Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight.

Authors note: Sorry about the long gap between uploads. I was busy passing my road test and getting my drivers licence.

Authors note II: I won't upload more than one per day. I really don't want to get burnt out on this story. Hope you till enjoy reading!


The fact of what the boys had done to Bella wasn't helping Charlie's conscience at all.

Charlie had driven along in his disguised supped up police cruiser. Currently he was tailing the group of boys along an 'evil' back street.

A tall and athletic boy carried Bella, Charlie discovered-thanks to emails sent by the parents just minutes before that the group of boys belonged to a gang.

Charlie turned briefly to his computer situated on the passenger seat. Charlie reread the information on the boys in the Brain gang.

The head of Brain was a boy called Leader, a narcissistic abuser who loved physically torturing victims.

The muscle of Brain was the boy currently carrying Bella, Sloth. Charlie didn't need to read about him.

After making the pact that would allow him to come after Bella, the people he was making the pact with imparted some information on Charlie that would help him get Bella home.

Part of that information was that a boy named Sloth was inside the group, and he was dangerous. The pact makers had warned Charlie that Sloth was extremely dangerous, and wasn't quite human.

Leader was really a rogue vampire and had been feeding on Bella. His insistence for blood and the intimidating factor of him being a vampire lead him to be the head of Brain.

Leader used his standard vampire gift of hypnosis to subdue the group of human boys, all except Sloth. Sloth however-despite knowing Leader's true identity-followed Leader and was completely faithful to the rogue vampire.

Since kindergarten Leader had been feeding on Bella, and he had used Brain to disguise Bella's injuries as gang beatings.

It was smart really. Leader could continually feed on Bella, taking as much blood as he wanted, and never draw any attention.

The pact makers had told Charlie all this, and how they had know about Leader for a long time. The one who had spoken to Charlie had told him that she had known from the moment Leader first fed on Bella, when Bella was in kindergarten.

Charlie didn't look in the back seat-he already knew what was back there. An AA-12 especially designed with 500-slot cartridge holder, handgrip, and a thunder muzzle-attached to the barrel that would make the shots hundreds of pounds per square inch stronger-was sitting in the backseat.

The method of killing Leader and his brood of young subjugates was apparent-use the AA-12 and kill all of them, leave no one alive and show no mercy.

The consequences of Charlie's looming actions were apparent-Charlie was a cop he could handle it. Greg would most likely hear about it, so Charlie planned to drive along the divide to Phoenix.

The one thing that wasn't apparent was how Bella would react to all this. Due to the repeated shock from being feed on for years by a vampire, Bella had most likely developed...problems.

When Charlie had read the file-which sat next to the AA-12-he had learned of Bella's problems; she had chronic asthma, an inferiority complex, chronic anxiety, and insomnia.

These were the 'natural' problems that Bella received from Leader's 8 years long feeding on her. The supernatural problems had yet to manifest themselves.

'Is Bella infected? Will she turn into a vampire the night she turns 18?' Charlie had these ominous thoughts as he drove onward trying not to be seen by Leader.

Charlie knew that only Leader could sense him. Human subjugates surrounding the vampire were docile-during the day. The sun currently shined in the position halfway between noon and sunset.

As soon as the sun set, the brood of Leader should come alive. Human brood members gained vampire like powers once the sun set and the moon rose.

Charlie wanted to finish off the brood before sunset, and then take Leader on during the night. The forks police chief knew that the only way to kill a vampire was during the night, in their most powerful element.

A practiced and extremely powerful and extremely old vampire would reign like a tyrannical king during the night-almost unstoppable. Leader, due to the amount of blood taken from Bella, was extremely powerful.

Powerful vampires became virtually unstoppable during the nighttime, and yet when the moon shown it's light on the world was the most likely time to kill a vampire that had lived to be a millennium.

Leader was older than 1000 years. Leader was much, much older than a millennium. The Volturi had created Leader once they took power and established themselves as the peacekeepers of the vampires-supposedly 3000 years or more ago.

Leader wasn't anything special, except that his gift let him enhance his human subjugates with superpowers. Giving only one of his brood a superpower was all he was allowed. However once that human died, Leader was then allowed to put a different superpower on a different human inside his brood.

If Leader only brought one human out at a time and gave them a different superpower each time, well that's how he had lasted for as long as the Volturi.