Wyld Child
Disclaimer: You already know it by heart.
Ch. 3: Unexpected Guests
EsPOV
My little girl is here, she came back to me, my mind continually chanted while I did a mental happy dance as Rose drove us back from Seattle. During the ride to the restaurant, I had taken care of the introductions that had not been made earlier. Bella then explained, in a little more detail, the spell she had cast on us. When the others had drunk her blood, she was able to use that as a focus to draw out their human traits. Because I was her mother, there was already a link and had not required that I ingest any of her vital fluid. The only problem with the spell was that it took a great deal of concentration and focus for it to be maintained.
The limo, a rental that Bella had picked up on the way over, stopped at the foot of the stairs that led up to our porch. My baby woke up just as the engine stopped; she still looked a little haggard from expending so much effort. We all exited the vehicle then made our way inside so that I could open my presents. In all honesty, this was already the best birthday of my existence and that was enough of a present for me. Anything else would have been icing on the cake.
I sat at the table and Carlisle, Alice, Rose, Jasper and Emmett each handed me a wrapped package. My loving husband gave me tickets to Rio along with a "coupon" for a weekend on Isle Esme. Alice had given me a new bikini set for the trip and the others each gave me gift cards so that I could get supplies for my various design projects. Bella joined her siblings and together they handed me a small black velvet box, inside was a platinum band that held each of their birthstones. I sobbed as I placed it on my finger.
"Mom, other than wearing a dress, my gift to you is that I'm staying here in Forks. I've chosen exile in the mortal realm and I wanted to be close to you. Tomorrow, I'm skipping school to go apartment hunting," my baby girl said with a smile and hopeful expression on her face.
"Nonsense that will not be necessary. I will not have my stepdaughter living anywhere other than here. Besides, how else will your brothers and I prevent any of the local girls from attempting any skullduggery by sneaking into your room? It would make your mother happy, too," Carlisle commented with a hint of playfulness in his voice.
"I had a feeling that you were going to show up so I made up a room for you," I admitted to her.
"Fine, Mommy, but for future reference, I prefer doing the skullduggery by myself and I doubt you'd be any the wiser. Maybe the locals should invest in a supply of chastity belts? I haven't had a playmate in long time," Bella replied while she teased my husband at the end with a smirk.
Although Rose and I had realized that Bella and Alice were Soul Mates, part of me felt that those last teasing comments might have had a grain of truth in them. The sooner the petite vampire and the sidhe figured out the truth, the better.
The sliding glass doors that lead out to the back yard and my garden opened of its own accord. There was the sound of dragonfly wings snapping as something hurdled through the air towards us. Other than Bella and I, the rest of our family was startled when it spoke.
"Those gauche puppies are about to crash your party, darrrrrrrrrrrrlings," a tiny honey and velvet voice drawled then landed in the middle of the dining room table.
Even without Jasper's gift, I felt the shock that radiated off my husband and vampire children at sight of the male pixie. Like other members of his species, he stood approximately 6 inches tall and had dragonfly like wings that protruded from between his shoulder blades. This particular pixie was dressed in dark slacks that looked neatly pressed, a paisley smoking jacket with black velvet trim belted with a matching sash and white dress shirt with a paisley ascot. His jade green eyes swept over us and his mouth was twisted in a rakish grin. One tiny hand swept through the unruly tuft of bronze hair that topped his head and brandy snifter materialized in his other. He whirled the amber liquid around the glass as he waited for one of us to say something.
"Hello, Edward, would you please explain what you mean," I greeted and asked the tiny garden fey.
"After that breeze blew in earlier today and I realized that company was coming, I grew bored. I decided to flit over to La Push and ogle all those delicious examples of prime man-meat that liked to parade around half naked. Anyhoo, some russet-skinned girl, in serious need of an attitude adjustment, showed up and went on and on about some beautiful human girl she'd seen renting a limo. When she overheard her tell the rental agent that she was going to dinner with the Cullen's, the poor dear rushed back to get the boys to mount a rescue and save the damsel from the evil bloodsuckers. At least two of them had been watching the road for your return. The lovelies are on their way here as we speak," Edward replied bored tone.
Bella looked confused at why everyone else had suddenly tensed up during the pixie's explanation. There was no time to enlighten her so I directed her to follow us outside. My family stood in a line and waited for our old adversaries to show up. 75 years ago, before Alice and Jasper had joined the family, we encountered the shapeshifters from the nearby reservation. They fancied themselves as werewolves and told us that it was their duty to destroy our kind. Thankfully, Carlisle had convinced the Alpha, Ephraim Black, that we meant their tribe no harm. We made a treaty with the wolves and swore never to bite or kill a human and never step foot on their land. It seemed that the bloodline had not died out like we hoped when we chose to come back to this place.
Four shirtless young men and a girl dressed in a t-shirt and shorts walked out of the trees then slowly advanced on us. When they were fifty feet away, they stopped. The man in the middle looked older and appeared to be the leader of the group. He addressed Carlisle when he spoke.
"You know the terms of the treaty and yet you put an innocent at risk. Hand over the human and there won't be any trouble. Once Jake has escorted her to safety, the rest of the pack will leave peacefully," the Alpha said. I noticed the girl had taken several steps forward and was leering at Bella with a palpable lust.
Before my husband was able to respond, my daughter had taken two steps forward which placed her between us and the wolves. She stood defiantly in front of the Alpha; her eyes never once left his.
"Listen up, Mowgli, 'cause I'm only going to say this once. One: I'm not now, nor have I ever been a human," Bella hissed.
"Two: I haven't needed a man for safety since I was in diapers," she continued snidely.
"And three: If Little Red Riding Hood over there doesn't stop eye fucking my, then I'm going to chin the bitch," the young sidhe finished, her voice was practically a scream at the end.
She had turned to glare at the Native American girl when she made her last comment and failed to see the one of the young men had started to shake violently. The female wolf had noticed so she attempted to keep Bella distracted and off balance by blowing her a kiss. I called out to my daughter and she spun around just as the boy leapt. She threw her hands up and Glamour hit him. There was a sound of shredding fabric as the 6 foot tall Indian exploded into a…Pomeranian? The small dog landed on all fours then yipped in confusion as he turned around in circles.
"What the Hell did you do to Jacob, you witch," the Alpha demanded hotly. The situation was deteriorating quickly and Emmett's loud guffaws along with his siblings' barely contained laughter were not helping.
"He attacked me then I defended myself. Granted, it wasn't exactly the effect I wanted but oh well. And for the record, I'm not a witch," Bella shot back coolly then dropped her personal Glamour. The remaining wolves staggered back.
"Leave our land and never return but the puppy stays," she commanded and there was an odd timbre to her voice. Surprisingly, the wolves obeyed and disappeared back into the forest.
"Bella, just who was your father," Carlisle asked but she just shrugged then headed back inside after she picked up her newly acquired pet and I knew there was a long night of explanations ahead.
AN: Sorry this was a shorter chapter than the previous two but I wanted something a little light before I got into the rest of the explanations that started in the last chapter. Hope you enjoyed the new and improved Edward. Yes, he's a gay pixie but I torn between making him Emmett's mate or puppy Jacob's.