After a silent ride to the Cullen house Rosalie parked her car and they both got out.

Rosalie had felt the excitement building as she realized she was about to go hunting with her mate. Hunting for vampires was something that could be considered very intimate between a mated pair. It was something she not only looked forward to but somewhat dreaded. The reason she was dreading it was the semi hard-on that was making itself known in her tightening pants.She really needed to learn how to get control over her hormones.

She never had this problem in her human life and it was never a problem in her vampire life before she met Bella. She was worried that if they ever did have sex the problem would only get worse. She had heard many stories of newly mated couples barely leaving the house to go hunting after finding each other. Vampire honeymoons lasted anywhere from a year to decades and the thought had Rosalie feeling both nervous and giddy at the idea of her and Bella having such a connection.

"Can you give me a minute before you go into the woods so I can change real quick?" Bella asked breaking Rosalie out of her musings.

"Sure of course just come out and get me when you're ready."

Bella jogged towards the woods feeling a little apprehensive about hunting with Rosalie. She had only ever hunted with her grandfather before.On one hand Bella was worried Rosalie might find her repulsive when she was confronted with the reality of dating a tiger. On the other she was excited that she would be able to show her imprint how capable she was was. She would be able to show Rosalie that she could provide and protect her and as she shrugged out of her clothes her tiger came forth without her even having to think about it. Quickly she tapped into her animal instinct and went to get Rosalie.

Rosalie looked up when she heard Bella coming and followed her back into the woods. They wouldn't be able to speak to each other but she was positive they would find other ways to communicate. She wandered over to Bella and ran her hands through Bella's fur and scratched behind her ears.

When she felt Bella start to purr she chuckled and inclined her head "Shall we?"

They both took off running and it was then Rosalie got to see how fast Bella was. Her tiger moved gracefully through the forest like she was one with it. Bella's body was all muscle contracting and extending moving fluidly in a display of physicality that had Rosalie swallowing the excess venom that was pooling in her mouth. Her pants were definitely getting a lot tighter as the more she watched her mate the more turned on she got.

Bella luckily didn't seem to notice as she titled her head to the side, sniffed ,then took off with Rosalie trailing behind. After a few feet she caught the scent of a bear and knew what Bella was after. When she reached Bella and the bear, Bella had the bear pinned to the ground. She was growling at it and when she noticed Rosalie had joined them she let the bear up.

When the bear got up on two feet Bella started circling it. She was toying with it and when it lunged at her she swiped her claws along its chest causing it to cry out as it stumbled backwards. Bella then jumped on it and held it to the ground glancing at Rosalie.

It was when their eyes met that Rosalie understood. Bella had caught the bear for her. If watching Bella run wasn't arousing enough her mate presenting her with a bear definitely was.She walked over to the bear and sunk her teeth into its neck. She had worried how Bella would feel after seeing her feed as she had never seen a vampire feed before but she didn't have to worry. Bella just sat on the bear until she was done with a serene smile on her face. At least what Rosalie thought a serene smile on a tiger's face looked like.

"Do you want the rest?" Rosalie asked Bella moving away from the bear to give Bella room.

Bella nodded and tore into the bears stomach all claws and teeth. Rosalie was mesmerized. Something that should have looked gruesome and ghastly had her transfixed. She couldn't look away if she wanted to and she found she didn't want to at all.

Watching Bella in this moment made something in Rosalie's mind clink into place. It was one thing to know Bella was a tiger shifter but seeing Bella actually acting like a tiger made it real in her mind. Her mate was a dangerous creature. When she neutralized Emmett so quickly Rosalie had been impressed and thought she got lucky but seeing her not only track down and fight a bear but then ripping it apart and devouring it proved that Rosalie hadn't even seen a a small glimpse of what Bella could really do.

When Bella finished she licked her paws and moved towards Rosalie. When she got close she lowered herself on her front legs like she was bowing and nudged Rosalie with her head. Rosalie did know what she was trying to do until Bella bit her shirt and pulled her to Bella's side nudging her to get up.

"You want me to ride you"Rosalie would have blushed to her toes if she were human after she realized how her question could be taken. Bella simply nodded so Rosalie climbed on her back and held on to the tiger's neck the best she could.

As soon as Rosalie gave the go ahead Bella took off. She jumped and weaves through the trees causing Rosalie to giggle at her silliness. It was when they got to a creak Rosalie noticed the mountain lion. She wondered if it was the same one Bella had saved the other day. She was about to ask when Bella took off towards the lion.

Rosalie didn't understand why Bella would be hunting the lion as she had saved it before but as she was about to ask what was going on Bella stopped in front of it. To Rosalie's surprise the lion didn't run off in fact it rubbed its head on Bella's chest causing a flare of jealousy to run through her. Wait am I getting jealous of a mountain lion? She asked herself.

"Get a grip Rosalie." She muttered causing the lion to step back and look at her in alarm.

Bella simply walk up to it and rubbed her head into its side causing it to relax again. Rosalie watched the exchange with great interest. She remembered Alice asking Bella if she could talk to them and Bella's reply of kind of. What had Bella meant kind of? Could her mate actually talk to animals? She knew that shifters could speak to others in their pack through a mind link while they were shifted but she had never heard of them being able to talk to animals. She would have to ask Bella later. If Bella didn't know then she would go to Carlisle.

As if they came to a mutual agreement both Bella and the lion took off into the woods. They came upon a heard of deer and Rosalie held on tight as both Bella and lion hunted one down. She really wished Bella could have shifted back to explain what was going on but she trusted her mate and had to admit to herself that she was having a really good time. Just spending time with her mate made her happy but seeing her in her tiger form made her not only happy but proud that she with such an amazing creature.

Bella nudged Rosalie to get down and when she did Bella pulled her to the deer the lion had taken down motioning for Rosalie to put it on her back. Rosalie put both deer on Bella's back and then walked with Bella and the mountain lion through the forest. She found the whole situation bizarre. Before meeting Bella she would have killed the lion without even giving it a second thought and now she was walking through the forest with it and her mate after they had hunted and killed two deer heading towards who knew where.

After about 15 minutes of a slow trot they came to a cave set in the middle of a rock wall. All three climbed up and it wasn't until they entered the cave that Rosalie understood what they were doing here.

In the middle of the cave floor were three little lion cubs slowing waking up. She quickly moved the deer onto the floor as she watched the what she guessed now to be the mother of the cubs go over and lick each one.

One by one they looked around and when each saw Bella they ran forward stumbling on over sized feet to get to her. Bella laid down and started purring when they got to her. One of the little ones tried climbing her back and before Rosalie knew what she was doing she ran over to help the little cub so it wouldn't fall.

She expected to get growled at by the mother but when she looked up she notice the lion had pulled the deer into the corner and was lying down watching them with sleepy eyes. Rosalie took this as permission and sat down next to Bella close to the cubs. They seemed weary of her at first but when Bella took one in her mouth and carefully put it in Rosalie's lap they all seemed interested in the new comer.

As Rosalie sat their in a mountain lions den playing with her cubs sitting next to her mate who was a giant white tiger she tried to think of when she had ever felt this happy. Yes it was surreal to be in this situation but it felt so natural. Being with Bella felt natural. Her mate was so extraordinary.

Rosalie had wondered how Bella had been so calm at school that day with all the horrible things being said and how people were acting towards her. It was only in this moment that what Bella had told her made sense. Bella said it was human nature. Bella was giving them a pass because she wasn't human and what humans did didn't affect her.

Sitting here watching Bella playing with these three little cubs Rosalie realized her mate wasn't meant for the human world. Bella didn't worry about humans because their world wasn't her own. It made her wonder what Bella planned to do once she was finished high school. Did she even want to be apart of the human existence? She had an estate and a whole lot of family money so did she even care about what went on in the world. Rosalie once again thought about how she wished Bella would shift back so she could ask her questions.

After a while the cubs had settled down and started drifting back to sleep. It was this that had Bella standing up and with a lick to each of their faces made her way over to the mother. She nudged her head against the mountain lion's and motioned to Rosalie for them to leave. They ran back to her house where she left Bella by her clothes and waited on her porch for Bella to get dressed.