The Alpha Female

JacobxBella

Rated M

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight or the franchise, as it belongs to Steph Meyers

The Alpha Female

Chapter 27

Bella sat curled up on the couch in the Black home, a cup of warm chamomile tea settled between her hands. Jacob had made her a mug to help settle her nerves, especially after the horrible news Seth had delivered to them just hours ago. After Seth had given them the news that Paul was betraying them and teaming up with Victoria, as well as Edward, Bella had ultimately lost consciousness and fainted from being so overwhelmed by the announcement. She had woken up on the couch about two hours later and after being calmed down once again by Jacob on account of going into near hysterics at remembering why she had fainted, Jacob had made her the tea that she was slowly drinking before leaving to inform the rest of the Pack about what Seth had seen.

However, the tea didn't do much to calm her. It wasn't just the horrible news that Seth had delivered, but rather that she seemed to already know it because of her dream. She had had a complete premonition and Seth only confirmed it. Victoria, Edward, and Paul were all working together and it would only lead to disaster. She couldn't believe Paul would betray his Pack brothers this way, and all because his ego took a hit because of her. Or rather, maybe he had because he was sick of her being around and causing them trouble. And if that wasn't devastating enough to hear, what really hurt was knowing that Edward was siding with Victoria.

No, she did not love Edward anymore, nor did she want to get back with him; in fact, she outright hated him. She loved Jacob and her heart belonged to him always. But for Edward to team up with Victoria, knowing good and well she was out to get her, was unbelievable to her. He claimed to love her, but he would do something like this to hurt her? It didn't make sense to her, but maybe it did in his own sick, twisted mind. Perhaps he believed teaming up with the vengeful redhead was a step closer to getting rid of Jacob and getting her back. Just thinking of Edward using Victoria to kill Jacob was enough to make her feel physically ill.

Warm hands settled on her shoulders and Bella jumped in surprise, looking up at the love of her life. Giving him a small smile, she whispered, "You're back."

Jacob nodded and gave her a kiss on her forehead before moving to sit next to her on his couch. Once he was settled he gently coaxed Bella into his lap, making sure she didn't spill her tea. When she was in his lap and leaning against him he asked softly, "How are you holding up, honey?"

"I'm still in disbelief, I guess. About Paul…and Edward…"

"It's hard to believe he would do this to you, isn't it?"

Bella nodded slowly. It was hard for her to believe and she couldn't believe that he would willingly hurt her like this. But she did recall telling him that if he messed with Jacob, he messed with her. She even recalled telling him that he messed with her for the last time when he decided to throw her promise to the Volturi in her face while revealing it to him. That had been her final warning to him to leave her and Jacob alone, but it was obvious Edward wasn't taking any hints. Or rather, he was blatantly ignoring them in favor of fulfilling his personal wishes. Just thinking of him and his stupid, smug, arrogant, stone-cold face made Bella begin to shake in anger, her grip on the mug tightening until it shattered in her hand.

Jacob quickly grabbed Bella's hand and saw that she had a few cuts from the shattered ceramic before licking the few cuts she had. Old Quil had told him that though the Alpha Female can heal quickly on her own like the Pack, though a little slower, her mate—the Alpha—could heal minor cuts and scrapes by licking them, just like a dog licking their wounds to make them heal faster. Bella frowned in confusion at her boyfriend before looking at her hand and watching in amazement at how her cuts had instantly healed with no marks left behind. Smiling up at Jacob she smiled and said, "Thank you."

"You're welcome, honey," Jacob replied. Ignoring the broken mug and the wetness from the tea on them, Jacob held Bella closer and said, "You shouldn't stress yourself out over this, it's not good for the baby."

"I'm not stressed out anymore, Jake. I'm pissed as hell. I fucking told Edward not to mess with us anymore and he didn't heed my warning. I'm fucking furious and I swear to God I'm going to kill him myself."

"You and me both, Bells. And I'm going to kill Paul. No more chances for his bullshit. He's crossed one too many lines, he's broken our trust, betrayed the Pack and our lands, and I won't stand for it anymore. He's dying the next time I see him."

Bella gasped at how serious Jacob sounded. Looking up at him she said, "You don't mean that."

"I do," Jacob replied easily. "He's committed treason, Bella. Treason against you, me, the Pack, the tribe, our home—fucking treason. And the punishment for it is banishment or death, and I'm choosing death."

"No Jake! You're not a killer! Don't let Paul's bad decisions make you one!"

Jacob looked at his mate in confusion and stood up, moving her onto the couch while the ceramic pieces of the broken mug fell to the floor. "Why are you defending him, Bella? What he's done and is doing is not okay, so why are you defending him?"

"I'm not, and I'm not trying to justify them either. There's no reason for what he's doing. But I don't want you to kill him. Like it or not, he was your brother in arms."

"Yeah, was. But not anymore. I've already weighed in on the this with the rest of the Pack, and the majority vote is that he dies."

Bella blinked in surprise and stood up as well. "Majority vote? You all took a vote and didn't think I had a say in it?"

"Bella, you were stressed out enough as it was from just hearing it. Especially after telling me you dreamed about it. Besides, what's done is done. We took a vote and of the seven of us, three voted for banishment while the rest of us voted for death. Majority rules; Paul's a dead man."

"You should have let me have a say in his fate, Jake!"

"It's done, Bella! I'm done talking about it!"

"And I'm not! Who voted for banishment and who voted to kill him? Tell me!"

Jacob sighed before answering, "Seth, Embry, and Leah voted to just banish him from the Quileute lands. Sam, Quil, Jared, and I voted to kill him."

Bella stared in disbelief at Jacob. "Jake…"

"I'm sorry, Bella. I know it's not something you want to hear and I know you're against it; you've made that much obvious. But we've let Paul slide too many times to just ignore this. We're done ignoring it, and Paul is going to pay for his actions. And when he's gone, he won't be a bother to us or you anymore."

With that said, Jacob walked out of the house and on to wherever he was going. Bella stared after him, not believing at all what Jacob had told her. Yes, she could understand him being furious with Paul, even wanting to take his anger out on him about it. But to kill him for it? She couldn't believe Jacob would even consider something so cruel. She didn't like Paul either, but she couldn't let Jacob do that to him. She need to talk to somebody, someone who would see reason. Someone who could at least be neutral about it, even if they were hurt by it as well.

Bella considered Billy or even Old Quil but knowing them they would just abide by the laws of their lands and the Alpha's word. So who could she talk to about this? Thinking hard for a moment, Bella almost laughed as the answer came to her, wondering why it hadn't occurred to her before.

"Charlie!" Bella exclaimed, quickly moving to go to Jacob's room and put her clothes and shoes on. Once they were on, she ran out of the Black house and through the woods, making her way to her own home. It was times like this that she was glad she had Alpha Female capabilities. She soon made it to her home five minutes later and was glad to see lights on still in her home, letting her know Charlie was still awake. Not wasting any time, Bella hurried to her front door and entered it, calling out, "Dad!"

Charlie looked up from the police reports he was looking over in the kitchen, a look surprise on his face. He did become concerned though seeing the somewhat frantic expression on his daughter's face. Standing to face her he asked, "What is it, kiddo? What's wrong?"

Bella panted a little before saying, "I need to talk to you. It's important and I need a neutral opinion."

"Okay…about what?"

The brunette hesitated for a moment before looking into her father's eyes. "It's about Paul Lahote and Jake. Paul has done some horrible things, so bad that Jake is making—at least I think—a horrible decision in handling it. And I need your advice on what to do about it."

Edward ran with Victoria through the woods, out towards where she was currently keeping her now thrown out plan: her newborn army. Though he was intrigued and disturbed by her work and what she had planned to do, he also could understand why she now had to abandon the army. Paul Lahote, being the absolute tool that he is, had come back from a meeting with the Pack and told Victoria that they new about the army, the army she was going to use to distract the wolves and get to Bella with. It was supposed to be her surprise attack, but Paul had ruined that for her. Now she had to change plans and the newborn vampires were not it anymore. She had been going to just let them go and free roam, let them to whatever it was that they wanted, but Edward had talked her into just destroying them, telling her that they had no other purpose. Thus, that was why they were currently on their way to deal with the problem.

It wasn't long before they reached where all of the vampires were, Edward's now black eyes looking over the chaos the newborns were making amongst themselves. Rolling his eyes and letting out an unneeded, exasperated sigh, the copper haired vampire turned towards Victoria and said, "Let's get this over with."

Victoria nodded and said, "Touch them all but Riley. I believe I can still use him in some way."

Pinpointing Riley through all the chaos—via mind reading, of course—Edward nodded and ran into the fray, grabbing a newborn vampire and quickly tearing his head off. Many of the newborns were shocked by this, even more so when their creator began to help Edward destroy their kind. Victoria stopped briefly to tell Riley to help them before she, Riley, and Edward had killed all of the newborn vampires, even catching a few that tried to get away and hadn't attempted to attack them. Once their decapitated bodies and heads were in a pile, Edward took out a box of matches from his pocket and took a match from the box. He struck the match and dropped it into the pile of bodies, watching disinterestedly as the newborns all began to catch on fire from the single flame, purple smoke beginning to billow up from them. Before long, the pile of bodies were engulfed in flames and soon reduced to ashes, the purple smoke drifting into the sky until there was nothing left.

Looking at Edward in confusion, Riley asked Victoria, "What's the stupid human lover doing here?"

Victoria chuckled at Edward's glare before answering, "Edward here is going to aid us in taking care of Bella Swan."

"But isn't he her mate? Why would he be helping us rather than protecting her?"

"Because Bella has gotten it in her head that we are no longer mates, and thus has run into the arms of our mortal enemies," Edward answered. "Those wolves, particularly Jacob Black, have brainwashed her, placed a Quileute curse on her, and I intend to get her back."

Riley looked at Victoria even more confused, thinking what Cullen had said was completely ridiculous, especially about the Quileute curse. And it made more sense to him that Swan had simply just left him because she wanted to, not because of a curse or brainwashing. But that was neither here nor there. What he wanted to know was how this alliance was going to work, considering he and Victoria were planning on killing Swan while Cullen planned on taking her back—obviously alive.

Edward, having heard Riley's thoughts, waved a hand and said, "We'll hash out the details later. Right now, we both have a singular goal leading up to Bella."

"And that would be?" Riley asked.

Victoria looked at her companion and replied, "Dealing with the wolves. And lucky for us, we have one on our side, even if he doesn't know it yet."

Riley smirked and nodded, following Victoria and Edward as they took off back towards the Cullen mansion.

Hidden in the shadows of woods stood a young vampire with long dark hair. Her red eyes had silently watched the three vampires that had heartlessly destroyed the other newborn vampires before casually talking and leaving. Luckily for her she had been able to get away from being slaughtered, and thus had heard what had been said. She had never wanted to have this existence, and also did not agree with what her creator was planning on doing. She did not know Bella Swan, but she did figure she wasn't as bad as Victoria had made her out to be. In fact, she seemed the most innocent in this entire situation planned at her expense. She had to do something, but what could she do? She couldn't approach the wolves, not while knowing they would kill her on sight. But maybe…maybe she could approach Bella herself. With that thought in mind, she took off into the woods to Forks, intent on finding the Swan residence and speaking with Bella.

Bella sat down at the kitchen table with her father and took a moment to get her bearings and thoughts together. After a while she looked up to see Charlie looking intently at her. Closing her eyes briefly she said, "Alright, when I tell you this, I need you to not freak out. I need you to be as neutral as possible, please."

"Sure kiddo, whatever you need. Besides, if you're asking me for help and can't talk more with Jacob about it, it must be serious," Charlie replied. "What has Paul done?"

"Well, he's…he's betrayed us. The Pack, I mean."

"Betrayed you, how?"

Taking a deep breath Bella answered, "He's teamed up with Victoria and is passing information about the Pack to her. He's working with her and I believe helping her plan to…well…"

Charlie looked at how troubled his daughter was and supplied, "Take out the Pack?"

Chocolate brown eyes looked into matching ones and she said, "To kill me."

Before Charlie could react to Bella's statement, a knock on the door was heard. Frowning a bit at the sound, Charlie said, "I'm not expecting anyone."

Bella frowned as well and stood up to go and answer the door. She stopped briefly at the scent that reached her nose. Though it was faint, she could tell what the scent was: that of a vampire. Cautiously approaching the front door, Bella grabbed the knob and turned it, opening the door a crack to peer outside. There standing on the porch was a vampire—her pale skin and red eyes making that evident—but not one she recognized. This vampire was female, on the short side, and had long dark hair. She was standing rather timidly, even pulling on the sleeves of her sweatshirt rather nervously. Opening the door a bit wider Bella asked, "Who are you?"

"Are you Bella Swan?" the vampire asked.

"Who's asking?"

"My name is Bree Tanner, and Victoria created me. She's making plans for you with your old beau, plans that aren't good, and I want to help you and those wolves beat her."

Author's Note: I apologize for this chapter being rather late. At least I think it's late being put up. But I hope that you all enjoy and like this chapter all the same. And thank you to those that continue to read and review my chapter updates. Thanks so much! XOXO, SehunsBae37.