Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns Twilight and all recognizable characters and situations contained therein. All original content contained in this story is property of the author. Story is rated M and all chapters may contain graphic language, sexual content, violence, glorification of criminal behavior/activities, and mild drug use
A/N: This is going to be the last chapter of this story. Honestly, as much as I love this story, I've come to really dislike it. This story was never really meant to be what it became. It was a Bella story that became a Paul story, and then became an MC story, and even though I do know where each characters story is going I just can't put the same amount of feeling into it that I once did, but I don't want to pull this story, or leave it unfinished, so I'm just going to wrap it up. Think of it as a tv show that got cancelled but the network let us know so we could tie things up in the final episode. Thanks for understanding!
**Four years later**
Bella Dixon gets out of her empty bed, sighing as she greets another day, at least today is the last day she has to wake up alone. Today is the day that Paul and the rest of her boys come home.
She knows that she's lucky, the two years that they've been inside could have easily been twenty. She had her brother to thank for that. She thinks, 'God, my brother...', it still floored her that she had a brother. That Emmett McCartey was her brother. At the time that he first started prospecting The Pack he was also an undercover DEA agent.
The DEA wasn't really interested in The Pack, they were interested in their Mafia and Russian Mob connections, The Denali and The Volturi. The Pack was just a means to an end for them. Emmett liked the guys, he thought they were mostly decent people, but he was an officer of the law, and he was going to do what he had to do to get to The Denali, and The Volturi, because they were not good people, and they were not little fish.
If Bella hadn't had the accident Emmett would have chewed The Pack up and spit them out to get what he needed. About three months after Emmett became a prospect Bella was involved in a motorcycle accident. She was riding on the back of Jared's bike, he hadn't checked his tires in a while, so he didn't realize that the treads were almost worn down to the bare rubber. He hit a wet patch, the bike went into a skid, he fell and rolled out of the way, receiving almost no injuries, but Bella's leg was pinned under the bike. It was her good luck that an ambulance was coming up the road behind them and saw the whole thing.
They managed to get her out from the wreck, staunch the bleeding, and get her to the hospital. It was almost too late, they thought that she'd die, and that if she didn't die she would almost certainly lose her right leg, but God was looking out for Bella Swan that day. Jared called Paul immediately, the whole club descended on Forks General to wait with Charlie and Paul. They were told that they could help her by donating blood because she was going to need transfusions.
Sam ordered them all to donate, so they did. Bella was Type O negative with some sort of rare amount of antibodies, Charlie couldn't donate because of his having just gotten off Chemotherapy, and the doctors told them that there was not much of a chance of any of the rest of their blood being suitable. They were preparing to airlift her to a bigger hospital in Seattle when the tests came back. Not only was Emmett a match, he was a perfect match.
The doctors were angry, one of them snapped, "Your daughter's condition is very serious! Why didn't you tell us to test your son's blood first?"
Paul said to the Dr., "They're not related."
Charlie had looked hopeful, yet reserved, as he asked the doctor, "Why would you think he's my son?"
The doctor had explained, "Chief Swan, it's very rare for blood from different people to be this close a match and not be related. You, and your daughter, have a rare blood type, a rare amount of antibodies, and an even rarer chromosomal anomaly that though it doesn't affect you in any way definitely distinguishes your bloodline from that of others. Mr. McCarty has all three of the same blood properties. There is no way that he is not your son. Did you really not know? Any of you?"
Tears ran down Charlie's face, Emmett sat down in shock, mumbling, "I knew I had been born in this general area, I did a little bit of research, but I was only able to find out anything about my mother's side of the family, my father wasn't listed on my birth certificate, and all I could find out was that my mother had left the area, and my grandparents had passed away. I never thought…"
After that things moved very fast, they took more blood from Emmett, and they were able to not only save Bella's life, but she didn't even lose her leg. She was admitted to the hospital, Paul stayed with her, and Charlie and Emmett went back to Charlie's to talk.
Charlie told Emmett everything about Renee, himself, their relationship, and the circumstances that led to him being put up for adoption. He told him that he had never stopped hoping and praying that he had ended up with a loving family.
Emmett told him that he'd had a wonderful family, he had loved them very much, and they had loved him, but that unfortunately they had died in a car crash a few years prior
Bella recovered, she was floored to learn that Emmett was the brother that had been given up for adoption by their unfeeling maternal grandmother. The three of them became really close, and Emmett started to have a change of heart about what he was doing.
He knew that he had to come clean, that they might kill him, but he had to come clean or chance having to send his father and his sister to jail along with his new friends. It was the first time that he had admitted to himself that the other guys were his friends, that after he found his family he wasn't the same person anymore. He had ceased to function in his capacity as a DEA Agent.
He called a meeting, full pack, along with Charlie and Bella. He refused to go into the meeting room, so they had the meeting in the common area of The Den. He took his cut, and handed it to Sam, "Sam, I want to say thank you for the opportunity, but I can no longer be a prospect of Wolf Pack MC. I have something to tell all of you, and I need you to hear me out. Please."
The whispers began, but Sam wrapped his fist on the bar, and called for silence. Emmett has the floor, "I want you all to know that I consider you family, and friends, that being said, I haven't been honest with you about who I am. My name is Emmett McCartey, with an e between the t and the y, I am an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Agency of the Federal Government. I have a handler who I meet with on a bi-monthly basis that I pass along information to. I was sent here to do a job, I didn't expect that I would end up liking all of you. I'll tell you everything that I know, and I accept the fact that you may kill me afterwards. I had to come clean you guys. I was afraid of what I'd find out about Bella, and Charlie. I don't want them to end up in jail, I don't want any of you to wind up in jail, but you might, and it's my fault."
The Pack was floored. Jared and Embry were left to hold Emmett at gunpoint while the rest of them went into the meeting room to have a conference. At first Sam was so mad that he wanted to kill both Emmett and Charlie, he was convinced that Charlie had withheld Emmett's background on purpose. Brady admit that he'd had Deputy Jesse Collins run the due diligence on Emmett for him again even after Sam told him not to and that it had been clear so it wasn't Charlie's fault.
Paul felt betrayed, and worse, like a betrayer. He had sponsored Emmett for membership because of Emmett helping Bella. If not for him they wouldn't be in this predicament. He tried to turn his cut in, but Sam refused to take it.
The decision was made to end the club at least for the time being. Brady and Leah had just announced that Leah was pregnant a few days before, so quickly joy becomes sorrow. Sam still wanted blood from Emmett, and Emmett for his part wanted to give it to him.
It was decided that they'd give him what's called a jump in, the whole Pack would beat the shit out of him for a period of 5 minutes. Usually this method is used as a means of initiation into a gang. For Emmett, it would be his exit and his only chance to survive.
Charlie couldn't believe that his son was a DEA agent, it made him proud beyond belief on the one hand, but he was terrified for his son in law and the others, and also for himself. Bella was the one with forward thinking.
She really had the mind of a criminal, and it often spooked more than just Paul. The Queen was who they looked to for answers, and she had them. She told Emmett that he had one chance to make things right. She always knew what the guys were involving him in, as of then he never had any involvement with either The Denali or The Volturi, so really his investigation was a bust. She told him that he was going to leave this meeting, and go straight to his apartment and call his handler.
When his handler arrived he was to tell him that Wolf Pack MC was officially no more. The guys had all grown tired of the life, they wanted normalcy, and not to have to worry about what their wives, girlfriends, and families would do without them in the event that they got killed or arrested. She told him that if he still wanted to be who he was, an agent of the federal government, he would have to leave and never come back.
She and Charlie had been friends and family with various members of The Pack for years, they wouldn't betray them by siding with him. He had to choose. His career, or his blood. She told him they would obviously understand if he chose his career and if that was his choice he was welcome to leave La Push, and Forks, they wouldn't touch him, they'd let him go, but if he ever came back, she would put a bullet in his head herself. If, however, he chose family, he was to destroy any of the evidence he hadn't already turned in, close out his investigation, and turn in his letter of resignation to the DEA. If he did all that the guys would jump him in, and they would all move on together, he may even be able to prospect again when they put the club back together.
Bella had gotten to know Emmett pretty well, she knew that with him coming clean and blowing his cover it meant that he could never go back to the DEA and continue on. They'd find out, and he'd be ruined, and probably arrested. Family was his only choice.
Emmett, though shaken to find out just how cold his sister could be when it came to matters involving her family, and make no mistake The Pack was her family, knew he only had one choice. He chose blood.
He had never told his handlers or anyone else about finding out about his biological family so he didn't think that would come back on him. He told Bella that he would do as she advised, and that he loved her and Charlie. He went back to his apartment, packed up his stuff, and called his handler, DEA Agent Jimmy Brogue.
He set up a meeting with Brogue for the next day, and then went to great pains to eradicate the true records of his dealings with Wolf Pack MC and their organizations. He then went to even greater pains to fabricate the new records which showed nothing more than a biker gang with a propensity for helping cancer patients medicate, all of which is legal in Washington State.
The next day he handed in his books to Brogue, and told him that Wolf Pack MC had been disbanded. Brogue was pissed, he didn't understand how all their intel could have been so wrong. His only solace was at least they had enough to present to the district attorney to have the various members rounded up for attempted murder on Quil Ateara, and also on receipt of stolen property, destruction of evidence, and distribution of stolen property on the chop shop ring. State level charges, but charges none the less.
Emmett handed in his resignation to the DEA, he told them he'd had enough of the life, just wanted to settle down someplace quiet and live a normal, quiet existence. He was a battered and bloody groomsman at Bella and Paul's wedding two weeks afterwards.
It was bad luck that he happened to be at The Den when the swat team raided. He was brought in, and charged as a co-conspirator on every single count of The Pack's indictment. The DEA wasn't stupid, they knew what he'd done, they just couldn't prove it, and so he too managed to evade federal charges.
The case took a long time to resolve. By the end of it, even DEA had come to refer to Bella Dixon as The Pack Queen. Her father was never touched by anything involving The Pack legally, but he lost the respect of his constituents, and was forced to retire if he wanted to keep his pension and benefits. Bella Dixon was never formally charged with anything, but DEA still consider her a person of interest. They know who really ran the show in the end.
While Paul was in prison waiting on a bail hearing, Detective Ruiz took his opportunity, and broke into the Dixon home. He attempted to rape Bella, and she shot him once in the groin, and once in the face. She called 911 and cool as a cucumber told the dispatcher she just shot a man who broke in, and tried to rape her, in the face and dick. She never cried, and the officers who responded said she actually scared them a little bit she was so ethereally calm. She was never charged with anything because of Ruiz's well documented history of stalking and harassment.
DEA and the District Attorney attempted to have Jasper Whitlock disbarred for behavior unbecoming of an officer of the court. Whitlock beat it, he was after all a defense attorney and it was well known that almost all defense attorneys walked a fine line when it came to attorney/client privilege. He'd certainly not have been under any obligation to report his clients to any law enforcement organization, he didn't have anything to do with their business, he did not procure them anything that wasn't legal, and he was not their accountant and had nothing to do with their assets.
Whitlock beating the bar association hearing meant that he was able to represent The Pack as a whole at their hearings, it was what DEA had hoped to avoid. The man was a shark in cowboy boots, and he square danced around the worst of the accusations. McCartey had handed in a report while undercover that Seth Clearwater had admitted to him that the Pack were the ones who had beaten Colin and Quil Ateara.
Clearwater claimed that McCartey had misunderstood, that he said that he WISHED they had been the ones. After that it became a he said/he said and since McCartey refused to testify that was pretty much that.
Brady and Leah Uley had a baby girl who they named Susan Belle. Brady was thankful to be there for his daughter's birth, and the first year and a half of her life. He was there for her first words, her first step, and he counted his lucky stars for it. Paul and Bella had no children, once the guys got arrested Bella went back on the pill so that she wouldn't possibly get pregnant and then have Paul miss anything.
Whitlock worked a deal, and after two years out on bail the members of Wolf Pack MC turned themselves in to the Clallam Bay Corrections Center to begin serving their sentences. They were given 5 years with the possibility of time off for good behavior, so they stuck together, and were model prisoners, and they had gotten 3 years off their sentences.
Leah and Bella kept the legitimate businesses up and running, yes including the weed business, there were always guys on the res who wanted to help The Pack, even if The Pack was supposedly no more. Whether or not The Pack had ever truly called it quits was one thing, it didn't really matter now. Sam, Paul, Brady, Jake, Seth, Jared, Embry, and Emmett were all in prison for 2 years, and now they were coming home.
Bella meets Leah and Susie Belle at the supermarket at 7am, they have a lot to do. David River and Jesse Collins are the ones who have stepped in and helped the girls the most. Former Deputy Jesse Collins was now the head mechanic at Dixon/Black Auto, and David River was the foreman at Uley Construction. They made good money, and they knew where they stood, they never tried to change things or pull rank with the women, they knew without a doubt Bella Dixon and Leah Uley were the ones in charge. They also knew that they were banking good will with The Pack. Bella talked quietly and often about how The Pack would be whole again, and Sam, Paul, and Brady were really grateful to the two men for making sure that their day to day businesses were well taken care of.
Today they are pack mules. Leah and Bella are planning a huge welcome home bash, girls, booze, smoke, the whole nine. The men were coming home, and they were free. No parole, no probation, done.
They do a huge shop, divided into three carts, one for each of their houses, and one for The Den, and they get Jesse and David to take the stuff for The Den back while they situate things at their own houses. Jasper arranged for the men to be picked up by a van so they could all travel back to The Den together, they weren't scheduled to be released until late afternoon, it could be as late as 5 before they walked out the gates. So the girls have plenty of time to get things ready.
They cook nonstop, making all of the guys' favorite dishes and desserts, they send Jesse out to buy the booze, and David over to Billy's to get the smoke, and they wait. Susie Belle runs around, yelling, "My daddy's coming home! My daddy's coming home!"
The van that the guys are traveling in honks it's horn as it approaches the lot of Uley Construction. Bella hits the gate, and the girls run out the door. The van parks, the doors open, and Paul jumps out of the passenger seat. Bella runs to him jumping into his arms and kissing him passionately.
She pulls back looking at his face, he still looks the same, but somehow more dangerous. His arms tighten around her, her legs tighten around his waist, and she whispers, "I went off the pill once you guys went inside. There was no point in taking it anymore. Make me a baby."
He grins at her, and carries her into The Den, he sees everything spread out, and he knows there's time for celebrating with everyone later, right now all he wants to do is take Bella upstairs to what he is sure are the pristine rooms on the second floor, and give his wife what she wants. Two years without his queen is just too long.
**One year later**
Bella lifts her 3 month old son from his crib, Paul Dixon III was born at 8am on July tenth, nine months to the day after his father was released from prison. He was born with a head full of spiky ink black hair, green eyes, and looking exactly like his father, but with slightly lighter skin.
She carries him out to Paul who is seated in his recliner, and says, "Someone wants to see you daddy."
Paul grins at her, and gently eases both of them onto his lap, holding Bella, as she holds the baby, "There, that's just perfect."
A/N: And there you have it. I hope that wrapped everything up nicely.
