I love you…

BPOV

Alice and I talked all night and into the early hours of the morning. I decided I should check on Ej and Edward to see if Ej had made it to bed for the night.

I slowly peeked through the door to find Ej lying with his eyes closed but his lips still moving and Edward was stretched out beside him. It was the most gorgeous sight I had ever seen Edward was staring at Ej intently and he hadn't even realized I was watching him. Edward looked up as I tried to close the door and leave them to their moment.

"Bella, can I talk to you?" he stood and walked towards me gazing up at me through his impossibly long lashes. It was the same expressing I had seen on Ej when he wanted something he knew he would get in trouble for.

"Fine" I sighed stepping out into the hallway with Edward behind me. I leaned against the wall and waited for him to say what ever he wanted to.

"Bella I…I was wrong I should have never left you that day in the woods. But you have to know I left to keep you safe I knew what I had done to you how much I was hurting you keeping you so close to my world…" after his shaky beginning his words were flowing more easily.

"What are you talking about? You left because you finally realized I wasn't what you" I jabbed my finger at him. "Wanted, I was all wrong for you. I know that now" I looked at my feet.

"No, Bella…" his voice cracked, he put his finger under my chin forcing me to look at him. "I love you" I could see it in his eyes, he was telling the truth but there was no way this could be happening, no he didn't love me. He loved Ej.

"No. stop it Edward you don't love me. You're just overwhelmed because you have a son, you love him not me you want what's best for him, but I won't keep him from you Edward. You can see him as much as you like…just don't-don't do this to me."

He was speechless I took this moment to walk away. He suddenly grabbed my hand and tried to pull me back to him, I let him not sure what he was doing. He placed his hands on either side of my face and as much as I new I could get out of his grasp the less faithful side of my brain didn't want to move. I was home. He pushed his lips to mine and kissed me roughly trying to show me how he was feeling, his arms wound around my waist and fingers laced into his hair. I knew this was stupid, it wouldn't help anything but it just felt right. I pulled away, breathing heavily.

"Bella… I love you truly I do, I left you that day because I didn't to hurt you anymore…I could see it all Bella having you so close to my world I was hurting you…I thought that leaving would be best so you could have a happy human life." Anger rocked through me. I couldn't believe him I wasn't a child.

"I can't believe you Edward…you didn't think that maybe I had a different view on what was safe for me and what wasn't. You just treat me like a child you take away my choice…I loved you Edward I-I trusted you and you you…" he could see the anger burning in my eyes, he flinched back from me. A hurt and pained expression crossed his face.

"So you don't love me?" he whispered brokenly.

"Edward you betrayed my trust, I-I'm just not sure at the moment it's all too much for me please just leave" I sighed. Edward hung his head and sauntered out of the house.

I walked back into the sitting room, Alice looked extremely sad.

"Bella…I understand if your angry at Edward you have every right to be…But you're not going to keep Ej away from us are you?" she pouted at me.

"Aw…Alice" I sat down next to her and wrapped my arms around her tiny body. "I would never do that to you"

"Thank you Bella" she hugged me tightly and snuggled into my embrace. We stayed like that for an immeasurable amount of time I could see the warm sun creeping in the window.

"Momma?" Ej was standing in the hall rubbing his eyes.

"I'm in here baby" I called towards him. He wondered sleepily into our sitting room.

I got up from the couch and made Ej his breakfast.

"Bubs, how do you feel about spending the day with Aunty Alice?" I asked while I washed the dishes.

"That sounds fun momma. Are you going to see Grandpa Aro?"

"Yeah, but I will be back later. Maybe Aunty Alice can get a hold of your dad and he can come see you for the day too." I offered heading to my room to get changed.

EPOV

She just needs time… I chanted over and over.

After being rejected by Bella I went back into the same state I was in when I left her in Forks, I was useless; I just curled up into a ball and let the pain take me.

I wanted so badly to go back to the Volturi and I ask them to kill me but I had Ej now to think about too, if I left again it would hurt him so much and I couldn't stand myself if I was the cause of that. It was so hard to get my head around the fact that I was a father. I was a father.

Aro had been so damn smug that first time I had asked him, he knew it all and when Bella ran he made me stay saying if I followed her now she would never come back to me. How could Aro think he knew my Bella better than myself? I suppose she was no longer my Bella I had hurt her to much I was probably the worst person in the world. I felt disgusting.

I pulled out my cell phone and dialed Carlisle's number; he would know what to do.

"Hello Edward? Is that you?"

"Yes" was all I managed before breaking down and telling him everything. He was shocked to say the least but still told me what I had to do. Alice rang only seconds after I ended my call to Carlisle.

"Edward get over here, you've got a whole day sorted out for you and your son"

Alice had a full day planned for us we played baseball for most of the morning just the two of us. Alice meet us around lunch when we went out for a picnic and Ej kept forcing food at me and Alice just laughed while I swallowed it grimacing the whole time. This picture was still incomplete we needed Bella without her it wasn't right; knowing she was so close but I was unable to touch her was killing me. I needed her. I wanted her. I knew it was wrong after all I had done to her I wouldn't be surprised if she never wanted to see me ever again.

We were outside Bella's house and I decided I needed to talk to Alice.

"Alice what are you doing here?" I said through my clenched teeth it was too quiet for Ej to hear.

"I'm here because you keep screwing up your chances with Bella. And Edward this isn't just about you anymore, I love Bella too this has been hard for all of us and I'm not going to suffer because of your stupid mistakes anymore." I was shocked into silence after that.

I went to drop Ej at Bella's by myself hoping I would get a chance to speak with her. I knocked on her door and she opened it.

"Bella please…I can't live without you just please" I begged. Ej was in bed and I had waited until he was asleep like Bella had asked.

"Edward Why are you doing this to me?" she put her hand over her eyes and sighed loudly.

"I love you Bella, I would do anything to get you back" I pleaded further.

"Please Edward stop I know you love me and I love you too…just stop beating yourself up over this it's not your fault and I'm sorry I got angry with you yesterday"

I kissed her passionately trying to show her what I was feeling, we quickly deepened the kiss. She loved me…she loved me… I was sure that if I wasn't as controlled as I am now that I would have been jumping up and down like a kid at Christmas.

"Momma, what's going on?" Ej asked. We were on our way to the Volturi headquarters; where Aro was awaiting the arrival of the rest of the Cullen's. Alice and Edward were going to pick them up claiming I needed to prepare Ej for the meeting. Aro was overly excited about seeing his old friend again.

Aro helped the day Edward came back, I told him all about what had happened in forks and he told me 'not to give up on love' cheesy huh? But that's Aro. I knew it would be a long time before I trusted Edward again but that didn't mean I had to block him from my life.

"Well…Baby we are going to meet your other Grandparents" I answered happily. Ej had taken to calling Aro Grandpa and all the other members of the Volturi were his uncles and aunts, none of them really cared he had them all wrapped around his little finger.

We stood outside the main door; I could hear voices inside that were very familiar, I was so nervous it wasn't even funny. "Ok let's go bubs" I let out the breath I was holding. I held his hand tightly in mine and we walked into the room together.

"Ej I would like you to meet my family" Edward said coming over to us. "This is your Granddad and Grandma, Esme and Carlisle; your uncles Emmett and Jasper and your other aunty, Rosalie." He pointed to them all as he said their names. Esme looked close to tears as she sized up Ej.

"Ej introduce yourself" I whispered in his ear.

"Oh, I'm Edward it's nice to meet you all" his eyes became huge as he moved down the line and then when he got to Emmett he smirked up at him tauntingly.

"Hey, little man, what's got you so happy?" Emmett said.

"Oh nothing I was just wondering if you felt like having a wrestling match with me, I've beaten everyone around here so its fun to have some new competition" his voice was so sweet it would have been impossible for someone like Emmett to resist. Little did Emmett know Ej was actually really strong, not as strong as Emmett or Felix but still he was only the size of a two and half year old. Edward tried not to laugh when I guess he saw Ej's previous victories. Emmett flexed and swung Ej up onto his shoulder.

"So where do we go little man?" He asked looking back at Ej's face.

"Down the hall and it's the first left" I answered for him. They waved goodbye and exited the room. Rosalie huffed and we all focused our attention on her.

"What?...I'm just pissed, cause I get a miracle nephew and Emmett walks off with him just like that" she snapped her fingers for emphasis.

"Aw it's ok Rose, they'll be back in like one minute fighting over who won" Edward laughed.

And surprise surprise they did come back after about 40 seconds Ej running in with a smug look on his face and Emmett right behind him muttering about it being unfair. We all laughed uncontrollably at his pouty expressing he was never going to live this one down.

"So, Ej what do you like?" Rosalie bent down to his level and smiled warmly at him. Esme and Carlisle were still in some kind of shocked state but then Esme appeared at my side and pulled me into a loving hug.

"Thank you Bella, I've missed you so much…thank you for everything…for-for bringing Edward back to life for giving us Ej for everything. Thank you" I hugged her back and patted her back lightly.

Ej, Rosalie and Emmett were sitting cross legged on the floor talking and Jasper continued to sneak closer to them and Carlisle watched them animatedly from the beside me.

So what do you think did she give in to easily or was he justified in her anger before? Review and tell me.

Carlisle and the others will come into the story later they have only just found out about Bella and Ej and they probably think Edwards gone insane.

Oh and Alice couldn't see Bella cause she cant see Ej like in BD, but she found Bella cause she could see Edward going to look for her and she see's Edward a lot clearer cause she's so in tuned to him.

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