Sun and Moon
Ch. 11: Cooties
KPOV
I arrived at the Cullen house mere seconds after Esme and Bella. My mate's mother put her down and with my confused expression still in place, I watched her skip over to Carlisle and give him a hug before she flashed around the room. After about a minute, she stopped then stuck out her bottom lip.
"Where Rosie," she pouted in her little girl voice. I noticed Alice's eyes glazed over in another vision as Jasper pointed upstairs. The pixie started to giggle as Bella flashed upstairs in search of her big sister.
"Five… four… three… two…," the pint sized psychic counted down.
"Rosie…. AHHHHHHHHH, COOTIES," the brunette woman child screamed then ran down and jumped into her mother's arms crying.
"What's wrong, sweetheart," Esme asked as she tried to sooth the woman-child.
"Emmie gross, he hold Rosie head and put his thingy in her mouth," Bella tattled just as the couple in question made their appearance. I tried to stop but lost it and joined Jasper and Alice laughing at the chagrined pair.
"Emmett, am I to understand that even though we are about to have a Newborn wake up at any moment and need everybody to help out, you thought it was a good idea to have some form of sex," the Cullen matriarch said in that low icy tone she'd used on my mate and Em and Rose both flinched.
"Um, Alice said that you needed to deal with little sis," he tried to justify but realized he was only digging himself deeper and Alice tried to sneak out of the room only to be pinned in her mother's hawk like gaze.
"Punishment for all of you will come later and you'll be lucky if I don't use the conditioning," Esme told all of her remaining children then looked at Bella because the brunette was tugging on her sleeve.
"Yes, little one," she cooed to my mate.
"Mommy, what sex," Bella asked confused by the term.
"Sweetheart, sex is a game grown-ups play," the caramel haired vampire explained simplistically.
"Boys gross, girls nice," my mate said defiantly.
"You won't have to play sex with boys, sweetie, you can play with all the girls you'd like. In fact, Kate over there would love to play sex with you when you grow up," Esme told her and she jumped out of her mother's arms then skipped over to me.
"You want play sex with me," Bella asked while she batted her eyelashes innocently. Any other time, I might've said something very naughty in reply but this was just too strange I wanted some answers.
"Barbie," I heard Esme whisper and my lover's eyes blinked rapidly a few times then return to normal.
"God, Mom, that was so embarrassing," she said in her normal voice just before she flashed up to our room to change out of her outfit.
"Would somebody tell me what the hell that was all about," I asked the room in general.
Rosalie looked my was and explained, "You remember those suggestions Bells implanted in Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber that night we went to the movies? Well just before you walked in the door from your trip, she used them and it led to a big fight. Mom came home and demanded answers and when she learned the truth decided to have some fun with the punishments. Originally, she was just going to stick with the original programming but switch the trigger words. After she had finished with the rest of us, she placed Bella in a deep trance then implanted her punishment. Whenever Mom says the word Skipper, your mate becomes a three-year-old girl. When she says Barbie, the punishment ends."
"That's fucked up, funny but seriously fucked up," I replied then apologized to Esme when she glared at me for dropping the F-bomb.
"So, you really want to play sex with me," Bella purred in my ear when she came back downstairs in dark wash skinny jeans and her Cookie Monster tee.
"Bella," her mother chided before I had a chance to respond
"Mom, I'm really sorry about before. I shouldn't take my anger Edward out on you or Eric. Besides, he's really going to need help because I remembered something else that I picked up from the selfish ones subconscious; Eric isn't Edward's Soul Mate," she said sincerely.
"WHAT," every single Cullen demanded.
"His true mate was there but he mistook his attraction for Eric for the pull of a Soul Mate. If the idiot would've turned his head a little to the left he would've realized the pull went to some Limey fairy," she responded.
"Isabella, Limey is a derogatory term and I take offense at it," Carlisle mock scolded his youngest daughter.
"Sorry Daddy, I forgot you're British. So, Limey is bad but you're okay with Fairy," the Newborn shot back cheekily.
"Well, while homosexual is the proper term, it is a bit of a mouthful and a fag is a cigarette. Fairy is acceptable," he countered just as cheekily.
"How about ass pirate," Emmett offered.
"Or, rump ranger," Jasper added.
"Pillow biter," Alice giggled.
"Pole smoker," Rose threw in.
"You left out Fudge packer," their father commented drily.
"Enough, I happen to dislike all of those terms," Esme reproached all of them.
Once more, the pixie-seer's eyes glazed over with a vision and everyone was on edge. When she came back to reality she looked confused.
"The good news is that Edward found his Soul Mate waiting for him in Ireland. It's Dad's friend, Alistair. He'll call later on tonight to say he won't be coming home and to just store his stuff because the two of them are going to be traveling for a while. Alistair is going to want Eddie taken off the family accounts because he has more than enough money for them. That and he doesn't want there to be any trace of either of them on "The Grid"," she started then finished, "The bad news is that our future disappears in three minutes."
We tried to come to terms with both revelations when the front doorbell rang. The mild musky scent reached us before Esme answered the door.
"I'm sorry to bother you and mean you no harm but I was hoping you might tell me where to find the Cullen's," a young male voice enquired hopefully.
"Why are you looking for the Cullen family," she asked cautiously.
"You might've guessed from my scent that I'm not actually human. I was born on the La Push Reservation, whenever there are vampires around the young men and now women of my tribe shapeshift into giant wolves to protect our people. The Pack and Tribal Elders weren't happy when they found out I was gay after I was changed. They threw me out of the tribe and called me a freak. The Alpha, Sam, told me that since the Cullen's were freaks among vampires, they might take me in," the stranger explained in a pained voice.
"You're in luck, dear because I am Esme Cullen. Please come in," Esme told him then escorted him into the living room.
He was 6 feet tall and had a deep russet colored skin. His jet black hair was close cropped and his root beer colored eyes darted around nervously. Physically, he looked to be in his early twenties but his voice and the roundness of his face indicated that he was still a teen. We'd all heard the brief exchange at the door. At first, Rose's expression told me that she wasn't thrilled about having a mutt in the house but when he mentioned being thrown out of his home, her look softened. I knew she'd instantly warmed to the boy. His roving eyes stopped with the locked onto my mate with recognition.
"Bella… Bella Swan, I thought you were dead. I'm Seth Clearwater and I used to be a friend of Jacob Black. The rapist bastard got what he deserved," Seth said then held out his hand. Bella shocked us all when she bypassed the hand and pulled the started wolf into a hug.
"Welcome to family. This is so sweet, I always wanted a pet and in a few minutes I won't be the baby of the family anymore," she joked as she let him go then bounced back over to me. I think we all realized that we'd forgotten about the Newborn about to wake up upstairs.
A confused Seth followed behind the rest of us as we ran up to Edward's old room despite our protests to wait in the living room. Carlisle, Jasper, Emmett and the native boy took up positions in front of the rest of us. I hissed when Bella muscled her way up to join them but there was nothing to do about it now. Later, I'd find a good punishment for my mate. We all heard Eric's heart give its last beat then waited. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes. He started to look around the room with his new eyes but stopped on Seth and darkened. The young wolf looked like Alice when she found pictures of the new Prada line.
"We should get out of here now," Jasper ordered as Bella started to wince then grab her head. The family fled at vampire speed but we only stopped when we reached outside but it wasn't fast enough.
"Hello tall, dark and yummy," the recently awakened Newborn purred as he pounced on Seth and clothes started to get shredded.
Once we were safely outside I was free to be pissed at my mate and I shot a look at Esme who nodded.
"Skipper," the motherly vampire said just as Bella's eyes went wide with shock.