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Sorry I took so long but I was sick and needed to do research on cat woman. Hope you like it. And if it stated that Bella live in a city in the previous chapters let me know so I can fix it.

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Chapter 5: Coffee Chatter and Fatherly Love

Bella and Edward entered the very clean cafeteria and grabbed some food and coffee. Edward pulled her chair out and helped her in to her set. Getting settled in his set Bella started asking Edward questions.

"How long have you been in law enforcement?" Bella asked while taking a bite of her salad.

"Five years. I became a detective two years ago." He answered. Remembering Bella's presentation Edward asked, "So...How was the second try?" Bella looked confused. "Huh?" she tilted her head to the side looking like a confused cat. He smiles. "You look cute when you're confused," Edward stated, she blushed cheery pink. "But you're beautiful when you blush." By now Bella was as red as a Floridian's bare back in the summer time.

"Anyway, the presentation you had yesterday."

The memories of last night began to pass through Bella's head.

Flashback:

Bella took a cab to the Hedare factory, and walked into the complex hauling the heavy portfolio. She tried the door to the printing building, but it was locked. Bella checked her watch. She was late. Late-and fired! She thought, pounding on the door. "Hello?" she called. "Anyone?" there was no reply. Looking around, Bella saw that there were lights coming from another section of the factory- research and development. Maybe I can get in through there, bella thought. She hurried around to the back and found an open door. Breathing a sigh of relief bella hurried inside.

Bella had been to the Hedare factory complex before but never to this section. She needed the printing division, but wasn't sure how to get there from where she was. A chill skittered down her spine as she looked around at the brooding walls lined with a spider web of dark pipes. Silence seemed to fill the space around her. A dim light shone from around a corner and Bella hurried toward it.

"I don't care that the FDA never saw the headaches, the nausea, or the fainting spells. Those are symptoms I can live with" Dr. Laurent, the head of Hedare research and development, said to the figure half-hidden in the shadows of his office. The only light came from video screens, which displayed moving bacteria magnified by an electron microscope. "And with what we stand to make from consumers demanding their fix, I can live with it being addictive. But these side effects from the long term studies. . ." Behind him, the images on the monitors shifted to show images of women, the skin dripping from their faces like molten wax. "I can't live with turning people into monsters-"

The figure in the shadows murmured softly.

"I thought I could live with it. . ." Laurent said, shaking his head, "but I'm . . . not sure anymore. . ."

Out in the hallway, Bella heard low voices from down the hall. Great she thought, relief flooding her body, now I can ask someone for directions. Spotting a half-open door, Bella pushed it open gently and stepped inside.

Bella walked cautiously into the lab and looked around. What is that? She wondered, spying the monitor. On the screen, a computer image of a woman's face was changing. The face was old, lined with fine wrinkles, but slowly it began to morph, becoming hard, stony, and almost skeletal. . .

Bella backed away from the image, slamming into a table behind her.

"Who's there?" Laurent barked.

Bella was sure she had seen something she wasn't supposed to. She didn't reply. She just ran.

As Bella fled, the door at the end of the hall began to open. She froze, ducking back around the corner.

A man stepped through the door as another emerged from the lab. Bella knew who they were-Carlisle and Emmett-James Header's assistants . . . and bodyguards. She hurried away from them.

Emmett joined Carlisle and the two men followed the sound of Bella's footsteps.

Bella found her way into a large production area. She ducked behind some machinery, her back to a vat.

"Come on out" Emmett called. "It's okay. We'd just like to ask you a few questions."

Breathing a sigh of relief, Bella stepped out from her hiding place. "I'm sorry. I think I'm in the wrong-"

BANG!!

A bullet sliced through the air, slamming into the vat of Hedare cosmetics just above her head. Without thinking, Bella dropped her portfolio and ran.

She ran blindly, not knowing where she was headed, desperate for a way out. Bullets flew as she raced down a metal ramp. Please, please, let me out of here, Bella begged silently as she darted into a waste treatment area.

A maze of metal catwalks wound over a pool of dark water. Bella could hear rushing a liquid and waste chemicals pouring through the web of pipes overhead. Bella's heart thudded in fear as she faced several enormous pipes that led away from the treatment area. Bella had no choice-there was no other way out. She picked one and ducked inside.

Bella scurried through the pipe, dodging as air whooshed past her. Putting out her hands to steady herself, she stumbled forward. . . until the pipe suddenly ended.

Below there was nothing but a long plunge to a raging river below. Gasping, Bella turned back, but she didn't get far. A tidal wave roared toward her. They had flooded the pipes. There was no time to react as the massive wall of water crashed over her, sweeping her over the edge.

And then everything went black.

End Flashback

"Bella can you hear me? Bella!!!" Bella napped back to reality to see Edward look very concerned. "What happened last night? Did he hurt you? You looked scared."

"It's not that! It's just when I went to show him the new presentation he was nowhere to be found. So I went to take the subway to the Hedare factory andlost my design boards on the train. Let's just say I no longer have a job." Bella decided to not tell him what really happened.

"That is not fair! He didn't even have the decency to show up and he just fires you!" Edward was livid.

"Not mention I was really, really late and I kinda snapped and told him off." She whispered the last part.

"I proud of you. Now on to something positive, tell me about your family." Edward changed the subject with a smirk.

"Well it's just me and Charlie. My mom died from breast cancer when I was eighteen but she went peaceful." Bella smiled thinking of Renée.

Edward was confused for a moment but came to realize that Charlie was probably her boyfriend. "Who is Charlie, your boyfriend?"

Bella choked a bit on her food, "No, no! Charlie's my dad! But you might know him as chief Swan." At this Edward choked on his coffee causing it to go through his nose.

"Are telling me that 'YOU' are the Daughter of the Chief of Police of all of Twilight City? The Charlie Swan?" Edward asked slowly. Bella nodded like it was the most obvious this in the world. 'Oh Dear God!' His eyes bugged out and he just stared at her.

As if on cue Charlie pushed through the doors of the cafeteria with the doctor and a very hyper Jacob.

"Bells there you are Dr. Whitlock was just looking for you."

"Hey, Daddy. Why aren't you at work?" Bella asked like a scolding mother.

"One: it 7 at night and two: even if I was on duty I would still come. Alice is like the Crazy pixie sister you've never had so that makes her my daughter to."Charlie stated giving bella a big bear hug. (A/N: Since Emmet one of the bad guys someone has to give the bear hugs!)

"You can't beat that logic." Bella laughed. "Well Alice will love that you came." She gave him a kiss on the check and he put her down.

The out of nowhere Jacob screamed "Man Sandwich!" and Pointed to Edward who was trying to hide from the chief.

"Masen...why are you here?" Charlie was confused and ticked that Edward was at Twilight General Hospital and not on duty.

"Daddy, be nice! He's a new friend of mine and here for moral support." Bella stated Glaring; a little disappointed in her father.

"Sorry Jelly Belly." He said a little scared. Bella turned red from his nickname for her when she was little.

"Dad!" she hissed.

"Well I have to head back anyway. Tell Alice I stayed as long as I could. I'll call you tomorrow." Edward gave Bella a kiss on the forehead and a hug. He turned to Charlie and nodded. "Chief Swan." Then left almost running out the hospital.

Charlie raised a questionable eyebrow at his Daughter.

"I really like him dad, so please don't scare him away like Alex." Bella pleaded.

"I just worry." He stated. "He seemed jumpy, what were you two talking about?"

"The fact that you're my father. You should have seen his face. He was still in shock when you came in."

"Well, that was interesting." They both jumped forgetting about the doctor. "Ms. Brandon is a wake and asking for you Ms. Swan."

"Thank you. How is she." Bella asked. "She has a massive migraine, she almost died. We just need to discover the cause and we can help her."

"I may know the cause," Bella spoke up and the doctor motioned for her to continue. "It's this cream she's addicted to my former boss is about to produce. I'm not sure how she keeps getting it."

"Let's see how she fairs without it for a few days."

With that the four of them walked to Alice's room.

Ok I need help from you the fans! I'm not going o use Hali Barry's cat suit I'm going to make my own with you help! It has to be more Bella. It must have a corset! So fend me pictures and ideas on a pm.