Disclaimers to the lovely Stephenie Meyer and Tomoko Hayakawa.

Uploading this in ICT again. Hope she doesn't give homework again.

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"Edward, you've finally come," Jacob said across the room.

"I wouldn't miss a party like this," Edward said coolly, he cracked a smile at Jacob who replied by deepening his frown.

"I hear you live with Bella, my love," Jacob stated. Edward shrugged, as if to say, 'So, who cares?'

"Did you want a fight, or not?" Edward asked in a bored voice, "Because I really need Bella to cook something for me, because I don't know about you, but I'm ravenous."

Jacob ground his teeth in fury.

"We fight outside," Jacob said in a tight voice. Edward scoffed and walked out of the room. He was followed by Jacob and his cohorts.

The wind blew around them, the cloud covered them and it looked like it was about to rain. The grass swayed slightly and Edward stood his ground. At once about 5 gang members headed for him. This was no problem for Edward. He kicked, punched, knocked out them all consecutively. Then there was the next lot, he finished them off easily. Edward snorted. This was not exactly a big deal, it wasn't even hard.

"EDWARD!" Edward heard someone scream. He was too late, he had been hit with some kind of lightweight pipe, it wasn't enough to kill him, but it was enough to make him bleed. Edward turned around and faced Sam. Sam glared at Edward and they stared to fight. Sam blocked Edward, and Edward kept working his fighting technique tightly.

Edward remembered the first time he had hit someone, which ended up into a fight. It had been a traumatic experience. He came home, half-dead and bleeding way too much. He had multiple fractures and he stayed off school to recover. After that, he had taken up boxing classes. He figured that as long as he was as he was, people were going to bully him, and never again was he going to scare the people close to him by getting near half-dead again. Never again was he going to be a victim for something that wasn't his fault.

Edward felt the blood trickle doing his back. He deftly beat Sam, and awaited alpha gang member to fight him. Jacob smirked. Now, Edward was weak, it would be an easy fight. Edward stood up, his knees like jelly and Jacob pounced onto him. Jacob fought Edward and Edward gave him as good as he could. In the end, Edward was on the floor, grunting in pain, the bleeding to his head more unbearable. He could feel the blood hammering against his eardrums.

"Edward," Carlisle said running over to Edward. Edward was breathing heavily. Jasper, Alice and Emmett blocked Jacob from advancing.

"Stop it!" Alice screamed, suddenly on Edward's side. Her perspective had changed as he had saved Jasper from getting beat up.

Edward stood up, his body screaming to lie on the floor again, he legs about to buckle under his feet.

"God knows what you've done to her, whilst you live under the same roof, but she's important to you. If she wasn't you wouldn't be busting your gut trying to save her," Jacob taunted. Edward spat blood on the floor.

"She's a girl, after all." Edward said.

Bella's jaw dropped. Alice saw the effect that her words had made to Edward. Jasper, Emmett and Carlisle couldn't believe it as well.

"Shut up," Jacob growled flying for Edward. Punch after punch, Edward stayed resolutely to the stop, and forced himself to stay up.

Bella, from a distance, couldn't bare seeing Edward getting so beat up, for her sake. She struggled against the ropes that bound her arms and body together. All she had to do was cut one rope and the rest would unravel. She broke free of the gang members grip. She ran, trying to find a sharp object. Sharp object, sharp object, sharp object she searched frantically, and she could hear every time Jacob's fist connected with Edward's jaw. The gang member that had her hostage was too captivated by the fight in front of him to notice Bella wasn't there. Bella had run back to the little house and she searched for something. On the table she noticed a knife. Carefully, she flicked it open, and grabbed it with her hand. Then she began to cut away, carefully.

"Shoot!" winced as she cut herself accidently. Blood began to drip onto the floor. At last, she had cut one side of the rope which made the rest of the rope that bound her fall to the floor. She ran outside, not taking a look at her cut hand, Edward was barely standing, his face bruised and bloody.

Bella ran forward, and it was going perfect until she tripped on a rock that sent her careering onto Edward. Edward's eyes closed as soon as he felt the ground beneath his back. Bella picked herself up, and elbowed Jacob in the face. It wasn't the strength of the punch that sent Jacob to the ground. It was the surprise. Edward took this as a chance to jump on Jacob and for a few seconds they rolled aimlessly on the ground. Edward sat up on top of Jacob, and started to punch Jacob's face with malevolence.

"That was holding Carlisle hostage," he said after punching Jacob's jaw.

"That was for holding Emmett hostage." Another punch. "This is for holding Jasper hostage." Another punch. "This is for holding Alice hostage." After another punch he said, "This is for harassing me." Alice coughed. Edward turned to face Alice and glared at her. Alice's eyes flickered towards Bella and back. Bella was more interested in getting Stephen back than caring if Edward hit Jacob for her or not. Bella had snuck back into the small house and took Stephen back.

"Uh. This one's for Bella." Edward said uncomfortably, punching Jacob in the jaw.

"Okay, okay. I'll admit defeat," Jacob groaned on the floor. Edward stood up with the help of Jasper. Jacob lay on the floor moaning at his fractured or broken jaw. Edward laughed and walked away.

"Psych," Jacob spat, blood dribbling from his mouth. Jacob stood on his feet again. He was interrupted by a punch to the nose and a blow to the stomach. Jacob fell onto the floor, winded.

"That was for kidnapping Stephen," Bella said lowly, and she walked over towards Alice, whose eyes were glimmering with admiration. Edward limped, and leant on Carlisle who supported him. Edward looked at Bella, and he took all of his weight off Carlisle. Edward smiled and then leant onto Bella, embracing her. Bella was shocked.

"Alice, after what she did to Jacob, do you think she's still a girl?" Edward sniffed sourly. Bella's legs were shaking as if she had run a marathon. Her heartbeat was accelerating.

"Thank you," he whispered into her ear so no one could hear him. Edward collapsed onto the floor. Jasper smiled and picked Edward up and lifted him up. He threw Edward onto his back and they all walked home together.

"Why are you smiling Alice?" Bella asked in confusion a few minutes later. Alice had not stopped smiling since they had started to walk home.

"I was thinking, how awesome it is that Jasper will save me if I'm in trouble," Alice sighed happily. Bella was lost in her own thoughts. Yes, it would be awesome if you had some kind of hero in trouble, she thought fondly. She gazed at Edward, and his bruises and cuts. Even though, sometimes you have to help your hero.

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"And Jasper was so cool as well," Emmett recalled to Edward who had revived and been bandaged up.

"You're not laying a finger on her, whilst I'm around," Emmett imitated much to the displeasure of Jasper. Edward and Carlisle sniggered. Bella was polishing Stephen, and she smiled. It was good to have him back.

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