AN: Hello, hello. Thank you for joining me. Ok, here's the deal, I'm hoping that I can make all the prompts fit this format. This is an idea that I've had for a while and I'm excited to get to try it out.

So, every chapter will be a letter between Edward and Bella. It's canon through Breaking Dawn. Don't worry about why they've been separated they just have. That's not the point. It's just a different way to explore the connection between Edward and Bella. I'm rating it M just because I don't know where I'll end up with this. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. I had fun writing this.

Challenge Number/Title: #1 – Rocky Horizon

Date Posted: 1-8-13

Fandom: Twilight

Genre: Canon AU

Content Descriptors: Angst

Character Pairing: Edward/Bella

My Beloved Bella,

As I just finished telling you over the phone, Alice and I have arrived safe and sound. There was a rough moment on the plane when we thought we caught another vampire's scent, but it turned out to just be our overactive imaginations. I think we were both trying to find something to be worried about. It's been a rough several months. We've all become accustomed to looking for enemies around every corner.

Alice sees nothing in our immediate future, however, so perhaps things will quiet down for now. I certainly hope they do. The faster that happens the sooner I can come back to you.

You would like the bungalow. Alice did a fantastic job with it. It's small—there's just enough room for the two of us—but it's comfortable. It overlooks the North Sea, and it's high up on a rocky ledge. When we got here, the wind was blowing so hard that I thought the bungalow might just collapse. The closest village is at least twenty miles away, and that's in good weather. So, there won't be any worries about unexpected visitors.

Alice is back there now unpacking and trying to distract herself from missing Jasper. She's put up a brave front, but I can't hide it from me. She misses him. Did you know that, until now, they hadn't spent more than a week apart from each other since they met? Jasper must be a wreck. I'll have to call Carlisle later and check on them. Because I can hear you now asking me, yes, I will take care of Alice. I promise I won't let her slip into herself too much. You should also know that I've made Emmett promise me the same thing for you, so don't be too hard on him.

Like Alice, however, I'm trying to distract myself. I'm sitting up on the ledge overlooking the sea that would take me back to you. Even with the oppressive clouds it's a startling shade of blue. Of course, I'm sure that a human in my same place would say that it was dull and gray, but to me it's blue and crystal clear. I would say it's beautiful, but nothing compares to you, Bella.

The horizon is just as bright, although I don't appreciate that as much. Deep, royal blue, the color you often wear, in fact, is giving way to the ominous clouds without any trouble. The two colors almost blend together at the horizon line. For some reason I want the blue to fight back. I want to horizon to have to go farther. I want to be able to see a shore on the other side, or maybe the curve of the earth just to assure me that some things haven't changed. I just want to know that the world is still turning and somewhere, on the other side of that world, you're watching the sun come up.

God, I miss you, Bella. Who would have ever thought that we would end up like this—safe and alive, but worlds apart? You're an ocean and a continent away from me. You realize, of course, that I could cross the distance in only a matter of hours if I wanted to. I could be home with you before the sun fully rose, but in order to keep you and the rest of our family safe I have to remain here, staring out over the ocean. So, I miss you, in some ways more than when I left you all those years ago. I thought then I was too dangerous for you, but I was an adolescent fool. If I had known everything that was coming, I would have grabbed you and never let go.

This is one of the ways that I'm going to contend with missing us. When I was human, letter writing was an art form. You've seen the box of love letters my father wrote my mother before they were married; by the time I get back to you, you are going to need a storage shed to keep all the letters I'm going to write. Whenever Alice gets on my nerves, whenever I miss you so much that I feel like there is a hole in my chest that will never heal, whenever I feel like the whole world is against us, I am going to sit on this rock, watch the horizon, and tell you everything that I am feeling.

Bella, my love, you will probably be sick of these letters before too long. You've never gotten the chance to see into my head like you have allowed me into yours. This will be your chance. I may scare you off, but you should know that you are not going to get rid of me. You're mine.

So, just know that I miss you so much that it is difficult just to move. I know that I have to be the strong one for Alice—and I will—but for right now I just need to feel how much I miss you, and Renesmee, and the rest of our family.

I won't even tell you all this when I talk to you later on the phone. Because I know that I need to be strong for you too, that you'll be able to worry enough for the both of us. But here—when it's just you, me, and a piece of paper—there may be times when I'm upset, or angry, or worried, or just need to vent. Other times I'm going to need to tell you over, and over, and over, how much I love you, and I need you to be okay with that.

Isabella Cullen, one day, when this is all over, we're going to read this and laugh. I'm sure that on the other side of this our forever is just as bright and beautiful as we always thought it would be. I've got to believe that, Bella, because the alternative is unbearable. Life without you by my side is.. Well, I don't have words for that.

The clouds are threatening rain now and I'm sure that Alice is ready for some company. I'll let her tell me all about what's needed for the bungalow. I'm sure she already has a list.

Hopefully this letter will be across the sea and in your hands in just a few days. No doubt tomorrow I'll be back on this rock, trying to see you in the horizon, and writing to you when I can't.

Give Esme a hug for me and punch Emmett. I'm sure he deserves it for something. If you talk to Renesmee before I do, please tell her I love her, and tell Jacob if he doesn't take care of her I'll kill him.

I love you, Bella. It's not enough, but there's no other way to say it. I love you.

Your Devoted Husband,

Edward