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Fic: The Edge (Alice/Bella, Twilight 11/?)
Title: The Edge
Author: Janine
Fandom: Twilight
Pairing: Alice/Bella
Rating: R
Disclaimer: All characters are owned by Stephanie Meyer. I’m just borrowing them.
Summary: The real world intrudes upon Alice and Bella mini-vacation.
Prologue: Golden Slumber
Part 1: Skating the Edge
Part 2: My Favorite Mistake
Part 3: The Rules of Attraction
Part 4: Shattered
Part 5: Breakin' All The Rules
Part 6: Good World Gone Bad
Part 7: 'Splaining
Part 8: Sway My Way
Part 9: Fuzzy Wuzzy Wonderland
Part 10a: The Honeymooners
Part 10b:The Honeymooners
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The Next Day
“She’s going out with Scott … maybe,” Bella responded, her voice rising at the end of the sentence making her answer sound even more dubious than the ‘maybe’ had.
“Bella, did you even go to school while I was gone?” she asked, her eyebrow lifting high up on her forehead. All of her simple inquires about what their classmates had been up to when she was gone had been met with nothing but ‘uh’s, um’s, maybe’s, dunno’s, and possibly’s’.
“Yes,” Bella responded, drawing the word out. “I was just … concentrating on my school work. It was really important that I get my grades up after the … uh, slight dip they took last spring. I needed to bump my average up 5% or community college wouldn’t have been one of my options, it would have been my only option,” she finished, thinking that her response sounded perfectly reasonable, even though it was actually 90% bullshit.
“I see,”
She then dropped her gaze back down to Bella’s foot and proceeded to bring the brush down to finish painting the last toe on Bella’s right foot.
Bella controlled the urge to sigh.
Alice had seen the type of mood she was in when she showed up at the house two nights before, and if her jumping off of a cliff for fun hadn’t said enough about her mental state, she knew that Charlie had been talking to Alice when she was warming his supper the night before, and she was sure that he had given her a bit more information about the zombie-like state she had been in for the previous five months.
Either way, she was sure that
“Are you mad?” Bella asked as
“Mad?”
“You know why I was …” Bella began to say.
“That tickles,” Bella said making a face as her foot twitched in
“Does it?”
“Hey!” Bella exclaimed swatting uselessly in
“You don’t like it?”
Bella opened her mouth to make a joke, but looking at
“I thought tickling made people laugh,”
“It does. But, it also makes your body spasm and your voice do weird things,” Bella responded shuddering a little. “Generally, despite the laughter, it’s a pretty unpleasant sensation,” she continued, watching as
“Well, don’t be sad about that,” Bella said, lifting her foot out of Alice’s lap and rearranging herself so that she could crawl over towards the raven-haired beauty. “Being tickled is not one of the human experiences that you should mourn missing out on,” she continued, crawling into
“I don’t know,”
“I’ll tell you,” Bella said softly, touched by the worry in
“The kneeing part will hurt you more than me,”
“I know,” Bella sighed, allowing
“Should I answer that using a scale of 1 to 10? Or was it rhetorical?”
“I think your mouth should be doing more kissing and less talking,” Bella responded saucily, her eyes dancing when Alice opened her eyes comically wide and placed her hand over her mouth giving Bella a scandalized look. “Unless of course you want to talk yourself out of getting some,” she continued lifting her eyebrow archly.
“Isn’t two and a half days a little early to start threatening not to put out?”
“I thought withholding carnal pleasures and abstaining from letting others gain sexual knowledge of you was all the rage in your day,” Bella responded, smiling as Alice’s hand moved up to her breast and tweaked her nipple playfully.
“
Erotically charged images of
Bella blushed deeply, and moaned, shifting beneath
“Mm,”
She pressed her lips against the column of Bella’s throat, and leaned forward, her thigh pressing firmly against the heat between Bella’s jean clad legs.
Bella moved against
“Take off your top and I’ll show you,” Bella said, her eyes burning into
The images in her mind were now of herself, demonstrating exactly what she had been fantasizing about for
“Okay,”
The door bell rang.
Bella blinked, trying to make sense of the sound through the erotic haze that was covering her brain.
“Was that the door bell?” Bella asked, surprise, disbelief and irritation warring in her tone.
She’d alienated all of her friends, Charlie wouldn’t be back from the funeral for hours, and they’d never had a door-to-door salesman show up the entire time she had living in Forks. There was absolutely no reason that her door bell should be ringing, especially not when Alice Cullen was straddling her and preparing to take her top off.
“Hold on!” Bella yelled. Her voice was loud enough that whoever was outside could hear it, but she reached for
“Jacob,” Bella breathed out, realizing that that was why
“You don’t have to go
“I won’t go far,”
“Okay,” Bella agreed knowing that it was for the best. “Do I get a goodbye kiss?”
The door bell rang again, and Bella turned, looking towards the foyer in annoyance.
When she turned back around
Bella sighed, and then muttered, “I hate it when she does that,” to herself before she made her way to the front door.
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Bella sighed as Jacob brushed past her and moved further into the house. Her eyes lingered on his idling Rabbit outside the door, briefly meeting the hostile looks of the other teenage boys inside before she shut the door on them and turned to join Jacob … wherever it was he had stalked to.
“Slumber party?” Jacob asked snidely.
He was staring at the blanket she and
When he spoke, his tone was sarcastic and derisive, and Bella’s back straightened at the sound of it.
“Kind of,” Bella responded struggling to keep her voice conversational. She was in a good mood and it gave her more control over her annoyance than she would have had otherwise.
Jacob rolled his eyes and turned away, scanning the living room and hallway again, his head cocked to the side as he listened carefully.
“Where’s your friend?” he asked a few seconds later, apparently determining that the house was empty except for the two of them.
He practically sneered the last word, and Bella realized that it was a very good thing that
“Errands,” Bella replied, breathing in and out deeply, struggling to stay calm.
She didn’t want to get into a fight with Jacob. Despite his natural werewolf hostility to vampires, he was a good person and he had been a very good friend to her. She didn’t want things to escalate to the point where they said things to each other that they couldn’t take back.
Jacob made an unkind sound in his throat and began to stalk around the room, sniffing the air and wrinkling his nose. Bella sighed, watching as he moved around. With Alice and Jacob acting like she smelt like a garbage heap a girl could really have gotten a complex.
“This place stinks,” Jacob muttered turning his fiery eyes towards Bella. “You stink,” he said his lips curling.
“Thank you Jake, that’s a very nice thing to say to someone after you barge into their house unannounced,” Bella replied unable to keep some of her frustration out of her tone. “Would you like to insult my mother now, or do you want to tell me why you’re here?”
“I don’t even remember your mom,” Jacob muttered darkly, his eyes skittering away from Bella’s momentarily. “And I don’t want to be here. I have to be,” he continued. His voice was louder this time, and just as hard as it had been when she had opened the door.
“Okay,” Bella said slowly. She tried not to be stung by his words. She knew that they came from a place of primal aversion that Jacob was helpless against. But, she couldn’t stop herself from taking it a little personally. “Get it over with then.”
Jacob began to pace again, his movements bringing him up along side the couch when he finally spoke. “There’s a Cullen staying here,” he began, and Bella could see how much effort it took for him say the name ‘Cullen’ instead of spitting out the word ‘bloodsucker’.
“Yes,” Bella began, pausing momentarily to watch in fascination as Jacob began to sniff the air again, and then leaned down to sniff at the couch.
She watched as he bent his face down to the cushions, torn between the urge exclaim ‘ew’ and make a face and the urge to laugh. Seeing his large, hulking figure bent over her couch sniffing at the cushions was a pretty comical sight, but she could see his breath become more labored while his back started to visibly rise and fall and Bella began to become concerned.
“Jacob,” she said softly. “Jake,” she said again when he didn’t stop.
And then Jacob was looking over at her, his hands fisted at his side as his body shook. His face was a mask of rage and hostility and Bella automatically took a step back. He looked angrier than he had the day he had sided with his werewolf friend Sam over her, and for the first time in her life she was a little afraid of him.
Jacob began to move and Bella forced herself to stay still. When he reached her he bent forward and sniffed her, a pained growl emerging from his throat. He then bent even more, sniffing at her shoulders, and then her arm. However, when he bent so far over that he was level with her pelvis, Bella had had enough and put her hands on his shoulders and pushed.
“Ew! Jake!” she yelled in an extremely irritated and disturbed tone of voice, still pushing against him. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” she asked a moment later, moving around him and across to the other side of the room as he straightened up.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing!?!” Jacob roared at her in response.
“Me?” Bella yelled back. “I’m not doing anything, Perv! You’re the one who was nosing around my crotch like a goddamn golden retriever!”
Jacob growled, and Bella realized that her comment was probably below the belt. Then again, his face had been below the belt too, so she didn’t feel too badly about calling him a ‘perv’ or the golden retriever comment.
“Which one is here?” Jacob whispered. His teeth ground together audibly as he spoke, and Bella winced thinking that it had to have been incredibly painful.
“
Jacob stared at her for a long moment. His was body vibrating with rage once more.
“Liar,” he said. His voice was incongruently soft for the venom with which he said the word.
“I am not,” Bella said her jaw clenching and her nostrils flaring as she struggled to keep her voice down.
“Bloodsucker stink is all over you,” Jacob responded, his body trembling in what Bella realized was a shudder. “Bloodsucker stink and … sex,” he spat out, his eyes involuntarily dropping to Bella’s waist.
Bella shuddered herself then as she realized what Jacob had smelt on the couch and when he had bent over in front of her. She had been quite aroused before the doorbell had rung, and she knew that the evidence of that arousal was still lingered between her legs, but she didn’t think for a moment that Jacob would be able to smell it.
“If you can …” Bella began her voice shaking as she spoke. “If your sense of smell is that sensitive then you know I’m telling the truth,” she continued, her voice gaining strength as she fought off her mortification. “You can differentiate between male and female pheromones. You know it’s not Edward’s scent,” she said waving her hand around the room. “You know it’s female.”
Jacob lifted his hand and rubbed at the short hairs of his buzz cut. He sniffed the air again lightly, and his lips curled. He had been focused on the smell of vampire and hadn’t taken the time to analyze the scent more than that. But, now that he had, he knew that Bella was telling the truth. The scent was definitely female.
The other scent he had smelt was unmistakable though. Young as he was, he knew what that scent meant. Bella had been aroused, and so was the female vampire. The stink of the two of them was all over the couch. The two of them had been on the couch together … aroused.
Jacob shuddered, and cursed his werewolf senses. While it had hurt to see Bella and her vampire boyfriend together the year before, at least he had never been able to smell him on Bella back then.
Jacob’s hand stilled on top of his head, and he stood motionless for a long moment. Then, overcome, he roared, the sound so loud that it actually hurt Bella’s ears.
“Are you just spreading for anything without a pulse now?” he bellowed at her, his hands clutching at his head desperately as if he wished he could rip the knowledge he had just gained out of his head.
“Get out,” Bella whispered, her voice cold as ice. She pointed towards the door. “Get out, now,” she repeated in a much louder tone of voice, her body shaking faintly with rage as she did.
Jacob wasn’t the only one with a temper.
“I can’t,” he said looking at her in surprise. He still had news to deliver.
“Yes you can,” Bella said. “Start with your right foot, then put your left in front of it and keep moving until you’re out of my house.”
Jacob was still. “Oh man,” he moaned, “You really are sleeping with her, aren’t you?” he asked. “I thought that maybe you two were just watching a porno or something,” the room had looked like a movie afternoon had been going on, “but … oh, man,” he moaned again.
He sounded impossibly young then, pained and surprised, and Bella realized that despite his outburst he hadn’t really wanted to believe what he was saying. He was upset, and jealous that a vampire was staying with her, and he wanted to hurt her, but he hadn’t truly wanted to believe his senses. It was only when she had taken the accusation seriously that it really hit home for him.
“Jake,” Bella sighed, really not wanting to talk to him about it, not now. “Just tell me what you came here to tell me and go. Please.”
Jacob stared at her, blinking, his eyelids fluttering rapidly in a way she had come to know so well, only unlike when
All of the anger and frustration inside of Bella disappeared at the sight, and she took a step towards him, wanting to say something, do something to ease his distress. She didn’t love him the way he loved her, but she did love him, and she hated to see him in pain, especially because of her.
Jacob held out his hand in front of him, and Bella stopped walking.
“When your …” He paused and breathed in deeply, fortifying himself. “When she comes back … do you … do you think you could tell her about the other one …
Bella’s eyes widened and she sucked in a surprised breath. She had forgotten all about
“Yes,” Bella said nodding, her voice almost apologetic. “I’ll tell her. I promise, I’ll tell her.”
Jacob nodded, something in Bella’s tone gentling his emotions a little bit. “Make sure you do. Because we can’t … with a Cullen back in town we can only watch our own lands. So unless you want to come to La Push, she’ll have to look after you.”
Bella nodded.
Jacob released a shuddering breath and angled his head to the side, staring towards the front door.
“I have to ask,” He began, clearly wanting to be anywhere but in that house talking to her, “are the others coming back, too?”
Bella shook her head and then realized he wasn’t looking at her and added, “No. No, they aren’t,” out loud.
“Okay,” he murmured that little boy voice that she had once known so well was back. “I’ve got to get back to the funeral,” he continued, sparing a look at her then.
Bella nodded sadly, and he started towards the door.
“I’ll see you?” Bella called out when he was near the front of the living room. She wished she had been able to sound more certain about that.
“Yeah,” Jacob muttered, refusing to meet her eyes.
And then he was out of sight.
To be continued …
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LOL. He is kind of being a douche right now, but he will redeem himself as the story goes on. I've only read up to New Moon, so my feelings about Jake were never tainted. I still like the guy :D
Looking forward to reading the next one! *grabs popcorn and waits*
I'll try not to keep you waiting too long!
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“I thought withholding carnal pleasures and abstaining from letting others gain sexual knowledge of you was all the rage in your day,” Bella responded, smiling as Alice’s hand moved up to her breast and tweaked her nipple playfully.
"Alice laughed lightly, her lips brushing against Bella’s. “Yes, but you could only do that if you never put out in the first place,” she responded, kissing Bella again. “Once another had gained carnal sexual knowledge of you, you were despoiled and could no longer cry chastity,” Alice continued lifting her head so that she could see Bella’s face. She smirked. “You, my dear, are a dairy cow now, and the coupons for free milk have been mailed,”
That was great :D
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(Anonymous) 2008-08-31 05:46 am (UTC)(link)Classic. I love it :D
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haha, amazing, and funny!
brilliant as always, I do hope Bella and Alice get to finish what they started...and that poor Jake doesn't get too much more upset...
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... uh ...
and that poor Jake doesn't get too much more upset...
Jake will calm down, and then get upset again. It IS Jake after all. But don't worry, he will redeem himself eventually :D
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I think I just fell in love with you for thinking that line. Or maybe it was just the part of me that's obsessed with vampires. But wait a minute, I thought that was all of me, not just a part? Now i've gone and gotten confused.
:)
Hope you keep writing as regularly as this - if I could keep to a schedual like you I'm sure I'd have over 100 fics on ff.net. But, alas, I am not, which is why I have to wait for the updates and amuse myself in the meantime with what I can.
Tootles
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:D
Hope you keep writing as regularly as this - if I could keep to a schedual like you I'm sure I'd have over 100 fics on ff.net
Normally, I'm not as fast as this, but this fic has taken over my life, and being off for the summer certainly didn't hurt. I'm back to work tomorrow though, but I don't think it will effect the fic (or speed of the updates) too much ;)
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Glad you liked!
Pity Him
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Aw, don't be too hard on him yet. He did just kind of get bitchslapped by the world, lol. He'll redeem himself. Having only read up to New Moon, Jake was never tainted for me so I still really like the guy. He won't get Bella, but he won't be an asshole either.
Also, I have to say, you have a great sense of dramatic timing.
Thank you *swirls cape and bows* If you thought that this chapter ended dramatically just wait until ... DA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
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Aw, shit. Now I'm even more obsessed... Damn you and your beautiful words! ^_^ Just kidding. But seriously, I can't wait for the next one!
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Plus, I promise he'll redeem himself.
*hugs Jake*
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Btw, you need to join my Alice/Bella comm and start posting there! I will be soon enough. :-D
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and Jacob as a golden retriever. Heh.
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I'm glad the sweet, funny cuddles, almost sexin' was nice, I figured I had to have some fuzzy wuzzy times in there before the ANGST came.
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“You, my dear, are a dairy cow now, and the coupons for free milk have been mailed”
Has to be my favorite line so far :-) I loves it....
Y.R.H :-)
p.s. just out of curiosity, seeing as tho i am not familiar with anything twilight aside from this story, how come alice doesnt remember being human? is that a vampire thing? or did it have something to do with how she came to be?
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I know, right? It's like can't two hot teenage girls just do each other without males interrupting, wanting to talk!?! UGH lol
seeing as tho i am not familiar with anything twilight aside from this story, how come alice doesnt remember being human? is that a vampire thing? or did it have something to do with how she came to be?
She remembers one thing about being human, darkness, nothing else. We learn that it's because she was put into a sanitarium before she died because of her visions of the future. Her parents thought she was crazy and locked her away. Being in the dark, alone for so long kind of traumatized her, and she probably repressed the memories after she was turned.
I think (I can't remember if it's stated or not), that that's the reason Alice is the most chipper of the vampires. She doesn't remember what she's missing, so she doesn't hate being a vampire as much as the others.
That's also why her hair is short as a vampire, because it was shaved when she was in the sanitarium and was just growing back when she was turned into a vampire.
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That's one of the frustrating things about the novels. Stuff like Alice's background that is actually interesting, get like next to no coverage, and yet Bella and Edward can go on for 30 pages having a conversation about nothing!
Ugh, BLURG!
thanks for taking the time to explain :-)
Glad to help :D
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And as always, loving the Alice/Bella banter. It never, ever gets old.
Looking forward to the next installment! =)
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now, i hate jacob more :]
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“Are you just spreading for anything without a pulse now?” he bellowed at her>/i>
Jacob was still. “Oh man,” he moaned, “You really are sleeping with her, aren’t you?” he asked. “I thought that maybe you two were just watching a porno or something,”
I'm getting repetitive here: GREAT!
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I like Jake (even though he was kind of a jerk in this chapter, lol). There'll be more Jake and Bella in the chapters you're heading towards, and as he deals with the reality of Bella and Alice's relationship, he'll become more and more his sweet, charming old self
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love the chapter, full of awesome lines! you're a genius! x)
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Awesome chapter!