From Hell to Heaven

Beta/Proof reader/Advisor: Maria Vilson

Chapter 20

"Sam imprinted on Bella, Pops," young Quil spouted with a huge smile on his face as he looked over at the couple cuddling on the sofa. Old Quil chuckled.

"I was wondering how long you were going to let it go on before accepting it," Old Quil said knowingly.

"You knew?" young Quil asked confused.

"Of course I knew. Anyone with eyes could see it, I'm just surprised none of you saw it," Old Quil came back with a sarcastic answer.

"I knew," Leah said sitting on Embry's lap as he took a seat.

"Yeah, me too, although I have to admit I didn't notice until Leah said something," Embry said.

"Bella are you okay with this?" Old Quil asked with concern. Bella nodded, but it was Sam who explained.

"Bella accepted it long before I did. I have to admit it took me a while to analyze everything he said, and after Bella ran off, and after me being a complete jerk to her, I realized my mistake and ran after her to apologize. I didn't expect to see what I did though," Sam said giving Bella a worried look.

"What did you see?" Old Quil asked concerned. Sam looked at Bella almost as if he was asking her permission to reveal what had happened. Bella sighed and nodded her head as she laid her head on Sam's shoulder.

Sam began to explain all that had happened in the forest once he arrived, explaining about the Orb and how Bella tossed the demon across and into the briar patch without physically touching him. How he pounced out of the bush at Bella once again, and after seeing Sam, the leech took off, and how he chased him to the cliffs, where the vampire dove into the ocean below.

Old Quil and the Pack sat with their mouths hanging open at Sam's explanation. Old Quil walked over and sat next to Sam and took Bella's hand in his as he sat quiet for a few seconds fiddling with his Great-granddaughters fingers while he analyzed what was told to him.

He tried to think how this was possible. What was he missing? He knew he had heard of this before, but where? As his mind raced to find the answer a knock came at the door. After young Quil came to his senses after hearing what he had just heard, he looked towards the door. He stood up.

"I'll get it Pops," he said and walked, still in kind of a daze as all the Pack was still in after hearing Sam's explanation. He opened the door to find a paleface. He was tall and muscular, but not as muscular as the Pack and had dark hair and blue eyes. The man smiled at young Quil before he spoke.

"Hi, I'm looking for a Quil Ateara, does he by chance live here?" he asked still smiling.

"That would be me," young Quil answered.

"No son, I think I'm looking for someone much older, maybe your Great-grandfather," he continued.

"Oh, you must mean Pops, can I asked who's asking for him?" young Quil asked.

"Just tell him it's Phil Dwyer, he'll know who I am," he said. After hearing his name he knew exactly who this man was, and he told Phil to come in. After a thanks from Phil, young Quil opened the door fully and moved out of the way to allow him to enter.

Bella looked up as Phil entered the house. "Phil!" Bella screamed and jumped off of Sam's lap and dove for her stepfather who held a huge smile at his stepdaughter's excitement.

"Hey pumpkin," he said as he held Bella in his arms giving her a huge hug. He had missed her as much as she had seemed to miss him. Bella literally had tears in her eyes with Phil's appearance.

"I've missed you so much," Bella told him. He smiled pulling her away slightly and wiped the tears off her cheek with the pads of his fingers.

"I missed you too pumpkin," he said using the endearing name he gave her since the first moment he'd met her at a young age. "So how are they treating you Bella?" he asked not caring that the room was full of the biggest guys he had ever seen.

"Pops and the guys are great," she said with a smile.

"That's good to hear…and Charlie?" he asked worriedly. Bella sighed as she lost the smile that once appeared on her face from her stepfather's visit. "That bad, huh?" he asked.

"There's so much I need to tell you Phil," Bella told him as she cringed. Phil looked up to find Bella's Great-grandfather. Old Quil stood to his feet and joined Bella and her stepfather.

"It's nice to finally meet you Phil, welcome to my home," Old Quil said putting his hand out to shake Phil's hand. Phil grabbed it giving him a healthy shake still holding Bella in his other arm keeping her close to him.

"Thank you. I'm afraid I have some news of my own. I just hope yours is better than mine," Phil said gravely. Old Quil gave him a look of concern.

"I doubt ours is much better," he said not knowing what Phil had to say, but it didn't sound good, but neither was his…well, most of what he had to say wasn't good. "Come have a seat we have much to talk about," Old Quil continued motioning to the sofa for him and Bella to sit next to Sam.

Bella sat down next to Sam as he put his arm around her shoulder and pulled her close to him. Phil noticed as he took a seat next to her, giving Bella a look of surprise. Bella blushed, lowered her head and smiled.

"Is there something you have to tell me?" Phil asked with a smile. Bella only nodded keeping her head lowered. Sam chuckled at how shy his imprint could be and hugged her tighter against him.

"Phil Dwyer," Phil said holding out his hand to Sam.

"Sam Uley, I'm Alpha of the pack, and Bella here is my imprint sir," Sam said taking Phil's hand in his and he also gave him a healthy shake. Sam knew Phil knew about the pack, but didn't know if he knew all there was to tell about them. If he didn't understand the imprinting part of their world Sam was sure he would ask."

"Imprint hu? Well it's nice to meet you Sam," Phil said, and then turned to Old Quil who had taken one of the chairs and moved over next to Phil so he could explain all that had happened since Bella had come to live with them.

And tell him he did. From the first moment Bella had walked onto the Reservation until now. Phil sat with his mouth hanging open. He knew some of what happened considering he had talked a few times with Bella, but some he was appalled by after hearing, especially with Charlie's current behavior.

Phil could care less about Charlie, his only concern now was Bella and keeping her safe and told Old Quil just that, but the current situation with Bella and what had happened to her as far as the blue Orb had him worried.

Phil wanted to know everything. Old Quil explained all he knew especially the part that he had heard of this happening before, but couldn't put a finger on where he had heard or read this.

He told Phil that he would have to study some of the parchments that held their heritage and old legends. He explained that they were kept in the vaults in their hall of history at the tribal center. He explained that it was something like the palefaces city council building which Phil understood.

"How long will that take?" Phil asked worriedly. Old Quil shrugged his shoulders.

"I won't lie to you, it could take a while or we may get lucky and find it right away. I can bypass most of it, and just focus on what has been written by the earlier packs, and span out from there. I do have some of the parchments here from recent studies. I'll go over them first and go from there," Old Quil replied.

"Maybe I can help. If you tell me what to look for I can join you in this search. It's important to me as I'm sure it is with you to get to the bottom of this and find out what's going on with Bella," Phil offered.

"Of course, but it might be a problem getting you into the vault considering you're not Quileute, but I think I can pull some strings seeing that Billy Black is chief of the tribe and I'm sure will want some answers as well. He may even volunteer to help us considering Charlie is his best friend and he's just as worried about this as any of us are," Old Quil said.

"When can we get started?" Phil asked eager to find out what was going on with Bella.

"What was your news?" Bella asked, and at the same time Jake burst into the house as the door slammed against the wall with his appearance. All eyes landed on the wolf that burst through the door.

"Jake, what the hell!" Sam yelled.

"It's Charlie, he's headed to my house and he has a determined look on his face and I'm afraid he may hurt my dad," Jake yelled. The Pack stood to their feet. Sam kissed Bella lightly on her lips swearing he'd be back in a little while as he pushed her into Phil's arms.

"Be careful Sam…be careful all of you," Bella said worriedly.

"We will Bella, don't worry he can't hurt us," Sam said as they bounced out of the house and into the woods and phased, heading to Jake and Billy's house.

On the way Jake explained what had happened after hearing Embry and Leah's thoughts of what had happened to Bella. He even told Sam how Charlie's eyes went back to normal for a few seconds after he had hit him.

Sam was interested in that part more than he was at Jake losing control, but knew this had something to do with why Charlie was headed to his house. He was just worried that someone could get shot.

If it was one of the wolves they would probably live from it, but if it was Billy, especially in his current state of health, it may kill him and that's something he couldn't allow.

xXx

Bella, Phil and Old Quil sat in the living room after the wolves left filled with worry.

"He wouldn't shoot someone would he?" Phil asked. Old Quil looked at Phil and sighed.

"As I told you…this isn't the Charlie we all know and love. This vampire has got a good hold on him, so much so that Charlie has lost all reason of who he used to be and has become more evil than even you could imagine," Old Quil said shaking his head.

"I think that if Charlie, in his state of mind, wants something and is blocked from getting it he would probably do just about anything to get what he wants and if that's shooting someone that gets in his way, then yes he could possibly shoot someone without a single thought," Old Quil continued.

Bella leaned into Phil as his grip tightened around her. He gave Old Quil a look of shock, and then leaned down and kissed Bella on top of her head, letting her think everything was going to be okay like he always did, as if he was going to protect her from everything as he did while in Florida.

He knew the wolves were practically indestructible, but he wasn't sure that stood true for bullets. With the new acceptance with Bella and her new relationship with the Alpha of the pack he didn't know if she could handle losing him, and with all this going on with his arrival he felt he would hold off on letting her know about her mother.

He didn't think she would take it badly considering how her mother treated her, but he wasn't taking any chances just yet. Once the ordeal with Charlie's recent exploits was handled then maybe he could tell her of her mother's demise.

xXx

As Sam and the others approached they saw Charlie's cruiser in the driveway at Jake's house, but also saw another police car parked sort of out in the street, with the driver side door still open.

Both of them had their lights flashing, and both vehicles were from the Forks Police department. It was then that they heard the shot ring out from the house. Jake screamed "NO!" as they phased back to human pulling on their shorts, and ran into the house. What they saw before their eyes shocked them into disbelief.

A/N: A little cliff hanger…lol…sorry guys…but we'll see what happened soon…