They'd talked for a while longer before Kate had walked Bella back to her dorm building. Bella had told her that wasn't necessary, and Kate had just shot her a look and walked her anyway. She hadn't let go of the human's hand since she'd grabbed it while she was pacing, and Bella didn't really want her to.

As they approached Bella's dorm building, the human noticed that Kate slowed down almost to a dragging pace. She played along for a moment before turning her face towards the vampire and seeing her looking away with a smirk on her face.

"What are you doing?" Bella finally asked and Kate just shrugged. Bella raised an eyebrow, and for the first time in her life, she saw a vampire pout, "Wow, that thing is powerful," She said as she felt her heart tug at the sight.

"Good to know," Kate said playfully and Bella rolled her eyes in response, "I was trying to slow you down because I'm not ever too keen on leaving you," Kate admitted and Bella smiled up at her. She couldn't help the smile that took over her face at that confession.

"You could have just said so. I'm too wired to sleep right now anyway. Another lap around campus isn't going to hurt me," She teased and Kate's face broke into a wide smile.

"Yeah?" She asked excitedly.

"Yeah."

0~0~0

Practice the next day went much better. Bella finally felt like herself again and her nose was officially back to its normal color. Kate was also her normal, happy self once again as well. The rest of the girls were in much better moods being that their coach was also. They'd all even happily done their speed drills and ran until Kate took pity on them.

"I wonder who peed in her cheerios yesterday," JP whispered as she stretched next to Bella after they had run. They were about to go over plays and drills and had been instructed to get loose. Bella bit her lip, knowing full well that Kate could hear her.

"She seems more like a Wheaties girl," Bella said with a shrug and definitely skirted around answering JP. She heard a laugh from somewhere behind them and smirked knowing that it was Kate.

Bella pushed up out of her leg stretch by doing a press handstand, and when she was upright again, she'd earned open-mouthed stares from most of her team as well as an admiring stare from her coach, "What?" She asked.

"What the hell, La-La?" Minnie asked, "That was some Wonder Woman shit," She added and Bella just laughed and shrugged in response. "What next? Gonna back flip onto the field?

Bella pursed her lips in thought before readying herself to do just that, "Ah, ah, ah," Came Kate's voice and Bella stopped before throwing her weight backwards, "No one is going to hurt themselves before this week's game," She said and threw a look at Bella, though it held no heat directed towards the human, "Even if they are Wonder Woman," She added with a wink as the girls started onto the field.

0~0~0

"Back flip, La-La!" Bella looked up from her water bottle with a confused look on her face. They'd just won their game and were all drenched in sweat. "CK said no one is going to hurt themselves before this week's game. It's over," Minnie said with a smirk and Bella laughed. She caught Kate's eye and the vampire just shot her a shrug.

"Am I free to go shower after?" Bella asked with a laugh and the girls all crowded around. She glanced behind her to make sure no one was on the field before arching forward and then throwing her body weight backwards in a perfect back flip. She flipped four times across the field and ended on the other side in a round off back hand spring. She landed perfectly and found her bearings again before jogging back across the field to her shocked teammates.

"What the hell?" Was asked from someone on the team before everyone was requesting lessons in handstands and gymnastics. She picked her water bottle back up and shouldered her bag as everyone started to leave.

This week had been like nothing she'd ever expected. After she and Kate had talked, they'd spent more time together and talked a lot more too. Bella was constantly texting the vampire and Kate would call her at night to talk on the phone. The vampire would sneakily grab Bella's hand in her own when they walked back to her dorm after practice and Bella knew that she never wanted the giddy feeling that followed to fade away.

"Would you do me a huge favor and make sure I turned my light off this morning?" JP asked and Bella looked up and nodded with a confused look on her face, "I'll be out of town tonight and tomorrow and I can't remember if I turned it off or not," She said with a look of concentration on her face as she tried to think back. Bella just laughed and nodded in more understanding now, "Thanks, you're the best!"

They all split up and Bella was looking down at her phone as she slowly made her way away from the field. She felt someone step up beside her before her bag was being lifted off of her shoulder. She looked up and the corner of her mouth turned up at the sight of Kate carrying her bag and smiling widely at her

"It's not that heavy, you know? I could carry it," Bella said playfully as she replied to the text she'd gotten before Kate had walked up.

"I have no doubts in any ability that you claim to possess anymore after that little show you put on back there," She jerked her thumb over her shoulder towards the field, "But," She said as she reached and grabbed Bella's hand in her own, "You don't have to," She finished with a smile in Bella's direction.

The human just shot her a grin in response and shook her head good naturedly. They chatted idly as they walked and finally approached Bella's dorm building. The human took her bag back, shouldered it, and leaned up on her toes to press her lips to Kate's cheek in thanks before even thinking about what she had just done.

She turned right after and made her way into her building like that was what she had been planning the whole time. It totally wasn't like her heart was pounding and the butterflies in her stomach were fluttering out of control anyway.