A.N.: I'm posting this now, because I don't think Bella's story could stand alone without it.(Sneaky, sneaky me.) And besides, I'm not sure if I'd rest easy knowing I didn't post it. So, here it is.
Disclaimer: See the others. They explain it all, I'm sure. : )
And she had tried. Tried her very hardest. Waited for as long as she could for him to return.
But it had been too late.
She had died alone.
He had taken her into his arms, held her to his face, cried out in anger and sorrow.
But nothing could soothe his pain. The mortal agony of lost love was too much to bear. And so, he too, on that night had died.
Not in the normal bodily sense, but in a kind far worse. The spiritual emotional kind.
He was gone. Drained. Empty. Hollow. Not even his family could reach him, no matter how hard they tried. And they tried for years.
But they never got any response. He just wasn't there. All traces of color in those once vibrant golden eyes had disintegrated into nothingness.
It was as they said; he would never smile again.
But it was more than that. He would never live again. Never love. Never touch. Never taste. Never feel.
Nothing.
Just silence. And darkness. Everlasting darkness. Nothing left but an empty body, a faded light, in his arms.
And soon, even that was gone, melted into the earth as the decades rolled by.
And still, the vampire sat. Motionless. Now tied into the earth by various roots and vines protruding from the forest grounds.
He had rotted there. Became a part of the earth. Starved himself. For he was deprived of his love -deprived of his life. And he chose not to leave.
He could not leave.
For when he last lifted her frail body up into his arms, grasping her tightly to his chest, cradling her in his strong arms, he knew there was nothing left. In either of them.
They had come to the end.
For what was love, without his Bella? And what was life, without her Edward?
Nothing. A meaningless oblivion.
An endless eternity.
A.N.: I don't know about you, but I would absolutely die if this really happened in Twilight. I'd be so sad, but somehow, I don't think it will. I really don't know what possessed me to write this, anyway. But, I did. And I'm happy, I think...
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Foxiego