A/N: Okay, so here's the deal. First, I'M SORRY, I didn't update for like a week, that's unforgivable, I know. But the reason why is kindof important. I don't like my ending. Like, at all. I wrote it in a rush, and I was on some kind of "Happy-Ending High," and it's just one hundred percent fluff. I'm scared to proof read it because I'm afraid I'll chicken out and not post in and you guys will hate me even more. So I'm just gonna through it out there into cyber space and hope know one kills me. I know it sucks, if you agree, don't bother telling me, I already know. I might go back someday and rewrite it, but I'm too busy to do it right now, plus I'm not really in the right state up mind. I feel like I was relationship with my story, and I broke up with it, and I'm not even at the point where we can be friends!

Yeah, it's that bad, I know.

So anyway, I'm sorry, and I hope no one makes a voodoo doll of me because they hate the ending so much. PLEASE BE FORGIVING!

Chapter 11

A month later, it was our wedding day. Bella and I both took extra summer courses from Forks high school so that we received our diplomas early. We had a September wedding. Bella had been gradually getting better, but we both knew her time was limited. She couldn't walk much, just a few steps at a time, and I spent every waking minute with her.

Alice planned the most beautiful late summer wedding the town had ever seen. We were married in the church where my parents said their vows, just as Alice promised. Beautiful white lilies were everywhere. Emmett was my best man, and Alice, Rosalie, and Angela were Bella's bridesmaids. Even Jacob Black attended, taking his seat next to Jasper. He wasn't happy with the way things turned out, but in the end he just wanted Bella to be happy, like I did. Charlie walked Bella down the aisle, slowly, every step taken with great care. She looked shaky on her way to the alter, and I wanted to reach out and catch her, but once she stood across from me, she stood firmly.

Her dress was beautiful, enough to make her agree to an old fashioned wedding like Alice had promised. It was simple, floor-length, and well-fitting, with lace sleeves and collar, no train. Alice and Rosalie had done her hair so that it perfectly bordered her heart-shaped face. She looked like an angel as she walked down that aisle.

Bella's mom was crying in the front row next to Esme. Charlie read us our vows. All the while, Bella and I just stared into each other's eyes, whispering "I love you," until we were declared man and wife.

At the end of the ceremony, we all went to the wonderful reception party Alice had planned. We walked out of the church at twilight, just as the sun was setting.

That was when, while everyone was racing towards the tent pavilion to dance and to eat, while Bella and I were too happy to see anyone but each other, my father appeared.

I hadn't seen Carlisle all summer, but had heard from my mother that he would come to the wedding as soon as he could. We had forgiven one another, as much as we could, but now that I set eyes on him for the first time since the night I begged him for help, something about him seemed eerie, and out of place.

"Congratulations Edward, Bella," he said, nodding his head toward both of us. He was standing in the shade, watching the sun setting behind the tree line. "I'm so happy for both of you."

"It's wonderful to meet you, Carlisle," Bella said, immediately registering that he was my absent father.

"Dad," I mumbled emotionally. "I'm so happy you're here." I pulled him into a hug, something I hadn't done since I was seven years old.

He didn't react well to my contact, standing firmly still, and not breathing. And he was very cold, despite the summer heat.

"Dad…" I said cautiously, pulling away and really looking at my father for the first time since I was a child.

I had never before noticed the change. Or rather, lack thereof. In ten years, Carlisle had not aged a day. His skin was terribly pale, paler than even Bella. His eyes were golden, when they used to be blue…

"Yes, Edward," he said solemnly, nodding. "I've never been able to tell you before, but now you need to know, especially now. What I'm about to tell you can save Bella. I'm going to tell you why I had to leave you ten years ago."

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He sat us down on a bench in the grove next to the church, and told us his story.

"I love your mother with all my heart, and I always will. Esme is my light in the darkness that has consumed my life; I would say she's the only reason I continue on, but that's not entirely true. The reason we, both of us, continue our lives as they are is because of you, Edward.

"When you were seven years old, I went to Seattle to help out on a strange case at the hospital. It turned out, that case was stranger than any of us anticipated. There was a boy, stuck in a fit of pain that we had never seen before. He screamed for three days straight about a fire in his entire body, and there was nothing we could do to help him. No medications helped him. The only wound we could find was a moon-shaped gash in his neck, right near the artery in the neck. We had to lock him in a room with bulletproof walls, he was thrashing so violently. For three days he screamed, and we were forced to observe it. However, while the pain raged on, we also saw him changing before our eyes.

"His entire being was changing. His skin turned pale, his features changed shaped, even his eye color was different. They went from light hazel to blood red.

"We had no answers whatsoever. We just waited the three days, when all of a sudden his heart accelerated to an impossible degree, and it suddenly stopped.

"Except he wasn't dead. He sat us, and looked at all of us standing around him with those blood red eyes. Before any of us knew what was happening, he was leaping across the room like a mountain lion, and sinking a set of razor sharp teeth into one of my colleagues. I was bitten, here on my shoulder-"

He lifted his shirt collar to show us a pale white scar, barely visible, on his shoulder. It exactly resembled a bite mark.

"- But I wasn't killed. I stumbled out of the room, watching the animal attack every last one of the men in their and drink their blood. I knew what he had become. I knew legends from my childhood well enough to recognize the monster in front of me.

"I hid myself from all humanity while I suffered in silence for three days. The pain was excruciating, but I couldn't alert anyone of my presence.

"Finally, it was over. I was no longer the young doctor from before, but rather a new creature entirely. I was a vampire."

I stared at my father in complete disbelief. My mind kept screaming logic at me, This. Isn't. Possible! But deep down, I knew it was the truth. I could see it in Carlisle's golden eyes.

He continued his story.

"I would have become a monster, just like the boy who infected me, if it wasn't for one solid memory etched in my mind throughout my entire transformation, and that was my memory of you and your mother, Edward, waving goodbye to me before I left Forks.

"I ran into the woods, faster than I had ever run in my life, all the way to the wilderness of Canada, as far as I could go before hitting the ocean. I made my way through Alaska where I met a bunch of others like me; Vampires, three women. They lived there, in the woods. They explained to me the rules of our lifestyle, but they also explained to me something specific to the way they lived.

"You see, I had been terrified of what I had become. The concept of drinking human blood repulsed me to no end, to the point where I was ready to find whatever way possible to kill myself so that I would never come to that necessity. But Tanya, and the rest of the Denali coven, they survived a different way, off the blood of animals.

"Since then, I have followed their example. I've never tasted human blood, and over the years, I've gained far more control than most of my kind, around humans, I mean-"

"Stop!" Bella yelled breathlessly. Her face had gone pale with fear, and I automatically bent over her protectively.

"Carlisle, I think you should slow down, she can't be taking this all well," I said apprehensively.

"No, Edward, that's not it!" She exclaimed, clinging to me, searching for my eyes. When they found each other, I realized what her exclamation had been about.

"You said you could save her…" I murmured, like the light bulb had gone on over my head.

"Yes," Carlisle agreed. "I could, if you wanted me to. You see, we live for all eternity, and we never age. Vampire venom will save you, no matter what state you're in. As long as there is a beating heart, you can be saved from the very brink of death. I've saved a few people through my work at the hospital. A young girl named Bree, a burn victim, was restored to complete health. A man and wife, Peter and Charlotte, who were sent straight to the morgue after a horrible car accident, are still living as a happy couple in Chicago. I've only saved those who asked for my help, who knew what they were getting into, but one thing I know for sure is that there is a chance for all of them."

"Dad," I said quietly. "Does Esme know? About…?"

Carlisle looked sadly at the ground. "Yes, she knows. I wrote her letters during the first few years, to explain where I was, why I couldn't see her. After the first five years, when I was more in control of myself, I came to see her, and explained everything in person. I would have changed her in a second, so we could be together forever, if she didn't have to raise you first. You have been her only joy all these years, I wasn't about to take you away from her. I moved back to Forks when I couldn't stand it any longer. I've learned to control my thirst for blood well enough that I can keep working in the hospital, and I tried to be a part of your life…"

I broke down crying and threw myself at my dad in a fitful hug. He returned the favor as best he could.

"I'm so sorry dad… I never gave you a chance…"

"It's alright, son. It's not your fault. I don't blame you…"

Finally, I looked at Bella, my bride, my love. She was crying as well, and looking faint from all the emotion. I gathered her in my arms and lifted her with effort, carrying her to the tent. We spent the rest of the night enjoying the party, with my father in attendance, and went on the happiest honeymoon a couple has ever known.

We had a wonderful year together, knowing more love than most know in a lifetime, when the day came that Bella's heart could no longer last on its own.

We took her to the big white house by the river, and with what seemed like a kiss on the neck, Carlisle began the process that would forever preserve my beautiful Bella. She passed through the transformation in a sleeplike trance, thanks to the morphine Carlisle gave her before hand. I joined her minutes after.

Three days later, we together began our one, eternal day. My love for Bella will last for all eternity.


Well, there it is. If anyone has any ideas on how I could make this better, I'd love to hear them. ACTUALLY, if anyone else wants to try writing their own ending, go for it! I'll post it as a bonus chapter or something! And if I really like it, I'll just take this one out altogether! (I'll give you credit of course). Let me know what you guys think in your reviews! Oh, and I just wanted to thank everyone who read and liked the story, it means so much to me! Thanks!