So I was re-reading the end of Eclipse and I just loved the meadow scene but it somehow seemed incomplete. I liked the idea of Edward and Bella escaping back there after BD and the whole Voltui. So this is my interpretation of what I thought might be a nice little get away. It is kinda a one-shot but I did it in both Bella and Edward's perspective. Hope you like; please review. I love hearing from everyone. I think I'm becoming addicted to them; like my own brand of herionī.
As always I don't own any Twilight or its characters. I am just enjoying putting Stephenie Meyer's characters in new places.
Amazed
Bella POV
"Are we there yet?" I asked. Edward was being so strange. He actually had a blindfold on me right now as he ran through the woods.
"Nope." I could hear the laughter in his voice. "You will know when we get there so stop asking."
"You do know that I could run myself?"
"Then it wouldn't be a surprise, silly." He rubbed his face through my hair.
"What about Nessie?" I tried.
"Rose and Em are watching her and she is perfectly find." He told me. "I think Jacob was suppose to stop by later."
"Will we be back by then?" I hedged.
"No hints." He said and I could feel him shake his head.
I remember when I use to wonder how he could concentrate on me and not hit anything as we would run through Forks but now I understood. It was so simple to run now that I was a vampire. It was like breathing.
It still seemed like yesterday since I was changed. True it had been months now but the newness was still there. It had only been two weeks since the Volturi had come and gone and things had returned to normal; whatever normal was. Carlisle was back to work at the hospital, Jake was back home with Billy and in school although how he found time between visiting Nessie I still didn't know, Alice was planning Rose and Emmett's I-have-no-idea-which-number wedding and dragging poor Jasper right along with her, and Esme was just content to have her family back together, whole and happy. Even Charlie seemed to be normal. He had given up trying to understand the new world that I was in and just gone on with believing that Edward and I were just a couple of newlyweds just having fun. There was even talk of my going finally going to Dartmouth next semester since I still wasn't a traditional newborn.
Yes at that moment my life or existence was perfect. I had my family and friends, both new and old, that surrounded me with love, a daughter that was the beyond my wildest dreams, and a husband that I couldn't get enough of. I just couldn't imagine that anything could be better than what I had right now; with the exception of the fact that I still didn't know where Edward was leading me.
"Now are we there?" I asked impatiently.
He just chuckled at me. "Did you know that you are exceedingly impatient?"
"I thought that was one of the things you loved about me?" I turned and ran my tongue slowly up his neck toward his ear and began to nibble lightly.
"Stop or I am going to drop you." I felt his arms stiffen around me.
"You never would." I continued to nibble on his ear. "Although you could let me run myself and we would probably be there by now."
"Nice try."
"Please." I kissed the side of his jaw. I knew how it affected him when I begged. "Please."
"I'm still not going to tell you." He turned and kissed me soundly on the lips. "Just relax we are almost there. Just be good."
"Fine." I pouted. I felt the smile spread across his face. He knew I hated this but it also seemed so important to him so I just leaned into his chest and decided to let him surprise me. Maybe after everything we had been through in our relationship he just need to do something fun. Besides there was nothing I loved more than a smiling and happy Edward; except maybe a smiling and happy Nessie.
I finally felt Edward start to slowdown. I so wanted to ask if we were there but I didn't think he would see the humor in it.
"Aren't you going to ask 'are we there yet'?" He asked as he came to a stop.
"You know you are getting way to close to reading my mind for my comfort." I told him. "Every since I let you in that once it seems like you know exactly what I'm thinking."
"As much as I would like that, love, I still can't read your mind but after all our time together your face speaks volumes to me." He leaned down and kissed me once again.
I felt my feet touch the ground and I knew that we were wherever we were going but I just couldn't break myself away from Edward's mouth to look around and see where we had landed. This was what I loved most about being immortal. Edward kissing me without holding back. Touching me without worrying that I would break any minute. Slowly I could feel my skin start to tingle. I reluctantly drew back, pulling the blindfold off and looked around.
"The meadow?" I asked.
"Our meadow." Edward corrected me.
I loved that he thought of it as ours. "But I could have found this on my own." I told him.
"I know but I like carrying you. I don't get to as much since your change and it felt good to have you in my arms like before." He wrapped his arms around my waist.
"Well that makes sense, I guess."
He leaned down and kissed me again. Would I ever get tired of his lips on mine? As he deepen the kiss I knew there wasn't.
"Do you remember the first time that I brought you here?" He asked.
"Yes although it is a little fuzzy." I said knowing that he knew I did. It had been one of the memories that I had held on to share with him. "I remember every time you have brought me here."
"So you remember the last time we were here?" His hands began to roam across my body pulling me closer to him as his lips started a trail across my neck.
"Yes" I answered breathless.
"Well I was thinking back and I realized that we have some unfinished business from that trip." He whispered against my collarbone.
"Is that true?" I asked with a smile in my voice.
He shook his head next to my skin. "If I recall correctly you stopped me at a very inopportune moment."
I knew what he was talking about but for some reason I felt the need to tease him just a little longer.
"I don't remember that." I lied.
"Really?" He drawled pulling slightly away from me. "You don't remember my being ready to fulfill your little "marriage demand" and deciding that was the perfect time to tell Charlie that we were engaged?"
"Is that how you remember it happening? I smirked at him. "I remember things going a little differently."
"Is that so? Well why don't you enlighten me about your memory, fuzzy as it is." He pulled me down to the ground and wrapped his arms around me drawing my back up to his chest and rested his head in the crock of my neck nuzzling lightly.
"I remember, fuzzy and all, that I had just given in completely to your crazy "marriage demand" when you decided that you didn't want to hold up to your end of the deal."
"Bella, love, if I hadn't wanted to hold up my end of the deal you would be sitting her blushing right now and we wouldn't have our beautiful daughter; so try again." He smiled next to me.
"I guess that is kinda true." I started to turn in his arms. I touched my fingers to my chin. "I remember. I was trying to explain my feelings to you and you dazzled me into slipping this ring on my finger." I reached my left hand out to stroke his face so that he could feel my wedding rings against his jaw.
"Try again. If I had dazzled you then we would have finished what I started that day and there wouldn't be unfinished business now." His eyebrows raised a little and he flashed me my favorite crooked smile.
"Okay but I know that it was your fault somehow." I teased.
"No, love, this one is all you." His hands started to move down my leg.
"It was Alice. Yes it was Alice." I decided to blame my favorite sister. "I knew that if we even tried anything that day to ruin her wedding planning that she would have flown over here and forbid us to even look in the direction of each other until the wedding." I smiled knowingly.
"That might be true, but I told you I would handle Alice." His hands were becoming more insistent and I was running out of will to keep holding him away.
"That you did."
"So are you done trying to tease me or were you going to blame Charlie next?"
"Are you sure you're not reading my mind?" I looked startled.
He said as he rolled me onto my back on the hard ground that felt like feathers next to my marble skin and pulled himself on top of me so that every inch of him was touching every inch of me.
"Trust me it's all in your eyes." He kissed me longingly. "Did I ever tell you that was the first thing I noticed about you?"
"I thought it was my scent and the draw of my blood that first pulled you to me." It was my turn to nuzzle him.
"Yes but it was your eyes that followed me." He leaned his forehead against mine staring deeply into my now light topaz eyes. "They stayed with me no matter how far I ran. In Alaska all I could see was those dark chocolate eyes. Even when I wouldn't speak to you that was what I missed most; looking into your eyes."
"And now that they are more jewel than chocolate?" I held my breath. There was nothing that I lost about him when I changed and I would hate to think that there was something he missed about me.
"I thought it would be different, but I didn't think it would be like this." He kissed me again drawing back with a huge smile on his face. "It is so much better. Seeing your eyes look up at me and knowing that everything I thought I wouldn't be able see in them is still there. All the humor, embarrassment, fire, and especially love."
"That is what I have always seen in yours." I told him.
There was no need for any word after that. I was done teasing him as his hands found the buttons of my shirt and slowing slipped each one from their clasp. I reached for his shirt only to find that somehow he had pulled it off without ever breaking his kiss. It was amazing to think that this beautiful angel would always be mine. I felt rest of my clothes slowly fall away. I rolled on top of him and felt his hard marble body under me before he quickly rolled back on top of me.
"I love you Edward more today than ever before." I said locking my eyes into his so that I knew he would see everything I was feeling.
He swallowed hard. "There are no words strong enough to express how much I love you." He said solemnly as we became one.
This was how it would always be. This is what I had always known. That we would be this happy. His body and mine, His heart and mine, and your souls touching forever. As I moved with him I knew it had all been worth it. James, Victoria, Jake, the Volturi. It had all been worth it. To end up like this in our meadow and to be able to feel all of him and be able to be with him like this. Forever didn't seem long enough. Even eternity seems like a short time to spend with this wonderfully, amazing man who happened to love me.
I shuttered around him and knew that I was whole. I would always be whole as long as his arms were around me. He looked down at me with all the love that I felt and my favorite crooked smile on his beautiful face.
"Did you like your surprise?"
"What do you think?" I rolled on top of him and there were no other words.