Bella...Cleansed and Transported

Maybe I should have been nicer to "Grandma", but her and Diana had been asking a lot of me lately. I finally had someone I loved and trusted in Alice and I wasn't exactly up to walking away from her, not right now.

I watched as the Queen and Diana continued their visual battle of wits for a few moments more. Alice kept a firm hold on my hand. She didn't say anything, but I knew she was with me on this. She didn't want us to be separated either, not forcibly, for any amount of time. My other hand went behind my back and I rubbed Alice's soft hand between my palms. She swallowed nervously, but scooted a little bit closer. I turned slightly and kissed her on her forehead. That seemed to help her relax a little. I could feel her shed a little of the tension on her shoulders.

Finally Diana and the Queen turned back to Alice and I. I guessed they'd made their decision.

"Alice can join you for one day and then you are to spend some time alone with your father before returning," the Queen declared. I turned my gaze towards Alice. She looked back at me, nodding slightly. Maybe this was the best offer we would get.

"Fine."

"Diana, Senna will perform the Cleansing and the three of you will depart." I didn't bother asking what she was talking about. Alice would tell me. Diana simply nodded and then started walking towards Alice and I. Esme was not far behind her.

"Follow me please," Diana said walking past us.

Esme caught up and laced her arm with mine, towing us along.

"Senna, Zafrina's sister, will perform what we call a Cleansing," Esme told me.

"It's sort of like a quickie baptism," Alice added with a small smile. She was so adorable. I couldn't wait to be alone with her again – for more than one reason.

"That's correct. And once you are 'Cleansed' you will be officially considered an Amazon. You will also be invincible in the moral realm."

I stopped walking.

"What?"

"Bella, you'll be one of us now, well like your Mother and the other Amazons. You'll be an immortal. You'll be invincible." I thought about this for a moment. Well tried to at least, but gave up when Alice's fingers squeezed mine. I think she was trying to tell me to take everything one step at a time. That's what I would have to do. Living for forever, being able to toss myself off tall buildings wasn't something I could really wrap my mind around. And honestly it wasn't something I wanted to think about at the moment. I had a baptism to get to.

We followed Diana through the palace to this long room, which had this kind of gigantic indoor swimming. There was a woman there, naked of course. I could only assume it was Senna. She looked exactly like Zafrina except her skin was a few shades lighter, more of a deep caramel color, where as Zafrina's was more of a milk chocolate.

I took my eyes off of her when Diana stopped at the large double doors leading into the room.

"Alice will join you. I will be waiting right here," Diana said taking Esme's hand.

"Okay." I said quietly. Being dunked in some water should't be much of a big deal. I didn't trust Diana, but I did trust Esme and of course I trusted Alice. I had nothing to be nervous about. This was just one of the many things I was going to have to deal with … today.

Alice and I walked into the room and Diana closed the double doors behind us. It was bright, like every other room in the palace. Large open archways provided a view that looked out over the whole island.

Senna walked towards Alice and I and greeted us warmly. "Good Morning Bella. I understand that you have a journey ahead of you today, so this will go rather quickly. The Cleansing itself is nothing more than a brief submersion. What may come as a shock to you is how you feel and what you see and hear when you resurface. Please do not be alarmed. Just remember that you are being reborn and all of your senses will be truly in tune with island."

"Okay," I said swallowing. Now I was nervous.

"Please undress and step into the water with me."

Alice turned to face me then. She sank to her knees and started pulling the leather straps free. When she was done she stood looking at my face. "There are animals and other creatures that we have here that you do not have on Earth. As a visitor you were unable to see them. It would have been too much, maybe." I nodded. A two headed goat or something like that wouldn't have made my first few days here any easier. "They are all very friendly, just –"

"Different," I smirked at her.

"That's right. Different." She pulled my robe off me and handed it to a younger girl who seemed to appear out of nowhere. She carried fresh white robes in her hands that I assumed were for me, and draped my blue one over her shoulder. Alice thanked her and then turned back to me.

I should have been self-conscious in front of Senna, naked with Alice like this, but for some reason I wasn't. Senna waited patiently. I think she knew that Diana was in some sort of a hurry, but she actually seemed completely happy giving Alice and I few moments to ourselves.

"I'm glad I'm allowed to come with you, even if only for a little while," Alice's hands gently swept over my body. Her left hand settled on my breast. I sighed a little and wrapped my arms around her waist, watching her. She grazed my nipple with her finger. I watched her lips and she kept her eyes focused on what her hands were doing.

"Me too" I paused, thinking that what I was about to say was very far from what I wanted to do. "Let me get this over with so we can go."

"Okay," she whispered. She gazed at my lips for a moment then gently tugged on my nipple, instantly soaking my inner thighs. My breath caught and Alice smiled, leaning in closer to kiss me. I think she really liked the affect she had on me.

We kissed for a few moments, but then I released her when I remembered that not only did we have an audience, but there was still the issue of the quantum leap to Charlie's house.

Geez he's gonna meet Alice. Another matter, entirely, to wrap my mind around.

I turned towards the pool and walked towards Senna's out stretched hand. She held onto me as I waded down a few steps into the warm, shallow water.

"Just let my arms guide you. Your body will be under no longer than ten seconds and then this part of your inception will be complete."

"Okay," I said swallowing. I turned to face Alice, who smiled slightly. She rocked a little, shifting her weight, much like she had the first moment we met. She was anxious to have me back her side I guessed. This time though, she wasn't the only one.

Senna's arms came up behind my back. Despite her delicate curves, she was incredibly strong. I was almost afraid not to bend the way her arms were willing me to.

She cradled my back and slowly brought my whole body under the water. After one brief moment, I could feel her body vibrate slightly, like she was humming or something. Unable to hear and too afraid to open my eyes, I started counting to ten. When I got to seven she brought me up out of the water. I blinked, wiping the water running off my forehead off my face.

Everything looked exactly the same.

I was kinda hoping for some weird crap to happen. Maybe there would be a dragon standing next to Alice or maybe a sphinx juggling outside the window, but nope. There wasn't anything new or usual for me to look at.

"There's nothing in here, Angel," Alice said catching the look of confusion on my face. She had taken the white robe from the girl and had a towel in her other hand.

"Go now," Senna said. "I look forward to knowing you when you return." I was starting to like her. She had a very calming aura about her and her voice was pleasant and kind.

"Thank you," I said walking out of the pool. Senna followed and began getting dressed herself. I took the towel from Alice and dried myself off. When I was done she quickly wrapped the robe around me and secured it at my waist with a golden rope belt. I was part of the team now.

As soon as the laces were tied on my sandals, Senna opened the large double doors. Diana and Esme thanked her and she was gone.

"Bella, although some of your skills will take practice to harness, now that you have been Cleansed, you have the ability to teleport," Diana said.

"Okay. Well what do I do?" She just made it sound so easy.

Just teleport Bella. All the kids are doing it. She wasn't making me warm to her with her smug attitude. I still wanted to smack her a little bit.

"Just close your eyes and envision yourself where you would like to go. I will bring Alice to Charlie's kitchen."

"Okay. One question though. What about our clothes?" Even if it was summer in Forks, togas would exactly cut it.

"Don't worry. It will be taken care of," she replied. I just nodded.

Esme dropped her hand then and went to embrace Alice who let go of my fingers.

"You just listen to Bella. Everything will be fine and I'll be right here when you get back," Esme said before kissing Alice on the forehead.

"Yes Mother," Alice whispered back. It hit me then. Clothing aside, Alice was about to go to a different universe for the first time. I had no idea how she was so calm, but she was. She actually looked a little excited.

Esme let her go and Alice walked over to Diana, and turned with her back to her. Diana wrapped her arms around Alice's chest.

"Bella you go first and Alice and I will follow. I promise you will be fine," she said

"Fine." I replied. Esme squeezed my hand for a moment then turned to look at Diana. The shared some silent exchange. I wondered how long it would be before Alice and I would no longer need words to say what we were feeling. I wondered if we would ever be the perfect Match the Esme and Diana were.

"Wait." I closed the distance between Alice and I. Diana released her and took a few steps back. I grabbed her face, looking deep into her eyes. "Just in case I get stuck in a time warp or something." I pressed my lips to hers, hard. I knew at least for Esme's sake Diana wouldn't let anything happen to Alice, but I wanted to taste her lips one more time, just in case Diana wasn't exactly right about how easy this whole teleporting thing was supposed to be. I released her against my will and looked at her face as she licked her lips, forcing her eyes to open. "Love you," I whispered.

"Love you more," she smirked at me.

"We'll see about that." I muttered back. She was unbelievably adorable.

"Bella," Diana said.

"Okay. Let's go."

"Just close your eyes and will it to be so," she said. "We'll be right behind you."

"Okay. Here goes nothing." I felt like a complete ass, but I did what Diana said. The last thing I heard was Alice giggling, probably at the face I was making at Diana.

When I opened my eyes I was standing in Charlie's kitchen - our kitchen. I looked around, a little confused.

Had I dreamt the whole thing?

I had on my regular clothes: my favorite jeans, my chucks and my favorite tattered thermal. This could be any regular Tuesday – I looked at the stove clock – any regular Tuesday Morning. Charlie would be at work. My copy of Utopia was on the table right where I had left it.

I could have totally hit my head and woken up back in my house. Alice, the island, my mother, it was all some sort of sick hallucination. That had to be it. But just as I turned to go check if my truck was where I left it I heard the unmistakable sound of Alice's laughter.

Diana and Alice came walking into the kitchen. Diana had a smile on her face and Alice was nearly doubled over in laughter. Alice looked - amazing. She had on this adorable long sleeve shirt, the typical lumber jacket plaid of red and black. Over it she wore a form fitting down vest. My eyes raked over her. The curves of her thighs were highlighted by a pair of extremely tight jeans and a pair of black, knee-high boots.

Alice was hot as hell.

Diana was wearing some jeans and a emerald green v-neck shirt and she had her hair up in a ponytail. She looked—good, I guess. If I didn't know she was my mom and that she was probably a thousand years old, we could have passed for sisters.

Damn her.

"What's so funny?" I asked, pretty relieved. I didn't want Alice and everything we'd been though to be some creation of my imagination.

"Diana brought us through - into your back woods. We scared the hell out of this squirrel." I chuckled a bit, a smile touching my lips. I'd never heard Alice laugh like that.

"Charlie wont be home before eight and I have some calls to make." My smile faded at the sound of Diana's voice. Such a buzzkill. Then I watched dumbfounded as she pulled a freaking Blackberry out of her pocket.

Of course she had calls to make. She was super royalty. I bet her mailbox was full with messages of people who were just dying to be saved. She looked up and caught me glaring at her. "Why don't you show Alice around?"

"Really? What if we run into people?" I asked.

"Just tell them who she is to you. Bella, after tomorrow time will be altered to adjust for your withdrawal from this world. Charlie will be the only human who will accurately remember what happens in the next two days."

"Oh," I said. "Oh!" Alice giggled then.

"Well, are you going to give me the grand tour of this cute little planet of yours? I promised I'll be on my best behavior" I thought for a moment. Where the hell could I take her?

Besides up to my bedroom…

Diana pulled me from my fantasy when she produced a billfold filled with hundreds.

"What the hell?" I said. I couldn't bite my tongue anymore. All that fucking cash. Had she been sending child support?

"Here," she held out several hundreds to me. "Show Alice around Forks and the take her to the mall in Port Angeles. She'll like the mall."

"I have money thanks." I might as well empty my bank account. I wouldn't have use for any sort of cash on the island. And this was the first time in my life I actually had someone to spend money on, even if it wasn't much.

"Well here, Alice you hold on to it just in case." Alice took the wad of cash, putting an end to the argument.

"I'll make dinner when I get back," I said taking Alice's hand.

"I'll handle dinner. You and Alice just have a good time," She said with a smile, for Alice.

"Fine. Come on, Baby," I said, pulling Alice towards the front door. I grabbed my bag and my phone, which were on the couch where I'd left them the last time I was here. I looked at the display on my phone.

It wasn't Tuesday.

It was Friday. Friday June 10th.

The day before the storm.

Diana wasn't lying about altering time.

"What the hell?" I muttered under my breath.

I should have showed Alice around the house, but I wanted to get away from Diana. She was driving me insane.

I closed the door behind Alice, but then I froze on the top porch step.

There next to my beat up truck was a car that I could only assume was Diana's "mortal" car. A brand new, shiny white BWM sedan. I seriously wanted to slap her.

Alice followed me to the truck and I opened the door for her, helping her into the high cab. Once I was settled behind the wheel, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.

"Bella," Alice said. I looked up to see a small smile on her perfect lips. "We don't have to go anywhere if you don't want to."

"Oh no. Al, that's not it at all. I'm just – she's just getting on my nerves."

"Well, look at it this way. You get to spend the whole day with me," she beamed.

I couldn't help but chuckle at her adorable cheeks, her cute lips. A day alone with her would more than make up for how obnoxiously perfect Diana was trying to be.

"That's true." I kissed her hand and started my engine.

Forks really wasn't much to see. I drove Alice past the high school, past the police station. She was more intrigued by the enormous moss covered trees than anything else. She listened intently as I pointed places and random people out to her. And she asked any question that popped into her head. It was like watching a little kid as the Space Museum for the first time. Her eyes were filled with awe and wonder. Alice, to her credit handled all the men walking around quiet well. I think all of her years of studying up on me had prepared her for men who weren't bound to sex and welding.

"It is very pretty here," she remarked as we drove past Old Man Cullen's place, the last house before the highway. "But it's rather different."

"Yeah. It is," I chuckled squeezing her hand.

The trip to the mall was rather pointless, seeing as how neither Alice or I couldn't take anything back to Themyscira with us, but some how Alice managed to make it fun.

I followed her from store to store as she tried on tops and dresses and shoes. God, she loved the shoes. "I bet Rosalie had a pair like these," she joked, holding up a pair of four inch, red stilettos.

To my pleasant surprise we some how ended up in Victoria's Secret. I walked around with Alice holding her hand as she picked up various items, examining them carefully. People looked at us curiously, but obviously no one said anything. There weren't exactly a lot of lesbian couples out and walking around in this "city".

"Um, why don't you wait for me outside," Alice said sweetly.

"Okay." She was up to something, but I knew it couldn't be all bad. We were in Victoria's Secret. I turned once as I was walking out to see Alice asking one of the sales ladies for help. She was so cute.

I stood for a few minutes just outside the entrance to the store. I tried to think about Alice, instead of Diana –or Charlie. What the hell was I going to say to him? How was going explain who Alice was, what she meant to me?

I stared at the Helzberg's across the way.

Maybe I could –

My thoughts were interrupted by Alice's voice, coming from inside the store. I turned to see her talking to some guy, maybe a few years older than us. He was obviously hitting on her.

"Well I'm seeing someone actually," Alice said politely. She had a small bag in her hand. "But thank you." She turned and walked towards me. The moment we made eye contact it was like she completely forgot about the guy who as just asked her out. Her face light up with a bright smile and she walked right over and kissed me.

When I opened my eyes I watched as the guy's face turned green.

"Are you okay?" I asked. It was her first real conversation with a man.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine. He wanted to take me to supper."

"I see," I chuckled. The guy was still staring. "What did you get? I'm sure we can't take anything back."

"I know, but it's for you. For tonight." She smiled, kissing me one more time. This time she slowly slipped her tongue into my mouth, then gently sucked on my bottom lip. When I opened my eyes, the guy was blinking fiercely, nearly sweating. He may not have gotten Alice's number, but we at least gave him something to visualize for the next few days. I laughed, taking in the bewildered expression.

"Okay – well come on. I wanna get you something." I towed Alice across the mall to the jewelry store. The poor guy was still staring as we walked away.

Alice was very cooperative as the sales lady sized her finger. She remained silent as I picked out and paid for a round diamond solitaire in the platinum band. It cost me almost every dollar I had.

She didn't say anything until we were back in the confines of the truck. I slid a little closer to her, nudging my body out of the path of the steering wheel.

"Bella you didn't have to spend any money on me."

I slid the small box out of the bag and pulled the ring out.

"If we were doing this my way, in my world, I would have given you this so our families and every one of our friends would know what you mean to me, they would know that I plan on spending the rest of my life with you. I don't know – how much you know about engagements and stuff, but that's what this ring means. I do love you, Alice and I want to be with you forever." It was a little anti-climatic, but I think I got my point across.

I took Alice's hand and slid the ring on her finger. She swallowed and looked up at me through her dark lashes. "I will wear this, always. Or until tomorrow morning. Whichever comes first," she giggled a little, but then grew very serious. "I wouldn't have wanted to be created for anyone else." She spoke the words slowly. Every single syllable was filled with her love for me.

She gazed at me for a second then pounced on me, crushing her lips to mine. Her hands wrapped into my hair and I shifted under her weight as she scurried to straddle my lap. The kiss grew more heated as she began grinding into my lap, moaning anxiously. I wanted her, right there and then, but something told me the parking lot of the mall was not exactly the best place to do that.

I kissed her feverishly though for a few more moments. I could feel the warmth in my pussy growing to match the heat I could feel against my stomach. I broke my lips from hers.

"It's getting late. We should get back."

"Okay," Alice pouted. "But I'll get you all to myself later tonight, right?" My stomach flipped at the idea of Alice spending the night with me in my bedroom …with me and whatever was in that Victoria's Secret bag. Finally my bed would see some action.

"Yes, Baby. Of course," I assured her. She seemed okay with that answer and slid off my lap so I could drive.

When we got back to the house we could hear Diana busy in the kitchen. Whatever she was cooking smelled great.

DAMN IT.

I flopped down in a chair and pulled Alice down in my lap.

"Diana, I didn't know you could cook," Alice said with genuine surprise. Diana winked at her before turning back to the stove. She didn't even notice Alice's ring.

Just before I was going to shoot some snide remark Diana's way, the front door opened.

"Bells?" Charlie yelled.

"In here, Dad." I replied squinting my eyes shut.

Bring on the shit storm.

I opened my eyes when I heard Charlie's heavy boots hit the tiles of the kitchen floor.

His expression was blank as he stared at the woman hovering by the stove.

"Diana," he breathed. I didn't know that tone in his voice. I pulled Alice tighter to me.

Diana didn't say anything. She just stood there biting her lip nervously, the first bit of real emotion I'd seen out of her. Then I watched in amazement as Charlie crossed the room in three long strides. Diana's hands went up to his face and his arms went around her waist.

I didn't know whether to run, or cover my eyes, or throw up, but I felt like I should react somehow. They were kissing. I mean seriously kissing. Like conjugal visit kissing. I looked up at Alice and she was just as confused.

Crap. Esme.

I couldn't even imagine what the kiss looked like to Alice. Her mother's wife, I guess, kissing someone else and a man at that.

Real smooth, Diana.

After a solid minute I cleared my throat, nudging Alice off my lap. We stood up and she took my hand. The shuffling of the chair beneath me finally caught their attention. Diana and Charlie managed to pull themselves far enough apart to acknowledge that Alice and I were still in the room.

"Oh," Charlie coughed. "Ah—Sorry Bells. I –uh take it you and Diana have been introduced?"

"Yes," I retorted.

"Yes, Charlie. Bella – knows, now," Diana told him.

"I see. Then this must be Alice."

"Yes this is Alice, my - wait what?" I blinked at Charlie. "How did you know about her?"

"I told him, Bella. I told him Alice was planned for you. Charlie has known about Alice since the day I discovered I was pregnant with you."

I blinked again, looking at the two of them, my lying, deceitful parents.

What. The. Fuck.