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{PPOV}
"Peter! Take the lead," Jasper ordered. "You know the way the best."
I took point, with Bella and the major hot on my heels. Luckily, the camp was in Galveston, not far from Houston.
"Okay," Jasper started planning while we ran. All we knew up to the point was 'get to Charlie'.
"Peter, Victoria doesn't know you're with us. So we're gonna need you to lure her out of the room Charlie is in. Use her affection toward you, if you have to."
"Got it, Jazz," I responded without even faltering my step.
"Bella, you and Rosalie will go into the torture chamber and get your father." Bella and Rose just nodded in acknowledgement.
I'm the one she wants, so I'm going to confront her, and when she's about to attack me, Peter will grab her and hold her while Charlotte, Emmett, and I take turns slowly ripping her to pieces, and Alice will start they pyre and place the bits into the fire.
As soon as we had a plan in place, I slowed down and came to a stop in front of the all too familiar shack. I had been here too many times before.
"Bella, Rose, there is a back door that leads up the stairs where Charlie is being held," I informed.
Jasper turned around and nodded at everyone to take their positions; Bella and Rose in the back, Jasper, Charlotte, and Emmett in a tree, and Alice in a nearby field starting the fire.
I knocked on the front door, and was unusually disgusted when I heard the voice that I used to relish in...
"Who is it?" She asked in her phony sweet and innocent voice.
I sucked up the hate I felt for her this moment and responded. "It's me, Darlin'. I've missed you and just wanted to check up on you." She was at the door before the last word was out.
"Peter! What a lovely surprise, my love. How did you find me?"
"I've been trying my hand at tracking, Sweetheart. Why don't you come out here so we can catch up?" She closed the door and stepped closer to me. She started running her hands up and down my chest. As if on cue, Jasper jumped down from the tree and walked to us.
"Well, well. If it isn't the great Major Jasper Whitlock. I see my little pet still hasn't disposed of you."
"I can assure you, Victoria, I don't know what you mean," Jasper lied.
Victoria started stalking toward Jasper, but before she could get to him, I had her in a headlock as Charlotte and Emmett jumped down from the tree.
"What the hell is going on?" She screeched. "Peter! What are you doing?!"
Right at that time, Bella and Rosalie walked out, Bella holding a horrifically battered Chief Charlie Swan. She saw that we hadn't destroyed the witch yet, so she gingerly handed he father, who was unconscious, to Rosalie.
"My pet..." Victoria cooed. "I gave you one simple task. And you couldn't do it." She clicked her tongue a couple of times." Now look what's become of your dear daddy."
{Victoria's POV}
She was in my face in an instant. Mockery planted on her face as she looked me up and down.
"Oh, Victoria. See, my dad is strong. The strongest human I know of. And Jasper, well he's my mate, meaning I couldn't kill him without killing myself. Yeah, I intended on killing him like you told me to, until I found out who he was. Then, we made a plan. So, who's the pet now?"
I opened my mouth to speak, but instead of words, all that escaped was a scream. In Bella's hand was my right arm. She used it to slap me across my face. Amusement planted on Jasper's face, he slowly and painfully ripped off my left arm, making me scream again. Then Charlotte took my left leg, then my right leg was taken by the big man who I assumed was Jasper's brother.
"I didn't want it to come to this," Peter whispered in my ear, "but with what you did to Charlie, you left me no choice."
{Bella's POV}
Peter pulled Victoria's head off and her torso dropped to the ground. I took her head from Peter and made her watch as one by one, her dismembered body parts were flung effortlessly into the fire and burned to ash.
"I bet you're expecting me to throw your head in now, aren't you?" I asked her, though I knew she couldn't respond due to her severed vocal cords. "Well, one thing you don'tj know about me, I don't follow through with expectations." I saw her eyes widen in response. Then I called out. "Emmett! Get me a box!"
As soon as he brought me the box, I laid her head inside, then knelt down so that she could see me as I spoke to her one last time.
"You probably think that I'm a monster, but the thing is... YOU made this monster. Burying your head doesn't even come close to what you deserve, but it will give you enough time to reflect on all of the wicked deeds that you have performed."
And with that, I placed the lid on the box and buried Victoria's head in the hole that Jasper had dug as I gave my final speech to the flaming bitch.
At this point, Charlie was somewhat conscious, but clearly dying.
"Jasper, what do I do?" I asked as I rushed to Rosalie and Charlie's side. But before Jasper could respond, Charlie answered in a weak whisper.
"Bells, I love you. Even you being a vampire, I'm no less proud of you either, Kiddo. But my request is this, end my suffering now. Just please, end the pain," he pleaded.
Once again, he was telling me goodbye, and I couldn't handle it this time.
"Dad! Charlie! Oh God! What do I do?" I cried hysterically. Then, I heard Jasper speak to me where Charlie couldn't hear him.
"Just change him, Bella. I can't see you hurt again over losing him..."
I didn't even spare a glance at Jasper. My instincts took over and I bit my father on the side of his jugular and pumped my venom into it, followed by his heart as Jasper did his wrists and ankles. As soon as we sealed the wounds, Jasper scopped Charlie up gently and we ran to Jasper's childhood farmhouse to make his transformation more comfortable.
*Three Days Later*
{Charlie's POV}
What's going on? Where am I? How did I get her?
I couldn't see anything, but I could hear everything. Several voices of men and women, a fly buzzing by, and..
Is that a hummingbird? In the house?
I tried one more time to open my eyes, this time being successful. I was laying in a huge bed in a strange house. Someone made a move and my eyes flashed toward where they stood. There were two pale men, and as soon as I caught sight of them, something came over me. I jumped from the bed and was directly on top of one of them, snarling in his face. But, before I could do any actual damage, I was pulled off of him by a blonde haired man that hadn't been there before.
"Chief Swan?" he addressed.
"Who's asking?" I responded, still not taking my eyes off of the one I had just attacked.
"My name is Jasper...Hale...and if you could just ease up, there's someone that needs to see you..." he sounded wary. I could feel the sincerity in his voice.
I relaxed a bit, no longer growling or staring anyone down.
"Alright!" He called to someone unknown. I heard soft footsteps coming closer. Then, there she was...
"Bella?!" I wanted to cry. I thought I'd never get to see my little girl again.
"It's me, Dad," she responded. She walked slowly toward me, but in my opinion, she was taking too long. I rushed to hug her neck.
"Ow," she whispered. I released her immediately.
"Whats' wrong?" I asked her. "Are you hurt?"
"No, Dad. I'm fine. You're just a bit too strong at the moment.."
"What do you mean?" I asked, holding my arms out to look at them. Then I noticed the scars on my wrists. "What in the..."
"Dad, listen. Just please let me explain everything," Bella pleaded, cutting me off, looking desperate.
I looked into my daughter's beautiful...red?...eyes...Why are her eyes red? What happened to her chocolate brown ones? And couldn't help but hear her out.
"Okay, Bells. I'm listening."
"First of all, Please don't be mad. I made a split second decision, and I didn't do it lightly..."
She seemed to be afraid of something. She looked down and wouldn't look me in the eyes.
"You're a vampire, Daddy..but before you get upset, you have to understand. I couldn't lose you again. That would mean that I'd have to go the rest of my existence without you. You were dying, and my instincts took over and I changed you.."
She finally looked up at me, waiting for my reaction. I took it all in before looking back up to give her a warm smile, followed by my confusion.
"Don't you remember, Dad? When Victoria called me and I talked to you, I told you that she was a vampire and that so was I because she changed me..."
I processed for a minute, though my human memories were hazy.
"I think I remember that now, but not too clearly. It does add up, though." I remember I asked you to the end the pain. It's not the way that I imagined, but you did what you felt you needed to do..."
"There's something else you need to know, Dad.." she cut in.
"What else?" I asked.
"Well, actually, there's a pretty good bit more, but for the moment... I need you to stay completely calm and remember that I'm right here, and that EVERYONE here helped me sve you..and the one that I'm fixing to introduce, he's the one that helped me make my decision to change you, and he helped me to change you..," she said carefully.
I nodded.
She looked behind her and the man that introduced himself as Jasper stepped forward.
"Bella, we've been introduced," I told her before turning to the young gentleman. "And thank you, all of you, for helping save me and for protecting my daughter."
"Okay, this is where I need you to stay calm, Dad. Yes, technically, his name is Jasper Hale.."
"What do you mean, 'technically'?" I interrupted.
Jasper cleared his throat and Bella looked at him, as did I.
"Sir," he began, "when I introduced myself as Jasper Hale, I wasn't being deceitful. That is my legal name. I changed it, legally, long ago. But my real name, my birth name I should say, is what Bella is afraid of with how you'll react.."
"Okay. Is someone going to tell me why?" I asked, looking curiously between the two of them, although I was sure I already knew why.
"Dad, his name is..."
"Major Jasper Whitlock, sir."
How cute. They're already finishing each other's sentences..
"I see. But let's get to the-"
Once again, my daughter interrupted.
"Dad, you're not mad?"
I just chuckled. "Of course not. You see... Now that you've brought one memory of my horribly 'last days', all the rest are starting to come to surface. Victoria had made it slip as to who Jasper was and her assumption as to why you hadn't come for me yet."
Bella looked down, as if ashamed. Jasper spoke up.
"What did she tell you?" He asked.
"She told me that Jasper Whitlock went by a different name and that she believed that the reason Bella hadn't come for me was because she was sleeping with you instead of killing you." I answered.
Bella's head shot up, angrily.
"And why in the Hell would she think that?!"
"Because you're mates," I answered nonchalantly.
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