The first coherent thing she felt was a cold fluttering of pressure against her prominent cheekbones and the familiar warmth of the Washington sun against her skin. Once she opened her eyes fully she took a moment to realize that she wasn't back at Tony's house.

Looking to her left she was relieved to see Edward relaxing beside her with what seemed to be a dream like smile on his face.

"Morning, love." His voice was honey sweet to her ears as he moved to play with her hair slightly.

She chose not to respond and instead shut her eyes with a subtle hum, completely content to just enjoy this moment. She would've been happy to lay there for the entire day- because why not there wasn't any school- until she felt a very familiar pain in her lower stomach.

'oh no. please don't let that be what I think it is..' She thought to herself as she tried to come up with some kind of excuse to move out of Edward's arms without causing a scene.

"Um…I think I need a human moment. A very important one…" She said softly turning her head towards him.

Edward opened his eyes and she noticed they were a deep amber color. "If you're worried about what I think you are then you shouldn't be."

Morticia chuckled softly and rolled her eyes, "are we seriously being this vague about me possibly being on my period? Are we at that awkward stage of our relationship?"

You know, she had always wondered how Bella and Edward managed to make their relationship work when mother nature decided to visit…. Was Edward able to smell it? As weird as that sounds

Edward smirked and pressed a kiss into her hair, inhaling deeply. "Your scent does change slightly. It intensifies…. I'd compare it to what animals smell when a female goes into heat."

"Just as long as you don't feel the need to use my tampons for tea bags, I think we'll be alright." She chuckled at his horrified expression.

'I guess that old school propriety is still there, even if it's slightly buried.'

Morticia groaned as she sat up, immediately feeling a huge migraine coming as her cramps worsened.

'fuck. I forgot how awful they were…'

Right as she was wondering how she was going to get ibuprofen in a house full of vampires, Esme entered the room after knocking quietly.

"Sorry to barge in dear, but Carlisle thought you might be needing this."

In her hands, she was carrying a tray full of chocolate, Midol, and her specific brand of tampons.

'Never bet against Alice I guess.'

"Thank you so much Esme. I really appreciate it." She said as she took the tray from her and made her way to the bathroom.

"Oh, and Carlisle said that if you were feeling any residual pain to let him know." Esme called to her softly.

Morticia laughed as she paused in the doorway, "Oh don't tell me that, Esme. Or else I might let him baby me and that's just not fair to any other woman who has to deal with this!"

After she took care of 'business' so to speak, she came back into the room to see Edward standing by the window, staring out into the beautiful forest.

"And what are you thinking so hard about, Loverboy?" She asked as she wrapped her arms around him from behind and inhaled the scent that was purely Edward.

"Esme let me know that we are going to be having guests today and Alice is on edge."

Morticia hummed slightly, "I'm assuming she's talking about the wolves. Ugh, I guess it's time to rehash everything again… great."

Edward turned and wrapped her in his arms, "I think Fauna can explain everything quickly, it's just the wolves' reactions I worry about and with Alice's blindness when it comes to them…."

He didn't have to finish that statement, she knew he was thinking about her 'accident'.

"Let's just try to get through today, ok? Then we worry about tomorrow? How does that sound?"

She could feel a rumble in his chest that sounded like a purr before he responded, "I think that sounds amazing, love…. if only we were able to enjoy longer moments together hmmm? That's selfish of me to ask."

"No, it really isn't. This whole situation hasn't been fair to you. We haven't been able to spend any quality time together since this mess started, but I promise to spend some quality time together soon. I'll even pinky promise you." She held up her pink with a smirk and laughed when he locked his pinky with hers, giving her a mock growl as he kissed them.

"Now that is a wager I plan to hold you accountable."

Morticia smiled at his serious tone before releasing his pinky and throwing her arms around his neck. She had to stretch onto her tip toes since she wasn't wearing her platforms to kiss him, but he was ever the gentleman and bent down slightly to meet her lips.

They kissed softly until Edward let out a deep purr which made Morticia giggle and gave him the opportunity to deepen the kiss while dragging her up into his arms. She would've been happy to hang off him like a Christmas ornament but Alice seemingly had other plans.

"Quit making out with my brother and get your lazy butt downstairs, Morticia" The tiny vampire called through the door.

Morticia reluctantly pulled away from his enticing lips with a groan of annoyance. "I swear if she makes this a routine…" She trailed off as Edward set her on her feet.

"I'd rather not think of what punishment she'll fit us with if we don't follow her orders."

She rolled her eyes at his wise answer before stomping over to the door to give the little pixie vamp a piece of her mind. Could you really blame her though? She was on her period and she had a sexy vampire to take care of her- that should automatically be a universal 'do not disturb.'

Although, when she opened the door she was unsurprised to find the vampire gone but in her place, was a pile of clothes with a note on top- written in beautiful cursive and addressed to her.

'Morticia,

I know you haven't had a chance to move a bunch of your wardrobe over here yet, but I thought this outfit was perfect for you! I know you'll try to refuse but give it a rest- I've already seen you wear it and Edward's reaction. Think of it like an early birthday present.

Love, Alice

p.s you'll want to wear the shoes I packed with this- NOT your ghastly Doc Martens.

'hey don't hate on my docs' She thought before she read the final line.

p.p.s, Yes I hate your Docs, but many people can't pull them off- but somehow you make it work. '

Morticia shook her head with amusement as she threw the note Edward's way. With exceptional speed, he intercepted it out of the air and had already finished reading it by the time she turned back around from setting her package on the bed.

"I am quite intrigued to see what she picked for you. Alice has been quite…secretive when it comes to her thoughts related to you."

Morticia looked down at the items Alice sent her in confusion. It didn't follow her usual color scheme at all. Where she would usually choose…. well anything black, Alice picked out a deep violet purple long sleeved peasant style dress that was nearly floor length. Definitely not what she would choose herself for a day look- but she wasn't going to make the mistake of betting against Alice.

She turned to look at Edward with an amused grin, "Well I'm happy she doesn't tell you every time she gets a glimpse of me in one of her visions. If you haven't noticed us girls like our privacy sometimes." With a quick wink, she turned to go change in the bathroom and to add some killer dramatic winged eyeliner to this look.

Alice may be able to dictate wardrobe choices, but no one would tell Morticia Addams to stop doing her signature dagger wings- they were her staple, besides her docs.

Just as she was finishing her lipstick, Edward knocked on the door and poked his head in.

She gave him a look in the mirror, "Is this the part where you subtly tell me to hurry because I spent too long making sure my eyeliner was perfect and now Alice is annoying the rest of the family because she thinks I'm cutting it WAY too close?"

Edward smiled as he fully stepped into the room and watched as she finished the last coat of her deep ebony lipstick.

"You are very close. That is likely what Alice would do, especially if it were before a school dance or another event."

Morticia gave herself a nod in the mirror for her spot-on intuition when a thought struck her.

'Dance…dresses… Bella in Port Angeles…FUCK.'

"Edward… when is the next school dance?" Her spine straightened and her tone fell flat as she turned to look at him.

Edward looked confused at her mood change but answered her anyway. "Um, I think it's next weekend? Possibly sooner. I'm not the best one to ask as I rarely ever attend them. Alice would be better to ask, love. Why the sudden interest? Do you want-"

Morticia cut him off as she all but bolted out of the bathroom and threw on her shoes in a rush.

'Fuck Alice stole my Docs while I was getting ready. Damn, I don't know if I can fuck up those guys in heels. Shit.'

She ran down the stairs and refused to acknowledge the others confused glances. The wolves hadn't arrived yet, thankfully.

"Alice please tell me the next dance is months away and not next weekend!"

Alice looked surprised and shocked," Oh, I didn't think you were into dances. Um, there's one coming up next weekend! Just enough time-"

Morticia stopped listening after she confirmed her fears. She had to help Bella. Yeah, sure, she may not be the girl's biggest fan but she couldn't let those assholes get ahold of her and with her out of commission her timeline was all fucked. Damnit, she should've had time to prepare.

Taking a deep, shaky breath she grabbed Edward's keys out of the bowl by the door and rushed out the door.

"There's no time to explain Alice but you need to look into Bella Swan's future right now!" She called as she ran to Edward's car and hurried to start it. Before she pulled out of the driveway she saw Edward standing outside on the front steps with a confused look on his face.

She knew the moment Alice showed him Bella's future as his face morphed into one of pure horror and she could tell she needed to book it or else he would follow her- and she didn't need the distraction.

'I love you, trust me' She mouthed as she backed out of the drive way and sped away.

Thank god Edward's car had a GPS in it- one that was able to look up dress shops in Port Angeles. It showed a handful of results but thankfully they were all in close proximity to each other so she just picked one in the middle.

She sped down the road as fast as she felt comfortable without getting a ticket. That one would be hard to explain to Tony. 'Hey Uncle Tony, sorry I was speeding, I was trying to save one of my schoolmates from being gang raped in an alley- forgive me?'

It wasn't long before she made it into town and found a suitable parking spot. Just as she was trying to pick a place to start looking, she noticed Bella's figure in the store window across the street.

'Well that was easy.'

It appeared that she wasn't the only one that noticed as the guys she had been expecting moved into her vision and began to pester the girls by knocking on the window.

When the girls blew them off she noticed they immediately went in search of a liquor store and the aspect made her scoff.

'how typical for men of their class. Tactless fools, the lot of them.'

She threw on a happy smile as she strutted across the street, prepared to greet Bella and her friends. Fate was not on her side so it seemed because as soon as she was close to the door, she heard a voice cat call to her, "Woo-wee. Damn girl, why don't you come hang out with me for a bit… I'll make sure you feel real nice."

There was one boy that had hung back from the group and had turned back to see her crossing the street. Great.

Not one to back down to such a lovely compliment, she channeled all her bitchiness that she could, threw her hair back over her shoulder and stated bluntly, "Keep dreaming, loser. The only woman who would touch you requires payment up front."

The boys 'oooh' as she opened the shop door and headed inside, not noticing the boy's menacing stare at her back as she entered.

Morticia quickly dodged the perky sales associated who assumed she had money to burn based on how she was dressed and made her way to where Bella was seated. Angela and Jessica were in the changing rooms so that made things a tad easier.

Trying not to be suspicious she acted like she was browsing the racks when she heard Bella's timid voice ask, "M-Morticia? Is that you?"

She turned to the girl in schooled surprise," Bella! I thought that was you but I wasn't sure! What a coincidence I run into you here?!"

Bella looked the woman up and down in astonishment, enough to where it made Morticia curse Alice's extravagant nature. This would be so much easier if she wasn't wearing a dress that probably cost more than this entire store combined, not including the shoes.

"Um… wow, you look incredible. I- mean you always look amazing, It's just I've never seen you not in…"Bella finished dumbly and started playing with her hair.

'poor girl. We really must work on that confidence.'

Morticia chuckled and did a slight spin, "You've never seen me no wearing all black? It's alright, you can say it. I have an aesthetic that is unique to this town. You can blame Edward's sister Alice for the change in wardrobe…. early birthday present."

"Oh, when was your birthday?" Bella asked as she gathered her things and made to stand.

"Alice is a bit of an overachiever. My birthday isn't until October 13th." She replied rolling her eyes in mock annoyance.

Bella's eyes widened slightly, "wow. But that's coming up soon isn't it. It's the weekend after the school dance, isn't it?"

Mortcia nodded, "Yeah. Sorry, my days have been messed up since…ya know." She gestured to her now fully healed shoulder.

Bella nodded empathetically, "Right. The accident. How are you doing with that by the way? I noticed that you aren't wearing your brace or any bandages."

'Damn this girl is too conservative for her own good.'

"oh, yeah, Carlisle said that on weekends I can give it a breather since I'm not doing any 'strenuous' activity like I would be at school. I just thought it would be a good idea to get out of the house away from everything for a bit."

Bella looked down at her shoes awkwardly, "Um yeah. I stopped by your house yesterday to ask you what you wanted to do about the English project but your uncle said you were staying over at the Cullens, so…."

Mortcia groaned at Tony's unknowing interference. "Yeah, I wanted to spend some quality time with Edward, you know? We hadn't seen each other hardly at all since my accident and I think we needed some bonding time."

'Bonding time that we probably will never get since I'm having to save you and then get a HUGE lecture later.'

"That's right, you and Edward are t-together. That's great. Awesome."

Her tone held slight resentment which Morticia expected. She knew there was still a part of Bella that would always be attracted to Edward and vice versa but she knew that Bella wasn't mean enough to try to impose her feelings onto a happy couple. She was too selfless for that and it made Morticia's heart warm for the girl.

She was saved from giving a response when Jessica and Angela returned from the changing rooms in their normal clothes.

They were both shocked to see her standing there talking to Bella.

"Oh, wow. Morticia! I didn't expect you here? And where did you get that gorgeous dress?" Jessica's jealousy permeated the atmosphere and it made her grimace.

"Oh this? Alice decided to add some color to my wardrobe. Terribly horrid I think. Black is such a sleek color and to supplement it with anything less would just be inhumane."

The look on Jessica's face was priceless. Morticia was sure if she flushed anymore her face would look like face paint instead of skin.

Angela was the only one of the two to have a genuine heart and gave her a charming smile. "I think that color looks lovely on you Morticia. It really brings out your eyes….did you get contacts?"

'fuck I forgot about my eyes.'

"Yes actually I did. Turns out that sometime during my accident a stray piece of debris got into my eye and I had to have it removed but when that happened the doctor prescribed special contact lenses to help my eye to heal. He let me choose from all sorts of colors but Edward said he liked these ones the best."

'Ha. Shove it Stanley.'

Angela looked worried and Jessica's mouth turned into a frown. Deciding there was nothing more to say, she turned back to Bella.

"I noticed you are an avid book reader, is that right?" at her nod she continued, "Marvelous, I was wanting to check out this bookshop that had some history on witchcraft but only one shop has it and I am too afraid to go alone. Would you care to go with me?"

Morticia knew Bella would never let up on going to that book shop to read up on the Cullens so why not join her to make sure she doesn't get herself into even more trouble?

"Oh, that's actually perfect. Bella was just saying how she wanted to check out a book store on the edge of town. I'm sure that's the one you're talking about, Morticia." Angela said sweetly as she gathered her things from beside Bella's bags.

"Um, yeah that's pretty p-perfect. Thanks."

Morticia clapped her hands gently, "well, since this all worked out, Bella would you care if I drove? Edward loaned me his baby for today and I'd rather not get her towed."

"Actually, Bella rode with us so that works out great." Jessica pithed in from beside Angela.

She smiled as she girls said their goodbyes and the two made their way to Edward's Volvo. Morticia made sure to check her surroundings as they went but she didn't see any of those creeps around, or her vampires for that matter.

'Alice must be keeping them back because she's worried about Bella finding out…. hmm'

The two girls drove in silence, which was quite extensive as the bookstore Bella wanted to go to was way longer than walking distance. How that girl made it that far without being caught up in something dangerous, she'd never know.

As soon as they made it to the bookshop Morticia noticed the dark clouds rolling in. They didn't appear to be storm clouds but their ominous appearance set her on edge- more so than she already was.

Bella sent little time in the store as she found the title she had been looking for very very quickly. Almost as if she had researched exactly which book she needed….

As the two made their way back towards the car Morticia immediately knew they were being followed. The hairs on the back of her neck were tingling and her stomach tightened.

"Bella. When I say run, you run." She whispered to the brunette girl as they were approached by four familiar hoodlums.

"Ah, looky here boys. It's those pretty girls from the dress store." The leader called to them as the others attempted to circle them to lock them in.

"I think you mean the pretty one and the bitch." The one she insulted sniped as he entered her personal space.

"If you don't back the fuck up, I'll show you just how bitchy I can be." Morticia growled as she moved to cover Bella with her body.

"I think we're gonna have some fun with this one boys…she's feisty. I call first dibs." The leader said as he stalked towards them.

"Bella run now. RUN NOW." Morticia instructed with a slight push. She didn't have time to worry about Bella's lack of coordination as she had the leader's full attention.

There was something in the way he was looking at her that made her blood boil and her skin to vibrate. She knew what he was thinking and she wanted to rip him to pieces.

Before she knew what she was doing she had the leader pressed up against the brick wall with her hand around his neck in a choking grip. The other boys jumped back alarmed at her sudden movement.

Morticia snarled at the boy in her grip as he struggled to breath, his face was already turning an alarming shade of purple.

"What kind of fun were you envisioning, hmmm? Was this what you had in mind?" She was practically spitting in anger.

The other boys attempted to scatter but she couldn't have that. She quickly dropped leader boy and using a speed she didn't know she had she flashed in front of the other three.

"Now where are you boys off to? I thought this was a party? Are we not having fun?" She back slapped one boy so hard that he flew a good six feet away and landed on his back unconscious.

The final two stared at her in amazement.

"Now…who's next?" She said calmly as she flipped her hair over her shoulder. The boys looked at each other before pointing at their counterpart.

"Awe now that's a shame. I was really looking forward to some one-on-one. Oh, well I guess two birds, one stone works just fine." She retorted as she sashayed up to them and in one move crashed their heads together, easily rendering them unconscious blobs.

Turning back to the leader, she noticed he was trying his best to crawl away. Oh no that won't do.

"Where do you think, you're going, sweetie?" She asked as she stood over him. He looked up at her in alarm and tried to crawl faster.

She easily picked him up and threw him up against the wall again. Noticing the fear in his eyes made her smile. That's more like it.

"We weren't finished with our chat, sweetie. Now listen very closely…" She stared deeply into his eyes and focused all of her 'power' into controlling his every move.

"You are going to collect your boys and the four of you are going to head to the nearest police station and confess to all of the horrible things we both know you all have committed. Also, you will not remember me or the girl I was with. You all got really drunk and decided to confess, end of story."

The boy's eyes got very glassy as he basically repeated exactly what she said.

'Woah, do I have compulsion?'

She dropped him with a flourish and made it a move to step over his crumpled body as she searched for Bella. The brunette woman couldn't have gotten far, and she was proven right. As soon as she turned the next corner, Emmett's jeep came speeding towards her and Edward's Volvo was soon behind it.

In a flash the entire family was in front of her, all of them concerned but Edward looked down right pissed. Bella was there too, looking very uncomfortable as she stood next to Fauna and Alice.

"Alright before I get some massive lecture, can we please give me validation for whooping four annoying guy's asses. I think that deserves some credit, right?!" She smiled brightly but it fell as she noticed the shocked looks on everyone's faces.

"What? What is it? Oh, come on. Seriously! I'm fine! Carlisle can even check me out later- I promise!"

The others still hadn't said a word and it was Bella who broke the silence.

"I don't think that's what they're freaking out over, Morticia… You- uh….you kind of…have fangs?"

Morticia stumbled back startled, "Bella I think you might have hit your head, dear, because I would know if I suddenly grew f-" As she was talking her tongue brushed up against something very pointy in her mouth- something that was very much not there thirty minutes ago.

She quickly ran over to the nearest car mirror and screamed when she saw the tiny yet very sharp new additions to her mouth.

"and she can flash around like us now too?" Emmett called out as she ran her fingers over her new fangs in astonishment. How the hell was she supposed to hide these? AND WHY DIDN'T FAUNA WARN HER?!

She turned to the fae in question with a very annoyed glare. Fauna was fidgeting slightly and refused to meet her eyes.

'She's hiding something.'

Morticia flashed in front of Fauna, startling both the brunettes and flashed her fangs in anger.

"You better tell me everything right now, pixie. Or I swear there will be blood spilled on these streets and I don't care who sees."

Fauna hesitated and her eyes shifted to everyone present before they finally settled on her.

"why don't we-"

"No Fauna! You are going to explain everything right here right now. I'm tired of playing games with you. I deserve to know whatever it is that you're hiding."

Screw the face that Bella was here. She was bound to find out eventually.

The brunette fae took a moment before shakily replying, "When I told you that you were fae…that was not a lie, just not the entire truth. You are fae, but only half. Your mother was fae royalty, but your father…"

"What?! Tell me!" Morticia snarled as she moved closer to Fauna who sighed, "A vampire. Your father was a vampire…. which makes you a hybrid."

Morticia stepped back from the woman in shock, she looked to the others who looked just as confused as she was.

A hybrid? Seriously? What was this 'the Vampire Diaries?'

Before she had time to process anything the first words that came out of her mouth were, "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?" before she proceeded to punch a hole in the nearest brick wall.