We were late to the party but I didn't give a shit. Jasper snorted and shook his head when he saw the reason for our tardiness, and I gave him the finger. Since everyone in the room decided that talking all at once was the way to figure shit out, I covered Izzy ears and whistled high and loud.

That shut 'em up.

Once everyone was silent, I wrapped my arms around Izzy's waist, and set my chin on her shoulder, looking right at Jasper. This was his part of the job. I never was all that good at coming up with plans, but I follow 'em pretty good. I'm a more 'shoot then ask' kinda guy so I leave strategies up to him.

He rolled his eyes but took point like he was made to do. This was the shit I have been trying to pound into his skull with words for the last two days. He was born for this shit, both as a human, and as a vampire. He was designed to lead the Army of Hell to victory and he lived and breathed fire and brimstone. I was actually beginning to think that I was gonna have to resort to violence to get him to come to terms with his demon. Little fucking candy ass bastard. That is one vampire that is NEVER allowed near an animal again. It is not good for his health.

He looked at Aro, "Where's the head?"

Aro cocked a brow at him, "I had it taken for disposal."

Irritation is an emotion I had thought he forgot how to feel. Good god I do believe the Major is alive somewhere, 'cause that is his favorite thing in the world to feel. "Well, get it. We need to know something that only it can tell us.

"I know everything it does, Major."

Now it was my turn to piss on his parade. "Naw, you missed something. Probably thought that it wasn't important. Thing is, what isn't important to you, can be VERY important to someone else. I believe we covered that earlier."

Aro grunted, "I guess we did." He looked over at Demetri and nodded. The tracker disappeared and Aro looked back at me with a smirk, "have you informed either of them of our little chat, Captain?"

I nodded as much as I could with the restriction of refusing to move, "Told the Major while my girl here was eating. Thought you might like to be the one to inform her of your ruling on Jazz."

Izzy's back went ramrod straight at the reminder of the last time we were here. She turned to look at me for a second, and I winked at her. She turned wide hopeful eyes back on Aro and held her breath, even though she really didn't need to, and waited for him to tell her what was decided.

Aro, the little prick he is, held out for a minute before squaring his shoulders and looking her in the eye, "The Major shall be accompanying you home for the time being."

That was all he got out before she ripped herself out of my arms and darted right into his
very surprised ones, wrapping hers around neck with a squeal of 'thank you so much". I smirked at the surprise on Aro's face as he returned the gesture and very awkwardly patted her back. You didn't even need eyes to see just how uncomfortable the poor bastard was when she just kept hugging him.

After about a thirty seconds he cleared his throat and, gently pulling her arms from his neck, took a half step back from her so she couldn't do it again. He was still holding her arms, probably for added assurance that she wouldn't pounce on him again, when he smiled down at her, "There are a few provisions to this, Stella, that the Captain can fill you in on later." She flashed him a full teeth smile and nodded making her hair slide off her shoulders from her excitement and exposing my mark on her neck making the smile on his face grow a little more, "Well now, what have we here?" His eyes slid to me and I gave him a shit eatin' grin. He looked back at her, and turned her head a little to the side getting an eyeful of my teeth impression. He hummed a little before he tisked lightly, "I see congratulations are in order."

He then looked over at me and Jasper a short moment before cocking his head to the side. Izzy looked over her shoulder at us too, confused beyond measure as to what he was looking at. Aro was still looking at us when he started to speak, but Izzy turned back to look at him, "Since you seem to like the Major so much, Tesoro," then he looked down at her, "as a mating gift, I will dissolve his contract to the guard." And once again he was getting choked out by my newborn mate.

She was fucking adorable.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Jasper cock a brow, but he kept his fucking mouth shut. Just because time on the guard would be cake for him didn't in the slightest mean he WANTED to serve it. Because I am an asshole, I leaned over and whispered in his ear, "Told ya there was nothing more important than me getting laid. Everyone wins when I get some pussy."

He knew that I hadn't actually gotten laid, but the result of my mating the chick that saved the royal pain in the ass's ass, was his freedom. Didn't stop him from cracking me in the back of the head though. Dick.

I snickered even as I rubbed the abused spot on my head, and turned to face front when Demetri came back with the head of the red headed bitch. Izzy saw the head too, and hissed at it before she seeming materialized partly hidden behind me. Again, Jesus is the runt fast. I glanced back at her and shook my head before pulling her out from her hiding place, and wrapped her back up in my arms, setting my chin back on her shoulder next to my mark. Turning my head a little, I gave it a lick and nuzzle before paying attention when Jasper started talking again.

"I want to ask it a question, and I want it to answer."

Aro looked at the head in his hands and slowly looked back at him, "And just how do you propose to do that?"

I snickered, "all we need is some lungs so the bitch can talk. Don't tell me you didn't know that you can put a detached head on any ol' body to get what you need from it. I vote we use Jane. Rip the bitch's head off and let the redhead fuse to her body." There was a hiss from the other side of the room drawing both mine and my mate's attention to the dwarf. I cocked a brow as Izzy growled at her. "I fucking dare ya bitch. It won't end the way you think. My girl here will drop you before you drop me, I promise."

Aro waved Jane off as he looked at me, "You want me to decapitate one of my guards so you can question a head?"

Now I lifted my head from Izzy's neck, "you got any headless bodies lyin' around? If not then, yeah, pretty much where I was goin' with that."

Aro glanced over his shoulder at his brothers, who looked just about as clueless as he did, and tripped over his tongue a little. It would seem that none of the three of them knew that you could use a body of any vampire to obtain use of a random head. We did that kind of shit all the time back in the day. Course, we happened to keep extra bodies in the camp to do it so we didn't have to take this route, but a body is a body; they all do the same thing. One bag of blood and thirty seconds and a head that was buried for a hundred years would be brand spankin' new. Normally overly talkative, and a little nerve shaking but hey, every brain has information in it and this was a really good way to get it when the body was ashes in the wind.

I heard my mate giggle a little before she spoke up, "You know Aro, you do have a new recruit that tried to kill you. Or, there is the other one that questioned your judgment. Personally, I vote you use him."

Jasper snorted hard at that, "Oh, I second that."

The visual of Victoria's head on Edward's body had me smothering my laughter in Izzy's hair. I knew there was a reason I loved this girl. She was sweet as pie until you pissed her off, and this girl could hold a fucking grudge. She might not have the memories needed to fully know why she hates him as much as she did, but it wasn't going to stop her from getting even.

There was a gleam in Aro's eyes as he turned to look at us, the term intrigued would best describe it. After a moment's thought, he nodded and sent for Mr. Cullen.

Clearing my throat so I could get the amusement out of my voice, and TRY and be the soldier I was raised to be, "You'll need a bag of blood to help the fusing process since she has only been a head for over 24 hours. Fair warning, she is gonna be a little pissy."

Aro nodded to me as the door was opened and Edward was brought in, whining about some shit that no one was paying any attention to, Felix on one side and Demetri on the other. It was then that Aro looked at my mate, "I do believe I gave you my word that you would have your chance to get even with Mr. Cullen, Stella. The honor of this is yours."

She actually fucking cackled, as she rubbed her hands together. Her steps were sure and precise, Jasper and I a step behind her, until she was standing right in front of him. His eyes narrowed and he growled at her, to which she responded with a bitch slap; both Jasper and I wincing a little in memory of just how hard the tiny thing can hit. She sidled right up to him and tilted her head back so she was looking him in the eye and smirked, "Oh, I am going to enjoy this." Then she drove her knee right between his legs, dropping him like a fly and making every single male in the room grunt right along with him. One guy off to the other side of the room even cupped his sack while shaking his head.

I set a hand on her shoulder, and when she glanced at me I shook mine too, "Oh, Sugar no man ever deserves something like that, no matter what they do."

She cocked a brow at me in challenge before whipping around and, in one twist of her torso, ripped his fucking head off before tossing it without care over her shoulder. Then she looked at me again with a smirk, "There, now he can't feel it. However, they also probably don't deserve the pleasure of a woman gracing their body but that happens all the time, don't it?"

Saucy, sexy little vixen. I shook my head a little before pulling her out of Jasper's way before dipping my head to her ear, "regardless, the nuts are off limits."

She snorted a little, "I'll keep that in mind."

Wait a minute, what the fuck just happened? While I was staring in shock at my mate, Jasper was attaching Vicky's head to Edward's body while the two brawny fuckers held the arms so once she comes out of the frozen wasteland she cannot actually do anything stupid.

Since she hasn't been without a body that long, it didn't take her but a few seconds before she was lunging at Jasper and pulling at the guards that held her at bay, even shocked as shit that we weren't fucking around with the fact that any head can be put on any body and the head has complete control.

Aro had come to stand behind us and his voice showed his amazement to this, "I had thought that I had seen just about everything until now."

I heard Jasper snort a little, "You obviously never touched a vampire from the southern wars, 'cause we did this shit all the damn time. It's easier to transport the head of a spy, than the whole body." Then he held up the other half of the blood bag right in front of the nose of the red headed bitch, "You want this? Start talking. What was the contingency plan if you fucked up and the Cullens were found out?"

She snarled at him and he tipped the bag, pouring a little of the blood on the floor right in front of her. Real fuckin' quick those snarls turned to whimpers as the splats reached her ears. I was holding tight on the baby in the room 'cause she would attack Jasper for wasting that shit.

After pouring some out he quit and asked again, "The plans bitch. I know you know what they are, and you are gonna tell me if you wanna eat."

It took nearly every drop that was left, and me dragging my mate a few more feet back before Vicky finally gave him what he was after. "All I know is they said something about Matamoras."

Jasper growled a little, "Jesus, for a vampire, you're retarded. It is pronounced 'Matamoros' ya dumb bitch; now continue."

She glanced at him quickly before doing just that. "I only know that because I overheard the leader of the coven talking to the blonde chick when he hired us. The big one, he has connections there. Old family friends or something like that, that would help them if it came to that. James had the better hearing. He would be the one that knew the actual details."

Jasper's head cocked to the side and a growl entered his voice, "the coven leader was the one that hired you?"

She nodded, "Yes, because he knew that the little prick that got involved with her would be an idiot and do something stupid, well stupider anyways, and blow his shit up. I didn't know anything other than who it was that we were supposed to get rid of."

Jasper slowly nodded, "who all knew about you, and what you were hired to do?"

That was when her eyes left the blood bag and looked at him, "all of them were involved in some capacity, some more than others. The little asshole that was the crux of this got involved after you all left the area, saying that if the job was done swiftly there would be a huge bonus."

Once she was done talking, Jasper stood and nodded to the guards and as soon as they let her go, she face planted into the puddle of blood on the floor making Jasper shake his head before looking at me with incredibility on his face, "Every fucking time. Remember that guy way back when, when I did that over a pile of bear shit?"

I grunted as that memory surfaced and nodded. That was one memory however I certainly
could have done without remembering. The match I dropped on his ass was the definition of a mercy kill.

Izzy was staring at the redhead as she lapped at the floor like a dog, lips pursed and eyes dark and narrowed. My little mate was pissed. I know this because when she spoke she was literally spitting mad, "how much?"

At the sound of Izzy's voice, Vicky's borrowed body froze; her tongue still out on the floor mid-lick. Only her eyes moved to look at her and she gulped a little when she saw her handy work staring her in the face without being restrained. You could watch the memory of the last time she tangoed with my Iz flash before her eyes, so it was no great surprise when that tongue was brought back into her mouth and she sat back on her hunches. It took her minute but she answered, "one million, with a bonus of another if done in a timely manner."

Izzy snarled and took a half step forward, "You hunted me for five years, for a million dollars?" Then she paused a little before glancing over at me and cocked a brow, "Is that a lot?"

I shrugged, "not really. I spend that in six months."

She shook her head a little, "What do you do?"

I chuckled at her, "Not the time Sugar. You were in the middle of somethin'."

She blinked at me a few times before she had her 'ah ha' moment and turned back to Victoria, her head cocked to the side in thought before dropping her face in her hands and shaking her head a little, "This is so fucked up. You were hired to kill me, and they didn't even give you enough to cover your fucking expenses until the job was done. I don't know if I am more insulted, or irritated."

She scrubbed her face with her hands before slipped her fingers into her hair and clasping her fingers behind her head and letting out a little whimper, "my head hurts."

I grabbed her by the arm and twisted her around and pulled her to my chest, scratching her scalp and thrumming a soft purr in my chest under her forehead while looking at Jasper, "You know what this means, right?"

He looked up to the ceiling and curled his lip a little with a growl, "I swear, when I get my fucking hands on them…" Then he looked at me, "She's gonna be pissed."

I shrugged, "And that is supposed to surprise me? The bitch is always pissed. She has had something akin a fake dick shoved up her ass for HOW many years? Little ones will shove anything anywhere but she was old enough to know better." I looked over my shoulder at Aro, who looked overly curious so I filled him in, "The little fuckers are heading to our ol' stomping grounds."

Then I turned back to Jasper, "You still got her card, dontcha?"

He snorted a little, "With big bold letters that says 'Satan's favorite Whore' front and center."

I snickered a little before clearing my throat, "you know the routine here. How long we got before they head south?"

"Takes three days to close out."

I nodded, "Then we still got one day head start. I'ma get the bird ready for flight, and call Garrett to get his ass on the move. Between the three of us, I know we can handle the Cunt Master General."