A/N: It really is unsettling when I never get any reviews.

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, all characters are the property of the lovely Stephenie Meyer and I make no profit off of this fic.

I was aware that I was falling, more like hurdling towards the ground, I was falling so fast. I knew that the ground was only a few miles away and I closed my eyes, bracing myself for the landing and the impact with the ground, imagining which bones I could possibly break, or even if I could break anything at all. The impact that I was so looking forward to never came. My eyes flew open, looking around for the reason as to why I had never hit the ground.

The first thing that I saw was Edward's face and then I realized that he was holding me. Then I saw that we were standing motionless on the ground. I groaned and struggled against his iron grip to try and stand up.

"Put me down," I said to him.

Instead of setting me on my feet, he sat down on the forest floor and sat me in his lap.

"Not what I meant."

"I don't care."

I looked at his face then. A hundred different emotions were clouding his face at once. I never knew that one person could feel them all at the same time. He was clearly concerned and worried; all traces of anger and rage long gone. Sadness also filled his black eyes along with pain.

He quickly looked me over, his hands moving fast and swiftly to make sure that there was no physical injuries, though I'm not sure why there would be any as he caught me before I hit the ground.

"Why, Bella? Why would you jump?"

I sighed and closed my eyes.

"Why? Because I thought that you had left me. I was trying to see if any sort of impact with the ground would have hurt me in any way. It would have taken my mind off of the fact that you had left me."

He looked at me incredulously.

"Are you kidding me, Bella? You thought I left you?"

I looked away, glad that I could no longer blush.

"Yes."

"Why on earth would you think that?"

"We've never, ever had a fight like that. You had sided with Tanya so quickly that I believed you had truly gone to her. I even thought about-." I stopped. He didn't need to hear that right now.

"Yes? Go on."

"Nothing."

He took my face in both of his hands and turned it back to him. He then pressed his forehead to mine and looked at me.

"First of all, I would never, ever leave you. You know better than that. I know I said and did some things up there that were really stupid, and I truly regret it, but honestly, Bella. I don't know how you could think that I would do that to you. How I could do that to myself. How could I just simply walk away from the reason for existence after one silly fight?"

"But you left without a word except to yell at me and I said some things that I shouldn't have, and I thought that you had come to your senses and left."

"Bella, I came down the mountain a little to cool off. I was actually on my way back up when you jumped." He looked up at the mountain above us. "You see that-. Alice, she's fine. You can see for yourself in a minute," He growled suddenly to a spot on our left, where Alice was surely coming towards. "She saw you jump and came running to see what happened," he explained.

He took his hands off my face and wrapped them around me instead, pulling me close to him and resting his chin on my head.

"I was just over there, at the base when you jumped. If my heart could still beat, Bella, I would have had a heart attack. You have no idea what I felt when I saw you do that. I had to save you, even though the worst you would have done to yourself would be to maybe receive a bruise after a fall like that. I ran as fast as I could up to that ledge right there," he pointed to one about a quarter of the way up. "I jumped from there and caught you in mid-air and landed here."

"I'm sorry," I whispered.

"No, I'm sorry," he said. "I said some things up there that I didn't mean. I really regret them, especially knowing that you tried to commit suicide over them."

I sat in silence and closed my eyes, just letting Edward hold me. He started to rock us back and forth a little bit, probably to calm us both down.

"All that would have happened to me was a bruise?"

"Yes. We're indestructible, you especially, being so young. You know what the only way to kill a vampire is."

"I know, and I. I."

"Go on, you can say it."

"Well, I jumped to try and mildly hurt myself to try and tide me over until I got to... to. Italy."

He immediately stopped breathing and pulled me away from his body to look at me.

"Bella," his voice was pained.

I looked away, not wanting to meet his eyes.

"Bella," he said again, his voice breaking. "Why?"

"What is the point of me trying to live if you've walked out on me? You are the reason that I made myself immortal, and if you left me, I would have to live forever by myself and I couldn't do that. I would rather die than live without you. At least going to Italy would provide an easy way out."

So fast that I don't even really know how it happened, Edward had me pinned down onto the ground and was on top of me, kissing me. I closed my eyes and kissed him back and he deepened the kiss. I followed his lead and copied him. We really didn't need to breathe, but I still broke away after awhile, gasping for air. On top of me, I could hear that he was winded too.

"I thought that you were angry with me," I said.

He pushed his upper body straight up and locked his elbows, so he was looking down at me.

"I am angry with you, but only because you would even think about going to Italy," he growled the last word. "I'm even more furious with myself for being the reason why you would jump off a cliff and then try and proceed to get on a plane to go and... and... appeal for your own death."

"Then why are you kissing me?"

He bent his elbows enough to lower his head to softly kiss my lips.

"Because I have to show you that I still love you so much, no matter what happens between us," he spoke and his lips moved overtop of mine, his sweet breath filling my mouth.

He pushed up again and continued.

"I know it's a poor attempt at showing my love for you, but I needed to do something. I need you here with me, Bella; for now and for the rest of forever. To know that you were going to go to Italy because of me is unbearable; I deserve the pain that I feel right now for hurting you."

I reached up and pulled his face back down to mine.

"I said some things that I shouldn't have too, Edward. Neither of us are perfect. I'm just so mad at myself that I got angry with you about something so dumb that I feel so silly."

"Don't feel silly," he said, kissing my neck. "What you said makes sense now."

"You're just saying that now."

He shook his head, dragging his nose back and forth across the skin on my neck.

"No, I'm not. When I got down here, I thought of what happened with Tanya and what you had said and it did make sense. I'm sorry that I got so mad at you. I guess I just didn't want to believe that someone would try and take advantage of me like that. Especially not someone that I've known for years."

I kissed his cheek.

"It's alright, I forgive you."

He started kissing along my jaw.

"But," he breathed onto my skin.

"What?"

"There's always a 'but' with you."

I sighed.

"But I'm still mad at myself."

He stopped and looked at me, concern flooding his face.

"Why?"

"I said some really horrible things to you up there, and now that I think about it, I really didn't mean any of them. I was just so caught up in the fact that you were standing against me and sticking up for Tanya that I just exploded. I feel awful."

"Isabella," he whispered into my ear, his breath tickling it. "We both said some things that we are always going to regret, but whatever. Couples fight. You wouldn't believe the stupid things that Rosalie and Emmett fight over. She once yelled at him because of his outfit, and another time because he wasn't loving her as much as he should."

"Yes, but those are stupid things, this wasn't."

He sighed and rested his nose on mine.

"Yes it was. I can guarantee that years from now we will look back and agree that this was a dumb thing to fight over."

I looked into his eyes for a second before catching his lips with mine and kissing him deeply again. He obliged and I could feel him smiling. I closed my eyes and wrapped my arms around him, slowly inching his body closer to mine. I could feel his tongue on my lips, searching for an entrance - one that I gladly gave to him. He ran his tongue along the roof of my mouth ever so gently. I shuddered and moaned a little into his mouth and he chuckled.

"Don't tease me like that," I breathed.

"I have to," he said, his voice dark. "I need to keep you wanting more."

"Edward," I groaned. "Do you have to be so forward? You just killed the moment."

He chuckled and kissed my jaw and my neck all the way down to where it meets my shoulder and bit down playfully; not enough to break the skin. I bit my lip to stop from screaming out and instead whispered his name. He smiled into my skin.

"You see? Now you-"

I didn't let him finish before I kissed him again.

I jumped really high beneath him when I heard a voice start speaking from behind us.

"You know, you should really save that for somewhere not as open. How many times have you yelled at Rosalie and Emmett for doing this?" Alice asked, leaning against a tree.

"Go away, Alice. This is different," Edward said, smiling down at me before leaning in to kiss me again.

"No, no way," Alice danced over and started prying Edward off of me. "I did not come all this way just to stand here and watch you suck her face off. Get up."

Edward groaned. "Come on, two more minutes?" He rested all of his weight on one arm as he reached the other around to try and remove Alice's hold on him.

"No. I need to talk to Bella."

"She's right here, talk to her," he said and then kissed me again.

Alice sighed. "Edward, what I need to talk to her about is none of your business."

"Um, Alice? News flash, Bella and I are in this together. Her business is my business and my business is her business."

"She won't want to talk about it in front of you though."

"How do you know?" He growled into my neck. "Alice, sometimes you can be really annoying, you know."

I pushed Edward's shoulders up into the air so that he was above me.

"Yeah, hi. I would really appreciate if you stopped talking about me like that directly in front or, well. On top of me, like this."

Edward boomed with laughter and Alice rolled her eyes.

I ignored Edward and spoke to Alice.

"What did you want to talk to me about?"

"Not in front of Edward, how many times do I have to say that?"

"A lot, obviously," I said, smiling. "Can't you just tell me the subject?"

She thought about it for a minute. "Fine, I'll tell you. But Edward has to get off of you first, because it just makes this whole situation awkward. And we also have to start heading back, everything's ready to go."

Edward sighed and started to sit up, but I caught his face in both my hands and kissed him. He smiled and was about to deepen it when I pushed him away.

"Later," I whispered.

He smirked and stood, pulling me up with him so I was standing beside me. He then snaked an arm around my waist.

"What was it, Alice?" I asked.

She looked pointedly at his arm. "I think that you should run ahead, Edward. We'll be there soon enough."

"Why are you so opposed to me being here, Alice?"

"Well, it might be uncomfortable for Bella, that's all." She then looked right over at him and he stared back, obviously sharing a thought between them as I shoved my hands in my pockets and looked away.

"Alice, we've already spoken about that," Edward said quietly. "Do you really need to bring it up again?"

"Yes, I do, because even if she's told you the reason, she hasn't told the rest of us. I almost had to physically restrain the rest of them so that they wouldn't follow me because I told them, so I have to have something to tell them when I go back, and I'm not going to make Bella do it."

I looked away and waited for one of them to speak to me.

"Bella, I had a vision of you getting on a plane going to Italy. Then I had another one of you standing out in the open, in the sunshine and the Volturi's guard was taking you away to kill you. As I started running out of the house towards you, I saw you jump off this mountain. Can you please just tell me why? Why you would have decided to go to Italy? What is wrong? I thought that everything was okay with you and now I see you plotting your own death." Alice's eyes were swimming with tears that she could never cry.

I took a deep breath.

"Let's start walking back," I suggested.

We began walking and I could tell that Alice was growing impatient, so I started talking.

"You really want to know why? It's not a pretty story."

"I guessed that much, seeing as how you were trying to kill yourself. But go on, Bella."

I took a deep breath and Edward squeezed me closer to him as reassurance.

I told her an edited version of our fight, leaving out some of the points that I didn't want to ever remember, or admit that we even said that. Edward didn't jump in to fill in the blank spots that I left. I could tell that Alice knew I was leaving some parts out, but she didn't push me for the details, which I was grateful for. I eventually stopped talking and we were all silent for once.

"So that was all over a silly fight?"

I looked up at Edward, who nodded.

"You see Bella, I told you that it was a silly fight."

I closed my eyes and looked away.

"Bella, if it's any consolation, Jasper and I fight too. So does Esme and Carlisle. We can't always agree on everything, it's natural to butt heads every once in awhile. Just because we fight though, it doesn't diminish our love for one another. Nothing could ever change that." She took my hand and squeezed it.

"I know," I whispered.

We walked in silence for a little while longer.

"I can't believe that Tanya would do that though," Alice said.

"Neither could I," Edward replied, looking down at me. "But I guess it makes sense now, especially hearing Bella say it."

She nodded.

"Well, I'm going to run ahead and tell the others that they don't need to over react. I'll make sure that they won't bother you and pester you with questions, alright Bella?"

I nodded.

"I'll also make sure that everything is ready to go the second you arrive so that we can leave, okay Edward?"

He nodded.

"See you in a few," she said before disappearing.

"How much time do we have?"

He listened for a second.

"The house isn't that far away, Alice just got back and is explaining what happened. Why? What do you need to do?"

"Do we have enough time to hunt?"

He looked down at me. "Do you need to hunt a little, Bella? Your eyes are golden."

I shook my head. "I don't need to, you do."

He looked away. "Stop worrying about me, Bella. I'm just fine. It's nothing that I can't handle."

I stood in front of him and placed my hands on both of his shoulders. "Come on, Edward. I don't like seeing you like this. Let's just go and you can hunt and then we can leave. I don't want you to be thirsty."

"I'm not, Bella. I told you."

I rolled my eyes. "This may be your last chance to have a mountain lion for awhile."

He smiled crookedly and shook his head. "Alright, you got me there. That's very true."

He looked off in the distance and I knew that he could smell one. I took a deep breath and could smell his cat.

"Just go, Edward. I'll follow you in the tree tops."

"Are you sure?" He asked, crouching down.

I laughed and ruffled his hair. "Of course I am. Now go, before it gets away."

Edward closed his eyes, took a breath, opened them again and started running. It was a really good thing that I was so attuned to his smell, or I would have lost him because he was so fast. I quickly ran through the tops of the trees and followed him. I stopped and watched Edward feed from the animal before running off to find another one. I smiled and followed him around until he was done.

"Bella?" Edward called out and I jumped to the ground beside him.

"You ready?" I asked and he nodded. "Feel better?"

"Much," he said, smiling. "Thanks."

"It's not a problem, love."

He looked in the direction of the house. "We should probably get going back now."

I nodded and turned to start running, but he quickly picked me up and slung me over his back, like he used to do when I was human. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and hung on as he ran.

We got back to the house and everyone minus Tanya was standing in the driveway, evidently waiting for our return. I jumped down lightly and we walked over to them all. Esme was the first to come forward and wrap her arms around me.

"Are you alright, Bella?" she whispered into my hair and I nodded. "If you ever need anything, anything at all, you can always come to me."

"I know that," I whispered back. "And thank you so much."

She pulled away and smiled, touching my cheek lightly.

"Anything at all, Bella. I know that I'm not your real mother, and this must be hard having her still alive, but I'm here if you ever need to talk, or if you need someone to stand in as your mother for a little while," she ran her hand through my hair, pushing it off my face.

"Esme, you won't ever need to 'stand in' as my mother. You are my mother. My real mom was always like a big sister to me, and I was the one always taking care of her."

"Well, you won't ever need to take care of me, I can promise you that."

I smiled and hugged her tight. "Thank you, Esme. I love you so much."

"I love you too, Bella. It's wonderful having you with us now. I always wanted another daughter," she said and I laughed lightly.

We stepped back out of our embrace and Edward wrapped his arms around me as Carlisle did the same to Esme.

"Alright, everything is ready to go," Alice reported. "So now we just have to get going."

We all turned and said our goodbyes to Carmen, Eleazar, Irina and Kate and promised that we'd visit soon and keep in touch and then we started piling into our vehicles. Jasper wordlessly hugged me and I could feel contentment seeping thought me.

"Jasper," I groaned.

He chuckled. "It's the least I can do, Bella."

I shook my head and he stepped away and sat on his motorcycle. He started it and the engine roared to life as Alice ran up to him and kissed him. Jasper smiled and waved to me and I nodded back as he drove off, Alice's yellow Porsche hot on his tail behind him.

I turned around and Emmett was a standing right behind me. I jumped and he laughed, then sobered up pretty quickly.

"I'm so sorry, Bella," Emmett said, solemnly before pausing. "But I believe that there's only room for one suicidal vampire in this family."

I shook my head and punched his arm lightly.

"Ow, Bella!" he exclaimed, holding his arm.

My eyes widened in concern. "Oh my gosh! Emmett! I'm so sorry!" I covered my mouth with my hands. "I really didn't mean for it to be too hard, I just did it lightly. Oh!" I wrung my hands. "I can't believe. I'm so sorry, Emmett. Let me see."

Emmett doubled over in laughter and ruffled my hair. "You're a goof, that didn't hurt me at all! I just wanted to see your reaction."

I glared at him. "Not funny, Emmett.

"Come on, Emmett, let's go. I hate driving at night, I want to get there quickly," Rosalie said to him before hopping in her BMW.

He patted my shoulder before hopping into his Jeep and starting it. "Lighten up, Bella. You need a little humour in your life."

"That was in no way humorous, Emmett."

He shrugged. "That's what you think. See you later!" He waved over his shoulder as he sped away and I waved back, shaking my head.

Edward came up behind me and took my hand, leading me to the Volvo.

"Do me a favour, Bella?"

"What is it?"

Esme and Carlisle were still saying their goodbyes, so we got in the car and he started it.

"When we get there, challenge Emmett to an arm wrestle. I asked you to do this before you became immortal, and I think that now is the right time."

I smiled as he sped away from the Denali house.

"I would love to do that."

He chuckled.

"I just want to see Emmett's face when he loses."

"I can't guarantee that he'll lose though."

"Oh, I can. It's your newborn strength against old Emmett. Even with his large muscles, it's no match for
you. I bet that it will only take about a second for you to win."

I looked out the window. "I'm glad that you're confident in me, but I still don't know."

He took my hand in his.

"Trust me, Bella. Everything will work out."

I nodded and watched the trees speed by as we drove to our new house to start a new chapter in our lives.