*GASP!* I've updated! I know! Shocking! It's also a short filler chapter, but don't hate. I had to have something to put in here before the big showdown.

No copyright infringement intended! I just like to play with the characters that SM gave us.

Enjoy!

Peter POV

CHAPTER 27

Headin' back to Vicky without Amanda was probably not the best idea we've ever had, but she had some explainin' to do with the Cullen's and, since she couldn't be in two places at once, we had to let her go with the Major. We would need the Cullen's and the wolves soon, so any help that she could provide with swayin' their decisions in our favor was where she needed to be.

Char and I had discussed the different situations and possibilities that we could use in order to keep our current cover and I think we came up with one that may work. I knew that the battle to come was gonna be in that damn baseball clearin', so I was plannin' to use the knowledge of that area to our advantage. I just had to get Victoria to believe that we were still sincere in our desire to ruin the Cullen's. If we could make her believe that then everythin' else would fall into place nicely on our end.

We had noticed some scouts placed in strategic places within a mile of the camp itself, but it wasn't until we met up with one of the newborns, Dave, that we realized how close we were cutting it.

"There you two are!" Dave shouts from a tree above us. "You two have been gone so long, Victoria thought that the Cullen's had gotten you. Where's Amanda?"

Char and I knew this question was comin', but we wanted to tell Victoria our story first. "Where's Victoria?" I ask instead. "We have some information she may need."

Dave apparently heard the seriousness of my tone and didn't hesitate before runnin' ahead of us and straight back into camp, hollerin' for Vicky the whole way.

Once we ran back into the camp, we were immediately surrounded and herded off to see the Queen Bitch in charge. I can't say I was surprised at the treatment-we had been gone for nearly a whole day-but I was surprised that Vicky didn't run out of her hidey-hole and demand to know where we'd been. If this was Maria, we'd have at least one limb removed already for bein' gone so long.

However, this wasn't Maria. It was a weak ass substitute for Maria and frankly, I was both grateful and disgusted by that fact. Vicky clearly didn't care about anythin' other than revenge anymore and that was obvious in the way that she took her time comin' out to meet us.

She and Riley exit the buildin' that we've stopped in front of and I can see a change in her that wasn't there a day ago. She looks fed up. I do notice that her eyes roam over all of us, but she looks disappointed when her eyes fall back on Char and I.

"Honestly, I don't really care where you've been for the past day and it's not really my business anyway," she begins airily "but I do care that my one and only shot at destroying the Cullen's is missing. Care to explain that?"

"Well," I begin defiantly, "your mission here was to destroy the Cullen's, yet I've seen nothing in the way of intelligence gatherin' from you or your Army since we moved out here, so I took the liberty myself. I took Amanda and my mate with me so we could spy on the enemy for you."

Her eyes flare with what looks like excitement before she regains control over herself and the poker face is back. "Well, what did you learn?" She asks in a falsely sweet voice.

"They have a newborn in their coven now. She's very volatile and only a few weeks old to this life. Her emotions are gettin' the better of her and she will be a liability to them. The coven leader and his mate are as anti-aggressive as they can possibly be. When the fightin' starts, I'll have trouble believin' that they'll be willin' to participate at all. There's also a blonde woman who seems like she'll avoid gettin' into a fight because it might get her clothes dirty. The mountain of a man in the coven is the only one you may need to worry about. He looks like he could rip apart someone just by accident. There's also a young boy who seems more preoccupied and distracted with this newborn than should be warranted. We saw no one else."

Vicky just smiles at me and I'm beginnin' to think she may not believe me. "Curious." She states simply. "I've met this coven before and they all seemed like they would want nothing more than to rip me apart."

"How long were you in their presence, Victoria?" I ask. "Because we've been spyin' on them for a day and I can tell ya that ya know nothin' about this coven. It may be true that you've met 'em before, it may also be true that they wanted to kill ya. I don't really know cause I wasn't there. What I can tell ya is what I've seen. You can either take the information and use it. Or not."

I had planted the seed, now all I had to do was wait for it to grow and luckily I didn't have to wait long.

"It seems like good and solid information, Victoria." Riley states from beside her. "We may be able to win this after all."

"Perhaps." Victoria replies. "That still begs the question of where my Siren went to."

"I left her to search the immediate area for a good point of battle." I state calmly. Victoria looks at me a bit perplexed before I continue. "There were several possibilities of places that we passed on the way to spy on the Cullen's that seemed like they would be beneficial to us. I let her scout the possibilities to find out which one we could use to our advantage. She should be back in a while if it bothers ya too much to have her gone."

"No. It's fine." Victoria replies with a forced smile. "I trust you."

As she turns to go back into the buildin' I manage to halt her with a bit of advice. "I would suggest ya not waste any more time, Victoria. If I were you, I wouldn't wait more than two more days before ya attack. All of this waitin' around doin' nothin' is gonna get us all killed. Especially if they find us all here."

"Duly noted." Victoria replies lookin' at me over her shoulder. "Make sure the rest of my Army knows that in two days, we attack."

I look at Char with victory shinin' in my eyes. I did enjoy a good fight, but this whole double-agent thing was a lot more work than I'd previously thought. Only two more days before we get this shit done and over with and I couldn't be happier about it. I sent the Major a simple text message that had all the information in it he'd need.

Baseball clearing. Two days.