To Bella a relationship with words rather than physical interaction had always been key. With Edward that was indeed the only way it could ever be- unless he were to change Bella. In this case Edward fought always against that terminal subject- Bella being a vampire.
"Edward its all I ever wanted! I want to be with you FOREVER!!!" Bella was on her knees with body trembling sobs rocking her petite body. Her hair was thrown forward over her hunched shoulders, her bangs sticking to her forehead by the sweat and tears this effort was causing.
"BELLA FOR GODSAKES! PLEASE SHOW A LITTLE SELF PRESERVATION! I want you to stay human! I am NOT taking your soul!" His topaz eyes were pitch black showing his hunger for Bella. He needed to hunt- and Bella knew it.
"Edward… PLEASE?" Bella twisted her body up and around, keeping her watering eyes on his and their black hunger. She seductively ran her fingers down her curved sides and pulled her full weight off the ground showing her slender stomach. Edward's eyes got blacker.
"Bella… stop that." Bella smiled, letting the tears evaporate from her eyes. She put one foot in front of the other, using all of her brainpower to focus on taking gentle, graceful steps. With each step her short shirt peaked up to show her white, taunt skin. Before long she had closed the distance between herself and him.
His eyes could not BE any blacker. Edward was not weak… except when Bella was like this. "Bella… please…" His words were cut off as Bella's breath coming closer stopped his words. He was beyond control. Edwards hand came up to stroke Bella's back and his other hand was seductively resting on her collarbone, softly moving down her backbone to come to a rest with the other hand.
Bella's breath tingled against Edward's own for minutes on end. Bella pulled back, gasping for breath and with no warning at all, Edward struck. Bella's eyes widened in shock- her pupils dilated and the green started to combine with specks of black. She felt the fangs enter her jugular vein- the rancid venom combining with her own scarlet blood. Edward pinched his mouth out of Bella's soft skin. His own arsenal of venom streaked down his jaw line and his mouth widened as a string of endless curses exited his dead lungs. The taste of Bella's blood lingered on his lips. Bella's eyed softly started to close and a small smile wiped over her entire mouth. Her eyes almost finished the transformation of a vampire's hungry black pitch and they silently began to close. The last words Edward heard her mumble was, "Forever is Forever Edward. I'll see you in three days." Edward was as dead as dead was, for his heart hadn't beat in over seventy years, but for the first time in all those ages, tears leaked out of his own topaz eyes- the eyes of a fulfilled vampire. He stroked the tear off of his sweating cheek and tasted it on his tongue. It had no taste. He existed- but he was the walking soulless. And he had just doomed his love to the same list of eternally damned he belonged to.
And that's all she ever wanted.
Edward let the suppressed sobs rack from his soul. "In three days my love. I'm so damned sorry. So damned sorry."
He laid his head against Bella's struggling heart and held his breath for the day his love came back to him- eternally his.