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Chapter 68:

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The next morning we arrived in London. At last. The train pulled into the station and a strange excitement had settled over us both, half nervous, wondering if our coven mates would be angry for how we left, wondering if they would accept us back. Together we disembarked from our long and magical journey at King's Cross station like Harry Potter coming home from Hogwarts and we stood on the platform with no luggage and looked around. The ceiling was a dome of high glass and the sun was cold and bright beyond. The large cavern echoed with voices and the shuttling of trains in tunnels and Bella sighed as if she had expected Tanya and the others to be here to greet her. She looked about one more time and then turned to me.

"So," she said. "How we gonna find Tanya?"

I gave a little shrug. "No idea. Let's just see where fate takes us, hm?"

I offered my hand. She took it with a smile and together we sailed out into the city of London.

For a long time we only strolled. As if we half expected to simply bump into our friends here in this city of millions. Bella took in the sights but this was my old home and I smiled at how much it had changed in the couple decades since my last visit.

Bella and I held hands the entire time, the two of us shrouded up in heavy woollen coats and cute little beanies against the winter chill. There was a light fog in the air but it still struck me as beautiful weather. Familiar. I took her by Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Westminster and along the River Thames. We crossed the bridge in the early afternoon, clouds breaking up overhead to admit cool rays of sunshine, and continued over Primrose Hill.

The last time I had strolled these streets was with James and a strange smile curved my lips as I remembered that man I had thought was my mate. Three centuries we had been together. His demise had been untimely but he had been avenged. By my new mate. My real mate. Bella. The same girl he had once hunted. The irony struck me as particularly poignant but I kept it inside without mentioning it. Three hundred years was a long time to spend with someone who wasn't your mate but I didn't regret any of my time with James because it was my time with James that led me to Bella.

Eventually we wound up in Trafalgar Square, a great stone courtyard that sat shadowless under a bleak gray sky. Bella and I took a stroll around the perimeter and examined the great bronze lions that relaxed at the base of Nelson's Column. Bella climbed on top of one and rode it like a cowgirl until I was worried she might trib on it. People glanced at her, most of them smiling. I laughed and told her to get down.

Finally she climbed down and together we took a seat on the concrete steps. The square was alive with activity and for a long time we just watched people go by. Bella turned to watch a girl in a blue skirt and black leggings underneath for warmth. She was blonde and she had a satchel slung over her shoulders. Bella's eyes roamed over her form and I could tell she wanted to kill that girl. Rape her and drain her blood. I smiled and shook my head. Bella laughed, knowing I had read her mind, and heaved a big sigh.

"I guess we never thought about HOW we were going to find them," she said. "Did we?"

I smiled and looked across the square. "I guess not."

"Well, there's gotta be some way we can let them know we're in town. Maybe a gruesome murder? If we put enough bodies on the news they're bound to know we're here."

She glanced again toward that blonde girl but the blonde girl was continuing into the street and soon she was gone. I rolled my eyes at how my darling mate's mind worked.

"We have to think in advance, baby," I told her. "We can't settle down as fugitives, can we?"

"Oh, yeah."

I laughed and wrapped an arm around her shoulders and cuddled her there on the concrete steps of Trafalgar Square.

"We have a whole life ahead of us, Bella," she said. "I have to find a job. You have to go back to school."

Bella had been snuggling under my arm contentedly but now she recoiled and looked at me in shock. "School? What the fuck, we never talked about that."

I smiled at her and drew her back under my arm. "I thought it was assumed—unless you wanted to spend the rest of eternity as an uneducated peasant?"

"Well, not ALL of eternity," she said with a pout in her voice. "But at least a couple years."

I laughed and gave her a squeeze under my arm.

"I think you've been goofing off long enough, Bella," I said.

"Yeah, well, what about you?" she retorted. "When's the last time you went to school?"

"Um…"

Bella laughed and slid out from under my arm to grin at me. "Yeah, that's what I thought. So if I have to go to school, you do as well." Then she smiled and added: "Together."

I smiled as well and gazed at her for a moment. Her skin was exceptionally pale under the gray sky and her long dark hair was plastered down under her beanie. Her red eyes were twinkling with mischief and I had to chuckle.

"Well," I said. "Perhaps you have a point."

Bella nodded and reclined back on the steps. She looked out across the square but there weren't any more attractive girls. Only normal people who weren't really that edible. She sighed and crossed her legs.

"We're gonna need more than an education," she said. "We're gonna need papers as well. Birth certificates. Driver's licences."

"Hopefully Tanya can help out with that."

"If we can find her," she specified.

I smiled and rose from the steps and dusted the seat of my coat with a couple swipes of my hand.

"Well, we're not going to find her here," I said. "Shall we?"

I offered Bella a hand and Bella took it and stood up.

"Let's go buy a phone," she said. "When in doubt, google it."

"Excellent idea."

Bella smiled and together we started across the square.

Our funds were rather light but we had more than enough to purchase a cheap smartphone from the first electronics store we came across. Bella held it in her hands and ran a search for names and old aliases as we strolled through the city. Big red busses with doubledecks went by in the streets and the sky was beginning to darken. Bella's research soon revealed a number of addresses that could've belonged to our old friends, over a dozen of them, and we weren't sure which to investigate first. One of the addresses was very close by and it was the exact alias that Kate had used back in Seattle.

The address was for an apartment complex on the Thames. Nothing fancy. Just a row of affordable apartments that looked out over the water. Bella and I climbed the stairs and went along the balcony until we came to the right door. It was dark by now, early evening, and our stomachs were fluttering with nervousness. It had been so long since we had seen them. The apartment seemed a little lowkey but perhaps Kate and Leah had a place of their own like back in Seattle. Bella was grinning and she passed her hands over her coat as if to straighten it a little and she took a deep breath.

"You think this is the place?" she asked.

I looked at the door and shrugged.

"Only one way to find out," I said, and then knocked lightly.

Bella grinned even wider and shifted nervously on her feet. "I was expecting a mansion or something. How do they all fit in one apartment?"

"Perhaps only Kate and Leah live here."

"Yeah, maybe. I just hope—"

Bella stopped speaking abruptly as the door swung open.

To reveal Kate.

A smile spread over my mouth as a wave of relief and joy washed over me. She was exactly as I remembered her. Small. Blonde. Pretty. Her own mouth had dropped open in shock and she stared at Bella and at me and back at Bella again. She was wearing a plain gray tanktop and plain gray trackpants as if she had just been relaxing at home. Her eyes were red and wide and she seemed to have forgotten how to speak.

Bella smiled at her and giggled and her voice came out rather composed.

"Kate," she said.

Kate gasped and the sound of her old friend's voice jolted her out of shock.

"Bella?!"

Suddenly she flung herself at Bella and hugged her. I laughed and stepped back. Bella laughed as well and returned the embrace. Kate swung her around and gripped her tightly and then released her just as suddenly.

"Oh my god, I can't believe it," she said, grinning, and then she saw me and squealed. "Vicky!"

Now it was my turn for a hug. I actually staggered backward from the force of it and chuckled and patted her back.

"Hello, Kate," I said. "It's wonderful to see you again."

At that she suddenly let me go and frowned angrily at both of us.

"Oh my god, I'm so fucking pissed at you guys!"

Bella grinned and tried to look innocent. "Why, what'd we do?"

Kate was shocked at her audacity. "You killed Edward and that maid and ditched us on a fucking island," she said. "That's what you did."

Bella acted like she had forgotten.

"Oh yeah," she said.

Kate snorted and tried to hang on to that momentary wrath but her joy at seeing us was too much. Her mouth again spread into a grin and she opened her mouth to speak when a voice came from inside.

"What the hell is going on out here?"

Kate giggled as a figure stepped into the doorframe beside her.

Leah.

Leah stopped in surprise and stared. Bella and I grinned at that familiar face which was now just a little paler, a little more perfect. Her eyes were red like rubies and rimmed with wolfish eyelashes and she was wearing a black tanktop that showed the definition in her biceps and denim shorts with the waistband of her panties slung over her hips. Her abs were harder and sexier than ever before and she looked like a true predator.

"Oh," she said, grinning out at us. "Hey."

Bella giggled and let her eye roam over her old friend's new body. "Hey, Leah. Looking hot."

Leah smiled and slouched against the doorframe cockily. "Yeah, Kate turned me."

Kate was still trying to be angry at us, for how we left them on the island, and she gave her girlfriend a little glare for being so nice. I smiled at her.

"Are you going to invite us in, Kate?" I asked her.

Kate opened her mouth but it was Leah who gestured us inside with a wave of her arm.

"Sure, come in," she said. "Where the fuck you guys been?"

Bella giggled and went past Kate and entered the apartment with Leah. Kate looked like she wanted to call Bella back and forbid her entry but instead she just pouted. I was lingering there, just outside the door, and I gave her a smile.

"Are you really angry, Kate?" I asked her.

Kate sighed and opened the door a little wider for me to come in. "No," she said. "But I was pissed at how you just ditched us like that."

"Bella wanted some time alone. I'm sorry for all the trouble."

"Yeah, well," she said, her lips quirking into a smile. "I'm just happy to see you."

I laughed and gave her a kiss on those pretty lips and then entered the apartment.

The interior of the apartment was fairly modest and just a little messy. There was a flatscreen in the living room and a couple of videogame consoles and a stack of video games on the floor. On the coffeetable were some comic books and a bong. Leah hurried to tidy all this up before we all sat down. Leah and I sat on the sofa and Bella sat on a large red beanbag. Kate sat on the floor with her legs crossed and grinned as Bella and I told them about our honeymoon. About our journey across South America and Australia and over most of Asia.

But we kept it brief because we were eager to hear about them as well. Both of them were working as illustrators for a comicbook. Leah said it had always been her dream to be an illustrator but this was even better because she could do it with Kate. Kate mentioned that one day they planned to write their own series. I smiled and I couldn't help envy them. They were the same as they ever were but changed as well. Older somehow. More mature. Less like teenagers and more like young women building a life together. I glanced at Bella and I found Bella smiling in the exact same way. Soon it would be time for Bella to grow up as well.

Eventually the talk turned to the rest of the coven. Bella was extremely eager to hear what everyone was up to.

"So how come you guys are living alone?" she asked. "Is the whole coven all split up?"

Kate nodded, sitting there on the floor. "For now, yeah. We still get together all the time and go out, but I guess we all wanted some time alone with our partners, just like you guys. It was actually Tanya's idea. After hooking up with Jane…"

"Jane?" Bella interrupted. "Who's Jane?"

I looked at her. "She's that girl Tanya met at the ball back in the island. Do you remember? Small, blonde…?"

Bella nodded as the memory came back to her and smiled.

"Oh yeah," she said. "So she hooked up with Tanya?"

Kate laughed and stretched her legs out. "They not only hooked up, they mated. You won't even recognize Tanya when you see her. She's basically a completely different woman."

Bella raised her eyebrows. "Wow."

I smiled, my heart glowing. I had a feeling about the two of them and it filled me with pride to think I played some small role and getting them together.

"I'm so happy for her," I said. "When can we see her?"

Kate shrugged and chuckled. "Whenever you want, I guess. They got a little cottage out in the country. They don't come into town much. Only to feed. They're basically in their own little world out there. Neither of them work or go to school. For the entire year they've done nothing more than endlessly make love over and over and over. It's actually very romantic."

I heaved a sigh and smiled. Tanya deserved happiness and finally she had found it. I had been worried she might be upset at the way we had abandoned them but it seemed she had been more than occupied.

Bella grinned at them. "So I guess Tanya didn't miss us?"

Leah snorted and smirked. "Not much."

Bella and I laughed and Kate laughed as well. Leah had her legs crossed in her denim shorts, sitting beside me on the sofa, and they were a perfect pale copper color.

"They like visitors, though," she said. "We go over all the time. Jane is one freaky little bitch."

Bella grinned and went on excitedly.

"What about Alice?" she asked. "Did she leave the island with you?"

Kate nodded and smiled. "Yep. Not just Alice. Esme as well."

"Really?"

"Oh yeah. But I think she did it more for Carmen than Alice. Carmen and Esme have a house together. Out in the suburbs. Forest Hill. They actually got married."

Bella's mouth dropped open in delight. She looked at everyone else in the room and turned back to Kate.

"Married?" she echoed. "Seriously?"

Kate giggled and nodded. "Yeah. It was beautiful. Both of them in wedding dresses. I'm not sure if they consider themselves mates, but they obviously intend to create a life together. They have a lot in common and they want the same things."

I smiled and laughed to myself. They really did make a perfect couple. Mothers, housewives, homemakers. All either of them required was someone to be devoted to and now they had each other.

"Carmen deserves happiness," I said. "Esme as well."

Kate nodded in agreement. "Alice lives with them as an adopted daughter," she said. "She goes to a highschool out there."

Bella became tentative. "Is she happy she left the island?"

Leah grinned and snorted once. "She gets fucked every night by two sexy mommies," she said. "What do you think?"

Bella laughed in relief. I laughed as well.

"I suppose we'll have to go visit them as well," I said. "But what about Claire and Irena? Has Claire become a vampire yet?"

"Oh yeah," Leah said. "Irena turned her first thing as soon as they were off the island."

Kate smiled and became excited. "Claire's changed so much," she said. "You should see her. She's so beautiful now. And gosh, so submissive. Becoming a vampire gave her so much confidence but the confidence only made her even more loyal and devoted. She truly exists only to serve Irena."

I nodded with a warm smile. "Irena's a very lucky woman."

Leah grinned and gave a sideways glance at Kate. "Tell me about it. I wish I could have a girlfriend who was basically nothing but a fuck slave."

Kate rolled her eyes and Bella giggled.

"Do they have a house together?" she asked.

Kate nodded and grinned. "Yeah, a huge mansion. Out in Hyde Park. Irena has sort of become the de facto leader of the coven now that Tanya's settled down. She runs her own investment company as CEO. In one year she became a certified billionaire. She's on magazine covers and everything."

Bella held up a hand and took a moment to wrap her head around that.

"Wait, let me get this straight," she said. "Irena is now a sexy high powered blonde dominatrix who lives in a million dollar mansion?"

"Yep."

"Does she need another slave?"

Kate and Leah laughed at that and I rolled my eyes. One of these days I was going to have to accumulate a billion dollars somehow. Despite all my darling mate's speeches about only needing me she was obviously turned on by large amounts of money.

I managed to restrain my jealousy, however, and only smiled.

"Good for her," I said. "And Claire."

Kate nodded in agreement. "Yeah," she said. "Irena's changed a lot too. Ever since I knew her she was always a bit passive with only a hint of a dominant streak, willing to just sit in the background and let everyone else make the decisions. Now she's very take charge. I guess all it took was the right woman to bring it out. Claire is the center of Irena's life just as Irena is the center of Claire's."

Bella sighed and smiled and looked between the two of them.

"So I guess you're all very happy," she said.

Kate smiled at Leah from where she sat on the floor and offered a hand. Leah took it and held it and smiled back. The two of them made an unlikely pair, Leah rugged and dark, Kate blonde and girly, but they had been together for a year now and obviously they loved each other very much.

Kate held Leah's hand and continued to gaze at her.

"Yep," she said. "We are."

Bella smiled, happy for them. Then the smile curved into a smirk.

"Still down for fourways, though?" she asked.

Leah and Kate laughed and Kate let go of Leah's hand and began crawling across the floor to where Bella was reclining on the beanbag. She crawled on her hands and knees, very feline and sexualized, and she put her hands on Bella's shoulders and touched the tips of their noses together as she gazed into Bella's eyes.

"I thought you'd never ask," she said.

Then she pressed her mouth onto Bella's and Bella wrapped her arms around her.

Leah and I watched, both of us sitting there on the sofa, the room suddenly electric with sexual energy. I turned to her and smiled and swung a leg over her lap to straddle her. She grinned up at me, hands on my hips, and I pulled my top off and tossed it aside as my long red hair cascaded back down. Underneath I was wearing a bra and I unclasped it while she watched and revealed my large white breasts. It had been a year since she'd seen them and instantly she covered them with her hands. I smiled, my vagina already throbbing, and then I leaned to her mouth and offered my tongue.

Soon the living room was filled with moans and chuckles. Kate was already licking Bella's vagina, Bella's jeans discarded, Kate on her hands and knees, head lowered, licking and licking at that slit between Bella's thighs. Bella orgasmed almost instantly, a smile over her lust glazed face, and you could hear in her voice how much she had missed this. Her coven. Her family. Kate then rose and came over and pressed her mouth to mine while I was still straddling her mate. I could taste my own mate in her mouth and I moaned and reclined backward for better positioning and I felt the sofa tilt as Bella climbed on and licked at one of my nipples and started kissing Leah. I was wearing a skirt and the skirt was around my hips. My panties had been peeled aside from my vagina and my vagina was so horny that it orgasmed immediately as Kate touched it.

It had taken me by surprise how much my body responded to the familiarity, the intimacy, and I craved more. Bella and I had been gone for an entire year and we had a lot of time to make up for.

Eventually we were moving into the bedroom. The room was already a mess and soon there were a couple more bras on the floor, a couple more panties. Leah was dropping her jean shorts and she put on a strapon while Bella and I took care of Kate, licking at her nipples while she lay spread on the bed. The strapon was huge and black and the first woman Leah fucked with it was Kate. Bella and I watched and assisted, chuckling, kissing at lips and nipples, both Kate's and Leah's. Kate orgasmed with a bright smile and a loud moan of happiness and the display turned me on so much that I pushed Leah onto the bed and climbed onto the strapon and began riding it. Hard. My vagina was entirely filled by that huge shaft and I heaved on it lustily with my breasts bouncing. Leah grinned up at me cockily, the way she always used to, and I orgasmed with a gasp and collapsed onto her.

Bella, meanwhile, was on all fours and waggling her ass for the strapon. Leah peeled me off her and went to work, taking Bella's hips and shoving the strapon directly into Bella's vagina. Bella giggled and took the strapon like a slut and called out for Leah to go harder, faster, rougher. Leah grinned and used a little of her vampire strength to jackhammer Bella into an orgasm that made her scream.

The evening began to slow down after that as the four of us engaged in more intimate forms of love making. Kate had fetched a couple vibrators and I inserted one of them into myself and relaxed and enjoyed the hum while I ate several wet little pussies, Kate's and Bella's and Leah's as well. Leah had taken off her strapon but soon she put it back on and gave Bella one as well. Kate and I bent over and offered our backsides and soon we orgasmed at more or less the same time. Bella and Leah worked well as a team, the two of them similarly aggressive, and together they each inserted one of their strapons in both of my lower holes. My body squirmed from the double penetration and I orgasmed with a gasp. Kate received the same treatment, moaning as Bella and Leah coordinated their thrusts, Bella into her ass, Leah into her pussy, until Kate finally orgasmed.

After that the toys were discarded and we simply lay about the bed and petted each other. Bella was kissing Kate's breasts, playfully, gently, affectionate little pecks on each of her nipples as Kate giggled and watched her. Leah was laying there with hands laced behind her head, relaxing, and I was laying at her side and talking to her as I stroked her vagina. She grinned and told me more about her fledging career as a comicbook illustrator and then she orgasmed from the attentions of my fingers before pulling me toward her and wrapping me into a kiss.

By now it was almost midnight. The four of us were laying in a heap, our bodies entirely naked, and we were smiling and talking about how much we missed each other. Leah grinned and stroked the mound of one my breasts.

"It's been too long since we've done this," she said. "I really missed you guys."

Kate giggled and lay on her side. "Me too. Hey, you guys wanna crash here for a while? You are staying in London, aren't you?"

I nodded and sat up in the bed and gave a pleasurable stretch.

"That was the plan," I said. "As long as we're welcome."

Kate giggled and sat up as well. "Of course you are," she said. "Everyone is going to be so happy to see you. Especially Tanya."

I smiled at that. I couldn't wait to see Tanya either. Kate and Leah were special to me as well but aside from Bella there was no one in the wold more special to me than Tanya. I couldn't wait to meet her mate and show them how happy I was for them.

Leah was climbing out of the bed and now she was gathering up our clothes.

"You know, if you're looking for a place to stay, there's an apartment next door," she said. "We could be neighbours again."

Bella lit up. "That would be awesome!"

I liked the idea as well. "Is the apartment taken?"

Leah smirked and deposited our clothes on the dresser. "Yeah, but we can do something about that. She lives alone. And we could make it look like a robbery."

Bella grinned eagerly. "And a rape?"

Leah grinned as well. "Hell yeah."

I opened my mouth to object but closed it again. I suppose as long as it looked like a robbery there wouldn't be any risk. We could probably even get a discount on the apartment. Nothing lowers real estate prices like a grisly murder.

Kate was slightly hesitant as well but much more excited.

"Sounds risky," she said, "but…"

Bella and Leah grinned at her expectantly and I smiled as well. Somehow it was her with the final decision, this tiny blonde who controlled her girlfriend and therefore her household. She smiled and gave a shrug of her naked shoulder.

"I guess it would be nice to have you guys next door," she said. "We could get rid of her tonight and then you could stay here until the apartment's put up for rent. Not to mention it would be lots of fun."

I laughed and rose from the bed.

"Let's do it then," I said, snatching up a pair of panties from the floor.

The others grinned and started getting dressed as well.

Soon we were outside and knocking on the door to the apartment next door. The moon was a crescent sliver in the dark London sky and the water of the Thames ran black as ink. The four of us giggled in the chill and waited and knocked again and finally the door was answered by a decent looking brunette who seemed to have gotten out of bed. Leah grinned at her and shoved her back and slammed the door closed as we barged in. The woman got angry, not knowing exactly how much danger she was in, and Leah punched her in the face as Bella unspooled a roll of duct tape we had bought from the other apartment, and soon the woman was gagged and wrapped in tape and screaming and crying as we molested her sleepwarm body and tortured her with kitchen knives.

Just like old times.

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AN: I had originally planned to keep them all apart longer, but without any conflict or drama, it would've became boring very quickly. The next few chapters will be Bella and Vicky visiting their old coven mates and engaging in various lovely lemons. It's kind of scary how close we are to the end, though. There's gonna be a pretty big gap in my life when this story is over, lol.

Okay, hope you liked it. New chapter soon. :)