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. If this kind of love scares you, well darling turn around and go back the other way. There are plenty of splendid writers who delve into straight couple relationships; for the most part, I'm just not one of them.
The rating is M just to be on the safe side, do to the language and the possibility of the sex scenes becoming a bit graphic but no promises in that area. Oh, there will also be mention of threesomes and 'gasp horror' vampires and other supernatural creatures getting it on with each other.
All boo boos, snafus and misdeeds within the story are all mine and mine alone.
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(Cullen Living room)
If there was a clock in the Cullen's living room, it could've been heard over the prevailing silence, hell a digital clock could have been heard after Gabriella's sudden departure. Nearly three minutes had ticked away barely a blink for an immortal, but long enough for Alice to have a vision. Neither Sian nor Leah noticed the distant look in her eyes that she would get when hit by a vision but Bella did so she waited holding her lover's hand until Alice came back to the present.
As Alice's began to refocus, Bella noted the tiny frown that touched her lover's lips, but before she could inquire, Alice squeezed her hand and offered her up a brilliant smile. Then with a dancer's grace Alice sashayed up from the couch bringing Bella with her in her movement.
"You two would probably like to be alone so Bella and I will be leaving now," Alice remarked smiling at the other two.
She didn't give them a chance to protest, though Bella could tell by their facial expressions it was what they or at least Leah really wanted. It was harder to tell with Sian, the older woman had more practice in hiding her thoughts and feelings. Yet, Bella was pretty sure she saw a flash of something akin to "oh shit" in the brilliant blue eyes before she and Alice left.
Bella had no problem following Alice even if she had no clues to where or why they were going. In those few short minutes, she could feel Leah's discomfort growing as the reality of her imprinting truly sunk in and Bella was definitely not comfortable witnessing the other woman's nervous tension. Yeah, she knew Leah but they weren't even close to being friends and the whole thing screamed awkwardness, which Bella was damn sure the taller woman didn't want to share with others.
Once they reached the backyard, Alice began leading her at a mild vampire pace through the woods.
"Uh, where are we going, my little pixie?" Asking with a smile.
"To Gabi."
"But she said she was going to find Jasper and though I may not be the best at tracking I can hear his voice along with the others, and it's in the opposite direction to where we are going."
Alice didn't answer she just hummed and kept guiding them away from Jasper and the rest of the Cullens. Perhaps it was the day's events but it took a few seconds for the non-answer to resolve into an understandable one.
"Oh," scrunching her nose at it dawned one her. "Gabi just wanted to get away."
"Yes, but she's still going to talk to Jasper just not at this minute."
"Can't blame her," Bella shrugged. "The whole imprint thing is kind of right out there in left field and judging from the expressions from Leah and Sian, well at least by Leah's, I'm not sure it's entirely welcomed."
"Hmmm, understandable if you've never thought of falling in love with a woman."
"Yeah, I can totally identify with that, I mean looking back I can say there were some, you know actresses who caught my eye, but I never thought of being with a woman romantically until you."
Glancing over at her gorgeous mate, Alice smiled, "I have to be honest, I can't say that, but what I can say well, with what I remember, you are my first and only romantic involvement with a woman."
The statement lifted Bella's heart, she knew Alice had to qualify it since she was still struggling with some of her past memories but it didn't matter. She knew it would be ridiculous to be jealous of past lovers especially from a vampire who was over ninety years old but it had crept in as Bella thought about the possibility. There were though still a few twinges towards Alice's past relationship with Jasper but mostly for the time they spent together, but now Alice was hers for eternity, not his. As wrong, as it might seem a part of Bella inwardly gloated over that fact practically every time she saw the curly haired man.
Biting her lip lightly, Bella decided to push a out a query that had been niggling at her since Alice came back into her life, "you and Gabi, never…I mean, I would've understood if you had, cause well you know, Gabi is so…."
"No, we were never sexually involved," her eyes twinkling as she answered. "And I should be vaguely insulted by the fact she never wanted to ravish this..." Pirouetting quickly and motioning with her hands up and down her body before resuming her steps,
Bella giggled at her lovers motioning, "well Gabi has more self restraint then I could ever have around you, because your body definitely screams to be," wiggling her eyebrows. "Ravished."
"I know," nodding her head in disbelief, "but all we did was snuggle." A soft smile touched her lips as she continued, "I think for Gabi I am a daughter or some such thing, not someone to be sexual with. She could share with me in ways she couldn't with the others."
Thinking about it Bella nodded, for all of the older woman's talk and her sexual proclivity she never showed any real interest in Alice or Bella as much as she teased the two. It's probably the one reason she never had any stirrings of jealousy towards Gabriella and her relationship with Alice. The lithe vampire was an equal opportunist teaser as well as someone to cuddle up to when needed.
"Yeah she does seem to be rather motherly, not the same way as Esme, that's for sure but in her own unique way.
"Always wanting to protect others," Alice murmured with a tiny headshake. "Which just might be her problem now. Come on she's almost back from her run." Pulling Bella into a faster run as they headed deeper into the woods.
(In the woods)
After leaving the four bewildered women, Gabriella ran, she had no true destination. Yeah, she was at some point going to find Jasper and talk to him, but not right away that had only been an excuse to leave. Her swift feet had taken all the way to Port Angeles before she decided to turn back around. She knew she was acting like a chicken shit by running out and not explaining further. Truth to be told she was scared, not for herself but for Leah.
"What's wrong with you fucking Spirits?" She demanded towards the skies as she finally stopped and leaned against a pine tree. "Hasn't this woman suffered enough difficulties? For godsakes, not only does she identify herself as straight, you fuckers had her imprint not on one but two women." Thwacking the back of her head against the tree causing it to sway and send pinecones and needles all over her, "and why did you have her imprint on someone whose heart is literally and figuratively frozen to such emotions?"
Gabriella had never felt the delicious torment of being in love, not as a vampire and certainly not when she was human. Her father had arranged both of her marriages. She had been nothing more then a form chattel for her father. George, her first husband had been a neighboring farmer, who offered her father acreage for Gabriella's hand and Virgil he just plain offered up cash. Needless to say, there was no love in either marriage. The only love she felt in her marriages was a mother's deep compassionate love for her children.
As a vampire, the only long-term relationship had been with Patience, who declared her undying love for Gabriella. It was the reason Patience had saved her from the fire; she had fallen in love with the lithe woman when she was a human. In the beginning, Gabriella felt the sexual passion all newborns feel and oddly enough had no issues being with a woman, but the love of a soulmate? No, she didn't feel the deep love that deep connection that links two souls together that Patience had for her. That in inability to fall in love with such a woman as Patience had always bothered Gabriella. It made her wonder that when the venom was searing through her body if it had burnt that part away along with her humanness or if she even had it when she had been human.
Sliding down the pine tree, barely feeling the harshness of the bark snag at her clothing or even bothering to shake away the needles, Gabriella settled down on damp moss forest floor. Her knees drawn towards her chest with arms wrapped around them Gabriella growled deeply as she rested her head against the tree.
"So tell me you goddamn unforgiving Spirits, what happens to the wolf in her when she realizes one of the imprints didn't take!" Demanding for answers she knew wouldn't be getting from any deities but from the trial and error of existence. "How is this even possible?"
"As you say so often if vampires are possible then who can say what isn't," Alice's light melodious voice chimed through the air.
Tilting her head towards the direction Alice was coming from she snorted at the smaller woman's remark. "You must of left soon after me my speedy petite seer," she remarked softly.
Treading lightly on the forest floor Alice skipped over to where Gabriella was sitting and without permission shoved the older woman's knees down so she could sit on her lap. Bella had elected to stay back to allow Alice time to talk with Gabriella, as her natural shyness hit her as the two had drawn closer to the older woman. The lithe woman quirked and eyebrow but did nothing to stop Alice from nuzzling into her body. Alice smiled tenderly as Gabriella's arms wrapped around her tiny frame and pulled her tightly to her chest.
"And my dear Gabi, you're heart isn't as frozen as you believe," Alice remarked softly.
"It is to the kind of love you and Bella have. To the kind of love Leah's, wolf demands. I've seen, though rare, what happens when the imprint doesn't take." Sighing into the smaller woman's hair, "there should be a fucking instruction manuals for us non-humans. Turn to page twenty-two when you imprint on two people. Here are the causalities of such an event and the repercussions when one doesn't take."
Quietly, dancing her fingers across the woman's arm Alice frowned slightly, "maybe you're over thinking this Gabi. You're such a protector of others that maybe you're just jumping the gun. As you said a lot of this is unknown, there are no rulebooks for us, no how to books on being a vampire, shape shifter or a werecreature." Leaning her head back to she could look into her friend's amber eyes, "Gabi, instead of over worrying, maybe you should go with the flow and see what happens."
"I just don't want to hurt her as I did Patience because I couldn't give that dear woman what she desired," came the whispered reply.
"Oh, my sweet vampire," touching the older woman with her delicate hands. "It won't be the same she has Sian who apparently is being affected by the imprinting and Leah has already proven she's a strong woman." Pulling Gabriella's head to shoulder, "you know they're both probably more scared then you are right now with what is happening."
"I know," Gabriella, breathed out as Alice ran her fingers through her hair and then added with a soft chuckle. "And you left poor Bella alone with them."
Giggling softly from merriment and relief, "No, she was with me but she wasn't sure if you'd be comfortable with talking with her being present."
Gabriella scoffed at the idea pulling her head back she called out, "get you pretty ass over here Bella, as if you couldn't hear every bit of the conversation."
Hanging her head slightly sheepishly to the side, Bella appeared a few seconds later standing next to the two women and at Alice's silently urgings sat down leaning comfortably into Gabriella's free side.
"Alice is right, you know, I don't know either one well but when we left they both looked like a deer standing on the road with a semi coming towards them." Bella remarked.
"Well that's certainly not a good look for a wolf and a tiger," Gabriella said tilting her head to the side. "But I'm pretty damn sure that won't last long. Sian will no doubt say something to Leah about her not pressing charges, because she doesn't understand the pack mentality thing. Leah's wolf will get pissed, which will lead to a hissing and barking match."
Shaking her head at the image of the two women going at claw to claw, Alice peered at the lithe vampire, "are you sure you shouldn't keep running and take us with you."
Chuckling, "admittedly it is damn tempting but personally I'd rather take on a lust crazed newborn then face the fury of those two."
Tapping her chin lightly, Alice smiled playfully, "so the big bad vampire admits to being scared shitless by a dog and a cat."
"Abso-friggin-lutely," Gabriella smiled in return as Bella giggled next to her. "I prefer to choose my battles if I can and speaking of which I think it's time to find young Jasper."
(Meadow)
As the three women entered the meadow, where Jasper was standing Bella felt flooded by memories. Memories of the time when the Cullens took her to watch one of their famous baseball games and the events that occurred during it. She could see every detail of the land and where James, Victoria and Laurent appeared from the tree line. Bella could still feel Alice's delicate hand in her own as the smaller vampire pulled her into cover behind her, while the rest of the Cullens, even Rosalie took a protective stance between the three and her.
Then there were the memories of the rush to hide her, steal her away and to protect her from James. Yet, with the revelation of Edward and Jasper's manipulation the memories now took on a different flavor, a wholly different view.
(Flashback)
"Did you know he was a tracker?" Edward demanded twisting his head to glare at Alice as he drove the jeep at break neck speeds away from the meadow.
"No, I didn't know he was a tracker Edward, but now he knows Bella's your mate." The musical voice answered.
"No! I won't allow that!" The bronze-haired boy cried out. "I will not abandon Bella."
"You, know it's the right thing to do, to throw him off her trail." Alice replied calmly.
Edward snorted in disdain, "you don't know that. You didn't even see them coming."
"Hey for us non-psyche folk what are you talking about," Emmett demanded his eyes going back and forth between the two
"Alice wants me to leave Bella while she takes her to Phoenix."
Swiveling her towards the backseat where Alice, Emmett and Jasper were sitting Bella appraised the smaller vampire. She knew Alice would protect her and keep her as safe as Edward would. The small vampire's eyes were a dark gold and Bella could see the determination in them and it made her heart thump with reassurance.
In a calm voice that belied the situation they were in Alice explained her reason, "Edward if you go missing along with Bella, he'll know that we've secreted her away and he will use both your scents to find her. The best thing for Bella is to be away from you for the time being."
"Dude, she's right. Bella is safer without you for right now." Emmett nodded his head in agreement to his sister's idea.
The jeeps steering wheel cracked under the pressure of Edward's hands crushing it, "I will not abandoned Bella."
"You're not abandoning me Edward. I'll be with Alice," Bella remarked quietly as she stared at her boyfriend. "I know she'll keep me safe."
"Also we can take care of bastard, while Alice is whisking Bella to Phoenix," Emmett added cracking his knuckles. "You know he won't stop until he has her."
"I know that Emmett." Growling Edward slowly nodded his head, "alright but I'll not allow you to be protecting her alone."
"Fine, Emmett can come with us." Alice said with a huff.
"Ah man I wanted to find him and tear him to pieces," he pouted for a second but then a huge grin flashed on his face. "But hey being the bodyguard can be cool too."
"No, take Jasper, if he feels he can control himself," Edward snarled out.
"But Jasper's are best tracker, he should stay here and help with the hunt." Emmett remarked puzzled by the suggestion.
"I'm also our best fighter so if James does figure it out I'm better suited to handle him and yes I can control myself around Bella," Jasper finally added to the conversation. "I can keep them both safe."
Turning his fury filled face to look at his small sister, "can you control yourself Alice?"
"Better then you Edward," Alice growled back at him causing Bella to flinch at the heat behind the reaction.
"Keep your opinions to yourself," Edward snapped at Alice.
"If you don't like what I was thinking then don't get in my head."
Bella didn't know exactly what Alice was thinking but she was pretty sure it had to do with Edward not trusting his sister with her care. She hated being the cause of conflict between the two but she disagreed with her boyfriend. In fact, Bella wasn't to sure how safe she felt about having Jasper with them. He always looked like he was in pain and struggling to keep himself in control around her, where Alice never had that problem.
"Alright, next step telling Charlie." Alice said softly.
(End Flashback)
Remembering the incident made her question if the two men were truly thinking about keeping them safe or if the real reason was to keep Alice and Bella from being alone together. Turning her eyes towards the lanky blond man who was glaring at Gabriella, Bella felt another flash of irritation towards him. She was truly trying to move past her animosity towards Jasper but the betrayal was still raw and reliving the memories of her past with clearer sight, made it harder. Feeling Alice's delicate hand squeeze her own. Bella brought her eyes back to her lover who was smiling sweetly at her.
'It's the past and she's my future,' Bella reminded herself as she returned the smile.
Allowing the knowledge of that to sweep over her and fill her with warmth she turned her attention back to Jasper and Gabriella who were standing next to each other.
"Are you settle enough to hear my reason for not allowing you to come Jasper?" Gabriella asked lifting her head to make eye contact with the taller man.
"I doubt there is anything you can say that I would find satisfactory." Jasper clipped out in a strained voice.
"Let me ask you this, does being an empath make you a masochist?"
The question caused the man to blink at her, "excuse me?"
"It's damn simple question, do you enjoy pain?" Came the calm response.
"No, I'm not a masochist."
Scratching her ear Gabriella nodded, "okay that's kind of what I thought and that's my reason for you not coming."
"I don't understand what the hell you're talking about." He heaved out.
Bella could almost sympathize with Jasper's befuddlement at the older woman's explanation, because she was having trouble understanding it.
"I may not be an empath, Jasper but I'm fucking vampire bloodhound when it comes to sniffing out the smells of others emotions." Stepping in closer to the man, "you maybe able to hide your pain from others but not from me. You're struggling right now, dealing with their love for each other, how the hell are you going to handle it nearly twenty-four hours day?"
"Jasper," Alice chimed in gently. She was doing far better then Bella when it came to interacting with the man who had been her husband. "It's sweet you want to be there for us but you'd be harming yourself by doing so and in the end perhaps putting us into danger."
"Also I know you picked up what was happening with Leah, how are you going to handle all the emotions that situation is going to spring up?" Gabriella inquired.
Watching the young man carefully, Bella could tell Jasper recognized what the two were saying was true no matter how much he might dislike it. Him being an empath had its pluses but it also had its minuses and this was a case in point. Bella instantly saw once she heard the reasons that Jasper would be overwhelmed by the intense emotions rolling off the women. He might be able to manipulate and calm Sian and Leah but his gift didn't work on her and it didn't work on Alice because of the pixie's usual proximity to Bella.
Letting go of Bella's hand Alice walked over to her ex-husband reaching up she lightly touched his cheek, "Jasper, you need to let go of me. There is someone else out there for you; I've seen her with you. You can't continue to deny the truth of it."
"You remembered our fight," the tall man breathed out cringing at his own memory of their last time together before Alice left him.
"Yes all of it, being in this meadow must have brought it forward. You wanted to keep me from Bella and you didn't want to know about the woman with the crimson eyes and golden locks who you are holding tight to your body." The smaller woman replied softly. "In this meadow."
Bella frowned as she processed what Alice had said. Her pixie had, had a vision of Jasper being with another woman after they had left Forks and he had still tried to stop Alice from returning to her. The thought made her hackles rise as she gazed at the lanky man.
"I have my mate Jasper, you need to accept this so you will be open to your mate."
"I…but she feeds on humans," he said in a hushed tone.
"Or she's a newborn," Gabriella added. "Either way she will need your guidance and strength when you find each other."
Running his fingers through his curly locks, "well she isn't here and I would be better served coming with and protecting you all." His eyes locked on Alice when he ended his sentence.
"That's my job." Bella replied forcing the growl wanting to come forward back down as she noticed Jasper's eyes latching on to her lover. "Alice is my mate and I'm hers. This is our task. Not yours!"
Alice flitted away from Jasper and went back to Bella and took hold of her hand to calm the girl down, "shhh, it's alright my love."
Glaring at Bella the lanky man stiffened tightly, "you can't expect me to stop caring after fifty years. Alice's was mine to protect for fifty years and now you want me to shut that off well it doesn't work that way."
"I'm not asking you to shut it off. What I'm asking is for you to accept that Alice and I are together and that we take care of and protect each other." Bella stated coldly returning the intense stare she was receiving. "You knew about Alice's vision for two years and you still won't let go."
Laughing bitterly. "Give up fifty years of happiness on a possible woman. You try it."
"That's what you said to me when I told you of the vision," Alice said softly. "Do you have such little faith in my visions?"
Jasper opened his mouth and then closed it slowly his eyes fell on Alice. Grimacing slightly he shook his head, "no I just didn't want to believe it, I already had you."
"But you don't have me anymore, I'm Bella's and that's not going to change. If you want to dismiss my vision that's your choice," Alice stated turning away from him and looking over to her friend. "Gabi, Bella and I are going home."
"Alright my loves," Gabriella said with a soft smile.
With Bella's hand in her own Alice guided, the two away from the meadow.
Jasper's eyes trailed after the two, "I didn't mean for that, I didn't mean to say what I did," he whispered sorrow filling his words. "It just hurts to see, to feel what they are sharing and knowing I once had that with Alice."
"And that, Jasper as I said is the reason you can't come with us," Gabriella said softly before following Bella and Alice out of the meadow.
(Bella and Alice's bedroom)
Snuggled together on their bed Alice's whose head tucked under Bella's chin was humming softly as her lover's fingers were making lazing circles on her back.
"I have to say, today almost makes going shopping an enjoyable experience," Bella smirked lightly.
"Almost? Shopping with me is always pleasure because you know what to expect afterwards," Alice remarked pinching her lover's arm gently.
"Well, perhaps now but not when I was human."
"Just be happy your not Gabi."
"True," Bella giggled. "I bet as she neared the house and heard Sian and Leah going at each other she thought about running away again, I know I would."
Adding her chiming laughter to the mix, "oh I suspect she just walked inside and gave them both a good tongue lashing for behaving rudely in someone else's home."
"We're going to have to deal with that when we all leave."
"I think Gabi will set some guidelines down for the two," Alice said thoughtfully. "She won't allow them to get too carried away at least not until we find Edward and take care of him"
"We're really going to do this," Bella remarked softly. "And though it's scary I'm glad we are."
"Me too, my love." Alice said as she kissed Bella's right hand.
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