Chapter 52: Deception

A/N: Look guys I am so sorry that it took me so long to write this chapter, I could give you a laundry list of reasons; work, personal issues and what not but the truth is that you guys deserve better than that and I will finish this story.

Chris' POV

I jumped out of the bed and grabbed the phone from Emmett

"Mom?" I asked into the receiver

"Hi son," I heard her say into the phone

I sighed, for the first time in over a year I felt relief for the first time

"When am I going to see you?" I asked

"Well I just wanted to put all of my stuff at the house and maybe grab something to eat; but I promise you that we're gonna be leaving in a little bit and we'll be there as soon as we can there is a lot we as a family have to talk about," she answered

"Okay mom, I love you," I told her

"I love you too son can I speak to my daughters?" she asked with a chuckle

"Of course, I can't wait to see you," I said to her

"Me too," she said and with that I passed the phone to Gabby and who was giddy to say the least

"Hi mommy," she said

I walked out with Emmett leaving them talk in private; I mean we could hear what they were saying but we just wanted to be respectful or at least that's what Emmett told me as we walked down the stairs.

I walked outside and I saw Bianca out on the lawn with Kate and Rose; she looked over my way and smiled, I signaled her over and she was on the patio with me in a few seconds. She had a weird smile on her face; I guess she was still getting use to the speed that we had.

"What's up?" she asked with a smile

"Mom's back," I said as I turned to face her

She started jumping up and down and hugged me with all she had

"When are we gonna see her?" she asked as she let me go

"They're on their way here but Mom needed to drop by the house and grab something to eat," I said

I raised my hand all the way up and she slapped it; I heard the door open and Gabby came out. She was still talking to mom; she looked over at me and smiled. I winked at her.

"Hey mom I love you and I can't wait to see you; I'm gonna pass it over to Bee," she said

She passed Bianca the phone and walked over to where I was and wrapped her arms around my waist

"Mommy?" asked Bianca

Mom answered and I saw the same looked that I knew I had when she answered that it really was her and that she was finally home.

"How are you feeling?" asked Gabby as she brought me back to reality

"I'm happy," I said with a content sigh

"Good cause I am too," she answered

"So are they on their way?" I asked

"Yeah but you know food and home then here but she also said that she needed to talk to Carlisle," she said

I nodded and wrapped my arms tighter around her

We would just have to wait till we saw her

Carlisle's POV

"When was she turned?" asked Leah as soon as she got off of the phone

"Its been 10 months or so," I answered by doing the math in my head

"Damn it Carlisle," groaned Leah

I was confused, what did Bianca's new born status have to do with anything other than her being turn.

"I'm a little confused Leah," I said

"Carlisle did you really think that we were going to stand by and doing nothing?" she asked me like I was a small child

What was she talking about? Was she talking about Jeremiah being in Japan or was it something else, I figured that it had to do with Jeremiah but what was Bianca's role in all of this I asked myself

"But Jeremiah said that this is what he wanted; that he was doing this so that the loss of life would have been kept to a limit," I answered

"We had to do that and when Jerry wrote you that letter we were still in the midst of getting the plan together," she answered

"So there is a plan?" I asked

"Of course there is a plan, where did you think that the cure came from?" she asked

"That was apart of the plan?" I asked

"Of course, I mean Jerry would have found a way to cure them regardless of the fact that we were planning something well I mean he didn't really cure them but because of what they can do we needed to make sure that we had them patched up," she answered

"I just don't understand why you didn't tell us any of this Leah," said Jacob in the sternest tone he could muster

"Because we didn't want any of you to be in any unnecessary danger, had I told any of you about what was really going on they would have found out and they would have punished me and Jerry for even thinking about it, trust me a guy like Tai wouldn't even hesitate about killing you guys to hurt us," said Leah as she began to tear up

Jacob sighed and went over to her and hugged her

"You're like my brother Jake and if anything were to happen to you I would just die," she said into his chest

"Its okay Leah I understand why you did it that doesn't mean I like what you did but I will always trust your judgment," he said as he tried to comfort her

"Okay what else?" I asked trying change the subject so that Leah would not be upset anymore

"Well the whole idea was that Bianca was going to be pass the newborn stage when I came back so that she could aid in the attack. There was also a few other aspects to this and that is what we have been working on," she answered as she removed her head from Jacob's chest and wiped her tear ducts

"Such as?" I asked

"Its pretty complex and it took a year to get it done; I prefer not to get into all of it now because I just want to see my kids," she said

I nodded

"When are we going to attack?" I asked

"As soon as I get the signal from Jerry, we have a bomber gassed and ready to go, its stashed in an abandoned section of SEATEC," she answered

"So it was all an act?" I asked

"Not all of it, but when I saw the look on Jerry's face when Tai made the threat to kill Chris I knew that the gears were turning in his head and that he was coming up with a plan to kill Tai and to make him pay for him fucking with this family. At first he didn't really know that I knew what he was doing but he saw the look on my face when I told him that I was going to stay in Japan with him and I knew we were in this together," she said

"I just don't know how you could have pulled this off, I mean wouldn't Tai catch on. Wouldn't we have read the letter that he sent me?" I asked

"Of course he did, but Tai being the arrogant guy that he is just dismissed it. He said that even if Jerry was able to cure them that it wouldn't make much of a difference. Tai played right into our hands, he was too full of himself he thought that whatever we threw at him that it would just bounce right off of him and in the end he would come out on top. We used that against him so when we put together the basics of the plan we started taking piece by piece until where all Jerry has to do is make a phone call and we end him," she said with a grin

"What do you end him?" I asked him

"I mean where does one go when they don't have anything left?" she asked me

I raised an eyebrow and I looked over at Jacob who had the same expression on his face that I knew I had on my own

Her phone started to go off, she grabbed it from her pocket and saw who it was on the caller I.D. Her smile was unnaturally big which meant that it was Jeremiah.

"Hi handsome," she said into the receiver

"Hey gorgeous, are you settling in well? How are my children?" he asked

"Yeah a bit of jet lag but I'll be okay, and the kids are great I'm gonna see them in a bit" Leah answered

"Well that's great but maybe you should get some rest before you see them because this world brings so much uncertainty," he answered

"Well that's true for anyone of us," she said with a smile as she looked up at me and our eyes met. I was utterly confused, was this a normal conversation that they were having or was this a conversation done in code

"Yeah but for you and me tomorrow will always be certain," he said

"I love you more than life itself," she responded

"To me you are my life," he retorted

"I'll see when I see you," she said

"I see you whenever I close my eyes," he said and then I heard the dial tone

Leah put her phone back into her jeans and looked back at me

"Get everyone together we leave tonight," she ordered

"What just happened?" I asked

"That phone call was his way of letting me know that the plan is in motion and that we will have to be there by tomorrow," she answered

"How do you know?" I asked

"Because he said that tomorrow is never certain and I said that it isn't for any of us to which he answered tomorrow is certain for me and him. See the big key was him saying tomorrow he could have said 2 days from now or even 6 months from now but he said tomorrow is always certain. I know it doesn't make much sense but you have to understand that, that is the point its meant to throw everyone off so that only me and him would understand it and that anyone would just think that it was a conversation that any couple in love would be having," she said

I just nodded, not really sure what to make of everything that she was saying but going along with it so that this would be all over and we would go back to the peace that for 15 years we had.

Leah took out her phone again and called someone

"Emmett?" she asked

After a second she spoke again

"We got a change of plan, how fast can you guys get to Seattle?" she asked

After another second came another response

"Good get everyone and meet us at SEATEC, we got a plane to catch," she said then she walked away

I looked at Jacob and sighed, I knew where he was going he was going to tell Nessie that we were leaving and could all possibly die

Chris' POV

"What do you mean we have to meet my mom at SEATEC?" I asked again

"Your mom and dad have a plan," he said to me

"I KNEW IT," I screamed

"Dude calm down," said Emmett

"I knew my dad wasn't going to go down without a fight," I said with all the pride I could muster in my voice

"What's going on?" asked Rose as she came in from the backyard with Bianca and Gabby behind her

"We're going after Tai," I said

They all looked at me confused

"Jeremiah and Leah have been plotting to take him out for almost a year that why they had been able to come up with a cure for what happened to Ali, Jazz and Bells," answered Emmett

I looked over and saw all the happiness in the world written all over the faces of Gabby and Bianca.

"Okay when does it happen?" asked Rose

"Well we need to leave now because we need to meet everyone at SEATEC," answered Emmett

"That'll take a good four or five hours to get there," said Rose with a lot of agitation in her voice

"It doesn't matter how long it takes us as long as we get our dad back," said Bianca

I looked over at Gabby and she nodded

"It looks likes you're gonna get outvoted four to one Rosie," said Emmett

"Fine whatever," said Rose as she walked outside and began to run

I laugh and turned off the kitchen light and followed the rest of them out of the house, no need to rack up a large light bill while we were gone. Me and Gabby shifted and began running after the rest of them but not before grabbing her clothes, I mean she wasn't going to have any clothes during the flight and I really don't want my girlfriend walking around naked.

We crossed the U.S-Canadian boarder a few hours later and less than an hour later we got to SEATEC. I caught the scent of several vamps and wolves and I knew that they were already here. We followed the scents till we got to a hanger that was a bit off of the beaten path. It was boarded up with a lot of pile wood and had caution tape everywhere. I opened the door that was the side of the building and the first thing that caught my eye was the sight of my mother and I shifted back and ran to her. She was standing next to Jake who had a smile on his face as he saw me looking at my mom for the first time in a year.

"I'm glad that you decided to wear clothes that doesn't rip when you stretch it," she said as I hugged her

"Yeah that would be really embarrassing if I did," I said with a chuckle

I let go of her and I heard her gasp

"Well aren't you two the most beautiful daughters any mother could ever possibly have," she said to Gabby and Bianca

I moved out of the way so that they could go to her, she hugged them both; if Bianca could cry she would have been balling.

"Gabriella you are getting more and more beautiful each day," she said as she cupped her cheek

I saw the blush on Gabby's face become an unnatural color, Mom just smiled; she always knew the perfect thing to say to make us feel better

"And Bianca damn well aren't you the most prettiest vampire I have ever seen," she said to her

"Mom," Bianca groaned

"Well its true and never let anyone tell you any differently. Well now that we have had this family reunion lets get on the damn plane and lets go get your father," she ordered

"Wait, have you talked to Grandma yet?" I asked

She shook her head

"I'll see her when we get back," she said and she turned around about to get on the plane

"But isn't she going to be pissed at the fact that you didn't tell her that you got back?" I asked the back of her head

"Look I'll deal with that when it comes but right now I cant be thinking about that," she said as she stopped in her tracks

"Mom you didn't see the look on her face when she was about what you guys agreed to, I didn't she cried for hours on end. Grandpa Charlie didn't know what to do when her saw her that way. He said that was the second time her ever saw her that way but when I asked when that was he didn't answer hell he couldn't even look me in the eye so I know it was bad and I even saw a tear coming out of his and you know Grandpa Charlie never cries," I told her

I didn't want to make her feel bad but the truth was that she needed to know what being gone for a year did to us. Grandma for weeks begged us to go get her but we couldn't because Dad made it clear that he was going to do this so that we didn't get hurt and now it comes out that it was all apart of his plan to bring down this guy from the inside Mom had to know that people suffered because of what she did and she would have to answer for that.

"And what about the rest of the pack? What about Uncle Seth and Embry and even Sam and the other pack where do they all fit into this?" I asked driving the nail even further into the coffin

"I know that I hurt a lot of people but you have to understand that I did it because in the end if I didn't a lot of people would have died and I couldn't stand by and do nothing, neither could your Father. If people hate us for that well then we will just have to accept that because honestly I would rather my Mother, your Grandmother hate me and then be dead. I promise you Chris that when we get back I'll talk to her and explain everything to her and as for Seth and Embry and hell even Sam they will understand why we did this and even if they hate me I will have to live with that too but for right now I need you to get your head in the game and worry about what you need to do and surviving past this then we will deal with the black lash, okay?" she asked as she turned back around and looked at me right in the eye

I stood there for a minute taking everything that she just told me, she was right Dad would want me to worry about the mission and put the rest of it in the back of my head and deal with when we had to.

I nodded and followed her as she got on the plane

The only one who was a struggle to onto the plane was Rosalie who obviously didn't like being ordered around. But one look from Esme and she was on the plane and sitting in the front. We took off 20 minutes later and I went to sleep, I had one lingering question, who was flying the plane? But honestly I was too tired to really give a shit about it.

"Wake up," I heard someone say

I groaned and let my body wake itself up; I felt my eyelids start to flutter and finally I opened them; I was looking up so I saw the ceiling of the plane, it was just a bunch of metal that outline the inside of the plane. I felt some pressure on my side so I turned to see it; Gabby was on my side with her arm draped over my stomach. I heard someone chuckle so I slightly moved to see the person that was chuckling at me. I saw everyone looking at us.

"Wow was it really that boring that you guys have spent the whole time watching us sleep?" I asked

"Pretty much," said Bianca

I just shook my head, and leaned in to whisper into Gabby's ear

"Baby its time to wake up," I said to her

She groaned

"Five more minutes mom," she said

I laughed and that caused her to shoot up and open her eyes; she slapped my shoulder

"What was that for?" I asked as I rubbed my arm

"For laughing at me," she said with a smile then leaned in and gave me a good morning kiss

"Are we almost there?" she asked me

I shrugged

She looked over at my mom

"In about half an hour," she answered

"Well there you have it," I said to her

She cracked her neck and got up and stretched before going to sit next to Mom and laying her head on her shoulder. I stayed on the floor but moved back so that my back was against the wall of the plane and put my knees up to my chest. I felt a movement on my side and I saw Carlisle sitting next to me.

"Hello Carlisle," I said as I continued looking forward

"Chris, I think I should be apologizing to you for how I have treated you over the last year," he said

I sighed

"Look man you have always done right by me and my family and trust me when I say that had I been in your position I probably would have reacted the same way. I'm a kid not even 18 yet you are several centuries old. I don't know my first reaction was to kill him; right or wrong that's what it was and I am not going to apologize and neither should you. It was an emotional time for the both of us and I don't think that it would be fair to say that one of us was wrong and the other is right. You're a pacifist by nature Carlisle and that's a good thing, you're this family's version of Gandhi, me well I'm Sid Vicious and she over there is my Nancy," I said as I winked at Gabby. She grinned and blushed, which of course made me smile

"Wait didn't Sid kill Nancy?" asked Emmett

"Allegedly," I said with quotation marks

"And didn't he die of a Heroin overdose?" he asked

"Well yeah," I answered as I scratched my head

He looked at me with utter confusion and then shook it off and went back to talking to Rosalie. I felt Gabby move to my side and leaned into me

"Well I thought it was a cute compliment," she said as she kissed my cheek

"See well at least someone gets me," I said to her

"I'll always get you," she answered as she snuggled into me

I looked down at my watch and saw that it was early in the morning; I had gotten one of those watches that adjusted to whatever time zone you were in. It also had a Velcro strap so I could adjust whenever I shifted and not worry about ruining the damn thing. I mean it was a pretty cool watch. Each one of us was off in our little own worlds. I think we had to be, there were so many unknowns, we were essentially going into this blind. Dad was kind of the glue that held us together when it came to situations like this. I mean he was the one who called the shots; he always had a strategy to go about this and maybe he did. Maybe when we got there all of them would have been ashed and we would be there as a clean up crew hell I could live with that, I would love that because it would be the best possible case, no one I loved would be in danger and my Dad would be kicking some ass. But the best laid plans and what not, you know?

I just sat there with Gabby's head on my shoulder getting myself ready to fight anyone that got in my way.

"Okay this is the way its going to go down," said my mom when we got out of the airport

She turned to Me and Gabby and looked at us in the eye

"You two are going to go get your father, I would myself but I have something that needs to be done," she said

I nodded

"Alright mom but where is he going to be?" I asked

"Between the 45th and 50th floors can't be sure for certain that was were he spent most of his time," she said

I nodded, I guess we just needed to follow his scent

"Jasper, Emmett and Bella I need the three of you to go with me," said Mom

"What are we going to do?" asked Bella

"We have to take out their weapons depot," she answered

Jasper looked at Emmett and Bells and nodded

"What about us?" asked Alice

Mom turned to the rest of them

"I need you guys to take out as many of them as possible; it shouldn't take long for Gabby and Chris to get to Jerry and soon as they do they will meet up with the rest of you and from there Jerry will take over and tell each of you what you need to do," she said

Everyone nodded, it was a decent plan and I could tell that Dad had his fingerprints all over it

"So you guys will go in first get all the attention on yourselves then Gabby and Chris will head in next and we'll be the last ones in. The less amount of time that we have to deal with the weapons the more time that we have to help you guys out," finished Mom

"And how are going to do that?" asked Emmett

"Blow it up," said Mom as she pressed the bottom for the stoplight

No one said a thing, hell no one had to; she had a point, we had gone over this before the only way to destroy these weapons were to burn them down and a bomb or anything close to it would cause a fire and that would lead them being burned to a crisp.

We continued walking till we got to a structure I didn't know a lick of Japanese so I couldn't read what the sign said. We went up a couple of levels and stopped when we reached 2 large black SUV's

"Alright just follow me," said Mom as she tossed me a pair of keys and some cash. It was an overcast down which was definitely a good thing and we would definitely go unnoticed

I nodded and got into the driver seat; Gabby, Bianca, Jake, Nessie, Emmett and Rosalie drove with me.

I did as Mom told me and I followed her, it was difficult driving around with all the traffic and people walking around but eventually we got there sometime later. Well we didn't actually get there because we ended up pulling into a parking structure about a block away.

The three groups split up as we got closer to the building; the largest group went in first and began fighting the obviously not human guards. I looked at my mom who nodded and then I looked over at Gabby who I knew from the look on her face that she was ready. I shifted and she leaped on my back and ran into the building, everyone was doing a good job of distracting everyone because no one even looked in our direction. We got in the elevator and Gabby hopped off; she took her backpack off and began taking her clothes off.

"Its not like you haven't seen any of this before," she said as she was taking her jeans off

"Yeah but I like to appreciate it every time that I do because well this could be my last time," I said to her

She walked over to me and wrapped her arms around my waist

"Well if this the last time that we get a chance like this then we better make sure that it was well worth it," she said as she put her lips on mine

As I took my lips off of hers I still had my eyes closed so that I could happily burn this image into my brain.

"Marry me," I said to her; I didn't know why I said in that moment but I knew that I didn't regret it and that I was following my heart. Dad would have been proud of me in that moment

My eyes were still closed but I could still see the shock on her, I opened them and saw that I was right

"Marry me," I said again

She hit me

"Hey what was that for?" I asked I rubbed my arm

"You pick now to start making jokes, we might die and I'm naked and you jokingly ask me to marry you, its not funny Chris," she scolded me

"I wasn't joking, I'm serious I want you to marry me," I said as I cupped her cheeks

She started blinking wildly, maybe she thought she was dreaming but this was not a dream and I was being very serious

"Why?" she asked

"Because I love you with all my heart and if I should die today I will die happily cause I would know that you were going to be my wife," I told her truthfully

She began to cry, I looked up and saw that we were getting closer to the 45th floor

"Yes, I will marry you," she said

I smiled and I hugged and kissed her

"Okay now that we have that all settled you have to change because we are about to reach the 45th floor," I told her

She smiled at me again and then moved back and shifted; I picked up Gabby's backpack and put it on. The ding came and I looked over at Gabby and mouthed, "I love you" to her and she winked and we proceed to look for my Dad.

The 45th floor was a failure, there was trace of him there; the same went for floors 46 and 47. I stopped and I looked at Gabby, I didn't really notice to till now how strange it looked having a wolf running through the floors of a skyscraper. Hell it must have been even stranger to have what I was running through this building; in reality this whole thing must have looked really strange.

"I think I thought you to always be alert in any situation," I heard someone say

I turned around and saw that my Dad was leaning against the side of the wall, I run to him and I hugged him with all I had

"Alright, alright," he said with a chuckle as I put him down

"I missed you Dad," I told him

"Missed you too kiddo," he said to me as he put his hand on my shoulder, he looked over at Gabby and smiled

"Aren't you going to give your Dad a hug," he said to her

She smiled and then ran to him and tackled him to the ground and began licking him

"Okay, now that we have that out of the way; can we please go kill this guy and go home," I said

Dad looked up at me, I knew he was studying me in that moment and then nodded; Gabby backed off and let my Dad get up

"Lets go," he said and we followed him; it took a few minutes but we got to a door that looked like led to a boardroom. This building looked different that it did more than a year ago.

Dad calmly opened the door and I saw Tai seated at the head of the table with his second in command seated at the right of him and the bitch that had the power that fucked us over last time was to his left.

"Jeremiah what is all of this," said Tai, I swear that even though most of his men were getting ashed that he seemed like he was having fun with all of this

"You could call it my resignation," Dad said with a chuckle

"Oh I'm sorry to hear that but it wont be happening," he said with a smile. He then looked over at the woman and I knew that in a second or two I would be on the floor withering in pain. I saw out of the corner of my eye that my Dad was gone and then the next thing I knew he was right in front of her and he was ripping out her throat and was chuckling it out the window. The look on Tai's face was priceless he was completely lost for words and he knew that he was in some deep shit, Dad then spinned and kicked her right in the stomach and that sent her flying into the wall and well then through the wall and into the next few rooms. Dad looked to his left and was starring at Tai.

"Did you really think that was going to work twice?" he asked

Tai didn't even say anything, he just over at his second in command and I guess he was waiting for him to do something, anything in order to maybe stop my Dad but he just sat there. Dad then looked at him

"Are you ready?" Dad asked him

The guy nodded and got up

"What are you doing?" asked Tai

"I have been with you for so long my oldest friend, it was you who brought me into this world and I serve you everyday to the best of my abilities but you are going down a path I do not believe I can follow. You have lost your honor, for what? The pursuit of power; I remember when we first met Jeremiah you spoke so highly of him afterwards, I even saw it myself. He reminded me so much of you in your earlier days; the ability, the honor, the willingness to give up ones life to save the lives of the many. He is what we should astride to be. He is a master that one can be proud of while you have been corrupted. I no longer serve you, I serve myself; in our human days we may killed many people but we still kept our honor and I always believed that followed us when we became of the undead but I guess I was wrong," the guy said

"You are leader with a group to lead; I give you two options, leave and live or stay and die," Dad said to him

Tai got up and charged at my Dad but he was caught off guard by a falling knee to the face and flew across the room. He got up and charged again, Dad gave him a round house kick and Tai crashed into the table breaking it in half, Tai moved so that he could look my Father in the face

"FUCK YOU," screamed Tai

Dad chuckled and tossed the lit lighter at him; I heard Tai's screams as he burnt to death. The wood from the table helped to burn him faster.

"I'm sorry you had to go through that," Dad said to the man

"The master I served died many years ago," said the man, he then proceeded to bow to my Father. Dad returned to the bow and then the man left the room

Dad looked over at me and Gabby and smiled

"Lets go home," he said