A/N: Hello my lovelies, bet you weren't expecting a quick chapter publish but what can I say, inspirations in the air. 3

My head was still pounding from all the new found knowledge left in front of me from the past two days. The lack of sleep combined with the fact that I had gotten myself into quite the tangled situation made me feel like it would be turning into a chronic migraine. The only thing keeping me going at this point was the fact that Rosalie would be waiting for me in my so called designated quarters. Stupid ninja club.

"This way ma'am" The muscular man guiding me to my quarters was dressed in an all black fitted suit but for some reason my subconscious kept turning him into Captain America.

"Yes Captain." I immediately answered.

He chuckled, "My name is Jefferson, ma'am."

I bit my lip in embarrassment and nodded in agreement.

Sure it was...

Main headquarters was like a maze within a maze. I still couldn't believe the size of this place. Looking at it from the outside you would think it was an abandoned hospital but from the inside it was anything but. As soon as you walked in the place turned into Men in Black 2.0.

Finally we seemed to reach our destination. We had been walking through a long hallway of identical metal doors. Damn place looked like a prison. We stopped in front of a door numbered 228.

Jefferson stopped and outstretched his arm towards the door and simply turned and quietly marched away.

Bye Captain!

I let out a deep sigh, glad to not have any armed men around me and knocked on the door.

"Just a minute!" I heard Rose call out.

She opened the door a moment later and it felt as though it had been a month since I last saw her. I lunged at her, wrapping my arms around her shoulders and held on for dear life. It felt so much nicer than I would have anticipated to see a familiar face. This group of men may have been selected largely because of their good looks between Captain America, Jacob and of course Cullen, but it was clear that I needed my friend most of all.

She let out a laugh. "Hey honey. It's nice to see you too." She said patting my hair like a little kid. "Have they briefed you yet?" She asked as I finally let go of my death grip on her.

"Yeah, sure they briefed me." Rolling my eyes at the word briefed. "I can't believe that any of it is true but yeah they told me what they thought they should."

"I see, well come inside and we can talk more about it." She led me into our room and guided me to the little sofa next to the bed. The room itself was not very big but very neat. That was the first word that came to mind: neat. Nothing looked like it had ever been out of place. Not a single pen without its cap on nor a trash can even filled. All this was just reminding me of the fact that I needed to clean my room.

Oh...my room. I miss my bed.

I realized as we sat there, Rose staring at me in anticipation of having a discussion as lengthy as the Louisiana Purchase, that I was talked out. What more could she possibly tell me that Cullen hadn't already beat into me? The idea of talking to her about her life before me in the military just made me sad. It made me feel as if I hardly knew the person I was sitting next to. She still felt like my best friend. The new knowledge hadn't erased all of our memories, just left a gap in them.

"Bella, honey I'm so sorry. I know this is the last thing you expected to happen when you went into the other night." She started.

"Yeah no shit." I said.

"I know all of this is a lot to take in. If I had ever expected something like that to happen, I would've told you the truth a long time ago." She finished, sounding genuine about her apology.

"What about Alice? Does she know any of this?" I asked.

She looked down seeming lost within herself. "No, she was as in the dark as you."

Oh god. Alice was now all alone without either of us thinking that we were both kidnapped. "Rosalie, how could you not make sure she'd be told the truth? Alice is probably going crazy worrying about us." I said clearly hurt.

"I know." She sighed. "I hate myself for that. I do, but we couldn't involve more people than needed to be, it would only place liability on us."

I couldn't believe what she was saying, liability? Is that all we were to her?

"When will be able to go home Rosalie? I can't just let Alice think that we both got kidnapped, you know how paranoid she is, she might even think we're dead!" I said tears blurring my vision.

"We can't Bella. Not till this is over. We can't jeopardize the mission by contacting the outside. For now this is how it has to be." She sounded like a robot.

I knew that logically what she was saying made sense but after everything I had been threw the past few days. Especially how betrayed I felt when I realized I was being played for a fool this whole time, I couldn't just ignore the fact that Alice was even worse off just because it made logical sense. No right now I had no desire to be reasonable. I got up and ran out the door, out of the prison hall and kept running.

It felt could to feel in control, even if it was only within my body. I let my self run until my arms and legs burned. Now glad for the length of the building. The long hall finally cut off forcing me to make a sharp turn to the right. Just my luck however, that was the exact moment Cullen decided to step out of his room and I catapulted straight into him. We went down in a glorious heap of arms and legs, and landed my head hard on the concrete floor.

"Owww!" I screamed in pain but continued to lay on the ground. I rubbed my head sure I'd have a cartoon style bump on my head. Surprisingly I seemed to be okay. Edward helped me up gently grabbing my arms and pulling me to my feet. I was at least 120 pounds and yet he basically brought me to my feet without hardly any effort.

"Are you okay, Bella?" He asked sounding genuinely concerned. Yet the pain in my head had almost completely evaporated when I heard him say Bella. That was the first time he hadn't used a formal name for me. And I found myself liking that, quite a lot.

"Uh yeah...I'm fine." I said rubbing my head out of something to do rather than out of pain.

"So was something chasing you just now?" He chuckled.

I could never tell when he was trying to make small talk and when he was trying to make fun of me, something told me it was always a bit of both.

"No. I just needed to get away." I said annoyed.

"Away from what?" He asked interested.

"This situation." I said.

"You could be doing worse you know. You may not have signed up for this Isabella but by helping us you're helping your country. That is not something you should feel like you need to run from." So we were back to Isabella now.

Still better then Ms. Swan.

True, I felt like a third grade teacher when he called me that.

I felt like I was being reprimanded. And then I felt a bit guilty. Was I really acting that childish? He had a point. I could be doing worse off. At least I was in the loop unlike poor Alice.

"I uh, I didn't mean it like that." I said sheepishly. "I don't mean to complain so much, I've just been a bit overwhelmed and after Rosalie told me about Alice I just couldn't sit still." I finished.

"Oh. Ms. Brandon. I am sorry for that. I understand that that must be hard for you. I promise however, soon as we are safely able to, we will inform Ms. Brandon of the truth of the matter. She will be taken care of Bella."

And there it was again, Bella.

"You know you can just stick with Bella. You don't have to keep going back and forth between Ms. Swan, Isabella and Bella." I rolled my eyes.

That made him laugh, "Do I really change them up that much?" He asked.

"Yeah you really do." I cracked a smile, enjoying his musical laughter.

We held each other's eyes for another moment, smiling he said, "We have a deal then Bella."

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