Haha. Well, this is my preferred epilogue. I hope you enjoy, and don't hate me too much.
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Dear Cullen's,
I'm sorry. Especially to you, Jasper.
I can't let you all die for me. I won't let it happen. Maybe the Volturi will show mercy and not kill me. Then I can return. I don't think they will let me though. I doubt I'm strong enough to handle the change too.
Alice, thank you for being a great friend all through my high school life, and I really truly forgive you for what you did.
Rosalie, you were there for me at a time that I might have considered using Charlie's gun on myself. Without you, I would have died a lot sooner.
Emmett, My big brother. I never had a sibling. But if I had one, I'd wish it to be exactly like you. You made a joke out of anything, but still could protect your family when you needed to.
Esme, My mother, for all meaning of the word. You are my mother. Without your support, I wouldn't have survived either. Your advice was the best a mother could give.
Carlisle, you were always caring, and understand my strangeness and I'm sorry I can't give you the chance to test my odd, human super powers.
Edward, I don't think I could have ever completely forgive like I could Alice, but thank you. Your bitter betrayal brought me to Jasper. I hope you stop lying so much in the future, and let the family back in. If you try, I doubt that they will turn you away.
Jasper. I am so very sorry. I didn't keep my promise, but I can not let you die. Please move on. I love you with all my heart, and no matter what happens to me, I will always love you. Please don't do anything like try and get yourself killed. That would make my death in vain, after all.
I hope when you all remember me, it will all be good things. And please don't blame each other or yourselves for my death, this is my choice completely. Not yours.
Oh. Break my window or something, so Charlie thinks I was taken away. It will be easiest to explain my disappearance that way. Please, help him to move on, so he doesn't spend the rest of his life looking for me.
Goodbye.
I love you.
Sorry.
Bella.
Bella never came home.
RPOV
I turned the letter over in my hands. It had been 50 years today that Bella had given herself up to the Volturi.
I had arrived maybe half a minute too late and the rain had washed her scent away. Sadly, the Volutri were smart enough to know that Bella wouldn't join them, and killed her on the spot.
We (By we, I mean Emmett and I) found Bella's body completely drained of blood, right by the forests edge. I crumpled down to the ground over her body and sobbed for fifteen minutes straight before Emmett suggested we burry her, so that she gets buried and Jasper wouldn't have to see her like this.
How I managed to help Emmett dig, I don't know. I just knew we couldn't let Jasper see Bella completely devoided of Blood. It would ruin her for him, forever.
After we buried her, we broke her window, like Bella asked, giving Charlie the illusion that someone took her. He searched for her non-stop for 2 years, before, with a little emotional help from Jasper and 'father-to-father chat' help from Carlisle, he gave up and proclaimed her dead. He died 14 years later.
I blamed myself completely for being so slow to getting to Bella's house. If I had left 30 seconds sooner, I could have saved her I folded the letter and slipped it into my pocket. I needed to check on Esme.
When I went into her room, I saw Esme sobbing while Carlisle hugged her and stroked her hair. I decided not to intrude on there moment and choose to return the letter.
I ran into Jasper's study and placed the letter on the desk. I was about to leave when I noticed his huddled figure in the corner.
"Jasper?" I step towards him. Jasper had never gotten over Bella. He didn't kill himself, like Bella asked, but he never moved on. He mostly stayed in his study a talked to no one. "I know you won't answer but, is there anything I can do?"
Jasper continued to stare off into the distance. I turned and was about to leave when I faintly heard, "fifty years."
I turned but around, "What?"
"Fifty years ago, she let the Volturi slaughter her. To save our family."
I could barley ear him.
"Fifty. years." He said slowly. His expression was heart shattering. "Fifty years. It still hurts as if it happened yesterday."
I knelt down and wrapped my arms around him. "Of course it hurts Jasper. You loved her! That just doesn't heal. Especially if you sit around mopping, not moving on."
He said nothing.
I gave him a final squeeze and ran out of the room, down to the living room where Alice was staring out the window. "Hey."
"Hi," she whispered. Alice had moved on from Edward and Jasper, and found love with Dylan, who stayed with our family, mostly for protection. Turns out Alice has a think for Texans.
"The hermit spoke."
"Don't call him that." she shifted her eyes to me. "Did he really?"
"Nothing happy though."
"Of course." She looked down at her feet.
"Alice," I sat next to her. "What's wrong?"
"It's just, fifty years have gone by, now. If I had just seen what she was going to do I could have-"
"Alice stop. No 'I could have's' it's no ones fault. Bella told us so." I tried to smile.
"But-"
"No. It's. Not. Your. Fault."
She looked at me. "Thanks Rose. Bella really change you didn't she."
"She changed us all." I kissed her head and ran up to my own room. I didn't think I could hold it together any longer.
I quickly slammed the door to my room and collapsed on the bad. Sobbing, trying to release tears that would never fall.
My best friend. Why? Why couldn't it have been me. No one would have missed me.
"That's not true." Edward said. Edward has stopped lying (We think), and returned to his cryptic piano playing self, like before he met Bella.
"Go away." I hissed at him. Even though he was back with our clan, I never forgave him for what he did to Bella. However, we never got along perfectly to begin with.
"If anyone in this house died, we would all miss them." He continued like he didn't hear me.
"I wouldn't miss you." I retorted.
"Yes you would. You know you would." He ended and left.
I screamed into my pillow.
"Rosy?" Emmett asked. His voice was sad. Emmett was still the same, but different. He stayed away from human jokes. He tried to make one once 20 years or so ago, and he was depressed for a week. He was also, like all of us, more sullen around this time of year.
"Emmett," I sighed lifting my head partly out of the pillow.
"It's alright Rosy." He pulled me into his lap and hugged me tightly.
I sobbed into his shoulder. "I love you Emmett."
"I love you too."
I don't know how long we sat like that. Too soon, Alice came into the room bouncing. "Rose, Em. Wanna watch a movie?"
"Really?" I peered at her like she had gone insane.
"Look, Bella told us to move on and remember her well. So from now on, we are moving on to respect her wishes. And to remember her well, we're going to watch Romeo and Juliet. Not the shitty remakes from nowadays. The one from the 1950's. Bella favourite."
"Alright I'll watch. No promises that I'm moving on though."
Alice rolled her eyes.
Emmett went with Alice, while I changed into some clothes that weren't all wrinkled.
Everyone was downstairs, Alice was trying to hook up the VCR to the holograph-projector screen. "Have you lost your visions again and not realized that VCR's are too old for that new stuff?"
She gave me a cynical glare.
"Just stating the obvious." I sat down on Emmett's lap again. Looking around I noticed hermit man was missing. Obviously.
Alice decided to pull out our TV from 50 years ago to attach the VCR.
"Ha!" She announced proudly. Then she pressed the play button and sat down on Dylan's lap.
Just as the beginning titles started up, I heard the stairs creak. Everyone turned to the stairs to see Hermit man, Jasper, walking down the stairs.
"Can I watch?" He asked.
Everyone was shocked silent. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a look of utter fear on Dylan's face. He'd never seen a talking Jasper.
"Ugg," I groaned. "If no one says anything we'll miss the movie. Of course you can!"
Alice laughed at me.
Jasper smiled a small sad smiled, but it was the happiest emotion I'd seen on his face for 50 years.
"For Bella." Jasper said.
"For Bella." I repeated.
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Oh, I'll be posting a poll on my page when I post the second epilogue, asking which one you preferred. :)
And the dramatic, 'what-happened-in-the-woods' scene, will be in the second epilogue. Since I was doing two epilogue's, I decided I would break up the Letter and the fight scene into seperate chapters.
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