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Chapter 13: Off to School.

Bella carefully cleaned up all her baked goods. Charlie told her that he would drop off half of the food at his station. The men in blue would like a hot meal made by his wonderful daughter. That made her want to blush. However, she reminded herself that the man was supposed to be her father. As she thought about it, she concluded that that warmth that she felt was not an attraction to the man but a growing love for someone that she cared about in a non-sexual way.

Her dad would have to be watched. The unlucky fact about her daddy was that she was not good at tracking. Yes, she could help her friends get a meal but she could not track everyone. The smell of pine was too rich in the air. Her gifts would not help her.

Forks was a small town but every vampire had their talents. Some had talents that were not worry of the Volturi falling up on. The Volturi never looked to closely when a vampire was called normal. The Cullen family as a whole was not needed.

Edward and Alice were the ones they wanted to be placed into their fold. Jasper was too much of a risk to keep near the others. Edward had the gift of mind reading. His gift could be cultivated until it was of a direct benefit to them. As of now, it was only a gift that needed a good teacher to turn his novice talent into a one that could read ten or more times the amount of minds he could read currently. There would be no place a mind could hide.

Alice knew information about the future. She would have to be killed, eventually. Keeping someone like her was a random risk that could hurt the group as a whole.

Bella suspected the plan. There was talk about the two. She never directly had a talk with them. They cared about her but she was not in the process of picking a vampire for them. Never had she chosen her targets. So, it made since that they would pick whom they wanted to join them.

Join us or die.

Bella thought back to a time when she had been too young to realize the impact on her life. They wanted her. She was so excited about the opportunity to have a family that she never questioned them. They needed blood … she was very happy to help. Time only made her wonder if she could ever have a family of her own.

They gave her a place to stay … a last name that meant something in exchange for the use of her talents. How could she ever leave them? Part of her wanted to stay with them but Jasper was not part of that world.

Jasper had turned others into vampires. Bella could never bring herself to turn anyone into a vampire. How had it affected him? She had awoken to no blood lust at all. Did he? Was he in pain?

There was a shock to her system when she first craved blood. Being alone opened her to up to a time when she needed someone to help her.

Doing dumb things or leaving a small trail from the last mission was her way of hiding things in other places. There was no need to keep a large amount of money with her. The last of her paychecks were either given away to victims of her target or stashed away in some bank … not helping anyone. Too many times, there were no victims left to help.

Other times, she was called back to her family before she could help anyone. Money had always struck her as so cold. It was not a friend. It could buy them but she never made that much money in one assignment. Bella never made enough to keep a friend that would not eventually find out about her. Bringing someone so close to her was too risky. Helping was too risky. There was too much to hide.

Most of the time, she was only able to pay for a memorial for victims. The paper trail left so much to the imagination. As a rule, she stayed away from places that reminded her too much of her past missions.

Carlisle was her first vampire that she was sent to with the intention of not killing him. There would be no pretending to be his friend, no pretending to be his lover. She could have left but there was no leaving without Charlie and Jasper.

That night, Bella called Jane telling her that everything went well. Jane appeared concerned about the vampires that had shown up to attack the Cullen family. Bella had reassured her that she would handle it.

Soon, Bella packed up her things for school. She would be going with Carlisle family in the morning. The sounds of the forest, her home, and Charlie sleeping soothed her while she waited for morning. Other sounds plagued her senses that were foreign to her knowledge. Next store, people slept peacefully in their homes. If she listened closely she could hear them talking in their sleep.

The next day, the Cullen's arrived outside her home. To their confusion, Charlie was right there to talk to them. "I will see you, soon." He looked over to another car. "You. I know you have eyes for Bella." He glanced over at Bella. "Remember to use a condom."

"Hey." Bella appeared shocked.

"It is never too easily to talk about safe sex. You never know when the moment will arise that you think that it is ok. I cannot be there all the time."

"Ok. Please. Stop."

"I know you think that it will not happen but it could. I want you to be safe."

"Thanks. I will remember. Can I go, now?"

"Good. I will see you later, tonight. Love you."

"Love you, too."

He leaned in then kissed her on the cheek.

The Cullen's drove off with Carlisle driving her. "What was that?"

"Caus though I could use somewhere to stay. I think Charlie is a decent man. I am keeping him and there is nothing anyone can do about it."

Rosaliea who was sitting in the back sit eyes bore into the back of Bella's head. "Is there a way into you little fancy land where you live? Do we have to pay for admission?"

Emmet put his arm around the love of his life. He leaned into to whisper, "Don't annoy her she might kill us."

Bella stayed silent trying not to make any of them angry. Who knew what hidden abilities they might be hiding. She was not dumb enough to believe that the Volturi knew everything there was to know about the Cullen family.

Thanks for the wait. I was debating on what to have Charlie say to Bella. I decided to go for humor.