Wow! I got over the 100 reviews mark! I never expected to when I started this story. I am so happy! Thank you, I love you all so much!

And on a more serious note I want to say a huge sorry to the people who got upset by the end of the last chapter; I never meant to hurt anyone. But hopefully this will make things better…

Bella's PoV

I heard myself scream as Royce's weight pulled me off balance and we fell backwards over the edge. The air began to rush sickeningly passed me as I fell faster and faster. I felt branches scrape at my arms as I fell through the treetops. I was still screaming my throat apart. I cast my arms out trying to find a grip on the branches and save myself but I was falling too fast and the thin twigs just snapped off in my hands.

And then with a sickening crack my left arm collided with a much thicker branch than before. I felt the bone snap and shrieked out in pain. But the force of the collision had slowed me down infinitesimally. I fell a few more feet before hitting another branch. I gripped it as hard as I could but I was in too much pain and in too precarious a position. I slid off again but my progress from the sky had definitely slowed.

I carried on falling in this way bouncing down from branch to branch, the twiggy ends of them scratching at my back and sides. And then finally there were none left. I fell through space again but this time only for a second and then I landed with a thump in what felt like a prickly bush. I tried to open my eyes but the disorientation from the descent remained and everything was spinning. I felt so dizzy. And my arm was throbbing. I let my eyes shut heavily and I could feel myself becoming helpless to the blackness that was taking over.

Edward's PoV

"NO!" I screamed. I threw myself to the cliff edge in order to pull Bella back to safety but was far to slow. My body instinctively tensed in preparation to jump off the cliff after her but a pair of strong arms wrapping themselves around me held me back. My eyes searched frantically for her but she had already disappeared from view.

"BELLA!" I screamed after her but of course there was no response other than my voice echoing back at me off the landscape. How could victory turn so quickly into tragedy? "Let me go!" I shouted at whoever was holding, "I need to find her!" my voice broke on the last words.

The grip relaxed slightly and I turned to see it had been Emmett. He looked ashen. He was staring at me with wide, shocked eyes. I heard a scuffle and turned to see Jasper catch hold of Alice just before she fell to her knees. She had the same stunned expression as Emmett. Jasper didn't look any better either. Rosalie had her hands over her mouth, her eyes staring also.

"I'm so sorry," she whispered brokenly, "this is all my fault."

"Don't be stupid, Rose." Emmett said softly going over to her.

I turned and began to walk off into the trees. "Edward, where are you going?" Jasper called after me, his voice tight with constrained emotion.

"I have to find her." I repeated.

"He's right," Alice put in, her voice shaking badly, "we have to find her… body." I flinched at the word. I didn't really want them to come I wanted to do this alone. But as I turned to say this I saw Alice's face was streaked with tears. I couldn't deny her the right to come also; she was after all Bella's sister. So I just nodded and set off again.

It took a long time to find a way down through the trees until we could come safely down to where Bella must have fallen to. I felt like I was in shock. I was walking along like I was in a trance; all my focus was on getting there. I couldn't face thinking about what I would see when I got there, what would have to happen afterwards. So my mind subconsciously protected itself from all that. I just focussed on putting one foot in front of the other again and again.

But I couldn't delay it forever. Eventually we had to arrive there, at the dreaded scene. And we did. First off we saw Royce's body but I didn't look at it. I really couldn't care less right now about him and all his death might mean. But then a caught a glimpse of blue fabric protruding from a bush. Bella.

I found my feet started to speed up of their own accord. I rushed to her side and there she was at last. I felt a strangled cry escape from my throat. She looked just as she always had, so beautiful. In fact it looked almost like she was just sleeping. Except she would never sleep in a bush.

I reached out a trembling hand and brushed her cheek. Her skin was so soft and warm. My fingers traced across her lips and down to her jaw before snaking down her delicate throat. And then I felt it.

Her pulse. There was a steady and definite pulse still beating there in her neck. My heart lurched in joy and hope. I lowered my head till my ear was above her mouth. I could hear her, ever so faintly, breathing.

I gave a cry of joy and suddenly became aware of the others around me. They were saying something but I didn't even hear them. Bella was alive!

Jasper was touching her gently checking her for serious injuries. "Her arm is broken," he told me quietly and that finally registered in my numbed brain. "But other than that, she seems to be unhurt." He finished.

I could feel myself grinning like a fool but I didn't care. She was alive! Thank the lord she was alive!

I gently picked her up into my arms. She was so light; it wasn't hard at all for me to carry her. My only thoughts were that she felt so solid and real in my arms, proof at last that this wasn't a fantasy.

I turned and strode quickly back into the trees leaving the others in my wake. I just had to get her back to the city fast so that she could be taken care of. And then I was never letting her into a even remotely dangerous situation ever again.

Alice's PoV

It seemed to take two or three times as long to make it back to the city. I was terribly anxious to get there is case Bella should go into shock or something and die before Carlisle could take care of her. Carlisle knew a lot about medicine, he would make her right again.

It was surreal to walk back into the city, passing by the ruined battlefield that only this morning had seemed so sinister and deadly. Now it looked so harmless, it seemed almost childish to have been too afraid to look at it like I had been a couple of days ago. All the horror that had occurred there was in the past now and therefore meaningless. Everything had turned out better than we could have hoped for.

I turned my head to look at all the individual members of our little group. Emmett had already returned to his usual sunny self. He was recounting all his exploits in the battle to Rosalie; laughing heartily as if it had all been a good game and he had never had reason to fear for his life at all. Although, knowing Emmett as I did, he probably never had felt fear. That wasn't really an Emmett emotion. Rosalie herself looked exhausted but her eyes were sparkling with happiness. She wasn't saying very much but that was perhaps due to the relentlessness of Emmett's monologue. She turned her head slightly and caught my eye. We shared a quick smile before she turned away again. I felt connected to her now in a way I never had before. She really was my sister now in my heart.

I moved my attention to Bella and Edward. My sister was still unconscious but I wasn't frightened anymore. She would be all right now I just knew it. Edward was holding onto her tightly, his face intense with concentration as he walked as fast as he could back towards the city walls. If anyone in my view deserved my sister then it was someone with Edward's level of devotion and love. He had turned his back on his country for her after all.

Then lastly I turned to look up at my husband. Our hands had been interlocked the whole time we walked. I studied his face now intently. There were shadows under his eyes like bruises. But other than that I was satisfied that he looked unchanged. There seemed to be no lasting shadow of what he had gone through showing in his eyes. He turned now to meet my gaze, raising his eyebrows questioningly.

"I'm just glad everything has worked out as well as it has." I told him honestly. "For a while I thought that I might lose you." He smiled sadly.

"I know. But none of that matters now." He let go of my hand and slid his arm around my waist pulling me close. "From now on everything is going to be exactly how we dreamed it would be." His voice lowered into a deep, seductive whisper at the last words. I rested my head against his shoulder. He was right everything was going to be perfect now, there was nothing left that could stop that now.

Only the epilogue left now! See there is going to be a happy ending : ) even though many of you didn't think I would be that kind.

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