A/N A super huge thanks goes to OoJasper'sAngeloO for not only doing the beta work but giving me the poem she wrote for Bella to recite. Thank you girl, I love you. Warning, you may need tissue for this one. Hope you enjoy.

Bella's POV

The next few hours were a blur, at least to me. In order to keep the human police from investigating there had to be a cover up. There was no way a human could have done the damage to dad's body that had been done, so an accident had to be staged.

There was an explosion inside the house, but before that could happen though, Peter and Char went through the house and grabbed pictures, books, and things they thought I would want as mementos. Then they rigged the house to explode so violently that dad's body would be mostly destroyed.

I cried until there was nothing left in my tear ducts. After that I became numb. I watched as Peter and Char loaded up the truck with the stuff they had taken from the house. Jasper kept telling me how very sorry he was that he hadn't been here to stop dad from being tortured and killed.

Before they actually let the house explode, Peter told Jasper that he should go into the house to see if he recognized the scent. They already knew that one of the scents belonged to the one that had been in my apartment. I vaguely recall grasping Jasper's shirt as he tried to pull away to go in. I also heard someone screaming.

Peter finally brought something out that was covered in this vampire's scent. Jasper said that the scent was familiar but he couldn't be sure of whom it was. I heard Jasper ask someone where the "fuckin' wolves" were at.

It suddenly dawned on me that they were supposed to have been guarding, and watching dad's house, so where the fuck were they? I began to become worried about them. What if the vampire that had killed dad had managed to kill the wolves? But if that was the case, where were the bodies?

I heard Jasper and Peter talking about the message that had been left for me. I wasn't really paying much attention, at least we now knew for a fact that some vampire was after me but who could it be? I kept hearing everyone talking but it felt as if I was hearing them from far away.

As soon as they were ready to blow the house Jasper wanted to take me back to the hotel but I refused to go. I needed to find out why the pack wasn't here to protect my dad. I asked Jasper if he would call Billy and let him know what had happened with dad and to see if he knew where the fucking wolves were at.

I just couldn't talk to anyone right now. But I could listen. That's exactly what I did, "I need to speak to Billy Black. This is an emergency. This is Jasper Whitlock; I used to live with the Cullen's. Bella asked me to call and speak with Billy."

He was quiet for a minute before going on, "Is he alright? He didn't get bitten did he?"

I was starting to freak out. He was quiet for another few seconds before going on, "I see. Have you heard from the rest of the pack? I have some very bad news, maybe I should talk to the Alpha of the pack."

He was again quiet for a bit before speaking up, "Maybe it would be best to talk to Billy."

After a few more seconds I heard Jasper talking again, "Billy Black? I'm sorry to hear about Seth but there is something that I think you should know. Where is the rest of the pack?"

"Good, maybe they'll be able to catch the vampires but I'm not calling about them. I'm here at Charlie's house with Bella and well I think you should know that well, Charlie is dead. He was killed by the vampire that is after Bella."

He stopped talking for a few minutes and seemed to be listening. Then he said good-bye and hung up. I heard Jasper telling Peter and Char that apparently Seth had run into a few newborns and it was just him and Leah. They were able to destroy them, but Seth had some injuries. They took him back to the reservation, and were waiting for him to heal. It wasn't bad, but as far as they knew, some of the pack were here protecting Charlie's house while the rest were chasing vampires.

Shortly after the phone call the house exploded. That was it, now I didn't even have a home any more. I couldn't go back to my apt. I had nowhere to live, and no one to live for. I decided right then that as soon as the funeral was over I was sending Jasper and his friends on their way.

I was not going to wait around knowing that he would be leaving me as soon as this vampire was no longer a threat to me. It would hurt too much, and I just wanted the pain to stop. I would just let this vampire have me. Since I would end up more alone than I had ever been, what did it matter? No one would miss me.

The police and the fire department showed up shortly after the explosion. The story was that we had just arrived when the house exploded. As far as we knew dad was in the house when it blew. Jasper asked if he could take me to his hotel room. They had no problem with me going but I sure as fuck did.

I needed to wait until they had official word that dad was gone. It wasn't that I didn't believe him to be dead; I just wanted to make sure that they wouldn't find any problems as to how he actually died. I also needed to find out where in the fuck the wolves were at, and why they weren't watching the house like they planned on doing.

We sat there for hours watching them try to put out the fire. It was burning hotter than normal; at least that's what one of the firemen said. I guess they needed to make sure that there was no evidence left as to what really took place. This was one time that I was truly grateful for the humans being around.

The fucking wolves decided to show themselves. They had to be nice to Jasper, Char, and Peter. They couldn't phase and attack like I knew they wanted to do. Right now, I didn't fucking care what they wanted; if they had been here, maybe my dad would still be alive.

It was fucking Paul who decided to tell the vampires what they would be doing, "Bella, you need to come over to us. One of the others will take you to the rez. You'll be safe there until we can catch and kill the leeches responsible for this. We also need to take care of these three. I'm thinking that they are the ones responsible for this. They came here and their friends followed them."

None of the vampires said a word, they just moved in front of me as if they would protect me from the pack. They were growling at Paul and I could tell if I didn't intervene a fight would break out. I also needed to let Paul know that I wasn't going anywhere with their furry asses, they should have been here for dad.

Paul wasn't done talking, "Come Bella, we'll protect you from these, and all the other leeches here. We won't let them keep you from us. Just walk on over here and then we'll leave."

"We are not now, nor have we ever held Bella against her will. She seems to want our company, and until she tells us otherwise, we will stay with her." Jasper replied quietly.

I saw red then, here were the vampires and wolves talking about me as if I wasn't here, "Paul, I have one question and then I will be leaving with my friends here. WHERE WERE THE WOLVES WHEN DAD WAS BEING TORTURED?" I screamed.

"I'm truly sorry about that, but you have to understand that there were maybe thirty, forty, vampires here. We had to stop them from killing the other humans here. We left Seth and Leah here to watch over Charlie. Actually we left six wolves here. It took awhile to find out exactly what happened but leeches were coming from everywhere, and so to destroy them the wolves went after them two at a time. We always thought that Charlie was safe, being protected. It wasn't until Leah brought Seth to the rez that we even knew he had been left alone."

This was when Billy showed up having been brought here by Emily. He was helped out and then he came over to us. He looked so much older than I had ever seen him look. My heart went out to him; first he lost his only son, and now his best friend to vampires. He had been crying, I could tell.

He looked at everyone before looking at me, "Bella, I'm so sorry. The wolves should have been here. Seth is doing better. He explained what happened. It seems that whoever did this knew exactly what to do, and how to make sure that Charlie ended up unprotected. I'm not sure if the one that did this knew you weren't here or not. Since it was a vampire's doing I'm going to assume they knew you weren't there."

It was Jasper who answered, "The vampire that did this left a message for Bella. She is the target. The problem is that we can't figure out who could be doing this. Bella told me that Victoria was killed. Normally I would have to say it was her mate, but I was the one to kill him so it couldn't be a mate thing. Then again it doesn't matter who it is. They murdered a good and honest man just for fun. I know that you can see that the three of us are human drinkers. We only drink from criminals, but even then we are for the most part humane. We kill them quickly. I know this goes against your treaty that you made with the Cullen's, but just keep in mind two things, we are not Cullen's, and our only concern right now is keeping Bella safe. I want to take her to Texas. Hopefully, whoever is after her will lose her trail and we'll have time to plan on how to stop this vampire."

I spoke up then, "If you knew there were that many vampires why didn't you fucking call me. I could have told Jasper and his friends. They would have helped, they probably could have at least kept dad safe. At least they know how to fight, and keep someone safe. You and your pack just fucking figured that you could handle all of the vampires on your own. Because of that, I lost my dad. Just stay away from me. As soon as the funeral is over I'll be leaving with the only ones who seem to know how to keep me safe. You will leave my friends and me alone. Billy please tell Seth that I'm truly sorry he got hurt, and that I would like to talk to him as soon as he's up and around."

With that I turned and walked away. I vaguely recall Jasper picking me up and carrying me to the truck. Everything was a blur over the next few days. The officers wanted to give dad a police funeral. Even though he hadn't died in the line of duty as far as they were concerned he was still a hero to most of Forks.

I was numb and was a mess for the most part. I had periods of crying, then I would become angry, then I had times when I felt nothing, useless, and very much alone. Jasper was taking care of me even to the point of feeding me himself. The only time he left my side was when I needed a human moment or took a shower.

Those times were bad on me. As soon as he left the room I would feel the pain in my chest, but it was the feeling of loneliness that bothered me the most. I felt like I had lost something. As soon as I was back in the same room as Jasper both the feeling and the pain would stop.

He tried to calm me down at couple of times but I turned on him and told him that I needed to feel what I was feeling. Even though it was only the times that I became hysterical, I still needed to go through my feelings. He was smart enough to know that the only way I could heal was to feel my own emotions and let them out when I needed to.

The day of the funeral came and it was about an hour before we had to leave to get to the church were the funeral was being held. After a short service in which several of his friends would get up and talk about how Charlie's life had affected them, we would all go to the cemetery where they would do a twenty-one gun salute, and then present me with the flag that covered his coffin. I would be receiving his badge as well. Unfortunately, there wasn't much to put in the coffin.

I knew that the wolves would be there, but I didn't have to talk to them or be around them. I was told that Seth would be there and that I could speak with him then. The one thing that I absolutely couldn't do was the one thing that Jasper kept insisting that I needed to do and that was tell him what happened after the family had left.

He knew parts but not the whole story. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Especially now that my dad was dead. He had been hurt almost as much as I had because he had to watch me and had no clue how to help me. Maybe once I was away from here, and let some time go by then I could do it.

We got to the church early. I wanted to be there before everyone else got there. I just didn't want everyone staring at me as I came in. I sat in the front where the family was supposed to sit, and tried to calm myself down. Jasper kept an arm around me, mostly to support me I figured.

The church ended up being crowded. There were actually those who had to stand. It felt good knowing that my dad had this many people who cared about him. Several of his fellow officers went up and told stories of different things they saw Charlie do, or what he had done for them. Billy Black went up and talked about some of the funny things that happened when they went fishing together, as well as how Charlie helped him when Jacob had been killed.

Now it was my turn to get up. I had written something that would tell everyone how much my dad had meant to me. I normally hate being in front of people and having to say anything, but this was for my dad and I needed to do this for him. So I got up and started, "I want to say Thank you for coming and saying good-bye and for your support. I wrote this just for this time. I only hope that dad is somewhere listening, and enjoys this poem that I wrote."

"Shrouded in mist, the sun emerged while you held me weeping,

Your sighs mingled with my sobs.

Chanting a woeful first love's tale,

You were there for me then.

Harshly the midday sun scorched as we stood facing each other,

Scars of verbal battle deeply etched.

Hurting, wounding carelessly,

You were there still.

Subtle hues of pinks,

Blue covered twilight skies.

Amicable silence tells of love, understanding,

We were there for each other.

Moonlight floods your darkened room,

I held your picture, weeping.

My sobs, chanted a poignant farewell,

You were there for me always.

I love you daddy."

At this point I broke down. Jasper had to come up and carry me back to the pew. Jasper refused to set me down, he held me in his lap, as I wept for my dad, as well as for all of the pain I had caused him over the years.

I don't really remember the ride to the cemetery. But what happened there, I will never forget. I got out of the car and I heard Jasper's hiss, and growl before seeing them.

Standing there not twenty feet from me were two people that I had hoped to never see again. Of all the ones that had hurt me, I think it was these two who had hurt me the most in one way. They had often told me that I was just as much their daughter as the rest of the "kids" were. Yet, they agreed to leave me without even so much as a word. I had been a distraction for them as well as the asshole who claimed to love me.

Standing there with sad looks on their faces were Carlisle, and Esme Cullen. At this point I wasn't the only one about to attack. . .

A/N Please let me know your thoughts. Next chapter, we hear Bella's story and a secret is almost revealed. Thanks to all of the reviews, and those who added this story to their favorites and alerts. Love you guys.