28
BLOOD AND TRUST
Everything was back to normal as school started and I became involved with Jenny's school and her activities, which included her taking ballet at a local studio; she was very smart and did exceptionally well at school, this was probably due to the interest her two papas and myself took in her schooling. She picked up Italian very quickly and was very athletic; the Child Protective Services were impressed at how well she was doing despite her previous history, they told us her mother wasn't improving but wouldn't relinquish custody of her to us permanently, Jenny rarely spoke of her mother and her previous life even though we encouraged her to vent.
Jenny was proud of her new family and I often went to show and tell with the twins while she told the class how much she loved us; the teacher couldn't believe how young I was to have three children and she also realized soon how smart the twins were.
The Cullen's moved near us and they did their grandparent duties or aunt and uncle duties in fact they spent a great deal of time with the children, we had birthdays and Christmas together usually at the Cullen house and we would visit them regularly too especially on the weekends. I kept in touch with Jacob and his growing family and my parents, we sent photographs of our children and they were amazed how fast the twins were growing; I was too, for every human year they grew two years and so by their first birthday they were developed into two year olds and mentally they were even more developed. I realized that my son was growing a little too fast for my liking and I finally approached Aro again.
"Isabella nothing has changed from we last discussed this, do you trust me?" he asked.
"Yes of course I trust you but I don't want to do this," I said.
"Is there anything you would not do for me, Cara?" he asked.
"No Aro," I said.
"But you won't do this?" he questioned.
"I will if you make me," I said.
"Why do I have to make you do something which is acceptable in our world, Isabella?" he asked, "There are many things which you will eventually be expected to do, over which I have absolutely very little control and these things have everything to do with sexuality; these things you will do, this is not Forks and you are very prominently married to me. The Cullen's kept their women sheltered in small towns but now you all live in a very prominently dominant vampire area where the rules are vampire rules and you will do things you would never have dreamed of doing, even in your wildest dreams; these are not human rules, they are in many cases the opposite of moral issues you are familiar with, if you trust me you will eventually enjoy being a vampire woman but you must trust me. Would you trust me if I made you drink human blood, that I had a reason for wanting that? He ended.
"Yes I would," I said.
He looked amused.
"Humor me then," he said.
He took me upstairs to the tower room and then called Vicente.
"Bring me the human and also I need an empty wine glass as well as some water to rinse out my mouth because Isabella is here with me," he told him over the phone.
Soon Vicente came with the water and the empty wine glass which he set down and then he showed the woman inside the room.
"Why do you have another woman here too," the victim wanted to know.
"She's my wife and I want her here with me," Aro said.
He pulled me close to him and called the woman to come to him.
"Bring the wine glass Cara," he ordered.
When I brought the glass he had already mesmerized the woman, he took the glass from me then bit her on the neck; he collected some of the blood into the glass before satisfying himself and when the woman lay dead he came to me.
"I want you to drink this," he said offering me the glass.
I took the glass and raised it to my lips, I would have drunk the blood but the smell made me dizzy and I passed out.
When I came to I was in bed in our apartment and Carlisle was looking at me.
"What happened?" I said.
"The blood affected you more than I realized," Aro said. "I'm sorry to have done this to you; I didn't think you would drink it."
"You told me to," I said weakly.
"Well you just earned yourself some time in bed young lady," Carlisle said, "Now you will do as I tell you.
"Ok," I said as I drifted out again.
I drifted in and out for a few days but I was very weak and couldn't get out of bed. Edward had brought me home and he took the twins out hunting so they hardly needed me any more; gradually I improved and by the twins birthday I was well enough to sit out of bed and watch them receive their very own pony, I felt their papas indulged them too much but I wasn't allowed to complain about that so I just laughed at their reaction along with everyone else.
Soon after that I was allowed to go back and forth to and from the castle as before but not to work, I would just bring the twins to see their papa, he would want to see me and I him.
We would spend time in our apartment making love, Aro was enthralled that I would even drink blood at his request and knew how much I loved him but couldn't understand why I was unwilling to accept that my son would one day be my lover.
Little Aro had a great affection for me but Carlotta, although she loved me, she didn't hang around me as much and she and Jenny became good friends; Little Aro still wanted to breast feed and his father encouraged it.
"I like it too," his papa said, "So as long as it's available, we'll both enjoy it."
The twins were very intelligent and Little Aro was very protective of me but he would also make sure I did exactly what his papa wanted or he would tell his papa and I would have to explain myself.
Probably the reason I continued to produce breast 'milk' was because both Aro and Edward liked the taste and would enjoy me during our love making.
"It's an aphrodisiac," Aro said.
The work at the castle was difficult for me, but Aro was very patient and helped me do what was needed of me.
"Isabella, you're doing your best and that's all I expect of you so don't worry, if you make a mistake, I'll assist you to straighten it out and you'll see how easy it will become," he told me.
I loved him more and more as I did Edward and I knew I could never live without either of them, our love making was wonderful and very satisfying for the three of us; who would ever have thought I could be happy with two men but I was ecstatically so.
I would often wear a hip skirt and a soft tube top bra when I came to see Aro and the skirt would usually have buttons down the front which were mostly undone, the castle inmates were used to seeing me dressed that way and often my breasts had been bare when I had breast fed the twins. Now Aro would often greet me at the front door of the castle and pull down the tube top off my breasts.
"Why cover up what's beautiful?" he would ask.
I didn't have an answer which would please him so I allowed him to do what he felt was best, the tube top would come up when I left the castle.
"Papa not like you do that mama," Little Aro said, "You too beautiful to cover up."
"I'll take it off when we get home, I promise," I said.
My son always made sure I kept my promise.
"It looks like you have another spy," Alice told me one day.
"Yes he makes me do exactly what Aro wants," I said.
I continued with my home studies while Edward continued at the Italian university and I missed him when he was gone but the weekends were great, the weekends we didn't go hunting, were Jenny's weekends and we did things as a family which sometimes included traveling to Forks to see Jacob and even Charlie; we enjoyed getting to know Jacob's family and he enjoyed our children. I found that the more I connected with Charlie; he didn't think me different except I was still young looking, even though by now I was twenty years old by human years. He was still leery of Edward and had a hard time believing I had married another man who I loved along with Edward; he hadn't met Aro yet but I knew it was inevitable.
We went to La Push one weekend and spent time with the wolves and their families, the children enjoyed all the stories and loved to play with Jacob and Michele's son who was approximately the same age as the twins but looked much younger; Michele was pregnant again and I found myself envying her, I loved my children and would have liked to have a more human pregnancy but of course it couldn't happen, I was a little depressed when we went back to the Cullen home later.
"What's wrong Bella?" Edward wondered.
"Oh I'm just being maternal, Edward, my children are growing up and I'm in the 'I want another baby' mode; it's just silly I'll get over it," I told him.
"It isn't silly and things are never impossible but in the mean time we'll just enjoy what we have, ok love," he said.
"I love you Edward and I do enjoy what we have, I don't want to go through another pregnancy as before and I'll be fine when we get home, I promise."
When we arrived home I still couldn't get the maternal feeling out of me and I spoke to Rosalie.
"I don't understand what's wrong with me, I suddenly want to be pregnant like Michele and I know I can't," I said.
"You'll probably continue to feel that way," Rosalie said, "You at least have three children."
Alice had a twinkle in her eye with a knowing look.
"You never know what life brings even to vampires and I predict something good will happen in the near future," she said.
"As in a tall dark handsome stranger, who has the power to make me pregnant," I said laughing.
"Did you have a vision again?" she wondered.
"Something like that," I said, "But it won't happen because I won't allow another man near me."
"If you say so," she said knowingly.
On the weekends that the Cullen's went hunting, I usually elected to stay home with Jenny and Aro would stay with us, we would do quiet activities or Aro would teach Jenny things; she loved Aro and always listened to him carefully, he actually had much to teach both of us.
"If I were to sleep with another man, would you mind?" I asked Aro one night when we were in bed.
"What brings this up?" he asked.
"I had a vision about a tall dark handsome stranger," I said.
"I would have to approve anyone you slept with," he said.
"You mean you would allow me to sleep with other men?" I asked.
"Does that bother you?"
"Just a little," I said.
He kissed me.
"You would do anything I asked you to?" he wondered.
"You know I would, Aro," I said.
His lips came down to my breasts and I sighed, my hands held him to me, our conversation ceased while we made love.
"Aro, the question…," I began later.
"What question Isabella?" he said.
He was kissing me all over again.
"I love you Isabella,"
"I love you too Aro,"
"Enough to do what ever I ask?" he asked.
"I told you I would," I said.
"Then why are you concerned? If things change from what they are, I'll tell you," he said.
"I don't want things to change, I only want you and Edward," I persisted.
"Isabella, you are such a child, when you were human did things change which were beyond your control?" he asked me.
"I suppose," I admitted.
"Change happens and it's not always for the best, you've been fortunate in that all the change you've encountered has been positive but our existence is long and we have to accept things which are not always what we desire; we have to learn to live with change, positive or not, rules are to be adhered to whether they're human or vampire. I'll make your transition as easy as I can but you chose to be a vampire and now you must live as one; if I tell you to sleep with other men, you will and it will be because I have no control on what the rules are, I didn't make the rules, I can only decide with whom you will sleep." he instructed me.
"Will Edward mind?" I asked.
"Edward accepts the rules, he didn't expect your lives to be this way, he thought life would go on as in Forks or Dartmouth but he was the one who introduced you to me inadvertently, now he's willing to accept change and will comply with whatever the rules state; you will too young lady, I will insist on it," he said.
"Will you at least tell me what rules I must obey?" I asked.
"I told you what will happen with our son and all it did was create worry to your pretty little head, why would I want to cause more worry to you? You will be informed as the scenario arises."
He kissed me.
"But…," I started to say.
"I'm done with that subject, all I want to do just now is love you but don't approach me on that same subject again or I will be angry; now submit to me please, my time with you is important," he spoke with finality.
"Yes Aro," I spoke with a big sigh.
I resigned myself to his love making and soon became as passionate as he, I was very satisfied with his love making but not with the change I must encounter and I had many unanswered questions in my mind; all I knew was that I must trust him, he would guide me through my existence and I would comply because neither of us had any choice, I chose to be a vampire and I would be the best I could be.