A/N Hello everyone, this is my first story for Twilight, I have written some fiction for Dawson's Creek, but I read some of Twilight and came up with the following. So i hope you like and constructive criticism is always appreciated. I do not own anything relating to Stephanie Mayer nor anything having to do with the Twilight franchise, this is merely for my entertainment as well as those who read it. I will be giving different POV's but i will specify before the chapter begins. Thanks and Enjoy:)
The Day the Earth Shook
BPOV:
Walking up to his house, I knew what I wanted. I wanted him to stay, stay with me where everything was safe. Where everything was normal and we wouldn't have to worry about never seeing each other again. Where all we had to care about was which china pattern we would have or who would be the one to turn off our bedroom light when we went to sleep. But some part of me knew that I wouldn't be able to convince him to stay. Part of me knew he would eventually leave, taking my heart along with him.
I knocked on the door and Esme answered. Her eyes were red and swollen from crying which every mother would be agreeable upon to do. She immediately pulled me into a hug, "Oh Bella what is a mother to do?" She sobbed onto my shoulder and I hugged her back as best I could, trying to be strong for her. She finally pulled back only to have her look at me with eyes filled with worry and fear. "How am I suppose to let my only child go off to war?" I didn't know what to say to her, I had to be the strength she needed, Edward had asked me to.
For a split second I remembered the day; a month ago when he told me he had gotten drafted. I was sitting by our tree near the creek that flowed through the backwoods near his home. The meadow wasn't that far away from the huge oak, where he had kissed me for the first time. I was reading my favorite book Wurthering Heights, when he walked up. "Hello there handsome", he took a seat down next to me on the blanket I had laid out. At once I knew something was wrong, he looked at me with fear in his eyes.
"I got picked." I was confused at first, "What do you mean, 'you got picked'?" He stared at me for a while and I started to get scared. "Drafted, Bella," my heart sank to the grass below me. My throat got dry and my entire body went numb. That one word will forever plague my mind, DRAFTED. I knew what that meant, it meant war, pain, separation, or even death. "Why, why you? You've just turned 21 Edward only 2 months ago. They cant do that, we are getting married in 8 months, they cant possibly send you when you are planning to start your life."
I was starting to get angry and hot tears began to streak my face. "They can do that Bella, and they did." I started to shake my head no. "They cant send you off to war, Edward. We can leave, we can go anywhere, they wont send after you, your only one person. We can start our life somewhere outside of here." I got up and started to pace around, my hand on my forehead trying to piece all of the details together.
"Yes that's what we are going to do, I have the money from the wedding saved, I think its about $4,000.00, and we aren't that far from Canada, which is the easiest place to go. We will get jobs and an apar…" He put his finger to my lips to silence me. "Bella, I have to do this." Bewildered I stared at him, "What?". I said it just above a whisper. "I have to go, I need to do this, it is my duty as an American." I just stared at him in disbelief, "Duty? What about your duty to me? I need you here, I need you to be safe. Your only duty should be to us and our future."
"Yes, Bella, your right; it is but how can I completely be devoted to you if America were ever invaded and you were taken away from me? I couldn't live with myself knowing I could have fought to protect you." I turned away from him and pulled my arms around myself. He came up behind me wrapping his arms around my own and rested his chin on my shoulder. "I know you're scared, I never said that I wasn't, but I have to go for my right as a free man. Fighting for freedom is an honorable thing Bella."
I shook my head and turned in his arms facing him, "What if something happens to you? How am I suppose to breath without you Edward?" He put his hands on my cheeks and looked down into my red eyes, "My heart belongs to you, as long as you have it, how can anything go wrong? My love for you will never cease. You are my life and if I have the chance to die to protect that, how can that possibly be a bad thing?" He pulled my face towards his and kissed me, softly and gentle. "You see, this is real. This is what I will be protecting; the freedom to hold your hand in public, the freedom to laugh, play and kiss you whenever I want." I knew then that I couldn't deny that right, I would want to know for certain that I wouldn't have to hide anything with Edward. I couldn't give him my approval, but I could give him my understanding.
"Well then, you go." He smiled down at me. "Okay, I do have one request though." "Anything," "Please be brave for my mother. I haven't told her yet and I know that she will need a shoulder to lean on." I looked at him with certainty in my eyes. "Of course, but you will write me everyday, tell me everything that goes on, what you see, what you hear, everything." He took my hand and placed it over his heart, "You are everywhere I am."
Sucked back into reality, I held Esme softly by the shoulders. I looked at her and smiled. "Everything is going to be alright. I know that it is so frightening and you don't know what to do with yourself, but it will be alright." She hugged me again before turning toward the house where we found Edward and his father Carlisle in the living room. I walked in and gave Edward a kiss hello. "Are you all set to go?" He grabbed his duffel bag and looked at Carlisle, then Esme and finally at me, "as ready as I'll ever be."
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I looked up at him trying to hold back my tears; I knew that I only had 15 minutes left before he would walk away from me into the jaws of danger. I reached up and laid both my hands on his face. "Please Bella, lets not make this any harder then it has to be." I searched his eyes, "I need you to promise me that you'll come back." "You know that I will come back."
He put his hands on my forearms that were still holding on to his face. "Promise me that you will come back to me. I wont be able to go each day without knowing you will come back to me." "I will come back to you, I will marry you, I will LOVE you, I promise with all of my heart." With that confirmation he lowered his lips to mine, I snaked my hands around his neck and kissed him with all that I had, pouring my heart and soul into it. I wanted to have him swallow me into him just so I wouldn't have to say goodbye. I felt his arms tighten around my waist as he lifted me off the ground only to set me back on my feet far too quickly.
"Bella, I am not going to say goodbye to you, I'm just simply going to say I love you." The tears in my eyes that I had been trying to hold back came flooding out at full force. He made a move to walk away lifting his hand to my check. He looked at me and took several steps in the direction of the plane. At that moment I was sure I had lost my mind, "Edward." He turned around, his green eyes sparkling in the twilight. I rushed over to him, "Edward, please don't go, don't do this, ill go anywhere with you, Canada, Mexico...anywhere, just PLEASE don't get on this plane." My tears were non stop at that point.
He looked down at me, "Bella, I promise you I will come back, but this is something I have to do, because I love you and I need to fight for the freedom to do just that, LOVE you. Remember that I am fighting for us, and our future." Just then his lieutenant gave the final call, "Solders, please say your goodbyes and board the aircraft." Edward squeezed my hand and started to walk away, he got to the top of the stairs just about to board when he turned around to mouth 'I love you' back to me. I returned with the same gesture and he smiled at me, giving me just the slightest of hope that he would return to me; just before disappearing into the darkness of the pain I knew would soon implode into my heart.
