Happy Mom's Day everyone! Enjoy!

Bella had decided on going out to eat for breakfast; after all the excitement that had happened earlier in her house she wanted to get out. Leah hovered around her for a few moments before the beautiful, tanned woman announced she was heading back to La Push to tell the others that Bella had been given the ultimatum. Bella nodded as she finished tying her shoes and grabbed a brush, attacking the mass of knots and tangles that such long hair always held in the early morning. "Call La Push if you've made your decision early," Leah said as she walked towards the door.

"Alright," Bella replied and winced as her brush won yet another victory against a nasty tangle.

"Bella!"

Bella jumped, her brain trying to analyze who the owner of the voice was even as her own feet rushed towards the door. "What the hel-" Leah began as Bella shoved the much taller woman aside, yanking her front door open. Her breath caught in her throat as she Jasper coming towards her, as fast he could with a lame leg. Bright red blood was smeared around his mouth and with each dragging step he took towards her, Bella could see the pain flicker across his face. "Shit," Leah cursed under her breath. "Stay away from him!"

Bella took off.

"Jasper!" Bella yelled as she almost tumbled over her own two feet. She cursed at herself inwardly as she regained her balance though. Now was not the time to act a klutz. More pain flashed across his face. "Oh God, stop walking!"

He took another dragging step. "Bel-" he started.

"Stop walking!" Bella screamed.

Jasper stopped as Bella ran the rest of the way to him: the sight of blood around his mouth forgotten, the fact that this was reformed serial killer, a vampire who she had only met with under Edward's supervision. In this moment Bella could only focus on the fact he was in pain. And it frightened her. She skidded to a stop only a foot or so before him, trying to take his form in. Jasper looked positively awkward standing in front of her with his hands at his sides, no doubt wanting to be the one to walk to her. But Bella was not about to allow him to cause more pain to himself just so he could talk to her. "Jasper what happened?" she breathed.

He waved her question away. "Bella we have to go. Now. "

There was the sound of Leah clearing her throat before Bella heard her voice. "Can you two have this conversation elsewhere?" Leah called out from the backdoor, a disgusted look on her face. "Unless you want to die that badly Swan…" she trailed off, taking a step towards them. Her eyes widened as the wolf took in Jasper's face. "Fuck! Get away from him!"

"Everything's alright," Bella said in a voice that sounded firmer then she felt.

"Like hell it is! He probably just ate a defenseless human!"

Now it was Jasper's turn to clear his throat. "Well…technically…not defenseless," he mumbled under his breath, so low Bella wasn't even sure he had said anything.

"What?" Bella asked.

"And actually, I drank from a doe, not a human."

"Whatever," Leah snapped. The glare she was giving him was blood boiling and inwardly Bella found herself wanting to back down from the she wolf's righteous anger. But it was hard to do so when there was a strange sort of calmness surrounding her: Jasper's work no doubt. Bella flashed him a grateful smile and he gave her a tiny one back. Leah was almost upon them: her long legs taking each stride with confidence. A tiny part in the back of Bella's mind realized that if they ever did another Terminator movie, Leah would be perfect to play one of the death defying machines. She already had the "kick-your-ass" air Terminators needed.

"You need to come with us Bella. I ran into one of the Black Paradigm members in the forest when I was hunting-" at this Leah snorted- "and he attacked me. They're going to come after anything with a vampric scent." His words caused her heart to pound despite the calmness he gave her and Bella bit her lip.

"Are you sure?" Bella asked, her voice no longer sounding firm.

Leah did not quite look as convinced. "And why should I listen to you again?" Leah asked. "You haven't exactly been the friendly neighborhood vampire to me or anyone else."

"Because I came back to tell you."

The words hung in the air between the three of them and not even Bella could deny the truth of them. Jasper had ever right to have gone to Carlisle. He didn't have to come back to them. And some part of Bella inexplicably trusted him. "Thank you," she whispered. Jasper simply nodded. Bella took in his pained stance and then over at the hunk of metal that remained of her truck. "Leah do you know how to hotwire a car?" she asked as she took Jasper's arm.

The blonde simply raised one eyebrow as Leah shrugged. "I can tinker with it but can't promise anything."

"That's fine. That's all I ask for," Bella replied and then to Jasper: "Lean on me if it gets to be too much. We'll take the car back."

Leah simply rolled her eyes at the two of them before she walked off, back towards the old truck. Jasper's blonde eyebrow went even higher. "What are you doing?" he asked even as she tugged on his arm. He took a tentative step with his injured ankle and though Bella was physically weaker then he, it did alleviate a tiny portion of the pain he felt. And it was the thought that counted.

"Helping you," came the simple reply as the two made their way towards her truck. Bella could see Leah grumbling something under her breath with her head tilted down low. Bella took a deep breath. "Will you be alright?" she asked as she felt the calmness drift away from her.

Jasper was quiet for a moment but Bella was beginning to get used to the silences the handsome male produced. "I believe so," he answered and Bella sighed. She could always trust Jasper to tell her the truth, no matter what. "My ankle is broken but…nothing that cannot be fixed with time."

"Which you have plenty of," she added and heard his soft chuckle. They were almost to the car when they heard the bloodcurdling scream, causing Bella to jump.

"What the hell was that?" Leah yelled as the truck rumbled to life after a few coughing spurts. Three pairs of eyes turned to see the owner of the scream: a young woman only a few years older than Bella herself, Japanese perhaps, with an ebony cloak tied around her neck. She held in both hands a broadaxe and her thin lips were spread into a vicious, predatory grin. She's going to kill us, Bella realized, suddenly frozen to the spot.

"That," Jasper replied as evenly as he could, "is one of the lovely Black Paradigm agents. A foot soldier hopefully." Bella picked up on the word hopefully even as she felt calmness envelope her again. The woman screamed again before she charged, running towards them from the line of the forest.

"Fuck," Leah breathed as she slid out from the driver's seat in an almost sort of daze. Bella helped Jasper to the passenger side and shut the door, casting a glance behind her. The Black Paradigm was already halfway towards them.

"Leah get in!" Bella yelled as she ran over to the driver's side. Leah practically threw herself into the bed of the truck even as Bella floored the reverse. Her old truck sprang to life, peeling backwards in a wide arc before it was facing the crazy human. Bella jerked the shift into "drive" and slammed her foot on the gas; the truck jerked forward, tires sending dirt flying everywhere. The steering wheel shook in her hands as Bella forced the truck straight, towards the human woman whose grin only seemed to spread wider at the sight of impending doom.

I can't kill her! Bella thought to herself even as the axe blade cranked back; a clear sign she was about to throw it. "Nnn," Bella whimpered even as she felt her hands start to jerk the wheel to the right.

Jasper's hand yanked the wheel to the left and the front tires swerved suddenly, catching the woman in the abdomen with the dull corner. Her body sprang upwards, for one sick moment reminding Bella of a rag doll before it slammed against the hood of her truck and then her windshield, sending spider webs racing across the glass. The woman's body slid off of the truck, landing on the ground. Bella cast a glance in the review as she left her house: the woman hadn't moved.

"Oh God I killed her," Bella whimpered as her truck careened onto smooth pavement.

"Bella," Jasper began.

"She came at us with an axe," Bella said, a desperate attempt to try and explain the madness of it all. "This is all my fault!"

"Bella-"

Bella could feel tears clouding up her vision and she rubbed at her face to make the tears stop. "I killed someone Jasper." She pulled her truck to the side of the road, her hands shaking. "Oh God- I-I killed someone."

"Bella!"

Bella gulped, looking at Jasper. He had a pained expression, though whether it was from the bumpy escape they had just had or whether it was from her emotions Bella wasn't sure. He leaned over, arms gentling pulling her into a hug, resting his chin on her head. "It's not your fault."

"But-"

"Everything is ok."

Bella cried.