Bella Swan Cullen and Jacob Black

The great Edward Cullen was dead. Bella could hardly believe it. Vampires weren't supposed to die. But he had. Carlisle said it was a strange disease that stripped him of his immortality.

Oh, it did not matter what it was. All Bella knew as she laid the flowers on her husband's grave was that he was dead.


A few months later, a special visitor came a-knocking at the Cullen compound. Bella's daughter, Reneesme, answered the door.

"Uncle Jacob!" she cried as she hugged her best friend. Jacob Black, the werewolf, had imprinted on her as a baby. She could choose him as a mate, but Bella knew her daughter only saw Jacob as a friend. Jacob was content to be whatever Reneesme needed, even if he was denied her love.

Vampire mother and werewolf sat outside together on the back deck while the others played a pick-up game of baseball in the woods below.

"I was sorry to hear about Edward," Jacob admitted.

Bella smiled, touched that Jacob felt that much for his former rival. "I'm sorry Renéesme doesn't see you as more than a friend."

"Two lost souls, huh?" Jacob mused.

"Un-huh. What do you we do?"

Jacob thought for a moment. "I got it," he said, then suddenly seized Bella and kissed with all the strength he could muster. Bella was taken off guard, but she quickly relaxed into the kiss. It reminded her of their first atop the mountains of Washington State. When the broke apart, Bella was once again in love.

"We only have each other to turn to," Jacob pointed out. "If we stick together, we'll be alright." Bella agreed with Jacob's reasoning. They kissed again, and Jacob swept her off her feet, carrying her into the house.


Later that night, the moon was high in the sky. It's light reflected into the bedroom inside. "Hmmm…so good…" Bella groaned as she and Jacob rolled around her bed, still kissing and groping so much it was hard to tell whose hands were whose. They made deep, passionate love. At last, Jacob rose slightly off of her. Bella was left slightly breathless.

"I must leave now to go hunting. But I'll be back soon." He kissed her once and rolled off her. At the door, he paused. "Bella?...Will you marry me?" Bella smiled and nodded eagerly.


The wedding took place later that summer. Some of the supernatural creatures objected to the union, but the vampires and werewolves saw it as an opportunity to bring peace between their two peoples. Soon afterwards, on Isle Esme, Bella Swan Cullen Black banged her new husband in the bed where she had once conceived Reneesme with Edward. Though her first love was gone, she was glad that she had been given a second chance at it.