Chapter 2

JPOV

I cant believe that I was leaving in two days for Iraq. Of course I deployed before, but for some reason this one seemed different. Bella has been so good about not showing her emotions. I know she is upset and she is handling it very well. I was already thinking about our homecoming as I was driving to the bar to have one last drink with the guys before I left. Tomorrow night was about Bella and me only.

When I got to the bar the guys were all there waiting for me. La Push was a very small town and everyone knew I was deploying in two days. Sometimes it was cool cause everyone supported you, but at times it was a pain having everyone know your business. I was surprised to see my dad and Charlie at the bar with the guys. Charlie is great. He has always been a great dad to Bella and was always supportive of our relationship.

"hey guys" I yelled over the loud music.

"JAKE!!" all the guys shouted.

I don't think I was there for more than five minutes when they started ordering me shots. Obviously I was not driving home tonight. The mission seemed to be to get me drunk and I was happy to oblige. I just wanted to talk to Embry and Quil before I got too inebriated. I tapped them both on the shoulder and motioned for them to come out back with me.

"What's up Jake?" Quil asked

"Listen, you guys are my best friends in the whole world. I just want to tell you both I love you. I need a few things from you before I leave, ok?"

"Sure man whatever you need" Embry said

"If for some reason I don't make it back alive I want you to promise me that you are going to have a drink in my honor every fucking Friday. Take care of my car and please make sure Bella is ok. I cant leave knowing without knowing someone is here to take care of her if I cant be here."

"Dude you are talking nonsense. There is no way you are not coming back. What would the three amigos be with out the third amigo. We love you man but you are definitely coming back!" Quil said. Always the joker.

"Embry?"

"Yeah man?"

"Here take this. It is a letter I wrote to Bella incase I don't come back. I want you to keep this and give it to her if that time ever comes."

"I am not taking that letter man there is no need."

"Em please. She trusts you. Please."

"Ok but I am giving it back to you so you can burn it when you come home."

I felt better getting that off my back and now I could get trashed.

"Come on let's go get drunk and stupid!" I told everyone

We drank till I couldn't see straight and Charlie drove me home. Bella was asleep when I got home, which I was expecting and she knew I would be out late. I got undressed and laid down next to her. She automatically put her arm around me when I laid down. She was my home. When I got back I was doing the rest of my enlistment and getting out so we could start a family.

I got up the next morning feeling like shit, but I knew I couldn't lay around all day cause I had to pack. Bella's emotions weren't in check as well as they have been and I felt bad that there was nothing I could do to ease her pain.

"Bella, baby I am going to be fine. I know a year is a long time, but I promise I will email you as much as I can. I will come home finish my enlistment, get out and we will start the family we want so much. Please honey, this is hard enough."

"I know Jacob, but I am going to miss you so much."

"I am gonna miss you like crazy too Bells."

I walked over to her from my side of the bed, placed my hands on her cheeks and kissed her. I pulled my head away, looked deep within her eyes and kissed her again. I licked my bottom lip asking for entrance which of course she gave me. I removed my hands from her face and started unbuttoning her shirt slowly and pushing it down her shoulders. I unhooked her bra as I brushed kisses down her neck and to her collarbone. She placed herr hands on my bare chest and stroked my nipples as I hissed through my teeth. I got on my knees and took one of her nipples in my mouth as I stroked her center. "Ugh Jake" she moaned and threw her head back.

I slowly and painfully licked down her stomach to the top of her slit and licked her clit. I was the only man that has ever made her cum multiple times in one night. I slipped one finger in her and she moaned in ecstasy. I licked her a few more times and she screamed my name as she came.

I rose back up her body from my kneeling position and picked her up as she wrapped her legs around my waist. I pushed her back against the wall and entered her slowly. "Jake I need more! Please!" In that instant everything changed. I went from making slow love to her to pounding in and out of her while I pressed her back harder against our bedroom wall. I wasn't usually this rough, but this was the last time we would make love for a year. I was putting everything I had into this and I was loving every minute. She wrapped her arms around my neck for leverage and rode me hard till I screamed her name coming inside of her with such a force it brought tears to her eyes.

She got dressed and went down to start dinner as I finished packing. It wasn't till I was almost finished packing when I realized we didn't use protection. I didn't say anything to Bella. She didn't need to worry about possibly being unexpectedly pregnant while I was gone. Either she didn't think about it or she didn't want me to worry about it either, cause she never said anything.

The next morning she moped around the house as I got some last minute things together before we left for the airport. I got special permission to fly out commercial after everyone else left so we could spend a few extra days together. We drove to the airport in comfortable silence, glancing at each other lovingly every few minutes.

The moment of dread was finally upon us. I had checked my baggage and she had gone as far as she could with me to the security check point before the gates.

I sat me down on the bench and knelt before her.

"Isabella Black, I want you to remember this forever. I am madly in love with you. You are the sole reason I get up every morning. I breathe for you. I am going to miss you terribly, but I will always be with you. Before you know it, you will be driving to the base to pick me up. I love you honey and I promise I will come back."

Tears rolled down both of our cheeks as he stood back up and took my hand to walk towards the security check point.

I gave her my wedding ring so that incase something happened there were no ties to her. I couldn't tell her that and I made it like I wanted to her wear it so she would think of me everyday.

"Here you wear this around your neck everyday to remind you of me."

"Jake I don't need anything to remind me of you, but I will be glad to wear it"

"I love you Jacob Black. You come home to me."

I kissed her before walking through the gate and turned around after I got on the other side. I blew her a kiss, put my hand over my heart, and yelled to her. "I promise you I will return."

The first few weeks were hell. Getting used to the area, the heat, the lack of sleep. I was managing well. I tried to email Bella as much as I could, which was about every week.

We were three months into our deployment when all hell broke loose. There had been an execution in a near by village of innocent people by Al Queda because they had helped some soldiers. We heard about the killings as immediately went to find the men that killed the village. They must have known somehow that we were coming cause we were ambushed.

As soon as we got to the area that we thought them to be in we knew something was off. They started opening fire on us immediately. Three of the guys in my unit were killed instantly. My friend Collins and I were running for cover when we were both shot. He was shot in the left shoulder and I was shot in my upper left thigh. We fell immediately. The rest of our unit was dead or missing. We heard someone coming dragging bodies near us and we were captured. I threw my dog tags near one of the bodies because I didn't want them to be able to get information from me. The only thing I kept was my picture of Bella. As they were dragging us away we saw them burn the bodies of our fallen men. It was the most horrible sight I have ever seen.

They took us to this old abandoned building took out the bullets and wrapped our wounds, gave us some water and threw us in the basement of the old building. A few hours later they came to get Collins. I tried to fight them but I was weak from the wound and they kicked my ass till I passed out. When I came to Collins was sitting next to me beaten and bruised.

"What did they say man?" I asked him

"They wanted to know what unit we were with and what we were doing when they captured us. I wouldn't tell them anything and they beat me." Collins said

"We have to figure out a way to get out of her man. I need to get back to my Bella."

They came to get me next and questioned me. I told them nothing and they beat me up again. Then their leader went through my pockets and found my picture of Bella.

"You want to see her alive you talk. Otherwise I have friend go visit her." The asshole said

I couldn't talk, but I couldn't risk Bella's safety. I gave them my name and social security number but that was all I was willing to give. I had to believe they were just trying to make me talk and that they weren't going to hurt my Isabella. They beat me again and took me back to where Collins was passed out in the little room we were in.

A few hours later they gave us some water and something that resembled food. I didn't care much about what it was cause I was starving. I didn't think I was going to make it, but knew I had to stay alive so I could escape and get back to my wife.

Months had passed with the same shit. Beatings and nasty food. I didn't know what the purpose was for them keeping us alive, but I am sure there was something. I tried to escape one day, but I got caught and they whipped me for what seemed like hours. I passed out and when I came to Collins told me they over heard them talking about moving us to another location.

Three days later we were blindfolded and moved from where we were to another big building. This location was worse than the last. At least at the last place I actually had a bed to sleep in. There were about six other soldiers here and they explained that they were holding us because there was a terrorist cell back in the states that was being detained. Did that mean someone knew we were alive?

By now I am sure Bella thinks I am dead and that kills me. I hope my Bella is ok. I know that my dad and her dad are there to support her and I asked Embry and Quil to look after her. They would never let anything happen to her, but I know her heart must be breaking. I was going to get out of here it was just a matter of when.

Four years later

Most of the guys that have been in here with us are still alive. They have only killed two, which was two too many. At least they don't beat us like they did. We just clean guns and pretty much look at each other all day.

They brought two other men here last week. The guys and I were talking about trying to find a way to get out. There were only four guards and as weak as we were from the lack of food and sleep, I think eight of us could still take out four. I refused to die in some pit in Iraq and it was obvious that no one was coming to get us. We decided that the next time they came to bring us food we would attack. Two guards came in armed while the other two guards that brought the food had their guns attached to their backs. The two armed guards would be taken out first of course. The other two would follow. The four that were the strongest would lead us with guns to take out any others that we may not know about. This had to work. I thought about Bella every second for the next few hours and prayed I would see her again.

It was about that time. We heard the guards coming down the hallway and the four strongest, I think their names were Callister, Jacowitz, Seward, and Freedman were waiting for them to come through the door. The guards seemed a little off at first when they didn't see all eight of us, but I guess they thought maybe some of us were sleeping. I could see the guys coming down behind the guards out of the corner of my eyes and screamed, "NOW!"

As the four strongest attacked the two armed guards, I kicked one of the guards holding our food trays, making his legs fall out from underneath him and land on the ground. In the meantime, Callister and Seward snapped the armed guards necks. The remaining guard holding the food tray dropped the tray and grabbed his gun from behind him shooting Callister as he tried to get to him. Callister died instantly but the rest of us managed to take out the remaining guards. We couldn't carry Callister out we were too weak and would have been too vulnerable. As much as we hated to do it we had to leave his body behind.

We snuck out of the room with two four of us armed as we made our way to the front of the building. There were two guards standing out front and Seward and Freedman took them out with one shot. We managed to get to the outside when I felt someone rushing up to me from behind. I felt something hit against my head and a gunshot. That was the last thing I remembered till yesterday.

Waking up a year later

I woke up this morning having no idea where I was. All I knew was that there were monitors all around me and tubes sticking out of me everywhere. The nurse came in I guess for her daily rounds and saw that I was awake and called for the doctor.

"Lt. Black, I am Dr. Carlisle Cullen. You are in the hospital here in Baghdad. You have been in a coma for the last year. You didn't have your dog tags but we were lucky enough that the men you were being held captive with knew who you were. We lost one man out of your unit. His name was Collins"

Shit Collins was the only one who knew about Bella. I didn't talk about her to anyone else it hurt to much.

"What about my wife?"

"We didn't know you had a wife sir and when we went to check your dental records against your medical records they said you were deceased. We weren't sure if you were even who the guys said you were and we were not able to contact anyone based on information we couldn't prove. Now that you're awake as long as your vitals check out you should be able to be out of here in a few days. We will arrange for your transportation back to your unit."

"Can I call my wife?"

"that will be taken care of shortly"

No one ever came to get me to call Bella and I was released a week later with nothing but a plane ticket to Seattle. The world thought I was dead and there was no way I could prove anything otherwise right now.

When I finally got to New York I managed to tell a stewardess my story and she let me use a phone so I could call my dad.

"Hello?" My dad said into the phone. I couldn't hold back the tears it had been so good to hear his voice

"Dad. It's me. It's Jake. I'm alive"

"Jacob? Is that really you?"

"Yes dad it is me. I cant tell you much right now, but what I can tell you is that I am in New York and I am coming home. Please don't tell Bells I want to surprise her."

"Jake…."

"Sorry dad my plane is boarding. I love you and I will see you tomorrow."

I got off the plane and begged this man that was going to Forks to drop me off in La Push. I got out of the car in front of my house could hear people in the backyard. I walked around the house to find Bella standing in the yard.

"Bella" I sighed

She turned around and put her hand over her mouth. "Jacob? How?" She didn't move she just stood there. Just then I saw the most beautiful russet skinned boy with the blackest hair look out from around Bella.

"Mommy who is that?" Mommy? What the fuck?

Next thing I knew Bella fell to the ground as she passed out.