So, I know this is something you never expected, but let me tell you something, neither did I. I know some authors have a perfect plan for their stories but I don't. When I open my document I start writing, and whatever pops in my head is what you read, so when Victoria started to appear it's because she wanted to, not because I planned it.

EPOV

"What?" I said extremely confused

"I said, give me that gun" said a different Bella. She was no longer my quiet, shy Bella, this was no teenage girl, that was asking for a normal contraption from her boyfriend. No, this was no longer my Bella.

She looked incredibly sexy in her all black ensemble, And when she asked me for the gun not only was I confused by her fierceness and strength, but completely, well umm, turned umm on. I was embarrassed that I was at a lack for words and then even more surprised when fierce Bella took the gun out of my hand and loaded it, taking off the safety, and then putting it back on. Her movements were swift as she aimed at a random spot on the wall, her arms straight, and her form perfect. I had had practice with this when I wanted to become a police officer and my dad had taken me to a training place, but this Bella, she looked murderous as she shot one single bullet that perfectly pierced thin line that separated the wall from the iron bars that covered a small window.

"Don't forget your form, Bella" said her father, straightening up her shoulders.

"Good shot Belly, but I bet you can't take me" said Emmett, teasing her and giving this place a less tense air, everyone laughed but Bella straightened her form, aiming again. She shot again, hitting her other bullet perfectly again, looking up at Emmett, smugly

"are you sure, I mean you never had enough time for it and I never stopped training with dad since I started" said Bella looking at Emmett in her shy form, I knew that it was a ruse. Emmett seemed to too because he walked over to Rosalie who was sitting down, her arms hugging her and put his arms around her.

"Okay this is how it's going to go." Said Bella, and I was surprised by her authority.

"I'd estimate that there's three or four persons out there seeing as only three blasts at a time, apart from the loose ones". She kneeled down next to the plans of the house, pointing to where we were.

"From here, Emmett, dad and I will move to the back, and you guys will stay and protect the girls. You'll wait until you here a blast against this iron wall that separates us, and then you'll know that it's us, don't open it until you hear me say this, and exactly this

It's ok you can come out, any other variation and any of you come out I will shoot you personally" she smiled. Now, someone will run through the back to the garage, I know for a fact they already checked the back was locked, but if there's someone there we'll take him, that person will run, north, until they get to the bike garage, where we keep your things, and they will run to the station for help and bring them as soon as possible. Dad who's stationed today?"

"Deputy Marks" said her father, all of us were too silent to comment, this was a different person and we were slightly terrified of her.

"Ok, Seth, Edward, or Alice are our best bet for the bikes."

"I'll do it" said Seth and Bella nodded.

Ok, let's go" she said getting up.

"Wait, Bella" I said, finally realizing she would be in the line of fire.

"You don't have to do this, please just stay with me" I said, and I felt myself crack under the pressure. She hugged me fiercely and whispered in my ear.

"Everything will be ok Edward, I won't let anything happen to our family." She said and I held on

"I'm coming with you"

"No"

"Bella I have training too, I'm coming with you"

"But what if-"she said looking afraid

"The same what if's count for you, now either we go, or you don't" I told her firmly

"Fine" she said, and pulled away, and put on a bullet proof jacket. She threw me one, and I put it on, not knowing where all the chords went, she smiled at me tenderly and for a second I saw my Bella again. The scared teenager that was shy and afraid. I smiled at her and she kissed me briefly, before turning back into the scary Bella that I knew no one should mess with. I was coming to terms with the fact that she would not be one to hyperventilate and cry and beg for mercy, no this Bella was the one that would be begged, not the other way around.

"Ok everyone, ready?" she said looking at her father and Emmett, who both looked dark and intimidating, something Emmett's size always did when it wasn't shadowed by his humor. Charlie was another surprise, as a cop I knew that he had tough skin, but the man that I had hyperventilated over in fear that he would find out about my love for his daughter had nothing on the man before me. He was looking proudly at his daughter who had taken the lead in whatever she had planned without consulting anyone, but behind him, once he stood and kissed Sue he had a murderous glare that told everyone to be afraid, and that this was a situation he expected nothing but total victory. I looked over at Bella who was braced against the door, listening intently; she motioned for me to come quietly, Charlie and Emmett taking up the rear.

"There's someone right behind me, but his movements are slow so I'd think he's the weak one." She said whispering silently. She motioned for Seth, who stealthily walked toward us and braced himself in between Bella and me.

"When Emmett motions for you, you run as fast you can, in a straight line, don't stop, and hurry back." She said. She hugged him, and quickly opened the door. Before I had time to react she was outside and we heard one single blast.

"One down, three to go" she said, calling for Carlisle. Seth sprinted out the door, and we sprinted out. She put her head through the door, calling my dad.

"Carlisle, we need you to treat him" she said and Emmett and Charlie took up a man, whose gun hand had been blasted apart. Bella now held the gun, and she put it in one of her back pockets, safety on. We didn't have time to look at my father treat him, in one swift movement Bella was in the lead by the side of the house, her back pressed against the wall. I mimicked her movements and was surprised at how graceful she was when she was in this stealth-Bella mode.

We reached the end of the wall, and Bella put up her hand for us to stop, She crept up to the edge and looked briefly to the main area where bullets were still ricocheting off the walls. In one motion she ran out shooting, I followed and by the time I got to her I saw quite a sight, three men with their faces covered were shooting into a bullet made whole in our iron wall. The door was already in pieces. I knew that I didn't want to kill anyone so we didn't shoot to kill. I copied Bella by shooting at their gun hands. I looked over to find Bella had disappeared but didn't give it a thought. Charlie was braced against a wall, Emmett was running for the trees.

It took less than a minute. All three were down and I was checking them all, they were all alive, but their hands were at different levels of broken, damaged and inexistence. Charlie walked to the back to get Carlisle and everyone made their way to us, Rosalie running to Emmett and throwing her hands around him, kissing him fiercely, everyone looked at me and froze. I wondered what was wrong that they were all staring at me in horror.

"One move and he's dead" said a baby-ish voice behind me. We had forgotten one thing Victoria.

No one moved, Emmett and Charlie put their guns down and I worried that Bella had already been found by her.

"Don't do this" whispered Alice.

"Oh, I don't care about him, he'll be dead soon. Where's the girl?" she asked shifting around so that she was at my side, I froze when I noticed the gun pointed at me head.

"We don't know" said Alice

"I said, where's the girl" she said, kicking me so that I was kneeling before her

"We don't know, just don't hurt him, please" begged my mother

"I'm going to count to three, if she's not here by then, well you'll all see what'll happen." I prepared myself for then end, mouthing I love you to my family, I only wished I could see my angel before I left…

EMPOV

I stood in shock as my best friend, no, my brother was held at gun point.

"One" she said and I felt Rosalie start to cry out and tremble beneath me.

"Two" I felt Esme sob into Carlisle shirt as his eyes never left his son

"Three" she said, and we all expected a blow that never came.

Bell jumped down like a mountain lion from a tree branch and pointed her gun directly at Victoria's head.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." She said, and in Victoria's moment of shock Bella swung her gun around and connected it to her head. Victoria's body crumbled down and Bella threw herself at Edward, sobbing into his chest. My shy sister was back.

EPOV

I waited for the blow that never came. It took me a moment to realize what was happening before me.

Bella was in my arms, sobbing and shaking uncontrollably. My father and mother were running towards me. My father hugged me and took Bella from me, checking her over. She had a scratch on her cheek and a deep gauge on her arm, but what was worse; it looked like she was going into shock.

My mother was hugging me and sobbing uncontrollably. When Bella was finally calm was when I heard the sirens. Seth had arrived.

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By the time we had all been checked out, and the four persons had been arrested, it was four in the morning and we were all exhausted. Charlie had forced my parents, and I to stay with them, our house was going to need repairs. Emmett went to stay with Rosalie as did Alice, she was too scared to let Jasper out of her sight. My parents took Emmett's room and I took the couch in the living room. It was slightly difficult to fall asleep because of the Christmas tree but I soon fell into a deep sleep.

When I woke up I felt myself pressed against something warm. I opened my eyes to see a sleeping Bella in my arms, her face more peaceful than it had been when she went to sleep in her room. I also noticed the smell of food coming from the kitchen, and once I had gotten up, tucking Bella into the couch deeper so she wouldn't fall of I noticed everyone in the kitchen sitting on bar stools, the counter, the breakfast and walking around with plates and glasses. My mom and Sue were cooking Christmas breakfast and the smells were amazing.

"Oh, good. We sent Bella to wake you and next thing we know she's asleep too" laughed my mother.

Charlie smiled at me, and I finally knew we were completely okay as it related to our relationship, we had gone through a lot.

"Edward, will you please get Bella so we can eat." Said my father.

"Yeah"

When I finally woke her up, she groggily looked at me, and I knew she was still tired, so I picked her up, bridal style and took her into the dining room where I sat her down next to her father. I sat next to her as we ate and conversed about the night before. My father took up his glass and stared adoringly at Bella.

"This is to Bella. It seems to me that no matter what we do, there's always something fighting against us, but you are always there to fight off the danger. Thank you, for saving our family, and making it whole" he said, as my Bella blushed and clicked glasses with me. Everyone was praising Bella, it seemed everyone but my parents and I knew how dangerous Bella could really be. I for one was glad that It was Victoria and not me that had gotten on her bad side. The way Emmett and Charlie had followed her without hesitation, It showed the type of woman that she could really be. I was just glad we had all survived. I knew she was cool under pressure, all the difficult times over the last months had shown that, but to think that behind the curtains of my shy, sweet Bella was a sexy murderous woman, it was too much to handle.

Christmas presents were open next and everyone got a lot of wonderful gifts. My parents got us a weekend retreat in the mountains at a spa for Seth, Carlie, Leah, Embry, Alice, jasper, Rosalie, Emmett, Bella and me. I got different outfits and shoes from Alice, Jasper and Rosalie, I got a good book from Charlie and Sue, and various other things from the rest that were all wonderful. My favorite of all was a watch from Bella, that on the back had engraved the words "More than my own life, Edward and Bella" I smiled at that and put it on immediately.

Bella also got lots of wonderful presents, but she loved her father's present in the form of a first edition Wuthering Heights, and a necklace I gave her that was a simple platinum chain with a blue teardrop sapphire. It looked lovely on her.

The best present we all had came afterwards.

"Can I have your attention please?" said Emmett, looking extremely nervous about something as we all quieted down and looked up at him. He walked over to Rosalie.

"Rose, I've never been so happy in my life. Ever since I met you, I knew that you were the person I was going to love, forever. Rosalie Lillian Hale, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife and make me the happiest person alive?" he said, kneeling at her feet and opening a small box, that we all knew had a ring.

Everyone looked at Rosalie, who had tears in her eyes. She looked at him, smiled and nodded before whispering yes.

Emmett put the ring on her finger and kissed her. Everything would be fine…

Well there you have it, just some info people, the reason I made Bella like this was because I eventually got angry in twilight when Bella was consistently being saved by Edward for being the weak link. Since there are no vampires in this story that will make her weak in comparison I decided it was time for Bella to do the saving. I hope you enjoyed it.