Disclaimer: I own a crap cell phone that doesn't want to work right now (GAH!). But I don't own this. Poo.

My room was dark with the nighttime when he came in. I had expected it, and I didn't make any move to get up or leave when he opened the door and shut it just as gently. I simply laid in my bed and waited for him to speak.

"Bella?"

"Yup?" I let the 'p' pop.

Feeling pressure towards the edge of the huge bed, I knew that he had sat down. "I'm sorry."

I had also expected this. "You've apologized. Numerous times. So you must have come in here for some other reason." I closed my eyes and tried to fall asleep, although I knew I never would.

"No." his soft voice sounded strained. "Just to apologize. But this time it is for a different reason."

"Go on."

"Bella, I had no idea. I just, I assumed that as a human you would get over me. I know now that what you felt for me was much more complex than a normal human's feelings for a lover."

Sitting up, I decided not to make this as easy on him as I was about to. After all, how easy had he made the last 70 years of my life? "Well, you know what they say happens when you assume."

I saw him wave his hand. "Something ridiculous about buttocks. But that isn't it, Bella. Please. You were the only thing I ever saw in my mind. Ask the family. I hated myself even more than before for doing what I did to you. After I thought you must have died, I didn't want to live at all. So I went to Volterra and asked them to destroy me." He shuddered then. "I was so weak, I couldn't even think of what my family wanted or what it would do to Esme. All I knew was that you weren't here on this planet anymore, and I wanted to leave it because of that. How much of a selfish pig am I?"

"Couldn't have said that better myself." Where was this animosity coming from? I tried brushing it away. "Anything else, Edward?"

At first he didn't say anything. I leaned against the pillows, waiting for an answer. "I'm so, I'm just so tired, Bella." He collapsed.

Alarmed, I jumped off the bed and knelt by his body. Shoving his shoulder gently, I whispered his name. He was shaking so hard. I could see his body racking with sobs. "Edward, it's ok. Breathe." I actually had to suppress a giggle at this. He had always been the one telling me to breathe.

He turned his face to me, and I knew he wanted to say something. I nodded my head to urge him to speak. "How can it be ok? The girl of my dreams, the only person I will ever care for doesn't return the love. Perhaps you are Rosalind; the thing that scares me is that I know for a fact that there will never be a Juliet to make me forget about you, and I will be destined to wander this earth mourning your indifference." He lay himself down on the bed, and it made me long for the days before the Cullen's left. The days where Edward would hold me on my bed while I dreamt sweet dreams of him.

"Don't say that, Edward. Really. Maybe there is a Juliet out there for you." Maybe that Juliet was me, but I didn't remember Will writing about Romeo leaving her and causing her pain that drove her to the edge. The feelings I was feeling right now made no sense considering what I had felt for him for seventy years. I wanted to hold him, have him hold me, do things with him that would have made me blush had I still been human. But a part of me- granted, a part that was growing smaller by the hour- wanted to scream and throw things. I think I foresaw that the loving part of me won in the battle between the two. And so I said something without even thinking it. "Edward, maybe I am your Juliet, but it isn't so easy to forgive you. I need time."

I saw hope in his ocher eyes. "But there's a chance? Right?"

"Maybe. But I just need some time. Please give this to me."

Edward nodded and sat up. "I will give you everything you want, Bella. Everything and anything." He whispered. Brushing his fingers on my cheek once more, he stood and left, letting me be consumed by my thoughts.

Lost in my daydreams of the two of us together, I didn't notice it when the door opened again. "Edward?" I said, looking up. If it was anyone, I was sure it would be him.

"I'll give you one more guess." Came a sugary sweet voice. I shot up off my bed.

"Tanya?" Why the hell would she be in my room?

"Good, you got it right. Now claim your prize." She walked up to me, and I heard the low hiss in her voice.

"Something bothering you, Tanya?"

"Why, yes. Bella, I think something is bothering me. I think it might be that you are going to mess Edward up even more than he's already been messed with. After you entered his life, he ran off to me! Yelling about some demon that had been sent to torture him. You'll understand why I was surprised when he began that affair with you. And it was a happy day when the Cullens showed up saying that they had had to leave Forks because Edward wanted to leave you. I thought that I would get my chance. But of course not, because the poor boy was so out of sorts when he showed up that he could hardly place two words together to form a sentence."

"And you think that that is my fault? Check your math, Tanya, because it was Edward who wanted to leave me." All of this was said in a hushed growl. I didn't know what anyone else in the house was doing, but I knew I didn't want to disturb them and have them see a friend fighting with me; I didn't know who they would side with.

"If you hadn't shown up to Forks in the first place, he would never have lost himself."

"Tanya, if she had never shown up, he would have never found himself." Rosalie's voice sounded. We both looked to see the door was open and was framing her silhouette. "Now, you are going to leave Bella alone so she can have some peace. And you and I are going to have a little chat." With that said, she went to go take Tanya's hand, but she yanked it away and stalked out of the room. Giving me a grim smile, Rosalie followed, closing the door quietly.

Bloody Hell.

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And my throat is KILLING me…I feel like I should hunt :P