Bella, 2006

With Aro's words burned into my mind, I lost it and attacked him. Was he deranged? Did he actually think I would join forces with him? That I would want to take up a place by his side as his daughter and as a Volturi? I couldn't even pretend to be interested for the benefit of the moment. I just wanted to rip him to shreds.

I landed a solid kick to his chest, sending him and the chair he was tied to, flying back. He landed in a corner and I rushed over, ready to kill him.

In my rage, all I could picture was Jamie and how this insect took him from me. Now he wanted me to be a part of his twisted dynasty. With every hit I gave him, I could see Jamie in my mind being shot by Aro over and over again.

Being face-to-face with Aro had made things feel worse. Listening to him spew his nonsense about regaining the entitled power the Volturi once held made me sick to my stomach. I should be feeling that way from all the blood I have shed since this night began, but that shit didn't bother me as much as the deranged man who was my biological father and also my brother's killer.

How fucked up was my life? My real father killed my brother and I was here to kill him for killing my brother. I had promised to avenge Jamie's death and the night wouldn't pass without me doing so.

Everyone else in the room, Jasper, Aro himself, Rosie, and Jane were all unaware of the turmoil my mind was going through. It felt like it was about to explode while Aro talked about how unworthy Jasper's family was of what they had. And how happy he was that the power was being returned to the rightful owners. Him, and hopefully, me. The Volturis.

I wanted to laugh at him because he sounded like a whiny bitch with a grudge. And if I was so intent on ripping his face off, I probably would have laughed at the bastard.

Aro spat blood and then looked up at me with a dazed look on his face. Jane was trying to get away from Jasper, but I knew he wasn't letting her go anywhere as neither of them would be leaving here alive. Rosie was waiting on my next move.

I walked over to Aro. He had a sickening smile on his face. I dragged him up and held him by the collar of his shirt with one hand and punched the son of a bitch in the face with the other before hitting him in the gut. I made sure it hurt like a motherfucker too. I was giving it my all. But the dazed, deluded happy look on his face wasn't going away and that shit irked me so I continued to hit him.

And he let me.

A part of me was wondering why when he caught me off guard, surprising me with a knife and moved to stab me. I jumped away fast enough to only get a nasty slash on my side.

When Jasper, Jake and Rosie witnessed this, Jasper handed Jane off to them and rushed over to me and Aro, pushing me out of the way and attacking Aro like a wild animal. I noticed the look of satisfaction on the bastard's face. What was Aro up to?

Earlier that night

I picked Jake up and Rosie drove off. She would be replacing Jasper as Dad's partner as soon as she carried out the little surprise party for the goons waiting in the parking garage. I rode behind her truck, taking it slow. We were all in constant contact with each other, letting one another know what we were up to. I knew Jasper was freaked out by it since he was used to leading not following, but he had to oblige so he could make it out of this alive. His deal was a complicated one with Dad's bosses.

Mine was no walk in the park either. With all the laws I have broken since the start of this fiasco, if I wanted my own deal with them to work, I had to make sure Jasper made it out alive.

He wasn't the only one with penitence to pay. And mine wasn't even completely my fault. I was just a pawn in a bigger game. But if you were the government, would you trust the bad guy's kid? Especially one as lethal as me?

I was what my new handler and Charlie and Rosie's supervisor CIA Director Demetri Collins, called a lethal weapon. I was to be kept close, and unleashed when necessary but never fully trusted.

According to him, as soon as I completed my mission and reveal all that needed to be uncovered as well as bring in Jasper Whitlock alive, I would officially become a CIA agent. One of those special agents you call upon when you wanted something to be done discreetly and efficiently without making too much noise or causing too much ramification.

In other words, I would be a killer. Just like I have always been. He didn't state how long I would be on this assignment for and not even my dad or my sister knew the details. They just got wind that Collins and I had spoken. I knew I had to tell them. But I had yet to.

If I made it out of this alive, I would and be ready for the war Dad was going to unleash on me for making the deal with his boss.

Rosie was coming up on Jasper's building. I knew he and Dad were in place. I stopped the bike.

"Ready?" Jake asked in an almost giddy voice. I swore the punk lived for the excitement.

"Are you?" I threw back at him. I didn't even have to ask. I knew he was. Jake was a good soldier. He would help me rip through these idiots like a hot knife through butter.

Jake was an ex-Marine and too damn good at killing. Dad got him out of the army after a bad injury, but while he was home, he couldn't sit still and found himself getting into a lot of trouble. Dad considered all of us family because he and Jake's dad were army buddies and good friends, although both men were on the opposite side of the law. Jake's dad ran a very powerful gang right off the Indian reservation in Forks. It was a family inheritance you could say, dating back to Billy Black's grandfather. But the men remained friends even though Dad was in the CIA. To me, information and want of connections kept the handcuffs off of Billy Black most of the time.

Billy wanted Jake in the business but he wasn't fully committed. So Dad stepped in and pulled a couple major strings and got Jake into the CIA with him and Rosie.

Jake was like a brother to me. I was taking a risk having him back me up right now, but he wasn't about to leave me stranded. I know him.

Rosie stopped directly in front of the entrance and I leaned forward on the bike, revving it. I was ready to go. She fired her rocket launcher and I watched her 'gift' light up the parking garage.

Jake howled in excitement behind me and I rode off. I closed off my senses as we rode in. Jake jumped off the back of the bike and I drove it into some idiots who weren't on fire. Jake was putting screaming motherfuckers out of their misery while I got my guns out and didn't stop firing and reloading and firing again until Jake and I were in the elevator.

"Did you see those guys flying away?" He was always giddy in a gunfight. The smile on his face was distracting. His pearly white teeth were shining to a little too brightly for me.

"Would you quit smiling?" I rebuked while readying myself for the next round of assault we would encounter once the elevator stopped on Jasper's floor. I had a feeling the rest of the party was waiting there. This wasn't the end. Aro was smart. There had to be more but I was showing him I wasn't afraid of his fake army filled with nothing but power hungry traitors and murderous psychos. There were just two of us in the building and some many men were dead already. I was not to be messed with.

"Why shouldn't I be happy, Bells?" Jake said, using his nickname for me. He has been calling me that since we were kids. He said my laughter sounded like bells. I didn't get it. I wasn't a happy kid. But Jake could always find happiness in the silliest things so I went with it. His positivity was that infectious. "We're getting rid of bad guys! Now, didn't you see those bodies going flying around us?"

"Yeah. I saw it." I said dryly. I was watching the numbers count up to Jasper's penthouse. We were getting closer. Jake reloaded his weapons and we checked the bulletproof vests we were wearing. We were good.

"It wasn't Rosie." He stated. Jasper was a damn good shot. I was impressed how he sent those guys flying before they could shoot Jake or me.

"No. It was Jasper."

"I'm not going to ask why he's good with a sniper," Jake decided.

Duh! He was an arms dealer. I think he would know a thing or two about weapons. "It's better not to." I agreed.

The final ding came and the doors began to open. Jake and I moved to opposite ends of the elevator. He got down and I jumped up, holding onto the panels of the roof like a spider. I had scoped out this elevator on more than one occasion while being here with Jasper to know where all of the good hiding spots were for a small person like me.

As anticipated, a barrage of gunshots was fired into the small space. I wasn't about to let them get Jake, so I ripped off a grenade I had on my vest, removed the key and threw that shit out there on them. It went off and Jake and I exited the elevator guns blazing.

We would be joined by reinforcement soon. Dad's team was on the way and Jasper would be joining me shortly. I was here to kill Vladimir Chekov. He wasn't needed. Aro and Jane were to be kept alive, probably for Intel but Jasper and I weren't about to let that happen. We had other plans for them.

Dad and Rosie were taking out any added competition heading up to the penthouse. But Rosie's .50 caliber sniper wouldn't be able reach inside of Jasper's penthouse. The building they were in, across from this one, wasn't high enough for her to fire direct shots into the place.

It was a pity. It would make things easier.

I leapt on Jake in one move taking him down with me to save him getting shot and the bullets flew past us, lodging into the wall. One of those shots would have hit him in the head if I hadn't acted. And I wasn't about to lose him to one of these bastards.

"Fox One, we're taking a lot of heat!" I said into my earpiece. "Need those reinforcements!"

"On the way, Honey Bee!" Jasper replied for Dad.

"Copy, Honey Bee?" Dad asked.

"I hear you both!" I answered before returning fire.

It was hard to get through the men but Jake and I were taking down as many of them as we could. Some were injured, but most were dead. The heat was getting heavier. We needed that help now if we wanted to get to Aro who I was sure was holed up inside Jasper's place somewhere.

Jake and I made it inside the foyer of the penthouse. We were making a move to go further in with Jake leading the way, when I got pounced on from behind by one of Aro or Vladimir's goons. He yanked me back and slammed me into the wall opposite him. I swiftly dodged his fist as it went flying past my face and into the wall.

I was about to retaliate when he was shot in the head and his limp body slid to the floor in front of me to reveal Jasper standing there with his gun smoking.

I sighed in relief, but I could really kiss him right now for showing up when he did. It meant Jake and mine's reinforcement had arrived. Both Dad's team and Jasper were here. Although Jasper was here for an entirely different reason from Dad's team.

Jasper's reason was the same as mine. Weed out Aro Volturi and kill the bastard for what he had done to us. There would be no plea deals or special treatment in exchange for information for that motherfucker. He was going straight to hell.

Jasper pulled me up from the ground, slamming my body into his. "Glad I'm here?" he asked with a suggestive smirk.

I rolled my eyes at the moment he had chosen to flirt with me, although I admired the bravado of it, but I pushed him away nonetheless. "Yeah," I said, rolling my eyes and then cocking my gun, signaling that I was ready to get back into the action. "Fucking ecstatic."

Jasper chuckled.

We found our way to Jake, and together, we all edged our way further into Jasper's penthouse. Watching him in action as he took down those who betrayed him was a sight to behold. But this was no time to think about how hot it was watching him become this monster on a mission right in front of me.

Jake and some other team members had branched off taking down henchmen as they go further into the place. Everything in sight was riddled with bullets.

Vladimir Chekov was in my line of sight.

Perfect.

"Fox One, got a target on lock," I said to Dad.

"Check," he replied. "Identify."

"Vladimir."

Dad didn't even hesitate. "Take the shot."

I smiled.

Vladimir was in the open. I knew he was fair game for anyone on Dad's team, myself included, and even Jasper but they were all holding fire. They barked at him to drop his weapon and show his hands, but he wasn't complying. Vladimir was protesting and cursing us. He called us every colorful name in the book that he could think of. And the motherfucker didn't stutter until I made my presence known.

"Fuck you pigs!" He shouted as I stood and walked out of my hiding place with Jasper standing behind me.

Vladimir stuttered and shut up for a second before turning his tirade on Jasper. Leaving the rest of us in the room forgotten as he focused on the only Whitlock he thought was still breathing.

"You traitor!" He sneered at Jasper.

He had his gun in his hand by his side and I was watching him closely. I was going to kill him but I was allowing Jasper to have a second to say whatever he wanted to this bastard. But if Vladimir moved that gun an inch higher in Jasper or any of my dad's team's direction, I was going to blow him away.

"You murderer!" Jasper growled back. I knew he was talking about his father. Vladimir's son and enforcer, Sergei, would not have made a move on Nicky Whitlock without his father's knowledge.

"We will win this," Vladimir said like a promise to Jasper.

Jasper scoffed at him. "Is that what Aro told you?"

"Even if I die…" Vladimir spat with a hiss in our direction. "The Chekovs will win. See you in hell!"

He raised his gun in Jasper's direction and no one waited. We all fired at him. Vladimir Chekov went down.

"It's almost over," Jasper and I nodded.

Aro was next.

When the smoke cleared, I was disappointed and pissed off. Aro and Jane weren't here, and I was sure the fucker would be.

Jasper and I left the scene in his former home and went downstairs because Rosie said Banner was heading to Jasper's building with scores of FBI agents which further pissed me off. I wasn't ready to take Jasper in yet. We had to find Aro and Jane first. I wanted to give him the satisfaction of ridding the world of that bastard along with me.

We made it downstairs and so far, so good. FBI was on the way, but they weren't here yet. It was Dad's guys, and the local police. The couple of cops who were here were so afraid of Jasper, he just walked right by them. They didn't even attempt to talk to him. The other suits were from the CIA. A few nodded at me as I passed and I knew they were on the orders of Dad's boss, Demetri Collins.

I knew they were keeping an eye on me. They had to make sure I didn't take Jasper and run.

As part of my deal with Mr. Demetri Collins, or Mr. D as I would call him from now on, I had to personally turn Jasper in. I guess Mr. D wanted to remind me which side of the law I was supposed to be on. So I had to arrest Jasper myself.

Jasper would have to do time in prison if he wanted to continue to protect what was left of his family. And if I wanted to protect him, I had to work for Dad's boss on a special ops team for a while after this assignment was over.

"The FBI is coming," Jasper said, making it painfully aware to me. "I'll have to go with them."

I didn't answer him right away because I spotted Jake. He was beckoning me over to a black GMC SUV he was standing next to.

"Not yet," I said to Jasper, grabbing his hand and dragging him along.

"Where are we going?"

I didn't answer. I just kept pulling him behind me like an insolent child.

When we got up to Jake, I noticed the toothy grin on his face and knew it couldn't be good.

"What did you do?"

It was the only thing I could say since I knew Jake was a troublemaker.

"I got you two a present," Jake said, smiling at us both. "Come on, hop in."

He jumped in the driver's seat with a shit eating grin on his face.

"What the hell?" Jasper asked while Jake watched us. "Are we going somewhere? Bella, you know how things are supposed to go down for me. I'm supposed to…"

I didn't let him finish. "Get in." I told him, pushing him toward the passenger side of the truck. "I trust Jake and you will learn to too. Get in."

Jasper went to the front seat and I opened the back door ready to climb in when I saw something that made my heart both swell with joy and rage.

Aro and Jane were tied up and gagged and in the backseat. Both of them looked at me. Aro looked pleased and Jane looked worried.

I chuckled and jumped in, slamming the door shut just as Dad said in my earpiece, "Like my present, Honey Bee?"

"Very much, Fox One. Very much." I smiled.

Jake drove off, passing the FBI marked SUVs that had just pulled up outside of Jasper's building. I spotted Banner climbing out of the one in front and I laughed now as we drove by with his real boss, Aro, bound and gagged beside me.

Banner was no doubt here to put on a show about taking down powerful criminals when the slimy bastard was one himself.

Jane was making muffled noises and trying to pull against her binds. It was no use. Jake was too good at bounding things. I swore the guy had a knack for bondage.

I gave her an evil grin and she settled down. A motorcycle started to follow us and I knew who it was.

Jane tried mumbling through her gag to get my attention. Jasper's face was stone cold in the front seat and Jake looked like he was ready for the party to begin. I didn't even bother to look Jane's direction as Jake drove. I just looked out the window.

This was my show now and let's see how much Aro was going to like being face-to-face with his wicked creation.