So I'm sad to say that this is the last chapter. College is very demanding and I'm actually trying to get good grades which makes it even harder! In a few months time I might be compelled to do a sequel.
3rd POV
Chapter 12: A Pleasurable Call for Peace
Bella's sentence hung in the air, the sensation of playfulness was replaced by a thick, sexual tension. Aro cocked an eyebrow.
"That was very forward of you Lady Bella." Bella mirrored his look of curiosity with one eyebrow up in an almost sarcastic look.
"You're acting serious all of a sudden, calling me Lady Bella rather than your usual Bella. Why is that? I thought we were closer than that." Bella placed her hand on her hips with her chin jutted up, a pose she took often around Aro. He took a step closer to her. She watched him with false wariness in her eyes. In reality she was holding back excitement.
"How fool hearty of me. I made it sound like I was subtly pushing you away when I want quite the opposite." Bella studied his posture for a moment. His chest was puffed out slightly.
"Tell me, Aro in what way do you want to get closer to me?" The edges of Bella's lips curled upwards as she futilely attempted to hide her grin. Her eyes were sharp, catching every slight movement and shift in Aro's posture. Aro, in turn was doing the same, his eyes subtly scanning over her curves, but quickly snapping to any movement she made. They were both slyly prodding at the other, testing and pushing, veering for a sort of mental supremacy over the other while also making sure they were an adequate match.
"In all honesty , I'm debating two different ways to get closer to you, both invasive and pleasurable." Bella didn't respond, her mind racing, trying to figure out what he was referring to. He let her thoughts wonder. After a good five minutes Bella finally responded.
"You can only think of two? That's a bit disappointing…" As her words trailed off Aro let out a short laugh.
"Perhaps I should clarify. I should have said they are two categories instead of ways. One is purely mental while the other is deliciously physical. I want to know everything about you, but I also want to fuck you senseless." Aro's words were smooth and deep. Bella took in a long, slow breath, trying to calm and center herself as to think clearer.
"I can solve that indecision if you'll answer my question." Aro nodded. "Being vampires, does that mean that we're immortal?"
"We don't age. The only way to die for our kind is if they're dismembered and burned." Aro's thoughts strayed to all the different times he had seen the process happen both through his eyes and the eyes of others. He was brought back to the presence by Bella moving closer to him.
"So we have all the time in the world?"
"Yes."
"Well then we have plenty of time for both, but at the moment all I can think about is getting you undressed." As the words escaped her Aro jumped slightly. "What's wrong?" Bella's voice was full of worry. Aro was holding the collar of his shirt.
"When you said that the top two buttons of my shirt came undone." Aro said and Bella looked at her right hand.
"I was thinking about doing that and my fingers were making the motion when I said 'getting you undressed'." Bella's hand formed a fist and released it. "I felt the plastic buttons, the thread that held them in place, and the softness of your shirt. I thought it was just a vampire thing, that my imagination had just grown complex enough to make me imagine and falsely sense what it felt like." She stared at a book on a shelf and it seemed to float.
"I knew you'd have a gift." Aro whispered as he watched the book.
"It's like my arm is invisible and elongated. I can feel the texture of the book and move it without even truly touching it." The cover of the book opened and pages were flipped by an unseen force. It was placed down in its original spot softly.
To Bella it felt like her arms and fingers were doing the work even though they weren't perceivably moving.
"Is it just your right arm? Or can you use your other arm, perhaps even other parts of your body?" Bella looked to be concentrating intently, not hearing Aro.
"I can move my ghost left arm too and the rest of my body, but not as easily."
"Ghost?"
"Yes, since it looks like a ghost is moving things around, not me." Bella said and Aro chuckled. "I can even feel my ghost hand with my other ghost hand." Bella smiled deviously. "You're still so easy to steal from Aro. I would have thought you'd have learned to be more cautious by now." Two gold cufflinks floated into Aro's view. He looked down at his sleeves to see that they were missing.
"It's not stealing when what's mine is also yours now." Aro said riley. With a quick movement he reached out for the two hovering pieces of gold only for them to disappear right before his eyes just as his hand met a hard surface. Bella hissed.
"You practically just stabbed my hand with your nails. You need to get those things filed down or something because they hurt like a bitch!" Bella's words were mangled with growls. Aro was looking at his hand and flexing his fingers.
"I should have figured that would happen. It felt like I tried to stab a vampire's skin with just my middle and pointer finger. It hurt, but only slightly. Where did the cufflinks go?"
"I like how well you can apologize."
"Why should I apologize? We were both hurt on accident, but in return we learned something. Now where did the cufflinks go?" Bella was holding back a tinge of annoyance at his words. Instead she held up her actual right hand, cufflinks in her palm. Two crest shaped indents were in the last stage of healing.
"When I felt the pain my ghost hand immediately was gone and the cufflinks appeared in my hand." Bella tossed the glinting gold toward the ceiling and they disappeared midair again. Aro looked and they were in Bella's hand again. "It's not that my ghost arm is retracting back into my real arm and bring the cufflinks to me. It's more like the ghost arm evaporates into nothingness and anything it was holding magically appears in my real hand. I have no idea how to explain it. This 'gift' shouldn't be possible." Bella mumbled the last part.
"Many gifts seem impossible, yet time after time we see them happen right before our eyes. This world is unfathomable, even to someone like me who has lived not only my own life but thousands of others' lives." Aro's eyes looked out the window in thought. "All we can do is accept it and try to understand to the best of our abilities." Bella was staring at her feet with an impassive look on her face before she smiled brightly.
"My ghost showing up almost made me forget what we were actually talking about." Bella's eyes seemed to be on fire with excitement.
"How could we ever be distracted from such an important matter?" Aro chuckled.
"It's as you said, some things are just unfathomable." Bella started to unbutton the rest of Aro's shirt, this time with her actual hands.
"You are aware that the Volturi are very rich?" Aro asked as he watched her hands move. Bella looked at him curiously, not stopping her unbuttoning.
"Yes, the lavish castle sort of gave away that fact to anyone who looked. Why do you ask?"
"That means there is plenty of money for us to rip off each other's clothes without worrying about their cost." With that said, Aro used a single finger to rip Bella's shirt down the middle like it was wet paper. Bella looked up at him surprised.
"I hope you know that, that was incredibly sexy." Bella said as she tore off Aro's clothing quickly. "You're rather well endowed."
"Stop stating the obvious so I can fill your body with my own." With one hand he undressed her while the other was busy tracing her revealed curves. Bella pulled herself closer to him as they kissed each other hungrily. "You have no idea how many times I've imagined this." Aro said gruffly as he nipped at the spot right below her ear. She let out a wispy moan.
"I have a better idea than you give me credit for. My shower routine wasn't complete if I didn't imagine you doing something rather naughty to me and you can figure out the rest I'm sure." Aro pushed her naked form with his own against the wall and they both groaned. "My best fantasies were always with me against this wall and you in me." Bella smiled fondly.
"I personally didn't care where, as long as it was with you." Aro's words were clipped since his mouth was also occupied by hers. With a little more strength then what was needed he pulled her arms above her head and pinned them there with his left hand. "Your absence was torturous." With his right hand he skillfully started fingering her in a teasing manner, never giving her enough pressure.
"Stop bitching and just fuck me." Bella's voice had a matter-of-fact tone as she ground her hips into his erection with a growl. Aro grinned.
"I wasn't complaining, rather, I was just stating a fact."
"You-" Bella was cut off by her own moan of pleasure as, with no delicacy, Aro entered her. She started rocking her hips in sync with his.
"I should just let you suffer being hot and bothered, but I find this route much more pleasurable for the both of us." Bella half chuckled at his annoyance. He finally released her hands and she used them to caress every piece of him she could reach. She leveraged a new angle and Aro grunted with pleasure.
"How about we just punish each other by fucking until we're both exhausted?" The prospect of her suggestion only turned Aro on more. With just one look into his eyes Bella knew he agreed. "Good, then do me a favor and fuck me harder. I like it rough. Ah!" Aro started complying right away and she came undone.
"How coincidental, I like fucking roughly too." Aro's words were raspy as he whispered them into her ear. It only made her moan louder as he came. Even though an orgasm had just shook his whole body Aro kept thrusting into her. He knew the wall was a push away from breaking so he pulled Bella to the ground. She was surprised by how easily her body could bend to new angles she could never achieve as a human. Bella turned so that she was on her hands and knees with Aro behind her. Every time he filled her up she groaned in delight.
Bella could feel his fingers dig into her hips and it just made her sense of bliss multiply.
For hours on end they fucked, he pulled her hair, she nipped at him with her teeth, they traded verbal jabs, they jockeying to be on top, and reached their peek countless times.
By the time they were finally exhausted eight days had passed. Bella's naked form was lying in Aro's arms staring at the ceiling, unable to move. Aro was staring at her, but his eyes snapped to the door as Heidi entered leading two humans to their death. After another six humans the two vampires were refreshed. Heidi quickly retreated, taking the dead bodies with her.
Bella was purring lightly as she combed the knots out of her hair that had accumulated during their prolonged fornication. Aro's hair had held up much better, barely tangling. She rolled her eyes in annoyance and envy at how manageable his dark hair was. She looked at one of the few fragments of a mirror that wasn't completely ground into nothing and was reminded of the perfection that vampirism had granted her. With her ghost hand she held up the shard and stared at herself before angling it to look at Aro. He was reading a report on the floor that Heidi had brought in with the humans about what had occurred while he was 'away'. He was still naked.
Bella crawled over to his seated form and combed out his long hair which easily fell back into its usual pin straight style. She continued brushing it long after it was needed, simply enjoying being close to him as they purred in unison.
She consciously avoided looking at the report, still having a distaste for ruling over others. Aro finally put down the report, having finished reading it. Bella rested her chin on his shoulder; her body flush against his back as she hugged him.
"I suppose I can think of a reason or two to stay here." Bella said in a teasing voice.
"You can only think of two? That's a bit disappointing…" Aro repeated her words from earlier.
"Do I really have to say the words?" Bella released her hold of him and he turned to face her.
"I would like to hear them." Aro looked at her intently, but was grinning. "It's only three words, Bella."
"You know how I feel. To say it would just be redundant." Bella shrugged then grinned mischievously. "Unless you're really lacking so much in confidence towards what emotions I feel towards you that you have to hear me say it…" She teased lightly.
"What is that modern colloquialism you always use? Ah! Yes, Shut up. That's it. Shut up and just say it."
"Do you want me to shut up or say it? I can't do both, Aro." Bella said bluntly and shrugged.
"Bella-"
"Fine! So that one emotion, love, yeah that one. I have it and it just so happens to be directed in this general area." She pointed at Aro and shrugged again, holding in a smile since she knew he wasn't going to be satisfied by such a convoluted and indirect answer. Aro leaned in and gave her a quick kiss.
"That will do for now than." Aro said and stood to get dressed surprising Bella.
"Alright I'll say it!" Bella said in a raised voice and Aro turned around to face her, trying not to grin. She took a deep breath in and stood."I'll say it, Aro, I'll say it… later." She burst out laughing and he frowned falsely.
"The devil really did send you to torment me, didn't he?" They smiled at each other.
"Yeah, most likely."
So what'd you guys think about Aro's two ways they could get closer? Their banter? Her gift? The Lemon (I don't really like writing them so I need to know if it was good or not)? The ending? Review!
