You all are just darling dears what with the reviews, putting this story as a favorite. I bow to all of you for gracing this story so sweetly. Now for the mundane part…
Disclaimer: All Twilight characters belong to Stephanie Meyers, while I'm just teasing and bending them for a bit. No profit is being collected from the fiction contained within.
The storyline and non-Twilight characters are my creative fault and mine alone.
This storyline has women loving women, oh my, "Danger! Will Robinson Danger!" If this kind of love scares you, well darling turn around and go back the other way.
All boo boos, snafus and misdeeds within the story are all mine and mine alone.
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The snicker that had escaped Alice lips at the Cullen's reaction to Gabriella's comment had broken into giggles when the three had reached the Porsche and continued after the three had entered Bella's house. It wasn't hard to figure out that the laughter was a way to release the stress she was feeling, to decompress from the emotional battering. She felt like had been trapped in a warped game of badminton and her emotions had been the damn shuttlecock. Elation, whap…anger whap…happiness, whap…furor, whap and on and on, back and forth until all she wanted to do was sob but thanks to Gabriella she ended up laughing instead.
Finally after her laughter had subsided and Alice though emotionally fatigued was feeling less tattered then when she left the Cullen's house. There was so much for her to process but for the time being Alice only wanted to connect with Bella, who at the moment was on the phone with her father.
While Bella talked to her father on the phone, Alice watched the young woman glide back and forth, transfixed by the creature in front of her.
'She moves with such grace so different from the flashes of memories I have of her.' A soft smile touching her lips, 'and not so shy, definitely more beautiful, which is to be expected considering how lovely she was as a human.'
"He's on his way home," Bella said plopping herself self on the couch next to Alice after she hung up the phone.
"Don't worry," the pixie began taking hold of her hand. "He'll sputter a bit but in the end your dad will allow us to stay."
"You had a vision."
"Yes," nodding causing her spikes to wave around a bit. "Just a quick one," emphasizing the point by leaving about a quarter inch of air between her index finger and thumb.
The musical laughter that erupted from Bella, stole Alice's nonexistent breath away, she was damn sure is she was human her heart would be beating double time with pleasure.
"Alice, I know you don't remember me, but I've missed you sooo much."
Hearing the catch in the girls voice made the little pixie grab her hand and squeeze it, "but I did remember you. Perhaps not your name or any specific events but always flashes of you. Some were sweetly simple you sitting on a bed or treading carefully in the woods as if you were worried of tripping and others I admit were chaotic and I really couldn't make sense of them."
"I was rather klutzy as a human and in fact I wasn't much better as a newborn," Bella answered with a smile tugging at her lips. "Poor Jacob," shaking her head lightly. "He had his hands full with me for the first few months."
"He's the wolf."
"Yes and my best friend, well besides you," stroking the small hand with her thumb. "The first time we met, you came up to me, kissed my cheek and said we were going to be best friends. Edward wasn't pleased by your actions."
"From what I learned, I can't imagine he was," she replied softly. "But it sounds like I didn't care what he thought."
"No," giggling slightly. "You, my pixie, were a force of nature when came to getting your way."
"And still is," Gabriella chuckled as she stepped into the living room from the kitchen. "Especially, when it comes to shopping."
Sticking her tongue out at the older woman forgetting briefly Gabi couldn't see the action Alice huffed out loudly, "were you able to get a hold of Sara?"
"No. According to Dani, something came up, she and Conrad had to go out for a bit." Removing her sunglasses and pinching the bridge of her nose, "I love my granddaughter, but I swear she vexes me with her ability to say, anything everything and nothing at all."
Giggling Alice pirouetted off the couch over to Gabi and guided her to a chair, "sit I want to check your eyes and you can tell us the anything parts Dani shared with you."
"Humph, of course she complained how her parents could go out in the snow but she couldn't," the older woman exhaled as she sat down. "And if I understood correctly," Gabi began as Alice tenderly touched her face, "Dani either broke up with her boyfriend or her best friend because she found out that one or perhaps both were playing bumping bunnies."
"I'm pretty sure, Dani doesn't care if Janice is getting it on unless of course it was with Tanner and then yes that would piss her off."
"Tanner? I thought his name was Mark or John, well one of those biblical names," scrunching her face.
"He was over three weeks ago." Chuckling softly, "we need to treat your eyes with the ointment Sara made for them." Ignoring Gabi's grumbling, "Bella will you dig in my purse for a small blue bottle?"
"Of course," Bella replied moving quickly off the couch to the front table where Alice had placed her purse.
"It's not really necessary."
"Silly vampire," Alice chided the older woman as she straddled her lap. "You know better then to argue with me or reject Sara's treatments."
"I thought vampires just needed blood to heal their wounds." Bella stated as she handed the bottle to Alice.
"Hmmm, yes this is probably superfluous but Sara does folk magic and she is always creating salves and what nots to heal the family's ills." A gentle smile graced her lips as Gabriella thought of her daughter-in-law. "It matters not if it be for vampire, shape shifter or human we all receive her healing arts."
"Sara," Alice added with a beatific smile as she lifted out the dropper, "is not to be denied."
Bella felt her stomach curdled a bit as she watched Alice, who had measured out a portion of the gelatinous ointment into a dropper and carefully begin to administer it to the older woman's damaged eyes.
"I didn't think vampires could be harmed like that," she murmured.
"No, usually not," Gabi replied with a tiny quirk to her lips. "But this was caused by a newborn, apparently her talent was to make her venom caustic. Fortunately, for the others and me the effects aren't permanent, though if she had lived her talent would have become deadly."
Dry swallowing, "so what you told the Cullens, about killing vampires is true?"
"Yes, but we are talking extremely dangerous vampires or those whom the Volturi deem to be as irrefutable threats to them. In fact, if I had any aspirations to challenge their rule, why I might have to consider myself a troublesome vampire and even hunt myself down."
Slapping the older woman on the arm, "not funny Gabi," Alice replied and then handed the ointment back to Bella. "The Volturi are nothing to joke about."
"I disagree I find them to be on the whole quite humorous," giving Alice a kiss on the cheek. "But this unconventional vampire has no such desires, Aro and his family know this so no worries, my love."
Alice frowned but said nothing further on the subject only to give Gabi a quick kiss on her cheek before hopping off the woman's lap and taking a hold of Bella's hand.
Seeing the confusion in her mate's eyes she tugged her gently into a hug, "don't worry we'll explain it all to you but your father will be here in two minutes and thirty-one seconds."
As the slender arms encircled her, Bella found she didn't care about an explanation, all she wanted was to keep the feel of Alice's body secured to hers. Inhaling deeply, she felt her knees go weak from the little pixie's scent. She had always found Alice's fragrance to be delightful, but now it was beyond that, it was mouth watering delicious.
'Sunshine, she smells just how I would imagine sunshine would smell, citrusy with a hint of what cinnamon? Clove? Oh, I don't know but it is wonderful, so tantalizing,' she thought swallowing back the pooling venom in her mouth.
The beast inside her roared to life, Bella could just imagine it was doing the happy dance she use to do as a child just before opening her presents on Christmas. Oh yeah, she had the absolute finest present she could every want in her arms.
Alice was purring deeply enough for Bella's own chest to vibrate from the sound. So mesmerized by the barrage to her senses Bella didn't notice the slight shift in Alice's body until she felt two soft lips ensnare her own, sending hot fluid to her core.
'Oh my god! Oh my god! I never felt like this with Edward,' Bella's mind rushed from all the sensations happening to her. 'And this is just from a kiss.'
All Alice planned on doing was to give a simple hug to her beloved but that all changed the moment their bodies meshed together. Her mind immediately delved into sensually erotic imagines of wandering lips, withering bodies and arching backs. She felt a delightful clenching betwixt her legs that almost caused her to groan out loud but kept it tucked inside behind her firmly compressed lips. Merciful heaven it wasn't the intense reaction she had been expecting but Alice sure as hell wasn't about to stop the ride of pleasure she was experiencing.
With full understanding because she couldn't stop herself, she didn't want to stop her next action, Alice tilted her head and captured Bella's red lips with her own and kissed her.
Alice moaned softly as the kiss between the two deepened. She silently savored the taste of her beloved, 'this must be what wild strawberries dipped in bittersweet chocolate taste like for Sara. The way she groans when consuming them. It's a wonder she doesn't have an orgasm because I sure as hell feel like I could have one just from kissing Bella. I doubt even if I had my memories I've ever experienced such cravings, desires such heat from another individual.'
Desire to touch, caress, explore transported both girls away from their current location. They had forgotten Gabriella sitting in front of them, they didn't remember Charlie would be arriving home; all they knew was they each wanted the other desperately.
Gabriella didn't need to see what was happening between the two girls, her auditory and olfactory senses were working quite well thank you and providing plenty of input. A part of her loathed stopping the pair as the scent of their arousal was wrapping around her creating fantasies in her own mind. Imagery she would thoroughly relish any other time but she refused to indulge in them right now because unlike the hormonal driven pair she had heard Charlie's car pull into the driveway.
Clearing her throat loudly, "darlings as much as I'd really enjoy listening to you two carry this further. I can honestly say basking in the glow of you two having sex sounds positively delightful. And I'm damn sure the experience would be just as hot as a whorehouse on nickel night but I suspect Bella's father wouldn't appreciate seeing such sizzling action coming from his daughter."
Realizing her warning wasn't penetrating the hazy lust between the two women, Gabriella chuckled, "you two really are like newborns."
Standing up she grabbed both girls by their respective shoulders and wrenched them apart, ignoring the snarls coming from both. "Oh don't growl at me," smirking at the pair. "Just be thankful you two aren't human and Bella's father is or he'd know exactly where you two were heading."
It took a few seconds of blinking for both women to clear away the lusty fog they were in before they came back to the here and now.
As her brain synapses struggled back to working order, Bella finally heard what Gabriella had said earlier and her mouth formed a cute round 'O' and if she could've, she would've been blushing from head to toe.
'Did she…I mean would she…if Charlie hadn't…oh…wow.' Tilting her head slightly Bella glanced at the tall smiling woman, "er…uh thank you." Her voice was barely a whisper.
Embarrassment filled Alice as well, but not from Gabi's comment, no that hadn't bothered her at all, no what made her feel like blushing was she had been acting like a sex crazed teenager.
'Okay technically I'm a teenager and my hormones were, are raging but still I should have better control then Dani,' Alice huffed at herself. Running her fingers through her hair a smile flourished on her lips, 'well at least I know Bella feels the same way.'
"Don't fret about your reactions to each other," Gabriella said speaking rapidly knowing she had only a few seconds before Charlie entered the house. "It's to be expected. Two reasons, both of you are like newborns in one-way or another and even though Jasper manipulated your emotions they were always deep inside of you blooming. Sooo once you two reconnected, well let's just say everything that had been suppressed kinda whooshed to the forefront."
The front door opening stopped any further conversation. Bella moved swiftly to greet her father but kept her speed relative to a human pace it wouldn't do to startle the crap out of him just as he stepped inside.
Entering the living room, Charlie smiled trying to convey the attitude that he was neither worried nor freaked out by having two vampires in his house. Strictly speaking he knew Bella was a vampire but to his mind she was his daughter first and foremost, which as far as he was concerned put her in a whole different category.
His attention was immediately drawn to Alice who was beaming a smile at him. She was just as beautiful and cheerful as he remembered.
'She hasn't changed, well of course not stupid she's a vampire,' he snarked at himself. 'Wait, no she has changed, Alice is no longer with the Cullens and Bells says she has amnesia, doesn't even know who she is anymore. Poor kid.'
"Good afternoon Chief Swan," Alice said her voice twinkling as she drifted seamlessly over to him offering her small hand to him.
"Hey Alice," smiling deeper as he shook her hand. "It's good to see you again kiddo. Er…uh, I know you can't remember me but uh…well, you were over here a lot visiting Bells so we do know each other and we were on a first names then so please just Charlie would be fine."
"Thank you, Charlie," turning from him she flitted back to Gabriella and took her hand to guide her to Bella's father. "Charlie, this is Gabriella Goodwin. I don't know how much Bella told you over the phone," 'liar.' She giggled to herself. "But she and her son Conrad were the one's who saved me two years ago."
It took every effort on his part to not drop his jaw open as he gazed at the woman who had her hand towards him, a small grin gracing her pink lips. 'Wow, not what I was expecting.' In a split second he grabbed her cold hand and pumped it in a quick handshake before letting go.
"Pleasant afternoon sir," Gabriella greeted and her rich deep voice.
After a few long beats, Charlie blinked realizing he hadn't responded to the woman. "Er, yeah, nice to meet you," he bumbled out as he stared at her. "Uh, just Charlie is fine for you as well."
Chuckling deeply, "I'm not much on formalities either so please feel free to use Gabi or Gabriella,." Tilting her head slightly she could smell the apprehension seeping from the man. "If my being here makes you uncomfortable, which is understandable, I can stay elsewhere."
Tucking his hands in to his jacket's pockets and rocking back and forth on his feet, Charlie found himself at a loss at what to say. 'Damn Bella didn't say anything about her being so good looking, but then again I've yet to meet and ugly vampire. Okay how many human's can say that and not have their sanity questioned?' There was no denying the angular woman sparked something inside of him and thatshe, was indeed making him nervous but not because she scared him.
'Ok the eyes are tad unsettling,' but gazing at them did nothing but bring sympathy in him towards the woman. Bella had told him about Gabriella's temporary blindness. 'What kind of industrial accident could a vampire get into let alone cause such damage? Oh for heavens sake I'm rambling.'
No, what was making Charlie wary was that the vampire before him didn't scare him. 'And that's wrong, right? She should frighten me. I should be quaking in my boots. I mean good looks aside this woman could definitely take on a grizzly bear and win. Of course according to Bells it wouldn't be an uncommon feat but still,' Charlie paused in his ruminations. He could tell all three were patiently waiting for him to respond, 'stay, don't stay, what to say? Well say something fool before they think you really are a scared idiot.'
"Er," 'Oh that's impressive Charlie,' chastising himself. Sucking in a deep breath of air, "uh, yeah no, I'm fine with you staying."
Bella sighed and kissed her father's cheek, "Thanks dad."
"Thank you Charlie," if possible the smile on Alice's face beamed brighter.
Gabriella just tipped her head in thanks.
Clearing his throat, "so what would you like to do now?
Before anyone could say anything, Alice smacked Gabriella's arm, which caused Charlie's eyebrows to rise slightly.
"Don't you dare say that to him Gabi," Alice ordered speaking too softly and rapidly for Charlie to hear.
"What?" Bella asked just as quickly.
"Go out and find some innocent virgins and have our way with them," answered with a stern look towards the older woman.
"Our wicked way with them, my dear, and I wasn't including you two, just Charlie and me, you two have each other," Gabriella smirked at them. "You two did get me rather hot and bothered.
"Uh he's my dad and the Chief of Police, I don't think he'd go for that idea," Bella nervously giggled out.
Seeing the three women's mouths moving and hearing his daughter laugh, "am I missing something?" Charlie asked.
"No," Alice replied smiling sweetly at him.
"Says you," Gabriella added in her normal tone.
"Gabi!"
Charlie cast a look to Bella for answers but from the laughter coming from his daughter he realized she wouldn't able to provide any so he went back to the other two.
"Sorry, Charlie," Gabi began giving him a soft smile. "We three had an unexpected rough day visiting the Cullens." 'Dancing through Dante's Inferno would've have been softer.'
"Bella mentioned them," he nodded with a slight disapproving twitch to his face.
"And to be honest you still seemed a bit stressed so I thought to lighten the moment but Alice, who seems to be channeling my daughter-in-law, has deemed my effort would be inappropriate."
Charlie glancing at Bella who was still giggling, "well it couldn't have been that bad."
"Well," she began in a mischievous tone. "Even though, I am over two hundred years old."
Charlie's jaw flopped open and his eyes widened at hearing that bit of information.
"Or maybe it's because I am that old," tapping her chin. "And my morals have loosened greatly over the decades. Any who, I just thought it might be fun to TP the Cullen's house," Gabriella said with an innocent smile.
Charlie chuckled slightly at the absurdity of the notion and shook his head, "yeah, don't think that's a good idea for the Chief of Police to do, no matter how tempting the idea sounds."
"Told ya so," Bella busted out before collapsing onto the floor with laughter.
Unable to contain herself, Alice broke into chiming giggles leaning into Gabriella who just shrugged her shoulders and smiled deeply. Charlie who had been trying to hold back found himself joining into the laughter. It was the first good solid laugh he and his daughter had shared since her return.
(Time Shift)
After a relaxing and quite humorous evening thanks mostly to Gabriella's anecdotes of her past life, the tall woman had chased Alice and Bella out of the living room after Charlie had gone to bed. Telling the two she had phone calls to make and didn't want to be distracted by their delightful canoodling. While Bella ducked her head from embarrassment, Alice grinned from ear to ear tugging the other girl out the room and up the stairs.
"With the exception of finding you, is it wrong to want to ignore everything that happened today, at least for awhile?" Alice whispered into her lover's ear as the two snuggled together on Bella's bed.
Drawing small circles with her fingers across her little pixie's back Bella smiled softly, "no, no not at all." Kissing the smaller woman's forehead, "having you in my arms, getting lost in you, your scent, the feel of your skin against mine, the taste of you is all I want to think about now."
With every little statement, Bella applied a soft kiss to Alice, while her hands freely roamed under the smaller woman's clothes and over her silken skin. The cooing moans emerging from her pixie brought bubbles of delight inside Bella and as each bubble popped it sent tingles of warmth through her body.
Alice had made a promise to herself, a grand pledge earlier in the evening to not get lost in her desires, but her body seemed more then willing to break that promise as it responded to Bella's touch. Everything about the beauty lying next to sung out to be explored and Alice's fingers and lips were more then happy to delve into every aspect.
Feeling Alice shift to be on top of her Bella purred with elation as their bodies melded together, "my Alice, my beautiful sweet Alice." She crooned out before pressing her lips against the inviting pinks one's.
Together in concert their lips parted and as their tongues touched erotic trills descended through each of them. There was no battle of dominance between them just a welcoming for each to explore and taste the other. This was an oh my god moment, for both of them, as fingers, lips and tongues traveled, feathered and caressed ears, neck and breasts causing erotic sensations. Their bodies moved, writhed and arched together in their sexual dance.
The blaze between them was exquisite, it was joyous, it was shattered by a nip of passion to Alice's neck by Bella.
As soon as she felt the teeth lightly pierce her skin, Alice's mind tumbled away from the pleasure she was experiencing and her body began to tremble.
(Memory Flash)
The forest was dark, for a human it would have been treacherous to be wandering around without a flashlight, but for Alice it was no problem.
"Edward," she said slowly as the two circled each other. "I know why you crashed into my car but you're not going to stop me." Apprehension and anger filled her, as she stared at the young man who had become such an integral part of her life.
The snigger that escaped his lips, sent a chill straight to Alice's core, "oh little Alice of course I'm going to stop you." His voice was eerily composed, "it's because I love you, dear sister that I have to do this."
"Love? You call conspiring with Jasper to keep me from Bella, love? Manipulating the both of us." Frowning at the young man. It had crushed her heart when she realized what the two had done. "That's not love Edward. Just because Bella doesn't love you as you want doesn't mean you can strip her away from me."
"But you see Alice, it's because of my love for Bella that I came to my understanding, I had a revelation. There had to be a reason as to why my Bella was turning away from me and I realized it was God. He was saving Bella from me, a soulless monster."
"Then there's you," he began looking intently at her with a tender smile. "Of all of us Alice, you've sinned the least. Oh, in the beginning when you and Jasper first arrived I thought your behavior to be immoral but then I realized, you're like a child." Pausing he gazed upwards towards the sky, "you needed, craved physical affection because you couldn't ever remember having it and so like a child you sought it out from everyone. It was never sexual until now, until Bella."
Staring at her brother, "you're trying to stop me because of you're homophobia? There's nothing wrong with two women loving each other. Love is love Edward."
"No it's a perversion against God's law. It's a sin, which I can't allow you to enter into nor bring Bella into."
"Sin? Edward you screw around with any woman you can get to drop her drawers and you've the audacity to talk about sin to me. Bella is my mate Edward there is no sin."
Shaking his head, "of course it's a sin and yes I've sinned too but Alice, my sweet sister I'm a soulless monster so there is nothing left to save, not like you. There is still an innocence to you, a purity that can be saved." Running his fingers through his bronze hair causing it to look like it was charged with static electricity, "that's why I need to stop you."
Even in the darkness Alice saw a manic glint in Edward's blackened eyes that terrified her, pushing forth the urge to flee. The problem was her brother was faster then she was and in a fight Alice was sure he could beat her. His telepathy gave him an edge other vampires didn't have when it came to doing battle with her. Her visions would guide her to his moves but his ability to read her mind countered her advantage.
"Yes running wouldn't do you any good because I'd catch you, it's best if you just turn around and forgot Bella. Let her have her human life. Alice," he crooned, "you've yet to take a human life and that is your one saving grace."
Alice quailed as she studied her brother. This was not the Edward she had come to know. She would've preferred a raging Edward to the one before her now.
"Don't you see Alice, I've come to understand you still have a portion of a soul, but if you go back to Bella, you'll kill her and make her into one of us. You'd lose the last of your soul and bring Bella's soul into danger as well."
"You're mad," she whispered in fear.
Shaking his head and sighing sadly, "I see there is no changing your mind and truthfully I didn't think there would be. Yet, as I said I think of all of us you've a chance to be saved."
With that he launched himself at her, Alice pivoted away from him, scoring scratches across his shirt with her talons. Edward cackled at Alice's attack. Hearing the crazed laughter from Edward spurred Alice to try and find an escape route. She launched her body towards a pine tree but Edward caught her leg, with a smile he ripped it away. Alice screamed in pain.
(End of Memory Flash)
The scream carried over from the memory and Alice was thrashing, fighting trying to free herself from the clutches of her brother.
Voices soft gentle voices began to penetrate her mind, calling to her, calming her making her feel safe.
"Alice, Alice please my love."
"It's all right my petite one, you're safe."
"What the hell! Is she all right?"
"I think she remembered who attack her. I'm so sorry my love."
Blinking Alice slowly became aware of her environment, she was being held not only by Bella but Gabriella as well. Charlie was standing by the bed gazing at her with concern written all over his face. No one said anything further just soft cooing from both Bella and Gabi as they cuddled her tightly, while Charlie just quietly waited for her to speak.
With a shaky breath. "It was Edward," she revealed.
The revelation brought gasps of dismay and disgust from Charlie and Bella, while Gabriella just nodded and administered soothing kisses to her head.