A/N O. and I thank you for reading our little summer comic book collaboration. We hope you read all three stages which are now going strong, links on my profile for the other parts of the series. Review either here or on O.'s profile, come on people, you know you want to. Just to let you know Jane looks around twenty in this story. Yes Jane is in this story and this is her first appearance. Embrace the Jane.

The Facility and Fastidious Agent Jane

We'd made it to this giant underground warehouse, off a small road in the middle of the desert after we passed Needles, California. At first, it looked like a small two bedroom shack. I grew weary while Alice grew excited. Honestly, before this day was over I was sure we'd be killed.

Once Edward walked up to the door and spoke to the man who answered, he got back into the tank and drove to the back. The ground suddenly opened to a giant metal door that opened like it was releasing a missile silo. It was an underground garage door. Edward drove his vehicle inside and then with Alice and Edward's nudging I got out of the truck and met the strangely beautiful blonde-haired man: Jasper Whitlock was his name, and on the internet he was known as DesertVamp 1860.

He greeted Edward as The venerable Pie Man. It was all really strange and I'd walked into a creepy B science fiction.

And then that beautiful and jerky she wolf was carried into a room and I stayed as far away from all that as I could. I knew there would be blood and I didn't want to pass out in front of anyone. It didn't matter, hours later she woke while we were eating and discussing matters with Jasper when I found out not only was Jasper a supposed vampire, but wolves can bleed – a lot. I passed out – unceremoniously awkward right on the floor.

[A/N: This scene covered in, "LKA: Superhero Saga; Stage One Leah POV," in Chap. 3 – Desert Vamps' Digs.]

When I woke from passing out I seriously considered leaving. But now there was a vampire involved and I began to worry how far over my head had I gotten. I had a life back in Phoenix. It wasn't the greatest life, but it was a life. With this band of geeky men, and women, I was pretty sure I wouldn't have a life for long. Because now they were discussing weapons that pierce vampires and a helicopter, and the she wolf jumping out and attacking the vampires to save FBI agents. This was getting much more involved and I was hearing stuff I was sure if I left they would kill me over.

I looked to Alice who would only give me a sweet smile. She was really cute and sweet, but frankly, she might have been crazier than the other three.

And then at the table, I made the she wolf mad. The strength and ferocity, at which she lunged at me with, made me weak in the knees. She was so fast, and I instantly grew terrified of her. If a vampire didn't kill me then she would. But she apologized, which I didn't expect, and Jasper told us it was the wolf suppressant causing her to get overly emotional and angry. I wasn't so sure. She was pretty overly emotional and angry on the way to Jasper's warehouse. It seemed too tidy an excuse. And now I wondered why I was still with this motley group once again, as Jasper, Alice and the she wolf left on a rescue mission and I was stuck in the warehouse with the geekiest of all, Edward… and his creepy vampire leg.

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Edward placed the leg on an MRI table and was going to examine its physiological properties.

I stood back in a room of multiple monitors behind glass, as the sound of the machine started up and Edward joined me and sat in a chair in front of the monitors. Despite not having blood a single unattached limb still made me feel queasy. It was just very macabre and morbid, and I kept thinking over old horror films with crazy scientists and Vincent Price conducting experiments on humans.

I watched the screens light up in yellow and then at the top of the leg was redder colors as it went under the imaging scan.

"Edward?" I asked, "What are those colors signifying?"

"The leg is dead, except… where it was joined at the thigh."

"That's really gross."

"It's really quite interesting. There is really no reason why this creature should live, yet it does. But if it has animation that means it can be stopped. And if it lives – it means it can die."

"You sound like an evil scientist."

"Mhmm?"

He wasn't even paying attention to what I said, and kept playing with the imaging buttons. I asked, "Will the vampire whose leg that belongs to want it back?"

Edward turned to me, "it's a possibility." He had that nonplussed, paranormal investigator look on his face. And when our eyes met he squinted and then smirked, and then turned to get back to his leg imaging.

"A possibility?" I asked sounding bothered, because I was. "We're here all alone – no protective wolves or vampires to help us out. It's just you and me."

"There is security protocol in place, Bella." He was pushing on a button, getting a closer look at the area it had been detached, "How are you feeling now?"

"Feeling?" I asked.

"After having passed out. You had a slight knot on your head when you hit the ground."

"It's just a bump." I rubbed the back of my head. It was a little knot right at the crown of my head. I'd hit pretty hard. "I've hit my hit before and I've fallen several times too." I snickered as I said, "I'm a veritable klutz."

"Ah yes, I remember that."

His voice was very detached. I'm not sure why he asked about me when he was more concerned with the leg?

"Whatever – I'm going to go get something to drink." I left the glass room while he played with his vampire leg. It was time for me to do my own investigating. I also wanted to make a phone call to Jessica.

I walked along the hall of low fluorescent lighting and cement flooring to the opening where the garage was. I walked across the garage area and then heard a strange sound. It was on the stairs near the kitchen. That was the door leading to his fake house above the underground warehouse.

I quickly hid behind a large cement column and ducked. When I peeked out I saw a small blonde-haired woman with dark eyes. Her hair was baby fine and nearly white. She was dressed smartly in a black business suit and had a short, efficient hair cut. She was pointing and directing a group of men dressed in SWAT gear, as they held compact automatic rifles in their hands and wore goggles.

"Oh man," I whispered, holding my hand over my mouth.

I looked back to the hallway where I needed to go warn Edward. It was too late there were men coming in from the garage opening now. There had to be over 20 men piling into Jasper's place. My heart beat hard, as I didn't know what to do.

I knew this was a bad idea. I knew it – I knew it. Why did I come with this group of nuts? But then I looked back as the men ran down the hallway toward Edward and worried over him.

I sat on my haunches, trying to figure out what I should do. The blonde woman was small like Alice. I could probably take her the easiest. What was I saying? I didn't want to take anyone? I was a 911 operator, for goodness sake! I wasn't Lara Croft, or that she wolf.

I suddenly heard Edward yelling, "What are you doing?" And then, "That's not yours! It's my leg! Finders – kee -" and then it sounded like he was quieted.

I can't believe I worried over him. He probably wouldn't even ask about me. He just cared about a vamp leg.

I snuck quickly away from the column in the opposite direction of the hall and Edward, running in a lowered position and trying to move quietly. I ran back toward the room Leah had been patched up in. There might be a phone there and I could call 911. Wow, the irony.

I ran with my head down and made it. I opened the door slowly and entered the room when suddenly a hand was on the door beside me. When I looked up, my knees grew weak. It was the small, blonde woman. How'd she get here? I didn't even hear her.

"Bella Swan?"

My mouth fell open. I wanted to ask how she knew my name, but it wouldn't come out. There was something very deadly in her black eyes. She was smaller than me, but looked so fierce.

"Come with us," she ordered me.

"How'd…" I realized I was breathing very hard. "How'd you…"

"I smelled you the moment I walked in. You have a certain," she inhaled, sniffing the air, and then grinning with small canines, "it's a certain je ne sais quoi."

The woman had a refined British accent. She was beautiful in a very childish, pure way; and yet, she looked deadly. I don't know why something inside me felt scared, like I was a rabbit about to be eaten. My heartbeat sped up. I could see my chest rise and fall, and feel the pulse running along my carotid artery punching along my neck.

"No way." I pushed at her and it hurt my hand. She didn't budge. It was like I'd hit a rock.

"Your boyfriend is already being loaded in the van for travel to the airport. Come along." She took my forearm in her grip. Her hands were ice cold. And then I realized, "Oh man – you're a vampire too."

"Ssh," she held a finger to her lips, grinning, her face so close to mine I could smell a mix of coffee and rancidness. "Do you want the whole world to know?" She then laughed. Was she mocking me?

All I could do was follow along, as she pulled me to the group of soldiers. I said, "He's not my boyfriend."

Again she laughed and then threw me to a man in gear. "Take her to the other one. They'll be briefed at headquarters. If she gives you trouble - secure her."

"What?" I shrieked.

The man grabbed my arm and pulled me along. I yelled back at the blonde. "I don't know who you are but I'm an American citizen and you can't do this."

She was laughing at me again. What a bitch!

They threw me in a police like van, but there was no writing on the side. Only some sort of emblem that I guess looked like PII, and it was painted all black. I saw Edward on a bench with his hands cuffed to the side of the bench between his legs. He looked to me. "Ssh, it's the government's enforcers. I told you this was big." Edward's eyes darted back and forth. "Say nothing to them."

"You're probably being arrested for illegally taking vampire body parts or something – it's probably contraband. And what would I say? I was coerced by insane people to save a woman who shape shifts into a wolf? I mean… really Edward…?"

I was so scared. I didn't know if I was being arrested or taken away by a vampire group. I had no idea what was going on and I was angry Edward looked to be taking it all in stride.

"You really need to talk less, Bella," He finally told me.

I rolled my eyes, sitting along the bench and a guard dressed in military gear sat across from me and then handcuffed me along the bench, just as they had Edward, so that I was stuck against Edward. He left us both hand cuffed to the bench and then left, closing the back of the square van for transport to who knew where.

"Oh man," I grew scared, pulling at the cuffs, "this is real. Where are they taking us? Oh man…. You got me arrested. You got me freakin' arrested Edward."

"This was bound to happen. They will interrogate you – tell them nothing."

"What the hell?!" I was beside myself. "Like GitMo interrogated? I don't want to be tortured."

"Probably not that bad."

The van started up and we were being driven somewhere. Not that bad?

"I'm going to tell them everything and then I'm going to hope they let me call my dad because he's in the military and he might actually help me out of this," I spit out.

Edward turned to me, "I thought Phil was dead?"

"He is dead. I have a real dad, General Charles Swan."

"You do?"

"Yes Edward, I do. I've just never seen him much in my life." I wanted to scratch my nose and my hands were handcuffed to this stupid bench with Edward, forcing me to sit extremely close to him.

He suddenly said, "Here, you can scratch your nose against my shoulder. It's okay."

"How'd you know that?"

Edward's eyes suddenly lifted. "I don't know what you mean. You were wiggling your nose and it looked like you had an itch."

"Oh," I rubbed the tip of my nose on his shoulder. "Thanks."

I looked over the dark van. It looked like in the movies when prisoners were being taken somewhere. There was only metal and places to put people in handcuffs.

"Don't be scared, Bella."

"How can I not be? I've never even had a parking ticket. And the leader of them is a vampire."

"What?!"

I nodded, "Yes, just like Jasper, but she had a British accent."

"Oh my," Edward's eyes grew small. "This is more expansive than I earlier realized – a European vamp."

Why did he always have to go into the conspiracy theorist mode?

"Because, Bella, this is a conspiracy."

"Okay," I turned to him in an instant. "There you go again. You are reading my mind. Tell me the truth."

Edward's eyes widened, like he was trying to tell me something, nudging his head.

"Stop it - tell me the truth you can read…"

He instantly kissed me on the mouth.

"Umph…" his mouth was smothering mine, but it felt good and I kissed him back. We were sitting handcuffed to the back of a police van and kissing. His lips were so full and moist. I didn't expect him to know how to kiss, but he did. His tongue slid lightly along my lips and then teased into my mouth. I was growing a little wet as his breath brushed across my teeth and mouth.

He then pulled away suddenly. "Good," he whispered. "I hope it worked."

"What?"

I was sitting there, my mouth still agape.

"Thanks," he told me matter-of-factly.

"Thanks?"

He nodded. "You were very good."

"What the hell kind of a turn on is that?"

"Perhaps you should be quiet for the remainder of the ride."

"Perhaps you should never kiss me again, because next time I will kick you in the man parts."

I tugged at the cuffs, trying to scoot as far away from him as possible. What a jerk!

"I suppose I deserved that," Edward said.

I turned my head away. I wasn't talking to him any more.

The van suddenly stopped and the door was yanked open. The military men came in and pulled me and Edward out of the van, still in handcuffs and onto a tarmac. The sun was beating down on us and it was desolate. We were at a military base still in the desert. We were going to be taken away and nobody would find our bodies.

We were forcibly pushed and pulled everywhere and then to an awaiting jet.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

The military men didn't answer me. I'd never been so scared in my life. I told the man holding my arm. "I want to talk to my father - his name is General Charles Swan."

I looked to Edward who was shaking his head.

The military guy didn't listen to me, and so I tried another tactic, "I want to call a lawyer. You haven't even read me my rights. I'm a U.S. citizen and I have rights. I haven't heard the Miranda rights yet."

What was with this mute military guy? He just yanked me up the steps of a plane and walked me down the aisle to a more open area with seats facing one another, like a cargo plane, he sat me down, securing my handcuffs to the seat. He then placed an x-shaped seat belt over me. I watched them do the same to Edward. He was so calm. I was about to go into a full-blown panic attack. This was a nightmare.

The blonde vampire walked on the plane and up to me. Edward had been handcuffed to the seat across from me. "Your friends will be joining us soon with the patients. We'll be flying to our facility and there you will be briefed. Ms. Swan, your father will see you there." She then lowered and undid my handcuffs. "Both of you don't do something stupid." She un-handcuffed Edward also, and then winked to him. Was she flirting? "Your father and mother will also be there. I feel privileged to meet you, Mr. Edward Cullen."

"Thank you. Are you a friend of Jasper's?"

"A very old friend," She winked again and Edward suddenly smiled largely.

"I will do whatever you need," he told her stridently, and then saluted her. I'm pretty sure my mouth fell open at that moment.

"I was hoping you would, Mr. Cullen."

What was with the blonde?

She turned to me, "Just sit on the plane and be good. You're the anomaly."

"I'm the what?!"

"You heard me." She placed a hand under my chin – maybe to close my mouth. It made me shiver, she was so cold. Staring into my eyes, made every muscle weaken; it was like I was being entranced by her. She was beautiful with very Grecian features, square jaw line and deep set eyes with a perfect brow and aquiline nose. Her eyes would have been the most perfect blue, I guessed, when she wasn't a vampire.

"Can you remove… your hand?" I wasn't quite as forceful as I wanted to be. I couldn't look anywhere else but at her beautiful face.

"NO!" Edward said. "You can't do that to her."

The woman turned to him instantly. "I'm Agent Jane – I can do whatever I want to help our cause."

In that instant I felt I'd woken from the trance and her eyes. And my heart was beating so rapidly. I was the rabbit being hunted again.

She turned back to me. "He's right – I can't." she giggled. "But, the thought did run through my mind. You have a delicious smell." She then lowered, sniffing at my hair, and then quickly pulled up, her eyes and smile looking as if she were savoring a meal.

Now, not only was my heart beating quickly, but the blood from my face was draining.

She left me and walked up to Edward. "So it's true. You do read minds, Mr. Cullen. I knew I could get you to open up to me if I threatened the young girl."

"What side are you on, Agent Jane?" Edward asked her.

"I'm on the best side of the game. That's all you need to know." Jane turned back toward me. I was now so terrified she wanted to bite me. It was like in the movies, I guessed, and she would suck my blood out of me.

Her head tilted upward. "Ah, the other guests are finally here. Now we'll be able to depart."

I looked across to Edward. I knew he read minds. He didn't want them to know he read minds. Why would he want to protect me? I asked him with my mind, 'Why did you do that? You let Agent Jane know about your gift.'

He said out loud, "Gift? More like curse." And then when he stared at me with those deep green eyes I realized he'd read all my thoughts – every horrible thing I'd ever thought about him.

'I'm sorry,' I thought quickly.

He glanced up at me and then to the front of the plane as we heard Alice, "Hey guys – back together!" Alice ran down the aisle of the plane. "Bella, Edward – you should have seen Leah and Jasper in action." She looked to the vamp, Jane. "Hi Agent Jane - we'll be splendid friends one day."

"I don't' have friends," she dismissed her with the remark.

I could believe that.

"You will," Alice told her and then sat beside me, taking my hand in hers. "They took Leah with the FBI agents. One is this really BIG guy and the other is beautiful and blonde. Leah had all the vamps scared – like she got stronger or something – she killed a few vampires but the main one got away."

"James got away?" Agent Jane asked, sounding very bothered.

Alice nodded. She asked, "Agent Jane, why'd they take Leah?"

"Wolves are volatile. They need to speak with her – find out what she knows. She has been a vigilante and we want to make sure she understands she can't take the law into her own hands. Now if she fights she needs to play by our rules."

"Wait a minute," I asked, sitting up in the seat, "is she being arrested?"

"She is being questioned – being told certain rules. Her gift is something we'd like to find out more about… and use." Jane succinctly stated, "Everyone be sure and stay in your seats as we'll be taking off soon." Jane abruptly left where we were and walked past Jasper, who walked toward us. Their eyes met and both stopped for a moment, just staring at one another, and then Jasper continued down the aisle, sitting beside Edward, and then whispering to him.

"I hate when they do that," I told Alice.

"It's okay." She squeezed my hand tightly again. "Don't be scared, Bella. Everything will work out really well for you. Okay?" She turned to me with the largest smile, with those cute dimples, and it made me actually believe her. "You're meant to be Leah's sidekick like me."

"Thanks, Alice."

"Sure – I see things, and so I know it'll get better."

That was somewhat comforting. And then I turned to her quickly as the jet took off, "Sidekick…?"

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