Her Last Week: Chapter 2

Summary: After four years of dating, Bella is finally ready to be turned into a vampire.

Bella/Rosalie

"Hey, Bella, you coming out with us tonight?" Patrick asked, looking a little too eager. The graduation had been long and she was grateful it was over.

"Unfortunately, I can't. I've got a flight to catch in a couple of hours." Rosalie wrapped her arms around her just then. She didn't like Patrick; the boy had had his eye on Bella since the start of college and had made many desperate attempts to win Bella's affection despite knowing she had a girlfriend.

"Well, I guess this is it then, keep in touch." He muttered before walking away.

"He is one persistent little shit," Rose grumbled in Bella's ear. "Not that I blame him." She added planting an open mouth kiss on Bella's neck.

"Congratulations, Bella." Alice chirped as she joined them.

"Thanks, Alice." She smiled as the rest of the family joined them. "I believe we can leave now." In truth, she was in a hurry to get going. A quick stop at the penthouse she's lived in for the last four years with Rose and then on to Denali. The Denali compound was very much isolated and the perfect place for her change.

The vampires around her were very animated on the drive home. "Are you okay," Rose asked as they walked into the privacy of their bedroom.

"Yeah, I find myself missing Charlie today more than ever." She admitted with a sad smile.

"That is understandable. Today, you reached a big milestone in your life. It stands to reason you'd want him here."

"Yeah." Bella sighed, laying her head on Rosalie's shoulder.

"And, you do have family here. We can always stop at the house, and you tell him there. I think it would be poignant."

"I like that idea. Let's do that," Bella whispered.

Rosalie grabbed their bags and headed downstairs. "Okay, we are ready to go, but first we need to make a stop, Bella has one hell of a surprise for one of you."

"Yes, I can feel your anticipation. It must be a hell of a surprise because you are practically vibrating with it." Rosalie just laughed but said nothing else. "Alice." She warned the minute she attempted to look.

"Oh, okay," Alice grumbled petulantly.

"Trust me, Alice, you will be happy you didn't look," Bella said, coming down the stairs with a backpack too big for her.

"I will take that." Jasper offered.

"Thank you," Bella said with a level of appreciation that outweighed the gesture by a few thousand miles taking him by surprise.

"You welcome, little lady." Jasper was the one member of the family she'd seen very little off, considering how often Alice invaded their privacy. She had yet to meet Victoria, Emmett's mate, as she was new to the vegetarian lifestyle and an auditorium full of students, faculty, and parents wasn't the best place for her at the moment. Bella was looking forward to meeting her and seeing Emmett.

As for Edward, she had never met him, and since she had been told he wasn't going to be at the Denali's, she didn't expect she ever would. Rose had never talked about Edward, the first time she heard of him was when Alice mentioned him. She had no idea Bella knew nothing of him. It was the day she learned of Rose's past, and her hatred of what she was. Bella found it hard to reconcile the woman she had fallen in love with, who was ready to change her, with the one who hated the very thing she wanted Bella to become. It was the first time the pair had found themselves at a real crossroads. Rose had later admitted that since meeting Bella, all that had changed. She even met up with Carlisle and apologized for decades of hostility towards him. Rose had finally accepted her past because without it, she wouldn't have Bella. Of course, there was still the issue of her inability to have children or even adopt, as the Volturi would never allow it. She knew Rose still struggled with that aspect of herself.

Isabella." Rose had clearly tried to get her attention while she stuck in her head.

"Sorry, thinking." She mumbled as she stepped into the elevator.

"It is a rather pointless trip if we leave you behind," Rose teased.

The drive to Forks, as usual took half the time, something she was now used to. She had put the house up for sale a week ago. While she and Rose had come up to clear it out, they found a few things that shocked the hell out of both of them.

Bella was beaming with excitement as she opened the door to her old home. The rest of the family followed finding the human's excitement rather infectious.

"Okay, Bella, I think I have been patient enough," Alice grumbled.

"Two hours, Alice, two hours, is nothing to a mortal more or less an immortal, relax." Bella got out a massive photo album and laid it on the dining room table with a bang. "Okay, I believe it is best to start with this," Bella muttered to herself as she took a small folder out and gave it to Jasper. "Open it." He did and gasped at the sight of himself with his family in a photo. It had been taken just before he went off to fight.

"I never saw it. I left right after." He whispered as he looks at the picture. "It was so expensive back then to get a picture taken, but my mother had insisted fearing she'd have nothing of me if I didn't come back. I guess she had the right idea." Alice was standing over his shoulder, staring at the picture in awe. It was in surprisingly good condition considering how old it was.

"How?' Jasper damn near stuttered.

"Your little sister is my seven times removed grandmother. You are my uncle. We found the album last week while we were clearing the house. It was in the attic."

"You are my kin." He said in disbelief. "From which side?"

"My dad," Bella said with a sad smile.

"You have no idea what this means to me," Jasper whispered with tear-filled eyes.

"I lost my dad just before I met Rose in a car accident. My mother didn't want to know and never returned my phone calls. It means as much to me as it does to you to know I have a family.

Irina offered to drive Alice's rented car back to Port Angeles so that Jasper and Bella could talk some more about their shared family tree. The two went through every picture with Jasper asking question after question, some of which Bella could not answer. She was quite knowledgeable about her great grandmother down to herself, but the rest, Bella herself had known nothing about.

"How clumsy were you?" Jasper asked in disbelief about some of Bella's accidents.

"She'd trip over air," Rose replied. "We'd be walking and she just suddenly go flying. I had to do something about it before I became the first vampire to have a heart attack." Unfortunately Rose wasn't joking.

"Rose forced me to take dance lessons and self-defense classes. I was rubbish at the dance lessons, but it helped a lot." Bella laughed.

"After your first year, I can teach you to fight." Jasper offered.

"I was going to ask, Rose said you taught her to fight."

"He thought as all to fight," Alice interjected. Of course, Bella knew of Jasper's history, it had been the first discussion on the private plane to Denali. Bella had asked to meet Peter and Charlotte then.

Bella collapsed on the bed with a satisfied sigh, it had been a long day and she was ready to kick her shoes off and put her feet up. "You should take a nap," Rose advised. Esme and Carmen insisted on throwing Bella a graduation party. Bella didn't see the point of it, it wasn't as though the vampires could eat and drink.

"Stay with me?"

"As if you need to ask." Rosalie pulled her up and helped her get out of her clothes.

"I love you, Rose." She whispered.

"Love you too." Bella snuggled closer to her and soon fell asleep. Rose shut her eyes and concentrated on Bella's heartbeat. The rhythmic beat of her mate's heart lulled her into such a deep state of relaxation; you'd think she was asleep.

It was what Esme thought when she came to get them a few hours later. "We will be down in a bit," Rose whispered.

"No, we won't," Bella grumbled snuggling further into her mate. Rose couldn't help her laugh as Esme watched them with a smile on her face.

"Baby, come on, it's your party." Rose attempted to move away from the brunette, but she threw her leg over the blonde.

"My party is right here." She mumbled her face buried in Rose neck. As much as Rose found this at times annoying, she would admit she was going to miss it when Bella changed. She turned her face in order to see Bella, who was now pouting.

"What will it take for you to get out of bed?" Rose could tell Bella was trying hard to keep her pout, but it was slowly turning into a smile. She knew this was what Bella was waiting for. Bella only refused to get out bed when there was something she desperately wanted.

"I don't want anything now, but I might need something later." Rose pulled the brunette on top of her and kissed her soundly. Bella's body relaxed on top of her mate's as the kiss became heated. Rose's hand went under her tank top and caressed warm skin.

"I don't want to hear it," Jasper shouted from downstairs making Bella blush, and Rose chuckled.

"You have no idea how much more incredible you smell when you blush." Rose moaned her hands still caressing Bella's skin. She licked the skin on Bella's neck, working her way down the clavicle. Abruptly she stopped and stood them up. "Come on, the least you can do is show your face."

The day of Bella's change, she spent her morning in the library while Rose was hunting.

"Thought I'd find you here," Rose said, interrupting her reading.

"I'm not going to finish this book before tonight," Bella mused out loud.

"I will read to you when you are a little more settled after the change," Rose promised.

"I'd love that." Bella murmured. "I can't wait." She whispered. "I see no reason to wait until tonight."

"Okay, come on then." Rose took her by the hand and led her out of the library. The vampires in the house had of course heard her. "Bella..." Alice started.

"Honestly, I'm beginning to get nervous. I know me well enough to know the nerves are only going to get the better of me as the day wears on. I don't want my last day as a human to be of me panicking. Yesterday was one of the best days of my life, and it's the last day I'd like to remember if I remember anything." She shrugged shyly. The events had been nothing spectacular, they had sat around and talked. Bella had made fun of Alice's taste in music which had both covens laughing uproariously. Emmett, unfortunately was stuck in New Zealand with Victoria, and wouldn't make it back for another couple of days.

"That is understandable, Bella," Carlisle said. "Eleazar and I will be here to make sure everything goes swimmingly."

"See you in three," Alice said with a hug.

As much as she tried, she couldn't keep the nerves at bay. "Would you like me to help you relax?" Bella nodded. "I don't think you were this nervous on our first date." She teased.

"Oh, I was, I just hid it well. It quickly went away when you stared at my ass as we walked to the car." Rose threw her head back in laughter.

"I did, I just didn't think you caught it." She admitted.

"Well, making a complete idiot of myself at Newton Outfitters, it was a little consolation to find you checking out my ass."

"You didn't make a fool of yourself, I had time to calm down before walking in there, you didn't. In my defense, I didn't think you feel the bond as much as you did. The consensus was humans didn't feel the pull as much as vampires did. Knowing you as much as I do now, I know you are the exception to a good number of things we thought we knew." She ran her fingers through Bella's hair.

"How about you asking me to show you around Forks and me just staring at you as though I was watching you on a TV screen." Rose chuckled at that. Without realizing it, Bella's mind was entirely off the change.

"I found it endearing. You could have drooled, and I would have still wanted you. Hell, you do drool, and I still love you." She teased then leaned in to kiss her mate. She deepened the kiss, her tongue exploring every inch of her mate's mouth. She pushed her leg between Bella's, applying a little pressure to her sex, earning a moan in return. She continued kissing down Bella's neck, then without warning, she bit down hard. Bella jerked, but Rose held her tight, pumping her full of venom. "I love you." She whispered as Bella's face contorted in excruciating pain before she seemed to pass out.