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The following few days were spent with copious amounts of sex and blood. Kate was a needy little shit and Bella didn’t mind it at all neither did Irina. By the time the rest of the family would be home they might have had sex in every place imaginable. At one point Bella had smeared blood all over her mate and had licked it off her whole body. It was a sight and taste to remember.
“They will be home tomorrow.” Irina announced.
“I miss Tanya.” Kate pouted.
Bella knew Tanya was waiting for Angela. Apparently Angela had decided to change after college and she would be in Anchorage. She would not be staying with them but near enough for them to come to her if she needed anything. Bella was excited to meet Angela as well even though she and Irina had kept it in wraps about her remembering but Kate had caught up to Bella remembering a few things here and there which was absolutely Bella’s fault.
They were binge watching The Matrix movie today while cuddling.
“Huh as if we are just an anomaly made up by some machine” Kate commented
“Who knows Kate maybe we are in The Matrix” Bella said, she had watched it a long time ago even the reboot that was unnecessary and could have been a new story instead of Neo and Trinity thing. She didn’t hate it but neither did she like it as much.
“Ugh you two shut up and just watch” Irina grumbled, She had avoided seeing it and now she was hooked.
They all heard the car coming towards the house but they had already seen them coming a long time ago as there were security cameras installed when anyone was in their lane. The vampires didn’t want a surprise visit from a wandering human all of a sudden hence the cameras.
All of them were out of the house in a second to greet the rest of the family. The Cullens wouldn’t be here and Bella was glad for that, she really didn’t want to meet them other than maybe Rosalie or Alice.
Bella was hit by a strong smell. Her venom pooled into her mouth. Suddenly she was standing in front of Tanya towering over her. Tanya didn’t show that she was startled or anything, she was eyeing her curiously. Bella had to stop herself from sniffing her neck. She didn’t even hear Irina calling her.
“You smell like food.” Bella said, her voice a little gruff. She didn’t realise how it sounded.
Tanya curled up her lips “Didn’t think you would be so straight forward with your lost memories. You don’t smell bad either” she purred. It took a while for Bella to realise what she had implied and God’s she was embarrassed. She took a few steps back and stood beside Irina now. An involuntary growl came out of her.
“Bella what’s the matter?” Irina asked
“She smells like food. Like a human” Bella was shaking. She wanted to lick the scent out of Tanya but she knew it would be a bad idea so she stuck herself beside Irina and grabbed on to her. She was not sure what was wrong with her.
“Oh no” Tanya said as if realising what was happening.
“The only human Tanya was with is Angela and if her scent is making her like this. It's likely she is her singer. If what you said about her control is real it is a good thing we got to know it like this” Eleazar completed Tanya’s thought process. If it was any other newborn they would have jumped on Tanya and started sniffing and licking her. He knows how a singer's scent is as strong as their smell of blood.
“Shit..are you sure?” Kate asked. Eleazar nodded a yes.
Bella’s throat was on fire, Gods the smell was something else, It was alluring and she wanted more. “Irina, I need to hunt.” Bella said, her voice coming out strained.
“Lets go”
“So we should bring small article of hers to make sure Bella is use to her scent” Kate said
“I am not bringing her near a newborn” Tanya said the next instant. She knew Angela wanted to see Bella. Tanya had agreed but at that time she didn’t know she would be her singer.
“What I know about your mate she wouldn’t be happy about it and trust me Bella can control herself, she fucking waits for the blood to be warm before drinking it” Kate said.
Of course Angela would not be happy, but Tanya was right to worry.
“Mi amore, Don’t worry we will find a way” Carmen said kissing Tanya’s cheek.
Bella had a mini breakdown after hunting and only the soothing voice of Irina helped her nerves.
“Isabella, you have shown exceptional control and I am very sure you will not lose it now. I trust you and you need to trust yourself that you wouldn’t do it. Angela is family and bonded to you as well. You would not hurt her” Irina said
“But-..”
“No buts and ifs. I will be by your side pulling you down and we will bring an article of clothing of hers so the scent doesn’t make you all hungry and dizzy always” Irina said.
“Fine”
When Bella returned she was engulfed in a hug from Carmen “Welcome to the family” they said with a big smile and a Spanish accent. Tanya was next and Bella thought she would hesitate but she didn’t. “You don’t have to worry about Angela. I will bring some of her clothes for you to get used to the smell, don't worry about it” she said.
“Hmm you are warmer than us” Tanya said with a thoughtful look.
“Oh you don’t know half of it” Kate said with a grin, they had yet to know about Bella being able to walk without shining under the sun or the fact Irina too seemed to not glow anymore and to Kate the saddest part would be she was not able to shock her.
Eleazar was frowning and then looking at Bella once then at Irina the whole time. Which to others would have seemed rude but he was just trying to make sense of what he was seeing. “Darling you are staring again” Carmen said fondly knowing the look her mate was sporting.
“Ah. I have never seen such a thing before” he said.
“I am a shield aren’t i?” Bella answered amused.
“Yes but no, I haven’t told you anything while you were human but my gift didn’t register that you have a gift not until I tried to look a lot into it. Your gift is limitless. It's a shield yes but it's more than a shield and I wish to study it more if you wouldn’t mind? The most fascinating thing is Irina seems to have a lesser version of what you have and I am not sure how that is possible.” Eleazar said, looking intensely at Bella. Who was frowning.
“In Volterra you were once researching about mates sharing gifts through bite. Can this be one of the hypothetical situations?” Carmen asked.
“If that’s the case it's not hypothetical now anymore. Which is truly wonderful and I hope you wouldn’t mind if I document this and you two go through a few tests?” Eleazar asked eagerly.
“Ah sure if Irina doesn’t have any problem I would like to know what my gift does” Bella said.
Eleazar was in and out of his room in a second with a big notepad and some books and a pen when they agreed.
“Here we go again” Kate huffed “Well if you want my opinion I am here, plus Do you know they don’t sparkle in the Sun anymore? I think it’s the pesky gift of hers”
“Oh now I can't wait for the sun to shine sooner.” Eleazar said, surprised and giddy. The others were also caught off guard by this.
“And why didn’t you say all this in our phone calls Katerina?” Tanya asked.
“Bella is ours and you were among the Cullens. I didn’t want to share everything with all of them, not before the 3 of you knew what exactly had happened.” Kate said nonchalantly not at all guilty of hiding anything.
Bella and Irina looked at each other and an unknown understanding passed through them. Both of them thought of keeping things to themselves about the whole her memories had returned to them along with the memories she had of another life but Bella didn’t care, she just was not keen to share with the Cullens. The part of they all being in a fictional book would stay between them though or so she thought. That was something they both were not sure to break to the family so soon.
“We have something to say” Bella said
“Your memories are back isn’t it?” Kate said, amused. Bella looked shocked and maybe they were really shit at hiding.
“You two are not subtle at all plus why would Bella be scared of harming Angela if she doesn’t remember her” Kate said grinning. Yes, that was a recent slip that no one can blame Bella on.
“You would be surprised it's not just that though” Irina said
What Bella said to the rest of their family was not the understatement of the year.
“So you are kind of from the future?” Kate said.
“No I am not, I was not born in this world. I have checked yes and there are a lot of differences in this world as well. Some actors are not even here. The Names of some places are different. There was definitely no Saint Marcus day in our world in Italy even if I was not American before. Of course there was no vampire in the world, trust me there wasn’t.” Bella said
“How can you be so sure? they could have hidden better.” Kate argued. Bella wanted to say no and Kate seemed to catch on to something. “You know something that proves we are not real but you are hiding it?” For someone who acts playfully dumb Kate can catch up to things pretty fast.
“It's better if you didn’t know.” Irina said.
“Will we be in danger if we know that?” Tanya asked.
No they wouldn’t be in any danger not really but Bella couldn’t be sure. She had not said about Aro Killing Didyme to Irina or the fact that there is a gender bender version of the book where Aro is dead and there is a vampire who steals gifts. It's not like she had read any of it, it was all knowledge from social media, Things didn’t make sense in Meyers writing. The fanfiction people wrote made more sense to Bella.
“It wouldn’t put you in danger but I refuse to share any with the Cullens or have any of your thoughts on display for Edward” Or Aro but then more recently she is concerned about Edward. Aro wouldn’t be able to do anything, there was somewhere she had read Aro killing off Coven for his own gain and if he did so in this world she would find a way to tear him apart and the Denali’s didn’t have to know that.
“We all can protect our thoughts from him to some extent. His gift is not absolute, trust me.” Tanya said.
“Fine” Bella sighed.
“What the ever loving fuck” Kate said the moment she finished her story “Now I think you are pulling our leg”
“Really you think I will make this up? The book is the reason why I know our world is different. I wouldn’t dismiss the fact that supernatural creatures didn’t exist in said world but your kind of vampires didn’t exist at all” Bella said.
“I have so many questions. If you wouldn’t mind Isabella or Bella. I would call you what you prefer” Eleazar said, his eyes sparkling like a kid in a candy store.
“I am fine with both my names, it's not that it's any different from before.”
The rest of the day went on asking questions back and forth.
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“Carlisle missed the fact that male vampires are fertile?”
“Honestly the whole explanation of a dhampir was weird and I am so glad i don’t have ‘Resignation’ as my child”
They of course didn’t understand the joke.
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“There was a movie made about that?!”
“Who played me?” Kate asked eagerly
“I don’t remember all the actress Kate” Bella sighed.
Kate pouted.
“If it makes you feel any good they obviously look nothing like you. They casted older, not so hot people. The one playing Rosalie wasn’t even blond in real life!”
“You think I am hot huh?”
“Shut up”
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“Wait Robert Pattinson played Edward?”
“Who is he again?”
“The one who played the Hufflepuff that died in harry potter”
“Oh that kid is cute unlike sour faced Edward”
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“So we should be prepared for a Pandemic then or will that not happen here?”
“I am not sure. Let’s just make sure Carlisle doesn’t sympathy turn every alternative victim”
“Yeah we don’t need another Edward”
“I am more worried that some supernatural creature is going to resurrect a zombie in this world out of the Pandemic” Bella said which frankly could be a thing who knows.
“That would be fun” Kate said
“No” said everyone present.
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“Even with your added life you are still the youngest member in the family”
“You are forgetting Angela”
“Ah yes”
“Second youngest but a snot nosed brat nonetheless”
“Who the hell are you calling Brat!?”
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“Reincarnation is fascinating”
“Not unless you have to deal with Bullshit”
“Are you calling us bullshit?”
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The rest of the day went on with Eleazar asking important questions and Kate asking just the opposite. Bella answered as much as she remembered because as much as she was aware of things she didn’t have much knowledge about the political clusterfuck that had happened. Good news apparently is that no one named Donald Trump exists here.
When the sun was high up in the sky and the rest of the family saw how they didn’t sparkle they were in awe and wonder and Eleazar had by that time shifted his focus on Bella’s gift. Bella was motivated to learn whatever she could. She even watched the bad chunky video that Victoria had made, honestly she had been fine watching it for the first time other than the fact that Jessica died, she was numb to it (She stuffed those sad angry emotions in a ‘Deal later box’). The rest of the family was of course not ok with it, They had been growling the entire time.
Of course they were surprised in watching how Riley’s end came to being and Eleazar had Bella do meditation. Meditation sucked as a newborn because her brain wouldn’t stop thinking of various things all at once. Irina was the only one to somehow understand how Bella was getting lost in thought and she would slap her head every time she was thinking more than she should. If she was a human her head would have had a dent by now or a concussion in the making. Bella grumbled every moment.
The following days Tanya bought in a piece of clothes with Angela’s scent on and Bella tried to not lose her shit. It was difficult but doable. Tanya had her own scent of rain and wine which was intoxicating on its own, not adding Angela’s smell after she came home meeting her. If Bella cuddles Tanya more when she had been all over Angela no one said anything about it even though Kate would try to make fun of it and Irina would smack her before Kate would make fun of Bella.
Tanya had not shared her bed with any of her sister or Bella for that matter even though Angela had given her the go ahead sign to her, Tanya wouldn’t do that not until she had marked Angela in the vampire way which was not possible until she was turned. It was a self impose thing to her, she can wait 3 years for her mate even though Bella being extra warm and all over her along with Kate and Irina was bordering on torture sometimes and Tanya knew they are being a brat to her. But she was the oldest and even though she had the highest libido of them all she knows how to control herself.
Bella’s breath tickled Tanya’s neck as she wrapped herself around Tanya. At first things between her and Bella was awkward but Bella had said fuck it because she was feeling a pull to Tanya that she had felt with Kate and ignoring it was irritating her. Now she just wraps herself to Tanya specially when she smells of Angela. She knew it was weird but she was a vampire not a human so Bella didn’t think much about it. In the short amount of time Tanya had come to love her sister's mate as well and yes she could see why Angela and Edward of all people had been smitten by her.
Tanya had her hand on Bella’s hip drawing lazy circles as they watched a movie on the TV. The others were out hunting.
“Angela wants to visit” Tanya said
“Are you sure that’s safe? I am worried. The last thing I want is to hurt her” Bella said in a small voice because she was very afraid.
“I think you will be fine Bella. You went to the mall yesterday without wanting to kill any human for their blood and there was a child bleeding not far from you. You are ready and I trust in your ironclad control. If you can't, we will be here to stop you. There will be 5 of us. You will be fine” Tanya said, hugging her closer. Everything about Bella was ridiculous to Tanya and even if she somehow slipped she would be there sticking to Angela. But the more she saw her and how she had interacted or had been among humans she was a natural in blending among humans. The fact that she didn’t even growl seeing blood was another thing.
Bella was far from losing her newborn phase yet but how put together she is sometimes really catches Tanya off guard most of the day. On the other hand Kate too had the habit of bringing Bella’s newborn temper forefront. Tanya wouldn’t lie she enjoyed their fights and bickering. It was new and fresh and it excited her to see how Angela would be when she is turned.
Eleazar had said turning before knowing what was happening might have been the reason for better control. Even though Isabella Swan was of a different league Tanya believed Eleazar’s theory had some merit. No one really turns without knowing about vampires before or something tragic happening to them, Bella was willing but her end was torture and she hope to God’s Angela doesn’t have to face any such consequences.
Only time will tell.