It had been a full two weeks since the funeral. Things hadn't gotten better. Alice was still a zombie. I had to remind her to shower and brush her hair and basically force her to get dressed. I know she was depressed, but I was hoping with all of my heart that this wouldn't last long. As much as I knew that this was just something that she needed to work through, she can't keep living like this, we can't keep living like this. It's not healthy for anyone.

I still haven't had "the talk" with Edward or Emmett. I think I'm scared about what they're going to say or how I'm going to react. It's terrifying. I thought maybe it was best to start with Emmett as a warm up. Maybe that would help me when I had to deal with Edward. I hoped anyway.

I slipped the piece of paper under Emmett's door and went into my bathroom to wait. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I felt like the bathroom was the only safe place to talk. Who knows who is listening to our every conversation, every move around the penthouse. I didn't know if it was bugged or if Aro installed some kind of security measures since he'd become suspicious of rats. I shuddered at the thought that someone heard every word Edward and I have said to each other or seen every touch we've shared.

"Bella?" Emmett knocked on the door.

"Come in." I pulled myself up and sat on the edge of the counter. Emmett walked in and closed the door softly behind him. "I assume you know why I want to talk to you."

"Yeah I guess so." He looked down and started nervously folding my note in his hands.

"I just don't understand why you couldn't have told me Emmett. I thought we were friends. I mean aren't we?"

"Of course we are Bella. I was doing a job though. Just like you. I was instructed not to reveal to you who we were and I followed that. You of all people should understand that."

And I guess I did partially. After all, I hid my true identity from them. It just seemed a little different to me I guess, since we were all on the good side. I had no way of knowing whose side they would be on before.

"Is there anything else I should know?"

"Rose is in on it too." I guess after all the bombshells I've encountered in the past few weeks, that didn't surprise me.

"Yeah so how does that work? You and Rose? Please tell me you're not blood related."

"No" He laughed. "Jasper and Rose are blood related. But the rest of us aren't. Carlisle and his wife Esme adopted all of us when we were little. Jasper and Rosalie were just a package deal, luckily for me."

"Does she know about Jasper?"

"Not at first. That's why she was so upset. I mean my girl is a good actress, but she was heartbroken and it almost killed me too. To see her like that. I hated every minute that I was lying to her. I finally told her a few days after the funeral." He pulled himself up and sat next to me on the counter, his feet dangling over the side.

"Was she mad?"

"Remember that day I showed up with a cut on my lip?"

"Yeah." I looked down at his lip now. It was almost completely healed.

"That was the day that I told her."

"Wow she must have been really mad."

"She was. But after the initial shock wore off I think she was just relieved. And she understood why I couldn't tell her sooner. Secrecy comes with this job. She knows that."

"Yeah I guess so." My hands started wringing nervously. If Rose understood when Emmett lied to her, why couldn't I be as understanding with Edward? I make no sense whatsoever. Even to myself.

"So what is Alice in on it too?" I giggled a little. It wouldn't be that crazy at this point.

"No. She really is just working for Aro. Jasper fell head over heels for her when he first started working here. Chief told him to leave her alone but he just couldn't. He got ripped a new one for that. Chief was not happy. Took Jasper a full two weeks to convince him to grant her immunity once this whole thing was over."

"Wow…" I shook my head in disbelief. In all honesty, Alice probably couldn't be prosecuted for anything serious. She was never involved in any of the illegal activities and it wouldn't really be worth it. And besides anyone who could look Alice in the face and charge her with something was seriously cold. She was absolutely infectious, in a good way. It brought me some joy to realize that Alice would make it out of this okay. Now I had to ask him the hard question.

"Who killed him?"

"Who?"

"Jake. My partner Jake."

"Oh." Emmett stared straight ahead. "I can't be sure. Jasper and I weren't in the warehouse that day. My money would be on Demetri." He shook his head. "I'm sorry about that Bells. I wish I could have stopped it. I would have stopped it. He was a good guy."

"Yeah he was. I miss him." I smiled as he wrapped his arm around my shoulder.

"Is there anything else you want to tell me?" I raised an eyebrow at him. He jumped off the counter and stood directly in front of me.

"I'm the one who ate your turkey sandwich last week."

I laughed and punched him playfully before wrapping my arms around him. "Thank you for being honest with me Emmett. I really appreciate it."

"You're welcome. And I'm sorry that I couldn't tell you anything before. And Bells?"

I pulled my face back from his shoulder. "Yeah?"

"Don't be too hard on Edward. He was in the same position as I was."

"He may have the same job as you but our relationship was obviously different Emmett. He should have told me." I pushed my forehead into Emmett's chest. His hand ran through my hair. "I don't even know how I can talk to him about it. You were supposed to be my buffer conversation but I feel like it won't go as well as ours did."

I tilted my head to the side when I heard the door creak open. In a flash Emmett was torn from my arms and held against the wall.

"Edward what the fuck are you doing?" Emmett yelled.

"What the fuck are you doing?" He turned towards me. "What is he doing in here with you?"

I jumped off the counter and ran towards them, trying with all my strength to pry Edward's hands from Emmett's neck.

"Edward stop it!"

"Edward man. You have about two seconds to let go of me before I beat your ass…" Emmett said very calmly and slowly.

Edward's breathing started to slow a little bit as he looked back and forth between me and Emmett. His hands slowly dropped to his sides and he looked down at his feet. "Sorry Em. I just…freaked out a little."

"Yeah I guess so." Emmett started rubbing his throat. "Let me know if you need me Bella." He kissed my forehead and walked out of the room.

Edward sighed deeply and took his baseball cap off, running his fingers through his hair before putting it on again backwards. At least I could see his face now. His stubble was longer than I've ever seen it. He looked like shit. But insanely amazing at the same time. That tight black t-shirt was just….Stop, I thought to myself. Just stop. What the hell is wrong with me?

"What was that?" I said as he sat down on the floor, leaning back against the side of the bathtub.

"I don't know I'm sorry. I've just been a little on edge lately and I just lost it. I saw you guys like that and…I'm sorry I'm just so frustrated right now."

"With me?" I sat down next to him.

He looked towards me and cracked a smile. "No sweetie I'm not frustrated with you. I'm frustrated with the situation."

It felt good to hear him call me that. And it felt good when he smiled at me. But it didn't erase all the anger and the questions I had.

"We need to talk about this Edward."

"I know, I just don't want to. It scares me."

It was tragic to see him that afraid, that vulnerable. But there was no avoiding it. We needed to talk about it.

"I want you to tell me everything. And leave out everything with Emmett, and Jasper, and Rosalie. I know everything about them. Tell me about you. About you and me."

He ran his hands over his face before bringing his legs up towards his chest. He rested his arms loosely over them and laid his head down gently upon them, turning his face towards me.

He looked at me for a long time before answering me. "Okay." He tilted his head back and started talking.

"Charlie came to me right after your partner got killed. Said he knew there was no way you were staying out of the situation now. That you were stubborn." He smiled slightly before continuing on. "Told me I was going in, kind of under the radar. Not many of the higher ups at the office know I'm here. They think I'm on a vacation. There's no way they'd approve of the Chief sending a man in because he's being a paranoid father. He told me to keep an eye on you and to…provoke you a little bit so maybe you'd bow out of the operation. I just didn't think-"

"Wait what?" I interrupted. "Provoke me?" I turned my whole body towards him. "What the hell does that mean?"

"Give you a hard time. Distract you a little I guess."

"So was that all we were to you? You were just doing your job? Was I just your fucking job?" I stood up and the tears started overflowing. I knew that Edward had lied to me, but the thought that he was with me just because it was his job was nauseating.

"No Bella it's not like that I swear." He stood up and grabbed me softly by the shoulders.

"It isn't? Why'd you get so jealous when you saw me with Carlisle?" I stared straight into his eyes and I saw them falter. He knew I had him.

"It was part of the act." He whispered painfully. His voice broke slightly. "Charlie thought maybe if you thought I was getting suspicious of you that you'd freak out and bail."

"But I didn't."

"No." He looked up at me, his eyes slightly damp. "You're much stronger than your father thinks you are." His hand lifted up and caressed my cheek. I shook it away.

"I can't believe this. This was all just a joke to you. I mean nothing to you Edward. I'm just a paycheck!" I started to walk out. "And if I was really more than a job, how the hell were you going to explain this to me afterward? How did you honestly expect this to work out?" I opened the door and took a step out.

"Fine!" He yelled. "Just walk away. I may have lied to you about who I was, but I wasn't lying when I told you I loved you, or when we made love for the first time, or when I went into fucking panic mode on that boat because I was terrified that you were going to get hurt. I wasn't lying Bella!"

"It doesn't matter. We're done. And after this job is done, I never want to see you again. Ever." I turned and walked out, slamming the door behind me.

I held in the hysterical sobs until I made it back to my room. Then I started pushing my dresser in front of my door. And then my chair. And my desk. And all my pillows. There was no way he was getting in here tonight. I almost started sliding the bed over when I heard a soft knock on my door. "We're done talking Edward!"

"Bella it's Rose. Can I come in?"

"Oh. Um. Yeah just a second." I started pulling the furniture back. It all sat in a pile in the middle of my room. I opened the door for Rose and let her in.

"Are you redecorating?" She gestured to the heap of furniture.

"No. It's my lock for my door."

She slid onto my bed. "So Emmett told me that you know…about me…about all of us?"

"Yeah."

"And I take it by your new idea of security that you've talked to Edward?"

"Yes." I said through clenched teeth.

"And?"

"And I told him we were through. I can't trust him."

"Bella that man would take a bullet for you. Probably smiling that stupid ass grin of his while he did it too."

"Yeah but why would he do it? Because he loves me or because its part of the job?"

She looked down at her hands. "Bella he loves you. But I understand why you're upset and why you'd question it. To be honest I'd probably do the same thing. And even though I think you two are perfect for each other, I'm on your side. That's girl rule. I'll keep him away from you if that's what you want."

"It's what I want."

"Okay." She slapped my knee softly as she got up off my bed. "Goodnight." She started out the door. "And I would probably put the bed in front of the door too. He can be very persistent if he puts his mind to something. Actually, I'm sleeping in Jasper's room tonight with Alice. You should probably just come down there. I wouldn't want your bed to get hurt when he tries to come in here."

"Good point." I grabbed my pillow and a blanket and followed Rose down the hall.

A/N: So lots of questions answered in this chapter, so hopefully that covers most of the lingering questions anyone might have.

So yes, Bella is being unreasonable and a huge hypocrite, even in my opinion, but if you look at it from her POV how would you see it? In her mind, Edward has played her the whole time. And yes, you could say that she was doing the same thing, but she knows that her love for Edward was real. She's not so sure about the feelings coming from Edward are genuine now. And also in her mind, she feels like what Edward's lying was worse than her lying. She felt like he could have told her that he was a cop because he knew she was one too. She couldn't tell him that she was a cop because she "knew" that he was a criminal. She feels there was no reason why he couldn't tell her. So I definitely feel like she's being really stubborn, but thats all part of her character and how the story is going to play out. So I just wanted to give you an insight into why she's doing what she's doing and what she's thinking. I know she's being dumb haha.

Also this should be wrapping up in about 3 chapters or so, so if you're anxious to know what happens you should probably review ; )