A/N Edited! Makes more since now huh?

-Slinky762

Cuz I love her with all that I am, and my voice shakes along with my hands

Cuz it's frightening to be swimming in this strange sea, but I'd rather be here than on land

Yea, she's all that i see and she's all that I need

And I'm out of my league once agian

Stephen Speaks: Out of My League

I looked at Bertha standing a whopping 5 feet 1 in front of us. She was short and stout, and how she moved like a ballerina, blew my mind into little surprised chunks. She was dressed in all black and wearing, what looked like a ninja mask over her mouth. She had so many folds she looked like a folded up quilt.

All the guys stumbled backwards so fast they were tripping over each other. I just stood there, jaw slack, and wondering what was so scary about Bertha the giant water balloon. Then she took a jiggly step forward and took out a disk about the size of my head. I took several steps backward and caught up with the guys.

"What's so scary about her?" I asked in disbelief that this is what they were cowering in fear of.

As soon as the words left my lips she took the disk and threw it in our direction. I dove to the ground and the guys scattered, but the tree behind us didn't fare to well. The 15-foot palm tree was immediately sliced in half and the disk hadn't even touched it. My eyes grew wide in horror as the tree fell over and landed inches from Edward's head as he lay on the ground. Jasper jumped up and took off down the beach at an astonishing speed. Bertha got a twinkle in her eye and bounded off after him jiggling all the way.

Jacob was the first to move. He got up and brushed the sand off his low-rise jeans, and looked out to where Jasper was surely still running for his life. He squinted a little and smirked.

"She's still hot on his tail." He managed before laughing so hard he cried.

"I don't get it. What's so funny?" I asked, still clueless about the inside joke that was obvious to everyone but me.

"Bertha is Jasper's ex-girlfriend." Edward said giggling a little.

I started laughing so hard I fell to my knees and cried. I laughed like that for 5 minutes straight before I calmed myself and stood up.

"He dated her?" I asked incredulously.

"Yea that was before she got infused with whale DNA." Edward said shielding his eyes from the now setting sun.

"Poor bastard." Jacob sighed.

"Do we wait for Jasper, or do we continue walking?" I said fairly certain the main character in an adventure novel would say.

"You're right Bella we can't stay here, but we can't leave Jasper with her." Jacob said looking grim.

"Why not? Aside from the disk I'd say she's harmless. I mean did you see the way she bounded off after him like a love sick puppy." I asked puzzled and wanting answers.

"Bertha is what we would refer to as the person who does the "dirty work" around the institute. Sometimes, like you saw with Grant's son, the guards take out unwanted personnel. Most of the time its her job." Edward said glaring in the direction Jasper and Bertha made their exit.

"How do you know, maybe it's not true. I mean she doesn't look threatening." I laughed remembering the way she jiggled after Jasper.

"Because I saw her execute Esme right there in our cell. Right in front of me. You tell me that was a rumor." Edward said looking cooler than when he was rolled on top of me making my ribs cave in. And a bit scarier. "Lets go." He said walking off in the opposite direction Jasper and Bertha went.

"But what about Jasper?" I gasped at the thought of him leaving his own brother behind. I know he was annoying, but I got attached to him. A little, you know like an annoying pet you can't help but love and on occasion call stupid affectionately.

"Don't worry he'll be fine, he can read my mind so he knows where we're going." Edward said icily.

So with that we made our way down the beach and over to a group of trees in the distance. After we made it to the trees we walked deeper and deeper into the forest. By the time we reached the cave Edward mentioned I had fallen 5 times, Jacob unearthed 4 bear traps and Jacob and I sang 3 camping songs.

By the look of the bear traps, this place wasn't exactly my definition of safe. Though it was better than a cell in a lab of a madman. Edward acknowledged that it was getting dark and informed Jacob and I he was going to go into the woods and collect firewood. 15 minutes passed and he still didn't come back. That must be one hell of a piece of firewood. Jacob looked over at me and grinned.

"I think we should play a game Bella, since its kind of boring waiting for him to get back." Jacob said reaching into his pant pocket and pulled out a deck of cards.

"Where did you get those? Didn't the guards take everything off you?" I questioned him, wondering what good answer he had for this one.

"I pick pocketed the guard who took them from me when they were dragging me to your cell," He said with a grin,"So Bella what card game do you know how to play?"

I paused and thought about this for a second and my face turned crimson when I came to a conclusion. I only knew how to play one game using cards, and it wasn't good. Don't look at me like that ok, I was a computer and cell phone child when I got old enough to use electronics. And the only card game I ever played was at one of my mom's lady parties she held every month at our house. Yes that's right readers. Strip Poker. I looked down at the floor and blushed. Hoping Jacob wouldn't ask, but sadly he caught on.

"What? You don't know how to play cards? That's not good cause neither do I. Um only one game though…" He said with a pause.

"Strip Poker." We both said at the same time. I sat wide eyed with my mouth open.

"Well we don't have to play if you don't want to. You know if your too worried that your gonna lose, I understand." Jacob said coyly.

That's it. Bella Swan does not back down from a challenge! I was pumped and ready and I'm not even sure he was challenging me or not, but I wanted to beat him and show him I was not about to lose.

"You're on." I said confidently looking at the deck of cards waiting for him to deal. He finally did so and the game began.

"Oh Edward, watch out for that-"

Smack

"-tree limb."

Edward lay face down on the ground holding his face. Jasper leaned down with the glow of his newly reclaimed cell phone looking over at him quietly wincing to him self at the now apparent black eye Edward had going on.

Edward had finally found Jasper and lo and behold Bertha had a copy of the documents explaining Dr. Grant's plan for human kind. Male mentality thinking: They had been the only ones to escape the Dr.'s grasp and have the opportunity to stop him, so why not right?

Edward continued to lie on the ground holding his face while Jasper read over the documents by cell phone light. It was all there and now they needed a plan.

"Come on Edward, get up. We need to get back and discuss this with Bella and Jacob." Jasper whispered into the darkness in front of him. Edward made no move to get up. So Jasper invaded Edward's mind to see what he was thinking about.

I hope Jacob hasn't done anything to Bella. I really like her, and no wet dog smelling science experiment is going to take that away.

"Well, well what are we thinking here, hmm?" Jasper purred snapping Edward out of his thoughts. He sat up and pointed an accusatory finger at Jasper.

"You stay out of my thoughts." He said sighing and getting up. "We better go."

"That's what I've been trying to tell you!"

This game was getting steamy, though the cold night air kept me cool and tamed by blush. I had done it now. I challenged a man to a game we were both equally good at. I looked up to meet Jacob's eyes staring at me over the top of his cards. We were both not wearing much. I was down to my undies and bra while Jacob was in his boxers.

You could see the perfect creases of his abs as he sat on the ground shielding his cards from sight. The cave was pretty crammed with the both of us sitting face to face in front of each other. Since it got dark and pretty windy we had moved into the cave for some wind block but now that I think about it, outside would have been better. I could feel the heat radiating off him in front of me and his knee brushed mine every time he tried to move into a more comfortable sitting position.

My wings had unfolded due to my increase in heart rate; they were slightly shielding my exposed body, but not by much. The makeshift fire that Edward made earlier was dimming rapidly and the ice-cold floor stung my thighs as I sat as still as possible petrified by his gaze.

It roamed up and down my body stopping at my eyes and then returning to his cards. I would have been more petrified if his gaze had been filled with lust but no it was way worse, it was full of interest. I was looking him up and down too, but every time I got lower than his waist my eyes would shoot back up to his face and my checks would burn red.

My heart beat rapidly as I looked at my cards and discovered I had a decent hand. We both exchanged glances and laid our cards on the ground at the same time. Both were full houses. We both quickly looked at the cards numbers. Jacob had 9's and I had 10's. HA! I won! Jacob shrugged and stood up placing his hands on his waistband. My face lit up and nearly exploded my head. You could see his happy trail (Deff: trail of hair from belly button to you know where) leading down under the waistband.

"You know you don't have to." I said hoping I didn't sound desperate to get out of this.

"A deal's a deal." Jacob said continuing to move his skive drawers further south.

FIRE, FIRE! SOMEONE CALL THE FIREMEN! MY FACE IS ON FIRE! SWEET MOTHER OF ALL THAT IS HOLY! BELLA KEEP IT TOGETHER WHY DID YOU SUGGEST THIS? AAAAAHHHHHHH!

Just as Jacob started tugging down on his skive drawers Edward and Jasper appeared.

"Hey Bella, Jacob we need to-." Edward stopped short and took in the scene in front of him. Me sitting on the ground with my wings covering parts of me and Jacob standing up in front of me with his hands on his waistband about to pull down his delicates. I could have sworn Edward's eyes rolled back in his head and steam came out of his ears as he pounced on Jacob taking him to the ground. He began slugging him in the head until Jasper tried to pull him off.

"Stop you two, STOP!" I yelled and the sound waves from my voice became a high and pitched screeching sound causing all of them fell over in pain covering their ears, soon they all blacked out. All I could do was stand in place and shake violently. I looked down at my hands, watching them tremble in fear.

What has that man done to me? I couldn't take it anymore, so I grabbed my clothes and ran off into the forest as fast as I could. The wind whipped behind me as I sprinted through the forest with ease, dodging oncoming objects with grace. Once my legs became sore and I couldn't run anymore I stopped and dropped to my knees.

What is happening to me? First I was summoning up fire, and then I used my own hands to knock down a wall, and now with the sonic sound wave. What did that man do to me!

And I continued to sob into my hands as I sat alone in the forest. Then I heard footsteps behind me but they were not very near, but getting closer.

Oh yea and the hearing thing too. I sighed and put on my clothes, waiting for the footsteps to reach me. After a few minutes a dainty looking girl that looked about in her 20's stepped out from the foliage followed by a crocodile waddling behind her.

"I thought I heard some crocodile tears, and I knew they weren't Aro's. Right Aro?" The croc nodded in response wagging his tail like a friendly golden retriever. The girl was wearing a light blue one strap top and a skirt of the same color that went about 3 in. above her knee. She had a staff in her hand that had a strange looking totem on the top. She laughed ever so lightly that her pixy cut black hair didn't even budge. She stopped her light giggle and looked at me.

"I know who you are Bella, but don't be alarmed, I can only tell that because I can see the future, thanks to that man." She smiled and waited for my response.

"Wait, you were an experiment too?" I asked wiping my tears away.

"Yes, I was and Bella it's nothing to fear. These traits you have are a gift to help you with your destiny." She replied as she unfolded her own pair of wings. They were white but they weren't those of a swan like mine. (Haha Swan you get it? Bella Swan?) They were short and stubbly and fluffy, kind of cute like you would find on a stuffed animal.

"My destiny? What are you talking about? I don't believe in that stuff! I make of my future what I want it to be." I snapped.

"Calm down please Bella, you're the only one who can do this. You have all the gifts of the angels. They were given to you for this purpose." She tried to reason with me.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa what are you talking about? I wasn't touched by an angel or anything. That monster of a man did this to me." I was completely lost. This was like coming out of some Sci-Fi show.

"No he didn't Bella. He only did the horrible testing on the others. The reason he had this concept of animal people is because he saw you when you first developed your powers. Not even the other who has my power could see that far back into the past." She said.

"Wait, what? Who?" I wanted to know who this person is, they could be of some help to me.

"Its not mine to tell, well I must be going now Bella. And when your ready to know more, ask Edward and Jasper about me. Just tell them you want to know about Alice. Come along now Aro." And she vanished into the night with a crocodile following behind her. Wow, crazy chick seems to know a lot about me. I was about to turn around when an orb of light appeared in front of me. I looked into it and in a flash of light images of my child hood flooded my mind.

There are pictures of me about 5 years old playing outside with my dad, when my wings pop out and a strange man approaches my dad asking about it. My dad says that they are just plastic and takes me inside as the man smiles evilly as we go back inside. When the images fade I fall backwards onto the ground in a daze.

"Good. My memory spell worked. Bella Swan, your life is about to get complicated." Alice whispered into my ear, before disappearing once more into the foliage.

"I hate you Alice whats your last name." I croaked out and fainted. On the ground. In my undies. All I could think of was why the hell did I want to play strip poker?