A/N: sorry for the wait again I have just been very busy, so enjoy the latest chapter. LD

Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with twilight I just like to play with the wonderful characters.

CH 20

B pov

How had we all no heard the new heartbeat before now? I mean we are vampires for heavens sake, we should have heard it coming from a mile away at the very least, I guess we were all just so caught up in our conversation with Ducky that we all stopped paying attention to what was going on around us, a very bad mistake on our part but now the damage was done I guess.

If I had been able to react the right way I would have disappeared from sight as soon as the doors opened but I hadn't and neither had anybody else for the matter, one question that was running through my head why hadn't Alice seen this coming when and if we got through this I would have to ask her why.

In the door stood no other than the one and only Gibbs out of the corner of my eye I saw Edward shrug at Alice but I didn't have the time to ask Edward what they were discussing I would find that out later as well, back to the situation at hand.

Gibbs just stood there in the door way of the warehouse looking at all of us with his usual silence, and of course me being me I had to try and break the ice, I mean why not there was nothing else we could do, it was to late to try and run and hide now Gibbs had already seen me like I said the damage was already done.

"Hey Gibbs, great timing as always boss" I tried to inject a little humor in the moment

I was still meet with more silence from Gibbs for the moment but at least me speaking got everybody else in motion once again, everybody moved into position attempting to block me from view I guess, a useless move but still a move on the part of my family that made me feel loved all the same, they really did accept me as part of the family.

Ducky being only a humane moved a little more slowly than everybody else in the room, as soon as he saw what the Cullen's were doing he moved forward towards Gibbs, he opened his mouth as if to speak, but Gibbs gave him on of his famous stares that just about yelled be quite, and Ducky backed down looking lost in thought.

All of the sudden I felt a calming wave spread through the room, I knew that this was Jasper trying to calm the situation before it could possibly get out of hand or any thing like that, out of the corner of my eye I saw Jasper throw me a look, I nodded my head real quick in thanks to him, when I refocused on Gibbs I saw that he was now staring as Jasper as well almost as if he knew what was going on, and knowing Gibbs at this point it wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Gibbs still silent stated to walk further into the warehouse advancing on the rest of us, Ducky tried to step forward into Gibbs way in a last ditch effort to stop Gibbs I guess but it did not work, he gave Ducky another one of his stares and Ducky backed down once again, this was unheard of usually Ducky was able to stand up to Gibbs but not this time.

Gibbs continued his way into the warehouse at a slow and steady pace, almost as if he knew that thing could get bad at any moment, I knew that I would not lose control and hurt my former boss in any way, but he still had to feel the danger that was flowing around the room with so many Vampires all in one room, even though he knew nothing about the Vampires I think?

To my eyes he seemed to be moving in slow motion but I knew that he was moving as a pretty normal pace for a humane I guess, once he was all the way into the warehouse, I kind of expected him to come to a stop a good distance from us, the way most humane reacted towards us but he didn't he kept walking toward us, well towards me I guess.

This whole time except for the two times to glance at Ducky, Gibbs been looking right at me this whole time, he looked to be deep in thought, almost as if he was putting the rest of a puzzle together one that he had been working on for a long time.

He finally stopped about five feet away from me, I felt a slight burn in my throat but nothing to be concerned about, it was just from the sound of his and Ducky's heart beats, their humane scents in the end as usual it seems helped me to deal with the thirst I should have felt.

Even with how fast my mind now worked I was still trying to figure out something to say to break the tension in the room once again but was coming up utterly blank for the moment, so it was a surprise to me and made me jump a little when Gibbs was the first to speak.

"Where in the hell have you been that you couldn't at least pick up a phone and let me know that you where ok?"

Now this really chased every single thought that could have been chasing through my mind away, I could also tell by looking around me that the rest of the Cullen's were just as surprised as me at this turn in events.

After almost a full minute of this my brain finally started to function again, it struck me as odd that Gibbs didn't seem in the least bite fazed by my new appearance, it was almost as if he expected me to be like this.

I started to go over what he had just said, I noticed that he had not said that you are alive but that I was ok, that in itself was rather odd, I looked over at Edward before I tried to respond to what Gibbs had said.

When I looked over at him, Edward had a look like he had just himself solved the last part of a puzzle he had been working on, this made me stop and think again about all that was going on, so that in the end Edward was the first of us to speak up after the long silence.

"How long have you known about vampires Mr. Gibbs?"

That was Edward for you always polite to everybody around him at all times, wait did he just say what I think he said, Gibbs knew about vampires, How did I not know about this?

"Wait so you know that vampires are real?"

Was the first smart thing to come out of my mouth, Gibbs decided this moment to finally speak to me.

"Yes, and to answer your question Mr. Cullen I have know for a number of years, you don't spend as much time as I have in the military and not know a few things."

A few things clicked in place for me all of the sudden, why he had never seemed even a little nervous around the Cullen's when they had come to see at me at work, and also why he had given in so easily to me staying with the Cullen's at their hotel and not with somebody from the team.

"So you knew this whole time?"

"Yes Bells I knew it as soon as the Cullen's walked in, what surprised me was that you knew about them"

"So just to get this clear, you knew that Victoria was a vampire, yet you let me go through that whole process of all that testing and experimenting?"

"Yes I did, but at the time I didn't know that you knew about vampires remember?"

"Oh yeah, it all makes sense now, why you never seemed to be fazed at the lack of evidence that I was coming up with"

"yeah, but once again you did surprise me when you came up with that little bit of DNA that you did."

"Yeah, I surprised myself with that one as well, but did you know what had happened to me when the warehouse burned down though?"

"I had my suspicions about it but I had to know for sure, and when there was no body I was almost sure but I still had to know"

"Well now you know what happened to me, are you going to call off the search parties for me?, it is making it a little hard to hunt in the area, having to worry about my friends being in the woods at the same time"

"yeah I will call off the search parties"

He said this with some humor in his voice

"I will come up with a suitable way to close your case"

"thank you Gibbs that would be wonderful"

"Just a few more questions though?"

"Ok shoot"

After all I did owe this guy my life in the end, and he had been there for me when I needed him to me, and he had kicked my butt in to gear when he needed to over the last couple of years.

"How long are you planning on staying in the area?"

I looked at Carlisle to answer this question, he stepped forward and answered for me

"Well Mr. Gibbs we plan on being here for a few more weeks, we are just waiting for our house in Alaska to be ready"

" Ok that's good, also Bella don't think that you can just disappear on me, you will keep in contact"

The last part of his statement came out as more of a command, more like the Gibbs I had know since coming to work for NCIS, this brought a smile to my face.

"Of course I will keep in contact with you, I would never think to do otherwise now that I know that you know what I have be come"

While I was saying this I approached Gibbs, and giving him a moment to see what I was going to do I hugged him, he actually hugged me back that was nice.

"Ok last question, are you happy Bells"

"Yes I couldn't be happier this is the life I have always wanted, but I will miss you and the rest of the team though, but I think this is the way my life was supposed to turn out, it just took a little longer and I had the chance to make some really good friends and have some really interesting experience along the way"

With all of that said, we chatted for a few more minutes, but then Gibbs and Ducky had to get back to the office, it was kind of sad it was like closing yet another chapter on my life, but I knew that no matter what happened I would still have my friends here and that made me happy.

Before they left we agreed that I would meet with them again in a few days to discuss a few things to close out my old life I guess you could say.

After they left I turned into Edwards arms, and buried my head in his chest with relief that things had gone so well, but also in a little bit of sadness, he just held my for a little while.

After about ten minutes maybe a little less, Emmett broke the silence.

"Well that went well, don't you say?"

We all started to laugh it felt good to laugh after all of the tension I had been under for the past few days.

After our moment of humor we all headed out of the warehouse to head back home, hmm home that had a nice ring to it I guess, it would be good to relax for a moment, after all tomorrow was a new day…

A/N2: I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it, but alas I feel that this story in starting to wind down finally, but don't worry there is still a few good chapter left with a least one more twist, well I have been up for over 36 hours at this point so I think I will sign off and go to bed before I really start to ramble on and on again. So once again thanks for reading and reviewing. LD