Disclaimer: Stephenie Meyer owns Twilight, Christopher Paolini owns Inheritance Cycle, and I own nothing, I just like to put them in weirdly awesome situations.

A/N:OK, so I know that I haven't updated in awhile, BUT I have a good excuse… just let me think of one. JK! I have had a couple family situations, writer's block, and baby-sitting to name a few… BUT SUMMER HAS STARTED!!!! WOOO HOOOO!!!!!

A/N pt. 2: I really hate to do this to you guys, but… I edited the end of this chapter to fit what I want for this story, so at the end, when it says yeah in boldface, is from where I edited on.

Bella POV

I followed Alice outside after putting the baby dragon in a small canvas bag. Nasuada asked that we keep the dragon secret until he has grown to a size where he could fend for himself. Which meant I was probably going to have to go back Du Weldenvarden soon.

In the mean time, I had to share a room with Alice, Rosalie, and Esme. Which meant that their respective husbands and one specific brother would be there often. I would have to find somewhere to go during those times.

Alice was now walking towards the barracks, and I followed her to one that was secluded from the rest. She showed me into a dark, muggy room that was crowded with many people. Excuse me, vampires.

They all looked up at us when we entered, every single one with looks that begged for forgiveness. I dropped my backpack that I had taken from Ellesmera on the nearest bed. I was still gingerly holding the bag that the dragon was in. Everyone was giving me and the mysterious bag quizzical looks.

"Bella, what is that?" The little dragon decided that he needed to be present during this discussion. I heard gasps resound throughout the room.

"Um, you know that Dragon egg that you guys brought to Lady Nasuada? Yeah, well he kinda hatched for me." This was greeted by gapes from every corner of the room, which suddenly turned to loud guffaws from Emmett.

"HAHA… That's funny Bells…" I glared back at him, and he immediately stopped, "Oh, you were serious?" And this was returned by 'are you serious?' glared from every single person in the room. He still seemed totally out of the loop, so I felt the need to explain further.

"Yea, um, meet Avra, my dragon." To emphasize this further, I held up my right palm that held the gedwey ignasia. I looked back up at the Cullens and saw a look of complete and utter confusion on their faces.

"Where does the name Avra come from, Bella?" Carlisle voiced his confusion, which was met by more nods and starts of other questions. I quickly shot down their confusion with a raise of my hand and an answer.

"Avra was my friend, Laolin's father's dragon." This was greeted by more questions. I sighed in exasperation, they all heard this and stopped asking questions.

"Is it okay if I explain later, I traveled across all of Alagaesia and I got here just this morning. I'm kinda tired." Almost everyone nodded and quickly left, after I had promised that I would explain everything later.

I set Avra and my backpack from Ellesmera down on the nearest bed and unwrapped him from the canvas bag. I felt a icy hand on my shoulder and jumped a mile high.

"Bella," a velvety voice came from behind me, and I turned around to greet it. I instantly regreted it as I fell into his smoldering stare. "Can we talk?" I nodded, still engulfed in his eyes.

"I-I'm sorry I lied to you. I regretted it every second of everyday that I was away-" I cut him off early so that I could make sense of his words.

"Yeah, you lied. You told me that you loved me, but then you left. You never loved me, I was just a game for you." I had finally looked away from his eyes and looked down, not wanting him to see the tears that had clouded my eyes.

"Bella, that's not true. I love you, I never stopped, I didn't lie then. I lied to you in the forest the day I left. I didn't want to leave you. But after what happened at your birthday party, I thought that by leaving you, you would be safe; that you would live a happy, normal human life. Get married, have kids and age, like how normal humans should. I thought that I was being selfish by staying." So that's what he thought would solve everything, or was he lying again.

"Being selfish can sometimes benefit others." I said this very quietly, knowing that he would be able to hear me. He laughed a little bit.

"Not always. But Bella? Can you forgive me for saying what I did? I promise never to do it again if you will just forgive me." I finally got the nerve back to look at his face. And what I saw was a pleading look, eyes begging me to forgive him. I thought about everything that had happened since I met him and I realized that without the distractions of Alagaesia and the war, I hadn't been able to live correctly without him.

I looked him in the eyes, willing myself to just streach up a little bit taller. I wrapped my arms around his neck and whispered in his ear, "Edward, I forgave you before I came to Alageasia. I realized rather quickly that you left for some other reason, I just didn't know why."

He pulled his head back a little bit and looked me in the eyes, searching for the truth. To convince him this was true, I streached my neck forward and kissed him lightly on the lips. He responded back, fiercer than he had ever kissed me before.

I eventually had to pull back for breath, and when I did I was gasping for air, but smiling. I was happy that Edward was back. But before I could say anything, something slammed through the door and scooped me up into a bone-crushing bear hug. Only one person, er vampire, gave hugs like this.

"Emmett *gasp* I'm still *gasp* breakable." At this, the arms that constricted my lungs loosened, but were still tight around my torso. He eventually let me go and I sat down on the bed next to Avra and Edward as the rest of the Cullens came into the room. We all sat around in an awkward silence for several minutes, until Alice interrupted it.

"So Bella, what have you been up to?"

A/N: SO R&R PLEASE! I really want to know what you think is gonna happen, what you think of Avra's name, and if you have any ideas for the future of the story I would like to know. THANKS PLEASE R&R!!!!!