ALL THINGS TWILIGHT DON'T BELONG TO M BUT I DO OWN A PAIR OF SHOES.

A/N ~ Just want to say a HUGE thanks to those who have added this story to their alerts it means a lot to me. I apologize in advance for any discrepancies regarding trying to describe army things. I am an Australian citizen so anything containing the American Armed Forces I am only going by what Wiki gives me.

This story is also majorly UN beata'd so all mistakes are my own stupidity and I take responsibility for all my own mistakes.

Bella POV

We just landed into our Army base Fort Huachuca in Cochise County, Arizona, after an 8 month tour of Afghanistan. Its 2am local time roughly and I have been awake for 25hrs. I am exhausted and I want to do I check in with our Major and get to the civilian airport and catch a flight home to Vegas.

So who am I you ask? I used to go by Bella or Bells. Now I am known simply as Iz. I am a hardass bitch and take shit from no maggot in my battalion. There are 10 of us. My major Donald, he's 40 something; never married but married to his job. He is a great mentor and has kept my ass out of serious situations while away on tours of Duty. Then there are 4 1st lieutenants and 4 2nd lieutenants, and me; Captain Isabella "IZ" Swan. I am the only female in our battalion.

As I was saying I need to check in with Major Donald Murphy so that I can have my clearance to leave the state to Nevada where I reside. As requirement I need to report daily when I leave base for another state via either video link or secure phone line. Either way it doesn't faze me any; they just want to make sure I'm not going to go AWOL.

So anyway I'm no long the klutz that I was up until the fateful day of my 18th birthday. Something changed in me for the better I am guessing and that's why I am here today; not only for me but for my fellow countrymen and brothers and sisters. Also I wanted and escape from Washington and all the bad memories that haunt me every time I step foot in my father's home state.

TIMESKIP

Its been 12 hours since I have been back in Vegas. I sleep and a trip to the hair salon to get my hair done. Today is September 13th my 26th birthday. I am actually looking forward to this birthday, I have no idea why but I just have the feeling things are going to change.

Its 4pm and I have arranged to meet some close friends at Trinity's nightclub at 9 so I need to get a move on and start getting ready. While in the shower I think back to my 18th birthday party, the night that my whole entire life changed.

After opening that cursed gift my world came crashing down around me and the family that I considered my other family abandoned me. Well Edward was the master mind behind that whole ordeal; leaving me out in the forest telling me that I wasn't good enough, that I was hit pet, blah, blah, blah. I wasn't really paying attention after he said that he didn't want me to go with his family and him. I played along with his little charade of the heartbroken ex – girlfriend. As soon as he promised that he wouldn't interfere in my life and whatever lies he spun he made me promise that I wouldn't do anything reckless – yeah right!

The months passed by, my friends at school were all waiting for me to crack and break down but that never happened. I think I started to rebel about 6 months after the Cullens left. I got my first tattoo one drunken night in Port Angeles with Jessica and Lauren AKA Skank 1 and Skank2. It was a butterfly tattooed onto the base of my neck. I also managed to get half my hair hacked off. Well the hair dresser razored it into fuck hot spunky layers and dyed it all kinds of lovely colours like caramels, black, blonds and reds. To this day my hair is still the same and I mix the colours up occasionally. Except for when I am deployed I usually try and have it dyed back to my natural colour so I don't have to worry about up keep out in the dusty desert conditions for months at a time.

My blackberry dings telling me I have a text.

Sender: unknown

Captain to Captain can't wait to meet you tonight

Xx

P, C & J

Totally random I have no idea who this "Captain" is but think nothing of it and continue on getting ready for the rest of the night. I straighten my hair out don my make up with the Smokey eye effect the whole lot is a matte` effect. I look at the clock and its 7:30 so I'm almost good to go. I quickly made a chicken salad roll and devour that while selecting some clothing to wear. I decide on my leather pants with a red sequined halter top, paired with my red satin stilettos and a velvet blood red clutch. I shove my cigs, phone and makeup in my clutch and head to my garage. I haven't driven my Hummer in months and I am surprised it still starts which is awesome. I shove in a clubbing mp3 cd mix and away I go making sure the garage closed before I drive off.

After graduation I enlisted after completing the required school credits to get into the Army. It was great my mother signed the Arizona house deed over to me for my 18th birthday since she a Phil were living in Florida now. I did my research and moved to Arizona. I put in 18 months of hard work and training before I was commissioned, the shipped off to my first deployment in Iraq. I have done 2 tours of Iraq and 3 in Afghanistan. The whole time when I was on deployments I always thought of Jasper Hale. I knew a small amount of when he was human before he was changed. All I knew is that he was a Major in the Civil War. I think the reasons I joined the army was to make Jasper proud.

Finally pulling up at the club I park quickly and make my way to the VIP entry. All the skanks in the line are having a whinge cos all I did was flash my dog tags and I was let in. I heard one skank yell out to the door man that I wasn't even pretty and that it wasn't fair that I was let in cos I 'flashed a necklace. I hung around at the door jut inside waiting for his reply "Miss, if you keep up the attitude and name calling I am going to have to ask you to leave the premises. And that wasn't just a 'necklace' they were dog tags the beautiful woman protects our country" Ha I wish I could have seen her face! I'm sure she was a stuttering mess. I was on the VIP list anyway, since my tags have my full name, date of birth and social security number and my Us Army ID number.

I see Scott and Benxi from my battalion and we go to the bar for a round of drinks. Scott leans and gives me a kiss on the check and smacks my ass and hollers "Happy Birthday beautiful Iz"

Laughing at his eagerness shout back over the music "thanks Scotty, and just because I am out of uniform doesn't mean you can go around spanking my ass, I outrank you so keep your hands to yourself K buddy?" With a wink.

He swallows and opens and closes his mouth but I just laugh at him and say "relax Scotty it's my birthday and we are gunna party OK?"

"Yes Captain" with a salute was his reply with another kiss on his check.

I hug Benxi and kiss him on his check, he is a total sweetie. He is only 20 and has been in my battalion for the last year and this was his first tour. "Thanks for coming tonight Benxi, means a lot that you could make it." He gives me a quick kiss back and whispers a happy birthday in my ear.

"Well anyway boys in going to wander to the bar and get first drinks what do you guys want"?
"A Corona with a lime please" was Benxi's reply and Scott wanted a jack on ice.

I walk up to the bar and place and the order for the beer, the jack and 2 shots of tequila for myself. Gathering the drinks up I turn around and spot someone I haven't seen in 8 years but never stopped missing.

Jasper.

Thank you for reading. It's way longer than my first. I hope that I haven't bored anyone to death yet. Please leave a review. My phone is in my pocket so I am waiting to get off on reviews