He was looking worriedly at the heavily shaking girl in the bed. Dr. Morris in the examination ward had given her several infusions already and ordered her to drink a lot to flush out the pheromones in her blood stream. After her shaking had intensified in the office Bella and she had not been able to concentrate or focus on anything she had been taken to this ward and then pushed further to the hospital ward. Normally agents wouldn't stay this long in the hospital ward, but as she had been exposed to some unknown pheromones so she had to stay until they were fully flushed out of the system and the technical analysts had fully examined them and ideally could find an antidote for them. Phil had fortunately been allowed to stay with her because he was the person she knew best in her new surroundings and had a calming effect on her. Simons had been a tad bit to giddy for him to examine the pheromones: Especially as they were still lingering in her bloodstream. Normal ones would have been out of her system after only a few seconds. Phil's heart was clenching horribly seeing his only remaining family member besides his mother and estranged sister suffer horribly from withdrawal. Even Fury had come down once to check on her progress and requested to see the results of her blood test, which caused his mouth to become a very thin line and it took a lot to cause an emotional reaction from his boss.

Phil had seen the blood test earlier and was fast becoming angrier against the damned bloodsucking species. Normally he was able to calm himself at his job, but it seemed that it was true that all his mental defence mechanisms which he had built up over the years were useless in face of danger for loved ones. The vamps were dangerous and they had done this to her. He would make sure that they would never lay a hand at her again. She had a whole cocktail of pheromones inside her blood, not just one specific one. Simmons had found primer and releaser pheromones which cause a behavioural change from the recipient, sex pheromones similar used by insects to attract and trap the opposite sex, aphrodisiac pheromones and also several allomones. Bottom line: She had been drugged over a longer period of time and been made very susceptible to suggestions. That is why she had not been herself.

Had he come to her after the Phoenix incident he would probably seen that something was amiss. He should never have believed Renee. Unfortunately even Natasha's theory had turned out correct as Agent Gareth had stolen her file from the hospital. It was consisting of everything that could not yet be found in the computer or in the old outdated hospital computer system. Interestingly he had finally found it after a long search in Dr. Cullen's office. He even had taken the liberty of downloading everything from the computer in his office with a little help from a special USB stick invented by Stark Industries. Including all the contacts in the cache. He had suggested putting the area under close surveillance using satellites as there was definitely something going on in the woods.

"Never before have I seen wilderness with that much movement" he had told them. Agent Barton was in the surveillance room trying to piece the confusing information from the different satellites together. There movement around the town of Forks and the Reservation looked very coordinated. The satellites were showing incredibly large wolves running in circles around the town and the reservation. He was also able to make out very fast movement coming from Canada and Alaska and one big entity which originated in Seattle. His other colleagues in the control room had absolutely no idea what they should make out of the information. Knowing the high death rate, which had increased over the last few month in this town he estimated that it had to be a stronghold of vampires. And they were gradually moving towards the town which had held the girl Bella Swan until a few days ago. Unfortunately, as they were watching the small town at the moment, other things could go unnoticed by the agency. Fury had made the vampires a priority as they were posing an imminent threat against the people in the area.

"She has reached the peak a few hours ago. She will get better from now on." Morris brought him back to the present in his southing voice. But Phil did not hear him clearly as he was worrying too much.


Natasha was currently diligently analysing the data from the Cullen's computer and would present her findings in an hour sharp. The stolen file confirmed that Bella had gone through some kind of withdrawal before, but it had been nowhere near her state now.

"Bloody Hell!" Natasha exclaimed startling all the other hard working agents around her. Dr. Cullen had kept a very pedantically diligent file about Bella, her countless injuries, her blood and her mental state. The doctor seemed to be obsessed with her blood as Natasha could detect some written hesitancy in Bella being Edward's singer. Whatever that is? Apparently Bella's blood smelled "divine" in contrary to others. But even more startling were the uncountable scans of old texts of vampires. Unfortunately Natasha was not fluent in Portuguese, but she had enough knowledge of other Roman languages and Latin to understand the texts. It seemed that the texts were of South American origin talking about the unison of a male vampire and an untouched female human. The legends spoke of an offspring having the best of both species. Was this doctor some kind of Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Mengele or worse? Did he want Bella to become one of these mothers? Oh God! But the legends always seemed to end with the horrible death of the mother. Over my dead body! Having her fair share of experimenting on herself she did not want any other woman to go through what she had gone through.

Connected to the data were notes which indicated, that he seemed to look for a way around that. Bella must have been his lab rat. But another thing that made her uneasy was the detailed description of Bella's scar on her right lower arm.:

"…Bella survived a normally fatal attack of the vampire James. (Tracker) Edward having had no human blood since April 20th 1933 was able to draw the venom out of her without killing her. It is a very rare occurrence which will be subject of this enquiry. She has suffered no staying repercussions on her body except a scar. This scar has a noticeably lower temperature then the rest of the body and also the texture around the scar is different and seems to be of marble composition. Is there some residual venom in her? If yes, is it James' or Edward's? If it is Edward's then his now overprotective nature could be explained by his residual venom. Maybe it functions as a catalyst, that she is drawn even more to him. Marco Rimpaldi (1789) indicated that our species might be able to control their singer, by establishing a physical connection…."

Natasha suddenly was feeling more than a little uneasy. If she has still venom in her blood then why is it not spreading?

Further into the depth of the data she detected collected DNA material of vampires and one other species which indicated that they were indeed different to humans. That we can work with! Maybe they could identify the specific DNA markers of the special gifts and blockade them. The techies in the agency would certainly love taking the DNA apart. But that meant that they needed samples. We have to rid the Swan girl from the scar. It could be a ticking time bomb and it could work as a sample. How deep does it go into her body? Is it just the surface? On the skin? If it is only on the skin than how deep does it go into the epidermis? Can we remove it without spreading the venom?


Bella was feeling that the shaking of her entire body became less and she was slowly able to get the control over her limps back. She had hated how vulnerable she had felt and also how her mind had tricked her. Losing control over her mind and body had always been one of her worst nightmares and in the last few days, at least it felt like it had been days, she had the old dream of being left alone in the woods over and over again. She had even dreamt of marrying Edward until the whole reception became a blood bath. Some dreams where filled with Charlie telling her that she was responsible for his death and her mothers and that she had to return to Forks in order to pay for her crimes. Each time she had woken up Phil had been holding one hand and with the other hand he had been stroking her hair. Even now. Phil had never left her side and was currently sitting beside her, holding her hand just talking to her about unimportant things. Ironically the last time she had held the hand of an adult for support it also had been him.

He had visited her seemingly out of the blue and had asked Renee if he could spend a week with her, because he had needed a week off. Renee seizing the opportunity had naturally allowed him to watch over her while she had decided on going on a short holiday with her current boyfriend. One Bella had hated immensely. It had been one of the best days of her childhood until she had mentioned abdominal pain on her right side which had gradually become worse. Having realized the rare opportunity of her godfather's holiday she had ignored the slight pain until it had become unbearable. When he had rushed her to the hospital she had had an emergency surgery because her appendix had needed immediate removal. He had been there with her the whole time, staying with her in the recovery room and one of the nurses had told her that he had even watched the surgery like a hawk. Her nana, coming from New York had eventually showed up, bringing him fresh clothes as he had refused to go home and leave her alone in the hospital. He had told her over and over again what a grown up girl she had been and how proud he had been of her, but if she would do something like that again he would become angry at her. Her nana had given her a secret wink and had whispered:"He cannot be angry at you." When Renee had came home from her little trip she had felt very guilty for not having called once, as she had assumed that everything was fine.

Now Phil looked tired and he also had small stubbles over his face. Bella had overheard the doctor, Fury and the scientists discussing her current state while they had believed her to be asleep. Hearing that she had been drugged by the Cullen's sparked a very strong distaste against them. Do they know what they have done to me? She had a hard time believing it. No! They probably don't know! They love me! All of them. Except Rosalie. But what if they do know? Was it the reason, why she should have married Edward so soon? But the more her shaking lessened, the angrier she became with them. Edward had regularly trespassed into her room and into her house. At the beginning of their relationship she had not even known. It was certainly creepy. Then he had just kept it up. What would have happened if she had said no! Would he have killed her? No. That would have violated the treaty. And Alice. She had filled her closet with new, very expensive clothes and she had even stolen her old clothes, so that she had to wear the new ones. But as she had seemed so innocent she had not been able to be angry at her. She had just been annoyed. What would have come next? Personality change to fit into the family? No right, according to Phil I had a severe personality change! I became weak! They made me weak and dependent. Reflecting at her behaviour back in Forks she realized that she had been completely dependent on Edward. It had not been her. She had stopped listening to her other favourite music. Yes, she loved classic, but in Phoenix she had loved other styles and genres too. Her music repertoire had ranged from classic, to rock, pop and folk music. Even some heavy metal songs had been to her liking. Depending on her mood her music taste had varied. She should not have left her violin in Phoenix. She had wanted to take her with her but Renee had told that she would send it to her but had forgotten it. She had adjusted everything in her life to their liking. In Phoenix everyone had always remarked that she was mentally more mature than her mother as she had made sure that everything in the household went smoothly. As much as she had loved her mother, who had acted more like an older sister she would have liked more parenting from her. She had not given her any rules or boundaries to cross. Her grandmother had been strict with her when she visited her. This had been a shock at first as she had not been used to it, but she had always called her when she had a problem and had not been able to call Phil, because he had been unavailable.

Now, she decided that she wanted to become the strong Bella again. Maybe she had been played by the vampires and Jacob had been right all along. She would go over everything she had told this agency and try to remember everything the Cullens had told her. In her state she had to have forgotten something. Maybe they could train her! She needed to become stronger again and being able to resist outer influence, especially vampires. They also had to find a solution for the Volturi. They were killing bus tours on a regular basis, destroying hopes, families and friendships. All they were seeing was food. They could not see that they were creating suffering in all the families who had no idea what has happened to their loved ones. She knew that she would have closure with her parents' death as she knew what has happened to them. Perhaps her uncle's agency was able to cook something up to destroy them. She had seen glimpses of the technology used in this building. It looked so advanced to everything else out in the public. And the more pressing problem was that she had promised to become one of them after all. Lying in this bed however, she had absolutely no desire to become a leech. Not now and not in the future. Immortality was not natural for the human race and she would not know what to do with herself. Spending all her time just with vampires, far away from her loved ones, from the sun she loved so much? She shuddered at the thought. Her time would not be precious anymore. Did she really want to repeat high school again and again like life in an infinity loop and being stared at? Absolutely not! Spending all her time with the Cullens seemed like a highly annoying and boring time now. Alice would probably drag her around all the major cities of high fashion and use her as a walking doll without being interested in her desires. Esme would play the loving mother hen and try to mother her to no end and be very upset if she would not get the chance to do that. Rosalie would hate her and make her feel that. Jasper would constantly manipulate her moods and her feelings on a daily basis. Edward would control her every step and she would not be able to make her own decisions. She would not be able to taste her grannies favourite fruity raspberry cake she loved so much, no more hot chocolate brownies, no more really spicy hot food. No more coffee, no more tea! God I'm starved! She really was hungry, which had to be a good sign. And the only thing she would be craving would be blood! She would become a monster! They had tried reverse psychology on her while she had been in her vulnerable mental state! Clever. Well. Never trust a vampire. As soon as she would be out of this bed and she would have eaten something substantial she would make it her first priority to start her physical and mental training. She owed it to her dead parents. They should not have died in vain. No! They won't have died in vain! She will make honour them by making this world a safer place. Just like Phil and his mother!


Meanwhile in Forks:

Everyone was rushing into the unused kitchen, where they had heard one of the horribly expensive vases crash. Alice was standing petrified. All the vampires, bronze eyed and red eyed waiting for the army to come were waiting for her to finally come out of her stupor and say something.

"Alice! What did you see?" Edward, not being able to still his curiosity, urged. It had to have something with his Bella. In the last two days her future had been very fuzzy. Alice had not been able to pick anything clear up from her future. Only a few snatches, which were not making sense. She had seen Bella sitting in a huge office, Bella with tall intimidating one eyed man, her standing between a man in a green cape and a red cape who were ready to rip themselves into pieces, her with Agent Coulson, her in a hospital shaking uncontrollably, but also Bella in Forks in their special clearing, and his favourite snatch had been Bella in a white dress standing next to him.

"Her future just disappeared!" Alice cried.

"Is she dead?" Esme asked her worriedly.

"Did Victoria get to her?" Emmet wanted to now, looking murderous.

"No! She ..ah.. decided to not come back… to us!"

"Clever girl!" Rosalie smiled.

"But. We are her family now!" Esme cried. "She has no one after her father's death. She needs us."

Carlisle trying to defuse the situation for the moment suggested: "Perhaps we should concentrate on defeating the army now. After that we can worry about Bella." He did not want to admit it to the others that he was worried about Bella as he already saw her as a daughter and she had promised the Volturi to become one of them. She had no chance but to become one of them. But he could not help but feel uneasy at the thought what she had to endure first until she would be granted immortality. He had not dared to inform his family of his commission of their royalty. It was going against everything he believed in, but for his covens to receive immunity from them he had to give them something in return and this was the only thing he could give them. He was seen as the leader of the "vegetarian covens" and therefore their representative. He had to choose between one life and all his covens so he chose his covens. Bella would have eternity to forgive him. His family would understand then. One of the Volturi seers had predicted that Bella would have a very unique gift which was very interesting for the collecting Volturi. Now they had to survive the army tomorrow, but with all the extra Cold Ones in his house they were an army themselves. Even the wolf pack had grown substantially. He was confident, that they could defeat them. Then they had to find Bella as soon as possible. If Alice had lost sight of her future then it could mean that she did not want to have anything to do with them anymore and that would jeopardize his entire plan. The fight tomorrow could also decimate the wolves. On the one hand he hated sending them to their deaths because he loved living things and had respect of life, but the strategist in him told him that they would just become a liability in getting Bella. Especially Jacob, who had become even angrier with her absence. According to Edward he could only control his temper by thinking about her. Tomorrow would be an interesting day!