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The Mad Scientist and her Angel of Pain
A Council of Thirteen universe story
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In the well-lit, sterile and well appointed lab she'd had built under her house, Bella Swan, Ninth Lord of the Council of Thirteen, was reviewing the many test tube-like incubation chambers that dominated the room and more importantly the latest batch of various chimeric creatures within the tubes that she'd created as a result of her experiments.
"All looks good," she said with satisfaction as she looked up from the tablet she'd synced to the various incubation chambers to more easily review their readings and addressed the sleeping creatures within. "Soon, kids. Soon, you'll be ready to join the family."
Offering her developing children a smile, she turned away intent on heading to another portion of her lab to carry out some other experiments she'd been working on. Particularly those pertaining to a specific spell she was working on that she was hoping to surprise Jane with.
Unfortunately, she'd barely made it halfway to the door of the room when it slid open to reveal her aforementioned mate. Who, much to Bella's worry, was looking quite cross with her.
"Bella," Jane hissed, her arms crossed and her crimson eyes glaring at her. "It's time for dinner."
"Already?" Bella hedged. "Can't it wait? I still have work to do."
"No," Jane said decisively as she marched up to Bella with deliberately slow steps and plucking her tablet out of her arms, tossed it with superhuman precision onto a nearby table. "Your father is waiting for us."
"Charlie's here already? He's early."
"No, he was right on time." Jane countered as she looped an arm around one of Bella's own. "You just lost track of the time. Again."
"Sorry," Bella said, genuinely apologetic.
Jane must've sensed how she felt over their bond because her tone softened.
"You're forgiven." She said in a more normal tone even as she began dragging Bella along as she began making towards their dining room. "The food I cooked isn't cold yet."
The implication that there would be consequences if it did become cold, were heard loud and clear. As such, Bella just meekly nodded and let herself be led away. Though not before shooting a wistful look at her lab and her developing creatures in their incubation chambers.
Charlie Swan watched with amusement as his daughter was all but dragged to the dinner table where he was waiting by her wife. Clearly just like Jane said she would, Bella had got lost in her experiments again and forgotten the time. It wasn't a trait she was known for when she'd been a kid but she'd also not really had anything she was really passionate about back then either, at least not until Dom Tredecim had shown up at their doorstep and introduced her to magic.
"So Bells, what kept you?" Charlie asked teasingly.
"What else?" Jane grumbled as she and Bella took their seats. "She got all caught up in her lab work. Again."
"Bella, you should really work on those workaholic tendencies of yours." Charlie chided his daughter as Jane nodded her fervent agreement.
"I'll try." Bella said with that pouty look of hers that told him that she was just humoring him.
He wasn't the only one to see right through her though if the exasperated look Jane shot her mate was any indication. Then again, she and Jane had that magical bond thing between them so the vampire could probably literally tell what Bella was thinking.
It must make their arguments interesting. Charlie noted with amusement.
"Bella-" He began, intending to scold his daughter a little but stopped himself when Jane let out an exasperated sigh.
"There's no point Charlie. She's stopped listening."
"That's not true." Bella refuted in a tone that couldn't be called anything but bratty.
"If you're talking like that, then you definitely have." Charlie said with a shake of his head. "You inherited a stubborn streak a mile wide from Renee and it's rearing its head."
"I'm not stubborn." Bella said, crossing her arms.
"Oh, you definitely are when you want to be." Charlie countered with a laugh. "I'm your father, I know. You're just like your mother on that front."
"You know he's right, Bella." Jane said, rolling her eyes. "Now enough arguing. Let's eat. I put a lot of effort into preparing this, I don't want it to get cold and go to waste."
Bella pouted and just dug into her meal. For his part, Charlie allowed himself one last chuckle before obliging the vampire and was pleasantly surprised.
The taste of the dishes, relatively simple fare consisting of clam chowder, smoked salmon, salad and some breadsticks, were pretty good. It wasn't up to standards of fine dining, but it was passable. Which couldn't have been easy for Jane to pull off. As a Volterran Jane couldn't taste like a human, with all normal food tasting, in her own words, like ash to her, so that she'd managed this much was truly admirable. Especially when just a year ago, her cooking was barely edible. Which Charlie couldn't exactly blame her for, seeing as she couldn't exactly eat normal food anyways. That she'd chosen to learn to cook was entirely so she could better take care of Bella and Charlie wholly approved of that sentiment.
"It's good. You've improved a lot, Jane." Charlie complimented his daughter-in-law who was sucking on a blood bag of what he knew to be Bella's blood that she'd blurred to the fridge they'd set aside to store the blood that Jane needed to get. Blood that Bella regularly extracted in such large quantities that if not for using her biomancy to boost her blood production she'd suffer from severe anemia.
Jane isn't the only one going out of the way to take care of her wife. Charlie thought with a proud smile for his daughter's dedication to her spouse.
"I agree with Dad. You've gotten better, sweetie." Bella agreed. "Though I think you used a little too much salt when seasoning the salmon again."
"Did I?" Jane asked with a frown, eyeing the fish fillets she'd cooked critically. "Charlie, what do you think?"
"It is a little on the salty side of things but it's not bad. You're just nitpicking Bella." Charlie said as he shot his daughter a look as she nibbled on one of her breadsticks.
"No, I'm not." Bella said with a roll of her eyes. "We have to be precise with our critique or Jane will have trouble improving. You know she can't taste like we do."
Jane nodded in agreement and Charlie chuckled.
"Then, yes it's a little on the salty side. Maybe use a pinch less next time?"
Jane blurred away for a moment before returning barely a minute later in another blur.
"Updating your recipe?" Charlie asked as he dipped a breadstick into his soup.
"Yup, before I forget."
"I thought your kind can't forget stuff." Charlie asked, blinking in confusion.
"We can't, not really." Jane agreed with a nod. "But we can get distracted by things and fail to follow up on things just like humans do."
"Ah." Charlie nodded in understanding.
They ate in relative silence after that, with only the occasional comment on Jane's cooking.
Soon, they were done with the meal and in a blur Jane had disposed of her finished blood bag, cleared the plates and after depositing them in the kitchen sink to soak, returned with a bottle of wine.
"Is that what I think it is?" Bella asked as she eyed the bottle.
"Yeah, it's the bottle of Sanguis Virginis that Master Aro sent over." Jane answered with a nod as she uncorked the bottle and poured glasses for all three of them.
"From the latest care package?" Bella asked as she picked up the glass and swirled it a little.
"Yup." Jane said, popping the 'p' playfully.
Something that had Charlie staring at her in disbelief. Despite her child-like appearance, his daughter-in-law was over a thousand years old. Seeing her behave like her apparent age was incredibly disconcerting. Though her acting her real age had been just as unnerving at first, but after getting to know her one got used to that. This though was new.
"I'm trying to act more human," Jane explained, catching his look. "To draw less attention when we go into town."
Charlie nodded. That made sense. Jane could usually pass for a mature teenager but occasionally her mannerisms gave away just how ancient she truly was. If she wanted to blend in, she'd need to learn how contemporary teenagers behaved.
"It's still a work in progress," Jane confessed. "I still slip up, as they say, a lot."
"I'm sure you'll get there." Charlie told her encouragingly.
"Yes, you will." Bella reassured her mate as well. "By the way, Jane, did you manage to finally get Aro to tell you how the Romanians make this?"
"There's something special about this wine?" Charlie asked as he took a sip of the alcohol and couldn't find anything that stood out. Then again he was no sommelier.
"I can drink it for one." Jane said as she demonstrated and took a sip. "And it tastes like actual wine to me and not like ash."
Charlie blinked. "How?"
"We've been trying to figure that out for a while." Bella said with a shrug. "So, Jane, did Aro tell you?"
"No, to be honest I doubt he'll tell us even if he knows." Jane said with a shake of her head. "All he said is that despite the name, there's no actual virgin's blood, or any blood for that matter, in it."
Charlie looked at his glass askance at the mention of its contents possibly containing human blood.
"Don't worry Dad, I can confirm that." Bella reassured him as she took another sip from her glass. "It's really an alchemical concoction like the Kuranians and their blood tablets."
"You've not figured it out?" Charlie asked, confused. "I thought you helped the Kuranians refine those tablets of theirs? If this is similar, couldn't you figure it out."
"Oh, I know what it is, but the question is how do I make it? Especially on an economical scale like the Romanians do. They sell this by the barrel to the other Volterran covens around the world and even release limited quantities of it to the open market."
Charlie nodded in understanding. "If that's the case, then it's probably a trade secret of some kind. You can't expect them to give it up easily."
"Oh, we know." Jane agreed as she refilled her glass. "But that doesn't mean we can't try our best to figure it out anyway to satisfy our curiosity if nothing else."
"You were always a curious kid." Charlie said with a chuckle.
Bella had a slightly pained smile at him laughing at her expense, one that grew more strained as Jane decided to tease her a little more.
"Tell me about it, Charlie." Jane said with a mischievous smirk. "Bella's curiosity is why we have a veritable zoo worth of kids down in the basement. She just can't resist splicing one thing with another for the sake of it."
"I'm not that bad." Bella said defensively.
"Sweetie, we have what? A hundred different chimeras?"
"Sixteen! We have sixteen." Bella said with a pout. "And you'll hurt their feelings if you forget that so easily."
"Puhlease!" Jane said as she rolled her eyes. "Our kids know a joke when they hear one. Unlike you, sweetie. Then again, that's what makes you adorable."
Bella blushed at that and offered Jane a happy smile.
"So~!" Charlie said in a deliberately obnoxiously loud voice before the two girls could get all lovey dovey or worse. "Any chance you two will give me grandchildren in the conventional sense one day?"
"Charlie, did you forget that I'm a female Volterran and according to what history shows, we can't get pregnant nor have the anatomy to impregnate-"
"Maybe soon." Bella said, cutting Jane off and causing the vampire to shoot her a shocked and disbelieving look.
"Bella, what do you mean by that?"
Bella's only response was to smile enigmatically.
Not that it's hard to guess, Bells. Charlie thought with a chuckle and a shake of his head.
"Then I eagerly await the good news then."
"Did we have to take a walk in the rain?" Jane couldn't help but ask as she eyed the net of magic barriers that Bella was using as an umbrella as the two of them and the three of their children that they were walking dry as they made their way through the woods around Forks. "And do you have to do that?"
Jane had meant it as a tease but Bella was having none of it. Instead, rolling her eyes, she replied pointedly.
"I could dismiss the one keeping you dry, Jane."
Jane shuddered. It was pouring! She really didn't want to be subjected to it. Getting soaked was terribly uncomfortable.
"Sorry, sweetie." Jane apologised. "I was just teasing."
Bella pretended to consider the matter, tapping her chin consideringly, something that engendered laughter from their present children.
"What do you think, kids?" Bella asked after a moment. "Should I forgive Mama Jane?"
The first to reply was Julia who nodded her agreement.
She was named by Jane after a late colleague she'd had in the Volturi Guard who'd possessed the talent to spit acid like their daughter could, and was a green and yellow arachne-like creature that was as tall as Bella with a upper body, sans arms, that was vaguely reminiscent of a human female, eight very long legs and a long tail that ended in a sharp tail similar to a stinger.
"Kiyohime?" Jane asked the next of their children.
The hydra nodded all of her heads and Jane offered her a smile.
Kiyohime was tall as Julia and outmassed her substantially. She was a combination of a squid and a hydra, with each of her multiple snake heads taking the place of tentacles and a body covered in scales in various shades of purple that started looking like a squid's mantle before tapering into a serpentine tail.
Bella had picked her name and had apparently gotten it from the Konjaku Monogatarishū, a classic Japanese work of literature, specifically a tale entitled "The Story of Kiyohime". Jane had never read it but trusted in Bella's assurances that it was appropriate.
"Two out of three?" Bella hummed in faux contemplation. "What about you, Yatagarasu?"
The last of their kids they were walking today, the others having decided they wanted to avoid the rain, was Yatagarasu. The youngest and currently smallest of their brood of chimeras was a black and purple dog-sized one legged crow-like creature with a pair of massive red eyes, a arrow-tipped tail, wings with feathers that according to Bella were somehow, Jane hadn't understood her mate's lengthy explanation about it, as sharp as steel, and a single leg that indeed in a oversized talon. Oh, and he had a breath attack that allowed him to shoot a laser. Jane couldn't exactly forget her favourite son's coolest feature now could she?
Bella had named him, much to Jane's chagrin, and had decided that she was on a roll with Kiyohime and so had decided to also name him something Japanese. This time naming him after the messenger of the sun goddess, Amaterasu Omikami.
Yatagarasu joined his sisters in nodding his agreement.
"Well, I guess that since the kids agree, I should forgive you," Bella said with a smirk.
"Thank you, my Bella." Jane said honestly and their walk continued, the children chittering in amusement at her little faux pas.
If it had been almost anyone else she'd have subjected them to a taste of her pain inducing talent and enjoyed watching them squirm for the crime of laughing at her expense, but her children were on the very short list that got a free pass for that kind of behavior. So instead, she just enjoyed the companionable silence that wrapped around the five of them as they enjoyed the scenic beauty of the Washington forests.
Their walk had just taken them near the Cullen estate when the sound of thunder echoed all around them, causing Bella and Yatagarasu to look skyward.
That wasn't caused by lightning. Jane realised as the sound reached her ears. It was similar, yes, but there were subtle differences that set it apart. Its point of origin was too close to the ground for most lightning for one.
"That sounds close but I don't see any lightning." Bella noted with a frown.
Kiyohime hissed and she shook a pair of her heads as the rest pointed in the direction of the Cullen property, the same direction Julia and Jane were looking towards.
"It's not lightning, Bella." Jane informed her just before another crack of the strange thunder-like sound went off. "I don't know what it is but it's not caused by the storm."
Yatagarasu let out a series of squeaks and caws at that, just a little too fast for Jane to decipher but which had his sisters and Bella nodding in agreement.
"Yata-kun said the Cullens must be using the similarity to thunder of whatever they're doing and the storm to hide what they're doing." Bella translated. "We should investigate."
"Must we?" Jane asked in what sounded to her own ears as being dangerously close to a whine. "I'd rather not have to deal with the Cullens."
"And if whatever they're doing is a danger to mundanes or the masquerade?" Bella countered. "You know it's my duty as a Lord of the Thirteen to prevent that, so we must investigate."
Jane sighed. She hated to admit it but Bella was right.
"Alright." Jane conceded. "Let's get this over with."
"They are playing baseball!?" Bella said, as she spotted the Cullens and a coven of unfamiliar Volterrans playing the aforementioned ballgame in an open field through the enhanced vision that her Eyes of the Eagles spell offered as she, Jane and their children approached the source of the unnatural thunder they were investigating.
"Looks like," Jane agreed, her already superhuman vision likewise enhanced by Bella's spell. "The thunder seems to be caused by their bats hitting the balls at high speed."
"Shouldn't the balls and bats be destroyed by the kinds of forces they're being subjected to?" Bella asked, curiously.
Magically reinforced? Julia chittered in that whisper soft voice of hers.
No, silly. The Cullens don't use magic. Kiyohime corrected her sister.
"No, they don't." Jane agreed. "But they probably reinforced them somehow. Denser materials maybe? I dunno."
They've detected us. Yatagarasu cawed, as the Volterrans ahead all froze.
"They should've sooner." Jane said dismissively even as the other Volterrans began to adopt two very different responses to their approach. Whilst the Cullens immediately relaxed once they realised who they were, the unknowns instead fell into wary combat stances. "They should've picked up our scents at least ten metres ago, even through the rain. They let their guard down,"
"Since they know we're here, there's no point in keeping them waiting, is there?" Bella asked and received negative responses from everyone. "Alrighty then, let's take a shortcut shall we?"
With that she theatrically snapped her fingers and teleported all five of them right into the middle of the Cullens' little baseball field, startling poor Alice Cullen as they appeared next to her on the pitcher's mound.
"Sorry about that Alice," Bella offered the pint sized seer.
"It's okay, Bella." The pixie-like vampiress said with a smile. "What brings you here? Want to join the game?"
"Hardly," Jane said with a snort. "We were taking the kids for a walk and heard what we thought was thunder so we decided to investigate."
"You took the kids for a walk in the rain?" Alice asked, blinking at them in shock.
"Why not?" Bella said with a shrug. "Kiyohime is part squid, she likes water. Yatagarasu's feathers are waterproof and so is Julia's exoskeleton."
It's not like we're Kagutsuchi and are allergic to water. Yatagarasu countered, referencing his draconic oldest brother, causing his sisters to giggle in amusement.
Even Jane joined in.
"What's the joke?" Emmett said as the bear of a man that was the Cullens' youngest member said as he and the rest of his coven approached, the other Volterrans trailing cautiously behind them.
"Yatagarasu said they aren't afraid of water like Kagutsuchi." Jane pointed out with an amused smirk.
"To be fair," Jasper said with that exotic Southern accent of his. "Unlike him, portions of their bodies aren't literally made of fire."
"True that." Bella agreed.
"Sorry to interrupt." The exceedingly beautiful, even more so than the already stunning Rosalie, Volterran with long, curly, strawberry blonde hair that was apparently the leader of the unknown coven said.
"But I believe introductions are in order. I am Tanya, leader of the Denali coven." The vampiress said, nodding towards her fellow unknowns who were eyeing Bella and her children very warily. Well most of them were. One of them, a man with black hair up to his collar and a light olive cast to his pale skin, was focusing mainly on Jane.
I wonder why.
It's because he recognises me and more importantly my reputation. Jane explained through their bond as she picked up on Bella's stray thought. We used to work together in the Guard.
That's surprising. The others don't. Have you not met them before?
I have, but only briefly. Well, except for that lanky guy. He's new to the coven.
Then...
They might not fully recognise me, I both dress and carry myself very differently than I used to as part of the Guard. That's probably throwing them off. Jane offered with a mental shrug. But mainly I think it's the distraction you and the kids are to their senses.
Sounds about right.
"Might I know to whom I have the pleasure of making the acquaintance of today?" The Tanya woman said, unaware of the entire conversation that Bella and Jane had shared in the few seconds since her introduction. Though by the way she looked at Bella, she knew, or at least suspected, who she was already and the question was just formality for formality's sake.
That's a weird way of phrasing things. Yatagarasu noted the other curious part about the question.
"It's because she's translating an old formulaic first contact phrase from her native tongue." Jane explained.
"There's such things?" Bella asked, looking at Jane curiously.
She was genuinely curious of course, but mostly she was going on this tangent to throw the Denalis off a little. She wanted to see how they reacted.
Something the Cullens clearly recognised if the amused grins and exasperated eye rolls they sported in response were any indication.
"Yeah. Back when the neighbouring village or town might as well be another country, it was necessary."
"Fascinating." Bella confessed. "You must tell me more about it later, Jane."
"I will. Later." Jane reassured her with a roll of her eyes. "But for now, stop playing games with the poor Denalis and introduce us. We don't have all day."
Pouting a little at her mate for spoiling her fun, Bella returned her attention to Tanya.
"I am Bella Swan, Ninth Lord of the Council of Thirteen." Bella said with an imperious nod, before gesturing towards and introducing the rest of her present family in turn. "And most of you should know my mate, Jane Volturi. And these are three of our children, Julia, Kiyohime and Yatagarasu."
"It is a pleasure to meet you, Lady Bella." Tanya returned with a court perfect curtsy despite being dressed in jeans. "As I mentioned, I am Tanya Denali."
"The two blondes are my sisters, Kate and Irina." Tanya said, gesturing at a woman with long, pale blond hair, straight as corn silk and another with straight, chin-length, silvery blonde hair respectively, both of whom followed their leader's example and curtsied.
"And the older looking woman is my sister Carmen." Kate continued, pointing at a dark haired woman who looked like she'd been turned in her twenties before she moved on to the male members of her coven, all of whom offered her a formal bow in greeting. "The man with the long, sandy-colored hair is Garret, Kate's mate, and I presume you know Carmen's mate, Eleazar? He served for a time as a Guard alongside Jane."
"So she's informed me." Bella confirmed with a nod. "It's a pleasure to meet all of you Denalis."
"The pleasure is ours, Lady Bella." Tanya returned, causing Bella to frown.
"Please, there is no need to be so formal. Just call me Bella."
Tanya blinked in surprise at that.
"If you insist, Bella." The leader of the Denalis said cautiously as if expecting Bella to rescind her earlier statement and lash out.
"What's with that look, Denali?" Jane hissed dangerously and only a firm hand on her wife's shoulder stopped her from subjecting poor Tanya to her gift.
"I'm just surprised, Jane." Tanya said quickly, clearly knowing how close she was to being tortured. "That a Lord of the Thirteen is so relatively normal."
"Normal, Tanya?" Edward, that jerk, asked, gesturing at Bella's children incredulously.
"I did say relatively." Tanya replied with a chuckle.
"How did you even know what a Lord of the Thirteen even is? And why aren't you surprised that I'm here?" Jane asked, her eyes narrowed suspiciously.
"My coven fought in the battle against the Sapphic Circle. I got over both the shock that magic exists and that you'd ended up mated to a Lord of the Thirteen back then."
Guess Eleazar is focusing on me for my reputation then. Jane sent Bella over their bond, to which the biomancer returned with a mental nod.
"You were at the battle?" Bella asked, curiously. "I don't recall seeing you."
"Not surprising." Tanya said with a shrug. "Considering you were busy fighting by the time we arrived, I doubt you had the wherewithal to keep track of who showed up to the fight."
"I should have," Bella replied with a frown. "You were brought in by the Cullens, correct?"
"Carlisle asked for our help and since we regard them as family, we naturally joined in." Tanya confirmed with a nod.
"That means you were part of my contingent, I should have-"
"To be fair, Bella, I didn't know they were there either." Jane cut in. "And I was the one liaising with Master Aro to organise our kind's contingent in the battle."
"I guess." The Ninth Lord allowed, frowning nonetheless.
"No point being upset over the past, Bella." Esme said, offering her a motherly smile. "Just take the lesson to heart and seek to improve going forward."
Bella nodded and decided to change the topic. She could muse about her past failings another time.
"So, we saw that you're playing baseball. Can my family and I watch? I'm curious about how being Volterrans affect how you play."
The Denalis exchanged looks but no one seemed to mind, so Tanya turned to Carlisle.
"It's fine." The doctor said with a smile.
"Are you sure, Carlisle?" Tanya asked with a frown. "Wouldn't it be dangerous for Bella? What if she's hit by a stray ball? Or something else unforeseen happens?"
"Oh, don't worry so much Tanya." Kate said with a laugh. "Let the mad scientist watch, she's a mage. She can take care of herself."
The rest of the Denalis tensed in response to the potentially inflammatory nickname that Kate had given Bella. Not that it was necessary in the slightest.
"Thank you for the compliment Kate." Bella said, preening, much to Jane's amusement and the Cullens' exasperation.
"Look, are we playing or not?" Rosalie cut in, sounding annoyed. "We're wasting time. The storm isn't going to last forever."
"Right, sorry." Bella said, blushing in embarrassment. "Let us get off the field and you guys can get back to the game."
Rosalie shot her a satisfied nod before stalking over to third base where she'd been before Bella and her family had interrupted play. The others followed her lead and began moving back to their positions, whilst Bella and their kids' moved to the side.
"Jane, why don't you join in?" Bella suggested, nudging Jane's shoulder.
"Why would I want to?" Jane asked, looking adorably perplexed.
'Cos it'll be fun? Yata-kun suggested.
"I, for one, don't think hitting at a ball and running around a field is fun." Jane said with a shrug as with the sound of thunder Kate swung her bat hard into the ball Alice had pitched behind them.
"You won't know if you don't try it." Bella insisted, determined to get Jane to try to have some fun and socialise a little.
"You're not going to stop until I agree won't you?" Jane asked with a resigned sigh as Bella used her magic to encourage a couple of trees to grow their roots into a set of stands for the five of them to sit at.
"Nope~!" Bella chirped alongside her adorable kids.
"Argh! Fine then~!" Jane conceded. "The things I do for my family."
Bella and their kids just chuckled as Jane stalked back the way they'd just come, shouting at the other Volterrans as she did.
"Hey! Make a spot for me!"
"Jane! Fighto!" Bella cheered her on teasingly, earning her an annoyed scowl from her mate and tittering laughter from their kids, so it was totally worth it.
She did however make it a point to mollify Jane a little over their bond though. Humor us and I'll make it worth your while.
That's a promise I will make sure you keep, my Bella. Jane sent back as the scowl on her face faded, much to Bella's satisfaction as she and the other Volterrans began to discuss how to include Jane into the game.
Just the thought of what Jane would do to her had Bella feeling so hot and bothered that it took all the poise Dom had trained into her during her apprenticeship to keep from showing it, though if the knowing looks her three children were shooting her were any indication she'd failed miserably.
"Oh! Look guys! Jane's pitching!" Bella offered in an admittedly lame attempt at a distraction.
Thankfully, her kids had mercy on her and dutifully turned their attention to the game where Jane was indeed winding up for a pitch.
Breathing a sigh of relief at that, Bella focused her attention on the game. She really did want to see her Jane in action after all.
"Sleep well, little ones." Jane cooed to her children as she switched off the lights to their rooms. Although calling their enclosures that was more sophistry than truth. Due to her children's bestial natures, their rooms mostly resembled kennels. But calling it such was too demeaning to their little darlings so Bella and Jane refused to do so.
Her good night was met with a final round of sleepy replies from her children, something that brought a smile to lips as she gently closed the door to the darkened room where they slept.
"Now then," she said as she made her way towards the bedroom she shared with her wife. "What should I wear to get Bella all worked up later? Hmm…"
Even as she ran through her options, Jane couldn't help bemoaning how much of a workaholic her mate was. Even now she'd retreated back into her lab to continue working!
Sure, she came up with amazing things like the spell she had secretly - Or so she thought! - developed that she hoped would get her pregnant. Jane was totally looking forward to seeing if it worked. Maybe even tonight! But...
She should really learn to relax more.
"Oh, that one works." Jane thought as came to a decision on what she would wear tonight. "Time to put my plan into action."
She'd barely finished the sentence before in a burst of superhuman speed, she blurred towards the bedroom.
She had a surprise to set up.
That night, Bella stumbled into her darkened bedroom after a long session in her lab and was immediately hit by a burst of pain that sent her to her knees whilst drawing a cry of both pain and pleasure from her lips
"Like that, sweetie?" Jane's voice purred into Bella's ear from behind her, wrapping her arms around her.
"Oh yes~!" Bella purred as she turned and tried to pull her mate into a kiss but the Volterran used her vampiric speed to blur out of her reach.
Considering it let Bella see what her precious Angel of Pain was wearing, she appreciated the effort. For it was a view that made her lick her lips in anticipation.
The nightdress that Jane was sporting wasn't exactly sexy but that was fine! The white, ruffled square neck nightdress with ruffled long sleeves that she was wearing made her look adorable and that was even better! And Bella couldn't wait to get her out of it.
"You're drooling, my Bella." Jane said with a smirk.
"Oh, I know." Bella said as she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. "Can you blame me when you look so delectable?"
"Naughty, naughty Bella," Jane said as she sent another delicious burst of pain through Bella's body. "You want to do naughty things to a sweet, innocent little girl like me?"
Panting from the pain and her raging libido, Bella smirked. "Oh yes, I will, my sweet Angel of Pain. All kinds of naughty things. And you'll punish me for it, won't you, my sweet?"
Jane smirked. "Show me!"
Bella was all too glad to as she leapt at Jane, ripping her own top off at the same time. In response, Jane predictably sent another surge of pain through her body but besides eliciting a pleased moan from her, it did not even slow Bella down so used was she to her mate's wonderful pain inducing ability. Instead, powering through the burst of agony, she tackled the vampire.
Thanks to the various enhancements she'd made to herself, Bella actually managed to knock the vampire over and pull her into a possessive kiss even as she ripped the nightdress off her mate's body revealing that she was nude underneath. Jane wasn't passive though as she kissed back with deep passion and her hands hooked the waistbands of both her skirt and panties all at once and proceeded to tear them off in one swift motion.
She followed this up by intensifying the pain pouring through Bella's body causing her back to involuntarily arc as she screamed in a mix of pain and pleasure, making it easy for Jane to easily snag her bra by the strap between her cups and in a precise application of her vampiric strength, rip it off thus leaving her completely naked.
"Oh, I am so going to enjoy this!" Bella heard Jane say as she tossed her ruined bra aside with one hand even as she used the other to push her off and onto her back before she moved to straddle her. "I so enjoy making you scream."
"Make me scream more, love." Bella told her with a breathless smile as she channeled some magic to her groin, silently casting the special spell she'd developed that modified her ejaculate in anticipation of their lovemaking ahead. "And maybe I'll get you pregnant like we both want."
"Oh, I will be happy to oblige." Jane said with a smile. "And I'll hold you to that."
Charlie drove up to Bella's house after receiving an urgent call for help from his daughter, though she hadn't exactly explained why instead hanging up before he could question her and refusing to accept his follow up calls.
The whole thing was worrying. So much so that he'd dropped everything and immediately rushed to his cruiser to drive up to his daughter's house.
Now, as he drove up the driveway he was getting an idea why Bella had called for help. Jane's incoherent shouting was so loud that he was surprised that Bella's wards actually kept the noise from alerting the whole world to how upset she was.
Wonder what has got her so pissed? Charlie thought as he parked his cruiser in front of the front door and hopped out of the car, hurrying towards the house.
The door swung open and Charlie nodded distractedly to the vine creature that served as Bella's door guardian before stepping into what looked like a disaster zone.
The well appointed living room that Bella had spent days obsessing to get "just right" was a mess, with wrecked furniture and shattered knickknacks lying all over the place. At the centre of the mess was his daughter trying to futilely pacify a furious looking Jane. A very pregnant looking Jane.
"Bella, what did you do?" Charlie asked, rubbing his hand over the bridge of his nose in exasperation.
"Uh, I might have figured out a spell to get Jane pregnant?" His daughter admitted shamelessly. "I honestly don't know why Jane is so upset that I succeeded in doing so."
"You didn't tell me the pregnancy would develop so insanely quickly!" Jane shot back.
"Uh, when did you, um, conceive?" Charlie asked, morbidly curious.
"Last night," Bella said with a shrug.
Charlie glanced at Jane's stomach, which looked at least six months pregnant.
"I think you screwed up somewhere, Bells."
"Yes, I know." Bella nodded. "I probably made a mistake in my calculations."
"Mistake, Bella!? Is that all you call this!?" Jane asked, gesturing at her stomach incredulously.
"Uh, sorry." Bella said contritely. "But you really should relax. Getting so worked up isn't good for the baby."
Jane sighed and collapsed into a surprisingly still intact chair. "Fine~! But you better take care of me properly, Bella."
"I will," Bella promised. "It's why I called Dad over."
"And why did you do it, Bells?"
"Advice," Bella said honestly. "Uh, what should I do for a pregnant woman? You have experience from when Renee was pregnant with me, right?"
That's what she wanted? Charlie thought with a sigh. Bella could be so utterly hopeless sometimes.
"Okay. First-"
Done!
Hope you guys liked this little slice of life look at the lives of Mad Scientist!Bella Swan and her beloved Angel of Pain. It isn't something I normally enjoy writing much but it is a nice change of pace from what I usually write and I had fun. Hopefully you enjoy reading just as much.
That's all I have to say really, so till next time hach awi!