A/N: OMG... soo sorry for the huge delay... RL just got sooo crazy... so just a few as I am tired. Thanks for all the wonderful reviews.. I am overwhelmed! LOVE YOU ALL! You guys are gonna make me cry! So we left with Edward declaring to Bella.. he just want to be with her... let's see ehat Bella says...

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, SM does, I am playing in the sandbox! ENJOY!

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BPOV

I look at him. Can he be serious? Is he fucking blind?

"Just not this Bella, right? The one that is sick, bald, weak, and pathetic." I couldn't help but snarl at him.

He needs to understand that I'm not the same Bella, that I'm a shell of that one. I can never be that Bella again. She is gone.

"You are the same Bella to me. The things that made me notice you are still inside you."

His hand touches my heart and I swear I feel that familiar tingle zoom through my body. It's been so long since I felt it.

"I still see your beauty, your hair didn't define that. I see your spirit and will to fight. This illness doesn't need to define you and I won't let it define how I see you."

Is he for real? Tears are streaming so fast that he is blurry and that just won't do. I need to see him. I have gone far too long without seeing him.

But my heart doesn't rule, my mind does and it tells me this won't last.

"Edward, be serious. I'm sick. I'm in no place to be in a relationship when I can barely take care of myself."

He places his fingers on my lips to quiet me and I want to lick them.

"Then let me take care of you." His voice is so smooth and sincere; his eyes are clear and bright.

Ohh how I want to believe him.

I shake my head at his statement and at the desires running rampant in my body.

"No, I couldn't ask that of you. I wouldn't want you to." I turn away from him; his eyes are too intense for me.

"I'm offering, Bella." His voice washes over me.

"Why?" I scream at him in frustration. "Why, Edward? Why?" I sob. He pulls me closer and I'm surrounded by the scent of him.

"Because I have stayed away as long as I could. Nothing can pull me away from you. In fact everything in me is pulling towards you."

My heart leaps at his words and fuck if I want to believe them. But I know I'm damaged, I know that I'm not enough for him.

But for the first time since my parents and Nonna died, I feel cherished. I feel safe in his arms and I thought that I had lost the ability to feel that when I buried Nonna a week after I graduated high school.

For the first time in years I want to lean on someone and not feel as if I'm a burden. Even with Alice, Ang and the whole Brandon family, I feel like an obligation. I don't want to be that with Edward. I want to share his life; I want to share what's left of mine with him.

I wind my arms around him and nuzzle close.

"I don't want you to stay away either."

A/N: She's scared and hurting. I am gonna try to get 2 more out...