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…TEC…

"Isn't it kind of uncanny that the people you're supposed to protect always end up in the woods?" Jasper asked with a slight chuckle. We all turned and looked at him with annoyance.

Emmett rolled his eyes, "All right boys; let's get this shit over with, shall we?" I nodded and the five of us drew our weapons. We all spread out around the area before closing in simultaneously. There were four other men in the clearing besides Robert and Alec, all of them at least Emmett's size. The more I took in the men; I realized that none of them were on the Patino pay roll. Most of them being in high ranks in the Volturi business.

Riley's eyes met mine and they widened. He looked horrible, his face bruised and bleeding heavily. They had him tied to a tree, high enough that his feet weren't touching the ground. When we had approached the men from behind and attempted to Mirandize them we got a reaction that Federal agents don't usually get, taking the others by surprise. Two of the small men dropped to their knees in surrender, while the other two came at Emmett and me.

One of the larger ones approached me as Whitlock, and Crowley went to Alec, untying him. Samson was taking care of McCarty, while Emmett went head on with the other large guy.

"Hey man, this would all be a lot easier if you just let me cuff you." I said easily to the large guy closing in on me. He pulled out a gun on me, holding it straight at my chest; I shook my head and rolled my eyes before swinging my leg up and kicking the small weapon out of his hand. I couldn't get over how incompetent some of these goons were. "I see we aren't going to be civilized about this whole ordeal."

"You're so cocky aren't you?" The man asked in an unexpectedly high pitched voice, he sounded slightly crazed. "I can take you out and then all of your friends and still get my money in the end." He smirked and swung at me sloppily. I sighed and caught him by the arm, twisting it behind his back and forcing him to the ground. He did kick and writhe as little bit, his weight forcing me off of him. We both scrambled to our feet and circled around each other for a while; he threw a punch at me after a while, hitting me square in the jaw.

I didn't let that deter me though as I threw a punch, putting all of my force behind it, sending the man stumbling into a nearby tree. I then laid into his stomach, before letting his limp body fall to the ground. I flipped him onto his stomach and kneeled on his back, cuffing him. I did have a bit of trouble lugging his big ass up into a standing position though. Emmett had already cuffed the other guy, who didn't seem to put up as much as a fight as my guy. I pushed my guy towards Emmett, so that they didn't try and make an escape while I checked on Alec.

"Where am I?" He asked Jasper, I wrinkled my nose in confusion. His accent was stronger than it had been when we first met him, which was strange because for the short time he was with us his accent, the little bit he did have, seemed to fade away.

"Alec? Are you all right?" I put a hand on his shoulder and he shied away. He looked around the wooded area seemingly unseeing. I turned to Jasper, "What's wrong with him?" Jasper shrugged and Samson spoke up.

He tapped Alec's shoulder, "What's your name, son?" He asked gruffly.

"…I don't know." He said sadly after a moment of thought. I bit the inside of my cheek in confusion.

"You don't remember me?" I pointed at my chest and he shook his head again. Jasper dug in his back pocket and pulled out his wallet flipping it open and holding it to Alec's face.

"What about her?" He tapped at the wallet and I peeked over the top of it.

"Why the hell do you have a picture of Bella?" Sure it was an older picture, but… I mean I don't even have a picture of her in my wallet.

"Hey bro, we were friends first! Alice and I are in the picture too." I narrowed my eyes but dropped it.

"Post-Traumatic Amnesia." Samson said as he probed around Alec's head. "Mike must have knocked him out to get here. He has memory loss from the blow to the head."

"Fuck." I hissed under my breath. This is just what we needed at this point in the case. Don't get me wrong, I'm worried for him. But this fucks up a lot.

"Let's head back down guys!" Emmett yelled from between the cuffed giants. I stood and helped Riley up, before shooting a text to the Chief so that he could call an ambulance for Alec.

We started down the hill each of us pushing one of the cuffed assailants down the large hill in front of us. Jasper and I helped Alec down the hill, as we were in charge of making sure the smaller guys got to the cop cars. They weren't putting up any kind of fight and were very manageable. Alec however was very reluctant to come down with a group of people he didn't know. We had to simultaneously wrestle and support him; due to how weak he was, from the constant beatings he had been receiving, as we went through the sea of trees.

"Who are you people?" He growled, thrashing in our arms.

"Alec. Calm down. You're safe, we're police officers." He smirked and tried to pull away again.

"Funny, that's what those guys said." He said nodding at the men cuffed in front of us.

"And they're in handcuffs." I rolled my eyes. I wasn't sure I liked this new Alec very much. He was certainly more outgoing and bold than before… He would have never fought against anyone before, much less Jasper or I. He glared and calmed down a bit as we finally made it to the base of the hill.

Our little group was swarmed with cops as they hauled off the five criminals. The chief and Emmett met with Jasper and I in the hotel room where we found Mike and his goons. They were currently taking pictures of his body and everything as the chief briefed us.

Well… as the chief growled and foamed at the mouth… at us.

"Why the hell isn't Tanya here?" Charlie boomed as he paced the floor.

"She's still at the house; she was knocked unconscious when Alec was kidnapped." Jasper filled in, the chief shook his head probably worried about the incompetence of his employees.

"Aren't you people supposed to be cops? Federal agents at that!" He growled.

Told you.

I pinched the bridge of my nose, "Did we not just catch all of the suspects in the act? I thought we were doing pretty well."

"If you did well we wouldn't have an amnesia victim, an unconscious agent and a dead coworker on our hands." He said leaning down so he was looking me in the eye.

"Isn't the ability of your agents on you then, chief? It's really not my fault that one got himself killed. Or that the other was taken out. I can't help that shit." I countered fiercely. He was always on my ass. Why? Hell if I knew.

Well it could be that I'm fucking his daughter…

But I digress.

"Masen, shut the hell up. Don't forget I'm the one who signs your checks." His eye twitched and Jasper leaned in towards me.

"Is he really?" I turned toward him and shrugged.

"I… don't know." Jasper nodded and sat upright when we received a harsh glare from the chief.

"Agh…" He huffed and put his hands on his hips. "You two get the fuck out of my sight. We're done for now. I'll call if I need you." He growled before heading into the bathroom. I slowly stood from the bed and made my way to the car, narrowly dodging all of the chaos outside. Once inside my car I reveled at the silence that I hadn't had since around eleven o'clock last night, when I picked up Jasper. I sighed contently at the realization that once we pieced together the connection of the men who broke into my house, the Christmas tree shooters, Patino, Mike and my biological father the case would be over. I would be free to have a regular life again.

I smiled and plugged the key into the ignition before my passenger door shot open. "What the hell, bro? You just gonna leave me here?" Jasper sat in the passenger seat of the car, looking put out. And that's exactly what I wanted to do.

Put him the fuck out.

"Of course not, Jazz. You know I wouldn't leave without you." I said sarcastically, the need for sleep hit me like a fucking brick when that door opened. I wasn't really in the mood for his whiny shit at the moment. My temper quickly shot through the roof, my recent contentment flew out of the window. I still had to make connections, go on trial, face the chief again… This case felt like it would never end.

He shifted in his seat so that he looked at my profile, "McCarty and Newton. How the hell do you think that happened?"

"Newton always was a fuck up. He probably was in it for money… I don't know how Patino was involved."

"How did you even get assigned this case, bro? Patino Jr. was in charge of the Volturi foreign affairs. Read the files man. They have some vital shit." I rolled my eyes and nodded pressing down on the gas a bit.

"You wanna stop somewhere? Let's go to Mickey D's before we go home." He looked at his watch and groaned. "Dude you realize we've been here for, like, six hours?" He asked in shock.

Which means I'm running on absolutely no sleep.

Shut up.

"Yes, Jasper." I gritted and clenched my jaw.

"Good thing McDonalds is twenty four seven right?" He grinned before leaning back against the headrest. I sighed deeply and sped out of the parking lot. I was pushing seventy in a twenty five zone when Jazz's eyes shot open and he gripped onto the bottom of his seat, pulling his seatbelt on with one hand.

"Slow the hell down!" He yelled as the ratty buildings whizzed past us. He stared at me when I didn't let up on the petal. "Edward, I think the last thing either of us needs today is for you to kill us." He sighed and I pulled my foot up just a bit so we were down to about sixty miles per hour. "Pull over, Edward." I ignored him. If I pulled over we would debate about whom would drive, then he would end up driving, forcing us to switch seats. Then he would go to McDonalds waste a fuck load of time ordering and flirting with a drag queen at the drive thru window and then he would pull over and flip the fuck out when he realized that he'd been flirting with a dude, only after I told him she was in fact a he. Then he'd drive himself home and we'd have to switch seats again and he would spout off some shit about my not being able to drive and he'd call Bella to come and get me and I'd have to sit on his fucking couch waiting, while he returned to his earlier activity of fucking Alice, while I was in earshot.

Which was a waste of time that I could use sleeping.

"Edward, pull over I'm driving." He said unbuckling his seat belt.

"The hell you are." Jasper punched my arm and I laid off of the petal a bit more. "Why the hell did you think it'd be a good fucking idea to punch the fuck out of my arm while I'm driving a fucking car?" I growled at him, I looked at the dial in front of me to see I had slowed to the proper speed limit.

"Woah Eddie. Watch your mouth. How would Ellie feel if she heard that?"

"She'd feel like the richest kid in the fucking world."

"Dude, what's wrong with you?"

"I haven't slept since the night before last. I just got fucking berated for solving a case. And you are never quiet." I border line moaned before pulling into the McDonalds drive thru.

"Oh that sucks, bro. Nice use of berated…" He said easily. "Lucky for me I don't get tired. I'm like my own built in red bull generator."

"Be quiet." I said before rolling down my window and ordering for both Jazz and myself. I pulled up to the first window to pay Jazz's drag queen, who he leaned across me to wink at. This guy at the window was extremely dolled up, and I would have hit on him too. Had he not been a dude and I not been married. But those little facts wouldn't bother Jazz until I remind him that, well you know, she's a he.

Once we got our food I took off again getting to Jaspers house in record time, and all but kicking him out of my car. I was about to pull away when I remembered to remind him.

"Be safe, Jazz. And for the love of god. The person at the drive through is a dude." Jasper nodded along until the last word where his face promptly scrunched up in terror. I smirked to myself and pulled off, making the short drive back to my house. I pulled into my drive way and was greeted by a smiling Jessie next door.

"Hey son!" He waved and I mustered up a smile because what the hell did Jessie ever do to me?

"Hey Jessie." I waved back and he squinted at me before picking up his newspaper.

"Are you all right? You look like you were punched in the face." I sighed.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks. I just had a rough night." I got out of the car and leaned against it heavily.

"Yeah… didn't we all…" I didn't really know what he was talking about so I just let it go. "I saw that Bella and the kids are back! And your, uh, cousin." I furrowed my eyebrows.

Cousin?

"Yeah, they came back yesterday." Jessie nodded and I shifted awkwardly, I wasn't very good at engaging in meaningful conversation while half asleep.

"Well don't let me hold you up, boy. You look dead on your feet." He said with a short wave before slowly making his way back into his house. "Tell your wife I said hello!"

I sighed and pushed off of the truck, following his lead and heading to my own home. "I will, see you." He nodded and slammed his door. I sauntered into my house and closed the door behind me only to hear the click of a gun behind me. Making my hand flinch for my own waist.

"Oh, it's you." Tanya's voice said from the steps as she lowered her gun. I nodded and finished closing and locking my door.

"Yeah, you might want to head down to the station or call the chief because some shit went down that you might want to know about." I mumbled before heading up the steps, she grabbed my sleeve.

"Like what? What happened with Alec and Mike?"

"Mike's dead. Alec has amnesia. It's all fucked. I need to go to sleep though." I pulled out of her grasp and made my way down the long hallway. I peeked into Ellie's room to see her curled up under her blanket. I went and bent over, kissing her forehead softly before leaving and going to Seth's room and repeating the action. I finally made my way back to my own bedroom and pushed the door open.

Bella was lying in a position similar to Ellie, curled in on herself with the blanket tucked around her tightly, I stripped quicker than I thought possible and crawled in behind her, pulling her into my chest. I sighed contently, burying my nose into her soft hair. She shifted slightly and sighed, her stiff body relaxing completely before she turned in my arms. She threw her arm around my waist and pushed her face into the crook of my neck.

"I'm glad you're back, Baby." She whispered groggily into my skin, her arms tightening around me. I sighed and relaxed against the pillow, closing my eyes and letting sleep overtake me.

I had been asleep for what seemed like ten minutes when I was shaken roughly. I groaned and rolled over, trying to get away from the shaking.

"What the-?" I was shaken harder and then pinched. I shot up rubbing my arm.

I cracked an eye open to see Bella throw a leg over me and straddle me. "When did you get here?" She asked, before wrapping her arms around my neck and kissing the hell out of me. "Why didn't you wake me up? I was worried." She pecked my lips again and I fought to keep my eyes open.

"I didn't want to disturb you." I raised an eyebrow and she rolled her eyes, hugging me to her. She pulled away and squinted at me before growling.

"What happened to your face?" She turned my head to the side and I sighed.

"Don't worry about it, you should see the other guy." She smiled and peppered my cheek with kisses. "Baby…" I turned so that we were both on our sides and pulled her to my chest, closing my eyes.

"Edward-"

"Shh… let's sleep." Her head popped up and she sent me the bitch brow.

"Edward it's twelve o'clock. We need to get up. We should go check on Riley, he's in the hospital." I sighed and turned over. Bella smacked my back and there was a shit load of movement behind me. There was a loud crash and the bed shook some more, then I was attacked by cold hands and feet.

"Daddy! You're back!" I opened my eyes to find Ellie about a centimeter away from my face, her nose touching my own.

Why is she so cold?

"Hi, sweet heart." She hugged my neck and leaned in.

"You shouldn't have leaved. Mommy cried. Without the toilet this time." I shot a side glance at Bella, who blushed and looked away.

"Hormones… You know." She stood and made her way to the bathroom, slamming the door behind her.

"You think she's mad at me?" Ellie pouted as she stared at the door, I shook my head sitting up and kissing her forehead. "Where's Uncle Riley?" I bit my lip and she frowned. "Did Aunt Alice get to him?" She shook her head and I stood up from the bed at the sound of Seth's wails.

"You wanna' come with me to get Seth?" She wrinkled her nose but nodded, jumping off of the bed and following after me.

My little boy's cries stopped as soon as I stepped into the room. He then beamed and jumped on his small mattress.

"Hey, buddy." I said softly, picking him up and smelling him. "Umm… Ellie I think this one is for you." I turned him towards her and she smacked my side.

"That's nasty. You're the poop picker upper. Like bounty!" She exclaimed before clapping. "I should be a rapper." My front door opened and closed and Alice screeched into my house. I grimaced and Ellie patted my arm. "It's okay, I got this." I lifted an eyebrow and she took off running.

"Go back to your corner, Aunt Alice!" I took off Seth's pants and changed his diaper quickly. I don't know what the hell is wrong with my kid but as soon as the pants came off his legs started going. I cleaned him up, put a diaper on him and then set him on the floor, letting him waddle around while holding my hand. We walked out into the hallway until Alice was visible in the foyer, with Jasper.

"Bella!" She screamed her eyes widening as she looked at me. Jasper looked perplexed and Seth fell onto his ass. "Bella!" She made a break for the steps and I moved once she neared me.

"She is so annoying. This is why I choose not to deal with hoe's, Daddy." Ellie said matter of factly.

I shook my head at Ellie and turned to Alice, "Bella's in the bathroom, Alice. What's wrong?" She just burst into my bedroom and soon after, the master bathroom.

"Cha-ow!" Alice hooted once in the bathroom, "Lookin' good, B. You know what I always say. If I weren't straight-" Bella started ranting from her place in the see through shower, and when I had reached the door she was pulling a towel around her waist.

"What the hell? Why is everyone in here?" She asked tucking the edge of her towel under her armpit and brushing the wet hair out of her face. She smacked Alice's shoulder, "Why are you in here?"

"Do you work out still?" Bella squinted at her friend, "Never mind. Your kid is walking!" She pulled Seth out of my arms and he groaned. Alice tossed me a glance over her shoulder, "Didn't want you to have to wait another week to find out." It was my turn to groan.

Were we never going to let that go?

…TEC…

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