Here it is, guys. The Epilogue. I hope you guys enjoy.

Thank you to Darcysmom, Nikki, Heather and some last minute help from Geekchic.

I will see you all down at the bottom.

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Five years later...

So much has happened since that day that I proposed, but I suppose I should start off with a pivotal moment. She didn't make me wait the full three years, and it happened when I least expected it. We had only been married over a year when we went back to Isle Esme for our Anniversary. The look in her eyes then, the love that filled them when she asked me to change her...that moment, that night is in my top five that I will cherish until the end of time.

We had just arrived on Isle Esme a little after midnight. As we docked, I was hit with the overwhelming feeling of needing her, wanting her, having to have her. She sensed it, her gasp gave her away. She laughed and ran up the dock and into the sand. She turned around and looked at me, smiling with her eyes so bright.

I sensed a change in the air, it was completely electrically charged. I knew,deep down inside of me, that this visit wouldn't be like the last one we had here.

My eyes stayed on her form as she walked into the house. I let her have her time to herself as I slowly made my way to her. She was a vision, standing there by the bed in all black lace with her hair cascading down her back. Her lips a violent red and her skin shined with the moonlight that creeped its way in through the curtains.

I stood there and drank her in, every time feeling as if it were the first time I ever laid eyes on her.

Bella walked over to me and wrapped her arms around my neck as she gazed up at me, smiling her devious little smile.

Her lips were satin against mine as she kissed me. A soft peck here, an innocent one to my cheek.

"I love you." She said, her sweet breath fanning my face as her heartbeat kicked up to a faster rhythm.

"As I you, love." I held her close to me, and that feeling of change hit me again, so I held her tightly to me, savoring every moment.

She tugged on my arm as she led me toward the bed. "Tonight is for you, Edward."

I allowed her to push me down on to the bed where she slowly undressed me, kissing me everywhere and igniting every part of me as she went.

My eyes were glued to her as she undressed, taking her time, letting me savor each bit of skin that she revealed to me as if it were the first time I was ever seeing her like this.

Once she was fully naked, she made her way up my body again and straddled my waist and bent down, brushing her nipples against my chest as she kissed me, teasing me with her tongue.

Her kisses became more urgent as she pushed down onto me, her hot,silken wetness enfolding me as we become one. She sat up, driving me deeper into her as she let out a low moan and closed her eyes as she began to slowly ride me.

My hands made their way to her hips. I didn't try to guide, I just wanted to touch her as she made the slowest, sweetest love to me.

I sat up and held her to me as she continued to move her hips. Moans and short breaths filled the air around us, spiking our arousal to even higher points, causing us to both let go and as we fell over with each other with a sweet release.

Bella placed her head on my shoulders and breathed softly onto my neck, eventually kissing me. She pulled away from me and laid down next to me. I joined her, facing her as we lay there side by side. Her eyes held that light they always did after we made love, and it warmed me deep inside.

Her fingers brushed hair from my face, and traced my eyebrows, down my nose to my lips.

"I want you to change me."

My eyes snapped open at her request, and my breath halts. I wanted this, wished for it after I came back to her, but now that it was here, it hurt to think about. All of those heartbeats that I would no longer hear, and the nights that I would no longer watch her sleep beside me.

"Are you sure?" I whispered as I looked at her, making sure I saw no regret in her eyes.

"I am more than sure. I want my forever with you now. I am not saying you have to do it this minute, all I ask is that you do it before we leave this island. I don't care when, I don't care how, just that you do it." She punctuated her answer with a deep kiss.

I knew that I would have many days of making love, kissing her and being with her that would make up for the heartbeats I'd always cherished. I would get to keep her for as long as this earth allowed me to, and that, I really wouldn't trade for anything.

I gave her my answer by settling my body back on top of hers and making love to her again all throughout the night.

She was laying on the beach a few days later, letting the waves lap at her feet as I watched her and let my decision wash over me. A sense of calm overtook me as I walked over to her and sat behind her. I kissed her neck softly and breathed in her scent.

"I've loved you from the first moment I saw you, and I will love you until the last moment I am granted on this earth." I whispered into her ear and sealed my declaration with one last kiss to her neck before I bit into her pliant skin. Her sweet blood coated my tongue as I pushed the venom back into her.

I laid her down onto the sand and brushed the hair out of her eyes. I gave her lips one last kiss before I set about biting her wrist and ankles to ensure my venom made the impact it needed to. Once I was sure the venom was working its way through her, I held her in my arms and walked her back into the house and placed her gently on the bed.

She was so unusually still and quiet as she burned for three days. I never left her side- I couldn't bring myself to. I held her, kissed her, talked to her. I did everything I could think of to keep her comfortable, and maybe even for my own state of mind.

But when she woke, and those crimson eyes looked back at me, my world was right again.

"What has you thinking so hard over there, handsome?" My wife called out to me, as she laid on the same beach I had changed her on four years ago.

"Just thinking, love." I flashed her my crooked smile, and she went back to doing what she was doing.

No one was surprised when I called to tell them that I had changed her. They all had the faith that I could do it. We came up with a plan on how we would fake Bella's death and went about setting it up. We worked it to where we died in a car crash on the way to the airport in Brazil after our honeymoon. This was the one thing I hated putting Bella through, but it had to be done.

She often told me she didn't lack for a father figure, for she found that in Carlisle. From time to time, I found it still hurt to know that I had to take her from her parents. I was selfishly happy, though, that I would allowed to keep her for eternity. I still battled with this, even though I knew it was right, that we are where we were always meant to be.

Her first few years as a vampire were trying, but she never wavered, never gave up or gave in to temptation. It was as if she was made for this life.

I had to force myself to come to terms with so many things since I left her all those years ago. I am convinced that the hallucination set me on the right path to go back to her and bring me to where I was now. I'd come to terms with her humanity, her love, and her unwavering confidence in me.

I learned to never keep secrets bottled up inside of me, to always share them, for she would never leave me. She would always be by my side no matter what.

Her love for me was more than I ever thought was possible, and I learned that I should never second guess a woman's love. That it was just as strong as my own for her.

I never left her without saying goodbye, even if it was just a trip to the next town over. We never went a day without talking on the phone. I never wanted her to feel like she did when I first came back to her.

I realized that over the past few years, all of our pieces to each other were found and placed into their rightful places. I think, all along, that I was the missing one, that I had to find my confidence in who I was as a vampire and as a man. I had to find my trust in my love and her love and know that it was enough. That it was perfect.

Bella made me whole and the man that I was now, and when I left, I took everything with me, even the pieces that I had unknowingly added to her.

But now we are whole and better than we ever were before.

As our forever spans through days, months and years, I can honestly say we are no longer the missing.

We are found.

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I want to thank each and every one of you that took the time to read, rec and review this little story of mine. I don't think I can adequately express how much that has meant to me. I love knowing that there are people out there besides me that loves this story as much as I did. I never once thought that anyone beyond my friends would come to love this. And for that I thank you.

Thank you for everything Darcysmom, Nikki, Heather and a few other special friends that have been with me since the beginning of this fic.

Thank you for reading.