The Protector

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Peter/Bella

'This story is based off of New Moon after Bella becomes engaged to Edward. It is about a month after the battle with Victoria and the newborns. It is not your typical story.

Chapter 1

Bella headed to the Cullen's in her new car. She still hated it and the gaudy ring that practically weighed her finger down. She understood the need for him to buy her stuff, well she did not, but she was trying. If he just had to, then couldn't he at least buy her something more her style? Seriously.

She went inside and heard voices. Usually Edward was at the door the minute she drove up and her heartbeat was usually a dead giveaway. No pun intended. They must have been having a serious discussion for them to not even notice her presence, unless of course they just didn't care.

"We can't leave her again, she's just gotten around to forgiving us for it last time," Jasper said, "if we do, then depending on how it takes this time, then maybe it would have been better if we killed her in the beginning like Rose and I wanted to." There were resounding growls that shook the house, "I'm not saying we should kill her, I'm saying we shouldn't make this decision lightly especially since we just earned back her trust."

"What do you mean by adding yourself to the list of people she trusts? She should be terrified of you." Edward responded.

"When has Bella ever had a typical reaction? Don't forget that I can read her emotions, and fear hasn't been one of them except for her fear of us leaving her again which I didn't think she had to worry about, but apparently I was wrong."

"Bella needs to be safe. We're a danger to her still. I got her to agree to marry me so that she'd stop hanging around those mutts." Edward said.

"Are you ever planning on changing her Edward, if you stay and marry her?" Alice asked.

"No, not if I can help it. I got her to wait until after graduation, then after the wedding. I'll keep thinking of ways to stall."

"Don't you think she'll figure it out Edward? Bella's wicked smart for a human." Emmett said.

"She might come to the realization that I don't ever plan to change her, but if I can come up with enough excuses I might prolong it."

"Edward, how would you like to proceed? What would be our excuse for leaving again?" Carlisle asked.

"Well since we've graduated, it'd be a perfect time to move on. Bella might hurt for awhile, but then she'll get over it and go on with her life."

"Are we at least going to say goodbye to her this time? The clean break theory didn't work so well last time." Emmett stated.

"Who cares how it'll affect the human?" Rosalie sneered, "the only reason I'm glad she was alive is because she saved Edward's sorry rear."

"Rose, baby, shut up! Bella's part of this family. Whether you like it or not, she's a Cullen." Emmett said.

"She'll never be one of us!" Rose shouted.

Esme answered, "Rosalie, Emmett's right, Bella's family. We should at least say goodbye to her this time."

"Edward, the decision is ultimately yours." Carlisle said.

"She got over us last time. Sure, it took awhile, but this is what's best for her. She obviously can't make wise decisions, so we'll have to for her. I think I should be the one to tell her. You can go on ahead."

"You do realize that if we do this, there is no going back? She'll never trust any of us again." Jasper said.

"It's all your fault that it has to be this way. If you hadn't taken a snap at her, then I wouldn't have left her the first time, which means she wouldn't have jumped off the cliff, which means I wouldn't have gone to the Volturi, which means she wouldn't have had to save me, which means we wouldn't be having this discussion now!" Edward shouted. Jasper clamped his mouth shut because he agreed with Edward. He wanted to fix it, but he didn't know how.

Bella decided to make her presence known. Her emotions were all over the place, but she stuffed them down deep inside. "Edward Cullen!" This stopped their discussion from going any farther as they all looked at her wondering how much she'd heard.

"Yes, love?" Edward asked.

"First, leave Jasper alone. It wasn't his fault!" She held up her hand to silence everybody, "I thought vampires were supposed to be smart. Obviously not. Jasper feels emotions, right?" She asked and they nodded not knowing where she was going with this, "here's how I figure it: thirst is an emotional response for vampires. Since I'm Edward's singer, it's so potent that he's thirsty around me when he's full. Now take that coupled with his not hunting for a while and what do we have? We have a thirsty vampire with his singer plus Carlisle, Esme, Emmett, and Alice's thirst all wrapped up in Jasper from feeling everyone's thirst including his own. Then take the stupid, clumsy human who can't even open a present without getting hurt and we have my birthday party. It was a drop of blood, he was probably just commenting on how tasty I smelled, just like all of you. He didn't actually attack me until I was pushed into the glass effectively making quite a lot more blood pour out. You all think Jasper is the weakest link, but he's the strongest one out of all of you.

Not only does he feel the thirst of seven vampires, he also was the only one who used to live purely on instinct. Then take a trip down memory lane with me back to last year in Phoenix. I stayed with only Jasper and Alice and was perfectly safe. Then when I was in the ballet studio bleeding to death, Jasper helped Emmett destroy James instead of eating the tasty treat. Then Jasper was the last one out of the room out of all of you besides Carlisle and Edward who had to leave because my blood was too potent. Shall I continue? Just think about that!" Bella shouted.

"Love?" Edward asked.

"Don't 'Love' me, Edward. You were trying to get everyone to leave me, again, after promising that you'd never leave me again unless I asked you. The only reason you even wanted to marry me was so that Jake wouldn't be around anymore. All right, you've won Edward, Jake no longer wants to be my friend, the pack's mad at me, and you want to leave me alone with nobody. You said you considered me family, but you obviously lied. Don't interrupt me! I may be an ugly, easily manipulated, clumsy, disgusting human, but I sure as heck am gonna say my peace and you're gonna listen to me. Does Edward make all of the decisions for this family? I mean you guys just came back and now you're gonna leave again just because Edward said so? You know what, fine! Leave if you want to, but if you do, you'd better believe Bella Swan is dead to you. I went to the Volturi to face probable death to save your family and this is how I am repaid? I never learn!

I'm too trusting, see the good in everybody, but I'm done. Whether you leave or not doesn't matter, the wedding's off." She threw the ring at Edward, which he deftly caught in his hands, "alright leave, but if you don't say goodbye I'll never forgive you. I'm leaving now. If you want to say goodbye to me before you leave, I'll be at my house, otherwise I never want to hear from you again." Bella stomped out of the house and into her car. She knew they were gonna side with Edward and leave without saying goodbye, well maybe except for Emmett. He really was like a big brother.

She went home to a quiet house since Charlie was working a double shift. He'd started doing those since Bella spent most of her time at the Cullen's. He took it really hard that Bella was engaged to Edward. He didn't want his baby girl hurt again. He didn't openly share his emotions and he wasn't overly affectionate, but his daughter was his whole world whether she knew it or not. Charlie spent most of his time at work because he didn't want to be reminded that he was all alone once again.

Bella stayed up until nearly midnight to see if at least one of the Cullen's would come to say goodbye. She fell asleep feeling abandoned and worthless once again. She woke up screaming as usual at about 4 am. Then there was a knock on her bedroom window. She quickly turned on her light and motioned for whomever to come in. It turned out to be Emmett and Rosalie.

"I'm glad you guys came to say goodbye. I must say that I'm rather surprised to see you, Rosalie, but I probably wouldn't let my mate go see you by himself either. So when are you guys leaving?" She asked.

"We're leaving right after this," Rosalie answered.

"Is it just the two of you saying goodbye?"

"No, Jasper's waiting outside. He wanted to talk to you privately before he left."

"Oh, okay. Here's something for you Emmett. It was on the off chance that you'd come to say goodbye. It's my phone number, email address, and house address just in case you want to stay in touch."

"Thanks Bells. That means a lot." Emmett said. He then scooped her up and gave her one of his famous bear hugs.

"Can't breathe, Em. Human here." She gasped out.

"Oops, sorry."

"That's okay. I'm so glad you came to say goodbye. I love you guys. Emmett, you're like the big brother I never had. I'm gonna miss you a lot. Rosalie, even though you hate my guts, I consider you family too. You're like the big sister who can't stand and is constantly annoyed by their little sister. Yes, I'll miss you and your scathing remarks as well."

"See Rosie, she likes you." Emmett responded. Rose smacked him on the back of the head.

"Let's get out of here. Bye." Rose said and then went out into the night.

"I'll miss you so much, little sis. I'll definitely get a hold of you. Bye." Emmett jumped out of the window.

"I'm ready whenever you are Jasper." He gracefully jumped in, "Thanks for sticking up for me."

"No problem. Thanks for what you said." He answered.

"It was all true. I'm assuming that Alice isn't coming?" Jasper shook his head, "That's what I thought. Did she leave already or is she waiting for you?"

"She left already."

"You guys are still okay though, right? I mean Edward's and my relationship is the only one that got broken up because of me? She's not mad at me, is she?"

"No, she's not mad at you. Yes, we're still all right. She left already because Edward was planning to do something stupid, again, and she went to stop him."

"So it wasn't because she just didn't want to see me or anything?"

"No, definitely not."

"I'm so glad you came to say goodbye. You've become a really good friend."

"You are too. I'm so sorry that all of this has happened."

"That's okay. I'm hurt, but not quite as bad as before because you said goodbye this time. I'm glad he decided to end it before we actually got married. I'll miss you Jasper."

"I'll miss you too, Bella. I know Alice wishes she could have said goodbye."

"Thanks, that means a lot to me. Can I give you a hug or would that not be a good idea?"

"No, a hug is fine." He gave her a hug, said a last goodbye, and disappeared out the window. Bella had given him her information, the same as she gave Emmett.

Bella finally told Charlie about the Cullen's leaving. He was obviously afraid she'd become a zombie again. She assured him that she wouldn't. Charlie told Billy who told Sam who told Jacob the news. At first, Jacob had an 'I told you so' attitude, but after he got over the hurt, he went back to being Bella's personal sun.

Three months after the incident, Jacob finally talked Bella into going on a date with him. She didn't feel comfortable with just the two of them so she arranged for them to have a double date. She had wanted Angela and Ben, but both of them were busy. She ended up begging Jessica Stanley, who she figured would bring Mike Newton, but said she'd bring Eric Yorkie because she felt sorry for him. Bella didn't really care about the reason as long as she didn't have to be alone with Jacob.

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