So hey peeps. Anyone fancy some serious smut? More war time stuff is coming in later chapters. Realised I should clear this up now it is getting a fair bit on in the story. Thank you to everyone again for great reviews and continued favourites. It's like a little sunshine burst overtime I read one.

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"Guys come down stairs!" Emmett's booming voice was so not what I wanted to hear in the morning.

After removing the naked pixie's arms from around my waist, I got dressed and went to kill the tree trunk man with a hair brush.

"Belly bear, before you do anything un-godly with that brush, I just wanted to say you look beautiful after just waking up." My target gave a hopeful smile where his cheeks dimpled and gave off a very boyish look about him. I hesitated for a second at Emmett's new look. Only for a second though.

"It is five in the morning moron!" I yelled at the buffoon.

"This is important!" He equally yelled back.

"Important enough to risk disfigurement of a very special area?" My threat was whispered and a slight thrill went through me when I saw him flinch.

"Absolutely not Isabella." Rosalie's distant voice called from upstairs. Dammit, no rest for the wicked.

"Go on then…Just make it quick." I admitted defeat with a sigh. His boyish face suddenly turned into one of mischief. It did not escape my notice that it was now me who flinched.

"I just put on the finishing touches. I had to show you right away, my excitement was too much." I swear he is dragging this out on purpose. After dragging my growling body into the living room, he pressed play on an already set up iPod dock.

Silence echoed for a few seconds before a light beat gradually bounced around the room. The pulsating beat continued but something else was slowly overriding it. A high pitched female voice making a weird noise.

It took three minutes of listening to this before I realised what it was.

Alice's mortified cry joined that of the music and she quickly blurred down the stairs, trying desperately to get at the iPod dock. Rosalie was instantly behind Alice restraining her. My instincts put up a mild protest to this inside me but I quickly quelled them to try and control my laughing fit.

"Isabella! How dare you stand there and not stop this…this…attack on my honour!" Alice shrieked from behind Rosalie's arms. I managed to get a breathe in and answered with how I couldn't breath let alone stop this. My answer was apparently less than satisfactory as her glare only intensified. "Aren't you even a little disgusted that he stood outside our door and recorded the noises we made when we were having sex!?" Now that gave me better control over my breathing.

"I don't know why you're laughing Bella. You take over vocals in the third verse." Rosalie quickly switched prisoners and restrained me before I could make a lunge. Not that she needed to, I was so gob smacked I just stood in her arms. My 'disgusted' mate was now on the floor laughing as she picked out the distinctive deep "ah" that was none other than my own.

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"We have moved Edward back to Hades personal prison cells. Zeus believes he will be better protected there for now."

"Yeah or Hades wants to torture the man who slept with his wife." The slap that echoed promptly after silenced any further input by Emmett.

"As I was saying, Edward is under full time guard. Nothing else is going to happen to him so your mate's family can rest easy. Zeus has asked for you to participate in the next skirmish with Persephone's vampires. You are currently the leading expert on dealing with them at the moment." Charlie sighed into the phone. "We get debriefed in twelve hours".

"I'll be there". I answered as I tried to avoid the eyes of my mate. The war had completely slipped my mind these past couple of days. What with making advancements with Alice in our relationship and beating Emmett to a pulp with his own iPod. It made me feel bad that I could so easily forget the suffering of others with a few drinks and a naked mate.

"You didn't use a plural, you said I'll. Why didn't you say we will be there?" Speaking of naked mates…

"Ali honey, please don't fight me on this. You're an incredible fighter but after last time I don't trust the Fates to not throw something at us again."

"We pulled through though didn't we? We kicked Fates behind." A small giggle escaped me which was enough to give Alice the advantage. "Don't you love me?"

"That was a low blow Alice."

"I'm only four foot eleven." The hurrumph that followed was enough to send me into a fit of laughter. Alice gave up on appearing serious and joined me while positioning herself on my lap. The sudden closeness and her scent enveloping my scenes took me by surprise and my laugh turned into a very loud purr.

"Did you just…purr?" Alice was fighting back her grin but stared dead into my eyes.

"Nereids don't purr." What was happening to me? These feelings were too much to try and control. My whole life I had hardly any instinctual urges, except when in the heat of battle. But now I had the overwhelming urge to make Alice mine.

Not in the sense of ownership, but to prove to others she was spoken for. To lay claim that this beautiful creature bouncing on my lap chose me and I chose her. Not controlling my body, I pulled her close and tightly hugged her. Sensing the change in mood Alice equally tightly held me to her. My eyes were now level with her pearly white neck, the skin there was calling to me to taste, to feel, to mark. Feeling the blood rush into my cheeks at this thought, I decided what to go for it.

Dear Zeus this is better than chocolate!

My mouth sucked at the expanse of neck her shirt showed and I laid kisses over every tasty skin I could find. Judging by the moans vibrating into my shoulder and through my body, I was doing a good job. It made me feel great to know I could get this reaction from my mate.

I continued suckling until my teeth accidentally gritted against her. At this Alice shuddered heavily and gasped. Doing it again received the same reaction. I pulled back and looked into her very black eyes and saw so much lust and love pooling before me.

"Bite me."

The two words came out in a deep voice not accustomed to someone so small. But they were the sexiest noise I had ever heard in my life. Nodding slowly I turned my attention back to her slightly wet neck. I placed my teeth gently where her pulse point should have been. Low growls started coming from Alice but she made no move to stop me. As the growls gained in volume and her grip on me tightened, I pulled my shit together and bit down.

At first she painfully tightened her grasp on my back and shoulder. The growls stopped abruptly and a small whimper replaced them. Something inside me told me to carry on though, to wait a few more moments to solidify whatever was happening.

Sensing the time was right I pulled back. Slowly detaching my mouth from her cool alabaster neck. Alice had her eyes closed and was shivering slightly. Fearing I had hurt her I pulled her into my arms and cooed all my love for her.

It took half an hour for Alice to recover enough to speak. And the first thing she said was a very eloquent "holy shit". Which I once again laughed over. I felt good for some reason, whole. Like I never knew I was missing a part of me until half an hour ago. There was a small mark on Alice's shoulder where I had bitten her, which was strangely not healing. My eyes must have held my question as Alice smiled and sat on my lap again.

"We just mated Bella." She squealed and her eyes looked up into mine with such love and joy I couldn't help smiling back at her. This was slightly confusing for me though.

"But we've had sex Ali, I definitely remember the sex part." My mate chuckled after regaining her unneeded breath.

"Hell yeah we have. But that wasn't officially mating, it is a very special thing for vampires." My curiosity was increased at this.

"Tell me about it, it seems like quite an important thing."

"Well, don't get freaked out or anything about how soon we did this but…you just marked me as your soul mate forever."

Pardon?

At my continued silence she quickly grabbed my hands and looked up at me. "Baby it's not such a big deal, don't think of it like that."

"You said it was a very special thing. I stress the part where you said very." I know we were soul mates and all but were we ready for such commitments?

"Vampires do it to their mates to ward other vampires away and bind their essences forever together. I have fantasised about us giving ourselves like this for decades." I have to remember Alice has been ready for this step for a very long time.

"So we are banded now? Our souls are finally joined together again after Zeus separated us?" It was so much more romantic when you put it like that.

"Yes baby we are. I have wanted this so much for so long. And now we are going back to war I just didn't want to wait any longer incase…incase the worst happened." Alice held me tightly again and she rubbed her scent on me. Of course now it was engrained with part of mine and gave off a floral salty aroma.

"I promise you, I would rather fight off all of Hades than leave you here alone." She buried her head deeper into the crook of my neck and purred a little. "I wouldn't want to let down my fans from Emmett's new song." Making my newly marked mate laugh filled me with even more of a sense of pride and love.

"Yeah we are a package deal." Alice muffled from my neck.

"Does this mean I am the dominant one in the relationship?" The purring stopped and was replaced by a low chuckle.

"Technically yes, but remember this Isabella. You may be the head, but I am the neck. And the neck can turn the head, any way she wants." The resounding booming laughter from around the house and my own mouth was the perfect end to the day and I am adamant that no matter what happened, we would always belong to one another.

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