Chapter 11 - Solutions

3rd POV

Charlie had a bad feeling as he pulled in in front of his driveway. He had taken the afternoon off his shift wanting to spend the afternoon with his daughter on her birthday.

He'd even stopped at Bella's favorite bakery in La Push and got her a cake in the shape of a trout. She had loved it when she was 7. Getting out of the cruiser his heart momentarily stopped as he saw the open front door. Loud banging noises coming from the inside. Ignoring the cake in the back seat Charlie drew his gun and moved slowly to the front door.

Inches inside he saw a brunette girl thrown over a broken table with her head in a completely wrong way. He recognized her from Bella's pictures. Walking tentatively over her he saw the back of someone laying over a motionless form at the stairs.

"Please, don't"

Bella's whimper had him acting quickly. Without a word he pointed his gun at the back he began shooting until he was out of bullets. The person to whom the back belonged to whirled around angry.

"Edward?"

Charlie gasped. Edward's lips were all red and his pants undone hanging low on his hips. The young man snarled at Charlie and the sheriff threw his empty gun away grabbing his glob from his belt. If the bullets didn't stop Edward, the glob wouldn't either but at that point the sheriff wasn't thinking clearly.

With a yell he lunged at the younger man.

Bella looked up disoriented and saw Edward running for her father.

"No"

She called out and gave herself over to the demon inside her. Moving faster than should be possible she was behind Edward and pulled him away from Charlie in one swift motion sending him straight to the breakfast counter separating the kitchen from the rest of the house.

Charlie walked backwards in a slight daze seeing his daughter liquid yellow eyes and wide, shark like mouth with razor teeth biting down on Edward's chest. Hearing another growl behind him he saw Bella's friend jump over him standing protectively

"Go to safety, Bella loves you"

the girl with the same strange eyes and horror movie mouth said to him before joining Bella in what seemed like an 70's horror film deleted scene as the two took down the would-be rapist.

Feeling bile rise to his throat Charlie watched frozen to the spot until Edward stopped fighting back and Bella turned to look at him the wild look slowly dissipating and her own face coming back. Black mascara tears were staining her cheeks, a white creepy substance leaking down her mouth.

"I'm sorry dad"

She whimpered and made a run to leave the house. Moving without thinking Charlie leapt to his feet, blocked her path and hugged her tightly rocking them both like she was a baby again. Perched over the lifeless (more than he already was anyway) body Jennifer looked at them even more jello than she thought she could be. Looking over Bella's shoulder Charlie extended one hand to her making the green eyed girl look hopefully and snuggle with them.

Behind them Edward's body creaked and whizzed until it repaired itself and the vampire was sitting up looking around him confused. What had just happened? He vaguely remembered reaching out to shake Jennifer's hand and now he resembled half naked lasagna with teeth as a barely dressed Bella was snuggled in her father's arms crying.

"You!"

Charlie growled deep in his throat seeing him move. The girls were pushed behind Charlie as the man stood protectively.

"Get behind me angels. You, don't move"

Charlie ordered fumbling for his phone in his pockets. Soon he had called Carlisle telling him to come over, right-fucking-now.

"Put this on"

Charlie handed his jacket to Bella who covered her nakedness immediately grateful. Putting two and two together Edward realized he must have attacked her and pulling himself in a ball he began rocking back and forth shutting down.

Carlisle arrived at Charlie's house and ran to the house. He had been pulled out of his afternoon rounds by a pissed off Charlie. In the five years he knew the man, he had never heard him being pissed off.

Going inside he saw the broken furniture suggesting something bad must have happened. A tall pretty girl was standing next to a shivering Bella holding her tightly as Charlie stood protectively in front of them both. Edward was rocking like a mental patient in the kitchen

"I can explain"

Actually he couldn't. As Carlisle tried to gloss over what he thought had happened by lying to protect all of hem from the Volturi laws, Edward piped in with the truth causing both Bella and Jennifer to stop them and tell them what did happen.

Not only vampires got outed to Charlie but so did succubi. Surprisingly Charlie took it all in remarkably well by cracking open a bottle of scotch handed down to him by the previous sheriff 'for that one good case' and passed it around.

"At least you won't be a permanent fixture in the ER"

Carlisle tried to joke after his second drink. Scotch was easy to drink.

"That's one way to look at it"

Jennifer said having made peace with what she was months ago.

"I'm sorry"

Edward told Bella who chuckled wryly

"We'd both knew it'd happen eventually. I'm sorry too, for killing you"

Bella said quietly to her ex-boyfriend knowing everyone in the room could hear her.

"He's not easy to kill. I emptied a full load of bullets"

Charlie croaked.

"Next time coat them with werewolf blood. That might do the trick"

Carlisle said in his scientist tone. Everyone looked at him incredulously. The blond vampire shrugged

"What? If we're all going to live in the same town knowing a few facts will be useful"

The nervous chuckle Edward let out gave room for a creeped out weird laugh emanating from everyone else.

"Thank you or letting me stay Charlie"

Jennifer, dressed in Bella's pajamas, said. For once there was no sex in her voice when talking to a man, instead she was herself. The simple, slightly vixen Jennifer she had been before her attack.

"Your mom told me you could use the change of scenery. A few too many strange deaths in Devil's Kettle"

Jennifer bit her bottom lip, a habit she'd picked from Bella.

"Someone already paid for that and I can't ever bring them back. At least Bella won't know how that feels like"
"You're welcome to stay as long as you want and the same rules for Bella apply. Decent grades, no boyfriends in the room, no killing the townsfolk"

"Got it"

Charlie smiled paternally seeing the possible good girl Jennifer hid under the 'uber cool' facade of hers. Bella passed him reaching up to give him an impulsive hug, her wet hair clinging to her face.

"Goodnight angels"

He called leaving the room the two girls would share

"Goodnight Charlie"

The two said in one voice before breaking in a fit of giggles. Charlie rolled his dark brown eyes twinkling with humor. He should know better than watching Charlie's angels when his own name was Charlie. As he slowly fell to a fishing scene of sleep the two girls in Bella's room fell asleep in each other's arms

The End