*APOV*

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"Okay so here's the plan. We are going out, and I will not take no for an answer. We are all go, and you are going to have fun and take your mind off of all the negative things. And if you don't I will remind my dear brother of how horribly ticklish you are and that will make you laugh until you cry." I was in the process of beginning my make over session with Bella when Rose knocked on the bathroom door and came in.

"Do you have tonight's wardrobe?" I knew she would, we had discussed things after Rose talked to Edward. On our way out of the shop Rose pulled a couple of things to sample on Bella for the weekend. Edward may be head over heels for her, but we played to seal the deal for the two of them. And making Bella look unforgettable was how we planned to do it. My hardheaded brother had been in love with his best friend since grade school but was too stupid to tell her, so Rose and I were going to make sure he finally got it right. Lord knows we had been trying for years before we went separate ways for college.

"Hell yeah I got it. Bella my dear you are going to look like the hottest mother of two out there, well that is next to me." Rose said with a smile. She held up the clothes and Bella's jaw dropped.

"I can't wear that!" She said in a raised voice but clearly making sure not to yell so Edward her protector wouldn't come running.

"Oh yes you can darling, and you are going to. Either that or a mini and thigh high boots." Rose cocked an eyebrow and you could see the defeat wash across Bella. "That's what I thought!"

Rose hung the clothes up on the shower rod and left the bathroom, she was going to make sure the guys were all ready to go and downstairs so that we would be a surprise, especially Bella.

Rose had planned it all out, back in high school we had always done the triplet thing for homecoming, Halloween those kinds of things, so she decided we should do it one more time, sort of. Rose picked out the same tie at the neck halter top in different colors (purple for me, red for Rose, and blue for Bella) we would all be wearing form fitting leather pants, and black boots. It was going to be a fun night, and one that Edward would thank us for in years to come.

*UPOV*

I didn't need to see the driver to figure out who it was. Edward. I knew the name, almost as well as she did. I had heard that name countless times when she slept, dreamt of him while she was lying next to me. I hated him. I hated him more than anyone else in the world. Edward. I had never seen him in person, though I did see an old photo that Bella had in a scrapbook from high school. She never spoke of growing up, or her home town and I figured that he had something to do with him.

As I watched him walk into the house where my wife was now staying, I felt my hate seething through me. How was I going to convince her to come home with him here? "Damn it!" I pounded the steering wheel of my jeep with clenched fists.

I sat there and watched the house, much like I had all day, waiting for her. She was mine, I had claimed her, marked her, no one else would have her. I would be sure of that. After several minutes they came out of the house. He was carrying a bag, where were they going?

I watch him follow her to her Escape, I can't see the driver's side. I know the scent of her SUV, she has a small bottle of perfume she keeps in the console. I can smell it from memory. She thinks she can just leave me. Not in this lifetime.

I follow them down the road. I know better than to be too close. Eight years as an Army sniper taught me plenty, and to not be seen is one of the things I was trained. They arrive at the police station. How am I supposed to talk to her while she is there? "SHIT! GOD DAMN IT!" I remember Jacob that dog and his bitch Leah telling me that Bella would file a restraining order, restrain me from my wife. I don't fucking think so. I will have to teach Bella that she needs to respect me better. She always requires these lessons for her to understand that I am in charge. She vowed to honor and obey me, and I would make her do just that.

What feels like hours goes by and they don't come out. I am sure I saw some native bitch walk in with my children. "What the fuck is going on?" I want to just go in there and drag her out by her fucking hair. But I think better of it, he is in there, and I am sure that Edward will try to stop me. But what he doesn't get is that she is mine. I will show him, and her. Mine.

They finally exit the building. Bella is putting the children in the older bitches car, she looks like a mutt to me. My window is down while I smoke my cigarette and I swear I smell wet dog in the air. I see that bastard touch my wife. Everything in me wants to rip his fucking arm off. He looks in my direction. "Yeah that's right, I'm right here asshole. What are you doing to do about it?"

I figure she is going to follow the car with the children, I get ready to follow her, but that fucking silver Volvo pulls in behind her. As they go through the center of town I lose track of the car the kids were in, and Bella doesn't seem to be following it. "Where are you going to baby?" A Mustang cuts me off, two sexy looking women are in it. I am tempted to follow them. I could use a good time, and any woman who drives a Mustang like that, well she definitely must be into good times as well. I smile as I feel the twitch from my pants. Or maybe I will have Bella make it up to me. Yeah, that's what I will do. I watch the Mustang drive off down another street and get stuck at a red light. I look up and realize that I lost both Bella's Escape, and that damn silver Volvo. "Fuck!" When the light changes I head in the direction they were going when I last say the Volvo. Nothing, great. I decide to head back to the dump of a motel that I am staying at. Maybe later I will grab a beer and do some nosing around town. I figure someone around this small town will be able to tell me something about Bella and that Edward. Maybe I will find his address, if that is where she is well then two birds with one stone. I'll take back my wife after I destroy this asshole that is trying to take my wife from me. She. Is. Mine. Mine damn it. I'll prove it to both of them.

*EPOV*

I stood looking out the window of my bedroom, it looked out to the backyard, to a forest and stream that normally were very peaceful. Right now, I worried that he could be out there waiting for Bella to let her guard down. There was a knock at the door, I knew that Alice and Rose would be holding Bella captive until the last minute before we left. "Yeah?" I said figuring it was one of three people, Carisle, Jasper or Emmett. Esme knocked and usually said my name as she did so.

The door openned and in walked both Jasper and Emmett. Sometimes I was thankful for having these two by my side. They could be pretty scary at times, especially Emmett that man looked more like a grizzly bear when he was angry. Jasper that this air about him that made you think he was calm all the time, but when someone or something threatened Alice or her happiness and he was an unstoppble man. I thought of how this man had hurt Bella and looking at my two "brothers" I knew that I wouldn't stand for her to be hurt again, and that they saw her as family, a sister and they would do for her what they would do for both Alice and Rosalie. I looked at them and saw that they knew, they sensed that something was up. So I asked Emmett to shut the down, "I have to tell you two something, it's about Bella. I'm not sure what she has told Rose and Alice. Or that they have informed you of, but I need to tell you both everything I can." I put it all out there. Everything Bella had told me. Then I added what she wasn't tell me. "I'm pretty sure I saw his car. She had a picture of Emily by it up on the mantel. I saw it a couple of times today. I think he is here, and I think he might be dumb enough, crazy enough to try something. Charlie expects me to protect her, I can't do it alone. I need your help."

They had both been quiet while I talked, I looked at them and saw what could have been my own reflection. Saw it in their eyes, Bella was family to them, always had been since we were five. Emmett without looking at Jasper spoke for both of them. "Let 'im come. He will have to get through us if he even wants to look at her. He'll never touch her."

Jasper knodded his head in agreement. The three of us quietly planned for everything. I didn't trust taking Bella out, but I knew that if Alice set her mind to it, it was going to happen. I also didn't want Bella scared to the point that she would never leave her house. Especially if she worried that he was out there. Before we left I sought out Carisle. I needed to let him know what I was suspicious of, I didn't want harm coming to anyone in my family if this lunatic got it in his head that he was coming for Bella. I went to his study and knocked on the door.

'Yes?" Came his calm, soothing voice. I walked into the study and he looked up at me. "You look like you have something to tell me. And I have the feeling that it is not good news. Does it have to do with Bella son?" He sat with his hands folded on top of his desk. I looked at him and then glanced quickly around the room while I thought of how to tell him. Before I could open my mouth to get out the thought that I had finally put together he spoke again. "Edward, Chief Swan, yes I am going to referr to him as the Chief of Police right now, called me. He and I had a long talk about a citizen he is concerned about. As the head of the local hospital he felt I should be aware of the hard that had befallen this citizen before they came to Forks. He is afraid that harm might come to them again, and he wanted me to be on guard for it. Incase this citizen were to decide not to go to the hospital for any reason. And you know what else, son? After I finished with Chief Swan, I talked to Charlie. You know Bella's father. He said that you would come to me to let me know, but father to father he had to tell me. And then Charlie told me about what happened to his daughter for several years. As a father I agreed to help him in whatever manner I could. Since I look at his daughter as my own somedays, I felt I couldn't deny this to him. And now my son stands before me, I am sure to tell me about the woman he loves. Edward I can understand the hate you have for this man. I felt it myself, has does Charlie. Just promise me that you won't forget who you are." He said in a somber manner.

I knodded, "Of course dad. Thank you for understanding." I headed for the door. Then turned back "Um, Dad?" I began unsure of myself. "Um, well. When this is all over and done with. I want to ask Bella to marry me. I already talked to Charlie about this, he gave his blessing, will you give your's too?"

Sorry it took me so long to update. I have just been so fried lately. Thanks for reading this.