'Edward, please!'

I paused, taking in this new ferocity in her voice. She begged for me. I looked into her eyes. The warm chocolate eyes I fell in love with had a new fire to them, burning into mine like never before. I gasped. Her nails dug into my back, pulling me towards her as I pulled away. I was afraid of this new desperate and hungry look in Bella's eyes. Afraid that I had that hunger too, and was about to give in.

'Please, Edward...' she restated this time in a sweet whisper '...I can't wait anymore. I need you. I can't get this close again and not have you.'

Her voice sent me over the edge. She pleaded with me to be obedient and let her have me, and have me take her. She still clung to me, her nails pushed further into my skin. As I let up just an inch on my resistance with a sigh of failure, she pulled me to her with a new strength I never thought Bella had.

I felt like I had no control over what was happening. Bella's body called out to me. Her blood sung to me while her heart pushed it harder and faster through her body while her hands roamed over me, moving my hands to where she wanted them. I froze from the intensity of her touch.

'Touch me please, Edward. I can't take this anymore!'

A new emotion engulfed all of me. I realized that the hunger I was tasting in my mouth was not my lust for blood, but what I was tasting was flowing throughout my body in whole. I wanted this and I knew I could control myself with her...only her.

She gasped as I rolled her onto her back and pinned her arms by her head. She stared at me in shock, but a smile reached across her face and I smiled in turn.

And I kissed her, starting with her much familiar lips. Although familiar in every way, they still left me taken aback. This kiss was different. I wasn't kissing her defensively. I pressed into her, I wanted more and I didn't want to stop. Her hands running through my hair, up and down my back, leaving tiny trails of fire all over my skin.

I felt her blood pumping in her throat and instinctively went to it with my mouth. I let my lips lightly touch her pulsing neck and she shivered, pushing my head into her further. Being this close to Bella's throat never got easier. Fire rippled through my parched mouth, first hitting the tip of my tongue, then flowing down my throat. The venom swelled in my mouth and I swallowed it down, along with the monster that desperately wanted to attack. I could see Bella now through two sets of eyes: through one set, I saw Bella in my arms, pulling me into a warm embrace. This Bella felt safe and loved in my cold dead arms. The other set dripped with visions of blood, and blood only. I saw Bella pull me into that same warm embrace as before, but when I tore at her throat with my teeth, her eyes opened and widened with shock and fear. She screamed in fierce pain as I drained the life from her. Her struggling would amuse and encourage this set of eyes. It would only make the blood pump harder and run faster into my mouth, quenching a century old excruciating thirst.

As always, Bella pulled me back to her, back to myself. She brought my pained face up to hers and stared into my eyes. The monster disappeared instantly, growling in disappointment as I pushed it further back into its dark solitude...where it would stay.

It would be easy now to be with her like this. Love completely overpowered thirst. I was new to this...this human feeling that moved my body. Yet I automatically knew what to give her. My instincts I'd grown accustomed to over the past century blurred behind me as new instincts took over.

I ran my hands down her body slowly, still exploring her taste with my mouth. I hesitated briefly, then pushed her hips into mine eagerly, but gently. Her breathing stopped and her body stiffened as I entered into her. The warmth was nothing I'd ever felt before. It flowed over my entire body in waves, getting hotter and hotter. I felt alive again. Fire was running through the veins that had been lifeless for a hundred years. I felt my veins expand and push that fire through my center. The fire filled my lungs as I breathed all of her in. My whole body was in tune with hers for the first time. I didn't have to control my inhuman strength and speed. Being connected like this with Bella made me feel human. I felt her every twitch, the rumble from her chest when she moaned my name, the blood pumping through her. Instead of triggering a mouth-watering thirst, I gazed into her glazed chocolate eyes and fell in love with her all over again.

'I love you, Edward', she breathed sweetly into my mouth.

'My God, Bella...I love you so much.'

And our bodies moved in unison...as if they were made for one another...