While You Loved Me
Author's Note: I'm sad to see this come to an end but like most stories…it must. Thank you all for adding this story to your favorites, alerts and reviewing. I hope to see some of you in the future when I write more. I have been thinking of doing another Bella and Emmett pairing so be on the lookout in the future. Thank you all again and I hope you enjoy this final chapter, which will be from a third person POV since it involves both of our main characters.
Disclaimer: I still don't own Twilight, The Notebook or the song but I enjoy them all.
Epilogue
Emmett sat the notebook he had been reading off and on for years to his sweetheart, Bella, down as they sat together in silence. He hoped that she would come back to him one more time but his hope was slowly fading until Bella surprised him.
"Emmett, darling?" She asked, taking his large hands in her smaller ones.
"Bella? I was so worried you wouldn't come back to me this time." Emmett said with a smile, kissing their joined hands.
"I told you I would, didn't I?" she said with a smile. "How are the children?"
"They are wonderful, my love, they were here the other day. They said they love you very much." Emmett replied with a smile.
"I love them as well, they are my world other than you, darling." Bella smiled.
"I know, sweetheart, and they know as well." Emmett said.
"Oh! I have an idea! Let's get out of here, just jump in the car and run away together." Bella said excitedly as she had the last time she came back to Emmett.
"Sweetheart, as nice as that sounds, you know we can't." Emmett said kissing her forehead.
"I love you Emmett, even if I don't know you half the time always remember that." Bella said laying her head on his chest.
"I love you too, Bella." Emmett said kissing her head and just like the flipping of a light switch things changed.
"Wait a minute, why are you telling me you love me? Why are you touching me? Who are you?" Bella said, growing scared and irate.
"Bella, I'm Emmett your husband and you are Bella my wife. We love each other and we have been married for years." Emmett said even though he knew that it would do no good now that she had forgotten him.
"I don't know you, I don't know you. IMPOSTER! HELP!" she screamed pushing Emmett away "HELP! HELP!" she screamed pushing him harder.
The nurses, and an orderly holding a syringe, ran in and sedated Bella once again. Emmett sank to the floor in tears knowing that this was probably the last time he would ever get to embrace his wife.
The next morning, Emmett was rushed to the intensive care unit of the facility after he suffered a massive heart attack in his sleep, making him unable to wake up. Despite his prognosis, he was able to pull himself out of bed in the middle of the night. He walked to the nurse's desk to find Jessica, his favorite nurse, was on duty.
"Mr. McCarty, you just suffered a massive heart attack. You know you need to be resting." She said.
"I just wanted to go for a walk." Emmett said and Jessica knew exactly what he wanted to do since Bella had also been moved to the intensive care unit earlier that day because her organs started failing.
"I'll tell you what, Emmett, I need to get me another cup of coffee. I should be gone a long while." Jessica said as if giving him a hint and Emmett nodded to Jessica as she got up and made her way to the elevator.
As Emmett looked over the counter to find Bella's room number, he saw that Jessica had left her coffee cup and that it was full. She was intentionally giving Emmett the go ahead without getting in trouble for doing so. Emmett made his way down the hall and into Bella's room, taking a seat beside her bed, his old body tired and worn. He took Bella's hand in his as she slept and she stirred, turning to look at him.
"Emmett?" she whispered.
"Yes, sweetheart, it's me." Emmett said kissing her hand.
"Do you think that our love can work miracles?" she asked, scooting over in the bed a bit.
"I think that our love can do anything, sweetheart." He whispered.
"Do you think that our love could take us away together?" Bella asked.
"I do, my move." Emmett said.
"Come lay with me, Emmett, one last time." Bella whispered, as if knowing that this would be the last time they would ever lay together. Emmett crawled into the small hospital bed with his wife and held her hand close to his heart, kissing it lightly. Bella did the same with Emmett's other hand.
"I love you, Emmett." Bella whispered.
"I love you too, Bella. I'll see you on the other side, my love." Emmett said turning to kiss her one more time before they fell asleep in each other's arms.
The next morning, Nurse Jessica walked in to find Emmett and Bella still in the position they fell asleep in and upon closer assessment, found that they had both passed on together in each other's arms and in their sleep peacefully. A tear ran down her face as she took in the beautiful sight before her because it proved to her that there was a love strong enough to work miracles.
After calling their children, Bella and Emmett were buried on the land that they built their lives on together and their headstones read "Love can truly work miracles".
THE END
Author's Note: I know it's short but that's all there truly is to write. Thank you all for supporting this project and I hope to be seeing you in the future on any other projects I attempt.