Summary - "Bella is an average girl, struggling with her homosexuality and her life at home. Can the love of not one, but three vampires help show her that she shouldn't be afraid? A/B/R/V".
Author's Notes – Inspired by my dear friend Hollowgo..
Rating - Older Teen to Mature
By: WDG and Lash_Larue
The Garden of Four - Chapter Twenty Three – Evil Lurks In The Distance
"You do indeed have a great kid, Charlie," Carlisle agreed, "I feared the worst until she arrived."
"Alice is fortunate in her mate," Esme told him, smiling broadly.
"How can Bella change at will, Shelia? Even you can't do that," Alicia asked.
"I suppose there were many reasons, including the threat to her mate, but I think it is mostly because she is so powerful. Further, she completely accepts the wolf, embraces it as part of who she is rather than views it as a curse. Most lycans fight against it, especially in the beginning. I still do, after all this time. Perhaps Bella will teach me as much as I will teach her," Shelia speculated.
"If I understood correctly, Charlie, you are considering allowing Bella to change you?" Carlisle ventured.
"It looks like Bella is the new sheriff in town, so I think she could use some backup. Besides, my lycan experts here tell me I'll get better looking," Charlie answered, his eyes crinkling with his smile.
Shelia and Alicia shared a look at that.
"You're pretty good-looking as you are, Charlie," Alicia told him.
Charlie blushed.
"Let's sit in this lovely shade and talk about how to accomplish that as safely as we can," Esme suggested.
"Sure, if you want," Charlie agreed, "but wouldn't we be more comfortable in the house?"
"I think we should give Alice and Bella some time alone," Esme explained delicately.
"Huh? Oh. Yeah, maybe so."
Charlie blushed again.
"Bella, you were wonderful!" Alice jumped up and grabbed Bella's neck, nuzzling into the silky fur. "I want you, love, right the hell now, but you're just too damn big like this."
"Step back, I'll change."
"Okay, but… just halfway, okay? I think I'm ready to try a little wolfy Bella, if that tongue of yours can knock a grown man down, I have a use for it…"
The run to the house took less time than it takes to tell, and for Bella the transition between her pure wolf form and her intermediate, semi-human form was so easy that she could do it on the fly.
Her claws left faint white lines on Alice's stone-hard skin as she literally tore the clothes off of her and tossed her onto their bed.
"Come here, wolfgirl," Alice demanded, opening her arms and legs to Bella.
Bella crawled on top of Alice, pressing her nose to Alice's face, drinking in the scent of her that was so much more complex to this form. New snow and honey, spices, subtle floral hints, and faint now, but growing ever stronger, the scent of their arousal.
Bella's tongue washed Alice's face, and Alice giggled even as she shivered in anticipation. Bella's nails made a screeching sound on Alice's shoulders.
"I'm sorry! Did I hurt you?" Bella asked anxiously.
"No, your nails can't really hurt me, love, just scratch a bit. I kind of like it, do it again!" panted Alice, and Bella obliged. "Oh, God, Bella! That's – ahhh!"
Bella's tongue had found Alice's breasts.
"Be careful of the teeth though," Alice cautioned, "I could stick it back on, but you might freak if you bit a boob off."
"Oh, yeah," panted Bella. "You taste so damn good, Alice, and your scent is killing me."
"You can't die yet, you haven't even – oh GOD!"
Bella was hungrily lapping Alice's soaking pussy, and just when Alice thought her head was going to burst from the pleasure the long and powerful muscle pushed inside of her and began stroking her inner walls.
Alice shook violently, and pulled Bella's head to her firmly, her fingers delighting in the feeling of the soft fur, and in the overwhelming heat of Bella's body.
For a brief instant Alice wondered if this might not be a little more than merely a bit kinky, but it was Bella's scent, and despite feeling fur instead of soft skin, this was still Bella. This was still her mate, and now Alice could surrender completely to her passion without fear of harming her lover; and then it was simply too late for conscious thought as her cunt clamped down on Bella's tongue as she began the endless fall.
Bella softly licked Alice's folds as she came down from her orgasm, but Bella was far from done.
Fortunately, so was Alice.
"Fuck me," Alice demanded, and Bella slammed into her.
Alice wrapped her legs around Bella, her small but powerful legs urging Bella on. She wrapped her arms around Bella's neck, buried her face in the softness covering Bella's steel-hard muscles and reminded herself not to bite her lover. She swallowed the venom that filled her mouth and rose eagerly to meet Bella's thrusting.
"Harder!" screamed Alice. "HARDER!"
The bed shattered beneath them, but neither of them paid it any mind, if indeed they noticed it at all. This was new to both of them, giving and receiving without any holding back. Bella was for once not thinking at all about the part of her that was driving into Alice, she was no longer a freak in her own mind, she was a woman, a lycan, and she was utterly consumed by her love and want for her tiny mate that was her match in all things.
Bella's breathing grew ragged, and she could feel herself approaching the crest of the wave.
"Don't ever stop!" cried Alice, and Bella did the best she could not to.
"I don't think we should stop at the house," Jasper told his brothers, sisters, and Tanya when they reached the garden.
"Awww, come on," pleaded Emmett, "it'll be fun!"
"It won't be fun if Bella bites your head off," Edward pointed out.
"Not to mention what Alice might do to you," Victoria added.
"Don't you two want to go join them?" Emmett asked.
"Now is not the time," Rose told him, "this is a very special moment for them, let's leave them to it."
"Guess you're right, but damn, I didn't know Bella had it in her," Emmett said in wonder as they listened to Alice's cries of pleasure.
"I think it's Alice that has it in her," Victoria corrected, "but is does sound like Bella is holding up her end."
"We'd best join Carlisle and the others," Edward urged, "this is a little unsettling…"
"Huh? Oh, yeah," Rose said, licking her lips.
"Come on, you lot," Tanya said in amusement, and she led them away from the house.
"Bella, Bella, BELLA!" screamed Alice as she felt Bella come deep within her, felt the silky hardness of her mate's body collapse on top of and within her, felt the continuing ripples of her seemingly endless orgasm, and then the world went dark.
"What did we miss?" Emmett asked Carlisle when he and Tanya, along with the rest of the Cullens, joined them at the edge of the forest.
"Well, we were nearly at war with the Quileutes, but Bella stopped it. It was amazing," Carlisle told them.
"I'm sorry I missed that," Edward responded.
"Yeah, well it didn't sound like she was stopping anything when we came by the house," Emmett told them with a huge grin. "As a matter of fact, Alice was screaming 'harder', and 'don't ever stop' so loud, Jasper here like to fainted."
"I don't need to hear this," muttered Charlie. "Shelia, can you just go ahead and change me right now so I can kick this big ox's ass?"
"You gonna get your wolf on, Charlie? I smell a bet!" Emmett said gleefully.
"Are you sure you want to put yourself through that, Charlie?" Esme asked gently, for she well remembered Charlie's reaction to Bella's first change.
"I'm sure I don't want to go through it," he replied, "the thought frankly terrifies me, but there is no way around it if I'm going to help Bella. My biggest worry, though, is that something will go wrong. Bella would blame herself if I died. Hell, she's been blaming herself her whole life for stuff that she had no choice in at all. I don't know if she could handle it if I died."
"A valid concern," Carlisle admitted. "Your physical is next week; I'll make it really thorough. Of course I cannot know for sure if you can weather the initial transformation, but I can try and see if there is reason to think that you wouldn't."
"I'll give you some information on what foods might help, too," Alicia said. "We've been studying lycan nutrition for a long time. Proper diet helps with the transformation of established lycans, it might help with the initial change as well."
"Alicia knows a lot about lycan physiology, Charlie. She'll help all that she can," Shelia promised him.
"I'm gonna be a kind of lab-wolf, huh?" Charlie responded with his eye crinkling grin. Shelia and Alicia shared a look, but remained silent. Esme saw the look and smiled, but kept silent as well.
"Bella needs to hunt in her lycan form," Shelia told the group, "she must learn to control her bite as precisely as possible before attempting to change Charlie. I believe that her intermediate form would be the best choice, her pure wolf form is simply too big, she'd bite Charlie in two."
"She's that big?" Emmett asked.
"Absolutely enormous," Edward confirmed, "she'd make two of any of the Quileutes. She was very impressive."
"I have to agree, and it was more than just her size," Esme added. "I'm not sure I could have disobeyed any command that she gave, not without great effort. I've never felt anything like it."
"There has never been anything quite like Bella," Shelia declared.
"I'm proud of her, that's for sure," Charlie said, "but isn't all that power going to make it harder for her not to kill me when she bites me?"
"It might, it all depends on Bella," Shelia answered.
"There might be another way," Carlisle said slowly.
"Another way to change Charlie to a lycan? That would be news to me," Shelia responded.
"Another way to make Charlie an immortal," Carlisle explained. "The change to vampire is easier on the body, and I could administer the needed bites with no risk of that killing you, Charlie. I should point out that the change takes three days, and the pain might be even worse than the lycan change. But it is only once, and the venom will heal all injuries during the change."
"But he wouldn't be like Bella," Rose protested.
"No, but he'd be alive. Well, not really alive, exactly," Emmett pointed out.
"I didn't know you cared, big guy," said Charlie.
"Where else am I gonna find as big a sucker to bet with?" Emmett said dismissively. In fact, Emmett was very worried, he really liked Charlie.
"It's something to think about," Charlie admitted, "but I don't think we'd have as strong a connection if I were a vampire instead of a lycan. Carlisle, where do you think the bite should be, if we do this?"
"The outside of your thigh, away from the femoral artery. The femur is the strongest bone in the body, it will be harder for Bella to bite through it or crush it." Alicia snorted.
"Sorry, Carlisle, you're right about where the bite should be, I think, but even in her intermediate form Bella could bite through his leg like a carrot stick."
Charlie shuddered.
"First things first then," Shelia declared. "Bella needs to hunt. I'll go with her during the moons, but can some of you take her out before then?"
"Sure thing," Victoria responded, "Bella is our mate, Rose, Alice, and I will take her out."
"You might start her out on big game, bears maybe, until she gets better control. If she gets to where she can reliably take a deer without tearing it apart, that should do it," Shelia told them.
"Excuse me," Charlie blurted, and he ran into the woods.
Not even Emmett laughed at the sounds of Charlie being violently ill.
"Come on Emmett," Tanya said, "you need to take your mind off the danger to your friend."
"Yeah, okay," Emmett mumbled, and he allowed himself to be led away towards the house.
"Is Emmett going to be okay with this?" Esme asked.
"As long as Charlie comes through it all right, Emmett will be fine," Jasper answered. "I'm going to go help Charlie."
"Good idea," Carlisle agreed, Jasper's power would help soothe Charlie's nerves.
"We should get back to the school," Shelia spoke up. "We'll send the dietary information, and please feel free to contact us at any time, Carlisle."
"Sure, and thanks, Shelia. I'm sorry about the trouble with the neighbors."
"No big deal, and we don't have to worry about that anymore. Damn, but she was something, wasn't she?"
"She surely was," Carlisile agreed, shaking his head in wonder at the memory of Bella's power.
"Sorry about that," Charlie said sheepishly when he and Jasper rejoined the group.
"Come on Charlie," said Alicia, "we'll get you back to your car."
"Thanks. I'll think things over and get back to you, Carlisle," Charlie told him. "See you later this evening." Something was still rolling around in Charlie's head though, Rose had said Bella was hers and Victoria's mate as well, did that mean Bella was cheating on Alice or something more? He scratched his head and decided that he would have to have a serious talk with his daughter later on.
The lycans and the vampires took leave of each other, and headed to their respective homes.
"Sign here for your property, Renee," the guard told her at out-processing.
Renee looked over the form and signed it, there was little enough there, her civilian clothes, and her purse that had about fifty dollars in it. She added the bit of money given her upon her release.
"Is anyone meeting you?" asked the guard.
"No, no one. There's no one," Renee mumbled. She was finding the prospect of being out and on her own a bit daunting. She still had her house in Phoenix, but she had to get there.
"Do you want me to call a cab for you?"
"No, the bus stop isn't that far, I'll walk. It's nice out," Renee replied.
"Suit yourself, you've paid your debt to society. Try and go straight from now on, okay?" suggested the guard kindly.
Renee rubbed her hand over the tattoo on her neck.
"It's a little late for that," she thought, and her mind was filled with thoughts of a small redheaded woman.
"So that's it?" Billy asked, incredulous. "Bella Swan says that the treaty is good, and we're all supposed to be buddies with the bloodsuckers and the lycans, and that's it?"
"That's it," Jacob confirmed as he pulled a beer out of the fridge. "Bella is the Alpha. I have to admit that I'm glad she showed up. With the lycans and the Cullens on our side we'll be able to protect the people around here better than ever. We were wrong about the Cullens, for leeches, they're okay. They still stink though."
Jacob drained the beer and went for another one.
"Want a beer, dad?"
"Yeah, getting drunk seems like a good idea just now," Billy replied.
"It sure does, I wish I could," Jacob agreed as he tossed the can to Billy. "Goddam wolf metabolism just won't let me get a buzz anymore."
"Sucks to be you," Billy told him.
"Bella Swan makes you horny," Taylor said plainly to Leah.
"You too," Leah countered.
"She was something, wasn't she?" Taylor agreed as she pulled off her shirt. "But I guess you'll just have to make do with me."
"I can live with that," Leah said, and she embraced her lover.
"We're just gonna take this?" Paul asked belligerently.
"We are just going to take this, yes," Sam confirmed, "we don't have a choice."
"Yeah, and shut up, Paul," Seth added. "You hit the ground just as quick as the rest of us."
Paul had no reply to that.
Emmett and Tanya were sitting in the garden when the rest of the Cullens arrived home.
"Is it safe to go inside?" Edward asked.
"I think so," Emmett answered him. "They've been quiet for a while now."
"Come on then," Rosalie said, and she led the way into the house.
Bella was sitting on the couch, watching tv with the sound off and drinking a huge milkshake.
"Hi guys," she greeted them after she swallowed.
"Why is the sound off?" Edward asked. "Even I can't hear it."
"Didn't want it to wake Alice," Bella explained.
"Bella dear, vampires don't sleep. We can't," Carlisle explained gently.
Bella shrugged.
"She looks asleep to me."
"I have got to see this," Emmett declared.
"Don't wake her up," cautioned Bella, and the vampires silently climbed the stairs.
Alice was curled up beneath a sheet, hugging a pillow tightly. Her eyes were closed, and she was smiling, breathing softly in and out with the side of her face buried in the pillow. Carlisle moved closer and peered at Alice, then gestured for the others to leave. He met them in the hall, silently closing the door behind him.
"Well?" demanded Emmett.
"It's not sleep," Carlisle informed them.
"Then what is it?" Esme asked.
"Bliss."
"Two out of three for first?" Victoria asked Rose as she pulled a coin from her pocket.
"I think it's time we paid our dear Cullen coven a visit, wouldn't you agree Aro" said Marcus from where he sat on his throne. Aro just smiled and looked down at the young human at his feet, his glowing red eyes even lit up a bit at the thought.
"Yes, I do believe so; but first, dinner," grabbing the human and pulling her close, he sank his teeth into her neck.
End of Chapter 23
First of All Thanks to my Dear friend Lash who sent me a computer to use so the story could keep going on and for all their efforts in this story. This chapter was done by them with little input on my part because of my computer problems but Lash keep up the story while i was hae computer troubles. So as always i want you all to thank them for this chapter because they are doing a really great job.
Notes on the various beasties in this story…
The vampires are pretty much "Twilight" canon, as are the Quileutes. As for Shelia, Bella and the other lycans, well – in classical mythology, werewolves were humans infected by lycnthropy, also known as lycanthropes. These poor souls turned into werewolves when the moon was full, and became in essence mindless, bloodthirsty beasts. This sort exists in the world of this story, though they may or may not show up. Popular culture has given rise to a vast array of were-creatures of all sorts, resulting in new terminology and a more contemporary and sometimes conflicting mythos from one fandom to another.
Our lycans are indeed were-creatures, were-wolves in fact, but they are distinct from both the Quileutes and the 'classic' werewolf. Our lycans largely retain their human mind when they change, although the 'wolfy' instincts are very powerful and can lead to violence. Lycans have differing personalities just like humans. They also have two were-forms, the intermediate semi-human form that usually walks erect and is capable of speech, and the "pure" wolf form that is even more powerful.
All lycans are werewolves, but not all werewolves are lycans. Quileutes are not werewolves at all, but shapeshifters who assume wolf form. They are however canine, and thus subject to domination by a superior canine. In this story that's Bella. Bella is the baddest bitch in the whole damn valley.