dont forget to Review/Like/Favorite and any combination of the three.

- Until Next Time