All Red

by xDreamlessx

Since the loss of her mate, Victoria has been single-mindedly focused on Bella. At first she only wanted to kill her, but in stalking her she also developed an intense attraction to her, and instead she finds herself abducting the young girl and maybe even keeping her. Bella/Victoria.

41. Chapter 41

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Chapter 41:

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For a long moment time seemed to slow and all sound dimmed away in my ears. Heidi continued down the stairs, smiling, the click of her heels faint and far away. Of all the scenarios we could've been reunited this was the one I never could've pictured. Flanked by newborns and with her violent intentions clearly displayed and hanging from the chandelier.

Heidi's shoe touched the floor at the base of the stairs and she turned her smile to Tanya.

"And, of course, lovely to see you as well, Tanya," she said. "I do hope you don't mind me popping in like this. Irena, I'm afraid, took something of an objection to my presence. She always was rather…highly strung."

The smile curved into a smirk as she glanced up at the woman wriggling in midair. Irena's chains were rattling and the trunk of her torso was swaying side to side like a pendulum and turning and revolving in the downlight of the chandelier with the strapon pointing outwards from her black leather corset.

Tanya looked up as well, her brow and her eyes more troubled than I had ever seen them, and then she looked at Heidi.

"I'm very disappointed in you, Heidi," she said. "I always treated you as a friend."

Heidi snorted disdainfully. "The disappointment is mutual. But I'm not here to hurt you or to hurt any of your coven. I'm here for Ms Swan. Surrender her quietly and no one else needs to be harmed."

Heidi had come to a halt a small distance in front of us, directly beneath the chandelier, and her newborn guards were standing at either side, young, naked, darkhaired, staring at Bella intently with deep red eyes and unwavering hunger. Bella looked at them in something like disgust, the least intimidated of all of us, and glanced back at the ornate front doors of the mansion. There were two newborns there as well, smiling with their arms folded under their breasts, and Bella all but glared at them.

I could see my mate didn't quite comprehend the danger she was in and I drew her discreetly into my arms to protect her with my body if I had to. I could feel how tense she was and how angry. I would've been more reassured from fear. Heidi noticed me wrap my arms around Bella and smirked at the futile gesture of protectiveness, knowing that I would not stand a chance against herself and four newborns. Tanya had frowned at Heidi's demand and now she stepped forward once, in front of Bella and I, and assumed a voice of authority.

"Bella and Victoria are under my protection," she said.

Heidi raised her brows and smiled and looked about mockingly. "What protection? Hm? Was Irena under your protection, too? It didn't help her much, did it? And Carmen? And those fine ladies stored down in the cellar? No, Tanya. Nothing here is under your protection. Not even yourself."

Tanya didn't reply to that. She couldn't. Irena was still swinging softly from her chains but she had stopped struggling and making sounds into the gag. Her brow was creased with pain and indignation and she made such a pitiful sight strung up there with her breasts exposed and all her arms and legs sheared away.

Heidi waited a bit and then she smiled and glanced toward the kitchen.

"Where's Kate?" she asked. "She doesn't appear to be home."

Tanya hesitated for just a moment. Then she said: "Kate left the coven. She had some disagreements about our new lifestyle and moved back to Denali."

I glanced at her and felt the first flicker of hope since walking inside. Kate wasn't in Denali. She was still right here in Seattle. Tanya had lied and it gave me heart that she was even capable of thinking ahead to some kind of rescue. Heidi now believed that Kate was out of the picture but if we could somehow call Kate or let her know what was happening then perhaps she could use that element of surprise to come help us.

Assuming we lived that long.

Heidi smirked at this news and snorted once.

"Aww," she said. "How sad. Did she object to your new diet? Funny how you were so quick to share Victoria's dining habits when you repeatedly refused my own for over a century. And I thought you always treated me as a friend? Just not as much of a friend as Victoria, hm?"

Tanya ignored all that. "Where's Carmen? Is she hurt?"

Heidi sighed and gestured vaguely toward the rooms above. "She's upstairs. I have two of my girls keeping an eye on her. I've never been one to keep a coven but I've been awfully lonely lately. And my girls have proven to be very loyal."

She turned to one of the newborns at her side and touched her hair seductively. The newborn smiled at the attention, dusky eyed and worshipful, and the other newborn put her hands at her mistress's waist in order to vie for some attention herself.

So far I had not said a single word but now I felt like I must.

"How could you do this, Heidi?" I asked her, my voice filled with an amount of hurt that was surprising even to myself. "How? We were friends for so long. Did that mean nothing to you?"

Heidi had been smiling with her newborns but now she spun to me and snarled.

"Don't you dare accuse me of unfaithfulness," she hissed. "You were the one who denied me. Our friendship meant everything to me. And when I came to you and offered more you rejected me. For her."

She pointed a finger at Bella. Bella shrank back in my arms, glaring at Heidi. I kept my arms wrapped around her from behind but my eyes were lost and locked on Heidi's.

"Heidi, please," I said. "This is absurd. Stop now before anything regrettable happens."

Heidi scoffed viciously. "It's too late, Victoria. You broke my heart. Now I'm going to break yours and reassemble the pieces to belong to me. Hand over the girl."

"No," I said, shaking my head as if such a thing were simply impossible. "You know I can't."

Heidi came forward, regal in her sapphire gown, chin high, eyes dark and commanding.

"Yes," she said. "You can. Tanya claims you are under her protection but in reality the opposite is true. Tanya is the one under your protection. And Irena and Carmen. Only one person in this house needs to die tonight. And that person is Ms Swan."

She had stopped just before us. I still had my arms around Bella and Bella snarled and spat on Heidi's chest.

"Fuck you," she said.

Under other circumstances her anger might've heartened me but in this case all it did was cause my heart to sink. The poor girl simply had no idea what kind of danger she was in. Heidi had come to kill her and this time there was nothing that could protect her. Not me, not anger, not Tanya. She was going to die. Bella was going to die. I could feel it. I honestly could.

Heidi smiled and stood there with a small patch of spittle in her cleavage and then she began to remove her long silk gloves and to dab at her chest with them as she smiled at Bella.

"Still feisty as ever, isn't she?" she asked me idly. "And still human. I would've thought you'd have turned her by now."

"I was going to," I admitted vaguely. "Tonight."

Heidi smiled at that and tossed her gloves aside on the marble floor. "Well, worry not. At least as a human she won't have to endure being separated from her limbs and burnt alive. Instead perhaps I'll just snap her neck. Nice and quick. Hm?"

Heidi lifted one of her hands teasingly and began reaching for Bella's throat. Slowly. Mockingly. I held Bella, my arms tightening around her from behind, and glanced wildly left to right at the newborns that surrounded us and back at Heidi in despair.

"Heidi, please," I said. "I beg you."

Heidi smiled and continued to reach for Bella's neck.

"Don't beg, Victoria," she said. "It's unseemly."

I didn't know what to do. What was I supposed to do? Could I really just stand here and do nothing while Heidi snaps Bella's neck? While she snatches my mate away from me and snuffs out her life right in front of my eyes? Why wouldn't my body move? Why couldn't I—?

Tanya reached and seized Heidi's wrist.

The newborns roused and glared with crimson eyes and began growling deep in their throats. Heidi glared at Tanya. Tanya glared back with eyes equally red and filled with rage.

"Do not touch her," she said.

Bella glanced between them. Heidi snatched her hand away from Tanya and stepped back. Tanya continued to glare at her with authority.

"This is my house and Bella and Victoria are my coven," she said. "I will not stand idly by while those I care about are hurt."

Heidi frowned and rubbed her wrist. "This girl means nothing to you, Tanya. Would you honestly die for her?"

"She means everything to Victoria," Tanya countered. "And that I would die for."

I looked at her in pure sadness.

Oh, Tanya.

Heidi stared at her with her darkening red eyes. The newborns were prowling in a circle around us, naked, lethal, seething with constrained violence like banshees before the wail. Tanya stood stalwartly in her white gown, lady of the house, and Heidi returned her gaze for a long time until Heidi finally snorted.

"Well," she said. "How noble of you. Unfortunately I have no interest in taking your life in Ms Swan's name. She deserves no such vanity. Nor do I have any desire to harm you at all. So step aside and—"

Tanya leapt at Heidi.

My heart sundered.

It happened in a blur. Heidi was caught by surprise and she howled as Tanya's fingernails left three bloodless and pale pink furrows in her cheek. Only very narrowly she avoided having her head torn off. The newborns had stared in shock and now they sprang. All four of them. Even just one newborn would've been more than a match for any vampire, even one as old and strong as Tanya, but Tanya somehow managed to fight them off, moving in perfect serenity and silence while her opponents hissed and snarled and clawed at her like cats.

I watched, paralysed with my mate in my arms, and it was fear for Bella that kept me from coming to Tanya's aid. I couldn't possibly leave Bella unguarded and yet it killed me inside to simply stand by like a coward as Tanya struggled and writhed against four different newborns, her gown torn to shreds, naked now and wrestling these young women on the floor in an orgy of violence and breasts and naked legs. More than that was the simple reality that Tanya was going to die. She could not defeat four newborns and neither could I even if I helped. All I could do was watch and keep my arms around Bella.

Heidi was watching as well, holding her cheek where the nail slashes were, and her hair bun had come undone and loosened her mahogany curls all over her shoulders. Irena had begun thrashing above, her limbless torso jerking and buckling, and she was screaming into her gag. Bella glanced at me wildly, aghast that I wasn't helping, and she looked like she wanted to rush into the melee herself. But I held her firm and watched as Tanya took hold of one of the newborns by the hair and ripped her head away. The head was discarded instantly, flinging across the foyer and hitting an oilpainting and bouncing on the floor and rolling a short distance until it came up with its teeth in a snarl and its eyes bulging and blinking in pain and disorientation.

The body lay face down in the floor with no head, naked, the buttocks pale and cold-looking in the light of the chandelier. The other newborns surged with outrage for their fallen comrade and Tanya wasn't able to press any advantage. They tackled her and pinned her down in her white lace panties and then one of them held her to the floor, snarling into her face, while the other two took hold of an ankle each and ripped her open like a wishbone, breaking both legs and tearing the bones right out of the hipsockets while Tanya thrashed and howled in agony, a sound that stitched a rift into my heart like a black axeblow.

Bella gasped and found herself unable to even speak. The newborns tossed aside those perfect legs, each one still with a white high heeled shoe buckled about each ankle, and now they were converging on Tanya's throat.

"Tanya, no!" I screamed.

Heidi glanced at me, frowning with her hand to her cheek, and then she barked at her newborns.

"Stop!"

The newborns froze at the sound of their mistress's voice. They were seething with frenzy and staring at Tanya's pain-wracked face and then they slowly backed off and looked at Heidi. Heidi glared and lowered her hand from her cheek.

"Don't kill her," she said. "Chain her in the cellar with all of her victims. She can have her legs back when we're done here."

The newborns didn't seem to like that but they didn't question their mistress. Tanya was whimpering from the pain and now one of the newborns started dragging her by a wrist.

Irena began to struggle from her chains again, wriggling limblessly, and Heidi smiled up at her.

"Don't worry, Irena, you can have your bits and pieces back as well soon enough," she said. "As I said, there's only one person here who needs to die."

Heidi lowered her eyes to Bella. Bella glared at her.

Tanya was being dragged away and she was wearing nothing but earrings and a pair of white lace panties that stuck to her body indecorously above the twin stumps of her ripped off legs. Her eyes met mine as her head dragged along the floor and she apologized silently for not being more help. But whatever regret she might've felt was nothing compared to the gulf of grief in my chest that had opened up while I simply stood by and watched such a horrible fate befall her. The other two newborns stayed behind. The headless woman lay as before. No one seemed to pay her any mind.

Heidi watched her go and then she turned to me and snatched Bella out of my arms.

I was so surprised I could do little more than gasp. I had been holding her so close that the instant lack of warmth against my front was like a tidal wave of ice. Heidi had Bella by the hair and Bella whimpered. Heidi smiled at me.

"See?" she said. "That wasn't so hard, was it?"

I took a step forward. "Bella," I said in a trembly voice.

Bella grimaced at the pain of her pulled hair. "Vicky."

Heidi flared at that and wrenched her around and slapped her across the face. "Shut up," she said. "Don't even say her name. You worthless slut."

"Fuck you."

Heidi slapped her again. Then again. Each slap made a sharp smacking sound that echoed in the marble cavern of the foyer and I shuddered in terror from each strike across my mate's soft and fragile cheek and shuddered again and again as Heidi kept slapping her and slapping her and—

"Heidi, stop," I begged. "Heidi. Heidi. Heidi!"

My voice shrieked loudly enough to snap Heidi out of her hateful trance. She had a handful of Bella's hair and Bella sagged limply, half-unconscious. She hadn't made a single sound of pain and even now she seemed more angry than anything else.

Heidi glared at me and I clasped my hands together pleadingly.

"Please," I said. "I'll do anything. Just don't hurt her."

Heidi looked at me a long moment and then she smiled and straightened up and threw Bella toward the two remaining newborns. The newborns caught her by the arms and grinned and began nosing her neck sexily and inhaling her hot delectable scent. Bella grimaced and turned away from them in disgust.

I looked at them in terror. My only consolation was that Heidi would never allow anyone to kill Bella but Heidi herself.

"Careful with her, my dears," Heidi told them. "I want her to witness what happens next. Bring her and follow us."

I still had my hands clasped like a little girl in prayer and now Heidi smiled at me and unlocked my hands and gave them an affectionate pat as she offered me one of her winsome smiles.

"Come, Victoria," she said. "We have a lot of catching up to do."

She then linked her arm with mine and led me toward the stairs.

Bella struggled against the newborns but they growled at her and marched her along behind us.

Heidi led me down the upstairs corridor. One of the doors was ajar and inside I could hear the sounds of gagged and muffled protest and as we went by I could see Carmen being raped by two newborns. Carmen was armless, only stumps and shattered bone protruding from her shoulders, and there was a ball gag stuck into her mouth. The newborns with her were darkhaired as well and they were grinning and toying with her and shoving fingers into each of her holes experimentally while she twisted and whimpered. My face broke in sadness and then we passed the door and the sight was snatched away.

No one said anything. Heidi smiled and continued down the corridor into the master bedroom. There were no lights on and the room was filled with candles and with the warm light from the huge hearth of the fireplace. There was a rack of firetools by the fireplace—pokers and wire brooms—and my mind tried briefly to process that information into some plan of resistance. Fire was a vampire's greatest weakness and I thought if I could somehow use the fire and take them by surprise, perhaps with a burning log directly out of the fireplace, then maybe I would have a chance. But then I looked back and saw Bella, my love, jostling between the grip of two ravenous newborns, and I knew they could kill her in the blink of an eye if I made even one wrong move.

Heidi took me to the fireplace and unlinked my arm and turned to smile at me in the warm orange light. The stroll seemed to have done her some good. She looked at me for a long moment, as if it had been such a long time since she had seen me, and fiddled with my hair to make it look perfect. I looked at her sadly and my chief emotion was still hurt. I honestly could not comprehend why she was doing this. Heidi. My oldest friend. How little I had known her. I knew she was dangerous and I knew I had hurt her but I never, not even in my darkest dreams, thought she could sink this far.

Bella was watching, glaring, and struggling limply against the newborns but the newborns held her firm. Heidi ignored her and focused solely on my face.

"Still as lovely as ever," she whispered. "Tauntingly so."

I shook my head sadly and my eyes would've glistened if they could. "Heidi, please. Don't do this."

Heidi was caressing my face and she seemed not to hear. "Oh, Victoria. How I've longed for you. Why won't you be mine? Hm? Don't you know how much I love you?"

"It's not too late, Heidi. If you love me the way you say you do then prove it by not harming Bella."

Heidi smiled vaguely, still staring into my eyes. "I'm afraid it is too late, Victoria. You must belong to me. I will accept nothing less."

"Oh, Heidi. How could you have let this happened to you? I used to admire you so much. You were everything I ever aspired to be as a woman."

"I'm still that same woman, Victoria."

"No. That woman would never lower herself to this. What do you honestly hope to gain here, Heidi? You've destroyed your friends. You're going to kill my mate. And you think somehow this will make me love you? Why? Why would I ever love something as pathetic as what you've become?"

Heidi's eyes darkened. She looked at me for a long moment and then she smiled. "I don't need to make you love me. All I need to do is remind you that you always did."

I shook my head, my heart dripping with sorrow, and she took my chin gently and turned my head to look at Bella. Bella's eyes locked onto mine, dark, fierce, so terribly brave and stupid. Heidi smiled and whispered to me.

"Look at her, Victoria," she said. "Would you like to see her die right now? Hm? I'm not afraid of ending her life. You think that if I kill her it will hurt you so bad that you'll never be able to forgive me. But you're wrong. Because I know you, Victoria. I know you better than anyone. Better than Tanya. Better than Bella. Better than James, even. You remember James, don't you? He was your mate, wasn't he? And then he died and what did you do? You replaced him. Exactly the same way you'll replace Ms Swan."

Something flickered in Bella's frown as she listened. As if for the first time she might be afraid. Not of pain or death but that Heidi's words might be true.

Heidi turned my face back to her own and smiled at me wantonly in the firelight.

"I know you better than you know yourself, Victoria," she said. "Your body is weak and your heart is whorish. More so even than Ms Swan. You will always belong to whoever has the strength to take you. That person will be me. You'll see. I'm going to seduce you and make love to you and when I'm done perhaps you'll even join me in dispatching the useless Ms Swan."

"Heidi, this is absurd," I began in a panic. "You can't—"

"Shh," she said, putting a finger to my lips. "Just relax. Relax and take off your dress."

"Heidi—"

Heidi smirked and nodded at the newborns.

The newborns jerked Bella around roughly by each arm causing Bella to wince and gasp out in pain.

I startled, knowing that my mate could've been literally ripped to pieces in that instant, and quickly turned back to Heidi. Heidi looked into my eyes unyieldingly. The flames of the fireplace were burning brightly inside them and I could see very clearly in those dark red pools that she would have nothing less than my obedience.

Slowly I reached behind my back and unzipped my dress. I didn't even feel embarrassed or humiliated. Just sad. Resigned. I felt perhaps like how a human would feel in the throes of a bad dream, the terror and the hopelessness mitigated by the deep belief that there was no true danger. That perhaps any minute I would wake up. Perhaps it was denial but part of me was still unable to believe my precious Heidi would be capable of hurting me in this way.

So I did as she said and undressed for her. Letting my gown down until it collapsed about my shoes in a rustle of material and a quiet clatter of sequins. Underneath I wore nothing but a pair of lace panties. Red. The color of lust. Heidi's eyes raked over my body, longingly, desperately. My body tingled in response. My nipples tightened. Bella was watching disappointedly, ashamed at my lack of resistance, but she didn't understand. Her brain just couldn't process what was happening. I had to do this. I had no choice.

Heidi made a sound of desire deep in her throat, her dark eyes clouding over, and placed her hands at my hips. I squirmed slightly and held up my hands, elbows tucked daintily, keeping my hands away from Heidi's. Heidi smiled at me and looked directly into my eyes.

"Mmm," she murmured. "Still as wondrous as ever. Oh, Victoria. Do you have any idea how badly you hurt me? Hm?"

One of her hands rose and brushed it's knuckles against the globe of one of my breasts. I shivered. A strange throb occurred in my vagina and that was the most distressing thing yet.

"Please, Heidi," I said. "It's not too late. Let her go and I'll do anything you want."

"I've already told you, Victoria. It's far too late."

I shook my head desperately. "No, it isn't. I can forgive you. Let her go right now and I'll forgive you for everything. Please, Heidi."

Heidi was hardly even listening. She caressed the globe of my breast and took it in her hand and squeezed it affectionately before lifting her eyes to mine.

"Let's not talk about that right now," she said softly. "Let's just relax and spend some time together. The way we used to. And after I'm done with you perhaps you'll see things my way."

I clenched my teeth with my breast in her hand but in truth I didn't know what to say. I only knew that I had to say something. Words were my only defence. My only hope for Bella and I.

Heidi smiled at me and unhanded my breast and turned around in her sapphire gown and gathered her rich dark hair over her shoulder.

"Would you get my zipper for me?" she asked sweetly.

I glanced helplessly at Bella. Bella told me with her eyes not to do it. But again I had no choice. I turned back to Heidi and reached for the zipper on Heidi's dress. It was down the middle of her back. I lowered it slowly all the way to the base of her back and watched as a swathe of white skin was revealed over the faint and dainty articulation of her back muscles.

Heidi made a sound of pleasure at my obedience and then she turned back to me and let down her dress. The bodice came away from her breasts and they were as large as mine and similarly shaped and shimmering in the firelight like illusions of breasts too perfect to be real. The gown collapsed around her shoes, revealing the long lengths of her legs. So long. Pearl white with a sheen of orange and dancing shadows from the fire. My eyes flickered at them hopelessly and then looked at her panties. A tiny scrap of blue lace with a small purple bow. Looking at them made my own tiny scrap feel tighter.

Heidi smiled at my reactions, as if she could visibly see the unwilling attraction steal over me, and then she cupped the nape of my neck and drew me toward her until our breasts brushed and our eyes were only inches apart and our lips as well.

"Be honest, Victoria," she said. "Did you miss me?"

My throat had almost closed over but I did manage to speak. "You're not the woman I missed. The woman I missed was my friend. Not this pathetic, vindictive—"

But all of a sudden Heidi's patience seemed to run out.

Her face twisted in anger and her hand clenched in my hair and then she wrenched me around, off my feet, and shoved my face toward the open fireplace.

"Vicky!"

Bella's scream from behind me. The fireplace had been protected by a folding iron fence but now the fence clattered away as my head was shoved into it. I felt the heat lick against my face and I tried to shrink back from the flames but Heidi's grip was unyielding and fear for Bella kept me from resisting too much. At first I thought she was going to kill me, or at least disfigure me, but she was very careful that not even any of my hair was singed.

"Speak carefully, Victoria," she growled. "Bella perhaps isn't the only one who needs to die tonight."

I grimaced at the heat, ungodly to a vampire's cold skin, and glared into the deep embers. I had an impulse to reach into the fire itself, to grab one of those logs an spin around and beat Heidi over the head with it until her face was nothing but a stain of blood and ash spread across—

Heidi wrenched me away from the fire and threw me onto the bed.

I landed on the mattress and bounced. Well. I suppose this was the part where I was raped. Bella gave a mighty surge against her captors, as if she thought she might save me, but the newborns only grinned and held her tighter, chuckling and drawing her back toward their sniffing noses and the little licks of their tongues at her throat, wordless and animalistic and waiting only for permission before rending her to pieces.

Heidi glanced at them as they got Bella under control and then she turned to me. I was sitting there in the bed with my legs open, exactly how I had been thrown, and me the wounded look on face bought a charming smile to her mouth.

"Forgive me," she said. "I've been so emotional lately. But honestly, Victoria dearest, nothing has changed. I'm still the same woman who loved you. Only now I love you even more. You understand that, don't you?"

She was climbing into the bed, wearing nothing but her underwear, her breasts swinging. My legs didn't close. She smiled at my passiveness and slithered to my side like a viper and cupped my face and smiled down at me.

"We belong together, my love," she whispered. "Oh, how I've longed to call you that. My love. My sweetest loveliest Victoria. You could not imagine how consumed I am by my love for you."

I looked at her sadly. Only seconds earlier she had threatened to burn me alive. She didn't even know how unstable she had become. She honestly believed that she loved me and we were supposed to be together.

Heidi smiled at my silence and then she hooked one of her legs around mine and nestled it there, letting our thighs rub together, our bodies. She was still caressing my face and she leaned down and kissed my lips gently. Once. Twice.

I turned my mouth away and my head rolled to Bella. She was standing there between the newborns, frowning, eyes finally beginning to fill with tears. Heidi noticed the glance and chuckled softly as she snuggled our bodies together in the firelight and touched my face.

"It's okay," she said. "You can look at her. I want her to see. But more importantly look at us. Look at our bodies, my love. Are we not a perfect fit for each other? Have we not always been?"

I looked at us. Her leg was coiled around mine like a pale anaconda and she was rubbing them together softly, insistently, teasingly. My own body had unconsciously moved to conform to hers, subtle shifts in her direction, angle corrections to allow more contact. Her hand was moving up and down my side, searing the skin in its path, and then she took hold of my breast and fondled it firmly.

I looked up at her breathlessly, at her face and at the smile on her ravishing red mouth. She saw the look in my eye and the corner of her smile curved upward.

"Can you feel it, Victoria?" she whispered urgently, gripping my breast and pushing her thigh at my panties. "These sparks? Do we not crackle to be with one another? Can you honestly deny it?"

Finally I realized what was happening and I tried to move. "Heidi."

"Yes," she hissed, holding me tight and leaning to my mouth. "Say it again."

"Bella is my mate."

She froze. Her eyes were closed and her mouth was almost touching mine. Then she rose up and opened her cold red-black eyes.

"No," she said. "She is not."

Then she swooped and smashed her mouth onto mine.

Icy passion crashed into my heart like an avalanche and I made a soft sound of protest. It was all I seemed to be capable of. Heidi's tongue entered my mouth and my jaw fell open bonelessly. I moaned again but there was nothing I could do. Her tongue was so big, so powerful. It seemed to fill my whole head until there wasn't room for even the smallest rational thought.

Her body was moving against mine and slowly I was being turned on. Maybe it was the wrongness itself. Or maybe it was just Heidi. Maybe there had been some truth to her words. Part of me always did long for her ever since the first time I laid eyes on her. And now she was taking me. Taking me in a way I had never been taken before. I did not return her kiss but there seemed no need to. Her tongue swirled in my mouth and her voice groaned deep into my throat and I murmured and squirmed my body helplessly against her hand on my breast and her leg wrapped around mine and against the awful and incredible rubbing of her all desirable body.

Finally she slowed the kiss, retracting her tongue and focusing on my lips, nibbling at them, suckling at them, before she broke the kiss entirely and rose up slightly on her elbow. My eyes fluttered open. There was no sound at all in the room but the crackling of the fireplace. Bella was standing there, silently, each of her arms gripped by each of the newborns, and her eyes were angry—at me. I stared at her with my mouth open, my mind so curiously blank, and Heidi took my chin and turned my face back to hers.

"I am your mate, Victoria," she said. "No one will ever love you as I do."

I looked up at her pleadingly. "Please stop this, Heidi."

Heidi smiled and shook her head. She was still gripping my chin and the grip caused my lips to purse as if I wanted another kiss. "Your mouth lies, my love," she said. "Your body is more honest. I can feel how much it missed me even if you claim you did not."

She then released my chin and lowered her hand to that place between my legs and began rubbing the front of my panties.

I moaned.

The touch had rolled my eyes into my head. My thighs spread all on their own, without inquiring with my emotions or mind. Heidi's fingers were rubbing, firmly, deliberately, unyieldingly. Behind the flimsy barrier of red lace my vagina was already moistening for more.

"Do you see, Victoria?" Heidi asked me in a soft voice. "Do you see?"

I opened my eyes and looked at her in a rush of panic. I shook my head and my eyes swung to Bella. Bella was glaring at me darkly, held captive in her black gown with her dark hair all wild from her struggles, and I sobbed at how I was failing her.

"Please, Heidi," I said. "Just let Bella go. You've won. You've got me. I'll do anything you want. Just let Bella go."

Heidi looked over at Bella with a smile, still rubbing me and asserting her power over me. "Let's just leave her there for now. And after we've renewed our relationship, perhaps we'll have her for dessert? Hm?"

I sobbed again and shook my head. "No."

"No? Are you lying again, Victoria? I think perhaps you're weaker to your lusts than you may realize. You ought to be less afraid of me hurting her and more afraid of what you may do to her—once you realize that I am your mate and she is nothing but a sack of worthless meat. Hm?"

"No—"

Heidi rose up and at first there was a wash of relief.

But then I realized she wasn't letting me go and instead she was shifting between my legs.

My panties came away sticky with arousal. Heidi pulled them off and tossed them aside with a giggle. My legs fell open for her. There seemed to be no sense in closing them. My vagina was waiting, throbbing with impatience, and I thought it was unfair. That slit between my legs was the entrance to the core of my being and yet what kind of core could be so disconnected from my heart and mind? What was it truly the entrance to? What was it truly the core of?

Heidi lowered herself and pressed her mouth to the mound there. I moaned and arched a little bit. So unfair. Heidi moaned as well, causing little vibrations to enter my body, and she wrapped an arm around one of my legs and began licking. I winced as if it hurt. Winced and grimaced and clenched my eyes closed. Oh, Bella. Please don't watch me. I'm so ashamed.

I opened my eyes and looked. Bella was glaring at me harder than ever, bordering on hate, and it actually reassured me. I deserved it. Heidi was right. I'm a whore. My body is rotten. I used my eyes to try and plead for her forgiveness but it was difficult. My mouth was open and my expressing kept flinching as Heidi's tongue dragged across the wet folds of my womanhood and flicked at the tiny nub of my clitoris. Bella didn't look away, jerking at her captors absently. She was so brave. I loved her so much. I kept my eyes on hers, unable to look away. Thinking that it was the least she deserved. To know at last what kind of woman I am. It may be the only apology I could ever offer her.

The orgasm was approaching now and I wasn't strong enough to fight it. Heidi continued to lick and nibble at me with long moans, pressing her mouth and her tongue harder and harder, eating me, devouring me, lapping away at my essence itself, at all my hopes and humiliations and all the things I ever loved, everything right there in that moisture that welled from the apparent core of my being, and swallowing it down and moaning and lapping up more and more until finally—

I gasped and clenched a hand in my hair.

The orgasm seemed to shred me, erupting between my legs and sending a spray of razor sharp shrapnel through my body. I choked on the feeling and gasped and cried tearlessly. My eyes were closed again and I never wanted to open them. I wanted to die. I wanted to remain here in the blackness forever and never face the fact that I was exactly what Heidi said I was.

"I'm sorry," I sobbed out loud. "I'm so sorry."

Heidi rose up from between my legs and I heard her chuckle. "Yes, apologize. Apologize to her for being wrong about her. For assuming she was your mate when your mate is right here with you."

I opened my eyes. I was looking at Bella. Bella's glare had shifted subtly and now she seemed to feel sorry for me. The look in her eyes caused me to shrivel in shame and I turned away and closed my legs and looked up at Heidi.

Heidi smiled down at me. Her smile was satisfied, as if something was finally settled. She looked at my face and then she cupped it and gazed into my eyes in the firelight. I sniffled and didn't move. She brushed a thumb over my lips.

"Tell me you love me, Victoria," she whispered. "Tell me you love me and everything can be perfect. You know it can. It's all up to you. All you need to do is tell me you love me."

I didn't answer. I couldn't. My stomach was churning and my eyes were stinging with tears I could never shed. Heidi smiled at the look in my face and she took one of my hands and pressed it to one of her breasts.

"Speak with your body if you cannot with words," she suggested. "Your body knows what it wants more than you do."

I listened to those words and I began to realize now that it didn't. My body knew nothing. That was very clear to me now. Heidi had taken my body and seduced it and forced it into a heart crushing orgasm but as weak as my heart had been there was something inside that heart that was stronger than all the rest of me put together.

My love for Bella.

It came to me like an epiphany. Suddenly my face went calm. My eyes stilled. It was more clear to me now than ever before and perhaps Heidi's grand seduction had done nothing more than peel away the deepest of the doubts and insecurities until this one final immutable truth was unearthed:

I loved Bella.

Heidi was still watching me, waiting for my reply with a smile, and slowly I pulled my hand away from her breast and looked at her sadly.

"I'm sorry, Heidi," I said. "I don't love you."

Heidi stared at me, her hand frozen at her chest. I took that hand in my own and tried to make her understand with my eyes.

"Bella is my mate," I said. "She really is. Please accept that and end this folly. Leave now and I can still forgive you. But if you touch her, if you even so much as—"

Heidi snatched her hand away from me in disgust and then she booted me out of the bed, shoving at me with her foot until I fell over the edge and thudded on the floor.

"Then you're more of a whore than I thought," she spat. "Give me the girl!"

I heard this command with a stab of ice in my heart and quickly sprang up.

The newborns threw Bella onto the bed and Heidi grabbed her by the hair and forced her to be still. In a wild panic I tried to intercept my mate but the newborns seized me and dragged me away from the bed.

"No!" I screamed. "Heidi, no, please!"

I thrashed at the newborns but their inhuman strength was too much for me to overcome. They each had a grip on my arms and I jerked and tugged, my naked breasts flapping across my chest, but there was nothing I could do.

Heidi was kneeling in the bed and she had Bella from behind and now she wrapped a hand around Bella's throat menacingly.

"Silence," she said to me.

I quieted and went still, my body coursing with fear and distress. Bella grimaced at the tightness around her throat but her dark eyes were hardly more than annoyed at what Heidi was doing to her.

"Please," I whimpered at Heidi. "Don't hurt her. If you kill her, you'll have to kill me too. I won't live without her, Heidi. Not for you, not for anyone."

Heidi snorted and released Bella throat. "We'll see about that."

Bella flopped over, coughing from her raw throat, and Heidi began ripping off her dress roughly. The fabric tore with long ripping sounds and Bella grunted as her body was jerked and shoved around. I worried for broken bones and I almost started begging again when the dress finally came away.

The rag of blackness was tossed aside and it landed on the floor by the fireplace. The iron fence was sprawled aside and again I had the urge to reach into the blaze and grab one of those logs and—

The newborns jerked me around and forced me to face the bed. Heidi ripped away Bella's panties as well and then she grabbed a handful of Bella's thick dark hair and shook her around like a doll. Bella groaned and went with the momentum, her arms and breasts flopping all over the place, and then Heidi wrenched her back and stared into her face.

"Now, Ms Swan," she said in a low growl. "Let's see if you got a little wet from watching me fuck Victoria."

Heidi reached between Bella's legs. She had been smirking. Now the smirk faded into a glare.

"Hm," she said. "No wetness at all. I'm surprised. As I recall, you were rather a slut."

The grip in Bella's hair must've loosened slightly because now Bella leaned back a little and then dove forward in a headbutt.

Her skull slammed into Heidi's face but as a vampire Heidi little more than flinched. The two newborns hissed, as if they disapproved of such conduct toward their mistress, and I felt a gigantic pang of fear with only a little flush of pride. Oh, Bella. You stupid girl.

Bella was dazed but Heidi shook her about by the hair to revived her.

"You're very hard headed, Ms Swan," she said. "Has anyone ever told you that?"

Bella looked at her in disgust. "Fuck you."

Heidi smirked and accepted the comment with a certain horniness. "Ooh," she said. "Such a filthy mouth. Why don't we put that mouth to better use, hm?"

Then she ripped off her own panties and shoved Bella's head between her legs.

"Lick," she commanded. "Lick or I'll snap your neck."

Bella was face down between Heidi's thighs with Heidi reclining in the bed like empress and Bella was struggling and trying to wrench away from the claw in her hair.

"Fuck you," she muttered into the other woman's vagina. "Fuck you, you filthy, disgusting—"

Heidi's legs suddenly shot out and wrapped around Bella's head and wrenched her to the side.

I gasped in horror but Bella's fists were balled and she was beating them about Heidi's hips.

She was moving.

Her neck wasn't broken.

"Bella, please," I pleaded to her, my voice high and desperate. "Please, baby, just do as she says. It'll be okay. Please."

Heidi smirked at all that, my mate's head trapped between her thighs. Bella slowed and finally stopped struggling. Her naked body was on all fours with her face buried in the other woman's crotch. She seemed to be thinking about her next move. I hoped she would cooperate. Heidi's mercy was perhaps our only hope.

Bella still didn't move and Heidi tightened her thighs menacingly.

"Do it," she said. "Now."

Bella hesitated for a moment longer.

Then she began licking.

I could see her head bobbing from the movements and I sagged in relief. Cooperation was our only chance. Heidi laughed and loosened her thighs just a bit. Bella's eyes were closed and I could see her tongue licking against Heidi's wet slit. The sight curdled my stomach but there was nothing we could do.

Heidi moaned pleasurably and heaved her hips.

"Good girl," she said. "Yes. Keep going. Don't worry, I'm very close. Victoria turned me on a great deal earlier. When I was fucking her right in front of you. You remember, don't you? When you were just standing there and watching like a—"

Bella suddenly recoiled from Heidi's vagina, her thighs just loose enough to do so, and threw a slap at Heidi's face.

Heidi caught it and this time she was amused.

"You really are much more feisty than I remember," she said. "Come here, you little bitch. I think you need to be reminded of your place."

Heidi was clutching Bella's wrist and she swung her around into her lap. She made Bella face me and then she hooked her legs around Bella from behind. Bella thrashed wordlessly, her face twisted in disgust. Heidi had a handful of her head and with her other hand she reached down into Bella's lap and began stroking her vagina.

Bella said nothing, squirming between the other woman's legs. Heidi nuzzled her cheek and grinned, rubbing at the split between her legs. I struggled limply at the newborns. Heidi laughed, cheek to cheek with my mate, and smiled at me in the firelight.

"Watch her, Victoria," she said. "You'll see exactly how worthless she is."

Bella gave a surge at that. "The only thing worthless here is you. You stupid cunt."

Annoyance flickered on Heidi's face. "Silence."

"Fuck you," Bella went on, brash, bold, uncaring. "Victoria doesn't love you, you dumb whore. She loves me. You're the one who's nothing. Just some five hundred year old booty call. She fucked you and she got rid of you because she doesn't need you. I'm the one she loves. I'm the one—"

Heidi stabbed her fingers into Bella's vagina.

It must've been dry and utterly unaroused because Bella hissed and tossed her head in pain. Heidi glared at her in the firelight and shoved the fingers in deeper, twisting them like a knife.

"I said silence," she hissed.

Bella laughed through the pain, sitting there between the other woman's legs, and then she turned to look at Heidi. "You wanna fuck me, bitch? Is that what you want? Huh?"

Bella grabbed her face and pulled her into a vicious kiss.

I stared in shock. The two newborns clutching my arms stared as well. Their grip had slackened slightly and once more I had the impulse to grab one of those logs. If I was quick enough and while they were all distracted—

Bella gave Heidi a disgusting tonguing with no lust or affection of any kind in it and then she pulled back and spat in Heidi's mouth.

"Fuck you," she said.

Heidi glared at her and then pushed her over onto her face. Bella had her ass in the air and still with Heidi's fingers jammed inside her.

"Well, this is unpleasant," Heidi said, to the room in general. "I had intended to seduce her gently but I suppose she always did have an affinity for abuse."

"You're so fucking stupid," Bella said, her face pushed into the mattress. "I'm not even wet."

Heidi's face twist in rage and suddenly she ripped her fingers out and she must've curled them up first because they came out covered in blood and blood sprayed out of Bella's entrance and Bella howled in pain.

The newborns froze as the scent instantly filled the room. Their grip on my arms had completely loosened but I could feel how tense they were and I didn't dare move for fear of triggering a frenzy.

Heidi sat there in the bed with blood all over her breasts and she released her grip and let Bella flop over and draw her legs together.

"How about now?" she demanded at Bella. "Are you wet now?"

Bella again laughed and rolled over and opened her legs. She was bleeding between them and blood was staining the white satin sheets beneath her.

"Keep trying, bitch," she said. "There's nothing you can do. I love Victoria and Victoria loves me. You're just a disgusting piece of trash who doesn't know when she's not—"

Heidi grabbed her by the hair.

I dashed for the fireplace.

What happened next happened in a moment. The newborns were so mesmerized by the scent of blood in the air that they hardly realized I broke their grip. Heidi noticed first and her face drained. My hand reached into the yellow heart of the fire and took hold of a burning log. Instantly my vampire skin began to burn and blister. Heidi spun around in the bed, her mouth open, her breasts covered with the blood of my mate, and I swung the log and connected with it across her face.

The log exploded in a burst of yellow sparks but the damage was much less than I would've liked. Heidi screamed and covered her face, her eyes filled with cinders and small embers. Bella was sitting there with her legs open, her mouth open as well, staring while she bled out of her vagina. Heidi fell into the bed, screaming, and I made a dive for Bella. I thought maybe I could tackle her and come up and continue on through the bay window in the far wall and somehow get her to safety. But the newborns were faster than I was and stronger and they grabbed me and seized me and hissed into my face like bats.

"Bella!" I screamed. "Bella!"

Heidi struggled up and grabbed Bella by the throat. I gave a hellacious surge and somehow seemed to overpower the newborns by sheer will. The thrash of my arms flung one them into the ceiling where she left a cavernous dent in the plaster before hitting the floor in a fine sifting of white powder and the other was launched into the darkwood chifferobe in a great splintering and explosion of wood.

Heidi had pulled Bella up and she had her hand clamped around my mate's frail white throat. She was squeezing so hard Bella couldn't even speak. She was choking. Heidi's eyes were pure red, both the iris and sclera, demonic stones set in a head that was blistered and smouldering from perhaps rage itself.

"Stay back!" she shrieked. "Stay back or she dies!"

The newborns were regrouping, unharmed, converging at either side of me with dark glares and hard nipples. I looked at them and looked at Bella. Bella was choking, her eyes rolling up, and I gave her a despairing look.

"I will return, my love," I said.

Then I turned and leaped across the room and crashed out of the window.

The ground was a long way down from the upper floor. I flailed through the air in a rain of glass, tangled in the winecolored curtains, and finally landed in a hedge and rolled and ripped away the curtain. I was in the gardens. The moon was near full and the sky was clear. I stepped free from the debris of the window frame, shaking glass out of my wild red hair, and started running. Dimly behind me I could hear Heidi screaming from the window for me to come back but I knew she wouldn't hurt Bella. Not until I returned.

With Kate.

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AN: Another semi-cliffy, lol. You see now why I needed to get Kate out of the mansion earlier? ;)

I've been planning this one for a long time, but honestly, it turned out a lot different. I liked the kind of role-reversal between Bella and Vicky. I loved how Bella's feelings for Victoria have grown so strong that she was immune to everything Heidi did. It was the final bit of proof that Bella's feelings are more than just a rape fetish. Bella is the strong one now, who didn't give an inch, while Victoria was almost completely seduced by Heidi. But in the end, the seduction only reaffirmed Vicky's feelings for Bella.

Tanya got a bit dismembered, but she's going to be okay, lol. Irena as well and Carmen too. All of our poor ladies have taken a bit of punishment, haven't they? Tanya at least won't hold a grudge against Vicky. I like how she's turned out to be a bit of a foil for Heidi: both of them are the best friends of Vicky and in love with her, but Tanya selflessly allows Vicky to be happy with Bella while Heidi desperately wants to kill Bella and keep Vicky for herself.

Although, to be honest, I'm a little disappointed as well. I expected more debauchery from this chapter, gang-rapings with the newborns and things like that, but in the end it just didn't fit with Heidi's emotional agenda. Ah well. I think maybe it turned out better this way, hopefully.

Okay, new chapter soon. Hope you liked it. :)