He didn't wake up as they loaded him on the plane to leave. Bella was right to be angry, the boy looked like hammered shit. Lou and his boys had done a number on him and I was glad to be getting him out of there, but I was damned unhappy to be leaving my boy behind to face them again. Yeah, he was prepared this time and he was the one that was planning on doing the sneak attack, but I was still really fucking unhappy about it.

"I will be okay, just take care of him and the rest of the kids and we will be home as soon as we have enough to make sure this shit ends now. You know who I have with me, she aint gonna let anything go wrong. We already have our flight booked home, so be ready to pick me up at the airport and you damn well better have me a good welcome home planned."

I ran my hand through his wavy hair and pulled him close to me, not give a tinkers damn who saw. We didn't live by their rules anymore, so they could kiss my ass. "Im gonna miss you. We haven't slept apart in a long damn time…maybe I ought to keep him company til you get home?" He punched me in the arm and muttered , "Asshole!" at me as Bella arrived in her rental car. Alice stuck her head out of the plane and said, "If you two are done making out, we need to get in the air the doc says, he needs to be back in a hospital and out of this town.".

"You better tell him to hold on, the boys woman is here and if she doesn't get to see him off, there will be hell to pay."

Bella didn't even look at us as she went straight to the plane and went inside. Alice deboarded pretty quick, so I could only imagine what was going on was pretty personal,(as much as it could be with the doc looking on), she clued us in that he was sort of awake and a bit lucid, so she thought they needed a moment.

She was here. I wasn't there anymore. Where the hell am I? Am I on a plane? This is good, except she is telling me she's not coming with me? What? She thinks she's staying here and fighting those guys? Something about J.D. getting hurt and the guy hurt me because of J.D., yeah…I got that much, but why is she staying? NO! She has to come with me. She cant stay here. I wont allow it. I got her and im not letting go. They cant make me. Who the hell is that guy? Edward is here? That's good, he will talk sense into her. Wait! Edward is saying J.D. is staying with her? Oh No fucking way! I am damn sure not letting go of her now, I don't care how many times she asks me to let go. Oh no way! Enough with the damn needles! Fuck me! She is in soo much troub..

BPOV

Well that went well. I didn't expect him to be lucid enough to argue with me about me staying to deal with the bastards that hurt him. Who knew he had such a strong grip? I am going to have a bruise on my wrist, but I cant blame him. He doesn't know the whole story and he doesn't know why this has to be stopped. The lawyer has been reviewing the footage from the fans and from the bar. He knows there is enough to build a good case for a hate crime just based on what was said as much as what happened after. What J. D. and I intend to do is to get the bastard to implicate himself in what he did to J.D. all those years ago. I want to go in and stomp a mudhole in the middle of his ass for all the rotten shit he has done, but instead we are going to make sure he implicates himself in everything. My friends in low places are just going to make sure that he's a little more willing to talk that he normally would be, and as a matter of fact, as soon as the plane leave the tarmac and they are away from here safely, we are headed to that bastards den to meet up with the boys in black and red and deal with the rest of this issue the way it needs to be dealt with.

JDPOV

It had been years since I had faced him. I wasn't relishing the thought of it, but I knew it needed to be done. Not only to put to rest the demons that haunted me, but to put a stop to him harming innocent people. I felt guilty that I hadn't stood up to him back then and made a case over what had happened to me, but I was so traumatized and so badly damaged and humiliated, as well as so destroyed by the fact that Edward chose to stay at first, that I just couldn't face the thought of a trial and of being labeled the man who had been not only beaten within an inch of his life and nearly emasculated, but who had been repeatedly sexually assaulted by multiple men in a brutal manner, tortured and then left to die out in the desert like an animal. If Edward hadn't suspected Lou and placed that tracking device in his truck when he did, I may have never been found in time. It was hard to let him get away with it then, and cowardly, but I had no definitive proof it was him and I had no proof of who the other three men were. I just knew they were big, mean and willing to hurt me. By the time I had gotten out of the hospital in San Diego, all evidence of what had gone on was gone. It would have just been my word against his. It had been decided it was best for all, that who I was died that day, and the new me was reborn far away.

Watching the plane take off, Bella and J.D. stood arm in arm, both resolved to face what needed to be done. One filled with wrath and the desire to seek revenge for the harm done to her loved ones, the other resolved to right an old wrong and to finally put an old demon to bed.

" J.D., you are going to have to keep me from killing him, you know that don't you? I am counting on you to be the voice of reason in all of this."

J. D. hugged her to him and kissed the top of her head, "I will gal, I will. You have to go home to that man and keep him the hell out of trouble." Bella hugged J.D. tightly, "Don't you do anything foolish either, if I don't bring you back perfectly in one piece, Cullen will lay claim to Jasper and I don't think that I would approve of that." They both laughed as they climbed into his rental car and headed out on to the highway that lead out into the desert and to retribution as well as redemption.