Bella, 2006

Leah came back with the clothes. Edward got the guns. They laid the weapons out on the bed. I checked for ammunition, making sure they were loaded. I asked Edward for extra bullets. He looked at Jasper and Jasper told him to get them to me. Edward left and came back with my ammunition.

Jasper was talking but I hardly heard a thing.

"Tell me what the text meant?" He finally shouted, getting my attention while I got dressed. Leah had found the all black ensemble I wanted. I threw off the pajama pants and tank top I had on in exchange for the black pants, tank top, boots and jacket.

Jasper told Edward to get me a bulletproof vest. When he brought it to me, I threw it down on the bed and told them, "It's gonna hold me back."

"Aren't you going to war?" Edward half joked.

I gave him a hard look wiping the smile off his face because I was dead serious. "Yeah."

"Would suck to get shot in the first round," He retorted.

Jasper and Leah looked like they agreed so I grabbed it up and put it on while I asked Jasper, "Where do all this stuff come from?"

He smirked at me. "You really wanna know?"

He looked like he would tell me and if I was still thinking like an FBI agent I would want to know.

"No."

He shrugged and added, "I'm going with you."

As if!

I chuckled darkly. "No, you're not."

He cocked an eyebrow at me that said "Try and fucking stop me."

"Are you giving me orders?" He challenged.

What? He thought I was scared?

"Yeah, right now I am. And none of you fucks are coming with me!"

Jasper laughed at me. Leah chuckled. And Edward shook his head as if to say I don't know what I was dealing with.

"You're cute," Jasper said, pinching my chin. I slapped his hand away.

"You're not coming!" I yelled at them.

They all laughed in my face while Jasper picked up one of the semi-automatics Edward had brought. He loaded it like it was the easiest thing in the world. And if I wasn't about to go and fuck someone up, I would throw him down for the move. It was such a damn turn on even though I couldn't stand the stubborn asshole at the moment.

"You seem to have chosen to forget who I am," he said to me.

"I know who the hell you are, Jasper Whitlock!"

He chuckled at my hard tone. "Good to know, Bella Swan."

"You're fighting a losing battle, Swan," Leah said and I rolled my eyes. Great! Now it's a fucking party. "You're not going anywhere without us."

"Why are any of you doing this?"

She looked at Jasper and Edward before answering me. "You're a part of the family now. And we look out for each other." She picked up guns of her choice and moved away, leaving me momentarily baffled.

I was a part of their family now? Did Leah actually see me like that or was Jasper forcing them to? No. He wasn't. Leah wasn't a pushover. She meant that shit. Jasper couldn't rule her if he tried. She truly saw me as a part of them now. And a part of me felt elated to be.

But it also ticked me off. "Listen!" I shouted, making everyone stop and look at me. "I'm going alone." I told them in a deadly calm tone. Maybe I should explain. If I talked, they would forget their ridiculousness and let me get on with the World War III I was about to rain down on my father for what he had done.

"Jasper…" I sighed, because he was trying my fucking patience. "The text is from my dad, Charlie. It means he has Rosalie, Emmett, and fuck it all to hell, he has Alice."

I waited for it to sink in. "Wait…" he said when he realized what I was saying.

"No." I cut him off. Let that shit digest. I had no time to explain anything else. "I got no time for that."

I grabbed the duffel bag off the floor, ignoring the nagging pain in my side, and started packing it with weapons. Carlisle appeared at the door. He didn't venture inside. He just stood there, judging me while he watched me pack. I could feel his cold eyes in the back of my head.

"Get that fucking look off your face," Jasper snapped, causing me to look at Carlisle in time to see a sort of happy look on the bastard's face. "We're coming back." That was right. We…oh fuck, they were coming with me whether I liked it or not. But he was right. We were coming back. I had promised myself Jasper would make it out of this. I wasn't about to lose everyone I cared about.

But I had to try. "Jasper, I told you…"

"That shit won't work on me, Bella." He told me with a small smile playing on his lips. It was cute. The little look of triumph in his eyes irritated me though. Because he was a charming fucker, it made me realize he could get away with a lot if I allowed him to. That would leave me in so much trouble with him. Would he always get his way if he had his cunning smile playing on his fucking lips?

Probably.

"If I say I'm going then I'm going."

Fuck it. I couldn't wait around anymore. It was time to move and I couldn't stop for this. "Fine! gimme your phone," I said to Jasper.

He handed it to me and I wrote the reply Charlie was waiting on. Only it wouldn't be the way he expected. There were going to be fireworks.

I gave Jasper his phone back and he read the text aloud trying to make sense of it while I grabbed my packed bag and made for the door. Edward took it from me and Carlisle grew worried.

"Where are you going?" he asked his son.

"With them," Edward said to him and moved away with Leah following close behind him.

Carlisle looked at me and before he could say anything, I said, "Shut the fuck up. I don't need your shit right now. He's a grown man. He knows what he's doing."

He turned and stomped away.

Jasper was following me down the stairs. I headed for the front door, but he pulled me away, leading me to the garage where Leah was waiting in a black GMC truck. The back door was open and waiting for us so I climbed in with Jasper and we took off.

"Where are we going?" Leah asked and I gave her the directions.

"The hive is healthy and swimming by the sea." Jasper read and then he asked, "What the hell does this mean?"

"It means I'm alive and I'm telling him where to go."

"I know this place." Leah added. "I've been there before. It's a real quiet spot."

"Good. Exactly why I picked it. Not a lot of witnesses," I said.

Jasper interjected. "I'm not going to ask how he got my number. That would be redundant. Why send the text to me?"

"To show you he can."

"Why did he take them from Carmen?"

"The important question is why did Carmen hand them over?" I said. "We both know she loves playthings."

He nodded. "We do."

"Good. Well, Charlie must've sought help and someone high up got him a deal to offer Carmen, or I think they offered it to Eleazar and he pressured Carmen into giving up her guests and her plaything."

"She will do whatever her father says," Jasper said with a sigh. "It must be a good deal."

He didn't ask anything else, just looked out the window, probably thinking the same thing I was. Why was Carmen and Eleazar important enough to deal out, but not the Whitlocks? Everyone knew the Chekovs were coming for them. Why no deal? It made me angry to know someone was willing to let Jasper die.

Leah was getting closer to the spot. I got my gun out and had it locked and loaded and ready to go. I saw Dad's truck sitting there on the small beach.

"Slow down," I said to Leah.

"We're almost there," she replied.

"Slow down," I repeated.

She did what I asked and I didn't wait. I opened my door and jumped out of the slow moving vehicle I had been in. Jasper shouted my name but I was already running. I heard my ride screech to a stop, and I saw Dad's head turn to the sound. I was close enough already. He saw me the same time I saw him. And then it was as if time slowed when I raised my gun and watched as my dad shouted, "Bella!" before I started shooting, sending him flying to the ground beside the truck for cover.

It wasn't enough he had to free Alice. No. He had to use Jamie's armored truck to come here. I knew this truck like the back of my hand because I was there when Jamie fixed it up for emergency purposes. You never know who you were going to piss off so it was best to be prepared.

I shot up the truck as I gained on the parked vehicle. I was seeing red.

I vaguely heard my name being called from behind me. I paid it no mind. The sunroof of Dad's truck opened and an arm rose out of it with a handgun. The person fired off warning shots in the air.

Rosalie.

I didn't pay it any mind. She just wanted me to stop and I wanted to shoot Charlie in the ass.

"Bella!" Charlie screamed. "Stop!" he yelled as I fired on the truck. "Fucking stop!"

I stopped shooting and advanced on the truck in measured moves, switching guns as I go while being careful enough to get ready to take cover should in case Charlie return fire.

He was a sneaky bastard. Always was.

In the past, when he was training us, he would always cheat. Telling us criminals didn't play by the rules.

I guess he was talking about himself too. Look what he did to me; raised me out of spite to be the perfect weapon against his enemy.

"Bella put the gun down and stop this!"

How dare he? He thought he could order me around?

I fired off more shots.

"Bella!" he shouted when I stopped. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

"You are, you bastard!" I said before firing again. I wanted to get to him. I wanted to break him. I was ready to fight. I wanted to feel something breaking under my fist. "You knew! You always knew!"

"Whatever you're talking about, they lied to you!" He yelled as I fired off more shots at the truck. I took out the tires. I didn't aim for the gas tank, because my sister was in there and I wasn't ready for this to be over yet.

"Told me?" I yelled back. "Nobody told me anything, you motherfucker! I figured it out!" I shouted and then fired some shots at him, making him move from his hiding spot. I wanted to shoot his ass.

The he did something brave and stupid. He came out in the open. I spotted Leah, Jasper, and Edward out of the corner of my eye as I made my way to my dad. I switched from the semi-automatic to my handgun, pointing it at him. Aiming for his head while he tried to stare me down. He was reading me. Seeing if I meant what I was doing. I kept the gun trained on him as I got closer.

Charlie watched me. I was waiting on him to make a move. He had to have a move. He always did, the rat bastard!

He had the audacity to look relieved when I got close enough to him. "Bella." He breathed. My gun was still on him. I heard the window on the good side of the truck being lowered and my sister's demanding voice yelled, "Bella, what the fuck?!"

I didn't answer her. And I noticed she didn't say anything else. That was when I saw Leah get closer to my right side, with her gun trained on the truck, no doubt pointing it at my sister.

I glanced at her and she said without looking at me. "Just in case she tries anything."

I nodded. Though I would probably hurt Leah if she hurt my sister. There was only one person I wanted out of the truck. That bitch was hiding in there.

"Bella, come on, what's the meaning of this?" Charlie asked me with a slight chuckle. Dad had a way to him. In a way, he reminded me Jasper at the moment. They were both charming fuckers who could get people to do what they wanted with minimal effort.

"Don't you know?" I taunted. I was serious. And if he thought I was through, he had another thing coming.

That wiped the smile off his face, replacing it with anger. "What are you doing with them?" he spat at me then said to Leah harshly, "Get that gun out of my daughter's face!"

"Fuck you, old man," Leah said with ease. Her tone was so calm it almost sent shivers down my spine.

"Emmett!" Jasper called. "Get out of the truck!" The truck door opened but no one came out. "Now!" Jasper demanded, making a move toward it. Leah and I shouted for him to stop at the same time. Dad pulled his gun from his back cocked it and had it trained at Jasper's head. I had my gun pointed at Dad while Edward had two guns pointed at both my dad and Rosalie who had gotten out of the truck and had her gun pointed at Jasper.

"Get over here, Bee," she ordered me. "We're getting you out of here."

I glanced at her but kept my attention on my dad, Charlie. "What did he tell you?!" I shouted to Rosie. "What did he tell you? That he was coming to save me? Oh, now he wants to save me," I said, mocking my father.

He was trying to staring me down. In the past, I would have been intimidated by the look but not anymore.

"Bella, you need to stop this shit!" Rosie tried.

"Tell me what he told your ass!" I shouted at her.

At first Charlie genuinely looked confused then a look of realization dawned on his face.

"Yeah." I smiled at him and then whispered with a sneer, "I know. I know what you did."

Different emotions passed through his eyes while we stood there in a stand-off that could end badly.

If he shot at Jasper, I was definitely going to shoot him. If Leah shot my sister, I would attack her and then Edward would attack me, and I would be forced to kill him in front of Leah if I hadn't already killed her.

Yeah, things could definitely go south in a split second.

"Get your gun off of him," I said to Charlie. He didn't so I shouted. "Lower your fucking weapon!"

"Are you on his side now, Honey Bee?" Charlie asked me.

"What side?" I mocked. "Don't you worry about what's important to me, Dad! You don't get to know shit about me anymore!"

He recoiled a little at my harsh tone. I wasn't the least bit sorry about it. Maybe in the future I would be, if I lived through this, but not now. I wanted Charlie to hurt the way he hurt me.

"You don't understand," he said, trying to get through to me. I knew what he thought. He thought I was in too deep, and I was putting my trust into the wrong set of people.

"I understand fine, Dad!"

I wasn't about to let him get to me. "I'm not going to let you in, Charlie. Not this time." I chuckled darkly. "I know what you're trying to do. I spent my life being manipulated by you. Not anymore."

We came to a decision the others didn't see coming as we stepped closer to one another. Our movement synchronizing. He trained me. He knew what I was capable of. I studied him and I knew what I was getting myself into. I was about to challenge a fucking dragon.

As Charlie and I walked briskly to each other, we both lowered our weapons and when we got close enough, I threw the first punch. It hurt like hell to swing at him so hard. My side felt like it was on fire.

His head flashed with the move and then he bounced back, backhanding me, sending me flying to the ground. Fuck! I forgot how strong my dad was. I wasn't going to take it though. When he approached, I kicked him in the stomach and when he doubled over, I landed a kick in his face, sending him flying to the ground, sprawled out on his back.

I could hear the others telling us to stop but we ignored them.

I jumped up and got on top of Charlie, flinching punches everywhere I could. "How could you do this to me? How could you lie to me like this? You motherfucker!" I screamed as I hurt him. He tried to block some of my moves but he couldn't block all of them.

"I love you, Bella," He told me, making me lose it for a moment. He took the opportunity to punch me in the face, splitting my lip. I fell off of him. It was my fault. I was losing because I was emotionally attached to my dad and deep down I knew I really didn't want to hurt him, but he had lied and he was still lying.

"Shut up!"

"You need to stop. You know I'll defend myself!" He warned as I got up, smiling at him manically.

"Of course you will," I taunted. "You have to protect yourself from Aro Volturi's daughter. I am my father's daughter, aren't I? I'm just as sadistic and murderous, aren't I? Aren't I, Charlie?!" I shouted. "You knew! You knew that bitch would run back to him!"

"Don't talk about your mother like that!"

Like I was going to listen to him. "Didn't I just tell you that you can't control me anymore?" I asked then continued. We circled each other. One waiting on the other to strike. "You knew she would want to be with him when she couldn't hack living like a good girl." I told him, and watched his face fall for a moment. "Yeah," I chuckled. "The truth hurts like a bitch, doesn't it?"

"Bella, you don't know…" He started.

"Oh shut up!" I interrupted. "Hell! Renee's fucked up dream was to be a mobster's wife! She wanted to be like Jasper's mom! Like Tanya Denali! And you used it. You found her when he dropped her again…" As I was saying it, I was imagining how Charlie found Renee, pregnant with me and how he hatched a plan that would destroy us all. How he would raise Aro's child as his own and then use me against the bastard."

Rosie's voice sounded through my rage. "That's not true, right, Dad?"

Charlie couldn't answer her and it made me see I wasn't just imagining what he had done, I was saying it for everyone to hear.

"I was the perfect pawn," I said with a smile. "And for what? You think I could march up to Aro and get him to care about me? Get him to tell me how much he loves his long lost daughter and take me in and then I would slit his throat in his sleep so you could feel vindicated about Renee's betrayal?" I didn't give him to answer. "I get it. The agency dropped her in your lap. Just like how I went in, ready to kill Jasper for what happened to Jamie, and then something happened. It's unexpected and totally fucked up, but we fell for the prey. In your case, you thought you could change her. I know I will never want Jasper to change."

"You're actually admitting you're with the man who murdered your brother?" Charlie said with a sneer.

"Yeah," I said with pride. "Because what you think means shit to me right now and I'm not about be anything you want me to be anymore. I'm done. I'm through with you."

I turned away from him, but I couldn't walk away without one final thing. I spun around and punched him right in the nose. We both heard a crack and I didn't give a shit.

My rage grew to even higher levels when I saw Alice exit the truck behind Emmett.

I took off before anyone could stop me. And I was on her before she could get away. I grabbed her by the hair as she tried to make her way around the truck and slammed her head down on the hood. I pulled her up and Rosie came around, trying to separate us. I dropped my sister and Emmett moved in to defend her, but I kicked him in the balls and then used my knee to slam him in the nose, sending him to the ground.

I punched Alice in her sides, dropping her to her knees. The expression kicking a man while he was down became literal as I literally beat Alice into the ground until I heard a gun cocked at my head.

"Let her go," Charlie said.

"You fucking her?" I turned to him and said. If he was going to shoot me, he had to look me in the eye while doing it.

He looked sadden by my crass remark. "No," he said gravely. "I'm not. She didn't deserve where you sent her. Carmen is a sick bitch."

"Exactly why I sent her there," I retorted. "She deserved it for betraying Jamie."

"I didn't betray him," Alice said in a weak voice.

"Don't speak to me," I said to her.

"I'm so sorry, Bella," she said. "I'm so sorry."

I looked at Dad, choosing to ignore the groveling bitch at my feet. "You made a deal with the Cortez's?"

"I got some help, yes." He admitted.

"And you couldn't think to get help for Jasper?"

He chuckled darkly. "You want me to save the guy that…"

"Tried to save your son!" I shouted. "Became Jamie's confidante when everyone else around him, failed him! You couldn't do that?" I was so fucking angry. "That's alright, Charlie. I'll do it myself."

"You wouldn't," Charlie said. "You go back with him, you die!"

"You keep talking that way about him, you die." Right then, Jasper threw his gun to me and I caught it and pointed at my so called father.

Charlie looked amazed at the move. "You chose him over family."

"I'm with him and I think I'm going to stick with the side of truth from now on."

I had nothing more to say and I wasn't going to waste anymore strength on Charlie.

"Bella, don't do this!" Rosie said. She had gotten to her feet. "Let's leave!"

I looked at my sister with a soft gaze. "I love you and you can go with him if you think you'll be safe. I want you safe. I don't want to lose you. Take Emmett with you and go."

I looked back at Charlie. "You and Alice can go fuck yourselves."

I turned away with Jasper, Edward and Leah following. I had busted two of Charlie's tires but I didn't care. He would find a way to get them out of there.

"Isabella, don't do this!" Charlie yelled to my back.

"You can go if you want," Jasper said beside me. I looked at him, seeing nothing but sincerity on his face. I really could walk away and he wouldn't stop me. I could escape it all. Right now.

I kissed him. "I'm not going anywhere. Let's go."

We got in our truck and left them there.