Hey sorry guys! I'm back! Shit got really busy, I got engaged and I moved back to my home state, but I will try to do somewhat regular updates from now on. I'm trying to write a book as well so forgive me for the slow and often short updates. This one is kinda short, but we all figure out some of Bella's past and get some fluff.

Warnings: swearing, possible triggers, flashbacks, futa, femslash

Don't own twilight!

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Bella woke in a panic, hearing nothing but gunshots and all around her was the desert of Pakistan, the tents of her comrades being raided and blood everywhere. She yelled out and grabbed her gun, shooting those that were after her as she ran for cover. Three bullets grazed the side of her head and she grunted in pain, but still looked for cover. She dropped down behind a pile of sand bags and felt her best friend and comrade, McCarty, drop beside her.

"Report!"

Alice woke with a start, hearing a loud thud from downstairs, and run from her room. Immediately she bolted for Bella's bed, only to find her room empty. It almost looked like she had fallen out of bed. Emmett was beside her suddenly and muttered a soft "shit!" before looking in her bedside table, which held a now open drawer. "Fuck!" he muttered, looking at Alice. "Stay behind me." Alice nodded and they cautiously headed downstairs. The kitchen was untouched, but a few things had been knocked down in the hall. Soon they found Bella, hiding behind the couch and frantically, but mechanically, taking apart her gun and putting it back together. Luckily, they noticed there were no bullets loaded into it. She was muttering to herself, saying a few things like "report", random swear words, and finally she said "Cover me!" before moving to jump the couch. That's when Emmett grabbed her around the waist, instantly causing her to start struggling. Alice didn't miss the fact that her eyes, normally a dark brown, was now shining a bright, striking green-yellow. Taking a risk, noticing the scratch marks Emmett was receiving, she stepped forward and set a gentle hand on Bella's mostly bare chest, the other cupping her face. Bella froze and the haze over her eyes seemed to break a little. "A-Alice?" She muttered, taking deep breaths. Emmett looked at her over the now still woman's shoulder and they agreed on something silently. Alice sat on the couch and Emmett set Bella beside her. Immediately Bella leaned into Alice's smaller body and nuzzled her face into her neck, taking deep breaths as her body shook. The teacher held her closer to her, rubbing calming circles on the deputy's back. Emmett eventually left them, convinced there was no danger.

Bella whimpered and clutched harder at her companion. Though it was about a week since that night on the roof, they had failed to declare where they stood, instead tip-toeing around it. Alice had noticed strange things about her housemate. Her eyes, for example, had changed colors depending on her mood. The green-yellow color was shocking the first time it happened. Alice had heard of eyes getting darker depending on someone's mood, or even turning red, but never the color Bella's did. Her hair had also grown incredibly fast, no longer the Mohawk she had grown to love, and instead the sides had grown to blend with the top and formed an almost… mane-like hairstyle. Now, however, it was falling in the taller woman's eyes and tickling Alice's chin. The fangs, the lack of scars from their attack, and especially her nails. The nails currently ripping through her shirt as she laid there.

"Bella… sweetie please come back to me." Her whispered words seemed to find the other woman as she found her relaxing.

"I'm sorry… I'm sorry you had to see that…" she mumbled against the shorter woman's chest. Alice simply shook her head and tightened her arms around Bella. For a woman so physically strong, she was suddenly so weak and seemed to curl more into her companion.

"Hey… look at me…" she whispered, gaining the taller woman's attention. "I don't think any less of you… not now, or ever. No matter what, I will feel the same, okay?"

Bella sat up and frowned. "Even if I was… erm…" She desperately searched for words and Alice felt nervous all the sudden. "Alice, I… something happened that night Jasper attacked. I think you've noticed that I have some… rather noticeable changes."

"I have, yes…" Alice traced her eyes over Bella again, taking in those changes.

"I did some research. I mean I've not no scars from the attack, but kept the scars from the war. My hair has grown way too fast, my teeth… I have fangs, for god's sake! Not to mention the nails. I clipped them yesterday, they shouldn't be so sharp. Hell, I've grown and gotten bigger―" she froze, closing her eyes after she said that. Clearly, she had said something she hadn't meant to and Alice, being the clever woman she was, latched onto it.

"Bigger?"

"M-muscles. My muscles have gotten bigger," she stuttered, but the other woman wasn't having it.

"Bella, I think we both know that's not what you meant."

"I… can we focus on the whole I'm-getting-taller-and stronger thing, with a side of supernatural nonsense please?" Bella shot back, getting defensive. Alice sighed.

"Fine, but if you want us to be something, you need to be honest with me about the other thing soon, understand?" Bella gulped and nodded. "Okay, so you were doing research?"

"Have you ever heard of a Manticore?"

Alice furrowed her brow and nodded. "It's a Persian legend. Usually has the body of a lion, tail of a scorpion, wings of a bat or dragon, and sometimes horns. Why?" Bella started running her hands through her hair, a nervous habit, and it clicked for Alice. "You think that's what you're becoming?"

"Yeah. I found a few things that seem to lead to that."

"But how? I didn't even know you could become that."

"The knife he stabbed me with, it was glistening with something. To become a Manticore you have to be bitten or scratched to get the virus into your bloodstream. I think maybe there was DNA of a Manticore on there, and that's how I got it. But I'll know for sure tomorrow night."

"Tomorrow night? Oh, god, don't tell me…"

"Full moon," Bella chuckled, laughing fully when Alice slapped her hand over her face. "I know, it sounds ridiculous. I had the same reaction."

Alice chuckled, then bit her lip. She wanted to talk about Bella's slip up earlier, but wasn't entirely sure if she should. Her eyes flicked up to the other woman's, who sighed. "Let me guess… you want me to explain the slip from earlier?" Alice nodded, reaching out with her hand. Bella closed her eyes. "This is going to be hard. The last person to find out made my life miserable. I didn't escape it until I joined the force, and when I came home injured I still got a lot of looks and backhanded comments. Most of which were things like "freak", or they called me "It"…"

"Bella, you don't have to…" Alice started, wanting suddenly to take back what she had said before. She would need to know, but if the other woman wasn't ready she refused to push her.

"No, you should know." Bella sighed and stood. "I… It's just easier to show you." Before Alice could say anything, Bella dropped her sweat pants, revealing the fact that she was wearing boxer briefs that sported an impressive bulge. Alice's mouth went dry. She wasn't sure what to think, too caught up in the fact that Bella was only in her undergarments before her. Before she had only had on the sweat pants and a black sports bra, revealing the three scars on her chest and a deliciously toned stomach, but now… Alice thought her brain may have broken. Bella, however, took her silence as a bad thing and took a step back, breaking the smaller woman from her thoughts.

Shooting up from her perch, Alice strode over and pulled Bella's pants back up gently before pulling her into a hug. With their height difference, Alice's head fit easily under Bella's chin and she gently kissed the younger woman's collarbone. "Bella, I told you I hadn't thought any different of you before, and I won't now. So you're a penis wielding Manticore with sexy muscles and an amazing body. The only thing I have to change is my fantasies." Alice babbled before blushing. Bella was pretty sure her brain short circuited. She… fantasizes about me? Oh, fuck, don't think about it…

Bella couldn't hold back any longer and pulled back just slightly. "Alice?" she whispered, not willing to break the moment. The shorter woman looked up, smiling in question with a blush still showing on her cheeks. "Will you be my girlfriend?" Alice beamed at the other woman and jumped up, wrapping her arms around Bella's neck and kissing her. She gasped in surprise but wrapped her arms around Alice and kissed her back. When they pulled apart they had matching grins. "Was that a yes?" A grin was her answer and she relaxed, sitting down with her beautiful girlfriend in her lap. They eventually drifted off to sleep like that.

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So a lot of people thought Bella would be a werewolf. Nope… threw you all for a loop with this haha. The new cover picture is really close to what Bella will look like. Usually a Manticore has the head of a human… but that's kinda creepy so I'm giving her a lion head. Anyway yeah next chapter should be the transformation, and they're going back to work soon. And don't you worry… we haven't seen the last of Jasper.

Anyway, hope you liked it! Reviews are love