New Beginnings - Part One
A/N – This is a repost of the original for LiveLoveLaughHope. It has not been edited.
Disclaimer – Twilight belongs to SM.
It was a gorgeous morning. The sun was shining down on the humble Bed and Breakfast that'd been Tanya and Bella's home for the past month or so, brightly illuminating their suite as though trying to coax them out to enjoy its warmth. Birds were swooping and singing outside the window, and insects were buzzing in between them, as content as the day was beautiful. People were having breakfast and preparing for their day, whilst others had already eaten their breakfast and began their day.
No clouds, no wind and not overbearingly hot. The promise of a lovely Thursday was definitely there.
Tanya knew the day would be beautiful despite the faraway stench of cigarette smoke that she could smell and the quiet, breathy moans she could hear coming from the lone man across the hall as he took advantage of the spare time he had before breakfast was served. Despite all this, the day would be beautiful because Bella was lying in her arms where she'd been since she woke earlier that morning, breathing in and basking in what remained of their love making, savoring the feeling of openmouthed kisses Tanya was scattering down her neck and along her shoulders.
Both women were far too comfortable to move and disrupt the atmosphere they'd created, Bella especially. She felt as though if she died right now, at this exact moment, she would die a happy and content woman knowing she had loved and was loved in return. But luckily, dying wasn't something Bella planned on ever doing. She belonged in Tanya's arms now and nothing would ever change that. She wouldn't allow it to.
Destiny wasn't something Bella ordinarily believed in, but she truly believed she was destined to be with Tanya for eternity. Nobody, with the exception of Edward, had ever bothered to deny it, and even if they had, it was never their opinion for long. Tanya and Bella's love for one another was so genuine, so strong, that nothing could stand in their way.
It was easy to say that Bella was destined to be with Tanya for eternity, but unfortunately there were things that needed to be done before Bella could do that, and they were definitely easier said than done.
The brunette was repeatedly warned by both Emmett and Laurent, even her own father that a bride-to-be was on a mission, a mission which she really didn't want to be a part of or in the way of. They warned her. Emmett even offered to take her to Hawaii to get away from Alice's eager little plans, which Jasper reluctantly admitted Bella should probably take, but Bella being Bella… well she stupidly ignored their warnings.
Bella was exaggerating, really. The cake tasting, menu planning, dress fittings and trips to the salon had been totally worth it in the end. Renee, the Denali and Cullen females, even Rosalie herself, had put a lot of time and effort into ensuring everything was as perfect as possible.
Tanya and Bella didn't need to be asked where they wanted their wedding ceremony to take place, hell they didn't even allow Alice to entertain any other ideas. It was Vancouver Island or no wedding at all, an empty threat but a threat all the same to little Alice's latest project.
Luckily she knew not to argue with the engaged couple, and instead started to spout off ideas to make sure there would be no sparkling of vampires on the day. Eventually they all agreed that a white canopy pole tent would do the job effectively for the ceremony, one large enough to cover the immortals from the sun but also not make their guests feel suffocated or closed in.
The ceremony was as beautiful as the garden they were married in and nobody sparkled, thank god. Close relatives, and friends of both Tanya and Bella, were the only ones invited because the couple didn't desire for their wedding to be a crazy circus of a day where their guests were treading on each other's feet every second. Even Melissa and Kristy made it to share their special day.
Bella and Tanya wanted an intimate celebration and that's exactly what they got.
Bella knew her first dance with Tanya as her wife at the reception wasn't perfect, but it was theirs and that was all she cared for. Their friends and family watched with smiling faces as they held one another and shared sweet kisses in between their intimate dance, content to be sharing such a special day with the deeply in love couple.
The night was spent mingling as Mrs and Mrs Denali, neither desiring any separation from the other. Everybody bar Edward managed to show up. It was upsetting but expected, Bella supposed, so she held no ill feelings toward him.
It was sometime later after a few glasses of champagne that Bella grew tired of being whisked away from Tanya time and time again. All she wanted was to be held by her wife, kiss those delicious lips of hers and spend the rest of the night making love. It was nearing midnight when Bella was finally fed up with being suffocated by everybody except the one person she really wanted be suffocated by.
Interrupting Tanya while she was in conversation was probably the rudest thing Bella had ever done, but she simply couldn't resist approaching her wife, albeit tipsily, and wrapping her arms around her, followed closely with a passionate kiss to the blonde's lips.
Tanya had laughed as they separated, licking her lips as she tasted the lingering essence of alcohol in Bella's mouth.
"Did you know that ordinarily alcohol would taste absolutely foul, but that from your mouth it's actually somewhat bearable?" The blonde then leant down and connected their lips again, moaning as the brunette's warm tongue pushed past her lips and rubbed sensually with her own. Pulling back, she grinned down at her wife with adoring eyes, "Lovely."
"Me or the alcohol?" Bella teased, letting her hands fall to the vampire's rear where she pinched it playfully. Tanya giggled and reached behind her to bring her wife's hands higher, to a more appropriate position, on her lower back.
"A little bit of both actually." Their lips met briefly before going in for a longer caress. Eventually the blonde managed to pull away and instead lowered her face into the crook of her wife's neck, nuzzling and kissing sweetly at the flesh there. "So, let me guess... you want to leave now?"
"Is it obvious?" The brunette sighed as she felt that cool tongue lap at her throat, clutching the vampire's hips somewhat crazily. "I just want to be alone with you where you can ravish me and do unspeakable things to me."
"Oh really?" Tanya purposely blew her breath on the wet skin where her mouth had been, smiling as the human in her arms shuddered and nodded. "Well, I suppose you know it's impossible for me to say no to you."
They left fairly soon after that, much to everybody's merry amusement. Now as they lay in one another's arms on their honeymoon, Bella could only dread when they would be forced to go down to the Bed and Breakfast's little dining area for morning refreshments. They hadn't missed a breakfast at all in the month they'd been staying there, but in a way, they had definitely missed their family.
"We should be getting up." With Tanya's fingertips caressing her side and her voice purring in her ear, Bella couldn't bring herself to do what her wife had half-heartedly suggested. She was far too warm and far too comfy. A groan escaped Bella's lips.
"I don't wanna." Tanya felt Bella placing kisses on her arm, which was wrapped underneath and around her, spooning the brunette from behind. Bella heaved a sigh, rolled around onto her other side and buried her face in the crook of the vampire's neck. "I'm so comfortable."
"I am too, but we have things to do today." Tanya was referring to the visit they had planned at the local real estate agency today. Jasper had gotten in contact with his human lawyer before the wedding, the poor man was terrified of the young Cullen, and the result was that now both Tanya and Bella were owners of a Canadian Citizenship Certificate. "The agent I called said she has a few places that match what we want, and she plans on giving us a tour of them today. We can't bail out on her, this is important to us baby."
"I know, I know." She resigned, a soft smile finding its way onto her face.
Truth was that Bella really was looking forward to looking at these properties with her wife. This house, whichever one they decided on, was going to be the place her wife would change her. It would be them and the wildlife for miles and miles, an ideal place to learn her vegetarian lifestyle, safely away from temptation. Or at least that's what she hoped. The next time Bella saw her immortal family, she wanted to be an immortal without innocent blood on her hands.
x-o-x
"We sign the papers and everything tomorrow!" The excitement in Tanya's voice was hard to miss and Bella, the ever loving little human that she was, couldn't stop herself from feathering her wife's face with her own excited kisses. Yes, her wife was on the phone but it was only Irina, so it really wasn't that big of a deal.
"It's so amazing, Irina. The décor is beautiful, and don't even get us started on the view!" Bella gushed just as excitedly, pulling back to snatch the phone off of a grinning Tanya. She held it to her ear just in time to hear her sister-in-law giggling. "No, seriously, it's so beautiful here. I'm never coming back, I swear."
"You couldn't stay away that long even if you tried. You'd miss us like freaking crazy." Irina said, and Bella could hear the smirk in her voice. "Besides… you love me, you wouldn't hurt me like that."
"Don't be so sure, Tanya is far more appealing to me than you. You just don't have the touch." As she spoke Tanya wordlessly worked at unbuttoning Bella's shirt, winking playfully at her little human as she did so before diving into the delicious flesh bared to her. The brunette bit her lip to stifle her moan because she knew Irina would tease her mercilessly if she heard her.
Tanya definitely had the touch.
"I think Rose would argue with you on that."
Tanya sighed in frustration and snatched the phone from her wife impatiently, "Okay Irina, we've discussed the property, now if you don't mind Bella's mouth could be put to far better use than talking to you. So, we'll talk to you later. Bye-bye!"
"Tanya, don't you d-"
Tanya laughed as she hung up on her sister, and quickly switched the device off so Irina couldn't call them back. There would probably be a handful of abusive text messages awaiting her when she did switch it back on so she was in no hurry to do that.
"Now, where were we?" Tanya purred as she tossed the phone to the side carelessly, grinning as the complaint on Bella's lips washed away into a moan the moment her cool hand cradled the warm flesh of her breast. The blonde giggled, "Nothing to say?"
"Shut up and put your mouth to work."
x-o-x
"Well, you are now both the proud owner's of the Regan Manor. Congratulations!"
Jenny, the real estate agent, was grinning like a madwoman as she popped the cork on a bottle of champagne. Glasses were filled and smiles were exchanged as the sale of the property was finalized. The vampire was ecstatic because this was yet another step closer to having her wife for eternity, and Jenny was happy because she was getting one hell of a commission out of this.
"How does it feel?" The real estate agent prodded, barely able to contain her inappropriate squeal of excitement. She wanted nothing more than to kick off her heels and skip childishly around her office at the thought of how substantial her next pay check would be.
Bella sipped from her glass and the smile never once wavered on her lips as her wife's cool arm wrapped around her waist. Looking up at the woman who held her heart, Bella's voice was awed as she answered.
"Incredible. Absolutely incredible."
x-o-x
Two months passed quickly when the only thing on Bella's mind was her wife, their new home and her upcoming transition into a vampire. Furniture was bought, courtesy of the internet, and before long the Regan Manor was transformed fully to Bella and Tanya's taste. They were even sad to say their final goodbye's to the owner of the Bed and Breakfast where they'd been staying, since they'd become quite good friends with him.
Bella had easily discovered her favorite place to just sit and think at their new home. The area was secluded by dozens of Rosebush gardens and the little pond she found within it was so peaceful she often had trouble pulling herself away. Koi fish swam the shallow depths of the water, and the birds, which were something Bella noticed this area had a lot of, sang happily above her in the trees. She could hear and see nothing but nature at its best and it was a welcomed reminder of her home in Alaska.
She wandered back up to the house, or mansion rather, after awhile and the nerves which she had previously been able to push aside resurfaced. Tanya was waiting on the back patio and her expression said plenty of the nerves she seemed to mirror.
"Kate and Garrett just arrived on the island. They'll be here in a few hours." Tanya stood and wrapped her wife in her arms, burying her face in the crook of her warm neck and inhaling quietly. She placed a soft kiss above her pulse. "And tomorrow…"
"Tomorrow you change me." Bella replied with a quiet shaky laugh. "Is it strange that I'm nervous?"
Looking into her wife's eyes, Tanya gave her a small but nervous smile, "Not at all, it's completely normal."
x-o-x
Bella was sweating in crevices that she didn't even know could sweat, like seriously perspiring, because of the nervousness that shook her. It was ridiculous really. She'd known for years that this would eventually happen and she was resigned to it, wanted it, but now that it was actually happening she was scared.
Tanya's teeth were hovering above her violently pounding jugular so she had every right to be so frightened. She wasn't frightened of her wife killing her by not being able to stop, she was afraid of just how much pain her wife's venom would ignite within her.
"It's alright, Bella. Everything will be okay, I promise." Tanya's cool lips pressed against where her teeth would be going any second, a whispering promise that she would be there beside her the whole time. "I love you so much, and in three days time we'll be together forever baby."
Bella could feel Kate and Garrett's watchful eyes on them both but she refused to let it affect her any more than it already was. They were here to help Tanya and that was a very self-less thing for them to do in Bella's opinion.
"I love you." Bella whispered out. She lifted her hand and laid it on the back of her vampire's neck, silently encouraging her to get a move on. "I trust you. I want this. I promise you, baby."
There was no containing her pained yelp when those sharp teeth pierced her throat and definitely no containing the scream that erupted as she felt the beginnings of the burning venom infect her body.
x-o-x
"Tanya hasn't moved for two days, Garrett. She needs to feed!"
Garrett watched his wife pace back and forth in one of the newlywed's living rooms, repeatedly clenching and unclenching her hands as she did so. Her hair was a mess and her eyes were dark with her own thirst, just as he assumed his own were.
"There's nothing we can do." A scream pierced the night air from above them and both vampires flinched at the sound. "She's not going to leave her wife alone when she's in excruciating pain."
"Bella wouldn't be alone; one of us would be with her." She growled out in frustration, clutching her hair between her fingers in the hopes of relieving the turmoil within her. "I hate feeling so helpless! I just want to help them!"
Another scream rattled the windows but Garrett forced himself to ignore it, and quickly rushed forward to embrace his worried mate instead. He coaxed her to lay her head on his shoulder and she didn't argue, in fact she clutched at his shirt like it was the only thing anchoring her.
"It's not much longer, Kate. Bella is one of the strongest humans I've ever met and she'll get through this." He kissed the top of her head softly. "I'll go up and tell Tanya she needs to hunt, okay? You can both go together. I'll stay with Bella."
Garrett was slow and cautious in his approach up to Tanya and Bella's bedroom because he knew far too well how protective the blonde would be right now. He honestly didn't know whether he would be able to get her to go and feed; it was highly unlikely. There was no knocking when he reached the door; Tanya knew he was there. She growled.
"May I come in, Tanya? I am no threat to you or to your mate, I promise you." It was a few moments before he heard the muttered 'yes' and as he entered he wished with everything he had he could turn and walk back out.
Tanya was the only thing anchoring the thrashing brunette to the bed, the only thing preventing her from harming herself in her suffering. Tanya still wore the blood soaked clothes from two days prior where Bella's blood spray had hit her when she pierced her flesh. Her face was set into an expression of deep emotional anguish and her eyes were so blackened with thirst as they glared at the intruder that it made Garrett cringe. He watched with barely contained horror as Bella arched her head back and screamed loudly, the sound reverberating through his head long after it stopped.
"What the fuck do you want?" Tanya snarled, completely fed up with the gaping fool at her door. "This isn't a goddamn freak show!"
"You need to feed or you won't be strong enough to handle Bella when she wakes, but I can see that it's essential you stay here. I'll bring you something." Garrett wanted out of that room, and quickly. And so he left the way he had come in, only a hell of a lot faster.
x-o-x
The silence and stillness in their new home was eerie. There wasn't an ounce of movement, not even a puff of breath to be heard. Tanya wasn't concerned. For now and for the rest of eternity her only priority was the brunette who was crouched low by the window… watching her with unrecognisable blood red eyes. Kate and Garrett were nowhere to be seen but they were listening somewhere, waiting for some sort of reaction from the newborn Bella.
Three days. Three days of having to listen to her wife and mate scream out in pain and when Tanya tried to move forward to calm her, she was snarled at in a way that forced her to stop and slowly lower herself to her knees, all the while never breaking eye contact with her wife.
"Bella…?"
Bella growled low in her throat and her body tensed angrily at the sudden but quiet noise.
Tanya swallowed and shuffled back a little, knowing all too well the ferociousness of newborns. She didn't do it out of fear though, no, she did it because she was trying to avoid the violence she knew was inevitable.
Violence, as she expected, was not avoided despite her efforts and Bella lunged.
And so the months wore on in a similar fashion. Bella would go berserk and attack one of the three other vampires at the slightest hitch, and then she would run off into the forest to quench her thirst with said vampires a safe distance behind her to make sure she didn't leave the property. The land they owned was pretty vast but there was still a distinct possibility that she could run straight into civilization and slaughter innocent people. Naturally because of this Bella was never left unsupervised.
Slowly but surely her red eyes diluted into a beautiful golden hue, the colour so much more beautiful than the frightening shade they had been. Her bursts of violence became less frequent and less volatile, and it was in her seventh month as a newborn that her chaotic thoughts began to thin and she was able to consciously make sense of what was happening around her.
Bella was attacking her wife when it happened. Horrified at the way her teeth were ripping into the blonde's arm, she retreated with a pained hiss, launching herself back and up, engraining her fingers in the wall and clinging to it desperately. Now that she could comprehend her surroundings and the vampires around her, she noticed immediately that their arms were littered with scars, scars her teeth had caused. Her eyes stung.
"T-Tan…" Bella's voice was croaky and shook from lack of use but that didn't matter to Kate, Garrett or Tanya. Bella spoke.
"Baby?" Tanya cautiously stepped forward with a hopeful smile, only to have her hope crushed when her wife hissed at her. Her smile fell.
"No!" Bella shook her head violently, "S-stay… away. Sorry…"
"It's okay, Bella. God, I've missed hearing you speak so badly." The blonde whispered with a shaky smile, shaky because she really wanted to sob in relief but was forcing herself to hold it back. "It's okay. Just breathe, baby. Relax. You won't hurt me if you keep calm."
Tanya wanted to rush forward and embrace her distressed wife but it wouldn't have been a good idea. Her emotions were still unstable and that was a risk she wasn't willing to take. Instead she lowered herself to the carpeted floor, crossing her legs as she sat stone-still watching the brunette.
"I won't come near you, I promise. I'll stay right here. Just relax, Bella. Please."
"Don't come closer… don't want… hurt you." Bella struggled with her words but that wasn't what her mate noticed most. It was the fact that her wife did calm down and for the first time in seven months, Tanya was looking into her lover's eyes without fear of her not recognizing her or understanding what was happening.
This was the beginning of her transition from her newborn year, and soon it would be over. Tanya was anxious that it hurried the fuck up.
x-o-x
Tanya, for the first time in her existence as a vampire, felt physically exhausted. Her limbs felt heavy and she could barely bring herself to open her eyes to greet the beginning of the new day. Truthfully she just wanted to roll over and sleep, but since that was impossible, laying there idle was the next best thing.
"I need to hunt so I have some goddamn energy…" Muttering to herself, Tanya only just managed to stop herself from groaning when her far too eager wife rolled over to straddle her hips. She seemed to have not heard Tanya's words at all.
Two weeks ago Bella spoke her first words in seven months, and five days ago she rediscovered the pleasures of sex. They'd been shacked up in their bedroom for five whole days and while that sounded awesome, it really wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. Tanya was thirsty. The blonde vampire's mouth was dry and she felt the uncomfortable burn irritating the back of her throat now more than ever because she could barely think of anything else.
Those lips were at her fucking throat again, and her resolve was disappearing quickly so she knew she needed to stop the brunette before they both got too involved and her need for blood was forgotten.
"Bella…"
"Mmm." The other vampire continued to nibble at the pale flesh of her mate's neck, completely ignorant of what thoughts said mate had running through her head. Bella was so distracted with the task at hand that there was no hope of her noticing the spider web cracks in Tanya's flesh that had yet to heal after their last romp in the sheets. She was so distracted that she couldn't even tell that she needed to hunt also.
"Bella… stop." Tanya managed to moan out, both hands reaching up to push on her wife's shoulders. A confused and slightly angered face greeted her once she'd managed to successfully free her throat from Bella's lips.
"Why?" Tanya flinched at the barely contained fury in her wife's voice, not entirely positive she could handle a newborn rage session right now.
Slowly so as not to startle her, Tanya shuffled upwards so she was in a better position, so that she was eye to eye with Bella.
"As much as I would love to stay in here for another week or two, and believe me I would, I need to hunt." Tanya lifted her arm for her mate to see the damage that wasn't healing and when she realised Bella couldn't see it because of the emotions raging within her, Tanya traced the little cracks in her skin pointedly. "I'm not healing, I need to hunt baby and I need to hunt really badly."
It was clear that Bella was trying her hardest to reign in the 'tantrum' she could feel coming on and it physically pained Tanya to see her lover in dire need of that control. Her left eye was twitching, which in itself was abnormal for a vampire, and her lips were parted as she breathed hard. Tanya could see she needed to hear something more, a promise or something along that line.
"Bella, it'll take an hour at the very most. Maybe you should come too, huh? We can hunt together, that'd be fun… don't you think?"
Bella gave a slow, jerky nod.
"Then… we can fuck, right?" She asked quietly, and Tanya giggled at her crude words and her innocent tone, and the way they merged so well. The blonde found it adorable, so honest to god adorable in fact that she had to lean forward and kiss those tempting lips once more, just a small peck.
"Yeah baby, till our hearts' content." She paused and grinned, "Or until we need to hunt again, at least. Now let's go!"
x-o-x
"Thank fucking god." Kate cried out in relief while pulling her fingers from her ears to embrace the sudden quietness that she and Garrett found themselves in. She wasn't sure how much more of their fucking she could handle. Just remembering the sounds Bella was bringing from her sister for days made her cringe, something which didn't go unnoticed by her husband who laughed at her expanse.
"It's not that bad." And Kate didn't doubt that's how he felt, but then again Tanya wasn't his sister.
"For you maybe," She muttered petulantly, "But she's my sister and my god, if I have to listen to them going at it again for that long without leaving the house, I'm going to die."
The married couple was lying on the bed in the guest room they'd dubbed their own, fully dressed and just as fully frustrated. Garrett was anxious to relieve said frustration now that they had a moment to themselves and could trust Tanya to control her wife for an hour, but it was apparent that his own wife hadn't even thought of it. That in itself was surprising.
"How about this then," Garrett suggested with a small smile as he adjusted to lie on his side so he was facing Kate. "If you feel that listening to them becomes overwhelming, you can go out and I'll stay and keep an ear out for any trouble. I don't mind doing that for you, just ask and I'll do it. Bella's not as wild as she was before."
"You'd really do that for me?"
Garratt was pushed onto his back as his wife gave him a blinding smile and rolled over to straddle him, her intention quite clear in the slight rolling of her hips, not that the other vampire was complaining about it.
"Of course, I'd do anything for you. You know that, love." He grinned.
Kate smiled and leant in, brushing their lips together sweetly while at the same time pushing her hands up underneath the shirt that hugged his torso, growling low as she caressed the muscle she knew was there.
"I'd do anything for you, too." She assured him gently before quickly removing her husband's shirt with eager hands. She grinned cheekily, "We don't have long, but do you think we can have a little fun now?"
"We can have a lot of fun in the little time we have, don't you worry yourself."