A/N: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT AT BOTTOM. CHAPTER UNEDITED

Chapter 9

She gaped at me, "Help us?! How is keeping us all under lock and key helping us?"

I looked away."

She crossed her arms and waited.

Edward

I sighed, "We were chosen to kill everyone in Forks and steal some type of valuable resource for our ex-boss."

"OK?" she asked, hoping I'd go in to detail.

"When we got here, not only was there no 'valuable resource' but your people were not a threat. You guys would have given anything over with no fight." I chuckled, "You didn't even have a militia put together."

She nodded looking down.

"Carlisle decided that if our ex-boss thought there was some sort of valuable source, others would start to come out the woodworks and come to collect. So he decided that we should protect Forks,"

Her head snapped up, "Well why didn't you just tell us instead of keeping us in the dark?"

I shrugged, "We thought that sooner or later the person who started the rumor would then try and revolt against us."

Her eyes widened, "The WWBF! You've got to be kidding me!"

I shook my head.

"So those idiots started that stupid rumor and now we have all these mercenaries after, what, nothing?"

I nodded. "At least that is what we believe."

She sat back in her seat, arms crossed, deep in thought. "Well, have you at least figured out who is over them?"

I shook my head again, "But when we do, they will be eliminated."

"What good will that do? People will still believe that there is something here!"

"That is why we have to so many rules. The more restrictions, the less people will hear about this city and the less you hear the more you believe all the rumors are just that, rumors."

She shook her head in disbelief.

I suddenly wanted to ask a question on a sensitive topic, "Can I ask you a question?"

She looked up at my eyes and nodded.

"Why are you so calm after what just happened? I mean, I was expect everything; crying, yelling, screaming, the works. But," I waved a finger in her direction, "I'm getting this."

She smiled, ruefully, "Remember, my father used to be the Chief of police, I heard a lot of different stories from rape victims back in the day. Sometimes I even saw the aftermath. I'm just glad you were there in time."

I now understood, who would not be joyful after escaping that.

She suddenly laughed, "Well I guess this date is over."

"Yeah, I guess." I frowned, this was not what I planned for an evening of getting to know her even more.

*CL*

I took her home and decided to call it a night. We planned on trying this again and next week but I it was still tentative. I was still itching to properly slaughter that fuck but I there was nothing I could do now. His people would have cleaned it all up by now.

I pulled the car into the garage and walked in, hoping I could simply walking to my room without having to talk to anyone, especially Alice. She would hound me about the things that she could not see in her vision.

"Do you really think you could sneak by me without talking?" I heard a tiny voice behind me. My shoulders slumped forward and I slowly turned on the stairs to see Alice leaning against the banister. "We've been living together too long for you to act so foolishly" she smiled.

"Alice, I really don't want to talk about it right now." I said, hoping she would just drop it.

"If you can't talk to me about this, then who can you talk to?" she tried to reason.

"That's the thing, I don't want to talk to anyone!" I growled.

She walked up the stairs and stood in front of me and crossed her arms.

Oh here we go.

She opened her mouth to speak but was cut off my Esme's soothing voice coming up from above us on the second floor, "Alice, is he here yet? Edward, are you here?"

I hung my head and called up to her.

"Could you come here please?" she asked.

I let out a huge sigh and walked to my 'parents'' room. Carlisle was sitting in bed with a book in his lap, and reading glasses on. Esme was at her dressing table with a brush in her hand. If you did not know any better, you would have believed they were your average American couple. But of course I knew better. Carlisle could kill you in a blink of an eye with those glasses and Esme… I shudder to think of what she could do with that brush and the glass mirror behind her.

She quickly turned in her little stool and looked up at me, wide-eyed and curious.

"So, tell me what happened?" she asked, excitedly.

I rolled my eyes and sat on the foot of the bed, followed by Alice who immediately curled up next to me.

I rushed through the story of what happened and what I told Bella afterwards.

Carlisle slowly put his glasses down and looked at me seriously.

"You told her how much?" he asked seriously.

"Everything." I answered, unafraid of what he might do. Though we were all mercenaries, we made a pack. No matter what, we do not harm each other for any reason, we all protect each other. We even had a crest made that signified our 'family'. I had mine on a wrist band and for identification purposes, tattooed on the right side of my back towards my shoulder.

It was suddenly quiet. No one made a sound. Alice gripped my arm a little tighter.

Esme finally asked the question I know everyone wanted to ask, "How do you know she's not one of the people behind it?"

I shrugged, "I just know."

Esme suddenly popped up from her seat and started to pace. She wrung her fingers together. She did this for a few seconds before she stopped in front of me and asked, "Well how do you know she's not going to tell others, her family even?"

I began to speak but then I paused. How did I know she was not going to tell anyone? Even her father who used to be a part of the police?

"Shit." I said under my breath and picked up my cellphone from my pocket to call her when I remembered I did not know her number. "Shit!" I said louder.

"Make a plan to retrieve her number." Alice suddenly murmured behind me.

"What the hell are you babbling about-" but before I could finish my sentence I realized what she was talking about. I made plans to go through the phone directory and suddenly she started to rattle of a number.

I quickly dialed.

"Hello?" a gruff, manly voice answered. Great, her father would pick up.

"Hello, may I speak to Bella please?" I asked in my most gentlemanly voice.

"Who's asking for her?"

I remained silent. Should I answer him?

"Well? Who the hell is calling my daughter this time of the night?"

I sighed, "Edward Cullen."

Silence

"Hello?" I asked and looked at my phone to see if we disconnected.

"Who the fuck do you think you are talking to my daughter after what you did to this city?! To all the people you killed?!" he hissed in the phone.

I sighed again, I didn't have time for this.

"Sir, this is serious."

"Oh so you don't think talking to the father of the girl your using is serious?!" Nothing I would say to this man would be ok.

I suddenly heard the phone rustle and two voices, "Dad….Bella….give….go….no….I said….privacy!"

I then heard Bella's voice, "Dad can I please have some privacy? Please."

I heard more grumbling but then Bella's sigh.

"What is it Edward?"

"Bella, " I said getting straight to the point, "what we discussed…you can't tell anyone. That includes your father."

"I understand Edward, I wasn't going to anyway. I'll talk to you later."

"Hn." We hung up the phones and I could only hope she would keep her word.

Bella

"That's it Bella, I don't care what kind of feeling you think you have for him. I am forbidding you from seeing him any longer." Charlie said behind me. I could feel my shoulders tense up. The man who was in an almost comatose state in his fucking chair while I practically raised myself for six fucking years and all of a sudden he wanted to play the concerned father? What the hell! "I mean come on Bella, how dense could you be! That is the most, immature and idiotic move any person could do!"

I slowly turned to him, "So what's changed?"

He suddenly froze, caught off guard.

"Well?"

"It doesn't matter what's changed, I just know that you are not going to be seeing him any longer."

I smiled, "It does actually. Or at least to me it does." I crossed my arms and stared at him for a second, "You see when I gave you the chance to let it all out you simply told me to go to bed. Now you're acting like the doting father. I simply want to know what's changed."

He crossed his arms, "I thought he was just a crush or something. I didn't think you two were actually seeing each other."

"Oh come on dad, you used to be Chief of Police. Do you honestly expect me to believe that someone of that stature and rank would believe that."

His face suddenly changed into a snarl, "Watch your fucking mouth."

I had enough, I wanted to know. "What's changed?!" I yelled

"What in the hell would the others think of my own daughter fucking the enemy?!" he suddenly roared.

I froze, others.

I could see the difference in his facial features when he realized what he let slip.

"Go to your room." He said quietly and quickly walked to his room, slamming his bedroom door behind him.

I watched him go, who were the others and why would they be upset about Edward and I.

I started up the stairs and stood outside his door, "I don't care what the others think of me. I will continue to see Edward." When I didn't hear a reply I went to my room and began to get ready to go to sleep. While pulling the covers up to my shoulders, I froze again, where these the same people that I saw him with the other day?

Who were those people anyway?

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