A/N: 2 more informative P.O.V's xx Alexis


The wife and I had been less than twenty miles from those assholes when I got a massive drop of crap..., sorry information! Edturd was about to once again lose the plot and this time it would be Bella's father who died if I didn't change him. Now it made sense why I needed such a big truck and had my passengers. It was for carryin' the Swan's stuff as well as everyone else's. So I did the only thing I could under the circumstances and turned around headin' back towards Forks. Char just looked over at me in confusion and I laughed sardonically.

"We're about to become parents suga', won't that be fun?" I quipped, but I knew the Chief would be as controlled as his daughter,

"What?" Char asked now with some uncertainty,

"Yep, the golden boy has gone and fucked up yet again and this time it's Bella's father!" I explained,

"Damn, yeah I noticed he smelt just as good as her but more male, you know what I mean. That denser and more testosterone-filled smell! So we're takin' him on? Are you sure Pete?" Char asked me with concern in her voice,

"Hell yeah suga' I ain't missin' this for the world. The Chief is gonna hunt that boy to the ends of the earth. Charlie Swan is Edweirdo's worst mistake and he will pay for it piece by piece startin' with his eye tonight!" I tell her and we both burst out laughin' so hard,

Cruel yeah, but that's because that boy deserves it more than any other vampire we've ever had the displeasure to have met. He isn't just insufferable, but mean, petty and downright nasty. He tried the old blackmail trick on both me and Char in the beginnin', did he think, I like him hid everythin'? I just sucker-punched him and told him to get the fuck out of my face if he wanted to live! Then came the lies, I removed his tongue for a year for that one and eventually he got the message! No amount of beggin' or offers of money from his daddy induced me to return it. No, I demanded one year from the day, a public apology. He thought I just meant his family and mine, but he really didn't know me at all. I had every friend I have there for the big event, to make a laughin' stock of him!

I humiliated the obnoxious child and it put a stop to our harassment from him, but not unfortunately Alice. I never allowed him to read my mind again after that. What amuses me the most is that the Chief would be a skilled tracker due to his police trainin' and huntin' skills. So the brat won't be able to ever shake him. Whereas Bella is a shield and will protect herself and others, he will reflect your gift back at you! This will be harmless in some cases but devastatin' in others, like the witch twins for instance! The Chief's one quest after his newborn year will be to track down, harass, torment and one day kill Eddie-no-balls! Why? Well, looks like the Chief hates him as much as we do and wants his pound of flesh! Not just for his own sake, but for his kiddo, as he calls her too.

So Eddie best gets to runnin' while he can, but he like Alice will have nowhere to hide. I have a feelin' they will try to hide in Volterra, but between Bella, the Major and the Chief even they won't be able to save them! In fact, I'm pretty sure they'll show them the door when they find out what they've done. I left Char once again to pack up more of their personal things, but most of the furniture and fixin's needed to be there to make it look above board. It wasn't because she was a woman I left her to do that, but so she didn't kill any of the Cullen clan if she went to their house. I know my mate and she'd rip someone's head off just because they looked at her wrong or if Edwanker started sayin' somethin' stupid! As it was when I arrived back at their pretentious home he wasn't sayin' anythin,' he was a droolin', gibberin' wreck!

I ripped him off Bella's father's back the quickest way I knew. That was by removing his body from below his head, and his mouth automatically let go in shock! I apologised to the Chief and bit him immediately after that; he was a fighter that's for sure. I realised by the smell his gun had already gone off once and smirked as I saw where the bullet had embedded itself. It was obviously a fluke but was now one with Carlisle's father's cross; let that be a reminder to him, that he should never have played God with changin' Eddie the asshole! While I quickly repaired his neck I realised the Chief was focused on the idiot's head in front of him and I didn't try to stop him as he shot out the fool's eye. Damn, I was right someone at the station had been tamperin' with the regulation ammunition.

Maybe not expectin' their Chief to actually need to discharge his weapon before they replaced it! Carlisle grabbed the fool's head when he understood the eye was actually burnin' and plucked it out. But it was beyond savin' and there was nothin' he could do. I was disgusted with them all, nothin' unusual there then. But to just stand and watch that imbecile rip out two throats in one night, sure took the cookie! I just shook my head at them, makin' sure they saw the contempt on my face as I lifted my charge up. I gave the doctor a few of my choicest words, I don't know why they say the air was blue when someone swears, cause it looked mighty multi-coloured from where I'm standin'! With that, I left the asylum they called home, to those idiots!

I kept gettin' strange images in my head and tried to shake them off. Why was I seein' the Chief floatin' down a river of lava on a raft? That was mighty peculiar, to say the least! I was discussin' what we need to do with Char when he actually pushed information at me and I was surprised. Instead of my normal recievin' of random shit in my head, the Chief was givin' me his direct thoughts. It was a weird type of reversal of my knower! I don't actually affect anyone with how I get my knowledge, so it's the first time I've gotten a direct line to someone else's thoughts. Hell, I hope it's only temporary! It was only intermittently, so he was actively givin' me his thoughts. Was this part of his gift, I guess it was and would work differently on each individual vampire.

Well, we got it all out and the house is well and truly on fire. So it's time to get the hell out of Dodge! I made sure the cheap ammunition exploded leavin' its telltale pattern in his gun safe; at least that way the guilty person would be caught. Because the Fire Chief from Port Angeles would need to be brought in since Charlie, who was the Fire Chief for Forks was supposedly dead! I'm leavin' the clean-up of this fiasco to Carlisle since he's the local coroner. Let's see what he makes of those two frozen cadavers I left in the Swan's home. Gruesome I know, but sometimes you have to do things you usually wouldn't! There had to be residual body parts otherwise it would be fishy. Plus a red flag to the Quileute tribe and especially to those damned wolves.

This way it would look all above board and all Carlisle needs to do is say they were the father and daughter duo. Then everyone will accept it was the Swans. The wolves might be suspicious but if the Cullen's stay around for the funerals well that would help. Plus it's closure for Bella's mother, Renee to have someone to bury and two transients get a decent send-off. I didn't even kill them, my knower told me where to find them and I took them from a partially burnt-out building, so same cause of death! I didn't know what I was supposed to do with them until that last drop of information, but I never told Char they was in the back of the truck. She'd have freaked the fuck out, knowin' we had two frozen stiffs back there! Sometimes a lie by omission can save your bacon!

Now came the tough part, I needed to let the Major know about Chief Swan and that meant he'd have to tell Bella. I left it as long as I could and we too were on the road, but we would be takin' a more leisurely route. The Chief would be well controlled and after Char explains our eatin' habits, feedin' on those hardened criminals who always seem to evade goin' to jail. Even if the cops know they are guilty as hell, he will join us! I feel for the Major, he doesn't know yet that Bella will refuse point blank to feed from animals, she doesn't want to be like the Cullen's at all. But she will also be able to protect him from the emotions of his kills one day and that will convince him to revert back eventually. How did I know he'd tell her about her father, well that's what mates do?

They tell each other the truth no matter how hard it is to hear! I know by now he's worked it out, but she has been a little preoccupied to really think about it, but it's there all the same. I also know the Major will call me once he's alone; well he needs a good laugh right about now!

RNFSG

While the others had been running around like headless chickens, literally at first in Edward's case. A one-eyed chicken at that! Carlisle got the call to attend the Swan house in his capacity of coroner, looks like Peter is way more on the ball than us. I saw my one hope of redemption and decided to take it. Bella's truck had been off to one side in our driveway all this time, that's how her father knew she was, or as he thought still here. So I took it into my garage and started to plan its complete restoration. That's odd, where's Alice's' Porsche? I knew Bella loved her truck, 'the beast', and why she did. Unlike Edward I worked it out it was plain and simple, it was a gift from her father. They weren't verbose people, but loved very deeply and that's what made it special. It was a gift from a loved one with no strings attached!

I don't ever remember getting something from my parents without me having to do something in return! It was a form of bribery with them, I did what they said and got a present for my efforts. Now, after all these years I see how wrong that was, but back then I was shallow enough to see it as my way of getting better and more expensive things! I can't believe in one night Edward had attacked both the Swans, ripping out the throats of both father and daughter! I saw the disgusted look on Chief Swan's face when I made that sarcastic comment about getting Edward the address of Bella's mother. I seem to always put my foot in it when it comes to the Swans. It was a defence mechanism, my appearing cold to cover how truly scared I was. And then there are the flippant comments and I'm aware they are not nice traits when combined.

But tonight I saw the look of condemnation on five faces. Jasper for my refusal to see the truth and just accepting their lies without proof! Bella for once didn't look at me with her usual awe and wonder, no it was disappointment and pity I saw, that stung badly, she pitied me! Chief Swan wore a look of pure undisguised disgust and that's not even taking Peter Whitlock into account. Then finally Emmett looked wounded and repulsed from my being annoyed that he changed Bella, unable to understand how I wasn't happy for him as he saved his baby sister. Yes, I get it, I've tried to push my thinking on him, but he isn't as twisted or jaded as me. However he's never looked at me the way he did tonight, so I have now finally faced the truth and it's not pretty.

They are right; yes all of them, even Peter Whitlock! But moreover, it's me that's wrong. I always saw myself as having the moral high ground due to my upbringing. But then if that was true, Royce had every right to do to me what he and his friends did! Since in my way of thinking he was part of a higher station than myself. I have been so blind, so narrow-minded; station has nothing whatsoever to do with morality. Hell, my own parents basically sold me to the highest bidder and I let them! I know I couldn't have done much, but Vera had said I could live with them if things got too bad, she, it appears saw what I refused to see. So it's time for me to take stock, to actively change myself and to try to win back my mate's good regards. Those which I so callously threw away over all our years together.

Because I now see, that while I sneered at things and people he liked, all I was really doing was hurting him. I often saw a look that others gave me and now I see it was not envy of me, of my beauty and what I possessed, but pity! They pitied me for not seeing past the cage I'd built around myself, not seeing the love and life I had right in front of my face. Why? Because I refused to accept I was now and forever a vampire! I've wasted so many years blaming everyone, but mostly Carlisle for that. I felt like a fish out of water and refused to join the decade I was in, sticking rigidly to my own time and moral code, which was truly skewed in men like Royce's favour. Granted it was so much better when Emmett arrived and I was happy, but little by little I tried to make him as disenchanted by being a vampire, as I was.

A lesser man would have broken, but not my Emmett he just rolled with the punches and there were many. So by fixing her truck, it is not as an olive branch to her, but to my mate. A way of letting him see I have accepted and understood I was wrong. That he has every right to have a sibling relationship with Bella, not because I allowed it, but because he wanted to. I have many apologies to make, whether they are taken is another matter. First, will be Carlisle because he didn't kill me, I was already dying. He didn't steal my hopes and dreams that was Royce King! So instead of thanking him for giving me the tools to exact my revenge, I harangued him for taking my life! But my life as I knew it was over and destroyed by my own fiancé, no less.

I will also stay here until after the Swan's funerals and make sure the others do as well. Then I'll go to Tennessee and fix up the house until Emmett tells me where to meet him. I am under no illusion that Jasper will forgive me because I doubt he will. But it was so stupid of me to just accept what they said, his eyes were still gold and he had barely come back through the door when Edward attacked Bella. But why had I totally refused to see Edward was lying through his teeth? Running the whole evening through my head frame by frame showed me many things I didn't want to see! Alice smirking as she handed over the envelope, Edward already staring longingly at Bella's neck before she cut her finger. I wasn't looking at her, because I usually didn't, so I had focused on him!

It was Alice! She was the one whose eyes turned black first, she must have been threatening Bella in her thoughts and he read her mind and snapped! Because as far as he was concerned she was his prize, his singer, making her blood his alone! Alice successfully gave him the push to finally attack Bella, but why? What would her death prevent? What was Alice hiding? Then the insistence that Jasper leaves right away without packing, why? She wanted him gone even as Bella was changing, no especially as Bella was changing thanks to Emmett. My monkey man threw a spanner in Alice's plan, to have us all arguing as Bella died! Then what? Who benefitted from her death, no one but Alice herself! That letter, was Jasper hinting she was trying to come between him and his mate! Was she that jealous, that selfish, that cruel?

Was that why Isabella's blood had no effect on him whatsoever, even as we all were overcome by bloodlust, he was not! What sick game was Alice playing, if Bella had died so would all of us in the rage that would have followed! He would have bypassed the Major, straight to the God of War and killed us all for letting his mate die! The grief of a mate knows no solace when their other half dies! I saw Carlisle returning looking a little shell-shocked and rushed to meet him. I was right Peter was more on the ball, two bodies to replace the Swans, damn! I told him what I'd seen earlier and my thoughts since then and he looked even worse than before, just slumping to the ground. Yes, he realises what I did, Alice cared nothing for us, and she would have let us all die tonight!

Thank God Emmett saved Bella, in doing so he saved us all! Edward finally came outside looking horrified as he read our thoughts.

"She's gone! All her things were already gone, I found the shipping note. She planned this whole thing, but I guess she didn't factor in Emmett's or Jasper's reactions. She's taken all the loose cash from everyone's rooms since she lost out on the coven's money! Carlisle, Alice expected to be the only survivor tonight" he said also dropping to the ground,

We were all staring at each other in shock, the facts were incontrovertible. Alice wanted Bella dead; she wanted Edward to kill her in front of Jasper. Then she would slip away and he would kill us all in his rage. Edward mumbles that he wasn't aware that Bella was not his mate, but Jasper's. But he's lying because his blink rate was off the charts once again, oh he knew alright, but he didn't know Alice set him up to die too!

"Still lying Edward, can't you ever admit you are in the wrong?" I asked,

Really not understanding how he could try to play innocent after taking two lives tonight! What had we all done that would cause Alice to just write us off like that? Was she actually as insane as her stint in an asylum pointed to? But none of this absolved Edward from his two attacks tonight and he would be called to pay for this I'm sure! If Bella didn't kill him I think Chief Swan will for doing this to him and his daughter. At least now they will have each other in their lives forever!

"I'm sorry Carlisle, truly sorry1! For everything I ever said or did to intentionally hurt you. You saved me and I treated you so badly! I hope one day you can forgive me because I know there are many others out there who won't!" I said quietly and for the first time in a long time humbly,

"You and me both Kitten! We might be the only ones talking to each other when this is all over" he said sadly as Edward looked confused,

"Why? This was all Alice's fault! Why would everyone stop talking to us?" He asked completely oblivious.

"Well, did Alice rip the throats out of two people tonight while we all stood around watching? Did Alice point the finger at Jasper, for a crime he didn't commit? No, Edward, that was you! Yes, she set you up, because she knew you would jump at the chance. First to get your singer's blood and secondly to get rid of Jasper! She played you like a fiddle Edward, accept it. Then when you lied, we pretended not to notice and followed you blindly as always! So you are the villain of this tale and we are as usual your stooges!" Carlisle said sadly,

He knew of us all he had made the worst choice, why? Because he is the coven leader and he should have known better!

"But..., but she made me!" He stuttered,

"What? I thought you said Jasper made you! Make up your mind Edward. Not that it matters, because you will be the one to pay the price, for a change. I don't think anyone can save you this time!" I said as I got up and walked away,

"Carlisle?" Edward for once sounds scared,

"Rose is right Edward, this was a bridge to far! You will have to face the music this time" Carlisle answered heavily,

"Oh and nobody else leaves until after the Swan's funerals, we don't need the wolves on our backs as well! Also Edward, do something to cover up that gaping hole in your head, it makes it too obvious you are not human!" I remind them as I enter my garage.