I'm spoiling everyone lately, 3 chapters in 3 days. I will try to keep this up until I begin college again but I make no promises. I hope you enjoy it. Unbeta'd so any mistakes are mine.
Chapter 9-
Jasper starts the engine of James's crappy old car. "Why the fuck did he choose to drive this rust bucket if he had millions in the bank?" Jasper muses out loud, his voice dripping with disgust.
He hears Rose laughing in his ear. "Just drive."
"You'd be worse if you were in my place, darlin'" He tells her.
"But I'm not, so I can enjoy it."
"Edward, shut your sister up before I do."
"Ladies. Behave." Edward's laughing voice fills Jasper's earpiece.
"Ugh, I hate this family. I'm gonna take Alice and we're running away." Jasper mutters.
"I guarantee you wouldn't make it far." Carlisle says.
"Fight me, Old man." Jasper replies.
Laughter fills the earpiece. Suddenly, Jasper turns onto the highway, the surveillance van 9 cars behind. They all speed up. "ETA 5 minutes." Rose tell them all when they get further down the highway. "Next turnoff."
Turning off the highway, they all slow down and get serious. "Play it." Jasper says.
In the surveillance van, Rose reaches up to the control panel and presses the red button in the middle. Fake Charlie starts to cry. They don't know if the man will already be there so they're getting ready early.
"Jesus, did you record her or something." Edward asks.
"Of course. It has to be as realistic as possible." Jasper says sounding proud. "My girl is a genius."
"I believe I can take about 5% of that credit." Carlisle says. "My girl is a genius also."
Jasper turns the corner, driving into an abandoned and desolate parking lot. "Ugh, this is a shithole."
There is broken pavement, abandoned cars, some burnt out and some just stripped of everything valuable. The streetlights are broken, smashed up and beyond repair. There is a bin across the lot where homeless people obviously congregate, the remnants of a fire still within. Trees shroud the lot from the hotel across the street and the block of flats at the back, obviously a shitty area. The perfect location for this type of deal, even in broad daylight, no one would tell anyone what they saw.
Alec pulls the van to a stop down the road from the lot and walks to the back where the rest of them are watching. They see a red truck drive down the road, pull in to the parking lot and park up across the lot from Jasper.
"Hit her. That's what James would do, then I will turn up the cries." Rose says.
Jasper did what Rose said. The cries increase.
"Shout at fake Charlie." She said.
"SHUT UP YOU WASTE OF SPACE." He screamed at her.
She whimpers and then quietens down. The man who pulled up watches the entire exchange before turning his car on and pulling out of the space.
"What's he doing?" Edward shouts.
"Calm down, I'll block him." Alec says as he runs to the front of the van. Before he can turn it on however, the man parks up right next to Jasper. Everyone in the van relaxes. Edward walks to a tree at the back of the lot, pretending to be a local having a smoke.
They watch as the man gets out of his car and leans against the door. Jasper does the same thing.
"That her?" The man asks.
"Obviously." Jasper replies.
The man nods his head slowly. "Get her out."
"Money first."
The man laughs. "Just so you can drive away with her. No."
"I hate her. Why would I drive away with her still in the backseat?"
"To sell her to someone else. I'm not stupid."
Jasper nods his head. He reaches in the car grabbing the car seat Charlie came to them in and places her on the floor. "That's as far as she goes until I get the rest of the money."
"Let me touch her." The man says.
"I want the money first or this goes no further."
"Someone has grown some balls. When I hadn't heard from you I thought someone had got to you. And then when I tried to delete your bank files, someone had remote control of them. Curious, isn't it? It's almost like you're working with someone else. But not even you would be that stupid. So what is it? It's not the police because whoever it is covered their tracks too well. Almost like they were never there, allowing me some control but I know it's not everything. I can't change details. I can't delete things. Tell me. Now." He says the last word with a gun pointed right between Jasper's eyes.
Edward saw the gun being pulled from his spot by the tree at the back of the lot about halfway through the man's speech and pulled the cuff of his jacket up to his mouth. To any passers-by it would look like he was just scratching his nose as he enjoys a smoke and people watching. "Gun." Is all he said.
Jasper braces himself. In the van, Carlisle and Alec get ready to jump in if necessary; Marcus helping Rose with the technical side of the mission.
Just after the man says "Now." Edward has his gun pressed to the back of his head.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Edward says in a cold, hard voice.
Carlisle, Alec, and Rose jump out of the van and run down the path towards Jasper, Edward and the man in the parking lot, their guns raised in case he brought any men with him.
Rose sees a man in a tree out of the corner of her eye, she shoots him right between the eyes and they carry on. More men run into their path and Alec shoots three men dead with three bullets, Carlisle falls behind, covering their rear and shoots four men running up behind them. He sees two men run up to the van, Marcus throws open the door and knocks the two men out, shooting them once their down. At the lot, Edward shoots the man in the shoulder because they need him alive to get information later on. Jasper grabs fake Charlie putting her in the back, her car seat clipping in automatically, and Edward drags the man to the car, throwing him in the boot and runs to the front seat. Jasper starts the car and drives away, Edward hanging out the window and shooting 5 people on the pathway. The other men run away and Rose, Alec, and Carlisle run for the van. Marcus throws open the doors again and they all climb in, Alec rushing to the front, starting the car and following Jasper back to the house.
They pull onto the highway and speed up, Edward and Jasper hearing their hostage bang and shout in the back.
"Everyone okay" Edward asks.
"Yeah. All fine, no injuries." Carlisle answers. "You two okay?"
"Yeah. And we've got the guy. I shot him in the arm and he's in the boot." Edward replies, the boot now silent. "He must have passed out."
"Okay, when we get back, take him round the back entrance and lock him in the basement. Meet me in the kitchen. I hear Bella's making brownies." Rose says.
They all laugh as they pull off the hallway and eventually onto the driveway. Bella runs outside just as Edward gets out of the car. She runs into his arms and he instantly relaxes, wrapping his arms around her waist and squeezing her tight. She suddenly starts laughing.
"Um, Angel, what's so funny?" Edward asks, sounding confused.
"You brought fake Charlie back."
Edward looks behind him and starts laughing along with her. "Jas?" He asks.
"Shit, I didn't realise." He says laughing.
Edward unwraps his arms from Bella and she steps back. He kisses her forehead, takes her hand and they walk into the house, seeing Charlie laying on the floor. She smiles when she sees him and Edward walks over to her and picks her up. "Hello baby girl. I'm going to kill the man who tried to hurt you." He gives her a kiss and places her back down on the floor.
"He's trying to steal my brownies!" Rose shouts as she runs up from the basement after securing the man in one of the rooms.
"Alice is doing a pretty good job of that." Bella replies.
"Alice! Don't eat my brownies!" Rose shouts as she runs through to the kitchen.
Bella hugs Edward around the waist, her hand on his bum, as they walk into the kitchen together. As soon as they're out of her eye line, Charlie starts to cry. Bella disentangles herself from him as she continues towards the kitchen, both of them knowing who she's after, and Edward walks back to pick her up and take her with them. "Come on then, Charlie." He says.
He walks into the kitchen to see all the women round the table, Rose and Alice stuffing brownies in their mouths.
"I swear, she likes you more than she likes me." Bella comments.
"Not possible." He replies sitting next to her.
Charlie starts to cry and reach for her mum.
"Yeah, you can't feed her." Alice says.
"Didn't stop Jake." He retorts.
"Don't bring my boy into this." Rose says around a brownie she stuffed in whole. She swallows. "He was a unique baby, whenever he saw a nipple he thought he would get food." She explains to a confused Bella.
Bella chuckles and reaches for her baby, turning around, getting Charlie situated and then turning back. She leans into Edward and he wraps his arm around her as she nurses.
Edward is stood in front of the man from the parking lot who is tied to a chair, much like James was a month earlier.
"Who do you work for?" Edward asks him sounding bored.
The man just laughs.
"What's your name?"
Again, the man just laughs.
"How old are you?"
Again, the man just laughs.
"Who's your favourite muppet?"
The man looks Edward dead in the eyes and says "Beaker."
This time Edward laughs. "So he does speak." He says turning to look at Jasper.
Jasper steps forward. "What. Is. Your. Name?" He says slowly.
The man doesn't look away from Edward sensing that he is the main threat.
"Come on, you held a gun to my head, the least you could do is give me a name."
The door opens and Alice walks in holding a tablet. "Found him. Laurent Kyle, aged twenty nine. Grew up in Chicago, son to a Mary Kyle, previously Mary Davis, and Jason Kyle. Both died in a car crash when he was twelve, the only survivor their son, Laurent. Placed in the foster care system, he ran away when he was fifteen and was living on the streets. Arrested multiple times over the next two years for minor drug charges and assault. Then he disappears. If I had to guess, I would say that 17 is the age you got mixed up with Aro."
Laurent doesn't flinch or make any indication he heard what Alice said, still keeping eye contact with Edward.
"However, there is a man called Joseph Aclin who curiously shares the same face as you. Now he's popped up many time since Laurent Kyle disappeared. A person of interest in many cases involving Aro, including the one being investigated by Charles Swan of the FBI. Curiously, Joseph Aclin took a trip to England, flying in a week before the fire that killed the Swan family and a Mr Kevin Smith of the FBI. He flew back to Seattle three days later."
Alice is now standing between Jasper and Edward. Laurent's gaze has moved to her.
"You're pregnant." He says.
"I wondered why my stomach was increasing in size. Thank you for clearing it up." She sarcastically answers.
"I bet a Cullen baby would sell for a lot."
"I bet it would. But we shall never find out." She replies.
Laurent goes to speak again but he's cut off before he can even begin.
"If you aren't going to tell us who you work for, what they wanted with that baby or anything else of importance, shut up." Edward says.
"Why would I do that? He's been good to me."
"So have we, you're not dead yet and we gave you a glass of water when you arrived." Jasper says.
"You poured it over my face to wake me up."
"It's not our fault you wasted it." He says with a shrug.
Laurent spits at Alice, she steps back before it can reach her. Rose walked in just before he spat and walks slowly over to him before punching him round the face.
"WHO. DO. YOU. WORK. FOR!" She shouts in his face.
He laughs. "Two woman. The Cullen's are even more fucked than we thought."
"I believe it's you who is fucked." Alice says before walking to the cupboard across the room and retrieving one bottle of the acid that is stored on the top shelf. She walks over, hands it to Rose and leaves the room.
"Weak." Laurent scoffs.
"No, pregnant." Rose answers. "Can you grow a life in your body? No, I don't think so." She kicks him in the balls. "You genitals are weak. A woman's can push a human being out of it."
She then uncaps the bottle of acid, when she does this, Edward and Jasper step back, and she pours it over Laurent's crotch. He starts to scream as the acid corrodes his flesh, his penis literally disintegrating before their eyes, his clothes having already corroded away.
"Whoops, slipped." Rose says with a shrug of her shoulders. She leans in close to him and whispers "And there is plenty more where that came from." She smirks and steps back.
Edward steps forward, "So, now do you want to tell us who you work for?"
"No. I will never grass." He screams through the pain.
Edward smiles. "I was hoping you'd say that."
He walks out of the room and up the stairs into the living room. "Mom, where's that steal tub you used to bath us in when we were babies?"
Esme and Bella look up. "Do I even want to know?" She asks.
He shrugs and then smiles. "Probably not"
She smiles and shakes her head before standing up and walking out of the room. Edward walks over and sits next to Bella who is cuddling Charlie. He pulls her into his side and he looks down at the baby in her arms. "Don't worry Charlie, I'm hurting the nasty man who wanted to hurt you."
Bella looks up at him. "What are you doing to him?" She asks.
He looks at her. "Do you really want to know?"
"Yeah. If I'm going to be in your life then I want to know what you do."
He smiles lovingly at her. "Okay, well Rose just spilt acid all over his crotch and we watched as it melted his skin." He laughs. "His dick has all but melted off."
Bella smiles. "Now what are you going to do?"
"That doesn't scare you or gross you out?" He asks her.
"No. It's for my baby and he's a bad man. Even then, I strangely don't care. My loyalty lies with this family and he tried to threaten that. Take him down."
"It could be argued that I'm a bad man." Edward tells her.
"Yes. But you're my bad man."
He leans down and kisses her forehead. "Next I'm going to lock his hands to one of the bars on the walls so he can't go anywhere and bathe him in acid until he talks. Like I did to James with the cuts and the lemon juice but more extreme. I know this guy can take it, James would have passed out."
"Why can this guy take it?"
"He will have been trained to withstand immense pain and interrogation techniques."
Bella nods her head and snuggles into Edward's side as they wait for Esme to come back.
"Gossip girl?" Edward asks looking at the frozen screen of the television.
"Yeah… How do you know what it is, there is no title showing anywhere." She smirks up at him.
"Um… Ah… Fuck it, I've been known to watch an episode or two."
Bella laughs at his embarrassment.
"Try every episode ever made." Esme says walking back into the room with the steal tub.
"Yeah, thanks mom. Now she'll never want to be my girlfriend."
"I can let this one slide." Bella says with a laugh, acting like it's a big ask.
"Thanks Angel." He says giving her and Charlie a kiss on their foreheads as he stands up. He walks over to him mom and does the same thing. "Thanks mom." He takes the tub from her.
"You're welcome. Don't get acid on yourselves." She says after guessing what it's for.
"We won't." He calls from the basement door, confirming her thought.
He runs down the stairs and walks back through the door. Laurent is sat there bloody and bruised but still not talking.
"What did you do?" He asks with a smirk, turning toward his sister knowing it's her handiwork.
"I had a little fun with my baseball bat." Rose says with a smile.
"Hmm, he's looking a little dirty, don't you think?"
"I agree."
"Bath time." Edward says holding the tub up in his hands and walking over to place it on the floor by the wall. "Jas, bring him over and secure his hands on the pole."
Jasper does just that while Edward gets more acid out of the cupboard. He walks back over slowly.
"Now, either you tell us what we want to know, or we pour more and more acid in your bath. Understand?" He says to the broken man in front of him.
Laurent says nothing.
"I'll take that as a yes. Who do you work for?"
Again, Laurent says nothing.
"Okay." Edward says as he pours 250ml of acid in the tub.
Laurent starts screaming again.
"What did they want with Charlie?"
Nothing. More acid is poured and more screams fill the room.
"Who do you work for? I can literally do this all day. And don't think we'll let you die before telling us what we want. This can go on for as long as you like." Edward says.
"Fine. I work for Aro Volturi."
"Great. Finally we're getting somewhere. What does he want with Charlie?"
Nothing.
"Really?" Edward exclaims.
He pours another 250ml of acid into the tub.
"What does Aro want with Charlie?"
"Who's Charlie?" Laurent asks through the pain.
"I knew you were stupid but I didn't realise you were this stupid. The baby James sold to you."
"He wants to train her. He has loads of them. Boys too. Not just babies either."
"Train her for what?"
"Sex."
Everyone stops.
"She's a baby." Jasper says.
"I know, but he trains them from a young age. They are more compliant but it can be done when they're older. A lot of trade is done this way."
"When does he sell them?"
"Whenever, depends on the age the customer wants."
"That's sick. What about the boys?"
"Fighters. They are recruited and work for him."
"Like you."
"Yeah."
"You're sick. You help this. Where were you supposed to drop her off?"
Nothing.
"Again?"
More acid is poured in the tub. Laurent is almost passed out from the pain, it's up to his ankles and completely covers his ass.
"Where were you dropping her off?"
"555 Gilmore Street." He screams out through the pain.
"Anything else we need to know?" Edward asks.
"Aro knows she's alive."
"We guessed as much when we found out James worked for him. Anything else?" Edward asked.
Nothing.
"Okay." He picks up the acid and starts to pour. He doesn't stop when the bottle is empty, he just picks up another. Laurent continues screaming as his body is burnt and melted by the acid. They watch as the life drains from him. His breaths get ragged and uneven, getting further and further apart.
"Isabella isn't the only one who survived." Is breathed out, and then silence fills the room.
Please review. They make me smile and work faster. I hope you enjoyed it. ~Megan xxx